The repeated attacks of the Naval Resistance Army were really fast enough, and by the time the devil came to his senses, it was too late. In the previous two or three hours, the Japanese aircraft carrier formation had already experienced several bombings by US fighters, and a kind of inertial thinking had been formed in the hearts of the Japanese pilots and commanders -- the opponent was not strong. Such a sharp air attack was not expected at all, and the bombing level displayed by the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army had almost reached the level of the elite of the Japanese army, which was something that the Japanese pilots or commanders did not expect at all.

The little devil saw that within a few minutes, the two aircraft carriers were bombed, and they suddenly became two big fireballs floating on the sea, and both the Japanese officers and pilots almost went crazy.

Before the bombing was over, the fighters led by Liu Gensheng had already started a fierce battle with the Japanese fighters.

The Japanese Zero fighters were almost invincible in the Pacific Ocean, and often three or two fighters dared to fight in the air with more than a dozen US fighters. But today they did not encounter the US military, but the naval resistance army. For a long time, the training of fighters of the Naval Resistance Force was aimed at the Japanese army's Zero fighters, which had excellent low-altitude maneuverability. All tactics were aimed at the weakness of the Japanese Zero.

So in the first round, the little devil tasted the bitterness. The first batch of Zero fighters of the Japanese army to rush to reinforce was only three, how could it be the opponent of the naval resistance air force that was proficient in hit-and-run tactics.

The Japanese pilots were elite enough, but they could dodge the dive fire of the first fighter plane, but could not dodge the second one. By the time the bombers had finished bombing, all three Japanese fighters had been shot down.

Liu Gensheng and a group of fighter pilots were eager to try their hand at fighting the Japanese Zero fighters, and the air force was not the only one in air combat, and the effort to press the bottom of the box had not yet been used. However, fighting with devils is not in the interests of the Maritime Resistance Army. Without waiting for the Japanese fighters to besiege again, Liu Gensheng shouted in the public channel, "Withdraw." ”

Immediately, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army increased the throttle and began to withdraw from the battlefield.

The red-eyed devil is in hot pursuit. The speed of the Japanese Zero fighters was fast enough, and Liu Gensheng could already see the Japanese aircraft group when he turned his head. The devil chased after a full fifteen fighters, and Liu Gensheng's task was to escort the escort, that is, to protect the safe return of the bombers of the Maritime Resistance Army. There are enough devil fighters, the planes are advanced enough, and the pilots are elite enough, so they don't want to be entangled with the Japanese army, but looking at the current form, it is inevitable that there will be a war. Liu Gensheng conveyed the order in the microphone: "Fighter team, get ready." ”

Fighter pilots are ready for a decisive battle. But at this moment, a miracle happened, and the Japanese devil, who was already red-eyed and crazy, turned around and stopped chasing.

It turned out that US fighters had already arrived at the battlefield. The arrival of the US fighter plane forced the devil fighter to turn around and return home.

The flagship of the Akagi, Nagumo Tadaichi, was already cold at this moment, and the two aircraft carriers were destroyed in front of his eyes in just over ten minutes. It was His Majesty's warship. However, it was the most important weapon of the Great Japanese Empire. Two aircraft carriers, an indispensable force for the Japanese Navy. It is also squeezed out of the teeth of the Japanese people. Hit so hard. Nagumo Tadaichi almost became a fool.

Seeing the US fighters flying again, Nagumo Tadaichi no longer had the majesty of a lieutenant general, and gave an order like madness--- all fighters must immediately rush back to defend the aircraft carrier Akagi.

Seeing Nagumo Tadaichi screaming hysterically on the bridge, Major Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka immediately notified all the pilots urgently.

'If the Akagi is attacked, you will have to wait for all of them to be disemboweled. ”

Under strict orders. These devil Zero pilots have also gone crazy, and all the Zero fighters have begun to pounce on the incoming planes of the US military.

At 9:25 a.m., 15 "Destroyer" torpedo attack aircraft took off from the American "Hornet". Skimming low across the sea towards the starboard side of the "Akagi". Although the US pilots were not skilled enough, they did not lack the spirit of adventure at all, and these 15 torpedo planes did not have escort fighters at all.

It's nothing to say it's late. It is not uncommon for Liu Gensheng to lead the fighters to get lost, and the US pilots will also get lost. However, without the escort of fighter planes, it is somewhat out of line with the norms of the US military.

Originally, these 15 torpedo planes were escorted by fighters, but unfortunately, there was no air formation when Spruance gave the order to set off, and the US planes flew in a somewhat chaotic manner. The fighters on the USS Enterprise escorted the 15 fighters in a daze, and halfway through the flight, the pilots of the USS Enterprise realized that they were escorting torpedo planes on the USS Hornet. It was worth it, their task was to escort the torpedo machines on the Enterprise.

A group of fools actually abandoned the torpedo group on the Hornet and began to look for their little friends on the sea. In the end, some of these pilots ran out of fuel and were forced to land at sea, some were smarter and landed at Midway, in short, none of them returned to the Enterprise.

Compared with other US aircraft carriers, the US pilots on the Hornet are the most rookies, and ninety percent of the pilots have never been on the battlefield. Moreover, due to the rapid expansion of the US military, only two or three veterans of the fifteen torpedo planes had more than 300 hours of flight time, and the rest of the flight time did not exceed 100 hours.

The fighters were inferior to the Japanese army, the pilots were inferior to the Japanese army, and the number was not as good as the Japanese army. The torpedo planes on the Hornet were besieged by more than 30 Zero fighters within 15 minutes, and were finally wiped out. Most of the torpedo planes did not have time to drop their torpedoes, and even those that did did not hit the target.

At 9:40 a.m., 14 "Devastator" torpedo attack planes that took off from the American "Enterprise" also arrived over the Japanese fleet.

This batch of US fighters was even more devoid of fighter escorts, and they did not see their fighters from the moment they took off. (Ran to escort the torpedo machine on the Hornet.) ）

Although flying a bulky torpedo plane, the pilots on the Enterprise were significantly higher than those on the Hornet.

The US pilots were savage and brave enough, and under the encirclement and interception of the Zero fighters, they desperately launched an attack on the aircraft carrier "Akagi" and dropped torpedoes.

Although the pilots of these US torpedo planes were of slightly better quality, and even almost hit the target on a few occasions, the attack failed again and again under the heavy anti-aircraft fire and the resistance of fighter planes.

In the end, only four torpedo planes survived and returned to Midway.

At ten o'clock in the morning, before the devil had time to catch his breath, Nagumo Tadaichi was again attacked by a third attack by American carrier-based torpedo planes. This time it was 12 "Destroyer" torpedo aircraft from the aircraft carrier "Yorktown". There were 6 "Wildcat" fighters escorting.

When they approached the USS Akagi, a group of Zero fighters first surrounded the F4F Wildcat fighters escorted by the US military. The fleet of US military aircraft was divided by the air.

The American torpedo planes, which had lost their escort, also failed to achieve results in their attack on the "Akagi." In the end, only 2 US planes escaped the fate of being shot down. All other U.S. planes were killed at the bottom of the sea.

Before 10 o'clock, of the 41 torpedo attack planes sent from 3 American aircraft carriers, 35 were lost, and only 6 barely made it back. And the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi remained unscathed.

From dawn on June 4 to the present, the Akagi's luck seems to have been too good. More than 100 US bombers and torpedo planes launched five or six batches of air raids. It all failed, and not a single hair of the Akagi was injured.

Originally, in Nagumo Tadaichi's plan, the fighter plane could be released at ten o'clock. But after several waves of air raids, the Akagi was doing a circular maneuver to evade the aircraft carrier. The Japanese ground crews were unstable at their stations, and it was difficult to change ammunition and refuel.

After taking out this wave of US fighters. The ground crew of the little devil is even more diligent. Desperately refueling the fighter plane. Nagumo Zhongyi's eyes were red at this time, like a wounded hungry wolf, howling in the narrow bridge. Two aircraft carriers have already been destroyed, and he Nan Yunzhong has no other choice than to kill the US aircraft carriers.

The devil's ground crew moved quickly, and the temperature on Midway Island at this time was not low. Everyone is sweating.

At 10:24, the fighters on the Akagi had already begun to line up. Nagumo Zhongyi had already seen the hope of revenge at this moment.

But Nagumo Tadaichi's hopes were ruthlessly destroyed at this moment.

32 U.S. Navy Dreadnought dive bombers taking off from the USS Enterprise, led by Clarence Brown. Led by Major McCluskey, it was already flying over the Japanese fleet.

The dive bombers took off from the Enterprise at about 7 o'clock in the morning. It's been flying for almost 3 hours. Since Nagumo's assault fleet changed course for a while, McCluskey made a clever decision to search north after flying to the predetermined sea area and did not find the target, so he arrived just in time for ---it.

As for the group of dive bombers on the Hornet, they were rather ignorant, and the rookies did not find the Japanese aircraft carrier in the designated sea area, so they turned around and flew south and went back to Midway.

It was the arrival of a group of dive bombers on board the Enterprise that announced the countdown to the life of the Akagi.

The Akagi aircraft carrier escorted enough fighters, and there were forty-five at this time. However, the torpedo formation on the Enterprise had just been hit, and at this time most of the fighters had not been able to return, and the other half had not had time to climb at low altitude. There were only a dozen fighters that could escort the Akagi overhead.

To say that there are more than a dozen Zero fighters, although it is impossible to completely defend against the US fighters, it can almost disrupt the rhythm of the US military's attack.

However, from the morning to now, the Akagi has withstood the attack of dozens and hundreds of US land-based and sea-based fighters, and its luck has run out at 10:25.

Because, 35 fighters on the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, which took off at 8:40, also arrived at the battlefield at this time.

The two groups of fighters did not agree in advance, but they arrived on the battlefield at the same time.

If the command of the generals is important, luck is also essential in war.

The warplanes aboard the Yorktown took off an hour later than the warplanes aboard the Enterprise and the Hornet.

But luckily, they didn't get lost, they didn't even search, and they found the aircraft carrier Akagi directly. Of course, at this moment, the aircraft carriers Kaga and Shozuru are like two big chimneys billowing wolf smoke, which can be seen for dozens of kilometers, and it is easier to search.

The Japanese Zero fighters were majestic in the previous battles, but a dozen fighters could hardly compete as nearly 70 fighters of the US army.

Plus there was an elite pilot on board the USS Yorktown, Lieutenant Thatch. After the Battle of the Coral Sea, the pilots of the Yorktown and Lexington suffered from the Japanese Zero. Lieutenant Thatch came up with a tactic against the Zero - the famous Thatch scissors tactic made its debut in this part of the sea.

Thatch and his companions quickly took out several Zeros and pinned down more than a dozen Japanese fighters.

As a result, the Akagi's defenses were even weaker, and it was able to rely only on anti-aircraft artillery air defense. No matter how Nagumo Tadaichi howled, no matter how hard the devil pilots tried at this time, it would be difficult to stop the swarm of fighters of the US military.

U.S. torpedo planes and bombers went one after another, attacking desperately regardless of casualties. In more than ten minutes, the Akagi hit a full ten thousand-pound bombs. Unfortunately, none of the American torpedoes hit the target.

When the Akagi saw the destruction of the Kaga and Shozuru, Nagumo Tadaichi had already ordered to take precautions, and even generously violated the regulations and rolled all the bombs on the deck of the Akagi into the sea. However, the 1,000-pound bombs of the US military are extremely powerful, and in terms of armor-piercing ability, they may not be as powerful as the 800-kilogram bombs used by the Shanghai Anti-Japanese Army, but the charge is much larger.

Against weakly armored aircraft carriers, this thousand-pound bomb is actually much more practical.

Although Nagumo Tadaichi dropped a lot of bombs, most of the bombers on the deck were loaded with torpedoes and bombs, and under the attack of ten bombshells, the entire aircraft carrier had been blown up beyond recognition.

In this wave of attacks, the fighters on the two US aircraft carriers suffered considerable losses. A total of nineteen bombers and nine fighters were lost in the offensive. But all these casualties were worth it.

At 10:40, the Akagi had lost its function as an aircraft carrier and had become a blazing torch on the sea. The fate of Nagumo Tadaichi and his Japanese generals is unknown. (To be continued......)