Before the bomber group returned, the battle report from the front was returned. At this time, the task forces were fighting on their own, bombing their respective targets according to their assigned tasks, and only contacting and assisting each other when necessary. Tan Renhao got a summary report of the results before dawn, that is, when the bomber group had just begun to return.

"Thirteen bombers have been lost, eight of which have been confirmed to have been forced into the open sea, and I have arranged for seaplanes to come to the rescue." Zhu Rongzhe's attitude towards work is very serious, "The first batch of bombing ensures that the six targets to be destroyed have been destroyed, at least temporarily out of use, and most of the leaders and planes have asked for supplementary bombing. In addition, Task Force 4 has sent a message that their bombers have suffered heavy losses and that at least two targets have not been destroyed, and we hope that we can provide some support. ”

"How many bombers did they lose?" Tan Renhao put down the report full of numbers in his hand.

"There were at least 28 of them, and more than half of them were shot down over the islands." Zhu Rongzhe shook his head, "The bombers of the Fourth Task Force entered last, and they mainly dealt with inland targets, so it was quite difficult to bomb, and the losses were understandable above ours. ”

"And the quality of their pilots. Also, what about the resistance of the US military? ”

"It's tenacious, because there are still some small field airfields that have not been destroyed, so the second round of bombing still has to arrange escort fighters."

Tan Renhao quickly thought for a moment and said, "Let Qiu Gengbo and them go, and in addition, the rest of the fighters led by An Shile will cover." ”

"And what about the air defense of the fleet?" Zhu Rongzhe immediately frowned, Ansler's fleet was responsible for the air defense of the fleet, and it had just taken off ten minutes ago.

"The returning escort fighters are responsible for the air defense of the fleet." Tan Renhao quickly made a decision, "The range of the 'Peregrine Falcon' is much longer than any of the fighters we have used in the past, and these escort fighters can fly for at least an hour after returning to the fleet. By then, our second batch of bombers would have reached the skies over Kauai. As long as we can destroy the airfields of the US military, then we do not need air defense fighters. Let's arrange it as soon as possible. Let the bomber group go immediately! ”

The three aircraft carriers of Task Force 1 immediately turned around, and the elevators also brought the bombers that had been parked in the hangar to the flight deck. The bombing mission had already been assigned, the bombers had already been hung, and the pilots only needed to sit in the cockpit, then leave the aircraft carrier and fly to the target they needed to bomb.

As the bombers catapulted off from the aircraft carrier one after another, Ellsler gathered the fighters of the three squads he commanded. The Peregrine Falcon's super endurance provides fighter pilots with more options. If Ellsloth is still flying the "Golden Eagle", then when performing the task of air defense of the fleet, it is necessary to switch to escort duty. It is necessary to return to the aircraft carrier to refuel, which is not necessary for the Peregrine Falcon, whose long range allows pilots to immediately change their combat arrangements and no longer need to waste time going to the aircraft carrier to refuel.

Watching the bombers take off one after another, Ansler was a little anxious. Originally, he was supposed to accompany Yang Qinkai to carry out the first round of bombing missions, but he lost to Zhu Xiaohuo, a novice, in the draw, and his partner, that is, the wingman pilot Yuan Peng, was very annoyed and underestimated in his ears for most of the day.

"Lao An, look. West. Yuan Peng's voice came from the earphones. Damn, that's Colonel Jiang Wenhan, you see. What about your competitors! ”

Ansle had already seen the peregrine falcon painted on the hood of the engine for nautical miles. Only the number one ace of air combat in the Imperial Navy can paint a circle of golden ground logos on the hood, as if showing off, and people from afar can know that it is Jiang Wenhan's landline. Thinking that he was more than ten battles less than Jiang Wenhan, An Shile felt even more uncomfortable. On the battlefield in Australia, Ellsler encountered Jiang Wenhan several times, but every time he narrowed the distance, Jiang Wenhan would immediately pull the distance away again. This made Annsler feel very annoyed, and it was just more than ten battles, and a fierce battle came down. Ellsle was able to take out several enemy planes, and a dozen or so results were nothing, but since the last battle with the Fifth Fleet in the waters off Necker Island, the First Task Force had not participated in a fierce naval battle, and it was difficult for Ellsle to get a chance to quickly close the distance.

The bomber group of the Second Task Force departed 20 minutes ahead of schedule, and Jiang Wenhan's plane lowered its altitude when it reached the sky over the First Task Force and flew near the flagship "Longganhu" aircraft carrier. This is obviously a bit of a show of power, showing off his achievements. Behind the ground fighter group led by Jiang Wenhan was a group of bombers led by Colonel Zhang Naiding, and then there was a group of torpedo bombers, because it was too far away, An Shile did not see who was the leader of the plane.

"Lao An, follow up and take a look, no matter what you say, you have to say hello."

"Damn, if you want to go, I won't go!" An Shile was holding back the fire in his belly, "Contact Geng Bo in Xia Qiu and ask him if he is lame and can't run, why hasn't he flown for a long time." ”

More than ten minutes later, the group of planes led by Qiu Gengbo all left the aircraft carrier. In this bombing, there was only one bomber group leader, Qiu Gengbo, and the others were led by the squadron leader and squad leader. After all the planes of Qiu Gengbo were in the air, Ellsler immediately led his group out of the sky over the fleet and flew in the direction of Kauai Island to the east.

Ellsle wanted to fly faster, but the bombers behind him could only move at 180 knots, and he had to keep flying at this speed. Unlike the escort fighters of Task Force 2, the Ellsroth fighters did not carry bombs, and only carried out escort missions, not bombing missions, so they did not need to fly too fast. Before, Ansler had noticed that Jiang Wenhan's batch of fighters were carrying bombs and rockets, and it seemed that Hao Dongjue had already known that a second round of bombing was needed, so he let the fighters hang bombs when they took off, instead of the auxiliary fuel tank.

In less than an hour, Ellsler saw the island of Kauai in front of him, and then he saw the fighter jets fighting over the island. It was the US air defense fighter and the escort fighter of the second task force. At this time, Ellsler became even more anxious, Jiang Wenhan must have dropped the bomb in advance, and was "slaughtering" those rookie pilots of the US military. God knows that Jiang Wenhan has added a few more results.

"Three squads stay to cover the bomber group, and the others follow me!"

Two squadrons of 24 Peregrine Falcons quickly joined the battle. The U.S. air defense fighters were already at a disadvantage, and with the arrival of the Ansloer group, air supremacy over the islands soon fell into the hands of the Imperial Naval Aviation.

"Yuan Peng, don't mess around, follow me!"

"Lao An, don't be verbose, or the two of us will change positions!"

"Change your size. See that 'Super Pirate' in front of you? It seems to be a squadron leader's landline, let's kill him first, and then hit the headless flies! ”

Hundreds of fighter planes were "tossing" over the eastern part of Kauai, and as one US fighter plane after another was shot down, the US pilots' will to resist was quickly crushed. Compared with Jiang Wenhan and Ansler, the quality of US fighter pilots is not half a point. In less than fifteen minutes, only fighters painted with the emblem of the Imperial Naval Aviation remained in the sky, and all those fighters painted with white stars and white circles were either shot down or expelled from the battlefield.

"Lao An, north. Damn. Here comes another batch! Yuan Peng was also red-eyed, in order to give Ellsler a few more results, he only shot down one US fighter jet.

"Damn. That's our fighter, it seems to be from the Fourth Task Force, it should be Wang Zhihua and them. ”

It was the escort fighter group of the Fourth Task Force led by Wang Zhihua who rushed to arrive. At this time, the bombers of the three task forces had already found their respective targets, the bomber groups of the seventh and eighth task forces had already returned home, and the US air defense fighter groups had been defeated.

"Andersler, Wang Zhihua, I'm Jiang Wenhan." The shout of the number one ace came from the headset, "Reinforcement fighters from the US military may arrive at any time." We should concentrate on the eastern part of the island, you on the left and right flanks, don't let the U.S. fighters fly over, and try to intercept them outside of Kauai Island! ”

"Understand, we're still in the north!" Wang Zhihua immediately replied.

"Then we're in the south!" Ellsloth also replied.

The three groups of fighters quickly separated and quickly gathered together. If U.S. fighter jets on Oahu had taken off around dawn, they would have arrived at Kauai by now. The most effective way to cover the bombers was to intercept the U.S. reinforcement fighters outside of Kauai, so that they could not get close to Kauai. This is an arrangement that Hao Dongjue has made before. When Jiang Wenhan was the first to reach the sea above the eastern part of the island, a large group of US fighters had already appeared in the eastern sky.

"Damn. It seems that there are more than a hundred! Seeing so many US fighters, Yuan Peng was not afraid, but became excited.

"More than that, there should be more than 200 planes, there is a batch of them behind, let's go around to the side, let Jiang Wenhan block them in front, and we attack from the flank!" An Shile was also excited, in his eyes, it was more than 200 bright signs of victory!

At the same time, Wang Zhihua also made the same choice, letting Jiang Wenhan's aircraft group meet the battle head-on, while the fighter group of the Fourth Task Force led by him launched an attack from the right flank of the US fighter group, trying to disrupt the queue of US fighters.

The battle quickly began, and the US fighters relied on the strength of the crowd and directly killed Jiang Wenhan's group, but they did not know that the fighter group of the Second Task Force led by Jiang Wenhan was the most experienced and powerful of the three groups. Obviously, the commander of the American army wanted to quickly break through from the front and go to intercept the bombers of the Tang Empire Navy that were wreaking havoc over Kauai Island, ignoring the danger on both sides, and by the time the American pilots reacted, it was already too late.

Ellsler flew the "Peregrine Falcon" to the limit speed, and the fighter swooped down at a speed of more than 420 knots, and no US fighter could bite the "Peregrine Falcon" that flew so fast, so Ellsler did not need Yuan Peng to cover him. The two rushed into the US military fleet almost at the same time, and when they were the first to rendezvous, they each shot down a "super pirate".

To the north, Wang Zhihua also got his results half a minute later, a "shrew" was hit by a 20-mm shell in the cockpit while preparing to evade, the pilot was killed on the spot, and the fighter immediately fell.

This was a wonderful air battle, Jiang Wenhan was very clear about the intentions of the two partners, he tried his best to intercept the US fighter in the front, and the speed advantage of the "Peregrine Falcon", especially the acceleration performance, was vividly exerted in his hands. An Shile and Wang Zhihua also knew very well that Jiang Wenhan had more than 30 fighters, and at most they could only intercept and kill the fish that slipped through the net, and it was impossible to intercept all the US fighters, and they had to crush the US military plane group as soon as possible and demoralize the US military troops, so as to ensure the safety of the bomber group, and the two of them also tried their best to attack the US military plane group.

The air battle lasted fifteen minutes, and the US fighter group reached the skies over Kauai, and the morale was also defeated. In just 20 minutes of fighting, more than 100 U.S. fighter jets were shot down, and other U.S. fighter jets were also hunted down. At this time, the bomber group carrying out the bombing mission in the eastern part of Kauai had already left the battlefield, and seeing that the mission had failed, the remaining US fighters had also retreated.

"Don't pursue, regroup, and get ready to sail back!"

"!" Hearing Jiang Wenhan's order, An Shile scolded lightly, but he also had to retreat, because there was not much fuel in his landline at this time.

"Lao An, how many planes have you killed?"

"Seven, or eight, I can't remember." Ansler wiped the sweat from his forehead, and when he returned to the aircraft carrier, the photos in the camera gun proved that he had shot down several enemy planes.

"It seems that Colonel Jiang Wenhan shot down more than ten crosses."

An Shile also knew that Jiang Wenhan still had more results than him this time, he didn't reply, to put it bluntly, he was very unconvinced, if his landline had 200 liters of fuel, he promised to be able to kill a few more "super pirates", but God willed, and now he had to give up those low-hanging fruit "results" and fly in the direction of the fleet with the group.