Chapter 287: Tracking the Aircraft Carrier Group

Billy Grenim is a young pilot who graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in electrical engineering, and according to his farmer father, he should go on to pursue a master's degree in electronics or find a decent job earning a decent salary every day in a factory or laboratory. Since the economic crisis was replaced by war, there has always been no shortage of jobs for Americans.

However, when he saw the blonde, big-breasted beauty in the uniform of the Navy Air Corps on the recruitment poster, when faced with the line on the poster, "Child, America needs you", he chose to apply for the pilot examination.

As a result, an outstanding college student who has shown a strong flying talent and a great desire for the blue sky since he was a child, and an excellent young man of science and technology who can easily fly the old farmer's crop plane at the age of twelve, came to the American Navy with the dream of defending the United States and galloping the blue sky. It was then assigned to the 18th Air Force of the Pacific Fleet.

In the more than half a year since he came to Pearl Harbor, he not only successfully won the title of outstanding pilot of the F4F Wildcat carrier-based aircraft, but also successfully became the first batch of quasi-ace pilots to fly on the F6F Hellcat carrier-based aircraft. You must know that this kind of Hellcat carrier-based aircraft is a large and advanced carrier-based aircraft designed by the United States by drawing on the excellent carrier-based aircraft of China and Germany, and Billy's ability to quickly and skillfully master its flying skills is enough to prove his excellence.

However, just because it was his day off, Billy left the huge aircraft carrier in the harbor for a while, and was ready to go to the blonde, big-breasted beauty in the infirmary, a mixed-race beauty who looked like a poster girl, and bring roses to go on a date with her.

As a result, before Billy could speak, his air raid began, the sun flag raged over Pearl Harbor, even the medical center was bombed, and Jenny went to take care of the wounded. Billy is also trying to resist, finding a surviving plane on the runway, taking off, and then trying to shoot down those enemies.

"Damn God, I said that I was strong - annihilated the entire Pacific Ocean."

When he saw the smoke of Pearl Harbor, which was bombed by himself and suffered heavy losses, Billy cursed and finally found a plane hiding in the corner of the hangar, a relatively new Tomahawk fighter, the P40. "I must let him suffer a counterattack and taste the taste of being shot down."

Billy's most beloved Jenny was not killed, because he called her out of the medical center, and when he was talking to her, the medical center was hit by a bomb, although Jenny and herself escaped, but the dozens of charming American girls were buried under the rubble, and the chance of survival was very small.

As a young man with a sense of responsibility and the courage to defend America, he believes that he must do something for Jenny and for the United States.

As Jenny said, 'I will go and save more of the wounded, and you will work with the brave American soldiers to inflict casualties on the enemy.' ’

"I'm going to have to fly it into the blue sky, and with my fighting skills, it's enough to shoot down four or five of my planes." Billy is not arrogant, he has always been the top of the Pearl Harbor pilots in his usual training, and he believes that once he shows the most determined fighting enthusiasm, he can break through the level of air combat.

He was lucky enough to find a mechanic, and the two of them worked together to overhaul the plane, dismantling some unnecessary parts that had been damaged by machine gun bullets, all he needed was a machine gun and a fighter plane that could fly.

"Billy, look ......"

When Mechanic Ryan exclaimed, pointing into the distance and screaming in horror, Billy was pouring a barrel of aviation fuel into the plane, and he needed to take off immediately, because, as an experienced pilot, he knew that his sneak attack could not only take a quarter of an hour, it should be in waves.

"Damn, why is there another batch of enemy aircraft attacking from the air? Didn't my plane just leave? Billy was puzzled, cursed a few damn words to God, and then quickly continued to prepare for takeoff, knowing that the time for his battle was near.

He didn't know how many people would take off with him, but he knew that he would be able to fly and shoot down the enemy.

So, in the last time of Billy's preparations, he saw a scene far more tragic than the first wave of air raids he had just said.

"Damn, the Minneapolis was hit...... Oh God, it's the USS North Dakota...... No, the Nebraska was also hit again......"

In the midst of Ryan's screams of terror, Billy also felt a cold sweat all over his body.

It was a bombing that was smaller than the previous wave, but the actual damage was much greater.

Billy found that these enemy planes, which he said to be his own, did not carry dive attack planes, nor did they carry ultra-low-altitude bombing and strafing, but simply threw the heavy aerial bombs they carried into Pearl Harbor, and a considerable part of the battleships that gathered were hit.

"Ryan, ...... That's a big guy of at least 500 kilograms, and as long as it falls within 100 meters of us, we are national heroes. Don't look at the big guys, they only need to hit once, and they can only be used as scrap metal to be returned to the furnace after the war......"

Billy knew very well that such a seemingly small-scale air attack was terrifying with high accuracy, even because the battleships in Pearl Harbor were immobile dead targets and the density was high, but he still found that even the best bomber squadron of the Pacific Fleet could not complete such a high-precision horizontal bombing.

The strength of the enemy was still beyond his imagination, at least in terms of bomber bombing technology, he believed that he surpassed the American Air Force.

So, Billy turned his back and focused on tinkering with the plane, climbing into the cockpit to check for takeoff, while Ryan cursed and exclaimed that a large ship had been hit.

"**, the USS New Jersey was hit, at least three big guys......"

Even if Billy was calm enough, but when he heard Ryan's exclamation, he still couldn't help but look up, and when he saw it, the huge battleship, which was bigger than an aircraft carrier, had fallen crooked in the harbor at this time, and many huge aerial bombs fell, at least 3 hit it, and they all drilled into the interior and exploded. "New Jersey is also finished, damn it, I actually used more than 500 kilograms of aerial bombs. The 45,000-ton Iowa-class battleship ......"

Billy only felt a chill in his body, he knew very well what the consequences of a far more than 500-kilogram bomb would be against a battleship, if this number was 3, then, the only result in New Jersey was also a return to the furnace.

"The despicable and filthy people have just finished throwing small bombs, and they have come to throw such big guys, and the United States will punish them. Amen ...... "Ryan shook his head, lowered his head and continued to work, only when he heard a loud explosion, he looked up to see which big guy had been hit by the heavy aerial bomb of the enemy plane.

"Da Da Da ......"

At this moment, an air defense position on the hill outside the port suddenly roared, and anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns instantly fired a barrage of bullets.

"Haha... Yes... Those guys are fighting back. Ryan was so happy that she barely danced. Billy, however, calmly saw that the anti-aircraft fire had not even done a good job of the elevation of the enemy planes, and whether it was an anti-aircraft machine gun or an anti-aircraft gun, it had all changed from air defense to 'emptying'. He was about to say something, but when he saw the sudden situation on the side of the air defense position, he kept his mouth shut again.

It turned out that in less than a moment when the air defense position roared, at least a dozen small aerial bombs fell, and in the huge explosion, the only air defense position that made a sound of resistance turned off again.

"Damn, the enemy's bombing is too accurate."

Billy said hatefully, but he knew that as long as he could take off, the bombers in the sky would be the prey of his superb flying skills.

After two rounds of enemy planes, the plane was finally able to take off.

"Billy, it's up to you." Ryan waved his oil-stained hands and laughed to encourage the elite of the air combat that even he knew.

"Well, look at me."

Billy had already decided that he only needed to take off the plane, fly close to the ground and buildings, and then merge up with the other fighters on the island that had taken off sporadically, so that he could give the second sneak attack himself a little bit of power.

Almost brutally starting the plane, jolting on the rubble runway, Billy finally took off with great skill.

As he expected, in the other direction of Oahu, there were also 2 P40 Tomahawks and two older P35 Serviskis.

"It's going to work." Billy kept telling himself that then, sure enough, the enemy planes at medium and high altitudes did not immediately spot the plane, which was close to the ground and shuttling in the room of the building, at least not immediately.

Billy managed to get close to the other four planes and form two two-plane formations, and Billy ended up alone, believing that he could easily deal with his bombers without the need for a wingman.

He was not arrogant, he must have a large number of fighters, which could be vaguely seen from the sky, and all he needed to do was shoot down the enemy's bombers.

"May God bless the Americas of the free."

Billy prayed to himself, then pulled the plane up and flew towards a bomber-like plane in the distance. From time to time, as the altitude continued to rise, he found that these planes were indeed painted with the logo of the sun flag, and he also vaguely found that among the several planes at medium and high altitudes not far away, they were faintly similar to his advanced fighters.

What Billy didn't know was that just as he and the other four planes were bravely rushing forward, the 'Plane Fleet' had already spotted the four planes taking off through radar early warning aircraft.

Of course, after these four botched planes took off, the Chinese pilots could also detect it visually.

"Team 5, you are responsible for shooting them down, taking care to direct them to the middle and high altitude ...... at sea"

After Wu Cunxiao got the report, he quickly gave an order, and the four planes of the Fifth Squadron immediately pounced. Billy's P40 plane, on the other hand, happened to appear in front of the HJ-3 fighter piloted by Song Zhou, and was nicknamed the J-3 carrier-based version of the Blue Shark.

"Request an attack." Song Zhou quickly sent out a report, and he knew that his plane, after all, was different from ordinary combat aircraft, because it was carrying the lens of the compound eye battlefield monitoring system on its back.

"You can attack." The radio channel quickly replied to his request.

Of course, Song Zhou never knew that the person who replied to his request was holding a cup of tea in a high-tech underground office, staring at him and watching Pearl Harbor's every move.

"A skirmish in the air, I don't know what the winning rate is."

Zhang Shusheng stared at the 3D picture, after the provocation of the Chinese plane, the five planes decisively gave up the attack bomber, after all, they also found that the enemy's fighter jet is faster and more agile than their aircraft, if you let it go, and attack the bomber, you may be blown off from the rear.

I saw that the two US planes that first arrived over the sea formed a two-plane formation against an HJ-3 Blue Shark two-plane formation.

In the face of this strange carrier-based aircraft with a silver-white fuselage, attached to the sun flag, and smeared by a shark's mouth to make it look like an airplane, the two US pilots were a little familiar, but they didn't pay much attention to it.

The first thing they thought of was the carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese; although the HJ-3 Blue Shark has a very high degree of secrecy, and the main carrier-based aircraft of China that appears in front of various countries is still the HJ-2 type, this Blue Shark fighter is still somewhat similar to the Germans and their latest fighters, at least in appearance.

They didn't suspect too much, of course, the situation on the battlefield did not allow it, and the air battle was about to break out.

After making a big circle, the two US planes found that they did not throw off the enemy planes behind them at all, but were instead approached to the range of gun/machine gun fire.

The frightened US pilots did not expect that the opponent's instantaneous acceleration ability would be so strong, and they caught up in an instant, and immediately both climbed rapidly, preparing to rely on occupying the altitude of air combat, and then make a U-turn and counterattack.

"Knock them out!"

After all, the Americans are not familiar with this new type of carrier-based aircraft from China, but the Chinese pilots have simulated and trained all the main carrier-based aircraft of the US military in a few months, and have even produced several similar US planes as the targets of air combat drills.

In an instant, the two blue sharks climbed wildly at a large elevation angle, and although the advantage in climbing speed was not as obvious as the instant acceleration just now, they also quickly caught up with the US plane.

The two planes also tried to turn at a small angle and turn around to resist, as a result, two strings of cannons directly exploded the volley of two P40s, and the pilot did not even parachute, and one of them was not directly killed, but fell directly into the sea.

The height of the air battle battlefield is more than 2,200 meters above the sea surface...... The P40 was finished, and the two more dilapidated P35s were naturally disposed of more quickly.

The last to struggle was Billy.

Until the last moment, Billy, who had almost come up with all the air maneuvers he knew, was still firmly locked by the enemy pilot on the other side.

During a head-on attack, Billy's machine gun shot into the back of the opposing plane, and the inexplicable enemy plane, the machine gun bullets fired hit his cockpit, followed by a barrage of machine guns...... Until the end, Billy didn't understand why his pilot was so powerful, he was already an elite, could he have casually met an elite of the army?

He guessed wrong, and he guessed right. Song Zhou on the opposite side is indeed an elite, and it is also an ace elite, but it is not Yu himself, but the Chinese he never thought of.

In his thinking, he never thought that the two big countries on the other side of the Pacific would come together to attack the United States.

"American-style heroes, fallen again."

Zhang Shusheng smiled slightly, in the 3D picture, the US pilot who persevered to the end was undoubtedly the elite pilot of the US military, skilled in flying skills, and the P40, whose surname was not very backward, was still shot down after making a variety of over-limit air maneuvers.

The US plane even tried to break away from the Blue Shark in Songzhou halfway through to sneak attack an HH-3 Jingwei bomber not far away, but was stopped.

In a movie called Pearl Harbor that he watched in his previous life, Zhang Shusheng clearly remembered that in this elite Pacific Fleet headquarters, there were so many elite pilots in the US military, and they pulled out a team at random, and their flying skills were very good. In that movie, several US pilots who took off in chaos shot down nearly 10 planes, achieving brilliant results.

However, this time, although there was almost no reason for the interval between air strikes, and the pressure on the ground of the US troops was too great, the several planes that took off and the air defense positions were ineffective.

Of course, Zhang Shusheng could also foresee that if the next batch of planes arrived, and the Chinese plane group did not kick a few feet at this most difficult moment for the Americans, then Pearl Harbor would still give birth to many war heroes and shoot down many of his own planes.

Only this time, their war heroes can only count on the elites of the aircraft carrier fleet that have not yet returned to Hong Kong in the future.

"Report, the fleet will arrive in five minutes."

When the Sea Hawk reconnaissance plane reported on the situation in the direction of the fleet, it was time for the 'intermission' air raid to end temporarily.

"The oil depot has finally been found."

Zhang Shusheng casually took a look at the picture, except for the about 30 warships that were named in the spotlight, the US oil depot had been blown up and set on fire, millions of barrels of oil turned into a monstrous fire, and the huge fireball caused by the oil depot group was even like a mushroom cloud of a small nuclear bomb, which became the finale of this air raid.

Although he did not know if this was one of the largest oil depots of the U.S. military on Oahu, at least, judging by the scale of the explosion just now, at least most of the aviation fuel was detonated in this explosion.

Judging from the whole situation at Pearl Harbor, the losses of the US military were already very heavy, and even if there was no follow-up bombing, the main force of the US Pacific Fleet was scrapped, except for the six aircraft carriers that had escaped temporarily.

Looking at the group of planes returning from the picture, Zhang Shusheng knew that the air raid on Pearl Harbor had nothing to do with the Chinese task force for the time being, but it was necessary to run as fast as possible.

As many as six US aircraft carriers have not been found, then, it is conceivable that next, a large-scale air battle over Pearl Harbor is likely to break out.

Although Zhang Shusheng wanted to 'help' himself, he couldn't do anything, after all, loss is necessary, and the little devil always has to shed some blood, otherwise how can he see Uncle Sam's ferocity.

Instead, what the task force needs to do is to wait cleanly, wait for the Seahawk reconnaissance planes to return to the aircraft carrier, refuel and rest, and set off again.

"The first phase of the mission was very well done. Next, the mission of the Sea Hawk is to follow those US carrier-based aircraft returning from the air battle to find out where the American aircraft carrier fleet is. This is very important. ”

On the aircraft carrier Da Chu, in the war room, the commander of the task force, Ge Cunsheng, issued the second step of the combat order, looking for the US aircraft carrier group, which was an operational supplement to the first step plan, which did not eliminate most of the Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers.

And Zhang Shusheng also silently looked forward to it, compared to those sparse warships, these six aircraft carriers are what he cares about the most, "The whole six, it's really exciting......"