my bright sword career

The Japanese Navy Eighth Fleet under the command of Lieutenant General Mikawa Junichi commanded the US fleet this time.

The reason is very simple. The Japanese army couldn't stand it anymore. Hideki Tojo, who was far away in Tokyo, issued an order to the navy in the name of the base camp. The Japanese navy dispatched the Eighth Fleet to support the Japanese army on Guadalcanal Island at all costs.

At the beginning, this order of Hideki Tojo was unanimously opposed by the Japanese navy generals, and their reasons were simple.

First of all, the Eighth Fleet has been established for less than three weeks, and has never conducted cooperative training. Can it fight?Furthermore, the Eighth Fleet does not have an aircraft carrier.

Although the Japanese army also has an air force base in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, it is still too far away from Guadalcanal to effectively support such a long distance.

Once the Eighth Fleet encounters an attack from a US aircraft carrier, it will be very dangerous.

The last reason is very surprising, because until now the Japanese base camp's combat intentions against the Americans have not been clear.

They didn't understand whether the Americans had started their offensive or they were merely interfering with Japan's airport construction. The generals in the base camp were still thinking that it would not be too late to think about countermeasures after they figured out the intentions of the United States.

So it stands to reason that this quarrel should have ended with Hideki Tojo's defeat, but the unexpected addition of a character in the middle made this order a reality.

This person is Yamamoto 56. As the soul of the Japanese navy, Yamamoto 56 gave the Mikawa Army a combat permit, and everything was left to the Mikawa Army to decide freely.

Mikawa Junichi is also a tough guy, after getting the acquiescence of Yamamoto 56, he immediately led the Eighth Fleet to kill Guadalcanal

However, although Sanchuan Junyi was a fool, he was not a fool. At least he still asked for help from the base camp, and sent 36 Type 84 bombers to the Rabaul base, and used 100 Type Zeros to escort them. More than [-] fighters Such a mighty killing to the Seventh Task Force.

The Seventh Task Force was not to be outdone. The captain of the USS Enterprise, Colonel Arthur C. Davis, immediately ordered the dispatch of all carrier-based aircraft while reporting to Major General Fletcher.

However, after several months of fighting on the Enterprise at this time, the loss of aircraft and pilots was relatively large. At this time, there were only 6 F4F Hellcats and [-] F[-]F Wildcats on the aircraft carrier that could take off to meet the enemy.

These fighters immediately seemed a little powerless when facing the 84 Zeros of the Japanese army. The Hellcat fighters were better, but the performance of the old Wildcat fighters was obviously behind.

In less than 5 minutes after the battle started, [-] of the [-] Wildcat fighter planes were shot down by the Japanese army, and the remaining planes were only able to parry and have no power to fight back.

The most terrible thing is that the Eighth Fleet led by Mikawa Junichi also killed it almost at the same time.

For a while, the sky above the fleet was filled with the roar of aircraft and the roar of naval guns. Shells with a caliber of more than [-] or even [-] mm fell on the sea from time to time, causing waves tens of meters high.

In this way, a rare fleet artillery battle began.

It has to be said that the quality of the Japanese navy in this era is indeed world-class. At the beginning of the battle, the starboard cruiser "Canberra" of the No. 17 minutes out of combat.

Seeing that there was a loss so soon, Fletcher, the commander of the fleet, was also anxious. In addition to ordering the fleet to strengthen its firepower, he also urged the planes on Guadalcanal Island to rush to support immediately.

What he didn't expect was that Huaxia's plane was the first to come to support him.

And this time it was none other than Huang Kebiao, the well-known ace pilot of the Lotus Flying Column, who was responsible for the air escort of the dispatched team.

Looking at the fleet that was constantly bombarding below, and the hundreds of planes in the air that were fighting bloody battles, Huang Kebiao felt his blood start to boil.

He yelled, "Brothers, follow me down to kill devils!"

In the eyes of everyone, 48 F8F Panda fighter jets rushed from a high altitude to the group of more than ten Hellcat Zeros surrounding them.

What I have to mention here is that although the Panda fighter has been equipped with a brigade of the flight corps, the pilots have been busy familiarizing themselves with the equipment during this period of time, and have not formally fought against the Japanese army. The first actual combat was not in Shanxi, but in Guadalcanal, thousands of miles away.

As the last piston fighter of the U.S. military in another time and space, the performance of the Panda fighter is naturally beyond doubt.

The engine it used was also the most powerful engine in the world at the time-Pratt-Whitney R-2800 "Double Hornet" series engine.

The Panda fighter also broke the customary "bigger is better" new fighter design rule at that time. It is lighter than the 4.152 tons of the Hellcat, which is known as the strongest carrier-based fighter, and the weight of the whole fighter is only 3.2 tons. Ton.

Therefore, the Panda fighter has abundant power and excellent maneuverability. Its climb rate is 30.00% higher than that of the Hellcat, and its maximum flight speed reaches 680 kilometers per hour, which is almost the ceiling of a piston fighter.

Due to the speed of the Panda fighters, when they rushed over the zero-type fleet, the pilots of the entire zero-type fleet did not even react.

"Dong dong dong dong..."

Accompanied by bursts of dazzling orange light, Huang Kebiao, who took the lead, fired first.

Four 12.7mm Browning machine guns arranged on the wings sprayed flames at the same time, smashing a Zero more than 300 meters away into a fireball and igniting the fuel in the fuel tank.

In just a few seconds, the Type Zero fighter shattered and disintegrated in mid-air, and the flying debris almost hit the Panda fighter piloted by Huang Kebiao.

Seeing that their own boss got off to a good start, the other Panda fighters were not to be outdone. With flames flickering in the air, the Type Zero fleet, which was still full of momentum just now, became a mess.

As the last piston fighter of Laomei in another time and space, the Panda is more than a step above the Zero in terms of maneuverability, firepower, and flexibility.

The exclamations of Japanese pilots resounded everywhere on the radio channels of the Japanese army.

"Not good...these fighters are too fast, I can't catch them at all."

"Baga, these are not American planes, they are Chinese, they are Chinese!"

"It's a China plane, these are China planes."

Soon, some Japanese pilots noticed that the planes that had just arrived for support were not painted with the American flying eagle logo, but the blue sky and white sun badge that many Japanese naval aviation pilots had never seen.

But some Japanese pilots who had fought in China immediately recognized them. For a while, the Japanese pilots were shocked and angry. When can the Chinese people be mixed into the Pacific battlefield?