Age of Conquest Reborn

The independent division's naval land-based fleet returned after a fierce fight, and Japanese carrier-based aircraft landed after the war. The smoke over the Solomon Islands had not yet cleared. Lieutenant General Inoue Narumi, commander of the Fourth Fleet of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, received a call

The loss statistics sheet handed over by Chief of Staff Major General Anzai.

After reading this, Lieutenant General Inoue felt like crying without tears. The losses to the Fourth Fleet warships were not big. Only a few ships were hit by bullets. The formation of troop carriers full of army soldiers basically suffered no losses. However, the fleet's aircraft carriers and aircraft

The loss has been huge!

The Fourth Fleet has more than 300 carrier-based aircraft. After an hour of air combat, only 89 of them can return to the aircraft carrier. Most of them still have battle wounds. Without a few days of repair, they cannot be upgraded at all.

Air combat.

In other words, the main combat force of the Fourth Fleet, the carrier-based aircraft force, suffered heavy losses, almost to the point of annihilation. As the Fourth Fleet with four aircraft carriers as its core combat force, the carrier-based aircraft suffered such heavy losses,

It's like breaking a sharp fang.

Today's naval battles are no longer the traditional era of bombardment by giant ships and cannons. Carrier-based aircraft, as the main combat force of a fleet, have suffered such heavy losses that made Vice Admiral Inoue aware of the danger. If at this moment, the aircraft that had returned

The China fighter group attacked again before the escort fleet arrived in northern Australia. What could I do to resist and fight against it?

Just relying on less than ninety carrier-based aircraft and most of which were damaged in battle? Cold sweat broke out on Lieutenant General Inoue's forehead. His eyes were dull for a while, and he ordered the fleet chief of staff, Major General Anzai: "Staff

Commander, order the fleet to immediately sail to the destination at full speed. At the same time, ask Commander Nagumo Chuichi for assistance and request to send a formation of no less than three aircraft carriers to meet us midway!"

"Commander, are you worried that the China Independent Division aircraft group will attack again after returning?" Chief of Staff Anxi asked.

"Alas!" Lieutenant General Inoue sighed and said, "Of course it will. It will take at least two days for the fleet to arrive at the port of Mount Molloy. Do you think the Chinese who have taken advantage will stop here?

?Once faced with another attack, the Fourth Fleet will be unable to resist!"

Chief of Staff Anzai immediately understood that Commander Inoue's worries were not unfounded. Similar things would definitely happen again. If it were him, facing the fangless Fourth Fleet, he would beat the dog in the water and take advantage of it.

, is that a fool?

However, Chief of Staff Anzai did not think that asking for help from Commander Nagumo Chuichi was the safest way, so he reminded: "Commander, asking for help from Commander Nagumo Chuichi is something that must be done. However, the main force of the combined fleet is

In the Darwin and Normanton areas, even in the central waters of the Solomon Islands, any round will take more than four days at the fastest. It is beyond our reach!"

"The Ministry of Staff believes that the safest way is to ask for assistance from the Australian Front Air Force Command. They have a field airfield at Laura near Mount Molloy and station an air force that can dispatch nearly 200 fighter jets.

It won’t take more than a few hours to arrive and pick you up!”

"Currently, our fleet is in a very bad situation. The returning China fleet can launch another attack at any time. I hope the commander will not be rigid and entangled in the old grievances between the army and the navy, and boldly ask for help from Lieutenant General Okazaki, commander of the Australian Front Air Force.

!”

Lieutenant General Inoue was completely speechless. He looked at his chief of staff and said: "Anzai-kun, first of all, let me make it clear that for the safety of the Fourth Fleet and more than 50,000 Imperial Army soldiers, I will not do anything because of old grudges between the Army and the Navy.

Instead of asking for help, in the face of the safety of the imperial soldiers, what does my face, Inoue Narumi, mean to me?"

"But have you ever thought about it, just with the combat radius of those land-based fighter jets, can the range cover the current location of the Fourth Fleet? Without an aircraft carrier as a take-off and landing platform, I am afraid that those land-based fighter jets will fall into the sea midway.

!”

"Uh...!" Chief of Staff Anxi's face turned red. In his desperation, he forgot this common sense issue. The land-based fighter jets equipped by the Australian Front Army have short legs, and even the latest Italian fighter jets cannot do it!

"Commander, I'm going to send a telegram right away!" He was not engaged in other thoughts and efforts.

"Report to Commander, Chief of Staff, enemy attack! The shipboard radar reported that an unidentified large aircraft group was found in the northeast of our fleet, approaching the location of our fleet at high speed!" At this moment, a staff officer who had just put down the phone

, turned around and shouted loudly.

"Enemy, enemy attack?" Lieutenant General Inoue and Chief of Staff Anzai were stunned for a moment. How could it be possible? The damn China fighter group had just returned. Could it be that they came back halfway? Isn't it incredible? Moreover, the direction of its return was northwest.

How could we turn back from the northeast? Wouldn't it be more direct to turn back directly from the return route?

What's more, there is a vast sea to the northeast. "Baga! That's nonsense. Let me ask if the shipborne radar department sent an error report?" Vice Admiral Inoue was the first to not believe it and shouted loudly, if it was really the shipborne radar department.

If you make a false alarm and do such a ridiculous thing, you will kill someone. Such a mistake is unforgivable!

The staff officer who reported the situation looked at the commander who was as furious as a cat whose tail was stepped on. His hands were trembling and he was about to make a call. The phone rang rapidly again. After hearing a few words, the staff officer's face turned pale.

He got up, forgot to put down the phone, turned around and shouted: "Your Excellency, Commander, the situation reported by the radar department is true. The unidentified aircraft group has approached the fleet and started to accelerate in an offensive formation!"

Lieutenant General Inoue was shocked. He had no time to explore where this unidentified aircraft group came from. It was not a friendly force anyway. "Chief of Staff Anzai, ordered the fleet to immediately deploy in an anti-aircraft formation. All carriers that can fly

Fighters, take off immediately to intercept!"

The shrill sound of air defense sirens echoed over the Fourth Fleet. The Japanese warships, which had just experienced a fierce battle, were in formation. After receiving the order from the fleet headquarters, they immediately began to enter combat mode. The scene was very chaotic for a while.

Tang Yunfei commanded all the carrier-based fighters and bombers of the Independent Division fleet to form two echelon formations, which were already approaching the sky above the Japanese Fourth Fleet. His plane flew at the front, as fast as a bolt of lightning, and his eyes scanned the sea.

Seeing the Japanese warships running into battle positions in chaos, I couldn't help but have a sneer on my lips.

Tang Yunfei immediately determined the offensive tactics and issued an order: "The first and second fighter regiments, follow me to break through the Japanese air defense fire network, suffocate the Japanese carrier-based aircraft on the take-off deck, and the bomber formation begins to attack the Japanese from the periphery.

Warship, gradually attack concentrically, all crews pay attention, start the attack!"

Then, he pushed the control stick suddenly, and before the Japanese ship's anti-aircraft fire started firing, the fighter jet suddenly broke into the core airspace of the Fourth Fleet. Behind Tang Yunfei's fighter plane, more than 130

Fighters followed closely, targeting the four Japanese aircraft carriers.

Tang Yunfei's tactics had a very clear rhythm. They fought a sudden offensive battle. First, he used superior fighter jets to break into the core area of ​​the Fourth Fleet, crushing all the Japanese carrier-based aircraft that were too late to take off on the deck and destroying them. Then, the bomber formation began.

Attack the Japanese warships from the periphery, adopt the tactics of peeling off bamboo shoots layer by layer, and attack steadily. As long as the Japanese carrier-based fighter jets are killed, bombs and torpedoes can be used to deal with the Japanese surface ships, which is almost like hitting a live target!

Just after giving the order to prepare for battle, Lieutenant General Inoue grabbed the telescope and ran to the porthole of the command module. He happened to see more than a hundred unidentified fighter jets. No, it was now confirmed that they were ships of the China Fleet.

The eye-catching logo on the underside of the wing of the fighter jet has already explained the identity of the enemy. It has penetrated into the core airspace of the fleet and quickly zoomed in before his eyes.

Lieutenant General Inoue suddenly broke out in cold sweat. He knew very well what it meant for the carrier-based fighter jets to penetrate into China's core airspace in the Fourth Fleet. It meant that the four aircraft carriers would be violently attacked. Of course, only

The weapons of fighter jets cannot pose any threat to the behemoth aircraft carrier, but they have all been pushed onto the deck runway and are ready to take off. What about the small number of our own carrier-based aircraft that have already taken off?

Of the more than 80 remaining Japanese carrier-based aircraft, less than 60 were able to take off, and only about 20 were already climbing to altitude. Just at that moment, the carrier-based fighter group commanded by Tang Yunfei pounced on them like dark clouds.

More than twenty Japanese carrier-based fighter jets were sent to the previous targets!

"Da da da!" Tang Yunfei's thumb lightly pressed the launch button, and several tongues of flames suddenly penetrated the fuselage of the Japanese fighter jet. There was a loud "Boom!" on the Japanese Navy's Fourth Fleet "Ryu Xiang".

A cloud of smoke mixed with flames exploded from the sky above the aircraft carrier, and the broken aircraft wreckage fell back to the take-off deck of the "Ryuxiang" aircraft carrier with flames.

Tang Yunfei opened the scoring and kicked off the entire offensive. The four aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy's Fourth Fleet and the carrier-based aircraft on the take-off deck became the target of the attack. More than a hundred carrier-based aircraft of the independent division fleet suppressed the attack.

The nose of the aircraft fired back and forth, pouring bullets like raindrops onto the Japanese carrier-based aircraft. Fireworks burst out from the deck of the aircraft carrier. One after another, the Japanese carrier-based aircraft burst into flames and exploded. The Japanese sailors on the deck were littered with corpses.

More than twenty minutes later, raging fire broke out on the take-off decks of four Japanese aircraft carriers. No more complete Japanese carrier-based fighter jets could be seen. More than a hundred carrier-based fighter jets from the independent division fleet fired like raindrops.

The bullets almost destroyed the decks of the four Japanese aircraft carriers. They were swept several times with an iron broom.

"Well done!" Tang Yunfei couldn't help but secretly clenched his fists, "Attack aircraft groups should be careful not to leave the existing combat airspace, climb to a higher altitude, and start attacking Japanese warships from the inside out!"

The anti-aircraft firepower on the periphery of the Japanese Fourth Fleet was almost fully activated, and the anti-aircraft shells blew up a layer of smoke in the sky. Now that it was out of the combat airspace, it would be a collision on its own. Tang Yunfei would not make such a stupid mistake.

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