The mothership is under attack, and no one understands what this means better than the carrier-based pilots? No matter how many enemies you kill, there's nowhere for you to land when you return.

But how could our fleet be attacked? The Kaga didn't have time to take off other attack aircraft at all, is it ......? "Oops!" Lao Han suddenly remembered a possibility! That is, the devil resorted to a series of tricks to hide from the sky and cross the sea, and the camouflage fleet sailing to Shanghai was the Ming Xiu plank road, while the fleet he attacked was still a plank road, and the main force of the real combined fleet bypassed the radar reconnaissance range and attacked the northern fleet.

After figuring it out, Lao Han felt cold sweat on his cheeks. Look at the fuel gauge, no problem, you can continue to fly for 30 minutes after the return trip. At this time, I didn't care about the Hyuga, which was about to be sunk, "All back, tuna keep your torpedoes, our fleet is under attack." ”

Only thirty-six pterosaurs gradually joined the returning formation, and nine pterosaurs were shot down in the battle, plus those shot down by the Zero before the battle, and after one battle, twelve pterosaurs were lost, accounting for a quarter of the entire team. In this kind of Armageddon, the attack force of only one aircraft carrier battle group is still too thin!

Lao Han's conjecture is not much different from reality, but unfortunately it is an afterthought.

It was with the offensive fleet that Yamamoto deceived the reconnaissance of the Royal Navy, leading five aircraft carriers, four seaplane carriers, four battleships, four heavy cruisers, and more than 20 light cruisers and destroyers to sail along the coastline of Korea all the way to Incheon. In this direction, the reconnaissance forces of the Royal Navy are the weakest. However, Longzhou also took the sword sideways, and did not move the fleet southward according to the convention, in order to get closer to the two oceanic fleets.

The two fleets, less than a hundred nautical miles, spotted each other. Even if the Great Black Mountain Islands had already started, Long Zhou did not forget to call two Linglong planes to monitor the west coast of North Korea, after all, North Korea was still controlled by the Japanese. There were also two anti-submarine helicopters on the aircraft carrier and four Tornado-class submarines, all of which were scattered out to increase the alert range of the fleet. These slightly cautious arrangements left a glimmer of life for the Northern Fleet in the encounter.

The Linglong reconnaissance aircraft spotted the water reconnaissance aircraft from the direction of Dekuji Island and shot it down. However, before the Japanese water reconnaissance was shot down, a telegram had already been sent. Both sides realized that the opposing fleet was nearby.

The commander of the air fleet, Nagumo Tadaichi, immediately dispatched all the reconnaissance planes, and the seaplanes were also hoisted into the water one by one, and the bombers on the Japanese aircraft carrier had already begun to take off before the position of the northern fleet could be accurately located. However, the strange thing is that only the Zero carrier-based aircraft in Japan is a relatively advanced jet engine, and the other torpedo planes, attack planes and bombers are still old propeller aircraft.

Yamamoto Isoroku personally commanded the battle fleet to advance rapidly on the Mutsu, and the bald Yamamoto, who was full of gambling, wanted to use large-caliber naval guns to deal with the Royal Navy fleet, "Their aircraft carrier battle group has no planes, so let's sink them with our own hands and let them repeat the mistakes of the Beiyang Naval Division, and our naval god Heihachiro Togo will bless us!" ”

Long Chau also understood that a bitter battle was inevitable, and even if he shot down more Japanese reconnaissance planes, the position of the fleet would be exposed. Senior Colonel Guan Canghai has already sent a telegram to recall the carrier-based aircraft that attacked, but even if they come back, how much combat power will they have? Both fuel and ammunition are problems.

The Japanese fleet appeared in the direction of Deokji Island near Incheon, and the route to the south was basically blocked, and the northern fleet had only two routes to take, avoiding the Bohai Sea or continuing north.

This is not a multiple-choice question, the Bohai Sea is an inland sea, and the water is shallow and narrow, the most important thing is that the surrounding Pingjin area and Liaodong Bay are controlled by the Japanese...... What kind of chance, with Long Zhou's command level, of course, it is impossible to make such a low-level mistake.

"Continue to the north to keep a distance from the United Fleet, telegraphically order all submarines to assemble in the direction of Baeknyeong Island in North Korea, and order the Helleye Flying Group in Yantai to take off immediately." One after another orders were given, the dragon fat man grinned, and reached for the apple, only to find that the plate was empty. "Nima, it's really uncomfortable to have no cards in your hand."

On the aircraft carrier Gongjin, the remaining 12 fighters of the Hailong carrier-based aircraft squadron were all placed on the deck, and the first two J37s of the catapult were ready to take off at any time. They must take off before the sortie carrier-based aircraft return to free up space and personnel on board.

Senior Colonel Guan Canghai in the command room of the ship island had a grim face, staring at the busy sailors on the deck, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Report to the captain, all the spare planes have been checked, and the take-off and landing planes are being hoisted, but there are only a few pilots...... Internships, you see......"

"What do I see, tell them that if they don't dare to take to the air, they will replace me! Lao Tzu also has a pilot's license. ”

The sudden roar startled the staff officers who came to report! But the young man was quite clever and reacted quickly, and slammed his heel hard, "Yes!" There is no need for the captain to go out in person, if the trainee pilot is not brave, he will change us, and many staff officers have flight experience. ”

The little staff officer ran away quickly to organize the pilot to get on the plane, and the colonel's eyes were closed all the way to watch him out of the command room, and when he heard the clatter on the steel staircase, a wry smile appeared on the captain's face! This is probably the hardest naval battle that the Royal Navy will face since its establishment.

When the alarm came, the enemy's aircraft group had already appeared within 100 nautical miles, the ejection of the six spare Sea Dragon fighters finally took off smoothly in everyone's fear, and the formation of carrier-based aircraft in the air also reached 30. The two aircraft carriers accelerated at full speed and sailed into the innermost layer of the fleet's defensive circle.

Because the exact location of the Northern Fleet was not known, the Japanese fleet was not concentrated, and only 62 planes arrived first, including 24 Type 99 "Aichi" dive bombers, 22 Type 97 "Nakajima" torpedo bombers, 14 Zero Jet carrier-based combat aircraft as their escort aircraft, and two Type 97 command and control aircraft. Purely from the perspective of models, the types of Japanese carrier-based aircraft are much more complete than those of the Royal Navy, but this is only because the propeller aircraft have a single combat mode and do not have the all-rounder of the poisonous dragon.

Outside the air defense circle of the fleet, the Sea Dragon formation met the Japanese aircraft group, and the Zero also accelerated to break away from the aircraft group to engage in battle. As long as they could rush in, in order to avoid accidental damage to their own anti-aircraft fire, Hailong would no longer dare to pursue the Japanese bombers at will.

The pilots of this group of planes that took off from the Zuizuru aircraft carrier were obviously more experienced than the group of pilots of the Kaga, and the 14 Zeros basically maintained a one-to-one battle loss in the struggle with the Sea Dragon Squadron of the Zijing. The Gongjin Sea Dragon Formation, which was responsible for intercepting the bombers, managed to break into the air defense circle of the fleet despite shooting down a number of "Aichi" and "Nakajima" planes because of the zero-type pinning. The destroyers and frigates in the outer ring were densely packed with multiple anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns of the Vulcan Array began to fire, and the sea dragon could no longer hunt Japanese planes unscrupulously.

The battle entered a hand-to-hand battle almost instantaneously, and the Japanese dive bombers suffered heavy losses. The Type 99 Aichi dive bomber is known as the Type 99 Ship Crit in Japan, and it was during the honeymoon period in Japan and Germany that the technology of the He70 was transferred to the Aichi Aviation Company by Henkel, of course, this is also because Germany is developing a more advanced jet bomber, and the He70 is about to be eliminated.

However, this kind of bomber, which is equipped with air brake flaps under the sides of the main wing, and claims to have the most stable dive performance, has become a fatal weakness after encountering the Royal Navy's automatic rotating artillery dense array, which is commonly known as the Vulcan short-range defense system.

Under the high-speed dense anti-aircraft fire, the Type 99 shipburst was blown up one after another like a vertically falling cloth bag, and the six-barreled 20 mm caliber rapid-fire gun of the Vulcan Array, coupled with the control chassis with excellent performance, could adjust the speed of rotation as needed, and the stability of the Type 99 shipburst when diving, just gave the Vulcan Array gunners a time to adapt. The Zijing, which was besieged by more than a dozen dive bombs, only one bomb landed on the flight deck, causing casualties among nearly thirty sailors. However, it was the suicide attack of the Japanese pilots that caused a lot of trouble to the ships of the Northern Fleet. The damaged Type 99 dive bomber did not exit the air defense circle and return in time, but simply crashed directly into the battleship, and the Gongjin was hit by a "suicide plane" in the rear chord, but fortunately it did not cause fatal injuries.

This suicidal attack, which was very in line with the spirit of bushido, made the morale of the Japanese pilots even higher, and as the second group of Japanese planes from the Akagi joined the battle, the situation became even worse, and the casualties of the sailors gradually increased, the destroyer Gongyi (Jiang Qin) was sunk by a mine, and the light cruiser Wenxiang (Xu Sheng) was also hit by two mines, the hull tilted, and the captain had no choice but to give the order to abandon the ship, and another light cruiser Yoshigong (Han Dang) was also hit by a bomb, igniting a fire, and with the help of a nearby destroyer, the fire was controlled, again returned to position and threw themselves into battle.

There were more and more Japanese aircraft, and small groups of several seaplane carriers also rushed to the battlefield. Radar on the command ship Nakamou detected the position of the Japanese battlefleet, which was only 35 nautical miles (65 kilometers) from the battlefield, and in less than two hours, the Northern Fleet would face a two-sided attack from naval guns and the air.

"Annihilation!" Commander Ryushu, who has always believed that as long as the United Fleet is dragged down, the Japanese Navy can be completely annihilated in the Yellow Sea, these four words appeared in his mind for the first time!

"Commander, one hundred and thirty nautical miles to the northwest, it will be the Dadonggou Ancient Battlefield of the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle!" The little staff officer around him is in a good mood and is still carefully checking the charts.

"Nima, which pot is not opened!" The fat man almost slapped him, and as soon as Lao Tzu thought that the war was unfavorable, you mentioned Dadonggou to me.

The Japanese aircraft had limited performance, and although the losses were large, the fleet was able to hold out. Now I am more worried about the Japanese battlefleet, the caliber of the guns of the ships, and the designation of the Northern Fleet is not an opponent of others. Even the 380 mm main gun of the Bong Xian could not compete with the 410 giant cannon of the People's Gate and Mutsu! We can only hope that the submarine force can harass them more and drag them down.

"Lao Zhang, if you don't come again, Lao Tzu will go to Deng Gong and Lin Gong and they will go to the bottom of the sea to drink!" The fat dragon's eyes were still very firm at this moment. "Entering the North Yellow Sea, even if Lao Tzu's entire army is destroyed, the devil's combined fleet will not be able to escape!"

The gap between the Shandong Peninsula and the Korean Bailing Island is not much wider than the Bohai Strait, and the North Yellow Sea is actually more like another inland sea.

Of course, Yamamoto Fifty-six can see this clearly, but the fanatical Yamamoto gambler has already let it go, "Even if the combined fleet is completely destroyed, this northern fleet must be destroyed, and the dignity of the Imperial Japanese Navy cannot be tarnished." ”