The Annihilation of Chuichi Nagumo
Chapter 293:The Annihilation of Chuichi Nagumo
It is located in the sea about 450 kilometers northeast of Midway Island.
The First Squadron of the Eastern Blue Dragon Fleet is here, ready to enter the battle at any time.
The 2nd Squadron sailed on the sea 16 km north of the 1st Squadron.
The sea is blowing with a southeast wind of four nautical miles per hour, the sky is cloudy, the clouds are low, and the view is 19 kilometers.
Fleet commander Xu Xuebin, it is clear that at this distance, the Japanese patrol fighters on Midway Island will not find out at all, and the distance is outside the cruise range of Japanese fighters.
Xu Xuebin targeted the Japanese Joint Fleet that left Midway last night, and three early warning aircraft in the sky were searching for the Japanese Navy’s location.
At 5:34 a.m. that day, the AWACS sent the latest news: "Two aircraft carriers and many battleships."
And out of the position, distance, direction, speed.
On the command ship Qinglong, the staff officers recorded the information obtained on the drawing board.
On the map, information about the position of the Japanese squadron soon appeared, but unfortunately, this squadron was a little far from the Eastern Fleet.
At this distance, it is not suitable for carrier-based aircraft to carry out attacks.
And because of the relationship between the southeast wind, Xu Xuebin is not willing to adjust the direction of the fleet, is not willing to give up the advantage of taking off under the wind.
At 6.77 a.m., Xu Xuebin ordered the 1st Squadron: “Take the south-west, and attack as soon as the location of the enemy aircraft carrier is determined.”
At this time, the 1st Squadron was advancing at twenty-eight knots, and by 7 a.m. it was approaching the range of the carrier-based aircraft.
As the attack approached, the 1st Squadron turned to the wind, and the first fighter aircraft ascended on the deck of the aircraft carrier King Golden Dragon.
The Golden Dragon directly dispatched a full air force, with a total of 57 fighters taking off: ten fighters and forty-seven bombers.
The neighboring ship-based aircraft wing also followed suit, carrying out a total of 60 carrier-based aircraft: 15 carrier-based fighters and 45 bombers.
The Golden Dragons and the Kaomu Federation, each of which is responsible for an aircraft carrier of the Japanese fleet, prioritizes the destruction of the aircraft carrier and then destroys other Japanese warships.
The two carrier-based aircraft wings set out, and the early warning aircraft also sent the latest enemy report, and the target was 250 kilometers southwest.
And the official Japanese Navy commander Nan Yunzhong I, who is responsible for commanding the fleet, was in charge of the fleet when the Red Guard Fleet took off the carrier aircraft, Nan Yunzhong was very happy that one of his reconnaissance aircraft actually found the aircraft carrier of the Red Guard Imperial Navy.
Although the Japanese reconnaissance aircraft could not go back and was intercepted and destroyed by the intruder's carrier-based fighters, it sent back relevant intelligence.
Nan Yunzhong received a report from the reconnaissance aircraft: "I saw a dozen surface ships that seemed to be an enemy, 10 degrees in a range, 4805 kilometers from Midway Island, 150 degrees on the route, and more than 30 knots per hour."
Nan Yunzhong, who received the investigation report, did not have any luck, and ordered the fleet to sound the battle alarm at the first time, and then wanted to let the reconnaissance aircraft continue to investigate, but unfortunately, the reconnaissance aircraft had been destroyed at this time.
Also because of this intelligence, Nan Yunzhong quickly issued the order of the fleet to turn, changed its course, and turned to the northeast, trying to attack the 1st Squadron.
In fact, Nan Yunzhong soon learned that everything was too late.
The fleet had just finished turning, and more than two Zero fighters were also guarding the fleet.
But with it, the Japanese fleet’s radar suddenly had all the snowflaked, and the fleet’s communications failed.
The attacking fleets jumped straight from the clouds, and the Zero fighters over the Japanese fleet rushed to the front.
On the edge of the Japanese fleet, the air battle was intense.
Twenty-five intruder fighters, under the screams of Japanese Zero pilots, quickly killed these already backward zeros.
At this time, on the Kaga, only three Zero fighters took off urgently.
There was no help in the outcome of the air operations.
During the battle between the two fighters, a large number of bombers in the sky also jumped directly on the fleet below.
Anti-aircraft guns exploded in the sky, and on the ship-based bombers, a large number of 20 mm guns were also suppressing the anti-aircraft fire below.
A bomber quickly broke through the anti-aircraft fire network of the Japanese fleet, and quickly dropped a thousand kilograms of intrusion bombs toward the Kaga and Akagi on the water.
This bomb, which has proved its worth with actual combat, is an advantage weapon for attacking large surface warships.
Most of the U.S. Navy's surface warships are destroyed by this bomb, the power of the explosion, often a single bomb, is enough to determine the victory or defeat.
Over the Kaga, ignoring anti-aircraft fire, the nine bombers that jumped on the plane dropped bombs at an altitude of 150 meters from the Kaga.
The first bomb exploded 18 meters above the sea from the warship, and the second was less than five meters away.
When the third bomb was dropped, it fell directly on the tail deck of the Kaga, and the bombs dropped behind it, instantly submerged on the deck of the Gagar.
In the eyes of countless Japanese sailors, the Kaga, which was broken through the bombing, made a deafening explosion, and the fire and smoke of the explosion almost blocked the Kaga completely, and there was only a red floating sea on the sea.
Three carrier-based aircraft bombers were shot down, but the cost of killing one aircraft carrier in one fell swoop was well worth it.
Not far away, on the Akagi, Nan Yunzhong wrote a very helpless diary: "The Gagar was hit by seven aerial bombs and quickly sank."
This also became the last memory of Nan Yunzhong, because the Akagi, one of the main targets, did not avoid the fate of being surrounded and attacked, and was soon stepped into the footsteps of the Gagar.
At the end of the death, Nan Yunzhong wrote: "From the beginning, it is the wrong order, I hope that Yamamoto's fifty-six generals, can arrive in time, only the anti-aircraft fire of the unit can be a chance to win."
However, Nan Yunzhong did not have the opportunity to see the final results of his squadron, in the face of two joint carrier-based aircraft attacks, and under the attack of nearly 100 bombers, the remaining combatable forces of Nanyun Zhongyi are few.
When the attack returned, another fleet led by Yamamoto 56 appeared at the place where the water was connected.
The Japanese joint fleet, which has only six aircraft carriers at this moment, is left: the Canglong, the Flying Dragon, the Xiangfeng and the Dragon.
However, the main aircraft carrier of the Japanese joint fleet is the Akagi and Kaga, which have been destroyed.
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