The Baltimore-class heavy cruisers, Cleveland-class light cruisers, and Fletcher-class destroyers under the jurisdiction of the 12th Formation of the Han and Tang Imperial Frontier Fleets are all equipped with the same anti-aircraft search radar, and the detection range of aircraft can reach about 137 kilometers.

Thanks to the anti-aircraft search radar, which discovered the aircraft group of the three elven countries in advance, it gave the twelfth formation of the border fleet some time to prepare, otherwise the situation of the twelfth formation of the border fleet might be even worse.

But even so, in the first round of air raids by the three elven countries, the twelfth formation of the border fleet was also blown up into 4 Kongo-class battlecruisers of the Dongying Kingdom, 4 traditional-class battlecruisers, 3 order-class battlecruisers, 3 "Jie"-class battlecruisers, as well as 2 heavy cruisers, 2 large armored cruisers, 4 light cruisers and 3 destroyers.

In addition, the twelfth formation of the border fleet also had a number of warships, including battle cruisers, which were seriously damaged by bombers from the three elven countries.

Of course, because all the warships of the twelfth formation of the border fleet are equipped with relatively strong anti-aircraft firepower, the fighters of the three elf countries have also suffered heavy losses.

Of the more than 1,300 warplanes that took off from 58 airstrip aircraft carriers of the three elven countries, only about 700 returned to the combined fleet of the three navies.

The vast majority of the more than 600 battle-damaged fighters and bombers were shot down by the anti-aircraft fire of warships, and dozens of fighters and bombers were shot down by the border air defense forces that rushed to support.

However, none of the more than 700 fighters that returned landed safely on the deck of an airstrip.

All the pilots on the airstrip aircraft carriers were improvised by the three elven nations, and many pilots were not skilled in landing on deck.

As a result, when the improvised aircraft carriers recovered more than 700 fighters, dozens of fighters fell directly into the sea.

In the bridge of the Evergain battleship of the Nature Elf Empire Navy, the captain of the Evergreen, Leched, asked Marshal Bolenka: "Marshal Bolenka, Marshal Peterje of the Bright Elf Empire, and Marshal Prott of the Dark Elf Empire have all sent telegrams asking whether to continue to launch air strikes on the twelfth formation of the border fleet of the Han and Tang Empires?" ”

Admiral Bolenka sighed and said, "Let's leave a little seed for the newly formed naval aviation of the Three Kingdoms!"

The border air defense forces of the Han and Tang Empires around Long An Harbor have already been reinforced, and there is no longer much point in launching another air attack.

Send a telegram to Marshal Peterje of the Light Elf Empire and Marshal Prote of the Dark Elf Empire, we can retreat. ”

The captain of the Evergreen, Leched, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Marshal Bolenka, since the bomber group of the aircraft carrier has severely damaged the twelfth formation of the border fleet of the Han and Tang Empires.

The main force of the navies of our three countries, why don't you take the opportunity to attack Long An Harbor and beat the water dogs! ”

"Heavy damage?" Admiral Bolinka shook his head, "According to the latest intelligence, the twelfth formation of the border fleet of the Han and Tang Empires has a total of 162 battle cruisers.

However, the air raids of our three countries only sank a dozen battle cruisers of the other side, not to mention the heavy damage to the other side. ”

The captain of the Evergain, Leched, said with some unwillingness: "But the combined navies of our three countries have 64 battleships with full main guns and 72 battleships with all steel.

If you add the remaining hundreds of fighters, you may be able to eat this main formation of the border fleet of the Han and Tang Empires. ”

"Lechd, the navy of our three elven countries is not thick, so try not to have a head-on confrontation with the border fleet of the Han and Tang Empires.

What's more, although none of our three elven countries have built battle cruisers, it does not mean that the combat effectiveness of battle cruisers is weak.

Even though the twelfth formation of the border fleet of the Han and Tang Empires has sunk more than a dozen battle cruisers, I still think in my heart that the combined fleet of our three elven countries has not eaten each other's strength. ”

After the results of the sea and air battle at Long An Port were announced, it immediately caused an uproar in the world, and the navies of various countries immediately set off an aircraft carrier fever.

In the palace of Noria City, the first capital of the Golden Lion Empire, Emperor Kosno said to Prime Minister Salento and Navy Minister Raff with some excitement: "I didn't expect that some improvised aircraft carriers of the three elven countries could achieve such brilliant results.

According to reliable information obtained by the intelligence department, the twelfth formation of the border fleet of the Han and Tang Empires sank a total of 27 warships, including 14 battlecruisers.

It seems that we are on the right path for the development of aircraft carriers in the Golden Lion Empire! ”

Admiral Raf immediately said: "Thanks to Your Majesty's foresight, at present, 12 aircraft carriers of our Royal Navy are being built overtime, and it is expected that in March next year, 12 aircraft carriers will enter the sequence of the Royal Navy one after another." ”

Emperor Kosno immediately waved his hand, "It seems that it is still a bit conservative to build only 12 aircraft carriers, and I am going to add 24 more aircraft carriers with a full load displacement of more than 30,000 tons, what do you think?" ”

Prime Minister Salento and Admiral Raff looked at each other with a wry smile on their faces.

Prime Minister Salento sighed and said, "Your Majesty, the finances of the empire are already very tight now.

What's more, the expansion of the Royal Army will consume a lot of money to build 24 more aircraft carriers with a full load displacement of more than 30,000 tons...... I'm afraid it's a little difficult. ”

Emperor Kosno said categorically: "No matter how difficult the finances are, the funds for the construction of 24 aircraft carriers must be squeezed out, and I will also allocate some funds from the imperial treasury." ”

When Prime Minister Salento heard this, he knew that there was no way to change Emperor Kosno's decision, so he had to reluctantly say: "Your Majesty, the minister will try to raise some funds for the construction of 24 new aircraft carriers."

However, the war did not know how long it would take, so the minister planned to issue a batch of war treasury bonds to raise military expenses. ”

Emperor Kosno nodded, "The war treasury can be issued, has the specific amount been determined?" ”

"Your Majesty, the first batch of war treasury bonds is ready to issue 10 billion silver coins."

"Let's release a little more!

Directly issue 20 billion silver coins, and the interest rate can be set higher.

As long as this war can defeat the Zhou family of the Han and Tang Empires, no matter how high the interest rate is, our Golden Lion Empire can afford it. ”

Admiral Raf said at this time: "Your Majesty, in addition to building special aircraft carriers, I suggest that the major shipyards of the empire immediately transform a number of simple aircraft carriers with merchant ships.

It can be seen from the battle of Long An Harbor that the improvised aircraft carriers transformed by the three elven countries are still very combative. ”

Emperor Kosno asked: "What is the performance of the carrier-based aircraft produced by the Imperial Capital Aircraft Factory?" Can it be used in real combat? ”

Admiral Raff said: "Your Majesty, although the carrier-based fighters, carrier-based torpedo planes and carrier-based bombers produced by the Imperial Capital Aircraft Factory have some shortcomings, on the whole, the comprehensive performance is not bad.

The Imperial Capital Aircraft Factory has now begun large-scale production of these three carrier-based aircraft, and if the major shipyards of the Empire start to modify merchant ships now, perhaps in two months, the Royal Navy of the Empire will be able to have simple aircraft carriers. ”

"Yes!

Your Admiralty directly places orders for the major shipyards of the Empire, and as long as the first batch of war treasury bonds begins to be issued, our Golden Lion Empire will not be short of military spending! ”

At this time, the palace guards told the new Minister of War of the Golden Lion Empire, Rofika, to see Emperor Kosno.

Emperor Kosno then asked the palace guards to bring the Minister of War Rofika into the main hall.

At the time of the last war, Rofika was still the second deputy minister of the War Department of the Golden Lion Empire, and after more than three years, Rofica completed a double jump and became one of the most powerful ministers of the Golden Lion Empire.

"Your Majesty, the 4 million expeditionary force has been prepared, and they can go to the border area between the Silver Wolf Empire and the Han and Tang Empires at any time." Rofika said aloud.

"Rofika, I've worked hard for you this time, and I don't feel at ease to let others lead the expeditionary force."

"Your Majesty, the minister must reduce the losses of the expeditionary force as much as possible and not let Your Majesty down."

Emperor Kosno said with relief, "You can still understand what I mean.

According to the agreement of the Nine ** Alliance, the army of our Golden Lion Empire will be responsible for the operation of the entire northern front with the armies of the Black Bear, Silver Wolf, Flying Leopard, and Wild Bull.

For the allies of those four countries, you have to be a little more careful.

Remember, preserving strength is just as important as defeating the Zhou family of the Han and Tang Empires. ”

After the sea and air battle in Long An Harbor, not only did the Golden Lion Empire begin to transform merchant ships into simple aircraft carriers, but the other five orc nations also used large merchant ships to transform into simple aircraft carriers with only wooden decks.

There are some airstrips that do not even have engine rooms for storing fighters in the interiors.

Although the design bureau of the Ganyang Shipyard on the Zhou family's side has designed an aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of more than 40,000 tons, this aircraft carrier still exists on the drawings.

Even if construction starts now, it will take about a year and a half at the earliest for the aircraft carrier to enter service.

Therefore, Zhou Rui had no choice but to order the six major shipyards of the Zhou family to also transform some large merchant ships into aircraft carriers for emergency use.

The two three-star lottery cards that Zhou Rui got in June and July both opened some carrier-based aircraft, so that Zhou Rui has 150 F4F Wildcat fighters, 150 TBF Avenger torpedo attack aircraft and 150 SBD dreadnought dive bombers in the lottery system.

In order to imitate these three carrier-based aircraft, Zhou Rui previously extracted 10 F4F Wildcat fighters, 10 TBF Avenger torpedo attack aircraft and 10 SBD dreadnought dive bombers and handed them over to Ganyang Aircraft Factory for research.

With these three carrier-based aircraft with advanced performance, even if the border fleet is equipped with only improvised aircraft carriers, it can still have strong combat effectiveness.

What Zhou Rui didn't expect was that a three-star lottery card given by the lottery system in August turned out to be 6 American Essex-class aircraft carriers.

The Essex-class aircraft carrier is an aircraft carrier built by the United States Navy during World War II, with a full load displacement of 33,000 tons, a maximum speed of 33 knots, a flight deck length of 262.13 meters, a width of 29.26 meters, and a crew of 2,750 people.

Its waterline armor belt is 63 mm to 101 mm thick, the flight deck armor is 38 mm thick, the hangar deck armor is 76 mm thick, and the main deck armor is 38 mm thick.

It is equipped with 12 twin 127-mm high-level dual-purpose guns, 8 quadruple 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, and 46 20-mm anti-aircraft guns.

It has 2 fighter squadrons of 36 F4F Wildcat fighters, 2 dive bomber squadrons of 36 SBD dreadnought dive bombers, 1 torpedo bomber squadron of 18 TBF Avenger torpedo attack aircraft.

In addition, there is one SBD dreadnought dive bomber for liaison mission, and three reserve fighters, three reserve dive bombers and three spare torpedo planes, which can carry a total of 100 carrier-based aircraft.

drove out 6 American Essex-class aircraft carriers, and also allowed Zhou Ruibai to get 600 carrier-based aircraft.

However, it will take some time for the six American Essex-class aircraft carriers to form combat effectiveness, after all, the officers and men of the border fleet have never touched aircraft carriers before.

In order to save time, Zhou Rui did not go to the Crescent Island Naval Base this time, and extracted six American Essex-class aircraft carriers directly at Ganyang Military Port.

Song Limin, commander-in-chief of the border fleet, was still shocked when he saw the six US Essex-class aircraft carriers that appeared as if out of thin air.

You must know that the border fleet has already completely blocked the sea area near Ganyang City, how did these 6 aircraft carriers enter the Ganyang Military Port?

Could it be that the handsome man really controls an unknown world?

Those warships that appeared out of thin air, were all built in another world?

Of course, this is not the first time that Song Limin has been shocked, so he consciously did not get to the bottom of it.

"Marshal, our border fleet does not have pilots, and if we want these six aircraft carriers to give full play to their due combat effectiveness, we must transfer a group of excellent pilots from the border defense forces to join our border fleet."

Zhou Rui nodded and said, "I have ordered 3,000 pilots to be drawn from the border air defense force to join the border fleet.

Although the aircraft carrier is a new type of warship, I hope that the border fleet will be able to make these six aircraft carriers combat-capable in the shortest possible time. ”

Song Limin said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, our border fleet will dispatch the best officers and men to make these six aircraft carriers form combat effectiveness as soon as possible." ”

"Old Song, I still have an extra 150 carrier-based fighters, 150 carrier-based torpedo planes and 150 carrier-based bombers, so I asked the six major shipyards to urgently transform a batch of simple aircraft carriers using large merchant ships.

Those improvised aircraft carriers, your border fleet also has to mobilize manpower to receive them. ”

"Dashuai, an aircraft carrier converted from a large merchant ship has almost no protection capabilities.

Now that there are already 6 real aircraft carriers, is it necessary to continue to renovate those improvised aircraft carriers? ”

"6 aircraft carriers is still too little.

The performance of these three carrier-based aircraft in my hands is very good, and it can make those improvised aircraft carriers have strong combat effectiveness. ”