The Dafeng aircraft carrier is an aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of more than 34ooo tons in just three months in service. This displacement is even more than one thousand tons heavier than the "Xianghe" known as the "Ideal Fleet aircraft carrier", which is now the "Pinghai" in the hands of the Chinese Navy.

But this does not mean that the "Dafeng" can carry more carrier-based aircraft than the "Xianghe"...

Unlike other Japanese naval aircraft carriers, the "Dafeng" is preparing to support other aircraft carriers in the fleet, and does not use the number of carrier-based aircraft carriers as the most priority indicator, but rather puts the protection of the ship in place, focusing on improving defense.

Simply put, when the Japanese Navy built this aircraft carrier, it considered that it might lose air supremacy on the Pacific battlefield, so the aircraft carrier may suffer from fierce bombing from the American air force... Before this, because the Japanese army was very confident in its "Zero" fighter jet, the armor of the aircraft carrier was very weak, and a large amount of weight was used to load carrier-based aircraft and fuel supply to the maximum extent, so that in actual combat, just an aviation bomb would make the Japanese aircraft carrier lose its combat effectiveness.

Under this consideration, a considerable part of its displacement is used on protective armor, such as 75mm thick armor laid on the flight deck, and 2omm special steel plates under it, which can resist the bombing of 5oo kilograms of bombs. There are also protective armor arranged under the waterline with inclined arrangement.

This is also the reason why the "Dafeng" was selected as the flagship by Jisaburo Ozawa, and it is also the reason why the "Dafeng" was hit by the US military torpedo but was not seriously injured.

However, the focus at this time is far from being as simple as oil and gas leakage... Ozawa Shisaburo soon realized that his fleet might face unprecedented danger.

The US submarines have already fired torpedoes at their flagships, which means that the US military must know the position of the main force of the Japanese joint fleet. On the other hand, the US military has a large number of new fighter jets, which were proven to have an overwhelming advantage against the Japanese "Zero" fighter jets in the morning's battle. In other words, the more than 200 fighter jets left by the Japanese army now are almost worth mentioning in front of the new fighter jets of the US military.

Then... the US military will definitely take this opportunity to attack the Japanese Joint Fleet in large numbers.

When he thought of this, Ozawa Shisaburo couldn't help but burst into cold sweat, so he immediately ordered: "Order, all ships turn and head towards the second attack position!"

The reason he ordered to sail to the second attack position instead of returning north was because Jisaburo Ozawa was still unwilling to admit his failure. He also wanted to rely on his only small number of fighter jets to launch a new round of attacks on the US fleet again.

"Lieutenant General!" reminded the staff officer: "The 'Dafeng' is still under emergency repair..."

"There's no time!" Ozawa Jisaburo ordered: "Repair during the voyage!"

"yes!"

So the "Dafeng" dragged the hull that was leaking oil and gas... This was really helpless. If you don't do this, it almost means that the entire fleet would accompany the "Dafeng" to wait for the US fighter jets to bomb. Or the Japanese army could also leave the "Dafeng" behind, but how could the Japanese army, which was seriously lacking in materials and equipment, be willing to leave this aircraft carrier that seems to be not very bad and has combat effectiveness? Moreover, the "Dafeng" was also loaded with 75 fighters... 27 ship battles, 27 ship explosions, 18 ship attacks and 3 reconnaissance aircraft.

So, on the surface, Ozawa's order was still correct, and at this time he had only this choice.

Moreover, the "Dafeng" sailed with injuries and seemed to be without any problems... the degree could still reach a relatively ideal festival, so Ozawa almost forgot the "Dafeng" injury.

As a result, five hours later, the "Dafeng" suddenly exploded again, and the explosion threw Ozawa, who was resting on the bed.

"Bastard!" Ozawa cursed: "Damn American ghost beast!"

Ozawa thought it was another torpedo shot by an American submarine that hit the Big Phoenix, but he soon realized that the situation was much more serious than he thought.

"Lieutenant General!" The counselor ran in panic and reported: "The front of the bow... an explosion occurred due to oil and gas leak!"

This should be an inevitable result. The oil and gas leakage has not been repaired in time. The aircraft carrier navigation has aggravated the diffusion of oil and gas. Moreover, the diffused oil and gas are still enclosed in the hull. When the concentration becomes higher and higher... any spark can cause an explosion.

"What?" Only then did Ozawa realize that the oil and gas leakage problem had never been solved.

In fact, this is also the hard work of the staff to command Ozawa's operations, so he thought that small problems like oil and gas leakage would no longer need to worry about Lieutenant General, and he could find the leak location privately and solve it. Who would have thought that the final result would be like this...

Ozawa was just about to be angry, but unexpectedly, another explosion was heard, and the violent shock caused Ozawa and the staff to fall down again... This time it was even more serious, and the oil and gas explosion detonated the former ammunition depot.

"Lieutenant General!" the staff officer shouted: "Please transfer quickly!"

Ozawa could only sigh and lower his head.

Then Ozawa hurriedly moved on to the heavy cruiser "Yuhei". Not long after, the "Dafeng" sank into the sea from the sight of the Japanese officers and soldiers. More than 60 Japanese soldiers and more than 70 fighter jets sank to the bottom of the sea with the "Dafeng" sank to the bottom of the sea. The Japanese officers and soldiers stood on the side of the ship and watched quietly, and then took off their military caps one by one.

This is not only the sinking of an aircraft carrier. What sinks is also the hope of the Japanese army to defeat the enemy, but also represents the inability to recover from the Japanese joint fleet.

After evaluating the "Dafeng" incident... Ozawa Jisaburo obviously had serious mistakes in command.

The reason is that the most precious thing for the Japanese army at this time should be fighter jets rather than aircraft carriers... After the Mariana Naval Battle, the Japanese army had many aircraft carriers but did not have enough fighter jets to be carrier-based aircraft. The aircraft carrier without carrier-based aircraft was even stronger than destroyers. The reason why it was stronger was because it had many anti-aircraft guns on it and could be used. Therefore, the Japanese army even used aircraft carriers as bait.

Therefore, after knowing that the "Dafeng" was injured, the most important thing Ozawa should do was to transfer the fighter jets and personnel to other aircraft carriers and abandon the "Dafeng"... It was indeed a treasure when there were carrier-based aircraft, but when the carrier-based aircraft was seriously insufficient, it was just an iron knot, and it was not worth the carrier-based aircraft and other ships and personnel to take risks with this iron knot.
Chapter completed!