An hour has finally passed, and the remaining voyage will take another hour, but the island army has not slowed down even when it is attacked, and it is only more than 30 nautical miles away from the Third Fleet, and it has already entered the range of naval guns. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although the island army Yamato was wounded and withdrew from the battlefield, the "Musashi" of the same level was still there, and the 460-mm giant cannon shells were almost chasing the butt of the Third Fleet, and the form was already very critical.

At 7:35 a.m., an hour and 15 minutes before the start of the war, the bombers on Midway finally reached the sky over the island fleet.

Fifteen B-17 Flying Fortress bombers, twenty Avenger torpedo planes, and twenty dreadnought dive bombers, escorted by twenty P-51 Mustang fighters, indiscriminately bombed the enemy's First Assault Fleet.

The 1st Assault Fleet of the Island Army, which was caught off guard, suffered suddenly, the two destroyers on the front line were sunk, and the Musashi was also hit by a bullet, but fortunately, it was only a thousand-pound bomb that smashed on the deck, and did not cause fatal damage to the heavily armored Musashi.

Although it was a hasty response, in less than five minutes, the carrier-based planes on the aircraft carrier took off one after another to intercept them, and the anti-aircraft artillery also opened fire one after another, and an impermeable protective net was laid out in the air.

Seeing that it was impossible to carry out a deep breakthrough, the Mi army group resolutely retreated, and seventy-five planes flew in, and forty-two of them managed to escape. More than a dozen of them were shot down by the faster Zero on the way back, but fortunately, the remaining dozens of Hellcats of the Third Fleet of the Chinese Army took off in time to repel the pursuit of enemy planes, otherwise the losses would have been even greater.

As a matter of fact, the fighters of the enemy planes in this air battle were far more than the aviation of the First Assault Fleet, and the Second Assault Fleet also heard about it.

The reason why Nimitz did not put the carrier-based planes of the Third Fleet into the escort formation was mainly due to two considerations: First, to guard against a sneak attack by the island army, and second, to deal with the concentration of the air forces of the two fleets by the island army and to take advantage of the situation to attack head-on. At the end of the air battle, the enemy had deployed at least more than 150 fighters, and if it weren't for the more than 50 Hellcats fighting hard against the enemy's planes, perhaps their bombers and torpedo planes would have followed up and launched retaliatory bombing against the Third Fleet.

Although the price paid by the Mi army is not insignificant, it has won at least half an hour for the Third Fleet, and the distance between it and the island army has been stretched to 50 nautical miles again.

At 7:50, the island army aircraft carrier Dafeng.

On the bridge, Vice Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa, commander of the First Assault Fleet, stood in the wind, and the sun flag behind him was ringing.

His expression was solemn, he didn't say a word, his eyes were a little blank, and no one knew what he was thinking, and no one knew what he was looking at.

Carrier-based planes are constantly flying back on the deck, soldiers are busy everywhere, search and rescue ships on the sea are also constantly shuttling, and pilots who have fallen into the water are salvaged everywhere, including those of the Mi Army and their own people.

In the distance, a destroyer is emitting smoke and soldiers are on deck to perform damage rescue.

The formations that had been scattered during the battle began to realign, and the sea was full of shuttling ships. Although the battle was not long, it brought a lot of trouble to the island army.

Wing Commander Matsushita Noosa of the 1st Assault Fleet Air Force hurriedly appeared on the bridge and reported to Jizaburo Ozawa that the Mi Army Air Force in charge of the sneak attack was all from Midway, including twenty Avenger torpedo planes. As a result of the air battle, the locust army won a complete victory, losing 15 fighter planes and shooting down more than 30 enemy planes.

In view of the sharp reduction in the number of carrier-based aircraft of the Third Fleet of the United States, Matsushino Daisa suggested taking the opportunity to launch a large-scale air attack to annihilate the Third Fleet of the United States Army.

However, Ozawa Jizaburo obviously had a deeper consideration, and he believed that the Third Fleet of the Mi Army was not loaded with torpedo planes and bombers, and posed no threat to the locusts, and they were now dragging the wounded Yorktown, and they could not escape the pursuit of the First Fleet of the Locust Army after all.

At this time, the locust army has already entered the attack radius of the ground aviation planes on Midway, and if the air force on Midway Island is not removed, the scene just now will continue to be staged over the locust fleet, so Ozawa Jizaburo planned that the first assault fleet and the second assault fleet will dispatch a group of 108 air forces composed of 36 Type 99 ship bombers, 36 Type 97 ship attack planes, and 36 escort Zero fighters to launch a surprise attack on Midway Island. Destroy the logistics base and airfield runway of the Mi army.

Although the distance of 500 nautical miles exceeds the combat radius of the zero battle, it is not a problem to load the auxiliary fuel tank at all, and it is precisely because it is not in the optimal combat radius of the zero battle that the Mi army will not be guarded, and it has the suddenness of the attack, and the probability of success is very high.

Once the threat on Midway Island is lifted, even if all the remaining seven aircraft carriers of the Mi Army show up, the Locust Army will still completely abuse the Mi Army with the absolute superiority of ten aircraft carriers.

Matsushitano immediately praised Jizaburo Ozawa's plan, and immediately asked him to lead the team on this glorious mission.

Ozawa immediately agreed, but the matter had to be agreed by General Yamamoto Fifty-six, however, Ozawa thought that this was not a problem and ordered Matsushitano to prepare in advance.

As soon as Matsushita was gone, Ozawa immediately ordered his plan to be reported to Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, and at the same time asked the Second Assault Fleet to join the sneak attack plan.

At this time, the position of the Second Assault Fleet was only thirty nautical miles from Ozawa's First Assault Fleet, and after a night of full-speed pursuit, it was even higher than the First Assault Fleet, ready to outflank the Third Fleet of the Mi Army at any time.

And the Third Assault Fleet, which was personally led by General Yamamoto 56 and used as the support firepower for this campaign, was still a hundred nautical miles behind Ozawa at this time, and once the remaining four aircraft carriers of the Mi Army were discovered, they would also outflank them at any time.