After Qiu Gengbo led the group of planes to depart, the aircraft carrier did not calm down. Tan Renhao had not yet received a new report from Liang Tianci at that time, and Huang Xiaotian was not in a hurry to contact the First Fleet, and he did not know that the Third Fleet's ground bomber group was about to reach the skies over the US Fifth Fleet. At this time, Tan Renhao had only one thing in mind, that is, to concentrate all his forces to destroy the last hope of the US Navy in the Pacific Ocean in one fell swoop and completely defeat the US Navy's Pacific Fleet. Don't give the enemy the slightest chance. Before the Qiu Gengbo group completely left the aircraft carrier, Tan Renhao ordered Yang Qinkai's group to follow suit.

"The second task force also let Yang Shihong's group set off." Zhu Rongzhe walked over, "General Hao Dongjue has arranged the same as ours, striving to annihilate the enemy as soon as possible, and not giving the US army the slightest hope."

"Yang Qinkai, when will they take off?" Tan Renhao had already guessed that Hao Dongjue must be more active than him.

"It'll be off in five minutes."

In less than five minutes, Yang Qinkai drove the "Falcon" off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier, and then the bombers from other places left the aircraft carrier one after another. Because 12 "Falcons" were released to carry out reconnaissance missions before, the scale of Yang Qinkai's aircraft group was slightly smaller than that of Qiu Gengbo's aircraft group, and it took a total of 27 minutes to take off, which was more satisfactory than the results during training.

"Now, it's up to us to see if our four bomber groups can get an effect." Tan Renhao glanced at the navigation clock, "Is there any news about the Third Fleet?" ”

"They haven't been in the strike range yet, I'm afraid they won't be able to catch up." Zhu Rongzhe laughed, he felt that the Third Fleet was not very lucky.

"General, the reconnaissance plane sent back a report!"

Tan Renhao and Zhu Rongzhe were shocked at the same time, thinking that there was still a US fleet.

"It was the same reconnaissance plane that came back from before, and they met the Third Fleet bomber group. Now it's on the way back."

"Meet?" Tan Renhao breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time was surprised, "Where did they meet?" ”

"It should be northwest of the U.S. Fifth Fleet. Presumably they fled northwest after being intercepted by U.S. fighter jets. Now the Third Fleet's ground aircraft group is probably over the U.S. fleet."

Zhu Rongzhe immediately glanced at the navigation clock. The Third Fleet is moving faster than us, and it will take 10 minutes and 15 minutes for the Qiu Gengbo Fleet and the Zhang Ding Group of the 2nd Task Force to arrive."

Tan Renhao nodded slightly, now there is no need for Huang Xiaotian to send a telegram, it is obvious that after Huang Xiaotian received the report of the reconnaissance plane, he first let the bomber set off, and it must have been delayed for at least half an hour, maybe fifty minutes before sending the news to the First Fleet. In other words, Huang Xiaotian wanted to attack before the First Fleet.

"Did the Third Fleet send us a telegram?" Tan Renhao asked the communications staff officer.

"We haven't heard from the Third Fleet yet, do you want us to contact the Third Fleet?"

Tan Renhao and Zhu Rongzhe glanced at each other, and the two thought of the same question.

"General, do you want to contact the Third Fleet?" The communications staff officer asked again.

"No, not for now, let the Third Fleet take the initiative to contact us."

The communications staff officer was a little puzzled. He looked at Zhu Rongzhe, Zhu Rongzhe nodded, and let the communications staff officer leave.

"It seems that Huang Xiaotian is competing with us!"

Tan Renhao laughed. This is not a credit grab, they are more credited than us

Large, no Third Fleet expelled the ground in the north. Turner wouldn't have crashed into our muzzle, would he? ”

Zhu Rongzhe had to admit it. The First Fleet is just waiting for the rabbit. And sweating is the Third Fleet.

"Now he's just getting what he's supposed to be." Tan Renhao let out a sigh. It seems that the bombers of the Third Fleet will not be able to fly back, and they will definitely have to land on our side. You go and arrange it, adjust the time for the group to return to the destination, and if there is a conflict, let Yang Qinkai and them slow down. At the same time, contact Hao Dongjue. Let the Second Task Force also make preparations for the recovery of the Third Fleet's bombers, and our task force will not be able to keep it busy."

Soon, Qiu Gengbo sent back the report. The Third Fleet's ground bomber group had bombed the U.S. Fifth Fleet before they arrived. Not much. Tan Renhao received a telegram from Huang Xiaotian, asking the First Fleet to take over the Third Fleet's ground bomber group and refuel the bombers. The relevant ground work was quickly arranged, and there was no need for Tan Renhao to think about arranging a second round of ground affairs, the two main fleets dispatched at least seven batches of ground bomber groups, each batch of at least more than 100 bombers. If so many bombers can't solve the problem of the US Fifth Fleet, then he and Huang Xiaotian should go back and write a review.

Ahead. The Qiu Gengbo group arrived almost at the same time as the ground bomber group of the Eighth Task Force, and at this time, the ground bomber groups of the Fourth Task Force and the Seventh Task Force had already broken through the US ground air defense network and were dropping bombs. So many bombers killed almost at the same time. Even if the US fleet was full of air defense warships, it would not be of much use, and that pitiful air defense fighter had long been beaten by several groups of escort fighters.

"Don't look for a target, attack freely. Don't let go of any of the warships! Qiu Gengbo was also anxious, hundreds of bombers were shuttling in the air, if he took any more time to identify the target, it would be simply taking the initiative to say goodbye to the opportunity.

Qiu Gengbo's own choice of place is not an aircraft carrier. Rather, an air defense cruiser of the "Detroit" class . The cruiser had not been attacked before, but had shot down three bombers of the 8th Task Force that had gone to attack the aircraft carrier where it was covering. Qiu Gengbo didn't think too much about it. It's not bad to be able to blow up a cruiser, but if he is slow, I'm afraid that he will only be able to deal with a destroyer with 50 kg of bombs hanging in the bomb bay of his landline.

The "Falcon" ground entry angle is only about 70 degrees, and it does not enter the ground along the battleship, which is the basic tactic of bombing the cruiser. In order to improve the hit rate of bombs and avoid being attacked by all anti-aircraft guns on one side of the battleship at the same time, the bombers will have a certain angle with the central axis of the battleship when attacking the anti-aircraft firepower of the battleship with strong escort firepower, and this angle is generally between 25 and 60 degrees. In addition, the bomber does not need to make a difficult vertical dive bomb. Instead, bombing is carried out in a similar way as the sliding bomb drop, so that the bomb can be quickly evaded and avoid being hit when changing the course.

Four Falcon entered in columns and dropped bombs almost simultaneously. The four bombs have a difference of between 50 and 100 on impact. This guarantees that at least one bomb will hit. For a cruiser, a 500-pound aviation armor-piercing shell is enough, as long as the battleship is damaged, then other bombers may enter more easily to drop bombs, and even torpedo bombers can enter alone.

"Damn, Colonel. Our bomb missed."

"I saw it, but the ship is finished!" Qiu Gengbo pulled the bomber up, and only one of the four bombs hit. The point of impact should be between the two cigarettes on the cruiser's ground, and it should be at the site of the explosion inside the hull, where the battleship's ground power compartment is, and it is the most vulnerable part of the battleship. If the bomb is exploded in the lower compartment. Then the cruiser is definitely finished .

In the sky, hundreds of bombers are shuttling back and forth. When the group of Zhang Ding arrived at the place, the scene was even more chaotic. All three aircraft carriers have already been shot. One of them is already heavily tilted. It could capsize at any moment, and the other two were also on fire. Most of the dive bombers abandoned the aircraft carrier. Instead, they concentrated their forces on cruisers and destroyers, and torpedo bombers still continued to attack aircraft carriers. After the aircraft carrier was shot and lost power. The torpedo ground hit rate is much higher, and the destructive power is much greater, as long as a few more torpedoes are hit, the aircraft carrier can only be abandoned, even if it is not sunk.

"it, what kind of world is this, who are we going to provoke. I didn't even have a chance to drink the soup."

"Lao Zhang. You're late! Qiu Gengbo laughed, "Anyway, our local team also killed a cruiser, I'm afraid now you can only deal with destroyers."

"Mother, that's the Third Fleet?" Zhang Ding was very breathless, he had been preparing for several days.

"That's right, Hao Lingheng's kid ground group, now that he dragged it, I heard that he also hit an aircraft carrier."

"it, now even these juniors are catching up. It's time for us to take a back seat."

Although the two were laughing, neither of them had a good feeling in their hearts. Hao Lingheng was still pretending to be flying a training plane in the aviation school. They are already bombing aces . And now I can only watch a group of juniors wield their might. Zhang Ding did feel a little aggrieved, but he had no choice but to go to the US destroyer to vent his resentment and anger.

Yang Qinkai and Yang Shihong had even worse luck, and when they arrived on the battlefield. The U.S. destroyers are gone. On the sea, the two stubborn aircraft carriers had not yet sunk, and as a result, these two groups of bombers carried 100 bombs and more than 100 torpedoes were all used on these two unfortunate aircraft carriers. By the time Yang Shihong was the last to withdraw from the fighting ground, the Fifth Fleet of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet had disappeared. Floating on the surface of the sea, in addition to the fragments of the battleship, there are only those American officers and soldiers waiting for the Imperial Navy warships to come to the rescue.

One after another ground battle reports were sent back, Tan Renhao was not surprised, the two main fleets, five aircraft carrier task forces, and fifteen aircraft carrier bombers on the ground were almost half dispatched, and the US Fifth Fleet had only one result, if there were still battleships on the sea at the end of the battle, then we could only wonder if the ammunition used by the Imperial Navy was too powerful to blow up the enemy's warships to pieces.

"The damage report is out." Tan Renhao emphasized this point to Zhu Rongzhe and asked him to determine the loss as soon as possible. We lost 13 aircraft, the 2nd Task Force 11, and the 1st Fleet lost no more than 35 bombers. Much smaller than we expected."

Tan Renhao nodded slightly. What about pilots? Rescue planes have been dispatched, right? ”

"They have all been dispatched, and the Third Task Force has also sent four cruisers and four destroyers over to prepare to salvage the American officers and men who have fallen overboard. However, they will probably not arrive until around dawn tomorrow, and I don't know how many American troops will be able to hold out until that time."

"Try to rescue them, they're also soldiers. And now that we have lost the ability to resist, our prisoner of war camps will not be overcrowded with more prisoners."

Zhu Rongzhe laughed, maybe many people are really worried about the affairs of the prisoners of war." Then there's the Third Fleet, whose bomber group will return before Qiu Gengbo and Zhang Ding."

"Are we ready?"

"It's all been arranged, and the aviation crew will refuel the Third Fleet ground bombers as quickly as possible. In addition, I also contacted Qiu Gengbo and Zhang Ding to ask them to slow down their return speed. Otherwise, we won't be able to make it around."

"There are also Yang Qinkai and Yang Shihong, they also have to slow down the return speed."

Zhu Rongzhe nodded. I've also contacted to try to stagger the three groups of bombers, and that's all we can do."

"When you're done, contact the Third Fleet. Let Huang Xiaotian go south by himself, and we will go directly to Panama." Tan Renhao touched his forehead. Okay, I'll go sleep for a while, come over in the afternoon, and don't bother me if there's nothing to do."

When Tan Renhao fell asleep, the Haoling Hengdi aircraft group first arrived over the first task force, and they will be arranged to land on the three aircraft carriers of the first task force, and in addition, some of the bombers in the bomber group of the eighth task force will also land on the ground aircraft carriers of the first task force. Because the escort "Peregrine Falcon" had enough fuel to return to the Third Fleet, it did not follow the bomber group to the First Fleet to replenish the fuel. In this way, the number of bomber groups in one and a half is almost exactly the total number of bombers that a task force can receive at one time.

It took 40 minutes and almost 200 bombers to land on three aircraft carriers. At this time, the group of Qiu Gengbo planes was almost over the fleet. Aviation crews had to refuel the bombers while letting the bombers take off with fuel to reduce the turnaround time.

It was busy until almost 10 o'clock, and Yang Qinkai was the last to sail to the aircraft carrier." The benefits of the Falcon's large voyage are obvious. At a speed of 150 ground, the Falcon could hover in the air for hours, which is why the First Fleet was able to complete such a large-scale aviation operation in these hours. Perhaps, the most tired people in the fleet at this time are the aviation crews.