But what made Jizaburo Ozawa unacceptable was that in less than an hour, only 56 of the 120 Zeros came back, and the torpedo planes and bombers were also caught up by the Hellcats of the Mi Army, losing one-third, and the most infuriating thing was that less than 20 Hellcats were shot down by the Locust Army, which was an unprecedented defeat for the Locust Army and Navy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Soon after the end of the battle, the wing commander Matsushita Noosa, who was in charge of the air battle, appeared in front of Jizaburo Ozawa in disgrace and summed up the root cause of the defeat of the battle.

He believes that there is no problem with the planning and deployment of the campaign, the key is that the Mi F6F Hellcat fighter is indeed very powerful, whether in performance, armor or speed, the locust army's zero battle has a big gap with them, especially in terms of armor, he personally led a wingman to encircle and suppress a Hellcat, he bit the Hellcat through excellent flight technology, but he used up all the ammunition, but he could only watch the Hellcat of the Mi Army beat his wingman and went away. Therefore, it takes more than twice as much strength and ammunition to defeat a Hellcat in the locust army, but if the locust army shoots a zero battle against the locust army, if it hits the fuel tank, a 20-centimeter cannon shell or a 12.7mm machine gun shell is enough.

Moreover, the 150 fighters invested by the Mi Army this time were outside, and the 120 Zero fighters of the Locust Army were obviously at a disadvantage, and although the defeat was unexpected, it was also reasonable.

At the same time, Matsushita Ye also reported an important piece of information, in this battle, they did not find the bombers and torpedo planes of the Mi Army, and, according to the volume of the Hellcat, an aircraft carrier is also loaded with a maximum of fifty or sixty aircraft, but in the battle, the number of aircraft of the Mi Army almost reached one hundred and sixty, during the retreat, Matsushita Ye also found a helicopter figure on the sea, it is estimated that it is a pilot who implements water rescue and falls into the water, if the aircraft carrier is loaded with a certain number of helicopters, Almost all the loading capacity of the three aircraft carriers, it can be inferred from this that it is highly likely that the three aircraft carriers of the Mi army are not equipped with torpedo machines and bombers.

Ozawa Jizaburo did not blame Matsushino's defeat much, and the failure of the battle caused by the backward weapons could not be blamed on the pilots, but the information reported by Matsushitano immediately aroused Ozawa's vigilance.

If the Mi aircraft carrier is really not equipped with torpedo planes and bombers, it means that they do not have the ability to attack the locust navy fleet from a long distance, and at the same time, this is also in line with the spirit of the Mi army's operation, they are just a simple exercise, and they did not expect the locust army to attack them at all.

At this moment, the latest news came from the submarine in front that the Mi aircraft carrier was rapidly retreating. This further confirms the correctness of Ozawa's speculation, the Mi army does not dare to confront the locust army head-on, sea battles, the strength of ships and artillery is far inferior to air strikes, the aircraft carrier group without bombers and torpedo planes is equivalent to a toothless tiger, their fighter jets are powerful, the locust army will try to avoid air combat with them, use the advantages of aircraft carriers and ships to press on them with all their might, and have an aircraft carrier duel with them.

Jizaburo Ozawa hurriedly reported his findings to Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku in the rear, along with his own tactical ideas.

Soon, Yamamoto fifty-six telegraphed back, agreeing to his tactical actions, ordering the First Assault Fleet to pursue the Third Fleet of the United States with all its might, and at the same time, informing Ozawa Jizaburo that the Second Assault Fleet and the Third Assault Fleet had increased their horsepower to catch up with each other in order to make up for the disadvantage of the First Assault Fleet's lack of air firepower.

At this point in the battle, the purpose of the island army's surprise attack could no longer be achieved, and Yamamoto Isoroku immediately changed his tactics and decided to attack with all his strength and force a breakthrough.

Jizaburo Ozawa was immediately overjoyed and ordered the First Assault Fleet to move forward at full speed and pursue the Third Fleet of the United States.

Mi Battleship Iowa, war room.

After the first victory, the war room was full of jubilation, the generals celebrated with their crowns, and Nimitz even opened a bottle of champagne himself.

With the loss of 20 fighters, nearly 100 Japanese Zero fighters, torpedo planes, and bombers were shot down, which was a great miracle in the history of aviation, and they were the creators of this miracle.

Moreover, this battle fully proved the excellent performance of the F6F Hellcat, and announced that the situation of the Mi Army being completely abused by the Island Army Zero has been completely reversed, which is a moment of cross-era significance.

You know, this is only the first battle of the pilot's Hellcat, and the pilot's proficiency is far from reaching the realm of man-machine integration, which means that in the future battlefield, the Hellcat still has room for development.

According to post-war statistics, 80 percent of the fighters were damaged this time, and more than 10 of them were even scarred and full of bullet holes, but they still landed safely on the aircraft carrier, and this high-intensity protection capability will undoubtedly increase the pilots' infinite self-confidence and make them more courageous in giving them a free hand with the pilots of the island army.

"What's the matter, Jiang, you seem to be preoccupied, aren't you happy for our victory?" Nimitz raised his glass to Jiang Haoran with a smile on his face.

Compared with the excitement of the generals of the Mi army, Jiang Haoran's performance did seem a little flat, but this is his usual style, and he always kept a cool head after the war.

Jiang Haoran smiled slightly, raised the wine glass in his hand and touched Nimitz's wine glass, and then drank it all, and said, "Happy, of course happy, it's just that the storm is coming soon." ”

Nimitz subconsciously glanced out the window, the sky was cloudless, the sea was not alarmed, and there was no sign of rain, Nimitz quickly expected that Jiang Haoran was referring to something else, and said strangely: "Jiang, is there something wrong?" ”

Jiang Haoran said: "No, there is nothing wrong, on the contrary, the Japanese army is entering our ambush circle step by step according to our plan, but their reinforcements may appear in advance, which means that the Third Fleet may have to face far more enemies than the four aircraft carrier battle groups in front of them." ”

"Ah, what's the basis?" Nimitz's expression became nervous, the Third Fleet was struggling to deal with the four aircraft carrier battle groups in front of them, and adding even one more would be a very severe test for them.

Jiang Haoran Teng walked to the combat sand table, and Nimitz and a group of staff generals hurriedly surrounded him.

Jiang Haoran waved his command pole, pointed to the four aircraft carriers with sun flags on the sand table and said: "We know that the opponent is the battle group composed of four aircraft carriers, 'Akagi', 'Kaga', 'Daho', and 'Canglong', all of which are the strongest attack aircraft carriers of the Japanese army, and the main attack consciousness is quite obvious, but just after the battle, we almost destroyed most of their air force, but the Japanese army is still pursuing us with all its might, General Nimitz, don't you think this is a bit abnormal?" ”