The USS Bjarn was originally a battleship originally built in 1914, but due to the First World War, the construction period was delayed again and again, and it was decided to change it to an aircraft carrier after half of the construction, and it was not completed until 1927. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

To be honest, by the time this aircraft carrier was built, it was already outdated. With a maximum speed of 21 knots and a capacity of only 25 carrier-based aircraft, he was far behind the aircraft carriers of the same period, but because the First World War had exhausted France's national strength, it could only be used up.

Due to the sneak attack of the Japanese fleet last time, the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier Bayarn suffered heavy losses, and less than five of the more than 20 sorties of planes came back, and finally at the suggestion of Su Jin, Laborde simply removed all the carrier-based aircraft formations and replaced them with the F6F shrew fighters of the Third Army, and went to Hong Kong to let the British help carry out the modification, and finally was able to install 30 carrier-based aircraft, although it was much worse than the aircraft carriers of the United States, Britain and Japan in the same period, but it was barely able to protect itself.

Today, in the pilot's lounge below the deck of the USS Bayarn, a group of Chinese pilots were chatting and farting or sitting in chairs with their eyes closed.

A tall, thin lieutenant with a Chinese face was playing cards alone, and next to him sat a shorter sergeant, who was drinking a bottle of water in his hand, and after a while the sergeant touched the lieutenant with his elbow and asked, "Huh...... Youbo, when do you say we will be able to set off on a mission, we have been floating on the sea for two days, why hasn't the mission come down yet? ”

The lieutenant said angrily: "How do I know, I am only responsible for flying the plane, and when to attack is decided by those French, what can I do!" ”

"Why?" The sergeant was not happy, and said very dissatisfied: "If you want me to say, this fleet should be commanded by our people, and those French just don't want to help us, and they will be grinding foreign workers there all day long." ”

The lieutenant asked rhetorically, "Our people?" Who, who of us has experience in commanding large aircraft carriers and battleship formations, the reason why Chief Su is willing to spend a lot of money to hire these French is not for nothing, none of us can fiddle with this thing, so whether you want to or not, but you have to admit that this fleet is only fiddling with those French. ”

"Ah......," the sergeant sighed, and said no more.

Just then, there was a sound of footsteps at the door, and soon a colonel in a French white uniform walked into the pilot's lounge. One of the officers on duty shouted, "Colonel Gerald!" Salute! ”

"Whoa!"

With the voice of the star officer, all the pilots in the lounge stood up and gave a military salute.

I saw Colonel Gerard strode up to the crowd and said loudly: "Young men, I know that you have complaints about us these days, complaining about why we didn't give the order to attack earlier, but I'm sorry we can't give this order, because we are too close to the Japanese fleet, and you must know very well what awaits us if the target of our fleet is exposed." But now that this situation is over, I haven't pulled some distance from the Japanese fleet, so now it's time for you to attack. ”

"Hooray!"

I saw a burst of cheers from the lounge, and many pilots jumped for joy.

Seeing the excited appearance of the pilots, Gerald also showed a smile on his face, and when he was a little quieter, he said: "Boys, don't be happy yet, now I want to talk about your mission this time." This time your mission is not for you to attack the Japanese warships, because to do that would be suicide. To put it bluntly, your task is to attract the attention of the Japanese aircraft carriers, if the Japanese planes do not meet them, you will harass them on the sidelines, and if they do, you will use the advantage of the fighters to destroy their carrier-based aircraft as much as possible, understand? ”

"Understood!" The sound this time is very neat.

"Alright, boys, get ready, get ready to go!"

More than twenty minutes later, twenty-eight warplanes took off from the aircraft carrier Bayarn, and they flew towards the west in a neat formation......

On the sea more than 100 kilometers away from Hangzhou, there is a huge fleet sailing, on the Chicheng aircraft carrier, Koga Fengyi is looking at the map in front of him and frowning, the fleet he led has been staying in Hangzhou Bay for almost a week, but this huge fleet can do nothing but wander in Hangzhou Bay.

Just four days ago, he sent 30 Zero fighters and more than 20 bombers to try to bomb Hangzhou, but the result was that only half of these 50-odd planes flew back, and all the remaining fighters were destroyed by the anti-aircraft artillery deployed in Hangzhou.

Immediately after that, Koga Fengyi sent three destroyers with a shallow draft and two cruisers into Hangzhou Bay to carry out artillery bombardment, but the other side immediately dispatched dozens of dive bombers and fighters to dive and bomb these battleships, and finally turned into a melee, dozens of Zero fighters and planes of the 1st Air Division conducted a fierce air battle, and almost all of the Zero fighters were lost, and then more than a dozen Stuka bombed these battleships indiscriminately, severely damaging two destroyers and blowing up a cruiser at the cost of six fighters, The Japanese ships were forced to turn back.

After these days of fighting, Koga had to admit that the Third Army was fundamentally different from other national armies, and that if his air force was not destroyed, their fleet would not be able to complete the mission.

The chief of staff naturally knew what Koga Fengichi was worried about, and he suggested: "Your Excellency, since the defense of the people in Hangzhou Bay is so tight, the original plan for landing in Hangzhou Bay should not continue, and we should choose another landing site, such as Taizhou or Wenzhou, which is very good!" ”

"No way!" Koga Feng shook his head: "We already have Taizhou as the focus of the defense of the Zhina people, and Wenzhou is the station of the 351st Division of the Zhina, besides, if we don't solve the air force of the Zhina people, we can only land anywhere!" ”

"But Your Excellency General, the commander of the Akutagawa Division always comes to Cui us, let us hurry up and arrange for them to land, I am almost annoyed by him." The chief of staff spat bitterness.

Koga Fengichi said angrily: "Hmph...... You tell him that when the time is right, he will naturally let him land, and now landing is not looking for death? ”

"Your Excellency General, I think we can let those armies try first, if we can't land during the day, we can land at night, if it works, it's good, if it doesn't work, let them retreat, even if it fails, there won't be much loss."

"Yo Xi, this plan can be tried." Koga finally agreed...... (To be continued.) )