Chapter 27 Pursuit
"What? The little Japanese ran away?"
In the early morning, when Zhang Meng received the news that the Japanese Combined Fleet fled without fighting, he suddenly exploded.
He tried his best to prepare all this, just to take advantage of the fact that all the world's most powerful forces, including the Japanese, did not realize the great war power of the aircraft carrier battle group, to destroy or combine the Japanese fleet in one fell swoop, thus becoming the overlord of the Pacific Ocean and gain valuable breathing and development time for the newly born Tang Empire.
As long as the Japanese joint fleet is annihilated or severely damaged, the Japanese navy will be severely damaged. It will be impossible to recover within three to five years, and the Tang Empire will be safe. At the same time, among the surrounding Pacific Rim countries, Americans are restricted by the constitution and cannot take the initiative to attack the Tang Empire. Old European imperialist naval powers such as Britain, France and Italy cannot mobilize troops to run to the Pacific to fight against the Tang Empire. The Soviet Union will not dare to speak irresponsible to the Tang Empire.
In the huge plan in Zhang Meng's mind, annihilation or severe damage to the Japanese joint fleet is an extremely important part. If the joint fleet runs away, all the arrangements made by Zhang Meng will be useless. The joint fleet returning to Japan will inevitably make a comeback soon with the strong support of the Japanese military, which will be a huge threat to the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire.
We can't let them run away. At least we must severely damage their fleet and kill a group of elite naval officers and soldiers of the Japanese Joint Fleet.
Zhang Meng immediately convened an emergency meeting, with only one issue, and at all costs, he would annihilate or severely damage the Japanese joint fleet before returning to the land.
"Catch them up. Kill them!"
"yes!"
Everyone in the conference room shouted loudly and was ready to beat their hands. They must not let the little Japanese devils run away like this.
The Japanese Combined Fleet fled under the cover of night. However, hundreds of warships of all sizes were of varying speed.
Kobayashi obviously realized this, so he divided the fleet into three, with a speed of more than 28 knots into a fleet, a speed of between 24 knots and 28 knots into a fleet, and a speed of less than 24 knots into a fleet.
The three fleets were not together, but retreated to Japan in three groups. Eggs could not be placed in one basket.
Under the blue sea and blue sky, the Tang fleet quickly pursued the Japanese fleet, and each ship split a few meters of huge waves and galloped forward.
If it weren't for the Tang Army's advanced electronic combat ships measuring the direction of the Japanese fleet's retreat through radio directional instruments, the vast Tang Army's reconnaissance aircraft would not have discovered the movements of the Japanese fleet so quickly.
Even so, after a night of escape, the Japanese fleet was more than a thousand kilometers away from the Tang army aircraft carrier battle group. And they evacuated in three parts, which made the Tang army embarrassed for a while.
"This group of damn little Japanese devils run quite fast."
"I thought of everything. I didn't expect the Japanese devils to run away on their own!"
"That's right, the Japanese have always been demanding face. This time I'm really shameless!"
"They are not fools. Do they know that they will be sunk by our powerful naval aviation force and will die?"
"Why……"
With a sigh, in the cabin of each warship of the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group, whether it was the pilot or other officers and soldiers, they felt sorry for the sudden escape of the Japanese Navy. However, it was able to scare away the third largest naval fleet in the world. This was undoubtedly a great honor for everyone in the Tang Dynasty Royal Navy.
"All personnel are paying attention. This ship is now preparing for flights!"
The radio did not say the time for attack, but just asked everyone to prepare for the flight.
"Can we still catch up with the Japanese?"
"It should be, otherwise we won't be allowed to prepare for the flight!"
"That's great. If the Japanese are just letting them run away like this, the man is really unwilling to accept it!"
"What are you talking about? Let's go to everyone right away!"
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The officers and soldiers of each ship rushed to their posts, and the Raptors and Hellfires were shiny black and arranged in an extremely powerful manner. The pilot conducted a comprehensive inspection of it. On the side were the pilots of the fighter planes, followed by the pilots, and from time to time, reminding the pilots to be careful not to scratch his plane.
Ground crews fill each fighter with aviation fuel and fill the cannon with armor-piercing or blasting bombs.
"The Seventh Squadron and the Eighth Squadrons are hanging torpedoes, and the other six squadrons are hanging aviation bombs, everyone is moving quickly!"
The corps leader came out of the command room and obviously got the order.
Ground crews hurriedly loaded aviation bombs and aviation torpedoes for each bomber squadron, and the entire rear deck area was busy.
In the conference room of the aircraft carrier bridge of the Chiguo Tianwang aircraft carrier, Zhang Meng finally made a decision after listening to various information.
"We are divided into two groups. Team A focuses on attacking the Japanese battleship squadron, and killing all six battleships for me, especially the flagship Nagamon built by Kobayashi. It is the soul of the Japanese navy. Be sure to sink it and completely crush the pride of the Japanese devils. Team B focuses on attacking the Japanese supply squadron, especially those transport ships, those are the elite Japanese marines. They have strong combat power. If you let them go back, they will definitely be the mortal enemy of our Marines in the future. They will all go into the sea to feed fish. As for the third Japanese squadron, they are too fast and we can't catch up."
The order was issued, and the Tang army aircraft carrier battle group was divided into two teams, pursuing the battleship detachment where Kobayashi Jizai was located and the Japanese supply fleet, because these two fleets had the slowest speed.
However, it is not easy to catch up with these two Japanese fleets. After all, the two sides have already set a distance of more than a thousand kilometers.
The only thing that is worthy of the Tang army's happiness is that after Kobayashi issued a retreat order, he lay on the hospital bed due to vomiting blood. Shizuka Shinozuka, who was temporarily in charge of the command, did not expect that the Tang army would dare to continue pursuing. When passing through the Northern Mariana Islands, he decided to make some supplies on Saipan. After all, he did not receive Tamsui supplies in Majuro. These days, the Ri army officers and soldiers were already thirsty.
However, as they saw Saipan, they also received a warning from a Japanese submarine.
"A group of aircraft carrier battles from the Tang army chased after us, just behind us, the distance was less than 600 kilometers!"
"What? These damn guys, it's not enough to get a bargain, and they dare to chase after him?"
"Let's go quickly, we will be safe when we arrive in Taiwan!"
"But our soldiers are already seriously short of water! If this continues, something big will happen!"
"We are here to replenish supplies. I cannot let my soldiers suffer the shame of running away, and then suffer the insult of being drunk to death!"
"However, the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group will soon enter the combat radius, and we will be attacked by them!"
"I don't believe it anymore. Can they sank our battleship?"
Chapter completed!