On the vast sea, a reconnaissance plane swept through the sky. As the eye of Task Force 38, reconnaissance pilot Sam has been doing this for several years, but it is not easy to catch the traces of the little devil fleet in the vast sea.

After all, the progress of radar technology is not satisfactory now, and everything must be seen through the eyes. This greatly reduces the reconnaissance efficiency of reconnaissance aircraft.

After all, there is a limit to the distance that a person's eye can see.

For Sam, his mission is to find the movements of the main force of the Ozawa fleet of the Fifth Fleet.

Ozawa's fleet is now the absolute main force of the Little Devil Combined Fleet, he has four aircraft carriers and more than 100 fighters, and in terms of combat effectiveness, he is the main force of the Little Devil Combined Fleet.

The reconnaissance aircraft piloted by Sam has an effective range of more than two thousand kilometers. He used a zigzag reconnaissance trajectory, with a length of nearly 300 km from east to west, and only about 10 km from north to south each time, so as to ensure that there were no missed targets on the sea surface, so that every time he took off, his reconnaissance range was as high as about 18,000 square kilometers.

Although this area is nothing for the sea, it is possible to support a forward early warning network of about 200 kilometers for the entire fleet with four or five reconnaissance aircraft, which is already a good distance for the current fleet.

Naval aviation still has time to react and take off, which is also the reason for Sam's existence, even if they are most likely facing the air every day to conduct reconnaissance.

But every reconnaissance aircraft pilot will meticulously complete his combat mission. No one knows better than them what it would be like when an enemy fleet appeared over an aircraft carrier if there was no early warning.

The tragedy of Pearl Harbor is vividly remembered. For Sam, they tried to avoid the reappearance of Pearl Harbor.

Compared with the navy, which sails on the sea all year round, it is not easy to catch their traces. Many times both fleets are in a state of hide-and-seek on the ocean, and they don't know if they accidentally pass by.

If Ozawa's fleet were allowed to enter the skies over the Gulf of Latte landing transport ship group, there would be no doubt that it would be a great tragedy for the Allies.

For transport ships that lack self-defense capabilities, they have no ability to counterattack in the face of the Imp aircraft carrier attack group.

That's why General Mack put Task Force 38 and Task Force 34 to the north to stop it, and it was necessary to keep Ozawa's fleet away from the landing force transport group in Lyte Bay.

But three days after the launch of S-Day, a large Allied transport fleet had begun to assemble in the Gulf of Lat.

Of course, this movement did not escape the reconnaissance of the little devil's aerial reconnaissance plane.

After receiving the exact information, Admiral Vice Admiral Toyoda, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Small Notebook Navy, issued the Jie 1 combat order, and the Navy, which assembled 4 aircraft carriers, 9 battleships, 19 cruisers, 34 destroyers, and 200 aircraft into Latte Bay, prepared to smash the Allied landing plan in one fell swoop.

As a result of this battle, the navy of the United States was well prepared, dispatching up to 12 aircraft carriers, 18 escort carriers, 12 battleships, 24 cruisers, 141 destroyers, and 1,500 aircraft into the battle of Latte Bay.

In the face of such an overwhelming force, Vice Admiral Toyoda had to play tactics and ordered Kurita Keno's mid-route fleet to enter the San Bernardino Strait with 5 battleships and 7 cruisers, and directly rush into the Lai Te Bay to destroy the landing force of the beautiful country.

With Ozawa Jizaburo's North Route Fleet using 4 aircraft carriers as bait, the 3rd Fleet of General Hal, the main force of the beautiful country, was attracted away from Latte Bay and pinned down in the north, creating conditions for Awata's Middle Route Fleet;

At the same time, the southern route fleet of Nishimura Shoji and Shima Kiyohide entered the Surigao Strait as a surprise force, and prepared to attack the landing force of the beautiful country on both sides with Kurita Keno's middle route fleet!

The little devil's plan was good, but there were many mistakes and omissions in the implementation process, and the middle fleet, under the command of Kurita Keno, soon entered Rite Bay.

Unfortunately, the Ozawa fleet, which was a suspicious soldier, had not yet been discovered, and the Awata fleet had just arrived in the waters west of Palawang when it was discovered by the Allied submarine Shooting Fish!

The submarine Shooting Fish quickly reported to its superiors that it had discovered the Japanese mid-route fleet and immediately launched an attack.

The 4 torpedoes of the submarine Shooting Fish sank the heavy cruiser Atago Kurita's flagship in one fell swoop, and Keno Kurita jumped into the sea before the flagship sank to escape, but fortunately, this little devil was lucky not to be sucked away by the sinking whirlpool, so he was lucky to escape to the battleship Yamato, Awata continued to command the battle with the Yamato as the flagship, but this tragic experience cast a shadow on Awata.

With the success of the Allied submarine Ambush Fish, the Battle of Latte Bay officially began.

At the beginning of the battle, it was out of the plan of the commander of the Combined Fleet of the Navy - Ozawa's aircraft carrier formation, which was originally discovered as the main force of the decoy for suspicious soldiers, so far the Allies have not found anything.

However, the Kurita Naka Fleet, which was supposed to be the main force to raid the landing force, was discovered by Allied submarines for some erroneous reasons.

The commander of the Allied Third Fleet, Admiral Hal, did not take the Kurita fleet attack lightly, and he ordered the naval reconnaissance planes to report the details again.

Sam took on this new task, and he flew along the sea target provided by the Shooting Fish, and it didn't take long for him to spot a large fleet of battleships entering Latte Bay!

After Sam confirmed the number and type of small book battleships, he turned his head and flew back!

In the air over the fleet, it was reported that a fleet of small book battleships was found, among which there were also super battleships with 460 mm guns!

This discovery surprised and delighted Admiral Hal, but only found a small notebook of battleship fleets, which made him very hesitant, and after studying me on the chart for a while, Admiral Hal judged that the little devil's Ozawa fleet should also be nearby.

At this time, General Hal did not know that the small book of Ozawa's fleet was just a suspicious soldier, and he ordered all the carrier-based aircraft to take off.

On the entire 12 aircraft carriers, the Allies took off more than 1,000 fighters, and General Hal divided these fighters into two attack groups, all the way to find Ozawa Jizaburo's aircraft carrier fleet to avoid being attacked by Ozawa's fleet; The other way directly pounced on the Kurita Naka Battleship that had already been discovered.

Awata's mid-route fleet was soon heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft. The battleship Yamato was heavily damaged, the battleship Musashi was sunk, other ships were also damaged, and the Awata fleet was almost completely wounded, but it did not lose its combat capability, and General Hal apparently did not fully estimate this in his assessment of the battle situation.

When General Hal attacked the Awata fleet, the air force on Luzon Island was not idle.

One of the bombers that took off on Luzon broke through the interception of the Allied air force, flew over the light aircraft carrier Princeton, and dropped a heavy aerial bomb on the aircraft carrier Princeton.

This loss made General Hal feel a little imperfect, so after the Awata Middle Road Fleet was heavily damaged, he withdrew from the San Bernardino Strait and did not continue the pursuit, of course, time did not allow, and more than 500 fighters had to land back on the aircraft carrier after more than 2 hours in the air without fishing for anything.

Awata sent a report to the Combined Fleet Command on the latest battle situation, saying that Admiral Hal had intercepted him in the San Bernardino Strait with the main force of the Third Fleet and suffered heavy losses, and that the Ozawa fleet, which was responsible for the suspicious troops in the north, did not know that he had done so successfully that he had not even let Admiral Hal find out.

In order to attract Admiral Hal's Third Fleet out of the San Bernardino Strait, Jizaburo Ozawa resolutely adopted a clear code power generation to directly expose the sea area of his position!

Sure enough, General Hal, who had a glorious record of destroying aircraft carriers, was attracted by Ozawa's clear power generation, and he thought that the main force of the Awata fleet could no longer fight, and after seizing the position of Ozawa's fleet this time, he immediately sent 12 aircraft carriers and more than 1,000 carrier-based aircraft of the main force to the north to chase and destroy Ozawa!

General Hal has forgotten that his ultimate mission is to guard the Latt Bay landing grounds.

But after the departure of the main force of Admiral Hal's Third Fleet, Awata received a report from a reconnaissance plane, and in the evening, the scarred Kurita fleet quickly turned back to Latte Bay.

It's just that this time Kurita Keno was very cautious and sent destroyers to explore the way in front, for fear of being ambushed by Allied submarines again, but he guessed wrong this time, the entire fleet passed through the San Bernardino Strait smoothly without danger, and the fleet reached the sea east of Samar Island, and they did not see the main fleet of the Allied forces.

Kurita Keno was convinced that Ozawa's ignition had an effect, and the scarred Yamato and the other battleships' rotating cannons began to turn their muzzles and bombard the Allied landing force.

And Kincaid's 7th Fleet is full of escort aircraft carriers and destroyers, how to resist the artillery of Japanese battleships?

Kincaid was devastated when he saw Awata's Middle Fleet battleships entering Latte Bay, and the Allied side that was landing suffered heavy casualties under the bombardment of the battleship's huge artillery.

Admiral Kincaid had to order the fleet to resist to the death, and at the same time sent an urgent telegram to Admiral Hal demanding that the main force of the Third Fleet must withdraw to Latt Bay to support the Seventh Fleet and the landing force.

After all, the strength of the 7th Fleet was too thin, and the battleships in the face of the small book had almost no resistance, but General Kincaid still commanded the Allied 7th Fleet to resist desperately, even if it was invincible, the Allied side also played a momentum of breaking the boat.

Soon the destroyer Birmingham was hit by a battleship's shell and sank soon after, and the escort carriers of the Gambia Bay and the Whiteland launched a counterattack against the enemy's huge ship with flesh and blood, and the few carrier-based aircraft rushed towards the enemy ship, and the destroyer formation made a suicidal charge, and other shocks disrupted the enemy's formation and obtained a small chance for a torpedo attack.

But it didn't work, the destroyer's body was too fragile against the battleship's huge cannons, and one destroyer after another was sunk by Awata's battleship.

The unprecedented crisis in the Battle of Latte Gulf shocked the Allied top brass, and the commander of the Pacific Naval Command, Admiral Nimi, sent a direct telegram - the whole world wanted to know where Task Force 34 was?

By this time, Admiral Hal had received an urgent telegram from Kincaid asking for help, and he had realized that his miscalculation had caused a great crisis for the landing force and the Seventh Fleet.

Therefore, after leaving 2 aircraft carrier battle groups to continue north to destroy the Ozawa aircraft carrier fleet, they have led most of the aircraft carriers and 6 fast battleships to rush to the aid of Latte Bay. And on the way back, he received this telegram that the whole world wanted to know, and in the face of this telegram from the headquarters, General Hal was so angry that he roared like thunder.

In fact, General Nemi's original message did not contain the words "the whole world wants to know" in front of the telegram, but in order to increase the degree of secrecy, the interpreter of the Allied telegram took it upon himself to add the words "the whole world wants to know" that had nothing to do with the content of the telegram.

Obviously, this became a stain on Admiral Howl's life, but the military situation was so hot that Admiral Hal could not care about this, and he led the main force of the fleet to rush to the aid of Latt Bay at full speed. The two aircraft carrier task forces that remained under the command of General Mitchell caught up with Ozawa's fleet, and took off fighters to launch a fierce air attack on Ozawa's aircraft carrier formation.

In the end, under the torpedo attack of the bomber that General Mitchell took off, all four aircraft carriers of the Ozawa fleet, Zuizuru, Zuiho, Chitose, and Chiyoda were sunk.

If it weren't for Kurita Keno's suspicious thing, the little devil's tactical arrangement would still be back on track in the end.

The Nishimura fleet in charge of outflanking is also almost in place, and if the current process continues, most of General Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet and landing force will face annihilation!

However, when the fleet was still fighting, Awata suddenly ordered the fleet to retreat on all fronts.

Although Awata's subordinates were very incomprehensible, Awata observed a large number of warplanes landing on Lyte Island.

Awata, thinking that this was the main carrier of the Allied forces, the carrier-based aircraft began to land on the island of Lyte. In fact, those fighters were only fighters on the Allied escort aircraft carrier of the Seventh Fleet, which had to land at the airfield on Lyte Island after the escort aircraft carrier was heavily damaged.

But Awata didn't know this, and Awata, who had been cast in the shadow by General Hal's fighter, chose to retreat!

Kurita's retreat left the Japanese Navy no longer able to find a chance to turn over.

With the withdrawal of Kurita, the most precious time was bought for General Hal, and he led the main force of the aircraft carrier formation back to Lyte Bay.

After finding the location of the Awata fleet, General Hal quickly dispatched the main force to launch a fierce air attack on Kurita, this time General Hal really hit the Kurita fleet, sinking most of the ships to the bottom of the sea, and the Kurita fleet finally only had 5 ships left to withdraw to the mainland, and only the Yamato still had some combat strength among the battleships.

And the decoy Ozawa fleet was almost completely wiped out, and the Komoko Navy lost the last aircraft carrier mobile force with the destruction of all Ozawa's fleet, and the invincible combined fleet ceased to exist.