Chapter 1771: The Decisive Battle Begins
The "Taifeng" aircraft carrier is an armored cruiser of the Japanese navy, with a standard displacement of nearly 30,000 tons, equipped with 36 Zero fighters, 24 Nine-Nine and 24 Nine-Seven Attackers. At the same time, it also has a very strong defense.
In the first wave of attacks, the "Taifeng" aircraft carrier took off 12 Zero fighters, 12 Ninety-Nine Ship Explosions and 12 Nine Seventh Ship Attacks. In the subsequent second wave of attacks, the aircraft carrier "Taifeng" will also take off so many carrier-based aircraft. The remaining 12 Zero fighters will be used as air defense fighters to prevent the combined fleet from being attacked by the German navy.
Among the other three aircraft carriers in the 1st aircraft carrier formation, the two "Xianghe-class" aircraft carriers each launched 8 Zero fighters, 18 Nine-Nine Ship Explosions and 18 Nine-Seven Ship Attacks. The light aircraft carrier "Dragon Phoenix" took off 8 Zero fighters and 3 nine-seven attack ships.
In the first wave of attacks by the Japanese Navy's 1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron, a total of 36 Zero fighters, 48 Nine-Nine Ship Explosions and 39 Nine-Seven Ship Attacks were invested. The second wave of attack will also take off so many carrier-based aircraft. Moreover, 36 Zero fighters were left as air defense fighters.
The four aircraft carriers equipped in the second aircraft carrier formation are all "Yunlong class" aircraft carriers. In the first wave of attacks, each aircraft carrier can take off 8 Zero fighters, 12 Ninety-Nines and 12 Ninety-sevens. Therefore, the entire second aircraft carrier formation was able to take off 32 Zero fighters, 48 Nine-Nine Ship Explosions and 48 Nine-Seven Ship Attacks in the first and second waves of attacks. At the same time, the team can also have 32 remaining Zero fighters as air defense fighters.
The third aircraft carrier formation is equipped with two 'Yunlong-class' aircraft carriers and two 'Ruifeng-class' light aircraft carriers. The 'Ruiho-class' light aircraft carrier can carry 24 Zero fighters and six 97 fighters. It can take off 8 zero fighters and 3 ninety-seven attack ships at one time. Therefore, the entire 3rd aircraft carrier formation can take off 32 Zero fighters, 24 Ninety-Nine Ship Explosions and 30 Ninety-Seven Ship Attacks in the first wave of attack. At the same time, the team was able to leave behind 32 Zero fighters as anti-aircraft fighters.
The fourth aircraft carrier formation is equipped with two "Qianshi-class" aircraft carriers and two "Flying Eagle-class" aircraft carriers. The "Thousand-year-class" aircraft carrier is an aircraft carrier converted from a seaplane carrier, and it carries a small number of aircraft. It is the same as the 'Zuifeng-class' light aircraft carrier. Although the "Flying Eagle" aircraft carrier is an aircraft carrier converted from a merchant ship, it carries a large number of carrier-based aircraft, each of which can carry 48 carrier-based aircraft, 18 fighter jets, 18 bomber aircraft, and 18 attack aircraft. In the first wave of attacks, it was possible to take off 6 Zero fighters, 9 Nine-Nine ships and nine Nine-Seven ships to attack. The entire 4th aircraft carrier formation was able to invest in 28 Zero fighters, 18 Ninety-Nine Ship Explosions and 24 Ninety-Seven Ship Attacks in the first wave of attacks. The fleet was also able to leave 28 Zero fighters behind as anti-aircraft fighters.
The 5th aircraft carrier formation is equipped with three "Daying-class" aircraft carriers, the "Shenying" aircraft carrier and the "Sea Eagle" aircraft carrier. Among them, the "Eagle-class" aircraft carrier can carry 12 Zero fighters and 16 ninety-seven attack ships. The "Condor" aircraft carrier can carry 12 Zero fighters and 20 nine-seven attack ships. The "Haiying" aircraft carrier can carry 18 Zero fighters and 6 ninety-seven attack ships. Therefore, the 5th aircraft carrier formation was able to invest in 22 Zero fighters and 37 ninety-seven ship attacks in the first wave of attacks. At the same time, the fleet can also leave 22 Zero fighters to escort the fleet.
In the first wave of the attack, the joint fleet of the island nation's navy invested a total of 150 Zero fighters, 138 Nine-Nine Ship Explosions and 178 Nine-Seven Ship Attacks. Moreover, in the second wave of attacks, a fleet of this size can also be invested. At the same time, the entire fleet can also leave 150 Zero fighters as air defense fighters.
General Yamamoto Fifty-Six was on the deck of the "Taiho" aircraft carrier, watching the huge fleet leave.
"May God Amaterasu bless us and defeat the Germans in one fell swoop!" General Yamamoto Fifty-Six secretly prayed.
In fact, the Japanese navy has a total of 21 aircraft carriers, and they only take off such a small number of carrier-based aircraft for combat at one time. Compared with the German Navy, the number of carrier-based aircraft taking off is undoubtedly relatively small. The 16 aircraft carriers of the German Navy are equipped with much more carrier-based aircraft than the 21 aircraft carriers of the island navy.
The air defense fighter jets of the German Navy shot down the seaplanes of the island navy, which also attracted the attention of Marshal Rolf Karls.
On the one hand, Marshal Rolf Kars ordered his own seaplanes and reconnaissance planes that took off from the island to increase the search area and determine the trace of the island fleet as soon as possible. At the same time, order your own aircraft carrier formation to prepare for air defense.
Make sure that your own air defense fighters can take off enough carrier-based fighters to meet the enemy immediately after discovering that the enemy's carrier-based aircraft group is attacking.
At 7:45 in the morning, the air search radar of the aircraft carrier formation of the German Navy's Pacific Fleet discovered the carrier-based aircraft group of the attacking island navy.
"Woo!"
The shrill air defense sirens immediately sounded over the fleet. Lieutenant General William Canaris, commander of the formation, immediately issued an order for the carrier-based fighter jets to take off.
The "Aries" aircraft carrier, as well as the other three "Constellation-class" aircraft carriers, all began to take off carrier-based aircraft.
Each "Constellation-class" aircraft carrier has 36 carrier-based fighters, 36 dive bombers and 24 torpedo attack aircraft. After receiving the order for air defense operations, all the fighters parked on the deck of the aircraft carrier are carrier-based fighters. Each "Constellation-class" aircraft carrier took off 18 carrier-based fighter jets to meet the enemy.
72 carrier-based FW-190 fighter jets quickly rushed into the sky.
At the same time, the four aircraft carriers of the Indian Ocean Fleet also began to take off fighter jets. The Indian Ocean Fleet had sunk two Kaiser Wilhelm-class aircraft carriers in previous battles. After the third batch of "Lord God-class" aircraft carriers entered service, two "Lord God-class" aircraft carriers were added, which greatly increased the strength of the Indian Ocean Fleet.
The two "Lord God-class" aircraft carriers each launched 18 carrier-based fighters, and the two "Wilhelm the Great-class" aircraft carriers each launched 9 carrier-based fighters. A total of 54 carrier-based fighters.
The eight aircraft carriers of the Atlantic Fleet took off 144 carrier-based FW-190 fighter jets at one time to meet the enemy.
The aircraft carrier formation of the three major fleets of the German Navy took off a total of 270 carrier-based fighter jets to meet the enemy. This already accounts for half of the carrier-based fighters carried by the three aircraft carrier formations. The other half is prepared for the second wave of the island navy's carrier-based aircraft fleet. After all, according to management, when the fleet launches a battle, it is divided into at least two waves.
