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The Chinese Navy's 'Emeishan-class' aircraft carrier, with a standard displacement of 20,000 tons, a full load displacement of 25,800 tons, and a maximum speed of 28 knots, is capable of carrying a total of 80 combat aircraft and 8 seaplanes! The establishment of carrier-based aircraft units on aircraft carriers is also different from that of land-based air forces, and the carrier-based aircraft on each aircraft carrier is a wing, with three groups under its jurisdiction, including a fighter group, a dive bomber group, and a torpedo attack aircraft group. Each group also had only two squadrons with a total of 24 aircraft. The remaining eight aircraft, which complement the carrier-based air wing, generally consist of two fighters, three dive bombers and three torpedo attack aircraft.

After the seaplanes discovered the main forces of the combined fleet of the British and American Navy, all four aircraft carrier formations of the Chinese Navy began to take off carrier-based aircraft. It's just that, in order to facilitate the recovery of fighters after the group has completed the strike mission, only half of the aircraft have taken off from each aircraft carrier. The remaining planes did not begin to take off until half an hour after the departure of the previous batch. In this way, the first wave of attacking aircraft can quickly return to the carrier and land after completing the attack, and after replenishing fuel and ammunition, they can carry out the second attack! Make the take-off and landing efficiency of the aircraft carrier reach the maximum!

The first to take off are F5C Osprey torpedo attack aircraft, and each aircraft carrier will take off a squadron of torpedo attack aircraft. This was followed by the F5D Fish Eagle dive bomber, and finally the F5B Puffin. A total of 48 F5C Osprey torpedo attack planes took off from the four aircraft carriers, and they flew towards the target sea area after completing the formation over the aircraft carrier formation. Then the 48F5D 'Fish Eagle' dive bomber will follow them. At last. 48 F5B 'Puffin' fighters after takeoff. will rely on their speed. Escort torpedo attack aircraft and dive bombers in front! This time, a total of 144 aircraft took off from the four aircraft carriers. 48 F5B "Puffin" fighters served as escort missions, and another 96 torpedo attack aircraft and dive bombers were responsible for striking the main warships of the combined fleet of the United States and the British Navy!

Vice Admiral Chen Yuankun, commander of the Navy's aircraft carrier squadron, was very excited when he watched the huge group of planes departing on the bridge of the 'Emeishan' aircraft carrier. This was the first time that the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier performed in actual combat, and he hoped that the warriors of the empire would achieve complete success!

"Order the second group to get ready and take off in half an hour!" Lieutenant General Chen Yuankun ordered. The aircraft carrier formation is only more than ninety kilometers away from the main fleet of the US and British Navy, for a group of aircraft in the sky. It only takes a little more than half an hour. Soon, these warhawks will fly over the heads of the Yankees, drop bombs and torpedoes on their heads, and sink all their battleships!

On the battleship Pennsylvania, the flagship of the combined fleet of the United States and the United Kingdom, the commander of the fleet, William Brown. Admiral Benson was holding a telegram, and his face was very ugly. The fact that the 2nd Battle Cruiser Detachment had lost 4 battle cruisers, losing most of its battleships in such a short period of time, was unacceptable to him. Is it true that the difference in strength between the US Navy and the Chinese Navy is that big? In just over half an hour, so many battleships were lost. If the 1st Battlecruiser Detachment hadn't arrived in time, the 2nd Battlecruiser Detachment might have been wiped out!

Inside the bridge. Fleet Deputy Commander John Brown. Morality. Admiral Robeck and Chief of Staff Edward. Lieutenant General Abor was silent. However, from John. Morality. A smile could be seen in Robek's eyes. Although now the British Navy and the US Navy are allies. But he couldn't get used to the clothes of the U.S. Navy. The Americans thought that the more capital ships there were, they would surpass the British Navy. But how did they know that there would not be hundreds of years to build a powerful navy. Of course, those Chinese were completely an accident! The US Navy lost 4 battle cruisers in a short time, as well as several light cruisers and 10 destroyers. Although the British fleet also lost several destroyers as a result, this loss was completely acceptable compared to the US Navy!

"General Abore, how long do we have to get to the battlefield?" William. Admiral Benson asked angrily. The formidable combat power of the Chinese Navy made him a little frightened. Now that he has only discovered that four Chinese battlecruisers have already caused such large casualties to the US Navy, if he does not annihilate the Chinese Navy, he will be very uneasy!

"General, now the remaining two battleships of the 1st and 2nd Battle Cruiser Detachments are fighting fiercely with the six 'Hanshin-class' battlecruisers of the Chinese. They were about thirty-five kilometers away from us. At 18 knots, it will take a little more than an hour! "Edward. Lieutenant General Abor replied. Many of the older battleships considered, which had a maximum speed of 21 knots, now cruising at a speed of 18 knots, which is already the maximum speed!

"Damn!" William. Admiral Benson scolded! Although, the loss of four battle cruisers will not hurt the bones of the combined fleet of the United States and the British Navy, which has 46 capital ships. But such a loss also made William. Admiral Benson's intuitive commander is very painful!

"Your Excellency, please don't be angry. Although I hate to admit it, it's a fact! That is, the Chinese's technology in shipbuilding technology has indeed reached the world-class level! Not to mention American warships, even British warships are difficult to match with Chinese warships! Therefore, it is very difficult for us to defeat the Chinese without numerical superiority. Now that we have a threefold numerical advantage, naturally there is no need for a one-on-one duel with the Chinese! I believe that the final victory will definitely be ours! "John. Morality. Admiral Robeck said!

William. Admiral Benson nodded, he knew that John. Morality. Admiral Robeck was absolutely right. Their biggest reliance in this battle is that the number of capital ships is much larger than that of the Chinese navy. If they didn't have such a big numerical advantage, they wouldn't have dared to have this decisive battle with the Chinese Navy at all!

"General, then let's just let the 1st Battle Cruiser Detachment and the 2nd Battle Cruiser Detachment withdraw! Otherwise, having lost these fast capital ships, it will be more troublesome for us to pursue the Chinese in the future! "Edward. Lieutenant General Abor said.

William. Admiral Benson hesitated, then nodded. If the combined fleet of the United States and Britain wants to win a big victory this time and completely annihilate the Chinese naval expeditionary fleet as much as possible, it must leave behind a detachment of fast battle cruisers, which will play the role of intercepting the fleeing Chinese fleet when the time comes. If all the battlecruisers are lost, this will be very detrimental to the next strategy of the combined fleet!

"Let General Paulson and General Henry immediately break away from contact with the Chinese and join us!" William. Admiral Benson ordered.

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander!" Edward. Lieutenant General Abor hurriedly said!

It was at this time that a staff officer ran in and asked William. Admiral Benson and others reported.

"Your Excellency Commander, we send a Chinese plane, right above our heads!" The staff officer said!

"Chinese planes? How can there be Chinese planes here? "William. Admiral Benson was taken aback and hurriedly ran to the deck to observe the plane overhead with a telescope! The combined fleet of the British and French navies suffered the loss of Chinese aircraft in the naval battle of Sicily, which they can't afford not to pay attention to!

"General, this plane is a seaplane for the Chinese! It should be used by the Chinese to reconnoiter our movements! "Edward. Lieutenant General Abor said. Seaplanes are able to take off from the sea, regardless of the airstrip, and countries have already begun to equip them.

"Humph! Do you think you can beat us if you know what we're doing? It's a dream! "William. Admiral Benson said disdainfully. As long as it is not the kind of plane that carries bombs and torpedoes of the Chinese, he does not have to worry. After all, such a seaplane is almost no threat. In the face of absolute strength, he is not afraid of what the Chinese Navy will do!

In William. In the cognition of Admiral Benson and others, a long runway is required for fighter planes to take off. And the Chinese air force and navy do not have airfields in the Atlantic, so they cannot use aircraft to launch attacks on the joint fleet of the United States and Britain. This makes them basically unthinking about the threat from the sky!

On the battlefield dozens of kilometers away in the south, the six 'Han Xin-class' fast battleships of the Chinese Navy are fighting against the six battle cruisers of the US Navy! In the fierce battle, the US Navy's battlecruiser "Maryland" was heavily damaged, but it was not yet incapacitated. The battleship "Li Guang" of the Chinese Navy also suffered a shot, and one of the turrets of the front main gun was destroyed, so that the battleship "Li Guang" lost a third of its firepower! The battle between the two sides can be described as winning and losing each other!

At 1:55 p.m., Rear Admiral Paulson, commander of the 1st Battlecruiser Detachment of the U.S. Navy, received a message from William Brown. A telegram from Admiral Benson told them to immediately disengage from the Chinese Navy and join the main fleet! The fierce battle had just begun, and Major General Paulsen did not want to give up yet, but he did not dare to disobey William. Admiral Benson's order, I had to give the order to return!

However, in less than five minutes, the exclamations of the officers and men of the Navy were heard outside. Then a naval staff officer rushed into the bridge of the battlecruiser 'Colorado'!

"General! Plane! Lots of planes! The sky is full of Chinese planes! The naval staff officer said with a pale face! (To be continued......)