Chapter 1466 B-25 Assists the Battle

As a result, the Stukas at the back could only continue to pile up. On the front deck, the zero battles were lifted up from the hangar below.

Due to the limited deck volume of the aircraft carrier, it is impossible to stack all the carrier-based aircraft on the deck, and the most terrifying thing is that the aircraft carriers of the island countries do not have side lifts. Their aircraft carriers are all on the middle deck. Middle and rear three lifts.

In this way, when they lift the carrier aircraft, the aircraft behind cannot be released.

Otherwise, they only need to lift the zero battle from the broadside, and at this time, the Stuka on the rear deck will be released at the same time, and the efficiency will be greatly improved.

When the zero war was lifted out, it started quickly, leaning on the front deck part, the zero war was at full power, and successfully flew away on the aircraft carrier that turned against the wind.

One, two...

In normal times, they would only fly four or five Zeros to patrol the formation, but now, they need to release all Zeros quickly and efficiently!

This is a race against time. They want to compete with the Americans for time. As long as all the zero battles are released before the arrival of the American attack aircraft group, a dense protective net will be organized over the aircraft carrier formation. The Americans want to wear If you penetrate your own protective net, you will have to pay a huge price, and a few fish that slip through the net will also be eliminated by the anti-aircraft artillery.

Finally, all the zero battles were released, and Nagumo Chuichi calmed down a little. He looked at the densely packed Stuka bombers at the rear of the deck, and always felt that something was wrong.

Are these bombers flying now, or are they waiting for information?

If they are released now, the target has not yet been determined, where should they fly? If waiting for information, shouldn't they put them back in the hangar first and clear the rear deck? Otherwise, the aircraft carrier will not be able to carry out recovery operations.

At this time, he suddenly remembered the German aircraft carrier, which had a displacement of nearly 30,000 tons and a much larger deck area than his own. The most important thing was the angled deck, so that takeoff and landing would not affect each other. It was a genius idea.

It's a pity that our own aircraft carrier is too late to modify, and we can only wait for the newly designed aircraft carrier.

Just as he was waiting, the eager conversations of the pilots could be heard on the radio, and from time to time there would be the sound of roaring machine guns, the zero-fight scrambled, and the carrier-based aircraft that had come to attack. fight.

Fortunately, our reconnaissance plane discovered it in time, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous!

For interception, the longer the distance, the safer it is. If you intercept at a long distance, you can intercept each other in multiple batches. If it is too close, there is only one chance. The air defense circle of the American aircraft carrier is almost 500 kilometers away, which is such reasons.

And now, after the emergency takeoff, Zero War intercepted the target at a distance of almost 100 kilometers away, which gave the fleet a great buffer. At this time, they don't have to worry about American aircraft breaking through the interception for the time being. When the net comes, they can also speed up, turn around, and leave the place of right and wrong.

The sea breeze blew on Nagumo Chuichi's face, and his thoughts suddenly recovered. Just now, there was a thought that he couldn't grasp, but now the lightning flashed out in an instant.

The Americans must have discovered their formation in advance, otherwise why would they take off and attack so early?

The ones coming from the north are the carrier-based aircraft released by the US aircraft carrier. So, will the US attack only have this wave?

of course not!

There are also many American military bases in the Hawaiian Islands in the southeast of our own side. The Americans have deployed a large number of aircraft here. It is because they fooled the Americans that the target is the Aleutian Islands, so they can be regarded as mobilizing these aircraft.

And now that the American aircraft carrier formations have all returned to aid, what about the various aircraft that the Americans mobilized to the Aleutian Islands?

Thinking of this, he felt that the hairs on his back were about to stand up. Just after all the zero battles were released, they didn't leave a few as backup forces!

"Take off four Stukas, unload the bombs, and escort them in the airspace of the aircraft carrier." He immediately gave the order.

As a professional dive bomber, Stuka's combat performance is very poor, but it is also an aircraft after all.

When receiving this order, the people on deck were still very strange, but they did not question and immediately made preparations before takeoff.

Stuka is full of bombs. Now, they have to dismantle the bombs before they can fly. Since there is no place, the dismantled bombs are piled on the deck first.

A deck operator guided the Stuka bomber to the take-off area, and in full concentration, the deck lookout sent out a loud cry: "American bomber!"

Suddenly, in the clouds to the southeast of our side, a pair of twin-engine American bombers emerged!

They swooped down in black, and there were definitely more than a hundred of them!

This is an old acquaintance of the people of the island country. In the first counterattack of the United States, the B-25 Mitchell bomber took off from the aircraft carrier resolutely!

An excellent twin-engine bomber undertakes the duties of a generalist, and the B-25 bomber is also similar. Up to now, the United States has equipped thousands of this aircraft, and there are more than 200 in the Pacific Fleet.

They were originally stationed in Hawaii, but were later transferred to the Aleutian Islands. Just last night, despite their exhaustion, they drove the bomber back to Hawaii overnight. Then, without resting for two hours, they received news of the discovery of the island nation's aircraft carrier formation. So, they drove the bomber again, flew over 800 kilometers, and found the aircraft carrier formation of the islanders.

At this time, their chance to catch up was just right. The aircraft carrier formation of the islanders, all the zero battles were entangled with the navy carrier aircraft, so that the air defense force here was extremely empty, and they could take advantage of it!

"Quick, take off Stuka, take off Stuka immediately!" There was chaos everywhere on the decks of the two aircraft carriers.

Too late to unload the bomb, the pilot pushed the throttle to the head, and with the roar of the roaring engine, Stuka rolled from the front of the deck, took off, and while climbing, it dropped the bomb it was carrying, and wanted to go to the United States. The direction of the bomber flew away.

Unfortunately, the number is too small. Before the arrival of the American bombers, the take-off of a few Stukas was not helpful at all.

The B-25 bomber can also dive bomb, which is the same as the German Junker-88, which belongs to the role of a panacea, but this time, they did not plan to dive in under the dense anti-aircraft fire. They have been practicing for several months. new tactics.