Faced with frequent reconnaissance errors, US Army Commander Fletcher had no countermeasures, because it was too difficult to clearly identify the ownership of a warship on the sea. Just like in a land war, how could the commander know the location of the entire war zone?
, which soldier holds a rifle and which one holds a machine gun is the same, but the US commander Fletcher is also a smart commander. He quickly thought of a question, that is, why the Far East Navy can accurately judge a situation.
A fleet.
Thinking of this, US Commander Fletcher seemed to have some ideas, so he secretly sent two US light cruisers and two destroyers, and asked the herald to send a message to their ally, the Japanese Navy, but claimed that they were four ships
Heavy cruiser, this was not a password error, nor was it that US Commander Fletcher wanted to exaggerate the strength of the US military, but that he wanted to conduct a test. As expected, not long after the detailed possession of coordinates message was sent, the content of this message was reported to the Far East
intercepted by the Legion.
The first wave of attacks successfully killed two American heavy cruisers. Li Donghua was extremely excited, because as long as the attack continued like this, the Far East Army could eat up the Japanese and American combined fleets in less than a week, but after receiving this interception
After sending the telegram, Li Donghua naturally deployed immediately, but at this moment, a combat staff officer discovered some problems, that is, according to the contents of the telegram, it is impossible for these four US heavy cruisers to gather in this sea area in this world.
Such a major discovery immediately attracted Li Donghua's attention. Soon it was found that the content of the message was exaggerated, and everything became obvious. So Li Donghua decided to stand still. However, all aircraft carrier-based aircraft and fighter jets based in Hawaii have been
They were on standby. As long as they gave an order, they would fly into the sky again to fight. After waiting for a long time, US Army Commander Fletcher breathed a sigh of relief.
But not long after, the Far East Air Force discovered a target worth attacking, which was the Japanese light aircraft carrier Shoho. So the Jiangsu and Shandong dispatched 93 bombers, and with the cooperation of more than 50 fighter jets from the Hawaii base, they passed
After several hours of flight, they launched successive attacks for more than half an hour. The Japanese light aircraft carrier Shoho hit 33 bombs successively, and all the carrier-based aircraft on the flight deck were destroyed.
Finally, Commander Izawa of the Shoho ordered the ship to be abandoned and fled. Less than ten minutes after the Japanese troops left the aircraft carrier, the second Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho sank. At that time, there was only a cloud of black smoke and an oil stain on the sea near the Coral Sea.
Spread out, this marks that the small Japanese imperialist naval fleet has lost its first large ship here, and the Japanese army has lost two of the three aircraft carriers participating in the war.
As the battle on the morning of September 29 gradually came to an end, the battle in the afternoon was obviously slower. First of all, under the successive attacks in the morning, the attack fleet of the US-Japanese combined fleet began to continuously attack the edge of the Far East Legion's sea area, but
Under the restrained play of the Far East Legion, neither side achieved significant results. In the end, due to technical reasons for the coordination of warships, both sides missed the opportunity to attack first in the process of discovering the other side.
It was okay for the Japanese and American coalition forces to make such a mistake, but it would be dangerous for the Far East Army to make such a mistake. However, after this incident, Li Donghua not only did not criticize, but instead praised the combat fleet, because this was a
Deliberate behavior, after all, if you want to continue to expand the results, you must first not let the Japanese and American coalition forces discover that the Far East Army has obtained all their intelligence, making the Japanese and American coalition forces think that their approximate location was discovered entirely by the Far East reconnaissance aircraft.
Thus, the second day of fighting ended like this, and all the results of the second day were more generous than those of the first day. However, the Far East Army also lost 6 Z-2 monoplane torpedo bombers, J-11, and J-13
There are four fighter jets each, two bombers, and one Huaxia-class destroyer Jingdezhen.
However, it sank a Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho, two US heavy cruisers, a Japanese destroyer, and more than half of the Shoho's carrier-based aircraft. In comparison, the losses of the Far East Army were nothing at all, but after recovering
After receiving the battle report, Li Ningyu said with heartache that today's sacrifice was too great. If possible, I hope there will never be war in the world, but I know this is impossible, because once some evil people become stronger, their wolfish ambitions will
It will start to expand.
In the face of continuous huge losses, the Japanese and American coalition forces also launched a secret consultation overnight. This time they also learned to play steadily. After the Far East Army successfully killed two aircraft carriers, they also knew at least something about the Japanese and American joint aircraft carrier battle group.
, the main approximate location of the Far East Legion aircraft carrier, so a plan called strangulation was launched in the early morning of the third day.
And that night, the Japanese and American coalition forces took off fifteen carrier-based reconnaissance planes at all costs. You must know that it is possible for carrier-based planes to take off at night, but landing is almost impossible, so these reconnaissance planes almost always go without landing.
However, these fifteen reconnaissance planes belonging to the Japanese Fifth Air Force still accurately found the specific location of the Far Eastern Navy's East China aircraft carrier battle group. As a result, early the next morning, all the carriers of the Japanese and American coalition forces
The aircraft took off, and they left less than 30 fighters to protect the three aircraft carriers.
Such news naturally reached Li Donghua's ears immediately. Faced with the huge choice, he sneered abnormally, so he immediately ordered all the Z-2 monoplane torpedo bombers of the Jiangxi to take off, and at the same time dispatched all the fighter jets from the Hawaii base with only one target.
That is the aircraft carrier battle group of the Japan-U.S. coalition, while the East China aircraft carrier battle group is quietly waiting for the arrival of the Japanese-U.S. coalition carrier-based aircraft in its own sea area.
At 11:20 a.m., the Japanese-US coalition carrier-based aircraft arrived and immediately launched an attack on the Far East Navy's East China aircraft carrier battle group. However, at this time, the sudden appearance of a large fleet of Far East Air Force aircraft in the clouds frightened the Japanese-US coalition forces.
Big jump, because they did not expect that the carrier-based aircraft of the Far East Navy were already waiting for them, and they did not expect that more than that was waiting for them.
At the same time, the fleet of aircraft attacking the Japanese-US coalition aircraft carrier battle group had also arrived. More than 20 Z-2 monoplane torpedo bombers began dive attacks again and again, and immediately left and returned after dropping the torpedoes, and just then
During the pursuit of the fighter jets escorting the Japanese-US coalition aircraft carrier, more than fifty J-11s and J-13s began aerial combat with them.