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132 nautical miles east of the Turkkos Islands, the 22 aircraft carriers of the US Nimitz fleet were densely parked with US combat planes waiting to take off for San Juan to carry out the third wave of attacks. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗

Suddenly, a siren sounded over the USS Enterprise, where Nimitz was located. The US reconnaissance planes on guard 50 kilometers away sent back an urgent telegram and discovered a large number of Chinese Imperial planes flying towards the Nimitz fleet.

"Report the location and number of enemy aircraft!"

"There are too many enemy planes! I was hit! ”

A blind voice soon came from the call, which immediately frightened Nimitz, and he immediately ordered all the carrier-based fighters on the aircraft carriers to take off and take off, but the decks of the US aircraft carriers were lined up with more torpedo attack planes and dive bombers, and there were less than 100 carrier-based fighters, which were used to protect 22 aircraft carriers and dozens of other battleships, heavy cruisers, destroyers, etc., and each battleship had only one ship-battle protection on average, which was obviously far from enough.

"All planes immediately unload torpedoes and bombs and immediately take to the air to meet the enemy!"

More than a hundred carrier-based fighters on the US aircraft carrier scrambled into the air, and other planes unloaded torpedoes and aerial bombs to reduce the load and facilitate aerial dogfighting. However, this process is very time-consuming, it takes at least 20 minutes to complete the full unloading, and the unloaded torpedoes and aerial bombs accumulate on the deck of the aircraft carrier, which becomes a huge safety hazard.

The US carrier-based fighter has just risen two-thirds of the way into the air. The attack aircraft of the Chinese Empire were in the air. Although the warships on guard on the perimeter of the US army kept firing, the planes of the Chinese Empire were all jet fighters, and the speed was too fast, and the US carrier-based anti-aircraft guns usually prepared in advance at the speed of propeller fighters, and as a result, the anti-aircraft shells they fired lost their targets, and the trajectory left a long arc in the sky, which basically exploded in the rear of the planes, and the fragments of the shells did not cause damage to the planes of the Chinese Empire. ╔╗

"What kind of plane is this? How did it arrive so quickly! ”

It was fifty kilometers away. In the blink of an eye, Nimitz and the American officers and soldiers couldn't help but be amazed.

More than 60 US Hellcat carrier-based fighters took to the air to intercept them, but they were still at a low altitude and were rapidly climbing to high and high altitudes.

At this time, sixty F6 Wildcat fighters of the Imperial Chinese Naval Air Force quickly broke away from the group, swooped down with somersaults, and pounced head-on on the enemy planes.

One is the F6 Wildcat ship battle. One is the F6F Hellcat Battle, two carrier-based fighters with very similar models and names. Performance truly makes a world of difference.

I saw the F6 Wildcat ship battle of the Chinese Empire swooping down rapidly. In the blink of an eye, he rushed to the U.S. F6F Hellcat ship battle.

"Bang bang bang!"

Two 30-mm MK38 guns in the nose of the Wildcat warship and two 30-mm MK35 guns mounted on the wings opened heavy fire. Before the American pilot could react, several shells were fired on the fuselage.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

In an instant, seven or eight US Hellcat ships were hit and caught fire, and fell from a height of several thousand meters in a whirlwind.

Seven or eight fighters were shot down in a single shot, and other Hellcat fighters of the US military were immediately horrified, and they gave up climbing one after another, and instead gave full play to their own superiority in horizontal mobility. Dodge the wildcats.

After the Wildcat swooped, it quickly climbed. However, its speed is too fast, so the horizontal maneuverability is slightly insufficient. As a result, Chinese and American fighters have an advantage over each other. ╔╗ Biting each other, the fight is inextricable.

Although the U.S. Hellcat ship battle dragged the F6 Wildcat fighters attacked by the Chinese Empire, it was unable to intercept other bombers approaching the U.S. fleet because of the lack of numbers.

The 132 F8 torpedo bombers and six B2 Mustang tactical bombers of the Chinese Empire did not bother with the main battleships or other heavy cruisers of the United States, but directly pounced on the carrier battle group of the Nimitz fleet.

The 22 aircraft carriers of the Nimitz fleet immediately became targets, and because the F8 and B2 of the Chinese Empire were jet planes and extremely fast, the US peripheral warships did not expect the other side to directly attack the aircraft carrier, resulting in an obvious lack of anti-aircraft firepower of the fleet near the US aircraft carrier. And every aircraft carrier of the US military, although there are Bangbang guns installed, but the frequency of Bangbang guns is too slow, and the US air defense forces have never seen such a fast aircraft in their usual training, so that the empty door is wide open.

In the blink of an eye, the attack aircraft of the Chinese Empire flew in front of the American aircraft carrier. Four F-8 Osprey bombers skimmed the sea at an ultra-low altitude and approached the US aircraft carrier Ticonderoga, and quickly dropped torpedoes at a distance of about 100 meters from the Ticonderoga. After the bombing, the Osprey climbed rapidly, firing at the Ticonderoga's broadside anti-aircraft gun positions with only two 30mm guns.

The anti-aircraft gun positions on the side of the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga were equipped with 10 to 18 anti-aircraft bangbangs, because the American aircraft carrier was hastily built in a short time, so the anti-aircraft guns were not equipped with shields. When the Osprey fighter plane rushed head-on, the American artillerymen on the Ticonderoga were immediately shocked and hurriedly gave up firing at the air and lowered the muzzle of the gun to fire flat.

But before they could level the high-level dual-purpose bangbang gun, several Osprey fighters roared in.

"Dada-da-da!"

The nose of the Osprey fighter spewed out tongues of fire, and dozens of shells were fired in an instant. ╔╗Dozens of U.S. artillery soldiers didn't have time to scream, their bodies were torn apart, and their stumps and severed arms flew around with the shock wave of the explosion of the ammunition boxes stacked next to the anti-aircraft guns.

At this time, the Osprey fighters pulled up one after another to avoid colliding with the enemy ship. And in the next few seconds, four wake self-guided torpedoes on the surface of the sea hit the Ticonderoga.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

After three loud bangs (two of which exploded at the same time), the Ticonderoga's port side waterline burst into four huge columns of water hundreds of meters high, and the 21-inch red-headed torpedo was so powerful that only the armor less than 130 mm thick was torn apart in an instant. Causes four huge explosion gaps. One of the notches is 3.2 meters long.

The huge force of the explosion lifted the port side of the Ticonderoga, which was more than 30,000 tons, more than three meters high, and almost overturned the giant ship. Dozens of planes on the deck slid to the right in unison, crashing into each other, and hundreds of US troops rolled directly down the starboard side into the sea with more than a dozen planes. Several planes crashed into the island and exploded in an instant, killing and injuring dozens of people.

Sea water poured into the Ticonderoga through four massive breaches, causing the Ticonderoga to sink rapidly on the port side, and the hull of the ship to the right sharply in less than 30 seconds. Then it leaned sharply to the left, and the American planes and sailors on deck rolled over to port side, and then fell into the sea.

During the rolling, the torpedoes and bombs dismantled from the deck violently rubbed and exploded, which soon caused a chain reaction, and the explosions were connected together.

Since the U.S. aircraft carrier has a straight-through deck, its open layout makes the flight deck a wooden structure. The explosion caused the destruction of the entire flight deck in an instant, and soon a widespread fire broke out. Hundreds of U.S. troops cried wolf in the blazing fire.

The Ticonderoga was hit by four torpedoes. It is sinking rapidly at the speed of the eye.

At the same time, the Chinese Imperial Attack Aircraft Group, in small groups of three or four aircraft, launched attacks on other US aircraft carriers one after another. ╔╗ Six aircraft carriers, including the USS Hancock, USS Bennington, USS Boxer, USS Richard, USS Lexington, and USS Bunker Hill, were hit by torpedoes from Osprey bombers, and their situation was similar to that of the Ticonderoga, almost all of them were hit by multiple torpedoes at the first time, and sank quickly in the next four or five minutes.

As the largest of the Essex-class aircraft carriers in the United States, the Wright has a full load displacement of more than 40,000 tons. With more than 130 aircraft, it naturally became the target of the Chinese Imperial Aircraft.

Nine thirty-seven a.m. Six F8 Osprey bombers skimmed the sea close to her and were hit by the shipboard anti-aircraft guns of the USS Wright. Four Ospreys were shot down, and two Ospreys dropped torpedoes.

Nineteen seconds later, two 21-inch wake self-guided red-headed torpedoes hit the starboard side of the USS Wright, and the huge explosion suddenly tore two large holes in the power of the aircraft carrier. Flames and black smoke rose from the gap, and then seawater poured in, and in less than two minutes, more than 3,000 tons of seawater had been poured into the starboard side of the Wright, causing the hull to tilt to the right.

However, the Wright's anti-sinking performance was superior to that of other carriers, and the captain quickly ordered the port side to be filled with water to balance the battleship, and at the same time ordered the aircraft on deck to stop disassembling torpedoes and bombs and take off directly. Although the first mate said that if the torpedoes and bombs were not dismantled, the fighting performance of the fighters would be affected, and at the same time, the torpedo bombers themselves did not carry much ammunition for their cannons, and they would soon run out of ammunition when they took off in time. But the captain of the Wright insisted that his opinion remained unchanged.

Although the captain of the Wright wanted to save his plane, the American planes on the deck were hit hard by the space of the Chinese Empire.

The two F4F torpedo bombers that took off on the runway had just climbed less than 200 meters before they were shot down by two F6 Wildcat fighters whizzing down from above. The two C13 dive bombers that were taxiing on the runway were just halfway through when they were destroyed by a 200-kilogram aerial bomb dropped by the B2 Mustang bomber that was diving. ╔╗

The flight strip of the wooden deck was blasted open with a huge hole, and the flames were blazing and smoke billowed out. U.S. ground crews rushed to extinguish the fire, clear the wreckage and repair the runway, but it was clear that it was not something that could be done in a short time. The remaining fifty or sixty planes were stuck in the middle and rear of the deck, unable to take off.

At this time, the two B2 Mustang bombers turned around and came back and dropped seven or eight aerial bombs on the deck of the Wright in one fell swoop.

A series of explosions exploded on the rear flight deck of the Wright, destroying dozens of planes in an instant, and the surrounding area was in flames.

Soon, several F8 Osprey fighters and several F6 Wildcat fighters that had finished throwing torpedoes flew back and forth on the flight deck of the Wright, countless shells poured onto the deck, and more than a dozen remnants of the aircraft were beaten into a hornet's nest, and some caught fire and exploded in an instant. Hundreds of American officers and soldiers desperately fled, but they could not outpace the planes and artillery shells, and they were quickly strafed, and their bodies were torn to shreds in an instant, leaving only a mist of blood to prove that they once existed.

At 9:43, the Wright was hit by three torpedoes again, and the hull capsized badly. The entire battleship struggled in the flames and smoke, but it did not survive ten minutes, sinking in nine minutes and eleven seconds.

In the bridge of the USS Enterprise, Nimitz watched the sinking of the US aircraft carriers one after another, but there was nothing he could do. U.S. air defense warships arrived from nearby. Although it blocked a part of the planes of the Chinese Empire and shot down more than a dozen, it could not save the whole situation.

In less than thirty minutes, twelve aircraft carriers had been sunk and more than 500 warplanes of all kinds had been destroyed, making it impossible for Nimitz to organize a third wave of air raids on San Juan, and even he found it a problem to protect himself.

At 9:47 a.m., the first wave of attacks by the Luo Qidong aircraft carrier battle group on the Nimitz fleet ended. At the cost of 17 F8 Osprey carrier-based torpedo bombers and 11 F6 Wildcat carrier-based fighters, the remaining aircraft successfully returned home.

In the bridge of the Wudangshan aircraft carrier, Luo Qidong had been holding headphones and listening to the radio calls of the attack planes, and although he had not seen the spectacular scene of the US aircraft carriers being sunk one after another, he was also very happy to listen to the swear words shouted by the pilots because of excitement.

"Prepare for the second wave of attacks!"

"Yes!"

Luo Qidong happily gave an order, and Nimitz on the other side also gave an order. The difference is. Nimitz's order was for the entire fleet to retreat. Because he had already received a report from the commander of the second wave of U.S. attack planes over San Juan that the U.S. mainland bomber group had arrived in San Juan to bomb. But there was trouble.

Nimitz relied on his keen military instincts. He knew that although the sneak attack was successful, the US military would pay a huge price, and it was inevitable that the enemy would be injured 1,000 and lose 800 of its own.

Nimitz ordered the fleet to begin withdrawing, but the fleet had to wait for the second wave of attack planes to return from San Juan, which would take forty minutes of flight and thirty minutes of recovery time. It was hoped that the aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire would be able to be pushed back. At the same time, Nimitz also ordered torpedo bombers on five uninjured aircraft carriers, including the Enterprise, to stand by. As soon as the reconnaissance aircraft spotted the aircraft carrier of the Chinese Empire, it immediately took off to attack.

Meantime. Nimitz also had to send a large number of ships to rescue the American officers and men who fell into the water, and the other five injured aircraft carriers also urgently needed to be repaired as soon as possible, and Nimitz hoped that they would recover their combat effectiveness as soon as possible, so that his fleet would have an extra safety insurance.

However, what Nimitz could not have imagined was that the second wave of attack aircraft of Luo Qidong's aircraft carrier battle group was quickly prepared. This is due to the fact that the aircraft carriers Wudangshan and Emeishan can allow aircraft to take off and land at the same time, and the first wave of attack aircraft quickly completed the landing action, and the Imperial Navy soldiers who stayed on the flight deck quickly overhauled and maintained the fighters, added fuel and weapons and ammunition, and treated the injured pilots.

At 11:45 a.m., the second wave of attack planes on the aircraft carrier Wudangshan began to take off. 30 F6 carrier-based aircraft, 86 F8 torpedo bombers and 6 B2 tactical bombers completed the battle formation in the air. Five minutes later, 24 F6 warships, 36 F8 torpedo bombers, and 2 B2 bombers that had taken off from the aircraft carrier Emeishan also completed their formation, and the two groups again formed an attack echelon with a distance of 30 kilometers and flew in the direction of the Nimitz fleet.

At the same time, two F6 carrier-based reconnaissance fighters of the USS Wudangshan aircraft carrier spotted the US reconnaissance aircraft from the Nimitz fleet and quickly shot it down. However, before shooting down the US reconnaissance plane, Nimitz had already learned the location of the aircraft carrier battle group of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

However, Nimitz did not know that Luo Qidong's second wave of attack planes had already departed, and according to Nimitz's inference, the second wave of the Chinese Empire's attack should not depart until 20 minutes later, and the attack could be launched an hour later.

So, Nimitz ordered 120 F2A Buffalo torpedo bombers on the remaining five full-fledged aircraft carriers to take off and go to attack Luo Qidong's aircraft carriers.

However, from the very beginning, the attack aircraft group sent by Nimitz had been detected by the radar of the Wudangshan aircraft carrier, and Luo Qidong immediately made air defense preparations, six Chinese Aegis air defense heavy cruisers were deployed in place, and 20 alert F6 Wildcat carrier-based fighters were sent to ambush.

At 12:12, the second wave of attack planes of the Imperial Chinese Naval Air Force appeared to the east of the Nimitz fleet, and Nimitz once again stood on the spot, and hurriedly ordered the carrier-based fighters to rise into the air to meet them. Although Nimitz misjudged, this time the U.S. military was prepared, so it was impossible to be caught off guard like the last time.

More than 100 US Hellcat carrier-based fighters quickly took to the air to intercept them, but the fighters of the Chinese Emperor also learned about the advantages and disadvantages of this type of US aircraft through the first battle just now, and the commander ordered that they should not fall in love with the US planes, and give full play to their strengths and directly attack the remaining 10 US aircraft carriers.

Relying on their speed superiority, more than 200 jet fighters did not entangle with the US interceptors at all, drew white arcs in the blue sky, and soon approached the US aircraft carriers.

Nimitz's heart suddenly sank to the bottom, although he had arranged a large amount of fleet anti-aircraft fire around the aircraft carrier, but the opponent's planes were too fast, and the anti-aircraft fire on the US ships could not stop them at all, and the US aircraft carriers were particularly thin, and a few torpedoes or heavy aerial bombs were fatal.

The anti-aircraft guns of dozens of US warships opened heavy fire, and several planes were shot down in an instant, but many more planes still pounced on the US aircraft carriers. Dive, drop bombs (torpedoes), pull up, go around in circles and back again, the same attack pattern for 10,000 years, but it left an indelible nightmare for the American fleet. (To be continued)