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Ten forty o'clock. The three aircraft carriers led by Nagumo Tadaichi were destroyed. What is Yamaguchi's 2nd Air Force doing?

Yamaguchi lost an aircraft carrier because his squadron was located south of the fleet during the Battle of Ceylon. Therefore, he was very superstitious and shrewdly transferred his two aircraft carriers to the north.

At first, Yamaguchi was still a little apprehensive about his disobedience. You must know that his departure seriously undermined the overall defense capability of the Japanese fleet. Although Yamaguchi is very proud, he looks down on Nagumo Tadaichi who is pressing on his head. However, he led two aircraft carriers to move north, and this kind of behavior was somewhat disobedient to orders, and it was extremely bad in the navy.

If before seven o'clock, Yamaguchi was still a little uneasy, but after seven o'clock, Yamaguchi became a little complacent.

The main team led by Nagumo Tadaichi was attacked and harassed by US fighters again and again, while the two aircraft carriers led by Yamaguchi Tamon were leisurely like a leisurely walk.

At 8:40, the two aircraft carriers of Tarumi Yamaguchi began to recover the fighters. In terms of detailed command, Yamaguchi Tawen is much more flexible than Nagumo Tadaichi, and his thinking depth is also more thorough. For Yamaguchi Tawen, who had lost an aircraft carrier, although the Japanese reconnaissance plane only discovered a US aircraft carrier at that time, Yamaguchi Tawen's vigilance was much higher.

At the beginning of the recovery of the fighter, he gave an order:

All fighters landed on the Hiei, and all bombers and torpedo planes landed on the Wyvern.

It must be said that Yamaguchi's command is very effective. Yamaguchi's order brought forward the release of the Japanese fighters. In this case, especially the fighters on the Hiei do not need to be sorted at all, as long as they refuel and reload, they can take off immediately. And it can be ground handled to complete one, and one can take off. It can continuously increase the protection force for the aircraft carrier.

From nine o'clock onwards, Yamaguchi's mood is not very good.

With the appearance of one US military reconnaissance plane after another. Yamaguchi no longer had the luxury of expecting it, he knew he had been exposed. If the aircraft carrier is discovered by an opponent, what serious the consequences will be, Yamaguchi Tashi is very clear. At least it was more profound than Nagumo Tadaichi's understanding, so Yamaguchi Tawen did not hesitate to order the Zero fighter in charge of air alert to drive away the encirclement and suppression of the US reconnaissance plane.

Yamaguchi's thinking is obvious: It is necessary to get rid of the US military reconnaissance planes and transfer the Second Air Force from under the noses of the US troops.

Around the aircraft carriers Wyvern and Hiei, the United States and Japan launched one air battle after another. Under Yamaguchi's strict orders, the Japanese pilots attacked very resolutely.

Yamaguchi's style of play is not very different from Nagumo Tadaichi's. As long as the Japanese Zero fighters discover the US reconnaissance plane, they will pounce on it like a mad dog, chase after it fiercely, and never stop until it is shot down. And Nagumo Tadaichi's method was only to drive the US fighter plane to safety.

It should be said that Yamaguchi's response was very effective, shooting down eight US reconnaissance planes in just 20 minutes. However, at 9 o'clock, the US reconnaissance planes had already begun to gradually abandon Nagumo Tadaichi. All turned to the two aircraft carriers of Yamaguchi Tawen.

Soon, Yamaguchi Tawen was overstretched. There are just enough US reconnaissance planes. It's like a fly that can't die. The much-smelling aircraft carrier around Yamaguchi buzzed around.

When the news of the destruction of the aircraft carriers Kaga and Shozuru came, Yamaguchi Tabun paid more attention to air defense.

At this moment, Yamaguchi's command saw a miracle. Since 9:20, the Zero fighters have been released one after another on the Hiei.

One reconnaissance plane after another was shot down, but one reconnaissance plane after another reappeared around the Second Air Force.

Since the start of recovering fighters, Yamaguchi's aircraft carrier has begun to move in a curve north. But before completely getting rid of the US military reconnaissance aircraft. Aircraft carriers are still in danger. Yamaguchi Tawen frowned, he knew very well that if the US reconnaissance planes continued to monitor like this, sooner or later his Hiei and Wyvern would be approached by US bombers.

If you want to get out of the sight of the US military. There is no other way but to send fighter planes to drive it away.

It's hard for Yamaguchi to smell a lot, you must know that his two aircraft carriers are a little far away from Midway, and many fighters have landed on the Akagi, Kaga and Shozuru, and he has less than 70 fighters here. Among them, there are only 24 Zero fighters.

US reconnaissance planes appeared one after another, and Yamaguchi had no choice but to send out Zero fighters one after another.

At half past nine, the ground crew on the Japanese aircraft carrier was already sweating and busy like bees, but it would take time to release the bombers. Yamaguchi eagerly hoped that the bomber group would be able to take off a moment earlier.

Aircraft carrier combat, no matter how tightly you defend, is not as effective as fundamentally destroying the opponent's aircraft carrier. Yamaguchi Tabun was well aware of this, but after Nagumo Tadashi gave the order to recover the fighters, all the Japanese aircraft carriers had fallen into passivity. Before ten o'clock, Yamaguchi's bomber torpedo planes could not be released.

Air defense is not so easy to defend, even if the Zero fighters have excellent performance and the quality of the pilots is excellent, as long as one reconnaissance plane appears in the US military, the average Japanese army will dispatch two Zero fighters. Even so, there is no absolute guarantee that the US military reconnaissance plane will not slip through the net.

In particular, when the US reconnaissance planes did not take the initiative to attack at all, and they did not get very close to the Japanese aircraft carriers, it would be difficult for Yamaguchi to operate the defensive circle impermeably even if all the fighters were dispatched.

At half past nine, the B17 bombers led by Liu Kejin found Yamaguchi's No. 2 Air Force. Two aircraft carriers and several warships were finally discovered by Liu Kejin's crew.

The B17 is a bomber, and its advantage lies in its strong endurance and bomb load, but as a strategic bomber, its flight altitude also has a considerable advantage, with a maximum altitude of 10,600 meters making the survivability of this bomber quite powerful.

When Liu Kejin arrived over the Hiei, the fighter plane was at an altitude of 8,000 meters. At this height, the Japanese five-inch anti-aircraft guns were almost no threat at all. Although the maximum altitude of the Zero fighter, which the Japanese army is proud of, is about 10,000 meters, in fact, if you want to climb from an altitude of 3,000 meters to 8,000 meters, it is simply impossible to climb in five minutes. And if you want to climb to the altitude of 10,000 meters, except for a very few masters, it is difficult for the elite pilots of the Japanese army to do it.

Therefore, Liu Kejin's bomb dropping was almost without human interference. But the absence of human interference does not mean that there is no interference. You must know that although the weather today is not cloudy, there are many clouds and fog in the sky.

Over the Hiei, the B17 circled for a full five minutes before finding an ideal angle to barely see the clouds.

A large aircraft like the B17 was easily spotted by the Japanese Zero fighters in the clouds, and when the Devil's Zero fighters began to climb hard, Liu Kejin made a move.

"Put."

With a command. A huge second-generation dexterity bomb comes out of the belly.

Liu Kejin lay on the workbench, leaned down, and flexibly controlled the large-aperture telescope, striving to keep the bomb from falling out of sight.

His right hand is nimble, and he keeps clicking on the control buttons at a high tempo.

In order for a smart bomb to hit the target, the first step is the most crucial. Although the flight attitude of the dexterity bomb is mainly controlled by its internal gyroscope, in fact, because the bomb is dropped horizontally, the bomb is easy to flip in the air when it is dropped. In the case of a low level of automation, manual control to adjust its flight attitude is essential.

Liu Kejin had participated in the development of the second-generation dexterity bomb and knew something about it. The first step of attitude adjustment, Liu Kejin carried out very smoothly. In less than twenty seconds, the dexterity bomb was already gliding in the right direction.

When controlling the bomb, the B17 had to guarantee a smooth and straight flight. The Japanese army's large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery constantly blew up clouds of black smoke around the bombers. However, due to the lack of firing height, the explosion point was basically six or seven thousand meters, and it was difficult for the shrapnel to reach the bomber itself.

This was Liu Kejin's first real live-fire operation, and he found that the bomb flew with good attitude and was very flexible in control. He had already included the bomb and the Hiei aircraft carrier in the lens, and the red light on the tail of the bomb could be seen quite clearly.

According to Liu Kejin's experience, this first bomb will make a difference.

At this moment, an anti-aircraft artillery shell exploded in the air, and the rising black smoke blocked Liu Kejin's vision. The red light on the tail of the bomb was hard to find.

The bomb, which flies by gravity, has an extremely high velocity, and after falling twenty or thirty seconds, it has already exceeded the speed of sound.

Although Liu Kejin has basically adjusted this bomb, whether it can work or not can only be left to fate.

A Japanese observer saw the bomb fall in volley, and before he could hear the bomb's scream, it had already fallen, about 100 meters from the starboard side of the Hiei.

The bomb that exceeds the speed of sound immediately stirs up a jet of water the moment it hits the water. The Japanese observation post was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when it felt as if the aircraft carrier was being held up by a huge force.

In the air, Liu Kejin saw more clearly, the sea at this time was like a big bag, and the Hiei was in the center of this big bag.

With a muffled sound, dozens of meters around the Hiei burst into the sea. At this moment, the Hiei was completely obscured by the rising waters. The spectacle is simply not as spectacular as man-made weapons can be.

Although the dexterity bomb did not hit the Hiei, it traveled 100 meters after entering the water and exploded right below the Hiei. Although it is more than 100 meters away from the seawater, the power should not be underestimated, you must know that the total charge of the smart bomb is nearly 700 kilograms, and the energy of the explosion is amazing, and the sea water exploded is 1,000 tons.

This explosion shocked the Japanese army's face. When the sea landed, Yamaguchi heard that the Hiei was clearly visible. The Hiei was like a bath, and the sea water not only wet the flight deck, but also poured into the hangar.

And that's not all, the Hiei, which was traveling at high speed, suddenly slowed down. Within a minute, Yamaguchi received a report that the Hiei turbine was damaged and needed to be repaired. (To be continued......)