132 nautical miles east of the Turkscos Islands, the twenty-two aircraft carriers of the US Nimitz fleet were densely filled with US combat aircraft waiting to take off and carry out a third wave of attacks in San Juan. On the deck, US aircraft carrier air crews were loading fuel for fighter jets, mounting torpedoes for torpedo bombers, and mounting aviation bombs for dive bombers.

Suddenly, an alarm suddenly sounded over the aircraft carrier Enterprise where Nimitz was located. The US military was alerted to the reconnaissance plane fifty kilometers away sent back an emergency telegram and found a large number of Chinese Empire aircraft flying towards the Nimitz fleet.

"Report the location and number of enemy planes!"

"There are too many enemy planes! I was hit!"

A blind voice came soon during the call, which scared Nimitz. He immediately ordered all carrier-based fighters on the aircraft carrier to take off, but the deck of the US aircraft carrier was filled with more torpedo attack aircraft and dive bombers. There were less than 100 carrier-based fighters, which were used to protect 22 aircraft carriers and dozens of other battleships, heavy cruisers, destroyers, etc. on average, each warship had only one ship to protect, which was obviously far from enough.

"All planes immediately unload torpedoes and bombs and immediately take off to the air to meet the enemy!"

More than 100 carrier-based fighter jets on the US aircraft carrier were launched in an emergency, while other aircraft unloaded torpedoes and aviation bombs to reduce the load, which was conducive to air combat. However, this process was very time-consuming, and it took at least 20 minutes to complete the unloading. The unloaded torpedoes and aviation bombs accumulated on the aircraft carrier deck, which became a huge safety hazard.

The US carrier-based fighter jets had just taken off two-thirds of the attack aircraft group of the Chinese Empire came to the air. Although the warships guarded by the US military kept firing, the Chinese Empire's aircraft were all jet fighters, which were too fast. The US carrier-based anti-aircraft guns were usually prepared in advance at the speed of propeller fighters. As a result, the anti-aircraft shells they fired lost their targets, and the ballistic left a long arc in the sky, basically exploding behind the aircraft, and the shell fragments did not cause damage to the Chinese Empire's aircraft.

"What kind of plane is this? Why did it arrive so soon!"

Just now, he was fifty kilometers away. In the blink of an eye, Nimitz and the US military officers and soldiers were extremely surprised.

More than 60 US Hellcat carrier-based fighter jets took off to intercept, but they were still at low altitude and were rapidly climbing into the high school.

At this time, sixty F6 wildcat fighters from the Imperial Naval Air Force quickly left the group, swept down with somersaults, and rushed towards the enemy plane.

One is the F6 Wildcat Battle and the other is the F6f Hellcat Battle. The two carrier-based fighters with very similar models and names. The performance is indeed a huge difference.

The Chinese Empire's F6 Wildcat Ship War swiftly down quickly. In the blink of an eye, it rushed to the US F6F Hellcat Ship War.

"Bang bang bang!"

The two 30mm mk38 machine guns on the head of the Wildcat fighter and two 30mm mk35 machine guns mounted on the wings opened fire violently. Before the US pilot could react, several shells were hit on the fuselage.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

In an instant, seven or eight US Hellcats were hit and caught fire, and fell from thousands of meters altitude in a spiral.

Seven or eight fighter jets were shot down in one encounter. Other Hellcat fighter jets of the US military were shocked and gave up climbing, instead using their own horizontal maneuverability advantages to avoid the attacks of the wildcats.

After diving, the Wildcat fighter climbed rapidly. However, its speed was too fast, so the horizontal maneuverability was slightly insufficient. Therefore, the fighter jets of China and the United States had advantages. They bit each other and fought hard.

Although the US Hellcat Battle delayed the F6 Wildcat fighter attacked by the Chinese Empire, it was unable to intercept other bombers to approach the US fleet due to insufficient numbers.

The 132 f8 torpedo bombers and 6 b2 Mustang tactical bombers of the Chinese Empire ignored the main battleships or other heavy cruisers of the US military, but rushed directly to the aircraft carrier battle group of the Nimitz fleet.

The 22 aircraft carriers of the Nimitz fleet immediately became targets. Since the Chinese Empire's f8 and b2 were both jet aircraft and were extremely fast, the US peripheral warships did not expect the other party to attack the aircraft carrier directly, resulting in the obviously insufficient air defense firepower of the fleet near the US aircraft carrier. Although each US aircraft carrier is equipped with a pounding gun, the firing frequency of the pounding gun is too slow. In addition, the US air defense forces have never seen such a fast aircraft during their training, so the air doors are wide open.

The attack aircraft group of the Chinese Empire flew to the US aircraft carrier in the blink of an eye. Four F8 Osprey bombers swept the sea at an ultra-low altitude and approached the US aircraft carrier Ticonderoga. They quickly dropped torpedoes at a distance of about 100 meters from Ticonderoga. One wake-guided torpedoes quickly rushed towards the US ship. The Osprey fighter after the bomb was dropped and climbed up quickly, and fired at the anti-aircraft gun position on the front side of the Ticonderoga with only two 30mm machine guns.

The anti-aircraft gun positions on the side of the Ticonderoga aircraft carrier were equipped with 10 to 18 anti-aircraft bombers. Because the US military hastily built an aircraft carrier in a short time, the anti-aircraft guns were not equipped with shields. When the Osprey fighter rushed towards him, the US artillery on the Ticonderoga was shocked and hurriedly gave up the air shooting and lowered the muzzle and fired flat.

But before they could flatten the Gaoping dual-purpose pound cannon, several Osprey fighters roared.

"Da da da da da da!"

The nose of the Osprey fighter jet spewed out, and dozens of shells were shot out in an instant. Dozens of American artillery soldiers had no time to scream, and their bodies were torn to pieces, and their broken limbs and arms flew around with the explosion of the ammunition box piled next to the anti-aircraft gun.

At this time, Osprey fighter jets pulled up one after another to prevent them from hitting the enemy ship. In the next few seconds, four wake self-guided torpedoes on the sea hit the Ticonderoga.

"Bang! Bang bang! Bang!"

After three loud bangs (two of them exploded at the same time), the port waterline of the Ticonderoga burst out four huge water columns hundreds of meters high. The 21-inch red-headed torpedo was extremely powerful, and only armor less than 130 mm thick was instantly torn apart, causing four huge explosion gaps. One of the gaps was as long as 3.2 meters.

The huge explosion force lifted the port side of the Ticonderoga, which was more than 30,000 tons, more than three meters high, almost overturning the giant ship. Dozens of planes on the deck slid to the right, colliding one after another. Hundreds of American troops followed more than a dozen planes to the sea directly from the starboard side. Several planes crashed into the ship island, and exploded in an instant, killing and injuring dozens of people.

The sea water poured violently backwards from four huge gaps, causing the port side of the Ticonderoga to sink rapidly. The hull first tilted rightward in less than 30 seconds. Then it tilted sharply leftward. The US planes and sailors on the deck rolled to the port side, and then fell to the sea.

While rolling, the torpedo and bomb dismantled on the deck were violently rubbed and exploded, which quickly caused a chain reaction, and the explosions were connected.

Since the US aircraft carrier is a straight-through deck, its open layout makes the flight deck a wooden structure. The explosion instantly causes the entire flight deck to be damaged and soon catches a large fire. Hundreds of American soldiers cries and howl in the fire.

Ticonderoga was hit by four torpedoes and was sinking rapidly at a speed of sight.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire attack aircraft group used three to four aircraft as a team to attack other US aircraft carriers one after another. Six aircraft carriers including Hancock, Bennington, Boxer, Richard, Lexington, Bunker Hill were hit by the torpedo attack of Osprey bombers. Their situation was similar to that of Ticonderoga. Almost all were hit by multiple torpedoes at the first time and quickly sank within the next four or five minutes.

As the largest American Essex-class aircraft carrier, the Wright has a full load displacement of more than 40,000 tons. It has more than 130 aircraft, which naturally becomes the offensive target of the Chinese Empire aircraft.

At 9:37, six F8 Osprey bombers swept the sea and approached her, and were violently hit by the carrier-based anti-aircraft guns of the USS Wright. Four Ospreys were shot down and two ospreys dropped torpedoes.

Nineteen seconds later, two 21-inch wake self-guided red-headed torpedo hit the starboard side of the Wright aircraft carrier, and a huge explosion immediately tore open two large holes of force on the aircraft carrier. Fire and black smoke emerged from the gap, and then sea water poured backwards. In less than two minutes, more than 3,000 tons of sea water had been poured into the starboard side of the Wright, causing the hull to tilt the right.

However, the anti-sinking performance of the USS Wright aircraft carrier was better than other aircraft carriers. The captain quickly ordered water injection on the port side to balance the warships, and at the same time ordered the aircraft on the deck to stop dismantling the torpedoes and bombs and take off and take off directly. Although the first mate said that not removing the torpedoes and bombs would affect the fighting performance of the fighter, the torpedo bombers themselves carried not much machine cannon ammunition, and they would soon have no ammunition after they took off in time. However, the USS Wright still insisted that his view remained unchanged.

Although Captain Wright wanted to save his plane, the US military plane on the deck was still hit hard by the Chinese Empire space.

Two F4f torpedo bombers that took off on the runway, just climbed less than two hundred meters, were shot down by two F6 wildcat fighters whistling down from the sky. Two C13 dive bombers that were taxiing on the runway were destroyed by 200 kilograms of aviation bombs dropped by the b2 Mustang bomber that dived down on the runway.

A huge hole was blown up on the wooden deck, with fire burning and thick smoke rolling. US ground crews rushed to put out the fire, clear the wreckage of the plane and repair the runway, but it was obvious that it was not possible to complete in a short time. The remaining fifty or sixty planes were blocked in the middle and rear of the deck and could not take off.

At this time, two B2 Mustang bombers turned around and dropped seven or eight aviation bombs at the aircraft group on the deck of the Wright.

A series of explosions exploded on the flight deck behind the Wright, and dozens of planes were blown up in an instant, and there was a sea of ​​fire around them.

Soon, several f8 Osprey fighters that had thrown torpedoes and several f6 wildcat fighters flew back and forth on the flight deck of the Wright. Countless shells poured onto the deck, and more than a dozen remaining planes were knocked into hornet's nests, and some instantly caught fire and exploded. Hundreds of American soldiers fled desperately, but how could they pass the plane and shells quickly and were quickly fired. Their bodies were instantly torn to pieces, leaving only a blood mist to prove that they had existed.

At 9:43, the Wright was hit by three torpedoes again, and the hull was seriously overturned. The entire battleship struggled in the flames and smoke, but it did not survive for ten minutes and sank in nine minutes and eleven seconds.

Inside the Enterprise aircraft carrier bridge, Nimitz watched the USS Enterprise sink one by one, but there was no way to do so. Although the US air defense warships that rushed from nearby blocked some of the Chinese Empire's planes and shot down more than a dozen, they could not save the whole situation.

In just under thirty minutes, twelve aircraft carriers had sunk and more than 500 various fighter jets were destroyed, which made Nimitz unable to organize a third wave of air strikes on San Juan, and even he found that self-protection was a problem.

At 9:47, the first wave of attacks on the Nimitz fleet by Luo Qidong aircraft carrier battle group ended. After paying the price of 17 F8 Osprey carrier-based torpedo bombers and 11 F6 Wildcat carrier-based fighters, the remaining aircraft successfully returned.

In the bridge of the Wudangshan aircraft carrier, Luo Qidong kept listening to the radio call of the attack aircraft group with his headphones. Although he did not see the spectacular scene of the US aircraft carriers being sunk one after another, he was also very happy to hear the swear words the pilots shouted because of excitement.

"Prepare for the second wave of attacks!"

"yes!"

Luo Qidong happily issued an order, while Nimitz on the other side also issued an order. The difference is that Nimitz's order was to retreat the entire fleet. Because he had received a report from the commander of the second wave of US attack aircraft group over San Juan, saying that the US mainland bomber group had arrived in San Juan for bombing. However, he encountered trouble.

Nimitz relied on his keen military intuition. He knew that although this sneak attack was successful, the US military would pay a huge price, and it was inevitable that he would hurt the enemy by 1,000 and he would suffer 800.

Nimitz ordered the fleet to retreat, but the fleet had to wait for the second wave of attack aircraft to return from San Juan, which would take a 40-minute flight and 30-minute recovery time. Nimitz was worried that the Chinese Empire's aircraft would attack again during this period, so he sent reconnaissance planes and warships to advance southeastward, hoping to force the Chinese Empire's aircraft carrier to retreat. At the same time, Nimitz also ordered the Enterprise and five uninjured aircraft carriers to stand by. Once the reconnaissance planes discovered the Chinese Empire's aircraft carrier, they would immediately take off for attack.

At the same time, Nimitz had to send a large number of ships to rescue the US military officers and soldiers who fell into the water, as well as the other five injured aircraft carriers, and urgently needed repairs as soon as possible. Nimitz hoped that they would recover their combat effectiveness as soon as possible so that his fleet would have more safety insurance.

However, what Nimitz could not imagine was that the second wave of the attack aircraft fleet of Luo Qidong's aircraft carrier battle group was soon ready. This was thanks to the aircraft carriers Wudangshan and Emeishan aircraft carriers that allowed the aircraft to take off and land at the same time. The first wave of the attack aircraft fleet quickly completed the landing action. The Imperial Navy soldiers stayed on the flight deck quickly inspected and maintained the fighter jets, installed fuel and weapons and ammunition, and rescued the injured pilots. The Imperial Navy Air Force was well-trained at this moment, and a series of operations was completed in less than half an hour.

At 11:45, the second wave of attack aircraft group on the USS Wudangshan aircraft carrier began to take off. 30 F6 carrier-based aircraft, 86 F8 torpedo bombers and 6 B2 tactical bombers completed combat formation in the air. Five minutes later, 24 F6 ships that took off from the USS Emeishan aircraft carrier, 36 F8 torpedo bombers and 2 B2 bombers also completed formations. The two groups formed an attack echelon again, with a distance of 30 kilometers and flew towards the Nimitz fleet.

At the same time, two F6 carrier-based reconnaissance fighters of the USS Wudangshan aircraft carrier discovered the US reconnaissance aircraft from the Nimitz fleet and quickly shot it down. However, before shooting down the US reconnaissance aircraft, Nimitz had already learned the location of the aircraft carrier battle group of the Imperial Navy.

But Nimitz did not know that Luo Qidong's second wave of attack aircraft had already set off. According to Nimitz's inference, the second wave of attacks in the Chinese Empire should only start 20 minutes later and only launch an attack within an hour.

So, Nimitz ordered 120 F2a buffalo torpedo bombers on the remaining five complete aircraft carriers to take off and head to attack Luo Qidong's aircraft carrier.

However, from the beginning, the attack aircraft group sent by Nimitz had been detected by the radar of the Wudangshan aircraft carrier. Luo Qidong immediately made air defense preparations, and six Chinese ASUSS air defense heavy cruisers were deployed in place, and 20 vigilant f6 wildcat carrier-based fighters were sent to ambush.

At twelve o'clock, the second wave of attack aircraft of the Imperial Navy Air Force appeared in the east of the Nimitz fleet. Nimitz stood on the spot again and hurriedly ordered the carrier-based fighter jets to take off the air to fight. Although Nimitz made a mistake in judgment, the US military was prepared this time, so it was impossible to be caught off guard like the last time.

More than 100 US Hellcat carrier-based fighters quickly took off to intercept, but the Chinese Emperor's fighter also learned about the advantages and disadvantages of the US aircraft through the battle just now. The commander ordered that no one should fight with US aircraft, and to play their strengths, and directly attack the remaining ten aircraft carriers of the US military.

With its speed advantage, more than 200 jet fighters did not entangle with the US interceptors at all. They drew white arcs in the blue sky and quickly approached the US aircraft carrier.

Nimitz's heart suddenly sank to the bottom. Although he had arranged a large number of fleet air defense firepower around the aircraft carrier, the opponent's aircraft was too fast, and the air defense firepower on the US ship could not stop them at all. The US aircraft carrier was particularly thin, and it was fatal to be hit by a few torpedoes or heavy aviation bombs.

The anti-aircraft guns on dozens of US warships opened fire violently, and several aircraft were shot down, but more aircraft still rushed to the US aircraft carrier. Diving, dropping bombs (torpedoes), pulling up, and returning to strafing. The attack mode that remained unchanged for ten thousand years left an indelible nightmare for the US fleet. (To be continued)

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