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The formation of the US planes was disrupted, and some planes gave up the attack, which meant that they had to return to attack in a large circle around the battlefield under heavy artillery fire, and many planes chose to throw away their payloads and return home. However, there were still some US TBF* planes that insisted on the bombing route, although only two of them were crashed and destroyed by Japanese planes. But the desperate attitude of the Japanese machine interfered with the attack. Most of the pilots of the * subconsciously dodged, disrupting the attack course maintained by long-term observation and aiming, and even if it was later corrected back, the initial accuracy of the * was destroyed. And due to the interference of Japanese aircraft, the bombing distance was generally long, which gave the Japanese ships the opportunity to adjust in time.

Since the Japanese fleet maintained a speed of more than 18 knots, it still maintained sufficient rudder evasion*.

In the Pacific War, both sides learned from previous naval battles in Europe and trained in evasive techniques such as observation and steering, while the clear waters of the South Pacific allowed observers to clearly see where they were coming from. It would be difficult to see another two-winged swordfish attack on Bismarck.

The Chicheng made a sharp turn, dodging the incoming few *,* brushing over the sides of the ship's side, and the only gain from this attack was a 99 ship explosion that was about to land because the aircraft carrier suddenly turned, rushed out of deck, and fell into the sea.

Yamaguchi, the commander of the second air battle on the Wyvern, paid close attention to the development of the battle situation, and his mothership took off 12 Zero fighters in a row, but these planes did not join the interceptor* fight. Before takeoff, Yamaguchi ordered the pilot to climb as high as he could, because he calculated that the enemy's dive bombers were approaching, and that was the real threat.

Yamaguchi's concerns about dive bombers were justified, and the victory at Pearl Harbor was a tactical constraint for the Combined Fleet.

In aircraft carrier formation, bulky* attack aircraft always occupy a larger share (usually one more squadron) than fighters and dive bombers. But in essence, Pearl Harbor was only a special case, because most of the American warships at that time were parked at berths and became live targets. Yamaguchi, who was good at tactics and had experience in fighting Lexington, realized that the threat to enemy ships on the sea was not great, because the speed of the enemy was only slightly faster than that of the battleship, and the opponent could dodge it if he dealt with it properly. Moreover, such bulky aircraft require a longer runway to take off, making scheduling more difficult. He recognized that only dive bomber attacks would be difficult to dodge. Today there are fighter jets and Type 2 reconnaissance planes parked on his deck, as well as 12 dive bombers that have been hung up.

The way of the Americans, * planes usually appear one after the other fighters, and the dive bomber will arrive later, which is not so much a tactical need, but a dive bomber takes time to climb.

Nagumo was in the command module of the Chicheng, which was sharply dodging*, when he found that the US planes on the sea were rampage, far outnumbering his own planes. The piercing siren sounded again, everyone raised their binoculars to observe, and in the clouds, American bombers roared in.

The dive bomber, as a precision weapon of this era, is essentially inexplicable except to shoot down the plane before it drops the bomb. The speed of the fall is far from being comparable, and even if you can see it, you can't avoid it.

He opened his mouth wide and stared blankly at the dazzling metal reflection on the skin of the enemy plane in the sky, praying for a miracle.

A miracle happened, a group of Zero fighters rushed into the American bomber formation, turning the formation upside down. Nagumo couldn't believe his eyes, he watched the American bombers fall one after another, and he was most afraid that the 1,600 pounds* carried by these planes would be enough to take one hit.

The Wyvern climbed to a high altitude in advance, and only then did it intercept in time.

The remaining US planes still barely launched an attack, and the Japanese planes quickly attacked targets that could not maneuver during the bomb dropping, forcing most of the planes to drop bombs in advance and then evade them, which made most of them inaccurate at all.

At the same time, one of the two Type 2 scouts that had taken off from the Wyvern was rapidly rushing towards the U.S. fleet (the other was flying in the wrong direction indicated by 419), and since there had been a previous encounter, Yamaguchi had a rough idea of the enemy's fleet position.

He could wait for the enemy to return, and then take off the bomber to follow closely after the discovery of the fleet and attack, but he couldn't wait and sent a high-speed reconnaissance plane to reconnoiter first.

The Japanese went shit luck, and the plane spotted the aircraft carrier Raider, which was in front of the entire fleet. Directions were immediately reported.

According to Halsey's plan, his attack wave would return home and probably follow the enemy bombers, so he reserved the planes of the two aircraft carriers Yorktown and the Raider without taking off, waiting for this opportunity to intercept the enemy's tailing planes, so that his own planes could land smoothly, and then choose the opportunity to engage in the second round of engagement. Of course, this was a safe plan, but the early arrival of the Type 2 reconnaissance disrupted his rhythm, and the US radar did not detect the lone reconnaissance plane, nor did it intercept its subsequent telegrams. At this moment, a large number of telecommunications were being sent from planes on both sides, and the communications of the ship's reconnaissance happened to be covered.

Hiding outside the battlefield, 419 found that the active Wyvern seemed to be about to add to history. Cheng Dayang's priority targets were Chicheng and Zuihe, and he believed that dismantling half of the two main air forces of the mobile unit was the most effective way. Since the Japanese always organize two aircraft carriers of the same level and similar performance into an air team, this can leave one aircraft carrier in each of Nagumo's three teams, so that it is difficult to carry out tactical grouping with the remaining three aircraft carriers. So the Wyvern, who was already alone, was not in his plans.

Before the battle on this side was over, the 12 ships of the Wyvern had already taken off and rushed towards the direction of the Halsey fleet together with the Zero that had just defeated the American plane. Bombers and fighters are grouped in the air, and fighters are positioned in higher positions to act as cover. These two formations were very fast, even surpassing some of the slower American TBF* planes, which was exactly what Yamaguchi wanted to achieve by disobeying Nagumo's order to stabilize the defense and attack on his own, which was to launch an attack at the most chaotic moment of the enemy.

Of course, he did so with Yamamoto's tacit approval. A month ago, when the new campaign plan was still being drawn up by the Kuroshima staff officer, Yamamoto Isoroku met with Yamaguchi and showed Yamaguchi Tashi the 100,000-word antecedents and consequences of the defeat at Midway Island, which had been written by Asano and compiled by Onishi.

Yamamoto only told him that this was a recent simulated battle between the two aircraft carriers at the Naval University, and his own army was completely annihilated.

Because Takijiro Onishi had revised it, the so-called mock battle example was written in a very standardized manner, but there were so many details and descriptions that Yamaguchi didn't feel like a simulation, because the details involved in the failure were too realistic and specific, and many of them were the parts that he had been thinking about but had not come to a conclusion.

According to this report, it was the mistake of the first wave of Red that caused Blue to seize the opportunity to launch successive attacks, and from then on, Red could only passively parry, never free up his hands to search for enemy positions and dispatch decks to attack. The only bright spot in this disastrous operation was in the final stage, when the last remaining Wyvern aircraft carrier launched an attack, which sank one of the opponent's aircraft carriers, and the opponent's counterattack also caused the aircraft carrier to be lost.

Yamamoto told him that this battle example report could block the actual combat reference, and Yamaguchi thought it strange at the time, and included the sunken Canglong in his own combat strength. However, the fact that the Naval University was able to make a deduction of his own major failure was very precious to him, and then after a few days of thinking, he proposed to Yamamoto that he use the only Wyvern of his second squadron to serve as a guerrilla mission. He can cross Nagumo and act cheaply.

He felt that once the fleet fell into a similar passive situation in weapon deduction, that is, when all decks could not be effectively dispatched, and could only follow the enemy's rhythm and respond passively. You'll need a free-spirited force to disrupt your enemies and save your side. Yamamoto readily agrees with his assumption, and today he is prepared to play the role of savior.

The Raider was taking off fighter jets on schedule, and the carrier's cramped deck, a product of a naval treaty, was a natural flaw that made it strain, especially when its deck was full of planes.

The Raider's radar saw the group approaching, but the radar operator believed it was a returning aircraft (some of which were indeed their own aircraft).

U.S. pilots in the air reported seeing Japanese planes in the clouds nearby, but the U.S. command system was still a single plane reporting to the command plane (usually a TBF that had left the theater of operations), and then the command plane reported to the aircraft carrier, and then the aircraft carrier reported to the command ship. In addition, the lack of a data link makes it difficult to describe the target, or even the location of one's own side, through voice communication, making it difficult for the Enterprise or Raider to grasp the specific situation.

When the Japanese plane emerged from the clouds, it saw the lone Raider below, taking off fighters. All the planes on deck have been started and will all take off in about 5 minutes. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The Zero fighter pounced on the target together with the dive bomber. A few Wildcat fighters in the air spotted the enemy and attempted to intercept it. But the Assault, which had just arrived from the Atlantic, had been on non-combat duty as transport fighters flying north, and had little experience in actual combat. This was true both for pilots and for anti-aircraft gun shooters.

The aircraft carrier began to make hasty turns, but experienced bomber pilots began to track the carrier's track from an altitude of 4 km, and the warship was a clumsy target that could easily predict the course. The Japanese pilots were also very good at going beyond the limit and dropping bombs at low altitudes, which could greatly increase the hit rate, at the cost of not having time to pull up and crash into the sea, which was nothing to them.

The bombers came whizzing and dropping bombs continuously. Before the Raider's anti-aircraft guns could fire, they were hit by three 250 kg* shots in succession. Coupled with the fact that the deck was filled with then and ammunition, the explosion quickly caused an inextinguishable fire. The thick smoke interfered with the bomb hit rate of the follow-up Japanese planes, causing the Japanese planes to fall down one by one, and the Japanese planes that could not avoid it crashed into the deck, and this impact dealt a fatal blow to the aircraft carrier.