When the British fighters were entangled with the first batch of planes, the radar spotted a second group of about twenty enemy planes. British and American fighter jets on the flight deck took off to intercept them.

Fierce battles were fought in the skies between the planes of both sides, and the British fighters were scattered badly due to the chaos of the air battle. The group that had just flown in was also formed into several V-shaped squads, sixty nautical miles behind the first batch, and the British pilots could not see them at that time.

The newly taken British and American fighters climbed higher and scattered to search for and intercept the second group of invading enemy aircraft. Captain Wang Kelly (Chinese-American) and his wingman were the first to spot the enemy plane, and they pressed the alarm and then entered the attack, and began to dive from 12 nautical miles.

"The rest of us climbed in the direction he was flying to meet the intruding bomber. However, we know that we can't intercept them until they reach the dropping position. …… I knew the wingmen flew away, but I didn't have time to sit back and wait for reinforcements, those guys were coming quickly, and they had to be stopped. In the first attack, I opened fire on two planes in a V-shaped squad, and I pulled up and raised as they fell. They are all land-based bombers with two engines and fly fast. I fired at the right engine on both planes and kept knocking the engines off the engine racks. The two planes began to spin to the right and fell behind. ”

"At this time, I flew to the other side of that formation again, fired at the left engine of the remaining plane, and watched it fall. The third plane shook violently and fell. I gently pulled the nose of the plane and fired at the back plane in the V-shaped squad in the middle, this time with the engine. As before, as long as you put a 12.7mm bullet into your engine, the engine will fall off on its own. The engine of this fourth plane also went out, and I saw that the plane started to catch fire. At this time, the planes, which were still in formation, were about to fly over the bomb dropping site, and they had to be intercepted no matter what. I leaned in and knocked out the fifth. I tried to shoot the remaining four enemy planes, but I ran out of bullets. ”

All of this happened in four minutes. In the past four minutes, some of the British fighters that had taken off had already turned around and increased their throttle to pounce on the formation whose number of planes was gradually decreasing.

"When we got closer, we saw that Wang Kelly was skillfully piloting the plane to attack, exactly like a drill. His shooting skills were excellent, and he simply missed a shot. As we approached, we saw three of our planes caught fire and were simultaneously moving out of formation into the sea, and he shot down the enemy planes so quickly. Lieutenant Michael recalled, "I don't know why the dense fire of this aircraft formation did not hit King Kelly." Every time he entered the attack, all the machine guns in the formation opened fire on him. I saw tracer bullets fluttering around him and felt like he could be shot down at any moment. One can imagine how this biting little worm broke into the enemy line alone. ”

"When Wang Kelly hit the fifth plane, we also arrived, participated in the battle, attacked the four enemy planes, and they were beaten and lost their altitude."

On the flight deck of the aircraft carrier "Habakuk". The ground crew, Admiral Brown and his staff, Captain Vigan and his division chiefs, as well as the torpedo attack and dive bomber pilots, had been watching the battle, and they themselves had suffered a false alarm.

One of the planes of the first dive bomber formation was hit by anti-aircraft fire a few nautical miles away, and smoke rose from the fuselage. The pilots flew the bomber with great courage and superb skill in an attempt to ram the "Habakuk."

He turned his engine at full speed and pounced on the stern of the "Habakuk". The plane flew over a destroyer and several cruisers, and due to the loss of altitude came into the effective range of the fleet's small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, all of which fired at him in unison. However, he flew over anyway, getting lower and lower, getting closer and closer.

Finally, when the altitude of the aircraft was reduced to 100 meters, the anti-aircraft fire of the 37-mm guns and 20-mm guns of the "Habakuk" came into play. The nose of the bomber began to tilt upward, and its speed gradually slowed down, and when it was still 200 meters away from the stern of the aircraft carrier "Habakuk", which was carrying out evasive movements, it finally stopped in the air, and the wings could not support the weight, and the nose of the plane was planted straight down into the sea, and in an instant a huge column of black smoke rose up, sending the bomber and its pilot to the grave.

It was at this time that Wang Kelly resumed his attack. In the surrounding sky, there were planes falling down, some of them in the first batch, and some of them were in the formation of land-based planes that flew after that. The British lost 12 fighters in battle. One of the "Sea Spitfire" fighters was hit by the engines of the 20-mm guns of the fighters when they entered the attack, and the engine immediately stopped. Some of the other British and American fighters that were said to have been hit by themselves were not so lucky, some exploded in the air, some crashed into the sea, and the planes were destroyed and people died.

Under the desperate cover of the planes, the four planes that had escaped from the British guns came into the bombing distance and dropped bombs on the "Habakuk."

Captain Wei An stood on the bridge and stared closely at the formation of planes approaching him. He saw the bomb falling from the enemy aircraft and immediately judged the direction of the ballistics.

"Left full rudder!" He gave the rudder order to the helmsmen. The large ship, which was traveling at a speed of more than 20 knots, began to turn, and the captain stared intently at the falling bombs. He suddenly turned his back to the bomb and, in a calm tone, ordered the chief navigator to take the original course, for he was sure that the "Habakuk" was safe. He walked to the other end of the bridge with his hands behind his back and watched as the fighter picked up the remnants of the plane.

This fierce air battle was repeated for an hour, and the plane had no results and had to return home. Many of the planes staggered as if no one was riding them, and the machine guns were no longer firing, and they struggled to fly away, and some of them were sure to crash. Vian saw that a wounded bomber had been planted in the sea about 20 nautical miles from the "Habakuk." The plane, which was seriously injured in the vicinity of the aircraft carrier, insisted on flying so far that it finally crashed.

The encounter was a lesson for the British and American pilots aboard the Habakuk, many of whom were taking part in the battle for the first time, and the battle gave them the opportunity to get up close and personal with enemy aircraft and the tactics of enemy pilots.

In this battle, they realized that many of them were on the wrong side. For example, the first batch of enemy planes were approaching the "Habakuk", and although they were fiercely attacked by British and American fighters, they still did not hesitate to continue the attack, and did not panic until the leader was shot down, probably because they were hit too hard. Although the second group of enemy planes was pursued by British fighters in the rear and intercepted by American fighters in front, they did not change course until the end. During the battle, the plane always maintained its formation, approaching the "Habakuk" without making any defensive maneuvers, which shows that his morale was very high. And when British and American fighters approached, they did not throw away their bombs to evade, and did not throw away their bombs until they were hit and caught fire or downloaded. And then there is not a single person who parachuted out of a burning plane!

The accuracy of his shooting was also quite surprising to the British and Americans. The British roughly estimated that the fighter used only 60 rounds of ammunition for each American plane shot down, which can be said to be a hundred shots. Shooting down five planes with a single bomb load is such a superb technique that only an ace fighter pilot can understand. Such a shooting record can be said to be unprecedented in air combat.

The battle also showed them that the only real anti-aircraft weapon for an aircraft carrier or any other ship is an airplane. Aircraft-to-aircraft tactics must be used against attackers, and pilots on defensive missions must be the best in a hundred.

In addition to the two Chuan-style seaplanes that were shot down, the pilots and gunners of the "Habakuk" shot down 36 of the attacking bombers, 11 of which were shot down by antiaircraft gunners.

By the time the air battle was fought in the vicinity of the "Habakuk", the task force had lost the most important thing it needed to have to attack the enemy's fleet - the sudden surname. Vice Admiral Brown decided that the original plan could no longer be carried out, and therefore, ordered the troops to change course and sail in a southwesterly direction.

Admiral Brown ordered to rendezvous with the tankers and refuel the ships (aviation gasoline and fuel oil). "Habakuk", in turn, acts as a supply ship for other small ships of the fleet, providing them with supplies such as food and medicine.

At sea, there can be no slackening in the slightest vigilance. Regardless of the weather, air patrols continued as usual, and planes flew back and forth throughout the day. The flight hours of the pilots on the aircraft carriers combined were staggering, with the average pilot of a reconnaissance and fighter aircraft flying at least five hours a day, and any pilot of these two squadrons could fly a hundred hours in three weeks. For years, civil aviation pilots have flown more hours than any other pilot, but they can't fly that much time in regular flights.

Soon, "Habakuk" joined up with another Chinese aircraft carrier task force led by Rear Admiral Wu Qianlong, which had more than a dozen warships, including four light aircraft carriers and one of the newest large aircraft carriers, the "Xuanyuan". This is the only fleet that the Chinese Navy can currently draw in to support the Anglo-American Allied Forces. The two fleets will come together to form a powerful and modern air strike force. Now the whole world recognizes that aircraft carriers are the most powerful maritime power. Now, for the first time, China, the United States, and Britain have formed a joint task force.

It is not for nothing that a Chinese fleet is slowly cruising in these waters. In fact, it is keeping China's supply lines open to the United States and Australia, and blocking its own normal routes, preventing them from attacking Allied convoys and Allied islands in the South Pacific.

Now, the situation can be said to have changed considerably.

High white clouds hung in the sky like cotton wool, and US air patrol planes spotted the Japanese army gathering a large number of ships. These patrols were carried out by Catalina seaplanes and U.S. land-based long-range bombers, which patrolled along the sea routes, avoiding confrontation with the Yue himself, and always hiding in the clouds to avoid his own eyes.

The aircraft carriers "Habakuk" and "Regulus" under the leadership of Rear Admiral Brown continued to the waters of Los Angeles, and the intelligence unit sent relevant information: the army continued to increase its troops, and more aircraft carriers would arrive.

General Brown decided that the Allies had to do something about the situation. He had some pilots work with him on the plan. Soon, the Allied Combined Task Force launched an attack on the landing ground.

General Brown decided to first send a carrier bomber group of Lancaster bombers to carry out the bombing operation.

Since the "Habakuk" is the largest aircraft carrier in the world, with a large flight deck and hangar, which provides the possibility of large bombers on board the ship, and now the Allied fleet is relatively far from the coast, so General Brown decided to take the large bombers first.

Soon, under the astonished and admiring gaze of the Allied soldiers, a huge "Lancaster" bomber took off from the huge flight deck of the "Habakuk".

After completing the formation over the fleet, the British heavy bomber group roared towards the landing site of the American coast.

Twenty-five nautical miles from the harbor of Los Angeles, the British pilots saw the ship anchored in the anchorage. The land flew under their feet, and they began to bombard.

The sound of the Lancaster's engine must have alerted the police, as the British pilots could see that they were starting to sound the alarm and fleeing. Instead of breaking off to cover unarmed merchant ships, the warship began to anchor as usual in an attempt to sail out to sea. It looks like he wants to leave the crew of the transport ship and auxiliary ship behind, and choose his own life.

According to the predetermined time, the bomber unit arrived first, and they set their sights on their large transports and cruisers, while the fighters circled around the harbor, searching for the defense planes.

"Our arrival came as a surprise to them. There was only one plane in the air, a seaplane, and a tail gunner. It must be pointed out that this is a brilliant guy and very brave. British fighter pilot Admiral Miller recalled: "He tried to attack the huge bombers flying along the surface of the sea, targeting several different targets. He did a good job, jumping up and down in the middle of the bombers, nearly colliding with them, forcing several bombers to dodge, and its front and rear machine guns fired in all directions, and the harassment was very effective. But this little one made a mistake. Too bad he accidentally flew out and pulled up to fight four of our fighters. ”

Miller, a young man (who shot down eight enemy planes in naval battles and was awarded the title of Ace Pilot of the Navy), gently pushed the longitudinal pole and dived down. Then, with a short burst of cannon fire, in naval jargon, "let our friends go to our ancestors." ”

The enemy's air resistance appeared to be weak, with only a few ships of anti-aircraft guns and a battery of heavy anti-aircraft guns on the shore falling to the ground and firing sparsely. The bombers began to methodically attack the anchored ships, pursuing the escaped cruisers and destroyers.

Rear Admiral Hamilton said: "I have chosen a very good cruiser, which, when viewed from high altitude, looks like a big boat rushing towards the open sea, both cunning and nimble. I was in too much of a hurry and didn't take into account the wind at low altitude, so when I first started dropping the bomb, the bomb floated over the target and dropped into the water next to it. However, I quickly saw the error and corrected it, my bombshell penetrated the aft deck of that cruiser, with a loud bang, the stern exploded, and the guy sank in a few minutes. ”

The British bombers turned the area into a slaughterhouse, and they went on a killing spree to retaliate for all the damage they had done to Ben by all the previous aggressions.

"Our fighter pilots are really capable, and when they found out that there were no planes in the air, they made a feint to distract the enemy's anti-aircraft artillery fire, cooperate with the bombers, and also drop anti-personnel bombs on the ship and on the shore for fun." Rear Admiral Hamilton said, "How amazed you are to see me fleeing for my life from our bombs and shells." Those romantic writers have preached to us for many years that they are fearless and that the whole country has sworn allegiance to the emperor, and they should really take a good look at the embarrassment of the devil in order to save his life. ”

The Allied attack resulted in the loss of only six aircraft - three bombers, two fighters and one reconnaissance plane, one of which was wounded by anti-aircraft artillery fire from the Allied one. The pilot, Navy Ensign Johnson, failed to lower the landing gear and successfully made a forced landing at sea. He later landed safely and became a prisoner of himself.

By the time the last plane had finished dropping its bombs and was ordered to return home, the total number of ships destroyed was 10 transport and cargo ships, 4 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 2 destroyers, 2 minelayers, 4 destroyers, and 3 gunboats (which may have also been sunk). 1 seaplane carrier and 1 gunboat were heavily damaged.

Since all the bombs had been dropped, the lightly armed planes returned quickly. Admiral Arthur, the captain of the "Habakuk" flight group, quickly relieved his fears of a possible accident and returned to the "Habakuk" aircraft carrier with the flight unit to monitor the aircraft that might have engine failures. (To be continued)