A day passed quickly, and the Japanese army did not have any substantive military operations except for the bombing of Yingduo and Menggong, and it could be seen that the Japanese army was also waiting for this surprise attack of the 18th Division.

And Jiang Haoran is also waiting, what he is waiting for is a three-day appointment with Stilwell, according to the agreement, the two aircraft carriers of the United States will arrive in the Indian Ocean today, and let the Japanese navy discover them in the Indian Ocean as scheduled, forcing the Japanese carrier-based aircraft to return to the sea defense, and he can use this opportunity to deal with the Japanese Fifth Flying Regiment with all his strength and regain air supremacy.

Early the next morning, the Straits of Malacca.

The Strait of Malacca has a southeast-northwest trend. Its northwest end is connected to the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean and to the southeast to the South China Sea. With a total length of about 1,080 kilometers, the widest part of the northwest is 370 kilometers, the narrowest part of the southeast is 37 kilometers, and the water depth is 25 to 150 meters.

At this moment, the Japanese aircraft carriers Kaga and Akagi, escorted by several cruisers and destroyers, were quietly moored here.

Since the Japanese took full control of the Pacific Ocean, this busiest sea transportation route was cut off, and the Japanese ships came and went, and the Japanese did not have to worry about the danger of exposure, and the narrow island of Malacca was also an excellent protection for them. Of course, the most unscrupulous thing for them is that the Pacific Fleet of the United States no longer exists, and the British Royal Navy is deeply attacked by the German army, and there is no time to separate, they simply do not have any threat.

The early morning sun shone on the deck of the aircraft carrier, and the busy Japanese troops had already begun to clear the runway and refuel the planes.

If it weren't for the army's delay in controlling the situation in Burma on the Burma battlefield, the navy would have waved its troops to the southwest Pacific islands at the moment to prepare for the capture of Australia and launch a new round of offensive against the United States, but in the case of instability in the rear, the Japanese army could only abandon this strategic concept and turn to fully assist the army to take Burma, in order to achieve the strategic concept of the German-Japanese and Indian divisions.

At about 8 o'clock, the bombers and fighters on the aircraft carrier began to take off one by one, and after more than 100 planes formed a formation in the air, they were like a flock of birds that covered the sky and the sun, and they quickly headed north, disappearing from view in an instant.

Just as the Japanese plane left the sight of the aircraft carrier, an F4F Wildcat fighter appeared from among the clouds above the aircraft carrier, and then then burrowed into the clouds and disappeared.

At the same time, in the Indian Ocean, about 800 nautical miles from Malacca, two aircraft carriers were towing under the escort of two battleships, four cruisers, and six destroyers, forming a huge aircraft carrier battle group.

The military flag of the United States was hunting and fluttering on the flagpole of the aircraft carrier, and the big white characters of "Zhongshan" and "Jiezhong" on the hull of the aircraft carrier were impressively visible.

Moreover, because the aircraft carrier has not yet formed combat effectiveness, the escort ships have noticeably strengthened.

In the command post of the "Zhongshan" aircraft carrier, Admiral Nimitz waved his arms and howled loudly: "The time for revenge has come, the location is the Strait of Malacca, the target Japanese aircraft carrier, attack!" Sink them, sink them all for me! ”

Nimitz's voice was still floating in the command post, and the pilots of the United States Air Force had already emerged on the deck, and after a period of nervous busyness, all kinds of fighters and bombers began to rush out of the aircraft carrier runway, fly into the blue sky one by one, quickly form an air formation, and overwhelmingly go northeast.

Half an hour later, the plane arrived over the Strait of Malacca, and without any hesitation, the US planes carried out a frenzied dive bombing of the Japanese aircraft carriers and warships in the Strait of Malacca.

The Japanese army did not expect that the air force of the United States would suddenly appear, and even when it was bombed, they couldn't believe the result, the aircraft carriers of the United States had been destroyed, where did this plane come from?

The anti-aircraft artillery on the Japanese aircraft carriers and warships began to return fire in a hurry, but they lost air supremacy, and the aircraft carriers were only left with abuse, and the aviation artillery could not stop the attack of the planes at all.

The heavy bombers of the United States dropped heavy bombs one after another on the Japanese aircraft carriers "Akagi" and "Kaga," and the torpedo planes were not to be outdone, dropping torpedoes at the best distance.

Soon, the two Japanese aircraft carriers were heavily damaged, a raging fire broke out on the deck, and the hull of the ship was tilted.

However, the bombing time of the US Air Force did not last long, and ten minutes later, the Japanese Zero Combat carrier-based aircraft soon roared and launched an aerial struggle with the US Air Force.

In fact, the Japanese army still has two aircraft carriers Xianghe and Zuihe anchored in the Gulf of Siam, and the aircraft carrier's carrying capacity is between 60 and 80, but on the Yunnan border, there is Jiang Haoran's aviation brigade, as well as the powerful 14th Air Force, in order to fully control the air supremacy of Burma, the Japanese Fifth Flying Regiment plus the carrier-based aircraft of the two aircraft carriers are not enough to compete, so the Japanese army has fully prepared four aircraft carriers to continue to support the Burma battlefield, Xianghe and Zuihe are the second echelon, when the US aircraft bombed Malacca, They haven't taken off yet.

It is a pity that after discovering the Japanese aircraft carrier in the Strait of Malacca, the American pilots did not continue to reconnoiter forward, and missed a good opportunity for a sneak attack.

The battle ended half an hour later, causing the sinking of the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga, the aircraft carrier Akagi was seriously damaged, the hull was tilted at seven degrees, and it completely lost its combat effectiveness, and it could no longer even accept the landing of aircraft. The other frigates were damaged to varying degrees.

The losses in the air battle were not large, only five planes, but the planes that immediately returned from the Burma battlefield ran out of fuel because they could not find the landing site in time, and the pilots were forced to parachute, and more than 30 planes were buried in the sea.

The United States Air Force, with only 12 fighters and bombers, won the battle, and after the Japanese planes refueled and took off, they had disappeared into the Indian Ocean, although the Japanese pilots captured their figures, but because the range was too long, they could no longer attack, so they could only let them swagger away.

The appearance of the aircraft carrier of the United States immediately disrupted the position of the Japanese army, the sky over the Pacific Ocean was no longer safe, the four aircraft carriers on the defense line, one sunk and one wounded, two have already withdrawn from the battlefield, and the remaining two are no longer enough to defend, in order to consolidate the security of the Pacific defense line, the Japanese army has to mobilize aircraft carriers from the rear to join the defense, so the air support for the Burma battlefield is completely impossible.