"The ocean will always belong to the warriors, not those cowards who dare not fight openly!" After listening to the information that came, William Halsey Jr. said disdainfully. Come on,.!

American intelligence officers did target the vast fleet of the Chinese Navy near the Philippines. They have even swaggered on the Pacific side of the ocean east of the Philippines.

The US Navy near East Asia is mainly concentrated in Japan, and this is also the confidence that the Americans will be able to stabilize the situation in Japan even if the army fails. This formation of Huaxia, which has 3 battleships and 3 aircraft carriers, is indeed not something that the remaining US Navy near the Philippines can compete with.

Halsey's Third Fleet hurried from the direction of Guam to rescue the Philippines, and by the way, it took a break in the Philippines to continue to assist the situation in Japan, which was getting weaker and weaker.

Along the way, he was constantly harassed by Chinese submarines and planes, and even Halsey was cautious and did not dare to move forward at full speed. When they arrived in the waters east of the Philippines on 15 December, although the Chinese harassment fighters still appeared from time to time and threw out dozens of bombs or torpedoes, they never saw the Chinese fleet come out and fight alone, but only hid in the waters east of the Philippines.

Halsey was very annoyed by the harassment method that the Huaxia had sunk 2 supply ships and damaged 1 cruiser and 3 destroyers along the way, but he knew that it was too passive to deal with those harassment groups escorted by advanced fighters, and what he needed was to find out where the main force of Huaxia's fleet was, and annihilate it in one fell swoop.

Some of the supplies brought in to support Japan provided sufficient material support, and the fleet would have been faster if it had not been for a large number of cargo ships and even troop carriers.

It is precisely with these materials that except for a few ships that want to go to the Philippines to contact, the main force of the fleet is still sailing slowly on the sea.

The retreat and hiding of the Huaxia fleet have lifted the crisis in the Philippines, and the remaining thing is to completely eliminate the hidden dangers brought by the Huaxia Navy in this vicinity.

"The plane that came to harass this time is a carrier-based aircraft, very similar to our pirates! And we locked the general direction of their aircraft carriers! On the night of the 15th, the Chinese fighters continued to harass them, but they also allowed the Americans to find some clues.

"Find out their coordinates, we have to completely let the Chinese people remember our fist!" Halsey, who had been busy all night, was in good spirits.

In the early morning of the 16th, the Americans, who had widely distributed reconnaissance planes, still found traces of the Huaxia battleship.

"What? Only one Shushan-class aircraft carrier? Halsey was surprised, "There are no escorted warships in formation, only a lone aircraft carrier?" ”

"Did you see the take-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft?" Halsey pondered for a moment before asking.

"Yes, there are dozens of warplanes docked on the deck, and although we have 2 reconnaissance planes shot down, we do see that they have more than a dozen planes taking off!" The intelligence major staff officer also took out a washed photo, and there was indeed only one lone aircraft carrier on the vast sea above.

"Either their main force is hiding nearby, or these ignorant Huaxia people don't understand the cooperation of the fleet?" Although Halsey was still a little unsure that the Huaxia Navy would be so naïve, he looked down on the Huaxia Navy a little more.

Soon after, when the reconnaissance plane reported that a Dream-class battleship had also been found nearby, Halsi immediately ordered the fleet to move closer to that side. It is even farther away from the Philippines, there is no island cover, there is no fear of ambush by the Chinese people, as long as the two lonely and helpless Chinese main warships are sunk, it will be a great achievement.

And under Halsey's cautious reconnaissance again, there was no shadow of other warships around, not even the trace of the submarine was found. Instead, the news came back that the weather was bad.

"A warrior of the sea is never afraid of the wind and waves!" Halsey glanced at the information that had been sent back, not paying any attention to it. He was busy organizing another round of attacks to repel the Huaxia fighters.

The attack of nearly 100 fighters made Halsey even more sure that the Chinese were powerless to resist.

In the latest intelligence, the aircraft carrier and the battleship of Huaxia have already rendezvous, relying on the dense anti-aircraft fire of the dozen fighters escorting the escort and the battleship, which is almost like an anti-aircraft weapon nest, to resist the first round of probing attacks by the US Navy.

After the rapid retreat of the Huaxia fighters, Halsey immediately ordered the second round of HNA to launch an immediate sortie.

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"I heard that the group of Chinese fighters didn't have time to return to the aircraft carrier, and we drove all the way to the land?" Brown laughed as he piloted his new pirate plane, "Then there's only one empty shell carrier and one battleship left over there, isn't that our dead target?" ”

"It's not that easy, I heard that the battleship is like a hedgehog, its whole body is covered with anti-aircraft fire, and even that aircraft carrier is covered with anti-aircraft fire, so it doesn't take much advantage at all! Be careful! Squadron Leader Jones reminded, but he didn't think it would be difficult to pack up the two ships in a relaxed tone.

"Such a big goal is simply a medal from God. I dare to say that for a while, even if I close my eyes, I will be able to let the thrown torpedoes hit them! Laughter was also heard from the Avenger torpedo plane.

The tentative attack in front dispelled Halsey's last concern, and the second round of naval attacks was real, even if the aircraft carrier and battleship had an escort formation, they would not be able to escape death, not to mention that there were only 2 lone battleships?

"That's it! Boys, we can already see our goal, the medal of the lost is right in front of you, go get it yourself! The American Navy pilots teased lightly, and it was not until Major Peterson, who was in charge of the attack, reminded them that they relented and searched for the coordinates of the target on the sea.

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"The weather can get bad!" Rear Admiral Smith took a report and reminded Halsey: "Air operations require extra attention!" ”

After the reconnaissance aircraft reported the news of the poor weather conditions in the surroundings, the personnel in charge of meteorology of the fleet began to actively measure and soon made an analytical report.

Halsey frowned, and then stretched out again: "The fighter plane in front has just reached the target sky, let them speed up a little, fight quickly, and return home as soon as possible!" ”

Once the wind and waves are too strong, the take-off and landing of fighters on the aircraft carrier becomes extremely dangerous, and even Halsey does not dare to take risks. However, it still needs to be some distance to get close to the fleet, and he can only count on the fighters to drag it, but he still did not let the fighter group return immediately, and he reported a trace of luck in his heart: "The current sea conditions, I can't see how bad it is." Maybe it won't take an hour for those good guys of HNA to end the battle and return home safely. ”

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"I saw the target, and sure enough, there were only 2 capital warships. The Chinese are so stupid! Moreover, there was not a single Chinese fighter in the sky intercepting us. Medals, honors, I'm coming! Lieutenant Schneider, who was the first to reach the sky above the Huaxia aircraft carrier, shouted excitedly, pushed the control lever, and dived down.

Without the interference of the Huaxia fighters, he and the 18 pirate fighters of his companions who swooped down only had to carefully dodge the dense anti-aircraft fire on the Huaxia aircraft carriers and battleships.

However, these anti-aircraft artillery dense arrays composed of large, medium, and small calibers directly covered the air with anti-aircraft fire walls, so that Schneider, who did not dare to get too close, almost returned from their first attack.

"I hit it! I've got a medal! Gold coins and beauties are already far from me! Schneider, who successfully threw two 60-pound bombs and hit the deck of the aircraft carrier, didn't care about the situation of the whole team except for him, and shouted excitedly.

"That aircraft carrier has armor on its deck, and your bombs are unscathed against it!" Teammate Millie couldn't help but sarcastically.

"I hit it the first time, and I can hit it again. It's already a dead target anyway......" Schneider's gesture about to dance suddenly stopped in mid-air, and his mouth opened wide to look in the direction of his nose.

"What's wrong? Oh, God......" Milley froze, too, but his sharp exclamation alerted the U.S. Navy pilots who were about to aim at the Huaxia battleship again.

"Cake seller!" Continuous exclamations sounded, and at this time, the pilots of the US Navy could no longer care about the Huaxia warship below, and looked at the junction of heaven and water in the distance with their eyes.

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"Damn it, damn it! The weather forecast of this bunch of idiots has never been accurate! Halsey scolded incessantly.

He is powerless to change anything now except to scold.

A storm, no, a typhoon, should I say, a mega typhoon swept in without warning, at least the weather forecast on board the American fleet did not anticipate such a large storm.

The group of fighters who had fled back from the Huaxia battleship in a hurry didn't even have time to land halfway, and the wind that was carrying heavy rain came howling.

The wind speed soared to 38 m/s in an instant, and even exceeded 60 m/s at the maximum.

The huge * swept up by the strong wind above the deck, directly sweeping the fighters on the deck that had not been able to withdraw into the hangar into the sea, and even those aircraft carriers were like riding a roller coaster, jolting between the valley of the waves and the peaks of the waves, and they could not care at all about the American fighters who were constantly falling in the air by the strong winds and heavy rain.

In addition to the newly joined Guam-class battleships and the Kentucky-class Iowa-class battleships, which were as steady as a mountain in the wind and rain, even if the eight Essex-class aircraft carriers of the Third Fleet that accompanied them this time were all flickering in the giants, they were full of dangers.

And those light aircraft carriers and escort aircraft carriers and the cruisers and destroyers below are constantly being tossed around like giant toys, and the final fate can only be decided by prayer.

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