Fifteen:30. The B17 crew led by Liu Kejin was forced to return after the search was fruitless. After ten hours of flying on the B17, fuel was running out. No matter how unwilling Liu Kejin is, he can only return home.

The search efficiency of a fighter plane was too low, and coupled with the fact that he had made a serious mistake in the direction of his initial search, it was inevitable that he would find nothing.

On the way back, Liu Kejin's crew still did not find Yamaguchi's fleet, but it passed through the sea area where Nanyunzhong's one or three aircraft carriers were destroyed again.

The Shotsuru had already submerged in the sea a few hours later, leaving only a patch of oil on the surface. The Akagi was still burning, but it was crooked, and it wouldn't be long before it became a pile of garbage in the sea. Although the Kaga is still burning, it is Zhou Zheng floating on the sea, like a torch.

In a day's battle, Liu Kejin's crew did not make an inch. Only one of the four dexterous bombs was dropped, not to mention that Liu Kejin was unwilling, and all the crew members were unwilling.

When he saw that the Kaga aircraft carrier on the sea was not yet crooked, Liu Kejin planned to give a dexterous bomb to the Kaga.

Soon, Liu Kejin changed his mind--- there was still a Japanese destroyer on the sea.

Yamaguchi Tamon concentrated his forces on Midway, and Rear Admiral Hiroki Abe took most of the battleships with him, leaving only one destroyer to guard the Kaga.

There are obviously no devils on the Kaga anymore, and it is not as enjoyable as blowing up the fish. So Liu Kejin dropped a dexterous bomb at 15:34.

This bomb became the first second-generation dexterous bomb hit by the Naval Resistance Army, and Liu Kejin achieved his first victory.

A bomb weighing one and a half tons, with a charge of more than six hundred kilograms, hit it directly.

One can imagine what it would be like for a destroyer to suffer such a blow. All the Japanese officers and men on the Japanese destroyer Asahi did not think about it. This will be their last days. After the earth-shattering explosion, the destroyer was horribly blown into two parts.

In this violent explosion, none of the more than 200 devils on the Asahio survived. The attack came so suddenly that the devils were not even able to send a telegram. The fall of the Asahi became a mystery in the Japanese Navy, and it was not until many years after the end of World War II that the devil learned about its downfall.

One hit.

Liu Kejin's crew immediately became excited. After a brief discussion, it was decided that the valuable dexterous bomb should be found to be a more valuable target, and that there was no need for the Kaga to blow it up again.

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Fifteen:30.

The Japanese attack aircraft group returned home, eighty-seven fighters. The results were brilliant, but they also suffered heavy losses, and less than thirty were able to return. All of these fighters landed on the aircraft carrier Hiei.

Although the Hiei was hit repeatedly, its heavy flight deck was extremely protective, although it was hit by three or four bombs. But only one was able to penetrate its two-hundred-millimeter cement armor and a hundred-millimeter-thick steel armor. After the devils quickly re-laid the cement, laid the steel plates. The ability to take off and land fighters has already been restored.

Yamaguchi Tawen recovered from the blow. Like "Xiaoqiang", he once again regained his will to fight, and even began to boost the morale of the Japanese officers and soldiers. He did not leave the flaming Wyvern, and made a speech on the radio to the Japanese troops aboard the Hiei. No matter how much he stirred up, the Japanese army's will to fight inevitably continued to decline.

Yamaguchi Tarumi believes that he also has more than 20 bombers and more than 20 fighters (in the air plus on the return flight). His old book hasn't been lost yet.

Yamaguchi always finds good news in extremely unfavorable situations.

He judged. The blows of the US military have passed. You must know that the number of fighters dispatched by the US military in several waves of strikes, although he knows that it is not very accurate, but in any case, it has exceeded 100. That's why Yamaguchi Tawen regained his confidence after a series of blows.

As long as he can complete the refueling of the bombs, his fleet can launch another fatal blow against the US aircraft carrier. Yamaguchi kept chattering. Encouraging the Japanese officers and soldiers was also encouraging himself.

Yamaguchi estimated that it would take at least two or three hours for the U.S. military to attack again, while his troops would need only an hour to attack. He still did not wonder if his pilots would have the physical strength to continue fighting.

What's more, two or three hours later, it was already dark, and the US military had no chance to attack again.

That is, victory remained on the side of the Japanese army.

As for night fighting, that was the strong point of the Japanese army, and the American ghost animals were no match at all.

Yamamoto received the report again, and he could no longer pretend to be calm. Five aircraft carriers have already lost four.

The bald head of the Black Island turtle man sweated again.

Yamamoto paced back and forth in the cabin, and finally he decided to keep fighting.

Gamblers in the world have a common trait, they will never let go until the end. If, I mean, Yamaguchi Tawen can take out the American aircraft carrier again, then victory still belongs to the Great Japanese Empire. That's what Yamamoto Fifty-six thinks.

Fifteen:45. Admiral Yamamoto's if there is no if.

After arriving two hours late, the U.S. bomber fleet from Pearl Harbor finally found the aircraft carrier Hiei.

The skyrocketing flames and black smoke from the Flying Dragon gave the American pilots guidance.

The battle that was initially triggered by a mistake by a US military pilot was a "steamed bun", and by this time the steamed bun was not only steamed, but also ready to eat.

The performance of these 42 US bombers was completely different from that of the previous US bombers.

Huge fleets are no longer high-altitude bombs. Instead, the bombardment began at an altitude of 1,200 meters.

One of the characteristics of the U.S. military in World War II is that it did not have a superintendent. Of course, there is no way for the Air Force to set up a war team. Moreover, there is a relatively special regulation in the US military: if a subordinate commander believes that the order given by the superior commander cannot be achieved, or that he thinks that the task is sent to death, then he has the right to refuse to carry it out. Of course, the commander is responsible for his own orders. It is even deduced that the orders of the superiors are unreasonable, and the junior officers will argue.

It seems to be a little more humane than the armies of other countries, but the military orders of the US military are not decorations. Neither the gendarmerie nor the military courts are vegetarians.

Admiral Nimitz had given the order himself two hours earlier, and every bomber had received this extremely brutal order.

1,200 meters, low-altitude bombing.

1,200 meters. What is the concept for a bomber of great size?

This order is both scientific and cruel.

The Japanese small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, 40-mm and 20-mm anti-aircraft guns, had an effective firing height of less than 1,000 meters. However, the 127-mm anti-aircraft guns commonly equipped by the Japanese army had an extremely high hit rate at this altitude.

The atmosphere in the U.S. military is very liberal, and it is not uncommon for junior officers to question orders from their superiors. But Admiral Nimitz personally ordered, and at the end of the telegram was Admiral Nimitz's signature.

That is, Nimitz took responsibility for this order. This is rare in the U.S. military.

The U.S. military rarely has orders similar to China's "whatever the cost". But once it was given, and it was given by Admiral Nimitz himself, no one dared to disobey the order, even if they were full of doubts, even if they were extremely dissatisfied. All countries. Military orders are no joke. The same is true for the military of a democratic country like the US military.

This kind of order is almost a death order for the American bomber crew. After the war, it became one of the few stains on Admiral Nimitz. But in the Battle of Midway, this order became the key to the victory of the American army.

In a memoir written by an American officer present afterwards, Admiral Nimitz smoked a cigar within minutes before giving the order. And one of the Air Force staff officers who provided this advice committed suicide after the fact. Giving such an order is against one's own future in the US military. It is also a huge psychological pressure.

Nimitz has been cornered. If the remaining Japanese aircraft carriers could not be destroyed, then the Battle of Midway would still end in failure. If the Japanese aircraft carrier is destroyed. Then even if Midway was occupied by the Japanese. It is still possible to get it back.

One will be successful, and ten thousand bones will wither. War is really brutal.

Forty-two heavy bombers, hundreds of lives, were thrown out by Nimitz as a bargaining chip at this moment.

The American bombers showed a desperate posture at the very beginning. The U.S. military is not exactly a trembling stumbling at the sound of artillery, at least not the Air Force.

At 1,200 meters in the air, bombers were constantly beaten into garbage, and clusters of fire rolled up garbage and fell on the sea. Until the loss of the seventh bomber. It was only the first time that a U.S. bomb hit the aircraft carrier Hiei.

With the first hit, the Hiei's anti-aircraft fire immediately weakened, and the power system failed again. The heavy losses of the American army finally paid off, and the tide of the war began to favor the American army.

The specifics of this battle are rarely mentioned. But the final casualties speak for themselves.

Forty-two warplanes of the US army. Thirty-one were shot down, four escaped, seven were wounded. The pilot and crew members were killed two hundred and five people.

In the fierce battle, the Japanese Zero fighters had already run out of bullets in an afternoon of fighting. The Japanese pilots, who were cornered, were even more frenzied, and they crashed into the American bombers one after another. In a short battle, this happened as many as six times, which shows the brutality of the battle.

However, the casualties of the US troops were exchanged for huge results, and the hit rate of low-altitude bombing increased significantly. In less than thirty minutes of fighting, the Hiei was hit by forty-one bombshells.

The Hiei is heavily armored and well protected. But even steel and iron bones could hardly withstand such intensive bombardment. No matter how powerful the armor is, it is difficult to withstand the ravages of so many shells.

The Hiei was the aircraft carrier with the largest number of casualties in the Battle of Midway, and the Japanese lost more than 1,200 people on this aircraft carrier alone.

At 16:25, the Hiei, an armored aircraft carrier converted from the battleship, came to an end, the tail of the battleship had already sunk into the sea, and the hull of the ship was pointing diagonally at 45 degrees to the west, which was the direction of the Japanese archipelago. The battleship, with a displacement of more than 30,000 tons, did not survive until sunset and was already on the verge of destruction.

Yamaguchi was already stupid, and Yamamoto Fifty-six was silent when he received the report. Nimitz finally let out a sigh of relief, and he walked out of the headquarters to breathe in the fresh sea breeze. (To be continued......)