At 8:20 a.m. on November 19, 1908, the world-renowned naval battle between the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy and the joint expeditionary fleet of the Allied and Allied Powers officially began.

However, what the officers and men of the Allied and Allied navies did not expect was that in this vast sea, the first attack they encountered did not come from the main guns of the dreadnought battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, but from the bombing of the Chinese Imperial fighters.

This unexpected, and from the sky attack, made the commanders of the seven countries of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet speechless.

The tactics they devised were to engage the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy as far away from the coastline as possible, so as to avoid the attack of the Imperial Chinese Fleet's warships on the ships of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet.

Now it is far enough away from the coastline of the Chinese Empire, but how can there still be fighters of the Chinese Empire flying here and intermingling in the decisive battle between the two fleets.

The decisive battle between the Joint Expeditionary Fleet and the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy will be a sea battle of unprecedented scale, how can your Chinese Imperial fighters bear to stir up peace! Can't you let the warships of the two sides face each other! Can't you have a little chivalrous spirit!

The Sea Hawk bombers of the Royal Navy aircraft carriers of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which carried out the first round of bombing, were loaded with 800 kg of aerial bombs, and the targets were all aimed at the large warships of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, at least the warships of the tonnage of large fast armored cruisers, like fast protection cruisers with a displacement of several thousand tons, and the Sea Hawk bombers who carried out the first round of bombing did not have the time to pay attention to them.

There were too many big guys in the combined expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Central Powers. Counting the battleships alone, there were 72 dreadnought battleships, 72 all-steel battleships and 20 ironclad battleships. Together with 66 large fast armored cruisers, there were enough 144 Sea Hawk bombers for the first round of bombardment.

It is a pity that the technology of aviation torpedoes in the Chinese Empire has not been perfected at present. As a result, the Sea Hawk bombers could not carry out aerial torpedo attacks at a certain distance, and could only carry out dive bombing in the face of the dense anti-aircraft fire of the warships of the Entente and the Central Powers, so that the loss of the Sea Hawk bombers was inevitable, but the crews of the Sea Hawk bombers were not afraid and gave the combined expeditionary fleet a lot of losses.

Every Seahawk bomber frantically dived towards the sea. In addition, they used the machine guns and machine guns on the planes to suppress the anti-aircraft fire of the warships as much as possible, and they did not hesitate to get closer to within 1,500 meters of the sea surface before bombing the warships.

This kind of crazy dive bombing made the naval officers and men of the entire United Expeditionary Fleet tremble in their hearts, this is also too ferocious, as soon as they came up, they began to fight desperately, those Chinese Imperial fighters that were blown up in the air. It seemed that it had no effect on the fighters of the other Chinese empires, and they were still diving, pulling up, and diving again, dropping powerful aerial bombs one after another at the warships of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet on the sea.

The sound of explosions resounded throughout the sea. The bombing scene was extremely intense, and in the middle of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, the British Navy's St. Vincent-class dreadnought battleship Purple Pearl had just been hit by two deadly 800-kilogram aerial bombs. There is no salvation when you see it.

Such a dreadnought battleship with a full load displacement of more than 20,000 tons did not fire even a single shell from its main guns. It's about to die, and I'm really aggrieved. However, there is not a single brother as aggrieved as the Purple Pearl.

Just as the Purple Pearl broke into two and sank rapidly to the bottom of the sea, on the left side of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, the German Navy's Oldenburg-class dreadnought battleship Rhine of the Sixth Squadron of the dreadnought battleship also exploded.

In the process of diving and bombing the Rhine, 1 Sea Hawk bomber was hit by an anti-aircraft shell that did not know whether it was the Rhine or a nearby warship, and 2 1100 horsepower aircraft engines were damaged instantly, and the Sea Hawk bomber, which lost power, quickly crashed to the sea, and the 1 pilot, 2 firefighters and 2 bombardiers of the crew successfully parachuted according to the captain's order, and the captain of the Sea Hawk bomber did not follow the parachute jump to escape, but sat in the pilot's position, Hard-controlled planes crashed into the Rhine on the sea.

The German naval officers and men of the Rhine discovered the intentions of the rapidly falling Sea Hawk bomber and were immediately taken aback, concentrating all their anti-aircraft fire on the Sea Hawk bomber.

What is the rhythm of this? It's completely dying to pull a back rhythm! It's unbeatably murderous!

Even some German warships around the Rhine discovered this Imperial Chinese fighter that was about to die with the Rhine, and immediately aimed the heaviest anti-aircraft fire at this Sea Hawk bomber.

However, most of the fuselage of the Sea Hawk bomber was covered with a layer of alloy steel plates, that is, there were bullets from the Rhine anti-aircraft machine gun, which hit the fuselage of the Sea Hawk bomber, and they were basically bounced off by the fuselage armor, and the 37 mm anti-aircraft gun of the Rhine did not fire fast, and it was difficult to even aim at the Sea Hawk bomber that crashed quickly, and the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of other warships did not stop the Sea Hawk bomber.

Eventually, the Sea Hawk bomber, carrying 4 tons of aerial bombs, crashed headlong into the middle deck of the Rhine, causing an unusually violent explosion.

This heroic captain did not die in vain, the power of the explosion of the 4-ton aerial bomb was amazing, and the keel of the Rhine was blown off at once, and in a creaking sound, the Rhine was broken in two, and began to sink quickly to the bottom of the sea, the German naval officers and men on the Rhine were like dumplings, crackling and jumping into the sea, but looking at the speed of the sinking of the Rhine, most of the German naval officers and men of the Rhine will be sucked into the bottom of the sea by the whirlpool generated when the Rhine sinks.

And that's not all, 1 dreadnought battleship on the right flank of the combined expeditionary fleet was also severely damaged, and the 4th dreadnought battleship squadron, the Russian Navy's Russian-class dreadnought battleship Orenburg, was also hit by an 800-kilogram aerial bomb.

The aerial bomb pierced the Orenburg's left deck armor and exploded inside the hull, giving the Orenburg a left surface position. A huge hole was opened, and the raging water poured into the interior of the Orenburg. In a few moments, the Orenburg was already tilting. Looking at the injury, there was little hope for the Orenburg.

As the first round of bombardment by the carrier-based aircraft of the Imperial Chinese Navy had not yet ended, the seven super dreadnought battleships of the First Dreadnought Battleship Formation of the Imperial Chinese Navy began to fire salvos with their main guns 28,000 meters away from the warships in the middle of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet.

In the middle of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, the range of the main guns of those dreadnought battleships could not be fired at this distance, and they could only be bombarded by giant shells of the Chinese Empire at the same time as they were bombarded.

Only after the second volley. One 406-mm armor-piercing shell fired from the main gun of the super dreadnought battleship Jilin pierced the waterline armor of the British Navy's Neptune-star dreadnought battleship Grimina, causing extremely serious injuries to the Grimina, and the boiler pipes were seriously damaged, so that the speed of the Grimina immediately dropped to less than 15 knots.

Then, in the third round of salvo fire from the main guns of 7 super dreadnought battleships, the Gramina, which had a serious drop in speed, was hit by three 406-mm armor-piercing shells one after another, and did not last long and disappeared into the sea.

See the 7 super dreadnought battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy firing at this distance, and the caliber of the shells is at least more than 400 mm. And the interval between each salvo was only 1 minute, and Bridget, the commander-in-chief of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, suddenly changed drastically, and his already gloomy face became even more ugly. He was very impressed by this, and the combined fleet of the Eight-Nation Alliance Navy was almost destroyed under the guns of these warships.

Bridget couldn't help but say to herself, "This ...... Isn't this the 7 warships of the Chinese Empire that can be classified as super dreadnought? Intelligence-wise, it is not said. Is their structure, because of design problems, already incapable of high-intensity naval warfare? Plus their main guns are also problematic. Has it become a warship that exists? Why is it still here? It seems that the information is not accurate, and there is no problem with these 7 warships belonging to the super dreadnought battleships. We're in getting in trouble! ”

Ryan Mead, the captain of the Giant next to him, deeply agreed, and nodded, the trouble was really huge, but the Chinese Imperial fighters that made a screeching sound when they swooped overhead made Ryan Mead panic in his heart.

At the beginning of the design of the Sea Eagle bomber and the Blue Eagle bomber, in accordance with Lin Daxin's order, a whistle device was installed on the wings on both sides of the two bombers.

The Sea Hawk bomber group suffered a lot of losses in the dive bombing at all costs, and when the first round of Sea Hawk bomber groups were evacuated, only 121 of the 144 Sea Hawk bombers remained, and 23 were destroyed by the anti-aircraft fire on the Allied and Allied warships in the bombing, and many Sea Hawk bombers were also damaged, and even evacuated in the direction of the aircraft carrier with thick smoke, but these losses were definitely worth it.

The first round of bombing of the Sea Hawk bombers ended in less than 15 minutes, but it brought very large losses to the joint expeditionary fleet, 2 dreadnought battleships Purple Pearl and Rhine disappeared on the sea, and the other 1 dreadnought battleship Orenburg was also unable to remedy because the gap was too large, and finally the tilt angle was too large, and one rolled over and smashed on the sea surface, sinking to the bottom of the sea, and when the Sea Hawk bombers who carried out the first round of bombing were evacuated, there was not much hull left in Orenburg above the sea surface, There is not much time left before it completely sinks to the bottom of the sea.

Coupled with the fact that the Gramina, which was sunk by the 406mm main guns of the super dreadnought, in just 15 minutes, the combined expeditionary fleet of the Allies and the Central Powers lost 4 dreadnought battleships.

In addition, the British Navy's Duncan-class all-steel battleship Garfield and Edward VII-class all-steel battleship Darnay, the German Navy's Wicchersbach-class all-steel battleship Vilenta, the Italian Navy's Queen Margaret-class all-steel battleship Osvikin, the French Navy's Danton-class all-steel battleship Golden Lion, and five all-steel battleships of the Allied and Allied Combined Expeditionary Fleets were also sunk by Seahawk bombers in these 15 minutes.

The Joint Expeditionary Fleet, along with 1 ironclad battleship and 3 large fast armored cruisers, was also sunk in the first round of bombardment by Seahawk bombers.

However, the other small and medium-sized warships of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet did not suffer any losses, after all, the Sea Hawk bombers did not pay attention to them at all.

In just a few moments, the Combined Expeditionary Fleet had lost so many large warships, which was a blow to the officers and men of the Allied and Allied navies who were confident of victory.

What made the officers and men of the Allied and Allied navies of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet depressed was that these Chinese Imperial fighters may have finally left because they had dropped all their bombs, but before they had time to rejoice and breathe a sigh of relief, another batch of Chinese Imperial fighters flew to the head of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, completed the handover, and began to dive and bomb the warships of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet.

Bridget stood in front of the observation window of the bridge of the Giant, and saw another batch of fighters from the Chinese Empire, his eyes suddenly turned black, his body couldn't help shaking, and he almost fainted from stimulation.

It's so ruthless! Originally, the Joint Expeditionary Fleet was bombed enough, but this is not the end, and your Chinese Empire has also made a batch of fighters to take over and continue to bomb the warships of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, which is really killing people!

There is a joint expeditionary fleet of your Chinese Empire capable of resisting it! Bombing only with fighter planes is purely opportunistic, what kind of ability!

The captain of the Giant, Ryan Mead, saw Bridget shake for a moment, and immediately held Bridget's shoulders and said with concern: "Admiral, you are fine, right?" ”

Bridget pushed away Ryan Mead's hand, stood firm, shook his head helplessly, and then said with a wry smile: "I don't have anything to do, but the matter of our joint expeditionary fleet is big, the fighters of the Chinese Empire don't know where to take off, if they take turns bombing like this, our entire joint expeditionary fleet will be blown up by these fighters." ”

Ryan Mead also smiled bitterly and said: "I really don't know where these fighters of the Chinese Empire came from, could it be that these fighters can still take off from the sea?" ”

Bridget sighed and said: "It's not impossible to take off from the sea, didn't our British Navy also develop a seaplane that can take off on the sea?" ”

Ryan Mead nodded and said, "There is only such an explanation, otherwise the fighters of the Chinese Empire would not have been able to fly here at all." (To be continued......)