When formulating the battle plan, Admiral Nimitz and Admiral MacArthur, after careful analysis, believed that they had an advantage in bombers and a slight advantage in fighters.

Especially the shore-based bomber B-25, which has basically not been exposed to the outside world, that is, it has bombed Tokyo once, and the Japanese monkeys have not yet found a way to deal with it.

Without air supremacy, there are no naval formations. In the previous three sea battles, the Japanese monkeys had already learned a profound lesson.

Although the Joint Chiefs of Staff reminded that Bai Shujie has a lot of technical patents, he is likely to have killer features, so he will be arrogant.

However, Nimitz and MacArthur, the front-line commanders, thought that the top level of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was a little nervous, after all, no country has surpassed the United States in terms of the level of science and technology.

This was why Admiral Nimitz dared to order Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance's Task Force 16 to swagger deep into the hinterland.

The art of war of the Chinese ancestors has already said: know yourself and know your opponent, and win all battles.

In the eyes of American devils, since Bai Shujie has worked hard to occupy a piece of territory, he must be like a heart and liver baby, holding it in the palm of his hand all day long.

Westerners' understanding of Asians is based on their understanding of Japanese devils. The American devil knows that he doesn't know Bai Shujie at all, and this has already laid the root of the bane.

But how did they know that Bai Shujie never cared about the gains and losses of one city and one place.

Just like now, Bai Shujie's meaning is very clear: "Before the overall situation is decided, is there a use in holding on to a piece of land?" You want the Philippines, right? Okay, I'll exchange it with you now. Lao Tzu will give you the Philippines and the East Indies, and Australia will belong to Lao Tzu! ”

Bai Shujie's biggest advantage is that he has the "supreme supernatural power" of "foresight", and he is clear about the advantages and disadvantages of Nimitz and MacArthur. In turn, the Americans are hearsay about Bai Shujie because they do not understand their opponents.

Because of this, Major General Raymond Spruance did not care about "Zhang Xiang's final warning" at all, and regarded it as a helpless clamor or intimidation of "lustful inwardness".

Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance is now divided into two carrier groups, the first of which is grouped as follows:

The destroyers USS Bauch, USS Cunningham, and USS Benham were the spearhead of the raids, mainly to prevent enemy torpedo attacks.

The USS Hornet is in the center, the heavy cruisers USS New Orleans and the USS Minneapolis are escorted on the left and right flanks, and the destroyers USS Ellitt and USS Murray are behind.

The large force that followed was dragged back 15 nautical miles, and all the remaining heavy cruisers and destroyers were deployed on the left, right, and rear, encircling the Enterprise aircraft carrier in the middle, taking on anti-submarine and air defense.

During the two days of the voyage, Major General Raymond Spruance did not find the enemy. There were no planes harassing them, and no warships came to stop them. It gives the impression that there is no one in the whole Banda Sea at all.

If it is placed on other people, this anomaly causes great alarm.

However, when Colonel Mark Mitchell, the captain of the USS Hornet, sent a telegram asking what to do, Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance said the opposite: "We have 17 warships, and everywhere we put it is a huge force. ”

"The South China United Front is nothing more than a civil organization, at best a guerrilla force. Even if they buy a few warships from us, the United States of America, it is absolutely not equal. Order the fighters to take off and search for the enemy's fleet! ”

At 11:30 p.m. on May 31, 1942, 27 F4F Wildcat fighters were divided into three formations and began to conduct tactical reconnaissance on the front line of Silan Island, Buru Island, and Panjiang Island.

Regardless of whether the fighter jets are flying at high altitude or reconnaissance at low altitude, there is not a single hair in this vicinity. Not only is there no army, not even a single local Turkish resident!

In other words, the entire southeast, east, northeast, and north of the Banda Sea is completely empty within an arc of 750 kilometers.

After receiving the reconnaissance report from the front, Major General Raymond Spruance finally began to feel uneasy.

The book explains that the Banda Sea should belong to the "volcanic inland sea" in the strict sense. If the ring-shaped volcanoes were connected, the Banda Sea would be called "Banda Lake".

The diameter of the Banda Sea is only 500 kilometers from north to south, and 650 kilometers from east to west.

Beyond the arc-shaped volcanic island to the east, you enter the Selan Sea, which is only 150 kilometers, or 80 nautical miles, from Jarona, the salient of Papua Island.

At the top speed of the USS Hornet at 34 knots, the entire fleet would have landed on the island of Papua in just two and a half hours.

Now where the fleet goes, the captain of the USS Hornet, Colonel Mark Mitchell, does not dare to call the shots, so the report is in the hands of Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance.

"Raising his own army, and still swaggering through the market, is to attract the attention of the enemy. Now I don't see half a hair, which means that the first step of this campaign has failed. ”

"Tens of thousands of gallons of fuel were wasted, and nearly 10,000 people toiled for two days and two nights, and in the end they only came out for a trip."

Maj. Gen. Raymond Spruance is having a hard time right now, really hard.

It's like a martial arts master, in order to deal with another powerful opponent, he has raised his full potential to the top, ready to give the opponent a fatal blow at any time.

However, now I don't know where the opponent is, where should this fatal blow go?

Holding it in your heart in one breath will be uncomfortable for anyone, so Major General Raymond Spruance is no exception.

Maj. Gen. Raymond Spruance was born in 1886 and is 57 years old this year. He is an introvert with a gloomy personality.

Previously, he shined in the First Battle of Midway, and led the team to sink the "Flying Dragon" and "Akagi" aircraft carriers, winning wide acclaim.

This time, I chased Yamamoto Isoroku in the hope of sweeping away the combined fleet of Japanese monkeys. Unexpectedly, the first thing to do was to fight against an opponent who did not have any reputation.

I was depressed, but I had nowhere to vent. If you feel uncomfortable, your thinking activities will be more or less affected, and your reaction will be a little sluggish.

This hesitation time is far less than half an hour, but the problem is strict!

Just as Major General Raymond Spruance was making up his mind to turn the whole team and go east into the Seran Sea, and then once and for all, a very untimely roar was remembered in the sky!

Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance was in confusion when the panicked voice of the captain of the USS Enterprise, Colonel Murray, was already ringing out: "Enemy planes! Our radar did not respond, but the enemy aircraft were already overhead! The fighters on the deck immediately took off, and all the people were in their positions and ready to fight! ”

It turned out that Bai Shujie knew that the radar technology of Britain and the United States was much more powerful than that of a little devil. How to paralyze the radar of the Americans, Bai Shujie has been prepared for a long time, and the electromagnetic jammer has been secretly realizing.

fought with the little devil before, because the opponent's radar technology was too poor and the detection distance was too small, so it was impossible to prevent the Jian-9 jet fighter, so Bai Shujie never put it into use.

The killer weapon must appear at the most critical moment, so as to catch the enemy off guard. Without this guarantee, Bai Shujie did not dare to announce the time of sinking the enemy warship first, and then start the operation.

On the USS Enterprise, 24 F6F "Hellcat" fighters have been parked, and because no radar warning has been received, the pilot is not on the plane at all.

Now Colonel Murray ordered the plane to fly away as soon as possible, lest it be bombed and cause a fire. This order is correct, but for jet fighters it is already a step too late.

Who came: It was the J-9 fighter squadron at Sulawesi airport, squadron leader Sun Dezhi. They escorted 24 Raging Dragon bombers and did not have a dive bombing mission.

Now that they saw the enemy planes starting to take off, they waited in the air, took advantage of the enemy planes to climb to a certain height, and then struck from the side, and in the blink of an eye, three enemy planes were already smashed to pieces.

Colonel Murray saw that the situation was not right, and quickly changed the order: "No need to take off, push the plane directly into the sea!" ”

It was also at this time that the heavy cruisers around finally reacted, and all the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns fired desperately into the air, forming a dense network of firepower.

However, the Jian-9 fighter plane was pulled up, causing the US officers and men to be stunned by the climb speedometer Xiàn, and all the shells were empty.

In such a short time, the follow-up 24 Raging Dragon bombers had already arrived in the sky. The Raging Dragon heavy long-range bomber has an empty weight of 46 tons, a conventional take-off weight of 98 tons, a maximum take-off weight of 175 tons, an ordinary bomb load of 30 tons, and a maximum bomb load of 58 tons (30 tons of fuel less than 3000 kilometers)!

Today, Bai Shujie must fulfill his promise: if he says to sink, he will sink!

But considering that the Americans still need soldiers and imps to fight next, napalm is not used today, let alone cloudburst bombs. Today's Raging Dragon bombers carry 8 6-ton high-explosive bombs!

Let's not talk about how powerful the bomb is, just a 6-ton iron stone, falling from an altitude of 4,500 meters, that kinetic energy is enough to sink an aircraft carrier.

Today, 24 Raging Dragon bombers flew through the air, and the first batch of 96 6-ton high-explosive bombs had already fallen. The combination of air pressure sensing fuze and magnetic sensing fuze is used to detonate, and it is either detonated at an altitude of 8 to 15 meters above sea level, or it is directly smashed into the deck and detonated.

Although the most advanced horizontal bombing sights of this era were used, the hit rate of high-altitude horizontal bombing was lower than that of dive bombing.

Therefore, Bai Shujie used a large charge, which weighed a terrifying 6 tons, considering that even if it could not be thrown directly on the deck, it was necessary to use the power of a near-miss bullet to sink the enemy ship.

Boom-boom--huge missile body with steady dìng wings, one after another swept through the void in a wonderful arc, and pounced on the huge USS Enterprise with a terrible whistling sound.

Dense anti-aircraft machine guns, which detonated more than a dozen bombs in the air, but in the end to no avail, 3 of them smashed directly on the flight deck!

With an earth-shattering loud noise, the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier had no room for relaxation at all, and was directly blown into three pieces, and in the blink of an eye, it sank separately!

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.