"What? Little Japan ran away? ”

Early in the morning, when Zhang Meng received the news that the Japanese Combined Fleet had fled without a fight, he immediately burst into beans.

He took great pains to prepare all this, that is, to take advantage of the fact that the military of Shijie countries, including the Japanese, did not realize the huge war power of the aircraft carrier battle group, and wiped out or the Japanese combined fleet in one fell swoop, so as to become the hegemon in the Pacific Ocean and win precious respite and development time for the newly born Tang Empire.

As long as the Japanese Combined Fleet is annihilated or severely damaged, then the Japanese Navy will be greatly damaged, and it will be impossible to recover without three or five years, and the Tang Empire will be safe. At the same time, among the surrounding countries in the Pacific Rim, the Americans are restricted by the constitution from taking the initiative to attack the Tang Empire, and it is impossible for Britain, France, Italy and other old European imperialist naval powers to go to the Pacific Ocean to fight for the Tang Empire.

In the huge jihua in Zhang Meng's heart, annihilating or severely damaging the Japanese Combined Fleet is an extremely important part. If the Combined Fleet had run away, all that Zhang Meng had painstakingly arranged would be useless. The Combined Fleet, which returned to the Japanese mainland, will inevitably make a comeback soon with the strong support of the Japanese military, and will be a huge threat to the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire.

We can't let them escape, at least we must inflict heavy damage on their fleet and kill a group of elite naval officers and sailors of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

Zhang Meng immediately convened an emergency meeting, and there was only one agenda item, to annihilate or inflict heavy damage on the Japanese Combined Fleet before it returned to its homeland at all costs.

"Catch up with them. Kill them! ”

"Yes!"

Everyone in the conference room burst into cheers and geared up, and the little Japanese devils must not be allowed to run away like this.

The Japanese Combined Fleet escaped under the cover of night. However, there are hundreds of warships, large and small, and the speed varies from speed to speed.

Kobayashi was clearly aware of this, so he divided the fleet into three groups, one fleet with a speed of more than 28 knots, a fleet with a speed of 24 to 28 knots, and a fleet with a speed of less than 24 knots.

The three fleets did not come together, but retreated in three directions towards the Japanese mainland. Eggs cannot be placed in one basket.

Under the blue sea and blue sky, the Tang fleet quickly pursued the Japanese fleet, and each ship split a huge wave several meters high and galloped forward.

If it were not for the advanced electronic combat ships of the Don Army, the direction of the retreat of the Japanese fleet was measured by radio direction finders. The reconnaissance planes of the vast Don Army were probably not so quick to detect the movements of the Japanese fleet.

Even so, after a night of escaping, the Japanese fleet was already more than 1,000 kilometers away from the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group. And they evacuated in three parts, which made it difficult for the Tang army for a while.

"These damn little Japs. It's pretty fast. ”

"Everything. I didn't expect the Japanese devils to take the initiative to escape! ”

"That's right, the little devil has always wanted to save face, this time it's really shameless!"

"They are not stupid, do they still come to their deaths when they know that they will be sunk by our powerful naval aviation?"

"Hey......"

There was a sigh, and in the cabin of each battleship of the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group, both the pilots and other officers and men felt sorry for the sudden escape of the Japanese Navy. However, it was able to scare Shijie's third largest naval fleet away. This is undoubtedly a great honor for everyone in the Tang Royal Navy.

"Attention everyone. The ship is now ready to sail! ”

The radio didn't say the time of the sortie, it just told everyone to get ready.

"Will we still be able to catch up with the little devils?"

"It should be, otherwise it wouldn't have allowed us to prepare for the voyage!"

"Great, if you let the little devil run away like this, you guys are really unwilling!"

"What are you talking about, you will be ready immediately!"

……

The officers and men of the ships quickly rushed to their posts, and one after another the Raptor ships and the Hellfire ships were black and shiny, and they were lined up with great might. The pilot inspected it thoroughly, and the pilot of the fighter plane followed him closely, telling the pilot from time to time to be careful not to scratch his plane.

Ground crews fill each fighter with jet fuel and the cannon with armor-piercing or blasting shells.

"The seventh and eighth squadrons hung torpedoes, and the other six squadrons hung aerial bombs, and everyone moved quickly!"

The wing commander came out of the command room, apparently with orders.

Ground crews hurriedly loaded bomb and aerial torpedoes for the bomber squadrons, and the entire aft deck area was busy.

Holding the bridge conference room of the aircraft carrier Tianwang, Zhang Meng finally made a decision after listening to intelligence from all sides.

"We divided into two routes, Team A focused on attacking the Japanese battleship fleet, and all six battleships were killed for me, especially the flagship Nagato of Kobayashi Takuzo, which is the soul of the Japanese Navy, be sure to sink it and completely crush the pride of the Japanese devils. Team B focused on attacking the Japanese supply detachment, especially those troop carriers, which were all elite marines of the Japanese army, and their combat strength was strong, and if they were allowed to go back, they would definitely be the mortal enemies of our marines in the future, and they would all be sent to the sea to feed the fish. As for the third detachment of the Japanese army, they were too fast for us to catch up. ”

The order was issued, and the Tang aircraft carrier battle group was divided into two teams to pursue the battleship detachment of Takuzo Kobayashi and the Japanese supply fleet respectively, because these two fleets were the slowest sailing.

However, it will not be easy to catch up with these two Japanese fleets. After all, the two sides have opened up a distance of more than a thousand kilometers.

The only thing worthy of the Tang army's joy is that after Kobayashi gave the order to retreat, he was lying on the hospital bed due to vomiting blood, and Shinozuka, who was temporarily in charge of the command, did not expect the Tang army to dare to continue the pursuit, and when he passed through the Northern Mariana Islands, he decided to resupply in Saipan, after all, there was no fresh water supply in Majuro, and the Japanese officers and soldiers were already thirsty these days.

However, just as they saw Saipan, they were also warned by a Japanese submarine.

"An aircraft carrier battle group of the Tang Army chased after us, just behind us, and the distance was already less than six hundred kilometers!"

"What? This group of damn guys, it's not enough to get cheap, they dare to chase after them? ”

"Let's go, we'll be safe when we get to Taiwan!"

"But our soldiers are already suffering from a severe shortage of water! If this continues, something will happen! ”

"We're here to resupply, and I can't let my soldiers suffer the shame of fleeing and then the insult of being drunk to death!"

"However, the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group will soon enter the combat radius, and we will be attacked by them!"

"I don't believe it, they can blow up and sink our battleship?"

Shinozuka is a pure giant ship artilleryist, he is also one of the main Japanese generals who oppose the retreat, and now Kobayashi is in a coma, he decides to fight with the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group, and he will not run away with his pockets. (To be continued......)