novelhk Chapter 880
Chapter 880
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“”The enemy fleet has been spotted. Should we attack?”
After more than an hour of flying, the Japanese air fleet spotted the German fleet on the sea. The pilot who first spotted the enemy aircraft reported the information to the Japanese air commander and asked the other party whether to open fire.
However, the Japanese commander did not allow the aircraft in the air formation to attack these surface warships, because he had received orders from Isoroku Yamamoto and knew that their goal was to destroy the enemy’s aircraft carrier, not to get entangled with these other warships here!
“Keep moving forward, search for the whereabouts of the enemy aircraft carrier, and be alert to the enemy in the air!”
The commander of the Japanese air formation was Saburo Sakai, the most famous ace pilot of the First Air Force, who had participated in the war to invade the northeast of China a few years ago.
In this invasion war, he had fought with the fighter planes of the Fengtian warlords and shot down three enemy planes on the battlefield. With this outstanding record, Saburo Sakai was selected into the naval aviation team.
At that time, the German aircraft carrier had become famous in the Atlantic, and after seeing the great use of aircraft carriers, the Japanese immediately increased their attention to aircraft carriers. They put the outstanding pilots in the air force and a large number of excellent ground crew The personnel were sent to the navy and to serve on aircraft carriers.
Saburo Sakai quickly distinguished himself in the Combined Fleet’s air force with his combat record and outstanding abilities, and became the squadron leader of the fighter squadron in the air brigade.
This time, all the fighters on the Japanese aircraft carriers went on an attack, and a large number of fighter planes were dispatched, so air command was extremely important. If the combat operation failed due to mistakes in command, no one could bear the responsibility.
Therefore, although Saburo Sakai himself wanted to attack these warships on the water, he did not dare to disobey orders from above. After all, This order was personally issued by Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Combined Fleet. If he disobeyed Isoroku Yamamoto’s order now, he would never be able to continue to be in the Combined Fleet!
Even if this operation failed, he might even be shot!
Saburo Sakai’s order made some Japanese pilots who were ready to move dare not act rashly. They followed the large force and continued to fly forward to find the enemy’s aircraft carrier.
However, strangely, they flew forward for about dozens of kilometers and found a large number of enemy surface warships along the way, but never found the enemy. Aircraft carrier!
This made the foot basin people feel a little strange, and what made them feel even more abnormal was that these German surface warships were in groups of three or five, vaguely forming some strange formation, and they flew all the way here, and were worried about being attacked by the anti-aircraft firepower of the German surface warships, but the Germans seemed to have not discovered them and did not attack them!
The two sides seemed to be passing by in a friendly manner. The planes in the air did not attack the warships on the surface, and the warships on the surface did not embarrass the planes in the air. This weird scene appeared on the battlefield, which was also a bit strange!
“Haven’t you found the enemy’s aircraft carrier yet?”
The Japanese air fleet was not crowded together. Although they had a general formation, they were actually dispersed. The purpose of doing so was to expand the search area as much as possible so as to find the enemy’s aircraft carrier more easily!
However, after they discovered the first German ship, they continued to fly northeast for about 50 kilometers, but still did not find the enemy’s aircraft carrier. It seemed that there was no aircraft carrier in the enemy’s fleet at all. This abnormal situation immediately aroused Saburo Sakai’s vigilance!
“Is this a trap?”
He had great doubts in his heart. The Germans had clearly attacked them before, which proved that they had aircraft carriers in their fleet!
However, at this time, they had discovered no less than 30 warships, but still had not found the enemy’s aircraft carriers. This made him doubt his own eyes!
Saburo Sakai had no choice but to send this news back to the Combined Fleet by telegram, intending to ask the Combined Fleet Command to make a decision.
After receiving this telegram, Isoroku Yamamoto’s face changed drastically!
“It’s a trap, let them retreat immediately!”
Although he didn’t know what the enemy’s conspiracy was, Yamamoto Isoroku had no time to care about it at this time. He immediately issued an order to retreat, hoping that his order would allow the front-line troops to escape danger as soon as possible!
However, this order was obviously a little too late!
“General Nimitz, the enemy’s air formation has completely entered our ambush circle!”
On the other side, on the disappeared German aircraft carrier, Nimitz received a message from the surface fleet led by Spruance.
“Haha, in that case, please tell General Spruance for me to entertain these distant guests well!”
After Nimitz’s order was issued, the German fleet, which had been silent before, finally launched an attack! At the same time as they launched the attack, the Japanese air fleet also received an order from the Combined Fleet Command to retreat.
However, most Japanese pilots felt a little incredible when they received this order.
They didn’t know why they had to retreat, as they had obviously discovered the enemy, and the enemy did not pose any threat to them. They didn’t find the enemy’s aircraft carrier, which meant that they would not be harassed by the enemy’s carrier-based fighters in a short time!
In this case, it would be a great help to them. Isn’t it a great opportunity to attack?
When the enemy’s surface fleet loses air protection, concentrate forces to attack the large warships in the enemy’s surface fleet, destroy these warships, and seriously damage the enemy’s strength. In this way, even if they fail to eliminate the enemy’s aircraft carriers, they at least kill a large number of main battleships in the enemy fleet. The loss caused by this is no less than sinking a few aircraft carriers!
However, the combined fleet asked them to retreat, which was really confusing!
However, their confusion did not last long, because the enemy’s surface warships began to actively attack them!
“”Look, what is that?”
When the German surface warships began to fire at them, many Japanese pilots were attracted by the scene before their eyes.
They saw white smoke columns rising from the German warships, and then dragging orange-red tail flames at a very fast speed towards them. These unknown things were so fast that they hit the Japanese air fleet in the blink of an eye!
Boom boom boom!
Explosions rang out in the air one after another, and one Japanese plane after another exploded in the air, and then turned into fragments and fell from the sky like snowflakes!
As a pilot, most of them have seen the power of anti-aircraft firepower on the ground, and their common anti-aircraft firepower is nothing more than anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns.