Sixteen:40.

It was already dark.

The B17 bombers led by Liu Kejin had approached Midway at this time.

But Liu Kejin found that he couldn't go back.

By the time it was dark, the battleship formation led by Hiroki Abe had already begun shelling Midway.

Yamaguchi's gamble failed in half, burying all the Japanese aircraft carriers. But his other half gambled with unprecedented success.

The battleships and heavy cruisers led by Hiroki Abe arrived at Midway just in time for dark. During the entire assault, only one shot was made from the battleship Kongo, and the losses were minimal. This result was much better than Yamaguchi had expected, and for five or six hours, such a large fleet had received only one wave of air raids, and there was no loss except for a bomb on the battleship Kongo.

The assault turned out to be so easy, Major General Abe Hiroki couldn't believe it.

With thirty kilometers to go, Major General Abu Hongyi couldn't wait to launch an artillery bombardment of Midway.

For Abe Hiroki's battleship formation, the American forces at Midway were almost helpless. After the U.S. military has used its strength to the extreme, it simply has no strength to fight back.

Before the bombardment of Midway, the US military had already discovered this fleet, but there were not many fighters that could take off before the bombardment. Among them were four fighters of the Naval Resistance Army.

The seven warplanes led by Shao Fuxuan landed at Midway at 13:45 p.m.

He was in a hurry to refuel and hang up the bombs, but the US military had just released the fighter plane at this time, and the island was in a mess, and no one paid attention to him at all. Later, as the US fighter planes returned one after another, the island became even more chaotic. As a last resort, Shao Fuxuan and a few other pilots had to do it themselves. Clothed. Everyone was busy pushing their own carts to hang up bombs and driving their own fuel. It took four hours, and it was already seventeen o'clock.

When the supply was completed, Midway was even more chaotic. The U.S. forces also discovered the Japanese fleet, but the U.S. forces on Midway Island were no longer capable of attacking. Not to mention that the pilots are already tired and weak-footed, and even the fuel supply is seriously insufficient. (An early morning Japanese air raid destroyed a gasoline warehouse.) The devil is coming, no matter how tired he is, the US fighter planes have to refuel. As a result, Midway was even more chaotic.

The U.S. military has always been highly skilled in management, but in the course of such a fast-paced battle. It's also chaotic.

When Shao Fuxuan and the others finally finished filling up the fuel and hung up the bomb, they found that they couldn't take off at all. The runway was full of planes landing or refueling, and there was no way to go.

Fortunately, Liu Gensheng's fighter plane returned. Liu Gensheng took a look. It was not his turn to refuel and hang up the bomb again, so everyone threw themselves into help. Tossed for another hour. Shao Fuxuan's four fighters stumbled onto a short runway.

Almost Abe's naval guns began to roar. Shao Fuxuan's four fighters were able to take off. Fortunately, Shao Fuxuan was piloting carrier-based aircraft, otherwise the short runway less than 300 meters long would not have been able to take off at all.

By mistake, when Abe's battleship formation began shelling Midway, only five fighters of the Naval Resistance Force were a little threatened. (Of all the fighters that took off in the U.S. military, there was not a single one with bombs.) One B17 from Liu Kejin, two torpedo planes and two dive bombers from Shao Fuxuan.

Liu Kejin was the first to attack. It should be said that Liu Kejin's luck is not good. But it also has a big effect.

Bad luck because neither of his dexterous bombs could hit the battleship Haruna. The reason for the effect is that a dexterous bomb exploded at a very close position to the Haruna, causing the power of the Haruna to be damaged. The power of the smart bombs of the Naval Resistance Army is not comparable to those thousand-pound bombs. The power of the bomb explosion is difficult to resist even for a battleship with thick skin, and a close miss is quite powerful. After the explosion, the battleship Haruna was unable to move on the sea, becoming a live target.

But Shao Fuxuan just seized this opportunity.

Two dive bombers took the lead, and the two 1,000-pound bombs were all hit, and the anti-aircraft fire on the Haruna was immediately weakened.

The torpedo plane piloted by Shao Fuxuan dived twice, but failed to achieve any results. Shao Fuxuan has not yet fully grasped the performance of this torpedo plane, although the PDF torpedo plane has the function of dive bombing, but because its bombs are stored in the ammunition compartment, the timing of the bomb and the angle of the fighter are quite different from the dreadnought bombers familiar to the pilots of the naval resistance army, so Shao Fuxuan threw two 500-pound bombs and all deviated from the target.

On Midway, Shao Fuxuan did not fail to mount a torpedo, but mounted a bomb. The wide cabin of the PDF torpedo machine was capable of hanging one thousand-pound bomb and two five-hundred-pound bombs.

Shao Fuxuan was quite cautious, and first tested the water with two 500-pound bombs, but the dive bombing that he was very familiar with turned out to be ineffective in a row.

Facing an almost stationary target on the sea surface, he missed continuously, which made Shao Fuxuan's face a little unpleasant.

If he was piloting a dreadnought dive bomber, Shao Fuxuan would definitely be able to hit them all.

At the same time as Shao Fuxuan launched the attack, another torpedo plane of the Maritime Resistance Army also dropped all the bombs, but it failed to hit even one.

In his anxiety, Shao Fuxuan had a flash of inspiration. During his three days of training at Pearl Harbor, he once threw a training torpedo, and because the fighter plane was too close to the sea, the heavy torpedo flew far away on the sea as if it were floating in water.

Afterwards, he was jokingly called "playing in the water" by his comrades-in-arms.

Anyway, it's dive bombing, and I'm not sure. Besides, it was a bomb from the US military, and Shao Fuxuan was not distressed. Shao Fuxuan decided to try his luck, so he drove the fighter plane around in a big circle and flew flat at a low altitude on the sea.

In the already dim sky, the devil didn't find Shao Fuxuan at all.

At a distance of five or six hundred meters, two pillars of light under the wings of the torpedo planes indicating the height were discovered by the Japanese.

The Japanese artillery fire immediately turned to Shao Fuxuan.

To be honest, playing in the water is just Shao Fuxuan's whim. Shao Fuxuan only knew that the fighter plane flew as low as possible, and it was easy to drift, but he didn't know how low it should be, and the effect was the best.

As for the distance, he didn't have any idea in his mind, but he maintained the speed very well, one hundred and ten knots.

Shao Fu Xuan according to the light of the lamppost. It is estimated that the bomb was dropped at a height of about 10 meters.

Of course, he had no idea of hiding from the Japanese artillery fire, but when he dropped the bomb, the fighter plane was too close to the battleship Haruna, less than 400 meters.

Seeing that the fighter plane was about to collide with the Japanese warship, this was difficult for Shao Fuxuan, and he pulled the fighter up in time.

That's when the crisis happened.

The bomb arrived at the battleship Haruna almost at the same time as the fighter plane, hitting the side armor of the battleship Haruna, and a huge explosion caused a mist of water hundreds of meters.

The power of a 1,000-pound bomb can easily penetrate more than 100 millimeters of steel armor, and you can imagine how powerful it is. The killing range of the shock wave alone is more than three hundred meters. The fighter plane piloted by Shao Fuxuan was affected by the shock wave, and it lost control at that moment, and then it was held up again by the rapidly rising water mist.

Shao Fuxuan was dizzy from the violent vibration, and he couldn't see anything clearly in the mist. He couldn't even figure out how the fighter plane got out of danger, and what attitude the fighter plane was flying in the seconds after the explosion. He is even more unclear. Waiting for the torpedo machine to rush out of the mist, Shao Fuxuan's head felt slightly better. At this time, the belly of his fighter plane was actually flying against the sea.

In a few short seconds. Shao Fuxuan didn't know what was going on. He obviously pulled up the fighter. How could the flight altitude be lowered again?

This is not the time to think, Shao Fuxuan worked hard to pull up the fighter. The originally powerful PDF torpedo machine turned out to be like an old cow and a broken car, slowly climbing from side to side.

It was only at this time that Shao Fuxuan discovered that the fighter plane was already full of holes, and the skin on the plane was already in tatters. The cockpit canopy no longer knows where to fly. It's more gratifying. The two machine gunners and bombardier behind him were unconscious, but neither of them were thrown out of the plane when the fighter rolled.

It's a real escape.

Shao Fuxuan came to a conclusion. The drifting tactics are certainly more accurate than the torpedo attack. The bombs were rushing at the enemy ship at almost the same speed as the fighter plane, and the battleship had no chance to dodge the bomb flying at a speed of 200 kilometers.

However, the bombs will reach the enemy ship at about the same time as the fighters, if you want to avoid damage to the fighters. The bomb's time-delay fuse had to be adjusted a little longer, otherwise the bomb would spread to the fighter itself.

It's scary to think about it, Shao Fuxuan used the tactic of fighting for the first time in the battle, and the fighter plane was still able to fly after being affected by the shock wave of the bomb, in addition to the sturdiness of the US torpedo plane, the more important thing is good luck.

The battleship Haruna was heavily damaged, a large hole was blown out of the side side, and more than a dozen devils were killed on the spot. However, the battleship was not flooded, so it was saved, and two hours later, power was restored, and Rear Admiral Hiroki Abe ordered the battleship Haruna to withdraw from the battlefield.

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Shao Fuxuan's attack did not stop the Japanese artillery bombardment. At this time, the American troops at Midway were already suffering from casualties.

The power of the guns of battleships and heavy cruisers was truly devastating. Midway is a key naval base for the U.S. military, but it is not a fortress. The flat terrain of the island determined that his defenses were weak. The artificially built fortifications could not compete with the Japanese naval guns at this time, especially the Japanese battleships still used armor-piercing shells. The reinforced concrete, which is more than a meter thick, is like tofu scum under the blow of this giant egg.

The caliber of the American shore guns was too small to inflict much damage on the Japanese battleships and heavy cruisers. As the Japanese artillery bombardment deepened, the resistance of the American troops became weaker and weaker. In less than half an hour, the US troops had not returned fire with a single shell.

The total area of the two islands at Midway is only 4.7 square kilometers. The more than 700 kilograms of bombs fired by the battleship Kongo's guns had a radius of more than 100 meters.

If the Japanese naval guns could deliver accurate carpet bombardment, it would only take 100 shells to cover the entire length of the two islands.

Naval artillery of such caliber is simply not something that can be competed with by the human spirit and body. Abe's shelling lasted an hour and a half, spraying nearly a thousand shells and blowing up the entire Midway Island like hell.

One battleship is worth a thousand cannons (of the army). Definitely not an exaggeration, but a real one.

If the Japanese fleet of Kondo Nobutake arrived at this moment, it would be possible to occupy Midway Island almost bloodlessly. At this time, the US officers and soldiers were trembling in the underground fortifications, and many young US soldiers were sobbing lowly. Some US soldiers were so frightened and delirious that they rushed out of their bunkers and were blown into a cloud of blood. The morale of the American military has dropped to a freezing point.

If you don't see it with your own eyes, no one will believe it. More than an hour. The fortifications on the ground of Midway were completely destroyed. Almost all the American troops on the ground were killed, and none of the reinforced concrete fortifications on the ground survived, all of them were blown into ruins. According to later statistics, in just one and a half hours, the number of US casualties exceeded 1,000, and dozens of warplanes were completely destroyed. The rate of casualties is second only to Pearl Harbor in the history of the U.S. military.

At twenty-one o'clock in the evening, the fall of Midway seemed to be in full swing.

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What was Li Guang doing in those few hours?

After the Liberty Dragon was heavily damaged, Li Guang gave Liu Gensheng's group an order to return to Midway.

At that time, the two Japanese aircraft carriers were fine, and Li Guang did not dare to order the pilots to return to the enterprise aircraft carrier.

Li Guang's judgment was that the US military was worse. He was worried that Midway would be occupied by the Japanese. Then the elite pilots of the Naval Resistance Army will suffer miserably. So he went straight to Midway Island in order to rescue the pilots of the Maritime Resistance Army.

When the news of the destruction of the two Japanese aircraft carriers reached Li Guang's ears, he originally thought that the situation would take a turn for the better, but he learned that the Japanese battleship formation was only 100 kilometers away from Midway.

As for the power of the battleship, Li Guang was very clear. Therefore, he had already picked up the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army before the Japanese entered the range of naval guns. If it weren't for the fact that Shao Fuxuan's four fighters had already completed the ground operation of refueling and hanging bombs, they would have been taken away by Li Guang.

Afterwards. After knowing the heavy casualties of the American army. Li Guang was very satisfied with his move.

At twenty-one o'clock, the Baxia No. 1 air defense destroyer began to recover all the pilots. These include Shao Fuxuan's four units and Liu Kejin's B17 units.

All of these crews were parachuting on the sea to escape, and the reason why they were able to find the target in the dark was very simple, Li Guang was extremely bold in aiming his searchlight at the sky. Intense lights soar into the sky and can be seen for tens of kilometers. This is the best target designation for fighters.

A little over twenty-two. The pilots of the Maritime Resistance Army have all boarded the Baxia No. 1. The two cousins, Shao Fuxuan and Liu Kejin, behaved exactly the same, both holding the camera film and video tapes on the fighter plane.

This is evidence that the United States will be rewarded in the future.

At eleven o'clock, Li Guang got a message again.

Pixiu II captured a Japanese aircraft carrier.

This fantastical news is not light.

Only such a submarine of the Maritime Resistance Force participated in the war, in Li Guang's consciousness. It is difficult for this aircraft carrier to reach Midway today, and it is simply impossible to participate in the war.

What's going on?

The reason is that the submarine did not reach Midway today, but it was able to reach 200 nautical miles northwest of Midway.

What kind of sea is there? The sea area where three Japanese aircraft carriers were heavily damaged. On the sea covered in night, the burning Akagi is the brightest guide. It was also Liu Kejin's improvised initiative to blow up the sea area of a Japanese destroyer.

Therefore, when Pixiu 2 arrived there, this sea was decorated with Japanese warships, and there was not even a single figure.

The captain of the Pixiu No. 2, Ho Shuoheng, is a veteran who was seriously wounded in last year's Panama Canal attack on a Japanese merchant ship, with one ear sliced off and a serious facial injury. Because one of his ears was deaf, Li Guang originally planned to let He Shuoheng be an instructor for the recruits of the submarine force, but He Shuoheng insisted on continuing to command submarine operations.

Therefore, after recovering from his injuries, he still served as the captain of the Pixiu 2 and the deputy captain of the 1st Submarine Squadron, assisting Ji Keliang in commanding the operation.

He Shuoheng observed for a long time, and he found that although the Kaga was still smoking, the hull was intact and there was no sign of sinking at all. You must know that although the Kaga was heavily damaged, the naval resistance forces only threw ten 250-pound bombs, mainly because the Kaga itself was damaged by the explosion of the bombs. Of the three aircraft carriers lost by Nagumo Tadaichi, only the Kaga was the least injured. Although the fire was severe enough, it burned in the upper layer, did not damage the main structure of the aircraft carrier, and did not cause the explosion of the bomb in the ammunition bay. In fact, the aircraft carrier looked in a terrible condition, but it did not receive real fatal damage.

After He Shuoheng's careful search around the Kaga, not a single Japanese boat was found. So he was immediately tempted.

This is an aircraft carrier, who can not be tempted?

Therefore, while He Shuoheng sent a report to Li Guang, he sent someone to the Jiahe number. I got a wire rope, and it took a lot of effort to finally fix the steel cable to Pixiu No. 2.

It was 12 o'clock on the 4th of June.

He Shuoheng was bold enough to come up with this solution. Using a submarine to tow an aircraft carrier, this kind of anecdote is probably a case that has never been seen in the history of world warfare, and He Shuoheng pioneered it.

Ho Shuoheng's actions are extremely dangerous, and you must know that the dawn time in the waters of Midway Island is less than five o'clock in the morning. As soon as the morning dawns, I am afraid that it will be discovered by Japanese and US reconnaissance planes.

For five hours, with the power of Pixiu II, the Kaga was towed away by a maximum of 100 kilometers. And with the manpower on the Pixiu 2, I am afraid that it will be difficult to extinguish the fire on the Kaga.

What Li Guang is most worried about is not to steal chickens and rice, and to lose Pixiu No. 2, Li Guang will be distressed to death.

But an aircraft carrier at your fingertips, being bombed is also a good thing, and it is not at all a grade higher than the design and manufacturing level of the Liberty Dragon. The Liberty Dragon could be sunk by one torpedo, but it would take at least two or three torpedoes to sink even the crippled Kaga. The design and construction level of the two aircraft carriers is no longer of the same grade at all, and Li Guang is not willing to sink them.

That's how the poor are, they have to live a careful life.

Risks are risks, and for the sake of an aircraft carrier, it is totally worth taking a risk. Li Guang immediately notified Baxia No. 3 to go to meet him, and quickly worked out a route with a group of staff officers. As for notifying the US military, it was something that only idiots would do, and Li Guang didn't even flash this thought in his mind.

Fortunately, Li Guang knew the deployment of the US troops, and it was not difficult to formulate a departure route, but it was difficult to say whether the Japanese army would pose much of a threat.

Huang Zhonghua happened to be on the third at this time. Qi Han, the captain of the third ship, was injured, and Huang Zhonghua temporarily took over the command. When Huang Zhonghua heard the news, he was so happy that he almost collapsed. Huang Zhonghua has been sad for several hours, and this kind of news can imagine the encouragement to him.

Without saying a word, Huang Zhonghua led the third to Pixiu No. 2.

In the Battle of Midway, the Maritime Resistance Army harvested an aircraft carrier Kaga, but it turned out to be unaware. The Japanese army did not know that the U.S. military was anxious about Midway that night, and no one paid attention to it.

The USS Enterprise had actually retreated eastward now, and Spruance would not have fought a night battle with the Japanese at all. There was not a single American warship within two hundred nautical miles of the entire Midway island, only a few submarines.

And the Japanese army was busy occupying Midway, and no one bothered to check the Kaga aircraft carrier......

The actions of the Naval Resistance Army were like thieves, but in fact, for more than a month, the Kaga was dragged to the Stone Statue Island, and three or four supplies were replenished in the middle. (To be continued......)