It only took five minutes for Tian Shi to explain the situation to Lan Yun.

At the beginning of the attack, about one hundred and fifty enemy planes came. If these fighters are all carrier-based aircraft, or all of them are from aircraft carriers, then they must be four, because the fleet aircraft carriers of the Liangxia Navy, even in the best condition, a single aircraft carrier will not dispatch more than forty carrier-based aircraft at a time.

In addition, the aircraft carriers of the Liangxia Navy fleet are all carrying about 90 aircraft.

This means that in the next round of attacks, there will also be about one and a half hundred carrier-based aircraft.

Critically, the second round of attacks will definitely arrive in an hour and a half.

According to the information gathered in the past, the combat radius of the Liangxia Navy's carrier-based aircraft is about 400 kilometers, and the combat radius of the "Exocet" is less than 400 kilometers after hanging an aviation torpedo weighing more than 700 kilograms, and its cruising flight speed is about 250 kilometers per hour.

If the second wave of attack planes is refueled and reloaded immediately after the first wave of attack aircraft has taken off, and the carrier-based aircraft are lifted into the air immediately after receiving the news, even if the attack is launched at the maximum combat radius, the second wave of attack aircraft will definitely arrive before 1 p.m.

It's 11:30 a.m.

What can be done in an hour and a half?

Not to mention what it can do, I don't even know where the enemy, that is, the task force, is!

Of course, if you can find the task force, or know where the task force is, there is not much that can be done with the current situation of the mobile fleet.

Because the "Jiahe" was injured and lost its ability to operate in aviation, it lost a quarter of its combat effectiveness.

The only fighters that can be recycled are the fighters sent out before "Jiahe", and they all need to be recycled to replenish fuel and ammunition.

The remaining three aircraft carriers, about two hundred carrier-based aircraft, can launch up to two waves of attacks.

In addition, there were about seven hours until dark, which was only enough time to launch two waves of attacks, including round-trip flights and re-preparations.

One way or another, after dark, the motorized fleet had to retreat. Since there were only four fast battleships, you had to avoid encountering the task force at night.

The key is still to find the task force.

As for the method, Tian Shi also said.

The "Chicheng" immediately released a few ships capable of carrying out reconnaissance missions, followed by the returning Liang Xia group, and it would not be long before the task force could be found.

In addition, it is necessary to preemptively launch an attack, to be precise, to send out a group of attack aircraft in a timely manner.

For this reason, it is necessary to organize the fighters of the "Canglong" and "Feilong" that have not participated in air defense operations and have sufficient ammunition and fuel, and organize them into an advance escort formation to follow the ship's attack on reconnaissance missions and sweep away the enemy planes encountered along the way.

After the detection of the task force, it was responsible for dealing with air defense fighters, covering the groups of attack aircraft that arrived later.

This move can also play the role of luring the enemy, so that the enemy's commander can make a wrong judgment and dispatch air defense fighters to deal with escort fighters that pose little threat.

The key is actually the next action.

The three aircraft carriers that can continue the battle will dispatch carrier-based aircraft in the order of the first ship explosion and the second ship attack, and the squadron will be the basic marshalling unit, and the squadron leader will be responsible for commanding and launching a surprise attack on the task force separately. No other ships of the task force may be attacked until the aircraft carrier has been heavily damaged.

This arrangement has a very prominent benefit, it will not occupy the flight deck for a long time.

To put it simply, it is to be able to keep a few fighters on the flight deck at any one time, ensuring that in the event of an accident, such as another attack, the fighter can be immediately lifted into the air.

The downside, too, is obvious.

Because it occupies a part of the flight deck, the take-off and taxiing distance of the carrier-based aircraft will be shortened by a cut, and the ship's explosion and the ship's attack will certainly not be able to take off with full fuel, so they can only act separately after liftoff, and cannot form a large group of aircraft, and there is a problem of difficulty in coordination when launching an attack.

There is no doubt that the success rate of the attack will definitely be reduced, and there will be greater losses.

Tian Shi clearly mentioned that since the carrier-based aircraft of the Liangxia Navy can scatter and launch attacks, why can't the carrier-based aircraft of the Sayi Navy?

The point is that the main purpose of the preemptive attack is not to annihilate the task force, but to contain the offensive of the task force.

The "Longjiang" class of the Liangxia Navy can carry eighty-four carrier-based aircraft under normal conditions, and can carry nearly 100 aircraft at most in battle.

In addition, the task force is operating in waters close to the mainland, and I am afraid that it has already been covered by shore-based fighters, so there is no need to consider the air defense of the fleet.

Theoretically, the task force can launch three waves of attacks in a row!

As mentioned earlier, the remaining strength of the mobile fleet will be able to launch two waves of attacks.

According to Tian Shi, no matter whether it is Bai Zhizhan or Liu Xiangzhen who commands the task force, he will not hesitate to use all carrier-based aircraft for the attack.

Both of these young Zhuang factions are offensive triumphants.

Because it was too late to prevent the task force from launching a second wave of attacks, what could be counted on, and what could be decided, was to see if it could prevent the task force from launching a third wave of attacks. If you can, there's a slight chance of winning, at least not worse. If it doesn't, the mobile fleet will definitely be wiped out sometime in the afternoon, and it may not be able to organize the remaining carrier-based aircraft to launch a counterattack.

To put it simply, if you lose in one move, you lose in one move.

If you can't regain the initiative, then you will always be in a situation of being passively beaten.

This is by no means alarmist, and has been repeatedly proven in wargames.

In order to convince Lan Yun, Tian Shi also emphasized that the pilots of the mobile fleet are all elites of the Narrow Navy, and even in the most difficult adversity, they will definitely be able to complete the task. As long as they are given a chance, they will repay the trust of the commander with their actions.

When Tian Shi said these words, Genda stood next to him, expressing his exuberant fighting spirit to destroy the task force.

"General, the prosperity of the navy and the survival of the imperial kingdom are all in one fell swoop!"

At the end, Tian Shi did not forget to emphasize.

As long as it is involved in the imperial kingdom, even if Lan Yun is still timid, he will definitely feel something, after all, the admirals all take the rise and fall of the imperial kingdom as their own responsibility.

Fortunately, Lan Yun did not hesitate this time.

Seeing Lan Yun nodding, Tian Shi dared to delay, and immediately looked towards Yuantian.

Genda didn't ask much, he immediately stood up and saluted, then turned around and ran out of the commander's bridge. Obviously, he was also worried that Lan Yun would suddenly change his mind.

Soon, Genda came to the aviation operations center at the bottom of the island, that is, the pilot standby room.

The captains of dozens of crews, that is, the pilots, are ready.

Genda did not immediately arrange the task, but first went to find Captain Qiao Ben of the ship-attack squadron and asked him to immediately drive the 97-ship-attack to catch up with the returning enemy plane.

In addition, it is necessary to arrange for several ships to take off to ensure that they can follow the enemy planes to find the task force.

He didn't personally carry out the reconnaissance mission, not because he wanted to stay and make war achievements, not because he was afraid, but because his landline had not been repaired. During the attack on Chengjiang Port, his landline was hit by an anti-aircraft machine gun, and there were more than a dozen holes in the fuselage. It's fine, but it will take some time to close the hole.

Of course, Captain Jobbon is the squadron leader of the ship's attack squadron, and his ability is absolutely fine.