The attack lasted almost half an hour and caused heavy damage. The initial battle reports on the Battle of Guam did not disclose losses or casualties. As soon as the plane had gone far, the commander of the Marine Corps Air Corps sent a telegram: "Order the fighter to land." Split up your team to refuel. The fifth team descended first. "The two planes landed on the runway as ordered and taxied to the front of the hangar, which had been blown to pieces and was on fire. Of the 23 Skylarks, 15 were missing, 7 were seriously damaged, and one in the east and one in the west collapsed on the ground. He also said that the encounter of his attack group was carried out 35 kilometers above Guam. Later, I heard that air defense units and "lark" fighters had shot down more than 50 planes. In the case of a huge disparity in power, such a record is quite impressive. At this time, people came out of their bunkers to pick up the dead and wounded soldiers of the air defense forces. The warehouse was blown up and filled with canned cigarettes. People are trying to fix what is urgently needed. The officers and soldiers stationed on Guam were busy cleaning up the rubble while looking uneasily at the intact runway. They bombed other facilities in an attempt to suppress artillery fire on the ground and cut off all supplies of Guam aircraft, but they were extra careful about repairing the runway and did not move at all, because they planned to use it themselves in the future.

The planes that took off from Guam attacked the fleet at 8:10 a.m., 8:11 a.m., 8:30 a.m., and 8:34 a.m., about a quarter of an hour or half an hour. Four groups of aircraft took off from Guam one after another. The 10th group consisted of six "Tianma" torpedo planes, commanded by Lieutenant Li Hualin. The second group consisted of 15 Army "Quick Knife" bombers, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Wang Wei. The third group consisted of four "Sky Attack" tactical attack planes, each carrying one torpedo, led by Captain Lin Lancheng, the fourth group consisted of 16 "Sky Shark" dive bombers, led by Lieutenant Commander Xu Delin, and 11 "Sky Shark" dive bombers under the command of Lieutenant Commander Huo Wanli.

Six torpedo planes led by Li Hualin were the first to rush to the target. Shen Honglie ordered to hit the aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier was protected by a group of fighters during its voyage and was surrounded by cruisers and destroyers. The torpedo plane descended to 60 meters and bravely began the attack. But there were a lot of fighters, and 5 torpedo planes were shot down. Two of them have not yet had time to launch torpedoes. Like their opponents, the pilots fought with great courage, flying within range of their own fleet's artillery fire to pursue the torpedo planes.

By the time the four "Kuaidao" bombers of the Chinese Army arrived at the target, the attack of the torpedo planes was already over. "Gale" fighters pounced on them. Lin Lancheng ordered a dive and threw the torpedoes carried by each aircraft. He himself fired a torpedo at an aircraft carrier at a distance of seven hundred meters and an altitude of 70 meters. Lieutenant Mo Yunsheng, the deputy captain of the fleet, also threw a torpedo. The two torpedo planes turned to the bow of the aircraft carrier, flew almost vertically upwards through a dense hail of bullets. Lin Lancheng's plane landing gear was shattered, Mo Yunsheng's rear machine gunner was killed, and the plane engine caught fire. Another "Quick Knife" was planted in the sea. The aircraft carrier, which was attacked, was hit, and it made a big turn to the right. This aircraft carrier is the "Katsuragi". The formation of the fleet began to be chaotic.

A few minutes later, 16 "Tianjun" dive bombers led by Lieutenant Colonel Xu Delin appeared in the air. The group consisted of 10 pilots who had joined the group a week earlier, and they knew little about dive bombing. For this reason, Xu Delin decided to replace dive bombing with "slide" bombing. The fleet made a big circle and climbed high into the air. "A few minutes before the attack, I counted sixty-three warships," one pilot recounted, "and the anti-aircraft guns fired at us, with great accuracy, and at the same time a large group of Gale fighters were besieging us. I'm almost scared to death......" Xu Delin was about to slide down when his plane was shot and fell. Captain Wang Dengyun immediately took his place and led the whole team to the "Yunlong" aircraft carrier. The "Sky Shark" bomber group continued to descend slowly, but the "Cloud Dragon" below them sharply turned its rudder and sailed, only to see the nearby frigate as if it were hiding from a mad bear. Several "sharks" caught fire and crashed into the sea when they slid sideways. The bomber, which was not hit, descended to 150 meters and threw its bomb at the "Yunlong". Three bombs landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier, sending up a general stream of smoke. Whenever a bomber dropped a bomb and pulled it up again, a group of Gale fighters pounced on it. Another pilot said: "Our plane fought with eight Gale fighters. I was shot in the right leg. The air vortex rolled blood onto my glasses, and I could barely see what was going on around me. There was a big hole in the tail of the plane, my wireless telegraph was broken, and all the tools on board were covered in blood. Since I had nothing else to do, I wanted to repair the oil road. In the end, the engine didn't turn anymore. The plane fell into the sea and fell very badly, but it floated, so we floated the raft to the surface. "The battle of the bomber flight group lasted a total of 12 minutes before and after. Of the 16 "Shark" dive bombers, only eight returned to Guam, and two of them were also completely damaged.

The 15 "Kuaidao" bombers led by Lieutenant Commander Wang Wei rushed to the skies above the target before the 11 "Tianyu" planes under the command of Lieutenant Commander Huo Wanli. As soon as the "Tenma" group arrived, it was met with a resolute resistance from the "Gale" fighter group hovering over the aircraft carrier. The two bombs hit the tall building of the "Hiei", and the smoke rose, and the hull of the ship immediately tilted. The "Tianma" group turned around and returned home, but only two "Tianma" bombers did not fly back to Guam and made a forced landing at sea.

North of Guam, two Chinese task forces are moving at full speed toward the point of engagement. A cold mist covered the sky. "Dragon King" and "Xingkaihu" sailed at the front of the fleet with their respective "screens". The escorting destroyers appeared and disappeared on the undulating seas. Since only two aircraft carriers were discovered, the fleet led by the "Caifeng" followed behind and was kept as a reserve. The pilot on the aircraft carrier was woken up at 3 o'clock. From 4 o'clock onwards, they sat in leather chairs in the standby room, looking at the fluorescent panels, which reflected the constant news of Ben's attack on Guam. The crew learned from this that they had bombed the reef and that the fighters on the island were desperately resisting. Then the time came for the pilots of the aircraft carriers to go into battle, and they boarded their respective planes one after another. By the time they stepped onto the flight deck, the fog had lifted. The Chinese fleet marched under a clear sky, and the planes on the aircraft carriers took off one after another.

The planes that took off from the "Xingkai Lake" were 35 "Tianma" dive bombers; 15 "Javelin" torpedo aircraft and 10 "Thunder" heavy carrier-based fighters. From 7:50 a.m., 35 "Tianma" bombers, 14 torpedo planes, and 10 fighters on the "Dragon King" took off one after another. Because it was considered dangerous for the "Caifeng" planes to remain on the deck, 17 "Tianfeng" bombers, 12 torpedo planes, and 6 fighters also took off one after another at 8:40 a.m. There are 17 "Shark" bombers that are ready to attack enemy aircraft carriers that have not yet been discovered.

The bombers and fighters of the "Xingkai Lake" did not find him. At this time, it was said that the fleet had turned around and headed northwest, and the pilots were ordered to fly to the indicated place, but they did not see any target. As a result, the bombers and fighters of the "Xingkaihu" turned to the southwest and continued their search.

The torpedo aircraft at the "Hinkkai Lake" were commanded by Rear Admiral Kindlen. The group, which had separated from the bombers and fighters on the way, went in another direction to search for him, and at about 9:20 a.m. they spotted the fleet. After some searching, the torpedo planes were almost running out of gas. After discovering himself, Kindlen radioed and asked to go back to refuel, and then attack. Fu Renxuan replied, "Attack immediately!" "It is said that the fleet is lined up in a mighty formation, and the front and rear are 15 kilometers long." The torpedo planes of the "Xingkai Lake," like the torpedo planes on Guam, descended all the way to the height of the bombs without the escort of the fighters, and flew slowly toward the target of attack in the face of the ferocious planes. As a result, one after another torpedo planes caught fire and were planted into the sea, and none of them were able to return to the "Xingkai Lake". Only one of the pilots in the whole brigade was a naval lieutenant named Gai Guoqiang, who narrowly escaped death. After the plane was shot down, the cushions of the cabin were scattered from the plane to the sea, and he held on to the cushions and floated on the sea. "Then I got into the water and pulled the wounded rear machine gunner," he recalled, "but it didn't help." I stepped out of the water and saw a huge aircraft carrier coming towards me, with a lot of planes parked on the deck. It's a funny scene, but it's too close to me. When the aircraft carrier was about 500 meters away from me, it made a big turn to the right, and the cruisers around it also turned to the right and drove about 450 meters from me. In order not to let Yue himself find out, Gai Guoqiang did not inflate the rubber raft until it was almost dark. With his face pressed against the water, he witnessed the aftermath of the Battle of Guam.

After drifting at sea for less than an hour, he saw another Chinese torpedo aircraft group flying over. This is the 6th Flying Group on the "Dragon King". In the morning, the fighters of the "Dragon King" rushed ahead of the torpedo planes and circled over the target for half an hour. There is less and less gas for fighters. The captain of the "Dragon King" fighter flight group saw that there were no fighter planes (the "Gale" fighter was refueling at the time) and reported: "There are no fighter patrols in the air. Then he ordered the whole team to turn around and turn back. A few minutes later, the torpedo planes of the "Dragon King" arrived. Gale fighters also appeared in the sky. The 6th Flying Group selected the aircraft carrier "Yunlong," which had already suffered heavy damage, as a target. The Chinese pilots desperately crossed the heavy fire barrier of the antiaircraft guns and advanced at low altitude in the rain of bullets fired by 25 Yuben fighters, and 10 of the 14 planes were shot down.

The four torpedo planes that had survived the dead were struggling to climb high in the air while speeding southeast. At this time, Gai Guoqiang, who was watching the battle with his face on the water, saw another group of Chinese torpedo planes flying over, and this torpedo plane group was escorted by fighter planes. The 3rd Torpedo Aircraft Group was attached to the "Caifeng", and they were escorted by 16 fighters of the "Caifeng" and the fighters of the "Dragon King". However, the Chinese fighters were attacked by the large number and fast "Gale" fighters, and the planes surrounded the Chinese planes, adopted the method of dividing and controlling them, striking them one by one, and finally broke them up with the torpedo planes. This group of torpedo planes, like the previous two groups, was flying towards the target of the attack when another group of "Gale" planes stormed over. Gai Guoqiang saw that seven torpedo planes caught fire and fell before the bombs were dropped, and the remaining five threw torpedoes on the "Katsuragi" aircraft carrier, and three of them were shot down just after dropping.

Due to the fact that the pilots who had newly joined the army were not familiar with their combat skills, several flying groups were separated from each other, and they did not find targets in their original directions, so the teams searched separately. The bomber group of the "Xingkai Lake" did not find the target.

After more than an hour of searching, Admiral McKinley, the leader of the "Dragon King" dive bomber group, discovered him. He looked from an altitude of 6,000 meters and saw a thin white line stretching out on the clear blue sea near the sky. It was the green smoke that came out of the warship. McKinley sent a telegram to the "Dragon King", ordering the planes to form up. He wondered, why didn't the fighter come to meet him? As he approached the target, he took a closer look and saw that the Gale fighter was in front of him. More than 5,000 meters below him, a swarm of wasp-like "Gale" fighters were trying their best to kill the torpedo planes. Two large and one small aircraft carriers clearly appear on the surface of the sea. The escort cruiser was far away from the aircraft carrier, while the destroyer was next to the aircraft carrier, changing formation with the aircraft carrier. At this time, the dive bomber group of the "Caifeng" rushed to join up with the bomber group of the "Dragon King" and organized an attack together. The bombers of the "Dragon King" split into two groups and attacked the aircraft carriers "Dafeng" and "Yunlong" separately. The bombers of the "Saiho" pounced on the "Katsuragi".

The bombers got closer and closer to the aircraft carrier, and I saw that the flight deck of the aircraft carrier shook slightly, becoming bigger and bigger, and the "Xu Yue" mark printed in the center of the aircraft carrier became more and more eye-catching, and the wings of the planes lined up on the stern deck shone brightly. The first bombs exploded, but they did not hit the target, stirring up white columns of water around the "Yunlong". Suddenly, a blazing red light rushed up from the stern of the ship, like a strange flower in full bloom, shining brightly, and the flames suddenly rose into the sky. Another bomb pierced the deck and disappeared. Immediately afterward, a stream of debris erupted from the crack in the deck and soared into the sky. At this time, the "Gale" fighters began to rise and attacked the Chinese bombers, but the Chinese bombers continued to attack the aircraft carrier non-stop, and the "Dafeng" was also hit in several places and began to burn, and the Chinese bombers also fell into the sea one after another. The 33 bombers of the "Dragon King" lost 12 units. The last bomber to fly away dropped a bomb on a destroyer, which suddenly stopped moving as if it were stuck to the sea, and smoke rose from the middle deck. Lieutenant Gai Guoqiang had been crouching on his floating cushion to watch the battle, when suddenly he saw a fire rushing from the "Yunlong", and the waves suddenly rose and attacked Gai Guoqiang with his head and face covered. It turned out that the ammunition compartment of the aircraft carrier exploded.

As soon as the "Katsuragi" turned around and stood facing the wind, ready to take off its plane, the "Saiho" "Tenma" bombers swooped down on it. As soon as the first plane flew out of the bow of the ship here, the first bomb hit the stern of the ship, and the bomb exploded in the middle of the group, and the stern of the ship suddenly became a sea of fire. Within seconds, Katsuragi hit seven bombs, and the aircraft carrier turned into a large brazier floating on the sea. Seeing that the general trend of the aircraft carrier was gone, the four bombers of the "Caifeng" turned to attack a cruiser and a battleship next to them, and both warships were hit at the same time. Smoke rose from the battleship, and the cruiser stood still at sea. None of the bomber squadrons of the "Caifeng" were damaged and returned safely. The results of the Chinese naval aviation between 11 and 12 o'clock were: the three aircraft carriers "Yunlong", "Katsuragi", and "Daho" lost their combat effectiveness, one destroyer was blown up, one cruiser was severely damaged, and one battleship was damaged. The other aircraft carrier, the Aso, was undamaged and was seen heading under the clouds to the north.

The Chinese aircraft carriers sailed southwest with their own "barriers", trying to avoid the fast battleships of the Ben. As soon as the bombers of the "Caifeng" returned to the ship, they received an order to immediately leave the flight deck. It was 12 o'clock. The escort group of the "Caifeng" encountered 32 Yuben dive bombers escorted by 20 fighters over the northern sea. These planes were said to have taken off from the "Aso." The two sides fought a short but fierce battle. As a result, only 8 bombers escaped from the hands of Chinese fighters. It is said that the plane came to meet the "Caifeng" aircraft carrier, which was escorted by two heavy cruisers, the "Jiangsu" and the "Rehe," and five destroyers. The cannons on the fleet fired in unison, like shooting a mud pigeon. Due to the lack of aircraft, the gunners did not organize a fire net, and each of them chose their own targets to shoot.

(To be continued)