Another B25 bomber, also armed with a 75-mm gun, arrived later and hit Yutachi's superstructure with the same accuracy.

The gun, which was installed on a thin twin-engine bomber, was not easy to control, and in fact, the US military had a poor hit rate in several test firings on fixed targets after the US military had the whim to carry out this improvement. However, in today's actual combat, in the face of a desperate counterattack and a destroyer fleeing at high speed at the same time, it actually hit an extremely high hit rate. It is always believed that for newcomers to a casino for the first time, there is always no shortage of luck.

Japanese fighters were forced to come down from a high altitude and entangle with these bombers. But the B25 bomber is not so easy to deal with, and its counterattack firepower far exceeds that of the TBF Avenger or the SBD Dreadnought.

This army bomber has defensive firepower without dead ends. The only weakness was the poor visibility of the machine-gun turret in the belly, but these bombers, who had just finished attacking the ships, were almost close to the surface of the water and did not expose the underneath.

The Zero fighters could only dive down from the air, trying to hit the fleeing B25s with their 20mm cannons, while the 7.7mm guns were largely ineffective.

Attacking from this angle, they will face dense fire from two 12.7mm machine guns with a high rate of fire from the top turret of the bomber.

The 20-mm cannon of the Zero fighter is a chicken-ribbed weapon, and the muzzle velocity and rate of fire are not ideal. At a distance, it is possible to clearly observe the very curved trajectory of the shell flying out of the muzzle. To hit an opponent from a kilometer away with this cannon is like stabbing a bed bug with an embroidery needle.

The usual trick is to take advantage of the enemy's fire and get close to the enemy aircraft for short shots. If the enemy plane is panicked and tries to climb to escape, the Zero can burrow under it and wait for the enemy to enter the climb and then slow down before keeping up with the shot. If the enemy doves down, the 20mm cannon is difficult to use because of the overload of one more G, and can only be strafed with a barrage of machine guns. Another problem is that, in addition to the muzzle velocity, the firing lines of the machine guns and the cannons are not parallel (the cannons on the wings are slightly tilted inward in order to form a convergence at a certain distance). In the tracked state, the advance calculation is different for both weapons.

Red tracer shells from American bombers flew in the air, trying to interfere with the Japanese pilots and compress their firing windows. The Zero fighter must be close enough to be able to see the opponent's machine gun tower* hand and face before it can be sure to hit, and at such a distance the fighter has long been shrouded in locust-like bullets.

The all-aluminum alloy fuselage of the Zero can parry a few shots*, but if you are hit by a tracer bullet, you risk a fire. The old pilots didn't dare to work too hard, but the younger pilots dared to shoot closely, and in one confrontation, they shot down 2 B25s at the cost of 2 Zeros being shot down, and these unscrupulous pursuits led to the lack of defense at high altitudes, and the P38 fighters who had just arrived found a loophole.

So far, Halsey has not flown any planes, all attacks have been carried out by army planes, and to this day, Nimitz and MacArthur have gone from hating each other to being dependent on each other. If this battle is bad, there is a black cauldron waiting for them, and Kimmel's fate is not far away.

P38 swooped down from a height of 4 kilometers, let out a loud whistling sound, and instantly swept past the stunned Japanese Zero. The P38's altitude advantage brought about a dive speed that would be beyond the reach of any Japanese aircraft. The huge muzzle velocity can also help them shake off the Zero fighter with excellent climbing. Of course, the P38 bombs only have an accuracy at low altitudes. They carry * not enough power to strike only small sea targets.

In general, in order to cooperate with the navy, the army has exhausted its organs, and they have played a wonderful tactic in the absence of professional ship-fighting aircraft and dive bombers. Use the combination of B25 and P38 to blind the invincible Zero.

The P38 struck a second beautiful attack above the Japanese escort fleet on the northern flank, attacking from the bow or stern of the Japanese ships, firing their heads* and machine guns along the central axis of the Japanese ships, and then pulling them up. The anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese did not work at all.

The destroyers Muzuki and Yayoi both caught fire. They were not hit by professional anti-ship weapons, but by the needs of the Burmese chief Chu Ting and the anti-bunkers* that were born. The warhead charge is only about 220 grams. But two or three of the thousand-ton destroyers are enough.

None of the P38 losses were related to anti-aircraft fire or Zero fighters, but two of them crashed into the sea and disintegrated due to the compression effect caused by the high dive speed.

After the outbreak of World War II, the new aircraft of the US military rushed into the war had similar problems. Due to the high speed of the dive, some chaotic air currents accumulated near the rudder surface, causing the action to fail. At the same time, the P47 fighter plane, which is being tested in the United States, has already fallen to the ground due to the congenital compression effect problem, and these problems are particularly fatal to the US military, which emphasizes dive attack/detachment and never entanglement, and can only be slowly solved in the next few years.

Nagumo found that his superiority in the number of aircraft carriers had not been brought into play, and Otsuki Shaosa, who was commanding in the front, reported that all the interceptors were US Army planes, and the enemy naval planes had not yet moved. However, Otsuki saw two large ships in the front line of the U.S. fleet appear nearby, and Otsuki reminded that the U.S. ships that came out of the front might serve as sentry ships.

Nagumo secretly screamed that it was not good. Of course, he knew he still had cards. He ordered the two special attack ships Chitose and Chiyoda to quietly detour eastward under the cover of the two heavy patrols of Kinugasa and Kako, and according to Makino's tactics, these ships must play the role of sneak attackers. If you mix it up in a battleship and get into a firefight, it won't do much.

He did not expect that these two ships would be able to hit the aircraft carrier, but the radar of the US forward sentry ship could provide more information to the rear aircraft carrier, which was a problem and had to be solved.

The drones of 419 rushed to the target area, ready to take over the * launched by the Japanese. However, Shu Ping reminded that the interference area overlaps the route of the US army, and we must be very careful.

The UAV of 419 has landed on the sea surface for a long time, and the bottom is worn greatly, and the exposed metal layer under the peeling paint surface is easy to reflect, and this hidden danger has not been solved. Especially when they are on the west side of the plane below, they can easily reflect the sunlight from the east. But Cheng Dayang is quite difficult. The Minneari Pos and the USS New Orleans were close to the combat zone, apparently with important tactical objectives, and the two ships had just upgraded their radars. Halsey must have hoped to use them to track the returning Japanese plane and find Nagumo's fleet. After the army lost about 30 aircraft, Halsey's fist never came out, and he knew his inferiority in strength and was not prepared to fight back blindly.

Cheng Dayang felt compelled to take the risk of doing them a favor, and in any case, his drone's larger wingspan, smaller payload, and more efficient engine made it fly higher than all the fighters of this era. Of course, even then, you have to avoid high-altitude aircraft such as the B17 or P38 so that they don't see them. Of course, with the development of the war, high-altitude aircraft from all sides will appear one after another, and the divine vision of the 419 UAV will be more and more challenged.

The battle continued, and the Japanese army successively sent reconnaissance planes to track the position of the main force in Halsey. The alert fleet, which was straddling the reconnaissance route, came into play, using radar to give early warning of the interception of these aircraft.

The radar of the New Orleans could detect Japanese water reconnaissance aircraft at about 50 kilometers, and the floating barrels of the seaplanes contributed nearly twice the reflection of radar waves. As a result, the detection distance of a single aircraft by the US radar has increased by about 10 kilometers.

Nagumo's target updates on the charts are getting less and less, but on the charts, his sneak attack detachment is approaching the outpost fleet in front of the American army.

The Chiyoda went 90 nautical miles, and at noon, through a lookout post, the New Orleans was spotted, and its radar was not yet able to track the target continuously. The sneaky ship began to approach its prey. Beppu Mingpeng Osa already had the experience of sneak attacks, and in low sea conditions, he was sure that the target was 30 kilometers away from Dazhong, and the opponent's main artillery would not hit him at this distance.

Now he is not in a hurry to use radar to measure the distance, and he can roughly determine the distance just by measuring the distance of the opponent's mast and the length of the hull. The radar is expensive, and if it is turned on for more than 30 minutes, the accuracy will decrease, and although the Hitachi employees on board have not been able to find out the reason, Beppu Osa must control the time of use.

The high-altitude drone is waiting for it to be launched* so that it can be taken over by command, and Chiyoda is currently separated from other Japanese ships at a great distance, similar to the sneak attack tactics used last time, this ship likes to go it alone. So that there won't be too many witnesses. 419 can use it to launch* to sink itself, regardless of its appearance.

Cheng Dayang decided that once the enemy launched more than three bombs, he would carry out the plan of counterattacking the attack. Usually the enemy will launch two at a time, so that the two can disappear into the sea first, and use their large range to make them circle for a while outside the curvature of the earth and invisible to the enemy. If the enemy has a kind of second batch, then all four of them will be smashed on Chiyoda's head. Although this * is primitive, the warhead is not small, and there is a lot of fuel, which is enough to destroy this unarmored broken ship.

Lieutenant Bonnie Charlton, a U.S. Army pilot, is flying his P38E reconnaissance plane on a high-altitude cruise. His eyesight is very good and he can see a zero-sized target 20 kilometers away. While training in Florida, there was also a report of a UFO sighting.

Today he was supposed to cruise at an altitude of 5,000 meters and fly to the war zone with a three-plane centennial pair to search. But his plane got lost and lost his friendly plane, and then the radio navigation also failed, and he lost his direction in the open sea.

The lieutenant looked up and saw a flash of light from something above, he suspected that it was a peeling paint of his own B17 bomber, and he decided to climb slowly in a circle, catch up with the plane, and then follow it back.

419's search radar spotted the trouble, and a bystander came at a critical moment. There are no clouds to dodge in the high air, so they can only climb and dodge, hoping that the American plane will get out of the way and not interfere with the next combat mission.