The Puerto Rican radar station dutifully provided early warning information, but the adversary was too fast, 175 kilometers was only more than 10 minutes for a V3 cruise missile with a speed of up to 750 kilometers per hour, and the more than 200 attack planes that followed it still had 20 minutes to reach the battlefield.

This batch of air-launched V3s is the result of new development and testing by Germany, with a range of up to 650 kilometers, but this operation did not go so far, and heavy bombers carried them to a distance of about 400 kilometers before releasing them. Although the bombers flew slower than the other attack groups, due to the high speed of the V3, they came from behind in the final stage and attacked first.

At the moment of emergency, the US pilots went all out to attack, and one plane after another quickly rose into the air, especially the fighters, and under the guidance of radar, they were ready to intercept the intruding enemy planes, preparing to win a precious respite for other comrades-in-arms.

Although the latest P47N used by the U.S. military has been able to fly at a speed of 750 km/h at the ultimate altitude, intercepting cruise missiles in the dark is a revolutionary problem, and even if 12 7mm heirlooms occasionally hit the missile, it cannot change the trajectory.

The missiles entered the range of the last five minutes, and at this moment, the XXI-class submarine that had probed in the waters off Puerto Rico sent its last guidance signal, and according to the forward relay guidance, 32 missiles corrected the track error and dragged a long tail flame towards the US airfield.

The 800-kilogram high-explosive warhead fused with a drop speed of more than 800 kilometers and instantly swooped down on the locked target, followed by a violent explosion.

The 32 corrected missiles had a circular probability deviation of less than 2 km, and more than half of them hit their targets, some hitting the runway, some hitting the hangar, some hitting the aircraft refueling, and some simply hitting the oil depots, towers and other facilities at the airport.

On the whole, the damage caused is not too great, but the psychological deterrence formed is not small.

A few minutes later, a large number of German planes arrived, dropped flares, and then bombed the target indiscriminately, and the prepared American troops fought back, and the air was full of planes falling in flames and gunsmoke, both German and American.

Seeing that the US troops were prepared, especially the appearance that a large number of planes had already taken to the air, the German commanders also sank in their hearts, believing that the situation was not quite the same as they expected, and that there were many differences from those deployed before the war, but the matter had come to this point, and it was useless to regret and retreat, and they could only risk losses and try their best to destroy the US airfield facilities.

"The Germans are attacking Puerto Rico in the air?" Mitchell, who received the telegram, was also taken aback, "How's the situation?" ”

"It's ideal, at least 240 of the 350 aircraft ready for combat have taken off"

"So, 110 more were destroyed?" Mitchell's face was gloomy, and he felt a little troubled when he lost one-seventh of his offensive power at hand.

Hewitt advised him: "It is necessary to find out as soon as possible whether it is the German Navy or the air force planes that are attacking the air, and if it is naval planes, perhaps the position of the enemy's aircraft carrier has been radically changed." ”

Mitchell's heart moved, this was a very important factor, and he immediately asked people to check it.

After 10 minutes, the news came back that most of them were twin-engine horizontal bombers, and there were very few planes that could dive bomb, which were basically judged to be Air Force aircraft.

The crowd had just breathed a sigh of relief, but five minutes later, another telegram came: Puerto Rico had been attacked for the second time, this time it was believed that it was an aircraft carrier, because most of them were dive bombers!

"Bastard! Bastard! Bastard! Angry, Mitchell scolded three times.

"Sir, this means that the German fleet may not be there"

Hewitt was interrupted in the middle of his sentence by Mitchell: "Let Puerto Rico send reconnaissance planes to search the sea within 500,600 kilometers to the south." ”

The staff officer of the "chief" reminded him, "They sent out 12 long-range reconnaissance planes at half past four, and now that the island is engaged in combat again, I am afraid it will be difficult to reconnoitre." ”

Mitchell patted his head, knowing that he was in a hurry, and hurriedly said: "Let the fleet reconnaissance plane check!" ”

At present, the main force of the Atlantic Fleet has reached 80 kilometers south of the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Mitchell is deployed to search for a sector between 160 and 300 degrees.

"Are the 12 reconnaissance planes summoned?"

Mitchell pondered for a long time: "Don't call for the time being, go to survey according to the original plan, what if the German fleet only divides a part of its forces to fight?" ”

Hueyt nodded: intelligence showed that the second round of attacks was more than 200 aircraft, which was only 40% of the combat aircraft owned by the German fleet, and it was really impossible to avoid it.

At 5:34 a.m., the east had gradually begun to show the whiteness of the fish's belly, and Machar, Ozawa and others received a telegram from the front: "Our army successfully carried out air strikes on Puerto Rico, but the enemy seems to have been prepared for a long time, and a large number of planes are in the air, except for the airport facilities, the destruction of the ground aircraft group is not ideal." ”

Everyone nodded solemnly: The U.S. military was unusually prepared in the early morning, and the most likely thing was to carry out an attack, and the goal was undoubtedly to deal with the fleet, but why didn't they attack yesterday and put it in the early hours of this morning?

Cranke asked tentatively, "Is the main fleet of the US army coming?" Trying to eat us with a two-way pinch? ”

"This possibility cannot be ruled out, let the reconnaissance plane take off and search the entire northern sector."

At 5:41, 18 colorful clouds rose into the sky to search for possible US fleets, and the atmosphere in the bridge was very tense.

At 6:15, Mitchell received a telegram from the first 12 B29s, they did not know what had happened in the rear, and they were still carrying out the original task: they arrived above the target sea area, and after 15 minutes of searching, no trace of the German fleet was found, and asked whether to expand the search area.

Although Mitchell was basically convinced that the German fleet was no longer in the original envisioned range, he was still unwilling to give up the last bit of hope, and ordered: "Expand the search area to the west to the sea near Aruba Curasao",

"Besides," he pondered for a moment, "let the group of attack planes that had taken off from Puerto Rico attack south, and search the German fleet freely until there was only fuel left for the return voyage." ”

Hewitt added: "If you want to spare fuel for Haiti, I'm afraid Puerto Rico won't be able to use the airport yet." ”

"Let General Josenna coordinate and ask the air forces of Haiti and Dominica to be ready to attack, and as soon as they are convinced that the German fleet is not far away, they will take off and strike."

Time passed minute by minute, the two fleets were still closing the distance at a speed of 40 kilometers, although Mitchell wanted to give the order to turn around and retreat several times, but he was worried that the enemy situation had changed, and the German army might be very close to him, he did not dare to give the order to turn around and flee, so that the prey that was being chased would become himself, and now he could only pray that the reconnaissance plane would be a little stronger, and he could discover the specific position of the German fleet as soon as possible.

Now that the aircraft carrier cover group has completed its takeoff, several times he wanted to give the order for the attack group to take off, but he was afraid that he would be in a hurry and lose fuel in vain.

On the bridge of the Zeppelin, the atmosphere was also very tense, because the first attack wave released in the early morning had not yet taken off, and now the entire aircraft carrier formation had only half of its attack power, so Machar and others were anxiously looking forward to the return of the planes, but they were afraid that the returning attack group would just bump into the attacking US planes, and that would be a tragedy.

Ozawa thought for a long time, couldn't find the best of both worlds, and sighed slightly: "Let the planes of Aruba and Curacao attack, prepare for cross-platform, send 36 additional air defense fighters, and at the same time release a part of the second attack wave, empty the planes of the two Grudge-class armored aircraft carriers first, and then accelerate forward under the protection of battleships!" ”

Machar was slightly surprised, and then quickly understood Ozawa's intention: the latter planned to set up a decoy to use the anti-strike ability of the two British armored aircraft carriers and the battleships to form a fire magnet in front and back, and once the American forces attacked first, it would not endanger the combat capability of the fleet as a whole.

At 6:23, a large number of German planes that had completed the attack returned, some returned to Guadeloupe, some returned to the fleet, and a few clever American fighters quietly followed behind the German aircraft group, trying to pull out the German fleet hidden in the depths.

At 7:04, good luck landed on the Americans, and Mitchell received a telegram: "The German fleet has been discovered, at least 2 regular aircraft carriers, 3 light aircraft carriers, and 2 battleships are located 440 kilometers directly south of Puerto Rico!" ”

"Yay! Let the Air Force attack first, and we'll arrive later! Mitchell waved his arms fiercely, "Tell the lads that the time for the decisive battle has come, and every American soldier must give it his all!" ”

"Long live freedom!"

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