"This damn bastard!"

When Kobayashi received Tomomi Inada's distress telegram, he immediately scolded.

Undoubtedly, Tomomi Inada's little bit of caution has long been seen through by Kobayashi Tatsuzo. Kobayashi just hated Tomomi Inada, a fool who delayed his big event.

"The Tang army has mobilized tens of thousands of troops to attack the Majuro Atoll, and it is obvious that they are not simply destroying our supply depot, but to completely occupy it."

"If they were allowed to occupy there, their living space would be tripled, and we would lose an important strategic support point."

Kameji Tanaka said happily: "Fortunately, our first squadron is already on the way, as long as Tomomi Inada holds on for a few more hours, our battleships will arrive and wipe out the Tang army's internal and external attacks." ”

Kobayashi nodded and said: "It is inevitable to destroy the landed Tang Army, but the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group is our henchmen, and we must kill them!" ”

"The aircraft carrier of the Tang Army should be near the Majuro Atoll, they dispatched carrier-based aircraft to attack Majuro, and there is a lack of aircraft protection around the aircraft carrier, so we can order the aircraft carriers Kaga and Akagi to send planes to intercept and kill their returning planes halfway, and then directly destroy their mothership."

Kobayashi nodded, immediately agreed with the chief of staff, and ordered the two aircraft carriers, the Kaga and the Akagi, to take action.

Kobayashi swore an oath, but he forgot that he was born in the navy and did not understand aircraft carrier operations, let alone the combat experience of pilots and the understanding of carrier-based aircraft.

In his opinion, the Tang Army's Tianwang-class aircraft carriers only carry more than 90 fighters. And the aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga are capable of carrying at least 130 fighters each, and in the event of a surprise attack, they can completely damage the bomber group of the Don Army. And then along the way, destroy the aircraft carriers of the Don Army.

But he did not know the huge gap between the aircraft carried by the aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga and those carried by the aircraft carriers of the Tang Army.

When the commanders of the two aircraft carriers, the Akagi and Kaga, received Kobayashi's orders, they also lacked understanding of the Tang army's carrier-based aircraft, coupled with their disdain for the Tang army, so they did not doubt Kobayashi's tactical deployment at all, and immediately ordered the carrier-based aircraft of each ship to take off and rush to Majuro Atoll to participate in the battle.

The rear deck of the Akagi was filled with more than a hundred planes. These aircraft are all biplane fixed-wing propeller types. They have been in the Japanese naval aviation for less than two years, and they are said to be more advanced than the aircraft used by the Japanese naval aviation before, compared with the naval aviation powers in Shijie. For the first time, the Japanese gave up the purchase of advanced planes from Europe and the United States in order to localize their aircraft, and instead adopted new fighters developed by themselves.

As the first carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese naval aviation, the A1N1-3 biplane fighter, which was designed and developed by Nakajima for the Japanese naval aviation, was successively delivered to the three aircraft carriers Kaga, Akagi and Fengxiang at the end of 1929.

It is made in Japan. This fighter became the pride of the Japanese. But obviously, the shape of the whole aircraft and the Jishu index can not get rid of the suspicion of copycat European and American aircraft, and the local industrial manufacturing capacity is far less than that of European and American production, and the performance of various parts of the aircraft will be greatly reduced.

A Nakajima A1N1-3 fighter with a length of 6.49 meters, a wingspan of 9.69 meters and a height of 3.26 meters slowly moved to the forward flight deck to wait for takeoff. Although the Japanese pilot above was an excellent Japanese pilot with 5,000 flight hours of experience, looking at the plane he flew did not match his identity at all.

With only 450 horsepower, the Nakajima Kotobuki-2 engine had to be limited to 200 kilometers per hour in order to propel the 1.45-ton fighter. Compared with the weight of 3 tons of the Raptor heavy carrier-based fighter of the Don Army. The Nakajima's all-wooden fuselage meant that the aircraft was classified as a light aircraft, and was armed with two 7.7 mm machine guns. Compared with the four powerful 20 mm caliber cannons of the Don Army's Raptor heavy carrier-based fighters, it is too far behind.

Since the Japanese planes lost the news of the Tang fleet every night, every day after dawn, the Japanese reconnaissance planes would take off again to find the Tang fleet. At this moment, the Japanese army had not yet found the position of the main force of the Tang fleet, and the commanders of the two aircraft carriers, the Kaga and the Akagi, could only send fighter planes to Majuro Atoll to participate in the battle to prevent the Tang bombers from attacking the Japanese forces there.

The Japanese aircraft carrier flight deck was narrow and there were no catapults, and the Nakajima fighter needed a taxiing distance of 130 meters to take off, and this distance was enough for the Tang Army's Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers to catapult and take off.

Forty minutes later, 130 Nakajima fighters took off from the aircraft carrier Akagi, 128 Nakajima fighters took off from the aircraft carrier Kaga, and the other two Nakajima fighters broke down during takeoff and fell headlong into the sea.

"Damn domestic products just can't do it!"

The commander of the Kaga aircraft carrier, Uno Keizao, immediately cursed, before that, five excellent pilots had been killed in the accident, all thanks to the Nakajima fighter jet.

The Japanese 258 Nakajima fighters completed the formation in the air and flew to the direction of Majuro Atoll.

But they were so delayed that by the time they arrived at Majuro Atoll, the first wave of attacks by Tang Army planes had ended and they had returned.

The first confrontation between the naval aviation of the Tang and Japanese countries was thus missed.

From afar, the Japanese saw the situation in Majuro Atoll.

The fire is scorching, and the smoke covers the sky. The three islands that the Japanese army was defending were like volcanic eruptions, and thick smoke billowed into the sky.

Fierce battles are still going on.

The artillery regiment of the Tang Army fiercely bombarded the Japanese position, and seven of the twenty SRA tanks broke down, leaving only thirteen SRA tanks to continue to attack.

The Japanese pilots looked down on the entire Majuro Atoll from above, the Don Army had already occupied seven of the eight islands, and Tomomi Inada and his remnants of more than 300 Japanese troops were surrounded by more than 1,000 Don troops in the coastal fortifications of Jarit Island, an island in Zuihou.

It was an omega-shaped coastal fortress fortification, and the reinforced concrete structure up to 3 meters thick temporarily blocked the dominant artillery bombardment of the Tang army, allowing Tomomi Inada to take a breath for a while.

However, the Tang army had an absolute superiority in strength, and the Japanese casualties continued to increase, and if there were no reinforcements, it would be a matter of time before they were completely annihilated.

Although the Japanese planes did not find the Tang planes for air combat, they did not intend to return empty-handed, and groups of Japanese fighters quickly dived down, preparing to attack the Tang troops on the ground.

The Tang army saw that it was the Japanese planes that arrived, and they knew how the Tang planes tortured and killed the Japanese ground troops, so for the arrival of the Japanese planes, the ground commanders of the Tang troops decisively ordered the suspension of the attack, and everyone scattered and hid in the dense forest.

The camouflage uniforms of the Tang army saved their lives again this time, and the Japanese pilots in the air stared at a group of Tang troops a moment ago, and when he swooped down, he found that the other party was all gone. In front of him were patches of woods and grass, and it was quite difficult for the pilot to distinguish between the grass and the Don soldiers on a high-speed plane.

"Da Da Da!"

I only heard the strafing sound of the Japanese 7.7mm machine guns, but I didn't see the figure of the Tang army.

"Damn, why is the Tang Army gone all of a sudden." (To be continued......)