Although the Japanese Navy was very careful, Onodera Itsunori ordered the radio silence of the whole fleet to prevent the location from being discovered by the radio reconnaissance jamming ships of the Tang Imperial Navy, but this operation has always been a trap set by the Tang Army, so the Tang Army has been monitoring the movements of the Japanese Navy.

The water depth in the Yellow Sea is shallow, which is not suitable for submarine operations, and it is difficult for the submarines of the Tang Army to evade the anti-submarine attacks of the Japanese destroyers, so the submarines of the Tang Army do not dare to easily approach the Japanese naval fleet, and often lose news of the other side at night.

However, no matter how the Japanese navy evaded, the Tang Army occupied air supremacy, and several Great White Crane strategic bombers took advantage of their long flight time to temporarily take up aerial reconnaissance tasks, and the pilots used bomb sights to monitor the entire sea surface at high altitude, so that the Japanese naval fleet could not hide in the end, revealing their position and intentions.

"We must not let them run away this time! Inform the fleets to prepare for battle! ”

Li Haichen gave the battle order, the Tang Army's No. 1 Aircraft Carrier Battle Group and the No. 2 Aircraft Carrier Battle Group were in full array, the sound of combat preparations sounded on the bridge, the officers and men of all ships entered combat positions, and the naval aviation rushed to their fighters one after another.

The Tang Army did not give up the attack on the Arthur Fortress, and only by fighting harder could the Japanese Navy be forced to come to the decisive battle faster.

Li Haichen left some of the escort aircraft carriers behind to continue to cover the landing fleet, and asked the Datang Army Aviation to take over the naval aviation to cover the Lushun landing force. The Tang Army's army aviation units had already received Zhang Meng's order to fully cooperate with the navy's operations and dispatched more than 400 army aviation fighters and bombers that were supposed to take over Taiwan's air defense to quickly transfer from Taiwan to Yantai. Then cross the sea to the Arthur Fortress to participate in the operation.

In this way, the planes over the Lushun fortress became the planes of the Tang Army's army aviation, and the Japanese army in Lushun could not distinguish between naval aviation and land aviation. It was only thought that the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group was still in the nearby waters, giving the Japanese army a false impression, but in fact, Li Haichen freed his hands and transferred the main forces of the two aircraft carrier battle groups to rush towards the Onodera Itori fleet.

The aircraft carrier battle group of Onodera Itsunori has always been a major problem for the Tang Army, and it wants to get rid of it as soon as possible, so Li Haichen made careful arrangements, and the first aircraft carrier battle group met the enemy head-on. The 2nd Carrier Battle Group went around to the rear of the enemy fleet to prevent the enemy fleet from escaping.

The two aircraft carrier battle groups of the Tang Army formed an iron pincer and wanted to completely annihilate the Japanese fleet. But they didn't know that the Japanese Navy was ready to fight to the death, and had no intention of escaping, and there was a kamikaze special attack team that was not afraid of death and was ready to die with the Tang Army.

Li Haichen divided the fleet into two and invisibly dispersed Liliang. Faced with the Japanese army's desperate battle to the death. This battle adds a lot of variables.

September 17, this date happens to be the day of the first battle in the Yellow Sea between Qing and Japan more than 40 years ago, but now it is a coincidence, and the navies of Tang and Japan will also start a decisive battle here.

However, the technological content of this battle is much higher than that of the previous battle.

The Datang Navy took the lead in locking on the position of the Japanese Navy, but in turn, the Japanese Navy thought that the Datang Navy was in Dalian Bay, more than 300 kilometers away.

The Tang Army's first aircraft carrier battle group was the closest, so it struck first, dispatching 300 Raptor ships and 200 Hellfire ships in the first wave.

Meanwhile. The Onodera Itsunori fleet did not dare to be careless, and kept sending reconnaissance planes to patrol the air. At this time, the Japanese reconnaissance aircraft were already equipped with radio stations. It is no longer as backward as it was during the last Tang-Japanese war, but the magic is one foot higher and the road is one foot higher, and the Tang army has always had a mysterious electronic combat ship, and at this time it has already turned on the radio jammer with the maximum power, cutting off the radio communication between the Japanese reconnaissance plane and the fleet.

In fact, the Japanese army had already suffered such a loss more than once, and Onodera Itsunori had long suspected that the Tang army had a powerful radio jamming equipment, and all kinds of intelligence showed that many times at the beginning of the battle, the Japanese army's radio suddenly failed and could not obtain early warning information in time and suffered a big loss. Therefore, the Japanese fleet would ask to contact the reconnaissance planes every ten minutes, and in the event of a sudden loss of contact, the Japanese army would immediately activate an emergency plan, because it might be attacked by the Tang army.

At this time, Onodera Itsunori received another report that all four reconnaissance planes in the southwest direction had lost contact, and he immediately judged that it might be attacked by the Tang army, and immediately ordered the whole fleet to enter a combat state.

On the decks of four Osumi-class aircraft carriers, the Japanese Type 96 carrier-based fighters urgently refueled and reloaded their weapons into the take-off area, waiting for Zuihou's order.

At the same time, the Japanese escort aircraft carrier and the surrounding cruisers and destroyers were also in combat mode, ready to shoot down the invading Tang planes at any time.

The Japanese army was nervous, and at this time the exact location of the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group had not yet been discovered, and Onishi Takijiro's kamikaze special attack team was not yet able to attack, and if the fleet was dealt a devastating blow first, then Jihua, who had one person, one machine, and one bomb for one enemy warship, would go bankrupt.

"Let all the kamikaze teams take off and be on standby in the air!"

After thinking about it, Onodera Itsunori still felt that it was better to be safe, and first hide the suicide troops in the sky, so that they could go to the position of the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group at any time to carry out a suicide attack, and it would be bad if the aircraft carrier was damaged and could not take off.

Onodera Itsunori's caution paid off, and soon the Japanese destroyer Waseda, which was on guard on the perimeter, was the first to spot the Tang Army aircraft group attacking from the west.

The overwhelming formation of the aircraft group covered the sky and the sun, and the roar resounded through the sky, as if the end was coming, which made the Japanese troops below suddenly frightened.

At this time, the kamikaze team had just taken off, and Onodera Itsunori ordered Onishi Takijiro to lead the kamikaze team to dodge first, and go in a half circle in the direction where the Tang army's aircraft group was flying, he thought that the Tang army's aircraft carrier battle group must be over there.

At this time, Onodera Itsunori didn't know that the Tang Army was divided into two ways, and Li Haichen also didn't know that Onodera Itsunori would be so cautious and cautious, so he prepared for the battle in advance, and even sent a death squad to the location of the Tang Army's first aircraft carrier battle group.

Knock knock!

The destroyer Waseda, which was the first to spot the Tang fleet, opened fire first. It was a Japanese military's most advanced Fengfeng-class destroyer, which was greatly modified in order to learn the lessons of the first Tang-Japanese war, with enhanced anti-aircraft Liliang and four 47mm anti-aircraft rapid-fire guns.

However, the Tang army's aircraft group flew higher and was not afraid of the attack of anti-aircraft artillery of this caliber, but two Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers broke away from the formation and dived down towards the Waseda destroyer.

The two Hellfire ships were constantly changing positions in the air to avoid the bombardment of the Japanese guns, and they were so experienced that they quickly looked for each other's blind spots before diving straight down.

With a sharp whistling sound, two 500-kilogram aerial bombs landed on the fore and aft decks of the destroyer Waseda.

"Boom! Boom! ”

The two bombs exploded violently, and the tremendous force instantly broke the destroyer, which was more than 2,000 tons, into three parts, and detonated the ammunition depot inside the destroyer, causing the entire destroyer to explode to pieces in the blink of an eye, and flames rose into the sky, and smoke and dust billowed out.

The sinking of the destroyer Waseda was the first to deter the Japanese fleet, and it also announced the official start of the Tang-Japanese naval battle in the Yellow Sea, and the beginning of a desperate fight. (To be continued......)