69novels Chapter 897
Chapter 897
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Halsey subconsciously looked at his watch, and gradually became anxious!
“Why haven’t they come back yet? Logically speaking, they should have completed the attack and are on their way back!”
The adjutant next to him expressed his worries!
At this time, it has been three hours since the US military sent out its carrier-based aircraft!
According to their original battle plan, their planes took half an hour to an hour to approach the enemy, another half an hour to an hour to besiege the enemy, and then another half an hour to an hour to return!
In this way, they only need one and a half hours to end the battle at the shortest, and only three hours at the longest!
However, the time has long exceeded three hours, and there is no news from their people, which makes everyone more and more uncertain!
“Did they encounter something on the way and wasted time?”
Although everyone felt a little bad, they all tacitly did not think about the worst. They subconsciously thought that their battle plan was fine, so they did not think that their carrier-based aircraft would be completely destroyed! However
, this confidence is collapsing little by little as time goes by!
If their troops are really fine, why haven’t they returned for so long?
You know, the fuel capacity of the aircraft is limited. With their fuel capacity, the time they stay in the air will not exceed three and a half hours! At this time, the time is close to this limit. If their planes don’t return, they really can’t come back!
At that time, even if they are not shot down by the enemy, they will crash because they have exhausted their fuel!
Therefore, everyone in the entire Pacific Fleet, including Vice Admiral Halsey, is anxiously guarding the distant sky, looking forward to the return of their own fighters!
“”Here they come, I see them!”
Just when everyone began to feel uneasy and worried, suddenly, the soldier on the lookout saw a fleet of aircraft in the distance through the telescope!
This good news immediately spread throughout the fleet, and the Pacific Fleet of the Eagle Sauce cheered, and everyone felt that a big stone in their hearts had finally fallen to the ground!
“Hurry, clean up the flight deck on the aircraft carrier and prepare for landing. They must be running low on fuel, and they must land in the shortest possible time, otherwise, they will probably have no choice but to make an emergency landing in the sea!”
Halsey grabbed an aviation supervisor and explained to him in a very urgent tone.
The man did not dare to be careless after hearing Halsey’s words, and immediately ran back to organize the ground crew to start clearing the field and prepare for the landing of his own air fleet!
After giving this order, he breathed a sigh of relief and picked up the telescope to look at the distant sky.
These planes were still relatively far away from them, so they could not see them clearly, and could only see a rough idea. However, from the telescope, he could see that these planes were all shaky, and they looked like they were weak, as if they could crash at any time!
After seeing this scene, Halsey felt relieved and worried at the same time!
Seeing these planes shaky, he judged that these planes should be his own planes, so he felt relieved!
However, seeing that these planes were indeed short of fuel, he began to worry in his heart whether these planes would plunge into the sea and crash before they could land?
If his air fleet successfully completed the mission, then even if these carrier-based aircraft were lost, it would not matter. As long as they were kept Pilots, their carrier-based aircraft can be replenished at any time!
After all, the war has not yet spread to the core area of the Eagle Sauce. In the north of the Eagle Sauce, a large number of military factories can continuously produce various weapons for them. There is no problem in producing more than a dozen carrier-based aircraft a day!
So compared to carrier-based aircraft, Halsey cares more about the pilots on the carrier-based aircraft!
Pilots are not like industrial products that can be mass-produced, especially experienced pilots. These people are all trained by the Eagle Sauce Navy with great effort and time. Losing one will greatly weaken their combat effectiveness!
Halsey breathed a sigh of relief, so he picked up the telescope again and looked at it. He just took a rough look before and did not count the number of returning aircraft.
However, since it is a battle, there will definitely be losses, and because they are going to sneak attack the German fleet, the lost aircraft and pilots will not be able to return, which makes him feel a little bit painful in his heart, and he is reluctant to part with those excellent pilots!
However, after raising the telescope again, Halsey’s face suddenly changed!
“Why are there bombs and torpedoes hanging under the belly of these fighter planes? Didn’t they complete the attack?”
A question popped up in Halsey’s mind, a question that made him feel that the situation was not good!
He was startled and quickly used a telescope with a higher magnification to check the signs on these planes!
After seeing these signs clearly, Halsey’s heart seemed to be hit by a heavy hammer. His heart tightened, his head was short of oxygen, his eyes went dark, and he almost fainted!
In his field of vision, the signs on the wings of these fighter planes were not the Stars and Stripes of the Eagle Sauce, but the Iron Cross flag of the German Army!
What does this mean?
It means that these fighter planes are not the carrier-based aircraft units of the US Army returning after completing the offensive mission, but the bombing units sent by the German Army!
“Quick, sound the air defense alarm, the German planes are coming!”
Halsey didn’t have time to check carefully. He grabbed an American officer beside him and ordered in a slightly panicked tone!
After giving this order, he hurried to check again, but found that the German planes had begun to accelerate, and changed their previous shaky appearance. They became lively one by one and completed the combat formation during the flight!
This means that the Germans are no longer trying to cover up, they directly exposed their ferocious fangs!
It’s over, stealing chickens and losing rice!
Halsey’s heart was shocked, and he immediately thought of an extremely serious consequence!
Boom!
At this moment, the farthest American warships had been attacked by the Germans from the air!
Boom boom boom – then, one after another, explosions continued to come from all directions of the fleet, and even the rear of the Pacific Fleet was attacked, and huge water columns rose!
“General, it’s bad. German submarines launched a surprise attack on us. Several of our warships were hit by their torpedoes!”
Misfortunes never come singly. The expected good news did not come, but bad news came one after another!
After hearing the bad news, Halsey was shocked and smiled bitterly:”Haha, you are worthy of being Nimitz. You actually used the method I used to deal with you to fight back against me. You are worthy of being you!”_