Before receiving the telegram from Huang Tianxun, Zhang Xiaolin stared at the radar screen in front of him, feeling quite restless.
For the young Chinese Air Force, this long-distance attack is definitely historic. After experiencing the initial excitement, facing the dark Pacific Ocean, Zhang Xiaolin felt this way for the first time, that is, compared with the vast Pacific Ocean, , people are really too small.
As an orthodox soldier, Zhang Xiaolin has absolutely nothing to do with poetry and painting, but this does not prevent him from developing poet-like feelings in certain circumstances. For example, now, when he sees the stars above his head, he always feels that they are human eyes, and they are not human eyes. He simply blinked and blinked, but he was telling something, or looking at the dark ocean below, he always felt that it was a gluttonous mouth, as if he was looking at his fighter plane and drooling...
The straight-line distance between Kaohsiung and the battle waters is more than two thousand meters. Based on the cruising speed of the Sky Fortress, Zhang Xiaolin and the others would need to fly for at least three and a half hours to arrive. Considering that the battlefield is not static, the journey cannot be smooth sailing. , then the flight distance and time will definitely increase to a certain extent.
The improved Flying Fortress can theoretically fly 8,500 kilometers when full of fuel and flying at cruising speed. This seems to be able to fully support the Flying Fortress cluster to fly to the battlefield, complete bombing and then return. However, those with many years of actual combat experience Zhang Xiaolin knew that because the actual situation was by no means as simple as imagined, it would be unknown how many of them could successfully return to Kaohsiung.
Sure enough, less than half an hour after takeoff, new instructions came from the ground command, ordering them to change the attack on the Japanese combined fleet to attack the US Pacific Fleet aircraft carrier formation.
"...The raiding fleet under the Pacific Fleet will provide you with guidance. Their telecommunications contact code is 045."
Zhang Xiaolin didn't care too much whether his opponent was Japanese or American. However, as time passed and he failed to receive the guidance telegram for a long time, he became a little restless. "Wait another hour. If within an hour, The raiding fleet cannot provide the coordinates of the Americans, so we will act according to the original battle plan." Zhang Xiaolin made this decision after communicating with several of his captains.
Nearly forty minutes had passed since he made this decision. When he became increasingly uneasy, fortunately, Huang Tianxun and the others gave him the coordinate information.
Zhang Xiaolin straightened his waist immediately. From the coordinate information, he knew that they could launch the attack at least twenty minutes earlier than originally planned. The shorter the flight time, the more fighters that could return safely. More brothers will be able to return to Kaohsiung with the joy of victory. "Everyone is here. The current course is 3° eastward. Speed up. It is recommended to calibrate the speed to 650."
When Zhang Xiaolin and the others began to speed up, Huang Tianxun had already recovered. After drinking a bowl of ginger soup, he marked the positions of the enemy and ourselves on the chart with the light of the flashlight, and then began to think about how to fight this battle.
About five minutes later, he issued an order, requiring each of the three groups to leave a torpedo boat in front to attack the US aircraft carrier formation, while the main force retreated slightly to maintain concealment.
"The general manager only asked us to provide guidance. This is too belittling. My idea is that we wait for the Flying Fortress to launch an attack first, and then wait for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack. The Flying Fortress can only carry out horizontal bombing, which can certainly give the Americans It will cause damage to the ship, but it is absolutely impossible to sink it. If we want to expand the victory and sink the American aircraft carrier, it depends on us."
Huang Tianxun's words were very morale-boosting. After the Battle of Jiwan, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the raiding fleet had been completely raised. Therefore, they were naturally very unconvinced that the commander-in-chief looked down on them. And if they could attack again after Jiwan Sinking an American aircraft carrier, even just one, would be enough for everyone in the raiding fleet to honor their ancestors.
"The boss is right, we are the main force."
"Head, do it."
"Head, I will do whatever you say."
...The morale of the raiding fleet suddenly rose, and the soldiers gathered their nerves and held their breath one by one, waiting for the order to attack.
In the sea west of Guam, at around 8:30, a red signal flare suddenly rose on the sea, and then a ball of fire burst out. Five minutes later, the red light flashed on the sea where the signal flare was raised, and various gunshots were heard. It sounded one after another.
It was the U.S. Pacific Fleet attack squadron led by Jin who occupied this stretch of ocean and fired at the Guam garrison. After the naval forces of the Chinese Pacific Fleet launched an attack on the Japanese combined fleet overnight, Jin may have realized that the decisive battle had arrived. time, or perhaps due to pressure from the White House, they changed their battle plan and launched an attack on Guam in advance.
The highest commander of the Chinese garrison on Guam is Major General Luo Chunjian, a division commander of the Marine Corps.
What Jin didn't know was that because Luo Chunjian had already received Chen Ce's order and prepared for the worst, it made no difference to the Guam defenders whether he launched an attack overnight or delayed the fight until daytime.
Because Chen Ce and Luo Chunjian had not been able to determine the size of the American fleet to attack Guam before, they both believed that without the assistance of the fleet, the island's ground forces and limited land-based naval forces alone could not resist the Americans. About a week before the attack, Luo Chunjian ordered his brothers to block the channel into the dock with ships under repair in the dock. Not only that, he also took out all the mines and mines stored in the place where a landing battle might occur. Turning these waters and beaches into minefields.
Luo Chunjian's preparations were a little early and overdone. When the American fleet attacking Guam actually showed up in the waters near Guam, he immediately regretted it.
"The Americans really think highly of us. We don't have an aircraft carrier, but only two battleships. Do they think Guam has become a piece of paper in our hands?" That afternoon, after using fighter planes to see through the details of the US fleet, Luo Chunjian He complained to his chief of staff Fu Xiaoyu.
Fu Xiaoyu also didn't expect that the Americans would only send "such a few" warships to attack Guam. Looking at the map, he analyzed: "The Americans don't have heavy bombers and can't blow up our forts at all. I don't think it's better than this. We Let’s simply let go of the first line of defense and only use artillery batteries to bombard them. This has two advantages. First, it shows the enemy’s weakness and holds them back; second, it can protect our effective forces to the maximum extent.”
Fu Xiaoyu has a cautious temperament, so he mainly considers insurance, but Luo Chunjian is bold. He said sadly: "It's a pity that Huang Tianxun and the others are not here. If Huang Tianxun and the others are here, we can counterattack and even eat the Americans."