Chapter 113: Sheep! Sheep! Sheep!
May 4, 1939, was designated as the first Youth Day; This day was the day when the Japanese Air Force frantically bombed Chongqing, the capital of China; This day is the Nomenkan on the border of "Manchurian and Mongolian", and the two robbers are once again dog-eat-dog days on the land of China.
On this night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse - the meteorologists were very accurate.
It was on such a night that the two aircraft carrier battle groups of the Northern Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Han Empire left the Subic Bay Naval Base, which had been stationed for more than a month, and joined up with the Fengxian battle squadron from Manila Bay in the waters near Huangyan Island in the South China Sea.
The two aircraft carrier battle groups in the fleet have four marshal-class aircraft carriers, namely Gongjin (Zhou Yu), Zijing (Lu Su), Ziming (Lu Meng), and Bo Yan (Lu Xun).
The string number of the four aircraft carriers is 21-24, the two-digit string number represents the string number of the first-class warship, that is, the aircraft carrier, and the ten-digit 2 represents the number of the Northern Fleet.
The fleet also included one battleship, two heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, 26 destroyers, and more than 30 frigates, as well as 14 submarines under the sea. The reason for the relatively small number of submarines is that most of the sea wolves have already entered the Bass Strait in the early stage, and the Japanese transport ships and oil tankers in the busy shipping lanes have long been the prey of the sea wolves, just waiting for His Majesty's order to start a war.
Nearly a hundred large and small warships, the prey of the huge northern fleet was the naval bases of the Japanese army stationed on Taiwan Island, Zuoying and Magong Island. Zuoying is located in the north of Kaohsiung, west of the Taiwan Strait, is the largest and best military port in the north of Taiwan Island, where the Japanese Southern Fleet is stationed. The Magong Naval Base, located on the Penghu Islands, was stationed the Fifth Fleet, the main force of the invading navy, which was mainly composed of cruisers and water carriers, which had flaunted its might for a long time in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and then moved south to assist the 21st Army in capturing Guangzhou and Hainan Island.
The Fifth Fleet was just a snack, and the main course was of course the second in Japan, second only to the Combined Fleet. The powerful fleet consisting of four Kongo-class battleships of the 3rd Battlefleet of the Japanese Battlefleet, four aircraft carriers of the 2nd and 3rd Air Fleets, and a number of heavy and light cruisers was the most formidable opponent of the Han Royal Navy in this part of the China Sea. Different from the history of the previous life, because of the emergence of the Han Royal Navy, the strength of this southern fleet is much stronger, and the aircraft carriers Canglong, Feilong, Fengxiang and Ruifeng are all from the first air fleet on the mainland have just been transferred to Taiwan Island, perhaps, the Japanese are also planning an air raid on Subic Bay!
The corners of Rear Admiral Long Zhou's mouth in the command room of the Gongjin ship island cracked into a cruel smile, "The first strike is strong, and the second attack will suffer." "A few hours later, at dawn, carrier-based aircraft will take off, and then ...... How many warships will be able to continue to float on the surface of Japan's southern fleet with such a strong lineup?
Not hubris, but self-confidence. Long Zhou never thought that the sneak attack plan formulated by His Majesty personally participated would fail, and this operation was not only the Northern Fleet's attack, thinking about His Majesty's follow-up means, Long Zhou couldn't help but sigh: Choose Dahan as the opponent, Japan ...... No more fun! But the little devil has no regrets, the road to national strength is like the trees in the rainforest competing for growth, only the fastest and tallest one can enjoy the sun freely.
"This sky is so big, the Chinese nation is going to rise, and the Yamato nation is ...... Let's obediently continue to bow down! Commander Long made a final summary, raised his hand and looked at his watch: 2:40 in the morning. According to the plan, there was another hour to reach the predetermined sea area, and everything went smoothly. Neither the land-based reconnaissance aircraft nor the surface reconnaissance aircraft of the Japanese army have the ability to fly at night, and submarines in this sea area? Well, there are many, but they are all of the Wind-level of the Great Han. In the past month or so, 23 Japanese submarines have sunk in the Bass Strait and the South China Sea, and the Admiralty has banned Japanese submarines at all levels from entering the South China Sea without permission and has begun to actively study more advanced submarines to counterbalance the Tornado-class.
At four o'clock in the morning, before the sun had risen over the sea, and there was only a glimmer of light on the sea, on the sea east of the Dongsha Islands in the South China Sea, less than 200 nautical miles away from Kaohsiung, the bells of the ships of the Northern Fleet rang loudly, and the order to prepare for navigation on the aircraft carrier had been issued 30 minutes earlier.
The types of carrier-based aircraft carried on the four Marshal-class aircraft carriers were adjusted before leaving Subic Bay, and each aircraft carrier had only one squadron of J37A-C Sea Dragon air superiority fighters and two squadrons of JH37-B Venom Dragon fighters, and one more squadron was replaced by HH6-A Pterodactyl bombers, which means that the number of Pterodactyls on each aircraft carrier has increased to 36. The ZJ-38 Linglong reconnaissance fighter plane, which took off ahead of schedule, sent back a telegram: Zuoying Port is sleeping.
The sea dragon and the poisonous dragon have already risen into the air and circled in formation over the mothership, and the bulky pterosaurs have also lifted off one after another on the central runway of the mothership, each wing dragon carries six 500 kg bombs, plus in the early morning, the light is dark, and the pilots are more careful than usual.
The ejection commander in the yellow vest and green helmet on the deck bent his legs again and again, using the standard aircraft carrier STYLE to send the pterodactyls into the blue sky, and after the bomber formation commander in the sky sent back the password for the completion of the formation, Long Zhou issued an order to set off in the public channel: Good luck to everyone!
A huge formation of more than 200 planes of various types swooped down on Taiwan Island with Hailong as an arrow. The other, slightly smaller formation was in a more northerly direction, targeting the Magong base in the Penghu Islands.
Commander Long Zhou in the command room of the Gongjin and Guan Canghai, the captain of the Gongjin, stood side by side, watching the war eagles rush to the battlefield until the group of planes in the telescope became smaller and smaller, until they disappeared into the vast sea and sky.
"Commander, we're going to make it, right?" This is the first time that the Royal Navy aircraft carrier battle group has carried out such a large-scale air raid operation, and Colonel Guan Canghai can hardly suppress his nervousness!
"I never doubted!" Patting his big belly, Long Zhou turned his head, "Canghai, send a message to Your Majesty!" ”
"Okay, Commander!" Just like a mother cares about her children who travel far away, no matter how much confidence she has, Guan Canghai will inevitably think about the warhawks released from the mothership!
"Correspondence officer, send a telegram to Your Majesty: Sheep! Sheep! Sheep! ”