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As a result of this wave of attacks, the "Hornet" was heavily damaged:

The aircraft carrier was hit by two torpedoes and three bombs, and two other fighters successfully rammed into the "Big Yellow Peak", which made the "Big Hornet" stay on the surface of the sea and be unable to move.

It should be said that this has to rely on the armor-piercing protection of the US aircraft carrier, otherwise it would have sunk long ago under such a blow.

The U.S. Navy carried out an emergency rescue of the "Hornet" and pumped water to change its inclination from the original 10 degrees to 2 degrees, but even so, it was still unable to move and could not receive fighters.

The Japanese air force also paid a heavy price for the attack: of the 53 Japanese fighters involved in the attack, only 29 escaped from the battlefield...... Escaping from the battlefield did not mean that they would be able to make their way back, and only 15 of them survived because they had to make a forced landing on the surface of the sea due to damage and other reasons.

Later, the US Navy learned that the reason why the Japanese army would fight so hard in attacking the "Hornet" was to win victory on the one hand, and to take revenge on the other......

The Japanese monitored the radio communications of the US military, and from the content of the communication sent by Griffin, they confirmed that the US military had two aircraft carriers fighting, and they also judged that one of them was the "Hornet...... When the US military is associated with each other, they use the word "Reaper" to refer to the aircraft carrier "Enterprise" and the "blue" to refer to the aircraft carrier "Hornet." And when the Japanese air force bombed the US aircraft carrier, the US military kept mentioning "blue".

From the pilot's description of the aircraft carrier, the Japanese intelligence department speculated that the aircraft carrier called "Blue" was most likely the "Hornet" aircraft carrier.

This is a big deal, because the US Navy used the aircraft carrier "Hornet" to bomb Tokyo...... At this time, the Japanese army had the opportunity to take revenge.

So the Japanese army immediately launched a second wave of attack.

The second wave of attacking fighters included 9 Zero fighters, 19 carrier-based bombers and 17 mine-mounted torpedo aircraft...... The reason why 17 torpedo planes loaded with torpedoes were sent was to destroy the target in one fell swoop and completely sink the "Hornet".

However, this wave of Japanese aircraft was not used to fight the "Hornet".

Because the commander of the Japanese bomber group, Guan Wei Shaozuo, when he saw the "Hornet". Judging that it has been seriously damaged and has lost its combat effectiveness, it is now important to attack another US aircraft carrier.

This is certainly the right thing to do.

First of all, the intelligence confirmed that the US military has two aircraft carriers, so if another US aircraft carrier is damaged or sunk, it means that all US carrier-based aircraft will not be able to take off or land, and the US military will only be beaten at that time.

Secondly. The other US aircraft carrier still has attack power, and for the sake of the safety of its own aircraft carrier, it should also attack another US aircraft carrier.

At this time, Guan Wei Shaozuo actually just had the mentality that he might as well give it a try, if he could successfully find another US aircraft carrier, then he would fight, if he couldn't find it...... It is not too late to sink the "Hornet" again, because the "Hornet" has lost its ability to sail anyway and will not be able to escape for a while and a half.

So Guan Wei Shaozuo led the group to search south.

At this time, the initial mistake of the US Navy was evident here, and the two aircraft carrier battle groups were only ten nautical miles apart...... This allowed the Japanese fleet to discover the aircraft carrier "Enterprise" without much effort.

Worse still, because the aircraft carrier "Hornet" was heavily damaged. Therefore, the fighters sent to attack the Japanese aircraft carrier could not dock on the "Hornet" and could only land on the "Enterprise", which made the "overcrowded" aircraft carrier on the "Enterprise" busy.

Fortunately, because of the "overcrowding," there were more than 20 fighters stranded in the air, so when they discovered that the Japanese plane group was rushing towards the "Enterprise," these fighters took the initiative to meet and intercept it.

Guan Wei Shaozuo's and three other bombers were shot down at the first time, and the rest of the bombers attacked the "Enterprise" through dense anti-aircraft fire.

The first bomber dropped a high-explosive bomb.

I don't know if it's because of the fuse or the angle. The bomb, after hitting the flight deck, jumped up and flew to starboard and exploded in the air, so it did not cause much damage to the aircraft carrier.

The second bomber threw a semi-armor-piercing projectile.

The bomb landed in the center of the flight deck, 10 feet behind the front elevator. and penetrated the flight deck, exploded on the hangar deck, and then caught fire...... The explosion destroyed six Dreadnought bombers in an instant, killing more than 10 members of a maintenance team, but fortunately none of the fighters parked in the hangar were refueled, so the fire was brought under control soon after.

A high-explosive bomb dropped by the third bomber exploded in the starboard stern, which caused a "Wildcat" fighter to fall from the aircraft carrier, and three "dreadnought" bombers caught fire and were pushed into the sea by the crew.

The next "Enterprise" was like a god in the attack of eleven Japanese torpedo planes...... Perhaps this was due to the fact that the pilots of the Japanese torpedo planes were mostly novices. They hurriedly dropped their torpedoes under the blows of the "Wildcat" fighters and the anti-aircraft fire of the American fleet without accuracy, or the captain of the "Enterprise" aircraft carrier, Hardison, commanded properly, and the Japanese 11 torpedo planes fired a total of eight torpedoes, but all eight torpedoes were evaded by the "Enterprise" at a large angle.

It is well known that the Japanese torpedo was very powerful, and when it hit an aircraft carrier, it always caused a series of chain reactions on it. For example, after the "Hornet" was hit by a torpedo, it lost its ability to sail and tilted its hull, turning it into a waste that could not receive fighters and completely lost its combat effectiveness.

This is also the reason why the Japanese army sent so many torpedo planes this time.

As long as one torpedo hits the "Enterprise".

Just one......

Then it is very likely that the "Enterprise" will also be unable to receive fighters due to water ingress into the hull, so the Japanese will be able to win this battle...... Because the US aircraft carrier is too far away from Espírito Santo, this will cause all the fighters in the air to make a forced landing on the sea, which will be a problem of losing the lives of hundreds of fighters and at least dozens of pilots.

But fortunately, the "Enterprise" survived the Japanese attack.

The only damage inflicted on the U.S. Navy fleet by Japanese torpedo planes was when a wounded and burning torpedo plane crashed into the destroyer USS Smith and landed on the mount of the second anti-aircraft gun in front of the bridge...... In an instant, the jet's aviation fuel dew ignited a fire, followed by a torpedo explosion, causing the entire front of the destroyer to fall into a sea of fire.

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