Chapter Seventy-Eight: Danger Comes from Under the Sea!

Xiguang Town Shoufu, Island C, more than 600 nautical miles in the northwest sea, has dissipated the sea fog on the sea surface at this moment. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Lexington's brows tightened at the moment, and she looked at the deep-sea ships not far away that had been sunk by her own side, slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea.

Smelling the smell of gunpowder in the air, a faint uneasiness lingered in her heart.

"The last deep-sea light cruiser, sunk!" Pinghai's report pulled her back to reality.

Lexington, as a regular aircraft carrier, was deep in the center of her own wheeled formation, and she looked at the light cruiser Niang Pinghai in front of the formation at this time, and turned back to report to herself, and nodded to indicate that she knew.

Lexington didn't know what that uneasy feeling was, but now was not the time to think about it, she quickly shook her head, suppressed the mess, and recalled the sixteen carrier-based planes that had completed the mission.

Lexington laid down the ship's armor plate that was on her left side, and her carrier-based planes returned one after another, circling around her, and then began to land on the ship's armor plate in an orderly manner.

She looked at these blue carrier-based aircraft, this is the [SBD-3 Dreadnought] carrier-based bomber she released, with good bombing strength, as well as a certain ability to fight for air supremacy and the enemy, this time the battle for air supremacy can be so smooth, these children are indispensable.

Lexington watched the sixteen carrier-based aircraft unscathed, and became more and more sure that the main fleet of Island C had indeed been wiped out in the previous battle, and if there was a threat, it was that Island C did not know how many deep-sea light aircraft carriers there were, and if there were too many deep-sea light carriers, it might take some more twists and turns to seize this air supremacy.

However, Lexington was not afraid, she subconsciously looked behind her, there was her sister's Second Fleet, she could rest assured that she would hand over the rear to her sister, because she knew better than anyone Gaga's talent in carrier-based aircraft maneuvering skills.

Lexington put the carrier-based aircraft into the ship's hangar, and then twenty [F2A Buffalo] fighters began to take off.

Although these children do not have the bombing combat capabilities of the [SBD-3 Dreadnought] carrier-based bomber, but as a purely anti-air combat unit.

Lexington also knew that these children were the weakest of the fighters, but she had been with her the longest, she had used these children in the First Ship Niang Academy, defeating many aircraft carrier Niang equipped with golden [Sea Fang] fighters, at that time, she won the reputation of a pioneer in aviation tactics.

She trusted her children, and she confidently said:

"Kids, fight against the cool sea breeze!"

Twenty [F2A Buffalo] fighter jets roared towards Island C, and Lexington watched her children disappear from view, and she could sense that her carrier-based aircraft were in a V-shaped formation, shuttling through the clouds.

Pinghai and the others looked at the huge number of carrier-based aircraft released by Lexington this time, they were all a little strange, and Richelieu, who was responsible for guarding Lexington's left side, hurriedly asked:

"Hasn't air supremacy already been won? Why is the number of carrier-based aircraft this time higher than the last time, and is there a new situation?"

"The air supremacy has been taken for the time being, but I am not at ease, although we have repeatedly reconnoitred Island C, but I have always been worried about the movements of the deep-sea light mother, if Helena's intelligence analysis is not wrong, I am afraid that there are still a certain number of deep-sea light mothers entrenched on Island C, the threat of the deep-sea light mother's torpedo aircraft is too great, I must ensure that there are no deep-sea torpedo planes to surprise our airspace. ”

Richelieu nodded, in fact, she was a little depressed, and thought that there would be some stronger enemies, but she encountered several deep sea teams one after another, but the most powerful enemy was the deep sea heavy patrol, and she didn't have to shoot it herself, and Walkland solved it with a torpedo, and she never had a chance to shoot.

Lexington seemed to sense Richelieu's thoughts, and she chuckled and said:

"You, Bismarck is the key to our battle this time, we can't waste too much ammunition here, don't worry, I have a hunch, I'm afraid there will be a tough battle on Island C. ”

Richelieu listened to Lexington's tone as if it was not as calm as she had imagined, and she looked thoughtfully at the faintly visible outline of Island C, and a look of solemnity flashed in her eyes.

At this moment, Ping Hai saw the red dots symbolizing the enemy displayed on the [Improved Anti-Air Radar: 40% Correction of Anti-Air], a full eighteen, and she said loudly:

"Attention everyone, according to the radar, three deep-sea fleets with the deep-sea light mother as the flagship appear 40 nautical miles northwest of our sea!"

Lexington frowned, due to the connection between the carrier-based aircraft and the aircraft carriers, she immediately controlled twenty [F2A Buffalo] fighters to fly towards the target sea area where the enemy appeared.

Sure enough, after flying for a while, her [F2A Buffalo] fighter and the Deep-Sea Light Mother's spiral fighter collided.

Lexington's expression was focused at the moment, and Richelieu knew that it must be the beginning of the battle for air supremacy, and she immediately said:

"Pay attention to cover the flagship, everyone pulls out the formation. ”

All members of the First Fleet of Twilight Island then dispersed.

As Sigsby, who was guarding the destroyer behind Lexington, her little face was crumbling tightly at this time.

The one responsible for guarding the right side of the formation was Kokang, and the one leading the way in front of Pinghai was Walkland.

This is the orientation of the First Fleet's rotational formation, and the reason why Richelieu let everyone disperse is because it can expand the combat range, and if it is concentrated, it will be discovered by the deep sea, and the target is too large, and it is easy to expose the position of its own aircraft carrier units.

All Richelieu has to do is rule out a potential deep-sea threat around Lexington.

As expected, Lexington's air supremacy this time failed to win, and she released the [SBD-3 Dreadnought], which had replenished the resource, and divided it into two batches, one batch of ten.

She could feel that the [F2A Buffalo] fighter fighting in front was only on par with the deep-sea spiral fighter, and the two sides suffered losses from each other.

Although Lexington felt sorry for these children, the battle damage of the carrier-based aircraft was extremely high, and she could only pray that those children could support them a little longer before the support of these two batches of [SDB-3 Dreadnought] bombers arrived.

"The enemy has been hit and is losing troops!" Pinghai paid close attention to the red dots on the radar that symbolized the deep sea, and found that these red dots were disappearing one by one.

Lexington was stunned, and then she saw her sister's [BTD-1 Destroyer] arrive through the "vision" provided by her carrier-based aircraft.

Lexington breathed a sigh of relief, but she didn't know that the biggest crisis was looming.

Walkland was looking at the sea on the east side on the right side, she knew that the sea area on the northwest side was the main battlefield, although she knew that the probability of an enemy on the east side was very small, but she was still very focused, suddenly, she looked at the sea not far away, there seemed to be five black figures.

She quickly rubbed her eyes, and then saw a few torpedoes slashing at her side, she finally reacted, and shouted in a coquettish voice:

"Be careful, a deep-sea submarine is found on the east side!

Walkland's voice traveled far away, because the shipwives of Twilight Island had not used radio equipment at this time, so they could only temporarily use verbal shouting to transmit information when they were fighting, although it was a little inconvenient to fight like this, but because they were not very far away from each other, there was no problem.

And in this operation, they also ignored this problem, so as soon as the crisis of the deep-sea submarine appeared, this drawback was magnified.

Because when Wackland shouted, it was when the carrier-based plane released by Lexington took off with a roar, and the roar drowned out Walkland's voice, which was not loud.

Walkelan didn't know that her information was not transmitted back at the first time, and she could only dodge the insidious mine threat from the deep-sea submarine at this time.

As a destroyer, Walkland has a weak combat capability against submarines without anti-submarine equipment such as sonar and deep-sea bombardiers, and her training is not high, so she can only use her ultra-high speed of 40 knots at the moment to dodge the mine attacks of deep-sea submarines from time to time, and at the right time use her ship-mounted main gun [F country single 138mm gun] to strike at the submarine under the sea surface.

Although these blows seemed somewhat futile now, the sound of Walkland's cannon firing finally reached the ears of the other members of the First Fleet on Dawn Island after the Lexington carrier-based aircraft flew away.

The first to notice the movement was none other than Sigsby.