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After a night of running wild, the Liberty Dragon received a telegram from General Fletcher. Fletcher asks the two carriers to converge and join forces for Pearl Harbor.

Li Guangyi thought, yes. The Maritime Resistance Force now has no self-defense ability at all, not even a cruiser, and if the devil sends a destroyer, it can deal a fatal blow to the Liberty Dragon.

On the 10th, the two armies converged.

Only then did Li Guang realize that in fact, Fletcher thought almost the same as Li Guang.

The Yorktown eventually recovered about seventy warplanes, and the fault was actually the same as that of the Liberty Dragon. It can only land, not take off.

The Yorktown's injuries were similar to those of the Liberty Dragon, and a large hole was blown in the bow. The two aircraft carriers really looked like brothers and sisters at this time.

And the Yorktown is even worse than the Liberty Dragon. There were also some glitches in the turbine, and a watertight chamber was flooded and slower. When Li Guang withdrew from the battlefield yesterday, he was worried that the devils would hear the message, and he did not dare to say that the aircraft carrier was injured, so Rear Admiral Fletcher also counted on the aircraft carrier of the Maritime Resistance Army to provide some armed protection.

When the two armies converged, everyone was dumbfounded, yes, it was important for brothers and sisters to flee for their lives together.

Because the Liberty Dragon was wounded by an American pilot, and a soldier was killed in action. Li Guang put down his harsh words, and the responsibility of the US military pilots who failed in their duties must be investigated, and the commanders must also be held responsible.

Fletcher said sorry and avoided talking. There is no way to talk about this thing, and the Naval Resistance Army also shot down a US fighter plane.

Anyway, this time it's the US military's fault. Li Guang was going to Pearl Harbor to have a good discussion with Admiral Nimitz.

But before the convergence of the U.S. military's support forces, the two armies are actually not hardened now. At this time, although the US army was escorted by two heavy cruisers and several destroyers, if it encountered the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet or battleship formation again, I am afraid that it would be completely annihilated.

The two wrecked ships had to make a long detour and turn north more than 1,500 kilometres east of Kwajalein Atoll.

Along the way, whether it is the US military. It was still the Naval Resistance Army, and they only dared to answer the telegram and did not dare to send it, for fear of leaking their position and being chased and killed by the Japanese army.

In this battle, the U.S. military lost one heavy aircraft carrier, one aircraft carrier was injured, and the aircraft carrier of the Maritime Resistance Army was injured.

The Japanese sank two aircraft carriers, one of which was a light aircraft carrier and one large and medium-sized aircraft carrier.

The Battle of the Coral Sea in History. The same was true of the losses of the American army, while the Japanese sank a light aircraft carrier, and two aircraft carriers of the Japanese Fifth Fleet were injured.

It should be said that thanks to the appearance of the Liberty Dragon, the results of the Allies were much better than in history.

But. Some of the changes are hard to say. Whether it is much better than the situation in history, Li Guang will feel it in a few days.

Although the Japanese lost their ships in this battle. But no captain or commander committed suicide. There was something unusual in the Japanese army.

Tadaichi Hara's reason was that Tashimi Yamaguchi did not commit suicide if he lost an aircraft carrier, and he did not have to commit suicide either. And the Japanese army won the battle.

According to reports from Japanese pilots, both the Lexington and Yorktown were sunk, and an unknown aircraft carrier was damaged.

With such a result, he was not only not guilty. And there is a lot of credit.

On the U.S. side, Major General Fletcher didn't feel that the war was bad. The Naval Resistance Army sank a Japanese light aircraft carrier. However, the U.S. military sank a Japanese large and medium-sized aircraft carrier, and also damaged several heavy cruisers. Although the loss of a heavy aircraft carrier is also considered a tie. He didn't want to think about it either. The displacement of just one aircraft carrier Lexington is about the same as the tonnage of the Zuihe and Xiangfeng combined. If it weren't for the appearance of the Naval Resistance Army, maybe the Yorktown would have been even worse.

On the side of the Naval Resistance Army, Li Guang was extremely dissatisfied with the injury of the Liberty Dragon. But I'm still quite satisfied with the results. According to the intelligence of the US military, when the Pacific War broke out, Japan had only six large and medium-sized aircraft carriers and four small aircraft carriers.

In the Battle of Ceylon, the Japanese lost one large and medium-sized aircraft carrier, and again in the Battle of the Coral Sea. That is, the Japanese army only had four large and medium-sized aircraft carriers left.

In terms of the number of aircraft carriers, the US military and the Shanghai Resistance Army have gradually regained their superiority. At the outbreak of the Pacific War, the U.S. military had a total of seven aircraft carriers.

Among them, the light aircraft carrier Langley, which had sunk in the Battle of Java, has now sunk the Lexington. It is equivalent to having five aircraft carriers in hand. However, because a small and medium-sized aircraft carrier USS Wasp (also translated as USS Vespa) escorted ships in the Caribbean Sea, it was considered in the sequence of the Atlantic Fleet. And the Saratoga, which is a sister ship to the Lexington, was injured at the beginning of the war and is still repairing on the west coast of the United States. At this time, the U.S. military only had three aircraft carriers, the USS Enterprise, the USS Hornet, and the USS Yorktown.

The existing aircraft carriers of the Maritime Resistance Force, the Liberty Dragon and the Indian Ocean, have been launched for a long time, and although their equipment is not complete, they are generally complete and are undergoing intense training.

The U.S. military plus the Shanghai Resistance Force, all aircraft carriers have added up to seven. Although the total number may be slightly lower than that of the Japanese army, the gap is not large.

Judging from the comparison of the number of aircraft carriers, the Allies have gradually moved back to their disadvantage, but the Battle of the Coral Sea also exposed the lack of combat effectiveness of the US aircraft carriers. In particular, the quality of the pilots is not yet comparable to that of the Japanese army.

On this day, Li Guang attended a commendation meeting for the fighter squadron. This kind of commendation meeting is not only a commendation for the pilots' combat exploits, but also a summary of tactics. In the process of development, the Maritime Resistance Force is not only good at learning, but also attaches importance to summing up its own experience. After each war, this kind of gathering of summaries and commendations has become a common practice. After this battle, the officers and men of the Liberty Dragon came up with a lot of good suggestions. For example, it has been proposed to strengthen the flight deck. Under the discussion of everyone, a very strange solution was come up, the steel armor was obviously unsuitable, the cost was high, and the weight was heavy. Moreover, once the steel armor is blown up and deformed, it must be cut with oxygen acetylene, which is very dangerous in battle. THEREFORE, IT WAS PROPOSED TO LAY 200MM REINFORCED CONCRETE ARMOR ON THE DECK.

The origin of this idea lies in the discovery during the Battle of Ceylon, where the Japanese dropped a bomb on the airfield of the Naval Resistance Army, but it was not able to affect the take-off and landing of the Naval Resistance Army's fighters at all. The ground crew simply swept the blasted concrete blocks, filled the crater with the upper half of the concrete, and then pounced on a steel plate with a hole in it. In a matter of minutes, the fighter plane will be able to take off and land normally.

THE IDEA IS GOOD, ACCORDING TO GUESSES, THE ABILITY OF TWO HUNDRED MM OF REINFORCED CONCRETE TO RESIST ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS WILL NOT BE MUCH WORSE THAN 75MM CARBURIZED STEEL ARMOR. Of course. There is no need for such protection on the Liberty Dragon, which is already a bit top-heavy, and it does not dare to increase the weight of the superstructure. But the USS Indo-Ocean could be considered. According to calculations, the Indian Ocean will pounce on this concrete deck, adding up to 2,000 tons of weight. It shouldn't be a big problem.

This was a bad idea or a brilliant note, but I don't know yet, but Li Guang is going to Pearl Harbor and immediately sends a report to the ship design institute for them to study.

In the Battle of the Coral Sea, all seven pilots were successful in shooting down enemy planes. However, the biggest gain in this battle is not captain Liu Gensheng. It's not the vice-captain Tang Shenghua. It is Liu Kejin, the famous No. 1 video game master in the Maritime Resistance Army, and Shao Fuxuan, the pilot.

The two men flew a dreadnought bomber on a reconnaissance mission. The two of them not only discovered the Japanese aircraft carrier Xiangfeng, but also shot down two Japanese fighters, one of which was a Type 96 carrier-based aircraft, while staring at this aircraft carrier for more than an hour. A Zero fighter.

The fruits of this war are too dazzling. If it was a P40 fighter, it would have been quite difficult to shoot down a Japanese fighter. And these two flew only dive bombers that were far inferior in speed and maneuverability to the Japanese Zero. Such a result. And not only for the US military. For the Naval Resistance Force, all pilots are mythical existences.

You must know that the F4F Wildcat fighters of the US military are not the opponents of the Zero fighters, and they are often beaten by the Japanese army with several to zero, or even more than ten to zero. However, in addition to the hit-and-run dive attack tactic, the Naval Resistance Force has also invented a two-plane formation tactic in the past few months, which has been tested in battle. It can be regarded as an outstanding result, and it has begun to be popularized throughout the army.

Even if the fighter has a way to deal with the Japanese Zero fighter, there is no myth of the results of Liu Kejin and the others. Even more mythical is that when fighting. The pilot is Liu Kejin, the first video game master, not the real pilot Shao Fuxuan.

Liu Kejin had been trained as a pilot for several months, but he was not able to become an official pilot. However, in the past two years, although the main thing has been to control smart bombs, there is also a lot of time to fly fighter planes, and I dare not say that there are more than 100 hours.

The situation that day was relatively coincidental, Liu Kejin and a group of video game masters had long wanted to go to the battlefield, and they never had a chance. Liu Kejin said so badly, promised all kinds of benefits, and finally replaced a bombardier and got on the plane.

There is an extremely crucial factor for him to be able to get on the plane - Shao Fuxuan and Liu Kejin are cousins. Liu Kejin is from Kaifeng, and Shao Fuxuan is from Luoyang. The two are cousins, and Shao Fuxuan's mother is Liu Kejin's aunt. These two people participated in Xu Zhan's team together, and because of their young age, they were sent to Li Guang by Xu Zhan in the thirty-eighth year.

In the past few years, Shao Fuxuan has become an elite pilot of the Naval Resistance Army, and he can be regarded as a veteran of the first echelon. Although Liu Kejin is not an elite pilot, the reputation of the first video game master is much higher than Shao Fuxuan. Everyone knows that Liu Kejin, a dozen video game masters, is the killer weapon of the Naval Resistance Army. Its importance, by no means, is lower than that of pilots.

Just look at the belongings that Li Guang prepared for the bomber squad. Twelve B17 bombers and a large number of spare parts cost four or five million dollars. That's the price of more than a hundred P40 fighters. It can be seen from this that the position of this bomber squad in the naval resistance air force is very important. And the importance of Liu Kejin, a few video game masters, of course, goes without saying.

Fight tiger brothers, go into battle father and son soldiers. There are many cases of fathers, sons, and brothers in the naval resistance army, but there are not many brother soldiers in the air force. Just such a pair of cousins.

In the Battle of the Coral Sea, Liu Kejin, as his cousin, seized the opportunity to fly the fighter plane, while Shao Fuxuan served as a grenadier, telecommunications man and tail machine gunner.

In the air battle, Liu Kejin has a magic weapon - a small mirror. Fighters of this era did not have rear-view mirrors like cars, and you had to turn your head to spot enemy planes behind. A simple mirror was played a great role by Liu Kejin.

In the entanglement with the Japanese fighters, Liu Kejin was able to aim the tail of the fighter at the enemy plane every time, so that the tail machine gun controlled by Shao Fuxuan could aim at the enemy plane at the most suitable angle. In the long-term video game training, adjusting the angle has almost become Liu Kejin's instinct.

In addition to this magic weapon, Liu Kejin also played a high-level hide and seek, he piloted a fighter plane to fly blindly in a cumulonimbus cloud, causing the Japanese fighter to repeatedly miss the target.

Li Guang smiled and watched Liu Kejin spitting, blowing his peek-a-boo tactics. Liu Kejin is extremely eloquent and vividly depicts the process of the battle.

Just then, a telegram arrived from the communications staff officer.

The fighting in Myanmar is unprecedentedly fierce. (To be continued......)