Chapter 156: The Battle of the Whetstone

"Commander, the Qu Shiyun reports that an unidentified submarine is approaching."

Just when Yang Feng was singing and dancing, in the distant Atlantic, in the command cabin of the Kunlun aircraft carrier, a communications soldier suddenly raised his head and said to Wu Zurong not far away, at this time, this fleet has sailed through the Azores, because of the time difference, it is still daytime here.

Yang Feng's battleships all have towed sonar, and the submarine at this time has nothing to hide in front of them.

"How many are these?"

Wu Zurong said with a sneer.

"From the time we got out of the English Channel, this should be the sixth, one here, here..."

Wang Song, chief of staff of the fleet, said as he drew a few points on the chart.

"What is this doing? Hit and not fight, abandon and not abandon, what is the use of them tracking our location like this? ”

Wu Zurong said suspiciously.

As for whose submarine it is, there is no need to guess, although there are submarines in this sea area, but in order to avoid misunderstandings, Yang Feng has already communicated with Mi, Britain and France, once the submarine is found within the threat distance, it will either use the agreed radio code, or use sonar signals to contact and confirm the identity, if there is no response or the response is wrong, then needless to say, it must be a Soviet submarine.

It must be explained that the Ming Empire and the Soviet Union did not lift the state of war, not even a ceasefire agreement, at most there was a verbal agreement, but once the Kunlun returned to China, Yang Feng would form a double aircraft carrier formation, and he could not prepare for Stalin's black hand and leave this aircraft carrier at the bottom of the Atlantic.

The Dreadnought has signed a lease renewal agreement, and Yang Feng will continue to lease it for another three years, based on his current relationship with the British. Maybe I'll give it to him in three years. Anyway, most of the Britons took it back, and most of them were directly retired and dismantled for scrap iron. During this time, they even wanted to give the skinhead one.

"Order the reconnaissance aircraft to expand the search radius to 300 kilometers, and also, directly contact the General Staff, and ask to find out the current location of the aircraft carrier Moskva."

Wu Zurong said suddenly.

"You're saying the Soviets will intercept us with aircraft carriers?"

Wang Song said in amazement.

"If it were you, wouldn't it? They don't have any experience in aircraft carrier operations, and they urgently need an opponent of the same level, is there anyone more suitable for training than us at this time? ”

Wu Zurong said with a sneer.

He guessed right.

Three hundred kilometers away from the Kunlun, Gorshkov was in the command compartment of the aircraft carrier Moskva. Looking at the latest telegram in his hand.

"Command the fleet, full speed ahead!"

He said lightly.

On the blue sea, the Moskva, which is more than 30,000 tons, driven by 200,000 horsepower steam turbines, began to soar at a speed of more than 30 knots, and on either side of it, there are two large cruisers that are almost brand new, which are also stimulated by Yang Feng and completed at the fastest speed under the urging of Stalin.

This kind of pre-war construction, because the war interrupted the construction of the 10,000-ton light cruise. It has twelve 152-mm guns, which were put into service just a month ago. They are Shaboyang, Kuibyshev, Frunze and Chikalov.

This fleet of five warships can already be said to be the most luxurious lineup that Stalin can come up with, and he is quite shabby to say, although the Baltic Fleet still has a lot of messy warships, but they are either too old to withstand the wind and waves of the Atlantic, or too small to carry out this kind of long-range combat mission, for example, the endurance of Type 7 destroyers is less than 2,000 nautical miles, and without supply ships, even the North Sea may not be able to sail out, and only these five can have real ocean-going combat capabilities.

Just like Wu Zurong guessed, he urgently needs an opponent of the same level to hone his aircraft carrier fleet, the Soviet Navy, which has no combat experience in this area, wants to gallop across the ocean in the future, and even compete with the righteous of the American Empire, then there must be a whetstone first, they must know how to fight with aircraft carriers first, and this whetstone is not more suitable than the Kunlun.

Protected only by one light cruiser and two destroyers, the Kunlun, which is not only smaller in tonnage than the Moskva, but also much slower, is obviously at a disadvantage in front of his Moskva formation, like a Siberian tiger and a Bengal tiger, there will be a battle, but it is a battle to be won, such a battle can not only allow the Soviet Navy to gain valuable experience in aircraft carrier combat, but also can let out a breath of anger that has been held for a long time.

In the final analysis, it is not easy for Comrade Shi Dalin to endure for so long, although there is the Tianzhu battlefield, this place for him to vent, but there will not really hurt Yang Feng after all, everyone is a politician, and they don't care about the death of a few soldiers, even Yang Feng has a population of tens of millions at this time, and the casualties on the battlefield are not worth mentioning at all.

But this aircraft carrier is Yang Feng's hard work, and he has been waiting for this aircraft carrier for almost three years.

Although he didn't understand why that guy was so stupid, he actually sent three warships to escort it, but for Starling, it was a godsend.

What a wonderful thing.

But unfortunately, he didn't know that Yang Feng was fishing for him, and this guy ordered the fleet to return home by the American route, just to lure the Soviet aircraft carrier fleet to attack.

The USSR had no experience in aircraft carrier naval warfare, but neither did the Ming Navy, of course they were certainly much stronger than the Soviets, but the Britons still taught something.

Those carrier-based aircraft pilots have a lot of experience in bombing land targets, but they have almost no experience in bombing warships at sea, and Yang Feng can't pull a bunch of abandoned warships with them as a target like the Mi people, so the Moskva is also their whetstone.

Of course, he will not let this aircraft carrier be damaged, and his escort ship has already brought enough plug-ins to this battle.

"The battle between the Siberian tiger and the Bengal tiger? Isn't it okay for a Bengal tiger to put on armor and carry a flail? ”

Yang Feng said with a sneer, then rubbed his face, put on an anxious expression and walked to Johnson, who was talking to Jensen, and said in the latter's puzzled gaze: "Two, I think we are going to face a serious trouble, according to the information I have received, the Soviet Navy's Moskva aircraft carrier formation has left port as early as a week ago, and just now my Kunlun aircraft carrier formation commander reported that they encountered a number of Soviet submarines tracking and monitoring along the way, suspecting that the Soviets were preparing to use this aircraft carrier to intercept them." ”

"Oh my God, you've already stopped fighting with them."

Jensen said in surprise.

"Is there an armistice? Besides, even if there is, can't Starling tear it up? It's not the first time he's done something like this. ”

Yang Feng shrugged and said.

"Your Excellency, I will immediately send a report to the country to see if they have more accurate information."

Johnson said with a solemn face.

But at this moment, a Humvee military vehicle of the General Staff of the Ming Army stopped beside the lawn with the sound of brakes, and an officer hurriedly got out of the car with a document and walked to Yang Feng's side, saluting and saying: "Report to the FΓΌhrer, the Kunlun report, found the Soviet Navy aircraft carrier Moskva, a distance of two hundred and fifty kilometers, and the opponent's combat aircraft have been raised to the deck to standby, and there are four new large cruisers, estimated to be the latest Xia Boyang class." ”

"Well, there is no need to confirm it again, it seems that Comrade Joseph is not ready to let my fleet return home, or okay, this time it can be broken."

Yang Feng took the telegram and said lightly.

Jensen and Johnson glanced at each other, and it was clear that they were looking forward to the fight as well.

Fifteen thousand kilometers away on the sea, the battle alarm sounded on the sea, the two elevators of the Kunlun kept rising and falling, lifting one after another Sea Fury fighters to the deck, and on the deck, a large number of pilots flocked to their respective fighters, with the help of ground crew, they boarded one after another, the front propeller began to rotate, and the first Sea Nur quickly began to accelerate forward from the group, and quickly took off after dozens of meters of gliding.

In fact, they don't need catapults, the sea fury of the air combat configuration can easily take off on the deck against the wind, only a few tens of meters distance is enough, it is troublesome to use a catapult, and in the state of propeller rotation, it is purely dead to be busy around an aircraft, so the fleet aircraft carriers in World War II are not installed, and even if they are installed, they are basically used as decorations, and only small escort aircraft carriers are used.

After the first Sea Fury took off, followed by the second, the third......

At the same time, the cruiser Hongwu moved back, and the Zhang Huangyan and Qu Shiyun formed a triangle to protect the Kunlun aircraft carrier in the middle, and one large, medium and small caliber anti-aircraft guns pointed to the sky.

Two hundred kilometers away, on the aircraft carrier Moskva, a carrier-based type La-9 and Il-2, are also constantly taking off, although this aircraft carrier is much larger than the Kunlun, but because of the flaws at the beginning of the design, so the number of aircraft carried by the two aircraft carriers is about the same, even if the Soviets have made some improvements in the repair process, it only carries 36 La-9 and 24 Il-2, but the pilots are absolutely the real elite, the establishment is a carrier-based aviation division, and the division commander is the second ace of the Soviet Air Force, Pokryshkin.

After the air formation took off, Gorshkov's surface fleet still continued to move forward, and the combat radius of those Il-2 was pitifully short, otherwise he would not have come so close to attack, and he was also prepared that once the air battle was lost, he could be directly bombarded by surface warships, after all, he had four 10,000-ton light cruisers, and the other side only had one.

At this time, the high-power shipborne radar on the Hongwu had already discovered the Soviet aircraft group that had risen into the air, and the Haifu aircraft group that was hovering over the fleet immediately killed the enemy.

Three years after the end of World War II, another naval aircraft carrier duel officially began.

Only this time, the belligerents were replaced by two new maritime powers. (To be continued......)