Historically, during World War II, due to the contradictions between Japan and the sea, the weapons and equipment of the two sides were not common and unmatched, and the situation was extremely strict, even to the point of deliberately opposing it.

For example: the Navy has engaged in the Marine Corps, the Army has engaged in the Army Navy, and the aircraft of the Navy and the Army have even deliberately reversed the bolts.

Japan's national strength was already far weaker than that of the United States, but because of the struggle of will, it resolutely did not use the navy for the navy and the navy for the army. As for the situation that appeared later, when the Navy built tanks and the Army built warships, it is not to mention more.

In addition, because of the contradictions between sea and land, there are still a lot of strange things. During the Battle of Kuah Island, the reason why Yamamoto Isoroku was chosen to be in charge was that he hoped to use his high prestige to convince both sides, but the actual effect was still to go their own way, and even the navy did not tell the army to build an airfield on the island, and after the start of the war, they were basically busy with their own affairs, on the contrary, the US military coordinated all the problems before the war.

In terms of shipping, the Army's ship was sunk by an American submarine, and the Army's attitude was to sink if it sank, and only told the ships belonging to its own line, but did not notify the Navy. As a result, the next batch of ships from the Navy came over and sank in the same place, and then by the same American submarine. The contradiction between the sea and land is so great that it is unique among the navies and armies of all countries in the world.

In the past few years that Li Huamei has been undercover in Japan, she has also worked hard to eliminate the contradictions between land and sea -- the starting point is not for the good of Japan, but for the sake of allowing poor and weak Japan to bleed more blood to the United States.

Forcing the army's dragon-slaying interceptor onto the ship is one of them. Only he, relying on the transcendent identity of "god", can do this. However, because the contradictions between the Japanese navy and army are too deep, even she. It can only eliminate some of the contradictions.

Only half of the main fighters of the Combined Fleet attacking Hawaii Island were Navy Type Zero II fighters, and the other half were Navy versions of Army Delphant fighters. The main reason is that the performance of the new Feiyan is indeed better than that of the old Zero II, and the Hurricane fighter prepared to replace the Zero II has been unable to be mass-produced due to the problem of difficult engine delivery. It is also a substitute for the last resort.

However, although the navy reluctantly accepted the Feiyan because of Li Huamei, in order to show the difference from the army, they named the Feiyan fighter on board the ship "Swift".

Due to the large size of the Dragon Slayer Fighter, only the hangar of the aircraft carrier, which has the largest tonnage, can accommodate it, and eight Dragon Slayers are installed in the ship's aircraft. The rest of the Dragon Slayer fighters were placed on the aircraft carrier in a deck-tethered manner. It is also the relatively calm sea conditions in the Pacific Ocean, and if it is in the Atlantic, the use of deck mooring can easily cause damage to fighters.

The twelve dragon-slaying fighters that appeared in front of the B17 formation had eight 80-millimeter caliber honeycomb rocket launchers hanging on each side of the wings. In the process of hedging head-on with wild boar tactics. First, the 40-millimeter large-caliber cannon mounted on the nose of the aircraft continued to fire from a distance of 800 meters, and when it reached a distance of 200 meters, the beehive rockets on both wings began to sound, and more than 100 rockets screamed out from the "hive" at the wing base with a piercing scream. These honeycomb rockets are equipped with radio proximity fuses inside, which can be said to be the first generation of anti-aircraft rockets. With Japan's scientific and technological strength, they cannot produce their own VT wireless proximity fuses, and these arrows and shells are actually all German products imported from Germany.

The time when the "wild boar tactic" was used to hedge the swarm, and the two sides exchanged fire. It's less than ten seconds. After a face-to-face hedge, twenty B17s were in it. Seven of them either broke their wings or exploded their noses, and they fell straight into the sea with a pendulum. The remnants of the B17 fighters also suffered injuries of varying severity in the previous rocket storm. In the hedging dragon slayer, only two engines on one side emitted black smoke. But it can still insist on flying back to the mothership.

"It was like a fire dragon breathing fire."

A pilot on the B17, who was lucky enough to survive, commented.

After the hedging, the originally complete B17 bomber formation was no longer in formation, so more than a dozen Feiyan planes were ambushed nearby and took the opportunity to approach. Look at the wounded and lone B17 bombers and hit hard. Although the B17 has coarse skin and rough meat. It's hard to bite. But two or three fighters besiege a B17, and ants gnaw on elephants that always bite it to pieces.

In the end, only 11 B17s managed to break through the interception of Japanese planes, flew over Kauai Island, dropped bombs indiscriminately, and returned. Due to the constant interception of Japanese planes along the way, they did not dare to lower their altitude during the bombing, but just dropped aerial bombs indiscriminately at high altitudes, with the result that only a small number of aerial bombs landed on Kauai Island, and most of them fell into the sea.

And these remnants of B17, in the process of returning home, were intercepted by the dragon slayer again, and were slaughtered again. In the end, only six B17s barely flew back to Oahu, and one of them crashed into the airfield during landing. Two of the remaining five aircraft were declared scrapped by ground staff and can only be used as donors of other aircraft parts.

In the other direction, the American aircraft group, which was attacking the Japanese fleet in a detour, was also intercepted by a group of Japanese planes approaching from other directions. Lieutenant General Short's "detour" tactics not only did not have the effect of a sneak attack, but because the detour consumed more time and gave more time to prepare.

A full 40 Swift fighters and 20 Zero II planes stopped in front of the US attack aircraft group, and the American fighters who were still in the period of renewal were all inferior in performance to their opponents at this time, whether it was the Army's backward P40 or the Navy's F4F Wildcat, they were completely one-sided and unilaterally slaughtered in the Swift and Zero II planes. Without a fighter, even the B25 with excellent performance is in a very bad situation when faced with the pursuit of professional fighters. As for the SBD dive bombers and a small number of torpedo planes, under the pursuit of fighters, they could not be beaten and could not escape, and became frantically brushed by the enemy

Results and experience of the dish.

On the morning of 26 July, Vice Admiral Short sent a total of three waves of 390 planes to the waters off Kauai Island to provide support, and the departure time of the three waves was only half an hour. According to his vision, this tactic could be like a stack of bricks, layer upon layer, breaking through the defense line formed by the opponent's fighters in one go.

However, the premise for the success of this tactic is, first, the suddenness of the battle, and second, it is possible to achieve it at least if the combat strength of the two sides is equal.

However, Lieutenant General Short did not meet either of these requirements. The U.S. Army and Navy have not participated in a real air battle for more than 20 years, and their understanding of Air Force tactics remains on paper.

In contrast, the Japanese Navy on the other side, due to the 1935~36 China War, was broken by the air forces of China, the Soviet Union and Germany, and the pain was heartbroken, constantly reflecting and studying, plus the German side took the initiative to exchange experience with the Japanese Air Force after 1941, the commanders of the Japanese Navy were far more aware of modern air combat than the arrogant Americans now.

While Vice Admiral Short threw planes into the front line of Kauai in waves, the Japanese aircraft carrier formation on the other side also targeted wave after wave of interceptors into the air battlefield.

Knowing the importance of the Hawaiian campaign, before this war, Lin Han quietly approached the Yamato with the help of German connections, and once again became one with Li Huamei and attached himself to the Yamato.

Li Huamei is a super ace pilot in her own right, and Lin Han has been acting as a human radar in Chinese air battles for a long time, and he has great experience in dispatching. Under the joint command of an ace pilot who understood flight tactics very well and an experienced flight dispatch officer, the air traffic controllers on the battleship Yamato perfectly coordinated the entry and exit of Japanese planes, and during the all-day battle on 26 July, the Japanese naval officers firmly grasped the air supremacy over the waters off Hawaii and ensured that no less than 40 fighters on their side would provide air cover at all times, leaving no US land-based planes the slightest chance.

The three arrows that Lieutenant General Short wanted to shoot by taking advantage of the time difference between dawn were broken directly in the air by the Japanese air force, which had been prepared for a long time.

In the end, the result of the Oahu air force sortie that morning was a great defeat, and only 180 of the 400 planes of various types made the sortie barely returned. The battle damage rate was more than 60 percent.

All they achieved was to sink a merchant ship that had emptied the soldiers and return to the sea, an old destroyer, and slightly damaged two cruisers.

Under the threat of the Japanese air force, the planes flying over Khao Jia Island only indiscriminately dropped bombs at high altitudes, and most of the bombs fell directly into the sea, and their accuracy was a mess.

On the evening of the 26th, when the sun had set, the Japanese naval transport fleet returned and approached Kauai again. By this time, the U.S. resistance on Kauai had been largely wiped out, and the Japanese fleet, which had returned to the island, had brought in more soldiers and engineering vehicles and equipment provided by the Germans, and began work to repair and expand the airstrip on the island.

During this period, the U.S. mobile fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor also dispatched torpedo boats and destroyers to launch a sneak attack on the Japanese ships that landed on Kauai.

With Japan's national strength, it would not have been possible to repair a field airfield damaged by bombing and shelling overnight, but with the mechanical engineering equipment, quick-hardening cement and supporting runway steel plates provided by Germany, it was a different matter.

At dawn on the 27th, the airfield was repaired and ready for use, and the first batch of 16 Zero II fighters landed on the island by means of an air transfer in Guò.

In the next two days, around the airfield on Kauai, the US and Japanese militaries fought another fierce air battle, but the US Army and Navy Airlines, which were far inferior in performance and number of aircraft, were still defeated. After several days of battle, the Japanese Combined Fleet managed to gain a bridgehead for the attack on Oahu. (To be continued......)

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