Chapter 331: The battle begins

Just half an hour before they landed, two other US reconnaissance planes had taken off. After refueling and conducting a simple inspection, they would fly into the blue sky again to perform reconnaissance missions.

This continuous reconnaissance mission for more than ten hours during the day made the American pilots very tired, but war was imminent, and it was better than staying on the ground and waiting for the enemy to come for air strikes. Two American pilots took advantage of the ground crew's refueling airplanes with long hoses, ate a few butter-stuck bread, chewed a few fried chicken wings produced in the United States, and wiped their mouths and flew into the sky again.

They didn't expect that within the few minutes they were delayed, the South China Sea Fleet's plane broke through a certain airspace and picked up a loophole, causing a catastrophic blow to Pearl Harbor.

At this time, two squadrons of torpedo planes at Pearl Harbor Airport did not take off. They had just finished their mission and had to wait half an hour before they could continue to take off.

In the sky of the western Hawaiian waters, US military planes crossed back and forth in the waters about 300 kilometers away from the Hawaiian islands, conducting intensive and uninterrupted searches.

However, because the waters in the Pacific region are too vast, the US military does not have airborne radar as search instruments, and they can only rely on visual photography to conduct reconnaissance. Therefore, it is almost impossible for the US military to cover the vast sky of the entire western waters of Hawaii on the scale of more than 20 aircraft.

For the northern and southern Hawaii, the eastern waters are areas that the US military cannot take care of. The US military estimates that the South China Sea Fleet is unlikely to enter Hawaii from these areas, because it will take a detour and delay a lot. The South China Sea Fleet will not look far and wide. It will wait until they are chased by the Aidel Fleet to Hawaii before launching an attack.

This is indeed the case. In order to win, the South China Sea Fleet is preparing to directly break through the US air reconnaissance network and enter the Hawaii area to conduct air strikes, rather than taking a long way to attack Hawaii from the east or north to the south. This is indeed a lot of delays.

The US military divided the western waters of Hawaii into a fan-shaped area, allowing the aircraft to move around the fan-shaped area and shuttle back and forth, which reduces the possibility of missing the South China Sea Fleet aircraft.

However, although this method of search increases the density of US military searches, there are always airspaces that are missed by aircraft that can exploit loopholes. However, the planes are not like this. It is probably not easy to continuously break through the US military's large-scale search for hundreds of kilometers.

The South China Sea Fleet did not intend to break through the search of the Hawaiian air force by luck. They were ready to engage in a head-on air battle with the enemy. Moreover, these US aircraft were the biggest threat to the aircraft carrier fleet. Zheng** must find them, annihilate them, and then send bombers to carry out air strikes on Hawaii.

In the early morning of October 8, a red sun rose slowly from the east horizon like a ball of fire. The sky on the entire sea gradually dyed a layer of fiery red color, and the whole sky quickly became bright. On the sea, a group of seagulls flew leisurely with their wings flapping, and a huge fleet below was quietly approaching the direction of the rising sun.

Li Guoqiang and fleet adviser Huang Shusheng stood on the deck of the Sea God, holding a telescope and watching the sunrise landscape by the sea. The four aircraft carriers of Shenzhou, Taishan, Nanjing and Huangshan lined up in a horizontal line and were slowly moving forward. The Sea God was protected by the entire fleet in the middle, and it was also the safest core area of ​​the entire fleet.

Li Guoqiang had just issued a combat order, and he and Huang Shusheng stood on the deck with great interest to watch the planes taking off on the four aircraft carriers.

Li Guoqiang ordered three fighter squadrons on four aircraft carriers to set sail, preparing to break through the Hawaiian Airlines Network and carry out the first round of air strikes on the US military's Hawaiian base, leaving only one of the fighter squadrons on the Shenzhou to cruise in nearby airspace and perform alert missions.

The main targets of the three squadrons in the first wave of attack missions were not the warships and construction facilities of US military bases. Their main goal was to annihilate the US air force and try to clear all the US military's control in one battle, creating good conditions for the second round of air strikes.

Li Guoqiang believes that it is more than enough to use three squadrons of forty-five J-2 fighters to deal with the US military's twenty-four dark horse fighters, twenty-four torpedo aircraft and several reconnaissance aircraft, because the J-2 aircraft equipped with aviation radar will soon be able to approach the opponent at the best angle and carry out unexpected strikes.

The vast Pacific airspace gives J-2 a space for full maneuverability. If it is a one-on-one battle, it is almost difficult to defeat the J-2. In order to increase the reconnaissance range, US aircraft dispersed the aircraft in multiple areas. Almost every squadron's aircraft were divided into four squadrons, with only three aircraft per share, which created favorable conditions for the Jinzhan to break each.

If the US military concentrates its forces to engage in close-range air combat with the Jinzhang aircraft, their chances of victory will be greater. If it is dispersed, they will be slowly eroded by the Jinzhang aircraft, which has an absolute advantage, until the last one. This is not the case for the US military. If they want to be the first in the Jinzhang aircraft group, they will concentrate all the aircraft in one area to defend. However, the backward US radio communication capabilities make it impossible for US pilots to notify other pilots more than five kilometers away. Most US aircraft still need a long time to get messages from teammates. They are even far from the Hawaiian command center and cannot receive messages from enemy attacks at the same time. This has caused great inconvenience for US aircraft to conduct joint combat.

The tactic of Zhen** is very simple. The three squadrons of aircraft will gather together, break through one airspace, and then head straight to Hawaii. Along the way, annihilated the US aircraft that came to block. After other US aircraft receive the message, they will definitely return to defend Hawaii. Then the Zhen** aircraft will launch an annihilation battle against the US aircraft in the Hawaii airspace.

The US military aircraft have no choice. They must concentrate their efforts to defend the sky in Hawaii, because the Zoom plane will definitely focus on Hawaii's Air Force Airport. Once the airport runway is blown up, this

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Chapter 331: The battle begins

Chapter 331: The battle begins
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