The battlefield is changing, and the reversal is so fast.

At half past eleven, the US-Tang coalition still had an absolute advantage, but an hour and a half later, the US-Tang coalition had four aircraft carriers: two seriously damaged, one began to sink and one was lightly wounded.

The speed of such losses was comparable to the speed of the Japanese army's losses of the three aircraft carriers, Akagi, Kaga, and Shozuru.

When the US-Tang coalition destroyed three Japanese aircraft carriers, it used more than 200 sorties, but the Japanese army achieved such brilliant results by using only 87 fighters, and the huge gap in combat strength between the two sides cannot be ignored.

After Admiral Nimitz received the battle report, he began a new round of long examinations.

However, what General Nimitz will ultimately decide will not affect Li Guang's actions. At one o'clock, Li Guang had already stepped on the deck of the No. 1 air defense destroyer, accompanied by dozens of staff officers.

Huang Zhonghua was directing the evacuation of the Liberty Dragon, and the U.S. military also supported a cruiser to help with the evacuation.

The free dragon sinks, the battle continues, Li Guang has no time to grieve, no time to heartache, he still has to answer the brothers of the Air Force.

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Yamaguchi was rewarded, and the confidence to win was once again strong. Yamamoto Isoroku got the battle report and re-started to fly the flag again with the Kuroshima Kameto. Kuroshima Kameto no longer fainted, although he was still unsettled, and he reluctantly sat down and played against Chief Yamamoto.

Spruance didn't seem to care about the battle damage at all, and he still spared his words, giving a series of orders short but firm. Thanks to the hard work of the US military's damage management personnel, the USS Enterprise quickly repaired its deck and quickly extinguished the fire.

The fire has not yet been completely extinguished, and the USS Enterprise has begun to recover its fighters. If you don't recycle it, you can't do it, and the US fighter jets run out of fuel. Although the Japanese air raids did not last long, more than 10 US planes had crashed into the sea in a row.

Half past one. The USS Enterprise recovered all its fighters. And the total number of fighters that can be recovered is really pitiful.

Eleven fighters. Ten dive bombers, the number of torpedo planes was zero.

And this will be the whole of the third wave of strike forces of the US-Tang coalition.

The powerful US-Tang coalition is already at the end of its power.

Whether it is Major General Spruance or Admiral Nimitz, the only thing that can be expected at this time is the second wave of air strike forces of the US-Tang coalition. Victory or defeat is unknown, and neither Admiral Nimitz nor Major General Spruance is sure. In the past few hours of fighting, the shortcomings of the US military have been very obvious. In fact, this is also the consistent problem of the US military, the lack of armor-piercing blades. The pilots were brave enough. However, the gap between the technical level and the Japanese army was too large.

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Thirteen:45. The group led by Liu Gensheng arrived at the designated area. But the Yamaguchi Tawen fleet was nowhere to be seen at this time. At this moment, Liu Gensheng did not know that the Liberty Dragon had suffered heavy damage, and Li Guang sent a report to the group of planes, and only ordered the fighters to fly to Midway Island when they returned. Although Liu Gensheng had doubts about this, communication difficulties during the battle. There is no way to understand the details at all.

Discovery is both annihilation. The premise is that you can find out. Liu Gensheng believed that the Japanese should withdraw farther from Midway--- that is, to the west or north.

In the first wave of strikes, Liu Gensheng led the team to fly west to search first. Some time was wasted. This time, Liu Gensheng decided to fly north to search for the Japanese aircraft carrier.

That's it. The sixteen fighters of the Naval Resistance Army actually deviated from the course of the Yamaguchi Duowen fleet. In fact, the same is true of a B17 fighter led by Liu Kejin, and Liu Gensheng and Liu Kejin are actually searching in the same direction.

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The 42 fighters released by the US military this time flew quite well, and they were not as messy as the first wave of strike forces. When they reached the skies over the designated sea area, only two of the forty-two warplanes had scattered.

For the US military. This is not a bad result.

The American officer in charge of the team had a similar idea to Liu Gensheng, and he also believed that the Japanese aircraft carrier should move far away, but he made the decision to search westward.

Therefore, the direction of Yamaguchi Tawen's fleet was also missed.

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There is nothing surprising about Yamaguchi's command, the only thing that is commendable is that he dares to gamble. Now the entire Japanese fleet was divided into two groups. The first group consisted of two aircraft carriers and two heavy cruisers led by Rear Admiral Hiroki Abe, with a total of ten warships heading straight for Midway.

At two o'clock, the ten battleships were located one hundred and fifty nautical miles northwest of Midway.

And the two aircraft carriers and escort ships of Yamaguchi Tawen are sailing south at the moment. Two hundred nautical miles from Midway.

The distance between the two fleets of the Japanese army was about one hundred and fifty kilometers.

If there is any effect of Yamaguchi's gambling deployment, it is that the most powerful combat strength of the US-Tang coalition forces, more than 50 fighters, all of which have misjudged the search direction.

And the reason why Yamaguchi Tawen is so deployed is that he did not expect to be able to evade US fighters. He dared to make such a deployment, and his greatest reliance was on the more than 40 Zero fighters in his fleet. Taking advantage of the two-hour break in the battle, Yamaguchi had already completed the refueling and resupply of all the Zero fighters.

The Zero fighter has a strong endurance, and after filling up with fuel, it can last up to 2,100 kilometers. If you convert it into time, you can easily stay in the air for six hours. That is to say, before dark at eighteen o'clock, Yamaguchi's fleet can ensure perfect air vigilance.

War is both calculation and calculation.

Nimitz was estimating the number of Japanese fighters, and Yamaguchi Tabun was also estimating the number of American fighters.

Since the strength of the Japanese army has been fully demonstrated, Nimitz's estimate of the Japanese fighters is relatively accurate. The estimate of Yamaguchi Duowen is quite different.

Yamaguchi Tabun believes that the total number of land-based fighters and sea-based fighters of the US military will not exceed 100 now. One of the biggest inaccuracies is that Yamaguchi believes that all four U.S. aircraft carriers were bombed, two of which were seriously damaged (Yorktown and Hornet) and two were slightly damaged (Enterprise and Liberty Dragon).

Note: Yamaguchi Tawen thinks that the Liberty Dragon is only a minor injury, and no one takes it for granted that an aviation torpedo can sink an aircraft carrier. How did he know the ins and outs of the Freedom Dragon aircraft carrier of the Maritime Resistance Army, but it was really sunk by a torpedo.

He believes that when the US military attacked the Akagi and Kaga and Shozuru in the first wave, the first wave of strike forces would have returned home long ago, and many fighters should have been destroyed. How did he know that more than 20 rookies of the US military flew back to Midway, and by mistake, the Japanese army struck four aircraft carriers fiercely, but in fact, there was not a single fighter on the four aircraft carriers at that time. This is simply a miracle probability, but it was encountered by Yamaguchi Tashi.

Therefore, Yamaguchi counted more than twenty fighters.

Yamaguchi also undercounted another group of fighters, that is, the US strategic bomber group that flew from Pearl Harbor -- 42 large bombers.

Forty-two large bombers were dispatched together, and in 1942, when the Pacific War had just begun, it was definitely a big deal. For Nimitz, too, it was all the bets. You know, Pearl Harbor is just forty-two large bombers.

There is a joke about two beggars discussing the life of the emperor, and they think that the emperor's days are to eat fritters in the morning, eat fritters at noon, and eat churros in the evening. Although Yamaguchi Tawen is a well-informed general in the Japanese Navy, he still can't jump out of the thinking of this beggar in Japan. He didn't dare to imagine that the US military would be so rich that it would throw dozens of large bombers at once. And it is across more than 2,000 kilometers to deal with targets on the sea.

The U.S. military did just that, and Nimitz gave the order to attack at seven o'clock in the morning after confirming that the Midway runway had not been completely destroyed.

These 42 large bombers, if the value is calculated, is more than 10 million US dollars, and it is absolutely impossible to train such a bomber formation without several million US dollars. Together with the investment in maintenance, spare parts and ground facilities, this strategic bomber force has exceeded the value of an aircraft carrier.

If such a bomber formation is applied to the land battlefield, a single sortie at the division and regimental level can almost play a role in turning the tide.

Japan has medium bombers, but so far there is not a single bomber capable of carrying more than six tons. The gap between the United States and Japan is so large that it is not measured at all.

Sun Tzu's Art of War has a cloud: know yourself and know your opponent and win all battles. It's easy to say a little bit about a confidant, but it's not easy to talk about it.

(There are many things on New Year's Day, and there are fewer updates, sorry.) (To be continued......)

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