Chapter 533: Battle at Sea
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"How is it possible, those are obviously merchant ships, and every merchant ship is flying a bright Japanese flag, but why are they attacking us? And also from the bottom of the merchant ship? What else is hidden beneath the seabed? The sailors of the Japanese task force looked at the scene in front of them with incredible faces. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info [Almost all the books I want to read.,It's much more stable than the general station.,There's no advertising in the whole text.] ]
However, when the sailors of the Japanese task force saw clearly the waterlines that were rapidly rising from the bottom of the merchant ships in the distance, these sailors were frightened: "Oh no, there are submarines!" A lot of torpedo attacks. ”
"Boom, boom!" The distance between the merchant ships and the task force was so close that even if these torpedo attacks were detected, many ships in the task force would not have time to make evasive moves.
At this time, the commander of the task force sensed that something was wrong, and in order to catch up with the American fleet at full speed, they left behind the slower submarines and aircraft carriers.
The commander of the task force has vaguely sensed that they are likely to fall into a huge trap, and the current scene is obviously a conspiracy against the task force.
"Immediately send a report to the aircraft carrier, we have been ambushed by the enemy, quickly call for carrier-based aircraft support." The commander of the task force immediately sent an urgent telegram to the aircraft carrier that was thrown behind.
The commander of the Japanese army believed that even if they were now attacked by unknown warships, as long as the aircraft carrier that lagged behind sent carrier-based aircraft to help, he was still confident that he would destroy all the disguised enemies in front of him and sink the American fleet that had just escaped. hua.
It's a pity that his idea could not be realized, because when the Japanese task force was attacked by the first torpedo, the American fleet, which was still fleeing just now, quickly turned its bow and began to press on the chaotic Japanese task force.
Although there were more and more torpedoes under the merchant ships, more than a dozen ships with anti-submarine capabilities in the task force had begun to move closer to the direction of the merchant ships, and they wanted to force out the submarines hidden at the bottom of the Japanese merchant ships.
Although Isoroku Yamamoto is no longer the commander-in-chief of the task force, it was this task force that attacked Pearl Hill and defeated the US Navy many times, so the entire fleet has a strong sense of honor and pride from top to bottom.
So even if the situation is very unfavorable for the task force, they have already begun to organize a large-scale counterattack.
The U.S. fleet was also very effective, and the entire Pacific Fleet was wiped out by the Japanese Navy in two years. The only thirty percent of the navy soldiers are the elite soldiers of a hundred battles.
Now that they finally seized the opportunity for revenge, even though the US warships were far smaller than the Japanese task force in terms of tonnage and number, the US warships that had just arrived on the battlefield still rushed forward without hesitation to fight the Japanese army.
At this time, the Japanese task force, which was entangled with merchant ships, finally discovered the submarine hidden at the bottom of the merchant ships. And there is more than one submarine hidden under every merchant ship.
The sudden discovery of so many submarines made the scalps of the sailors of the entire task force tingle, which made the task force that had just been a little orderly panic again.
Who made the submarine powerful, not to mention that there are so many submarines at once, just like you wanted to kill a hornet, but you found out that you inadvertently stabbed a hornet's nest.
Seeing so many submarines, everyone in the task force felt bad. Originally, there were still many task force ships fantasizing about the reinforcement of carrier-based aircraft, but when they saw dozens of merchant ships, and hundreds of anti-aircraft machine guns were set up at this time, the task force no longer had much hope for future air support.
Because since the enemy even had anti-aircraft machine guns ready, he must have expected the arrival of the carrier-based aircraft of the task force for a long time. In fact, it is not what the Japanese expected.
Not long after, when the carrier-based aircraft of the task force arrived, hundreds of fighters also flew in from the direction of China.
Now there are enemy planes on board, submarines below, armed merchant ships causing trouble inside, and the US fleet surrounding outside. The new commander of the task force can only order the entire army to retreat, and quickly leave the entire battlefield to preserve some strength for the empire.
At this time, he could no longer hope to completely annihilate the US fleet, and all he had to do was to protect the task force from being wiped out.
Unfortunately, his wish could not have succeeded, and just as the task force was about to withdraw from the battlefield, they suddenly received a report that the two aircraft carriers that were left behind had been attacked by unknown submarines.
At the same time, more submarines were spotted around the battlefield of engagement as a result of firing torpedoes at the Japanese task force. The commander of the task force thought that this naval battle would be a scuffle, only to find that what awaited them was indeed a bloody massacre.
I watched one after another warships that had built immortal feats for the empire be torpedoed and sunk one by one. The Task Force Commander's heart was bleeding.
Seeing that the hundreds of carrier-based planes on his side were not the opponents of the Huaxing Group's aircraft, the fleet commander immediately requested tactical support from the headquarters.
He shouted desperately over the radio, asking the 500 planes that had gone south to pursue the US bombers to return to their homes immediately and come to reinforce the task force, otherwise their meritorious fleet would probably be in danger of being completely wiped out.
It's a pity that his pleas for help were useless. Because at this moment, on the sea surface of the East China Sea, those 500 Japanese fighters were also attacked by the huge fleet of China's Huaxing Group over the sea surface of the East China Sea.
The most incredible thing about these Japanese fighters was that there were hundreds of Chinese fighters who came to reinforce them. Japanese pilots really can't understand why Huaxing Group has so many planes, isn't this scientific? The Japanese pilots were most puzzled by these Chinese pilots, all of whom were Caucasian with yellow scalps and high noses.
Since the Japanese planes were chasing the American bombers from the mainland, by the time they reached the airspace of the engagement, there was not much fuel in the planes, so the Japanese planes only collided with the fighters of Huaxing Airlines.
Originally, these Japanese pilots thought that with their excellent piloting skills, they would definitely be able to damage the fleet of Huaxing Group, but who knew that the Caucasian pilots on the opposite side not only had the same superb flying skills, but these Caucasians were also not afraid of death.
In a short period of more than 10 minutes of slaughter, more than a dozen wounded Huaxing fighters crashed into the Japanese planes and finally died together with the Japanese planes.
When encountering such a desperate opponent, even the Japanese pilots who promised to die were frightened. In addition, the fighters of the Huaxing Group who came to reinforce were full of fuel. Therefore, after just a few rounds of fighting, the Japanese fighters were finally defeated by the Huaxing Group and took the initiative to flee in the direction of Japan. And the air force of the Huaxing Group is naturally chasing and killing.
In order to avoid the annihilation of the entire army, the Japanese aircraft group immediately left behind hundreds of fighters to block the Huaxing aircraft group, and the rest of the fighters scattered in the direction of the Japanese island.
Huaxing Airlines' planes did not give up their lives to catch up, but attacked in groups and shot down all the 100 Japanese planes that were blocking the attack. Then, it was divided into two, and one part flew towards Shanghai.
There was not only a Japanese fleet that had just sailed out of Shanghai, but also dozens of Japanese planes that had already arrived here from Shanghai.
The other part of the fighters continued to fly towards the sea area where the US Pacific Fleet and the Japanese task force were fighting, and Huaxing Airlines was ready to surprise them.
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