About an hour and a half ago.

Although the commander of the group carrying out the attack mission sent a message that the Liangxia Navy Task Force had been discovered, and the attack operation was also a great success, sinking the "Hengjiang" and "Linghe" of the Second Air Task Force, no one was happy from Lanyun downwards.

It is not that the "Longjiang" and "Mohe" of the First Air Task Force have not yet been found.

At that time, the search operation was not over, and according to the report sent back by the attack aircraft group, the First Air Task Force must be nearby, otherwise there would not be so many air defense fighters, so even Tian Shi believed that it was only a matter of time before the First Air Task Force was found.

The point is, in fact, the second wave of attacks that are about to arrive!

Tian Shi's judgment was not wrong, the task force did not give up, and immediately launched a second round of attacks. As for why the killing did not arrive in time, perhaps it was due to the delay of the organization, and the delay did not have much impact on the attack.

The problem before the mobile fleet is simple: there are seriously not enough air defense fighters!

Two waves of raids on the port of Chengjiang, previous air defense operations, and escort protection for attack aircraft groups, leaving less than forty fighters. What's worse is that half of these 40 fighters are parked on the aircraft carrier and need to be refueled and reloaded. Even those fighters patrolling the air, there were two squadrons of eight Zeros that had to return to the carrier within an hour to refuel.

That is to say, at that time in the air, there were zero battles with enough combat effectiveness, and there were only ten in total!

Rely on these 10 Zeros against hundreds of bombers and attack aircraft!?

Just, what else?

In a hurry, Lan Yun could only follow Tian Shi's suggestion to let the three aircraft carriers sail against the wind and send out all the carrier-based aircraft that could take off.

Among them were quite a few 99 ship explosions.

The main thing is that the 99 ship explosion has two heading machine guns, although the speed is much slower than the fighter, and it is not very agile, but it can be used as a fighter at a critical moment. Even if you are not qualified to fight the "Typhoon", you can still deal with the same bulky bombers and torpedo machines.

As for the Zero Battle, as long as it can be lifted into the air, it has to fly.

When this arrangement was made, Tian Shi had already given up on the second wave of attacks, because no matter what, it was impossible to get the carrier-based aircraft that had already risen into the air to land again before dark, complete the preparations for the attack, and fly hundreds of kilometers away to launch an attack before sunset.

Of course, it's wise to give up.

If the second wave of attack by the task force is not withstood and the mobile fleet is heavily damaged, especially the aircraft carriers, what will be used to launch a second round of attacks?

It's just that the time is still too short.

When the first batch of enemy planes arrived, the three aircraft carriers had only partially dispatched 99 ship explosions, and the all-important Zero Battle was still parked on the flight deck.

What's worse is that the first to kill is the fighter jet!

There are only nine in total, but they are quite deadly.

The pilots of these fighters were certainly not ready to return to the task force, because they were rushing as fast as they could before being intercepted by the Zero!

Crucially, the flight altitude is more than 7,000 meters.

What is this for?

Think of yourself as a dive bomber!?

Apparently not!

Nine Typhoon fighters split into four formations and attacked each of the four aircraft carriers, and they attacked in a dive.

These fighters did not have bombs, but several heavy machine guns.

At the time of the dive, the aircraft carrier was strafed with machine guns!

The point is that it is not the ship island that is aimed at the anti-aircraft guns on the side side, but the flight deck where the zero battle is parked!

The intention is also very clear, to destroy those Zeros that have not yet taken off, at least so that Zeros cannot be lifted into the air.

This kind of lethal style of play was so unrestrained that the anti-aircraft gunners on several aircraft carriers did not react, or felt incredulous.

The fighters that swooped down from high altitudes amid the whistling sound and embellished with tracer bullets were like fires falling from the sky.

No matter how strong the zero battle is, if it doesn't fly, it's a piece of scrap metal.

Even if it flies, when it dives, the Zero is not as good as the bulky "Typhoon" fighter.

Not to mention others, even Tian Shi is sighing.

The pilots of the Liang Xia Navy are too strong in learning and very observant, and they have figured out the performance flaws of the zero battle in just a few battles.

The Zero is a very dexterous fighter that can be described as a very agile fighter.

It's just that to get flexible maneuverability, it depends on weight reduction.

The reason is also very simple, the power of the engine is too low, and the speed index needs to be reached, so you can only work on the weight, that is, try to reduce the weight as much as possible.

In fact, the gap between the Narrow Imperial Kingdom and other powerful countries in the engine area is very huge.

If it weren't for the help provided by the Nuland Federation and the Bran Kingdom, which solved several key problems with the air-cooled engine, the Narrow-Sized Navy would still be fighting with 96 ships. The Third Air Force did not participate in this combat operation because the two small aircraft carriers did not change their equipment to fight zero.

The effect of light weight is that the inertia is low, the vertical maneuverability is poor, and the dive speed is difficult to get faster!

It's not that you can't go fast, but when you get fast, it becomes difficult to control, so you have to limit your speed when you dive. Mainly, the structural strength is too low, which reduces the reliability of the Zero Combat in a complex environment, and there have even been vicious accidents that disintegrate in the air during test flights.

This is actually the same as the fact that stones and feathers do not fall at the same speed in the air, and that feathers are more susceptible to the effects of wind.

The key is that due to the poor dive performance, it also has to deal with torpedo planes that penetrate from low altitudes, so the flight altitude of the Zero Combat when performing air defense patrol missions is generally below 5,000 meters. If you are prepared in advance, you will even reduce the altitude to 3,000 meters.

Apparently, those "Typhoon" pilots discovered this flaw of the Zero War.

Compared with the Zero Battle, the "Typhoon" is much heavier, and even if the level flight speed is not much faster than the Zero Battle, it can still reach a speed that the Zero War cannot reach by diving.

As a result, the Zero Warfare, which was responsible for the outer air defense, had not yet played its role, and it had entered the stage of internal air defense operations.

Although only three "Typhoons" escaped in the face of intensive antiaircraft fire, and the others were shot down during the dive and the change of dive, under the interference of these "Typhoons," the three aircraft carriers were not able to release a single fighter, and more than a dozen Zeros parked on the flight deck were destroyed.

In addition, the zero battles in the air were all attracted.

Although the staff officer in charge of air defense operations made timely adjustments to allow the fighters in the air to expand the search range and find and intercept the bombers and attack planes that were about to be killed, in the chaotic situation, the order could not be passed on at all, and the attack aircraft group of the task force had already been killed.

For the next fifteen minutes, between 2:10 and 2:25, the mobile fleet was destroyed.

In this short period of 15 minutes, not only did they completely wipe out the advantage of sinking the "Hengjiang" and "Linghe," but also reversed the balance of forces between the two sides.

In Tian Shi's words, if he could turn back time, he was willing to trade the rest of his life for these fifteen minutes.

As a matter of fact, none of the officers and men of the mobile fleet believed that a sea and air battle of strategic significance would decide the winner in just 15 minutes.