"Sink and injure at least 50 American transport ships and landing ships of various types! Shooting down more than 100 enemy planes is a great victory..."

"The air force is really powerful!"

"There should be many American ghosts and animals drowned now, right?"

"It seems that this time it can completely wipe out the US Pacific Fleet!"

On September 26, 1943, at 3:22 pm, the first attack wave sent by the Japanese army on Christmas Island sent back the preliminary statistics of the battle report. There were only results on the battle report, no losses.

Of course, the results of the battle were great. The sunk and injured more than 30 American ships (actually 31, of which 13 were T2 tankers and 5 were escort aircraft carriers), and more than 100 American aircraft were shot down (actually only 53 American aircraft were shot down). However, the faces of the commander of the 10th Fleet, Takijiro Oshiki and Chief of Staff Kuroshima Turtle were extremely serious.

Because they also know how large the size of the American fleet is!

"There are still hundreds of ships!" Kuroshima Turtle whispered to Takijiro Oshima, "And the main ships are not damaged, the Americans will continue to approach Christmas Island. Even if they cannot start landing, they will use the battleship guns to level Christmas Island."

Japan's current construction capacity is not comparable to that of the United States. Japan does not have any mechanized construction equipment, so it is really difficult to build infrastructure in Christmas Island, which is more than 4,000 nautical miles away from the local area. If the Americans were allowed to razed the ground with a cannon, it would take at least several months to build.

"And the underground oil depot on Christmas Island can't resist the bombardment of battleship cannons!" The Kuroshima Turtle then raised another question that made Takijiro Oshiki feel headache and frightened.

In order to fight the US military on Christmas Island, the Japanese built a large underground oil depot, which stored tens of thousands of tons of aircraft gasoline and various engine oil aircraft. As for the most fuel-efficient Zero 21, a horizontal flight of one hour requires about 35 gallons (English), which is 116.3 kilograms. In a single attack, a Zero aircraft consumes at least nearly 600 kilograms of gasoline. There are now thousands of aircraft on Christmas Island, so how much fuel is consumed can be imagined. That is why the Japanese army built an oil depot on Christmas Island and stored so much gasoline. If American cannons were blown up, Takijiro Oshiki would be so distressed that he would not be able to eat for weeks.

"Commander, generate electricity for the First Mobile Fleet and let them attack the US fleet aircraft carrier with all their might," the Turtle Man in the Black Island thought for a while and made a suggestion.

Now the first attack wave sent by Christmas Island has been completed, and the anti-ship firepower of the second attack wave is mainly torpedoes. There are only a small number of dive bombers carrying armor-piercing bombs, which are used to create chaos to cover torpedoes to attack the injured American ships. If they are asked to change their targets to attack the main formation of the US military with strong air defense firepower, it will definitely be in vain. So Black Island thought of the First Mobile Fleet.

"Okay, generate electricity for the First Mass Fleet." Oshiki Takijiro nodded. Now is not the time to consider face. The "unsinkable aircraft carrier" on Christmas Island cannot have any problems, otherwise there will be hundreds of missing aircraft on Japan (it is estimated that there are no 1,000 aircraft now) and the battle below will be difficult to fight.

...

"Sir, the fire is getting bigger and bigger. It seems that the 13 T2 tankers are over."

"Discipline!"

Just when Takijiro Oshiki was heartbroken for the possibility of losing tens of thousands of tons of gasoline, his opponent Spruins ordered a "discipline" 13 T2 tankers loaded with nearly 200,000 tons of various oil without blinking!

"There are 17 ships left. If they are all lost, our second phase of combat may be..." Major General Browning reminded with some concern.

A T2 can hold 16,000 tons of oil, and 30 T2s can hold a total of 480,000 tons of oil. These oils can be used by the 58th Special Mixed Fleet at sea for up to 30 days. If all T2 is lost, Spruins' fleet can only go home in advance.

"Give power to the Pacific Fleet Command and ask them to organize an oil fleet to support it," Spruins said lightly, "Send 30 oil tankers to sea first."

This is another 480,000 tons of oil! If we include the fuel carried by each ship and the oil used in a sea fuel recharge conducted a few days ago, Spruins' trip will almost burn the fuel use quota for the Japanese Navy for more than half a year!

And this big-scale "oil burning battle" is just the beginning!

By mid-1944, the size of the Pacific Fleet will be more than twice as large as it is now. At that time, two "58th Special Mixed Fleet" will take turns to "burn" Japan with oil!

At the same time, at least 4 aircraft carrier cracking formations and 200 submarines will be active in the Western Pacific and the Nanyang Islands.

In short, the current way for the Americans is to hurt people with their own power... If they don't fight any annihilation war, they will fight attrition and kill the Japanese.

"Sir, radar discovered enemy aircraft, with a defense degree of 280, a height of 5,000, a quantity exceeding 200, a distance of 120..."

Just as the US destroyer fired torpedoes at the fire-covered oil tanker, the fleet's staff once again reported the radar's discovery of the Japanese attack aircraft fleet.

"It's the second attack wave on Christmas Island." Major General Browning frowned and said, "It seems that the scale will not be smaller than the first attack wave. There are probably thousands of planes on Christmas Island!"

"It will be gone soon." Spruins looked a little proud now, because in the sea-to-air war that just ended, the losses of American carrier-based aircraft were completely within his acceptable range.

There were only 63 lost 4u and 6 aircraft (53 were shot down by Japanese aircraft, 8 were accidentally shot by their own artillery fire, and 2 were damaged when landing). Because the combat airspace was over their own fleet, the number of pilots killed and missing was only 44. This number is still declining, and the final loss is estimated to not exceed 30.

Moreover, the Americans now have a very good understanding of the tactics of the Japanese Navy aviation, usually a "second-wave flow". The first wave is mainly bombers (diving bombers and torpedoes with bombs), and the second wave is mainly torpedoes, and torpedoes are much better than dive bombers! So as long as the Japanese army's first attack wave, the second wave of combat will gain greater results.

If the current situation continues, the Battle of Christmas Island will exhaust the blood of Japanese pilots!

...

"Baga, how is this possible!?"

The commander-in-chief of Nakumi Masashi Nakasa, who sent the second attack wave from Christmas Island, made this exclamation.

What made him exclaim was the American 6 and 4u fighters covered with the sky!

The two attack waves emitted by Christmas Island were carefully planned. The first attack wave and the second attack wave were connected very closely, and the time for US carrier-based aircraft to refuel and refuel and take off after landing.

So Nanmi Masao Nakasa was very surprised to see the densely packed American fighter jets in the sky according to the normal aircraft carrier-based aircraft configuration standards, fighter jets account for 40% of the sky. The first attack wave just now reported that they encountered at least 500 fighters, and now there seems to be 500 fighters.

So how many carrier-based aircraft does the invading American fleet have in total? 2,500? How many aircraft carriers should be installed?

However, no matter how surprised it was, Masao Kumi had no intention of being afraid of fighting and immediately arranged an attack mission. Like the previous one, Masao Kumi also ordered the escort gusts and Zero to block the enemy's fighter jets, while dive bombers and torpedo bombers rushed to the escort carriers and various transport ships that were igniting and smoking.

Fierce battles were immediately staged in the air. Although the overall performance of the Blast Fighter and the Zero 52 Fighter were not as good as their opponents, and they were at a disadvantage in number. However, judging from the scenes of the air battle between the two sides, Japanese fighters were not at a disadvantage.

This is because most of the Japanese pilots participating in the battle today are elites trained before the war, most of them have participated in actual combat and have rich experience. There are too many newcomers among American pilots. Although everyone has flew for at least thousands of hours and is extremely skilled in their skills, their combat experience is still lacking.

However, as the war between the two sides continued, Japanese fighter pilots still felt it was difficult to deal with. Their rich combat experience can make up for the differences in aircraft performance, but American aircraft also have numerical advantages.

This time, the Americans divided more fighter jets to fight against Japanese fighter jets, and the number advantage increased to 2 times. In other words, each Japanese fighter jet had to fight against a US dual-aircraft formation, and the result was naturally one after another.

It seems that today is the day for the Japanese aviation soldiers to become gods again!

And Masao Mimi did not wait for the fight to fight and then led the torpedo bombers and dive bombers to launch an attack, so he would likely have to escape with the torpedo and bombers.

Just as the fighter jets on both sides fought to the death, he made a quick decision and led the "Comet" dive bomber, the "Meteor" torpedo bomber and the "Tianshan" torpedo bomber launched a dive assault.

Whether American planes came down from high altitude to block the plane or went up from low altitude to face the nose, the Japanese torpedo bombers and dive bombers kept charging with their heads covering their heads.

After paying the price of more than thirty planes being shot down, they finally rushed into the dense fire net shot by American surface ships.

This time, the Japanese attack aircraft group launched a desperate attack on the sea where the US aircraft carrier fleet was concentrated! Although the Americans' air defense firepower was very dense, they still could not stop the Japanese aircraft that charged bravely, and the losses of the US aircraft carrier soon appeared!
Chapter completed!