Among this fleet, the most striking are of course the two "Kunlunshan" class battleships, the upgraded versions of these two "Wuyue" class battleships look similar to the other five "Wuyue" class battleships of the same class, but they are equipped with 10 more powerful guns with a caliber of 410 mm. In terms of the full load displacement of 56,000 tons and the performance of the main gun, this is undoubtedly the main warship with the strongest firepower and protection in the world at present. The two "Kunlunshan" class battleships have just been in service for less than two months, and this time they also accompanied the "Jizhou" to the Northern Mariana Islands for adaptation training.

The Empire sent such a powerful new fleet to the eastern Baltic Sea for training, first, of course, to avoid as much as possible the area of naval engagement, and on the other hand, it also intended to put pressure on the Soviet and Russian sides.

This was not the first time Ling Kaiyu had seen these two cutting-edge battleships of the Imperial Navy, but its strength still made him feel proud and proud of the strength of the Empire from the bottom of his heart.

The two "Kunlunshan" class battleships were not painted with the wartime camouflage standard of Imperial warships, and still maintained the light blue-gray livery standard of the Imperial Navy, which showed an attitude - that is, they were not afraid to fight any enemy. This is a kind of momentum, a kind of domineering that gives up oneself.

But in fact, these two super battleships were only the backbone of the escort fleet, and were incorporated into the 5th Air Task Force of the Empire, as the servants of the two "Kunlunshan" class aircraft carriers.

After rendezvous with the aircraft carrier fleet, the 27th Frigate was separated by order of the fleet commander, Admiral Xu Yannian, and the four frigates sailed on both sides of the fleet, while the flagship "Zhenjiang" fell at the end of the fleet, expanding the anti-submarine range of the fleet.

Looking at this sea area, there is no sea power that is the opponent of this imperial fleet, not only because of the two powerful super battleships, but more importantly, the "Jizhou", this new aircraft carrier named after the heroes of the air combat during the First World War of the Empire ushered in a new era in the history of the world's naval aircraft carrier construction, its huge flight deck looks like a huge roof over the hull, which allows him to carry more than 110 carrier-based aircraft, It will also become the most powerful aircraft carrier in the world at present.

Due to the rapid expansion of the Imperial Navy, most of the crew members of these warships joined the Tang Navy after the outbreak of war, and it was impossible for them to become qualified soldiers after less than a year of training and study, and they still needed to go through a long and arduous period of training at sea and daily training before they could quickly become familiar with the operations on the ships and form good combat effectiveness.

According to the training plan, the fleet conducted a round of aircraft carrier take-off and landing, fleet air defense and anti-submarine exercises off the vast waters off Yizhou. The bomber formations that took off from aircraft carriers launched "attacks" on the main fleet in the form of two squadrons, and the planes constantly practiced launching "air strikes" against huge sea moving targets from high, medium, and low altitudes and from all directions, while the battlefleet, destroyers, and frigates practiced confrontation with the formation of air defense formations. In addition, six submarines of a submarine detachment were "waiting for an opportunity" under water, seizing the opportunity to launch a "torpedo attack."

During the exercise, Ling Kaiyu commanded the "Taixing" frigate and performed well. The officers and men of this frigate, which has been in service for more than a year, are much more skilled and excellent in coordination and operation than those destroyers that have just entered the ranks, and the accuracy of artillery fire and the speed of reaction are relatively excellent in anti-aircraft confrontations.

After the confrontation exercise, Admiral Xu Yannian specifically mentioned the outstanding performance of the "Taixing" frigate in his summary, and although the continuous duty made the personnel on the ship full of complaints about the top management of the fleet, it was also very exciting to be commended by the fleet commander.

After the exercise, the main ship of the squadron conducted a replenishment training at sea with the accompanying integrated supply ship, which is not a new thing for officers and veteran sailors with long service experience. The supply ship and the battleship were moving slowly side by side less than 2 chains apart, and a black oil pipeline with the thickness of an arm hung from the crane wall of the supply ship. The deck of the supply ship was filled with busy sailors, hoisting boxes of supplies from the open hold onto the deck.

The two large ships sailed evenly at a speed of twelve knots, and the distance between them became closer and closer, and the sea water between the two ships formed a great turbulence. When the distance between the two ships was only thirty meters, the distance between them was maintained. This requires great piloting skills, as the hull of the ship creates a huge suction force on both sides of the ship, and at such a close distance, if you are not careful, you can cause the two ships to collide.

"Phew!" With a loud bang, as when a whaling ship fired a harpoon, the steel head of the skimming cable flew towards the battleship with a nylon cable, and a total of five cables were thrown one after the other, the head of which was nailed to the deck of the warship, and some were hung on the railing on the side of the deck.

The young sailors on the warship rushed over to grab the skimmed cable, and then loaded it onto the winch, and as the winch turned, a thicker and stronger lifting cable was also pulled. Five cables, three cables, two steel cables were quickly connected between the two ships. Steel cables are used to lift dry cargo between two ships, and oil pipes are hung underneath the ropes. The cargo had already begun to be lifted, and the thick oil pipes were swinging and slowly being pulled onto the battleship. The oil pipeline was quickly connected to the mouth of the oil pipeline on the deck, and as the signal flag was raised, the ship began to pump fuel into the tanks of the battleship.

Because it was training, such a replenishment operation at sea only lasted an hour, but if it was really a resupply at the open sea, the process should last nearly five hours, and at this time, the two ships needed to maintain a stable course and speed, but it was the most vulnerable moment.

After completing the training in the western Pacific, the fleet also needs to move to the vicinity of the Guam base for a half-month comprehensive training on long-distance voyages, after which the aircraft carrier will return to the shipyard for some refit work before it will be put into the Atlantic theater.

The war has been going on for a year and a half, and after more than a year of adjustment, the empire has stabilized the situation in other theaters, except for the one in which it is still in the Eastern European theater. With 12 mass-built "Kyushu" class fleet aircraft carriers in service this year, plus some modified aircraft carriers are also put into service, the empire will first launch a counterattack in the maritime theater.

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