"Captain, twelve o'clock!"

Hearing the wingman pilot's warning, Wei Chengwen quickly glanced at the rearview mirrors on both sides.

In the left rear, an F4F is rapidly approaching.

Although it was still a few hundred meters away, the fighter had already opened fire.

The point is that there is no aiming at all.

Obviously a rookie!

Wei Chengwen didn't think much about it, quickly pulled back the joystick, and pushed down the accelerator.

By the time the "Roaring Sky" he piloted had completed its somersault maneuver, the F4F had already rushed to the front.

After being bitten by the "Roaring Sky", the Nuland pilot immediately made a roll maneuver and dived towards the surface of the sea at the same time.

It's still a rookie performance.

The dive performance of the "Wildcat" is not bad, it is better than the "Typhoon", but it is far less than the "Roaring Sky" that can make a cameo appearance as a dive bomber.

Crucially, the rolling performance of "Roaring Sky" also exceeds that of "Wildcat".

The distance was shortened to within 300 meters, and after the aiming ring lassoed the F4F, Wei Chengwen pulled the trigger, and it was a clean and neat short point shot.

The "wild cats" who have tried their best are still in danger.

Fatally, when swept away by 13-mm bullets, the "Wildcat" was less than 500 meters above the sea surface, and it was the tail that was hit.

Now, there is no chance to even change the level!

After pulling the fighter up, Wei Chengwen glanced back.

The F4F had already crashed into the sea, splashing a column of water more than ten meters high, there was no parachute nearby, and the Nuland pilot did not have time to parachute.

Crashing into the sea at such a speed, the pilot would have to be crippled if he didn't die.

Most of them will die, and even if they don't fall to their deaths, they will drown in the sea water in the cockpit.

"Captain, this time I finally didn't run in vain."

"It's just a result, what is it?"

Wei Chengwen was not happy, not that he had been busy for most of the day to shoot down an enemy plane, but that he had already flown around the battlefield in a full circle.

Only one aircraft carrier was found!

In addition, it can be concluded from the details that it was the "Sarah" from the Sunset Fleet, and not the "Leke", which had long been incorporated into the Guia Fleet.

And what about the second Nuland aircraft carrier?

Not at all!

When flying over the "Sarah", Wei Chengwen clearly saw that SBDs and TBDs were not placed on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier at all.

Already sent out?

It is obviously unlikely, at least on the way over, that the attack aircraft group of the Nuland Navy was not spotted.

Before that, no one had encountered the bombers and torpedo planes of the Nuland Navy, all of them were fighters.

Could it be that the "Sarah" is full of fighters!?

Although he felt incredible, Wei Chengwen could only believe that this was probably the truth.

Of course, it doesn't matter much if it's true or not, because the bombers and torpedo planes have already killed and attacked.

To put it, that is, to waste valuable attack power.

If you had known that there was only one aircraft carrier, and it was all fighters, even if you wanted to attack, you would only need a squadron of bombers and a squadron of torpedo planes.

When several squadrons of bombers and torpedo planes attacked, Wei Chengwen contacted the torpedo planes of the leader.

The long-distance voice radio was too large and heavy, and only the torpedo machine could be loaded, so unless a conventional radio station was used, the torpedo leader had to report to the flagship.

It was 9:30 a.m.

Actually, there is nothing to report.

About 20 minutes before that, at about 9:10 a.m., the anti-aircraft fighters of Task Force 21 had already routed the first group of invading enemy aircraft.

Under the guidance of the fast battleships in charge of air defense operations, the two squadrons of "Roaring Sky" actively went forward, intercepted and killed the first two squadrons of F4F fighters and two squadrons of SBDs without any suspense, and then made persistent efforts to send five TBDs that penetrated the defense at ultra-low altitude into the sea.

It's just that there are also 6 "Roaring Sky" that were shot down by F4F in battle.

These 6 "Roaring Sky" were all attacked by F4F when they intercepted SBD.

In addition, these "Wildcats" have 6 aviation machine guns, which were put into production ahead of schedule only this year and are given priority to the F4F-4 type for the Guia Fleet.

Compared with the F4F-3 carried by the "Sarah", the main change of the F4F-4 is that the firepower is more ferocious.

Apparently, the Nuland Navy was learning from the Imperial Navy.

"Typhoon" initially had only 4 large-caliber aviation machine guns, and their performance in battle was unsatisfactory, so the "Roaring Sky" was directly increased to 6 units.

There were still 3 TBDs rushing to the outskirts of the fleet, and before they were shot down, they dropped torpedoes on the light cruisers that came out of the way, but all of them missed the target.

It's just that the battle isn't over yet.

When intercepting the TBD fleet, 8 "Roaring Sky" planes rushed to a low altitude, and only 2 were on alert at high altitude.

At this time, the second group arrived.

Actually, it was still from the Newland Task Force 16 group, which only took off from the "York", and the previous ones were from the "Leke".

After takeoff, these Nuland carrier-based planes flew west for about half an hour because the navigator who led the lead plane made a low-level mistake.

As a result, the arrival time was about 10 minutes later than normal.

It was in these 10 minutes that the attack aircraft group of the "Lek" suffered a catastrophe, 16 SBDs and 8 TBDs were all shot down, and even 11 of the 16 F4Fs escorted were shot down, and 3 crashed due to serious damage after evacuating from the battle.

Such a devastating loss is not worthless.

It was the desperate efforts of the attack aircraft group sent by the "Lek" that they were able to fight out 6 "Roaring Heavens" and let 8 "Roaring Heavens" go to a low altitude.

As a result, the 2 "Howling Skies" on high alert had to face 16 "Wild Cats" of 2 squadrons.

Just a photo, before the 2 "Roaring Heaven" could make a move, they were shot down by the swarming "Wildcats".

Then, those F4Fs began to dive down towards the eight "Roaring Sky" that were still climbing.

Although the Imperial Navy fighter pilots were very experienced, after discovering the F4F's active dive, they did not continue to climb, but stayed at a low altitude, but this is equivalent to giving up the SBD group following the F4F, and there is no way to deal with the TBD group that attacks from a low altitude.

No matter how ferocious "Roaring Sky" is, it is impossible to quickly defeat "Wildcat" twice as large as itself.

Moreover, the "dreadnought" and "saboteurs" who followed behind the "Wildcat" group only needed a few minutes to drop deadly bombs and torpedoes.

In fact, no matter how good the performance of the fighter is, it takes several minutes to climb from sea level to an altitude of 5,000 meters.

Obviously, even if it is not bitten by the "wild cat", the low-altitude "roaring sky" will not be able to intercept the high-altitude SBD.

Taking advantage of the fact that the "roaring sky" was entangled by the "wild cat", the SBD group took the lead in launching an attack.

The SBDs of the two squadrons had already separated, one of them pounced directly on the "Mohe" in front, and the other continued to search and fly forward.

Because it had previously flown westward, the attack aircraft group sent by the "York" entered farther south.

In the 21st task force, the "Longjiang" was north-east of the "Mohe".

It is not that the "Mohe" was deliberately shot in the south, but before being attacked, the 21st Task Force was sailing in the northeast, that is, in the direction where the "Sarah" was located, to shorten the return flight distance of the attack group, and the "Longjiang" led the group in front as usual.

Where did you think that enemy planes were killing from the southwest.

Because the enemy planes entered a more southerly position, the "Mohe" bore the brunt of the attack.

At that time, the "Longjiang" had not yet been discovered by the fleet sent by the "York".

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