The plane of Cai Yong, commander of the port attack team of the first attack wave, flew into the air at 9:40, and the 100 carrier-based planes behind him spread out in a three-dimensional prismatic array were like a group of hungry vultures, eager to pounce on their prey.

Prey...... Where is the prey?

What about battleships? What about water machines?

The inside of the breakwater was empty, and there was not even a sampan left.

What to do?

Search!

It's only been two hours, and the plane can't catch up, forget it, the fleet shouldn't have gone far, go around a few times, hit it if you can find it, come back and blow up the port if you can't find it, what's wrong with the torpedo hitting the dock? Hmph, if you can run, the monk can't run the temple......

With such a determination, Cai Yong gave the signal of "follow me" and led the team to search to the east first.

The 24 "Thunder Eagles" and 10 "Thunder Eagles" of the airfield attack team flew over the target at 9:50 a.m., with not a single plane in sight on either side of the long runway, and several antiaircraft guns continued to shoot time-delay fuse shells into the sky, exploding clouds of black smoke at a great distance from the group.

Commander Situ had no choice but to order the "Thunder Eagle" to drop bombs on the airfield facilities, and the "Sea Lightning" to suppress the anti-aircraft guns with machine guns.

100 bombs rained down like hailstones, and the entire airport was instantly covered with a shining red light, and the tower, hangar, oil depot, ammunition depot, and barracks were turned into a sea of fire one after another, and the billowing smoke rose hundreds of meters into the air—the columns of smoke could still be clearly seen when Situ flew to Panama City, a dozen kilometers away.

"Those crooked columns of smoke seemed to be mocking our failures, which were supposed to destroy the enemy aircraft group, but they didn't even catch the enemy's hair......"

Situ later recalled.

Cai Yong was much luckier than him.

After searching eastward for half an hour, Cai Yong's assault team finally found its target, the U.S. fleet flying the Stars and Stripes. After careful identification, it was confirmed that the enemy fleet consisted of 1 Connecticut-type battleship, 2 Pietrosburg-type Daxun, 3 St. Louis-type Daxun, and 10 700-ton destroyers. What is surprising is that the enemy fleet actually lined up in a wheel-shaped formation that was unique to our army - with battleships and 2 Petersburg-type Daejo as the core, and the other ships scattered around, compared with the longitudinal formation of snakes, it was obviously more conducive to the formation of ships to avoid air attacks.

didn't have time to think about it, Cai Yong pulled out his signal gun, fired two red signal flares in a row, and the large group of planes that covered the sky and the sun quickly divided into several columns, insisting on the six largest ships in the fleet, and descended to a low altitude of more than ten meters around ***. Strike close to the sea.

Qi Bing's 117 Ship Attack Squadron stared at the largest Connecticut-type battleship, only to see the four large smoke of the prey spewing black smoke and sparks violently like a volcanic eruption, and the sea water cut by the hull was on the ship +=|,|. It presents a snow-white, earthworm-like twisted track.

The squadron flew past the left rear of the enemy ship in groups of three, and while descending in altitude, the wings turned one and a quarter of a circle against the wings, and came to the left front of the enemy ship.

Each machine looks at the signal of the leader and the captain, spreads out into a fan-shaped array, and calculates the advance amount according to the real-time solution. The nose of the aircraft aimed at the extension of the course of the enemy ship and threw mines one after another at the specified distance. Nine torpedoes were fired out in a fan, greatly sealing the maneuvering space of the enemy ships in order to increase the success rate of the attack -- this is the so-called "torpedo area attack method." Originally, it was a combat method of attacking ships with surface mines, but in actual exercises, it was found that it was also suitable for naval aviation units with relatively primitive technical standards -- especially when attacking large moving targets.

This time, the resistance of the enemy ship was extremely fierce, and as soon as Qi Bing pressed the thunder button, he found that the surroundings were almost filled with weaving light marks, and the lower wing had opened a few holes conspicuously at some point.

"Squadron Leader's plane - it's on fire!"

Xiao Lu in the back seat shouted urgently in the sound tube.

Sure enough, the squadron commander in the center of the fan, that is, at the very front. The nose of the machine was wrapped in thick smoke and flames, and at a glance, it was clear that the road was hopeless.

"Squadron Leader—" Qi Bing clenched his fists, tears rolling in his eyes, but helplessly. I watched the squadron leader's landline plane fall into the sea with a long trail of smoke.

"Signal, Deputy Team Liao has sent a signal, and the whole team will follow him."

"Xiao Lu...... Salute the squadron leader before leaving......"

At the expense of the squadron leader's sacrifice. The 117th Squadron dropped a torpedo and exploded two huge columns of water on the port side of the enemy ship......

Vice Admiral Schroeder climbed down the ladder and stepped onto the deck of the destroyer Jensen, where the 16,000-ton New Hampshire was half crooked, and the bottom of the ship, covered in red rust paint and barnacle algae, was conspicuously exposed above the waterline.

"It's outdated after all, rest in peace." Schroeder drew a cross on his chest.

A thousand yards away, the USS Pueblo armored cruiser exposed its massive brass propellers, its sharp bow long submerged, and the surviving crew was floating around like dumplings, and the destroyer USS Campbell was heading towards them.

Vice Admiral Schroeder still vividly remembers that a few minutes earlier, the destroyer "Rodrigo" had broken in two in front of him, and it had disappeared so quickly that it had no time to give any signal, and no survivors had been found on the surface of the sea - as if it had suddenly evaporated.

The captain of the "Jensen", a bearded major, greeted him: "Your Excellency, where are you going to transfer?" We're still 4 cruisers, but I'll warn you that I saw the starboard side of the Petersburg being hit, although it was still running merrily there, like a humpback whale in heat, and God knows when it would ......."

"What else do you see? For example, have you ever counted how many planes fell from the sky? ”

"Four, I swear in the name of the Bible, four from beginning to end."

Schroeder shrugged: "It's okay, we did a much better job than when we did Pearl Harbor, and there were so many planes at Pearl Harbor, but we killed 10 of us in half an hour."

"Because at that time they were shooting dead targets, and now we don't just let them play dead fish."

"They'll come again, see the rain clouds over there? God has not given up on us, we are going to hide in the rain, and until then, please send me to the St. Louis. ”

"We're here to help—"

Schroeder raised his head, looked at the group of Dihua military planes in the southwest sky, and snorted contemptuously.

"Enemy planes are coming again!" Suddenly, someone called out in panic.

Schroeder was startled and grabbed the shouter: "Where?" ”

The sailor pointed in the direction of Panama City.

Schroeder looked at it fixedly, trembling with excitement.

"It's Mitchell, Mitchell's Army Air Corps is on the move! Let's cheer for them and pray for them—"

There was a tsunami on the ship:

"Long live Mitchell!"

"Long live the Army Air Corps!"

"Long live America—"