New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

At 1942 o'clock in the morning on November 11, 13, the sun had not yet risen, but Guadalcanal Island Airport was already boiling. Fighters, bombers, and torpedo planes took off one after another from the four runways of Guadalcanal Island.Everyone knew that big fish entered Iron Bottom Bay last night, but the navy didn't have the strength to keep them, and they were bitten by them and seriously injured.Fortunately, these fish were also injured. I believe they can't run fast. If you hurry up, the Cactus Air Force will be able to repay the navy's blood debt.

On the sea north of Guadalcanal, a Japanese fleet is fleeing.This fleet is exactly Abe's bombardment fleet.Originally, if everything went well, they would definitely be able to escape the attack range of the Cactus Air Force in Guadalcanal Island before sunrise, but now, alas, it is difficult now.The battleship Hiei was not only hit by a lot of shells, the superstructure was seriously damaged, and was hit by 3 torpedoes. Not only the steering gear was damaged, but even the boiler room was also damaged to some extent.Now this ship can barely run to 10 knots, which is slower than ordinary transport ships, and it is strange to be able to run out.

If Kirishima was not injured, she could be dragged away, or Abe would let Kirishima run away alone, one by one. (This is what Abe did in history.) It's a pity that Kirishima himself is not easy.She was hit by a torpedo not long ago, and she didn't feel anything at the time, but an hour ago, she suddenly had an explosion and fire. It was probably because the fuel pipeline was shattered when the torpedo was hit. The highly volatile Borneo crude oil (during World War II) Japan is not only short of oil, but also lacks oil refining capacity, and crude oil from Borneo can be directly used in the boilers of warships, but this crude oil is too volatile, and once leaked, it may cause a fire) result.After fighting, the fire was extinguished half an hour ago.Although the ship was fine for the time being, the power cabin was severely damaged, and the ship lost most of its power. Now, the ship can only run at a speed of 10 knots, and there is a long trail on the sea behind her. Ten kilometers of oil film.The chances of Americans discovering them are greatly improved.This is true, Abe yelled in the Yukikaze: "Why do I just recite it like this!"

At 5:13, a US reconnaissance plane flying over with the oil slick appeared in the fleet's field of vision.At the same time, the technical officers of the electric reconnaissance team listened to the radio signal sent by the reconnaissance plane.The reconnaissance plane is outside the range of the fleet's air defense firepower, and the fleet has nothing to do with it.Before the appearance of this plane, Abe had already requested support from the Navy Command, but the Navy's aircraft carrier was still far away, and it was difficult to provide them with a continuous air umbrella.Their fighter jets have to return after staying in the sky above the fleet for 15 minutes at most. Land-based fighter jets also have insufficient range, and even if they reach the sky above the fleet, the supporting time will not exceed 20 minutes.

What's more terrible is that these protection forces need nearly three hours of flight to arrive.The land-based fighter jets left just after 3 o'clock, but they haven't arrived yet.The carrier-based fighter jets will arrive later.

"God Amaterasu, bless the fighter jets of the empire to arrive soon!" Now Abe has no better way than to pray.If the US attack fleet arrives first, not to mention that the two warships are seriously injured, even if they are still intact, they are also vulnerable to air power.This has been proved by the Imperial Aviation when they besieged the British battleship Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse.Two battleships in good condition, one of which was a cutting-edge battleship, was sunk without fighting back under the watch of the plane.Abe understood that once the U.S. attack fleet arrived first, the two old battleships under his command would have no chance of surviving.

At 5:20, the reconnaissance plane that had been trailing suddenly turned away, and then Abe saw more than 40 Zero Fighters appearing in the west of the fleet.

"Ah! They are finally here!" The sailors in the fleet cheered.They frantically waved their hats to those Zero Wars, as happy as they crawled out of the grave to be human again.

But Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, who was sitting in Zero War, was far less optimistic.He was now at a higher position than the people on the battleship, so he could see what those people hadn't seen: to their southeast, a huge group of aircraft was approaching.There is no doubt that it must be an American attack cluster.

The other side must have also discovered themselves, they have already begun to accelerate their climb, obviously preparing to fight against themselves.

At 4:15 in the morning, Ron set off with the first strike group, which included 20 escorted P-38 fighter jets, 10 Avenger torpedo planes and 15 dive bombers.Ron led them to search northwest, but failed to find the enemy fleet.Although the target has not been found yet, at 5 o'clock sharp, Ron still let the second strike formation take off. He firmly believed that Ri himself was nearby.

At 5:15, Ron got the position of the Japanese fleet sent back by the reconnaissance plane.Sure enough, as he expected, the Japanese fleet is not far away from them.

Soon after, the reconnaissance plane sent back a telegram again, saying that the enemy fleet was protected by a large number of zero battles.Ron immediately ordered: "All fighters climb and accelerate, and prepare for air combat." At the same time, he ordered the bomber troops to lag behind slightly and prepare for attack.

Nishizawa Hiroyoshi also climbed rapidly with Zero War.It is always advantageous to occupy a higher position in aerial combat.But he immediately found himself facing a problem. All the fighter jets rushed in front of him. Where are the bombers?If there are bombers or torpedo planes behind the enemy, if you climb too high, and the enemy's torpedo plane suddenly appears at a low altitude, it will be troublesome.

The diving performance of Zero War is very poor. Once you get entangled with others at a high place, it is not ordinary difficult to get rid of the enemy's entanglement and dive down to attack the enemy's bomber after you find the enemy bomber.Because this means that you need to point your butt towards the enemy, and automatically let the enemy kick your ass hard.Even if the technology is as good as Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, he dare not say that he will be able to avoid so many attacks.

But Hiroyoshi Nishizawa still made a decision immediately, because time did not allow them to hesitate.I continued to climb with the 20 most experienced fighters, and the other fighters stayed at a low altitude to protect them.

But when it comes to climbing, the altitude has already passed 5000 meters. At this altitude, Zero Fighter without a supercharger wants to compare it with the p-38. Super Ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (there is a real person in history, super ace).There is also no way to make him climb faster than the p-38.Soon the p-38 fleet led by Ron took a high advantage.

The U.S. aircraft fleet, which had a high altitude advantage, began to dive towards Nishizawa and the others. Nishizawa was already familiar with this type of attack (those who were not familiar with it all died in the previous battle). With a slight turn, Nishizawa avoided it. An enemy plane was approaching him, he knew that he should not be in a hurry, he had to be very calm.Now the speed of the enemy plane is very high, it is difficult for me to find an opportunity to attack them, but according to the usual practice, after this round of attack, the enemy will take advantage of the high speed to pull up at a high speed, and then do it again.If you can induce the enemy plane to make a large overload action when attacking, you may be able to find an opportunity when he pulls up again.

But this time, the enemy's reaction was beyond Caesar's expectations. The American fighter jets did not pull up, but continued to dive down, aiming directly at the Japanese fighter planes protecting the low altitude below.At the same time, a group of bombers began to appear in everyone's field of vision.

"Quick! Attack those bombers!" Zero Zhan, who was in charge of protecting the low altitude, immediately rushed towards the bombers, but at this time, behind and above them, the US P-38 had already roared down.Now every Japanese pilot is faced with a dilemma: To stop the enemy bombers, they have to expose their buttocks to those p-38s. To do this, for these rookies, it is courting death and committing suicide.If you want to save your life, you have to give up the attempt to attack the enemy bombers and watch them attack the warships of the empire.

At this time, the effect of long-term militaristic education appeared.None of the zero fighters chose to give up the attack. They braved the shells fired from the direction of 6 o'clock, and launched a life-threatening attack on the fearless dive bombers of the US military.

However, this approach is not wise. Dreadnought is a very strong aircraft, and the firepower of zero combat is not very good. It is impossible to kill flying tanks like Dreadnought in one hit, but the p-38 behind them But it has the most powerful firepower.The result of this game is: 20 Zero Fighters were all destroyed, and 5 Dreadnoughts were injured.Then Ron pulled up with the p-38 fleet, and rushed towards the Caesar fleet that was rushing over.I believe that there are the role models of the previous group of zero battles, and I believe that Caesar and the others will never start the bomber idea before solving the threat of Ron and the others.

Now, 15 Dauntless dive bombers and 10 Avengers are in place.However, the Nishizawa fleet was dragged down by Ron and the others, and the Japanese fleet was in jeopardy.

For the bomber and torpedo units, to be honest, attacking Hiei and Kirishima was too easy.Almost all the anti-aircraft guns on these two battleships were destroyed last night by the 152mm guns on the US cruiser (speaking of which, this gun is still a classic of the US Navy and the Army, the Navy likes to use British units and use 6-inch guns , came up with a caliber of 152mm. The army wanted to use metric units, so they used 155mm guns) to blow it up, and all the anti-aircraft firepower had to rely on the escorting destroyers nearby.Coupled with the fact that the speed is surprisingly slow, it is really difficult not to be hit.

In just 2 minutes, the battleship Kirishima was hit directly by three 3-pound bombs, one of which penetrated the deck and exploded in the engine room, completely destroying her power system.She went from hemiplegia to complete paralysis.The Hiei was not much better. Although it was only directly hit by a 1000-pound bomb and lost its d turret, it was hit by a 1-pound near-miss bomb on the side.This near-miss bomb happened to explode near the place where it was hit by the torpedo yesterday. As a result, the opening that had been sealed up with great efforts immediately cracked open again, and sea water rolled in.At this time, the torpedo dropped by the torpedo plane also pulled a long white line and went straight to them.

Several loud bangs of "Boom" and "Boom" came over.This time the Hiei was lucky. Some of the torpedoes she aimed at her were misdirected, and some... were blocked by the cruiser Nagara.

The Nagara stopped an air-dropped torpedo for the Hiei, but of course, she herself was blown up by the torpedo.Originally, except for the broken superstructure, she still had good power and ran very fast, but now, the torpedo hit near her power cabin, and the power cabin was flooded.She lost most of her momentum and was suddenly paralyzed on the surface of the sea.

The Kirishima was not so lucky. A total of 4 torpedoes hit her, and only one of them did not explode.A large amount of seawater poured into the boat, and the hull began to gradually tilt.With the pumping system inoperable due to loss of power, it was only a matter of time before it sank.

The bombers finished their work, finished laying their eggs, turned their heads, twisted their asses, and ran away.

Now that the bomber has left, there is no need for the fighter to entangle with Ri himself.To say that there are really quite good skills among these devils.For example, the plane that kept biting Ron, when Ron had just shot down an enemy plane, he was bitten by the guy who ran out from the slanting stab, and suffered several rounds of 7.7mm bullets, and even took a hit. Send 20mm shells.It took a lot of effort to get rid of the enemy plane's attack, but learned that Foss killed two more enemy planes in one breath.

"Fuck! If this continues, this guy's record will surpass me sooner or later."

"All leave and return!" Ron gave the order.

The p-38s began to dive and accelerate, quickly opened the distance from Zero War, and then went home triumphantly (anyway, Zero War speed is tragic, so you can't catch up if you chase).At this time, the 20 Zero Fighters that took off from the Japanese aircraft carrier finally arrived.

The zero battle that was present this time never enjoyed cheers again.The sailors on the warship have seen a cruel fact from the World War I just now: Zero War can't protect them now.

How could the fleet commander Koki Abe not know what the sailors already knew? He even knew better: this wave of attacks is by no means over, and the U.S. military will launch more attacks soon.Obviously, not only the Kirishima, whose ship's side was tilted so close to the sea, was hopeless, but also the Hiei and Nagara, which were still floating on the sea, were also hopeless.They couldn't get out of the striking range of the Americans, not at all.Maybe it's time for me to think about how to keep other warships.

Sometimes in casinos there are gamblers who, after losing almost all their wealth, suddenly cherish the last few coppers, and Abe is like this now.So he ordered:

"Move the Emperor Yuyong (the picture of that old boy Hirohito) on the Kirishima and Hiei here, and then scuttle her. Nagara will do the same."

"General! This..."

"Execute!" Abe lowered his head, and he finally became the first general in the history of the empire to lose a battleship.Although, we can't say what he did was wrong, but it's not a good reputation after all.

Twenty minutes later, the second attack group, including 20 F20Us, 4 Avenger torpedo planes and 10 Dreadnought dive bombers arrived.I searched around the nearby waters, and found nothing in the sea except for the Hiei, which had only half of its bow above the water and had not completely sunk.

After Abe Hongyi returned, because he lost all the important ships, he was deemed unsuitable to command warships by Yamamoto.So he retired honorably and went back to Japan to hold his grandson.The war was over for him.