"Everyone's attention, everyone's attention. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Colonel Luan Weiguo, commander of the first attack wave of the First Fleet of Daming Naval Airlines, looked sideways at the US warships covering the sea, and shouted loudly with a walkie-talkie in his hand, "Don't worry about anything else, everyone will attack the American aircraft carrier!" Sink them! ”

Tong Haifeng's goal is very clear, that is, the aircraft carrier of the Americans. For Tong Haifeng, no matter what, he had to sink the aircraft carrier commanded by Spruance, even if it was to injure them.

As long as the Americans lose the combat effectiveness of this aircraft carrier fleet, it is impossible for Lin Luo and Han Dongwen to be the opponent of Lin Luo and Han Dongwen with the strength of Halsey's fleet alone. In that case, Tong Haifeng would be worth it even if the whole army was wiped out.

Spruance chose to defend solidly after releasing the first wave of attacks, as he believed that the attack he and Halsey had sent was enough to destroy Tong Haifeng's main fleet. In order to preserve his strength, Spruance focused his main efforts on defending his fleet.

Although the quality of the Americans' air defense fighter pilots and the officers and men of the air defense of warships on the sea is not comparable to that of the Daming Navy. Their fighters and various warship weapons are also at a certain distance from the equipment of the Ming Navy. However, there are very many of them. Especially air defense fighters.

Unlike Fletcher, who has a more conservative personality, Spruance and Halsey are the kind of people who won't let go as long as they can take their chances. Once they decide to make a move, it will be a strong blow.

Spruance had already released more than 200 air defense fighters before Luan Weiguo's attack aircraft group arrived! That's a number that's enough to cover the entire sky.

These high-performance Hellcats tried their best to get rid of the entanglement of the Daming Naval Airlines escort fighters, and frantically attacked the dive bombers and torpedo planes that could cause great damage to the battleship. Even if the pilots of Daming Hainan Airlines are all elites, they still suffer heavy losses.

The attack aircraft group, consisting of 84 escort fighters, 84 dive bombers, and 96 torpedo planes, had already lost nearly half of its fighters by the time it broke through the air defense circle of US fighters. However, the Ming pilots were very brave and fearlessly continued to launch a brave attack on the US aircraft carriers located in the inner circle of the fleet.

During this attack, the Ming pilots violated flight regulations, and many escort fighter pilots also flew their own fighters to accompany the attack aircraft group into the anti-aircraft artillery air defense circle of the US fleet. These anti-aircraft fighters attracted numerous firepower to the attack aircraft group.

In the tense moment of fierce fighting, where do the US officers and men on the sea have time to distinguish one by one whether the fighters flying at high speed in the sky are bombers or fighters? It's definitely going to be a fight when you see one. In this way, many of Daming HNNA's attack aircraft group were able to successfully kill in the inner circle.

"Left full rudder!" On the bridge of the USS Essex, the captain with a calm expression ordered his battleship to avoid the Ming bombers attacking from high altitude. At this time, Spruance stood aside, holding the handrail tightly on the side with both hands and not saying a word.

Spruance was the fleet commander, and what he was going to do was to command the entire fleet, not to command a single battleship. When conducting anti-aircraft operations and evading attacks, the command of the battleship is the responsibility of the captain.

"Woo~~~" A terrible and strange sound came into the bridge, making everyone's expressions unnaturally nervous. Because they all knew it was the terrifying whine of heavy bombs rubbing against the air as they fell from the sky.

No matter how powerful an individual may be, nothing means anything in the face of such a weapon of destruction. At this time, it depends on the captain's operational ability and God's arrangement.

"Boom, boom, boom!!" A series of three heavy bombs all landed on the starboard side of the aircraft carrier USS Essex, which made a sharp left turn. The nearest bomb even landed fifty meters away. When the heavy bomb exploded, it stirred up a huge white column of water, and the highest part of the water column even exceeded the mast of the aircraft carrier!

"Port torpedo!" The mournful shout of the lookout post made the bridge, which had just breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly lift his heart again. Even Spruance's face was faintly pale at the moment. He was the commander of the fleet and held a high position. But after all, it's just an ordinary person.

The Captain of the Essex slammed his rudder to the right with his strong hands. The entire aircraft carrier, with a full load displacement of more than 30,000 tons, suddenly changed from a full rudder on the left to a full rudder on the right like a frightened whale.

The hull of the huge battleship spun too fast, causing the battleship to tilt. The huge centrifugal force even threw several unsecured fighters off the deck. Some of the sailors in the anti-aircraft gun emplacement on the port side of the battleship also fell into the sea, and disappeared with a few ups and downs under the huge whirling force.

Several white wake marks flew straight out of the bow of the Essex. The giant battleship narrowly escaped a deadly attack at one point. Everyone in the bridge breathed a sigh of relief.

This feeling of life and death in a moment is really exciting. The faces of many staff officers were very ugly, and even a young staff officer threw up directly on the bridge. It's a shame on the Navy.

"Whew~~~" Spruance quietly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but his face was ugly when he turned to look at the nearby battleship.

The USS Essex managed to dodge the attack, but not all U.S. warships had this kind of good luck.

The Good Guy Richard, the Boxer, and the Yorktown-class aircraft carriers Yorktown and Enterprise all burst into black smoke and flames. With unparalleled courage and determination to die, the powerful Daming naval pilots successfully wounded four US aircraft carriers in the midst of dense defenses.

Even the good guy Richard aircraft carrier was strafed by the artillery of the Daming Naval Aviation fighter jets because of the bridge, resulting in casualties among many officers and staff officers, including the captain. The entire aircraft carrier quickly missed the best salvage time because of the lack of command. The aircraft carrier was soon caught in flames.

And the huge losses of the Ming navy fighters in this wave also broke the heart of the Ming navy. 84 escort fighters suffered heavy losses because they actively broke into the air defense circle of the fleet, and finally lost as many as 67 aircraft! Many of them are veteran pilots and ace pilots who have survived more than two years of war.

The losses of the dive bomber unit and the torpedo attack aircraft unit were even more severe. Only nine of the 84 dive bombers managed to leave. And only four of the 96 torpedo aircraft withdrew from the battlefield. Hundreds of elite HNA pilots, including Colonel Luan Weiguo, the commander of the attack wave, were bloodied on the battlefield!

And that's just the beginning.

Just as Colonel Luan Weiguo led a group of attack planes to attack Spruance's fleet, the US fighters that took off from the 58th Task Force also came to the top of the First Air Ship. And they are not fighting alone.

Coincidentally, there was almost a few minutes between the front and back. The group of fighters of the second attack wave of the Halsey fleet, which had flown in from the other direction, also arrived. The First Air Fleet faced serious challenges.

"This time, it's dangerous." With his keen military intuition, Tong Haifeng, who was in the bridge of the Coral Sea aircraft carrier, instantly felt uneasy in his heart. Equally powerful groups of attack aircraft flew from two different directions at the same time, and his 1st Air Fleet, no matter how stubborn, could not continue to resist.

The Ming air defense fighters in the sky began to fight desperately. The pilots of these fighters went berserk, completely ignoring the entanglement of the US escort fighter group, and stubbornly bit the US attack planes and launched a ferocious attack. Even the pilots of some air defense fighters, after running out of ammunition, bravely piloted their own fighters and crashed into the American fighters and died together.

After the US fighters broke through the air defense circle and entered the air defense range of the fleet, many Daming fighters bravely chased after the threat of the warship's artillery fire on the sea and continued to attack the US fighters. However, all this did not ultimately save the fate of the entire fleet.

There are simply too many fighters for the Americans. The attack aircraft fleet from two different task forces each numbered close to three hundred. Nearly 600 fighters looked like dark clouds from the sea, and even the sunlight felt like it was blocked. An attack of this magnitude was no longer something that the First Air Fleet could resist at this time.

Warplanes roared, bombs flew and torpedoes filled the sea. The powerful First Air Fleet of the Ming Pacific Fleet suffered heavy losses.

Of the nine aircraft carriers, including the flagship Coral Sea, except for the USS Red Sea, which narrowly escaped under a rain cloud, all eight aircraft carriers were severely damaged. The battleship caught fire and burned, and the battleship hit by the torpedo was flooded on a large scale, and the situation was very critical.

Tong Haifeng has nine aircraft carriers in his hands, which is a devastating force. But his opponents have twice as much strength as him, and they also have the advantage of surprise attacks.

The loss of eight aircraft carriers made Tong Haifeng's heart ache, but the attack of the Americans was still not over. Before dark, Halsey's third wave of attack arrived again, sprinkling salt once again on the already scarred First Air Fleet.

Except for the Red Sea, which was unharmed because it hid under rain clouds, the remaining eight aircraft carriers were all heavily damaged and had to be sunk by the Ming Navy itself. In addition to the aircraft carriers, three large air defense warships, nine cruisers and one destroyer were sunk in the attack of the American forces. At least six of these cruisers and destroyers were sunk because they used their own aircraft carriers as torpedoes.

Although before and after dark, relying on the last aircraft carrier, the Red Sea, to recover some of the fighters that attacked, the First Air Fleet's fighter losses were still as high as nearly 800 aircraft!

What is even more tragic than the loss of fighters is the battle damage of many elite pilots. The loss of more than 1,000 pilots is what really hurts the First Air Fleet. (To be continued.) )