Seven thirty o'clock.

Li Guang finally received a telegram from the US military. This time the US military was honest and did not hide it. The U.S. forces suffered heavy losses and were so weak in air power that they were no longer able to cope with possible Japanese air raids. Vice Admiral Sprunes asked the Naval Resistance Army to hold back the Japanese in order to cover the retreat of the American fleet.

The U.S. troops were demoralized by the Japanese attack, and they did not know that the Japanese army now had almost no air power, for fear that the Japanese army would launch another air attack. If the Japanese could launch an air raid on a scale similar to that of the previous few days, the U.S. fleet would not be completely annihilated, but it would not be much worse.

Calculation and calculation, the words are similar, but the meaning is completely different.

In terms of calculations, at half past seven o'clock, under the close search of reconnaissance planes, the Naval Resistance Force had basically confirmed that the distance of the main Japanese fleet was more than 600 kilometers. Although it is not absolutely safe, there is no way to fight a war without taking a little risk.

At this moment, the Japanese army's crippled fleet, which is less than 400 kilometers away from the naval resistance fleet, is fat to the mouth, and Li Guang will naturally not give up.

As for finding the main fleet of the Japanese army and helping the US army attract firepower, Li Guang felt that Lei Feng had not yet appeared, and he did not plan to learn from Lei Feng for the time being. (Li Guang didn't know that Ozawa's fleet was already so weak.) ）

And striking at the crippled fleet of the Japanese army will not attract an air strike from the main fleet of the Japanese army. Objectively help the US military and increase its own risks. Li Guang's assessment was: Attacking the Japanese fleet may bring risks, but the naval resistance army is willing to bear them. (Distances of more than 600 kilometers, not much risk.) ）

As for objectively helping the US military, Li Guanggao's propaganda -- this is the obligation of the Naval Resistance Army as an allied force, and it is very glorious and great.

And in terms of calculations. Li Guang believed that if the Japanese army dispatched air power to deal with the US military, it would be safer for itself. Dead friends don't die in poverty, Li Guang looks forward to it. In order to let the Japanese army turn its target to the north, the naval resistance army's aircraft group tactics also added a small trick -- whether they enter the battlefield or withdraw from the battlefield, they will go around the north and mislead the Japanese army. Oh, and the north is the bearing of the American fleet.

Later, due to the heavy losses of the Japanese army, Li Guang's calculation fell through.

In war, no one can be counted as a last resort, and sometimes all a general can do is to make a difference. Can it be done? There are so many influencing factors that it is difficult for a person to grasp even a person who travels through it.

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The Japanese army, Lieutenant General Jizaburo Ozawa, has a more complicated mood at the moment.

He had received the news that Tanaka's fleet had been wiped out. The natural coordination with the air attack aircraft group is not ideal.

But the results are brilliant enough. According to the results of the past few days, the US Pacific Fleet has also been crippled. It is no longer able to fight. It can be regarded as meeting the vision of General Yamamoto for this battle.

But. The Japanese also suffered heavy losses in this battle.

In terms of the value of battleships damaged in battle, the Japanese army was definitely less than the American army. However, the degree of damage caused by cutting one or two flesh on a rat and a pound of meat on an elephant is very different.

Jizaburo Ozawa is in pain right now.

And what worries Ozawa even more is the five battleships that he left behind.

The loss of twenty battleships of the Tanaka fleet, Ozawa bore it. But the loss of these five crippled fleets. Ozawa's small shoulders were a little unbearable. The total cost of these five battleships far exceeded the total losses of the Japanese in this battle, and the cost of one battleship Nagato alone was as high as 43 million yen more than 10 years ago, and if it is converted into 43 years, I am afraid it will exceed 100 million yen. The total cost of the Uedanaka fleet is fully capped. Old habits. Jizaburo Ozawa did not count the losses at all.

The purpose of the Japanese army in launching this campaign was to buy time and create a respite for Japan. But no matter how bold your imagination is, it is very ideal to fight for a year. The construction of a battleship took a long time, for example, the Nagato was built for three years and three months. It takes a year to build a battleship, and it takes three years to build a battleship, whether this thing is a profit or a loss, Ozawa is a little unclear.

Jizaburo Ozawa, of course, didn't want to lose these five battleships, but what could Ozawa do?

Fighter? No, the only six fighters left were still on their way home at this time.

Send warships? Look for death.

However, Jizaburo Ozawa could not remain indifferent, he gritted his teeth and squeezed out twelve water reconnaissance aircraft from several battleships. Maybe it's a little useful? Ozawa isn't sure.

Ozawa didn't make a move, but the Japanese officers and soldiers thought of a move. Groups of devils knelt on the deck and began to pray for the manifestation of Amaterasu, for the emperor's blessing, and for the blessing of Chief Yamamoto, who had just died.

It's spectacular. Ozawa didn't even stop it, maybe in his heart he was also praying for the blessing of some god or dead ghost.

I don't know which Japanese reporter with a cheap hand actually took this scene, so that it "lingered for a hundred years", and after the photo was transmitted, the Imperial Japanese Navy lost face.

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At 8:14 a.m., the first wave of strike planes of the Naval Resistance Army flew over the Japanese crippled fleet.

This was the easiest battle for the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army to strike at the sea.

The first wave of 50 fighters targeted the Japanese aircraft carrier Shohe, the heavy cruiser Kaohsiung, and a light cruiser towing the Kaohsiung.

The whole process of cracking down was lackluster.

The post-war summary of the pilots: the difficulty of striking is lower than the difficulty of training. Almost all of the devil's three battleships were squirming at a low speed of eleven or twelve knots, especially the Kaohsiung and the cruiser towing him, the two ships were connected together by steel cables, and they couldn't even maneuver and dodge, so they could only be beaten in vain.

Another important point is that the Japanese evacuated many of the crew members of the aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers, and the number of troops was seriously insufficient, and the antiaircraft artillery and air defense forces were seriously insufficient, and they could not form a firepower network at all. The Japanese gunners, who fought back desperately, were almost no threat to the nimble fighters.

In this case, if the accuracy rate of bomb dropping by the pilots of the Maritime Resistance Army is low, it is simply a joke.

Twenty-four dive bombers dropped twenty-four bombs, whether they were dive-dropping bombs or dropping bombs, all of them hit without fail.

This result, put into the school exam, it is a full score of 100., very cool.

Under such a precise strike, the three battleships of the little devil suffered an average of eight thousand-pound bombs, and it was a luxury to struggle on the water for a while longer.

The fleet of naval resistance aircraft has not yet been evacuated, and three huge warships have begun to sink. In particular, the heavy cruiser, although its protection was stronger than that of the aircraft carrier, could not withstand the ravages of eight thousand-pound bombs, and was blown into two sections (ammunition explosion) and sank to the bottom of the sea early.

The price paid by the dive bombers of the Maritime Resistance Army was only one wounded and still able to continue flying, and one pilot was grazed with shrapnel and a little oily skin.

The bomber moved neatly, and did its job like lightning. Fighter pilots weren't happy. This is simply too much, considering that the Wildcat fighter also carried two sixty-pound bombs, and in the blink of an eye, there was no chance to show their skills.

It would be a bit of a waste to drop all the bombs on the fighter planes, and a 60-pound bomb would cost one or two hundred dollars. The income of a farmer in Haitang State from growing grain in a year is no more than that.

It should be used effectively. Pilots know how to live on a budget.

Soon, the pilots of the reconnaissance planes found a target for these fighter pilots. The Japanese cruiser, which was previously responsible for towing the aircraft carrier Shozuru, was a little cunning and ran into the distance. However, no matter how far he ran, not to mention that it was not far, only twenty or thirty kilometers, and it was difficult to escape the surveillance of the reconnaissance plane.

As a result, the fighter pilot began to feel happy. Dive bombing, drifting bombing, machine gun strafing, having fun.

In this small battle, the Naval Resistance Army came to a conclusion: sixty-pound bombs can also sink light cruisers, of course, there are enough of them.

Before the arrival of the second wave of air strike forces of the Naval Resistance Army, the battle was over, and a wave of 50 fighters easily killed four Japanese warships, sinking a displacement of more than 50,000 tons.

Someone YY, if the battle is so easy, so ten times eight times, the Japanese Navy will play with it. However, such a good opportunity is not to be sought, and it is also a blessing to the US military. However, the credit in hand, the Maritime Resistance Army naturally has to publicize it.

As for the role of the US military, is there one? Now it's the U.S. military asking for protection. The naval resistance army attacked the Japanese army in order to share the pressure of the US military.

The U.S. military fought hard for several days and sank many Japanese warships, but the results were really not brilliant. The only aircraft carriers sunk were two modified aircraft carriers, and the Naval Resistance Army sank the only regular large and medium-sized aircraft carrier that the Japanese army is currently surviving. The weight of military achievements is not a level.

What's more, the reconnaissance planes of the Maritime Resistance Army were still staring at a large piece of fat -- the battleship Nagato. Although the U.S. military sank two Japanese battleships, they were old battleships that couldn't be older, and the little devils who usually cut the door also used those two battleships as training ships, otherwise they would be willing to release them as bait. In the eyes of the U.S. military, those two warships can almost be the same concept as scrap metal.

And the battleship Nagato and those two junks are definitely not on the same level. Looking at the world, the battleship Nagato is also an absolutely first-class battleship. And it's a real battleship, not discounted at all. Although the Naval Resistance Force had a battleship Atlantic, if it was really according to European standards, that battleship could only be called a combat cruiser, not a battleship worthy of the name.

It is hoped that the battleship Nagato will be sunk and achieve another glory. The Maritime Resistance Army has the difficulties of the Maritime Resistance Army, and there are also specific conditions and restrictions. First of all, the aircraft carriers of the Maritime Resistance Army did not carry aviation torpedoes, nor did they have torpedo bombers, and their capabilities to deal with battleships were somewhat insufficient. Moreover, the ammunition is also insufficient, a thousand pound bombs are seriously insufficient, and it is not known whether the ammunition at hand will be able to take out the battleship.

Li Guang was facing a dead fish at the moment, but he was not absolutely sure. The Naval Resistance Army had killed a Japanese battleship, but it was a submarine that was torpedoed and sunk. Whether aerial bombs can work or not needs to be tested in actual combat. (To be continued......)

PS: There is one more more. Eight o'clock in the evening is expected.