The Navy's Yangtze River Naval Aviation Base is intensively carrying out load-loading operations. Special incendiary bombs make ground crews very careful. The cartridge tray of the machine gun is also carefully mounted on the machine gun. The 35-round cartridge tray was filled with all incendiary bombs.

Ground crews are filling gasoline with a tubing. The mechanic does the final check before takeoff. And the pilot is on the map making his final flight prophecy before the flight. The light of the electric lights allows them to see some specific ground references on the map. The reconnaissance plane laid out the last aerial photographs they had taken of the day. So that the pilot can make the final confirmation. and the ability to accurately find the target during the mission.

Naval aviation conducted precise training and exercises for this sneak attack. Three combat squadrons of naval aviation flew into operation this time. A reconnaissance squadron. The Marine Corps also drew a squadron to participate. Five squadrons will each attack targets located within two hundred miles. Due to the fuel supply. They stay in the skies for a maximum of fifteen minutes over the operation. For this reason, the aircraft did everything possible to reduce weight and increase fuel. Some unimportant parts were dismantled. The mechanics thought the plane could fall.

But even so. The mechanics also managed to make room for the red taillights. The time of the sneak attack was set when the sun came out. It was around 4:10 a.m. Previously, the plane had to go on a forty-minute night flight. And keep the flight formation in between. At this time there was radio though. But it can't be popularized. So for the sake of safety. The technicians had to install red lights on the tail of the aircraft. An electric lamp coated with red fuel. The light is powered by a large solid-state battery. The power supply is capable of lasting up to an hour. After an hour it will stop working because the power is exhausted. It was already daylight by then. It doesn't matter to the pilot anymore.

"The flying attack formation will be divided into Team A, Team B, and Team C to attack the surface ship base of the Chu State Navy respectively." A staff officer began to pose five models of airplanes on a sand table. This represents five aircraft squadrons. The number of aircraft is really limited. Five squadrons were fully manned with only sixty aircraft. But only forty-eight planes actually took off. Two of them stopped taking off due to mechanical reasons and lack of parts.

The nearest target of the attack was the water camp of the Chu army in Jiangnan. The number of the Qin army is Jiangnan No. 1. The water village here is only seventy miles away from the Qin naval base. The plane can definitely arrive in half an hour. There are one hundred and two ships of all types. The number is about 2,300 people. One hundred and ten miles north of the river opposite it is the second target. Marked Jiangbei No. 1. There are three water villages. The number of ships ranged from two hundred to three hundred. The number is at five thousand. The two look after each other. The threat to the Qin Navy was huge. So here it is. Naval aviation will throw three waves. A total of eight squadrons will be dispatched to attack each other. The last place. It is Jiangnan No. 2. It is the farthest away from the Qin naval base. One hundred and ninety miles. There were about ninety to one hundred and ten ships there. But mostly small boats. There are twenty large ships. It is estimated to be a reserve force. Qin Jun analyzes based on aerial photographs. In addition, there are other water villages. But the distance is two hundred miles away. The reconnaissance planes of the Qin army were barely able to reconnoitre. But operational estimates could not do it. Exceeds the combat radius of combat aircraft of naval aviation. The combat radius of the aircraft is up to two hundred miles. If you add air combat. Then there will basically be cuts. Four hundred miles round trip. This is almost the highest level of aircraft manufacturing in Qin.

this period. The fuel tanks of the aircraft are not very large. The practice of placing fuel tanks inside the wing has not yet been made. Furthermore. The idea of a drop tank though there is. But it's a product of the laboratory. And the aircraft has not been used for long in combat. Everything is ahead of the curve and there is no demand in the market.

One last goal. Gangnam No. 2 is the most dangerous. Because no one knows what will happen? The people above are also very aware of this.

Due to the lack of aircraft. In total, there were only forty-eight aircraft. In order to increase operational efficiency. A reconnaissance squadron will be dedicated to bombing the farthest Jiangnan No. 2 base. The reconnaissance aircraft did not have machine-gun armament. And the fuel tank is also large. So their range is greater than that of combat aircraft. Twelve twin-engine "Pegasus" reconnaissance planes carried 24 one-stone napalm bombs to attack the farthest Jiangnan-2.

The rest of the aircraft will carry out multiple waves of time-difference bombing.

Naval aviation advocates multi-wave bombing using the characteristics of multiple sorties.

The first is the recent Gangnam No. 1. Due to the proximity of the distance. Naval aviation will carry out a massive bombing with all the aircraft of three waves and four squadrons at once.

The first attack wave was two squadrons. The second wave that followed would bombard again in fifteen minutes. In order to take over the previous bombing wave. The last wave, a squadron, will also bombard again half an hour later.

After Jiangnan No. 1 got his hands and left. Two squadrons will quickly return to reload. Then quickly pounced on Jiangbei No. 1. This process is expected to take about half an hour. The ground crew has a special division of labor. Each ground support team will be responsible for the reloading of two aircraft.

The two reloaded squadrons will attack Jiangbei No. 1 as the first wave. This was followed by the return of the second wave of the Gangnam No. 1 and the farthest reconnaissance squadron. They were the first planes to take off when the bombing began. Departure at 3 a.m. If the time is a little later. The second wave will have only one squadron. The third wave will strike together with the reconnaissance squadron.

That's what the battle plan is about. Next. It depends on the specific implementation. As a matter of fact. There's a small modification here. That is to carry out the fourth wave of attacks against the largest Jiangbei No. 1. Zhang Han suggested this. But the above considers it too risky. There is also the fact that the pilot J and the ground crew will be subjected to high-intensity flights. The fourth wave is fraught with danger. The change became a temporary plan. The above will look at the specific situation according to the pilot, aircraft, ground staff, etc. But Zhang Han thinks it's a great time. The staff officers who knew about it, however, thought that it would be okay to launch an attack in the afternoon. Because at that time, the water village will be a sea of fire. Napalm and white phosphorus incendiary bombs are not easy to extinguish. It's okay to attack in the afternoon.

In a word. Again, this is a variable.

The roar of the engine has already sounded. The pilot entered the cockpit of the aircraft wearing a leather jacket. Ground staff salute. The pilot raised his hand in return. The take-off commander waved. Ground crews remove the wooden cork from the aircraft landing vessel. The plane then began taxiing. The first plane took off. Then the second one. Third ......