When the dawn illuminated the sea, in the waters three hundred nautical miles northwest of the main task force of the Pacific Fleet of the Anjia Navy, the aircraft carrier "Shinano", the flagship of the Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet, raised the "Z" flag as it headed south.
, the Japanese aircraft fleet blew the clarion call to attack.
After listening to Commander Yamaguchi's instructions from Admiral Yamaguchi, the Japanese carrier-based aircraft pilots ran from the pilot waiting room under the bridge to the flight deck and quickly rushed to their planes.
Lieutenant Commander Sasaki, who was transferred to the First Air Fleet Flight Commander, began to issue a series of commands:
"Pilots in position!"
"Start the engine!"
"The ship sails against the wind and increases its speed. The relative speed is fifteen meters!"
The plane's engine started, and bluish-white gas spurted out from the plane's exhaust pipe. There was a deafening noise on the flight deck.
The deputy flight commander, Major Sengoku Oda, wearing a flight suit, came to the flight command post, stopped for a while, and said goodbye to his old boss, Lieutenant Commander Sasaki.
Lieutenant Colonel Sasaki wished Oda a safe journey, and then he saw Oda nimbly getting off the escalator and jumping into the cockpit of the Ninety-Nine Ship next to the bridge.
The wing lights on Oda Sengoku's plane turned on, which meant that he was ready. At this time, the red and blue lights of all the planes were turned on, shining dazzlingly in the morning light.
"All aircraft are ready!" the ordering soldier reported.
At this time, all the strong searchlights on the aircraft carrier were turned on. On the relatively dim sea surface, the entire flight deck was as bright as day.
"Every plane is ready to take off!"
Flight Commander Lieutenant Colonel Sasaki reported directly to Fleet Air Force Commander Takayoshi Murata. Murata, who was directing the attack fleets of each ship, immediately saluted Fleet Commander Yamaguchi who was standing on the bridge of the "Shinano" aircraft carrier to salute the outgoing fleet.
Duo Wen, the general, reported and received an "agree" reply.
All twelve aircraft carriers increased their speed and sailed against the wind. Soon the anemometer pointer at the flight command post pointed to the required speed!
"Start taking off!"
The takeoff order was given on the bridge.
Flight Commander Nakasa Sasaki shook the green signal light and drew a large circle in the air. A Zero fighter led the group of impatient war eagles, first increasing its power, and received thunderous cheers from the crew of the "Shinano" aircraft carrier
Take off along the flight deck.
Under the strong lights on the flight deck, people waved their hats and arms feverishly.
Following the first plane were eight "Zero" fighter jets, then eight "Gale" fighter jets, and finally the 99th Ship Explosion, each carrying 250 kilograms of aerial bombs, and the 97th Ship Attack, each carrying a torpedo.
Major Oda Sengoku's canopy was open. The 24-year-old co-pilot had five years of carrier-based aircraft combat experience. He waved to the cheering crowd on the deck and then closed the canopy.
The plane roared and then rose into the dark sky.
All eighteen 99s quickly took off and were above the fleet. The red and blue lights were neatly arranged, indicating that the eight Zero and eight Gale fighter jets had formed a formation.
About four thousand meters to the port side of the "Shinano", the aircraft of the "Soryu" aircraft carrier was also taking off. The dim lights rose one after another from the brightly illuminated flight deck of the "Soryu" to the sky. In just a short time
Within twenty minutes, a total of 260 aircraft took off from twelve aircraft carriers.
The aircraft fleet composed of "Zero" and "Gale" fighter jets, and the 97th Ship Attack and 99th Ship Explosion were in formation in the sky. They flew around the fleet in a large circle, and then flew towards the southern sky at 5:55.
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On the flight deck below, the noise that was deafening just a moment ago has now become silent.
There were no planes on the deck, and the rumble of the planes could not be heard. There were only a few sailors running around, busy packing equipment.
However, the silence was soon broken by a loud shout from the loudspeaker: "Prepare for the second attack wave!" As the alarm bell rang again, people used elevators to lift the planes onto the flight deck and push them to the take-off line.
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The forward elevator lifts fighters, and the midships and stern elevators lift bombers and torpedo planes.
The ordnance personnel used vehicles to drag the torpedoes out of the ammunition warehouse and loaded them on the aircraft. All personnel were busy working nervously. By 6:15, the flight deck was filled with aircraft again, and they took off again.
At 6:20 in the morning, An Jiajun's jet fighter group unexpectedly collided head-on with the Japanese army's southbound group.
Over the blue sea, jet fighter jets emerged from the clouds one after another. A black Japanese escort fighter group also rushed out from the clouds on the opposite side. The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer. The commander of the Japanese escort fighter jets, Guan Bo Zhengyi,
The major's eyes widened. As an experienced pilot, he had seen many airplanes, but he had never seen one so fast. Soon, he realized that the opponent had no propellers, and he became alert and exclaimed: "
Baga, this is a Chinese jet fighter..."
Before he finished speaking, one after another "shooting the moon" S-I-H infrared air-to-air missiles broke through the air and exploded quickly after rushing into the Japanese aircraft fleet. The rod-shaped preset fragments and the steel ball-shaped spherical preset fragments played their best in the dense fleet.
The destruction effect.
As the missile exploded, the entire airspace was instantly filled with pre-set fragments flying around. The aircraft fleet, which was only fifty or sixty meters away from each other, instantly became violent within the range of these pre-set fragments with a killing radius of two to three hundred meters.
Scrap copper and iron filled with holes.
The reason why the air-to-air missile equipped on the Anjiajun navy's carrier-based aircraft is designed with such an abnormal killing radius is to kill enemy pilots as much as possible and to enhance the lethality against dense groups of enemy aircraft.
Almost instantly, many aircraft in the Japanese fleet suffered devastating blows. They either exploded in the air or crashed into the sea dragging thick black smoke.
The consequences of the Japanese carrier-based aircraft's blind pursuit of lightness, cleverness, and speed were fully exposed in the face of the terrifying lethality of air-to-air missiles.
Although Major Bo Zhengyi had too many questions in his mind, he, like other fighter pilots, knew nothing as soon as his vision went dark.
After launching the S-I-H infrared air-to-air missile and killing the first wave of Japanese aircraft, the Anjia Army Navy F3-A "Thunder" carrier-based fighter quickly climbed to altitude, then swooped down from the air and began to use four 30mm rotating rifles
The aircraft cannon strangles the opponent.
The theory of air combat at this time is to pursue the best attack angle. Everyone wants to go around the opponent's six o'clock direction. For this purpose, fighter planes desperately pursue high altitude and high speed. Whoever flies high can attack from a condescending position. Whoever is faster,
Whoever can seize the best offensive position first.
High-altitude dive can combine kinetic energy and potential energy, which can make high speed better and suppress opponents more effectively. Therefore, when the Japanese follow-up fighter pilots just raised their altitude and prepared to bypass the death zone in front, they found that their opponents had suddenly disappeared in the blink of an eye.
He was so high up.
The jet engines of Anjiajun's F3-A "Thunder" carrier-based fighter roared and roared, roaring towards the Japanese aircraft group.
Based on the experience in the exercise, the pilots of the "Thunder" carrier-based fighter concluded an experience: When a jet carrier-based fighter fights with a propeller-driven fighter, the best way to fight is to dive and hit like an eagle catching a chicken.
Pull up, then dive, all in one go. The guiding ideology is observation, adjustment, decision-making, and action. Using this output cycle can ensure maximum damage and minimum loss.
In the blue sky, asymmetric fighter aircraft performance and air combat guiding ideology caused this encounter to evolve into a one-sided massacre. The screams of aircraft and the roar of aviation cannons and machine guns resounded across the sea and air.
The two "Thunderbolts" fired at the Japanese fighter planes below at an astonishing high speed, but the Japanese fighter jets had no choice but to avoid the bombardment by turning suddenly. The "Thunderbolts" flew too fast and suddenly rushed to the Japanese fighter planes.
Below and on the side, two Japanese Gale fighter jets fired quickly. Several scarlet fire whips streaked across the sky, making eye-catching bullet marks in the blue sky and white clouds. However, the speed of the "thunder and lightning" was too fast, and the dense bullets
The rain fell on nothing.
Another "Thunderbolt" swooped down from a high altitude. In the sound of "dong dong -", four 30mm cannons roared at the same time. The dense shells penetrated the Japanese "Gale Wind" carrier-based fighter and beat it.
It dragged thick smoke into the sea. After the "strong wind" collided with the sea surface, it quickly exploded and raised a water column more than ten meters high.
The "Thunder" was as fast as lightning and moved like a dragon. The Japanese escort aircraft were in chaos. Although the Japanese carrier-based aircraft pilots had extremely rich experience in air combat, where had they seen this kind of combat method without dogfighting or rear-end collision? Faced with many challenges again and again
The high-speed assault and massacre with potential energy, and the dense 30mm aerial bombs brutally destroyed the bodies of the Japanese "Zero" and "Gale" fighter jets. As long as one shot was touched, the high-explosive incendiary bombs would destroy the opponent's mobile phone.
In just a quarter of an hour, all the Japanese escort fighters were destroyed.
At this time, another wave of "Thunder" carrier-based fighter jets arrived, and now the Japanese bomber group was attacked. First, there was a wave of intensive rocket attacks, which killed or injured these rough-skinned bombers, and then again
Play the game of eagle catching chicken.
Just when the commander of the bomber group and the deputy pilot of the First Air Fleet, Major Oda Sengoku, was despairing, the second wave of Japanese strike groups and land-based fighter jets from the field airport on the east coast of Australia arrived in time.
After a melee, after the Japanese fighter planes made huge sacrifices, the Anjiajun Navy's two waves of ninety "Thunder" carrier-based fighter jets ran out of ammunition and had to speed up their escape from the battlefield and return home. The Japanese First Air Fleet launched the first wave.
The fleet finally avoided the fate of being wiped out.
Behind the "Thunderbolt" carrier-based fighter jets, the Anjiajun Navy's F2-A "Haidongqing", F2-B "Golden Eyed Eagle" fighter jets and S1-B dive bombers, and T1 torpedo bombers turned ahead of time on the battlefield.
Dongfang bypassed the Japanese aircraft group and continued to pounce in the direction of the Japanese fleet.
After the Japanese fleet merged, they formed a larger combat cluster and pounced in the direction of the Anjia fleet.
An hour later, thirty kilometers north of the main task force of the Pacific Fleet of the Anjia Army, the Japanese aircraft group encountered the escort fighter group of the Anjia Army. In this battle, the "Thunder" jet carrier-based fighter jets of the Anjia Army concentrated on
To deal with the Japanese escort fighters, the "Golden Eye Eagle" and "Haitongqing" fighters tried their best to avoid the attacks of the Japanese fighter planes and concentrated on looking for trouble from the Japanese bombers and torpedo planes.
In order to protect the safety of the bomber group, the Japanese land-based and carrier-based fighter jets tried their best to hunt down the "Golden-Eyed Eagle" and "Haitongqing". However, the mantis stalking the cicada and the oriole were behind, and the "Thunderbolt" carrier-based fighter jet relied on its high speed to
and superior climbing performance, implementing one-hit kill tactics to hunt and kill Japanese carrier-based fighter jets.
"Boom boom——"
A 97-carrying torpedo was hit by a 20mm aerial cannon shell from the "Haidongqing" carrier-based fighter jet, causing it to roll in the air, emit a shrill wail, dragging thick smoke, and fall towards the sea.
Japanese dive bombers and torpedo planes used self-defense aviation machine guns to shoot at the attacking "Haitongqing" and "Golden-Eyed Eagles". Bullet marks passed through the air, but they were all blocked by the dexterous "Haitongqing" and "Golden-Eyed Eagles".
"Eye Eagle" avoided.
"Boom——"
Another 99-ship bomber was hit by a rain of bullets fired from six 12.7mm aviation machine guns of the "Golden Eyed Eagle". Several of the bullets broke the fuel tank. The Japanese aircraft turned into a bright fireball in the air and fell towards the sea.
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This massacre in the air directly led to a serious reduction in the number of Japanese aircraft fleet. However, the Japanese pilots were not afraid of death and still flew their fighter planes towards the Anjia Army fleet, which was not far away.
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