The "Pinghai" is a thorn in his eyes for the Japanese army. There is no need to say much about the reason. The "Pinghai" was originally the "Shokawa" of the Japanese army. It was modified after Rabaul was captured by Zhang Chi. This has always been regarded as a shame by the Japanese army, especially Koga Fengichi... Because the "Shokawa" was even captured by the Zhong** team in his hands, it was also his first defeat since he replaced Yamamoto Izuru to command the Japanese joint fleet and was also the biggest defeat. Many Japanese naval generals even determined that Koga Fengichi was inferior to Yamamoto Izuru. √

Therefore, Koga Fengyi sent two submarine ships to follow the "Pinghai" from the beginning, but because the "Pinghai" was on high alert both in the air and underwater, making the Japanese army unable to find an opportunity to start.

But now the opportunity has come...

At this time, the war on Kwajalin Island had reached its most critical and tense moment. Halsey once felt that the aircraft carriers in the direction of Kwajalin Island were not enough... In addition to protecting the Allies on the "Wolf Corner" from Japanese bombing, the fighter jets on the aircraft carrier had to ensure that they were not attacked by Japanese fighter jets.

In addition, the war on Wojie Island went smoothly, and Chinese troops had defeated the last line of defense of the Japanese army and occupied the entire island, so Wojie Island did not need so many aircraft carriers.

Which aircraft carrier should be transferred here?

Of course it was the "Pinghai", which was mainly because the main force on Kwajalin Island was still Chinese at this time. There would be no problem with the "Pinghai" being transferred to Kwajalin Island to be responsible for air supremacy. Halsey believed that this was more conducive to the coordination of various parts of Kwajalin Island, so not long after Zhang Chi arrived at Kwajalin Island, the "Pinghai" and its fleet group drove from Wojie Island to Kwajalin Island.

This undoubtedly gave the Japanese a chance, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to blow up the Pinghai. Because when the Pinghai was redirecting, its destroyer search range was small and relatively isolated, and the possibility of getting reinforcements from new US fighter jets was also small... The Japanese army observed the bombing of the Pinghai Island by the submarine ships, and knew that the carrier-based aircraft on the Pinghai were either old-style fighter jets. At this time, the Japanese army was afraid of the new US fighter jets, but the Japanese army did not take it seriously.

This is also one of the reasons why Koga Feng formulated the final counterattack plan of "Speaking East and Attacking West".

Koga Fengichi's idea is... If the "z" plan cannot continue and the Marshall Islands are destined to be captured by the US military, then he will also make the Sino-US coalition forces pay a little price.

And this price is the "Pinghai".

So Koga Fengyi gave the death order to the Nakaya Guardian Guards of Kwajalin Island, making them have to counterattack the Chinese troops at all costs to attract the attention of the Sino-US coalition forces. In order to make the US military believe that the Japanese war opportunity appeared over Kwajalin Island, Koga Fengyi also intends to send several fighter planes to appear outside Kwajalin Island, looking like they were reconnaissance and searching for US aircraft carriers.

Halsey was indeed fooled. He immediately sent a large number of fighter planes to the air to prepare for the battle, and all kinds of ships were ready to fight.

But at this time, all the remaining fighter jets of the Japanese army included 38 Type Zero fighters, 37 bombers and more than 23 torpedo aircraft, and the total number was 98 fighter jets all flew towards the "Pinghai".

Yamada Daoyu's fighter brigade has performed very well so far, at least for this reason... You should know that before the war, the total number of fighter jets in the fighter brigade was only 128, and there are still 98 fighters. After several battles, a total of fighter jets were lost. Among them, several of them were unable to take off due to failures. This is almost unimaginable when the quality of Japanese pilots has declined and the US military is equipped with the "Hellcat" fighter jets.

From this we can also see that Yamada's tactic of using fighter jets to fight guerrilla was very successful. If the Japanese army could implement this tactic, although it would not be possible to reverse the defeat... The United States has an atomic bomb, and from this point alone, it can be concluded that Japan's defeat was determined. However, Japan can extend the time of destruction as long as possible.

However, this tactic was not taken seriously in the Japanese army.

This is because the Marshall Islands were not defended in the end... The Japanese are accustomed to judging heroes by success or failure. Many naval generals were skeptical about this, which was: "If the tactic of 'dispersed guerrilla' is effective, why can't the Marshall Islands be defended?"

If this idea makes sense, then the other reason seems a bit stupid. Many Japanese naval generals oppose the "dispersed guerrilla" strategy, just because this tactic seems "cowardly and cowardly" and does not conform to the "Bushido spirit" of the Great Japanese Empire. So Japanese fighter jets still flew into the sky and "heroic" to confront the US military's "hellcats", and even drove fighter jets filled with explosives to crash into enemy warships.

These are all later stories.

At this time, the 98 Japanese fighter jets were divided into two waves in front and rear, flying towards the "Pinghai"... The first wave was mainly Zero fighter jets, supplemented by a small number of bombers and torpedoes, while the second wave was only a small number of Zero fighter jets, most of which were bombers and torpedoes.

The purpose of this arrangement is very obvious, that is, the pilots of the Chinese team lack combat experience and use all their strength to intercept their first wave. Therefore, the second wave of Japanese fighters can easily break through the enemy's defense circle and bomb the "Pinghai" when the enemy and us are in a difficult situation to distinguish.

Koga Fengichi believed that this bombing was sure to win because he knew clearly: although the Chinese troops fought well on the ground of 6, it was another matter in the air.

Of course, the Chinese troops also use the US military's "wildcat" fighter jets. However, on the one hand, even if the US pilots fly the "wildcat" fighter jets, they may not be the opponent of the Japanese fighter jets. On the other hand, the pilots of the China National Team will not be familiar with the performance of the "wildcat" fighter jets in such a short time.

More importantly, the Chinese team lacks combat experience.

This lack of combat experience not only refers to lack of air combat experience, but also experience in commanding aircraft carrier operations. At least Koga Fengichi was unable to find any examples of Chinese aircraft carrier operations... Before the "Pinghai", China did not even have aircraft carriers, so of course it was impossible for it to have combat experience.

So Koga Fengichi firmly believed that this time he could take revenge and wash away his shame.

In the words of Koga Fengichi, it is: "If we can sink the 'Shokra' number, then this battle will not be a failure!"

And Liu Guangzhong, Zhang Junhua and even Zhang Chi knew nothing about this.
Chapter completed!