Off the coast of Semarang.

Huang Hanzhong, deputy commander of the high seas fleet of the Ming Navy, in the command room of the heavy cruiser Kaohsiung, held a telescope and looked at the city that had been slightly dilapidated, recalled his childhood life, sighed with emotion and said: "Let's start!" ”

In the midday sun, all the battleships lined up in battle lines on the blue sea, and at the same time raised the muzzles of the black holes.

As the Kaohsiung's main gun was the first to shoot out terrifying flames, it was followed by Prince Eugen, Hongwu, Yongle, Wanli, and Xuande......

In the thunderous sound of cannons, a series of dozens of meters long muzzle flames, from the muzzle pointing to the side of the gun, in the background of the sea water is extraordinarily magnificent, the impact of air waves on one side of the battleship to form an elegant semicircle, subtle ripples stir each other to draw a changing shape, strong recoil continues to promote, thousands of tons of steel battleship keeps moving to the other side, adding a richer picture to the sea.

On the other side of this spectacular scenery is the hell of death.

Except for a few ruins of Zheng He that were deliberately avoided, the city that bears his name, every building, every factory, every block, was shattered in the roaring shell explosions, and in the flames that kept expanding, the Javanese people who had just occupied the city and were enjoying the victory turned into splattered flesh and blood in an instant.

"Destroy, destroy! Don't leave anything left, aim there, yes, it's the prettiest one, boom, boom! Ma, it was built by my grandfather, don't leave any scum for them! ”

Beside Huang Hanzhong, the captain of the Kaohsiung roared like crazy.

"Report to the commander, a large number of enemy planes are coming."

An officer suddenly looked up and shouted.

"Leave them alone. They can't get here. ”

Huang Hanzhong admired the sea of fire in Semarang and said lightly.

Truly. The planes of the Red Army could not get here. Because at the same time, hundreds of Sabres and Meteors escorting this shelling had already pounced, and a few minutes later, the first air battle of jet fighters in the history of human warfare unfolded over Java, Sabre, Meteor against MiG-9.

In fact, this is Yang Feng's real goal, and the reason why he bombarded Semarang. It was to force Musseau's fighters to fight, and then start large-scale strategic bombing after defeating them.

At this time, he was sitting on the deck of the Kunlun aircraft carrier, which had completed the refit and had just sailed out of the dock of the Yingtianfu Naval Shipyard, which was the first dock built by Yang Feng, and its main job was not shipbuilding, but repairing all the capital ships of the Navy, including aircraft carriers.

"General Houghton, you don't need to be so nervous, isn't it just a catapult!"

Yang Feng is like an old landlord. Sitting on the Taishi chair, holding a bowl of tea. He said to a white man next to him who was staring at a fighter jet in front of him with wide eyes.

The latter is a brigadier general of the United States Admiralty, specially responsible for the introduction of catapults, and at this time on the Kunlun ready to eject into the air, is an F10 air knight airlifted from the United States, this double-engine special night fighter, but also the heaviest carrier-based jet fighter in the hands of the United States, the maximum take-off weight is close to thirteen tons, and at this time in order to test the performance of this catapult has been installed to the maximum take-off weight.

Brigadier General Houghton smiled awkwardly and continued to watch intently.

Soon all the preparations were completed, because this was also the first ejection of the new catapult on the ship, and it was still in the stationary state of the aircraft carrier, so the staff carefully checked it again before giving the take-off order to the pilots on standby. Immediately after that, the flame shield was erected, the tail spout spewed flames, and the pulley behind the front wheels suddenly pushed the heavy plane out like a bullet with extremely strong force, and almost in the blink of an eye, it reached the end of the deck more than 70 meters away.

Brigadier General Horton subconsciously stood up and watched with wide eyes as the air knight soared into the sky without hindrance.

Applause immediately rang out all around.

"Your Excellency, it's a perfect takeoff!"

On the other side of Yang Feng, the British ambassador Jensen said while applauding.

Well, this is also Yang Feng's customer, after knowing that he has such a catapult, of course the Britons will not lag behind, they don't even have their own catapult now! The carrier-based aircraft of the Royal Navy can only rely on propeller fighters to support the scene, and even the sea venom developed by vampires has not yet been put into service at this time. Largely because they couldn't get the jet fighter to take off properly from the carrier, even the vampire cleaned the deck, and the carrier's high-speed windward movement allowed it to run from the back to the front before flying, which makes no sense in real combat.

Especially after hearing that the catapult of the Soviets was fast loading the ship, and the performance was so good, Attlee was so frightened that he was careful and ran to study and buy Yang Feng's catapult as fast as possible.

"It's not enough once, a few more ejections."

Yang Feng said.

"yes, a few more ejections."

Brigadier General Horton hurriedly said.

This time it was the turn of the Ming Navy itself, and the air knights who ejected more than ten tons were all the same as playing, and the fury that was only a few tons was of course more like playing, and the four fury were all shot out in one go, and at the same time as they were ejected, the air knight also landed on the deck, and then was pushed to the beveled deck.

In fact, there is also a similar catapult on this deck, because of the size limitation of the Kunlun, it is impossible to install two steam catapults on the take-off deck at the same time, so one is also installed on the beveled deck in the same way as the Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier.

"Your Excellency, it's perfect!"

Looking at the air knight who had been inspected for a while, and then catapulted off on the beveled deck, Horton said excitedly.

After the plane took off, the four furious planes that had originally taken off began to land, and at this time he discovered that Yang Feng also had a special light device in the middle of the port side, which was using three-color lights to send light signals to the planes in the sky, and the latter was obviously landing from the stern of the ship based on these light signals.

"Your Excellency, what kind of device is this?"

He asked curiously.

"It's just a light sign that sends signals to the plane, saving it at night, and it's easy to have problems on rainy days."

Yang Feng said very purly while drinking tea.

Of course, he won't tell this guy that it's called Fresnel lens, this kind of drop aid mirror was invented by the Britons in 52 years, but what they invented belongs to the original version, although it greatly improves the landing safety of carrier-based aircraft, but because of the hull swing problem, in fact, the frequency of accidents is still very high, at this time jet carrier-based aircraft are like this, Yang Feng's eight furious half of it is really not a problem, the highest record of the United States people fell hundreds in a year, not to mention the F8 This kind of goods full of bitter tears.

And after the sixties, the accident rate dropped sharply, to a large extent, it is the credit of this set of things, and now he uses this kind of perfect, which is used on modern aircraft carriers, and it was only developed in the sixties, so don't look at this thing as inconspicuous, but in fact its importance is almost no less than that of a catapult.

In that case, let's let them continue to fall!

Anyway, Yang Yuanfeng didn't lie to him, this is indeed a person who helped land, but the help was a little stronger.

Horton didn't think much about it, and he couldn't have thought that such a bunch of colored lights would play such an important role in the landing of aircraft carrier-based aircraft, and it did look like an ordinary light signal device, although the installation location was a bit inexplicable, but the appearance was a set of colored lights.

With the second lift-off of the air knight, hanging a blocking cable on the stern of the ship, and then being pulled by the steel cable and hydraulic system, this catapult show ended perfectly, and the steam catapult has already conquered both spectators with its powerful catapult ability and reliability. They clearly confirmed that a new era had arrived, the era of steam catapults, as for the hydraulic catapults that were still struggling with failures on the Midway, and the non-mainstream such as ejection with artillery ammunition packs in the concept of the US Navy, the real king had been born.

But this king is a bit expensive!

"$100 million, five catapults, with a full set of technical information and drawings."

Yang Feng said very purely, holding up a finger.

Horton gasped and was about to speak, but Yang Feng immediately stopped him and said: "We are all civilized people, don't bargain, you should know the value of this set of catapults very well, even if you have the ability to develop it yourself, it is estimated that it will not be possible to achieve it within five years." But according to my intelligence, there will be two years at most, and Staling will put his catapult on the aircraft carrier and drive it out, and I also know that he is developing a large twin-engine fighter, which is estimated to be in service at the same time, which means that without this catapult, he will have the final say on the sea in at least three years, and this is not something that money can recover.

And you also know very well that you bought a catapult from me in order to take it back and imitate it yourself, which means that this is a one-shot deal, and I have paid a huge price for spending so much effort to develop this catapult, not to mention that I can't make such an aircraft carrier anymore, since this is of course to get back the research and development costs from you, otherwise I won't lose a lot.

So the price will not change, 100 million US dollars, five catapults, plus all the technical information, and the delivery is guaranteed within three months. ”

Horton and Jensen looked at each other, they also knew that what Yang Feng said was right, people are now qualified to make an offer, once Starling preemptively deploys the aircraft carrier equipped with this catapult, it will really be a disaster, in this sense alone, 100 million US dollars is really not expensive.

But the problem is, it's so expensive!

100 million US dollars, this is 80 tons of gold, although the US government will definitely not give exchange, but this is also 80 tons of gold, how many countries can reach 100 million US dollars in foreign exchange reserves now? (To be continued.) )