Chapter 995

"Your Excellency, Marshal, we cannot only defend but not attack. If the 1st Aircraft Carrier Group and the 2nd Aircraft Carrier Group are attacked, once the aircraft carrier is hit, the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier will no longer be able to take off. In addition, based on the flight trajectories of the Third Reich's carrier-based aircraft, we can also roughly determine the location of their aircraft carriers. The carrier-based aircraft of the 1st Aircraft Carrier Group and the 2nd Aircraft Carrier Group are fully ready to take off for combat. General Nagumo Chudai suggested.

Marshal Yamamoto Fifty-Six nodded:"Since the Germans want to fight us desperately, then let them do what they wish." Order the 1st Aircraft Carrier Group and 2nd Aircraft Carrier Group to launch an attack. The life and death of the empire depends on this battle!"

"Hi, Mr. Marshal!"General Nagumo Chudai replied immediately.

Then, the combat order was issued.

The 10 aircraft carriers of the 1st Aircraft Carrier Group and 2nd Aircraft Carrier Group of the Combined Fleet, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately began to take off carrier-based aircraft.

The Combined Fleet The 1st aircraft carrier group has five aircraft carriers, including the Taiho aircraft carrier, two Shokaku-class aircraft carriers, the Hiryu aircraft carrier and the Soryu aircraft carrier. The

Taiho aircraft carrier has a full load displacement of more than 37,000 tons and a maximum speed of 33 knots. Moreover, the flight deck armor is also laid, which has strong defense. The number of carrier-based aircraft carried has reached 90. Under the condition of overload, it has reached 108. Of course, this is because Toyo The Empire learned from the Third Reich's navy. It tried to increase the number of carrier-based aircraft carried by the aircraft carrier as much as possible. Otherwise, the Gale aircraft carrier would carry much fewer carrier-based aircraft.

For aircraft carriers, the greatest combat power comes from For carrier-based aircraft. Only the more carrier-based aircraft it carries, the stronger the aircraft carrier's attack power will be.

The number of the Taiho aircraft carrier's 108 carrier-based aircraft, Zero fighters, Comet blasters and Tianshan attack aircraft , 36 each. After leaving 12 Zero fighters as air defense fighters, the remaining carrier-based aircraft were divided into two batches to launch attacks. The

Shokaku-class aircraft carrier has a full load displacement of 32,000 tons and a maximum speed of 34 knots. , also has a strong defensive power, and carries the same number of carrier-based aircraft as the Taiho aircraft carrier. Therefore, the carrier-based aircraft that can be dispatched this time are also the same as the Taiho aircraft carrier. The Hiryu aircraft carrier has a full load displacement of only two It has more than one thousand tons, a maximum speed of 34 knots, and the number of carrier-based aircraft it carries is 75. When overloaded, the number of carrier-based aircraft is increased to 90. There are 30 fighters, crit aircraft and attack aircraft each. After leaving 10 Zero fighters as air defense fighters, the remaining carrier-based aircraft of the Hiryu aircraft carrier were divided into two batches to launch attacks. The

Soryu aircraft carrier has a full load displacement of 20,000 tons, a maximum speed of 34 knots, and the carrier-based aircraft it carries. The number is the same as that of the Hiryu. Therefore, the carrier-based aircraft dispatched this time are also the same as the Hiryu.

The 1st aircraft carrier group is undoubtedly the most powerful among the several aircraft carrier groups of the Eastern Empire Navy Combined Fleet. It has carrier-based aircraft The number of aircraft is also the largest. This time, in addition to the all-out attack, a large number of carrier-based aircraft can naturally be dispatched.

The entire 1st aircraft carrier formation's carrier-based aircraft, in addition to leaving 56 Zero fighter air defense aircraft, other carrier-based aircraft All were divided into two batches to launch the attack. Each batch included 56 Zero fighters, 84 Comet bombers and 84 Tianshan attack aircraft. The 2nd Aircraft Carrier

Group of the Combined Fleet had five aircraft carriers under its jurisdiction, including the Ryūjang Aircraft carriers, two Akagi-class aircraft carriers, the Hosho aircraft carrier and the Unryu aircraft carrier. The

Ryukyu aircraft carrier has a full load displacement of only 12,000 tons, a maximum speed of 29 knots, and only 48 carrier-based aircraft. After being overloaded, , the number of carrier-based aircraft increased to 57. Including 17 Zero fighters, 20 Comet bombers and 20 Tianshan attack aircraft. This time, in addition to leaving 5 Zero fighters as air defense fighters, the remaining ships The carrier aircraft were divided into two batches to launch the attack.

The Akagi-class aircraft carrier has a full load displacement of 40,000 tons and carries the same number of carrier-based aircraft as the Taiho aircraft carrier. Therefore, the two Akagi-class aircraft carriers are the same as the Yetong Dafeng aircraft carrier this time. In addition to leaving 12 Zero fighters for air defense, the rest of the carrier-based aircraft are divided into two batches and put into the attack.

The displacement of the Phoenix aircraft carrier is just over 10,000 tons. The number of carrier-based aircraft carried is only 24. Under overload conditions, the number of carrier-based aircraft was increased to 30. Three types of carrier-based aircraft, each with 10 aircraft. This time, except for the four Zero fighters that were left as air defense fighters, the rest of the carrier-based aircraft were dispatched in two batches.

The Yunlong aircraft carrier has a full load displacement of 22,000 tons, a maximum speed of 34 knots, and the number of carrier-based aircraft it carries has reached 72. Especially under overload conditions, the number of carrier-based aircraft increased to 87. Three types of carrier-based aircraft, each with 29 aircraft. This time, except for the 9 Zero fighters that stayed as air defense fighters, the remaining carrier-based aircraft were also divided into two batches.

Under such circumstances, the entire 2nd aircraft carrier group of the entire Combined Fleet dispatched 42 Zero fighters, 66 Comet blasters and 66 Tianshan attack aircraft in the first batch. The second batch of carrier-based aircraft groups only has one less Comet blaster and Tianshan attack aircraft, with 65 aircraft respectively.

In addition, the entire 2nd aircraft carrier group of the Combined Fleet also left 42 Zero fighters for use as air defense fighters.

The two aircraft carrier formations joined together and dispatched a total of 98 Zero fighters, 150 Comet crit aircraft and 150 Tianshan crit aircraft as the first wave of attack aircraft. Subsequently, a second wave of attack aircraft will take off, including 98 Zero fighters, 149 Comet attack aircraft and 149 Tianshan attack aircraft.

It can be said that the aircraft carrier formation of the Eastern Empire Navy Combined Fleet, in addition to leaving a small number of carrier-based aircraft groups for air defense. The rest of the carrier-based aircraft were also dispatched.

However, even so, the scale of the carrier-based aircraft groups they dispatched is still unable to compare with the Third Reich Navy. Even saying that there is still a very big gap.

After all, the aircraft carriers of the Third Reich Navy, except for the Titan-class, are all large aircraft carriers, and most of them carry more than a hundred carrier-based aircraft. In comparison, the aircraft carriers of the Eastern Imperial Navy's combined fleet are uneven. Except for a very few, they can only carry dozens of carrier-based aircraft.