In the first wave of attacks alone, the Japanese fleet suffered heavy losses, three escort cruisers, seven escort destroyers, and six escort aircraft carriers were blown up and sunk, and the four main aircraft carriers of the Japanese army, the Osumi, Shimoo, Kunisei, and Atsumi, were the key targets of the Tang bombers, but because these four ships were the core protection objects of the Japanese army, they were not sunk, and even so, these four Japanese main aircraft carriers were also damaged to varying degrees.

A large hole was blown up in the flight deck of the Kunisaki, and the Japanese were busy extinguishing the fire, and the carrier-based aircraft were temporarily unable to take off and land, and in fact lost the role of the aircraft carrier platform.

The injured parts of the other three Osumi-class aircraft carriers are no longer on the flight deck, so they can still take off and land aircraft for the time being, and perform the functions of aircraft carrier platforms.

The first wave of the Don attack lasted an hour before it ended, losing 27 Raptor heavy carrier-based fighters and 32 Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers. On the Japanese side, the Japanese side lost 133 Type 96 carrier-based fighters, and in addition to the 200 fighters belonging to the kamikaze special attack team, there were less than 50 Japanese fighters left, and it was difficult for them to withstand the second wave of attacks by the Tang Army.

Onodera Itsunori, who was transferred to the bridge of the Shimoo aircraft carrier, listened to the battle damage report just now with a pale face, looked into the distance, and said with a wry smile: "I hope that Onishi Takijiro can succeed, and it will all depend on the kamikaze special attack team to save the battle!" ”

At the same time, the 200 Type 96 carrier-based fighters of the kamikaze special attack team commanded by Takijiro Onishi had quietly approached the position of the Tang Army's No. 1 Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, because they did not know the exact location of the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group at first. The general direction of the opponent's mothership could only be deduced from the direction of the Tang Army's incoming aircraft, so it took nearly an hour to discover a Tang destroyer on guard on the perimeter, and then gradually locked the true location of the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group.

He just didn't plan to go back alive. So he chose to wait for the moment and ordered all fighters to stand by in the clouds high in the sky. He had to wait for the Tang Army's first wave of attacks to return to the sea, and then launch a surprise attack when the second wave of attacks was ready, because the four main aircraft carriers of the Tang Army's First Aircraft Carrier Battle Group were all first-generation aircraft carriers, with a full straight-through flight deck, and could not take off and land planes at the same time.

Soon Onishi Takijiro found that the time was coming, because the first aircraft carrier battle group of the Tang Army had already begun to prepare for the second wave. A large number of fighters are refueling and reloading ammunition, indicating that the first wave of attack aircraft of the Don Army is about to return.

Onishi Takijiro knew that the vigilance of the Tang Army was very high, so he did not let the group approach as soon as he first sent reconnaissance planes to discover the location of the Tang aircraft carrier battle group. Instead, they hid in the high-altitude clouds in the distance, and at the same time all the radios were silent, not for the Tang army to detect and discover. He knew that the Tang Army had a large number of escort aircraft carriers, and at least two hundred aircraft were on standby. The Don Army had powerful fleet anti-aircraft firepower. Dozens of air defense warships were on guard in the surroundings, and if Onishi Takijiro suddenly appeared, he would be intercepted by the planes of the Tang Army only halfway and shot down by more than half of the air defense artillery, and the effect of the attack would inevitably be greatly reduced.

So Onishi Takijiro waited for another opportunity, he was waiting for the first wave of the Tang Army's attack aircraft group to return, at that time the Tang Army Fleet Air Traffic Control Center would be very busy, and Onishi Takijiro was ready to quietly follow the Tang Army aircraft group to approach the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group at that time. Then a sudden attack.

Because Onishi Takijiro knew very well that his kamikaze attack was a suicide attack. The time required was very short, only a few minutes, and he was convinced that even if the Tang army was an immortal, it would be difficult to intercept them, not to mention that it would be a sudden attack that would catch the Tang army by surprise.

However, what Onishi Takijiro never expected was that when the first wave of the Tang Army's attack aircraft group was about to return, the Tang Army's second wave of aircraft took off ahead of schedule.

"We seem to have been discovered!" A Japanese reconnaissance plane immediately turned on the radio to report to Onishi Takijiro.

"Impossible! How could we be found out if we didn't get close to them? "Takijiro Onishi didn't believe it would be discovered.

But the next moment, Onishi Takijiro found that more than 100 fighters of the Tang Army did not assemble in the air after taking off, but directly rushed in the direction of his special attack group.

"Sure enough, it was discovered! Damn, how did they find out about us! Onishi Takijiro didn't have time to think about it, and immediately ordered the kamikaze special attack team to immediately launch an attack on the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group.

At this time, the ships of the Tang Army's No. 1 Aircraft Carrier Battle Group were nervous, and they had just received a report that a group of Japanese fighters was hiding near them, which immediately frightened General Li Haichen.

It turned out that among the Tang Army's aircraft carrier fighter group was a ship from the Royal Secret Service, the Batman, which was converted from a large ship, which was not armed, and only had a large antenna array, equipped with the latest sea-based radar system developed by the Tang Empire.

At this time, the Tang Empire had already built large radar antenna arrays on various islands to form a radar reconnaissance network, and the giant radar antenna arrays could detect air and sea targets within a range of 500 kilometers, becoming an important part of the absolute defense circle of the Tang Empire.

At Zhang Meng's request, the Tang Empire's military, the National Academy of Sciences, the Admiralty, and the Royal Secret Service formed a formation to develop a sea-based radar array system to provide radar reconnaissance intelligence for the navy.

However, this sea-based radar system consumes an astonishing amount of power, and the antenna array cannot cover a vast area like a land-based one, and can be built high, and the tonnage and area of the sea-based radar limited ship are greatly affected by the wave storm, and the construction cost is amazing, so in the end, only one Batman mobile radar monitoring ship was built, and it was only used as a shiyan ship to shiyan in various sea states to collect data.

The Batman was used as a civilian vessel to collect marine meteorological data in the North Pacific region, which was secretly operated and protected by the Royal Secret Service, and was used to detect the radar reflection area and reflected signals of Japanese aircraft, so as to conduct further research on the next identification of friend or foe system.

The Bat followed the fleet into the Yellow Sea, but accidentally scanned the radar reflection signals of a large number of Japanese planes hidden near the No. 1 Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Tang Army, and immediately made a report to the fleet commander Li Haichen.

Li Haichen knew very well that there could be no fleet of his own planes in the nearby airspace, and that it must be a Japanese plane, so he immediately broke into a cold sweat and hurriedly ordered the fighters on the flight decks of the main aircraft carriers and escort aircraft carriers to take off immediately to intercept this group of Japanese planes at any cost and prevent them from approaching the fleet. (To be continued......)