The air attack forces attacking the enemy fleet launched an attack on the enemy at 9:30.

The Datang task force lined up in a dense formation and sailed southeast at a speed of 20 knots in the direction of the aircraft attack, the most important thing in doing so was to shorten the distance they had to return to the aircraft carrier. Aircraft have to fly more than 200 nautical miles in the sea and air to attack the enemy, and they have already reached the limit of the combat radius, and it is very necessary for the fleet to get closer to the combat site, so as to prolong the time spent in the air.

The battleship's tall bridge is a more suitable place to observe the combat situation than the aircraft carrier bridge, because all important combat operations should take place in the sky around the warship. The ship's personnel are now all on standby, wearing combat uniforms and steel helmets on their heads.

When an aircraft carrier takes off and lands its aircraft, it also sails out of the center of the fleet formation and sails at full speed against the wind.

At the same time as the first attack wave of aircraft attacked, the Tang fleet also sounded the battle alarm. Twelve unidentified aircraft were reported approaching from the front. However, the fleet never detected them, and the enemy's attack formations were also looking in the wrong direction. Half an hour later, the second air raid siren sounded again.

A fighter in charge of perimeter vigilance called: "Skylark calls the aircraft carrier." A large number of enemy aircraft flew from the direction east of Shinshikashima at a distance of sixty nautical miles. The news was broadcast on the ship's loudspeaker, and everyone on board immediately realized that we were going to fight a fierce battle with the enemy's air strike forces.

On the orders of Vice Admiral Chang Zhensheng, the four aircraft carriers began to turn to the left and move at full speed against the wind in order to allow all the spare fighters left on the flight deck to take off to intercept the enemy's attack.

The "Yunling" was following the side of the aircraft carrier and began to sail at full speed, and the hull of the ship made a vibrating sound as it accelerated, and Ling Wencha looked at the gun emplacements of the small-caliber anti-aircraft guns on both sides of the command tower, and saw that the gunners were standing in battle positions, holding reserve magazines, and eagerly looking at the possible direction of the enemy planes in front and above.

"We must have found the wrong target, attacking two small Spanish aircraft carriers." Lieutenant General Tang Jinchao said in the war room, "Now it is necessary to find out where the enemy's main force is?" ”

General Chen Shiying and his chief of staff were discussing this troublesome issue when the air raid sirens sounded. The destroyers on the periphery were on guard and belched black smoke as a signal to spot enemy aircraft.

I saw more than a dozen enemy torpedo planes skimming low over the crest of the waves, rushing straight in the direction of the Tang fleet. They were not escorted by fighter planes, and these enemy planes crashed into the sea like birds that had been shot under the attack of the fleet's anti-aircraft artillery and Tang fighters. Several of them hastily threw torpedoes before falling into flames, but these torpedoes were fired at a long distance and could easily be detonated by the fire on the warship and exploded into fragments.

None of the six torpedoes dropped posed a threat to the Don fleet.

An enemy plane was emitting flames on the fuselage and dragging a puff of black smoke and crashed into the sea not far from the "Yunling" in front of Ling Wencha.

At this time, Admiral Chen Shiying, after communicating with the staff officers, decisively ordered the air fleet to abandon the second wave of the offensive.

The directions reported are on the charts for a while in the east and sometimes in the west, which makes people scratch their heads. It was not much fun to attack two small aircraft carriers of the Spaniards, and he had now revealed his position, and without spotting the enemy's main forces, the fleet commander decided to abandon the attack and temporarily retreat in the direction of Port-au-Prince.

As soon as the order to turn was given, the air raid sirens sounded again, and the destroyer spewed out clouds of black smoke, only to see the small dots in the sky gradually grow larger, this time into a group of Loire-Newport dive bombers, which flew in the direction of Shinshikashima, still without fighter escort.

The enemy's offensive was still ineffective.

Amid the cheers of the sailors and gunners on the Tang warship, the "Haiyan" fighters shot down these blue-painted East Frankish planes one after another, and they burst into flames in mid-air, blooming like fireworks, and drawing an arc into the sea with thick smoke.

None of the bombs they dropped hit their targets.

The sea was calm again, and the four motherships were seen sailing out of the smoke intact and sailing to the sea with a dazzling glow in the sun!

Annihilated two groups of enemy low-altitude bombers, but made Admiral Chen Shiying feel a little bad, and immediately ordered the fleet to prepare to recover the first wave of attack planes and prepare to withdraw from the battlefield.

Just as the fleet of the first attack wave began to prepare for landing, the voice of the radar room came from the loudspeaker: "A large number of enemy aircraft have been detected, at an altitude of 5500 meters, at an azimuth of 37 to the east, at a distance of 60 nautical miles.

At this time, the fighter pilot who was on guard also reported: "The enemy plane is very fast, and our side is now at an altitude of 4,500 meters and is climbing, so I am afraid that it will not be able to intercept it." ”

Almost at the same time, the fleet heard another fighter from the same direction calling: "Bailing-18 calls the aircraft carrier." Fourteen enemy torpedo planes, of the O'Leerel type, were spotted coming out of the clouds 12 nautical miles away. They are gliding at a wide angle at an altitude of 1,500 meters, and we are doing a dive interception. ”

At the minute, Ling Wencha saw a huge column of smoke appear on the sea surface in the distance on the port side of the warship.

One fighter reported that it shot down an enemy four-engine seaplane.

This large water reconnaissance plane was apparently leading the enemy's bomber and torpedo formations to pounce on the Don fleet.

The "North Island" is still accelerating against the wind, recovering from the carrier's landing, and has not yet fully entered the air defense formation of the fleet formation. There was only one cruiser on its port side, and only one destroyer in the distance diagonally behind. Moreover, the two escorted warships were one after the other, and they were not in a covering position.

Minutes, the cruiser "Wuzhou" in front of the "North Island" suddenly opened fire, and dozens of anti-aircraft flames spewed tongues of fire and gunpowder smoke into the sky. Only a few seconds later, after the thunderous whirring of the first row of shells, they were joined together, and the near-fire guns on the cruiser were also thrown into battle.

"Port side, torpedo machine!" The lookout post shouted.

Enemy planes are getting bigger and larger, approaching in a single horizontal formation, they are very fast, and they should have exceeded 450 kilometers per hour when diving with increased throttle.

Six enemy planes that broke through the air defense loopholes of the fleet, and at a distance of less than 2,000 meters from the "North Island", two of them flew to the cruiser "Wuzhou". The two planes flew very low, and it took a slight pull of the nose to pass over the cruiser. At this moment, one of them suddenly blossomed in the air, as if it had been suddenly captured by a magician. It was apparently hit by the cruiser's shell that hit the torpedo it carried, causing it to explode.

At this time, one by one, torpedoes were thrown into the sea.

"Right full rudder!" The captain was shouting an order, and only a little more than two minutes later, a torpedo hit the port side of the "Kitajima", splashing a huge column of water tens of meters high......

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