Chapter 21: The Trap, Port Vila
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200 nautical miles north of the New Hebrides, the assembled mobile carrier group took off carrier-based aircraft one after another. Their target is the deep-sea fleet anchored in Port Vila in the New Hebrides.
The five regular carriers carried more than 400 carrier-based aircraft, and unlike the previous attack on Pearl Harbor, this time the base was hundreds of nautical miles away, ready to receive fuel supplies and support.
Because the intelligence obtained from the reconnaissance planes for several days showed that the port was only a small forward force of the deep-sea fleet, and no base-type or battleship Suhime had been found, Nagumo Tadaichi, as a veteran, chose the plan to destroy this enemy fleet with three rounds of air strikes.
"Meow~"
Yunhe, who was about to launch a signal arrow to guide the second round of carrier-based aircraft to take off, was climbed on the shoulder by the kitten Jia Lai behind him. Yunhe's hand slid and didn't shoot a signal arrow.
"Really, it's time to fight without a single second. Jia Lai, be obedient~ go back to the command room to pester others. ā
The crane re-assigned, the arrow pointing to the sky. Garai climbed from her shoulders to her chest, clutching her clothes and hanging them on her chest.
In the state of the surrounding subordinates laughing quickly, Yunhe blushed and shot a signal to take off. Her exclusive orange fireworks exploded in the air in a long rainbow.
"Yunhe's second round of air raid team, take off!"
Yunhe, who absorbed the original Second Air Combat Crew, also has a group of excellent carrier-based aircraft pilots. Yunhe is full of confidence in her first battle, and beside her are four aircraft carrier seniors, and the target of the attack is still the mediocre enemy non-main fleet.
Standing in front of the bridge of the aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of 39,000 tons, Yunhe represents the new peak of regular aircraft carriers, and she is deservedly the one with the greatest potential among IJN aircraft carriers.
Handing over the kitten Jia Lai on his chest to his subordinates, Yunhe used his ability as an aircraft carrier mother to switch to his own carrier-based aircraft. The first wave of carrier-based aircraft has approached the New Hebrides, and the sparse palm trees on the islands can be seen from a height of several thousand meters.
The flames of war were about to ignite, and in front of the crane crew, Kaga's Saiyun reconnaissance plane had already arrived in the sky over Port Vila first.
"We have reached the sky above the target point, and we have confirmed that no perch has been found." Kaga conveyed the latest situation on the carrier mother's phone channel. "There are more than 30 enemy warships, and there is no light mother-class enemy. With the addition of transports and destroyers, the total number of enemy ships in the harbor reached 150. ā
"The first round of air strikes targeted the enemy's battleships as the main targets, reducing their ability to counterattack." Nagumo Tadaichi, who has been recuperating for a long time, listened to the latest information from Kaga, and always felt that it was possible for the deep-sea fleet to allocate a part of it to bomb them. Thinking of the naval battle of Kuah Island, the sudden appearance of the Moordi Water Ghost and the division and defeat of the second team of the Admiral of the Earth Imperial Gate, he was very worried that the enemy would repeat his old tricks.
"Akagi, what did the anti-submarine aircraft that departed from the base in advance find?"
"They didn't find a large Suhime-type enemy in the surrounding waters, but they did find a lot of submarines with occasional probes."
No one will be surprised that Akagi mentions submarines. It is already the default consensus that the submarines of the deep-sea fleet will not attack, and they dive extremely fast and are several times more stealthy than the current Japanese submarines. Attacking these submarine enemies, who would not fight back, was not included in the battle plan.
And Akagi didn't believe that the battleship Suhime would be generous enough to send a Suhime-class enemy to them as a target like the water ghost in the school berland and blow it up.
Kaga's side controlled the unmanned Saiyun reconnaissance plane, boldly cutting into the enemy fleet, and not a single ship dared to attack the carrier-based aircraft. They cannot attack the "Daughter of the Deep" beyond the level, and only have the qualification to look up at the "Daughter of the Deep".
Kaga couldn't see a black dolphin lurking next to a minefielder, and she was able to see the destroyer at her limit with the help of a reconnaissance plane.
"It's not time yet...... "Hanakaiin Ryuxing watched Kaga's Saiyun reconnaissance plane fly away, and sent a message to the battleship Suhime, who was still in Australia." Let your remaining light carriers continue to dive to the bottom of the ocean, and IJN's carrier-based aircraft will be a little slower than expected. ā
"Understand, the first game is not the time for me to play." The battleship Suhime would never be stupid enough to command an army of battleships to sail to the New Hebrides, hoping to fight a battleship confrontation with the Japanese Navy. They have five regular air carriers in their hands and will definitely fight around the aircraft carrier. Naturally, the battleship Suhime will have to wait for the unobtrusive air carrier mobile fleet to be pulled out before the "fair" duel can officially begin.
After Akagi gave the final order, the first wave of carrier-based aircraft to reach the skies over Port Vila flew past the destroyers on the periphery and swooped down on the battleship group in the center of the fleet.
The deep-sea fleet, which had been preparing for a long time, immediately began to attack the Japanese carrier-based aircraft with anti-aircraft machine guns.
The five aircraft carrier mothers rely on their superb handling ability to provide evasive control over each carrier-based aircraft as much as possible. The barely unhindered Kaga crew preemptively fired several torpedoes at the group of destroyers blocking the shipping lane, and her pilots thought it was a stroke of luck that the non-human fleet did not machine gun their planes.
Yunhe's comet bombers dive from the top, and she was expecting an aerial battle with the intercepting enemy fighters, but she flew all the way unimpeded.
With the opening of some of Kaga's torpedo planes, Akagi's carrier-based aircraft were able to gain an excellent opportunity to attack the battleship-class enemy.
After the bomb. Half of the battleship-class enemy began to sink, and the foul fuel became the lead to ignite the sea. The first wave of carrier-based aircraft, which mainly focused on the first and second air battles, achieved results that exceeded expectations, and Yunhe issued a declaration of victory on the communication channel.
As long as the fleet in Port Vila is wiped out, it will be much easier for the heavy cruisers to go to seize the New Hebrides.
"Yunhe, don't use the acceleration ability at will! Your crew is flying too fast! ā
Xianghe noticed that the other part of Yunhe's carrier-based aircraft, which was in the second round, suddenly accelerated, and hurriedly reminded her in the communication channel.
"No, I didn't use the acceleration ability."
Yunhe felt inexplicable, she had been concentrating on controlling the first round of her own carrier-based aircraft, and she had never switched her gaze to the second-round carrier-based aircraft.
"Sister Xianghe, why is your crew all speeding up? ā¦ā¦ Strangely, my carrier-based aircraft is also flying at full speed towards Port Vila. ā
Zuihe's exclamation made the five aircraft carrier mothers immediately alert, although this would not have a bad effect, and the fuel would not be excessively consumed by accelerating a little distance, but everything happened in a strange way.
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"Harbor water ghosts, can't you let those flying machines that sent you to death fly faster?"
"It is already the limit of the conventional flight of carrier-based aircraft, and the flight speed that exceeds the limit is too high for the aircraft carrier to be stolen. I can't do it unless Kaga is on our side. ā
Distant to the bottom of the sea, through real-time calls, the harbor water ghosts who are using special abilities to affect the waters around Port Vila have their eyes closed and their expressions solemn. With the help of next-generation technology given by the will of the deep sea, she has deployed devices throughout Villa Harbor to invade the control of the aircraft carrier Niang. The entire port has become a flytrap for her mental power to lure the carrier-based aircraft of the IJN Carrier Mobile Group into a trap. The harbor water ghost herself knows how to control carrier-based aircraft, and she now pretends to be four shipwives to control their carrier-based aircraft.
Although it can only be used once, before Kaga knows what is going on, the carrier-based aircraft of the other four aircraft carriers are the objects to be controlled as long as they are within range.
To be able to come up with this method, it all depends on obtaining the specific method of the aircraft carrier Niang to control the carrier-based aircraft from the heart of Owari. They did not set up a unified suicide method for the carrier-based aircraft to deliberately crash into the ship and hit the ground, but without exception, they all took the control of engine acceleration and deceleration as the most commonly used auxiliary means, and in this regard, the aircraft carrier girls did not expect to be affected by the intervention of others.
In the harbor, except for Kaga's carrier-based aircraft, all other carrier-based aircraft could not increase their speed, and could only fly slowly at low altitude. Not knowing what was happening, both sides of the crane were trying to control, but at most one carrier-based aircraft was normal, but the distraction changed back to acceleration or deceleration.
"The first wave of carrier-based aircraft in the harbor was slowed down, and the second wave that was about to arrive outside the harbor ......was accelerated," Kaga had vaguely guessed in his mind what the enemy was trying to do, based on what he saw. But there is still one condition missing, they don't even have a base-type suhime or a battleship suki herself in Port Vila. What can we do with the remnants of the ships that are in chaos to concentrate the carrier-based aircraft?
On March 3, the deep-sea fleet bombed the convoy, burying half of the light air carriers at sea. They do not have the power in their hands to devour two waves of carrier-based aircraft.
After leaving all of his carrier-based aircraft out of Port Vila, Kaga turned back to his senses and began to contact the strange psychic power that was dragging the carrier-based aircraft into Port Vila. It seems to be understood that someone had planted an amplification device in the harbor to ensure that the simplest acceleration and deceleration commands were constantly applied to their carrier-based aircraft.
Leaving only one Caiyun reconnaissance plane, Kaga could already see the second round of carrier-based aircraft flying rapidly in the distance. At this moment, the entire Port of Vila has attracted four aircraft carriers and sixty percent of the carrier-based aircraft, with a total of 210 ships attacking, exploding, and combating.
What's more, there are still 500 elite pilots on the 210 carrier-based planes who wonder why the landlines are uncontrollable. Kaga absolutely did not believe that the deep-sea fleet had just gathered 210 carrier-based aircraft and asked them to clean up the remaining deep-sea ships in the harbor.
"Kaga, do you know what's going on?"
By the time Akagi came to inquire, it was too late, and Kaga had only guessed the outline of the trap, whether it was for her to crack the enemy's plot or to tell Akagi what the enemy wanted to do with the 210 carrier-based planes that were about to "converge".
Seeing that the time was ripe, Long Xing of the Flower Blossom Courtyard dived underwater to signal his actions to his old friends who had been waiting for a long time.
The deepest part of Port Vila is not enough to hide a large ship, and even if it is barely underwater, it will be found after multiple rounds of reconnaissance aircraft. This is also the strangest thing about Kaga. The Falling Hole and the Ground Thorn should be two in one to work, obviously there is no power to fight back, why should the enemy set such a trap.
"I need time to regain full control of your respective carrier-based aircraft. Pull up as high as you can! Kaga's advice was the most sensible option, but they didn't have time.
In the anxious call of the five aircraft carrier mothers, a strange voice interjected into it.
"Hmph...... Have you arrived yet......? ā