At four o'clock, the fighters completed their formation in the air, forming a horizontal formation, like a long knife, pushing flat towards the north.

Thanks to the anti-submarine tactical training in the Bay of Bengal, Liu Gensheng's search method quickly took effect, and 48 fighters tore through a 50-kilometer wide area and turned back and forth on the sea two or three times before discovering the Japanese fleet.

At six o'clock sharp, the Japanese fleet was already in the pilot's field of vision. Under the light of dawn, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army began to bomb indiscriminately.

Major General Kio Gang Dingdo also didn't sleep all night, not that he was worried about being attacked, but he had been thinking about how to write a report. He lost this battle so badly, and he lost so much that he had no skill at all. At this moment, Muweigang Dingdao did not expect that the Maritime Resistance Army had attacked Kwajalein Atoll, and he did not escape. You didn't see Lieutenant General Nagumo Zhongyi sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and only bombed two rounds and fled like a mouse. He didn't expect that the Maritime Resistance Army had a greater appetite and would dare to attack him. You must know that the current Central Pacific Ocean is already the world of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and even the US Navy does not dare to confront the Imperial Japanese Navy. Of course, Kio Gang Dingdao would not have imagined that his end would come so quickly.

Before the Japanese fleet could even react, eight battleships had been shot, four of which were already difficult to save. This was the result of a dive bombing by a fighter squad led by Liu Gensheng. Compared with yesterday's attack on the airfield, the results of today's fighter squad are very clear: 24 fighters hit 12 shells of Japanese warships, and the hit rate was as high as 50 percent. However, this is not the best level of the fighter team, and if the weather conditions are slightly better, the proportion should be around 70 percent.

After dropping the bomb, the fighter squad quickly rose into the air and was responsible for the vigilance.

Twenty-four fighters of the bomber squadron began to take turns to wield. The number of devil's ships is not very small, but the total number of anti-aircraft guns on one cruiser and three destroyers is less than fifty, and after the bombardment of the fighter squad, only five or six can be put into service. Under the repeated bombardment of more than 20 fighters of the Naval Resistance Army, these antiaircraft guns could not form a fire blockade at all. In addition, the naval resistance forces were all high-altitude dives, and at an angle of 75 degrees, or even larger, it was difficult for the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery to aim, and there was no accuracy at all.

Because it was known in advance that the Devil's battleships were nothing more than light cruisers and destroyers, the rest were supply ships and troop carriers, and the bombers carried 250 kg of armor-piercing bombs. Such a bomb may be a little powerless against a battleship, but it is as easy as chopping melons and vegetables against a cruiser.

In the face of the Japanese ships, which were barely able to fight back, the bomber squad was in an excellent state of mind today. Compared to yesterday, the results are much better.

In fact, the pilots of the bomber squad are of similar standard to the fighter pilots led by Liu Gensheng, but because they are not familiar with the dreadnought bombers and the bomber crew is two, the cooperation between the pilot and the bombardier (part-time telecommunications and machine gun shooter) is not tacit.

After yesterday's battle, the pilots also further discovered the advantages of the dreadnought dive bomber, as a specialized dive bomber, the dive stability is actually much better than the P40, in fact, it is easier to aim.

In this way, the twenty-four dive bombers dropped all seventy-two bombs in an hour without hurry, and twenty-three hit. Although the hit rate is not as good as that of the fighter squad, the effect is just right. After all, a 250-kilogram bomb is not comparable to the effectiveness of a 250-pound bomb.

By six o'clock in the morning, all the Japanese ships had been scrapped, and even if they did not sink, they were still billowing wolf smoke, and capsizing was imminent.

In this way, a formation with eleven ships was completely wiped out. In this battle, the Naval Resistance Army did not lose a single loss. As a result of these two strikes, the Japanese Fourth Fleet lost nearly seventy percent of its surface ships and was completely disabled.

Rear Admiral Kio Oka Dingmichi succeeded Keno Kurita and became the second Japanese rear admiral to die at the hands of the Naval Resistance Army. Vice Admiral Narumi Inoue, commander of the Japanese Fourth Fleet, was pale and almost vomited blood when he learned the news. The Japanese army launched the Pacific War, not to mention the brilliant victory at Pearl Harbor, almost all the battles in other directions went smoothly, but he lost the battle here, and it was a great defeat of the nature of the whole army.

How can this be called Lieutenant General Inoue? Inoue Narumi is also well-known in the Japanese Navy. He reads well, speaks English fluently, has a good relationship with Yamamoto Fifty-six, and is also popular among officers. But none of this was as bad as the blow of the defeat, and Admiral Inoue immediately asked his good friend and boss, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, for support.

Inoue Chengmei doesn't want to lose face, anyway, after this battle, he doesn't have any face. Words such as requests for support were unabashedly used in the message. You must know that in the Japanese army, even if the battle is lost, the word is generally used when asking for help - asking for tactical guidance. Also, Inoue Narumi really can't ask for tactical guidance now, the fleet is gone, and the guidance is a fart. I can only ask for reinforcements.

At half past seven o'clock, all the fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army had already returned home. At this moment, the Japanese support fighters had already arrived over the battlefield, and the devil pilots looked at the wolf smoke wafting on the sea, and the corpses of the devils who were floating with the waves screamed angrily, but there was no way at all.

Li Guang didn't know anything about these things, and he was not interested in catching a few devils and captives. Not to mention that the fleet had to sail around the bend for several hours, more importantly, Li Guang was worried about the Japanese fighters. Anyway, this kind of rainy weather, coupled with the wind and waves at sea, it is difficult to say whether the devil can survive a few in the sea.

Li Guang's decision saved the Naval Resistance Army from a danger. You must know that the fleet of the Naval Resistance Army is only 150 kilometers away from the battlefield at this time, and if the Japanese fighters can discover the fleet of the Naval Resistance Army, they will still be able to pose a considerable threat to the Naval Resistance Army. However, although the devil's Zero fighter has a strong endurance, after all, it has traveled seven or eight hundred kilometers and hovered over the battlefield for a while, but it has not been able to find the warship of the Maritime Resistance Army, so it has to fly back to Saipan to report. It is precisely in this way that the two armies avoided a fierce air battle, and if the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army were half an hour late, perhaps an air battle would occur.

Li Guang didn't know anything about this danger, and still let go of his speed and moved towards Wake Island. The weather was still cloudy and rainy, and the water reconnaissance planes of the Maritime Resistance Army had already taken off in the rain and started an all-round air alert.

In the post-war summary, Tu Yuanchao, deputy leader of the flight squadron, put forward a new topic, that is, the impact of tailwinds and headwinds on dive bombing. A flying elite like Tu Yuanchao missed a single shot in today's battle. There is no other reason than the speed of the wind. Tu Yuanchao is a person who is good at thinking, and when the first bomb missed, the second and third bombs tested the headwind and downwind bombs respectively, although they failed to hit, but they had some experience. In the subsequent training, the pilots took the initiative to explore the corrective data for dropping bombs against the wind, and the pilots of the Naval Resistance Force began to plump up their combat skills step by step.

In addition to Tu Yuanchao, other pilots and aircraft carrier officers and men also raised a lot of questions, such as landing in the rain and hanging bombs on the deck. There are even many people who notice details that they don't usually see.

Some aircraft carrier ground crew soldiers made suggestions to prepare different shoes, gloves, and overalls for the ground crew. This suggestion was immediately echoed by Li Guang, and during the take-off and landing of the fighter plane, Li Guang also discovered the problems in it.

The flight deck of the USS Liberty Dragon is an armored deck made of steel. The entire deck is a huge thick steel plate. Unlike the Japanese aircraft carriers of this era, the British aircraft carriers, the aircraft carrier decks of these countries are wooden decks, which are very beautiful. When the sun is shining, the wooden deck will not be scorched by the sun. And the deck and railing on the Liberty Dragon, when the heat is high, the skin rubs against the skin is a string of bubbles. Therefore, the shoes, gloves, and clothes of the ground officers and soldiers are quite thick. This time the fighter plane took off and landed in the rain, and the officers and soldiers found that in this case, the clothing did not need to be so thick. Especially for shoes, you should try to use cloth shoes with soft soles and better anti-slip performance.

In today's battle, the leather boots worn by the fighters slipped several times and were bumped and injured several times when pushing the plane until it took off. Even more dangerous is that when the fighter takes off, the ground crew is navigating through the gap of the aircraft, and once they slid, there is a risk of casualties.

Later, these opinions were adopted one by one after experiments, and the shoes of the ground officers and soldiers became specially made handmade cloth shoes. The costumes are colored differently depending on the class. One of the biggest changes was the introduction of training uniforms known as turtle suits.

The so-called turtle costume is a multi-layered thickened garment on the back of the garment, or the elbows and other places that need to touch the deck and other steel, while the front is a thin garment.

For the main body of the aircraft carrier, Li Guang has no way to improve it too much, but in some details that can improve the combat effectiveness, Li Guang has spared no effort.

Although there was no difficulty in this battle, the combat effectiveness of the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier was really improved. After this battle, the officers and men on the Liberty Dragon ran in to a higher level.

And the run-in of the entire fleet is to a higher level, you must know that the current aircraft carrier formation has its own characteristics of the naval resistance force. All the battleships were sailing around the Liberty Dragon formation, which was a strict wartime queue even at night.

In the era when there were not too many electronic equipment, the distance of the night warship was a great problem, and the formation of the Naval Resistance Army belonged to a dense formation, and it was not easy for the captain of all warships to complete this seemingly simple circular formation.

On this rainy night, for the first time, the Naval Resistance Army almost perfectly completed this task in actual combat. To be able to reach this level of formation, it requires both long-term and rigorous training, and also benefits from a small technical improvement. Several sets of horizontal fog lamps were set up in the front and rear of the Liberty Dragon, and special artillery optical rangefinders were set up on the other frigates.

After a long period of training, frigates, especially air defense destroyers, do not need to be ordered from the aircraft carrier at all, and immediately change direction or accelerate and decelerate when the aircraft carrier begins to turn or accelerate or decelerate.

The formation of a tactical style depends not only on tactical thinking, but also on technical equipment, and more importantly, on strict training. Equipment is the foundation, training is the guarantee, and tactical thinking runs through all this, and only by organically tempering these three together can you form your own tactical style.

The reason is simple, the weapon is dead. Even the training subjects are dead. Both are indispensable if you want to win, but you have to think clearly tactically. That is, how to use these weapons, how to train.

And the level of development of this tactical style is another spiraling process, gradually improving in the process of training, exercises, and battles, and this is exactly what the Naval Resistance Force is doing.

This process is difficult, but because Li Guang's tactical thinking is absolutely correct. Although the process of improvement is not so smooth, it has surpassed Japan. At this moment, the Japanese Navy relied on aircraft carriers to achieve a stunning victory, but it still rigidly thought about the decisive victory of battleships. It was Li Guang's vision beyond the times that made the Naval Resistance Army take a detour, but there was absolutely no mistake in direction.

The Maritime Resistance Army continued to sail north, and there were no combat missions left. But there is a purpose.

To brush up on prestige, it is natural to let the Americans know, otherwise wouldn't it be a good deed without leaving a name? During the two-day battle, the Naval Resistance Army took thousands of photos. For this gift-giving operation, a camera was specially equipped on the bomber, which is a good thing to brush up on prestige.

In fact, Li Guang has always been careful to keep information about the war, a habit that began during the rescue operation in Dunkirk, and now there are writers and photojournalists on the battleships Liberty Dragon and Atlantic. As soon as the battle ended, these propaganda literati began to grab knives and write materials.

It is too slow to brush up on prestige and promote with mouths, relying on the media, how can modern people forget this? There was even a wax printing press on board the Liberty Dragon, which was able to quickly stamp-print. It won't be long before a thrilling, brilliant report will be released, and it will be in English. Naturally, this is not for the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army to read, it is all propaganda materials for prestige.

In order to ensure military secrets, Li Guang also specially examined the text by special staff officers. Facts have proved that Li Guang was more worried. The propagandists trained by Professor Yuan Ye have a profound foundation in this area. The articles written not only make the readers' blood boiling, but also do not reveal a single military secret.

At seven o'clock in the afternoon, the Naval Resistance Army fleet was already approaching Wake Island. A few hours ago, Li Guang contacted the US military on the island in the form of a clear-code telegram. Informed of their intentions.

Colonel Cunningham, the commander of the U.S. forces on Wake Island, has also confirmed that the Naval Resistance Force is a friendly force after contacting the United States. With Cunningham's confirmation telegram, the brilliant results of the Navy Resistance Army in these two days caused a sensation in the United States. Li Guang set foot on Wake Island, which was entrenched by the U.S. army, as an ally.

A day later, several American newspapers appeared:

Hai Tangguo, a comrade-in-arms of the United States.

America is fighting, with friends.

The Naval Resistance Army annihilated the Japanese Fourth Fleet.

Articles such as these are overwhelming, and they can be regarded as a bright spot that the Americans were able to promote at the beginning of the war. Anyway, with Professor Yuan here, Li Guang believes that the effect of publicity will definitely not be bad, and the rewards will of course be more generous.

That night, Li Guang set foot on Wake Island.

Li Guang met with the commander of the U.S. forces on Wake Island, and the two sides had a friendly conversation, but in the end Li Guang failed to persuade the U.S. commander Colonel Cunningham to abandon Wake Island. Of course, Li Guang also knows that the Americans will not give up Wake Island from any angle.

Li Guang said that he was willing to fight with the Americans, but his aircraft carrier and other warships were running out of fuel and ammunition and needed to be replenished.

Li Guang's words are true, the Endurance of the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier is 7,500 nautical miles. However, after two days of high-speed sailing, especially the latest one-day high-speed sailing, the fuel consumption is extremely high, and it can no longer support continuous operations.

Due to the backwardness of the power part, the poor endurance of the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier is extremely obvious, and the reserve of more than 1,000 tons of crude oil really seriously affects the endurance. It's fine when sailing in peacetime, but at high speed in combat, fuel consumption is several times higher than the cruising speed, and when the fleet arrives at Wake Island, the fuel reserves on board are really not much, and it is difficult to support a naval battle. In addition, the fuel on the destroyer Baxia was not very sufficient.

Of course, the most important reason for choosing such a reason is that it has been more than a day since the end of the battle, and the oil depot on Wake Island is still burning, and the wolf smoke is billowing out, which is spectacular.

And for good reason. The more fundamental reason is that Li Guang will definitely not fight to the death with the Japanese fleet here, and that would not be in the interests of the naval resistance army.

Eventually, Colonel Cunningham suggested that Li Guang could go to Pearl Harbor for resupply, and assurances were made that the Americans were warm to their friends. This move is in line with Li Guang's intentions, of course, to brush up on prestige is to expand influence as much as possible, and it is of course ideal to go to Pearl Harbor and brush it again. So Li Guang obeyed the advice and immediately accepted Colonel Cunningham's suggestion.

Eventually, Colonel Cunningham asked the Naval Resistance Army to leave at least twelve warplanes on Wake Island. There were more than 60 U.S. pilots on Wake Island, but only four Night Cats remained.

It can be seen from this that the Americans really intend to build Wake Island into an unsinkable aircraft carrier, otherwise why would they send so many pilots? Although the Americans have withstood the blows, their depth of knowledge is simply not comparable to that of the Naval Resistance Force. The total number of pilots in the Maritime Resistance Force is only more than 300, and the Americans have stationed 63 pilots on this small island, which is really wealthy.

Li Guang was very generous and happily delivered six bombers and 12 fighters to the Americans. Anyway, the Americans should not be in arrears at this time, not to mention that the bombers were originally aided by the Americans. This is all a means to harvest friendship, and the friendship of the Americans in World War II is to harvest materials and political support.

When the next morning, the naval resistance fleet left, carrying the remains of dozens of fallen American and civilian workers, more than a hundred wounded and more than 1,000 American civilian workers.

To Li Guang's surprise, Li Guang's move was more influential than fighting for the Americans, and won the hearts and minds of many Americans for the Naval Resistance Army. The performance of the Naval Resistance Army in Dunkirk is angelic enough, this time it is the Americans who are saved, and there are a large number of American civilians among them, and as a result, the Naval Resistance Army is even more angelic in the minds of the American people. This move, which was merely a piggyback for the Naval Resistance Army, was promoted by American journalists who lacked bright spots in the early days of the war as great as the Dunkirk retreat.

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