The U.S. and Japanese sides have already fought the first round of fighting, what is the Liberty Dragon doing at this moment?

Since eight o'clock in the morning, the Liberty Dragon has already found some abnormalities, and the radio signal is dense. At this time, both the US and Japanese forces discovered their opponents, and both aircraft carriers and reconnaissance planes were constantly sending messages and contacts.

The Naval Resistance Army also discovered the direction of the radio waves, which happened to be at an angle of 90 degrees to the Liberty Dragon.

It's really hard to guess this thing, and the Navy doesn't know anything about what happened. Huang Zhonghua had no choice but to strengthen his vigilance, and the Liberty Dragon still maintained its maneuvering navigation, trying to hide under thick clouds.

By nine o'clock, the three reconnaissance planes had returned home, and nothing unusual had been found.

The second wave of reconnaissance planes took off at half past eight. I flew for an hour until half past nine, and still found nothing.

The weather in the Coral Sea was really not good, the tropical storm was unpredictable, and the reconnaissance plane flew 10 kilometers under the sun, and then it rained and foggy, and even torrential rain poured.

However, if they only flew over the clouds, they would miss out on many situations on the sea, so the three reconnaissance planes flew at a low altitude close to the sea surface for a while, and then jumped into the high altitude at another time. In the absence of radar, not only is the search efficiency low, but it is also easy to miss the target.

Half past ten.

Japanese Army:

The aircraft carrier Zuihe was injured and began to flee into the distance. The light aircraft carrier Xiangfeng is busy recovering fighters.

The aircraft carrier Zuihe was unable to resist the repeated bombing of 93 US fighters and was seriously damaged, and the fighters could not be recovered. Therefore, all the fighters of the Japanese army returning to the sea flew to the Xiangfeng.

There is no way, only the little Xianghe can still land fighters.

At this moment, the Japanese army had quite a few fighters in the air, and there were more than 20 of them after the Zuihe attacked the US aircraft carrier. The fighter plane on the Xiangfeng was intercepted by US fighters. Heavy losses were heavy, and less than ten of the twenty-four fighters returned home. Coupled with the Zuihe aircraft carrier escort fighters and the Xiangfeng escort fighters, nearly 60 fighters have accumulated on the Xiangfeng aircraft carrier and around it at this moment.

These more than 50 warplanes are now hovering on the Xianghe, ready to land.

You know, the cabin of the Xianghe can only reserve a maximum of thirty aircraft. Even if some fighters are placed on the deck, not only can they not be discharged, but even if they are discharged, the aircraft carrier will lose its combat effectiveness.

The deck was filled with aircraft. You can't fly the fighter.

The commander of the Japanese army of the Xiangfeng aircraft carrier formation was the commander of the Sixth Sentai (Heavy Cruiser Squadron), Major General Goto Cunchi, not to mention that Major General Muto was also an expert in mine warfare, but he was not stupid and thought of a way.

The landed fighter plane immediately refueled and hung up its bombs and took off again.

It's not easy. If it's a standard quantity, it's recycled and then released. No matter how fast it is, it will take an hour.

Takahashi's report was more accurate. The two US aircraft carriers were sunk and wounded, and they were definitely going to strike again.

So Goto's method became the only way, and the fighters, which were not many in the first place, were divided into two or three waves of refueling and bombing, and then attacked. As for the end of the battle, whether these fighters will all land. That's not something that Goto can grasp.

As for whether the remaining fuel of the Japanese fighters hovering in the air can support a wave of fighters to take off, this is what Aunt Amaterasu has come and there is no way to do.

American:

Although the aircraft carrier Lexington was tilted by the bombing, it was after the watertight compartment on the other side was filled with water. Miraculously restored balance. Fighter planes are being recovered.

The Yorktown, which was not seriously injured, was also recovering the warplane.

Rear Admiral Fletcher received the pilot's report as follows: The port side of the aircraft carrier Zuihe was about fifty to one hundred feet stern, and it was a sea of fire from the waterline to the flight deck. About fifteen minutes after the attack, when the aircraft carrier was last seen, the fire burned fiercely. It is believed to have been very badly damaged and finally sank. ”

The report of the rookie pilot of the US military misled the judgment of Major General Fletcher, and he did not immediately send another air strike force. After all the fighters were recovered, Fletcher almost figured out one thing--- the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuizuru was indeed damaged by the American army, but all the hits were bombs. The number of bombs hit is unknown, but it is certain that not even a single torpedo hit.

You must know that the dreadnought dive bombers of the US military carried three 250-kilogram bombs. The U.S. military is not like the Naval Resistance Army, and dive bombers like to carry an 800-kilogram armor-piercing bomb. This is related to training, and in the case of a very low hit rate, the number of bomb belts is large, and it is easy to achieve results.

Although Major General Fletcher was a little lacking in strategy, he was still very aware of this common sense. Intuitively, he felt that the US fighter planes were not able to blow up and sink the Japanese aircraft carrier.

So, sixty-four fighters immediately took off again from the two aircraft carriers, preparing to strike at the Zuihe aircraft carrier again. The two US aircraft carriers had more than 170 fighters before the war, and they lost more than 60 in the past battle. Being able to dispatch 64 fighters is already the most powerful combat effectiveness.

It was already eleven o'clock when all the US fighters took off. And this has been delayed for more than half an hour in vain. What's even more terrifying is that Rear Admiral Fletcher knows nothing about the existence of the Japanese light aircraft carrier Xiangfeng.

Naval Resistance Force:

At half past ten, the Liberty Dragon was still wandering in the sea, in a state of soy sauce. As the Japanese and American warships no longer moved irregularly, the Liberty Dragon kept moving in its direction. Unknowingly, the Liberty Dragon actually entered the central part of the American fleet and the Japanese fleet. Until eleven o'clock, Li Guang didn't know how dangerous the situation of the Liberty Dragon was. The Liberty Dragon is like a blind man touching the battlefield of swords and swords, if there is some kind of god watching the battle in the sky, will it sweat for the Liberty Dragon?

Eleven fifteen.

The situation on the battlefield has changed again.

The USS Lexington, the U.S. aircraft carrier, corrected the hull tilt, recovered the fighters, and even released the fighters again after completion. After this series of complicated operations, due to the leakage of oil and gas in the cabin, the US officers and men made a mistake in the management damage when they first entered the battlefield, and the Lexington actually had an earth-shattering explosion.

Finished.

Major General Fletcher, stunned by the mutation in front of him. Originally, he thought that the Lexington had passed the most dangerous stage, and the smoke on the Lexington had begun to slowly disappear, who knew that such a thing would happen.

Originally, I thought that I had the upper hand, and the losses were smaller than those of the Japanese army. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a huge loss. What was even more unacceptable to Fletcher was that the accident happened more than an hour after the blow.

The explosion of the Lexington allowed the reconnaissance aircraft of the Naval Resistance Force to capture the target for the first time. At the time of the explosion, the reconnaissance planes of the Maritime Resistance Army did not directly spot the US warship or US fighters.

However, the earth-shattering explosion on the aircraft carrier Lexington was a direct sight: billowing black smoke actually rushed straight into the sky, rendering a large black cloud above the clouds at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters.

Black clouds are rarely seen in airplanes flying high in the sky, and all clouds are white under the sunlight.

And the billowing black smoke on the Lexington is simply spectacular, forming a black cloud column at an altitude of several thousand meters. This anomaly immediately attracted the attention of the pilots of the Naval Resistance Force, and the dreadnought bomber immediately intervened.

While the US military was stunned, the tragic situation of the US aircraft carrier Lexington on the sea was clearly seen by the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army.

Thanks to the communication between the U.S. military and the Naval Resistance Army, the pilot quickly recognized that the sea was full of U.S. warships.

When Li Guang received the information, he immediately arranged for the telecommunications team to contact Pearl Harbor. (At Pearl Harbor, there is a submarine force liaison unit left behind.) ）

However, it is more than 3,000 kilometers away from Pearl Harbor, and the weather is bad, so I don't know if we can get in touch.

A few minutes later, another reconnaissance plane of the Naval Resistance Army also made a spot. This direction is the direction where the Liberty Dragon is about to return, and it also happens to be the direction where the aircraft carrier Xiangfeng is located. After several hours of searching, the dreadnought bomber finally made a discovery, and the aircraft carrier Xiangfeng finally fell into the eyes of the Maritime Resistance Army.

After receiving the information, Li Guang was so shocked that he was covered in a cold sweat, and in the hot weather, his whole body was immediately soaked with sweat.

Li Guang did not expect that the Japanese army still had the aircraft carrier Zuihe. But at this time, the Liberty Dragon was in the center of the US fleet and the Japanese aircraft carrier formation of the Xiangfeng. The distance between the two armies was about one hundred and seventy or eighty kilometers.

In other words, the warplanes of both sides flew around the head of the aircraft carrier Liberty Dragon.

Not to mention the first wave of battles that have already ended. At 11:15 a.m., US and Japanese warplanes were shuttling between the US and Japanese planes in this sea area, and 64 US warplanes flew toward the Zuihe aircraft carrier. Twenty-four of the first wave of fighters dispatched by the Japanese Xiangfeng had already flown over the aircraft carrier Liberty Dragon.

If Li Guang knew, he would definitely say thank God, it's amazing. The Liberty Dragon, unprepared, had already heard the roar of the swarm.

In the chaos of the officers and men of the Maritime Resistance Forces, the Japanese aircraft group had already flown over the Liberty Dragon, and they did not know anything about the existence of the Liberty Dragon.

There are two main reasons for being able to evade Japanese fighters. First, at this moment, the Liberty Dragon was sailing under the cumulonimbus clouds, and Huang Zhonghua's caution played a role. Second, the Japanese planes flew only half the distance according to the calculation of the range, so they did not pay much attention to the sea surface.

No matter what the reason, the most important thing is that the Maritime Resistance Army has hit a big luck, and the luck at this moment is simply beyond measure. If the luck is a little worse, the Liberty Dragon is afraid that the ship has already sunk by this time.

But Li Guang didn't dare to count on such a thing as luck, and there would be a next time.

After a few minutes of almost panic, the Liberty Dragon had increased its horsepower and sailed into the wind.

All the fighters began to quickly ascend to the flight deck and take off in formation. (To be continued......)