In the southeastern waters of Ngano Island, Nagayun also received a telegram from reconnaissance planes. Japanese planes attacking Bingguru found traces of the Marshall fleet. Some of the bombers that had not yet completed the bomb dropping were turned and launched an attack on the German fleet. According to intelligence, there were four aircraft carriers in the German fleet, but no bombers were sent to attack him.

This situation made his aviation combat adviser Harada Nakasa very nervous, which easily reminded people of the situation during the North Atlantic Naval War that occurred last year. In that naval battle, the German fleet, which also attracted the attention of the British, did not launch a counterattack, but sent fighter jets to defend the fleet with all their might, but instead launched an attack first by the ambush Austro-Hungarian Airlines fleet. In that naval battle, the British lost most of their aircraft carriers, thus losing control of the ocean.

To be honest, most Japanese naval generals fighting in the South China Sea had a lot of complaints about the naval counterattack plan formulated by the Navy Department. The Japanese navy lacked strength and took the initiative to attack without the protection of shore-based combat aircraft, which posed great risks in itself.

Now Lieutenant General Navy Navy is indeed in a dilemma.

Judging from the reports sent by the fighter jets of the first wave of attack, there were a large number of fighter jets escorted by the enemy. More than 30 bombers protected by twenty-six Zero fighters did not achieve much results in the attack on the enemy. Only a dozen aircraft took the risk of breaking through the enemy's defense line and hurriedly dropped bombs. There may be a 3% long, 3% wind, 3% text, 3% learning, c↗fwx, the enemy's aircraft carrier was hit by the bomb (in fact, it hit an aircraft carrier, and the aircraft carrier in Marshall's hand was still intact).

Now Nanyun has to make a decision. The enemy has six aircraft carriers (Japanese aircraft regards two transport ships full of aircraft on the deck as aircraft carriers), and their strength is far superior to him. In fact, he must attack these enemy ships first. However, he immediately launched a second wave of attacks. There are still serious obstacles. In order to prevent the enemy's attack, all 48 Zero fighters escorting the second wave of attacks have taken off and are conducting combat patrols over the fleet.

Now the only power available to Nanyun is the thirty-six dive bombers and forty-eight torpedo aircraft of the Flying Dragon and the Canglong. If he sends bombers to attack the enemy's special fleet with preemptive attacks, they do not have fighter cover, and they can easily become living targets for flexible and fast enemy fighters and suffer serious losses.

Nagamo was hesitating. At this time, the first attack wave commanded by Nagamoto had returned from bombing the Mingguru landing ground. These aircraft needed to land on the aircraft carrier, which required Nagamoto to make a quick decision. At this critical moment of life and death, the commander of the second aircraft carrier team of his subordinate, Rear Admiral Yamaguchi Tomoto, made an emergency suggestion to Nagamoon. Yamaguchi's flagship "Feilong" is still quite far from "Akagi". He received continuous reconnaissance reports from the search aircraft of the "Liegen" on the ship, but he was not sure that Nagamoto gave an order to attack immediately. He felt that this was both unwise and dangerous. So he instructed the "North Semi-Colon" destroyer who escorted him to forward his telegram to Nagamoon: "I think the attacking troops should be ordered to take off immediately."

The communications officer who handed the telegram to Nagashiro did not dare to look at his already blue face. In the navy of any country in the world, subordinates who sent such telegrams during combat would be regarded as an insult to the boss. Because it means that he is doubting his superior's command ability; in the Japanese Empire fleet, this is a bold and suicide offense.

Yamaguchi's telegram had the opposite effect, and Nagashima immediately did the opposite: ordering all the aircraft prepared for combat on the deck, including those under Yamaguchi Fleet, to be sent off the hangar, clear the flight deck, and instructing the aircraft carriers of the entire maneuvering fleet to prepare for recycling the aircraft.

In fact, the result of the Japanese fleet was determined from the moment they sailed out of the Sunda Strait. The number of aircraft carriers itself was half smaller, and the strongest Fifth Air Force was transferred away. Nagamo had only 310 aircraft in its five aircraft carriers, while his opponent, the Axis Combined Fleet, had more than 1,200 combat aircraft. In terms of strength, the Axis Fleet was enough to beat the entire Nagamo Fleet.

Nagashimo's decision simply accelerated the destruction of the Japanese mobile fleet.

The personnel on the five Japanese aircraft carriers were recycling all the aircraft, preparing to load them with weapons, fill them with fuel, and install them at the specified position on the flight deck. At this time, the aircraft carrier was at the most chaotic and weakest time. There was basically no counterattack ability.

While the return planes landed one after another on the flight deck, the deck of the hangar below was desperately rushing to reinstall the torpedo plane. The ground crew wearing only short-sleeved shirts and shorts hurriedly unloaded the bombshell. They had no time to send the unloaded bombs back to the bomb hangar below, so they had to pile them up next to the hangar.

The problem is that the first wave of aircraft formations of the Axis powers arrived at the battlefield at this time.

A large number of Austria-China joint attack formations lined up in an orderly formation, full of bombs whistling from the air and appeared in the sky west of the Japanese fleet.

Although Japan had obtained radar technology from the United States at this time, Japan's weak electronics industry has only manufactured four sets of radar equipment until now, and these radars are all equipped on the battleship commanded by Commander Yamamoto of the Joint Fleet. The most important mobile force is not equipped with any radar.

In the Japanese Navy, the traditional battleship faction still has the upper hand. Although the Japanese Navy has a strong aircraft carrier fleet, they still regard aircraft carriers as auxiliary ships. For example, the two battleship formations commanded by Yamamoto will definitely be incorporated into the escort formation of the special mixed fleet according to the German and Austrian practices. However, the Japanese have always allowed these strong defense warships to form individually and roam outside the aircraft carrier fleet, which has caused the entire air defense firepower of the aircraft carrier fleet to be very weak.

The Japanese Navy naturally had to pay the corresponding price for their backward naval thinking.

The air-visited patrol plane first discovered the incoming fleet. As a result, the destroyers on the outer layer of the fleet also emitted black smoke and sounded the air defense alarm.

However, the fleet sent by the Austro-China fleet had already reached the sea and air force, which was only 60 kilometers away from the Naruto Fleet, and only 10 minutes was available. Naruto had no time to react no matter what.

Nanyun is really at his will now have no way out.

The air raid sirens rang through the sea and air. The anti-aircraft guns of the guard fleet all spit out thick black smoke. The aircraft carrier broke the formation and avoided the invading aircraft. One of the few Zero aircraft was slowly climbing towards the height of the enemy planes.

But the attack of the Austro-China Aircraft Group has begun. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!