In the early morning of June 28, in the northwest sea area of the transit island.

There were still almost two hours before dawn, and the aviation crew was already busy.

Instead of bombers and attack aircraft, they were ready to take off, but several reconnaissance aircraft.

For the same reason, there is no definite news about the transit island!

To say, this is also the thing that gives Bai Zhizhan the most headache.

Because the distance was too far, the patrol planes deployed in the volcanic islands could not fly over, and there was no way to conduct aerial reconnaissance of the transit islands.

Of course, even if you can fly over, it doesn't mean much.

The Nuland Navy has long been equipped with radar, and it will certainly keep a few fighter jets patrolling the air at any time, and it will be able to intercept incoming reconnaissance planes in time.

Previously, reconnaissance operations on the transit islands were carried out by submarines.

In the past few days, the submarines that went to the transit island have not sent a message, and may not have been able to approach the transit island.

Of course, there is nothing surprising about this.

In the past, as soon as the main task force of the Imperial Navy left port, the Nuland Navy would immediately strengthen its precautions, not only keeping the main warships out of port and standby, but also increasing patrols near the main islands to avoid surprise attacks and create a psychological burden on the Imperial Navy.

Before the Battle of the Guia Northwest, when the Nuland Navy made a big move, the Imperial Navy would also strengthen its defenses.

Then, after the departure of the 2 task forces from the anchorage, the Nuland Navy will inevitably strengthen the anti-submarine forces near the transit island.

If there is activity of enemy ships nearby, then the submarine on a reconnaissance mission will definitely not dare to surface, let alone approach the transit island.

At the time of the development of the plan, Bai Zhizhan did not expect to be able to obtain the reconnaissance report of the submarine.

According to the arrangement, on the day of the attack, reconnaissance planes were first dispatched to launch a strike, after ascertaining the situation on the transit island, especially the situation at the airport.

Here, there are two very important tactics involved.

The first is ultra-low-altitude entry.

After several months of exploration, several actual combat tests, and a lot of losses, what can finally be determined is that the ultra-low-altitude penetration can effectively shorten the detection range of the enemy's air defense radar, compress the enemy's air defense combat time, and thus improve the penetration efficiency of the aircraft group.

Obviously, it is not only the attack that is useful, but also the reconnaissance.

The second is coordinated operations.

In fact, the problem of the connection between detection and attack has always existed, and it is very prominent.

The reason is also very simple, after the arrival of reconnaissance aircraft, the enemy will certainly strengthen air defense, and air defense fighters are generally able to patrol the air for several hours.

That is, if the attack aircraft group arrives late, it will inevitably face hordes of air defense fighters.

In previous battles, it was generally used to increase the number of escort fighters and let the escort fighters come forward to solve this problem, that is, the escort fighters would seize air supremacy, and after gaining absolute superiority, they would let the bomber group carrying out the attack mission enter.

Obviously, this is not a good idea either.

At some point, there was no way to send enough escort fighters.

Fighting near enemy bases or fleets, because they cannot be effectively commanded, the combat efficiency of escort fighters is certainly inferior to that of air defense fighters.

This tactic worked in the past, and there was also a very crucial factor, the fighters of the Imperial Navy surpassed the fighters of the Nuland Navy in terms of performance, and also the fighters of the Nuland Army Air Corps. The point is that the fighter pilots of the Imperial Navy had much more experience.

In other words, the Imperial Navy was using the performance of the fighter and the individual ability of the pilot to compensate for the lack of other aspects.

In the early days of the war, the most obvious advantage of the Imperial Navy was the personal quality of its officers and men.

Unfortunately, this advantage cannot be maintained forever.

After the Battle of the Southwest Fanyan Ocean, the Sixth Bureau issued a warning that the Nuland Navy had expanded its pilot team and trained a group of pilots with rich combat experience, many of whom were from the Western Continent battlefield, that is, the volunteer pilots who were sent to the Bran Kingdom before.

In addition, it is quite possible that the Nuland Navy will receive a new carrier-based fighter with advanced performance within a year.

It can be seen that in order to maintain the advantage, it is necessary to make a fuss about tactics.

It was precisely for this reason that Zhou Yongtao proposed that the first wave of attacks be divided into two groups, with the forward group following behind the reconnaissance planes. After the reconnaissance planes determined the target situation, the group of planes immediately entered and launched an attack, focusing on bombing the airfield, radar, and command center.

After paralyzing enemy airfields, follow-up aircraft arrive to bomb other military targets, or carry out supplementary bombing of major targets such as airfields.

The key is to paralyze the enemy's airfields after the first wave of attacks, and not to give the enemy's air defense fighters time to take to the air for combat.

Of course, this requires a close connection between the reconnaissance aircraft and the attack aircraft group, so it is necessary to send personnel to command at the front.

To put it another way, it is for the commander to carry out reconnaissance missions!

After completing the reconnaissance mission, they had to stay behind and direct the aircraft group to launch an attack, screen the results of the attack, and determine whether to supplement the bombing.

It can be seen that the requirements for the commander are very high.

Fortunately, the last thing that the Imperial Naval Aviation lacked was experienced commanders.

By now, all the pilots who had served before the war had become officers, and many of the pilots who had joined the army during the war with the Imperial Kingdom of Satsui have also become officers.

He has been on the battlefield several times, carried out dozens of combat missions, and almost all of them are able to command battles.

In the words of old-school pilots such as Shenpu, this is how the trump card is trained.

If anything, the Imperial Navy was able to win every battle, and the number one contributor was these experienced carrier-based pilots.

Without them, the Imperial Navy would never have been able to win so many decisive battles with the fleet.

Of course, the credit of staff officers like Zhou Yongtao is also indispensable.

Many tactics that ordinary people could not even think of were developed by these staff officers, and through training and combat, they were eventually popularized and applied throughout the army.

Sometimes, a wonderful tactic works as well as a task force!

For example, in the naval battle of the Southwest Fanyan Ocean, the decisive role was played by allowing seaplanes to fly to the sea area where the enemy fleet might appear at night and land on the surface of the sea.

This time, the "follow the attack tactic" was used.

According to Zhou Yongtao's arrangement, the carrier-based planes carrying out the attack mission will take off after the reconnaissance planes, and they will carry ammunition mainly for destroying airfields, such as sub-bombs used to disable runways, aviation armor-piercing bombs to deal with reinforced concrete machine forts, and time bombs to prevent emergency repairs.

No matter how many combat planes there are on the airfield, the first thing to do is to paralyze the airfield.

Because there are many uncertainties, the scale of the first wave of attacks is relatively small, with a total of only 80 carrier-based aircraft, of which 24 are escort fighters.

Although there are not many of them, all of them are ace crews, and each pilot has rich combat experience.

As long as the raid is successful, perhaps the forward fleet will be able to paralyze the airfield, and then the follow-up fleet will completely destroy the airfield.

After the first wave of attacks is over, the results of the bombing are screened, and the second wave of attacks is launched.

If anything, the second wave of attacks is in full force.

As for whether to carry out a third wave of attacks, it depends on the effect of the second wave of bombing.

To put it simply, it's improvisation.