With the main force of the U.S.-Japanese combined fleet dispatched, Chang Jinliang and the others no longer need to carry out their mission. The U.S.-Japanese combined fleet has a total of seventeen aircraft carriers and more than a thousand fighter planes. Even if they have only half of the escort fighter planes, it is absolutely impossible. Chang Jinliang's thirty-six Golden Eagles cannot compete with them, but Chang Jinliang and the others are not too intimidated. Compared with the American copycat version of the Golden Eagle and Japan's so-called Harrier, the Golden Eagle still has an advantage in speed. Yes, at least "you can outrun even if you can't win".
The U.S.-Japan Combined Fleet had already dispatched a sufficient number of fighter planes to search for traces of the Chinese Pacific Fleet. Now that they saw a large group of golden eagles, both Yamaguchi and Jin became energetic because they felt that they were one step closer to the Chinese fleet. , Under the command of Ozawa and Li Mei, the United States and Japan each released nearly a group of fighter planes, and then the fighters of these two groups flew toward Chang Jinliang and the others. Ozawa and Li Mei were cunning and cunning. The order given to his subordinates was to bluff and force the Chinese fighter planes to retreat, and then follow up to find the location of the Chinese fleet. However, Ozawa's instructions included one more thing than Li Mei's, that is, be careful not to fall into a Chinese ambush.
The emergence of air defense radar has changed the air combat model to a certain extent. That is, the party with air defense radar can discover the enemy first and make tactical arrangements. After the emergence of missiles, its impact on the air combat model can be called revolutionary. Yes, the party with missiles can strike first outside the range of the aircraft cannon. In this case, even if the party with only aircraft guns can discover the enemy first and attack first, it will often fall into a passive situation immediately because the other party launches the missile first. Moreover, as the Chinese Air Force first applied radar technology to fighter aircraft, it can use one or two command planes to enable its own fighters to accurately locate enemy aircraft beyond visual range. In fact, for the pilots of the US and Japanese aviation forces, the competition has already It's asymmetrical.
The Americans and Japanese have been working hard to miniaturize air defense radars so that they can be mounted on fighter aircraft. However, technical limitations, especially the inability to miniaturize some core electronic components, have resulted in delays in the United States and Japan. It's too late to master this technology.
In terms of missiles, because the Americans had obtained several key technologies from China, and also obtained the earliest batch of air-to-air missiles from China for research, they actually produced their own air-to-air missiles, but in terms of range and accuracy, , which is far inferior to China's third-generation air-to-air missiles, so so far, U.S. fighter planes have not been equipped with air-to-air missiles.
Jisaburo Ozawa obviously knew the technical advantages of the Chinese Air Force, so he repeatedly asked his pilots to be more vigilant, and ordered them not to leave the aircraft carrier group more than 150 kilometers away, for fear that What is important is that China's naval aviation forces will use their technological advantages to ambush their own side.
Ozawa didn't know, and Bai Chongxi didn't know either. It was precisely because of Ozawa's vigilance that Bai Chongxi's decoy tactics had the possibility of success. The U.S.-Japan combined fleet really found the right course of the Chinese Pacific Fleet and was able to follow it closely. .
What Yamaguchi and Jin didn't know was that when they were rejoicing at finding the location of the Chinese Pacific Fleet, they were getting farther and farther away from the Jiwan base, while the Chinese raid fleet was getting closer and closer to Jiwan. For the U.S.-Japan combined fleet, the situation in Jiwan has gradually become a dead end without even realizing it.
The "pointless chase (a sentence from Yamaguchi's autobiography after the war)" continued until the next day. At around six o'clock in the morning, when Yamaguchi and Kim were flying, a Japanese reconnaissance plane finally landed more than 300 kilometers southwest of the combined fleet. When Jiwan rejoiced at the discovery of China's Pacific Fleet, under the golden light of the rising sun, the sneak attack fleet led by Huang Tianxun appeared like magic descending from the sky, only about thirty kilometers away from Jiwan.
The Jiwan defenders first discovered traces of the Chinese sneak attack fleet from a Japanese submarine. The submarine on duty was on its way back. The Japanese lookout on the bridge habitually scanned the rear with a telescope. When he suddenly saw the one o'clock direction When a tumbling wave suddenly appeared, he didn't take it seriously at first, and then fixed the camera. When he saw the bow of a Swordfish missile speedboat, the little devil exclaimed and immediately pressed the alarm button next to him.
Inside the ship, the Japanese captain Onoike was rubbing his eyes at this time. He was startled by the alarm bell. He immediately picked up the microphone and pressed the send button and shouted loudly: "Yukimura, what's going on? What did you find? "
Yukimura's voice then boomed over the chat: "Sir Ono, the Chinese ship discovered at one o'clock is China's Swordfish torpedo speedboat."
"Quantity, I need quantity."
The sound of Yukimura swallowing his saliva was first heard from the microphone, and then his voice sounded extremely frightened: "A lot, Your Excellency, a lot."
"Ba Ge, Keimoto, immediately send power to the dock and say," Ono didn't finish his words, but was interrupted by the roar of the sonar monitor on the side: "Torpedoes, we are under attack by torpedoes."
"Nani, direction, direction..."
When the Japanese submarines were in chaos, six Chinese Ming-class submarines appeared side by side outside the waters where Japanese and US warships were docked at Jiwan Wharf. Almost at the same moment they appeared, About three thousand meters away from the three Chinese submarines on the left, a US submarine also emerged from the water.
As soon as the US submarine emerged from the water, a US soldier immediately appeared on the pier. He waved the flag in his hand and shouted loudly to the shore: "Enemy attack, enemy attack."
On the outermost trestle in Jiwan, about a large group of Japanese infantrymen were running hey and yaw under the leadership of a major; and on another trestle about three hundred meters away from them, several American captains The senior officer leaned on the railing of the trestle, talking about something too relaxedly...
Because they were too far away, they did not see the Chinese submarines that suddenly appeared, nor the US submarine and US soldiers that suddenly appeared out of the water and raised the alarm. By the time they discovered the abnormality, it was already too late. .
The attack actions of the six Chinese submarines were consistent. They launched two torpedoes almost as soon as they emerged from the water. A few minutes later, the sailors on the US and Japanese ships were alerted by the sound of the torpedo engines and ran out of the cabin to check. At that moment, what awaited them was deafening explosions, ruthless shock waves and shrapnel.
I have to praise the coordination of the sneak attack fleet here, because almost at the same time that the Japanese and US ships on the pier were hit by torpedoes and exploded, the Japanese submarine that first discovered the enemy's situation and the US submarine on duty near the pier also They were hit by torpedoes at the same time, and they failed to send out the alarm until they sank.