On a clear sky, a cloud-like group of planes was flying from west to east over the Pacific Ocean. With a long fleet of planes, and people who have not seen hundreds or more planes flying in the sky at the same time, it is hard to imagine what kind of shock it was.

"Report to the general, everything is normal, we are searching for the Chinese with all our might."

The commander of the fleet, Major General Louis of the US Naval Air Corps, immediately ordered after hearing the report coming from the headset: "Expand the search area, and as soon as the Chinese plane is found, shoot it down." ”

Louis was the commander of the group, and Admiral Nimitz personally ordered the group to search for the Chinese fleet and provide forward reconnaissance reports for the main group of aircraft that were ready to take off and could take off at any time for reinforcements.

The reconnaissance plane units monitoring the Chinese fleet were all shot down, and the final report was that the Chinese had used advanced jet fighters, so that these L-4U reconnaissance planes, known for their speed and dexterity, did not escape their fate.

The communications staff officer on the command plane adjusted the communication channel again and directly connected the radio call of Admiral Nimitz, commander of the Pacific Fleet.

"Major General Louis, what's going on now?"

Nimitz's slightly low, somewhat hoarse voice came from the headphones. In Louis's impression, Admiral Nimitz was very confident, and even across the phone, his tone was unusually majestic. Now, Admiral Nimitz's voice was filled with irrepressible exhaustion and worry.

"Report to the general, we are expanding the search area, the general rest assured, we will definitely complete the task and find out the hateful Chinese."

Major General Louis gave assurances.

After ending the call, Louis put his mind back on guessing the Chinese's combat intentions.

In the view of the rear admiral of the naval air force, the ultimate showdown between China and the United States is also aircraft, even if the fleets of both sides participating in the battle are huge, but when it rises to the level of deciding the outcome of the battle, it is still a carrier-based aircraft duel.

The carrier-based aircraft of the two aircraft carrier battle groups, 250 F4U Corsair carrier-based aircraft, are said to be 'reconnaissance aircraft groups', but in fact, even compared with any air battle since the outbreak of World War II, the scale is not small, and it can be called the 'first wave of offensive aircraft groups'.

An all-carrier-based fighter fleet of this size can attack or retreat, and there is no big problem.

Rear Admiral Louis was riding on a command plane converted from a B-25 medium-range bomber, which carried a relatively large radar, had strong anti-jamming capabilities in communications equipment, and was equipped with a command team capable of coordinating the capabilities of the two fighter groups. Like the stars and the moon, the entire plane, together with several other large B-25 radar planes, has become the early warning center of this huge group of planes in the air.

The radar on the command plane is the latest large-scale air search and alert radar, which has a wider search airspace, a longer distance, and a stronger identification ability.

Suddenly, on several radar planes, there were different snowflake spots, snowflake spots became more and more dense, although this new anti-jamming large radar was not completely jammed in the end, but the snowflakes kept flashing on the screen, the search and alert ability was greatly reduced.

"General, our radar has been jammed from an unknown direction, suspected to be some kind of airborne large jamming equipment from the Chinese."

The technologist quickly produced a preliminary report, which made Louis's heart tremble, but he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief to hear that the radar had not been completely destroyed in the end.

"Order, immediately climb to a height of 6500 meters."

Louis quickly gave the order, once the group climbed to this height, then, even if the Chinese dived down from an altitude of 9,000 or even 10,000 meters, they could not escape the radar's elevation limit search range. According to intelligence, what the Chinese like to do most is to rely on the advanced surname of the fighters to hide at an altitude of 8 to 9,000 meters and wait for the enemy to collide with them for no reason. You must know that before the Chinese broke this 'rule of air warfare,' their world counterparts stayed at an altitude of about 5,000 meters at best, and very few climbed to an altitude of 8 to 9,000 meters.

I heard that the Germans also began to do the same in Europe, often secretly using new jet planes, climbing to an altitude of 9,000 meters, and before beating down the Mosquito reconnaissance planes that the British were running rampant at an altitude of 9,000 meters.

The era of air combat has changed greatly, and Louis clearly remembers that even five years ago, the United States did not have a single aircraft capable of fighting at an altitude of 8000, and even if it was hard to climb up, it had little strength.

However, as soon as the group climbed to an altitude of 6,000 meters, Luis received a surprise report.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack ......"

The sound of the radar soldier almost roaring almost overshadowed the loud noise in the cabin due to the climb of the plane.

"Report to the General, a large group of planes are swooping towards us from a high altitude. The number is huge. ”

The radar officer reported quickly.

"How many are there? What are the models? Louis asked subconsciously.

"I don't know yet, the radar is jammed and can't make a difference."

Louis closed his eyes slightly, and in an instant, he spit out a sentence to the command channel: "Take the squadron as a combat group, prepare for battle!" ”

“gogogo……”

The next moment, the US pilots began to change their formations with a roar, preparing to meet the group of enemy planes coming from above.

At the same time, at an altitude of less than 1,000 meters from the US planes, a huge 300-plane mixed group of HJ-2 Black Shark fighters, HJ-3 Blue Shark fighters, and HL-1 jet fighters was swooping down with murderous vigour.

"The Black Shark cooperated with the Blue Shark group as the lead to break up the formation of the US army, and the Sea Dragon group destroyed the main force of the enemy aircraft as quickly as possible."

The commander of the fleet was Rear Admiral Luo Cheng of the Naval Aviation Unit, a seasoned ace pilot. This Air Force born major general was the squadron leader of the Fifth Brigade of a certain air force unit 10 years ago, and he participated in the air raid battle against the fleet off the coast of Tianjin. Later, due to the rapid development of naval aviation, there was a need for excellent fleet commanders, so he became a veteran intermediate commander of the Air Force, and flew almost all the active fighters of the Republic, so he was smoothly transferred to the Navy and served as a fleet commander.

A fleet of 300 planes is enough to eat up this US military aircraft fleet, and a very important point is that the US Corsair carrier-based aircraft do not have an advantage in terms of ability or speed, and now if they do not have an advantage in numbers, they will not be able to escape their fate.

At an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, the two major aircraft groups collided together in an instant, and both sides fired in advance, but the results were very small, until the distance was shortened, and the fire was intensively opened again, at this time, the losses of both sides began to appear rapidly. Although the Americans did not fall too far behind, the fleet was quickly dispersed.

The sky was boundless, and more than 500 planes collided quickly, and the result was that the sky was full of chasing and scuffling planes.

"Da Da Da ......"

In order to create an opportunity for the Sea Dragon group behind them, China's HJ-3 Blue Shark fighters, with the support of the Black Shark planes, formed a formation of long wingmen and fought desperately against the US Corsair group.

Almost every second, a fighter plane fell in the sky.

"God...... Chinese jet fighters, they are as many as locusts......"

From time to time, the US pilots who were in the midst of a bloody struggle found that the blue shark and black shark that were originally chasing them did not know when they had already crossed themselves and flew towards the group of planes in the rear, and what was rushing towards them with murderous vigor in front of them was actually a brand new plane, without a propeller, and at a very fast speed, often when the machine guns and machine guns attacked, they were actually able to make a big roll and make a high-intensity maneuver to avoid it in an emergency.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

…… Second Lieutenant Li Zhu, the pilot of the Sea Dragon fighter, calmly locked a pirate fighter that was about to escape quickly, and then pressed the launch button at the moment of passing it, turning the struggling pirate into a ball of fire.

"The 3rd!"

Li Zhu read silently in his heart, and immediately, the excited voice of wingman Wang Guoming came from the earphones, "Captain, the second one!" ”

"Well done! Follow me. ”

Li Zhu said briefly, first rushed towards the center of the US military aircraft group, but the early warning plane mentioned just now that there were several big guys in the group, either the command plane of the group or the radar early warning plane.

That's the big guys, knock them out, and this prologue air battle will go more smoothly. Just now, Li Zhu's squadron received an order to wait for an opportunity to take down these big guys of the US army.

"Confirm the direction, the goal is in the ......"

The command of the squadron leader was heard in the headset, which informed the radar information from the AWACS aircraft that had just been received.

As a result, about 5 small formations, a squadron of 10 sea dragons, flew quickly towards the target airspace, not even caring about the pirates who had been completely strangled with HJ-2 and HJ-3 along the way.

With the high speed of the jet fighter, it soon arrived in the airspace, and through the airborne radar, Li Zhu was the first to discover and identify the US large plane that was escaping in front of him.

"Brothers, grab it!!"

Beside the first large US military plane, there were actually more than a dozen US planes on alert, and when they saw this murderous Chinese jet fighter rushing over, they rushed up to meet the battle as if they had exploded in an instant.

"Boom!!"

…… In just a moment, more than a dozen pirates were fiercely blasted by ten jet fighters, and they were not at the same level of combat at all, even if the American pilots happened to be behind the Chinese planes, and before they could open fire, the Chinese planes were another air maneuver and escaped locking.

The few sea dragons that were hit were fine.

In an instant, except for the 12 downed pirates, the rest of the planes saw that the situation was not good, turned around and fled.

"Haha, brothers, I'll be one step ahead!!"

After Li Zhu shot down the fifth pirate since the beginning of the war, he found that his position was actually the closest to the large US military plane, and the Sea Dragon fighter piloted by Li Zhu was like an arrow from the string towards this panicked US plane.

“no,no，no……”

Major General Louis didn't even have to stare at the radar screen, because the Chinese fighter plane that rushed madly could already be seen from the cockpit from a large perspective.

He did not care to vent his anger, and with the speed of the B-25 modified aircraft, he had no ability to resist in the face of such a new fighter as the Chinese.

"All ......"

At the moment of jumping over this American plane, Li Zhu calmly pressed the cannon firing button and shot fiercely at this large plane.

Subsequently, a violent explosion sounded, and Li Zhu also felt a jolt in the plane, and the US plane exploded in the air.

Subsequently, the second and third US radar planes were shot down, and the US aircraft group completely lost its large-scale search and alert capability, and the entire group was washed and killed by Chinese planes and turned back, and one pirate after another was quickly shot down.

More than 140 Corsair carrier-based aircraft were shot down before the commander who succeeded Louis ordered to retreat, and a considerable number of them were caused by the 100 Sea Dragon jets, while the losses of the Chinese fleet were less than one-seventh of that of the American army.

The results were very impressive, with an average of two Chinese planes shooting down one American plane, although most of them were shot down by Sea Dragons.

…… Since the beginning of the decisive battle between China and the United States, the second large-scale air battle between carrier-based aircraft took place in the airspace less than 50 kilometers away from the main position of the US fleet, and this distance is already the distance of the red line.

Once the Chinese fleet crosses this red line, Chinese carrier-based bombers will be able to launch an attack on the U.S. fleet.

If you compare the overall picture of the Chinese fleet and the American fleet together, one will find a very brilliant scene.

The two fleets, like a beehive, are constantly swallowing up fighters, with fighters taking off and landing every second at every moment, and high-intensity aircraft groups taking off and landing for the sake of air supremacy, which is being fought for all the time.

Air combat with fleet carrier-based aircraft is completely different from air combat on land.

It doesn't matter if you lose a land and air battle, it's a big deal that the ground troops are bombed, and further facilities such as factories and bridges are blown up.

However, the large-scale decisive battle of the navy's carrier-based aircraft is different, as long as one side resists the attack to the death, the other side must resist to the death.

The fleet is far from being able to outrun the carrier-based aircraft, and once the air supremacy is taken away, the result will be destruction, one moment of failure, and the next moment the superior side will be a massive group of aircraft carrying hundreds or thousands of tons of bombs to bomb the fleet.

According to conventional thinking, once the US fleet is defeated and does not surrender, the only end is to be constantly sunk, even if the pilot escapes with the plane, it will eventually 'land' on the sea and become a shark's lunch.

Therefore, China is attacking to the death, and the US military is also desperately resisting, which has nothing to do with combat courage, everyone understands that if you don't fight, you will die.

The same is true for the Chinese fleet, even if it is now in an offensive posture, as long as it is relieved by the Americans, with the huge number of US aircraft groups, it is very easy to organize one or two dive bombings, and there is no longer a need for reconnaissance, and the aircraft carrier fleet can be found by chasing the returning Chinese aircraft group.

At this time, the comparison is who perseveres to the end.

In the era of decisive battles of carrier-based aircraft in naval battles, with such a large number of aircraft, there was no intermission at all in a situation where anyone could completely destroy the opposing fleet.

"Report, Commander Ge, Senior Deputy Commander, the preliminary battlefield situation has been counted."

On the flagship of the Chinese fleet, the Yellow Emperor, the operational staff officer reported the preliminary results that had just been counted to the two chief and deputy commanders.

"Read!"

"Three hours since the outbreak of the air battle, our army and the enemy are currently in the third phase of the air battle. According to preliminary statistics, our army has shot down more than 300 US planes. In terms of battle losses, the main losses were the HJ-2 fighters and HJ-3 fighters, and the overall battle loss ratio was controlled at about 6 to 1 due to the all-out participation of the Sea Dragon jet fighters. ”

After reading the report, the combat staff officer handed it to Ge Yunsheng, and then stepped aside.

"Old Gao, jet fighters are really a revolution in air combat. Concentrate on using these trump cards, and the results are really brilliant. ”

For this result, Ge Yunsheng is very satisfied. Judging from the entire air battle, the US aircraft occupy a numerical advantage, and the Chinese aircraft group occupies a great superiority.

The use of radar early warning aircraft and electronic jamming aircraft is another bargaining chip in favor of the Chinese side in the balance of air warfare.

The US fleet, which has been interfered with in a concentrated manner, has greatly reduced its ability to guard the air and has also suffered a great hindrance in commanding aircraft group operations. China's early warning aircraft, on the other hand, can provide battlefield early warning and command, and can respond more calmly and deploy troops more conveniently.

"The result was brilliant, but it wasn't as unexpected as we expected."

Gao Xiaochuan sighed, not to mention that in the first wave of surprise attacks, the US military was shot down 140 planes. The concentrated use of 100 Sea Dragon jet fighters also brought most of the follow-up results, and if it were not for the proper control of losses, the downed US planes would have only been more.

You must know that in the original history, in the air war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, whether it was the US P-51 shooting down the MiG-15 or the Chinese propeller plane shooting down the US F-86, it could be regarded as a miracle.

At present, however, China's jet fighters are used intensively, and whether they are the aircraft or the pilots, they are all the only ones among the crowd, and it is too difficult for the US military to try to shoot down as many HL-1 jet fighters as the F4U carrier-based aircraft. You must know that the HL-1 fighter is a few years later than the MiG-15 that was originally in history, and it is more advanced than the F-86 Poseidon that the US military is equipped with today.

Ge Yunsheng: "There will always be losses in the war, and the losses may be slightly larger in the future, but once we take air strikes against the US fleet, this situation will be reversed." ”

"Hmm!" Gao Xiaochuan agreed.

...... "General, our losses are expanding. ”

On the USS Washington, the flagship of the US Pacific Fleet with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons, Nopel, chief of staff of the US Fleet, wearing the rank of lieutenant general, was reporting to Nimitz with great concern.

Nimitz frowned, sucked the cigar in his mouth fiercely, and for a moment the smoke was filled, "How is the battle damage ratio?" ”

"Because the Chinese led the jet group and carried out a high-altitude raid on our first wave of aircraft, we suffered great losses, a total of 145 were shot down, 35 lost contact, and only more than 70 were able to return." In total, the number of downed aircraft has now reached 350, 50 are missing. ”

Chief of Staff Nopel reluctantly reported that this battle situation was not much different from the annihilation of the entire army, and the actual losses were as high as 68 percent, and if it was a land and air battle, it would have been a great rout long ago.

"How many Chinese planes were shot down?"

"It is believed that at least 100 Chinese planes were shot down."

The statistics of the results are the most ambiguous thing, Nopel is very skeptical of this number in his heart, according to the reports of the pilots, at least about 100 jet enemy aircraft into battle, in this case, only 250 Corsair carrier-based aircraft group, can shoot down 100 Chinese aircraft?

But it didn't matter, he knew that as long as there was a written statistical report of the results, even if it was wrong, Admiral Nimitz would approve of it.

"Well, the losses are very large, and the results are brilliant."

Nimitz's expression was not soothed, and deep down he was in the same mood as Noppel, but he didn't curse, after all, it wasn't that the pilots didn't work hard enough. "What do you think?"

"General, I propose to immediately launch an air attack on the Chinese fleet, otherwise, since it is not known how many jet carrier-based aircraft the Chinese have, our losses may be further expanded." Lieutenant General Nopel said quickly, "We have more carrier-based aircraft than the Chinese, and once the air raid causes certain results and weakens the strength of the Chinese, we can drag it to the end."

We have already lost almost a quarter of our aircraft, Chinese at least a fifth of them, and if we do not carry out air strikes against the fleet, it is likely to ......"

Nimitz looked at this chief of staff, his thoughts were actually the same as himself, relying on the number of carrier-based aircraft, dragging the Chinese to death!

Since the beginning of the decisive battle, almost 400 planes have been shot down in the three phases of air warfare, and if this number is known to the American people, Nimitz believes that he may be shot on any street in the United States. But now, it is not at all the time to worry about losses, as long as you can defeat the Chinese, sink or capture their fleet, even if there are only a few dozen of all carrier-based aircraft left, it is a brilliant result.

He knows very well that the United States can produce nearly 10,000 aircraft of all kinds a month, but there are absolutely no more than seven aircraft carriers, and this still includes the output of light aircraft carriers and escort aircraft carriers.

But he still can't delay, you must know that there are a considerable number of bombers among the 1,800 carrier-based aircraft, and the number of real carrier-based fighters does not exceed 1,300, and the loss of 400 aircraft has reached one-third of the loss in terms of air supremacy.

The only thing he could pray for was that the results reported by the pilots would not be too false. At present, the total 'results' have reached the number of 350 Chinese planes shot down, but he understands that this 350 may have to be multiplied by a very low percentage...... "Well, carry out Plan 1, immediately follow the third stage of China's returning carrier-based aircraft, and attack their fleet." Nimitz glanced at the big clock on the wall, it was half past one o'clock in the afternoon, and it was too far away from the time of darkness, far enough away that any disaster might occur.

So, just after the end of the third wave of air battles, an air attack formation consisting of 300 carrier-based fighters and 100 bombers set off. The scale of 400 fighters is easy for the Americans, whose total number of fighters reaches 1800 aircraft. With 50 aircraft carriers, an average of 8 fighters can complete the marshalling task of the gap aircraft group.

Relatively speaking, although the loss of 400 fighters was heavy, it did not disrupt the take-off and landing tasks of the entire fleet. After all, most planes are shot down, so there is no return landing to occupy the deck...... What the Americans need to do is to constantly pull the plane out of the hangar, hang up bombs, fill it with fuel, and take off......――――― the Falcon 07 is the closest early warning plane to the air battlefield and the closest to the US fleet, and it will fly directly to an altitude of 10,000 meters and monitor the US fleet 100 kilometers away in all directions with radar.

The distance between the Chinese and US fleets is already less than 300 kilometers, and if there is no early warning capability, just thinking about the scale of the 1,800 carrier-based aircraft of the US military, even excluding carrier-based bombers, is very numb.

After all, the US fleet is not on land bombing missions, and the proportion of fighters is very high.

"Lieutenant Colonel, radar spotted a massive swarm!!"

The radar soldier put down his headphones and reported to Hu Zhongming, commander of the early warning aircraft sitting on the command platform.

"Immediately confirm the number of aircraft in the fleet, aircraft type, distance, speed."

Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhongming gave the order, and then asked the signal corps to open the communication channel of the liaison fleet, and reported: "Report the brood, a large number of US aircraft have been found, and the Falcon 07 is confirming the type, number, speed, and distance of the aircraft. ”

From time to time, combined with the computer's radar system, a series of detailed data were given, and Hu Zhongming was immediately frightened into a cold sweat, and it seemed that the Americans were about to be unable to resist such a huge group of air attack planes and were about to die and struggle.

"Falcon 07 reported the brood, the number of enemy aircraft exceeded 300, the number is expected to be about 400, the number of fighters is nearly 300, and the rest are all bombers, and the speed is ......"

"Understood, continue monitoring."

The fleet command room quickly replied, and immediately reported the emergency to the combat command.

"Well, the Americans have finally taken the lead in counterattacking."

Ge Yunsheng ran to the command platform at almost a sprint speed, and personally ordered: "I am Ge Yunsheng, the radar warning shows that a fleet of 400 US military planes is flying towards me, and all the fighters in the air who can persist in flying for 30 minutes should immediately go to the following airspace to assemble, block the US plane group, and buy ......time for the fleet to take off the fighters."

Ge Yunsheng quickly reported a few airspace coordinates that he had memorized, which was about 70 kilometers away from the fleet, and the encounter time with the US plane group was about 10 minutes, and as long as he blocked the US plane group a little, he could win the fleet 20 minutes or even longer to take off.

In the battle plan, the counterattack of the Americans was expected, and the take-off capability of the Chinese fleet per unit time was inferior to that of the American army, after all, the number of aircraft carriers was much smaller, but as long as there was a certain buffer time, the problem was not big. After all, China has AWACS aircraft, and not waited until the Americans flew into the warning range of the fleet's radar to find out, at that time, it was much more passive.

…… The first to assemble were more than 50 returning Sea Dragon fighters in the third phase of air combat, their speed, long range, long stay in the air, and the remaining ammunition carrying was enough to support an air battle with a blocking surname.

"Prepare for battle!"

The commander of this temporary fleet was Air Force Colonel Akita.

Zhang Shutai has just received a report from the early warning planes that there is also a support aircraft group composed of more than 70 HJ-2 and HJ-3 carrier-based fighters 50 kilometers behind him.

After the order was issued, more than 50 Sea Dragon jet fighters rushed towards the oncoming US military plane group like arrows from the string.

At this time, there is no longer a radar, and in the field of vision, the entire airspace ahead, is full of American fighters.

The first to collide with the Chinese Sea Dragon fighter group was not a bomber, nor an F4U Corsair carrier-based aircraft, but an American Poseidon aircraft.

More than 30 F86 Poseidon fighters, assisted by more than 40 F4U Corsair carrier-based aircraft, rushed murderously towards the Chinese Sea Dragon fighter group.

The battle is on the verge of breaking out.

In the blink of an eye, the entire air was a battle between two high-speed jet fighters.

The cannon fired, and the long lightning-like chain pulled out by the aviation machine gun, knocked down a US plane or a Chinese plane from time to time.

70 against 50, even if you calculate the surname of the jet fighter, the overall strength gap between the two sides is not large.

"Report to the brood, the main force of the US aircraft group is rapidly detaching, and we have been bitten by the US plane."

Zhang Shutai reluctantly reported that in a short period of time, the aircraft group could not get out of the strangulation, but what made him even more helpless was that the American aircraft group did not even want to destroy these 50 Chinese sea dragons, but only dragged it, and the main aircraft group still rushed in the direction of the main force of the Chinese fleet.

The Americans are staring at the Chinese fleet.

...... "After two interceptions, the American plane group was only 30 kilometers away from us, and now the aircraft group has been strangled together with the enemy plane group. ”

The operational staff officer excitedly reported the latest battle situation to Ge Yunsheng.

The entire process of the US aircraft air raid was first discovered very early in advance, and then the overall fleet speed was slowed down by the superior fighters of the Chinese side, and then as more and more follow-up carrier-based aircraft took off, the US air attack plan was tantamount to failure.

On the contrary, while the US military is putting its fighters into air combat, a large number of bombers are being slaughtered.

In the end, the US aircraft group returned with a feather and almost all the bombers were lost.

Even if Nimitz thundered, it was hard to imagine that at an altitude of 10,000 meters not far from him, the Chinese AWACS aircraft were staring at the movement of the US fleet.

The failure of the air raid plan was equivalent to the ineffectiveness of the counterattack, and the enraged Nimitz had to give another order to continue to fight for air supremacy.

As the minutes ticked by, a large number of warplanes from both sides were shot down almost every hour.

During this period, Nimitz always hoped that he would be able to hold out until the second echelon fleet came up, in which case, there would be hundreds of more aircraft.

However, the Chinese did not give him this time.

At 4 p.m. on July 15, 1944, a moment that would go down in the annals of the Republic's naval history.

More than 100 carrier-based bombers, escorted by more than 200 carrier-based fighters, formed a joint formation, and a group of more than 100 carrier-based fighters on standby in the air formed a super-large group of 500 planes and rushed towards the main force of the US fleet.

This is already the largest fleet of aircraft that the Chinese fleet can dispatch in a single operation, including fighters that are in the air in advance.

"Comrades, I wish you good luck, I am on the Yellow Emperor, waiting for your triumphant good news."

Ge Yunsheng sent a speech of pre-blessing to all the crew members of the expedition through the command radio.

An hour later, the Chinese plane squadron flew over the US fleet and fought with the US fleet's fighter planes that had taken off urgently after the radar spotted a large Chinese fleet.

Obviously, this time, the US military was caught off guard, even if there was a radar detection in advance, it did not expect that the Chinese air attack aircraft group was so large, and the 200 carrier-based aircraft that took off in a hurry were soon pulled into the battle circle by nearly 400 carrier-based fighters of various types in China, and they were completely unable to block the more than 100 bombers from carrying out air strikes.

"Woo woo woo ......"

The sound of violent air defense combat sirens sounded over the US fleet, and all the US troops were rushing to take off planes on the deck every moment as if they were facing a great enemy, trying to increase the intensity of interception, but it was obviously too late.

The high-intensity naval and air battle, which lasted for nearly eight hours, was not at all like the British and German fighting and stopping in the skies over the English Channel, and it was completely a life-and-death fight from beginning to end.

At the front of the bomber group were 20 HH-35 Poseidon bombers, each with four huge 'bombs' hanging under the wings, which were precisely the secret weapon of the Wehrmacht Navy: Compared with the Germans, who were tirelessly dropping radio-guided bombs on the Anglo-German naval battlefield, China went one step further and put the newly developed Sturgeon anti-ship missile into use.

Under the protection of the fighter group, the bomber group gradually locked on some big guys in the US fleet with the help of AWACS aircraft at a high altitude several kilometers away from the US military.

"Priority is given to locking on large aircraft carriers and confirming their respective targets."

The commander of the HH-35 group, Lieutenant Colonel Yue Zhen of the Navy's bomber unit, ordered.

"Report, target confirmed, locked!"

Soon, 20 HH-35 and other HH-3 bombers with two sturgeon flying all reported that they had completed their locking.

"Launch!!"

Lieutenant Colonel Yue Zhen calmly ordered that the entire fleet of more than 120 air-launched anti-ship missiles would inflict heavy losses on the US military.

"Whew......"

After receiving the launch order, the very large Sturgeon anti-ship missile, like a shrunken airplane, quickly left its wings, quickly started the rocket engine, and headed straight for the US fleet.

The number of air-launched anti-ship missiles of the first wave of Sturgeon, amounted to 40 units.

At the same time as the anti-ship missiles were launched, the bomber group also launched the final preparations before the dive bombing/horizontal bombing, just waiting for the anti-ship missiles to tear through the US anti-aircraft fire network, and these bombers carrying a large number of heavy aerial bombs will send a second wave of air strikes to the US military.

Nimitz stood on the Cambridge, already dressed in a very neat new military uniform, perhaps sensing that the battle situation was not going well, and his mood was even more irritable, but on the surface he calmed down.

"Perhaps, we will not be completely defeated, as long as the second echelon comes up, at least we can guarantee a safe withdrawal, and then ...... with the land-based air force in the direction of Los Angeles"

Although reluctant, Nimitz still prepared for the worst, perhaps, this time the Hawaiian Islands will be bombed into ruins by the Chinese, or even occupied.

But he is obliged to bring back the main forces of the fleet until more and more advanced weapons and equipment are produced domestically and make a comeback.

"General, please go below, the Chinese air raid is about to begin."

Seeing that air supremacy has been taken away, many planes have not had time to take off, and some of the planes that have taken off have been dragged to death, and it is only a matter of time before they are attacked by air raids.

"Don't worry, it's just an air raid. Air strikes on the fleet are not a fatal thing, and I am sure that our anti-aircraft fire will surprise the Chinese. ”

Nimitz confidently said that precisely because of the strength of the Chinese and his own carrier-based aircraft, the US fleet also attaches great importance to the strengthening of anti-submarine and anti-aircraft firepower.

According to his conventional understanding, even if the Chinese have 200 bombers, they may not be able to successfully break through the anti-aircraft fire, after all, this is a huge fleet of hundreds of ships, and the anti-aircraft fire is denser than rain.

In his opinion, there may be certain losses, but it is not yet time for a decisive battle, as long as it resists this wave of air attacks by the Chinese, the fleet can still take off fighters to fight for air supremacy, wait for the second echelon fleet to follow, and at the same time move closer to Los Angeles to seek support from land-based air forces.

However, he never expected that the Chinese anti-ship missiles had already been put into practical use.

"There is a high-speed flying object coming towards us, and it is suspected that it is a high-speed small aircraft."

Before the US fleet radar report was handed over, many US officers and men saw a strange scene.

One after another, anti-ship missiles, at a maximum speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, rushed toward the big guys in the US fleet. (Originally, anti-ship missiles would soon be used in real combat, and in 10 years, Soviet anti-ship missiles could reach speeds of up to 1,300 kilometers per hour.) "God, what's that?" ”

Every U.S. soldier saw a high-speed flying object, but it was much smaller than the individual of the plane, and it was not very conspicuous in the telescope.

However, their speed is very high, much faster than that of regular F4U fighters, and the speed difference between the aircraft targeted during air defense training is 108,000 miles.

"Tom ......"

Anti-aircraft guns began to fire intensively, and although the anti-ship missiles were fast and small, they could still be detected, but relatively speaking, the prevention and control were ten times more difficult. In peacetime, the US military's training was mainly aimed at air defense operations against dive bombers in the 500 km/h range and medium-speed bombers at high altitudes.

For missiles of the 1000 km class, most of the anti-aircraft fire fell far behind the missiles...... Everyone realized that something was wrong, but it was too fast, and the distance of several kilometers was in front of a missile at 1,000 kilometers per hour.

"God, what's that??"

Nimitz looked up and found several targets in the distance rushing towards the Washington, he didn't even have time to think, and when he saw those high-speed objects, only one thought came to his mind: "Damn Chinese, do you want to pilot a plane to sink our battleship??" ”

Rumble...... Rumble...... Rumble...... Loud explosions...... The USS Washington was not the first to suffer, and the first few major US aircraft carriers to be hit on the periphery were all big guys with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons.

Although many of the missiles aimed at them were attracted by the battleships next to them, they were limited by the accuracy of their hits, and some of them deviated from the target and fell into the water.

But in the end, about 25 of the 40 anti-ship missiles still hit the target.

The original design hit rate, in the absence of effective jamming and effective air defense, a single shot is as high as about 85%, considering air defense or some interference, the actual hit rate of a single shot is more than 70%. However, due to the fact that there were many other warships in the vicinity of the target warship, some of the anti-ship missiles still deviated from the target, or were directly blocked by others during the final dive.

Overall, 25 missiles hit the target, which is also a very good result.

"God ......"

Nimitz's eyes widened in horror, not to mention the strange weapon that was about to hit the Washington, and in his sight, a number of large aircraft carriers in the distance were hit by this strange weapon, and then there was an earth-shattering explosion.

In the explosion, the battleships that were hit were completely destroyed by the terrible fireballs and smoke that rose from the violent explosion.

The next moment, three anti-ship missiles hit the USS Washington.

The 40,000-ton USS Washington was indeed very resistant to explosions, with three anti-ship missiles, one burrowed into the hangar, one exploded in the deck and hangar mezzanine, and one directly drilled into the ship's hold to produce a more violent explosion.

If it weren't for the advanced watertight compartment design, the current Washington would have faced the bad luck of sinking.

Nimitz was shocked by the violent blast wave of the explosion, and fell more than two meters away from the command room, and was desperately pressed and protected by several adjutants and staff officers.

Through the huge window, Nimitz even saw a plane that had been blown up to only half of it and flew into the air, so you can imagine how powerful the violent explosion was.

"God, what kind of weapon is this? Could it be that the Chinese really flew jet fighters and launched suicide attacks on us? ”

Although he was knocked and vomited blood, Nimitz still flashed these thoughts in his mind, and then fiercely pushed away the person on his body, got up, and shouted: "Fight, order, continue to fight, air defense, behind the suicide attack of the Chinese must be the main bomber group." ”

When he stood up and looked out, he could still see the fighters waiting to take off on the deck of the aircraft carrier, which were blown up by the Chinese'suicide' attack, some were blown up and fell into the sea, and some were directly torn apart, forming a storm of metal and tatters on the deck, and the hangar was torn open a huge gap, and you don't need to think about it to know that many planes inside have become garbage...... The fire did not stop for a moment, it was burning violently, and the US officers and soldiers in charge of fire extinguishing were pulling the fire hose and desperately trying to put out the fire.

USS Washington, at least temporarily lost its combat effectiveness, except for a number of anti-aircraft fire points.

Sure enough, after more than a dozen warships, including the USS Washington and the USS Maine, were hit, a big loophole inevitably appeared in the US air defense network, and the offensive direction of the Chinese anti-ship missiles was the left flank of the fleet, which directly led to a huge discount in the anti-aircraft fire in the left flank direction of the US fleet.

“no，no，no……”

Holding a telescope and looking at the dense Chinese planes flying in the distant sky, Nimitz roared loudly.

If it were a normal time, 100 bombers would probably pay a huge price in front of a complete network of anti-aircraft fire, but at this time, the entire left flank was in a mess, and the anti-aircraft fire of the remaining battleships was completely insufficient to withstand so many Chinese carrier-based bombers.

…… Sergeant Gu Weicai, the pilot of the HH-3 Jingwei carrier-based bomber, skillfully dodged up and down the US warship's anti-aircraft fire in the HH-3.

The HH-3 is not a specialized dive bomber, but it has the capability of dive bombing and has a large enough bomb load.

The plane was about to jump over a cruiser, and Gu Weicai even saw the cruiser's side number, F011.

"Bomb Drop!!"

The bomber on the bomber decisively pressed the bomb button, and then, a string of 100-kilogram bombs fell, and suddenly exploded on this air defense cruiser.

The first wave of attacks did not seek to destroy the US fleet entirely, but to destroy its anti-aircraft firepower and provide an opportunity for subsequent aircraft loaded with heavy aerial bombs.

Among the several aerial bombs dropped by this plane, there were even two incendiary bombs, and in the violent explosion, a large fireball also rose up, which could not be extinguished at all.

Although the battleship was not really badly damaged, the deck was in shambles, most of the anti-aircraft fire points were destroyed, and there were heavy losses in personnel.

The next moment, Gu Weicai crossed the two small warships and came to the sky above an aircraft carrier with a long flight deck, the anti-aircraft fire on it was firing fiercely, and there were also two battleships supporting its air defense network next to it.

"Let's do it!!"

Seeing the three bombers following behind, Gu Wei knew that the opportunity had come, and then rushed over fearlessly.

The bomber's machine guns and cannons kept strafing the deck, and Gu Weicai knew by feeling that the bomber had been hit at least three times, but the damage was not too serious, and then, the bombardier dropped the largest aerial bomb on the bomber, a huge guy of 1000 kg.

"Boom ......"

A violent explosion that even Gu Weicai felt his ears buzz followed, and through the cabin glass, Gu Weicai saw that almost the entire deck of the aircraft carrier was blown away by the explosion, although it was lucky not to be damaged and sunk, but it had completely lost its combat effectiveness.

…… From 4 p.m. until nightfall, the U.S. fleet suffered a second wave of air strikes, with more than 40 anti-ship missiles again leading the way, and the main bomber group subsequently, after paying a certain price, again inflicted heavy damage on the U.S. fleet.

Hit hard, a mysterious secret weapon, Nimitz immediately ordered an accelerated evacuation, intending to escape the pursuit in the night.

However, under the surveillance of Chinese AWACS aircraft and day-night Sea Hawk high-altitude patrol aircraft, the escape plan did not materialize.

This day was destined to be a disaster for the US Navy, and with the second echelon of support aircraft only 20 minutes apart, the Chinese launched the Dawn General Attack.

Battleships were sunk, planes were shot down or blown up on decks.................. The Pacific War is over, and there are still 1,000 words to sweep the end and send the next chapter.

(To be continued)