Chapter 289: Night Attack
When the second group of air raiders arrived over Oahu and saw an even more ruined Pearl Harbor, they couldn't help but be very surprised.
"What? The Americans' oil depots may have been mistakenly hit? ”
Yamamoto Fifty-six, who was playing chess with his staff, knew that there might be some slight changes in the situation of the battle as soon as Nagumo Tadashi walked in, and since he learned that the six aircraft carriers of the Americans were not in the harbor and had not been found in the nearby seas, Yamamoto's initial feeling of being in control of the situation was gone.
He knew that under such circumstances, any negligence could cause heavy losses to the attacking fleet, and although the air force of the six aircraft carriers was not as large as the 11 aircraft carriers, he knew that once the US forces attacked angrily with the revenge mentality after the defeat, the fleet would also suffer heavy losses.
However, the situation of the war has changed somewhat, and the Americans' oil depots are not among the targets of this attack, and even their exact locations are only partially known, but according to intelligence, judging from the monstrous flames and smoke generated by the explosion of the Americans' oil depots, the main oil depots at Pearl Harbor have been completely destroyed.
"Yes, Your Excellency, as many pilots have seen, at least three huge oil depots are still burning, and they can be seen clearly from several kilometers away." Nagumo Tadaichi lowered his head and said, in a moment of Yamamoto's contemplation, he hesitated slightly, but then said, "In addition, according to the report of the pilot who flew over Pearl Harbor in the second wave of air raid groups, the American ships seemed to have suffered a second bombing in advance, many large ships were blown up, and three aircraft carriers and many battleships had been completely blown up. The situation seems to be somewhat out of control......"
Receiving this information, Yamamoto Isoroku's eyebrows jumped unconsciously, he saw some kind of speculation and suspicion in Nagumo Tadaichi's eyes, and even when he learned this information, he thought that the Americans had been hit a second time by other enemies.
In the Pacific Ocean, there are only two countries that can take action against the US military, except for China.
"Just be careful, whether it's a covert enemy or the Americans themselves detonating their ammunition, at least they're more completely destroyed."
Although Yamamoto was not sure whether it was the ammunition that was killed or whether the Chinese coincidentally attacked Pearl Harbor with the combined fleet, he was sure that this was a good thing for Yumoto.
"Your Excellency, do we need to report this information and ......investigate it thoroughly?"
Yamamoto Fifty-six shook his head, he knew deeply that if these accidents were the Americans' own ammunition explosions, it would be fine, but if the empire had definite evidence that the Chinese did it, then, according to his understanding of the Chinese scholar, although the empire could pull the Chinese into the water, it could also have a comprehensive relationship with the Chinese.
Moreover, he also knew that even if it was really done by the Chinese, unless carrier-based aircraft were sent to find their fleet in the vast sea, or to photograph their fleet, this black pot would definitely be borne by the combined fleet.
No one would believe that in just a few dozen minutes, the Chinese would intervene sideways. Even when the evidence is conclusive, Yamamoto believes that no one will think that Masamu is telling the truth.
Regardless of the truth of these hidden suspicions, there is only one perpetrator in the Pearl Harbor incident, and that is Yu Ben.
"Send more reconnaissance planes and go all out to search for the traces of the Americans, this matter is over, since they were blown up in Pearl Harbor, then it is a great battle achievement of the Combined Fleet, and this is enough." Yamamoto said firmly.
"Yes, Your Excellency." Nan Yunzhong nodded, "I have sent four teams of reconnaissance planes to expand the search range of the US aircraft carrier to 150 kilometers. If we increase it again, we will have to move the fleet a little forward. ”
"Order the fleet to advance 100 nautical miles and extend the search area to 200 nautical miles east of Pearl Harbor." Yamamoto knew that the Americans' aircraft carriers were the most important thing in this sneak attack.
Hundreds of nautical miles west of Pearl Harbor, China's task force fleet of four ships has ushered in the last of its homecoming air attack planes.
"Report to the commander, all the planes have returned home, and three HH-3 Jingwei bombers have been damaged by the remaining anti-aircraft artillery fire of the US troops, and they are currently being urgently repaired, and the mechanics are expected to be able to resume their combat capability tomorrow.
Judging from the results of the battle, we not only bombed the US oil depots, but also bombed the Oahu shipyard with a destructive surname, and in addition, nearly 30 large US warships, including three aircraft carriers, were bombed with varying degrees of destruction. ”
The operational staff officers of the task force have finally counted the preliminary results of the air raid and are making a report to Ge Yunsheng.
Raising his head from the chart near Pearl Harbor, Ge Yunsheng only nodded lightly, the results of this expedition were already expected in the battle plan, although the size of China's aircraft group was far smaller than that of Yue himself, but the number of bombs carried was far stronger than that of the Yue army's aircraft group, plus it was a heavy bombing, it was natural to be able to achieve such a result.
"Haven't the four Seahawks come back yet?" Ge Yunsheng asked.
"Commander, they just sent back a report ten minutes ago, saying that they were already on their way back." The operational staff officer replied.
"Hmm." Ge Yunsheng frowned slightly, at present, the search distance of the sea eagles has reached the maximum of two hundred nautical miles, if they want to continue to expand the search range, it can only push the fleet forward.
"Order, the fleet advances 100 nautical miles, and after the Sea Hawks are repaired, they will form three search and reconnaissance aircraft teams together with the remaining two Sea Hawks on rotation, and expand the search range of the US aircraft carrier to 300 nautical miles east of Pearl Harbor."
Ge Yunsheng frowned secretly, although he had already expected that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US aircraft carrier group must immediately retreat to a safe distance, and then set off the aircraft group to support Pearl Harbor. But he did not expect that two hundred nautical miles east of Pearl Harbor did not find the American aircraft carrier group.
You must know that two of the four Seahawk reconnaissance planes of the 2 Squadron are equipped with anti-air and anti-sea search radars, which are two of the Navy's only 10 reconnaissance planes carrying radars on their backs. If four aircraft are too few compared to the huge sea surface of two hundred nautical miles, two radar Sea Hawks, the search range is not small.
At this moment, another staff officer hurriedly walked in and reported, "Commander, when the Sea Hawks returned home, the Sea Eagle 04 at the rear found a large number of US carrier-based aircraft groups, which should be supporting Pearl Harbor. ”
"Good. This at least shows that the American aircraft carriers were not directly scared away, and they, after all, are thinking of revenge. He said that his third wave of air raid planes was also about to arrive, and it was just in time for a good time. Ge Yunsheng knew that whether it was over Pearl Harbor or between the following US carrier-based aircraft, it had just begun, and the battle would inevitably break out soon. The Americans, who have six aircraft carriers and more than 20 ships, will never be able to directly retreat and withdraw to the United States.
After all, this is the best opportunity to face the contrast and collision of naval forces between the United States and China, and it can leave a lot of reference for future operations.
He had already decided that he should take off as soon as possible the two Sea Hawks, the last of the task force, and rush to the sky over Pearl Harbor to monitor the large-scale carrier-based air battle that was about to break out over Pearl Harbor from a high altitude.
About 20 warships were densely laid out on the sea 250 nautical miles east of Pearl Harbor, and when Pearl Harbor was attacked suddenly and violently, this mixed aircraft carrier fleet was training 170 nautical miles away from Pearl Harbor.
At the first moment of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Vice Admiral Nimitz, commander of the mixed fleet and one of the deputy commanders of the Pacific Fleet, who was in charge of directing the joint exercise, immediately ordered a carrier-based aircraft group to attack to support Pearl Harbor. However, after a brief period of anger, because the enemy situation was unknown, he still ordered the fleet to retreat somewhat conservatively and cautiously, and according to the estimate of the approximate position of the fleet, it retreated to the safety of the sea two hundred nautical miles east of Pearl Harbor.
However, what made him feel very helpless was that the distance of 170 nautical miles, with the speed of the carrier-based aircraft group, from the preparation before take-off to the departure, the time spent halfway, and then to the time when rushing to the sky over Pearl Harbor, was at least about 1 hour.
According to Oahu's radio call for help, Nimitz has not yet received a report of the carrier-based aircraft group arriving over Oahu, but has already received a report of his third air attack on Pearl Harbor. At this time, Nimitz's mood was more complicated, he was worried that he would leave after the great results of the three air raids, and he was worried that the decisive battle would affect the remaining Pacific Fleet.
If it weren't for the air force operations after a long-distance fleet attack, these fleets would not have been far from Pearl Harbor, resulting in a lack of quick reinforcements after an incident. Of course, he also understood that if the mixed fleet headed by six aircraft carriers had not been nearly 200 nautical miles away from Pearl Harbor, it would have been poisoned by the Chinese army at this moment.
"Perhaps, the problem of deploying radars should be accelerated, and the Chinese, and even the Germans and British, are moving faster in this regard than the United States." Nimitz frowned tightly, the role of radar in naval and air warfare has been proven many times in Asia and Europe, and even the British relied on radar to repeatedly detect German cross-sea bombing. He has already made up his mind that after this incident, he will definitely report to the United States and demand that the speed of radar development and deployment be accelerated.
"General, the fleet has 5 minutes to reach the skies over Oahu."
The operational staff officer walked up to Nimitz with several reports, "In addition, the President personally signed an order authorizing us to retaliate against him with the remaining fleet, and ordered you to be the new commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, succeeding Admiral Melkin, and promoted to Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet.
On the Atlantic side, the German fleet has been found, and after a skirmish of carrier-based aircraft at sea, the German fleet is retreating, and Mr. President has ordered the Atlantic Fleet to urgently transfer a combined fleet to support the Pacific Fleet. ”
"God bless America." Nimitz nodded noncommittally, the news from home did not make him very happy, because it was all irrelevant, what mattered was the imminent air battle over Oahu, and whether he would be able to find the main force of his fleet and launch a fierce attack on it. "Send out all our reconnaissance planes, including the latest F5F reconnaissance planes, dismantle all their weapons and unnecessary things, and expand the search area, I only need one result, and that is to find my own fleet. If any of the lads can follow their homecoming fleet to their nest, I will apply to the President for the highest honor. ”
"Yes, General."
When Zhang Shusheng simply had brunch, he said that his air raid had not ended, which made him feel a little surprised.
In the original history, although Yamamoto Isoroku was bold enough to make a crazy plan for the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was also a more cautious person, and it was easier to feel satisfied in the face of victory.
This time, however, due to their own influence, the naval forces of various countries have been strengthened to varying degrees, especially the naval forces of China, Germany, the United States, and Britain, which are particularly powerful.
Although the six aircraft carriers that escaped from Pearl Harbor were nowhere to be seen for the time being, Yamamoto 56 apparently did not give up his intention to track them.
In the original era, aircraft carriers, although they were also valued, were far less important than in this era.
As many as six aircraft carriers have not been found, and Yamamoto estimates that it will be difficult for him to be reconciled, and besides, if the American fleet returns home far away, once it is still in the vicinity, then the possibility of a major air battle between the United States and the United States is almost certain.
The Americans could not just be beaten and not fight back, and they themselves wanted to destroy the remaining Pacific Fleet.
You must know that in history, the three aircraft carriers that escaped were only insignificant in the eyes of Yueben. And this time, the nearly 20 ships that escaped, led by six aircraft carriers, can be regarded as most of the main force of the Pacific Fleet.
"Oh? Two reconnaissance planes carrying a compound eye battlefield surveillance system set off again. ”
Zhang Shusheng received the telegram sent back directly by the task force from the hands of the robot butler He Yi, and the two Sea Eagle reconnaissance planes piloted by Song Zhou and the others set out again to spy on the big air battle that was about to break out between himself and the Americans from a high altitude.
According to his own arrangement, the arrival time of the third wave of air raid planes was almost the same as that of the US military planes.
After arriving over Oahu, the Sea Hawk reconnaissance planes piloted by Song Zhou and Cai Gongcheng raised their flight altitude to an altitude of 8,000 meters, which was almost absolutely safe; at this altitude, both US and Chinese military planes were beyond their reach, and they lacked radar fighters, even if they flew through the clouds below the Sea Hawks, they could not spot these Chinese reconnaissance planes that were peering through the clouds to spy on Oahu.
It was not until the two reconnaissance planes circled for nearly 10 minutes that the military plane group was the first to reach the skies, and only two minutes later, the airborne radar discovered the huge group of planes rushing from the eastern sky, and about 150 US planes, which were purely composed of carrier-based fighters, frantically pounced on Oahu.
A major U.S. air war is about to break out.
"Toot ......"
When the compound eye system emitted a slight alarm sound, Zhang Shusheng saw the situation over Oahu from the slightly discolored image taken through the clouds.
I saw that the group of planes that had arrived over the battlefield first rushed frantically towards Pearl Harbor, bombing and strafing at ultra-low altitudes.
Perhaps it was because dozens of US warships had been almost completely blown up before, and the group of planes that received Yamamoto's latest order almost re-aimed at the US warships that had already been blown up and were wounded, bombing one by one.
Although it is not clear whether it was the Imperial aircraft or the Chinese secretly attacked, Yamamoto Isoroku was not stupid, and the warships that were completely destroyed were compared to the previous ones that were only injured.
"This Yamamoto Fifty-six is really a human spirit, although the second wave of the group is still hung with small bombs, but this third wave of the group is all 250 kg and 500 kg bombs."
Zhang Shusheng frowned slightly, Sanben, this little devil, is indeed a banner of the Navy, bold and careful, and good at grasping the changes in the battlefield situation.
If the previous bombing was aimed at achieving the level of total destruction, this time, it was for the purpose of focusing on destruction.
It is impossible for Yamamoto to not know that if these US ships are not completely destroyed, then they will reappear in the US Pacific Fleet sequence within half a year.
And if it is completely destroyed, then the return of US troops to the Pacific will be delayed for at least a year or so.
"Hahaha...... The little devil suffered a big loss this time. There is no radar early warning plane, and the early warning is based on the naked eye, and this time the loss is huge. The more than 150 fighter planes piloted by the American GIs are going to make a big one this time. ”
Zhang Shusheng looked down from the perspective of the Songzhou plane, and saw that the American fighter plane had approached Pearl Harbor by diving from a medium altitude. This is the same method as the Sea Hawk reconnaissance plane, except that the Americans do not know that the Chinese are watching the show overhead.
Although the Devil planes that were wreaking havoc at low altitude over Oahu left behind about 30 Zero fighters as early warnings, they were still caught off guard by the US planes that swooped down from a high altitude.
Although the more than 30 Zero fighters have the advantage of being a single aircraft, they are surrounded by more than 40 US F4F Wildcat carrier-based fighters, which is a full dozen more US carrier-based fighters, which basically offsets the one-plane superiority of Yue himself in the aircraft.
The remaining 100 or so US fighter planes, like American bulls descending from the mountains, rushed swiftly towards the group of planes that were raging frantically below.
As the first U.S. Wildcat fighter fired in the 3D image, Zhang Shusheng began to get busy.
"One, two, three......"
Zhang Shusheng counted happily, only to see that over Oahu, one after another was taken by surprise, and was wildly strafed by four 12.7mm aviation machine guns carried by American Wildcat fighters.
For a time, the entire sky over Oahu was covered with Yumoto's planes, and a large number of Nakajima attack planes and Aichi bombers fell victim to the US Wildcat fighters, pulling long black smoke and falling to the ground.
"Long Live America......"
On Oahu, the US military and civilians, who were already desperate, saw that the planes bearing the sun flag were shot down one after another, and immediately shouted excitedly into the sky, and even tried to rebuild those air defense positions regardless of the danger, or dismantle the machine guns and shoot directly into the air.
"The Americans did catch me off guard, but they obviously underestimated my Zero." Looking at the 3D images, it is said that after about 50 planes were shot down, the rate of battle damage began to drop sharply, and most of the bombers and attack planes began to drop bombs in a hurry under the cover of the Zero, preparing to return home.
The Zero, which originally had more than 120 planes, began to form a standard air combat formation after losing nearly 20 planes, and fought frantically with the remaining 130 or so US planes.
Climbing, diving, ultra-low altitude pass, shooting, skydiving...... From the time his plane fell frantically to the rapid downing of the American plane 10 minutes later, this air battle lasted less than 30 minutes, and from beginning to end, many planes fell down almost every minute.
Just like watching a grand air battle movie, Zhang Shusheng finally saw the power of the new Zero Devil for the first time in person, and he had to admit that due to the attack and suppression of China, the Zero Zero of the Devil was not a little more powerful than the original history, although there were still some differences compared with the new model of the J-2, and it could not catch up with the surname of the HJ-3 Blue Shark carrier-based fighter, but compared with the US naval aviation that had not yet completed the redress, the advantage was not a little bit.
Before Zhang Shusheng was about to lose his surname, this huge air battle finally came to an end.
Although more than 100 US Wildcat carrier-based planes desperately tried to chase these clumsy guys who were far inferior in speed, they were helplessly bitten by almost the same number of Zeros.
As a result of the air battle, he lost about 60 attack planes and bombers, and more than 50 Zeros, but the losses of the US military were also very large, and in the end, although the army fled from the skies over Oahu first, when the US military aircraft group left, Zhang Shusheng probably counted them, and then compared with the radar data of the Sea Hawk 02, the remaining US troops could still insist on flying back to the aircraft carrier, and the planes that were seriously injured and could only land on the spot added up, there were less than 70 planes, and almost half of the planes were lost.
He was at an absolute disadvantage at the beginning, but once they came back to their senses, the remaining 100-odd Zero planes actually burst out with tremendous strength, and instead beat the US carrier-based aircraft group everywhere.
Although he said that his losses were heavier, Zhang Shusheng knew that with Yamamoto's cautious surname, the number of Zeros in the entire 11 aircraft carrier groups must be not small.
Then, it is difficult to guarantee that next, Yamamoto Isoroku will not use Oahu as a decoy to carry out the fourth wave of air strikes on Oahu, seeking opportunities to annihilate the remaining Pacific Fleet forces of the US military.
However, in a short period of time, there was no major movement over Oahu, so Zhang Shusheng asked the housekeeper Zhang Yi to stare at the compound eye monitoring system and deal with some government affairs by himself.
About two hours later, after Zhang Shusheng quickly dealt with those things, he received a report.
"Report, chairman, the Seahawk squad has found the remaining main forces of the Pacific Fleet of the Americans." Su Yuren, the head of operations, personally reported this important information to Zhang Shusheng.
"Great." Zhang Shusheng stopped what he was doing, walked to the chart, looked at the place where Su Yuren pointed his finger, picked up the ruler and measured it, and couldn't help laughing, "The Americans really retreated cautiously to two hundred nautical miles away, I thought that the Sea Hawk team had missed a certain sea area." Ha ha...... This time, I'm going to see where they're headed. ”
Zhang Shusheng did not say anything out of his mouth, but the plan to attack the US aircraft carrier group was triggered by the incident in which the US military escaped from the aircraft carrier in the original history, so in addition to the radar early warning aircraft and radar reconnaissance plane, the planes carried by the task force this time also had a big killing weapon.
A carrier-based aircraft group with real-combat-level night combat capabilities.
Zhang Shusheng knew that in order to destroy these six aircraft carriers, the unreliability of his combined fleet, this task must be completed by the Chinese task force, and the night will confuse the eyes of the Americans, but it will not be able to stop the attack of the Chinese.
All kinds of vomiting blood, from a business trip to a meeting to vomiting blood, a meeting that lasted nearly 7 and a half hours, and only a 10-minute break in the middle...... When I came back, I fell to sleep directly, and I got up in the middle of the night to write. Readers, brothers, Haihan.