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Chapter 266: The Flying Dragon Riding on the Face Also Lost!

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    After the U.S. planes withdrew, the Japanese army quickly started self-rescue. The damage control teams on the Soryu and Kaga turned on the water pumps to draw seawater to extinguish the fire on the deck. The uninjured crew members also joined the firefighting ranks with fire extinguishing tools.

    ?  Because it was not hit in the core area, and the fire was put out immediately, the fire on the Kaga was effectively controlled after ten minutes.  But Canglong's luck was not so good. The fire on the deck quickly spread to the hangar area below along the destroyed elevator, detonating torpedoes and aerial bombs that had not been transferred in time.  The continuous explosions left most of the hangar area devastated, and most of the damage control personnel responsible for fighting the fire were also killed.

    These two reasons directly accelerated the spread of the fire, but fortunately, the core area of ??the Canglong was not attacked by the fire, and the hull was large enough.  As far as the Canglong is concerned, it is just a disease of ringworm and scabies, and it will not cause any serious impact for the time being.

    The damage to the four destroyers "Hagaze", "Nofen", "Arashikaze" and "Dancing Wind" affected by the explosion of the Akagi was not serious, and after emergency repairs, they all recovered their combat capabilities.

    While rescuing the injured warship, the destroyers in the Japanese fleet also put down more than a dozen lifeboats to search for survivors in the explosion area of ??the Akagi. Nagumo Tadaichi, who had been soaking in sea water for nearly fifteen minutes, was quickly rescued and was rescued.  The shock wave from the explosion injured his body, and Nagumo Tadaichi, who had exhausted a lot of physical strength, passed out immediately after being pulled onto the lifeboat.

    Upon learning of this situation, Major General Yamaguchi Tamon, the only captain of the Hiryu aircraft carrier that was not seriously damaged, and the then commander of the Second Air Force Squadron of the Japanese Combined Fleet (commanding the Soryu and Hiryu aircraft carriers), made a statement to Yamamoto Fifty  In the case of Liu's report, he immediately announced that he would take over the command.

    As the leader of the new generation of the Japanese Navy, Yamaguchi Tamon did not give up the attack because of the sinking of the Akagi and the heavy damage to the Soryu and Kaga. On the contrary, he believed that the U.S. military would definitely relax its vigilance after achieving such results.  , And this is the decisive opportunity for the Japanese army to launch a counterattack.

    Yamaguchi Tamon, while sending power to Yamamoto Fifty-Six in the name of Nagumo Chuichi, continued to ask him to lead the main fleet to come to support, and at the same time contacted the reconnaissance plane on the Tone, which had discovered the US aircraft carrier, and ordered him to continue monitoring the US aircraft carrier's movements.

    However, the reconnaissance plane replied: "The fuel is low, I want to return." Yamaguchi wanted him to persist and wait until the replacement reconnaissance plane arrived before returning, but the pilot flatly refused. In desperation, Yamaguchi had no choice but to  He agreed to his request, and immediately asked the Chikuma to send a reconnaissance plane to the waters where the US fleet is located, trying to find the US aircraft carrier and continue to monitor.

    At 9:40, the fire on the Kaga aircraft carrier was completely extinguished, and the damage control team began to repair the deck. Although the fire on the Soryu was still raging, the fire was under control, and the fire was gradually decreasing. I completed the loading of 18 aircraft  Type 99 dive bombers, 10 Type 97 torpedo attack aircraft, and 12 Type Zero fighters took off from the Hiryu one after another, forming a fleet and flying towards the direction where the US fleet was discovered.  After clearing space for landing, Hiryu began to receive the escort fleet that had run out of fuel.

    At ten o'clock, after emergency repairs, the Kaga, which was barely ready for aircraft to take off and land, also began to receive escorted Zero fighters.  The aircraft carrier capacity of the Japanese aircraft carrier was small. The two aircraft carriers could not hold all the escort aircraft, but they could not just watch them fall into the sea.  Occupying part of the space on the landing deck, more than 60 Zeros were able to land.

    In order to make up for the protective gap in the refueling and reloading of the escort fighter jets, Yamaguchi Tamon ordered the fleet to change its formation to form a new protective formation with the aircraft carrier in the center and battleships, cruisers, and destroyers deployed one after another around it.

    Yamaguchi Duowen's remedial action seems to have brought the battle back to its original point.  All the Japanese officers and soldiers of the Aviation Mobile Fleet believed that as long as the main fleet could arrive as soon as possible to restore their strength, then the victory of this battle must still belong to the Great Japanese Empire.

    It's a pity that things backfired. After receiving the call for help from Nagumo Chuichi and Yamaguchi Tamon, Yamamoto Fifty-Six did not take any action, neither let the main fleet approach, nor let the aviation mobile fleet retreat.

    Moreover, the terminator of the Japanese aviation mobile fleet has also been killed.

    Ten five minutes past ten.  With a huge roar, seventeen b-17 heavy bombers rushed out of the clouds and appeared above the Japanese fleet.

    The 17 B-17s that took off from Midway Island were a full lag behind the previous two batches of dive bombers and torpedo planes due to their slow speed and the mistakes of the navigators.It took half an hour to arrive, but it was precisely because of this that they had the opportunity to launch the deadliest attack on the Japanese fleet.

    After spotting the U.S. bombers, the remaining 8 Zero fighters in the sky immediately pulled up to fight. The Zero pilots on the aircraft carrier who had just rested for a while rushed out and threw down the rice balls and canned beef in their hands and ran to the deck.  But when they got to the place, they found that the deck of the aircraft carrier at this time was even more crowded than the second ring road in Beijing during the morning and evening peak hours 70 years later.  Room to move.

    The troublesome thing is that several Zero fighters actually parked on the take-off and landing deck, and they parked with their noses facing inward, which meant that they needed to be turned 180 degrees, and after they took off, the follow-up  Aircraft have room to take off and land.  But on this crowded deck, it is not easy to turn these planes around.

    As the saying goes, man is not as good as heaven is. Such a coincidence happened in such an important battle, and it happened one after another. It can only show that even God, the old man, wants these bandy legs who believe in Amaterasu to perish.

    Just as these Japanese pilots were studying how to make the plane turn around like a car, 17 B-17s came over their heads with a huge roar.

    The Japanese anti-aircraft firepower was still fierce, but those 25mm anti-aircraft shells and 13.2mm anti-aircraft bullets were unable to cause any substantial damage to the "air fortresses" flying at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters and with thick skin and flesh.

    The American bombardier in the cabin of the first b-17 pressed the release button amidst the sound of clanging bullets hitting the outer wall of the aircraft.

    Forty 200-kilogram aerial bombs fell one after another, raining down on the Kaga aircraft carrier below.  Although high-altitude bombers like the b17 are not suitable for attacking moving targets like warships, and their hit rate is incomparable with those of dive bombers and torpedo bombers, as the saying goes, the hit rate is not enough, and the number is small.  There will be a few hits, and for the thin-skinned Japanese aircraft carrier, let alone a few hits, just one hit is enough for it to drink a pot.

    This B-17 was lucky, a total of six aerial bombs hit the deck of the Kaga.  An explosion of orange flames rose into the air, and six huge holes appeared on the deck that had just been repaired.  The high-explosive aerial bomb carrying 200 kilograms of high explosives formed a death zone with a range of more than 200 meters at the moment of explosion. In this range, whether it is a person or an aircraft, it will be melted by ultra-high temperature in an instant.

    The violent explosions detonated the bombs and torpedoes on the deck. After a series of violent explosions, the entire deck became a sea of ??flames. The crew and pilots who were in a hurry to move the plane just now disappeared under the impact of the explosion flames.  The violent explosion also blew up all the part of the bridge above the flight deck, and all the main officers on board including the captain, Colonel Okada Jisaku, died on the spot.

    After blowing up the Kaga into a sea of ??flames, the b-17s divided into two teams and flew towards the Hiryu and Canglong respectively.  At this time, they were in the center of the Japanese fleet, all the anti-aircraft weapons were pouring shells at them desperately, and the escorting Zero fighter jets also moved back and forth at the maximum speed, launching the craziest attack on them.

    Such desperation and madness soon paid off-four b-17s were torn to pieces by dense shells in the air, and three were hit by the engine and crashed into the sea with black smoke.

    Upon seeing this, the commander of the US aircraft formation immediately ordered to stop the attack, and led the formation to climb up and escape quickly. However, they did not return, but hid in the clouds, preparing to look for an opportunity to attack the Japanese fleet again.

    At this moment, Yamaguchi Tamon suddenly ordered the Japanese ships outside the Hiryu to quickly disperse. A gap appeared in the originally tight protective circle, and then the Hiryu drove out of the fleet formation along the gap. The battleship Kirishima, Tone  , the heavy cruiser Chikuma and five destroyers also left, and this small fleet quickly headed north at a speed of 30 knots.

    The departure of Hiryu and other ships caused chaos in the formation of the Japanese mobile fleet, but also severely weakened its protective capabilities. The remaining battleship Haruna, light cruiser Nagara, and the damaged "Hagikaze" and "Nofen"  The five destroyers including "Arashikaze", "Arashikaze", and "Dancing Kaze" simply cannot undertake the task of providing air defense cover for Soryu and Kaga.

    The b-17 bomber group hiding in the clouds will miss this opportunity!  Compared with the Hiryu fleet that was leaving at high speed and difficult to attack, the Kaga and Soryu that were on fire were simply perfect targets.  Therefore, the commander of the U.S. aircraft formation pushed the joystick without hesitation, and led the aircraft group to fly towards the Japanese ship that stayed in place.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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