Six hundred and forty seventh pierce the sky
Zhou Zhihan opened his transparent helmet and guided him. The No. 214 wild horse was like a winged horse, galloping in the storm and rain, and wherever he went, he brought a wide rain curtain.
The sound of rain, sea breeze and the background sound of the sea completely drowns the roar of the wild horse.
When there were still 650 nautical miles from the Japanese coastline, No. 214 Mustang discovered that there were several Japanese patrol boats one after another, and the defense line was recovered in an orderly manner at a distance of thirty nautical miles.
When 400 nautical miles away from Japan, Zhou Zhihan discovered many Japanese fishing boats.
This is very strange.
In such a harsh climate, Japanese fishing boats can be found, and the distance between these fishing boats is very layered. What’s even more strange is that these fishing boats did not return due to strong winds and waves, but were moving forward slowly, which is the opposite of the patrol boat’s tracks.
Could it be that the Japanese sent fishing boats to carry out the first-level investigation network? It is very likely that these fishing boats are equipped with radio stations or communicators.
This is very likely.
If you want to raid, you must find a way to get these fishing boats buried under the sea.
As he was about to enter the enemy array radar area, No. 214 Mustang pulled up the radar and quickly arrived over the pillar island. Zhou Zhihan turned off the engine and slowly circled and descended in the heavy rain, taking in the Japanese fleet.
At this time, the Japanese radar had no idea that a wild horse was above its head, and the radar band was moving forward instead of directly upward...
The carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier is ready. The five destroyers are also in place and ready to set off at any time.
Thirty nautical miles north of the pillar island, the aircraft carrier formation of [Ruihe] has also been assembled, [Miaogao], [Yuhei] heavy cruisers and [Bailu], [Shiyu], [Youming], [Thao], [Shu], [Wangyue] destroyers are ready to go.
There are 9 other submarines, 96 land-based fighters and 112 bombers that can take off at any time and encircle the incoming American combat groups.
At this time, the command room of the Yamato battleship was still brightly lit. Yamamoto Iroku and his combat staff were still immersed in beautiful fantasies. The US aircraft carrier formation was stepping into the net step by step. This time they were going to face the US military head-on, so that the two US aircraft carriers would be wiped out.
The No. 214 wild horse circled quietly in the rain above the Japanese combined fleet. Zhou Zhihan could see Yamamoto with white hair. If he hadn't been worried that exposure would cause disaster to the US fleet, he would have sent Yamamoto to the ghost club in advance.
Sure enough, the Japanese army discovered that the US fleet was coming towards the east.
But judging from the current trends of the Japanese army, Yamamoto probably did not expect the US military to come so quickly.
According to the speed of the aircraft carrier, the US military is now less than 1,000 nautical miles from the coast of Japan. If the Japanese army wants to encircle or block the US military 400 to 500 nautical miles away from Japan, they should set out several hours ago.
The aircraft carrier needs a series of allocations to reach the designated sea area to form the strongest combat power and defense power. At this time, the Japanese army did not move, which was obviously an intelligence error and the arrival time of the US fleet was calculated incorrectly.
The aircraft carrier needs to be started in advance before departure. This process takes at least six or seven hours. Zhou Zhihan saw that the [Flying Dragon aircraft carrier] and the heavily patroled chimneys did not smoke, which means that the Japanese army could not leave the sea in recent hours.
Yamamoto, the old dog miscalculated... Zhou Zhihan was secretly happy. The old dog was worried that the US military would be reconnaissance when it was dispatched too early, so he stopped moving. Thinking of this, Zhou Zhihan turned around and returned.
On the way back, Zhou Zhihan observed that the Japanese patrol boats stopped when they retreated to a position of 460 nautical miles from Japan, which shows that the Japanese defense circle was 500 nautical miles, and compared with before, they retreated more than 100 nautical miles.
After analyzing, Zhou Zhihan confirmed that Yamamoto miscalculated this time. He believed that the US fleet would not reach its designated position on the 19th, and would release carrier-based aircraft at night and bomb East Era.
The 214 Mustang landed on the Bumblebee.
Seeing Zhou Zhihan come back, Haksey, Doolittle and others who were waiting in the captain's room stood up to greet him. After listening to Zhou Zhihan's intelligence, everyone was glad that this super ace was participating in this raid. The information he brought back this time was too important.
"The Japanese obviously didn't expect us to come so quickly," Haxi said as the wind and rain were still raging outside, "should we change our tactics?"
As he said that, Haksey walked to the tactical board, changed the route outside the aircraft carrier of [Enterprise] and rushed straight to the direction of the Pillar Island: "Since the Japanese's judgment was wrong, let's take a plan. [Bunny] continued to move forward as planned and bomb the East Era. [Enterprise] took the initiative to attack the Japanese off guard, and raided the bomb island base, so that they could lose sight of each other."
Lieutenant General Haxie's plan was so bold that it scared everyone. No one spoke for a long time, and he stared at the commander blankly.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Haxie took a pipe in his mouth and took a few sips: "The Japanese believe that we came to bomb East Era, and anyone else would think so.
But they would never have expected that we would suddenly split into two groups halfway, heading straight east and attacking Zhudao Island.
When the battle started, [Bunny] released the bomber and quickly moved closer to [Enterprise]. After all the carrier-based aircraft were released, the two aircraft carriers quickly retreated at full speed. All carrier-based aircraft tried to throw the bombs and torpedoes during the first wave of attacks. At this time, the east elevation direction was bombed, and Japan's land-based fighter jets would definitely defend against the east elevation and give up chasing our carrier-based aircraft and aircraft carrier formations."
Dulite said: "I am sorry, General! This is a bit of a risk. If the Japanese find us after dawn, then the [Company Number] will be like diving into their encirclement, without even the chance to turn around."
Haksey said proudly: "Then we won't let them discover it. We ordered the submarine to suddenly come, and as long as the Japanese fishing boats and patrol boats were found, they would sink quickly. This danger is very worth taking. If we come to the door of the Japanese, if we don't beat them, we will all regret it in the future."
Doolittle still looked worried and pondered for a while and said, "Even if we use submarines to sink the enemy's speedboats and fishing boats, what should we do with the enemy's reconnaissance plane?"
Zhou Zhihan said: "I can take off early and shoot down the enemy's reconnaissance planes to buy time for the fleet."
A combat staff member said: "However, there is a specified contact time between the reconnaissance aircraft and the fleet. If you do not receive information about the reconnaissance aircraft for a long time, the enemy will definitely be suspicious."
Haxi said: "In the current maritime information technology, Japan is far behind the United States, and it is common for the United States to lose contact between reconnaissance aircraft and fleets, let alone Japan.
All sneak attacks take risks, for example, the Japanese sneak attacks on Pearl Harbor is a good example of a battle.
After the Pearl Harbor incident, American experts analyzed that we had at least six or seven opportunities to discover the Japanese's attempts and could make the Japanese doomed, but the incident happened in the end.
This shows that when people think something is absolutely impossible, it has already developed in a direction that can be successful."
Everyone stopped talking.
Yes, even the Japanese dare to take risks, why don’t we?
Chapter completed!