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In naval battles, in some cases, the generals of both sides make the same decisions. The Naval Resistance Army studed all the fighters, and Spruance was almost all dispatched. Yamaguchi's choice was to stud up all the bombers and torpedo machines.

For aircraft carriers, the fighter is the armor of the samurai. The Freedom Dragon aircraft carrier of the Maritime Resistance Army is of course completely unarmoured. And the two aircraft carriers that Yamaguchi heard a lot of are also thinly armored.

Yamaguchi Tabun sent two groups of fighters in succession, and at this time, the Hiei and the Flying Dragon were in a state of extremely weak air defense. In the skies above the two aircraft carriers, there were only 15 Zero fighters escorting them, and these 15 Zero fighters were also divided into a fairly wide airspace, and in fact, only two of them could protect the two aircraft carriers.

When the Akagi was bombed by U.S. fighters in turn, Nagumo's life and death were unknown. It was not until eleven o'clock that Tamon Yamaguchi took over the command of the fleet.

Why is it so slow? According to common sense, shouldn't the communication of the Akagi be interrupted, and Yamaguchi can take over the command immediately?

In the Japanese Navy, it is not to look at who is the main combat strength, but to look at seniority, and seniority is the greatest truth in the Japanese Navy.

In the mobile fleet led by Nagumo Tadaichi, the battleships and heavy cruisers that served as escorts had a commander - Rear Admiral Hiroki Abe. Hiroki Abe was the commander of the 11th Sentai Squadron, also with the rank of major general, and was in charge of the battleships Kongo and Haruna, as well as several heavy cruisers.

Although Yamaguchi Tawen and Abe Hiroki are both major generals, Abe Hiroki graduated from the 39th class of the Navy, while Yamaguchi Tawen graduated from the 40th class of the Navy. Therefore, it is only natural that Hiroki Abe took over the command in the first place. Fortunately, Abe Hiroki is not an idiot, the battle between the two sides is completely out of sight, and even if he has battleships and heavy cruisers in hand, it is useless at all. Therefore, Abe Hiroki showed a deep understanding of righteousness. Transferred command to Tawen Yamaguchi.

Even Major General Abe Hiroki was so aware of the righteousness, he was delayed for more than ten minutes. And these more than ten minutes once again inflicted irreparable losses on the Japanese fleet.

After Yamaguchi Tawen was given command, he immediately raised the flag on the Wyvern. His first order was to decisively abandon the protection of the Akagi and Kaga, which were already on fire, and he ordered all Zero fighters to move closer to Hiei and Wyvern.

There was nothing wrong with Yamaguchi's response itself, but it was nearly a hundred kilometers away, and it would take time for the Zero fighters to arrive, and it would take one or two minutes.

Commentary on this period in post-war Japan has focused almost exclusively on the drawbacks of the transfer of command. But hindsight doesn't help at all. And the bad habit of seniority that has been cultivated for decades. There is a strong inertia, and even if everyone is aware of the drawbacks, no one can change it, and General Yamamoto 56 is powerless.

At eleven o'clock, the fighter plane formation of the Naval Resistance Army arrived at exactly this time. It couldn't be more coincidental, and it arrived at this idle time.

If you arrive ten minutes early. It will collide with the second wave of fighters released by Yamaguchi Tawen. With the Japanese army's overwhelming superiority in numbers, the Naval Resistance Army's only 20 fighters of various types will definitely not be able to get any advantage. If it had been delayed for more than 10 minutes, it would have been difficult for the Japanese army's 40 or 50 Zero fighters to break through.

The fighter formation led by Shao Fuxuan was able to cross a range of 500 kilometers and successfully found the two aircraft carriers of Yamaguchi Duowen. There are three main favorable factors: First, the US military reconnaissance planes have been keeping an eye on the mountain pass despite the casualties, and after the reports and analyses of the reports of many reconnaissance planes, the coordinates of the sea area are quite accurate.

Second. Shao Fuxuan's luck was very good, and the one-word search tactics of the Maritime Resistance Army made another contribution.

Third, and most importantly, this is the point. Although Liu Kejin's bombing did not hit the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiei, the damaged power of the Hiei forced Yamaguchi to change his plan - he was unable to maneuver and change direction. During this period of more than an hour, although he drove away all the US reconnaissance planes, he could only stay in the exposed sea area.

It's not that Yamaguchi Tawen didn't think about leading the Flying Dragon to escape, but the Hiei is not the three aircraft carriers led by Nagumo Tadaichi, this is the aircraft carrier of the Second Air Force directly under him Yamaguchi Tawen. No matter from any angle, he could not separate the two aircraft carriers.

It was precisely because of these three reasons that when the twenty fighters led by Shao Fuxuan arrived at the designated sea area, they found the Japanese fleet with almost no difficulty.

If we say that the first reason is the effectiveness of the command of the US generals. The second and third are the main reasons for luck. You must know that when Li Guang gave the harassment order to Liu Kejin, he actually did not expect a weak B17 to make meritorious contributions. In fact, Liu Kejin did not bomb the Japanese aircraft carrier, but by mistake caused Yamaguchi to be unable to move around, but it was a real great achievement.

Shao Fuxuan rose to prominence in the Battle of the Coral Sea and was promoted to the leader of the torpedo squad, although his squad only had six TBF torpedo planes, which was far less than the number of fighters in other squads. But Shao Fuxuan himself is a pilot in the first echelon, and he deserves the position of squad leader in terms of technology, qualifications or combat merits.

As soon as the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army appeared in the field of vision of the Japanese observation post, they were immediately discovered by the devils.

The two Zero fighters pounced directly despite their weak strength.

At this time, the devil pilots were at the craziest moment, three aircraft carriers were bombed, no matter who knew that if the two aircraft carriers of the Second Air Force were bombed, then the Imperial Japanese Navy would lose all the large and medium-sized aircraft carriers, not only the Midway strategy would fail, but it would even affect the victory or defeat of the entire Japanese Pacific War. At this moment, the Japanese pilots were like dead relatives, and they did not pay attention to tactics at all, and directly pounced on the group of naval resistance planes.

Just two fighters dared to fight with 20 fighters of the Naval Resistance Army. The devil is very brave, but no matter how brave he is, under the gap in absolute strength, he can only be destroyed.

The strength of the two Zero fighters is too thin, and they have not even been able to fight back, and the eight P40s of the Maritime Resistance Army have already occupied an altitude advantage in flight, and there is speed when there is altitude. Eight fighters spotted the two Japanese Zeros, and in a series of dive strafing, they killed the two Zeros within three to five minutes.

The devil lost two Zero fighters, although there were no bombers that could stop the naval resistance army, but it also bought a few minutes of defense time for Yamaguchi Tawen.

Time is of the essence for both sides of the war, and the sooner the Naval Resistance Army can attack, the less resistance it will encounter. However, if the Japanese army could delay a little time, more than 40 Zero fighters that were supposed to be in charge of air alert over the Akagi would have been able to arrive.

Shao Fuxuan didn't know that a large number of Japanese Zero fighters were rushing here, but it was definitely the right thing to attack immediately.

He led the torpedo planes without delaying at all, and immediately began to attack the aircraft carrier Wyvern.

The Naval Resistance Force had only six torpedo planes and six bombers, and because of the range, the P40 fighters did not carry bombs at all. In the face of two Japanese aircraft carriers. The attack force is extremely weak.

And the battle plan of the Naval Resistance Army made the attack force even weaker. Before the war, the flight commander Yuan Zi, after much consideration, believed that it was undoubtedly uncertain that such a small number of fighters would sink two aircraft carriers, even if sinking one was already a rather brilliant result.

However, this wave of bombing was completely different from the first wave of bombing of the three aircraft carriers led by Nagumo Tadaichi. Because the number of US-Tang allied fighters in this attack was too small, a total of only 36. Therefore, he did not set the goal of sinking or destroying the Japanese aircraft carrier, but wounding them.

Of course, the premise of this battle plan was that when breaking through the Japanese air defenses, the bombers of the Naval Resistance Army did not suffer losses.

Yuan Zi's proposal was not a plan to maximize the interests of the Naval Resistance Army. Because the Americans gave a huge reward for the participation of the Naval Resistance Army. Damage and sinking are not at all a level of achievement. However, after thinking about it, Li Guang also agreed to Yuan Zi's plan. The reason is simple, victory comes first. If the Japanese army turns defeat into victory, it will be more detrimental to the naval resistance army than a small bounty.

The power of the aircraft carrier is powerful, but the fragility of the aircraft carrier is also obvious to all. Although the Navy's resistance forces only have 12 bombers, especially six of them, they are still new fighters that have only been explored for three days, and there is no training between torpedo planes and dive bombers to cooperate with each other at all. It should be said that the operational goal of the Naval Resistance Force has been set somewhat excessively.

The reason why Li Guang agreed to this plan was very simple: he believed that with the hit rate of the dive bombers of the Naval Resistance Army, the six dive bombers should be able to achieve two hits. As long as one of the 800-kilogram armor-piercing shells of the Naval Resistance Army hits, it can completely damage a Japanese aircraft carrier. Although Li Guang did not say it explicitly, in his heart he did not calculate the combat effectiveness of the torpedo plane at all, after all, the pilots had only been proficient for three days, and it was difficult for even elite pilots to really give full play to the full performance of this new torpedo plane.

The war was ever-changing, and after the fighters took off, Li Guang had no way to speculate on the final result, after all, there were only 20 fighters, and no one could grasp whether they could break through the Japanese defenses.

When Shao Fuxuan led the bombers to successfully break through the Japanese air defenses, the resistance was smaller than expected, and he was immediately overjoyed.

With only 12 bombers, the Naval Resistance Army immediately divided into two routes and launched an attack on the two Japanese aircraft carriers together.

There is no need to worry about the level of dive bombing of the naval resistance army, and whether it can achieve better results depends on the torpedo plane.

At the beginning of the attack, Shao Fuxuan used the command radio to give an order to the dive bombers: "You fight from a high altitude, we will fight from a high altitude." Storm at full speed. ”

There has never been a combat cooperation between the two bombers of the Naval Resistance Army. Therefore, Shao Fuxuan's order is the most in line with the current situation, and its essence is that the two teams fight separately. (To be continued......)