"Captain! The enemy plane was found 7 degrees on the starboard side, with a number of 22. [When the City was bombed, the Taishan destroyer radar, which was responsible for the periphery of the Chinese Navy's 213 Battleship Battle Group, discovered the bomber group coming from Saipan. After the commander on duty picked up the phone and reported the number urgently, Bingwen and Chen Shiying also walked into the commander tower of the Taiwan Island heavy patrol.

"Is the escort fighter still on us?"

"There are eight, and the remaining 20 minutes can arrive." After the captain finished reporting, he immediately began to deploy air defense. The Taiwan Island-class heavy cruiser delivered in 1922 once became the target of treaty heavy patrols of countries around the world with the tonnage exceeding the treaty. But after all, he had been in service for more than ten years, so three years ago the Navy upgraded and modified four Taiwan Islands. The standard displacement increased from 13,000 tons to 14,000 tons, with a full load of 17,500 tons. The main gun was also replaced with l56/210mm naval guns (the weight reduction version of Xi'an class, without complex and heavy automatic filling machines), and four radars (air, sea and two fire controls) were installed, and the air defense firepower was also strengthened to six 120mm, twelve double-connected 40mm and twenty-four single-barrel 25mm machine guns.

After the air defense alarm was released, the sailors who had been on standby for a long time immediately entered the post, and the captain was particularly cautious. Although the main target of the Japanese army must be two battleships, as the flagship, he needed to ensure the safety of the commander. However, before he could show the air defense skills he had practiced for many years in front of the commander, eight "lightning" that had been hiding in the clouds at high altitude dived towards the Japanese bombers. This time, all of them were Mitsubishi and 97 Army bombers, but what puzzled the "lightning" the "lightning" was that there was no escort fighter. It was not until later that everyone knew that because of the bombing attack at dawn and Yu Xiaoning's courage, the Baiqi, the Japanese Air Force of Saipan put all the remaining fighter jets into the direction of Guam and Baiqi.

The self-defense firepower of Japanese Army Aviation bombers is very weak. They do not have safety measures such as self-closing fuel tanks, and they basically have no armor in order to pursue the range. Faced with the "lightning" of six 12.7mm machine guns, it is no different from the Billy Goose, and they are quickly swept down more than a dozen aircraft. Even if the remaining aircraft are either beaten down by anti-aircraft guns or throwing bombs, they are completely inaccurate, and are finally caught up by fighter jets when they escape.

"Xi'an reported that the Japanese bombing was over. Bai Qi was shot four times, with the deck tilted octave. The power was seriously insufficient, and he was now fully rescued. The bow of the Wuhan ship was seriously damaged, Fuchunjiang lost two turrets, and the port side of the Minjiang ship was hit by torpedo, and the destroyer... Now the fleet is sailing towards Apula Port." After shooting down the first wave of Japanese planes, Bingwen also received a report from Bai Fu'an. After listening to the report, his heart was finally halfway down. Faced with the clamping of more than 70 enemy planes and the Japanese Fifth Fleet, there was only one aircraft carrier, one heavy patrol and two light patrols were injured, and the result of the two destroyers was injured. The result of the two sank was far better than he expected. Moreover, according to the preliminary report, except for the Bai Qi, the rest still maintained their self-saving capabilities. This means that it can be repaired.

Chen Shiying calculated the number of fighter jets and handed it to Bingwen: "There should be another wave, the number is between 50 and 70 aircraft. If it is fast, it will be seen by our radar in twenty minutes. Also, the 30 dive bombers on Guam are ready. Which direction is better to invest?"

"Which direction should I invest?" Bingwen looked out the window and thought quickly. The thirty dive bombers deliberately placed in Guam were the main force of the second wave of attacks, but where they were invested depends on the specific situation. From now on, the direction of the Akagi-class is the most suitable. Because the two King Kong-class battleships must be nearby, but this is likely to escape the two light aircraft carriers of the Japanese Fourth Fleet. The fighter planes are fleeting. Now the attack aircraft group of Ryuxiang and Xiangfeng have returned. If they do not organize the attack as soon as possible, when they load and return, the Baiqi and the heavy patrol formation will definitely be wiped out! But what if Akagi, Kaga and the two King Kong-class escape due to insufficient attack power?

Just as he was hesitating, the most important telegram finally came. "Commander! Good news, good news. The Fifth Air Brigade reported that their first wave of attack had already hit Akagi and Kaga!" Yan Shaobai sent back the message in time, revitalizing the entire situation.

"Let Guam's dive squadron set out and attack Longxiang and Xiangfeng."

Chen Shiying nodded, and as soon as he turned his head to convey the order, a shout sounded from the bridge. "Discover enemy planes, discover enemy planes! Starboard, 90 nautical miles southeast! First-class alarm, call for fighter planes to support, and all of them entered the combat post." The third wave of Japanese attack aircraft group led by Mishio Azuki was finally here.

“How many?!”

"Whether between sixty and seventy, there are twenty minutes left to see the commander and the others."

When Pan Duheng, who was fifty nautical miles away, became nervous: "Can the Baiqi take off and land?" Tan Zhen shook his head, knowing what he was worried about, and his voice was a little low: "No, the deck has been blown up and the hull is still tilting. I have asked Yu Xiaoning and the others to go to Guam, and land in Agania after diving. However, he only has 25 left now, and the fuel is used up. It is expected that it will take an hour to arrive at the fastest. Sir, I suggest not to lean over, because

In order for Yan Shaobai and the others to come back in a while, if we move closer to the commander, once we are found to be attacked, we cannot recover the plane." Pan Duheng did intend to order the formation to move closer to the battleship, not only because the commander was there, but the two Beijing-class battleships also need protection. But Tan Zhen's words reminded him that it is okay for the plane to go over, because the plane can persist until the end of the Japanese attack, but if the warship leans over, the least it is found to be attacked, and the worst is the second Ryukyu naval battle.

Pan Duheng nodded and gritted his teeth and said, "Tell Liu Zhesheng that even if he uses a collision, he must ensure the safety of the commander and the battleship! After the plane returns, do not enter the hangar and directly refuel and hang bullets on the deck. By the way, if any fighter planes come back, let them protect the commander first."

"Don't worry, sir, I will try my best to draw the plane to support the commander." Tan Zhen nodded and quickly returned to the aviation command tower and called the captain of the escort fighter Liu Zhesheng.

"The vulture understands, the vulture understands." Liu Zhesheng received the order and immediately led 26 lightning bolts to climb towards a white cloud.

Although the Chinese Navy aviation is not as harsh as the Japanese army in terms of material selection, it is not easy to pass the selection. Although the Air Force has never been convinced, most people know that HNA is stronger than the Air Force in overall quality and ability. It is very difficult to make a name for itself in such an elite unit. And Liu Zhesheng, who is only 26 years old this year, can break through and become the captain of the fighter jet squadron of the 12th Air Brigade in one fell swoop, which is enough to prove his extraordinary ability.

"Captain, I saw it, to our left." Shortly after drilling into the clouds, a pilot saw a group of Japanese attack aircraft flying westward in the distance. From the perspective, the two sides were passing by.

"I know, keep flying forward and go back to them." Liu Zhesheng did not order an attack immediately. Because of Tan Zhen's words, he decided to change his usual tactic of attacking directly from high altitudes. Because he believed that Japanese aircraft must have thought that as soon as the aircraft carriers meet in the battleship formation, the escort Zero War will definitely swarm up to separate the "lightning" from "lightning". If the number is intercepted, even if the technology is better, it will take enough time to get rid of it. So he was going to let the escort escort eight lightnings take away the escort Zero War and attack him from behind.

He guessed right. Almost as soon as he saw thick black smoke on the sea level, the Japanese pilot rushed towards the fleet like a shark smelling blood. When he saw the eight "lightning bolts" that had been protecting the battleship, the 26 Zero Warfare immediately divided up most of the siege and blocked. He wanted to use the numerical advantage to obtain air superiority. Mishio Shizuki also thought that the aircraft carrier's planes were sent away, so he immediately ordered an attack. However, whether it was the 99th ship explosion or the 97th ship attack, the maximum speed when the bullet was hung cannot exceed 300 kilometers. On the contrary, even if the "Lightning bolts" did not use methane to increase force, they could easily exceed 630 kilometers. So after learning that the battle ahead, Liu Zhesheng ordered the acceleration, and at the same time, let the eight "Lightning bolts" pretend to be defeated and lead the Zero Warfare to the east.

"Baga! That's mine!" Mishitsuki Yuan drove the 99th ship. When he saw the huge reflection of the Nanjing battleship, his eyes were so bloody and excited that he was hot. But before he could get close to the fleet's air defense circle, the 99th ship next to him suddenly turned into a ball of fire. "Chinese lightning, behind them. They are behind us!" A terrified shout came from the headphones. Mishitsuki Yuanshitsuki turned his head and looked, and found that more than twenty "lightning" rushed into his attack aircraft group at high speed. Since most of the zero battles were carried to the east by the eight "lightning" escorted, they were quickly shot down.

The attack aircraft group of Mishiki Mitsuki's total of only 26 Zero Warfare and 50 attack aircraft, which was half reduced in a few minutes. He was so anxious that he shouted: "Cover each other, don't mess around, seize the attack channel!" He is worthy of being one of the few genius pilots of the Japanese army. Mishiki Mitsuki also avoided the "lightning" attack twice in a row while commanding. However, his comrades were not as lucky as him, and were constantly hit by "lightning" and fell into the sea.

"Zero War! Be careful." After Liu Zhesheng shot down the third attack aircraft, he was about to chase Mishi Yuenzumi, and a Zero War rushed over from the side and entangled him, forcing him to fight the fighter jets in front of him first. As Zero War came back one after another, the remaining dozen Japanese attack aircraft finally got a chance to breathe and rushed towards the fleet. But as soon as he entered the fleet's air defense circle, the Japanese pilot felt that the air defense firepower of this fleet was unusual. No, it should be said that it was too strong!

Their feelings are right. Not only did the two Taiwan Island-class heavy cruisers focus on strengthening air defense during major reforms, but the Beijing-class battleships and the Yangtze-class light cruisers have also strengthened air defense firepower in the improvements. The former has ten 120mm anti-aircraft guns, twenty-ten-connected 40mm anti-aircraft guns, and twenty-four single-barrel 25mm machine guns. The Yangtze-class light cruisers are also gradually improving, changing the original six four-connected 40mm anti-aircraft guns into more efficient twelve double-barrel 40mm and 20 single-barrel 25mm anti-aircraft guns. Even if it is not counted as the eight destroyers escorted, the air defense firepower of the six main battleships is three times that of the Baiqi formation.

The Japanese pilots were obviously not used to such strong air defense firepower. As soon as they rushed in, they felt that they were surrounded by artillery fire. Balls of smoke exploded around them, especially the large and medium-caliber radio near-fighting shells, which easily rolled up a metal storm in the air. The bursting shrapnel ripped aluminium shells, penetrated the glass, pierced into the body, and made the cabin bloody. Some even destroyed the wings and fuselage beams, causing the plane to break from the middle. The worst was that the bombs and torpedo planes mounted by shrapnel were not available to parachute. In just one or two minutes, seven or eight Japanese attack planes were shot down. What's worse, Mishio Shizu and the Japanese pilots were ordered to attack the aircraft carrier, and at this time they could not see any warships on the flat deck in front of them.

Mishio Yuanjin knew that he had fallen into the trap again! And now most of his attack aircraft group had been killed or injured, so it was impossible to turn around. "Baga! These despicable Chinese pigs! Kill them!" After being teased, he was so angry that his face was ferocious. He shouted wildly, holding the operating pole tightly and rushed towards the Nanjing battleship.

Liu Zhesheng, who had been paying attention to the very tenacious 99th ship explosion, shouted that he was not good when he saw this. He immediately sprayed methane into the engine despite the danger and rushed into the fleet's air defense circle at a speed of nearly 700 kilometers. This is very dangerous because the anti-aircraft guns do not have eyes, and the gunners had no time to tell whose plane it was in the fierce battle.

But he didn't even bother to think about it. His only thought was to shoot down the 99th ship explosion that threatened the battleship. He quickly pulled the trigger without waiting for the best distance. "Dadada..." Six lines of fire were intertwined behind Mishi Yuzumi. When he was about to approach the Nanjing battleship, his fuselage trembled suddenly, and his left wing was hit and caught fire. Liu Zhesheng breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this. In his opinion, the 99th ship explosion must be recovered.

.So he immediately prepared to leave the anti-aircraft artillery ring and was injured for free. But just as he turned, he suddenly widened his eyes. Because he saw that the 99th ship, which was obviously hit by him, was forced to pull up with a bomb before falling to the sea, and hit the No. 1 turret of the No. 1 bow of the Nanjing ship. "Boom!" In the earth-shaking loud noise, a huge fireball rushed into the No. 1 turret of the No. 1 of the Nanjing battleship. The gun barrel of dozens of tons on the right was directly blown into two pieces, and flames were rising on the deck.

Liu Zhesheng and the sailors, who witnessed the first suicide attack by Japanese planes, gasped, but they did not expect their opponents to be so crazy. Fortunately, Mishi Yukini's suicide attack was not much harm to the thick-skinned battleship. Although it seemed that the No. 1 turret was seriously damaged and a gun barrel was broken, it was actually not serious. Later, the two remaining main guns of the No. 1 turret participated in the shelling of Saipan a few days later.

This suicide attack became the last spark of the entire battle. Only seven aircraft in the third wave of the Japanese attack aircraft group completed the attack, and the rest were shot down before the attack. Before the war, the elite Japanese pilots, who claimed to have hit more than 80%, were interfered with dense air defense fire. Only three bombs hit the target, and the rest all deviated. The last wave of 20 attack aircraft that took off after the company found out that they were fooled, and only six completed bomb drops. Only fifteen Japanese aircraft took over the chaos and fled back to Saipan. But two days later, they continued to retreat and headed to Truk and Iwo Jima.

After the last wave of Japanese planes were defeated, good news finally came.

After the sinking of Akagi and Kaga, 30 dive bombers that took off from Guam Aganya Airport also took advantage of the opportunity of Japanese landing and launched an attack. In the end, the Ryuki took six bombs and overturned, and was sunk by its own Shiyu destroyer with torpedo. The Xiangfeng was also hit by three bombs and caught fire. After hearing the news, Pan Duheng immediately requested Bingwen to launch a third wave of attack and continue to attack the two most superior heavy cruisers, the Xiangfeng aircraft carrier and Saipan's Japanese Fifth Fleet.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the returning attack aircraft group took off again and caught up with the Shishang and Mikuma Shishi cruisers fleeing north at 12 o'clock. Although the escort warships fought to the death, the heavy patrols protected by the fighter could not stop so many attack aircraft. They were sunk after only half an hour. However, the other three waves of attack aircraft were not going well.

Although the Xiangfeng aircraft carrier was hit by three bombs, Kondo Nobutake ran to join the Fourth Fleet after giving up attacking Bai Fu'an, and used cloud cover to escape with his command. However, the Xiangfeng could not hold on for long. Just when he was about to arrive at the Truk anchorage, the Jiao 229 submarine discovered the light aircraft carrier towed by the Shiyu destroyer and was less than 10 knots, and sent it into the sea with two torpedoes.

What really made Panduheng angry was that the two King Kong-class battleships that should have been active with Akagi were completely lost. Although he was determined to continue to expand his results and lead the aircraft carrier to pursue the north, Bingwen terminated the search order and ordered the fleet to be closed and concentrated in Port Apula.

At this point, the Battle of Guam ended.

Faced with the unfavorable headwind of the first battle, the Chinese Navy's xn21 battle group completed a beautiful turnaround in the Mariana Islands with an escort aircraft carrier and two battleships as cover. In the end, only one escort aircraft carrier was lost (after Bai Qi returned to the Port of Apula, he was abandoned by the Navy due to his excessive injuries), a battleship was slightly injured, a heavy patrol, three light patrols and seven destroyers were injured, four destroyers, and three submarines were sunk.

No, there were 1,400 soldiers in total. However, they sank Akagi, Kaga, Ryuka and Xiangfeng four Japanese aircraft carriers, and sank the Matsushima, Mikuma and Suzuya, three heavy patrols, Ryuda and Yuraki light cruisers, eight destroyers and five special gunboats/cruisers, and shot down 233 fighter jets of various types. The number of Japanese naval personnel following the ships and planes was as high as 5,000.

At this point, the Japanese mobile fleet that once scattered the southwest Pacific was destroyed just half a month after the war started. Before the war started, the Japanese Navy, which was known as the third largest in the world, had only four aircraft carriers, six battleships and thirteen heavy cruisers, and the total tonnage was reduced by half. For the Chinese Navy, this battle not only laid a solid foundation for the complete capture of Guam and the Mariana Islands, successfully cut off the main channels for the Japanese army's north-south connection, but also announced to the world that they were no longer offshore navies and had the ability to fight in the far sea and win.

Just as the Battle of Tsushima established the Japanese world navy's status, the Battle of Guam also made the Chinese navy among the world's naval powers.
Chapter completed!