At 8:57, when the last ship attack launched the torpedo, the first attack wave completed all the attack tasks and returned under the leadership of Mizuo Fujita. Although the results of this attack were quite significant, the losses were quite large under the US military's cover of fighter jets and the fleet's air defense firepower. Including the four lost during the interception in the halfway, a total of 21 aircraft were lost, with a loss rate of nearly 18%, which greatly exceeded Fujita's psychological expectations of 10%.

But for the fast column, this attack that lasted for more than 30 minutes was just the beginning of suffering, because the second attack wave led by Navy Takahara Ekuma, a total of 110 aircraft will soon pounce again.

While Mizuo Furida completed his mission and returned, the attack wave released by the Assault aircraft carrier also found the Japanese aircraft carrier formation and tried to attack. Unfortunately, they were intercepted by Japan Zero War. When they set off, there were 18 F4Fs and 18 SBDs, losing 7 and 9 respectively, leaving only 20 aircraft, but even these 20 aircraft still bravely rushed towards the Japanese aircraft carrier.

The 48 straight-covered aircraft, which were waiting for the Japanese fleet, immediately divided 36 to meet the enemy. The poor US attack wave was beaten up by the Zero War pilots one after another before approaching the core of the Japanese fleet. Among them, the most outstanding performance was a team led by Lieutenant Suichi Sasui (he was called the Prince of Rabaul for his strong combat power, and also nicknamed the cockfighting). The four aircraft won 9 results in one go, which made other pilots who did not win the results scream in the air.

The team was originally a member of the Rabaul Airways team, not only participated in the Guadala Air Strangler. They also fought fiercely with the US-Australia Air Force in Laicheng and Port Moresby. They all survived successfully and had a rich combat experience. They were very familiar with the tactics of the US military. When Hori Teiki and Tsukahara Nizumari were plundering excellent base pilots to fill the vacancies of carrier-based pilots, the team was shortlisted for their superb skills, but Sabui Sabui modestly stated that the team's most outstanding skills was not him, but Sabui Saburo, the Navy's second lieutenant, but this guy is still recuperating now when he is injured.

In order to increase his persuasion, he gave an example: During the fierce battle with the US and Australian Air Force a few months ago, Saburo Saburo Saburo had wingman Hiroyo Nishizawa and Toshio Ota pursued the US bomber over the enemy airport, not only shooting down the enemy planes. He also proudly showed the stunt performance of the three aircraft formations vertically circling three times in front of the US military. The next day, when the US bomber bombed again, humorously cast a letter that said, "Yesterday, the pilot of the army came to perform superb flight skills, but failed to show up to welcome him. I hope you can come again, and our army will welcome him grandly." The three were scolded by Saburi Sumika, but the fame of Saburi Saburo Saburi and others became famous.

Tsukahara Misuzo himself was also a figure who served as the commander of the aviation team. He was very interested in Saburo Saburo's story. After reading his past record, he not only did not dislike him for being blind in his right eye after being injured, but instead asked the staff to write a letter to encourage him to recover and invite him to fight on the ship. He also comforted him: "What's the point of losing one eye? Look, I don't want to be the commander of the fleet if I don't have one hand?" In the Japanese army with strict hierarchy, a It is commendable that the Lieutenant General was able to speak to a second lieutenant so kindly in the letter. Saburo Saburo immediately expressed his willingness to join the fleet, and he served as a reserve pilot before setting off. The facts also proved his ability. Although he had never fought on an aircraft carrier and was blind in his right eye, he was trained on the newly-engaged Dragon and Phoenix. He mastered the key points of takeoff and landing in just half a day, and after three days, he could no longer see that he was a new pilot on board.

After the remaining 32 teams of Sasui Kumi shot down nine enemy aircraft, the remaining 32 were able to deal with the remaining 11, which was considered to be more wolves and less meat. After a while, all of these US aircraft were dried up in the turbulent Indian Ocean. Their harvest was pitiful. The Shochi ate a nearly missing bullet, two anti-aircraft guns were damaged, and 6 sailors operating in the gun position were killed and 3 injured. The Americans in the air battle were also defeated. They only shot down one Zero aircraft - the pilot was caught by the destroyer after the parachuting successfully.

When Mizuo Furida's first attack wave successfully returned to each ship and replenished oil bombs, the British strike forces that took off from Socotra were late to fly over the aircraft carrier. They were all slowed down by the slow swordfish. The Zero fighter group, which had just been snatched away by the four-person team, saw someone coming to die, and immediately rushed to attack. When they approached, they found that there were biplane torpedoes mixed in the enemy plane. The pilot was so happy.

Although the skills of these British pilots are better than that of the Americans, their aircraft performance is really poor. Whether it is the Swallow, the Sea Hurricane or the Swordfish are all old-fashioned guys. At the beginning, the Italians were mistakenly caught in the trick and made them famous for their surprise attack on Taranto. They were destined to be a dish in the Zero Battle. Now, and the number is so small, it is even less difficult. Five minutes later, these old British aircraft were shot down by the Zero Battle. Only one swordfish dropped torpedoes outside the range, but no one hit them. The pilot fell into the Indian Ocean with his forehead full of unwillingness.

At 9:16, Jiang Cao Ryufan led the second attack wave to the battlefield. The sea was in chaos. The British and American destroyers were busy catching people from the sea. The entire fast fleet suffered heavy losses in the first round of attacks, and the complete wheeled air defense array did not have time to be arranged. There was a large air defense gap, which made Cunningham and Peters jumped straight. However, Jiang Cao Ryufan did not rush to attack, but led a huge fleet of aircraft to circle the entire fast column for half a circle. The remaining f4f fighters were confused by the actions of the Japanese fleet, and mistakenly thought they were going to air strike the transport fleet that was fleeing to the shore in the west. They immediately rushed forward to intercept them.

Jiang Cao Longfan smiled contemptuously, first lured the group of F4Fs to leave the fleet's air defense firepower network, and then commanded the Zero Warriors who were responsible for the cover mission to pounce on them. More than 30 Zero Warriors rushed forward and eliminated the remaining more than ten air defense fighters outside the fleet's air defense firepower network. Cunningham and Peters, who were watching the battle below, changed their faces and now they finally knew the terribleness of their opponents - they were like evil wolves secretly peeking at their side, waiting for their flaws to expose their flaws before pounceing on them! The offensive targets of these aircraft are not the transportation echelon at all, but they are still themselves!

The fierce anti-aircraft artillery fire began to fly all over the sky again, but since the opponent's f4f had been shot down, the zero-fighter group that was covered could free up. They pounced down calmly and used machine gun fire to suppress the anti-aircraft artillery of each ship, and then the ship explosion and ship attack were divided into left and right wings to launch an attack simultaneously. Jiang Cao Ryufan himself locked the target firmly to the largest, most powerful, and black smoke. However, there was a Tuscaloosa heavy cruiser (New Orleans-class) outside the Massachusetts, which was guarding directly and pounced down to attack Massachusetts easily suffered cross-fire attacks, so he decided to attack the heavy cruiser first.

He saw black smoke coming out of the middle of the starboard side of the ship, and also saw the ship tilting to the right, and concluded that the ship had a major gap on the starboard side, so he personally led three ships to pounce. The three aircraft had already cooperated many times and were very skillful in technology. They followed the routes continuously and dropped bombs at almost the same height. Three bombs hit the middle of the starboard side one after another, and the centers of the explosion were not more than 4 meters apart. They immediately opened three large holes on the starboard side. The three large holes formed a large hole 7 meters long and more than 2 meters high. They could not block the leak at all. They could only watch the sea water pouring in. In less than 3 minutes, this ten-ton-ton treaty heavy cruiser capsized due to excessive water inlet.

Inside the commander of the War-Welfare Commander, Peters did not care about the rest of the battle situation and seized the time to report the latest information to Cunningham: "Sir, the slow column sent a telegram. They were about 1,100 nautical miles away from us. All fighters have been arranged, but even after the secondary fuel tank was mounted, these fighters could not fly so far. They made a suggestion, should they fly to Kenya first for fuel supply, and then fly over to cover the fleet?"

"It's hard for them to be willing, forget it..." Cunningham smiled bitterly and pointed to the Japanese carrier-based aircraft outside that was still attacking wildly. "When they arrived, they would probably have to collect the bodies for us. Let's keep a cover for the slow column and hand over the command to Major General Hewitt of the US Navy. Ask him to command with full authority. The current reinforcement mission is suspended. Please contact South Africa or London directly for subsequent combat orders, and be sure to save the slow fleet."

"yes."

"Have the Kenyan cover aircraft team sent out?"

"The Coast Guard Command, based in Mombasa, reported that the plane was ready half an hour ago, but the number was small, with only 6 b-25, 9 handsome soldiers and 8 tunas available, and it was probably taken off from Mogadishu."

Cunningham was furious: "What can they do? The attack aircraft and bombers without fighter cover are all living targets for the Japanese. Where is the hurricane? Where is the fire?"

"But the distance is too far. Whether it is a fire or a hurricane, they have short legs. They can hang on the auxiliary fuel tank and take off from the nearest Mogadishu. They can only stay over the fleet for 10-15 minutes. If they go to the Japanese fleet, they will not be able to reach it and they will fall from mid-air. This is no longer a return trip, and the plane will be forced to land on the sea. If they consider the return trip, they will not need to be sent at all. The only thing that can fly far and do not need to consider the return trip is seaplanes - but they are just used to fight the submarine, and anti-ships are not good at all. There was also a little tomahawk style, and they were transferred from the desert air force to support Egypt two days ago..."
Chapter completed!