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Over the two aircraft carriers, Feilong and Canglong, there were 32 each of Zero fighters, Type 97 torpedo attack aircraft and Type 99 dive bombers, totaling 96 fighters, forming a huge fleet of aircraft and rushing towards Midway Island in a mighty manner.

Soon after, the Midway Guard Command received a clear report from a patrolling PBY Katerina seaplane.

"A large number of enemy aircraft were found at 310 degrees Midway Island at 140 nautical miles away. A large number of enemy aircraft were found at 310 degrees Midway Island at 140 nautical miles away..."

Shortly after receiving the reconnaissance plane report, the Midway Island Defense Radar Station sent a similar report.

"A large number of enemy aircraft were approaching at 310 degrees, with a distance of about 90 nautical miles."

A few minutes later, at Midway Airport, the roar of the aircraft engine was deafening, and twenty-six bison fighters took off one after another, flying to the northwest to intercept the Japanese attack aircraft group.

The fighter fleet disappeared shortly above the airport.

The Midway Guard Command received another important piece of information, and another pby Katerina reconnaissance aircraft patrolling northwest of Midway sent a telegram.

"The Japanese fleet was found at 310 degrees in Midway Island, 210 nautical miles away, with at least two aircraft carriers inside."

After receiving information, 34 Fearless and Avenger dive bombers at the airport were exhausted in a long queue, one after another, rushed out of the runway and into the sky.

Four B-26 bombers converted into torpedoes and six TBF torpedoes also rotated at high speed and joined the takeoff queue.

Shortly after the huge attack aircraft group left, the Japanese bomber group flew over Midway Island.

Behind them, the escorted Zero fighter jets had already formed a group of bison fighters on Midway.

In the sky, there were warplanes rolling and chasing everywhere, and balls of black smoke burst out from the blue sky.

The anti-aircraft guns of the Midway Island defenders also joined the battle group, trying to protect the safety of the airport with dense rain of bullets.

32 Type 99 dive bombers dive to the ground one after another, and the oil tanks exposed to the ground became the first victim.

The 250 kilogram bomb and the 60 kilogram bomb fell into the oil tank area. The explosion sounded, and the oil tank was split into pieces. Aviation gasoline was sprayed into the sky and the ground, and was then ignited by Mars.

The prairie fire covered the oil tank area, and the black smoke emitted by the turbulent flames rushed straight into the sky, and the air emitted a scorching wave and a pungent smell of oil smoke.

The Type 97 torpedo attack aircraft followed suit and launched an attack, as a multi-functional fighter that can be used as torpedo, bombing and reconnaissance aircraft. The Type 97 attack aircraft plays the role of a horizontal bomber this time.

Bombs fell from the sky one after another. Amid the continuous explosions, the hangars collapsed and turned into ruins. There were seven or eight large bomb craters on the airport runway.

The power plant was unable to escape the catastrophe. The generator and the house flew into the sky together. The transformer also turned into a pile of scrap copper and iron in the flames and fire. The telephone poles fell down like dominoes, tearing off the fragile wires, and the dazzling electric light shone on the ground.

During the nearly half an hour of bombing, the Japanese attack aircraft group severely damaged Midway Airport at the cost of losing seven fighter jets.

After the Japanese bomber group left, the engineers ran on the runway, frantically filling the craters with soil, trying to fill them.

The fire truck also rushed to the edge of the sea of ​​fire and spewed out white water dragons into the blazing flames...

In addition to the severely damaged airport, only nine of the twenty-six Bison-style fighters attacking returned, and each was injured.

Following the direction provided by the reconnaissance aircraft, the US bomber group of Midway Island did not take much effort and easily found the Flying Dragon and Canglong aircraft carriers.

A US military aircraft was found, and a shrill alarm sounded from the two aircraft carrier formations, and cloud-like smoke rose around the aircraft carrier. It floated between the sea and the sky, disturbing the sight of the US pilots.

The Flying Dragon and Canglong aircraft carriers, as well as the surrounding warships responsible for escorting, anti-aircraft guns fired dense shells to intercept enemy planes that rushed towards the two aircraft carriers.

The Zero fighter jets hovered over the fleet, which were responsible for protecting the fleet, also turned their noses and rushed towards the US military fleet.

Under the joint cover of smoke, fighter jets and anti-aircraft guns, six TBF torpedoes and four B-26 bombers flew staggeringly close to the sea, avoiding anti-aircraft shells flying like raindrops while rushing towards the aircraft carrier on the S-type route.

Two B-26s were first hit, plunged into the blue sea, followed by four TBF torpedoes.

The torpedo thrown by the ten torpedo planes was unknown and did not have any impact on the Japanese aircraft carrier.

With mottled bullet holes, the four surviving torpedo planes rushed out of the battlefield and flew towards Midway Island.

At high altitude, the US dive bombers fearlessly launched dive bombings against the anti-aircraft shells that were coming, but because most of them were rookies pilots who had just graduated from aviation schools, they lacked combat experience and no bomb hit the target. Only the bomb dropped by the squadron leader Major Henderson exploded at about ten meters away from the Flying Dragon. The shrapnel hit the right hull of the Flying Dragon and left more than a dozen scratches and scratches of different sizes.

For these scratches and scratches that are not worth mentioning to the huge Flying Dragon, the US dive bomber troops paid the price of nineteen dive bombers being shot down.

On the way back to Midway, three more bombers, including the fearless bomber driven by Major Henderson, were forced to land on the sea due to their severe injuries.

In the end, only twelve of the 34 dive bombers returned.

What awaits them on Midway Island will be a major test of forced landing on the broken airplane runway.

During the battle group of aircraft carriers with the Flying Dragon and the Aolong as the core battle with the US military in Midway, the core of the battlefield, on the deck of the Akagi aircraft carrier where Nagashima is located, the Type 99 dive bomber and the Type 97 torpedo attack aircraft with torpedoes were parked neatly.

The same scenario is also on the Kaga aircraft carrier adjacent to Akagi.

Only the first big brother who joined temporarily, Japan's first aircraft carrier and the world's first officially put into service, on the Fengxiang light aircraft carrier, eight Type 97 attack aircraft took off one after another and flew to the east in a fan shape.

Less than half an hour after the eight planes set off, eight Type 97 attack aircraft took off successfully and flew towards the southern waters in a fan shape.

The sixteen Type 97 attack aircraft played the role of a reconnaissance aircraft at this time. Within thirty minutes after the disappearance of the sixteen Type 97 attack aircraft, seven seaplanes were ejected into the air and formed a third wave of reconnaissance forces. They searched the east and south for the specific location of the US fleet.

Nanyun stood in the bridge, leaning on the saber with both hands, and the face full of flesh was covered in Gujing Wubo, quietly waiting for the message sent by the reconnaissance plane.

In the north of the Akagi, where Natsumoto is located, about 150 nautical miles. In the rest room of the Yamato battleship, Yamamoto Iroku leaned against the backrest of the sofa, closed his eyes and did not look at it. He seemed to be a monk who had entered into meditation.

Unlike Yamamoto Izuru who entered the state of meditation, sixteen seaplanes disappeared from the sky outside the Yamato battleship to carry out the mission of finding the US aircraft carrier formation.

Unlike Yamamoto and Nagamoto who were patiently waiting for information, about 300 nautical miles northeast of Midway Island, Halsey's intelligence was particularly easy to obtain.

Almost at the same time as the Midway Guard Command, Halsey received a clear telegram from Pby Katerina reconnaissance plane.

Lying beside the chart with four staff members, Halsey looked at a staff member who marked the position of the Japanese Navy fleet at 310 degrees and 210 nautical miles northwest of Midway on the chart.

"Are there only two aircraft carriers? Where are the other two?"

Halsey frowned and walked to the window, watching the neatly discharged and ready-to-go crew on the deck.

In Halsey's order, two task force, the Hornet, the Hornet and York City, were the core of the three aircraft carriers, turned the bow and sailed west.

"We are so far away from them. We must be within 175 nautical miles and incorporate the enemy fleet into the attack radius of the torpedo aircraft."

The fleet almost completed its turn. Halsey saw a communications consultant rushing into the bridge.

"I just received the telegram and found another Japanese Navy aircraft carrier formation at 310 degrees and 240 nautical miles."

Halsey asked, "How many aircraft carriers are there?"

"Three ships."

Halsey opened his mouth and laughed. Eight teeth shone in the sun.

"It turns out that one more ship than in the intelligence, but it doesn't matter."

Halsey was not nervous about confirming that the number of Japanese naval aircraft carriers was one more than expected.

Although the Japanese Navy has the advantage in the number of aircraft carriers, it has to deal with two goals, Midway Island and the fleet it leads, and it only needs to deal with one goal.

At the same time, his own fleet also has the advantage of taking the lead.

What I have to do now is to get the fleet closer to the enemy as soon as possible and incorporate the enemy into the combat radius of the torpedo aircraft.

During the charge towards the Japanese fleet, on the deck of the Hornet, four SBD fearless bombers rushed into the sky and flew to the west to find the location of the Japanese fleet and monitored closely.

Like the Japanese Navy, Halsey's aircraft carrier also does not have full-time reconnaissance aircraft. The Japanese Navy uses the Type 97 torpedo attack aircraft to play a guest reconnaissance aircraft, and the SBD fearless dive bomber plays the same role in the US Navy.

Halsey was waiting anxiously, looking at his watch.

Since receiving the position of the Japanese fleet at 6:11, an hour and a half has passed, and another half an hour can be taken off.

The buzzing sound of the propeller rotating at high speed came from the deck, and the carrier-based aircraft had started the engine.

When Halsey was looking forward to the arrival of the battle moment, he did not notice that in the sky northwest of the fleet, a Type 97 torpedo aircraft was approaching above the fleet.

After receiving the notice from the observation post, Halsey looked up at the sky, but did not find the plane that was obviously for reconnaissance, so he gave up searching.

After the radio connected to Fletcher's Task Force 17, Halsey sent a telegram: "I will keep the agreement."

After half an hour of contact, Halsey and Fletcher unified their thinking.

As agreed in advance, only one attack was launched and then retreat.

Except for retaining the necessary escort fighter jets, all other fighter jets attacked.

Halsey knew that the location of his fleet had been exposed, and the Japanese reconnaissance plane in the sky would inevitably report it to the Japanese fleet, but he still decided to launch a wave of attack.

After contacting the Midway Island garrison headquarters, Halsey confirmed the time of the attack on the Japanese naval carrier-based aircraft.

After inferring the time it takes to travel to and from Midway to the aircraft carrier formation, Halsey smiled and said, "When our attack aircraft fleet arrived, at least half of the enemy's carrier-based aircraft should, no, be refueling and replenishing ammunition. This is the opportunity left to us by the Japanese, and we must not miss it."

Half an hour passed in a flash, and Halsey decisively issued an attack order.

Looking at the planes rushing into the sky on the deck, Halsey murmured: "Catch them and kill them."

On the two aircraft carriers, Bumblebee and Hornet, commanded by Halsey, a total of seventy dive bombers, thirty torpedoes and twenty fighters rushed out of the deck one after another.

Two torpedo crews are flying at low altitude, with fighters and dive bombers flying at high altitudes.

The four aircraft groups did not want to gather into a larger formation with more attack power. Second, in order to get the aircraft groups to attack as soon as possible, Halsey ordered the aircraft groups to attack as soon as possible without having to gather.

Saving time is only Halsey's first purpose. The reason why he really issued an order not to assemble into a large formation was that he knew that most of the pilots on the two aircraft carriers were rookies pilots, and a large formation of more than one hundred aircraft was a difficult task that was impossible for these rookies.

About twenty nautical miles southwest of Hal, Rear Admiral Fletcher also released all carrier-based aircraft on the USS York City aircraft carrier.

Major General Fletcher watched the crew disappear into the white clouds, but the sound of a report came from his ears.

"A plane is approaching us, possibly an enemy's reconnaissance plane."

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In the bridge of the Akagi, Tadakaichi Nagamoto threw the sabre in his hand to the adjutant and received the telegram.

"Are two aircraft carriers? Less than expected. Yoxi, American, I finally caught you, you can't escape."

"Order the Akagi and Kaga release carrier-based aircraft. Then inform Commander Yamamoto of the enemy's location."

The communications department had just sent a telegram in accordance with Tadaichi Nagamoto's order, but almost at the same time received a telegram from the main fleet led by Yamamoto.

"Reported, the commander called and their water reconnaissance plane discovered another American fleet, which contained an aircraft carrier." The staff officer handed the telegram to Nanyun.

"Are three ships? This should be the entire enemy's strength. No matter what, I'll catch you."

When Tadichi Nagamoto was excited to capture the position of the US aircraft carrier formation, Yamato Izuru issued an order.

"The main fleet is moving forward at full speed and notify the Shohe and Ruihe to release the carrier-based aircraft in an hour."
Chapter completed!