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The battle didn't end there.

Yamamoto 56 focused his attention entirely on the decisive battle between the aircraft carriers of the two armies, and after the main aircraft carrier group was attacked by the "Cactus" air force, he was immersed in the loss of a large number of pilots and concern about the damage of the aircraft carriers, so he completely forgot about the reinforcement group and the diversion group in the direction of Kuah Island...... This is what I said before, a person's command ability is limited after all, and the formation or plan is too complicated, and what is produced is not combat effectiveness, but confusion.

The fate of the reinforcement group was good, they did not receive the order to retreat, so they still sent supplies to Kuah Island according to the original plan, but when they received the information that the main aircraft carrier group was attacked and found that there were no fighters in the air to provide them with air cover, they decisively abandoned the reinforcement plan and went north.

From this point of view, Major General Yorizo Tanaka, who commanded the reinforcement group, was still a very smart commander, at least he would not make what appeared to be a heroic move but was actually wasting the lives of his subordinates and himself because he was afraid that other officers or superiors would laugh at him as a "coward" like other Japanese commanders. For example, it was he who made the reinforcement group fleet turn to avoid the bombing of the American fighters when he spotted the US reconnaissance planes, so that Fletcher mistakenly thought that the Japanese fleet had retreated, and then withdrew the "Hornet" aircraft carrier from the waters off Kuah Island.

Containment of the group is not so lucky.

The commander of the containment group was Vice Admiral Takuma Kanta, who commanded a light aircraft carrier "Longxiang".

It should be said that his mission was completed at this time, and he successfully lured the carrier-based aircraft on the USS Saratoga in its direction and avoided their attack before the US carrier-based aircraft arrived, but Vice Admiral Kanta Takuma was an ambitious man, and he was never satisfied with just commanding a small aircraft carrier. As in this battle, he was only tasked with luring the enemy into attack.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" The staff officer took a telegram and reported to Takuma Kanta: "We have just received information that our main group has been attacked by the American fleet and has suffered heavy losses. ”

"The main group is under attack by the enemy?" Hearing this, Kuan Taituo couldn't help but be surprised.

"Yes!" The staff officer replied: "It is said that these groups of US planes attacking the aircraft carrier took off from Kuah Island!" ”

"It actually took off from Kuah Island!" Hearing this, Kantai Tuo's eyes widened and asked, "Is this news accurate?" ”

"Exactly!" The staff officer replied: "It has been confirmed by Vice Admiral Maruyama that they saw the group take off from Kuah Island with their own eyes, and it should be that the Chinese built another runway outside the Kuah Island airport." And hid a group of fighters on the island of Kuah. ”

"Cunning Chinese!" Kanta Takuma said.

After pondering for a while, Kuanta asked again: "Is there any more detailed information on the US military aircraft fleet, such as the aircraft type and sorties of the US military aircraft fleet!" ”

"This ......" the staff officer shook his head.

"Send a telegram to the command to confirm!" Kanta Takuma ordered.

"Yes!"

Detailed information was soon placed in front of Kanta Takujin.

"Just as I expected!" A little excitement appeared on Kuanta Takuma's face: "The fleet of American ghost beasts is really mainly bombers and torpedo planes, and there are only twenty-five fighters!" ”

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General means ......" the staff officer was a little puzzled.

"Ogura-kun!" Takuma Kusakamoto asked the staff officer knowingly: "How many planes does our aircraft carrier have?" ”

"Sixteen fighters, twenty-one torpedo planes!" The staff officer replied.

"Hmm!" Takuma Kusakamoto nodded: "What do you think...... Can our sixteen fighters be able to defeat the twenty-five fighters of the American ghosts? ”

"Of course!" Without thinking about it, the staff officer replied: "Our Zero War will undoubtedly destroy the twenty-five fighters of the American ghosts!" ”

This is not because of the excessive self-confidence of the staff officers, but because of their past combat experience, under normal circumstances, it takes two US "Wildcat" fighters to barely reach a tie with one Zero. If this ratio is calculated, then the 16 Zero Battles of the Japanese army are equivalent to the 32 US fighters, so it is nothing to deal with the 25 US fighters on Kuah Island.

"In other words......" said Takuma Hiromoto, "we can easily obtain air supremacy on Kuah Island." Then our torpedo planes can carry bombs to bomb Kuah Island, or point out targets for warships! ”

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General means...... Attack Kuah Island? ”

"That's right!" Takuma Hiromoto continued: "You must know that the planes of the American ghost beasts have just finished attacking our main group of aircraft carriers, their pilots must be tired, and the planes also need to replenish fuel and ammunition, if we can take this time to attack Kuah Island...... Then maybe we can defeat the American Air Force on Kuah Island that is causing us big trouble in one fell swoop! ”

Hearing this, the staff officer couldn't help but nodded, but then said, "Are we ...... Want to report back to command? ”

"Not necessarily!" Takuma Hiromoto replied, "Our mission itself is to attack Kuah Island, we are just carrying out a mission!" ”

In fact, Kuanben really hopes to be able to command a surprise.

According to his thinking, if he reported to the command and acted according to the orders of the command, then even if he made a meritorious service, it was the credit of the superior command. But. If he kills an American air force and takes revenge on the main aircraft carrier group without reporting the situation to the command, the credit is for him Kuanta Takuma alone. It will even gain him a lot of prestige among the Japanese army.

So the containment group quickly turned the bow of the ship and sailed into the waters of Kuah Island again, and Kuanta Takuro was full of thoughts that when the main forces of the aircraft carriers of the United States and Japan were defeated, the small aircraft carrier he commanded could stand out and impress everyone.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that "impressive" finally became a reality, but it was another kind of "impressive".

There is no radar on Kuah Island, neither in the air nor in the sea...... This was mainly due to the fact that Kuah Island was blockaded by the Japanese army for a long time. And there is no electricity on Kuah Island, which cannot provide a sustainable power supply for the radar for a long time.

But one of the advantages of Kuah Island is the ubiquitous "coastal monitors", who are equivalent to the radar of Kuah Island.

So, when the sixteen fighters on the aircraft carrier "Longchamp" commanded by Takuma Kanta took off...... Kuanta's real plan was to seize air supremacy over Kuah Island first, so the first batch of fighters to take off were fighters.

But he didn't know. Shortly after his fighter jet took off, Zhang Chi and Clifton in the Kuah Island command received information.

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