Liu Kejin was not able to drop the second bomb, and the two Japanese Zero fighters were already closing in on the B17 bombers. The crew now had a good understanding of the performance of the Zero fighters, so they did not entangle with the Japanese fighters, and flew in a circle into the distance.

The Zero fighter has excellent low-altitude performance, but it is not so easy to master at an altitude of 8,000 meters, and the thin atmosphere requires the Zero fighter to maintain a certain flight attitude. If it is at the highest flight altitude marked by the Zero fighter, it is difficult for even an absolute expert pilot to guarantee a flight of three to five minutes. In that environment, the fighter will immediately descend as long as it is slightly deflected.

More importantly, although the Japanese Zero fighter was also equipped with an oxygen tank for the pilot, the Japanese army had always pursued the lightness and flexibility of the fighter, and this auxiliary facility was greatly weakened, and the oxygen tank capacity was extremely small, which could only provide the pilot with less than half an hour of oxygen supply.

And the B17 bomber did not have such a problem at all, the aircraft had not only the main oxygen tank, but also a full-fledged individual oxygen tank. Therefore, at this altitude, although the Zero fighter has an advantage, the six machine guns of the B17 bomber, which is like a hedgehog, are not vegetarian. In the cloudless sky, it is almost impossible for the Japanese Zero fighters to quietly sneak attack. Therefore, it is not so easy for the Japanese Zero fighters to shoot down such a behemoth.

The B17 can be called a strategic bomber by the United States in this era, which naturally has its own uniqueness, and its survivability is beyond the reach of a country like Japan, which designs fighters in a lightweight style. The U.S. B17 bombers have already made 16 sorties against Japanese aircraft carriers, and the result is that not a single B17 was damaged, which is already very revealing.

Liu Kejin was not in a hurry, and commanded the B17 to flee south. Don't dare to say anything else, relying on the strong endurance of the B17, for the Zero fighter that consumed the Japanese army. He's absolutely sure. Liu Kejin did not know the equipment of the oxygen tank of the Japanese Zero fighter at this time, and after escaping at high altitude for more than half an hour, Liu Kejin keenly discovered that the Japanese Zero fighter turned around and returned home.

When the devil returned, Liu Kejin naturally would not be polite and kill again.

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Not to mention the high-altitude running of Liu Kejin's crew, Yamaguchi Duowen was frightened by the power of the giant bomb out of his body, and when the mist dissipated, seeing that the appearance of the Hiei was not damaged, Yamaguchi Duowen let go of the heart that had been clenched for a long time. But the Hiei couldn't move. But it made Yamaguchi's cautious liver tense again.

At ten o'clock, the power of the Hiei had not yet fully recovered, but the Wyvern had completed the work of hanging bombs and refueling the fighters, and Tabun Yamaguchi was finally able to release the fighters.

At this moment, the Akagi is still under continuous attack. Not yet injured. Although two aircraft carriers were damaged in succession, it seems to Yamaguchi Tawen. Victory will still belong to the Imperial Japanese Navy.

And at the moment. Yamaguchi Tawen has already seen the dawn of victory -- the bombing and refueling of the fighter planes on the Flying Dragon has been completed, and Yamaguchi Tawen is confident enough that as long as the Japanese bombers are deployed, the two US aircraft carriers will inevitably be finished. This self-confidence is definitely not arrogant, and it has been shown countless times in previous battles. The hit rate and combat skills of the elite pilots of the Japanese army were quite capable of this.

But Yamaguchi Tawen had a serious problem at the moment - the lack of escort fighters.

The two aircraft carriers led by Tamon Yamaguchi were all under the composition of this sortie, and there were only 56 fighters on each aircraft carrier in total. A total of one hundred and twelve fighters.

During the attack on Midway, the two aircraft carriers flew a total of seventy-two warplanes. But less than 70 warplanes were recovered. Therefore. At this moment, the total number of fighters that Yamaguchi Tawen can master is less than one hundred and two.

Compared to torpedo aircraft and bombers, the Zero fighter had a strong endurance, so most of it returned to the aircraft carrier. But at this moment, the total number of Zero fighters that Yamaguchi Tawen can master is only thirty.

At 10 o'clock, 15 Zero fighters were driving away US reconnaissance planes or bombers, and 10 were still on the deck of the damaged aircraft carrier Hiei, unable to take off. And there were only five Zeros on board the Wyvern.

Yamaguchi was so anxious that he had planned to release all the bombers at once, but there were only five Zero escorts, which was too few.

Tabun Yamaguchi is not Tadaichi Nagumo, and he is definitely not against taking risks, but according to the reward on the Hiei, it won't take much time to regain momentum. Therefore, Yamaguchi Tawen chose to attack on a small scale. He hoped that after the Hiei regained power, with the escort of the Zero, the whole army would be pressed.

In the first wave of sorties, Yamaguchi Tawen sent eight 97 torpedo planes, 8 99 shipburst dive bombers, and five Zero fighters. A total of twenty-one fighters.

At half past ten, Yamaguchi heard bad news again and again, and the Akagi was blown up by the American army.

If it was only the bombing of the Shozuru and Kaga, Yamaguchi Tabun would still be able to accept such losses. It is absolutely impossible to fight a war without losses, and a general has long expected the loss of warships. Even in his heart, there is a hint of joy in Nakaguchi, he lost the aircraft carrier Soryu in the Battle of Ceylon, and now the Fifth Air Force Yuan Zhongyi has lost the Xianghe, and if it is worse, the two are equal.

Yamaguchi Tawen did not regard the Kaga as a battle sink at this time, because although the Kaga was on fire, the hull was intact and did not suffer absolute fatal damage, although the fire burned like a torch, but in the eyes of the Japanese army, it still belonged to the category of salvage.

However, because the hull of the Xianghe was broken, it was already slowly sinking at this time, and it was difficult to save it at all.

By 10:40, the Akagi could already be confirmed destroyed. At this time, there is a little favorable situation for Yamaguchi Tamon, that is, after more than an hour of emergency repairs, the power of the Hiei has been restored, and it can already release the escort fighters. Yamaguchi could no longer suppress his anxiety and immediately released all the bombers.

So at 10:45, Yamaguchi sent all 30 torpedo planes, 21 bombers, and 10 fighters. Therefore, the second wave of the Japanese strike force was a total of 66 fighters.

From 10:45 a.m., the battle entered a new phase, and the US-Tang coalition had already sent fighter planes to destroy two aircraft carriers at Yamaguchi Tawen. The Japanese army has also sent two groups of attack planes to destroy the two US-Tang allied aircraft carriers that have been discovered.

In terms of intelligence, the US-Tang coalition still had the advantage, and all the Japanese aircraft carriers were discovered, while half of the US-Tang coalition aircraft carriers were not discovered by the Japanese. However, the reconnaissance means of the US-Tang coalition forces had also been used to the extreme at this time, and the water reconnaissance planes and British-made fighters equipped with radars had all returned to their homes at this time, and the Catalina water reconnaissance plane, which had a strong endurance, had been driven away by all the Japanese Zero fighters at this moment. There are few reconnaissance planes that can continue to track the Japanese aircraft carrier formation, and soon the two aircraft carriers of Yamaguchi Tawen will disappear again in the reconnaissance of the US-Tang coalition.

In terms of combat effectiveness, the strike force of the US-Tang coalition forces was only about 40 fighters, while the Japanese army sent 87 fighters.

Another major advantage of the US-Tang coalition was that the US-Tang coalition fighters took off more than an hour earlier than Yamaguchi Tawen.

At this point in the war, although the US-Tang coalition forces had achieved great results, with the development of the situation, it was not yet known who would die. (To be continued......)