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The result of this wave of attacks was that the Bumblebee was severely damaged:

The aircraft carrier was hit by two torpedo and three bombs, and two other fighter jets successfully crashed into the "Green Huang Peak", which made the "Hornet" unable to operate on the sea.

It should be said that this depends on the protection of the US aircraft carrier armor, otherwise it would have sunk under such a blow.

The US Navy conducted emergency rescue of the Hornet, pumping water to change its inclination from 10 degrees to 2 degrees, but even so, it still cannot move and cannot receive the fighter plane.

The Japanese aviation army also paid a heavy price for the attack: there were 53 fighter jets participating in the attack, and only 29 of them escaped from the battlefield... Escape from the battlefield does not mean that they can successfully return. Among them, 14 of them had to land on the sea due to injuries and other reasons, so only 15 survived.

Later, the US Navy learned that the reason why the Japanese army fought so hard when attacking the Hornet was, on the one hand, to win the victory, and on the other hand, to revenge...

The Japanese army monitored the US radio communications. They confirmed from the communications sent by Griffin that the US military had two aircraft carriers in combat, and they also judged that one of them was the "Hornet"... When the US military contacted each other, they used code names, and they used "harvester" to refer to the "Enterprise" aircraft carrier and "blue" aircraft carrier. When the Japanese aviation force bombed the US aircraft carrier, the US military kept mentioning "blue".

The Japanese intelligence department speculated from the pilot's description of the aircraft carrier that this aircraft carrier, known as "Blue", is likely to be the "Hornet".

This is amazing because the US Navy once bombed Tokyo with the "Hornet" aircraft carrier... But at this time, the Japanese army had the opportunity to avenge a single arrow.

So the Japanese army immediately launched a second wave of attacks.

The second wave of attacks included 9 Zero fighters, 19 carrier-based bombers and 17 torpedoes... The reason for sending 17 torpedoes with all torpedoes was to destroy the target in one fell swoop and completely sink the Hornet.

However, this wave of Japanese aircraft fleet was not used to attack the "Bumblebee".

Because when the Japanese bomber group commander Major Guan Wei saw the "Hornet", he judged that it had suffered serious losses in combat effectiveness, the important thing now is to attack another US aircraft carrier.

This is of course correct.

First of all, the intelligence confirms that the US military has two aircraft carriers. If another US aircraft carrier is injured or sunk, it means that all US carrier-based aircraft cannot take off or land, and the US military will only be beaten at that time.

Secondly, another US aircraft carrier has an attack power, and for the sake of its own aircraft carrier, it should also attack another US aircraft carrier.

At this time, Major Guan Wei was actually just thinking that he might as well give it a try. If he could find another US aircraft carrier smoothly, then fight. If he couldn't find it... it would not be too late to turn around and sink the Hornet. Anyway, the Hornet has lost its navigation ability and will not be able to escape for a while.

So Major Guan Wei took the group to search south.

At this time, the initial mistake made by the US Navy was revealed here. The two aircraft carrier battle groups were only ten nautical miles apart... This made the Japanese aircraft group discover the "Enterprise" aircraft carrier without much effort.

What's worse is that because the Hornet aircraft carrier was severely damaged, the fighter jets sent to attack the Japanese aircraft carrier returning could not dock on the Hornet, and they could only land on the Enterprise, which made the Enterprise aircraft carrier "overwhelmed" and busy.

Fortunately, because of the "overflow of aircraft", there were more than 20 fighter jets stranded in the air. So when they found that the Japanese fleet rushed towards the "Enterprise", these fighter jets took the initiative to meet and intercept.

The other three bombers piloted by Master Guan Wei were shot down immediately, and the remaining bombers launched an attack on the Enterprise through thick anti-aircraft artillery.

The first bomber dropped a high-explosive bomb.

I don’t know if it was because of the fuse problem or the angle problem. After hitting the flight deck, the bomb jumped up and flew out of the starboard side and exploded in the air, so it did not cause much damage to the aircraft carrier.

The second bomber threw out a half armor-piercing bomb.

The bomb landed at the center of the flight deck 10 feet behind the front elevator, and penetrated the flight deck and exploded on the hangar deck and caught fire... The explosion instantly destroyed six "Dreadnought" bombers, and more than ten people in a maintenance team were killed. Fortunately, these fighter planes parked in the hangar were not loaded with oil, so the fire was controlled soon after.

A high-explosive bomb dropped by the third bomber exploded at the starboard tail, causing a "wildcat" fighter to fall from the aircraft carrier, and three "Dreadnought" bombers caught fire and were pushed into the sea by the crew.

The next "Enterprise" was as helpful as the attacks of the 11 Japanese torpedo planes... Perhaps this is because most of the pilots of the Japanese torpedo planes were novices. They hurriedly dropped the torpedo without any correctness due to the attacks of the "Wild Cat" fighter jets and the US fleet's air defense firepower, or the captain of the "Enterprise" aircraft carrier, Hardison, was in good command. The 11 Japanese torpedo planes launched a total of eight torpedoes, but all of these eight torpedoes were avoided by the "Enterprise" angle.

As we all know, the Japanese torpedo is very powerful. When it hits an aircraft carrier, it can always cause a series of chain reactions. For example, after the "Hornet" is hit by a torpedo, it loses its navigation ability and its hull is tilted, making it become waste that cannot receive fighter jets and completely loses its combat effectiveness.

This is also the reason why the Japanese army sent so many torpedo planes on board.

Just one torpedo hits the Enterprise.

Just one...

Then the "Enterprise" is likely to be unable to receive the fighter jets because of the water inlet of the hull, so the Japanese army can win a complete victory in this battle... Since the US aircraft carrier is too far away from Saint-Espirito Island, this will cause all air-stagnant fighters to land on the sea, which will be a problem of losing hundreds of fighter jets and at least dozens of pilots' lives.

But fortunately, the "Enterprise" survived under the attack of the Japanese army.

The only loss caused by the Japanese torpedo aircraft to the US Navy fleet was that a torpedo aircraft that had been injured and caught fire crashed into the USS Smith destroyer. It landed on the mount of the second anti-aircraft gun in front of the bridge... In an instant, the aircraft's aviation fuel exposed by the fighter ignited a fire, and then the torpedo exploded, causing the entire front of the destroyer to fall into a sea of ​​fire.
Chapter completed!