809 Admiral's Decision Ten The First Divine Wind in the Pacific

"Nani!"

Yamamoto Isoroku's eyes were so shocked that they almost fell, he never thought that the British Z Fleet would actually run through the South China Sea and the Philippine Islands to the western Pacific Ocean to spread wild! And it was when the main forces of the Japanese Combined Fleet attacked Hawaii...... zzzcn。

"Eight squares! What do these people eat? Where is their South Sea fleet? Why not sink the Counter Strike! How can they be so irresponsible?! ”

Inside the bridge of the Nagato, the staff officers of the Combined Fleet were even more petrified when they heard the news. Of course, a British battlecruiser is not a great combat power, and the Combined Fleet can easily damage it if even one large aircraft carrier remains on its own soil, but now all the active aircraft carriers (the aircraft carrier Longxiang in this time and space is in the third refit) are coming to Hawaii!

Originally, there was nothing to do, and in the original plan of the Japanese Navy, this counterattack battlecruiser had its own 5 or 6 Chinese aircraft carriers to deal with. The hundreds of A4C and A4E equipped with Chinese aircraft carriers far surpass the Type 97 and Type 98 in terms of performance, and a mere battle cruiser is simply not enough to stuff their teeth. But why did the Chinese put it in the Pacific Ocean to kill innocent Imperial Japanese troops? Could it be ...... These cunning Chinese imperialism want Japan and the white ghost to die together?

The temperature in the bridge of the Nagato seemed to drop to freezing, and all the officers felt a chill down their spines, as if this was not the sea near the equator, but the Arctic Ocean. Although they also knew that the relationship between China and Japan was not so harmonious, they never imagined that in the face of a common enemy, these Chinese would do such things as sacrificing friendly troops regardless of the overall situation.

If China's South Sea Fleet refuses to strike, then a battlecruiser Counterattack will be invincible in the western Pacific before the Combined Fleet returns to division. All of the Japanese transport regiments met with it in the same way as Commander Tojo's fleet...... In other words, Japan's southward march had to be postponed, while Britain and the United States could use this precious time to strengthen Australia's defenses.

According to the secret agreement between China and Japan, Japan's priority in Lanyin and Australia is only one year, and if Japan cannot take Australia, then the Chinese will come to grab territory!

The excitement and joy of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the heavy damage to the US Pacific Fleet suddenly turned into bitterness, and now they have formed a mortal enmity with Britain and the United States, and the only ally they can rely on is certainly not at ease, and the fate of the Japanese Empire is really bitter!

At this moment, Yamamoto Isoroku has regained his former demeanor as a general, and the overall situation of the entire world war has been calculated in his mind. Although the Chinese do not have a penny of good feelings toward Japan, in the current world war that will determine the fate of the country and nation for the next thousand years, the old grudges of the past are all floating clouds, and as long as it helps to win the final victory in the war, there is nothing that cannot be resolved. And the reason why China and Germany are so cold to Japan now is, in the final analysis, that they still fail to see the true strength of Japan, and even regard Japan as a troublemaker who can be discarded at any time! And all Japan can do is to do its best to prove its strength in front of its allies, to tell the world that the Great Japanese Empire is definitely not another Poland!

"Report, by the front battle report: Akagi, Kaga fleets report that U.S. carrier-based aircraft are on their way to Oahu and appear to be about to land at an airfield near Pearl Harbor."

"Eight grids!" Yamamoto Fifty-six's face had just gotten better, and his face was gloomy again. Unexpectedly, these American carrier-based aircraft did not return to the aircraft carrier, and the Akagi and Kaga air brigades looked like they were in the air! What is even more troubling is that after Pearl Harbor obtains these dozens of planes, its defense capability will inevitably be greatly enhanced......

"Hehe......" The immortal staff officer Black Island Turtle Man laughed when he heard this report, and said: "We have met a good opponent, and the other party's moves are all beyond our expectations!" Your Excellency Commander, order the air brigades of Akagi and Kaga to return home. ”

"Return?" Yamamoto frowned and looked at Kuroshima, as if waiting for his explanation.

Kuroshima smiled faintly and said, "Your Excellency Commander, the Akagi and Kaga air brigades are equipped with torpedoes and armor-piercing bombs used to attack the fleet, and it will not be much success to barely let them attack the enemy's airfield, and ...... The lowly post is also worried that the Americans have deployed a large number of anti-aircraft artillery fire around the airport, just waiting for us to hit it. He paused, and then suggested: "I think it's better to let them come back and prepare for a second or third wave of attacks on the American aircraft carrier group." ”

"Ignore Pearl Harbor for the time being and concentrate on attacking American aircraft carriers?"

"That's right! Pearl Harbor can't escape, but American aircraft carriers are on the run! "If the Empire can't destroy the U.S. aircraft carriers in Hawaii, then it will have to fight them in the South Pacific in the future, and then they will be even more difficult to deal with." ”

"They're going to be tougher to deal with, and we're going to have new forces coming in." Yamamoto Fifty-six smiled slightly, as if he wanted to say something more, when he heard the exclamation of Minoru Genda, an aviation staff officer.

"What! 23 Type 97 attack aircraft were lost, but not a single aircraft carrier was sunk...... Eight squares! What does the escort fleet do for food? All should be seppuku! Should be seppuku!! ”

"What's wrong?" Yamamoto Fifty-six cast a solemn gaze at Genda.

"Your Excellency Commander, this is the report of the fleet of the Soryu, the Flying Dragon, and the Shenlong, which discovered 3 American aircraft carriers, but they were defeated by the Americans' carrier-based aircraft and anti-aircraft artillery! The Type 97 lost 23 attack aircraft, the Type 96 fighter lost 6, and the Type 98 crit returned early because of insufficient range. ”

"Lost so many planes?" Hearing this report, Yamamoto Fifty-six couldn't help but be taken aback, but after thinking about it, he understood.

There are at least 3 or 40 fighters on the 3 US aircraft carriers, and the performance is still far superior to the Type 96 F4F, and of course it cannot be resisted by 24 Type 96s. And their own crits have returned, leaving the most vulnerable torpedo attack planes...... The planes were large and slow, and they had to fly horizontally at low altitudes before dropping torpedoes. If there were no dive bombers to cooperate with them to disperse enemy firepower, it would not be surprising that these planes would simply be live targets for US anti-aircraft guns and fighters.

"Your Excellency, Commander! These American aircraft carriers must not stay, otherwise the Empire's southward strategy will definitely run into big trouble. "The face of the Black Island Turtle Man was cloudy, as if he was determined to make the next day." Excellency! Please organize an all-out attack, all the attack planes and crits on the mothership will be dispatched, and the American aircraft carriers must be completely annihilated! ”

"Kuroshima-kun, but the range of the Type 98 crit is not enough!" Minoru Minoru, an aviation staff officer, reminded.

Kuroshima had a gloomy face, and his gaze glanced at Genda coldly, "How can it not be enough?" I remember that the Type 98 shipburst had a range of 800 km after carrying 250 kg of bombs. ”

"Black Island! You mean...... Don't have to go back? Gentian's mouth was wide open, almost enough to put down a salted duck egg.

"It is possible to make a forced landing or parachute on the surface of the sea and then be rescued by a destroyer." Kuroshima said coldly: "Of course, there will be losses, but now it's a war!" Where are the undead in war? And the situation facing the empire is extremely difficult, not only the enemy is more powerful than ever, but even the allies have ill intentions! If the Combined Fleet cannot demonstrate unimaginable combat effectiveness, teach the Americans a lesson that will never be forgotten, and at the same time demonstrate the strength of the Reich to China and Germany, will the Reich still be qualified to form an equal alliance with China's Germany? ”

Minoru Genda opened his mouth, as if he wanted to argue, but he didn't know where to start. Of course, what kind of forced landing or what parachute jump is a matter of no spectrum. The Pacific Ocean is down there, not the land! Relying on a few destroyers to rescue a pilot who has fallen into the ocean is simply like looking for a needle in a haystack. And it's already more than 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the sortie should be more than 2 o'clock, and it's almost 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon to wait for these Type 98s to run out of fuel, and it will be dark in 2 hours at most, how can we rescue them then? But Kuroshima's final analysis is also very reasonable......

"Roar!" Yamamoto Fifty-six's slightly gloomy voice suddenly remembered, "Order, the 1st Air Fleet is under the command of Rear Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi, and immediately pursues it in the northeast direction at full speed!" Ugaki-kun, Kuroshima-kun, and Genda-kun immediately formulated a plan for air raids and rescue of the crew members of the Type 98 shipbuilding. ”

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At 1:30 p.m., the USS Akagi.

The officer's room was crowded with the officers and men of the Akagi flight team who had just returned home, but the atmosphere was surprisingly solemn, and even the warm November sunshine near the equator that came in from outside the cabin seemed to have become a little cold. Presiding over today's pre-war mobilization was Mitsuki Fuchita, captain of the USS Akagi Air Force. Fuchida stood at the front of the officer's office on a blackboard with a chart of the waters northeast of Oahu, and a dozen or so symbols symbolizing destroyers were marked 250 nautical miles from Oahu. With a gloomy face, Fuchida pointed at these symbols with a whip and said:

"These are the positions that all crit pilots and navigators must keep in mind! Because, after you have completed this mission, you will not have enough fuel to return home, so you will have to make a forced landing or parachute on the surface. The Combined Fleet will send destroyers to your rescue, and these are the locations where the destroyers are located. ”

As soon as Fuchida's words were finished, the officer's room of the Akagi suddenly became like a pot, and more than 100 pilots (navigators) began to talk about it. The crew members of the Type 96 fighter and the Type 97 attack aircraft were still calm, but you and I were giving ideas to the unlucky guys of the Type 98 crit planes flying around you, such as lowering the altitude when returning to the sea and paying attention to the sea surface as much as possible, such as bringing more soju when you set off, and drinking some in the sea water to keep out the cold.

However, the members of the crit squadron have a tragic appearance of "a strong man who will never return". There were tears in their eyes, and they said something to each other loudly, such as "Kudansakami". There are no rookies who can become pilots of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft, they are all experienced veteran pilots, and many of them simply entered the aviation academy after graduating from the Etajima Maritime School. Naturally, I know that the "rescue and salvage" plan mentioned by Fuchida Mitsu Yunakasa belongs to the kind of dead horse as a live horse doctor, and it is good to have one-tenth of the way to live.

Seeing that the morale of the officers and men of the air force was somewhat low, Mitsuo Fuchida's face gradually turned blue. is different from history, the current Yuantian himself is driving the Type 98 ship explosion, and this time it also belongs to the master of nine deaths. However, unlike those young Japanese devils who want to turn nine deaths into eight deaths or even seven deaths, Fuchida, who once experienced a humiliating defeat (his aircraft carrier was sunk by the Chinese during the 9/18 war), somehow came up with an almost crazy idea at this time.

"Gentlemen!" These two words seemed to burst out from the depths of his heart with all his strength, and the officer's room suddenly fell silent, and all eyes were cast on the face of this man with a solemn expression who seemed to have "become a god". Yuantian glanced at everyone with a cold gaze and shouted loudly:

"As the captain of the Akagi Air Force and the pilot of the Type 98 ship's crit plane, I have a suggestion, remember, it is a suggestion, not an order!" Speaking of this, he took a deep breath, and his eyes showed a bit of fanaticism, as if he was chewing steel and chewing iron, and said word by word: "Since returning to the voyage is also a life of death!" As a samurai who is finally His Majesty the Emperor, why don't you give up this body and die with the enemy ships, and pass on your reputation for eternity! ”

"That's right! We can't sacrifice in vain! Die with the enemy! ”

"As long as we can exchange one aircraft for one ship, our Great Japanese Empire will be able to dominate the sea!"

"One plane for one ship! Great Japanese Empire onboard! His Majesty the Emperor on board ......"

The elite of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was not quite normal in its own right, seemed to have been instigated by the bold words of Fuchida Mitsuo Nakasa, and there were bursts of frantic shouts from the officer's room. Even, those pilots who flew Type 96 fighters and Type 97 attack aircraft felt a little regretful. Of course, although our liver Fu Qian Goro Shaozuo was also shouting at the top of his voice, he suddenly thought of his wife Lin'er and his own bright future in his heart!

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"General! The reconnaissance aircraft reported the discovery of a group of Japanese aircraft, at a distance of 20 km. The enemy fleet was unprecedentedly large, numbering in the hundreds!! ”

"Damn, why are these damn yellow-skinned monkeys here again!" When Rear Admiral Halsey heard the news, he immediately jumped up, the scale of hundreds of planes is not a joke, although the 1st Aircraft Carrier Task Force had just thwarted an attack by Japanese carrier-based aircraft a few hours earlier, but that time there were only 60 planes, and now there are hundreds!

"Order all carrier-based fighters to take to the skies to meet the battle! The whole fleet pulls the air raid alarm, and all anti-aircraft fire is on standby! ”

As soon as Halsey finished giving the order, the staff officer next to him suddenly reminded: "Sir, the scale of the enemy plane seems to be too large!" We should have been outside the combat radius of the Japanese Type 98 crit aircraft long ago. ”

"Humph! Who knows if the British's information is accurate? Maybe it's also possible that those Japanese devils didn't plan to go back alive at all! This group of crazy people ......" Halsey looked at the F4F Wildcat fighters on the flight deck below that were preparing to take off, and said worriedly: "We still have too few fighters, and there are only more than 50 aircraft carriers in the three aircraft carriers combined, and I don't know if we can stop this group of crazy Japanese devils?" ”

"Itaya Shaosa, you are responsible for commanding all fighter squadrons, and you must entangle the American F4F, at all costs!" Mizu Yunakasa, who was the commander-in-chief of the air raid, looked at the dozens of F4F Wildcat fighters that were waiting not far away, twisted his eyebrows, and gave the first order with a Japanese-made airborne radio of poor quality. Then he ordered loudly: "Liver Fu Shaozuo, the torpedo fleet is under your command!" Wait for the first wave of our bombers to attack, and then the torpedo planes will follow, understand? ”

"Hey!" The voices of Itaya and Hefu came from the earphones, and it was clear that they had heard Fuchita's orders clearly.

Actually, it doesn't matter if you don't hear it clearly, everything is planned long ago. Type 96 will do whatever it takes to entangle F4F, as long as it can delay for a while and create a chance for a suicide attack for a part of the Type 98 shipbursts! The thinkers of the Japanese Combined Fleet believed that once the US Navy, which had more steel and less gas, saw the suicidal attack of the Japanese samurai, it would definitely panic and be in chaos! At this time, the Type 97 torpedo attack aircraft seized the opportunity to launch a torpedo attack, and it was sure to achieve unexpectedly huge results.

"Order the fighters not to entangle with the Japanese Type 96, but to stop their Type 98 bombers at all costs! They must not be allowed to get close to aircraft carriers. ”

"Order all anti-aircraft fire of the whole fleet to block medium and low altitudes, and pay attention to the sneak attack of Japanese torpedo planes."

On the Yorktown's ship island, Rear Admiral Halsey was also shouting orders loudly.

The 52 F4F Wildcat fighters in the sky were also like crazy, ignoring the oncoming Type 96 fighters at all, but increased their horsepower and rushed straight towards the Type 98 bombers behind. At sea, dozens of US warships have already discharged a tight air defense formation, and all antiaircraft firepower is aimed at medium and low altitudes; as long as the Japanese torpedo attack planes dare to approach, the firepower sprayed by these artillery fires will immediately form a wall of death in the air.

And the Japanese aircraft group was even more crazy, dozens of Type 98 bombers did not care about the firepower of the US F4F at all, and only rushed towards the US aircraft carrier on the sea in front of them, which was completely a suicidal attack!

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