readx;??? One hundred nautical miles south of Pearl Harbor, the US Pacific Fleet was engaged in a desperate sea and air struggle with several hundred Japanese planes. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the same time, 200 warplanes of various types sent by the Pacific Fleet also arrived at the Japanese task force 180 nautical miles east of Pearl Harbor.

At this time, the Japanese task force was still immersed in the joy of the successful bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the entire Japanese fleet did not notice the 200 American planes that were flying in the high sky in the distance, which were also under black pressure.

However, because the US planes flew too high, when they entered the radar alert range of the Japanese task force, the radar network around the task force still scanned the US planes.

However, the radar crews of the Japanese task force, who were in the midst of excitement, did not pay much attention to these planes, and some soldiers even thought that they might be Japanese planes returning from a mission.

Therefore, the over-excited radar crews did not immediately report the whereabouts of these two hundred aircraft to the fleet, as required in peacetime, but continued their hard-won revelry.

It was not until these unidentified planes came in a neat manner and did not change the formation formation in accordance with the rules of landing in batches that the attention of the radar soldiers on duty was aroused.

After the Japanese radar crews repeatedly called and did not receive an answer from the planes, the radar crews immediately sounded the air raid alarm, and as soon as the alarm sounded, the carrier-based planes in the task force immediately took off into the air.

It is a pity that the shipborne radar of this era has just started, and the detection range of the radar is even shorter, and when the careless radar troops sent an air raid warning to the fleet headquarters, the planes of the Pacific Fleet had already reached a place ten nautical miles away from the Japanese task force.

For the US fighters, which are bent on revenge and are advancing at full speed, the distance of ten nautical miles is only a matter of three or two minutes. And two or three minutes is only enough time for two batches of Japanese aircraft carriers to take off.

In other words, when the American bomber group rushed into the huge formation of the Japanese task force, the Japanese only had to rush into the air with a dozen planes.

Then the sea and air battle between the two sides officially began, and the battle was also very fierce at the beginning. Although the US planes were only fighting for the first time, the US Air Force, which was well-trained in peacetime, showed a strong tactical spirit at this time.

In particular, in the face of the Japanese task force, which also had extremely strong air defense capabilities, US planes specially assigned some planes to attack the air defense frigates of the Japanese task force, while other planes began to bomb dozens of Japanese warships in front of them in an orderly manner.

Because the Japanese task force did not expect to be bombed by the US military in such a short period of time, the ideological preparation of air defense was insufficient, and even if the Japanese army was a veteran force that had been in battle for a long time, it also had the idea of being paralyzed and careless.

You must know that in the past, the opponents of the Japanese army were only countries with extremely underdeveloped naval and air forces such as China, so they could always win easily, which also made the Japanese soldiers known for their arrogance.

In addition, on the morning of the same day, the Japanese army had just attacked the Pearl Harbor naval base, completely annihilating all the military forces of the Pacific Fleet stationed at the Pearl Harbor base.

Therefore, as the victor of the war, the Japanese task force was full of self-confidence from top to bottom, and these Japanese navies never thought that the Pacific Fleet would still be capable of retaliating and would be able to make a counterattack of such a scale in such a short period of time.

Therefore, the performance of the Japanese army was simply overpanicked, not only did many anti-aircraft artillery fire forget to attack, but even many ship commanders were stunned on the spot for a while.

If it weren't for the rumbling explosions that woke up the Japanese warships, they would still be sleepwalking. And once the Japanese Navy, which is also well-trained, comes to its senses, the entire air defense work will be done in an orderly manner.

One anti-aircraft artillery after another, anti-aircraft machine guns began to shoot frantically at US planes in accordance with the anti-aircraft fire net they had trained in peacetime.

The effective anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese army inflicted huge losses on the US fighters, and dozens of fighters were hit by the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery fire in just 10 minutes.

It was at this time that the leaders of the American fighters discovered that they had made several important mistakes. First, they should not have attacked the Japanese battleships.

Second, they should not let the Japanese aircraft carriers take off fighters. Thirdly, they came to retaliate in a hurry, and they did not carry a large number of torpedoes specially designed to deal with large ships, but only carried more bombs to bomb ground targets as they usually practiced.

And there were no torpedoes that posed the greatest threat to Japanese ships, and these bombs alone, even if a considerable part of them were armor-piercing bombs, were not enough to destroy the Japanese task force.

As a result, the American fighters, who discovered these shortcomings, immediately changed their bombing strategy, and they began to focus on sinking battleships and other large ships, and instead focused on killing and damaging the Japanese army's living forces.

Because almost all American pilots know that whether it is a sailor who operates a ship or a pilot who flies an airplane, these two branches of the military have the highest gold content.

For the United States and Japan, which are equally productive, the loss of a few aircraft carriers and a few battleships will soon be rebuilt, so the loss of ships is not fatal, but the loss of too many sailors and pilots is the most fatal.

So the American planes, having figured out this section, began to focus on bombing frigates and all kinds of densely populated ships. Because of the large number of personnel and the fact that there are planes taking off and landing, aircraft carriers have naturally become the target of bombing by US fighters, while the strongest battleships are no longer cared for.

Not to mention that as soon as the US fighter group changed its bombing strategy, it immediately reaped powerful results, and one after another US planes dropped heavy bombs on the Japanese warships at ultra-low altitudes, and at the same time did not forget to use their airborne machine guns to strafe the personnel of the ships.

As a result, a large number of casualties were inflicted on the Japanese Navy, and the large number of casualties among the personnel of the task force led to a great shortage of anti-aircraft firepower, with the result that 200 American planes fought for more than an hour.

Although only a few destroyers and a few frigates were sunk, all the ships of the Japanese task force were damaged to varying degrees. Most of the ship's superstructure was destroyed.

The most important thing is that the task force suffered great losses, except for the dozens of pilots who remained on the six aircraft carriers and were killed by the US military.

Thousands of ground crews and full-time sailors of all kinds were killed and wounded. It can be said that the entire task force lost more than a third of its personnel. The huge losses made Yamamoto Isoroku, who was hiding under the command room of the aircraft carrier, distressed.

Fortunately, the losses of US carrier-based planes were also not small, with three-quarters of the 200 US fighters that came to attack, and nearly 150 planes were shot down by the anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese task force.

When the US fighter plane successfully retreated because it ran out of ammunition, Yamamoto Isoroku, who had come out of the aircraft carrier command room, looked at the seriously damaged task force in front of him and said with a sigh:

"It is said that Americans are greedy for life and afraid of death, and now it seems that we were wrong, maybe our sneak attack this time awakened a sleeping giant with terrible determination."