It was obviously not Cunningham's style to sit and wait for death. Just when the three aircraft carriers released their carrier-based aircraft almost the same, he proposed to forcefully prepare for the second attack wave. Nimitz immediately agreed after considering it.

The second attack wave of the US military consists of two parts. The first part is the 16 SBDs sent out for reconnaissance in the early morning. Except for the SBDs that were targeted to the Ozawa sector, which were shot down and the farthest SBDs did not have time to rush back, the other 14 aircraft were rushing back as fast as possible; the second part is the backup aircraft owned by three aircraft carriers, each aircraft carrier carrying 10 backup aircraft (including 3 6, 4 SBDs and 3 TBs). Since there has been no loss in the early stage of combat, these backup aircraft and crews can still be used. Then, considering that there are few escort fighters, Cunningham decided to draw out 6 from the existing escort fighters, and finally formed a second attack wave composed of 50 aircraft (14 + 30 + 6).

As soon as the order was reached, all the exhausted ground staff immediately acted desperately again. They first took down the main body and spare parts of the plane hanging on the top of the hangar, and then assembled at a speed of 100,000. Most of the staff members in the bridge rushed into the hangar to assist in the work. Now everyone knows that the situation is at a very urgent moment. For every extra plane, the fleet has an additional chance of winning.

13:17, the second batch of 48 fighter jets reinforced by Azore arrived in the fleet, all carrying sub-fuel tanks and rockets -190. Ito was shocked when he saw it. He knew that the -190 could not be shipped. What does this batch of land-based aircraft mean? Ozawa saw his doubts and explained: "This is not a naval aircraft, this is an air force."

"Air Force? How did they land?"

"Learn from Chief Hori Teiki's practices in the Battle of the South Pacific, he kept covering the fleet until the fuel was exhausted or parachuted."

"How many planes are there in the entire Azore?"

"To be honest, I don't know either. It is said that there are 3 Air Force wings and 1 HNA wing. I guess there are 800 aircraft."

“There are really a lot of numbers.”

"Not much. The total number of German front-line combat aircraft is as high as 25,000, and Azores only accounts for more than 3%. The Eastern Front is the main force of German air force, where there are nearly 15,000 German aircraft. In addition to Germany, there are also some allied air forces, including Italy, Romania, Hungary, Finland, Ukraine, the Russian People's Liberation Army, Iran, and Iraq. They all have excellent air forces, with at least more than 18,000 aircraft in total..."

Ozawa sighed, "Although Germany's ability to mass-produce 40,000 aircraft of various types a year makes me envious, what I envy most is the strong reserves of German pilots and the continuous elite on the front line. The pilots who supply HNA are all experienced air force transferred to the post. Even newly recruited HNA pilots must first go to the Eastern Front to serve and accept the challenges of the Russians. In their words, you can't even win the Russians, so how can you compete with Britain and the United States?"

All the members of the observation group nodded quickly, and Ito smiled bitterly: "No wonder General Tsubasa said that your tactics are very good, but Japan actually cannot learn it, or there is no opportunity to promote it."

"Yes, I used to watch the sky by looking at the well, and I always thought that the Imperial Navy had 800 pirates and 300 pirates in the world. I also mocked the Germans for having only aircraft carriers but no HNA. After they really made efforts, we couldn't catch up. As for the gap in mechanisms, it was even more not a little bit." Ozawa pointed to the cross medal of the two swords of the Golden Oak Leaf Knight at his neck, "Did you see the medal given to me by the head of state? There are no more than 30 soldiers who can get this medal in Germany, but 11 of them were pilots, and there were even two pilots with medals higher than me."

Ito Kazuichi knew that Ozawa had received more than most of the German armed forces, but he was shocked when he heard that the medal level of a pilot was higher than that of him.

The Knight Cross was originally a single level and did not have so many subdivisions. However, due to the long-term war, Germany added 4 levels to better commend military merits, namely the Silver Oak Leaf Knight Cross, the Double Sword Silver Oak Leaf Knight Cross, the Diamond Double Sword Silver Oak Leaf Knight Cross, the Diamond Double Sword Golden Oak Leaf Knight Cross, and the Diamond Double Sword Golden Oak Leaf Knight Cross. It is even clearly stipulated that the highest-level Diamond Double Sword Golden Oak Leaf Knight Cross is only awarded to the 12 people with the most outstanding military merits after the victory of the war. For the overall beauty, the colors of the double swords and the rubber leaf are usually the same, and there will be no incongruous things like the gold Double Sword Silver Oak Leaf or the Silver Double Sword Golden Oak Leaf. Therefore, the listing of the material of the rubber leaf determines what the double sword is.

After Hoffman took power, he believed that the subdivision level was not enough, so he added two levels: the first level is the Golden Oak Leaf Cross (Incomparable Sword), which is between the Silver Oak Leaf Cross and the Double Sword Silver Oak Leaf Cross: the additional level is the Double Sword Golden Oak Leaf Knight Cross (no diamonds), which is between the Double Sword Silver Oak Leaf Knight Cross and the Diamond Double Sword Silver Oak Leaf Knight Cross. Ozawa obtained the latter, which is still two levels away from the highest level of the Diamond Double Sword Knight Cross.

"You must have heard of these two pilots, one is Marseilleu and the other is Hans Rudel. They received the Diamond Double Sword Silver Oak Leaf Knight Cross (the highest level actually issued at present). One of them killed nearly 300 aircraft and the other killed more than 300 tanks. Dr. Goebbels also made a movie for them."

Everyone in the observation group nodded. These two names have been heard by Germany in a few days. There are two movies. Another one is the Rank Commando. After seeing this, everyone finally understood where the impact of the domestic "Commander Commander of the United Fleet" movie was originated. However, they did not find any movie that praised the head of state for its "magnificent and majestic" governance. Ito asked occasionally, and the senior German leaders who received the reception laughed: "Everything that the head of state has done for the rise of the empire is obvious to all. He repeatedly instructed not to deliberately promote it, but to focus on promoting front-line officers and soldiers, outstanding figures who have made special contributions to Germany, and to build consensus among the whole nation. Perhaps when the head of state runs again next time, one can shoot one and one to cheer up morale."

Ozawa's next sentence was even more thought-provoking: "What medal did the head of state who made such great contributions to Germany's rise give him? No! Not a single one! He only had the Iron Cross Medal obtained by the Imperial Cross during the last World War. Thinking about some of us in China, we had no contributions, so we were eager to put the Chrysanthemum and the Great Rising Sun on our chests, even higher than the ranks of Chief Yamamoto, Chief Hori and General Tsukahara. Is it embarrassing? There is no necessary connection between medals and official titles. It is not that the greater the official, the higher the medal, the higher the medal. If this idea is not broken, how can the grassroots be motivated?"

Ito Katsuichi remembered the King Hiroki Fushimiya who had medals on his chest. He used to think it was natural, but he felt uncomfortable after Ozawa said this. He originally wanted to explain the fact that the medals Hori Teiki have now received are no longer low, but when he thought that most high-level medals were awarded after "responding to rebel", he didn't know what to say that these medals were not "a merit of revenge for revenge", but rather that the Miyagi was forced to recognize Hori Teiki's status. The specific truth is not clear to the people. Is Ito Katsuichi still unclear?

"Sir, the second attack wave is ready and is taking off..."

"Sir, the radar reports that the German aircraft group is approaching, with an altitude of 7,500 meters, a number of more than 160 aircraft, a distance of 175 kilometers, and is expected to receive the enemy in 15 minutes..."

13:21, Bumblebee Bridge issued two enemy information reports

"It's another way to fight!" Nimitz was in a heavy mood, but he gave the order without any delay. "Be careful of air defense fighters, don't be fooled, don't get trapped, don't climb!"

"The second attack wave is fast, fast! Must be fast!" Cunningham issued an order quickly. Although he knew that the German army would arrive soon, the speed was still a bit unexpected. If our side was slower, the second attack wave would have to stay at home and couldn't get out.

The staff members shouted and commanded the aircraft group to take off quickly, while allowing each ship to ship out a tight circular air defense formation. This time, the fleet not only had the air defense firepower of four battleships, but also had VT fuzes installed in each ship's anti-aircraft guns, so the confidence of the US military seemed to be a little more sufficient.

"The aircraft must be changed when returning to China. First, 6 must be equipped with turbocharged to cope with high-altitude tactics; second, SBD and TB must be replaced with new attack aircraft that integrate dive bombing and torpedo attack as soon as possible; third, it must be equipped with excellent carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft with high speed and large range." Nimitz told the confidential staff, "Send the telegram immediately. No matter whether we can go back alive, they must know."

"Sir, you need to take care of yourself..."

Nimitz waved his hand: "Everything can happen on the battlefield. Who dares to say that he is invulnerable to swords and guns? Tell the gang of idiots in the Armies that if they don't know how to build it, I'll always go to imitate the German plane to follow others in the same way, right?"

After seeing the do-412 and ta-152, British and American pilots reported that the German New Aviation Cannon (mg213) had extremely strong firepower, and the British still had Sispano to support the scene. After seeing its unchanging heirloom for thousands of years, the US military just wanted to cry...

Cunningham smiled bitterly: Now Americans are also forced to imitate the jets, high-performance liquid-cooled engines, and aviation cannons imitate British goods. Tanks took the I-1 to imitate Soviet goods, and rockets and assault rifles were ready to imitate German goods. Will it not imitate German ships in the next step?

"By the way, let the Joint Association promote the research of that weird angled deck aircraft carrier. I think it is necessary and should build a research ship. I have a intuition that this thing can be released to the aircraft fleet faster than we had previously estimated! If we don't study it, we will suffer a big loss in the future!"

More than ten minutes passed in a flash. Less than 2 minutes after the second attack wave of the US military left, the black German aircraft group appeared not far away...
Chapter completed!