Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 1564 A Different Battle of Midway (Part II)
Admiral Nimitz, commander of the Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy, finished his breakfast tastelessly, because of insomnia, His Excellency Admiral's face was a little puffy and haggard, and his eyes were bloodshot. ,!
There, after all, it is a base that he has operated for several years, and the golden years of his service in the Navy for many years have been poured into that island, and he can't help but worry, and with a long sigh, Nimitz is more and more excited, and the defeat of the US Navy will be started by himself, and this heaviness makes him breathless.
Outside the porthole, the roar became louder and louder, and in the blink of an eye, the black and oppressive Japanese Navy carrier-based aircraft group had already flown over the US aircraft carrier formation.
Through the porthole, Nimitz clearly saw this scene, he was terrified, before he rushed out of the cabin, a violent explosion came, the fleet flagship "Lexington" aircraft carrier huge hull, violent chair up, Nimitz was thrown into the corner of the cabin by this sudden violent chair, just got up, a lieutenant colonel officer, stumbled in.
"Commander, we have been attacked by Japanese planes," the officer shouted in panic, and Admiral Nimitz had already seen smoke and fire rising from the decks of several warships around him, and a column of water was rising on the sea
Under the protection of several officers, Nimitz braved the heavy artillery fire of Japanese planes, came to the flagship command cabin, and gave the order to immediately return fire.
The attack came so suddenly, and despite the desperate return fire of the US warships, they could not stop the indiscriminate bombardment of more than 500 Japanese planes. At a time when US aircraft carriers and carrier-based planes were not taking to the skies for combat, the sky was the world of Japanese planes, and US warships that had not yet sailed had undoubtedly become live targets.
Nimitz stood on the conning tower. I saw with my own eyes that several destroyers, in a violent explosion, huge smoke clouds wrapped in dark red flames, rushed into the sky, and the hull of the ship was suddenly broken into two, but in the blink of an eye. The warship sank into the sea.
When the carrier-based planes on the US aircraft carriers were unwilling to be live targets, and braved the fierce bombing and shooting of Japanese planes to force their way down the runway on the mother deck, the Japanese fighters were like flies that had seen blood. The US carrier-based aircraft was on fire, and this became the beginning of an even greater disaster.
Nimitz ordered the aircraft carrier formation, and fought and retreated. Moving closer to the west coast of the United States, no matter how advanced the US carrier-based aircraft are, they are doomed to play a tragic role.
The Japanese pilots were red-eyed, and in the gap between the anti-aircraft fire of the US ships, they flew up and down, Rear Admiral Yoshitomo Tani. Piloting a reconnaissance plane and hovering over the position of commanding from a high altitude, seeing that the battle had become a one-sided trend, the US warship was beaten into flames, and sneered, and a bloodthirsty fierce light appeared in his eyes. Pushing the joystick, the reconnaissance plane circled lightly and flew in the direction of the task force.
Dozens of minutes later, on the dark green sea, the figure of the task force appeared, Gu Xiong Liangyou's plane landed on the aircraft carrier, at this time, his landline had already been pushed to the take-off line, the chief of staff, Rear Admiral Kobayashi Hidezumi, heard the news that Gu Xiong returned safely, and hurriedly ran over, in all fairness, Gu Xiongjun is the real hero of the task force.
Xiao Lin took Gu Xiong's hand and said with excitement: "Gu Xiongjun, please, as long as the aviation can entangle the American aircraft carrier formation for more than an hour, the fleet can arrive at that time, and it will be the real end of the US Pacific Fleet."
Gu Xiong laughed and replied confidently: "Kobayashi-kun, I'm afraid that when the fleet arrives, all you see is the burning wreckage of the American warship, the American soldiers are struggling on the sea, I have more than 500 bombers and fighters, and the US fleet is caught off guard and unprepared, coupled with the bravery of the imperial pilots, Kobayashi-kun, after an hour, I'm afraid you will only have to clean up the battlefield."
Xiao Lin obviously enjoyed this joke very much, and said: "Gu Xiongjun, as long as you can completely annihilate the Americans' aircraft carrier formation, I can be a logistics officer for your carrier-based aircraft, and the miracle is created in our hands."
Gu Xiong's mouth was crooked, and he asked in a mysterious whisper: "Xiao Linjun, what did that old guy say?" You didn't have a thunderstorm, did you suffer any grievances?"
Xiao Lin smiled contemptuously and replied, "What do you say? He still has the face to say, pretending to be unwell, he has already handed over the command of the task force to me, I think that, he is finding a step for himself, let it go, Gu Yujun, the task force is now in our hands, it is the strongest backing of carrier-based aircraft, the glory of the Japanese Navy, not only the raid on Pearl Harbor, but also the Midway annihilation battle"
Gu Xiong Liangyou stood upright and said seriously: "Yes, Your Excellency Acting Commander, Commander of the carrier-based aircraft Gu Xiong Liangyou, obey your orders at any time" After speaking, he jumped on the fighter plane and pushed the control stick violently, the "Type 92" carrier-based aircraft, like a fierce beast with teeth and claws, roared wildly, rushed straight into the blue sky, and disappeared from Xiaolin's sight in the blink of an eye.
Kobayashi Hidequan smiled knowingly, he was very impressed by Gu Xiong's words just now, the so-called "times create heroes", it is doomed to his extraordinary, perhaps, after the Battle of Midway Island is over, after the US Pacific Fleet aircraft carrier formation is completely annihilated, the position of the commander of the task force should really be done by himself?
It's just that the ambitious Major General Kobayashi Hideizumi never imagined that his opportunity was neither the manifestation of Amaterasu nor the protection of His Majesty the Emperor, but the sworn enemy of the Japanese Empire, Emperor Hirohito and all the Japanese generals, who cursed viciously when they mentioned it, but they were extremely afraid and helpless to do anything about it.
After Yoshitomo Tani returned to the command position, the attacks of the Japanese carrier-based aircraft became more fierce and orderly, and the focus of the attack of the Japanese planes was on the four US aircraft carriers, the aircraft carriers that had just started and had not yet accelerated, and the huge and clumsy hull became a live target, and after the Japanese bombers broke through the perimeter of the US aircraft carriers, the thin anti-aircraft fire composed of cruisers and destroyers, a string of bombs whistled and fell.
The US aircraft carrier "Saratoga" became the first aircraft carrier to be sunk, and with a few loud noises that overpowered all the explosions, the upper deck of the "Saratoga" aircraft carrier was hit by more than a dozen heavy aerial bombs in a row.
Immediately after that, the four Japanese bombers that followed the bombing flew at an ultra-low altitude almost at a height of grazing the mast of the aircraft carrier, and accurately threw the bombs into the huge holes, and in the second cabin of the aircraft carrier, there were carrier-based planes that were filled with fuel and ammunition, and the bombs detonated the planes, which became the fuse of the huge disaster, and then ignited the oil depot and the bomb.
The huge smoke ball, mixed with dark red firelight, rose into the sky, and the strong destructive force tore the aircraft carrier with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons to pieces, and the huge hull, in the billowing smoke, sank to the bottom of the sea, and in front of the eyes of all US officers and soldiers, with thousands of fresh lives, disappeared into the endless sea, only floating oil splashes, proving that there was once a behemoth, and it was still wandering on the surface of the sea a few minutes ago.
Nimitz closed his eyes in pain, from the beginning of the Japanese raid to the present, in just 50 minutes, seven destroyers and four cruisers of the aircraft carrier formation have been sunk, counting the "Saratoga" aircraft carrier that sank just now, the entire aircraft carrier formation has lost more than one-third of its strength, and the remaining warships are all wounded, and the situation is not optimistic
A few minutes after the attack, Nimitz sent a telegram asking for help, but he also knew that the land-based fighters of the US Air Force could not arrive in the area of combat without an hour and a half of time, and moreover, in a hurry, the first batch of reinforcements of land-based fighter formations, but only 34 fighters of two groups, in the face of more than 500 Japanese planes, was tantamount to a drop in the bucket, which was almost like throwing themselves into a net.
In this hour and a half, it will be up to the aircraft carrier formation itself to resist the indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese aircraft, and Nimitz himself knows that this will be very difficult, even if the land-based fighters arrive, there will not be many warships left in the aircraft carrier formation.
What is even worse is that the shadow of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the annihilation of the main force of the Pacific Fleet, in the face of the more than 500 Japanese bombers and fighters flying in the sky and arrogant, and the US officers and men who were in the point of being passively beaten, this shadow of terror was infinitely magnified, and the organized resistance of the formation began to become chaotic, and they were separated by the Japanese planes and fell into a situation of fighting their own battles.
Nimitz was almost desperate, he knew too well that once the overall air defense system of the formation was severed, each warship, in front of the Japanese planes, was a lamb to the slaughter, and the only thing he could do was to order the ships to move as close as possible to the perimeter of the aircraft carrier.
Suddenly, three Japanese Navy carrier-based torpedo bombers appeared over the left side of the flagship "Lexington" aircraft carrier through a barrage, and the fuselage slammed into the sea, and then pulled the mother's mast and climbed into the air.
However, Admiral Nimitz, who was standing on the command tower, saw with his own eyes that six torpedoes, dragging white and beautiful waves, like on the dark green glass, cut a rift in the road, and rushed towards his flagship.
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