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One Ryuho-class aircraft carrier, one Ryujo-class aircraft carrier, two Shoho-class aircraft carriers, three Otaka-class aircraft carriers, four Myo high-class heavy cruisers, six Nagara-class light cruisers and ten destroyers, and a fast Tanker, a fast supply ship.A total of 29 ships of various types cut through the waves and marched forward. With such a spectacular scene, the Japanese sailors on the deck were very excited. In addition, another six ships belonging to the 10th Air Fleet of Japan that had quietly entered the Xiyanbu Sea A large aircraft carrier, the main force of the entire Japanese combined fleet, except for five battleships, has already been dispatched!In addition, the Japanese Naval Air Force also deployed two aviation teams equipped with a large number of kamikaze special attack aircraft to Luzon Island to assist in the battle!With such a huge aviation combat power, it stands to reason that the commander in command of the 11th Air Fleet should be full of ambition, just waiting to make contributions to the Japanese Empire.

However, Commander Inoue Narumi suddenly felt that the gate of Kuduanzaka was opening to him, and a burst of cold air crawled onto his back from nowhere.

Standing in the narrow command center of the flagship aircraft carrier Ryujo, Inoue kept looking up at the wall clock hanging on the wall, and asked the staff from time to time: "Have you not found the location of the Chinese aircraft carrier yet?"

"Nothing has been discovered yet." Masamune Arima shook his head, he knew that the Chinese aircraft carrier mentioned by Inouekou refers to the eleven missing large aircraft carriers!Instead of the five aircraft carriers in Zhanjiang Naval Port (actually a training aircraft carrier converted from a merchant ship, two large aircraft carriers converted from a merchant ship, and two seaplane carriers).Arima thought for a while, and then said: "The two aviation teams on Luzon Island and the 10th Air Fleet have already sent seaplanes to search the depths of the South China Sea, but there is no sign of the Chinese fleet for the time being. I believe that as long as you have patience , will definitely find them... Maybe they are on their way back to Zhanjiang Military Port, if we can meet them when we launch a surprise attack, it would be great."

"I hope so." Inoue Narumi seemed to be full of confidence yesterday, but when he was about to attack, an inexplicable fear rose in his heart, as if he felt that the situation in front of him was a situation set up by the Chinese. A trap to lure and annihilate the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet!

"Sir, don't worry." Now it's Arima Masamune's turn to comfort Inoue. He smiled lightly: "It's already one o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still 15 minutes before the carrier-based planes will start to take off. All 180 planes will take off after taking off." It will take 15 minutes, and then our 11th Air Fleet can evacuate. There will be absolutely no problems in such a short time, and the telegram sent to us by the United Fleet stated that the time for the declaration of war is 5:40 p.m. The time at Zhanjiang Military Port is 5:30, and we will have run far away by then.

Moreover, the current location of our 11th Air Fleet is more than 1300 kilometers away from Zhanjiang Military Port, and nearly 1000 kilometers away from Taiwan Island.At this distance, China's shore-based A-4 series dive bombers can't do anything to us.Unless an aircraft carrier is used, the reconnaissance planes of the 21st Air Force and the 22nd Air Force have already searched the waters 200 nautical miles west of the Philippines, and there is no sign of the Chinese aircraft carrier at all. "

Arima seems to be saying that even if the 11th Air Fleet can't beat the Chinese, it can always run away.After all, China and Japan have not declared war yet, and the Isla Verde waterway is within Japan's sphere of influence. The north and east are next to Luzon Island, the main island of the Japanese Philippines, and the west and south are the Japanese Philippines. Lubang and Mindoro.There is no way for Chinese reconnaissance planes to enter Japan's airspace without violating Japan's airspace, and it is still in peacetime, China should not do that... Only when Zhanjiang is bombed, they will send reconnaissance planes to search for Japanese aircraft carriers , At that time, the 11th Air Fleet had already run away.Moreover, since Japan uses suicide planes that have no return, it also has a great advantage in range. Even if the Chinese reconnaissance planes find the 11th Air Fleet, their dive bombers will definitely not be able to reach it!

Narumi Inoue was silent for a while, then walked to the chart platform, staring at Taiwan Island on the chart.This island, once occupied by Japan for more than 30 years, has now become the biggest threat to this "Special No. [-] Operation Plan"!Since China acquired Taiwan, it has continued to build airports and military bases there, completely treating it as an unsinkable aircraft carrier.

According to the report of the Japanese intelligence network lurking on the island of Taiwan, since September, the bomber fleet of the Chinese Air Force has been transferring to the airport on the island of Taiwan. The cumulative number may not be less than 9!Although these twin-engine or four-engine medium-sized and heavy bombers are not a big threat to the fleet, if thousands of them are dispatched together, they can still severely damage their own 1000th Air Fleet.

Therefore, in the naval part of the Special One combat plan, the aircraft carrier will be arranged to evacuate the battlefield immediately after releasing the kamikaze aircraft, and the attack time will be set at 1:15 pm.This can at least buy the 11th Air Fleet more than 4 hours to escape, and after the Chinese reacted, it was almost dark... However, as one of the planners of this surprise attack plan, Inoue knew that his aviation The fleet is not absolutely safe, because the Chinese have deployed Fw-7000F long-range reconnaissance aircraft with a super-large range of 200 kilometers on Taiwan Island, and this reconnaissance aircraft is also equipped with high-performance aviation radar, so there is no need to go deep into Verde Island Mizushima, or even flying west of Mindoro, could spot the Japanese fleet hiding here.

Perhaps, the Japanese fleet has been discovered by them, but he, the commander, still doesn't know anything about it!Thinking of this, Narumi Inoue took another breath, and looked up at the wall clock on the wall, how time passed so slowly!

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Just as Inoue Narumi was anxiously waiting for the start of the surprise attack.A slender Fw-1600F long-range reconnaissance aircraft with four 200-horsepower radial engines is slowly flying southward in the air near Mindoro Island in the west of Luzon!Inside the cabin, the four radar soldiers were divided into two groups, taking turns monitoring a green radar screen.

In fact, in the "Philippines Combat Plan" formulated by the Chinese army, this kind of long-range reconnaissance aircraft would not be used to search the ocean east of the Philippines before the war.Because doing so is likely to be discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance plane, which will sound the alarm for them.

However, in the early hours of this morning, after the Philippine Combat Joint Command received an early warning from the General Staff of the National Defense Forces that "the Japanese army may surprise attack on Zhanjiang Military Port", the Joint Commander-in-Chief General Zhao Zheng immediately dispatched all 24 Fw-200Fs on hand to attack the Philippines and beyond. The Pacific Ocean to the east and the South China Sea to the west are repeatedly searched, and no suspicious targets can be missed!

And this reconnaissance plane numbered Blackbird-21 is responsible for the search mission on the west coast of the Philippines.

"Look, the radar screen is responding!"

Suddenly, a dark green dot appeared at the top of the radar screen, and a young radar soldier suddenly exclaimed.Before the three partners around him could react, a few more dots appeared one after another!That is……

"The Japanese fleet!" The radar soldier suddenly shouted excitedly: "Brothers, we have discovered the little Japanese fleet!"

"That's Ramon Bay near Polloli Island." The chief of the four radar soldiers, a naval sergeant, looked at the chart and hesitated, "Could it be a transport fleet?"

"Let's report to the captain first and let him decide whether to get closer."

"Okay, notify the captain immediately."

The captain in the cockpit quickly made a decision. While ordering the telegrapher to send the news of the discovery of the Japanese fleet back to the base, he drove the plane in the direction of Ramon Bay...

"Sir, Blackbird reported on the 21st that they found about 30 unidentified ships in the Isla Verde waterway west of Luzon Island. It is more than 1300 kilometers away from Zhanjiang Naval Port. Should we dispatch the bombers on Taiwan Island? ?”

"1300 kilometers?"

In the Nanyang Fleet Headquarters in Zhanjiang Naval Port, Zhao Zheng stood in front of the chart platform with his arms folded and was silent for a moment. This distance is still a bit far for most single-engine aircraft, even those deployed at the Kaohsiung Base in the southern part of Taiwan Island. The shore-based A-4A2 dive bomber can barely reach it, but that is without heavy bombs, so it has no practical significance at all.

In contrast, the Japanese took a lot of advantage in terms of voyage!According to the report of the Military Intelligence Bureau, the latest Japanese Type 99 Kamikaze special attack aircraft (developed on the basis of the Type 98 Ship Explosive) has a range of up to 250 kilometers while carrying 1450 kilograms of high explosives!Although the A-1700A4 and A-2B4 equipped with 2 horsepower engines have a range of 1700 kilometers when carrying bombs of the same weight, the Chinese aircraft is going to return!Therefore, the combat radius is only 850 kilometers, and it cannot reach the opponent at all... Now the only thing that can be dispatched is the more than 1000 air force medium and long-range bombers deployed on Taiwan Island that were originally planned to bomb Luzon Island.

"Brother Hanyu, give Taiwan's Liu Zezhi (Liu Yongyao, Air Force General, Commander of the Second Air Force) an order to let the Second Air Force dispatch all medium and long-range bombers to the waterways of Isla Verde." Zhang Yiming, the chief of staff of the Joint Command who returned from Wuhan, took the message from the communication staff officer, glanced at it, and immediately made a suggestion.

"Let's strike first? The command from the base camp tells us to fight back." Zhao Zheng was slightly stunned and asked back.

"It will be too late for them to call." Zhang Yiming raised his wrist to look at the time, "It is now 1:15 p.m., and the Japanese carrier-based aircraft is taking off now, and it will not arrive at Zhanjiang Naval Port until 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. If our plane takes off again at that time, it will probably be night when we reach the waterway of Isla Verde." He smiled and said, "I guess the Japanese carrier-based plane should have taken off. If we give Liu Zezhi If the order is given, the bombers of their air force will take off at least 2 o'clock, and it will be almost 5 o'clock and soon 6 o'clock when they reach the waterway of Verde Island... This should be considered a counterattack, and it did not violate the order of the base camp."

As for the more than 1000 bombers and hundreds of fighter jets escorting them flying over the Japanese Philippine airspace, our Chief of Staff Zhang Da has automatically ignored it.

"Well, that's right." Zhao Zheng turned his head and smiled at Zhang Yiming. Since the Chief of Naval Operations said so, he was happy to pretend to be confused. "Immediately give an order to Taiwan's Second Air Force to dispatch all their bombers to attack the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet along the Verde Island Waterway. Also, where is the First United Air Force Commanded by Chen Hualong (Chen Si) now?"

"Our reconnaissance plane just flew over them around 150 nautical miles east of Cam Ranh Bay," Zhang Yiming replied.The First United Air Fleet is composed of eleven large aircraft carriers from the Nanyang and Western Fleets, with Chen Si, the commander of the Western Fleet, as the commander. This fleet is now lurking near the Chinese Khmer (Chinese colony) The waters of the South China Sea are on standby, and radio silence is in progress.

"There's no need to hide anymore." Zhao Zheng looked down at the chart and thought for a while. "It's about 500 nautical miles away from the Japanese Philippines. It seems that we can't keep up with today's battle. Let them air strikes on Manila and Subic tomorrow morning." The Japanese Naval Airfield."

"Also, let the Second Fleet in Zhanjiang Naval Port be dispatched immediately, and must leave Guangzhou Bay before the Japanese plane arrives."

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East Lake, Wuhan, General Staff Headquarters of the National Defense Forces.

The No. [-] war room has become a mess at the moment, all the phones are dinging, and the serious-faced staff officers are walking back and forth with various reports or orders, and from time to time they can hear a few Roar loudly.

"Has there been a report of the sneak attack in Zhanjiang?"

"Assistant Commander, not yet."

"Hurry up and send a telegram to ask Zhao Zheng to report the discovery of the Japanese attack fleet. The President is still waiting!"

"But the Joint Command has not found Japan..."

"Go! Go quickly! Send a telegram to that boy Zhao Zheng as I said, and ask him to report the discovery of the Japanese attack fleet!" Our Marshal Luo glared at the staff officer who had just been transferred to the General Staff Headquarters. He muttered softly again: "These guys are too ignorant... We are a democratic country, how can the army start a war casually?"

After sending the staff to generate electricity for Zhao Zheng, Luo Yaoguo called the deputy chief of staff, General Yan Wu, to the side of the electric sand table.Pointing to the Sino-Japanese (Korean) border on the map, he asked: "Has the telegram to Bai Jiansheng been sent? Has the telegram been received?"

"Teacher, Shenyang Commander Bai has just received a call back. He asked you if it is possible for the artillery and planes on the front line to launch a surprise attack first? Mr. Bai estimates that the Japanese attacking troops have already entered the starting position." Yan Wu took out a gun. A telegram, and handed it to Luo Yaoguo with both hands.

"Well, yes." Luo Yaoguo nodded, and said again: "But this time we are fighting back in self-defense, we can't fire the first shot first, you tell Bai Jiansheng that if he hears the sound of Japanese artillery firing, he can launch a counterattack , there is no need to ask for another instruction."

"Okay, the students understand." Yan Wu was about to turn around and leave when the staff officer in charge of keeping in touch with Zhanjiang's joint headquarters rushed over and handed a telegram to Yan Wu. Yan Wu opened it and read it. He breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Commander Zhao's telegram, they discovered that the Japanese raided the fleet, and they have ordered Taiwan's Second Air Force to launch a counterattack."

"Okay, very good." Luo Yaoguo took the telegram and looked at it, then said to Yan Wu solemnly: "Now our country has been attacked for no reason by Japanese militarists! I ordered the Joint Command, the Beiyang Theater and Australia Immediately fight back against the invaders in the theater!" After giving the order to fight back against the Japanese aggressors, he strode to a red telephone, picked up the receiver and dialed the number of the President's Office. The bad news of the treacherous surprise attack of the Japanese Empire informed President Luo Yiqun...

At this moment, the Japanese 11th Air Fleet in the waterway of Isla Verde in the Japanese Philippines, thousands of miles away, has completed the task of launching carrier-based aircraft. 160 Type 99 Kamikaze special attack aircraft destined to never return, escorted by 20 of the latest Type Zero shipboard fighters, headed north in a blinding manner.At the same time, in Luzon's Manila Airport, Subic Airport, Baguio Airport and Dagupan Airport, 22 Kamikaze special attack aircraft and 180 Zero fighters of the 40nd Air Force of the Japanese Navy were also divided into several batches. With a roar, it rushed towards the Zhanjiang Naval Port of the Chinese Navy in the northwest direction.

Lieutenant Admiral Narumi Inoue of Japan's 99th Air Fleet put down his binoculars and heaved a sigh of relief when the last Type 11 Kamikaze special attack aircraft disappeared from his sight.Masamune Arima, the chief of staff of the fleet behind him, said: "Okay, our mission is finally completed, let's go, get out of here, and go back to Japan."

With one order, 29 ships of various types began to turn their bows at the same time, and then quickly crossed the Verde Island waterway into the Tablas Strait and entered the Sulu Sea... and at the same time they left, the Kaohsiung Air Force of the Chinese National Defense Forces on Taiwan Island The air force base and Tainan Air Force Base have also raised the ear-piercing battle alarm. Thousands of Chinese Air Force soldiers who had already been ready to go rushed out of their respective barracks and ran to the more than 1000 planes lined up neatly on the edge of the airport runway. Fighters and bombers!

But, can they catch up with the fleeing Japanese fleet?

Chapter 0924 Total War ([-]) Encounter on a Narrow Road

Japan belongs to the Philippines, Xiyanbu Sea.

On the beautiful and calm sea, a fleet composed of dozens of steel behemoths is breaking through the waves and approaching quietly.Six large aircraft carriers, four heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, ten destroyers, one fast tanker and one supply ship of Japan's 10th Air Fleet are forming an air defense formation with the aircraft carrier Akagi as the center. Slowly cruising in this narrow sea area.

In the pilot lounge of the flagship aircraft carrier Akagi, more than 70 pilots in flight suits were divided into two circles.One of them consisted of more than a dozen high-ranking officers, headed by Ganfu Kengoro's best friend, the commander of the Second Kamikaze Special Attack Brigade of the Japanese Navy, Minoru Genada.However, those around him are all Type Zero fighter pilots. These young people who are only 25 or 6 years old are probably the best pilots in Japan. The experience of escaping from death many times under the guns of 96 fighter jets!Now these pilots all looked solemn, talking to each other in low voices.

Most of the topics between them revolve around the performance of the Chinese Navy's Fw-190 and Zero fighters.Due to the "special friendship" between Japan and Germany, the Luftwaffe has provided all prototypes of Fw-190 fighter jets to Japan.Therefore, the zero-type pilots in this lounge have naturally understood the various performance indicators of the Fw-190.I also know the results of the comparison between the Fw-190 and the Zero fighter by the Japanese Naval Aviation Headquarters... The result is naturally that the Zero has a slight advantage in performance.

Although the speed of the Zero Type is not as fast as the Fw-190, and the fuselage is not as strong as the Fw-190, the dive and protection performance is naturally inferior, and the firepower is simply incomparable.However, the flexibility and turning performance of the Zero Type have the upper hand. If there is an aerial combat between the two, the Japanese pilots present are confident that they will win with their first-class driving skills!

However, considering the huge number of Chinese aircraft, the faces of these Japanese pilots became extremely ugly!Although the six large aircraft carriers of their 10th Air Fleet can carry nearly 6 aircraft, there are only 400 Zero fighters among them, and the rest are all Type 60 Kamikaze special attack aircraft.The 99 Chinese aircraft carriers have at least 11 carrier-based aircraft, and at least 700 Fw-190C carrier-based fighter jets. That is to say, one Zero has to deal with three to four Fw-200Cs.