It is located about 450 kilometers northeast of Midway.

The first detachment of the Eastern Blue Dragon Fleet is cruising here, ready to enter the battle at any time.

The second squadron sailed sixteen kilometers north of the first squadron.

The southeast wind blows at four knots over the sea, the sky is cloudy, the clouds are very low, and the visual range is 19 kilometers.

Fleet Commander Xu Xuebin knew very well that at this distance, the Japanese patrol fighters on Midway Island would not be detected at all, and the distance was outside the cruising range of the Japanese fighters.

Xu Xuebin set his sights on the Japanese Combined Fleet, which had left the waters off Midway last night, and three AWACS planes in the sky were searching for the position of the Japanese Navy.

At 5:34 a.m. on the same day, the AWACS aircraft sent the latest message: "Two aircraft carriers and many battleships"

And indicate the bearing, distance, heading, and speed.

On the command ship Qinglong, the staff officers recorded the information obtained on the drawing board.

On the map, the location of the Japanese detachment soon appeared, but unfortunately, this detachment was a little far from the Eastern Fleet.

At such a distance, it is not suitable for carrier-based aircraft to attack.

And because it was the southeast wind, Xu Xuebin was unwilling to adjust the direction of the fleet's advance, and was unwilling to give up the advantage of taking off with the help of headwinds.

At 6:07 a.m., Xu Xuebin gave an order to the First Squadron: "Take the southwest, and attack as soon as the position of the enemy's aircraft carrier is determined." ”

At this time, the First Squadron was advancing at a speed of twenty-eight knots, and at seven o'clock it was approaching the range of carrier-based aircraft.

As the attack approached, the First Squadron turned to sail into the wind, and the first fighter took off from the deck of the USS Kang Jinlong.

The Kang Jinlong directly dispatched an entire air wing, and a total of fifty-seven fighters took off: ten fighters and forty-seven bombers.

The carrier-based aircraft wing on the neighboring Jiaomujiao also took to the skies, dispatching a total of 60 carrier-based aircraft: 15 carrier-based fighters and 45 bombers.

The Kang Jinlong Wing and the Kakumujiao Wing are each responsible for one of the aircraft carriers of the Japanese fleet, giving priority to taking out the aircraft carriers before destroying the other Japanese warships.

Two carrier-based aircraft squadrons set off, and the early warning planes also sent the latest reports on the enemy situation, and the target of attack was 250 kilometers southwest.

When the Red Alert fleet took off the carrier-based aircraft, Nagumo Tadaichi was very glad that one of his reconnaissance planes had actually discovered the aircraft carrier of the Red Alert Imperial Navy.

Although the Japanese reconnaissance plane could not go back and was intercepted and destroyed by the intruder's carrier-based fighters, it still sent back relevant information.

Nagumo Tadaichi received a report from a reconnaissance plane: "I saw more than a dozen surface ships that appeared to be enemy ships, with an azimuth of 10 degrees, a distance of 485 kilometers from Midway, a course of 150 degrees, and a speed of more than 30 knots per hour. ”

Nagumo Tadaichi, who received the reconnaissance report, did not have any luck, and immediately ordered the fleet to sound the battle alarm, and then wanted the reconnaissance plane to continue the reconnaissance, but unfortunately, the reconnaissance plane had been destroyed at this time.

Because of this information, Nagumo Tadaichi quickly gave the order for the fleet to turn, changed the course, turned to the northeast, and tried to attack the first fleet.

In fact, Nagumo Tadaichi soon knew that it was too late.

The fleet had just completed its turn, and more than two dozen Zero fighters were also guarding the fleet.

But then suddenly, the radar displays of the Japanese fleet were all snowflakes, and the fleet's communications failed.

The attacking group swooped down from the clouds, and the Zero fighters over the Japanese fleet hurriedly met it.

On the edge of the Japanese fleet, air battles were fiercely staged.

Twenty-five Intruder fighters, under the screams of the Japanese Zero pilots, quickly took out these already backward Zeros.

And at this time, on the Kaga, only three Zero fighters took off urgently.

For the results of air supremacy, it did not help at all.

When the fighters of the two sides were fighting, a large number of bombers in the sky also directly pounced on the fleet below.

Anti-aircraft guns exploded in the sky, and on carrier-based bombers, a large number of twenty-millimeter cannons, also suppressed anti-aircraft fire below.

One bomber after another quickly broke through the anti-aircraft fire network of the Japanese fleet, and quickly dropped 1,000-kilogram penetrating bombs on the Kaga and Akagi on the water.

This kind of bomb has proved its value in actual combat, and it is an advantageous weapon for attacking large surface warships.

Most of the surface warships of the US Navy were destroyed by such bombs, and the power of the explosion was often enough to determine the outcome of the attack.

In the sky above the Kaga, ignoring the anti-aircraft fire, the nine bombers that pounced on the Kaga dropped bombs one after another at an altitude of 150 meters from the Kaga.

The first bomb exploded at a distance of eighteen meters from the battleship, and the second was less than five meters away.

When the third bomb was dropped, it landed directly on the aft deck of the Kaga, and the bombs dropped one after another from behind it, instantly flooding the deck of the Kaga.

In the eyes of countless Japanese sailors, the Kaga, which was bombed by the breakthrough, made a deafening explosion, and the fire and smoke of the explosion almost completely blocked the Kaga, and on the sea, there was only a red-hot floating sea of fire.

Three carrier-based bombers were shot down as a result, but the cost was well worth it compared to taking out one aircraft carrier in one go.

On the Akagi not far away, Nagumo Tadaichi wrote a log very helplessly: "The Kaga was hit by seven aerial bombs and sank quickly. ”

And this became Nagumo Tadaichi's last memory, because the Akagi, as one of the main targets, did not avoid the fate of being surrounded and attacked, and was soon followed in the footsteps of the Kaga.

At the end of his death, Nagumo Tadaichi wrote: "It was a wrong order from the beginning, and I hope that General Yamamoto 56 will arrive in time, and only by gathering the anti-aircraft fire of the detachment can there be a chance of victory." ”

However, Nagumo Tadaichi did not have a chance to see the final result of his squadron, and in the face of the attack of two wings of carrier-based aircraft, and under the attack of nearly a hundred bombers, Nagumo Tadaichi's detachment, the remaining combat strength was already very few.

When the attack returned, another fleet led by Isoroku Yamamoto appeared at the place where the water met.

The Japanese Combined Fleet, the only six aircraft carriers at the moment, remained: Soryu, Feilong, Xiangfeng and Longxiang.

But the main aircraft carriers of the Japanese Combined Fleet are the already destroyed Akagi and Kaga.