Iwo Jima is named after an extinct volcano (Mt. Oriba) that has not completely cooled down on the island, which has been releasing sulfur-smelling fog for many years. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, it didn't have many names on it, because the island was barren and couldn't support many people...... The island's indigenous population is only about 1,000, but food needs to be imported, and the indigenous people depend on sulphur mining and growing crops such as sugar cane.

However, when the Pacific War broke out, Iwo Jima was stationed on Iwo Jima because of its flat terrain suitable for the construction of an airfield...... Iwo Jima is more than 1,000 kilometers away from the main island of Japan, and a considerable number of Japanese fighters can land on Iwo Jima for refueling when they are delivered in the direction of the Pacific Ocean, so it has become a transit point for Japanese fighters to be delivered to the battlefield.

At this time, Zhang Chi was watching this Iwo Jima that would become world-famous in the future through a telescope.

Zhang Chi was a little surprised, because he saw that the Japanese troops on Iwo Jima were not panicked by the arrival of the Chinese navy. This shows that the Japanese army knew from the beginning that the Chinese navy was targeting Iwo Jima and was prepared.

At the same time, Zhang Chi saw more than 20 Japanese fighters hovering over Iwo Jima......

In this regard, Zhang Chi was not surprised at all.

Although Motota Nakatsu did not obey Kuribayashi Tadamichi's orders and insisted on fighting the enemy outside the tunnel, he did not dare to hold it up in the air.

On the one hand, this is because the few remaining fighters on Iwo Jima are all backward fighters with poor performance (the fighters that can be used are basically transferred to the direction of the Philippines). On the other hand, Motoda Nakachi, as a naval commander, also knows the air defense capabilities of the Chinese Navy......

You must know that in the recent Battle of the Marianas, the Chinese Navy almost routed a fleet of more than 200 Japanese fighters that went to attack, while the losses of the Chinese Navy were minimal.

Of course, Motota Nakachi did not know that a very important reason why the Chinese Navy won such a great victory in that naval battle was that there were "Hellcat" fighters that took off from escort aircraft carriers, and at this time the Chinese army did not have "Hellcats".

Motota Nakatsu is thinking about ...... The Chinese Navy came with aircraft carriers, and there were anti-aircraft guns with proximity fuses and new fighters, and if its 20 or 30 old fighters went to intercept them, it would be no different from sending them to death.

So Motota Nakachi decided to let the fighters use the local advantage to conduct a "local operation", that is, let the fighters take off before the Chinese fleet approached, and only hover over Iwo Jima. In this way, when the fighters and bombers of the Chinese army flew over Iwo Jima to fight the Japanese fighters, the Japanese fighters could be covered by ground anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.

It should be said that the idea of Motota Nakachi is very good, because in this way it is possible to use the few fighters to shoot down as many enemy planes as possible. This is also one of the reasons why Motota Nakachi asked Tadamichi Kuribayashi to provide anti-aircraft artillery cover.

But Zhang Chi will not be fooled so easily.

"Master!" Liu Guangzhong looked at Zhang Chi.

Normally, before the fleet reaches one of the enemy's islands, an air battle for air supremacy between the enemy and us has already begun...... The US Navy's practice is that if it does not achieve absolute air supremacy, it will generally not allow the fleet to approach the island and become the target of the Japanese attack.

But this time it was unusual...... It should be said that both the enemy and the enemy are abnormal, and our side has allowed the navy and even aircraft carriers to approach the enemy's islands without seizing air supremacy, while the enemy fighters have never attacked.

So Liu Guangzhong can't understand what the situation is.

Zhang Chi just smiled and replied, "Don't worry, wait!" ”

"Wait?" Liu Guangzhong's face was full of doubts, while Zhang Junhua nodded knowingly.

Zhang Chi was actually playing a psychological tactic with the Japanese army, and even driving the aircraft carrier to the offshore sea had the intention of attracting Japanese fighters to attack.

The Chinese fighters were all "Wildcats", and the "Wildcats" at this time had an advantage over the Japanese army...... This is not a contradiction, this is not to say that the performance of the "Wildcat" has improved beyond the zero battle, in fact, it is, because the Japanese fighters on Iwo Jima are so old that they can barely fly. However, the more important reason is that the quality of the Japanese pilots is not as good as before, but the Chinese pilots have rich experience in air combat, and in addition, they have a numerical advantage, so they are not worried about not being able to gain air supremacy.

However, pilots are a valuable asset of the Chinese army, and Zhang Chi hopes to sacrifice as few pilots as possible, so he wants to use the expulsion and anti-aircraft fire on the aircraft carrier to cooperate with the fighters to annihilate the Japanese fighters.

It's just that they didn't expect that the Japanese army still had some stamina, and they were unmoved when they saw the "Xianghe" driving in front of them.

However, the Japanese made a fatal mistake...... They assumed that the Chinese army would launch an offensive as soon as they arrived at Iwo Jima, so they took off all their warplanes and prepared for battle.

Motota may have had his own considerations, and he was worried that if the fighter plane did not take off, it would be destroyed by the Chinese army's fighter plane in the airfield.

But he didn't think that what if the Chinese didn't attack? Are these fighters just hovering in the air all the time?!

Ten minutes passed.

The Chinese Navy is still not moving, they are just in a defensive formation...... More than a dozen warplanes circled around the fleet, and destroyers surrounded the aircraft carrier, waiting quietly in the near sea.

Twenty minutes passed.

The Chinese Navy repeats a simple action...... A few fighters took off, a few fighters landed, then a few more fighters took off, and a few more fighters landed, so that in a short time, the ten same fighters in the air were replaced by a new batch of new troops.

However, the Japanese fighters could not be replaced, partly because they had no extra fighters to replace, and secondly because their fighters were vulnerable to enemy attacks once they landed at the airfield.

Thirty minutes passed.

The Chinese Navy still maintains a formation cruising the waters off Iwo Jima, and from time to time a few warplanes fly close to the edge of Iwo Jima to make one or two feints, as if they are challenging Japanese fighters.

Motota Nakachi, who was in the headquarters, was pacing anxiously around the table, blushing and not knowing what to do...... At this time, some pilots even reported a malfunction of the plane and requested landing.

But Ren Yuan Tian Nakatsu wanted to break his head and didn't know how to deal with this situation, he couldn't ask the enemy to attack immediately so that his fighter plane "died"!

Kuribayashi Tadamichi watched this scene with a telescope in the fortifications on Oriba Mountain, shook his head slightly, and said, "The Special Marine Corps has been defeated!" (To be continued.) )