This time, he mobilized a total of four dreadnoughts, including more than 30 auxiliary ships, and a large number of merchant ships, transporting a division to Shandong to aid Kamio Mitsutomi, because the Nagato-class battleships had not yet been completed, he had to send Settsu, Fuso, Ise and Yuexiang, a total of four huge battleships set off from the port of Yokosuka, under the escort of many auxiliary ships, and rushed in the direction of Qingdao.

Four giant ships ride the wind and waves, as if the emperor is out on patrol, majestic, the dream and dignity of the island country are all on these battleships, the leader of this fleet is Admiral Kato Dingyoshi, when he attacked Qingdao five years ago, he also led the navy to attack the German [***] team, and now he is fighting again, and the land is still the old partner Kamio Mitsutomi, but Kato Dingyoshi's mentality is completely different.

In the past five years, China has undergone earth-shaking changes, from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the first real unification of the whole country has been initially revealed, and the change of the book is even greater than that of China, in the past, the book was just a dog of Britain in the Far East, even if the book won the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the victory against Russia, the key technology of the navy still depends on the British, and the country is also very poor, there is no accumulation, can barely be counted as a great power, but it is only a little brother.

However, after the windfall profits of the First World War, the capital was thoroughly developed, the industrial system tended to be perfected, and the navy also embarked on the road of reading power, especially the windfall profits of the war made the capital change from a debtor country to a creditor country, and the situation in the Asia-Pacific region also underwent tremendous changes.

Not long ago, China defeated Britain in northern Burma, and at once it got more than 70,000 square kilometers of land, which greatly shocked the capital, and China can take advantage of it, it turns out that Britain has declined to this extent! Thinking that he had seen through the British cards, the navy had set its greedy eyes on the South Seas, which was the real land of abundance.

It can be said that the country was fantasizing about how to spread the glory of the emperor all over the world, and did not realize that China's power had swelled rapidly, and it was not until the outbreak of the Battle of Qingdao that he finally woke up suddenly.

It is said that a consensus has basically been reached in the country, that is, it is necessary to contain China's development and eventually destroy China's industrial strength, and Kato Dingyoshi came to China with this mission, and once the battleship, the most powerful weapon of this era, is put into war, it will be invincible.

Kato Dingyoshi carefully formulated an attack plan, said that the fleet first entered the waters of Qingdao, with the ultra-high range of naval guns, it was able to create an iron curtain, and Qingdao was firmly in the hands of Yueben, and even Kato Dingji thought that China had no naval strength, and the only two giant ships were still being renovated in Qinzhou, so there was no need to worry about the safety of the battleship at all, and after solving Qingdao, the battleship could block Tianjin to the north and Shanghai to the south, so that China could only admit defeat.

Kato Dingyoshi was dreaming about this, and he was completely unaware that from the moment the Samoto fleet left the port of Yokosuka, the Chinese side had received information that there were several disguised merchant and fishing boats on the sea along the way, all of which were specially scouting the information of the Samoto fleet.

Now that all kinds of information have been sent to the Chinese side, the Chinese Air Force, which is the only one that can threaten the battleships, is massing in Shandong on a large scale at this time, and a total of 120 planes are concentrated in airfields all over Shandong, and the new Air Force Commander Wang Yue is training his subordinates in bomb throwing ability.

Attacking warships with aircraft, the aircraft occupies a high-altitude geographical advantage, and the innate advantage is obvious, but that was the situation during World War II, and now the aircraft is far from being so mature, and the flight range is short, so that the aircraft cannot search at sea for a long time, the bomb load is insufficient, and the flight speed is slow, that is to say, it is very likely to become the target of the warship, but China has no way to retreat, and must fight to the death.

As the commander of this air force, Wang Yue's shoulders at this time is the greatest pressure, although there is also a history of aircraft attacking warships in World War I, but at that time aircraft were more primitive, often could not threaten large ships, and now he is creating a new history, using air power to attack battleships, regardless of success or failure, it is destined to be in the annals of history!

For several days, the Chinese Air Force was in intense training, and the pilots flew over the open field again and again, and then found the target that had been prepared in the lake for a long time, and then lowered the altitude, dropped the bomb, and tirelessly took the trouble over and over again, although it was only an exercise, but every pilot's heart was heavy, China really has not many ways to deal with the giant ships at present, if the Air Force is not good, it can only count on the Border Governor and Moltke, which are still under repair, to fight hard. No one could believe that those two warships could fight the combined fleet.

The Chinese Air Force is already China's biggest reliance, and Xu Sheng will not be defeated! Yueben's warship was getting closer and closer to Shandong, and Qiao Yu and Jiang Baili also secretly left Yanjing and rushed to Jinan in person.

"Prime Minister, the warship will sail into Jiaozhou Bay at about eight o'clock tomorrow morning, and there are a total of four battleships and more than 30 other auxiliary ships!"

This information came from Qiao Yu's spy who was placed in the book earlier, and it has been mixed into the military headquarters of the book, and it is the intelligence trump card in Qiao Yu's hands, it is completely believed that the news from the fishing boats at sea has basically determined this, and the time for the Chinese Air Force to attack has come!

Rise and fall of success or failure, in one fell swoop!

In the morning light, the combined fleet sailed quickly towards Jiaozhou Bay, and the giant ship rode the wind and waves, with unparalleled momentum and shock, Kato Dingji was very calm and relaxed at this time, and in his impression, Shina did not have any weapons that could threaten the battleship, so the fleet was absolutely safe, and entering China's territorial waters was completely like his own back garden.

He was completely unaware that the first wave of China's attack planes had taken off from the airfield, and that the 60 planes had divided into two formations, one searching from east to west and the other from west to east.

Heaven blessed, the weather conditions are very good, the visibility is also high, the Chinese pilots can see far away in the air, and the search speed is very fast, but Wang Yue, as the commander, is not satisfied at this time, he knows very well the range of the Dragon bomber, if he can't quickly find the fleet, the Chinese Air Force will have to return to refuel.

At this anxious moment, there seemed to be a few black smoke in the sea in the distance, and seeing this, Wang Yue's heart was full of joy, and he hurriedly accelerated his flight speed and rushed forward quickly.

Flying out of a distance, a magnificent fleet finally appeared in front of him, the four battleships were placed in the middle, as if they were proud kings, the thick muzzle of the cannon showed the majesty of the empire, this is the power to dominate the East Asian seas!

Wang Yue gritted his teeth, and drove the plane quickly towards the Settsu at the front of the formation, which was the second of the Hanoi-class battleships, with a standard displacement of more than 20,000 tons, and was known as the Tsubashi dreadnought, but although the caliber of the guns equipped was 305 mm, four of them were 50 times the caliber and four were 45 times the caliber, which inevitably had an impact on the shooting, so it could only be regarded as a quasi-dreadnought ship more strictly speaking.

Wang Yue's first target was the Setjin, at this time Wang Yue took an extremely bold move, reducing the flight altitude to about three hundred meters, and swept over the huge Yueben fleet, which was definitely a very risky move, it can be said that the soldiers of Yueben can also threaten Wang Yue's safety as long as they use rifles, but for the accurate surname of the bomb, he can no longer care about anything.

At this time, the navy was still a little at a loss, although they saw the Chinese planes rushing over, but they did not know how to deal with it, there was only a small amount of poor anti-aircraft firepower on the warship, and due to lack of training, now the soldiers met the planes, and they didn't even know how to fire, and even some of the navy were still pointing fingers, not knowing what was going on with these planes that suddenly appeared.

However, it was too late and that it was fast, Wang Yue's plane had approached the Settsu, at this time Wang Yuesuo surnamed lowered the flight altitude to about 200 meters, two 500 kg bombs were penetrated, the maximum bomb load of the dragon was only more than 800 kg, in order to be able to load larger bombs, and carried out special reinforcement and modification, and finally was able to successfully drop the two bombs, after dropping the bombs, Wang Yue did not have time to observe at all, so he hurriedly pulled up the plane and quickly broke away.

At this moment, two huge explosions came, Wang Yue only felt a heat wave rushing up, the violent explosion sounded, so that his ears roared, and he flew dangerously back into the sky, and when he looked at the Settsu, even Wang Yue couldn't believe that a scene appeared.

Wang Yue threw a total of two bombs, one of which landed on the foredeck of the Settsu, the Setzu was a commodity before the First World War, and the problem of air defense was not taken into account at all, and the horizontal deck was also very weak, after being hit by the bomb, it was instantly under the violent impact, a huge hole appeared, black as if the monster opened its mouth, the bomb drilled into the inside of the warship, just detonated the ammunition depot, and the violent explosion made the Setzu become a huge torch in an instant. From the middle and front, a burst of fire shot straight into the sky.

Before that, another bomb exploded less than ten meters away from the Settsu, which happened to be a near-miss, and after the explosion, the huge water pressure pressed towards the Setzu, and at the same time, the explosion inside the Setzu produced a strong force to push outward.

The two forces were superimposed, and the battleship's proud armor suddenly became fragile, and in an instant the armor was distorted, and a wound several meters long appeared on the hull of the Settsu, followed by a large amount of seawater pouring into it, and at the same time, the inside of the ship continued to explode, and the entire warship quickly fell silent in this ice and fire.

The Saimoto Navy on the Settsu was already stupid at this time, they couldn't believe that their proud powerful battleship was attacked by a toy-like plane, and their battleship was still in danger of silence, these Saimoto Navy frantically rescued their warship.

However, the huge thrust generated by the explosion has damaged the keel of the Settsu, and after the influx of seawater, the situation of the warship is even more worrying, and the sound of metal breaking is constantly heard, and the rapid influx of sea water greatly disrupts the balance of the warship, the bow of the ship has almost reached the waterline, but the stern of the ship has begun to rise high, and the Setzu did not last long, a loud clicking sound came, and the warship broke off from the front third.

However, in a few minutes, the Settsu found the best home, and sank into the blue waves with nearly a thousand miscellaneous people, and the Chinese Air Force won a good start!

(To be continued)