The first bomber was shot down as soon as it came into range. I saw that the shells first burst around the plane, flying up clouds of black smoke. Then, the shell exploded in front of the plane, and the bomber fell like a rock. The second bomber came closer, swooped straight down, and under heavy artillery fire, it was beaten to pieces and left no armor. But the bombs it dropped landed on the deck of the "Caifeng". As soon as the third bomber dived, it was hit, blown into several large pieces, scattered in the path of the aircraft carrier, and the bomb of this aircraft exploded under the water, stirring up a strange large blister, forming a tumbling vortex underneath. Then three more bombers swooped down on the starboard side of the aircraft carrier. Two bombs missed, the third bomb blew open the port deck, and a bomber plunged into the sea next to the "Caifeng". The bombers that were still in the air were all surrounded by artillery fire. The seventh bomber circled in the air and swooped head-on towards the aircraft carrier. As soon as it threw out the bomb, it was shot down. The bomb fell on the lifting platform in the front of the ship, which caught fire. The eighth bomber dropped a bomb and missed. The "Caifeng" was hit in three places. At 12:15, the battle ended, and all the attacking planes were shot down.

"Caifeng" stopped at sea. A long cloud of black smoke rose from the ship, sticking straight into the sky. Looking from the escort ship, the situation of the "Caifeng" was already precarious. But on an aircraft carrier, it's a tense and busy. First aid and repair teams were busy on the flight deck, in the middle of the hangar, and in the engine room, where the fire was still burning, the chimney had been blown out, and several boilers had been turned off. At 13:15, the hole in the flight deck was temporarily filled; At 13:50, the aircraft carrier was able to move at a speed of 20 knots, the fire on the ship was extinguished, and it was still burning in some places, but the fire was basically under control. At this time, the plane of the "Caifeng" was already able to land and refuel on the deck. As soon as the first batch of planes was ready, they immediately took off to attack the aircraft carrier "Aso."

"Caifeng", as the northern flank of the Chinese fleet, continued to advance to the southwest. At 14:26, the radar on the aircraft carrier detected a plane flying from the north and approaching the fleet. All Chinese ships have entered a state of imminent combat. Refueling immediately stopped on the deck of the "Caifeng".

The second assault echelon of the "Asu" came: 16 torpedo planes escorted by fighters, like the first echelon, were the first to be intercepted by the escort fighters of the Chinese aircraft carriers, as a result of which only 8 torpedo planes managed to escape. I saw these 8 planes climb into the air. Fragments of the explosion flew all over the sky like black snow, and the torpedo planes flew slowly forward in the smoke of gunpowder. Only four of the eight torpedo planes flew within striking distance of the torpedo before they were shot down. Four torpedoes immediately made several long tracks on the surface of the sea. The "Caifeng" swerved sharply to avoid the torpedo, and its wide deck swayed sharply from side to side. The captain managed to dodge two torpedoes. The latter two torpedoes crashed into the port side of the aircraft carrier. A column of water rushed up in the middle of the aircraft carrier, and the speed of the ship slowed down suddenly, but it did not stop. The people on the other ships watched from afar. The anti-aircraft guns had stopped firing, and one of the planes in the sky had disappeared. The battle lasted only 7 minutes.

The "Caifeng" leaned more and more to the port side, and the speed became slower and slower, and then it began to circle the sea, turning more and more slowly, and after a while it stopped. The boat gang emitted a puff of black smoke, but the chimney was spitting light white smoke. The escort ships of the "Caifeng" began to surround it.

The cabin of the aircraft carrier sank into darkness, and the ship leaned even harder. At 14:57, the captain gave the order to abandon ship. Rope ladders and large rope nets were scattered on the gang, and the crew descended to the destroyer moored.

The first pilot of the "Aso" was discovered to be Lieutenant Sashihiko of the "Caifeng," who flew away from the "Caifeng" before the second group of planes attacked. Near 16 o'clock, he reported on the position of the enemy aircraft carrier, his own bearing, course and speed, as well as the composition of the enemy escort fleet. Because of the accuracy of his report, the Chinese fleet was able to draw up a detailed attack plan in advance and determine the target of each pilot's attack. The "Dragon King" sent 24 dive bombers, 14 of which belonged to the "Caifeng". Half an hour later, "Xingkai Lake" sent another 16 dive bombers.

The dive bomber group of the "Dragon King" found him at 16:50. The three crippled aircraft carriers dragged three plumes of rising smoke and followed the intact "Aso" from a distance. A group of Gale fighters pounced in front of the Chinese planes, but only 3 Chinese bombers were shot down. He said that he was about to suffer a crushing defeat.

Chinese dive bombers swooped down on the "Aso" from an altitude of 6,000 meters, and eight bombs hit the "Asu." The force of the explosion caused the flight deck of the aircraft carrier to float up like a banana peel and land heavily on the aircraft carrier's bridge. A blaze burst out, and the entire aircraft carrier was suddenly filled with flames from beginning to end. The bombers immediately attacked the battleship "Kirishima", but with little effect. Half an hour later, the bombers of the "Xingkai Lake" arrived. When they saw that the "Aso" was dying, they poured bombs on another battleship and a cruiser. After a while, another squadron of "Kuakudao" bombers flew from Guam, and they dropped three bombs, burying the "Katsuragi" into the sea, and at the same time, they also hit a heavy cruiser and a light cruiser.

In the evening, the aircraft carrier "Dafeng", which had already suffered heavy losses in the morning's engagement, was killed by a Chinese submarine. The submarine fired two torpedoes and sank the "Dafeng". After dark, the "Yunlong" was also sunk by a Chinese cruiser. At dawn on August 5, a destroyer searched the wreckage of the sea to contain the remaining soldiers at sea, and by the way, sank the floating brazier of the "Aso." After the torpedo exploded, the last aircraft carrier to be put into the Battle of Guam sank to the bottom of the sea.

Lieutenant Gai Guoqiang still perched on his cushion and witnessed almost the entire naval battle of Guam. Night fell, and the warship headed north in despair. Gai Guoqiang thought to himself, he could finally fill his rubber raft. He climbed onto the raft and floated for a while, before he was finally rescued and contained.

At 2:15 p.m. on 5 August, the submarine "Anton" reported: "A group of warships of unknown nationality have been spotted 90 nautical miles west of Guam. Fu Renxuan led the fleet at a speed of 25 knots in the direction indicated by the report. In the morning of the same day, a series of reports came in, proving that the warships of unknown nationality were the ripped and fleeing fleet of the Saiben fleet. "Anton" sent a detailed report: "Two cruisers are sailing to the west. "The Chinese bombers immediately pursued the past. However, the cumulus clouds over the northwest of Guam still did not disperse, and he was able to hide himself from being discovered.

On August 6, visibility improved. The fleeing man was discovered by the plane of the "Dragon King" in the early morning. The aircraft reported that there were two fleets 400 nautical miles northwest of Guam, 50 nautical miles apart. Guam sent 16 Army "Quick Knife" bombers to pursue the fleet to the south. But they couldn't find the target. Six of the "Kuaidao" bombers, flying at an altitude of 3,000 meters, saw a warship 25 nautical miles east of the forecast's position. Six bombers dropped 12 bombs on the warship, and the cruiser was sunk in 15 seconds.

"Xingkai Lake" sent 36 dive bombers, escorted by 8 fighters. The group of aircraft discovered a battleship of the same type as the "Kirishima", a cruiser and three destroyers. Although there was not a single plane in the sky, the antiaircraft guns of the ship had fierce firepower. The two large warships were hit by a few bombs, but the damage was not serious, and the speed did not decrease in any case. A Chinese bomber was shot down. Fighter jets strafed back and forth at the destroyer. An hour later, the group returned to the "Xingkaihu". Taking advantage of the plane's refueling, the pilot hurriedly ate a piece of beef pie, drank a cup of tea, and then took off again to pursue the fleeing Yue himself, and there was a great tendency to hunt around.

After a large group of dive bombers took off from the "Dragon King," they quickly bit the two heavy cruisers. The two cruisers moved slowly, followed by two destroyers. This is exactly what "Kumano" and the already wounded cruiser "Tottori". These warships were attacked by Chinese planes for a full hour and a half. Both cruisers received quite a few bombs, and the "Kumano" was the most badly bombed. The entire building had turned into a pile of charred and curled scrap metal, and the deck was filled with smoke and corpses. The anti-aircraft guns on the "Kumano" were still firing non-stop. The cruiser, already floating low on the sea, was still sailing forward, with the calm sea below, the whistling planes at its head, and its own partners behind it. There were only a few fires on the ship just now, but now they are connected from beginning to end. The Kumano is moving slower, and the Tottori is out of track. Bombs still kept splashing around the Kumano. The "Kumano" began to tilt, and without hesitation, two destroyers approached it, trying to help contain the survivors on the ship along the cruiser's boat. Chinese planes swooped down to bomb the destroyers, one of the destroyers was shot in the stern, and the flames reached the middle of the deck, breaking the hull in two and sinking into the sea. The Kumano leaned more and more, and then suddenly tumbled into the sea and disappeared. The Tottori had been slowly retreating not far away in the face of Chinese planes, firing into the air while dodging bombs, and several places on board had caught fire. The remnants of the destroyer headed towards the Kumano. At this time, as the ammunition ran out, the Chinese planes began to return. "Tottori" was finally torpedoed and sunk by a Chinese submarine.

After the "Caifeng" was hit by two torpedoes, it was completely evacuated at 15 o'clock on 4 August. However, after the ship had tilted 25 degrees, it stopped in this position and was still floating on the sea. At 18 o'clock, Rear Admiral Fu Renxuan ordered the destroyer "Chen 102" to wait next to the abandoned ship, preparing to sink the "Caifeng" once he came to occupy it. At dawn on the 5th, the captain of the "Chen 102" reported: "The 'Caifeng' is still floating and can be saved." "At 8 o'clock, a couple of tracer bullets were spotted from the aircraft carrier, and then a man was seen signaling." The "Tatsumi 102" sent a small boat and fetched two sailors, who had been left as dead men in the ship's infirmary when they left the ship. After Shen Honglie learned the news of the death of the "Caifeng", he telegraphed to Fu Renxuan: "Save the 'Caifeng'." I'll send you a dredger, a tugboat, and a destroyer. "The dredger was transferred to the nearest place, arrived first, and immediately began to hang the cable tow, and a rescue team boarded the aircraft carrier at the same time. Due to the method of pumping the longitudinal water, the "Caifeng" was quickly erected. The destroyer "Chen-103" followed the aircraft carrier, and other destroyers escorted it. If it hadn't been for the attack myself, the "Caifeng" would have been saved. However, a submarine following the flotilla, evading the eyes and ears of the escort destroyers, boldly drove over and fired four torpedoes. "Chen 103" was hit by two torpedoes and sank immediately. Two more torpedoes hit the "Caifeng". The aircraft carrier did not sink completely until the early morning of the next day.

In this battle, it lost 4 aircraft carriers, 2 cruisers, 3 destroyers and 4 transports, several warships were severely damaged, and more than 2,700 sailors and pilots died. China lost 1 aircraft carrier, 112 aircraft, and 209 people died.

Despite the crushing defeat, he was determined to continue the attack. Around 20 August, summing up the information provided by the reconnaissance planes, he said that he had assembled four aircraft carriers, two battleships, 12 cruisers, more than 20 destroyers, 15 large transports, cargo ships, and oil tankers, as well as 160 army bombers and fighters, and their target was the Truk Islands. On 23 July, Rear Admiral Fu Renxuan, who was leading the Chinese fleet to patrol the southeast of the Truk Islands, received a report that three aircraft carriers with frigates had been discovered south of the Truk Islands heading southeast. After Fu Renxuan received the report, he immediately led a team to meet him. His fleet consisted of two task forces, each consisting of one aircraft carrier, the Xuanyuan-class aircraft carriers "Shennong" and "Longwang". "Shennong" was the new flagship of the entire fleet, escorted by two heavy cruisers and destroyers, and "Dragon King" was escorted by the battleship "Republic", a heavy cruiser, a light air defense cruiser and six destroyers.

At 6:30 a.m. on the 24th, the "Dragon King" released its first patrol convoy and did not find any targets. In the early afternoon, some more information came from the commander of the Chinese Air Force in the South Pacific, which confirmed the accuracy of the information obtained earlier. Fu Renxuan ordered the "Dragon King" to send a second patrol fleet to search. It was not until the afternoon that the patrol planes discovered the target and returned to report that a fleet of three aircraft carriers, eight heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, 16 destroyers, and several large transport ships was approaching about 200 nautical miles to the southwest. The fleet was massive, swinging in an arc 60 to 80 nautical miles wide. That is to say, the army brigade has set off to seize the Truk Islands.

The second echelon, consisting of dive bombers and torpedo aircraft, took off from the aircraft carriers of the Chinese army. The planes of the "Shennong" first rushed to the skies over the Yueben fleet. After discovering the 7,500-ton small aircraft carrier "Longxiang," they first fired torpedoes and then dropped bombs, blowing up the flight deck of the "Longxiang" in one fell swoop. The "Longxiang" immediately floated on the sea and did not move, and then capsized with a ship full of fire.

At the same time, the military fleet also released planes. As soon as the planes of the "Dragon King" and the "Shennong" flew together, the warning radar reported that a group of planes had flown in.

China has always attached great importance to the role of radar. Therefore, the large warships of the Chinese Navy are not limited to one radar, but are equipped with several radars, each of which is responsible for special detection, including near and far air defense warning radar, artillery radar, radar interrogator, and so on. Since 1942, every battleship or aircraft carrier of the Chinese Navy has been equipped with a set of radar facilities, including 10 to 15 radars of various types, manned by 100 to 160 full-time personnel. Information from radar and other sources is aggregated into an "intelligence center".

The assault echelon consisted of 36 dive bombers and 12 torpedo planes, and was escorted by 24 fighters. The flight echelon was intercepted by the escort planes of the Chinese fleet, but after a scuffle, 30 dive bombers and most of the fighters slipped past. On board the "Dragon King", the alert radar monitored these incoming enemies. On the deck, everyone was watching the direction of the announcement from the loudspeaker. The sky is blue, and it looks extraordinarily high and deep. The sun was sinking in the west. I don't know who shouted first: "Here, these bastards!" Sure enough, bright spots appeared in the sky.

In an instant, all the frigates opened fire in unison, and the thunderous sound of cannon shook the heavens and the earth. In the blue sky, thousands of flickering ballistics were densely intertwined. Not far from the "Dragon King", the "Republic" spat out dense and fierce tongues of fire, as if the ship was on fire. As soon as the military plane flying in front of it entered the range of the antiaircraft guns, it was immediately shattered to pieces, and the wreckage was scattered in the air one after another. The planes that followed behind followed. I saw one plane, one plane, and another plane, after crossing the artillery defense line, they dived at an angle of 70 degrees, and did not drop bombs until they were within 500 meters, and the "Dragon King" below kept dodging. Several military planes were shot down by the anti-aircraft guns of the "Republic" during the dive. It was said that the military planes concentrated their forces on attacking the "Dragon King" with the whole team. A plane swooped down very close to the aircraft carrier, let out a piercing scream, and watched as a bright bomb stabbed diagonally down on the deck.

(To be continued)