According to Yamamoto Isoroku's original intention, he would rather spend more time and prepare more fully before launching a retaliatory air attack on the cadet army. However, after MacArthur was rescued by the cadet army, he was forced by Tojo Hideki to The Army Ministry denounced the Navy's useless pressure, but he could only take action immediately.
After the U.S. Pacific Fleet was completely annihilated, the Japanese were invincible in the Far East and even in the North Pacific. However, in view of the increasingly large aviation power of the Academy Army, Yamamoto did not dare to be careless and still sent out the Yamato, Wuwei, and Soryu. The three aircraft carriers were the main force to launch air strikes against southern Zhejiang and Fujian. The three heavy aircraft carriers, according to Yamamoto's arrangement, the fighters on the Soryu aircraft carrier were completely reserved for self-protection to prevent the recurrence of the "sinking bar". Yamato and Wuwei The number was dispatched in full force, taking off from the sea 500 kilometers away, to conduct air strikes on Ningbo and Shaoxing in southern Zhejiang.
Yamato and Wuwei, each aircraft carrier can carry more than a hundred aircraft, and they were all involved in this air raid at once. The scale was spectacular. There were a total of thirty-four fighter planes, including 162 ship-to-ship bombers and ship-to-ship bombers. Seventy-two aircraft flew densely toward Ningbo from the northeast. Even at an altitude of five or six kilometers, the "buzzing" sound of the fighter jet engines still startled the foraging gulls on the sea and the gulls in the shallow water. The fish flew away in panic, burrowing into the bottom of the water,
The seventy-two ship explosions were all Type Zeros, and the one hundred and sixty-two ship explosions were also models from recent years, so the speed was quite fast.
At the Zhoushan Radar Station, Song Qiaoan stared closely at the cluster of enemy planes that were getting closer and closer to the center on the screen. He was frightened by the almost overlapping light spots on the screen. He couldn't help but cursed: "Mom, what the hell, you kid is crazy." ,How many fighter planes are needed?"
On Zhoushan Island, the shrill air raid sirens have sounded.
The Xuebing Army attaches great importance to air defense. The people in southeastern Zhejiang suffered a lot during the occupation by the Japs. They were already frightened. When the shrill sirens sounded, everyone was panic-stricken. They didn’t know what kind of disaster they were going to suffer. The villages and towns were okay. In cities like Ningbo, the streets suddenly became chaotic. Fortunately, officials and self-defense team members promptly mobilized to organize public air defense and suppress order, which prevented the panic from expanding into riots.
The people only cared about their own safety and rushed towards the air defense facilities. However, the air defense troops stationed in various places immediately entered the air defense positions. Under a series of orders from the officers, a line of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns raised their barrels and pointed at the brown people. Under the blue sky, the cadets watched the direction of the enemy plane's attack with calm concentration and vigilance, quietly waiting for the possible air defense battle.
Ye Zhao was in Shaoxing at this time. He had received a report from the Zhoushan radar station. He heard that the incoming Japanese aircraft cluster was huge. He couldn't help but worry about whether the Zhejiang Southern Aviation Corps could withstand this wave of air attacks. He and Zhang Gongming, Deng Changyou and others After walking out of the headquarters, he looked up to the east, his brows slightly furrowed, and there was a hint of worry in his eyes.
At Ningbo Airport, the 202 Long Range Aviation Division and the 203 Medium Range Aviation Division took off first and flew towards Wuyi Mountain. Then thirty-six Baijis of the 201 Division also took off in stages, forming three clusters in the air according to the group sequence. Heading towards the west,
At the same time, different numbers of white-tip dolphins took off from Taiwan's Kaohsiung Airport, Fujian's Nanping Airport and Wuyishan Airport. After completing their formation, they all flew towards Ningbo.
Ouyang Yun originally carried out the "sink" operation to attack Sasebo and Nagasaki military ports in order to anger the Japanese, and gradually provoked a war of attrition with the Japanese Air Force so that the Japanese would have no time to worry about other things. In terms of the number of fighter aircraft and production capacity, Of course he knew that there was no way to compare with the Japanese army, but if the Japanese thought that they had the upper hand, they would be completely wrong.
As a defensive side, the Xuebing Army's aviation power in a single area is definitely not as good as the Japanese army. However, because the Baiji has a speed advantage over Japanese bombers, and its range is far enough to ensure support for adjacent theaters, and there are high-power early warning radar stations It can be discovered before the enemy, so no matter which area the Japanese air attack, the surrounding aviation forces can provide timely support. Any Japanese air attack group is actually fighting against the main force of the Xuebing Army Air Force.
Five minutes before eight o'clock, the 201 fighter pilots, led by Wang Hai, met the Japanese planes more than 30 kilometers east of Zhoushan Island.
Wang Hai personally flew a plane to participate in the battle. Naturally, he was unanimously opposed by Liu Xuefeng and others at the beginning. As for Wang Hai, he silenced their mouths with one simple sentence: "Who here has shot down more enemy planes than me?" .”
The saying that a first-level officer can kill someone is valid anywhere. Moreover, Wang Hai, an officer, still has numerous military exploits. Liu Xuefeng had no choice but to ask a student from Chongqing to give up his fighter plane.
Three of the thirty-six Baijis are equipped with small radars. Although this kind of radar can only detect the airspace ahead, and the distance is only about fifty kilometers, in this era, it is still enough to play a decisive role.
Waiting at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and then judging the distance of the Japanese aircraft through the radar screen, when the Japanese aircraft cluster was only 15 kilometers away from us, Wang Hai gave the order to attack.
A total of 234 Japanese aircraft were organized into five small clusters. Among them, 72 Zero-type warships were organized into three clusters, forming a "pin" shape to cover the two clusters of ship bombardments in the middle. This formation was originally It's quite satisfactory and beyond reproach, but because the number of ship explosions is far less than the number of ship bombardments, it can't be said to be comprehensive at all.
The Japs leading the team was a lieutenant named Teng Jiang Junfeng. Because he shot down two US planes during the attack on Pearl Harbor, he had already entered the ranks of ace pilots. The little Japs flew in the first ship explosion group and was responsible for controlling the large fleet. The flying speed of the cluster, because it was the first time to command this large-scale air raid, he felt a little nervous but also a little nervous. The nervousness was because he was worried that if this operation could not achieve considerable results, he would lose the favor of Lord Yamamoto. , and Yi Fengfa is because he does not think that the Xuebing Army can cause much hindrance to this operation.
Speaking of which, it is because the Japanese military has an intelligence blind spot in the scale of the Cadet Air Force. Yamamoto suffered heavy losses in the "Sink It" operation, so he is willing to consider the strength of the Cadet Air Force in a larger direction. But even so, His estimate is that the number of fighter planes in the Xuebing Army is only about 500 at best. If 500 fighters want to control southeastern Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Taiwan, it will be evenly divided. Ningbo can only have 100 at best. The number of fighters and bombers is two to one, and Ningbo only has about sixty fighters. Yes, the Baiji has the advantage in performance, but there is no problem with the seventy-two Zero warships entangling them, and As long as the bomber cluster can successfully destroy Ningbo Airport, the Xuebing Army will lose this frontline airport and will be unable to prevent the combined fleet from entering the southeastern coast of Zhejiang. As long as the combined fleet can get close to the southeastern coast of Zhejiang, it can rely on the powerful aircraft carrier platform The fighter manufacturing capabilities of the Xuebing Army continue to damage the frontline airports of the Xuebing Army, and when all the frontline airports are bombed, the Xuebing Army will no longer have the power to prevent the navy from controlling the air supremacy in southeastern Zhejiang, Fujian, and Taiwan.