When Vice Admiral Halsey received an urgent telegram from the reconnaissance plane in front of him, he immediately ordered the combat readiness alarm to be sounded, and the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier soon took off 12 F4F "Wildcat" fighters and two "dreadnought" dive bombers to go out for reconnaissance and alert.

The entire aircraft carrier task force jumped up like a hornet's nest that had been stabbed, and under the orders of Vice Admiral Halsey, the fleet immediately formed a battle formation and headed southwest.

"Sir, our reconnaissance plane reports that an American water reconnaissance plane has appeared one hundred and fifty miles in front of our fleet, and they suspect that there is an American aircraft carrier fleet operating nearby." At the same time that Halsey received the information from the reconnaissance plane in front of him, Chen Shaokuan on the aircraft carrier "Zheng Chenggong" also received a telegram from his own reconnaissance plane.

Chen Shaokuan nodded silently, "I know, immediately order the fleet to descend to twenty knots, advance in battle formation, and order the "Chen Tang" to release a squadron of "hellcats" and a squadron of "dreadnought" to go out on alert!" "Yes!"

Looking at the communication banquet that hurried away with the spirit of excitement, Zhang Shouye couldn't help but ask with some worry: "Sir, order a squadron of 'hell cats,... Isn't it too murderous to go out on guard with "dreadnought"? ”

Chen Shaokuan shook his head, and a resolute look flashed in his eyes: "No, not much at all." Do you dare to bet with me, I can be sure that the Americans will definitely send no less than one squadron of fighters to the guard, and there will be reinforcements at any time, you must know that this is the first time we have cruised to the Bering Strait, and there will certainly be no shortage of Yankees in dealing with the Yankees in the future, and if we are dumb with this shot today, it will be very detrimental to our future patrols, so we must let the Americans know our determination. ”

Major Jack led a squadron of "Wildcat" fighters to the southwest, and their mission was to search for the Chinese aircraft carrier formation in the sea ahead, and report their size and exact location to the fleet.

"Old nest, old nest, I am Red Sè Lightning, we have been flying forward for twenty minutes, and there is no trace of the Huaxia Navy formation."

"The nest understands, you continue to search forward, and report as soon as you see it." The voice of the fleet's communications officer was heard in my ears.

"Yes, keep searching, over!" Major Jack let go of the communicator and turned his gaze upwards, only to suddenly see a group of dark shadows flying above the "Wildcat" formation.

"Damn, all attention, all attention, immediately start the battle formation, stay on guard, and don't attack without my orders." After finishing speaking, Major Jack changed the channel again: "Old nest, old nest, I am Red Sè Lightning, our current Chinese fighter formation, they are flying towards my formation, asking for instructions, asking for instructions." The voice on the other side fell silent, and after a while an old and composed voice came: "I am Halsey, the commander of the fleet, and I now order you to contact them and ask them for their intentions, but you must not fire first." "Red Sè Lightning understands." Jack tuned the channel to the formation's public channel and ordered: "The Red Sè Lightning Squadron immediately formed a patrol formation and went forward. At this time, a stiff English sentence came from Major Jack's headset: "We are the aircraft carrier task force of the Pacific Fleet of the Republic of China, and we are now ordered to patrol the Bering Strait. At this time, the formations of the two sides have come into contact with each other, and the distance between the two sides has been close enough to see each other's aircraft type and the logo on the fuselage.

"Oh, is that the carrier-based aircraft of the Huaxia people? How is it so similar to our fighters! The exclamations of the pilots were heard in the public channel, and what appeared in front of them was an aircraft very similar to the "Wildcat" fighter they were flying, and it looked very much like an enlarged version of the "Wildcat" fighter. This caused exclamation among the American pilots.

"Oh my God, that's our dreadnought" bomber, it's crazy! There was another burst of exclamation from the public channel of the formation, and it seemed that they were all frightened by the carrier-based aircraft equipped by the Huaxia Navy, and in their opinion, the carrier-based aircraft of the Huaxia Navy were almost the same as those of the US Navy, and some of them were even exactly the same.

"Shut up!" The voice of the formation commander, Major Jack, came from the channel: "We don't care what kind of fighter they are equipped with, the first thing we have to do is our own business." After speaking, Jack immediately changed to the public channel: "I am Major Jack, commander of the carrier-based aircraft formation of the First Fleet of the United States Pacific Fleet, and I am now on a patrol mission, and our ship formation is about to pass by, I now inform you, please let your fleet get out of the way so that our fleet can pass!" Although Major Jack had tried to soften his tone, his tone was still involuntarily mixed with the pride peculiar to the Americans.

Soon, the voice of the Huaxia pilot came from the opposite side: "It's a pity, Mr. Major, that's your business, our navy is not in the habit of opening the way, so please demonstrate it first." "Bastard! This impudent guy. At first hearing this, Jack almost didn't bite a mouthful of steel teeth, when did the Huaxia Navy dare to talk like this to the great American Navy?

"Very well, I will convey your words to our commander truthfully, and I hope you will be so calm by then." Although he was very angry in his heart, Jack still did not lose the sanity of a commander, but just left such a sentence angrily and staggered with the Huaxia flight formation opposite.

The incident of the Alert Flight Formation and the Huaxia Flight Formation soon reached the ears of Vice Admiral Halsey, the commander of the fleet.

"Hehe, interesting Chinese people, do you want to patrol the Bering Strait? Let me see what your fleet is like! Halsey didn't mind how his flight formation was talking to the other party, and in his opinion, it was important to be able to observe the aircraft carrier formation in China up close.

"Ordered, the flight formation immediately returned, and the fleet was ready to pass through the Komandor Islands. Captain Dreyer immediately ordered the fleet to move forward in full formation. All the personnel except the sick and the staff on duty are ready to line up on the deck to pay tribute to our Chinese colleagues. "Yes, change to sail in formation!" The captain standing next to him immediately carried out the new order.

At 328 p.m. on 3 October 1941, the Chinese Pacific Fleet and the U.S. Pacific Fleet, which were patrolling the Bering Strait, encountered each other near the Komandor Islands.

"All stand upright, turn right! Under the leadership of Chen Shaokuan, all the officers and sailors of the fleet came to the deck and lined up in a neat formation to pay tribute to the officers and men of the US Pacific Fleet.

On the deck of the "Enterprise," Vice Admiral Halsey looked at the huge aircraft carrier formation passing by and the officers and men of the Chinese Navy who were saluting him in a neat line on all the ships.

Colonel Dreyer, the captain of the "Enterprise" beside him, said to him quietly while saluting: "Your Excellency, Commander, I didn't expect the Chinese to be able to build such a majestic aircraft carrier, it seems that their displacement is at least 60,000 tons or more, which is a terrible opponent. ”

"Yes, but so what, our congressional lords are very nervous about the navy's military budget, and now our entire navy is only five large aircraft carriers." Halsey said bitterly.

"yes!" Dreyer smiled bitterly, "Our old men in Congress only care about their votes and wallets, and their thinking is still stuck in the era of giant ships and cannons, where will they care about the construction and exhibition of aircraft carriers, now even Huaxia and Japan themselves have more aircraft carriers than our United States, and now the aircraft carriers of the Chinese people have left us far behind, you see, one day we will suffer a big loss for this." ”

"Forget it." Halsey said with a calm face: "This problem is something that the Secretary of the Navy should worry about, we are soldiers, and it is enough to do our part." ”

Dreyer was stunned for a moment, then looked at the Huaxia ships that were slowly passing by on the other side and stopped talking......

In the White House office, Admiral Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said softly to Roosevelt. "Mr. President, this is a telegram from Admiral Halsey, commander of the First Pacific Fleet, that the Chinese have officially sent a fleet to patrol the Bering Strait." Roosevelt flipped through the draft of the telegram and put it on the table: "Chester, what do you think the Chinese mean by patrolling the Bering Strait, are they going to compete with us in the United States of America for control of the Pacific Ocean??" ”

Nimitz shook his head: "No, Mr. President, I don't think so. At present, the energy of the Chinese people is consumed on the battlefield of Soviet Russia, and they cannot compete with us for control of the Pacific Ocean for the time being. "As soon as the events on the battlefield of Soviet Russia are over, I am sure that their fleet will definitely appear on a large scale in the Pacific Ocean." ”

Roosevelt let out a long sigh: "Chester, you are right, I think so too, now they are patrolling the Bering Strait just to show the world an attitude, their 6th Army has reached the Chersky Mountains, and it will not take a few months to reach Uerlian, and then they will be across the sea from our Las Vegas, which is terrible, but what is worse is that we have no way to stop them!" ”

Looking at Roosevelt's worried, Nimitz was silent.