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Chapter 20 Majuro Air Battle (8)

"This damn bastard!"

When Kobayashi received a telegram for help from Tomomi Inada, he immediately started to curse.

Undoubtedly, Tomomi Inada's little thoughts have long been seen through by Kobayashi Jizuo. Kobayashi only hated Tomomi Inada's idiot who delayed his major affairs.

"The Tang army used tens of thousands of troops to attack Mazhuluo Atoll. Obviously, they were no longer simply destroying our supply station, but to completely occupy it."

"If they were allowed to occupy there, their living space would be tripled and we would lose an important strategic support point."

Tanaka Kameji said with gratitude: "Fortunately our first squadron is already on the road. As long as Tomomi Inada persists for a few more hours, our warships will arrive and eliminate the Tang army's inside and outside."

Kobayashi nodded and said, "It is inevitable to destroy the landing Tang army, but the Tang army's aircraft carrier battle group is our biggest concern, and we must kill them!"

"The Tang army's aircraft carrier should be near the Majulu Atoll. They dispatched carrier-based aircraft to attack Majulu, and there was no aircraft protection around the aircraft carrier. We can ask the Kaga and Akagi aircraft carriers to send aircraft to intercept and kill their return aircraft halfway, and then follow the clues to directly destroy their mothership."

Kobayashi nodded and immediately agreed to the Chief of Staff's opinion, ordering the two aircraft carriers Kaga and Akagi to take action.

Kobayashi was confident, but forgot that he was born in the navy and did not understand aircraft carrier combat, nor did he have the combat experience of pilots and his understanding of carrier-based aircraft.

In his opinion, the Tang army's Tianwang-class aircraft carriers only carry more than 90 fighter jets. Each of the Akagi and Kaga aircraft carriers can carry at least 130 fighter jets. In the case of a surprise attack, it can completely damage the Tang army's bomber group. Then follow the clues to destroy the Tang army's aircraft carrier.

But he was not aware of the huge gap between the aircraft carried by the Akagi and Kaga aircraft carriers and the aircraft carried by the Tang Army aircraft carriers.

When the commanders of the two aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga received the order from Kobayashi, they also lacked understanding of the Tang army's carrier-based aircraft and their disdain for the Tang army, which made them not doubt Kobayashi's tactical deployment at all. They immediately ordered the carrier-based aircraft of each ship to take off and rushed to Majuluo Atoll to participate in the war.

The rear deck of the Akagi was filled with dense aircraft, with more than 100 aircraft. These aircraft were biplane fixed-wing propeller type. They served in the Japanese Naval Aviation for less than two years. They said that their advancedness could only be compared with the aircraft used by the Japanese Naval Aviation before, and compared with the world's naval aviation powers. In order to achieve the localization of aircraft, the Japanese gave up purchasing advanced aircraft from Europe and the United States for the first time, but instead adopted new fighter jets developed by locally.

As the first carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese Naval Aviation Company, the fully autonomous a1n1-3 biplane fighter designed and developed by Nakajima for the Japanese Naval Aviation Company was successively delivered to the Kaga, Akagi and Fengxiang three aircraft carriers.

As a domestic Japanese, this fighter has become the pride of the Japanese. However, it is obvious that the overall shape and technical indicators of the whole aircraft cannot escape the suspicion of copying European and American aircraft, and the local industrial manufacturing capacity is far less than that of European and American production, and the performance of the various components of the aircraft will be greatly reduced.

A Nakajima a1n1-3 fighter with a length of 6.49 meters, a wingspan of 9.69 meters and a height of 3.26 meters slowly moved to the front flight deck waiting to take off. Although the Japanese pilot above was an excellent Japanese pilot with 5,000 hours of experience, the aircraft he was flying was completely inconsistent with his identity.

The Nakajima Suga Type 2 engine with only 450 horsepower is limited to 200 kilometers per hour to drive this 1.45-ton fighter, its maximum speed has to be limited to 200 kilometers per hour. Compared with the 3-ton weight of the Tang Army's Raptor heavy carrier-based fighter, the Nakajima fighter's full wooden fuselage is destined to make this aircraft only included in the ranks of light aircraft. The weapon it carries is two 7.7mm caliber machine guns. It is far inferior to the four extremely powerful 20mm caliber cannons of the Tang Army's Raptor heavy carrier-based fighter.

Since the Japanese planes lost news about the Tang fleet every night, every day after dawn, the Japanese reconnaissance planes would take off again to find the Tang fleet. At this moment, the Japanese army had not yet found the main position of the Tang fleet. The commanders of the two aircraft carriers, Kaga and Akagi, could only send fighters to Majuluo Atoll to participate in the battle and prevent the Tang bombers from attacking the Japanese army there.

The Japanese aircraft carrier flight deck was narrow and there was no catapult. The Nakajima fighter needed a 130-meter taxi distance to take off, and this distance was enough for the Tang army's Hellfire heavy carrier-based bomber to take off.

Forty minutes later, the Akagi aircraft carrier took off 130 Nakajima fighters, and the Kaga aircraft carrier 128 Nakajima fighters took off. The other two Nakajima fighters suffered a malfunction during takeoff and fell into the sea.

"Damn it, domestic products just won't work!"

The commander of the Kaga aircraft carrier, Colonel Kaga, suddenly cursed. Before that, five excellent pilots had already died in the accident, all thanks to the Nakajima fighter jets.

The Japanese army's 258 Nakajima fighter jets completed the formation in the air and flew towards the direction of Majuluo Atoll.

But they had been delaying for too long that when they arrived at Majuluo Atoll, the first wave of attacks by the Tang army plane had ended and they had returned.

The first confrontation between the naval aviation forces of the Tang and Japan was missed like this.

From afar, the Japanese army saw the situation of Majuluo Atoll.

The fire was burning and the sky was burning, and thick smoke covered the sky. The three islands that the Japanese army focused on defending were like a volcano erupting, and the rolling smoke rushed into the sky.

The fierce battle is still going on.

The Tang army's artillery regiment violently bombarded the Japanese position. Seven of the twenty SRA tanks broke down, and only thirteen SRA tanks remained to launch an attack. The force that crushed everything still left the Japanese army with no power to fight back.

Japanese pilots looked down at the entire Majuluo Atoll from a high altitude. The Tang army had occupied seven of the eight islands. Tomomi Inada and his remaining more than 300 Japanese troops were surrounded by more than 1,000 Tang troops in the last island, the coastal fortification of Jarit Island.

It was an Omega-shaped coastal fortification. The 3-meter-thick reinforced concrete structure temporarily blocked the Tang army's superior artillery bombardment, giving Tomomi Inada a temporary breath.

However, the Tang army had an absolute advantage in its military strength, and the Japanese casualties continued to increase. If they were not replenished, it would be a matter of time before they could be completely wiped out.

Although the Japanese planes did not find the Tang army plane for air combat, they did not intend to return empty-handed. Batches of Japanese fighter planes quickly dived down, and they were ready to attack the Tang army troops on the ground.

When the Tang army saw that it was the Japanese plane, they knew how the Tang army planes abused the Japanese ground troops. Therefore, in response to the arrival of the Japanese plane, the ground commanders of the Tang army units decisively ordered the suspension of the attack, and everyone scattered and hid in the dense forest.

Tang Jun's camouflage uniform saved their lives this time. The Japanese pilot in the air stared at a team of Tang Jun a moment ago. When he swooped down, he found that the other party was gone. There were woods and grass in front of him. For the pilot, it was really difficult to tell whether the grass or Tang Jun soldiers were on a high-speed plane.

"Da da da da!"

Just hearing the sound of the Japanese 7.7mm machine gun fire, but no one was seen attacking the Tang army.
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