The sun gradually dissipates the mist at sea, allowing the humidity and bitter cold of winter to subside slightly.

The rare sunshine in winter makes people who spend the whole night adrift at sea feel a warm feeling, which is a rare and valuable enjoyment.

However, for the Japanese sailors on the nearly 200 warships of the Combined Fleet, they were not in the mood to face a rare emptying.

The huge fleet had been on its way for more than two hours, and according to the original plan, it was almost time to return now. But in the western sky, it was still blue, and there was no shadow of carrier-based aircraft.

Everyone, including Yamamoto Isoroku, had great hopes for those carrier-based aircraft. At the same time, at the risk of being targeted by the Chinese fleet and air force, the sneak attack was carried out, and they were doing it at great cost. So, the entire combined fleet could not afford to lose.

The commander of the Combined Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto, was at this time on board the fleet's flagship, the Yamato. Standing quietly by the window of the Yamato control tower, his eyes looking at the western sky from afar.

Two batches of fighters, totaling more than 2,000 carrier-based aircraft, is a number that all Japanese people can be excited about. (Gorgeous is wrong, I forgot to write the second batch of 600 Japanese carrier-based aircraft earlier.) And to use the most powerful attack force of the combined fleet to face the Chinese attack fleet, although Yamamoto Isoroku is full of confidence. But there is still a lingering haze in my heart.

It is not too far from the mainland of China, and it is very likely that there will be China's capital ships coming here, especially China's submarines and fighters. These things had to give Yamamoto Fifty-six a headache.

Three hours, this is the longest time limit given by Yamamoto 56 to the Combined Fleet, and from the launch of the attack to the end of the recovery of the fighters, the Combined Fleet must not stay here for more than three hours. As soon as the three hours have passed, it is necessary to set sail immediately and head to the depths of the Pacific Ocean.

He is not a fool, and he has never thought of going to fight China head-to-head, without half a chance, and with some small information, he will never go to fight the Chinese Navy.

Even if the Chinese attack fleet is destroyed. Cripple a part of China's naval forces. Yamamoto Fifty-Six will definitely not be near the coast of China. He didn't want the fleet to consider the strength of China's shore-based fighters. Before the emergence of means to balance the strength of China's jet fighters, not only did he not want to get close to China's coast, but even the United States did not dare to easily approach China's coast.

Unless the Allies are able to produce a new fighter that can rival the Chinese jet fighter, this situation will not change.

In fact, it was a sneak attack on the Chinese attack fleet. Before avenging the Japanese army above the Philippines. Japan's top leadership has formulated a number of follow-up policies. But it doesn't matter which one. The decision to leave this sea area quickly has not changed.

While the Combined Fleet was all looking forward to it, the fleet's radio communications were silent. Suddenly, a telegram sounded. Everyone in the fleet headquarters on the Yamato was in high spirits, and at this time, except for the radio with the carrier-based aircraft, which was still on, the other radio stations remained silent. When the green light on the radio came on, it was clear to everyone that it was a signal from the carrier-based aircraft to come back.

Sure enough.

"The carrier-based aircraft has a radio call, they have returned, and there are still ten minutes to reach the surrounding seas."

"Conduct wireless guidance for them and let them complete the landing as soon as possible." Jizaburo Ozawa said excitedly. At such a scene, this air attack can also be said to be a success, "order all the ground crews of the aircraft carrier of the United Fleet to make preparations for the landing of carrier-based aircraft." Prepare for the return of the Empire's elite. ”

Yamamoto Fifty-six also relaxed slightly, and continued to look at the sky in the distance, without turning his head or speaking.

In the eyes of everyone's expectation, some black spots finally appeared in the sky in the distance, and as the black spots increased, many Japanese naval soldiers began to cheer.

"It was our carrier-based aircraft that came back, they have already wiped out the Chinese fleet and returned victoriously." The Divine Eye Observer, who was located on the Fleet's Lookout, saw more and more plaster flags in the western sky from the Divine Eye telescope, and immediately cheered.

Then the entire fleet began to boil over, and everywhere was filled with the roar of Banzai. The cheers came one after another, converging into a movement to welcome the victory.

However, Yamamoto Fifty-six on the Yamato was completely the opposite, and when he saw the carrier-based aircraft getting closer and closer, his brows tightened more and more. Something is wrong, although the fighters in the sky at this moment also look like a large area, they are not at the same level as when they set off. The density of the planes is much less, and there is no momentum at all when they take off.

He didn't think it was a pioneer group, because it wasn't necessary to do so on the way back. And there are no new black dots in the sky in the distance, and the only explanation is that the fighters in the sky in front of you are all the fighters that have returned.

At least half of the fighters were lost. It was the result of Yamamoto's visual inspection, and the news did not give him the slightest joy. He didn't feel sorry for those fighters, but for those pilots. Even since the signing of the Shanghai Contract, Japan has been working hard to develop its military strength, and it has also trained a large number of fighter pilots.

You know, it is not a short time to fly an airplane and become a qualified pilot. Not to mention the pilots of the carrier-based aircraft of the Navy, they are the elite of the Air Force elite. Just like later generations, the Japanese Navy lost the most because of the quality of the pilots of the air forces. As the war progressed, a large number of elite pilots were killed, and Japan's unsustainable aviation system emerged.

Although Japan has made great progress in this area at this time, especially when the Akagi and Kaga were sunk by the Chinese Navy around Shanghai, and the carrier-based aircraft were also killed by Chinese fighters. The Japanese military was stimulated to develop more fighter pilots. But this amount is not so extravagant that it can be squandered at will, especially the naval aviation, all of which are treasures of the Japanese Navy.

Estimated the number of fighters, half of the fighters were lost. The results are already clear. At least half of the pilots were left dead in the deep sea during this operation. This is not a small number, like a dive bomber, the direct equipment is a pilot and a bombardier.

If this air raid could not cripple the Chinese attack fleet, then Yamamoto Isoroku could directly announce that the Japanese Navy had not made any money from this air raid.

At this point, Yamamoto Fifty-six could only wait for these returning air forces to hand over the good news.

But are there really only Japanese fighters in the sky? The answer is wrong.

More than 100 fighters of the Blue Sky Brigade are now swaying and following in the clouds at an altitude of 13,000 meters behind the Japanese carrier-based planes, which are fighters of all countries except for German jet fighters. Heights that cannot be reached. It can also be said that the agreement is the ultimate altitude of the Chinese fighter. Rise and go up. It's not that the planes can't stand it, it's that the pilots can't stand it, and the oxygen masks simply can't withstand the higher skies. Even German jet fighters could not fly at such high altitudes for long. Because it is difficult for oxygen to maintain such a high altitude for a long time. Once the pilot has a lack of oxygen. That would be a mortal danger.

The Blue Sky Group did not attack the returning carrier-based aircraft, their target was the Japanese Combined Fleet. In fact, they can get a good honor for attacking these Japanese carrier-based aircraft, the number of shots down per person. can go up quite a bit. Each of their pilots can get closer to the ace, work hard, and even a team of ace pilots can appear.

Because most of the Blue Sky Brigade has almost reached the standard of ace pilots, these dazzling Warhawk-3 fighters, all fighters are shining with gold stars representing the honor of the Air Force. On a small number of fighters, the number of Venus has reached ten or more. In particular, their captain, the car in the blue sky, and the twenty-eight gold stars on the tail of the plane are particularly dazzling.

The statistics of combat exploits are all handed over to video recording equipment, and each fighter plane has its own video recording equipment, which can record the scenes of air battles, which has become the best proof of the personal honor of the air force pilots. This is the most common practice in the world, recording the footage of air battles.

The Blue Sky Brigade has always been an air force group with a high attendance rate, from the original Southeast Asian War to the landing in the Philippines. And their collective honor can also be ranked among the top few units of the Chinese Air Force.

It's just that today's anger makes them not in the mood to get any so-called honors at all. At this moment, for all the members of the Blue Sky Brigade, attacking the Japanese Combined Fleet is more important than any personal honor.

In the face of brotherhood, honor is nothing at all.

"Brothers, the opportunity to avenge all the comrades in the attacking fleet has come, don't care about those bullshit returning carrier-based aircraft, our target is the large capital ship of the Japanese Combined Fleet. The 1st Squadron was responsible for the elimination of the Japanese fleet alert group. The other three squadrons all follow me, don't save your missiles, give me all the missiles to use as air-to-ship missiles, and beat the fleet of little devils to my stomach. Seeing the shaky and visible Japanese Combined Fleet, Blue Sky roared in the brigade channel.

"Beat little Japan to death."

At an altitude of 13,000 meters, the blue sky displayed the numbers on the dashboard according to its own visual measurements and wind speed, facing the Japanese Combined Fleet looming on the sea. When the fighter plane came to think that it could dive, it immediately slammed into the nose of the plane. The turbofan engine spewed blazing flames, and Blue Sky One shuddered violently and swooped down directly from the clouds.

The other fighters of the Blue Sky Brigade were also behind the Blue Sky No. 1, the car of their captain Blue Sky, adjusted their angles, increased their horsepower, and pounced directly on the sea.

13,000 kilometers, a moment, 10,000 meters, and then, 8,000 meters. The distance is shrinking rapidly, the appearance of the combined fleet is also rapidly increasing, and the appearance of the ships is becoming clearer and clearer.

At this time, the whistling sound of swooping down also attracted the attention of the combined fleet for the first time. When he saw more than a hundred black dots getting closer and closer, exclamations also came from the mouth of the God's Eye observer on the observation platform.

"Air strikes, it's China's jet fighters."

Then the air raid siren was sounded urgently, and the terrible sound of the siren shook the ocean. Scared away countless sea creatures.

At this moment, all the Japanese naval soldiers of the Combined Fleet showed a panicked look on their faces at the same time. From joy to panic, just a short moment is enough. Their bodies and minds have not yet been fully converted, and the Chinese Air Force of the air attack is already close at hand.

In the sky, when the United Fleet was still five thousand meters away, I saw the rapidly descending number on the altitude meter. From time to time, the eyes swept over the long straight-through deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier, which was becoming clearer and clearer. Lan Tian endured the physical load from the high-speed dive and roared, "Missile launch." ”

After roaring, his right hand pressed the button for missile launch without hesitation. The two air-to-air missiles under the wings were treated as ground-to-ground missiles, and white tail flames erupted, and under the instantaneous powerful power, the two missiles quickly distanced themselves from the fighters, shot at the Japanese Combined Fleet on the sea, and went straight to the Japanese aircraft carrier under the nose.

The other members of the Blue Sky Brigade also did not hesitate to press the missile launch button, and their goal was the same as that of Blue Sky. It's all aircraft carriers that are getting clearer and clearer below.

After launching the missile. At this moment, all the members of the Blue Sky Brigade directly pulled the trigger, and large-caliber aviation machine gun bullets erupted from the scorching shooting holes, and the two shooting holes in the nose continued to shine with sparks. At a distance of only three thousand meters above sea level. Decelerate. Micro-lift elevation angle. The angle of the plane extending in a straight line and at sea level slowly decreased, from the 70-degree angle at the time of the dive. When the plane is still parallel to the sea level, it is level flight.

The help of a gyro-optical sight is not required. Because there are targets everywhere below, there is no need to shoot too much, because huge aircraft carriers can be attack points everywhere.

Feng Shui takes turns, this is the aerial dance party belonging to the Chinese fighters.

And below, Japan's 1st Air Force was honored to be the target of the Blue Sky Brigade. In particular, the two main aircraft carriers of the 1st Air Force, the Kaga and Akagi. This is China's old enemy, whose predecessor has become a playground by the sea in Shanghai, China. The Japanese warships that were sunk that year were all salvaged, and a national playground was built near the mouth of the Huangpu River in Shanghai. The glaring Japanese words "Kaga" and "Akagi" are also depicted on two aircraft carriers that have been turned into playgrounds.

The two aircraft carriers that now belong to Japan's First Air Fleet are both newly built capital aircraft carriers in Japan. Since China did not rebuild the previous two aircraft carriers, it joined the navy. And Japan is also in order to correct its name and wash away the shame brought by China, which is why it has these two new main aircraft carriers.

The Chisei and Kaga, with a displacement of more than 30,000 and nearly 40,000 tons, have also shed the name of a modified aircraft carrier in the history of today's Japanese aircraft carriers. It is an improved aircraft carrier of the new aircraft carrier ship Taiho-class built by Japan after realizing the strength of the Navy's carrier-based aircraft, and it is also Japan. It was another naval pride of Japan in addition to the Yamato-class battleships.

The carrying capacity of up to 100 aircraft is all of Japan's latest-generation Gale fighters, and as soon as they joined the Navy, they were directly planned to be assigned to the first squadron of the First Air Fleet of the Combined Fleet, becoming a well-deserved main aircraft carrier.

However, at this moment, these two aircraft carriers have become the mouths of China's land-based fighter Hawk-3. First, a dense number of air-to-air missiles struck, and the warheads containing 50 kilograms smashed around the two aircraft carriers with the help of the earth's gravity and strong kinetic energy.

With the exception of some of the deviated targets, the other air-to-air missiles ordered both carriers. The huge deck and the bridge chimney are all targets for air-to-air missiles.

Dense explosions sounded on both aircraft carriers, and the aircraft carriers, which were maintaining a low speed, were soon plunged into a cloud of gunsmoke. Although only 50 kilograms of warhead could not cause much damage to such a large aircraft carrier, the flames of the explosion could make the aircraft carrier incapacitate in a short period of time.

Moreover, Japan has a very bad habit, and even the Kaga and Akagi, which have improved a lot, have such a problem. That is the pipes of the aircraft carrier's oil depot, the external protection is weak, and it is in the stern of the ship in a high-risk zone. Once the pipeline is ignited and not extinguished in time, it is an absolutely deadly time bomb.

It's just that the current Kaga and Akagi are not in such danger, because those air-to-air missiles basically hit a small part of the deck and bridge. It did not inflict any fatal injuries on the aircraft carrier, but only caused great damage to the ground crew who had been ordered to prepare for the victorious return of the carrier-based aircraft, and only ignited some aviation fuel.

Of course, these are only superficial things, because at this moment, there are still a lot of aerial bombs placed on the deck of the aircraft carrier of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and once these aerial bombs are detonated, it will also be a fatal injury to the aircraft carrier.

Next, the wrath of dense machine guns is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire. The encounter between the bullets and the warship suddenly turned into starry lights, and sparks burst out everywhere, and the clanging sound of the collision was like a drum beating on the hearts of Japanese naval soldiers.

"Fight back, fight back for me. Command all the warships of the fleet. Turbo up and get out of here at full speed. ”

It was only at this time, under the roar of the commander of the fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto, that the Japanese anti-aircraft fire began to counterattack. But they had already slowed down, and the Chinese fighters had basically finished adjusting, and they were already in a position parallel to the sea level less than 50 meters above the fleet. The low altitude swept over the fleet, bringing a strong wake and sweeping the sunburst flag on the Japanese warships.

With the exception of a squadron that was still in the air fighting with the carrier-based aircraft defending the Japanese fleet, the remaining fighters of the Blue Sky Group shuttled directly through the gaps of the Japanese fleet. So that Japan's anti-aircraft fire has nowhere to be applied.

The Blue Sky Brigade had no other worries. There are no other scruples either. Navigating through the gaps between the fleets, anti-aircraft machine guns and air-to-air missiles whistling. Under the command of Captain Blue Sky, all the Blue Sky team members did not intend to climb here and become the target of Japanese anti-aircraft fire. Rather, it is to look for an object of attack at low altitudes. In fact, they didn't go out of their way to look for it. As long as it's a warship in front of you. All are targets.

It's just that behind them, there are also a lot of tails, and these tails are not a small threat to them. But the members of the Blue Sky Brigade didn't pay much attention to it. Because the number of tails is not yet high enough to pose much of a threat to them.

This is not the case with the Japanese Combined Fleet, where the distance between the capital ships and the capital ships is not far away. Normally, warships must be two or three nautical miles away from each other, but in the combined fleet at this moment, there is no such distance at all, and it is basically five or six hundred meters. It's not the best distance for a fight.

This gave China's fighters a chance to take advantage of it. At such a distance from a warship, those anti-aircraft weapons that can fire horizontally do not dare to fire at will, because in front of the muzzle, there are also their own warships. If you can't hit the opponent, you are attacking your own fleet. This was the concern of the Japanese Combined Fleet at this time.

On the Yamato, the flagship of the Combined Fleet, the commander of the Combined Fleet, Yamamoto Isoroku, was already full of anger at this moment. Even when he just saw that only half of the carrier-based aircraft was left, he did not have such an expression. The performance of China's more than 100 fighters has completely angered him.

The grasshopper shakes the tree, it is definitely the grasshopper shakes the tree.

The nearly 200 warships of the entire Combined Fleet are all new-type warships that Japan has launched in recent years. This kind of power is definitely the strength of the top three in the world, but at this moment, more than 100 Chinese fighters are swaggering to attack such a force. This is a kind of contempt for eating fruits, and in Yamamoto's eyes, it is even more of a great shame.

In particular, when he saw the two navy's newest aircraft carriers in flames at this moment, he was even more furious, eager to catch all the pilots of these more than 100 Chinese jet fighters in front of him and use his own katana to defeat them one by one.

What's even more hateful is that at this moment, he doesn't dare to continue to delay here. Because since Chinese fighters can come here, it means that there will definitely be other Chinese fighters in the future. He didn't want to put the Combined Fleet in real danger because of these more than 100 fighters.

Of course, there is another thing that makes him feel more fortunate, that is, there do not seem to be any bombs of great destruction on the more than 100 Chinese fighters. In this way, even if these fighters run out of bullets from aviation machine guns, it will be difficult to inflict much damage on the combined fleet.

That's why he ordered the fleet to set sail at full speed and get out of this damn place.

Outside, at the moment, more and more Japanese carrier-based aircraft are chasing behind the Chinese fighters, and the anti-aircraft fire is limited, so it will be their turn to strike. Many of them are carrier-based aircraft returning from raids, and in the convenience of having returned, they use the last bit of aviation fuel to destroy these Chinese jet fighters for the fleet.

Moreover, carrier-based aircraft on other aircraft carriers of the Combined Fleet have also begun to take to the air to join this ultra-low-altitude air battle. So that those carrier-based aircraft that have little aviation fuel left can land as soon as possible.

"Hawkeye 17 called the Blue Sky Brigade, your mission has been completed, please leave the battlefield immediately and go to the sky above the coordinates XXXXXX to rendezvous with the tanker. You are short of bombshells, to avoid unnecessary casualties, please leave the battlefield immediately. This was an order given by Chen Shao, the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Chinese Defense Forces. The rest of the work is left to the brothers in the back. (To be continued......)