Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 3038 Victory
The 26 Sky Fortresses rushed out, and when they all turned on their horsepower to the maximum and began to lower their flight altitude, Zhang Xiaolin endured and endured, but still couldn't hold back, and shouted, "Every aircraft reports fuel stock!"

After a while, "Ziz..." There was only the sound of electric current but no human voice, so Zhang Xiaolin knew everything.Closing his eyes and opening them again, he let out a long breath, and said to the dispatcher on the side, "Is it connected?"

"Already connected!"

"connected!"

"Yes!" Zhang Xiaolin naturally wanted to connect to the radio of the commander of the HNA troops who came to help.

The commander of the Song Zu aircraft carrier fleet's first batch of support for the mixed team is named Zhao Qianjin.After the call was connected and the two sides confirmed their identities, Zhang Xiaolin said, "Captain Zhao, I'll leave the rest to you!"

Zhao Qianjin paid attention to the Guam naval battle before, so it had been more than an hour and a half until he saw the aerial fortress stranded on the battlefield.As a veteran pilot with more than [-] hours of flying time, he certainly understood what this meant.I didn't expect the battle to be so fierce, and once he thought about how many sky fortresses would fall into the sea due to the exhaustion of fuel, he was infected by Zhang Xiaolin's fighting will, and he immediately replied respectfully: "Zhang General, don’t worry, the Americans won’t be able to conquer Guam! As a member of the Chinese National Unity Party, I assure you!”

The concentrated bombing of 26 aerial fortresses is quite destructive.After the last round of bombing of the Chinese air fortress group, six US destroyers were directly sunk, and several destroyers and two heavy cruisers were severely damaged.Compared with the loss of the US Pacific Fleet, the loss of the aerial fortress cluster can be described as minimal. Only one aerial fortress was shot down on the spot, and another eleven aerial fortresses suffered certain damage.Of course, if you consider that only three of the 26 aerial fortresses landed at Kaohsiung Airport in the end, another six made an emergency landing in the waters near Taiwan Island, and the rest sank into the vast Pacific Ocean, the price paid by China can also be called huge.

In Chongqing, Ouyang Yun only received a telegram from Tielin Fei very late, and he learned that only a quarter of the air fortresses that went out this time returned safely, and only one third of the air force officers and soldiers who participated in the battle were fully intact. Back then, he dropped the cup at that time, and kept asking why such a result happened, and said what is the meaning of such a victory, he would rather not win this kind of victory at the expense of a large number of pilots...

Ouyang Yun's emphasis on the Air Force, especially the safety of pilots, has been fully revealed since the establishment of the Xuebing Army Air Force.Otherwise, he would not have said the kind of words that require the pilot to choose to surrender in an emergency to ensure his own safety.And the former Ningbo Great Rescue was a concrete manifestation of his idea.

In the Guam naval battle, after the Chinese Song Zu aircraft carrier fleet supported Guam in a timely manner, there was actually no suspense about the outcome.However, although this battle ended with China's victory over the entire US Pacific Fleet, it was because China lost too many air fortresses and sacrificed too many pilots in this battle.Therefore, it was a long time after the end of the Guam naval battle that the Supreme Command made the decision to reward the front-line troops and officers and soldiers.To everyone's surprise, as the major project of this battle, Zhang Xiaolin, the first-line commander of the air fortress group, not only did not receive the award, but was transferred back to the Central Air Force Academy soon after.For a very promising young general like Zhang Xiaolin, there is really no crueler punishment than this.

Whether Ouyang Yun was right or wrong in dealing with Zhang Xiaolin can only be discussed by later military historians.It is worth pointing out that Huang Tianxun and his raiding fleet were immediately artificially rendered legendary because they captured another US aircraft carrier in the Guam naval battle, and their popularity even overwhelmed Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi for a time. And the light of the Pacific Fleet.

Huang Tianxun and the others were able to capture the US aircraft carrier, just as Huang Tianxun said in his "Award Acceptance Speech": I would like to especially thank General Li Mei, the commander of the US Pacific Fleet-it is precisely because Li Mei adjusted the fleet formation and sent destroyers and heavy patrols The ships that originally belonged to the aircraft carrier escort ships were organized into a separate team, which gave Huang Tianxun and the others the opportunity to attack the US aircraft carrier.

"When we boarded the American aircraft carrier, we probably didn't expect that we would dare to launch a war to seize the ship. The Americans who saw us were stunned. To be honest, I was also very nervous before deciding to launch the war to seize the ship. .Our torpedo boat is full of 32 people. How many people are there on an American aircraft carrier? It should be more than [-]? But what I didn't expect was that the Americans didn't have the will to resist at all. Haha! Luck! Luck!" This is What Huang Tianxun said in an interview a few weeks later.And it is not difficult to see from his words that when they feel that they have been abandoned, the American officers and soldiers on the US aircraft carrier no longer have the desire to fight!
As far as the facts are concerned, under the circumstances at that time, Li Mei's decision was actually the correct choice.It's just that he obviously overestimated the strength of his own marines.Therefore, when he worked so hard to send the marines of more than one division to the beach of Guam, he thought he had won the battle, but the result was that the marines of this division could not even be sent for half an hour. Persevered, he was driven back into the sea again.So, when he was about to bombard the gate of the switch island defenders again with intensive artillery fire, Wang Feiming no longer gave him this chance.

There is a contest between the HNA force and the Songzu aircraft carrier fleet and the U.S. Pacific Fleet without the HNA force. Although the latter has three times the number of ships, it is because one side is able to dominate the enemy far away, while the other side is far away. They can only be beaten passively and have little power to fight back. The real combat power of both sides is actually inversely proportional to the number of their ships.

At the last juncture of the battle, the stubborn Li Mei even tried to organize the gunboats under his command to counter-charge. However, under the suppression of the Chinese naval forces, the American destroyers and heavy cruisers never approached the Chinese ships. Opportunity.Therefore, with the loss of more than [-] destroyers and five heavy cruisers, the poor Li Mei could only choose to surrender.

The surrender of the US Pacific Fleet was a turning point in the Second Pacific Battle.The spread of the news of the destruction of the US Pacific Fleet is tantamount to telling the Japanese that the sacrifice of their United Fleet was in vain.Not only that, after solving the US Pacific Fleet, the Chinese Pacific Fleet can be said to have no worries.In the case of one negative and one positive, the result of the Palau naval battle can be imagined.

(End of this chapter)