To prevent the Island Nation Army from interfering during their own airstrikes, these Australian planes began searching for the locations of the Island Nation's military airfields the moment the raids commenced.
The good news was that the Ryukyu Islands, much like the Island Nation itself, were relatively long and narrow, which drastically reduced the difficulty for the aircraft in locating enemy airfields.
The bad news was that before the Australasian Air Force could locate the Island Nation's airfields, a continuous stream of Island Nation planes began taking off to intercept them.
"Squadrons 1, 2, and 3, deal with the enemy. Squadrons 4, 5, and 6, determine the position of the enemy airfields as quickly as possible. Once you find their locations, Squadrons 4, 5, and 6 will escort the bombers and directly blast their airfields," the Australasian commander immediately ordered.
"Damn it, so many planes!" On the Island Nation's side, they naturally spotted the hundreds of Australasian aircraft in the sky. Being utterly crushed in sheer numbers was certainly not good news for them.
"Hold them down! Even if we die, we'll drag an Australasian down with us to pad the numbers," madness gleamed in the eyes of the Island Nation pilots, for they held little fear of death.
"Damn it, have these Japanese gone mad?" The Australasian side naturally witnessed the frantic actions of the Japanese.
Because they were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, if the Island Nation Air Force fought this air battle conventionally, they would quickly be annihilated by the Australasian Air Force.
Therefore, the objective of the Japanese was never to fight this air battle from the very beginning; instead, they immediately sought opportunities to trade one-for-one with the Australasian Air Force.
One had to realize that many of these Japanese planes were of an