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"What?" Kusaka Ryunosuke's eyes widened, and he immediately threw himself on the chart to look at it, and after looking at it for a while, he shook his head - the distance was nearly 950 kilometers, which was really a bit too far. But he was unwilling to give up like this, and turned his head to Tsukahara for help, "Sir, what should I do?" ”

Tsukahara knew what he was thinking: "Report to the commander, ask the artillery formation and the decoy formation to move east as soon as possible, and the mobile fleet is responsible for attracting the attention of the enemy......"

"That's it?" Kusaka Ryunosuke thought that Tsukahara, who had a lot of tricks, would come up with some way to deal with the battleship formation.

"It's over!" Tsukahara sighed, "If we hadn't beaten the U.S. aircraft carrier formation so badly, the enemy might have come to attack us, and now that they receive the information, they will definitely turn around and run away immediately - if you can't run away?" ”

Kusaka Ryunosuke nodded again and again: In the Battle of Midway, Japan lost all its aircraft carriers, and Admiral Yamamoto led the battleship force to turn around without hesitation, and continued to fight to the death without listening to the advice of any brainless staff officer.

"We can't catch up with the enemy if they want to run...... Moreover, there is one more aircraft carrier that must be solved. "You have to move fast, and Puerto Rico is a threat to be reckoned with, and I bet he'll continue to send out attack groups in the afternoon." ”

At the same time that the Axis attack aircraft group was returning as fast as possible, the US destroyers were struggling to fish for people in the sea, and speaking of which, these destroyers can be called professional fishers, who had just fished a large number of people with Spruance some time ago, and now they have followed Fletcher to catch a group of people, and what is even more desperate is that many of the people who fished twice were actually repeated.

Poor Fletcher was rescued by the Radiance, his spirit was completely crushed, and there was no blood on his whole face, even the news of the heavy damage to the Japanese aircraft carrier Hayabusa did not make him any easier, and Cox was also at a loss for a long time.

"How many spare machines are there now?"

"7 units, 4 fighters, 3 attack aircraft, which are already being assembled as soon as possible." British Rear Admiral Daniel bitterly replied that in the past, everyone had complained that the Tejas hangar was too small for the planes to swing, but now the hangar was empty enough to run a horse.

"It is not known how many attack aircraft returned safely."

"Puerto Rico reported that the First Strike Wave and Army Airlines had successfully returned a total of 17 P-47s, 6 F6Fs, 4 F4Fs, 27 SBDs, and 18 A20s, with slightly more pilots successfully returning, as several aircraft landed and were found to be too damaged to be usable, and several parachuted near the airport because they ran out of fuel - pilots were successfully rescued."

The thought of the total number of 210 planes returned from the first strike echelon only 72 planes, Fletcher's face was gloomy, of course, he understood that the other planes were not necessarily completely lost, maybe some pilots managed to parachute to Venezuela, and he now only hoped not to lose too many pilots.

"I wonder how much is left in the second attack wave?" He began to wonder if there were a large number of planes that escaped, and if there were a large number of planes that escaped, he would have a chance to continue the attack, and when he thought of this, he began to get excited as if he had found the last book, and his brain was racing.

"Let these spare planes and others fly to Puerto Rico, and then we will immediately retreat." Fletcher explained, "This aircraft carrier can't be sunk anymore, otherwise there will be no fleet aircraft carriers available in the Atlantic, which will affect the rest of the war." ”

Daniel nodded again and again, to be honest, he didn't want to consume the only remaining fleet aircraft carrier of the British Empire in the Caribbean Sea - although Admiral King promised to replenish two aircraft carriers to Britain, the delivery had been postponed last time due to operational needs, and this time the US Navy itself suffered heavy losses, and he was not optimistic that it would be delivered on time, and maybe it would be postponed again.

Before making the decision to continue the offensive, Fletcher also considered the problem of pilots: this is the only remaining skilled pilot, and if he loses them, he is afraid that it will be troublesome even if there are aircraft carriers to replenish them in the future, but when he thinks that the Axis Army will turn the Caribbean Sea upside down, he feels that he can't swallow this breath, and he must give the enemy a fierce counterattack, and if the carrier-based aircraft pilots are not enough in the future, they will be trained again, and in the short term, the pilots arranged on the escort aircraft carrier in Turner's "A+" plan can be transferred, anyway, it is "A+" now It is also estimated that the plan will not be implemented.

Cox pointed to the Yorktown and Columbia, which were paralyzed to the side, and asked softly, "What do they do?" ”

"Learn from Spruance...... Fletcher closed his eyes in pain, "the key is to get the personnel out and get them moving." ”

At the same time that Fletcher's fleet suffered a devastating blow, the second wave of scouts from the Axis fleet found the artillery fleet led by Admiral Ingersoll. Seeing the Japanese scouts hovering overhead, Ingersoll was overjoyed at first, thinking that he had finally been discovered by the Japanese, which would be a good start for the next war.

Horikichi's tactics in the South Pacific have been studied by the U.S. Navy countless times, and the conclusion is simple: use battleships to attract the attention of enemy aircraft carriers, and then use your own aircraft carriers to deliver a fatal blow. In order to have the opportunity to use this innovative method of warfare, and also to compete with the Japanese super battleships, the US Navy resolutely decided to build Montana-class battleships.

Ingersoll quickly accepted this, he was happy to be a target himself, as long as Fletcher could destroy the enemy's aircraft carriers, as for the enemy battleships, after the aircraft carrier group was cleared, he could not fight as much as he wanted?

But the dream was shattered before it could begin, and the staff officer reported to him in a trembling tone: "Long ...... Sir, General Fletcher sent an urgent telegram that his aircraft carrier formation was finished......"

"Ahh Ingersoll and Turner were so frightened that they hurriedly grabbed the telegram, and saw the news that the 4 aircraft carriers on it were either sunk or heavily damaged, and the 5 cruisers were sunk or severely damaged, Ingersoll, who was already in his sixties, felt that his blood pressure had risen sharply, and he stumbled under his feet, and almost fell directly into the command tower, but Turner quickly helped him steady: "Sir, it is impossible to do it now, let's retreat quickly, and then report to Admiral King and Washington." ”

"That'...... What about Fletcher's plan to continue the attack? ”

"I suggest you don't make any decisions and let Admiral Kim and the president decide." Turner whispered, "Someone must be responsible for this incident in the end, and the chief has repeatedly reminded him not to run too fast, but unfortunately he couldn't listen to us, so he ......"

Ingersoll hurriedly said: "Yes, yes! I have fully fulfilled my duty, and my greatest responsibility now is to bring back the battleship formation unharmed, and the United States cannot afford to continue to lose its warships. (To be continued.) )