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After a dispute, a strong resentment arose in Lieutenant General Cunningham's heart.

After the battle started, although the fleet was not attacked by Japanese planes and sent seaplanes to investigate nearby sea surfaces, no trace of Japanese surface ships was found, but Lieutenant General Cunningham was still hesitant about whether to launch a landing battle.

The reason is very simple. After receiving the report from the carrier-based aircraft force, Cunningham had learned that the Japanese aviation forces on Midway Island were all equipped with fighter jets and a very small number of reconnaissance aircraft.

The US and British carrier-based aircraft aviation soldiers were not prepared for such extreme configurations of the Japanese army. Under the joint strangle of the Japanese elite pilots with rich combat experience and the island's anti-aircraft artillery fire, only 17 of the 74 aircraft participating in the first wave of attacks returned.

After receiving the battle loss report, Lieutenant General Cunningham shivered involuntarily. According to this battle loss rate, even if Midway Island is captured, the aircraft carriers in his fleet will basically lose their combat effectiveness.

If the Japanese aircraft carrier formation appears at this time, the battle will be one-sided massacre.

When Cunningham hesitated whether to continue to launch the island-landing battle, Major General Johnson, the commander of the 3rd Marine Division of the United States, came to him.

Major General Johnson's purpose is clear. The Marines are ready. When can they start a landing battle?

After a small debate, Major General Johnson convinced Lieutenant General Cunningham on the grounds that the troops would easily dampen morale if they did not attack.

With a sense of resentment, Lieutenant General Cunningham defied the inherent conservatism of the British and decided to take the risk of launching a landing war.

Received the order from Lieutenant General Cunningham, the two battleships, Anson and Howe, led four light cruisers and six destroyers to rush straight to Midway Island.

The naval gun group with the 14-inch main gun and 5.25-inch secondary gun on the two battleships was baptized by steel and fire on all military facilities exposed to the field of view, including the island's airport runway and airport buildings.

Under the gray-black smoke, the airport runway was almost completely covered with mottled bullet craters. The airport building turned into broken wood pieces and flew everywhere. Several exposed anti-aircraft gun positions also turned into bullet craters. The parts of the anti-aircraft guns and the flesh and blood of the gunners were scattered in the middle.

The anti-aircraft artillery fire on the British fleet was not idle. They cooperated with the aviation troops to jointly strangle the Japanese fighter jets in the air, and the war extended from the ocean and land to the sky.

After more than an hour of artillery preparations, the Japanese army in Midway Island were completely suppressed.

As it was almost twelve o'clock in the afternoon, Lieutenant General Cunningham's sight flashed with the figure of the US landing craft.

Thanks to the fleet artillery suppression of the Japanese army on the island, the landing war went smoothly. The Japanese army on the island was very weak. The first batch of landing troops quickly seized a beachhead position, and then expanded with the cooperation of naval guns and continued to attack the Japanese defensive positions in depth.

The landing battle went smoothly, and Lieutenant General Cunningham's face looked a little better, but he immediately lowered his face after receiving the second report of the damage.

Of the seventy-eight fighter jets that launched the second wave of attacks, only twenty-six returned.

In one morning's battle, there were only 43 aircraft on the four aircraft carriers, less than one-third of the full troop, and nine were injured and unable to participate in the subsequent battle.

On the aircraft carriers of Ruihe and Falcon Eagle in the fleet, 30 Zero fighters, 45 Type 97 torpedo attack aircraft, and 45 Type 99 dive bombers rushed out of the flight deck one after another, gathering into a huge first attack wave in the sky, flying towards the northwest in a mighty direction.

About half an hour later, the same number of fighter jets took off on the aircraft carriers of the Shohe and the Flying Eagle, forming a second attack wave to embark on the battlefield.

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Listening to the harsh alarm outside the bridge, Lieutenant General Cunningham was completely disappointed, and the blue sky and sea instantly turned into a gray symbolizing death.

Turning his head and looking at the adjutant who was also pale on the side, Lieutenant General Cunningham's voice was not at all emotional.

"Where did the Japanese fleet come from and why did it come so quickly?"

The answer to Cunningham was a violent explosion.

Among the four aircraft surviving aircraft on the fleet, only eleven were f4f wildcat fighters. The wildcat fighters that were rushed to fight were instantly submerged in an advantageous group of Zero fighters.

Without the interference of US fighter jets, the Type 99 dive bomber took the lead in launching the attack.

The 45 fighter jets were dispersed into 15 three-air formations and rushed towards Cunningham's fleet, rushing straight to the four aircraft carriers in the fleet.

After being attacked by two Type 99 bombers, the Berrowwood independent light aircraft carrier was first shot. A 250 kilogram armor-piercing projectile broke through the flight deck and hangar, exploded inside the hull, and then caused a fire inside the hull.

The more massive aircraft carrier Indomitable was hit immediately, and four 250 kilogram armor-piercing bombs were hit by the middle and rear of the deck, one of which hit the bottom of the chimney, and an explosion near the boiler bin caused the boiler to stop working, and the speed was sharply reduced to seven knots.

The USS Corwei's sister ship, the USS Kewei aircraft carrier, failed to escape the bad luck. Even in its serpentine positioning, it could not avoid the bomb falling from the sky. First, a bomb hit the No. 1 elevator, and then the bomb's owner, the Type 99 dive bomber, was shot down by anti-aircraft artillery fire, and hit the flight deck, tearing a hole more than two meters long on the deck.

The first one to sink was the independent aircraft carrier Caupez, which was not attacked by armor-piercing bombs. The one who targeted it was the Type 97 torpedo attack aircraft.

After successfully avoiding two torpedoes with the help of serpentine movement, the port side engine compartment of the Cowpez, which was exhausted, was hit by the Type 91 torpedo.

The hull converted from the Cleveland-class light cruiser could not withstand the damage of the Type 91 torpedo. Nearly a quarter of the hull was almost blown to pieces and quickly sank to the bottom of the sea.

The light aircraft carrier of the USS Cuppez had just sank. A series of violent explosions suddenly occurred inside the hull of the sister ship of the Berrowwood, not far from it. Flames and black smoke ejected from the gaps of the warship, and countless pieces of steel of all sizes flew into the sky and fell to the sea.

After the violent explosion, the Berrowwood, whose ammunition depot was detonated by the fire, followed the steps of the Cuppez and rushed straight to the dark seabed of the Pacific Ocean.

On the battleship Anson, a series of bad news came to Cunningham one after another.

The Cowpez sinks...

Bellowwood sank...

Captain Indomitable requested to abandon the ship...

The Anson battleship No. 1 boiler cabin was hit by torpedo and stopped operating...

"Let the damage management department repair it and report it to Pearl Harbor immediately. Our fleet was ambushed by the Japanese fleet and the final battle is underway... The Japanese fleet arrived too fast, beyond our predictions. I suspect that the enemy knew our combat plan in advance, let the intelligence department investigate thoroughly, and must investigate to the end and avenge us."

Cunningham's last telegram had just been sent, and a black spot appeared in the sky in the southeast, and the second wave of Japanese attack arrived at the battlefield.

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