Damn it, I feel like we are hanging this time." Betty cursed loudly, but his anger and dissatisfaction could not change anything. Under Shigetaro Yoshimatsu, four Japanese aircraft carriers began to release carrier-based aircraft, and the aircraft carrier entered the headwind route, and then the speed gradually increased to more than 25 knots per hour. With the windshield at the front of the flight deck, the deck wind violently swept the wide deck of the aircraft carrier. At this time, the synthetic wind speed was as high as more than 30 knots per hour, which had exceeded the scheduled 25 knots release requirements.

"Start!" As the signal lights on the bridge lighted up, the planes quickly released their fixed equipment, and then began to accelerate with all their might. The fighter planes, then bombers, and finally torpedo planes. The four aircraft carriers released 120 aircraft in the first wave of attacks, with an average of 40 aircraft released by each aircraft carrier. The time interval for releasing aircraft was about half a minute to one minute. About half an hour later, all carrier-based aircraft had already taken off. Then, under the command and guidance of the squadron leader, the Japanese aircraft group completed the formation! At this moment, a telegram sent back from the front claimed that the reconnaissance aircraft troops discovered two aircraft carriers!

So, all the questions were wiped out at this moment. Since the US Navy aircraft carrier was discovered, it was naturally necessary to fight. Of course, some people thought more, for example, they would think, why only two aircraft carriers were discovered? What about other aircraft carriers? However, these questions were destined to have no effect in a short period of time. Betty was temporarily deprived of command, and the Japanese Navy aircraft carrier team, who was in the battle formation, only knew one word, that was "reckless"!

Accompanied by the roar of hundreds of engines, the Japanese naval carrier-based aircraft troops began their first round of aircraft carrier battles since their birth. Thousands of Japanese naval officers and soldiers watched these naval prides fly into the distance on the deck and on the bridge.

At the same time, the Japanese land-based twin-engine bomber troops that took off from the Talao Islands are also on their way to the battlefield. It has to be said that with the guidance and help of the British, the Japanese Navy has established a relatively complete communication and command system. The intelligence discovered by the reconnaissance aircraft is transported to the Joint Fleet flagship, and the Joint Fleet flagship can quickly forward the intelligence to the land-based communication station in the Talao Islands, which then passes the information to the land-based bomber team. Although there is a certain delay, no matter what, the Japanese can finally guide two rounds of aircraft to one target. Of course, this is not an advantage for this battle...

The news of the deployment of the Japanese aircraft fleet could not be hidden from the Americans. Although the Japanese Navy's fighter jets tried their best to disperse the surrounding US reconnaissance aircraft, it was really difficult to intercept a single target flying at a low altitude without radar guidance. (In the second battle, even with the strong technology and fleet strength of the US Navy, low-altitude single-aircraft penetration still had a certain success rate, let alone now.) Therefore, the US Navy's reconnaissance aircraft fleet smoothly told the US Zeppelin aircraft carrier that was far away hundreds of kilometers away. Just when Japan's first attack aircraft fleet took off, Zeppelin and Assault also released their own aircraft fleet!

It has to be said that compared with the Japanese, the German Air Force is more efficient in aircraft fleet formation. This does not mean that American pilots are more elite than Japanese. In fact, if we simply talk about the air combat in the team, both sides are only at a slight pound. After all, they are all a group of rookies who have never been on the battlefield... However, the Germans are now more efficient in the application of aviation teams. Unlike the Japanese who simply follow the British three-aircraft formation, the Germans used a 4-aircraft formation when forming teams. After the aircraft fleet takes off, each squadron leader first integrates his own squadron, and then the squadron flies to the predetermined assembly position, and the team leaders are grouped in squadrons as units.

Moreover, almost all the Japanese aircraft clusters were gathered at the same height. The entire German aircraft cluster was distributed in a vertical state in a height range. In this way, the entire aircraft cluster could be concentrated in the smallest possible airspace. After all, in this era, aircraft marshalling basically relies on eyes, radio coordination, etc., and it almost does not exist... (In fact, in the early stage of World War II, the internal communications of the Japanese Navy Fighter Forces Squadrons also rely on handwriting boards and gestures!)

So, the situation is very interesting now. If someone takes the God's perspective, he will find that a fleet of four Japanese aircraft carriers is flying towards the Constellation aircraft carrier, while the fleet released from Zeppelin and Assault is flying towards the Japanese fleet, and a triangle is formed between the three fleets!

"Send a signal to the Americans and ask all their planes to follow us." At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Lass was responsible for leading the fleet. After completing the formation of the two air fleets, he will lead the fleet to the Japanese fleet. Don't think that this kind of leadership task is simple. In fact, even in the second period, there were still many problems on the aircraft carrier due to guidance errors or the navigator's own mistakes. At this time, as an elite of the German Navy's Sea-based Air Force who had experienced many practical battles, it was reasonable for Lieutenant Colonel Lass to lead the entire fleet.

During actual flight, Lieutenant Colonel Lass must take into account the marshalling of the entire fleet and the concealment of the route. Fighters and attack aircraft have different speeds, and the fleet must maintain a relatively moderate speed. When approaching the target, the fighter troops also need to be divided into two parts. One is naturally used to restrain the opponent's interceptor fleet, while the other part is to cover the bomber in close proximity and is responsible for suppressing the enemy fleet's artillery fire during attack.

When will these two aircraft groups be separated, it is also a science. As for the cooperation between bombers and torpedo aircraft to attack each other and in what order to attack the opponent's warships, it is even more a science. After all, there are 4 targets, and they will also dodge, as well as escort warships and aircraft. To severely damage the aircraft carriers under the opponent's layers of defense, it undoubtedly requires a high level of tactics!

The attack wave composed of 120 aircraft used almost all the usable aircraft of two US aircraft carriers. After overdrawing all its combat effectiveness, the US Navy finally launched an attack wave with two aircraft carriers comparable to four Japanese aircraft carriers. However, this is almost a return to the Americans. From now on, there is almost no cover over the two US aircraft carriers!

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