The Combined Fleet, which is said to be united, is actually still distributed across the vast sea with different countries as units. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The German High Seas Fleet was the main force at the core, while the fleets of other countries were scattered around as escort fleets.

In fact, such a distribution is very unreasonable. After all, there is a big difference in the strength of the navies of various countries, and there are only large and small ships of all kinds, and the combat effectiveness is strong and weak. However, the various ships are not divided into fleets according to performance, but according to countries, which is equivalent to a new combat unit that is not under the control. Under such circumstances, the strength of the fleet formed was naturally greatly weakened.

However, the Germans, who were the main force of the war, did not care about this, and only kept issuing orders to mobilize the fleets of various countries to change positions around them. Unconsciously, the German High Seas Fleet had gradually deviated to the outer edge of the main fleet.

In the early morning of 6 October, several German naval reconnaissance planes took off from the deck of the aircraft carrier Zeppelin and rushed into the cloudy sky.

At the same time, the huge fleet also had a number of reconnaissance planes taking off from other aircraft carriers and large warships. These specialized reconnaissance planes and seaplanes flew into the distant sea in a fan shape.

After the American receiving fleet was annihilated by a surprise attack due to carelessness, the European Combined Fleet had already become a frightened bird. At any time, they will be on guard and send reconnaissance planes to monitor the sea from afar, so as to prevent the tragedy of the Americans from happening on themselves.

"Hans, when do you think the Ming army will appear?" On an Ar196 seaplane that took off from the Scharnhorst, Ensign Le Dell, the telegraph operator and co-pilot, kept his plane flying steadily and asked aloud.

"They may be in our neighborhood." Captain Hans, who was observing the sea with both hands, looked at the sea vigilantly, searching for the whereabouts of the Ming naval fleet.

"I don't know when I'll be able to get to the U.S. safely." Young Second Lieutenant Leddle wasn't too concerned about being uprooted, and he also had a longing for the distant United States. Rather than being an inferior citizen of the Ming Dynasty in the fallen homeland, the young Rydell preferred to go to the United States.

"If we don't defeat the Ming Navy, we won't be able to reach the United States alive." The older Captain Hans, who had served in the army before the war, knew much more about the events than the young Rydel. He knew that the allies were actually defeated at the moment, and the stubborn resistance at this time was only an increase in casualties in vain. It's just that they don't have a choice in this situation.

These low-level officers and soldiers did not know what the upper echelons were thinking, nor did they know that the allies had pinned all their hopes on an ethereal superweapon. They constantly mobilized the forces in their hands to stop the Ming army's offensive, in order to buy time for this super weapon. However, these things are not clear to the officers and soldiers of the allies at the bottom. They only know that they have been defeated.

"If we can find their fleet first, we can defeat them!" Ledel, who originally had no spirit, became interested as he spoke, and his voice gradually became louder: "If our plane can discover the Ming fleet, then we will have made a great achievement." Do you think we're going to move up two levels in a row? ”

"Don't think about upgrading meritorious service." Hans's voice trembled, "I'm afraid we won't be able to return to land alive!" Send a telegram now! ”

In the clouds several kilometers in front of this Ar196, two Fighting Falcon Corrections of the Ming Navy's Correction were whistling towards them.

------

"Order all reconnaissance planes in the nearby area to rush to this sea area for reconnaissance." Inside the bridge of the aircraft carrier Zeppelin, the commander of the German Navy, Wofram. Feng. Admiral Richdhoven commanded with a gloomy face: "All ships are ready for battle." Sound the air defense alarm. ”

Richthofen was in a bad mood. Because he knew that the power in his hands was difficult to compete with the Ming Navy, even in a head-to-head battle situation where he was not raided.

Although the Allied fleet had a large number of warships, in reality only one French aircraft carrier, two Russian aircraft carriers and six German aircraft carriers were combat-ready. The fleets of other countries do not have aircraft carriers.

Because when the army was built, it did not think about competing with the Ming Navy for sea supremacy in the world's oceans. Therefore, the German and Russian navies are mainly built some warships, and the aircraft carriers are only built to follow the trend of the world's navies. Their main place of activity is no more than the Baltic and North Seas. Aircraft carriers are not needed in these places.

Moreover, because the sea areas in Europe are basically windy and rough areas, the naval aircraft carriers in these places, including the aircraft carriers of the British, are the kind of closed aircraft carriers suitable for sailing and fighting in such harsh sea areas. It has good stability, good wave resistance, fast speed, and strong armor, but its carrier capacity is generally not much.

It is not that the navies of various countries do not want to rapidly increase the number and quality of their aircraft carriers, especially after the Ming and Japanese navies broke out in large-scale naval and air battles one after another, thus showing the future of the navy in front of everyone's eyes, the navies of various countries are even more demanding in all aspects to increase the investment in aircraft carriers.

However, the navy is one of the most time- and resource-intensive services. In particular, in times of war when time is precious, spending a lot of energy and resources on aircraft carrier formations that consume a lot of money but do not know when they will be able to have combat effectiveness is something that most of the allies are unwilling to do.

Only the United States, which has the ambition to compete with the Ming Navy for hegemony in the world's oceans, and has its own massive resources and industrial production capacity, has the ability to compete with the Ming to carry out an aircraft carrier race.

Other countries were largely halted from building almost all warships after the outbreak of war. Because warships are not able to form combat effectiveness when they are launched, they also need to be equipped with enough elite crews for a period of run-in before they can gradually reach qualified combat effectiveness. Naturally, aircraft carriers are included.

As a direct result of this long period of consumption and the accumulation of large amounts of resources in a project that has been slow to bear fruit, it has been halted. Among the European countries, only the Germans and the British gritted their teeth and completed several aircraft carriers during the war. Other countries simply do not have such capabilities.

Although countries also have plans to build new aircraft carriers and convert other types of ships into escort carriers. But as the Ming army launched strategic counterattacks around the world, these plans that would have taken time and materials were put on hold. In contrast, the navies of various countries now need more armed forces that can quickly form combat effectiveness. And not aircraft carriers, which take a lot of time to see results.

Due to special environmental constraints, the navies of European countries do not have a large number of carrier-based aircraft. It's like Richthofen's flagship Graf. The Zeppelin aircraft carrier, a heavy aircraft carrier weighing 33,000 tons, had only 43 carrier-based aircraft at the time of design. Even after a large-scale transformation, the number of its carrier-based aircraft is just over sixty. This number is not even comparable to the light aircraft carriers of the countries bordering the Pacific Ocean.

Not only the German Navy, but also the fleets of other countries have a low number of aircraft carriers. Moreover, the fleets of these European countries basically did not participate in large-scale actual combat, nor did they have the experience of conducting fleet battles in the depths of the sea. Although there are a large number of aircraft carriers, the European fleet, which does not have high actual combat effectiveness, is really difficult to win the battle when it officially engages the Ming Navy.

The entire area is huge, and the combined fleets of the navies of various countries add up to hundreds of ships of various types of ships, and the alarms are loud, and many warships of the navies of various countries have entered a state of combat readiness. The total number of the nine Allied aircraft carriers combined is less than 600 combat aircraft of various types, and because they belong to different countries. Although they are allies, they are scattered in different seas.

By the time these aircraft carriers were ready to go into battle, and then received the latest information from the front line and learned the location of the Ming Navy, nearly an hour had passed. At this time, the Daming Navy's aircraft carrier formation, which likes to send out reconnaissance planes before dawn, has basically released two attack waves of fighter groups.

More than 300 Allied fighters were divided into several different formations and took off from the sea to attack the Ming fleet more than 200 nautical miles away. And then the navies of various countries began to fall into a rather strange state. Fleet commanders of many countries began to ignore the orders of the fleet commanders who were publicly promoted, and forcibly took their own fleets and prepared to flee the battlefield.

The powerful German fleet had already transferred its fleet to the outer areas of the Combined Fleet by various means long before the start of the war. When the fierce battle really broke out, the Germans were the first to flee.

In fact, at this time, the attack force of the Atlantic Fleet of the Ming Navy was about 280 nautical miles away from the standard European Combined Fleet. This was a carefully prepared battle plan for the Ming army, and they could sink all the ships of the European Combined Fleet in a series of sorties in a single day.

However, because the Germans' high seas fleet was close to the northern edge of the combined fleet, the distance was already the limit of the combat radius of naval aircraft. By the time the Germans flew out of the plane and began to flee at full speed, the Ming attack wave had already attacked the nearest Belgian naval battleship.

Because of the combat radius, it was almost difficult for the pilots of the Daming Navy, who strictly adhered to the battle plan, to attack the German High Seas Fleet, which was far away and quickly fleeing northward. With their own side in their possession, the pilots of Daming Hainan Airlines would not have carried out suicide attacks similar to those of the Japanese. In desperation, the attack aircraft group of the Daming Naval Airlines could only attack the fleets of those countries within the combat radius first. You can't bring the bomb torpedo back, can you?

The end result was that after several hours of fierce fighting, the two waves of attack aircraft of the Daming Naval Airlines successfully sank and damaged most of the other warships except for the German Navy's High Seas Fleet. (To be continued.) )