Chapter 98 come one kill one

This is the torpedo fleet of the "Enterprise", which includes a total of 14 "Destroyers", and the captain is Major Lindsay. When the "Enterprise" set sail from Pearl Harbor, the plane piloted by Lindsay failed to land and rushed off the deck. Asked if he could take off, Lindsay replied calmly, "I was trained to fly in order to go to the sky." Compared with the Waldron team, the pilots of the Lindsay fleet have much richer combat experience. They have participated in many battles. Even the latest pilots have more than 2,500 hours of flying time, and most of the time they fly All are torpedo planes.But the bad coordination problem also happened to the Lindsay fleet. The "Enterprise" fighter fleet lost contact with it, and they had to fight alone.

Lindsay divided the planes into two groups equally and headed towards "Kaga" and "Flying Dragon" respectively.At this time, because it had already been attacked once, the mobile force had already stepped up its vigilance. The captain of "Kaga" commanded the aircraft carrier skillfully, looking as comfortable as a cowboy riding a pony. Traveling at nautical mile speed, the ship's stern is turned towards the torpedo plane, so that the ship's artillery and "Zero" have plenty of time to deal with the slow opponent. Seeing this scene, Genda breathed a sigh of relief: "The battle of the 'Kaga' seems to be very good." Nagumo also looked confident: "It's fine."

In order to hit the target, the torpedo plane must maintain a stable route and must maintain a flight altitude for at least two minutes. During this process, the torpedo plane is the most vulnerable, but they are not covered by fighter jets. No matter how good the pilot's skills and level are, It can only be reduced to fish on the chopping board. All the planes that fell were American planes, one after another.There are three kinds of smoke intertwined in the sky: tracer bomb fog, anti-aircraft artillery shell smoke cloud, and the spiral black smoke dragged by the burning American plane.

It was another tragic moment of moths plunging into the flames. Genda found that some American pilots had begun to "hesitate and cower, not daring to rush to kill".In fact, it's because he doesn't understand how slow the "destroyer" is, especially when this broken plane is hung with a heavy torpedo, anyone who flies the plane is like Don Quixote riding an exhausted horse fighting. On the bridge of the "Akagi" aircraft carrier, the lookout post kept reporting the news of the shooting down of the US plane.Genda is very proud. If they continue to fight like this, they are just counting, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. In a short time, they will be able to wipe out all the US carrier-based torpedo planes and quickly launch a full-scale attack on the US fleet. .

The people on the bridge, Nagumo, Caolu, and other personnel also danced happily.The lookout post reported the results loudly in a dramatic tone: "There are 5 left... Only 3 left... 1, 1!" With a bang, the game was over, and the lookout post announced with joy: "Shoot all of them down!" It turned out that Nanyun and others were not fully sure whether the mobile force could withstand the US air attack. After winning seven consecutive air battles, no one had such concerns. They believed that no matter how many US planes came, there was no need to be afraid. You come with a pair and I'll kill you with a pair, you come with a group and I'll kill you with a group, come together, they will all be wiped out.

Although Nagumo was eager to make preparations to attack the US fleet, but now his mood has relaxed a lot.Anyway, the dragon is fighting and the little deer is suffering, so let's just take the extremely weak US aircraft first, and wait until all the US aircraft are eaten up, and then clean up the empty aircraft carrier and other warships, wouldn't it be easy? Not all of the Lindsay fleet was shot down, but it was not much worse. A total of 10 were shot down, and the remaining 4 were able to escape back to the aircraft carrier, which is simply a miracle. The torpedo planes of the Spruance fleet suffered all casualties, and the fighter planes sent by Fletcher went into battle one after another.At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Messi fleet including 12 torpedo planes flew from "York City". Fortunately, they were not separated from the fighter jets. There are too few fighters, only 6 "Wildcats" - there is no way, Fletcher has to guard against Japanese counterattacks, and he can't send more planes.

The "Wildcat" is not as good as the "Zero" in terms of performance. To fight with the opponent, it can only be condescending in order to obtain sufficient dive speed.In actual combat, Thach sent two "Wildcats" to fly at an altitude of 2,500 feet, and he led the other three "Wildcats" to fly at a height of more than 5,000 feet. Once the two "Wildcats" flying low were attacked by the Japanese When intercepting, they issued an alarm by radio. After receiving the alarm, the four "Wildcats" flying high then dived. After reaching the sky above the mobile unit, the "Wild Cat" flying low was attacked by the "Zero" type first, and Thach took the opportunity to go down as promised.Thatch created a tactic to deal with the "Zero", which was later called "Thatch Dodge", that is, to implement two-plane activities, one plane was bitten by the "Zero", and the other turned around and turned around.Therefore, although the number of fighter jets on both sides is extremely different, they can barely resist in combat.

One of the Saatchi fleet was shot down, one was seriously injured, and the remaining four withdrew from the battle due to exhaustion of fuel.As for their main task - to cover the torpedo planes, it is impossible to complete. For the Messi fleet, there is no difference in effect whether these fighter jets participate in the battle or not. The Messi fleet did not escape bad luck.Before reaching the effective distance to release the torpedo, 7 planes including Messi were shot down by the "Zero", and the remaining 5 planes continued to roar towards the "Cangryu". Surrounded by the tracks of torpedoes, none of these slow torpedoes could hit the aircraft carrier.

That morning, the U.S. aircraft carrier dispatched 3 batches of 41 "Destroyer" torpedo planes, and only 4 survived in the end, and they were all beaten into a panic. That's okay, the "Destroyer" is old and cumbersome, and it should have been replaced by the new "Avenger".The real heavy loss was people. In just over an hour, the U.S. military lost 69 pilots, especially the death of the squadron captains such as Waldron and Messi, which can cause the task force to the bone. Since the task force still kept the radio silent, the Pacific Fleet Command could not receive any news about the front line, and anxiety filled the war room. Although Nimitz was pretending to be calm on the surface, anyone who knew him knew what was on his mind. Heavy.

Finally, Nimitz couldn't bear it anymore. He called the communications officer and asked the other party: "Why can't I receive the telegram? Why can't I hear anything?" The people around were surprised to see that Nimitz, who had always been calm and calm, became extremely irritable, and he had never been so agitated before. The intelligence officer was aggrieved and helpless. If he didn't receive it, he didn't receive it. It was impossible for him to conjure up a telegram out of thin air, so he had no choice but to answer: "I don't know." The dangerous situation has made every US military commander's nerves extremely tense.Fletcher and Spruance sat on the bridges of the "Yorktown" and "Enterprise" aircraft carriers respectively, commanding and dispatching the battle situation.At 10:08 in the morning, the "Enterprise" was the first to break the silence, and the communications center of the Pacific Fleet heard frequent calls from the ship: "Attack! Attack!" Someone heard that it was Spruance's Chief of Staff Browning Issue combat orders.

The following was a crisp and powerful echo: "Yes, as long as I find those bastards." This indicates that the moment of fate is approaching step by step.