Taking advantage of this time, Zhang Chi did two things. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The first thing to do was to immediately ask for help from the third US detachment, which was the main aircraft carrier detachment responsible for air supremacy on Saipan and Tinian Islands, which was patrolling the waters near Saipan...... As for the sixth detachment responsible for bombing Saipan, forget it, the sixth detachment is also five escort aircraft carriers plus one light aircraft carrier, they are almost the same self-preservation, and if you want to get its reinforcements, it is easy to fall into a situation where you can't take care of that side if you want to get reinforcements.

Unfortunately, however, the third detachment of the US military is more than 400 kilometers away from the seventh detachment, and even if it arrives at the fastest speed, it will only take about 50 minutes...... and the maximum speed of the "Hellcat" fighter is 600 kilometers per hour, and it only takes 40 minutes in an ideal state, but there is also take-off time and formation time.

Obviously, the reinforcements after fifty minutes would not solve the problem, and when the reinforcements arrived, they were afraid that the seventh detachment would be blown to the bottom by the Japanese and sunk.

So the seventh detachment was left on its own.

The second thing Zhang Chi did was to order all fighters to take to the air, whether they were fighters or bombers. Of course, it is the fighters who take off first, and the bombers take off not to fight in the air, but to fly to the third or sixth detachment without bombs...... Fighters and pilots are valuable assets in war, and it is better to let them leave the battlefield than to wait here and risk sinking to the bottom of the sea with the aircraft carrier.

At this stage, the only two remaining escort aircraft carriers that are still combat-ready played a large role.

They pushed all the bombers on the flight deck into the sea at the first opportunity...... Bombers are not a matter for the US military, not to mention that these bombers are still hanging bombs, one will block the way for fighters to rise into the air, and the other may pose a threat to the escort aircraft carrier in the upcoming battle, so it is still very wise to push into the sea.

Then the US military urgently took off the "Hellcat" fighter...... Each escort carrier has ten "Hellcats", and the two escort carriers have a total of twenty.

Of course, these "hellcats" did not all take off.

On the one hand, this is due to the fact that the Japanese army left too little time for the Sino-American coalition forces, only ten minutes...... The interval between the departure of the first and second waves of Japanese fighters was half an hour.

In fact, this Ozawa Jizaburo originally thought that these two waves of fighters would not give the enemy any time gap, because the first wave of 69 fighters according to the usual way of fighting, it is not a problem to fight for half an hour over the Sino-US coalition forces, that is, the seventh detachment, you must know that it is a super mobile zero battle, plus the comet ship explosion and the Tianshan naval attack, these fighters are enough for the enemy to be busy for a while.

But...... Due to the fact that the Chinese Navy had long been prepared for defense, coupled with the excellent performance of the Chinese Navy and Air Force and the help of close-fire fuse shells, the first wave of the Japanese attack lasted only 12 minutes before withdrawing in disarray...... If we don't withdraw again, I am afraid that the first wave of Japanese fighters will be wiped out.

So the Chinese army was given eighteen minutes to adjust.

On the other hand, because the US logistical personnel on the escort aircraft carrier did not have rich combat experience, they were in a hurry to lift the 17 "Hellcat" fighters into the air. But it was these seventeen "Hellcats" that played an extremely important role on the battlefield......

You must know that the shootdown ratio of this fighter to the Japanese Zero fighter is 13:1, and it is far superior to the Zero in terms of speed, maneuver, climb and dive, or protection and firepower.

Therefore, the first wave of Japanese attacking aircraft definitely made a fatal mistake...... They always thought that the "Pinghai" was the main aircraft carrier, so suppressing or sinking the "Pinghai" aircraft carrier was the most important thing, so they gave priority to the "Pinghai" aircraft carrier as the target of attack.

As everyone knows, the "Pinghai" aircraft carrier is only equipped with "Wildcat" fighters, which are not superior to the Japanese Zero fighters, while the real "Hellcat" fighters, which are the real weapons of destruction, are on the escort aircraft carriers...... If the first wave of the Japanese aircraft group was targeting the US escort aircraft carriers, I am afraid that not only could they easily sink and injure these escort aircraft carriers, but also ensure that there would be no "Hellcat" fighters in the nearby airspace. Then the seventh detachment of the Sino-US coalition is afraid that it can only go by waiting for death in the same place.

If the commander of the first wave of the Japanese army's attack group, Juntomo Kobayashi, knew this, he was afraid that his intestines would be repentant.

"Master!" A few minutes later, the radar soldier reported to Zhang Chi: "Enemy aircraft group has been discovered!" ”

"Intercept it now!" Zhang Chi ordered.

"Yes!"

The first batch of 13 "Hellcat" fighters and 31 "Wildcat" fighters were divided into five formations and headed for the Japanese aircraft group (at the same time, the escort aircraft carrier and the "Pinghai" aircraft carrier were also urgently taking off fighters).

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi ordered: "Focus on attacking the advanced and lagging slow bomber groups of the Japanese army, the US military is responsible for dealing with Zero fighters, and the Chinese army is responsible for dealing with low-speed fighters!" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Junhua answered, and soon passed the order on with the US military staff officer.

Of course, this distribution is reasonable, because compared with the 580 kilometers per hour speed of the Japanese "Comet" fighters, the difference between the 510 kilometers per hour maximum speed of the "Wildcat" fighters is too great, and even if they want to, they cannot deal with it.

However, the "Wildcat" fighters have a clear advantage in dealing with the "97" and "99" types, which are much slower.

Especially at this time, the Japanese aircraft group was naturally divided into several sections due to the different speeds...... Prior to this, the Japanese aircraft group was consistent with the "97" and "99" types in order to be able to coordinate with each other, but as soon as it approached the target ship group to attack, it would inevitably break through the enemy's firepower network at the fastest speed, so the Japanese aircraft group soon became the "Comet" at the front, followed by the "Zero Battle", "Tianshan", "99", and finally the "97" type (the "97" ship attacked the slowest speed, with a maximum speed of only 377 kilometers per hour).

Of course, these relatively slow bombers are also covered by Zero fighters, and the Japanese call this part of the Zero fighters "direct cover aircraft", that is, reduce their own speed to provide cover for the bombers, so the US military "Hellcat" is also needed to "clear" these Zero fighters.

As a result, when the Japanese "Comet" fighters rushed forward, a formation of six "Hellcats" dived down one by one to intercept them...... After a burst of machine gunfire, a dense burst of bullets immediately knocked several "Comet" bombers into smoke and plunged headlong into the sea.

The "Zero Battle" pilots who followed the "Comet" obviously did not know that these new fighters were the nemesis of the "Zero Battle" and rushed to meet them one after another. (To be continued.) )