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Volume 1: On the Songhua River Chapter 1564: A Different Naval Battle of Midway (Part 2)

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    The commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, Admiral Nimitz, finished his breakfast indifferently. Due to insomnia, his face was swollen and haggard, and his eyes were full of red bloodshot eyes. Although the Joint Chiefs of Staff had clear action instructions, he  My heart is still concerned about Pearl Harbor.

    After all, it was the base that he had operated for several years. He spent his golden years in the Navy on that island. He couldn't help but worry about it. With a long sigh, Nimitz became increasingly disinterested. The defeat of the U.S. Navy would be started by himself.  , this heavy weight made him breathless.

    Outside the porthole, the roar became louder and louder. In the blink of an eye, the Japanese navy's carrier-based aircraft group flew over the U.S. aircraft carrier formation. Everything happened so suddenly. The Japanese planes appeared in front of them like ghosts in an instant.

    Through the porthole, Nimitz clearly saw this scene. He was heartbroken at the time. Before he could rush out of the cabin, a violent explosion sounded. The huge hull of the fleet flagship "Lexington" aircraft carrier,  Nimitz stood up violently, and was thrown to the corner of the cabin by the sudden violent movement. Just as he stood up, a lieutenant colonel stumbled in.

    "Commander, we have been attacked by Japanese planes," the officer shouted in panic. Needless to say, Admiral Nimitz had already seen thick smoke and fire rising from the decks of several nearby warships.  , stirring up water jets that soar into the sky

    Under the protection of several officers, Nimitz braved the fierce fire from Japanese aircraft, came to the command cabin of the flagship, and issued the order to fight back immediately. All the warships in the US aircraft carrier formation aimed their anti-aircraft fire at the sky and fired fiercely, one after another.  Bullets and artillery shells exploded the blue sky into gray clouds of smoke.

    The attack came too suddenly. Even though the US warships fought back desperately, they could not stop the indiscriminate bombing of more than 500 Japanese aircraft.  When the US aircraft carrier-based aircraft did not take off for combat, the sky was dominated by Japanese aircraft, and the US warships that had not yet sailed undoubtedly became living targets.

    Nimitz stood on the control tower.  I witnessed several destroyers with my own eyes. Amidst a burst of violent explosions, huge clouds of smoke wrapped in dark red flames rushed into the sky, and the hulls of the destroyers suddenly broke into two parts in the blink of an eye.  The warship sank into the sea.

    The carrier-based aircraft on the US aircraft carrier were not willing to be targets. They braved the fierce bombing and shooting from the Japanese aircraft and forced them to taxi on the runway on the carrier deck. The Japanese fighter jets were like flies that have seen blood and came up at the smell.  , a shower of bullets.  The US carrier-based aircraft was on fire, which became the beginning of a greater disaster.

    Nimitz ordered the aircraft carrier formation to fight while retreating.  Moving closer to the west coast of the United States, in this case, no matter how advanced the US military's carrier-based aircraft are, they are destined to play a tragic role. They will be at a disadvantage from the beginning and cannot even take off for combat.

    The Japanese pilot became red-eyed and flew up and down in the gap between the US ship's anti-aircraft fire, Major General Yoshitomo Tani.  Driving a reconnaissance plane, hovering at a high-altitude command position, he saw that the battle had become one-sided, and the US warships were being beaten with fireworks everywhere. He sneered, and a bloodthirsty light appeared in his eyes.  Pushing the control stick hard, the reconnaissance plane circled lightly and flew in the direction of the task force.

    Dozens of minutes later, the task force appeared on the dark green sea. Yoshitomo Tani landed on the aircraft carrier. At this time, his plane had already been pushed to the takeoff line. Chief of Staff Hidezumi Kobayashi  Major General, upon hearing the news that Gu Xiong had returned safely, he hurried over. To be fair, Gu Xiong was the real hero of the task force.

    Xiao Lin took Gu Xiong's hand and said tremblingly with excitement: "Mr. Gu Xiong, please, as long as the aviation force can entangle the American aircraft carrier formation for more than an hour, the fleet can arrive by then, and it will be the real U.S. Pacific Fleet.  the end of

    Gu Xiong laughed and replied confidently: "Mr. Xiaolin, I'm afraid that when the fleet arrives, all you will see are the burning wreckage of the American warships and the American soldiers struggling on the sea. I have more than five hundred  With the bombers and fighter jets, the US fleet was caught off guard and attacked unprepared. Coupled with the bravery of the imperial pilots, Xiaolin-kun, in an hour, I am afraid you will be left to clean up the battlefield."

    Kobayashi obviously enjoyed this joke very much and said: "Tani Xiong-kun, as long as the American aircraft carrier fleet can be wiped out, I can serve as a logistics officer for your carrier-based aircraft. Miracles are created in our hands."

    Gu Xiong twisted his mouth and asked in a mysterious whisper: "Xiao Lin, what did that old guy say? He wasn't furious, was he? Have you suffered any grievances?"

    Xiao Lin smiled contemptuously and replied: "What should I say? He still had the nerve to say that he had handed over the command of the task force to me by pretending to be unwell. I think he was trying to find a place for himself to get off.  Let it go, Mr. Tani, the task force is now in our hands. It is the strongest backing of carrier-based aircraft. The glory of the Japanese navy is not only the attack on Pearl Harbor, but also the annihilation of Midway."

    ??Tani Xiong Liangyou stood at attention and said seriously: "Yes, your Excellency, Acting Commander, carrier-based aircraft commander Tani Xiong Liangyou, I will obey your orders at any time." After saying that, he jumped on the fighter jet and pushed the joystick fiercely., the "Type 92" carrier-based aircraft roared like a wild beast with teeth and claws, and rushed straight into the blue sky, disappearing from Xiao Lin's sight in the blink of an eye.

    Kobayashi Xiuquan smiled knowingly. He was very impressed by Tani Xiong's words just now. The so-called "the times make heroes" destined him to be extraordinary. Perhaps, after the Battle of Midway ended and the U.S. Pacific Fleet aircraft carrier formation was completely annihilated, the task force  Is it really my turn to take on the position of commander?

    However, the ambitious Major General Kobayashi Hidezumi never imagined that this opportunity for him would not come from the appearance of Amaterasu or the blessing of His Majesty the Emperor, but would actually come from the mortal enemy of the Japanese Empire, Emperor Hirohito and all Japanese generals.  They were given by Tang Qiuli, the Chinese devil who cursed fiercely when he mentioned them, but was extremely frightened and helpless against them.

    After Yoshitomo Tani returned to the command position, the Japanese carrier-based aircraft's attacks became more violent and methodical. Moreover, the focus of the Japanese aircraft's attacks was on the four US aircraft carriers. The aircraft carriers had just started and had not yet accelerated. The huge and clumsy ships  The body became a living target. Japanese bombers broke through the outer perimeter of the US aircraft carrier. After the thin air defense firepower composed of cruisers and destroyers, strings of bombs roared down.

    The U.S. aircraft carrier "Saratoga" became the first aircraft carrier to be sunk. With several loud noises that overwhelmed all the explosions, the upper deck of the "Saratoga" aircraft carrier was hit by dozens of people in a row.  A heavy aerial bomb hit, and the huge explosive force tore apart the thick steel plate. Several huge irregular holes rolled around the steel plate, sighing silently like a big mouth.

    Immediately afterwards, the four Japanese bombers that carried out the follow-up bombing flew at an ultra-low altitude, almost at the height of passing the aircraft carrier's mast, and accurately dropped the bombs into the huge hole.  The bomb detonated the carrier-based aircraft's ammunition, which became the fuse of a huge disaster, which in turn ignited the oil depot and bombs.

    Huge smoke balls, mixed with dark red firelight, soared into the sky, with strong destructive power, tearing the aircraft carrier with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons into four pieces. The huge hull sank amidst the billowing smoke.  The bottom of the sea, right in front of all the American officers and soldiers, disappeared into the endless sea with thousands of living lives. There were only floating oil flowers, proving that there was once a huge thing that was wandering on the sea surface a few minutes ago.

    Nimitz closed his eyes in pain. From the beginning of the Japanese raid to the present, in just fifty minutes, seven destroyers and four cruisers in the aircraft carrier formation had been sunk, including the "Saratoga" that had just sunk.  "The aircraft carrier, and the entire aircraft carrier formation, has lost more than one-third of its strength, and the remaining warships are all injured. The situation is not optimistic.

    A few minutes after encountering the attack, Nimitz sent a request for help to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but he also knew that the U.S. Air Force's land-based fighter jets would not be able to arrive within an hour and a half when they flew over the battle waters.  , and, in a hurry, the first batch of reinforcements of land-based fighter formations, only two groups of thirty-four fighters, in front of more than 500 Japanese aircraft, was nothing more than a drop in the bucket, almost like throwing themselves into a trap.

    During this hour and a half, it was up to the aircraft carrier formation to resist the indiscriminate bombing by Japanese aircraft. Nimitz himself knew that this was difficult. Even if land-based fighter jets arrived, the aircraft carrier formation would not be able to survive.  There are not many warships.

    What's even more terrible is that the Pearl Harbor was attacked and the main force of the Pacific Fleet was annihilated. Facing more than 500 Japanese bombers and fighter jets flying in the sky with arrogance, the American officers and soldiers were passively beaten. This kind of terrifying  The shadow was infinitely magnified, and the organized resistance of the formation began to become chaotic. It was separated by Japanese aircraft and fell into a situation where each one was fighting independently.

    Nimitz was almost desperate. He knew all too well that once the formation's overall air defense system was separated, each warship would be a lamb to be slaughtered in front of Japanese aircraft. The only thing he could do was to order each ship to move closer to the aircraft carrier as much as possible.  , it is easy to issue an order, but it is difficult to execute it. The warship, which was scarred by the bombing and has not yet sunk, has no time to take care of itself, and it can be said that it is powerless.

    Three Japanese Navy carrier-based torpedo bombers suddenly passed through a layer of barrage and appeared over the left side of the flagship "Lexington" aircraft carrier.  At high altitude, one of the Japanese torpedo bombers failed to escape its fate. It was hit by an anti-aircraft shell and exploded into pieces in the air.

    However, Admiral Nimitz, who was standing on the command tower, saw with his own eyes six torpedoes, dragging white and beautiful traces, like cracks on the dark green glass, speeding towards his flagship.  came over.
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