During the short three days at Pearl Harbor, the Naval Resistance Army made final preparations.

Li Guang was most concerned about the combat effectiveness of the Liberty Dragon. The so-called iron also needs its own hardness, and if you want to have enough right to speak, you must have strong combat effectiveness. Haitang Kingdom, if the Maritime Resistance Army wants to speak loudly, it must have confidence. The confidence lies in combat effectiveness and combat achievements.

In addition to visiting his old friend Lieutenant General Halsey in the hospital (who has just been promoted. Li Guang's time at Pearl Harbor was almost all about running around coordinating training and coordinating equipment.

Pearl Harbor did not have an improved model P40 fighter. Therefore, eighteen P40 fighters were still maintained on board the Liberty Dragon.

The industry of the United States is strong enough, but after all, fighters are not kitchen knives, and a large amount of equipment also takes time. It is said that the fighter planes ordered by the Maritime Resistance Force in the United States will not be able to be delivered until October. Of the 100 warplanes that President Roosevelt had already promised, only 50 were delivered. Now Yuan Ye, the dignified prime minister of a country, the main reason for staying in the United States is actually to demand the seizure of fighter planes, antiaircraft artillery, and radar.

In fact, not only the Haitang Kingdom, but also the British have been in a hurry recently. The United States can't afford not to equip its own military, right?

Even so, the U.S. military is also facing a shortage of fighters, and some of the fighters on the Yorktown were left at Pearl Harbor when the USS Saratoga returned to the US mainland for maintenance, and in fact, even the aircraft carriers USS Hornet and USS Enterprise were supplemented with fighters from the USS Saratoga. And Midway also called in some of the fighters of the USS Saratoga.

Even so, Nimitz was generous, offering Pearl Harbor's only six state-of-the-art PDF torpedo machines.

This is a new model, and the performance of the TBD torpedo machine used by the US military is not half a point. What's more, the torpedo machine itself is called a torpedo dive bomber, which can not only drop torpedoes horizontally, but is also designed with a speed brake. Can be used as a dive bomber. This was the most advanced torpedo bomber of World War II.

Later, Li Guang found out. The U.S. military is not generous, but this state-of-the-art torpedo machine has just been delivered to the U.S. Navy, and there are only six U.S. troops in Pearl Harbor. The US pilots were not familiar with it, so it was given to the Naval Resistance Force.

(Historically, these six torpedo planes participated in the Battle of Midway, but did not work, five of them were shot down, and one crashed while landing.) Liberty Dragon, so the number of fighters reached forty-two.

Li Guang immediately ordered a few pilots to be selected to begin training. Shao Fuxuan, who had made meritorious contributions in the Battle of the Coral Sea, was appointed as the captain of the torpedo machine squad. Pressed for time. There are only three or four days, and at this time, the training can only be sharpened on the spot.

Originally, Li Guang wanted to get a few dive bombers, but the US fighters on Midway Island were also patchwork, and Admiral Nimitz could not cook without rice, so he could only deploy these six torpedo bombers to the Naval Resistance Army.

In the initial period of the Pacific War. There are three main types of fighters used by the US Navy: the F4F Wildcat, the SBD Dreadnought dive bomber. TBD torpedo machine. Among these three types of fighters. The F4F Wildcat was no match for the Japanese Zero. The TBD torpedo machine could not compare to the Japanese Type 97 ship attack. The performance of SBD is superior to that of the Japanese Army's Type 99 ship explosion.

The equipment of TBF torpedo planes made the US military completely surpass the Japanese army in terms of torpedo planes. Both in terms of performance and protection, it is far superior to the competition. This torpedo machine can carry one aviation torpedo of more than 900 kg, and can also carry four 227 kg bombs. Moreover, this bomber has a huge engine room, which can load all torpedoes or bombs into the engine room, instead of carrying torpedoes on external pylons like the Japanese Type 97 naval attack.

This is quite important. The reduced drag of the fighter during flight allowed the TBF torpedo machine to reach a speed of 442 kilometers, which was almost comparable to some slightly inferior fighters. Coupled with its sturdy construction, the survivability of the pilot was greatly enhanced. And the five machine guns it was equipped with made it even more difficult to run into Japanese fighters. It also has considerable survivability.

With so many advantages, the TBF torpedo machine also has a big "problem" - it is too heavy. The take-off weight was more than eight tons, and the empty weight was also almost five tons. This weight is beyond the equipment capacity of the Liberty Dragon, and it is a great test for the landing arrest cable device of the fighter on the Liberty Dragon.

The American industry is extremely terrible, and in more than half a year, a new fighter began to equip the army. You must know that the test flight of this fighter was on the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Just look at the torpedo finalization of the Naval Resistance Army to know the difficulty of developing a weapon. It took four or five years for the torpedoes of the Maritime Resistance Army to have a reference and can be copied. The tanks of the Naval Resistance Army have almost become Li Guang's heart disease, and they have been smashed into tens of millions of dollars, but the quality and quantity of the tanks produced so far have not reached the satisfaction level.

At this point, Japan and the United States are no longer on the same level at all. In 40, the Japanese army finalized the Zero fighter, but by 42, the entire navy was equipped with less than 500 Zero fighters.

As long as the Americans were given time, the Japanese army would be overwhelmed by the United States' dual superiority in quantity and quality.

The fighter planes provided by the US military to the Naval Resistance Force also include a B17 strategic bomber. This was obtained only after Li Guang repeatedly asked for it. Such expensive fighters, at Pearl Harbor at Midway had a total of only two squadrons, seventeen units. The level of medium- and high-altitude horizontal bombing is not up to the level of American pilots, nor is the level of the naval resistance forces.

Only to come up with the killer weapon of the Naval Resistance Army - smart bombs. Only then can it be possible to give full play to the advantages of the sea resistance army in this battle of the century and the battle of the country.

In order to win this battle, Li Guang spent a lot of money and took out the only four big killing weapons - the second-generation dexterous bomb.

This kind of dexterous bomb, the warhead itself is still an armor-piercing bullet weighing more than 700 kilograms (Haitang State will not make a heavy armor-piercing bullet), in order to expand the power, another section was added to the back, and the charge was increased by more than 500 kilograms. As a result, the total charge of this bomb reached nearly 700 kilograms, which was so powerful that it was staggering.

However, the second-generation dexterity bomb is therefore also heavy enough, with a total weight of more than one and a half tons. A B17 can carry up to five, and it would be nice for other medium bombers to carry one. This is exactly why Li Guang spent a lot of money on the B17 bomber.

This dexterity bomb is more expensive than a torpedo, and many of its control parts are similar to torpedoes. In fact, it should be said that it is similar to missiles, but missiles have not yet appeared in this era.

Li Guang was a little regretful, this time he was afraid that he was going to leak a secret. But time is of the essence. The Naval Resistance Force could only request the use of the B17 in the name of a bombshell. As for the bizarre shape of the second generation of the Dexterity Bomb - in addition to the controllable tail, there are also four small gliding wings. Installed under the noses of the US military, it is simply impossible to keep it secret. It depends on whether the U.S. military is careful enough, as long as you pay a little attention, you will definitely be able to find out.

And the Naval Resistance Force cannot keep this a secret, because the bomb hook inside the B17 must be modified. Otherwise, I am afraid that I will not be able to withstand such a heavy bomb.

Li Guang was also not completely sure that four bombs could make a contribution. You must know that the video game masters of the Naval Resistance Army train and use the original first-generation dexterity bombs, although the control of these four second-generation dexterity bombs is similar to the first-generation dexterity bombs, but after all, no one has really used them on the battlefield.

How effective it is can only depend on Liu Kejin's actual combat operation. The battle was played.

Liu Kejin, as the No. 1 video game master of the Maritime Resistance Army, is quite familiar with this bomb, he has participated in the research and development of this bomb, and has also participated in live ammunition throwing experiments, but only once or twice. It was not used in real combat at all.

Liu Kejin and Shao Fuxuan, two cousins, also have another name "engineer" in the Naval Resistance Army. Maybe it's some genetic influence, and both of them have a bit of a scientist's flavor. Especially fond of studying weapons. And he is quite talented in this area.

Comparatively speaking, although the pilot is not familiar with the B17 bomber, he has more experience in flying transport planes, and he is very quick to operate this big guy, and the three-day flight problem is basically solved, but the landing level needs to be improved. As for the machine gunners. Teleman, there are more elite crews on the Liberty Dragon. It was easy to fill the B17 with ten crew members.

On the other hand, the three Baxia-class air defense destroyers of the Naval Resistance Force must be as familiar with antiaircraft artillery shooting as possible during these three or four days.

For this. Li Guang received nearly 200 tons of artillery shells from US military warehouses. On the three destroyers, even the aisles were piled up with anti-aircraft artillery shells, and the fighters were really happy.

Li Guang did not feel distressed at all about the US army's artillery training, and the three destroyers were equipped with 12 dive bombers, and sometimes pilots who were familiar with torpedo planes would also make a cameo appearance as a target plane. Every day, the fighter dragged the target as a sparring partner for the destroyer.

These antiaircraft gunners of the Naval Resistance Army have undergone preliminary training, but their shortcomings lie in the fact that they have too few opportunities to shoot live ammunition and are not familiar with the weapons in their hands. In particular, the gunners who operated the 40-mm anti-aircraft guns and 20-mm anti-aircraft guns only came into contact with the real thing in early April, and during this period of time they were marching and fighting, and they did not have much training, so they urgently needed to familiarize themselves with the weapons in their hands.

These three air defense destroyers are relatively short board of the Liberty Dragon formation. These three air defense destroyers not only had unskilled air defense cover formations, but also lacked air defense experience, and even the basic anti-aircraft gun shooting standards were seriously insufficient.

In the Battle of the Coral Sea, these three destroyers did not perform very well, and in the face of several Japanese or American fighters, they were easily broken by the opponent.

You must know that these three air defense destroyers alone have more than 200 anti-aircraft guns, and with the anti-aircraft guns on the Liberty Dragon, the number of barrels is as high as 350.

However, it is not to blame that the three destroyers did not do their best, because the time for the fighters to touch the weapons was too short, and there were fewer opportunities for live-fire training. In fact, the training of the officers is also seriously insufficient, after all, these three Baxia-class destroyers only arrived in Tang Port in February, and it is indeed not easy to master the proficiency in a few months.

Sharpen the knife in battle, and it is not fast and light. In addition to training, Li Guang also took out his own treasure, the Eight Treasures Ginseng Pill. This is what the real emperor eats, which is different from the rumored secret recipes in the rivers and lakes.

Emperor Hongxian Yuan Datou really ate this thing. Yuan Ran took the secret recipe and handed it to Li Guang personally, this tonic is really effective and effective according to Li Guang's personal experience. But the manufacturing cost is too expensive, and there is no way to produce it in large quantities. In these years, there is no artificially grown ginseng, it is all made of wild ginseng and precious medicinal materials, and the effect is naturally just.

Li Guang gave each pilot one and explained the purpose. This thing is indeed expensive, and it is extremely difficult to purchase medicinal materials, and Li Guang's inventory is not much, so it will be divided all of a sudden. Even Yuan Zi, the real heir of the old Yuan family, didn't catch a single one, and Huang Zhonghua and other officers could only look at it.

Pearl Harbor is the core base of the U.S. Navy, with extremely strong equipment and workers. After three days and three nights of emergency repairs, the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier has almost been repaired. But Yorktown was only largely repaired.

The time was too tight, and the American workers could only make do, and the leaky watertight compartment was temporarily filled with wooden squares. And just like that, with the repairmen, the Liberty Dragon and the patched Yorktown sailed out of Pearl Harbor. The day is May 30th.

There was a reason for Nimitz's urgency, and U.S. intelligence indicated that the Japanese Combined Fleet had attacked, but the exact scale was still unclear.

Fearing that Japanese submarines would detect the movements of the U.S. fleet, the USS Yorktown and USS Liberty Dragon had to leave port ahead of schedule, even if they had not yet fully completed repairs.

Intelligence in the aftermath showed that Nimitz's fears were not unfounded. Less than a day after the Yorktown and Liberty Dragons left port, Japanese submarines were already stationed around Pearl Harbor. (To be continued......)