The first one to attack was the US military's large blue and white fish submarine.

At 9:15 a.m., the US military's Da Blue and White Fish submarine discovered the A team of Ozawa Fleet during its submarine and targeted the largest aircraft carrier in the Japanese army.

However, just when the Da Blue and White Fish was about to launch a torpedo at the Dafeng, it was discovered by the Japanese surface ship and attacked. In addition, the submarine scope failure was malfunctioning, so it could only blindly send out 6 torpedoes to escape at the same time.

A Japanese pilot blocked one of the torpedoes with himself and the plane despite his life, and one of them was still lucky enough to hit the Dafeng aircraft carrier.

Because the ship is heavily armored and pays special attention to defense capabilities, it did not have a big impact for the time being.

But after all, this aircraft carrier was designed to protect the US military's strong dive bombing attack in the early stages of the Pacific War, and the hull under the waterline was insufficient to protect the torpedo.

Moreover, the Japanese army's initial aircraft carriers did not pay much attention to the compartment design, and once they were attacked by torpedoes, they would easily capsize directly.

These hidden worries have long been revealed in a series of naval battles.

It was not until more than a year ago that the Japanese Navy realized the seriousness of the problem, and this problem was fundamentally improved in the construction of subsequent aircraft carriers, but the aircraft carriers built before were difficult to upgrade and transform.

At 10:22 am, the fleet fleet of Ozawa Fleet broke into the lurking waters of the Huber Navy No. 045 xxi submarine.

Soon, the No. 045 xxi submarine targeted the USS Shohe aircraft carrier in the fleet.

After more than 20 minutes of careful adjustment, the xxi submarine aimed at the USS Xianghe aircraft carrier and launched six torpedoes in one breath.

Because the Xxi submarine is very concealed and does not need to surface to launch torpedoes, the torpedoes launched by the Xxi submarine No. 045 is fast and fierce. In just over a minute, at least 4 directly hit the Xianghe aircraft carrier.

The USS Shohe aircraft carrier suffered a fatal blow immediately. Not only did it lose its combat power on the spot, but it also sank into the seabed in just over two hours, becoming the first Japanese ship to be sunk by the Allies in the Philippine Naval Battle.

At this time, the situation further deteriorated, the Dafeng, another aircraft carrier that was hit by a torpedo.

Due to the leakage of oil and gas pipes, oil and gas permeate the entire aircraft carrier's hull.

At 3:00 pm, due to the high oil and gas concentration and the accidentally sparked by the personnel on the ship, the fire ignited inside the ship.

Immediately afterwards, as the fire spread, the ammunition depot was detonated, causing big explosions to occur one after another in the belly of Dafeng.

In the end, he had to carefully take it. Ozawa Jisaburo had to give up his flagship Dafeng and move to the heavy cruiser Yuhei to leave, but his communication facilities were far from enough to serve as an important position in the flagship.

A few hours later, the Dafeng also sank in the Philippine Sea with the Xianghe.

In addition, several Allied submarines launched attacks one after another, but because the Japanese fleet strengthened its defense potential, especially focusing on protecting major warships such as aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers, etc., it is difficult for Allied submarines to obtain the opportunity for close attacks.

There were even several submarines who were discovered in advance by Japanese police ships while approaching the Japanese warship group and were attacked. They had to take action in a hurry and evacuate immediately.

In this way, the effect will naturally not be very good. In the end, only two destroyers and two supply ships were killed, while the US submarine force paid the price of one being sunk and the other being injured.

Just as Ozawa lost two large aircraft carriers, Japan's third wave of 97 carrier-based aircraft was flying towards the Mariana Islands to attack the US fleet.

Since the US fleet began to evacuate at full speed after the second wave of air strikes, the third wave of Japanese aircraft fleet failed to find the target at the beginning.

After a widening search, they found the group of US warships behind the palace.

Although he did not find the US aircraft carrier group that he wanted to bomb the most, the excited Japanese carrier-based aircraft group did not retreat, but rushed forward in unison.

At this time, the US fleet, which had already discovered that the pursuit of troops, had sent hundreds of carrier-based aircraft groups from the aircraft carrier group in the rear to support.

So, a fierce air battle happened again.

After a fierce firefight, the Japanese fighter fleet paid the price of 23 aircraft before breaking through the air interception and rushing over the 7th Detachment.

Then the Japanese fighter jet group began to attack the warship group on the sea, but soon 14 aircraft were shot down one after another under the powerful anti-aircraft artillery of the 7th Detachment.

A Tianshan torpedo plane crashed near the battleship Indiana waterline, but fortunately the torpedo did not explode.

12 Comet dive bombers were attacking the 7th Detachment of the US military, three bombs exploded on the Hornet, and three bombs exploded on the Bunker Mountain, and the two ships were seriously damaged.

The 3rd Detachment was attacked by four torpedo planes, but fortunately, all four torpedoes were avoided.

Other aircraft were repelled by US anti-aircraft artillery fire and did not achieve any results worth mentioning. They only caused minor damage to several warships.

A total of 97 Japanese aircraft in the third wave were lost 46. In addition, 51 escaped by chance, they made a transit and landed at Guam Airport. The US fleet paid the price of 7 fighter jets, 2 warships were damaged, and dozens of casualties.

The fourth wave of 138 attack aircraft flew to the designated sea at around 14:20 pm, but at this time the US fleet had already moved away from the Saipan waters.

Even if they expanded the search scope, they failed to find that the US fleet had only had a brief exchange of fire with more than a dozen U.S. fighter jets returning to the air, causing four Japanese and one U.S. aircraft to be shot down.

After losing the target of attack, the remaining Japanese planes could only fly to Rota Island Airport as planned to land.

The fourth wave of 138 attack aircraft group ended with the loss of four aircraft and shooting down one aircraft, becoming the wave with the least losses and the smallest results in the Japanese aircraft offensive that day.

As for the most powerful second wave of 279 attack aircraft, the final battle loss was 214, but at the same time, it achieved quite brilliant results, sinking 5 US aircraft carriers, damaging 3 severely, shooting down 43 US fighter jets, and more than 120 combat aircraft were damaged on the aircraft carrier.

At this point, the four-wave attacks launched by the Ozawa fleet accumulated 617 carrier-based aircraft, and eventually damaged 352, and only 265 aircraft were able to escape.

In addition, if the losses of the land-based combat aircraft group are added, the losses of Japanese combat aircraft will be as high as 800.

This was a very heavy loss for the Japanese army, which made their already stretched aviation power worse again.

From the perspective of air raids alone, the Japanese army's Philippine naval battle was a complete victory, and it wiped out the decadent trend of repeated defeats before. It caused huge losses and casualties to the US fleet.

But if we add two aircraft carriers, two destroyers, and two supply ships that were sunk by Allied submarines, and from a strategic perspective, it can only be described as losing both sides.

"Reporting to the General Officer, Commander Liu from the Navy Fleet in the Southwest Pacific Theater sent an urgent telegram!"
Chapter completed!