Chapter 702 asked for help everywhere, but there were no reinforcements

"This is our reinforcements?" Colonel Murray couldn't help but ask as he looked at the reinforcement fighters in the sky that had fallen like a turkey "confront" like a turkey.

Half of the 26 F2A Buffalo fighters were swallowed up in ten minutes by the 36 Japanese Zeros and Super Zeros that were surging from the rear, and the sturdy and ugly planes were not as resistant as the Wildcats.

As the first carrier-based fighter with a single wing and retractable landing gear in the US Navy, the Buffalo was a representative of the ugly man when he joined the army, but he also beat the Grumman Wildcat. And this clumsy aircraft became famous in the Soviet-Finnish war and has long been a Finnish ace. It also made the Americans extremely "superstitious" about this sturdy buffalo that seemed to have good safety and "sex", and even the British and Dutch troops in the Far East ordered this buffalo.

The clumsy and skinny buffalo is okay to deal with the rough polar bear fighter, but when it encounters the Zero, it directly becomes a stupid cow.

As soon as the buffaloes came down from the clouds, they were surrounded by the Japanese and beaten up. The nimble Zero can even attack while circling around it. Like the original Wildcat, the buffalo could only spray people with small flames from 4 machine guns. The 20-mm cannons of the Zero and Super Zero on the opposite side could not be stopped even by the thick skin of the buffalo, and in the exclamation of the American pilots who were also rookie-like, they dragged the black smoke one after another.

"All we have are these reinforcements!" Halsey, who was looking at the sky, also sighed bitterly.

The new emergency telegram from Midway, the presence of submarines and Japanese battleships nearby, made the panicked defenders on Midway not dare to attack again, but shouted for support for them.

"This group of 'bastards', where are the Japanese capable of capturing Midway? Their battleship formation was bombing Wake Island. Colonel Murray said a little irritably, the Enterprise was in a critical situation, and when it needed reinforcements, Midway couldn't send more reinforcements.

He didn't know that the Japanese had originally arranged for the vicinity of Midway Island to be filled with only two destroyers under the command of the commander of the Seventh Destroyer Group, Konishi Dignita, but because the Japanese had realized the important "nature" of Midway and had greater ambitions, they temporarily added another Nagamen-class battleship, and the intensity of shelling Midway Island to contain the US forces suddenly increased.

"It can't be said that the defense on Midway is not strong after all. It is difficult to say that the Japanese did not have the ability to attack. The air force on Midway is also limited, we are still more than 400 nautical miles from Midway, and it is too late for ships to rescue, and it is impossible to count on them anymore after these fighters come. Halsey said gloomily.

The buffaloes in the air are still stabbing their fierce sprees into the water. Their role was only to delay the Japanese offensive for a while, but their machine-gun bullets did not even touch the Japanese bombers.

High in the air, the Japanese bombardments of the 99th Anniversary kept drilling through the air defense artillery net of the Enterprise aircraft carrier formation, dropping one or two bombs, adding new injuries to the hull of the Enterprise.

From the comprehensive analysis of all kinds of intelligence from his subordinates, Halsey no longer gave the hope of escape to this battered aircraft carrier.

"At the critical moment, you can abandon ship and surrender!" He also carried a secret order from Washington in his pocket.

Washington, which has learned about the situation here, also has no choice but to hope that in this way, more lives of officers and soldiers will be saved. Although the USS Enterprise is expensive, the Americans, who have deep pockets, are building new aircraft carriers, and there is no shortage of money. But the loss of so many people, especially so many excellent aircraft carrier fleet talents, is unacceptable to the Americans.

"Arrange the evacuation of personnel and prepare to abandon ship!" Halsey's heart was filled with reluctance, and he added at the end, "Keep the fighters." We will continue to fight until the last moment when the Enterprise sinks! ”

In addition to the Japanese fighters overhead, it was difficult for the aggrieved Halsey to find an enemy to attack. The main forces of the Japanese attack fleet were still more than two hundred nautical miles away at this time, and they had already exceeded the combat radius of the SBD. The dreadnoughts could only huddle near the aircraft carrier, relying on the three "strong" machine guns on top to set up an additional air defense.

But these defenses can be broken as soon as they are poked. When the SBD Dreadnoughts lost more than 30 planes, Halsey decisively ordered them not to be sent to their deaths.

At this time, even the wild cats in the sky were reduced to single digits. Of the 26 Buffalo fighters, all but one crashed on the Enterprise, and only one of the Japanese who attacked it crashed.

Having lost interception and cover in the air, the Enterprise, which was dragging half a boat of water, was already destined to become a cup.

At 2:23 p.m. local time on the 12th, the Enterprise, which was also aggrieved, was completely tortured to death by the Japanese bombers and torpedo planes that took turns to attack and sank to the bottom of the sea.

The mortally wounded Colonel Murray sank along with the Enterprise, and Halsey, who jumped into the sea, was rescued from the sea by his men, and braved the interception of Japanese fighters on the destroyer USS Phelps, and finally successfully ran aground on Lysan Island, retrieving his life.

At this point, the only American aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean was the Saratoga that had been refitted, and all eight battleships in Pearl Harbor were sunk by the persistent Japanese.

On the 12th, two American freighters that were slowly crossing the canal in the Panama Canal suddenly exploded one after another, directly blocking a section of the Gaillard artificial canal of the Panama Canal. It is difficult to clean up the dangerous goods that have sunk to the bottom of the water in a short time, which makes the "transportation" of the throat of the two oceans slow down a lot.

The momentary negligence of the Americans suddenly played big.

When Isoroku Yamamoto heard the news of the sinking of the Enterprise, he immediately passed the order to occupy Midway Island to the Japanese attack fleet, which was in the midst of the riot of the Hawaiian Islands. At the same time, a Japanese landing fleet crossed the imminent fall of Wake Island and headed straight for Midway.

The Japanese were not sure of occupying Oahu, and even though the riots there had broken the normal order, the Japanese who had crossed the ocean were not prepared to occupy it at all.

But for Midway, the more ambitious Japanese were bound to take it.

"As long as we occupy Midway and block the progress of the Americans, we can at least buy us half a year more!" Listening to a series of battle reports, Yamamoto Fifty-six temporarily put down a stone in his heart.

It is not only him who has let go of his heart, but also many Japanese people. After all, now Japan is overwhelmed by the strong rise of China, which is somewhat aggressive and "forced". Many people are worried about Japan's future. But now the attack on the world's strongest empire ended in a big victory, and many Japanese people became fanatical at once.

When the news reached Japan, there were once again carnivals and celebrations on the streets of Japan, comparable to the victory in the war against Russia.

At the same time, in various parts of the United States, angry crowds who had listened to Roosevelt's speech on the radio also poured into the streets and launched large-scale anti-Japanese demonstrations.

People shouted war and revenge, and in many public places, such as streets, parks, and schools, a whirlpool of public opinion was rolled up. The craze for joining the army and raising funds for war is even higher than one wave, and even children have donated aluminum products to make airplanes. The surging general trend of public sentiment has torn apart the ostrich-like isolationism and is developing in the direction predetermined by the US high-level at the beginning, finally taking the strategic initiative and giving the depressed Washington finally a little comfort.

Under all kinds of enemy and revenge propaganda slogans, the angry crowd had nowhere to vent and began to attack the stations of Japanese expatriates in the United States.

The army on the Hawaiian Islands directly used machine guns to shoot at the Japanese youths in the riots, and the residents of the islands also took up arms to defend their homes, and finally stabilized the situation. This also made the somewhat hesitant Japanese attack fleet make up its last decision, gave up the request for help to land on the island, and drove directly in the direction of Midway.

Looking at the Japanese warplanes passing by and the Japanese warships looming on the high waves of the blue sea, the US troops stationed in various places in the western Pacific asked for help, but where were the reinforcements?

The Hawaiian Islands are busy quelling civil unrest and tidying up the remnants of Pearl Harbor.

Without battleships and other main fleets, those destroyers and torpedo boats could not even withstand the Japanese Nagato-class battleships, not to mention the Yamato super battleship that had been built ahead of schedule to participate in the attack on Wake Island.

Although the resistance force composed of navy, sailors, soldiers, and residents on Wake Island barely withstood the first "wave" bombardment of the Yamato's 460-mm naval guns, when the news spread that there were no reinforcements to support, Wake Island, which had only been supported for two days, raised a white flag in the early morning of the 13th under the heavy bombardment of the Yamato's naval guns, and did not restore the honor of defending for more than two weeks in history.

And the Philippine garrison was busy preparing to defend against the Japanese troops.

On the 13th, the Japanese had successfully landed on Luzon Island in the Philippines, directly threatening Manila in the south, and "forced" MacArthur to shrink the US stronghold to Bataan.

Also on the 13th, the Japanese, who had long been in collusion with the Thais, gained a foothold in Thailand and "advanced" from Thailand to Malaya. The Japanese, accustomed to the speed of the vanguard army's lightning attack, also increased the speed of crossing the jungle, and under the leadership of Yamashita Fengwen, more than 80,000 Japanese troops swept across the Malayan plains like the wind and headed straight for Singapore.

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