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If these fighters are concentrated together to fight with the Chinese and US coalition forces, it is obvious that they will be defeated by the combination of the "hellcats" and "wild cats" of the Chinese and US coalition forces, but the scattered attack is different...... More than 100 warplanes dispersed like a swarm of frightened locusts, so that the Chinese and US coalition forces did not know which one to pursue.

Among them, the "Hellcat" fighters are better, they are fast, and they can still shoot down the Japanese fighters one after another, but the speed is relatively slow, and it is not even as good as the Japanese "Zero Battle" Wildcat.

Then the Japanese fighters appeared in the sight of Zhang Chi and others, it should be said that this kind of scattered attacking Japanese aircraft group is not a good thing for the Chinese and American navies, because it means that the hit rate of the shells is reduced, and it is quite troublesome to aim, especially the Japanese fighters are also interspersed with several Chinese and American fighters.

However, the sound of anti-aircraft artillery still "rumbled", and this was a matter of life and death for the seventh detachment, and no one dared to be careless or waste any time.

It's just that those dense Japanese fighters in the sky can only see that all the officers and men of the seventh detachment, including Zhang Chi, have numb scalps...... The Japanese army had clearly invested the main force in the 7th detachment.

Fortunately, the anti-aircraft firepower of the Chinese and US coalition forces at this time has been greatly enhanced.

This enhancement is mainly due to the reaction of the US military...... First of all, the four destroyers of the US military, these four destroyers were originally under the command of John, and did not join the defense system of the Chinese troops, and now of course there is no hesitation at this critical moment.

You must know that the destroyers used by the US military are far more advanced than the Chinese Navy's Fletcher-class destroyers, not to mention the rest, compared with the 10 anti-aircraft guns of the Clemson-class destroyers, the Fletcher-class destroyers are equipped with as many as 18 anti-aircraft guns, including five high-level dual-purpose five-inch main guns, 10 single-barreled Erlikon machine guns, and three twin Bofors machine guns.

Among them, in particular, the Bofors and Erlikon cannons are not large in caliber, with a rate of fire of 80 rounds per minute and more than 400 rounds per minute, respectively......

As I said before, the Japanese fighter basically has no defense, so there is no big difference between a 20-millimeter cannon and a five-inch shell that hits it, so on the contrary, this kind of small-caliber machine gun with a high rate of fire is very practical in the Pacific theater...... According to post-war estimates, about one-third of the Japanese fighters in the Pacific theater were shot down by Erlikon cannons with a caliber of only 20 mm.

Therefore, the addition of these four Fletcher destroyers of the US military can be said to have doubled the anti-aircraft firepower in an instant.

In addition, there are five escort aircraft carriers of the US military...... Two of the five escort carriers were blown up and incapacitated, but each escort carrier had seven anti-aircraft guns on board, which was a bit insignificant (the escort carriers had limited space and could not be equipped with too many anti-aircraft guns), but it was also better than nothing.

As a result, the anti-aircraft artillery and machine guns of the Sino-US coalition bombarded the air, only to make the sky full of black clouds, and the entire sky seemed to be covered by smoke from the shells.

In the midst of this smoke, there were Japanese fighters that had been hit and fell with a strange roar of black smoke and firelight, and Zhang Chi believed that if Vice Takeshi Toyoda, commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, saw this scene, he would definitely choose to abandon this attack...... Because the casualties were so heavy that any blow to the Chinese and American 7th Detachment would not be enough to exchange such casualties.

Therefore, the Japanese army has actually been defeated so far, and they are exchanging the last bit of Japanese family resources for a victory that has no impact on the situation of the war...... So, even if the Japanese army wins this war, what can it do?

However, the madness of the Japanese lies in the fact that their stubbornness is the kind of thing that does not shed tears when they see the coffin...... Even the direct commander of this attack, Ozawa Jizaburo, was red-eyed in the Battle of the Marianas, and then there were only more than 100 fighters left, but he still clamored to use these more than 100 fighters to launch a final attack again, and in the end, it was Toyota Vice Takeshi who ordered Ozawa Jizaburo to stop this completely meaningless attack.

As a result, Japanese fighters continued to dive down on the Chinese and American fleets from all directions, followed by a series of bullets and bombs falling from the sky...... Of course, there are reasons for the lack of training and accuracy of the Japanese pilots, but in fact, the more important reason is that the Japanese troops were frightened by the dense shells in the air and the downing of friendly planes one after another, so they hurriedly dropped bombs or fired indiscriminately when they swooped into the attack position, and then hurriedly flew away.

Of course, there were some hits, and the flight deck of the "Pinghai" was hit by a bomb, but fortunately, the deck of the "Pinghai" was thick enough, and the bomb did not cause any major damage except for a shock and a small crater on the deck.

This should also be the credit of the aviation...... If it weren't for the fact that the Chinese and American air forces disrupted the deployment of the Japanese troops in the air and annihilated a large number of Japanese torpedo planes and bombers, I am afraid that the "Pinghai" would have been hit by several bombs or torpedoes and sunk to the bottom of the sea at this time.

The six torpedo planes lowered their altitude and slowed down and flew towards the "Pinghai," apparently trying to take advantage of the chaos to drop torpedoes and kill the "Pinghai." The machine guns of the two US "Fletcher"-class destroyers on both flanks hurriedly aimed at them and fired a series of shells...... This was Zhang Chi's arrangement, because in the first wave of the Japanese attack, Zhang Chi saw that the main target of the Japanese army was the "Pinghai".

Although Zhang Chi knew that this was a strategic mistake of the Japanese army, the "Pinghai" was actually a difficult aircraft carrier with little value...... There are 10 "Hellcat" fighters on any of the US escort aircraft carriers, and that is the real threat to the Japanese army.

However, Zhang Chi judged that it was impossible for the Japanese army to realize this strategic mistake in a short period of time, and even if it did, it would not be able to correct it in time because of the stubbornness of the Japanese and the backwardness of the Japanese army's communications.

Therefore, Zhang Chi strengthened the defense of the "Pinghai" aircraft carrier and assigned the four "Fletcher"-class destroyers with the strongest anti-aircraft firepower to the four directions of the "Pinghai."

(To be continued.) )