69novels Chapter 896
Chapter 896
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“Calculating the time, our troops should have found the enemy fleet and launched an attack by now, right?”
Halsey looked calm and indifferent, looking into the distance calmly, as if his eyes could skip over hundreds of kilometers of ocean and reach the battlefield directly!
“Well, if our previous intelligence is correct, then our attack aircraft group should have already started the attack by now!”
Compared to the calm Halsey, the expressions of his subordinates were obviously more excited!
These people surrounded Halsey like stars around the moon, and everyone’s face was full of admiration!
Halsey is indeed worthy of their admiration. After all, someone who can come up with this kind of tactic of making a feint to the east and attacking the west, and guess the enemy’s intentions and reactions in advance, is like a god descending to earth, almost omniscient and omnipotent!
How can they not admire such a person?
Eagle sauce has always been a country that worships personal heroism. In this country, if your personal strength is outstanding, you will be respected by the whole society!
People like Halsey who can change the outcome of the entire battle by their own strength, the people of the Pacific Fleet will naturally regard him as a hero!
What’s more, their fleet commander looks so calm, so calm, everything seems to be strolling in the garden, and he has led a victory in an unprecedented naval battle in a blink of an eye!
This makes the surrounding soldiers and generals look at Halsey with a layer of fan filter, one by one. Almost about to become his crazy fan!
However, Halsey’s heart was far from being as calm as he looked on the surface!
He knew that although his tactics seemed impeccable, there were actually big loopholes in his tactics!
And the biggest loophole was that he didn’t know enough about the enemy!
Halsey had a very deep understanding of his troops, which allowed him to command his fleet like an arm.
However, Halsey didn’t know the situation of the enemy very well!
He had read the war report sent back by the Japanese army before, which mentioned that in order to destroy the German air force as much as possible, Yamamoto Isoroku had invested a large number of fighter planes in a desperate manner and launched a crazy attack on the German army.
As a result, this attack ultimately failed. The Japanese air fleet went without returning, and not a single fighter plane returned successfully!
This information made Halsey feel a little uneasy. He didn’t know what the foot basin people had encountered, but he had a feeling in his heart that the German army seemed to have some hidden secret weapons that had not been used!
And this secret weapon that he didn’t know was the key to changing the situation of this war!
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Halsey’s worries were obviously not unnecessary. He didn’t know that the German army’s secret weapon was a ship-to-air missile with extremely high efficiency and a great threat to aerial targets. However, he guessed that his sneak attack would not be so smooth!
“We are close to the target. All groups, please pay attention. According to the predetermined combat arrangement, you should attack in small groups. Be careful not to gather together densely. The German anti-aircraft firepower is very fierce. If you gather together, you will be a live target for them. I don’t want to turn myself into a Christmas roast turkey!”
Harris, the commander of the US carrier-based aircraft formation, ordered his subordinates in a relaxed tone. As Christmas is approaching, this battle has made the US military full of anger!
If the German army hadn’t happened to come and find trouble on Christmas, they should have been on the shore to celebrate Christmas with their families!
However, the sudden attack of the German army destroyed their dreams, and the tragic defeat of the foot basin people completely destroyed the festive atmosphere, making the US military unwilling to celebrate the holiday!
What a joke, the enemy has already hit the doorstep, and suddenly pressed their allies into the water and drowned them. The enemy’s next target is them. They are so scared when they think about it, so how can they celebrate the holiday!
But now it’s good, their plan has succeeded, and the enemy was sucked by their first batch of air strikes. It attracted a lot of attention, and a large number of fighters and interception forces went to chase the air force which was a cover. This created a more relaxed combat environment for the real attacking forces!
Moreover, thanks to their sea-skimming flying tactics, the German radar greatly reduced the efficiency of detecting them, which made the German army lose its early warning advantage. They only discovered the enemy after the US aircraft appeared in their sight!
At this time, the German army did not have much time left!
Lieutenant Colonel Harris was very confident in his men. His troops had trained hard at sea for a long time, and they were very skilled in sea attack operations. Even in the face of the enemy’s fierce anti-aircraft firepower, he was still confident that he could accurately drop bombs and torpedoes on the enemy and blow them to pieces!
What’s more, the enemy’s fighter force was large. Most of them are not on the aircraft carrier, and there is so little time left for the enemy. Even if the enemy still has fighter planes, it is not realistic to take off urgently. This means that when they launch the attack, there is almost no air threat that can interfere with them!
And without air threats, they can concentrate on launching attacks on enemy ships at sea!
Unlike the previous foot basin people, although Halsey also hopes to destroy the German aircraft carrier immediately, after all, the aircraft carrier is the main combat force of the fleets of both sides.
However, he was not stupid enough to give death orders to his subordinates, so after discovering the German fleet, the American pilots were not polite at all. No matter what the target was, as long as the target was found, they would rush up and beat it up first without thinking!
So, the moment the German fleet discovered the American aircraft, the battle had already begun. , the first to be attacked were the Prince Eugen-class heavy cruisers that were on guard duty outside!
The U.S. military attacked these heavy cruisers in groups of four fighters, while other fighters continued to fly into the German fleet to continue attacking other targets!
When several heavy cruisers were attacked, they evaded urgently while fighting back.
The sound of artillery shells exploding continued to be heard in the air, and huge water columns hundreds of meters high caused by bomb explosions continued to rise on the sea surface.
The battle suddenly entered a white-hot stage!
The second batch to be attacked was the Scharnhorst-class battlecruisers.
Four Scharnhorst-class battlecruisers took away 16 U.
S.
fighters, which reduced the number of U.
S.
air fleets a lot.
However, they still had more than 50 fighters heading straight for the core of the German army-the Bismarck-class battleships and two aircraft carriers!
“Hey, babies, here we come!”
However, just when Lieutenant Colonel Harris and the American pilots thought they were about to succeed, they suddenly saw white smoke columns rising from the German warships and aircraft carriers!
And in front of these smoke columns, something so fast that it was hard to see clearly rushed towards them!