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On May 13, the ninth year of Hongwu, 600 nautical miles east of Xia Weiyi, at this time, a small-scale exercise was underway, and unlike the roar of naval guns in previous naval exercises, at this time, the roar of 12-inch or 14-inch naval guns could not be heard on this ocean, and even the beautiful shadow of the capital ship could not be seen. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Compared with the beautiful porthole of the capital ship, in the sun, the not-so-beautiful porthole of a flat plate is reflected, and the protruding bridge in the center of the gangside destroys the whole of the flat board, which seems to be very abrupt.

At this time, the aircraft carrier "Golden Wing", the flagship of the First Air Force of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, crossed a clear arc on the sea surface, and was about to turn its bow towards the sea breeze blowing from the southwest.

The seven or eight large and small escort ships surrounding the "Golden Wing" are also closely accompanying the movement in the same direction. The "Golden Wing" aircraft carrier is a cutting-edge experimental warship in the Navy, and it was not even developed under the leadership of the Admiralty, but was developed by the Dalian Shipyard under the direct intervention of His Majesty the Emperor.

At first, the navy had a certain degree of resistance to His Majesty's request, until His Majesty said that "if the navy is not well funded, it can be financed by the royal family itself", this euphemistic dissatisfaction made the Admiralty immediately panic, and there dared to resist it again, and hurriedly agreed to build an aircraft carrier with a displacement of no more than 20,000 tons through a temporary purchase plan.

Because it is the world's first aircraft carrier, many of the designs have an experimental style, but thanks to the sketches drawn by His Majesty the Emperor and its requirements for technical details, its performance can be said to be extremely outstanding, but its biggest fly in the ointment is that the hull of the "Golden Wing" adopts an unarmored design - this is a manifestation of the Navy's resistance to the U.S. Navy's arms race, which reduces the cost of construction by eliminating armor, and in fact, it even adopts a large number of merchant marine standards in its design, This minimizes costs.

However, despite this, after the 20,000-ton displacement of the USS Goldfin was commissioned last year, its performance still exceeded the Navy's expectations, to be precise, the aircraft carrier, which some people in the Navy call "His Majesty's Toy," has performed brilliantly in several exercises -- it has repeatedly spotted "enemy ships" hundreds of nautical miles away and "attacked" them with bombs, which is the only way for aircraft carriers to attack, otherwise it is only those 105-mm naval guns and unprotected unarmored designs. It is not even an opponent of destroyers.

Faced with the fact that this "toy," which cost only 4.62 million yuan during the exercise, easily hit the battleship many times, the Navy actually began to seriously study the combat tactics of aircraft carriers and discussed whether to build a new type of aircraft carrier.

However, for the Navy, this is just an attempt, after all, in the Navy, aircraft carriers are just a novelty, and the reason why it will attract the attention of the top is entirely because of His Majesty's insistence, as for the further research now, well, but only to satisfy the "interest of His Majesty himself", after all, the expansion of the Navy cannot be separated from His Majesty's support.

At this time, the wide and flat flight deck of the "Golden Wing" was already crowded with dozens of planes, large and small: among them, more than a dozen lighter planes at the front were either empty under their wings or only hung two 50-kilogram bombs; Nearly 30 slightly bloated planes in the back, each with a swarthy bomb that looked like about three or four hundred kilograms in size, were mounted under the belly.

These two biplanes with completely different shapes are the fighters and attack planes now used by the naval air force, the former is used to fight with enemy planes, and the machine gun propeller synchronizer used by the fighter is to a certain extent the crystallization of China's aviation science. Eight years ago, people might have said that His Majesty himself preferred the navy, but now, almost everyone in China knows that His Majesty prefers blue skies.

Whether it is an airship or an airplane, His Majesty seems to be full of interest in everything that can fly into the sky, and it is with its support that China's aviation industry is leading the world step by step, whether it is in military affairs or in civilian use -- three years ago, His Majesty himself even funded the establishment of the "Royal Express Company" and established the air express mail business through the royal subsidy, and the various kinds of aviation competitions funded by it have stimulated the development of the domestic aviation industry.

As for the machine gun propeller synchronizer, which was classified as a top secret by the army and navy aviation queues, it was also thanks to an inadvertent reminder by His Majesty that the technicians designed this kind of synchronization coordinator that can make the aircraft coordinate with the aircraft propeller when firing, so that the bullet will not be fired at the propeller blade, but the bullet will be fired out of the gap in the rotating propeller. And this seemingly inconspicuous little invention made the army and navy understand that they have a "killer weapon" to control the sky.

But on the sea, the significance of a fighter is not great, after all, apart from China, almost no country has an aircraft carrier, and even Britain only sees the aircraft carrier as a toy of the "whim of the Chinese emperor", after all, at this time the aviation technology of the countries is too backward, after all, the bomb load of the aircraft of the countries at this time is only about 100 kg.

At this time, the 26 attack planes behind the aircraft carrier were the "nine-year attack planes" that represented the top level of China's aviation, and their maximum bomb load was only 400 kilograms, however, in the eyes of many aircraft crewmen, this was already a miracle -- a 400-kilogram bomb was enough to severely damage the battleship, and it was also the first time that they saw the possibility of sinking a battleship.

At this time, the entire aircraft carrier formation quickly completed its turn, and a strong sea breeze swept over the "Golden Wing," blowing the signal flag on the top of the starboard ship island.

With a whistle, a new signal flag was raised, the take-off commander in the yellow vest and the deck worker in the blue vest were busy on the deck, and the mechanic in the green vest also began to use the crankshaft lever to start the engines of the planes in the front rows, and in a short time, the propellers of the fighters in the front rows were buzzing.

In the past year, both the pilots on the aircraft carrier and the ground staff have been learning the use of the aircraft carrier, and it is countless experiments that have enabled them to explore a set of effective application methods.

Two more whistles sounded, and a guard grille at the front of the standby group was lowered, and the wind was finally able to sweep across the flight deck without hindrance, while the plane in the center of the front row of the group was carefully pushed forward by several deck crews for a short distance, and the wheels were pressed to a red line in front of the deck.

Immediately, a take-off commander half-crouched in front of the pilot plane in the face of strong winds gestured to the pilot in the open cockpit: his wrist rotated twice in the air, and then he pointed two fingers towards his eyes, indicating that he wanted the pilot to report the motive turn.

The pilot gives a thumbs up to indicate that the turn is up to take-off standards.

The take-off commander also gave a thumbs-up to show "understanding," then waved the signal flag in his hand and waved the flag "request to take off" to the air bridge in the upper part of the island.

Gestures and flags, this is the way to communicate with each other on the carrier, because there is no other way for them to communicate with each other.

After three consecutive whistles, the last signal flag was raised on the top of the mast.

"Take off now".

The planes painted with the golden dragon logo on the wings began to glide on the wooden flight deck, and in the blink of an eye, the heap of fighters, made of steel tubes, aluminum beams, wooden frames, canvas and steel wires, quickly broke away from the deck and floated leisurely into the air - in fact, the red take-off line was only thirty or forty meters from the front of the deck.

Immediately after takeoff, the pilot aircraft turned right and began to circle over the mothership. It is waiting for the formation.

Immediately after the pilot, the second, third, fourth...... One plane after another slid off the deck, also circling over the mothership, forming a formation with the planes that took off first. The unfinished formation continued to circle after circle, waiting for the follow-up aircraft to join.

The formations over aircraft carriers are getting larger and, accordingly, there are fewer and fewer aircraft on the decks of the carriers. When the last plane on the deck of the "Goldwing" jumped off the runway, the take-off commander on the starboard side of the forward deck finally stood up and waved the flag to the air bridge.

"Take-off operation completed ......"

On the bridge of the aviation ship, a young staff major wearing a golden bamboo collar pressed the pocket watch in his hand, and his face showed displeasure.

"Twenty minutes and thirty-seven seconds, it's still too slow."

As the captain, Shen Honglie's expression was very calm, and he just said slowly.

"The standard requirement is to go back and gather all the operations officers within 20 minutes to continue to study ways to save time."

"Yes, Commander......"

Shen Honglie, who is known as the commander, is the commander of the First Air Force, in fact, from his rank of colonel, it can also be seen that the position of the First Air Force and the Navy, as a naval officer who once participated in the Battle of Le Maire, he graduated from the Naval Academy two years ahead of schedule, and at that time he was not even a member of the Northeast Navy, but a commissioned officer in Huguang, and because of this, he missed the later training. His half-baked background made it impossible for him to become the captain of a naval capital ship, and likewise impossible to become the commander of a cruiser.

By chance, this person became the commander of the First Squadron of the Air Force -- in fact, the so-called First Squadron, that is, an aircraft carrier "Golden Wing," four escort destroyers, and an oil-and-water supply ship, and that's it, its strength can be said to be extremely weak, but this does not prevent it from being ambitious to build this Squadron 1 into the world's first air attack force at sea.

At this time, he was personally leading the aircraft carrier of the "Golden Wing" fleet of the First Combat Force and its escort squadron to conduct aviation operations and carrier-based aircraft attack drills at an exercise ground 600 nautical miles east of Hawaii.

In fact, for Shen Honglie, since he became the commander of this special unit last year, he has been studying the tactics of aircraft carriers, and he knows that it is impossible to become the captain of the capital ship or the commander of the main combat team, and he knows very well that this is his last and only chance, and it is precisely because of this that he hopes to seize this opportunity.

Of course, there is a more important reason why he was able to seize this opportunity - His Majesty supports aircraft carriers! It was precisely with the support of His Majesty that he was able to jump out of the traditional sea west of Hawaii and turn to a distance 600 nautical miles southeast of Hawaii to carry out special attack exercises with the guarantee of special funds, so as to develop operations in unfamiliar waters.

Shen Honglie watched from afar as the attack plane behind the hall struggled to climb up and chase the formation, raised the telescope to observe the formation in the air, and said silently in his heart.

"I must come back safely......"

"With Captain Ding leading the team, it will be fine."

The lieutenant colonel staff officer on the side said confidently. However, everyone knows how difficult it is to release an attack formation at sea and attack a target 100 nautical miles away -- the so-called target is the "Changsha" oil and water supply ship. The attack formation had to find it in the vast sea, then "attack" it, and finally it needed to return to the aircraft carrier and land safely.

This is undoubtedly a needle-in-a-haystack mission, but this is exactly what an aircraft carrier needs to do.

Shen Honglie nodded, and then gave a decisive order.

"Clear the deck now and prepare to release the second attack wave!"

At the time of this order, the first attack wave in the air finally completed the formation, and before turning to the target, it passed through the sky over the mothership in a majestic manner with a whole formation. Watching the group of planes drift away, the crew waved their military hats one after another -- a blessing for peace and a prayer for victory.

The whistle sounded again, the flag on the mast was lowered and raised, and the flight deck of the "Goldwing" was busy again.

Two elevators, located in front of and behind the central axis of the flight deck, move up and down at full speed, sending a steady stream of fighters to the deck that have been loaded with ammunition in the hangar.

The first to be sent were two ship-mounted reconnaissance planes, followed by a small group of "Type 8" shipfights, which were pushed to the take-off line as soon as they hit the deck, hurriedly refueled, and quickly released before the planes of the second attack wave were sent to the deck.

At this point, every step on the aircraft carrier seems so rigid that it is even somewhat dogmatic that while the operator is doing these tasks, there will be a standard officer there with a code form, checking their movements to determine if they have violated the procedure.

That is, when they were trying to work out the operation of aircraft carriers, in the radio room in the bridge of the "Golden Wing" aircraft carrier, the radio signal light suddenly turned on...... (To be continued.) )