Chapter 620~621 Black Cloud Pressure - Bloody Battle of San Juan

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The sky over San Juan was filled with smoke, and the previously clear sky suddenly turned cloudy. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.infoβ•”β•—

After the low-altitude humming of US planes, one aerial bomb after another whistled and fell, and the explosion turned into a sea of fire in an instant, and most of the combat planes of the Chinese Imperial Air Force placed on the runway of the airport were destroyed under the bombing and strafing of enemy planes.

The warships on the water in the harbor, from tens of thousands of tons of super battleships to hundreds of tons of small boats, all emitted thick black smoke, and some of the battleships had sunk, revealing only high masts.

The first wave of U.S. air strikes ended at 8:03 a.m., and the giant radar station at the San Juan base was repaired at a miraculous speed, and the radar station that resumed work quickly locked the retreating position of the U.S. planes and accurately estimated the time when the next wave of U.S. attack groups would arrive in San Juan.

"It is expected that in 65 minutes, the second wave of attack aircraft will arrive!"

"Got it! You all go down! ”

Lieutenant General Xu Jianwen, commander of the San Juan base, turned to Major General Lan Lide, the special commissioner of the General Staff who had just been transferred to the San Juan base, and said, "Tell me what the hell is going on?" ”

Major General Lan Lide smiled: "Isn't this obvious? The Americans have declared war on us, and their planes have just sneaked up on us! ”

Lieutenant General Xu Jianwen turned to Lan Lide and said with a very ugly face: "As soon as you come, Lao Tzu's radar station will be broken." Lao Tzu took it as an accident! The alert fleet and aerial reconnaissance aircraft patrols on the periphery of the base have all asked you to withdraw, and I have just learned that before the US military attacked, our alert ship discovered that an unknown submarine was operating outside the base port. They wanted to report it to me, but you stopped it, but you never reported it to me. ”

Lan Lide was still smiling and said, "Commander Xu, what do you mean by this?" I also didn't expect that the Americans would really dare to come and attack us? ”

"Don't fucking pretend to be confused with me!" Xu Jianwen grabbed Lan Lide's collar and gritted his teeth and said: "If the base hadn't been attacked, Lao Tzu would have put up with you, it should have been a misunderstanding!" But now Lao Tzu's base has been bombed. If it weren't for these bullshit orders of yours, the plane of the American devils would have been discovered and intercepted by us hundreds of kilometers away. ”

"Commander Xu! Please calm down! If you have something to say, it's good to say! Lan Lide saw the murderous aura in Xu Jianwen's eyes, which made him a little creepy.

"How do you make Lao Tzu calm? This is Lao Tzu's territory, let the American devils sneak attack, where do you let Lao Tzu's old face go? Will Lao Tzu live in the future? ”

The more Xu Jianwen thought about it, the more angry he became, and said angrily: "Do you believe it or not, Lao Tzu will be shot directly on the charge of collaborating with the enemy now!" ”

Xu Jianwen gestured to pull out his gun, and Lan Lide hurriedly pressed the hand he pulled out the gun. Dissuaded: "Commander Xu, you must be calm!" I know you must be very sad and annoyed by the attack on your base, but I can swear. I'm definitely not a collaborator. There is absolutely no problem with my loyalty to the Empire, how many years have you been friends with me, and you still don't know me? ”

"I fucking know you!" Xu Jianwen said angrily: "But since you entered the CIA, Lao Tzu doesn't know you!" ”

"Lao Xu! Listen to me, I can't do anything about entering the Intelligence Bureau, as an emperor, I have to obey orders! ”

"Don't talk to me about anything else!" Xu Jianwen really didn't want to pull out a gun. Just to scare Lan Lide, Xu Jianwen had a lot of questions in his heart. β•”β•—Time is running out right now, and he must know the truth as soon as possible.

"It's not going to be good for you guys from the Intelligence Bureau to come! This time, Lao Tzu's base was attacked. This crime is enough for a military court to shoot Lao Tzu for dereliction of duty. Now Lao Tzu doesn't care about anything, if you don't tell the truth, Lao Tzu will shoot you first, and pull a cushion on your back! Look at how dare I! ”

Xu Jianwen made a gesture to pull out the gun again, Lan Lide was angry and funny, hurriedly held him down again, and said: "It's not that I don't want to say, there are some things you still don't know!" ”

Xu Jianwen suddenly realized, glared and said, "Okay! There's really something to hide from me! Lao Lan, you are really good, are you deliberately trying to trap me? ”

"Don't think I'm so dirty, okay!" When Lan Lide saw Xu Jianwen's expression, he realized that what he said before was just deceiving him. I didn't want to say it, but seeing Xu Jianwen's expression, if I didn't tell him, I was afraid that his donkey temper would really shoot himself.

"Good, good! I say! But you have to be prepared! I told you, if you spread the word, I'll have to go to hell with you! ”

"Hurry up! I'm still busy! ”

Lan Lide had no choice but to say: "We have recently intercepted a large number of radio communications from the US military, which mentions Hawaii many times, and the US military seems to want to launch a military operation in Hawaii. The General Staff has judged that Hawaii is the most important springboard for the Empire to attack the United States, and the possibility of a sneak attack by the US military on Hawaii is extremely high. Once the U.S. military succeeds in its sneak attack, the empire will not be able to launch combat operations against the U.S. in the Pacific Ocean for a short time. ”

Xu Jianwen frowned and said, "What does this have to do with us?" ”

Lang Lide explains: "On the surface, it doesn't matter! However, we have found that the intelligence we have intercepted in the recent past shows that a lot of important information is no longer radioed. The Americans seem to have known that the Reich possessed advanced radio listening technology, and their actions made the Reich General Staff suspicious. In other words, the attack on Hawaii that they have repeatedly mentioned on the radio is not credible! ”

Xu Jianwen nodded and said, "In other words, the US army's attack on Hawaii is a cover, and the real goal is to attack Lao Tzu's San Juan?" ”

Lan Lide nodded and said, "But this can only be inferred, we have no exact information to prove!" ”

"I can't get any information about it! What a bunch of rice buckets, wasting taxpayers' money! Xu Jianwen doesn't seem to miss any opportunity to hit Lan Lide, of course, this is not aimed at Lan Lide, but Xu Jianwen's dissatisfaction with the intelligence bureau's rampant and domineering.

Lan Lide smiled helplessly, didn't care about him, and continued: "We judge that if the U.S. military does not raid Hawaii, it is very likely to raid places like Alaska, Bermuda, and San Juan!" ”

"Now that it has been judged that the U.S. military may have attacked San Juan. Why didn't you tell me when you came? If you don't tell me, you have to remind me to strengthen my defenses, right? If you don't remind Lao Tzu and don't pursue it, why the hell did you turn off the radar station, so that Lao Tzu couldn't guard against it, waiting to be beaten! ”

Lan Lide immediately denied it: "Don't give Lao Tzu a hat!" What do you mean that I shut down the radar station, it is obviously because of the anniversary celebration that you are so happy that the American agents took advantage of it. ”

"You just pretend to be Lao Tzu!" Xu Jianwen suddenly glared and said, "That's right! Lao Tzu was a little careless in holding a celebration, and let the American agents sabotage the radar station, and Lao Tzu also admitted that it was a dereliction of duty. But Lao Tzu asked, and the radar station was quickly repaired. β•”β•— It's you who won't let it turn on! ”

"You know all this!" Lan Lide coughed lightly and said with some embarrassment: "I'm afraid of being sabotaged by enemy agents again!" ”

"You don't talk nonsense to Lao Tzu!" Xu Jianwen glared at Lan Lide fiercely and said: "Not to mention the matter of the radar station, you ordered all the planes on the tarmac to be moved to the airport runway, neatly arranged, as if you were afraid that the American devils would not be able to see it." You're deliberately making it easy for them to find their target, you're collaborating with the enemy! ”

"Don't keep buttoning me up with the big hat of the enemy!" Lang Lide rolled his eyes. blurted out: "Isn't it because I can't bear the child to catch the wolf?" Without turning off the radar station, will the Americans dare to come and attack? Don't set the plane in place for them to understand. Will they come? ”

Xu Jianwen snorted coldly: "Admit it!" You deliberately lured the American devils to bomb! ”

"That's right! I brought them here on purpose! Lan Lide saw that he couldn't hide it from the other party. A simple showdown.

"You bastard! Do you know how many planes and warships you lost to Lao Tzu? How many people were killed or wounded? Zhu Yuanzhang was blown up and sunk, and more than 1,000 people were killed and injured at once, those are all excellent soldiers of the empire, can you do it? Xu Jianwen suddenly jumped like thunder, grabbed Lan Lide by the collar and pressed him to the wall, eager to strangle him.

Lang Lide defended: "Do you think I am willing to send them to their deaths? I ordered everyone to go to the celebration. I was just afraid that they would be attacked if they stayed there, and who knew that they would rush back as soon as they heard the air raid sirens. Although I know that the battleship Zhu Yuanzhang can be so easily blown up and sunk? Do you think I feel good in my heart? ”

In the end, Lan Lide also had tears in his eyes. I could see that that was not his intention.

In fact, Lang Lide was not at all sure that the U.S. military would attack San Juan. He was carrying out a special order from the General Staff, that is, to act unprepared and lure the US troops to take the initiative to attack. Because Roosevelt chose to grovel to the Chinese Empire on the 229 Incident, which relieved the originally angry people, and made the Chinese Empire's intention to use the 229 Incident as an excuse to start a war against the United States once again encountered resistance, and the Chinese Empire saw that the Soviet Union was struggling on the death line and urgently needed a reason to enter the war as soon as possible.

Lang Lide had already done his best, he ordered San Juan to lower the alert, and even deliberately led the officers and soldiers of the base to participate in the celebration in order to avoid casualties, and put the fighters in the parking shed on the runway, just to let the US military planes only care about bombing the planes and reducing injuries. After all, the main goal of the US military is to destroy the aircraft first. He knew that one-third of the personnel on duty would always be kept on the aircraft carrier, while the other capital ships did not have this hard and fast rule, so he had to transfer all the aircraft carriers out. But he didn't expect that the well-trained officers and men of the Imperial Navy would return to the battleship so quickly, nor did he expect that the powerful Zhu Yuanzhang super battleship would be blown and sunk.

In fact, as a super battleship, the Zhu Yuanzhang is very difficult to sink, at least not in a wave of air raids by the US military. In comparison, the other ships were sunk in time, but the people inside had enough time to escape, so there were few casualties.

But the point is that the chimney of the battleship Zhu Yuanzhang was being repaired, and the blocking net was opened, and as a result, an aerial bomb of the US army accidentally fell into the chimney, which first caused a boiler explosion, and then spread to the nearby ammunition depot, which caused a tragic scene and caused huge casualties to the Chinese Empire.

"Report! The units are already in place, and the second wave of enemy attack aircraft will arrive in 20 minutes! ”

A communications staff officer suddenly ran in from outside, and when he saw the scene of Xu Jianwen and Lan Lide fighting, he was stunned. β•”β•—

Xu Jianwen saw that outsiders appeared, and in order to take care of the overall situation, he had to let go of Lan Lide.

"I'll write this account down for you first! I'll settle accounts with you when I'm done! ”

Xu Jianwen turned to the communications staff officer in a bad mood. While reorganizing his military appearance, he issued an order: "Attention units, I am Xu Jianwen, the second wave of American devils will arrive in twenty minutes, for the sake of the sacrificed comrades, we must strike the enemy hard!" Now I command, prepare to fight back! ”

There was a gap of more than an hour between the first and second wave of attack aircraft of the US military, during this time. The officers and soldiers who had gone out of the San Juan base returned one after another. On the anti-aircraft positions that were not destroyed, high-speed artillery quickly entered combat status. On the battleships that were not sunk, anti-aircraft artillery of all levels were also combat-ready.

As of 8:10 a.m., more than 100 US submarines near the harbor had been sunk, and the powerful anti-submarine forces of the Imperial Chinese Navy were extremely powerful at this moment. However, before the start of anti-submarine warfare. American submarines sank several warships of the Chinese Empire in the harbor, including two Typhoon-class Aegis anti-aircraft heavy cruisers. This loss is significant.

But. Due to the efficient anti-submarine warfare of the Imperial Chinese Navy, most of the submarines involved in the attack on San Juan were eliminated. In particular, the U.S. submarines in the harbor ceased to exist, which made the Imperial Chinese Navy warships in the harbor safe.

However, the accidental sinking of the super battleship Zhu Yuanzhang, the grounding of the super battleship Luzon, and the sinking of more than a dozen warships caused the main channel of the port to be blocked. All large battleships could not leave the port, only light cruisers and destroyers could. But in order to protect the main fleet. Neither the light cruisers nor the destroyers left, but opened all their anti-aircraft artillery. Prepare for the next wave of U.S. air strikes.

At the same time, from various remote field airfields around San Juan, one after another Jian-11 fighters took off and went to the predetermined airspace to intercept the US attack group.

"It's good that you're not too stupid to know how to hide the most important fighter!"

Xu Jianwen had to praise Lan Lide to ease the cold war between the two.

Lan Lide felt a little guilty in his heart, maybe the batch of fighters he hid could give the US troops a fierce counterattack and avenge the sacrificed imperial officers and soldiers.

"I hope that more than 200 J-11 fighters can succeed!"

Xu Jianwen said: "The American devils don't know that we are hiding a hand, and our attack aircraft group attacking them from the side should give them a heavy blow." ”

Lan Lide nodded and said: "Our aircraft carrier battle group is making a detour to the flank of the US fleet, if it succeeds, our side will defeat this wave of US attack groups, and on the other side, the first wave of US planes has just landed, and our fighters taking off from the aircraft carrier will kill them." ”

Xu Jianwen was very relieved to hear this, and said, "I hope so!" You can't let the American devils sneak attack once in vain, and if you don't kill them, you can't wait to die! ”

Lan Lide knew Xu Jianwen's mood very well, and it was himself who was uncomfortable to see his base being attacked by the enemy, and there was a great deal of deliberate doing it.

"It's worth it! Because after this incident, the imperial government will soon go to war against the United States, and we will make the enemy pay the price dozens of times! ”

Xu Jianwen sighed and said: "I don't know if it's right or wrong, once the empire enters the war, it will face the entire world of the United States and German allies, and start a war with more than 400 million people, even if it wins, the empire will have to die a lot." ╔╗”

Lan Lide nodded and said, "That's right! War is about death! But if the empire does not enter the war sooner, once the United States and Germany destroy the Soviet Union, the empire will fall into an even more passive situation. Besides, we can't wait to go to war, you know? The biggest reason is that our intelligence services have discovered that the United States and Germany have advanced their nuclear weapons development progress far ahead, and we have tried our best to destroy their nuclear test sites, but they have failed, and we have paid for the lives of hundreds of excellent agents, but we have never achieved our goal. Do you know the consequences once the United States and Germany complete their nuclear weapons tests? The Empire will be in even greater danger! ”

Xu Jianwen suddenly asked in surprise: "What should I do then?" I've seen the power of nuclear bombs, and virtue can't let them have nuclear weapons! ”

"So we're going to push the empire down the path of war at any cost!" Lang Lide smiled bitterly: "We have no other way to stop the development of nuclear weapons by the United States and Germany, there is only one last way left, and that is war." We can only formally enter the war before we can mobilize all military forces to destroy the nuclear weapons test sites of the United States and Germany. Although this reason cannot be justified by the sacrifice of the brethren at the base of San Juan. But there's really no other way around us, and I hope you understand! ”

When Xu Jianwen heard this, as an imperial general, he knew what the overall situation was, but he couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the emperor who he regarded as a child and died in battle.

"Hopefully their sacrifice will be worth it!"

"The people of the empire will not forget their sacrifice! I will ask the imperial court to erect a monument for all the sacrificed people, so that they will be immortalized! ”

"You still have a little conscience!"

Xu Jianwen finally showed a slight smile, which was for Lan Lide. It's already worth it. So he said, "Don't worry! We are ready to make sure that the Americans will have no return! ”

Although the U.S. military did not know that the radar station at the San Juan base had resumed its work, and had locked all the offensive routes of the U.S. aircraft, sending an advanced J-11 fighter group to ambush them. But likewise, Lang Lid's intelligence also underestimated the attack capability of the US military, and it was not only the more than 2,000 carrier-based aircraft of Nimitz's carrier battle group that participated in the operation. At the same time as the first wave of raids was successful, the US High Command immediately ordered the take-off of more than 4,000 US bombers that had been secretly transferred to airfields along the Gulf Coast three days earlier, with the original purpose of supplementing the aircraft carrier battle group. Because the U.S. military could not guarantee that the air force of the Chinese Empire would not take off to intercept it, just in case. Once the Chinese Imperial fighter jets take off to intercept the attack aircraft group of the Nimitz aircraft carrier battle group, the US military's plan to sneak up on San Juan through aircraft carrier aircraft fails. Aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft will turn into bait to attract aircraft of the Imperial Chinese Air Force. And the bomber group of the US military taking off from land will make a detour to raid San Juan.

Since the US High Command could not guarantee the success of any raid force, half an hour after the first wave of carrier-based aircraft of the Nimitz aircraft carrier battle group took off, a group of US bombers taking off from dozens of airfields along the Gulf Coast also took off.

This huge group of bombers flew to Mexico first to make an air attack on Mexico, so as to evade the warning radar of the Chinese Empire on the island of Cuba. After passing through southern Mexico, the bomber group quickly turned east and flew straight to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Since Lang Lide had already reported to the General Staff of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire had already sent an additional 1,000 H7 strategic bombers and 400 J-11 fighters from the Panamanian Air Force base to San Juan. β•”β•—Prepare to support the air battle in San Juan. And after the arrival of 1,000 H7 strategic bombers in San Juan, the fighter escort taking off from San Juan will turn to the Nimitz aircraft carrier battle group to the north. Prepare to wipe out the U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force in one fell swoop.

Reinforcements from Panama to San Juan were reported to the San Juan radar station as soon as they took off. The group of American bombers taking off from the Gulf of Mexico appeared right ahead of the flight route from Panama to San Juan.

Such a coincidence brought great disaster to the San Juan base.

At 8:17 a.m., a group of fighter jets from the San Juan base spotted a second wave of U.S. attack aircraft 40 nautical miles northwest of Puerto Rico. More than 200 Jian-11 fighters of the Imperial Chinese Air Force quickly pounced on the US planes, and because of the rapid speed of the Jian-11 fighters, the US bomber group was caught off guard and came under fierce attack, and dozens of them were shot down in an instant.

The fighter group escorted by the American army quickly entered the battle, trying to block the attack of the Imperial Chinese Air Force. However, since Nimitz determined that most of the planes at the San Juan base were destroyed in the first wave of air strikes, the second wave of attack aircraft had only a little more than 100 escorts, in addition to 720 bombers of various types.

The carrier-based fighter of the U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force aircraft carrier battle group is the latest F6F Hellcat, which is a carrier-based fighter specially developed by the U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force in response to the new combat methods of the aircraft carrier battle group, and is the standard carrier-based fighter after the establishment of the aircraft carrier battle group by the U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force during World War II, it was not the fastest fighter in World War II, but unlike the previous American fighters, the F6F Hellcat fighter because of the moderate speed, so that it can obtain excellent horizontal steering maneuverability. The Chinese Empire's J-11 fighter is fast, with an advantage in dive and climb, but the ability to maneuver horizontally is weak, so the U.S. Hellcat fighter can play a "cat and mouse" death game with the J-11 fighter of the Chinese Empire at low altitude, which is also a strategy that the U.S. fighter R&D personnel have been thinking about for a long time before deciding, because they have tried to surpass the Chinese Empire in speed and have repeatedly failed. This is also a solution that has no choice, but it has unexpectedly achieved considerable results.

The history of the F6F dates back to 1938, when the Grumman F4F-2 prototype, the XF4F-2, was in test flight, and both the U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force and Grumman wanted to cram the F4F with a more powerful engine to further improve performance. However, based on the basic design of the XF4F-1, the replacement alone could not guarantee the overall improvement of performance, and the wing area also needed to be increased, so the very successful XF4F-3 appeared, which provided valuable experience for the development of the F6F in the future.

During the Fourth Mexican-American War. The U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force formally freed itself from the binding treaty imposed on the U.S. Navy by the Chinese Empire, citing the invasion of the Mexican Navy, and the Maritime Self-Defense Force quickly began to build aircraft carriers and began to develop a new generation of carrier-based fighters. Chance. Water's inverted gull-wing XF4U-1 and Grumman's twin-engine XF5F-1 are two contenders for this program. While trial-producing the XF5F-1, Grumman did not stop working on the single-engine fighter and continued to improve the F4F Wildcat, drawing on valuable information from the European theater of operations. At the same time, the Luftwaffe transferred the high-performance engines of the captured J-10 fighters, that is, some cracking technologies, to the US Navy. It is worth mentioning that the US Maritime Self-Defense Force became the first country to borrow from the carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese Empire. For the first time, the new F4F-4 mimicked the folding wing technology of the early Hellfire carrier-based fighters of the Chinese Empire. The area occupied by the deck of the US aircraft carrier has been greatly reduced, so that it is possible to design a larger carrier-based fighter or an aircraft carrier to carry more carrier-based aircraft.

However, Grumman's XF5F-1 was questioned by the U.S. Maritime Self because it was known as obsolete because it mimicked the Hellfire carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese Empire more than two decades ago. At the same time, Grumman's twin-engine XF5F-1 was originally a good idea for the safety of carrier-based aircraft, but the two engines of the XF5F-1 were in front of the cockpit, and the pilots could not have seen the signal of the landing signal officer LSO when they landed. This is definitely a serious problem, and the XF5F-1 prototype did not turn out to be satisfactory. The Navy asked Grumman to come up with another alternative. In early 1942, Grumman proposed the XF6F-1 solution, considering the cost of procurement and ease of production. The engine was a 1,700 hp 14-cylinder air-cooled Wright R2600, which was already used in the Grumman XTBF-1 torpedo machine and began mass production. The XF6F-1 borrows a lot of proven technology from the F4F, allowing such an aircraft to be designed in a short period of time. After evaluating Grumman's design, U.S. Navy Command ordered two prototypes from Grumman, each with different engines, for comparative testing.

The XF6F-1 can be seen as a larger version of the F4F, which has twice the normal take-off weight and 20% geometric size of the F4F. Both were the brains of Grumman's "Blacksmith" design team, so it's no surprise that the two aircraft are similar in appearance. The XF6F-1's fuselage and tail structure are inherited from the F4F, with only geometric differences. The XF6F-1 has redesigned the middle wing so that the main landing gear can be retracted into the wing instead of the fuselage like the F4F, so that the main landing gear of the F6F has a much wider track than the F4F, making it more suitable for operation on carriers. The XF6F-1 also strengthened the pilot's armor and increased ammunition capacity. The sheer size of carrier-based aircraft has allowed the XF6F-1 to greatly improve its tactical performance, and the same trend has been seen with its competitor XF4U, which weighs more than twice as much as the J-10.

Since the U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force does not know the specific performance data of the Chinese Imperial Naval Air Force, which has been reequipped with jet carrier-based aircraft, they can only judge the performance of the Jian-10 carrier-based aircraft based on the early J-10 fighters, and then conduct targeted research.

It can be said that the US military's Hellcat carrier-based aircraft was developed entirely for the Jian-10 carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese Empire, but it never thought that the naval aviation of the Chinese Empire would have been replaced with a faster jet fighter long ago. However, due to the very strong horizontal maneuverability of the Hellcat carrier-based aircraft, it can be entangled with the J-11 fighter of the Chinese Empire by mistake.

One has strong horizontal fighting ability and the other has strong vertical attack power. Although at the beginning, the US fighter group failed to adapt to the surprise attack of the Chinese Imperial Air Force and suffered a big loss. Soon, however, some experienced US pilots took advantage of their surface maneuverability to evade the fierce attack of the Jian-11 fighters.

The biggest advantage of the J-11 fighter is speed, if you want to gain horizontal maneuverability, you have to slow down, which is obviously equivalent to suicide. Therefore, after several J-11 fighters slowed down to pursue the US fighters and were shot down by the other side, other fighters abandoned this idea.

The fighters of the two sides fought fiercely in the sky, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner for a while. But U.S. fighters had to escort bomber groups. Soon the Imperial Chinese Air Force turned to attack the American bombers, forcing the American escort fighters to come to the rescue, and as a result, the American fighters were shot down one after another.

However, the advantage of the fast speed of the J-11 fighters of the Chinese Empire was quickly offset by the fast fuel consumption, and under the entanglement of the US fighter group, the J-11 fighters soon ran out of fuel and were forced to withdraw from the battlefield. And the US fighter group because it is not clear about the situation. Therefore, they did not dare to pursue rashly. The remaining less than 33 fighters, after receiving orders from Nimitz, simply escorted the remaining less than 200 bombers to continue the attack in San Juan.

Nimitz also learned that the second wave of the attack echelon was attacked by an air force of the Chinese Empire and suffered heavy losses. So he felt a little uncomfortable. So the recovery of the first wave of returning aircraft was intensified, and preparations were made for the third wave of attacks.

At 8:21 a.m., the battle group of the aircraft carriers Wudangshan and Emeishan of the Imperial Chinese Navy arrived 150 nautical miles northeast of the Nimitz fleet. Because the fleet's anti-submarine destroyers and submarines successively discovered the US maritime reconnaissance and alert submarines 20 nautical miles away, and several US reconnaissance planes were also spotted on the shipboard radar screen of the 64,000-ton Wudangshan aircraft carrier, Vice Admiral Luo Qidong decided to stop approaching the enemy fleet and immediately dispatched carrier-based planes to attack the Nimitz fleet.

At 8:27, on the huge flight deck of the USS Wudangshan. The dense f6 carrier-based fighters, F8 torpedo bombers, and B2 tactical bombers successively completed the loading of weapons and began to catapult and take off one after another. Eight thirty-nine a.m. Thirty-six F6 carrier-based aircraft, 96 F8 torpedo bombers, and six B2 tactical bombers completed the battle formation in the air, and formed two attack echelons with 24 F6 shipfights, 36 F8 torpedo bombers, and 2 B2 bombers taking off from the Emeishan aircraft carrier. With a distance of 30 kilometers, they formed a high, medium and low echelon battle formation and flew towards the Nimitz fleet.

Inside the bridge of the Wudang Shanxing aircraft carrier, Luo Qidong kept asking about the report of the radar room, paying close attention to the movements of the Nimitz fleet, especially the fighter planes over the Nimitz fleet.

"Report: According to the radar, the aircraft signal over the enemy fleet is constantly decreasing, judging that the enemy aircraft carrier is recovering fighters!"

Luo Qidong asked: "How many more have not landed?" ”

"Judging by the radar reflection waves, there are about two hundred or so more! The landing is expected to be completed in ten minutes! ”

Luo Qidong thought for a while and said: "It takes ten minutes to complete the recovery action, and it takes forty minutes to reload the torpedo and aerial bombs." ”

The adjutant then said: "My attack aircraft group will arrive in an hour!" At that time, the decks of enemy aircraft carriers were piled up with fighters waiting to take off! We were able to hit them off guard! ”

"That's right!" Luo Qidong nodded, showed a smiling expression, and said, "Their third wave of attacks should be full of torpedoes and aerial bombs, and the number of fighters will definitely not be too much." If you can quickly destroy several enemy aircraft on the deck, it is possible to trigger a series of martyrdom, and the enemy's aircraft carrier will easily be finished! ”

The adjutant smiled: "Let the American devils go to the sea to feed Wang Ba!" The leopard who ate the bear's heart dared to sneak attack us, and this time we have to teach them a hard lesson! ”

Luo Qidong nodded, but unconsciously looked to the southwest, it was San Juan, he seemed to vaguely see the smoke above San Juan, and couldn't help but sigh: "I don't know what happened to San Juan?" ”

At the same time that Luo Qidong led two aircraft carriers to attack the Nimitz fleet, in the direction of San Juan, thousands of bombers of the US military flew over San Juan.

Prior to this, the radar station at the San Juan base had spotted a large number of aircraft approaching from the southwest, and the station commander believed that they were planes sent by the Chinese Empire from Panama for reinforcements, so no alarm was raised.

However, when the US bomber group approached the San Juan base less than 40 kilometers, another group of planes appeared on the screen of the radar station, which was none other than the reinforcements sent by the Chinese Empire from Panama, who had just entered the lightning detection radius of San Juan.

Two huge groups of planes appeared, and the head of the radar station quickly reported the situation, and Xu Jianwen and Lan Lide were immediately shocked, because they knew very well that one of the two must be an enemy, because Panama did not have two groups of such a large number of planes to help.

"This is the San Juan base! Identification now! Please report your identification code! ”

When the San Juan base issued an identification order to the US bomber group, the other party could not answer at all, so Xu Jianwen used this to judge that it was the enemy's aircraft group.

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