Qiu Gengbo's plane left the flight deck of the aircraft carrier at 5:45 a.m., and it only took 15 minutes from receiving the order, completing the loading, and then taking off. All the results of the second group of bombers of Task Force 1 left the flight deck of the aircraft carrier before 6:10. At this time, the lighting system on the aircraft carrier has been turned on, and the aviation crew has issued the highest efficiency, and the average loading time of each aircraft and the preparation time for takeoff are about ten minutes, which can be regarded as a new record.

Task Force 1's bomber group arrived over Oahu at nearly seven o'clock, the first of the three task force groups to arrive in the second bomber group. This time, all the bombers had only one mission, and that was to destroy the warships in the harbor, as well as the infrastructure. Of course, each bomber was assigned a specific bombing target, and according to the regulations, each bomber had at least five targets, one of which was a primary target and four secondary targets. If the primary target has already been destroyed, then switch to bombing the nearest secondary target. This tactic is the most effective, and it is one that the Imperial Navy has been using for several years.

This time, the first to engage the enemy was not bombers, but escort fighters led by Yao Boyan and Zhu Xiaohuo. In the first round of bombing, Yang Qinkai's group was only covered by a squadron of escort fighters led by An Shile, and this time, Tan Renhao sent all the remaining fighters out and dispatched two squadrons of fighters to escort the Qiu Gengbo group and the Mutao Brothers group. And the returning Ansloth fleet will be responsible for the air defense of the fleet.

There was a certain justification for this arrangement, the first round of bombing was carried out at night, and it was a surprise attack, and the US military did not have any preparations, which was confirmed from the reports of the forward reconnaissance planes, so there was no need to arrange too many fighters for the first round of bombing. Instead, the second round of bombing was set to take place after dawn, even if it destroyed the U.S. airfield on Oahu and nearby Maui. There are still plenty of fighter jets at the airfields on Molokai, Lanai, and even further afield on the island of Hawaii, and these fighters will certainly arrive in time to intercept the second group of bombers, so it will be necessary to provide a sufficient number of escort fighters for the second group of bombers. If the second round of bombing went well, then by the time of the third round of bombing, the US airfields on the other islands would have reached full capacity. And most of the elite air defense fighter units have been routed in previous battles, so there is no need to arrange too many escort fighters for the third round of bombing.

Relatively speaking, Tan Renhao's arrangement was relatively conservative, and the Second Task Force under the command of Hao Dongjue did not provide escort fighters for the first round of bombing, but left all three squadrons of fighters, two of which were responsible for escorting the second batch of bombers, while the fighters of the other squadron went to the First Task Force after dawn to provide air defense cover for the first task force further forward. Huang Xiaotian's arrangement was similar, the position of the fourth task force was further back and would not be attacked first. He also sent a squadron of ground air defense fighters to support Task Force 1.

Qiu Gengbo did not think about these general arrangements. It was not his turn to think about these questions, and his task was to accurately drop the 500-kilogram bomb carried by the bomber and destroy the most important target. This. The main target of Qiu Gengbo was the large warships in the harbor. Of course, every bomber received such an order, and the order of this bombing target was also quite exquisite.

Because it was not certain whether there were still capital warships in Pearl Harbor, and such warships would certainly be the most valuable targets, all the bomber pilots were clearly told to destroy the capital ships first, and only then to think about bombing the port's infrastructure. The reality, of course, was that there were not a few capital battleships inside Pearl Harbor. By the time the group reached Pearl Harbor, there was only one cruiser. The rest are old anti-submarine destroyers, as well as non-combat ships. In this case, the tasks of the two bombers are very different. The torpedo-mounted "Sea Eagle" will concentrate its efforts on destroying all ships, whether military or civilian, as long as they are floating on the surface of the sea. The "waterfowl" fleet turned to deal with the infrastructure of the port. The infrastructure of the port is divided into several categories of different levels of importance. Among them, large cranes, gantry cranes, shipyards. The slipway was the most important, and if such infrastructure was blown up, it would be difficult to repair, depriving Pearl Harbor of the ability to support the fleet. This is followed by warehouses of all kinds, then barracks, docks, vehicle transfer yards, and so on. When Hao Dongjue was arranging the bombing mission, he did not forget another important target, that is, the theater command of the US military. This task was given to the bomber unit of the Second Task Force, which can be regarded as Hao Dongjue's partiality.

Qiu Gengbo is an impulsive person, but he is not an irrational person. Having found out that there were no targets in the harbor that were worth his consumption of a 500-kilogram aviation armor-piercing projectile, he immediately decided to go to the bombing dock. This is also a very important target, and against reinforced targets such as dockyards, only 500 kg of aviation armor-piercing shells have a destructive effect, and it is not clear how much damage the effect is. But the problem is that Qiu Gengbo made a mistake when determining the target, he chose not a dock with warships under repair, but actually a hidden submarine dock!

From the air, the submarine dock is actually not much different from other docks. At that time, Pearl Harbor had three dedicated submarine docks, which provided normal maintenance and upkeep work for U.S. submarines performing the breach of diplomatic relations. In addition to the special submarine dock in Hilo on Hawaii Island, the three submarine docks in Pearl Harbor were the most important submarine support facilities for the U.S. military in the Hawaiian Islands at that time. Compared to ordinary docks, submarine docks are stronger and more difficult to destroy. At the beginning, in order to destroy a German submarine dock in Bremerhaven, the British Air Force also specially built a super bomb weighing 2 tons, but the results were not obvious. Even if the U.S. submarine docks were not as strong as the German Navy's submarine docks, which were often bombed, it was difficult to penetrate the reinforced concrete several meters thick on the top of the dock with 500 kilograms of aviation armor-piercing projectiles and blow up its internal facilities.

When the smoke from the explosion of the bomb rose into the air, Qiu Gengbo regretted it. As an experienced pilot, Qiu Gengbo can tell from the shape and concentration of the smoke produced after the explosion and the size of the fire that the bomb has hit or destroyed the target. Apparently. This time he was too disappointed, 500 kg of aviation armor-piercing projectiles can penetrate a meter of reinforced concrete is already considered luck, obviously, this bomb has no other effect except leaving a large crater on the roof of the submarine dock, damaging some internal facilities, and maybe injuring several American soldiers.

"Damn, we've run into an iron turtle now!"

"Colonel. Yang Shihong: They're almost here, and we still have time to fly back to the fleet again! ”

Qiu Gengbo glanced at the submarine dock shrouded in smoke and dust a little unconvinced, and then returned unwillingly. In fact, except for his own bombing, which did not achieve much effect, the other bombers in the group basically found their own targets and brought the power of the bombs into full play.

Before the arrival of the bomber group of the Second Task Force, the group of Qiu Gengbo had already blown up and sunk more than a dozen large and small ships in the interior of the port. Two of the 10,000-ton ships were blown up and sunk when they were about to leave the port, and both ships ran aground at the exit of the port, blocking the passage and preventing the ships behind them from leaving the port to evacuate. Other than that. Two dry docks were completely destroyed. Both docks were hit by several bombs each. Another slipway was bombed into ruins, several warehouses, and barracks were bombed.

The second group of bombers of the Second Task Force led by Yang Shihong arrived only fifteen minutes late. As a result, they were left with nearly half of the targets. Yang Shihong and the others did not relent, and the torpedo bombers all concentrated on dealing with the ships, and the two 10,000-ton ships that had rushed into the shoal area and ran aground were hit, and a violent explosion occurred. Dive bombers continued to tackle the port's critical infrastructure, including a fleet of dive bombers that bombed the U.S. Navy Air Station on Ford Island. In Hao Dongjue's view, the most important thing is the bombing of the US theater command. However, Hao Dongjue did not know that Nimitz's headquarters had already been transferred, and the US Pacific Theater Command was just a building that was not guarded by a few people, and the effect of the dozen or so bombs dropped there was quite limited.

The bomber group of Task Force 4 arrived last. Huang Xiaotian arranged for several team leaders to direct the bombing. By this time, Pearl Harbor was already filled with gunsmoke, and most of the important targets worthy of bombing had been destroyed. Therefore, the bomber group of Task Force 4 was to expand the ground of gains. The most important of them, docks, slipways, naval ship repair centers, warehouses, barracks were repeatedly bombed. The battleships that ran aground, but did not sink, were again bombed or torpedoed. By the time the last bomber left Pearl Harbor, it was already past 7:40. The second round of bombardment took only about forty minutes.

Bombing reports from various groups were sent back one after another. Tan Renhao has been anxiously waiting for the report of the returning group, because according to the plan, if the second round of bombing fails to completely destroy Pearl Harbor, then supplementary bombing will have to be arranged, or even a fourth round of supplementary bombing. Yang Qinkai's group returned to the fleet after six o'clock, and after dawn, these bombers had already refueled, but they were not in a hurry to hang up the bombs, and the aviation service personnel were seizing all the time to check the status of each bomber.

After receiving the last report on the results, Tan Renhao was a little hesitant. Judging from the reports of Hao Lingheng and Chai Zhizhong, more than ninety percent of the important targets have been destroyed, and there is no need to continue the bombing of Pearl Harbor. But the question is, how much damage will be to those important targets? Moreover, Qiu Gengbo has already clearly mentioned that there are several submarine docks of the US military that have not been destroyed, and they are very difficult to destroy. If the extent of the destruction is not enough for the U.S. military to quickly repair Pearl Harbor's infrastructure, then the bombing will be of little significance. In the first two rounds of bombing, the three task forces lost nearly 50 combat planes, and the search and rescue work is still ongoing, and if there are any more losses, the combat effectiveness of the fleet will be reduced.

"Let Yang Qinkai and them get ready to go!" Tan Renhao only hesitated for two minutes, he didn't want to let the fruits of the adventure be easily lost, he had to ensure that Pearl Harbor was unusable for several months, so that the US Fifth Fleet would lose the support point for its activities, and at the same time, the US military would not be able to support the battle on Kauai.

"Do you want to contact the other two fleets?"

"No, no." Tan Renhao stopped Zhu Rongzhe, "Now the position of the fleet has not been revealed, the US military is definitely looking for our exact location, and we can't contact other fleets." Hao Dongjue and Huang Xiaotian both know what to do, and there is no need to point fingers at them. ”

Zhu Rongzhe nodded, and went to find the aviation staff officer to give a new attack order.

In fact, Hao Dongjue and Huang Xiaotian also made the same decision, in this combat operation, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was only the beginning, and the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor had two purposes, one of which was to make the US Fifth Fleet lose the support point for its activities, and this must ensure the complete destruction of Pearl Harbor's infrastructure and make Pearl Harbor incapacitated. It is impossible to achieve this with a single round of bombardment, and if destruction is to be ensured, it will have to be continued.

The third round of bombing, which was also the second round of bombing of Pearl Harbor, was more troublesome, and by the time Yang Qinkai and the other planes arrived over Pearl Harbor, a large number of US fighters had already rushed over. If it weren't for the strong cruising capability of the "Peregrine Falcon" and the fact that there was no need for the escort fighters of the second batch of bombers to return immediately, I am afraid that the losses in this round of bombing would have been much greater. It was precisely because of the stubborn resistance of the US military that Tan Renhao gave up the fourth round of bombing. There was not much need for this, and after the third round of bombing, there were few targets in Pearl Harbor that were worth dropping bombers again!

At half past ten in the morning, after all the pilots who could be found overboard had been rescued, the fleet returned. The U.S. bombers have not appeared, which is the luckiest, and for Tan Renhao, Huang Xiaotian, and Hao Dongjue, this is actually just the beginning, to maximize the victory, they have to use the bombing of Pearl Harbor to force Spruance to fight with them!