On November 19, 1908, the main fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, together with the Allied and Allied Powers, divided the huge fleet into three parts in the sea area more than 280 nautical miles northwest of Sri Lanka Island, and met the opposing fleet one after another.

Bridget, the commander-in-chief of the combined expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Central Powers, divided his fleet into three parts because he had absolute confidence in his own strength, and was ready to contain the main force of the Imperial Chinese Navy in the middle and outflank it on the left and right.

Sun Xitao, commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, who participated in this naval battle, saw that the joint expeditionary fleet was divided into three parts, and he did not show weakness in dividing the main force of the entire imperial Chinese navy into three parts, preparing to fight the joint expeditionary fleet head-to-head, and facing Maimang with the tip of the needle, and also met the enemy with the left, center, and right fleets, and was not prepared to give the joint expeditionary fleet a chance to encircle him.

In this way, the huge fleets of both sides will form three battlefields of naval warfare, the scale of the warships of each battlefield can be described as unprecedented, after all, this is the first large-scale naval battle between dreadnought battleships in human history, the dreadnought battleships of both fleets add up to more than 100 ships, a few years ago Lin Daxin commanded the Northeast Navy and the Eight-Nation Alliance Navy Combined Fleet at war, although there were also dreadnought battleships, but at that time only the Northeast Navy side, not a battle between dreadnought battleships.

And the scale of this naval battle is really jaw-dropping, the three naval battle battlefields add up to a steel collision with a total displacement of more than 9.5 million tons, and the sparks that collide must be extremely gorgeous.

But before the collision of the two sides. The Imperial Chinese Navy also had a surprise to give to the combined expeditionary fleets of the Entente and Central Powers.

Before the main forces of the Imperial Chinese Navy were divided into 3 parts, the commander-in-chief Sun Xitao. An order has already been given to 4 mythical-class aircraft carriers, located dozens of kilometers away in the rear, for carrier-based aircraft to take off immediately. Bombing the warships of the Allied and Allied Combined Expeditionary Fleets, in an effort to make the Combined Expeditionary Fleet smash its nose and face swollen before it could engage the main forces of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

In the bridge of the British Giant-class dreadnought battleship Giant, the captain of the Giant, Ryan Meade, saw through the telescope that the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy 30,000 meters away was also divided into three parts, and immediately said to Bridget: "Commander, the main force of the Imperial Chinese Navy has strong self-confidence, and it is also divided into three parts, it seems that we are going to have a naval battle with the fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy in three areas." ”

Bridget smiled and said, "The strength of the Chinese Imperial Navy is not as good as our joint expeditionary fleet. Now that the force is divided into 3 parts, the strength of each part is even weaker, and the commander of the Imperial Chinese Navy has definitely given an extremely stupid order, but I like such an opponent very much, and the commander of the Imperial Chinese Navy chose to engage our Joint Expeditionary Fleet near Sri Lanka, although there is a bit of a surprise, but those nasty planes of the Chinese Empire will not interfere with the performance of our Joint Expeditionary Fleet, and it is also an unwise plan. It seems that God has given us a united expeditionary fleet to win this decisive naval battle. ”

However, as soon as Bridget's voice fell, the group of planes that suddenly appeared in the sky seemed to give him a slap in the face, the carrier-based aircraft of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire. It really didn't save face at all for the commander-in-chief of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet.

"Oh! My God! Commander, look, those black spots in the sky. It should be a fighter of the Imperial Chinese Air Force! How could there be fighters of the Imperial Air Force here? The captain of the Giant, Ryan Meade, held a telescope in his left hand and pointed with his right index finger to observe the sky outside the window. Suddenly shouted in panic.

"This ...... This is...... What's going on? I'm not dreaming, am I? Where did these planes come from? Bridget's face changed dramatically.

Hundreds of carrier-based planes of the Imperial Chinese Navy suddenly appeared in the sky, and none of the officers and men of the Allied and Allied joint expeditionary fleets were not shocked. Many of them can't help but ask themselves, are they dreaming?

You must know that the closest territory of the Chinese Empire to here must be more than 2 or 3 thousand kilometers, how can the planes of the Chinese Empire fly here! No matter how good the performance of the Chinese Imperial aircraft is, the range should not be so far!

The officers and men of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet did not at all expect that the fighters of the Chinese Empire that suddenly appeared took off not from the land, but from the sea, and there was a warship called an aircraft carrier.

The standard configuration of the Mythic-class aircraft carriers of the Imperial Chinese Navy is 48 Seagull fighters and 48 Seahawk bombers, but this time, considering that the Joint Expeditionary Fleet does not have any air power, each of the four Mythic-class aircraft carriers only carries 72 Seahawk bombers and does not carry Seagull fighters.

The Seagull fighter could only hang two 100-kilogram bombs, which did not pose any threat to the slightly larger warships at all, and only the Seahawk bomber, which could carry 4 tons of aerial bombs, posed a mortal threat to all the warships of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, including the Dreadnought battleships.

The Chinese Empire has a lot of carrier-based aircraft in reserve, and it is more than enough to replace the Seagull fighters on the four Mythical aircraft carriers with Seahawk bombers.

The four Mythical-class aircraft carriers are at least 100 kilometers away from the Joint Expeditionary Fleet at this time, and there are only 144 Seahawk bombers in the first round of attacks, and the other half of the Seahawk bombers will be used as the second round of attack aircraft groups, which will take over the first round of attack aircraft groups, and the first round of attack aircraft groups will be replenished with bombs after returning to the aircraft carriers, and then take over the second round of attack aircraft groups, so as to ensure the continuity of the attack on the Joint Expeditionary Fleet.

Although Bridget was surprised as if in a dream, he immediately reacted, and there was no time for him to continue to be surprised at this time, and immediately shouted to Ryan Meade, the captain of the Giant beside him: "Quick! Let all ships pay attention to air defense, cooperate with each other, and don't let the planes of the Chinese Empire get close to our warships! Let the officers and men of the ships not panic. With the anti-aircraft armament of the ships, these fighters of the Chinese Empire. It's not much of a threat to us! ”

Today is really a day of Bridget's slap in the face, and it doesn't take long. The Royal Naval Aviation of the Imperial Chinese Empire gave Bridget another resounding slap in the face.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the 144 Seahawk bombers in the sky, in accordance with the order of the Air Force commander, were divided into three and pounced on the warships of the left, center, and right parts of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, of which there were 48 Seahawk bombers per share.

"Oh God! Don't let those Chinese Imperial fighters come close to us, they are coming down from the sky, use anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, and shoot them down. ”

"Quick! Fire! Fire! ”

"Watch out for bombs from enemy fighters!"

"Let the warship sail in a zigzag. God, where did these warplanes of the Chinese Empire come from! ”

Seeing the group of Sea Hawk bombers flying above the fleet, the naval officers and men of the Entente and Allied powers could not help but panic, and countless anti-aircraft weapons began to fire into the sky.

In the Sea Hawk bomber numbered 002, He Qiang, the commander in charge of commanding the first round of bomber groups, shouted through the airborne walkie-talkie: "Brothers, this is the first battle of our naval aviation, and His Majesty the Emperor and the officers and men of the whole army are watching our performance. For the sake of Your Majesty, for the sake of the Chinese Empire, I order that at all costs dive bombing be launched against the warships of the Entente and the Central Powers. ”

"Don't worry. Sir, we've been waiting for this day for years, so let's see! ”

"The suicide note has been written by all of our crew members. Today, I will fight to the death with the warships of the Entente and the Central Powers! ”

"Today let the whole world remember our naval aviation and not sink a big one. After so many years of training for our crew, it has been in vain! ”

He Qiang's words were just finished through the on-board walkie-talkie. The captains of the other Seahawk bombers expressed their determination on the airborne walkie-talkie with high morale.

The crew of the Sea Hawk bomber consisted of 6 people, including 1 captain, 1 pilot, 2 firefighters and 2 bombardiers.

The captains of these Seahawk bombers were not talking big, but on the top of the warships of the Allied and Allied powers, one after another Sea Hawk bombers braved the anti-aircraft fire of the warships and carried out dive bombardment bombardment on the warships of the Allied and Allied countries.

A 47-mm shell pierced through the armored fuselage of the Seahawk bomber, detonating five 800-kilogram aerial bombs in the engine room, and suddenly the Seahawk bomber turned into a big fireball in the sky and fell rapidly to the sea.

Not only was this Seahawk bomber shot down by the anti-aircraft guns on the warship before it dropped a single bomb, but several unlucky Seahawk bombers were also directly hit by the shells of the anti-aircraft guns in the process of diving, turning into large fireballs in the air.

However, the loss of the Seahawk bombers was not in vain, "boom-boom-" two violent explosions sounded above the British Navy's St. Vincent-class dreadnought battleship Purple Pearl, the second dreadnought battleship of the United Expeditionary Fleet.

Two Sea Hawk bombers rushing towards the Purple Pearl, after diving to a place about 1,500 meters above the sea surface, dropped two 800-kilogram bombs on the Purple Pearl on the sea surface, and one bomb from each of the two Sea Hawk bombers hit the Purple Pearl.

One of the bombs landed on the rear of the Purple Pearl, piercing the Purple Pearl's deck and several layers of steel planks, exploding near a power room.

The 800 kg of aerial bombs, the explosion power is amazing, and the boilers in the power compartment are suddenly affected, if only the boiler is blown up, it is fine, but the power of the 800 kg aerial bomb, several boilers in the power compartment were instantly detonated, and the house leak coincided with the overnight rain, originally 1 800 kg bomb, it was enough for the Purple Pearl, and now several boilers were also detonated, and the bottom of the Purple Pearl hull was blown out of a huge gap, and the sea water immediately poured into the interior of the Purple Pearl.

With such a serious injury, there is no other possibility for the fate of the Purple Pearl except to sink, but there is an even more tragic fate that befalls it.

Another 800-kilogram aerial bomb landed in the middle of the Purple Pearl's hull, directly penetrated the deck armor, and then exploded inside the hull.

The terrible thing is that the location of the explosion of this 800-kilogram aerial bomb is almost at the door of an ammunition compartment where the Purple Pearl stores the main gun shells, and as a result, hundreds of 305-mm shells were detonated, and the dreadnought battleship with a full load displacement of 22,580 tons was blown in two.

If only the first 800-kilogram aerial bomb hits the Purple Pearl, although the Purple Pearl will eventually sink due to its injuries, it will still leave enough time for most of the British Navy officers and sailors on the Purple Pearl to escape.

Now the second deadly 800-kilogram aerial bomb shortened the escape time to less than 4 minutes, and finally waited for the St. Vincent-class dreadnought battleship Purple Pearl to disappear into the sea, the entire warship 758 people, as long as 18 people escaped, the rest of the British naval officers and sailors of the Purple Pearl followed the Purple Pearl and sank to the bottom of the sea, and many British naval officers and sailors who jumped into the sea to escape were sucked into the bottom of the sea by the whirlpool generated when the warship sank.

The Purple Pearl and the Giant, both in the middle of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, and the distance between the two dreadnought battleships was not far, after the Purple Pearl was hit by two 800-kilogram aerial bombs, the captain of the Giant, Ryan Meade, cried out: "God! The Purple Pearl is over! ”

Bridget, the commander-in-chief of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet beside Ryan Mead, had a gloomy face, and he had just said that a decisive battle with the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy here could avoid the interference of the Chinese Imperial fighters, but as soon as the words fell, a large group of Chinese Imperial fighters appeared in the sky.

Bridget also said that with the anti-aircraft fire on the warships of the Entente and the Central Powers, the fighters of the Chinese Empire were not too threatening, but within 2 minutes of speaking, a powerful dreadnought battleship was hit by 2 aerial bombs of the Chinese Empire fighters.

Today is really a day of slapping in the face, and Bridget's current mood can be imagined.

The attacks of the Sea Hawk bombers continued, and from time to time warships of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, hit by aerial bombs, produced violent explosions. (To be continued......)

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