Wang Feiming is the commander of the Song Zu aircraft carrier fleet.
Although both the United States and Japan are China's enemies now, their treatment is definitely different due to various reasons. Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi were still a little entangled at first, worried that it would be impossible to get the best of both worlds against the U.S. Pacific Fleet and the Japanese Combined Fleet at the same time. , it cannot even guarantee the complete annihilation of the Japanese Combined Fleet. The order of the Supreme Command to let them concentrate on dealing with the Japanese Combined Fleet has made them less troubled by choices. From the time they received the latest order, the Pacific Fleet has been embracing the Japanese Combined Fleet. Understand the inevitable desire to win.
According to the plan, the Song Zu aircraft carrier fleet will be responsible for the final clean-up work. First, they will be responsible for completely blocking the Japanese's retreat; second, they will relay the Huangdi aircraft carrier fleet and the Hanwu aircraft carrier fleet to the Japanese combined fleet. Launching the final fierce attack, on the way to the battle sea area, the naval aviation force of the Songzu aircraft carrier fleet was already ready for battle. Therefore, after receiving Chen Ce's order, Wang Feiming immediately dispatched A fighter formation consisting of torpedo planes and fighter jets headed to Guam to provide support.
The distance of 1,100 kilometers is only about an hour and a half for the Chinese sturgeon, golden eagle and white-tip dolphin. An hour and a half later, as these more than 60 fighter planes appeared in the sight of the Americans, this Suddenly, it seemed that Li Mei's previous speculations had finally been verified: the Chinese main fleet appeared.
At this time, Li Mei had two choices, one was to attack Guam directly, and the other was to bravely attack the Chinese main fleet in the direction of the incoming attack. If Li Mei had just ordered a U-turn, he would definitely make the second option, but now , because the morale of the troops and the strength of the fleet had suffered a big loss, and the strategic direction had also changed, so after thinking about it again and again, he decided to give priority to taking Guam.
Li Mei ignored one thing here, that is, the time when the naval aviation force of the Chinese main fleet appeared. In fact, it had been an hour and a half since he ordered everyone to turn around. In other words, when he thought he would be attacked by the Chinese main fleet At the time of the attack, China's main fleet (Song Zu aircraft carrier fleet) did not have the conditions to participate in the war.
The appearance of the Song Zu aircraft carrier fleet's naval forces relieved Zhang Xiaolin and Luo Chunjian, although they were a little surprised why the Americans did not launch a battle to seize the island for so long but instead focused on entangled with the air fortress cluster and the raiding fleet. Qing, however, the gap in strength between the two sides is too huge, so even if Luo Chunjian has decided to use the American prisoners of war in his hands to build human shields, he is not sure whether he can persist to the end.
Now, with the arrival of supporting troops, the Americans will no longer dare to attack Guam with all their strength. In this case, Luo Chunjian is confident that he can hold on for a longer time, and time is obviously on his side.
It's not that Li Mei forgot to attack Guam, but that he never planned to "occupy the island and become king" from the beginning. Of course, the situation of the Americans is really bad now. Li Mei knew that it was impossible to defeat China in this state. When the main fleet had to consider the final retreat, taking Guam before the arrival of the Chinese main fleet had actually become his inevitable choice. Li Mei would make this decision because of the following factor: the battleship formation led by Jin before Although the ships suffered heavy losses in the attack on Guam, the Marine Corps still retains considerable strength. If it is purely a naval battle, these Marines will be cannon fodder. So instead of wasting this part of the combat power in a naval battle, it is better to It is better to launch a battle to seize the island to use the full strength of the fleet.
Facing the bombing of the Chinese flying fortress and the harassment of several torpedo boats, Li Mei began to adjust the formation. Under his adjustment, the American cruisers and destroyers directly gave up escorting the aircraft carrier and assembled into a single combat unit, swarming the aircraft carrier. Along with dozens of landing ships and supply ships, they rushed straight towards Guam.
After calming down, Li Mei's tactical literacy and command level are still worthy of praise. After losing most of his fighter planes, the American aircraft carrier was actually reduced to useless in the Guam naval battle. In this regard, Li Mei had a very clear understanding. When the Chinese flying fortress group began to switch from bombing their aircraft carriers to bombing heavy cruisers and destroyers, they should have seen through Zhang Xiaolin's tactical intentions. He immediately chose to abandon the aircraft carrier and switch to heavy cruisers. and destroyers were concentrated in an attempt to resist the continuous air attacks by Chinese fighter planes by increasing the density of air defense firepower.
The aircraft carrier also has heavy cruisers and destroyers. Although the aircraft carrier is the king of naval battles, in terms of air defense power alone, the aircraft carrier is the weakest among them. Originally, Zhang Xiaolin could use the Americans' change of formation to attack the American aircraft carriers. In order to further expand the results of the war, but because he was worried about Guam, he gritted his teeth and continued to bomb the American heavy cruisers and destroyers. As a result, the damage rate of the aerial fortress immediately increased sharply.
Try to increase the air fortress's stay time as much as possible, which has actually brought quite bad consequences to the air fortress cluster. Unseen by Zhang Xiaolin, on the sea not far from Taiwan Island, there have been people who were maneuvered in previous air battles. There are too many air fortresses that have run out of fuel and have to implement forced landings on the water. For the same reason, most of these air fortresses have damaged bodies, so even if they can successfully land on the sea, they will not escape the fate of sinking because the seal is damaged. , although the pilots called for help from the headquarters in time, and Tielin Fei immediately dispatched a rescue team, it is really hard to say how many people could be successfully rescued in the end.
On the battlefield, including Zhang Xiaolin's command plane, there were still 27 air fortresses stranded at this time. Zhang Xiaolin delayed letting these air fortresses go into attack just to be able to rescue Luo Chunjian at the most critical moment. , now, the arrival of reinforcements allowed him to finally launch the final attack. After commanding the dozen or so air fortresses that had just completed the bombing, he shouted in the public channel with red eyes: "The support troops have arrived, brother. Let's attack."
There was a reason why Zhang Xiaolin issued this order in a sad tone. He knew that except for his command plane, the other twenty-six air fortresses were running out of fuel.
The command aircraft is always at the edge of the battlefield, maintaining cruising speed and rarely maneuvering. Therefore, its fuel reserve is good and should be enough to fly back to Taiwan. Compared with the command aircraft, the other 26 flying fortresses are always in a maneuvering state. The situation was not good. When Zhang Xiaolin issued this order, what the captains of the twenty-six Sky Fortresses were doing at the same time was to glance at the oil dial and then glance at the oil dial. And they did this , just to be able to drive the fighter plane to complete the final attack when the pointer on the oil dial is about to fall to the bottom.
Yes, when they received Zhang Xiaolin's order and learned that they were going to serve as the final reserve force, the crew members of these twenty-six flying fortresses were already prepared to die with the US warships.