Chapter 360: Tune the Tiger to Leave the Mountain
"Get out of the battle!" Zhang Chi ordered the fighter troops that were still fighting the Japanese army in the air: "Turn the target to Tinian Island and attack the bombers that the Japanese army landed at the airport and were preparing to reload the bomb!"
"Yes!" Zhang Junhua was stunned when he heard this, but he still conveyed the order.
You should know that a large part of the Chinese and US naval fleet is covered by air fighters. It is precisely because of the powerful and powerful force of the "Hellcat" and "Wild Cats" of the Sino-US coalition forces that Japanese fighter jets and bombers must guard against the anti-aircraft guns of warships on one side, and when they fight, they will not be able to take into account both ends. Now Zhang Chi has transferred the fighter troops that cover the fleet to attack the enemy's airport... This will undoubtedly add a lot of pressure to the fleet.
But the facts prove that Zhang Chi's order is correct.
Because if this continues, the fighter jets will lose their effect entirely because of bullets. Since that is the case, why not let these fighter jets that seem to have some combat effectiveness open up another battlefield to confuse the Japanese and even add pressure to the Japanese army?!
So, more than 40 fighter jets, whether they had ammunition or had no ammunition, all flew towards the Japanese airport... At this time, the Japanese airport had already recognized their location very well. The reason was that in order to facilitate the landing of their own bombers, the Japanese army on Tinian Island no longer released smoke. The other was that Japanese bombers were constantly landing at the airport, and the fighter jets of the Sino-US coalition forces only needed to follow them.
Sure enough, the Japanese army fleet was quickly deceived.
In fact, this is not fooled... More than 40 fighter jets of the Sino-US coalition forces suddenly broke out of the fleet and flew towards Tinian Island. Fools also knew that their purpose was the Tinian Island Airport and the Japanese bombers landing at the airport.
This scared Harada Nakasa very much. You should know that those bombers landed at the airport to refuel and hang bombs. Not only are they easily hit, but they may also cause chain explosions to cause great losses and may even paralyze the airport.
Obviously, if this happens, the "Ah Battle" plan carefully formulated by the Japanese army will no longer be able to play, at least it will not be able to play in the direction of Tinian Island.
This was really something that Toyota Juntake or Kusato Ryunosuke did not expect... Although they knew that the new American fighter jets were very strong before, they never expected that the new American fighter opportunity was so strong that they could actually achieve an overwhelming victory with the Japanese "Zero" fighter jets having such a large number advantage. Not only that, they could also turn to attack Tinian Airport.
Toyota Mashop Takeshi and Kusato Ryusuke always thought that such a large number of zero battles could undoubtedly suppress the Chinese and American fighter jets, and then the bombers could return to Tinian Island in batches without any scruples to reload bombs to the targets and bomb them in turn until the targets were sunk to the bottom of the sea.
But it is obviously not the case.
The airport was in danger, and Harada Nakasa had to rescue him, so Harada Nakasa immediately ordered most of the Zero fighters to pursue the Chinese and American fighters to protect the airport... The second batch of Japanese fighters were mainly bombers and torpedoes. Only about 80 of the 175 aircraft were Zero, and these fighters lost more than 30 in the previous air battles, so the "most part" mentioned here actually had only more than 30.
This can also be said to be a regret of the Sino-US coalition forces. If their fighter jets had enough ammunition, I am afraid that they would be able to wipe out the Japanese army at this time.
As soon as the large Japanese fighter jet unit was transferred away, the pressure on the Chinese and American naval fleet was greatly reduced... There were only more than ten Zero fighter jets left over the fleet, and a large number of bombers had to go to Tinian Island to reload the bombs, so there were only more than forty Japanese fighter jets hovering in the nearby airspace.
On the other hand, the anti-aircraft gunners knew that their fighter planes had shifted their targets, which means that all the fighters in the air were Japanese fighters, so they did not identify the problem at all. It was right to catch a fighter plane and shoot it to death, but instead increased the chance of anti-aircraft guns shooting down enemy planes.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Chi ordered: "Air defense firepower concentrated on covering the Pinghai, and the fighter jets were ready to take off in an emergency!"
Zhang Junhua said "Oh", and only then did he truly understand Zhang Chi's intention.
After the order was issued, the air defense guns of each destroyer and even the escort aircraft carriers bombed and attacked the airspace around the "Pinghai". Several Japanese fighters trying to approach the "Pinghai" were instantly shot down. Seeing that the air defense firepower in this area was so strong, they could only temporarily avoid it.
Unexpectedly, when they avoided it, they found that fighter planes were flew out one after another from the "Pinghai".
Sahara Harada Nakasa couldn't believe his eyes. The enemy's fighter plane took off at this time... He vaguely felt that he was fooled by the enemy, but it was too late to regret it at this time, so he hurriedly ordered the fighter plane to suppress the "Pinghai".
But at this time, the Japanese army could not care about this side. When Harada was focusing on the "Pinghai", the US escort aircraft carrier suddenly took off a "Hellcat", and even the Sino-US coalition forces had another victory at the Tinian Island Airport... A "wildcat" fighter jet successfully blew up a Japanese ammunition truck, which was loaded with an aviation bomb that was about to load the Japanese fighter jets. On the spot, the explosion blew a large pit on the airport runway and overturned the two bombers landing nearby.
Haradanasa couldn't help but scream in his heart... He was very confident before going to war. You must know that in order to organize this attack, the Japanese army used a total of 326 fighter jets, accounting for three-fifths of the total number of Japanese fighter jets. Haradanasasamoto planned to win a complete victory with this powerful lineup and number advantage, that is, to complete the task of annihilation of the Seventh Detachment of China and the United States at the cost of no more than twenty fighter jets crashing. Only in this way can it be possible to fight other battles next.
But now...
Harada realized that even if he could complete the mission at this time, there were not many fighter planes left to go back, which means that the "A-O plan" had been declared failure.
The failure of the "A-A plan" will inevitably lead to the complete defeat of the Japanese army. Because Japan no longer has the ability to organize such a large-scale air battle, the failure in air battle determines the naval battle, and the naval battle determines the fate of Japan, the island country...
Thinking of this, Harada said to his deputy, Grand Secretary Yamaguchi on the walkie-talkie, "Yamaguchi, the troops will be given to you to command! Please!"
Then, Harada drove the fighter plane and rushed towards the escort aircraft carrier that was taking off the "Hellcat" fighter plane...
(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!