Chapter 659: The Decisive Battle of the Atlantic Eagle Strikes the Sky

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"Battle alert! Battle Alert! ”

"All fighters are ready to take off! All fighters are ready to take off! ”

"Repeat! This is not a drill! ”

The rapid sound of battle sirens sounded in the sky, and the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Taishan was busy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.infoβ•”β•— Trailers flashed yellow lights, quickly dragging each fighter out of the hangar, and then transported to the outer deck of the aircraft carrier by elevator. The flight crew on the flight deck skillfully carried out operations such as refueling, hanging bombs, and flight safety inspections for each fighter jet, performing their own responsibilities and operating in an orderly manner.

When all the planes in each combat squadron have been inspected, the well-dressed pilots line up for their respective fighters and board the aircraft for final inspection.

"Call the tower, the skeleton brigade asks to take off!"

"The channel is clear, runway 1 and 2 are allowed to take off!"

"The Skeleton Brigade understands!"

"I wish you all the best!"

"Thank you! Victory is with me! ”

Hanging up the walkie-talkie, Colonel Luo Fei, the captain of the skeleton brigade, turned on the internal communication channel of the brigade again, and then ordered the squadrons to prepare for takeoff. β•”β•—

Two F6 Wildcat carrier-based fighters were placed side by side on the take-off runway, and in addition to the fuselage painted with the logo of the Imperial Chinese Naval Aviation, a black skull logo was conspicuous at the rear of the aircraft.

As a member of the Imperial Chinese Naval Aviation, the Skeleton Brigade is the trump card of the trump cards, since the first aircraft carrier of the Imperial Chinese Navy was put into service, the Skeleton Brigade was born, and it can be said to be a battle-hardened trump card unit. β•”β•—

As the seventeenth captain of the Skull Brigade. Colonel Luo Fei will lead the Skeleton Brigade as the Sharp Knife Group in the first wave of the attack echelon of the German High Seas Fleet aircraft carrier battle group. For Luo Fei and even all the pilots of the entire skeleton brigade, they had waited for this day for too long, and they were all excited.

The high flame shield was raised, and the flight crew skillfully hung the steam catapult hook on the fighter and made a gesture to allow takeoff.

"The skeleton brigade is all attacking!"

"Roger!"

With the fierce jet of the fighter, with the help of the steam catapult, the fighter was quickly ejected into the air. β•”β•—

One hundred fighters of the Skeleton Brigade were divided into fifty groups, and each group of two catapulted and took off at the same time. The aircraft carrier elites who have been honed for more than 30 years. It took only an hour and a half to complete the take-off operation.

As the last two fighters took off and arrived at the air assembly point, the entire skeleton group quickly set up a high, medium and low fishnet formation and directly pounced on the oncoming German high seas fleet.

The Skeleton Group was only part of the attack echelon, and the other nine groups also took off from their respective aircraft carriers one after another, and after completing their assembly in the air, they pounced on the enemy fleet with the Skeleton Group.

Since most of the fighters of the aircraft carrier battle group of the High Seas Fleet flew to the airspace preset by Li Dingxin, there were only less than 300 fighters in the aircraft carrier battle group of the High Seas Fleet at this time to serve as escort and alert missions. And all of them are old propeller carrier-based fighters of the Heinkel series. β•”β•—

Due to the fact that the German Navy developed aircraft carriers too late, the technology lagged far behind the Chinese Empire. Even the technology of aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom and the United States could not catch up. This led to the fact that the aircraft carriers of the German Navy could only imitate the old aircraft carriers designed with a straight-through deck. And the key steam catapult technology on the aircraft carrier, the Chinese Empire and the United Kingdom have been kept highly secret. Without steam catapults, it would have been difficult for Luftwaffe jet fighters such as the ME262 to take off and land on the limited flight decks of aircraft carriers. Of course, the German naval aviation was far from being able to prepare jet fighters for shipbuilding, and could not have many years of experience in taking off and landing jet fighters like the Imperial Chinese Naval Aviation.

Therefore, the strength of the German Navy's aircraft carrier battle group was only at the level of the late stage of World War I.

Among the aircraft carrier battle groups of the Imperial Chinese Navy, only ten main aircraft carriers participated in direct offensive operations against the High Seas Fleet. Other escort aircraft carriers of the Imperial Chinese Navy and British and French aircraft carriers were all sent to the intended ambush area, about 300 aircraft carriers of various types. Nearly 10,000 carrier-based fighters have risen to the skies and are waiting for more than 2,000 fighters from the German High Seas Fleet's aircraft carrier battle group to enter the ambush zone.

The 10 main aircraft carriers of the Imperial Chinese Navy, including Taishan, Fanjingshan, Emeishan, and Wudangshan, are all equipped with jet fighters. According to the order of Admiral Li Dingxin. The first wave of the Chinese Emperor's attack echelon included 260 F6 Wildcat carrier-based fighters, 500 F8 Osprey torpedo dive bombers, and 65 B2 Mustang tactical bombers and 4 F2 Mountain Eagle reconnaissance aircraft.

10 o'clock in the afternoon. The Skeleton Brigade, which served as the Sharp Knife unit, approached the German High Seas Fleet Air Defense Identification Circle. Admiral Bundy, commander of the German High Seas Fleet, was taken aback and quickly ordered the only two hundred or so Heinkel carrier-based fighters in the aircraft carrier battle group to rise into the air to intercept them.

However, the German Heinkel fighters were not at all opponents of the Wildcat naval battles of the Chinese Emperor. Within twenty minutes of fighting, the Germans had lost more than 150 fighters.

"Firebird! Firebird! I'm a skeleton! The enemy group has been routed, and you can enter the war zone! Complete! ”

"Firebird understands! Please keep the skeletons up for air cover! Complete! ”

"Skeletons understand! Complete! ”

Luo Fei took the lead and led the Skeleton Group to sweep through the entire theater of enemy aircraft, quickly seizing air supremacy and providing air cover for subsequent torpedo attack groups and bomber groups.

A large number of attack planes of the Chinese Emperor roared by, obscuring the sky, and the invisible pressure overwhelmed the German naval officers and men, and they were full of fear and nervousness.

"Air defense combat readiness! Fire! ”

Although the High Seas Fleet has lost air supremacy, it does not mean that they will sit still. Before the German Navy did not have an aircraft carrier battle group, the German Navy, which had always attached great importance to battleship operations, attached great importance to fleet air defense. Although the German Navy had not been able to obtain the Vulcan Phalanx system of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the ships of the High Seas Fleet were armed with a large number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns. At the same time, the High Seas Fleet has several dozen air defense cruisers and destroyers, which have very strong anti-aircraft firepower.

"Knock knock!"

As the German officers of each ship issued an order for air defense operations, the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the battleships opened fire fiercely, and countless shells shot into the sky between the tongues of fire, forming a dense fire blockade line in an instant.

The skeleton brigade and others at this moment were nominally covering, but in fact they were attracting anti-aircraft fire from German battleships. They maneuvered quickly at medium and high altitudes, attracting anti-aircraft fire from German ships. The torpedo dive bomber formation, on the other hand, basically flew in an ultra-low-altitude sea-skimming flight mode, trying to avoid the blows of German anti-aircraft fire, and taking advantage of the speed advantage of jet fighters to break through the outer defenses of the high seas fleet and go straight to the aircraft carrier battle group of the high seas fleet.

According to Li Dingxin's tactical arrangement, the first wave of attack echelons will go all out to attack German aircraft carriers. Although Li Dingxin believed that his nearly 10,000 fighters ambushed only more than 2,000 German fighters was already a sure victory, he had always been conservative, so in order to be foolproof, he was not in a hurry to eat the high seas fleet, and first destroyed the aircraft carrier battle group of the high seas fleet, then the high seas fleet would be completely under the attack of the Chinese Imperial Air Force.

Unlike the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the German aircraft carriers were originally not large in tonnage, but because of the backwardness of tactical thinking, a large number of anti-aircraft guns were installed on the aircraft carriers, resulting in the already insufficient flight deck space being further occupied by anti-aircraft artillery. The anti-aircraft artillery on the aircraft carrier is very limited because of its design, which makes the anti-aircraft firepower appear too many blind spots, providing a large number of attack opportunities for the Chinese Emperor fighters. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )