Three o'clock in the morning on the 8th. The sky was still dark, and the Pacific Ocean was already shining.

The naval resistance fleet is still 500 kilometers away from the Palau Islands, and carrier-based aircraft have already taken off. The combat radius of the carrier-based aircraft of the Maritime Resistance Forces is not comparable to the 700 kilometers of the Japanese army, nor is it comparable to the 500 kilometers of the current US military, which is only 400 kilometers.

One thing that dares to fly the fighter at such a distance is time: at this time, the fighter can fly at dawn, just in time for the fighter to fly to the Palau Islands.

Second, the weather is very good, and on the windless sea, whether it is recovering fighters or releasing fighters, the aircraft carrier does not need to adjust its direction and can maintain its northern course in battle. That is, with more than three hours of flight and combat of fighters, the aircraft carrier can advance two hundred kilometers. As a result, the flight time of the fighter was shortened. To put it simply, it is to use an aircraft carrier to receive a carrier-based aircraft.

Third, and most importantly, the navigation methods and the quality of the pilots of the Maritime Resistance Force can fully guarantee the safe return home. You must know that if the aircraft carrier moves 200 kilometers and the pilots are not at a good level, it is definitely not a joke that the aircraft carrier cannot be returned.

For this mission, Li Guang did not expect much. You must know that the U.S. Katarina seaplane has reconnoitred the Palau Islands more than once, and has not found a Japanese fleet here. In this sortie, Li Guang only hoped to destroy the Japanese airfield, kill the Japanese fighters, and cut off some of the threats for the naval resistance fleet.

There are many similarities in the thinking of military personnel, whether they are opponents or friendly troops. Ozawa Seisaburo also gave the order at 3 o'clock in the morning, and all the Japanese fighters on the Palau Islands took off and flew directly across 1,500 kilometers to Saipan, preparing to strike the US fleet again.

At five o'clock in the morning, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army were in the air, and to the frustration of the pilots, the sortie was in the air. In addition to the anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese troops on the ground, there were no targets worth bombing, and the airfield was empty. Not even a single plane. Dropping all the expensive bombs on the runway is a bit too wasteful.

Originally, in this sortie, the Naval Resistance Army had a flaw. Due to the miscalculation of this battle and the change in the plan, the aircraft carriers of the Maritime Resistance Army carried expensive armor-piercing bombs and did not carry grenades for ground bombing. Using expensive bombs to bomb ground operations is in itself an uneconomical and unavoidable measure.

Moreover, the dive bombers used by the Naval Resistance Force are still the SBD dreadnought bombers of the early Pacific War of the US military, and the bombs are not hidden in the belly, but under the belly. Such fighters, whether they are the US military or the naval resistance forces. In the fighter recovery regulations, there are strict regulations that fighters cannot carry bombs when landing on aircraft carriers.

Bombs thrown at sea are more wasteful, and in the spirit of waste utilization, so after blowing up the airport runway. As soon as the pilot captain gave the order, the pilots of the Maritime Resistance Army immediately opened fire freely.

This free fire. caused a historical case. I don't know which pilot saw a slightly more formal barracks. A dive, a terrifying thousand-pound bomb hit directly.

At that time, no one imagined that such a bombing could have any earth-shattering results. Even the pilots just wanted to try their luck and blow up a few little devils.

But it was just such a random bombing, and the consequences were very serious, and it was easy to kill a high-ranking official of the Japanese army.

One of the most senior Japanese officers. It is Admiral Yamamoto Fifty-six, whom the Japanese Navy regards as a god of war. Well, according to the practice of the Japanese army, a dead general can be promoted to marshal. Marshal Yamamoto, hiding behind the battlefield. And it was in the underground bomb shelter of the headquarters, and it was destroyed in such a blur.

Yamamoto fifty-six died very unlucky, and the post-war writings about his bad luck were loaded. Unlucky? Li Guang was disdainful. Because of Li Guang's butterfly, Yamamoto has lived four or five months longer than in history.

Let's start with the first point of bad luck. For nearly a month, the Japanese naval fleet was really hiding in the Palau Islands. It is not to blame that the US military has a low level of reconnaissance, and the Japanese army's concealment methods are quite clever. And it is also the consistent low-cost model of the Japanese army.

With such a large Japanese fleet, it is too difficult to hide under normal circumstances. Little devils have always lacked imagination, but this genetic mutation actually exerted their imagination. More than 100 capital warships were covered in the Japanese army's sea-blue cloth and quietly moored in a bay surrounded by islands on three sides. Aerial reconnaissance is difficult to detect if there is a slight negligence.

That's not all, tens of thousands of devils have worked hard like bees, cut down a large number of tropical jungles, and have been setting fire to smoke around the bay for more than 20 days, which is quite a rudimentary form of meteorological weapons.

Later, a certain general Zhang said that smog air defense, he just said that little Japan is a little bit of a dead dog, half as tired as a dead dog, ten thousand people are like one, and his eyes are smoked like rabbits. If it is seen by outsiders, I really think that the little devil suddenly mutated and became a red-eyed family.

Don't say it, camouflage and meteorological weapons are really effective, concealing the US military's aerial reconnaissance again and again. With such a simple means, the battle initiative was obtained for the Japanese fleet, and the devil's means were not bad.

The main fleet was here, so it was logical that Palau Island became the command center of the Japanese fleet. In such a national battle, General Yamamoto 56 naturally wants to sit in the center. This is why Admiral Yamamoto, Marshal Yamamoto was in Palau at this time. So Yamamoto was stained with mildew at the beginning of this battle.

Moreover, the devils' work attitude was so good that they cut down the surrounding trees so much that the inconspicuous Yamamoto Command, which was originally hidden in the jungle, stood out and attracted the attention of the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army.

At this point, General Yamamoto is not stained with mildew, but with mildew.

The Japanese army still has military knowledge, and for such an important high-ranking official, the defense work is still quite good. Not to mention the surrounding escort troops, there is an air-raid shelter under Yamamoto's headquarters, and it is very strong.

In order to make Yamamoto's life more comfortable, his own subordinates who are courteous will be very enthusiastic and flattering. So a certain officer sent Japanese sappers to expand the space of the bomb shelter.

The space of the air-raid shelter has been expanded, and it is comfortable to live in, but the structural strength has been reduced a lot.

Admiral Yamamoto was already moldy and green at this time.

Then, Ozawa Sezaburo wanted to continue to smash the US fleet, and all the Japanese fighters flew away to fight with the American ghosts, so that the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army had nothing to do but bomb indiscriminately.

Admiral Yamamoto's bad luck has gone deep into the bone marrow.

After hitting, the powerful inertial kinetic energy penetrated the soil three or four meters thick, and then exploded violently, and the power of the 1,000-pound bomb was very good, very good--- and the powerful chemical energy burst collapsed the comfortable air-raid shelter.

At this point, Admiral Yamamoto's bad luck has reached its peak.

A few hours later, when a devil cried and called his mother, he dug up General Yamamoto, which was very complete, without missing arms or legs, and not even a drop of blood, but those who were already dead could not die again.

Whether you are a high-ranking official or an ordinary soldier, no matter how glorious your past is, the battlefield is the battlefield, and human life is just a symbol.

Among the high-ranking generals who died in the Axis powers, in addition to the Italian marshal who was killed by Italy's own people, Yamamoto Isoroku was now added. I don't know if Yamamoto will be depressed if he knows that he is alongside the Italian marshal who died before he left the army.

As soon as Yamamoto died, the Japanese army was immediately in chaos, and the command system was simply paralyzed. The Japanese officers were wide-eyed, petrified, and at a loss.

Later, in order to stabilize the morale of the military, Japan kept Yamamoto's death strictly secret and concealed Yamamoto's death for more than a month. Later, the imperial marshal was killed, which was too embarrassing, and he even issued an announcement under the pretext of illness and death. Little Japan's military secrecy was simply full of holes, but this secrecy was very well done, and it was not until the cause of Yamamoto's death was revealed after World War II.

From the death of Yamamoto to the disclosure of the cause of death, the time span was a bit long, and there were three or four pilots who had bombed the building at that time, so that the Naval Resistance Force could not even analyze the results of which pilot was in the combat report.

The military had no choice but to commend the pilots for their collective exploits, so much so that the death of Yamamoto Isoroku became a historical case.

The impact of Yamamoto's death on the battlefield today is that the commander of the Japanese fleet, Seizaburo Ozawa, knows nothing about it.

The impact on the Naval Resistance Army was that during one day, the Naval Resistance Army soared wildly for more than 10 hours, and was not harassed or attacked by a single Japanese fighter. (To be continued......)