The morning sun jumped out of the sea, and a fleet appeared on the blue sea, which was the mixed fleet that had been ordered to rush to Burma from the Japanese mainland to help in the war. As the flagship of the mixed fleet, the Fengxiang actually looks a little cheap, and compared with the heavy cruiser Jiagu in the mixed fleet, the Fengxiang is already considered to be an old dragon clock that is about to die. But this is an order of the naval forces, and as the only aircraft carrier in the mixed fleet, Arakiden, who commands the heavy cruiser Kako, has always been cold-eyed, if it weren't for the fact that the Kago under his command was seriously damaged in the Battle of Midway and was transferred back to the mainland for overhaul, perhaps the Kago should have participated in the assault on the American coastline now.

The contradictions between the Japanese Navy and the Army have been going on for a long time, and if it were not for the dual mobilization order issued by the Cabinet and the Emperor, perhaps this improvised mixed fleet would have voluntarily requested to fight in the Americas. Compared with China, which had not been able to fully occupy the theater after four years of fighting, the Navy seemed to value the opportunity to make a contribution in the American theater, and whenever the report of the battle on the American battlefield was transmitted back to the naval headquarters, the young naval officers would always spontaneously hold celebrations.

Araki Den is no longer an enthusiastic young man, but he also dreams of going to the American battlefield, not for anything else, but the belongings that his colleagues brought home from the American battlefield are very coveted. Thinking of this, Araki's brows furrowed slightly, if it weren't for the fact that the Kagu was damaged in the previous naval battle to seize Midway, he should have plundered the Americas, and he had traveled thousands of miles to Burma, a place where birds don't lay eggs, to waste his time.

Arakiden was in a bad mood, and the young officers under him were also in a bad mood, so that the atmosphere on the entire Kago was not very good. The atmosphere on the Fengxiang is diametrically opposed to the Jiagu, I thought that the aging Fengxiang could only end up trapped in the homeland, but now it has attracted the opportunity to fight as a flagship, and the officers and men of the Fengxiang have risen greatly, and the whole voyage is full of enthusiasm.

Today was a good day, after a few days of cloudy clouds, it finally cleared, although the sun after the clear sun was a bit scorching, but no one liked to fight on a rainy day, and the sunny weather even made the morale of the officers and men of the Kagu finally lift some spirits. As is customary, when the mixed fleet was less than 50 nautical miles from the coastline of Burma, three reconnaissance planes were lifted into the air on the deck of the Fengxiang.

Although the mixed fleet had used radio to contact the imperial forces cowering in Rangoon, the mixed fleet did not lose its vigilance, and sent reconnaissance planes not only to stabilize the imperial forces in Rangoon, but also to detect whether there were enemy naval forces or long-range artillery positions near the coastline. When the three reconnaissance planes that had been lifted off in succession went straight to the coastline 50 nautical miles away, and when they flew over Yangon, the three reconnaissance planes that had been flying in groups all along, flew separately to carry out aerial reconnaissance in three directions.

The Japanese troops in Rangoon were so alarmed by the roaring reconnaissance planes that they couldn't help but cheer when they saw clearly that it was the Empire's own warplane. The roaring reconnaissance planes carried out close reconnaissance of Yangon City and the waters around Yangon, but did not find the slightest danger, and one of the reconnaissance planes even landed directly at a temporary airfield opened by the Japanese army in Yangon in the west of the city. The reconnaissance results sent back by the reconnaissance planes did not very satisfactory to the mixed fleet, because they had come to Burma to fight, but the reconnaissance planes did not find any trace of the enemy, which made the artillery support prepared by the mixed fleet a chicken rib.

The reconnaissance planes that landed in Rangoon then sent back an update on the enemy's situation, according to the Japanese accounts in the city, the enemy had armored forces and powerful artillery fire, but no fighter force capable of posing an air threat to the mixed fleet. After learning of these conditions, the mixed fleet, which was greatly relieved, slowly sailed towards Yangon Harbor, and the Fengxiang even took the fighters that were ready to take off from the flight deck back to the cabin hangar, and had more than a dozen large and small ships escorting the side, and the mixed fleet did not believe that the enemy dared to come and attack secretly.

Watching the Japanese reconnaissance plane hovering in the air from a distance, the star officer hiding under the camouflage net vigorously blew the brass whistle on his chest, and the camouflage nets were lifted and withdrawn, revealing the temporary airfield that had been covered by the camouflage net. Energetic fighter pilots rushed out of the turf-covered hangar, and a large number of ground crews rushed out of the hangar pushing equipment and planes, and after a hectic noise, the first batch of 40 fighters participating in the operation took off one after another.

Unbeknownst to them, the mixed fleet had entered within 30 nautical miles of the coastline, and under the guidance of the Japanese troops in Yangon Harbor, the mixed fleet was heading towards the port. "Good luck to everyone, everyone." In order to cope with the radar warning of the Japanese mixed fleet, the 40 fighters that took to the air for combat only flew at low altitude along the coastline.

Only 40 fighters participated in the operation, such an intensity of operations, almost rare in European countries, when the German army carried out air raids on the British mainland, a sortie is thousands of aircraft, compared to the European war, the independent army's air raid seems too shabby. "After completing the mission, I'll invite everyone to drink!" The laughter of the commander was heard again on the radio, which made the mood of everyone more and more relaxed, and the pilots who participated in the battle gradually lost their initial nervousness.

Flying at low altitude could not completely evade the detection of radar, especially the aircraft could not reduce the roar of flight, approaching the mixed fleet less than 5 nautical miles, and finally the radar of the mixed fleet found their tracks. "Air strikes, air strikes, the discovery of organic groups close to the fleet." The distance of 5 nautical miles is not a long distance, especially for fighters flying at high speed, the commander of the flight team let out a low shout, and the group of planes that had been flying at low altitude began to raise their altitude and aim their noses in the direction of the mixed fleet.

The terrible sirens sounded, and the mixed fleet, which had already slackened, instantly became nervous, and the gunners rushed to the gun emplacements on the deck, loaded the shells, and waited for the enemy plane to appear. "Nani? What is that? On the Kako, as soon as the telescope in Araki's hand was raised, he noticed those rockets in the sky with tongues of fire at their tails, and his mouth couldn't help but open wide, and he couldn't say anything.

There was still a distance of 1,500 meters from the mixed fleet, and the group, which had already increased its altitude, fired rockets at the Japanese ships in the distance as stated in the operating regulations. Among the fire dragons that Araki saw were as many as three rockets aimed at the Kako, "Fire the cannon and defend it!" Araki finally came to his senses and immediately commanded sharply. But how can the artillerymen on the warship fight back faster than the air-to-ground rockets powered by liquid fuel.

"Boom!" The sailors on the Kagu all felt that something had hit the warship, and the warship shook slightly from side to side with the sound of the explosion. In the mixed fleet, except for the indiscriminately modified aircraft carrier Fengxiang, it is the size of the Kako, so the Kagu became the first Japanese ship to be hit by rockets. Black smoke rose from the Kaku, and among the three rockets that hit the Kaku, two were anti-aircraft gun emplacements on the deck of the Kako, and the other was a large-caliber naval gun from the Kako. "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" was accompanied by the sound of explosions, and there were continuous fires and thick smoke rising from the mixed fleet.

The mixed fleet that was caught off guard suffered heavy losses, except for the flagship Fengxiang, which only had a few large holes in the flight deck blasted by armor-piercing shells, and most of the deck gun positions of the rest of the ships were bombarded by rockets. With just one face, most of the mixed fleet's anti-aircraft firepower had been lost, and half of the naval guns they were proud of had been destroyed. Fortunately, no ships were silent, and the sailors of the mixed fleet not only secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the departing enemy fighters, but before they could completely breathe their breath, the terrible sound of the air defense sirens sounded again, and the second batch of enemy fighters flew close to the coastline.

The number of fighters of the Independent Army was too small to carry out a normal attack on the mixed fleet of the Japanese army, so Zhuo Fei divided all the fighters transferred to the temporary airfield of Bago into two groups. The first batch of fighters to participate in the battle were all equipped with air-to-ground rockets to carry out a strong attack on the anti-aircraft fire and naval guns of the mixed fleet, while the second echelon, which had been delayed in time, used normal means of supply to carry out a second wave of attacks on the Japanese mixed fleet with torpedoes and heavy rockets.

One by one, the torpedoes fell from the plane, and because of inertia, the torpedoes were thrown to the surface of the sea in a long strip, and then the torpedo engines began to run, rolling out a series of white blisters on the slightly undulating sea, and then rushed in the direction of the ships of the mixed fleet.

"Torpedo, it's a torpedo, dodge!" The sailors of the Japanese mixed fleet looked in horror at the torpedoes that were almost close at hand, and the torpedoes were thrown very closely, and dozens of torpedoes were thrown at a time, forming a spectacular line. What's worse is that the ships of the mixed fleet that have just been bombarded by rockets are relatively close, and even if the ships in front can dodge these torpedoes, the ships behind have very little time to dodge, and it is difficult to avoid these torpedoes.

The massive bombers opened the bombing hatch in the belly, but instead of a conventional bomb, they dropped a heavy rocket with a counterbalance member on the tail. The heavy rocket fell from the bomb compartment and immediately changed from a horizontal state to a vertical state of collapse on the head and tail, and with a "boom" sound, the heavy rocket with more than 100 kilograms of high explosive charge on the head of the armor-piercing bomb directly tore the deck of the ship that was hit by the bomb, and the huge fireball swallowed up the entire naval gun position.