At 10:50 a.m. on March 4, 1909, in the bridge of the Fengtian Super Dreadnought Battleship, the flagship of the First Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, Yin Jian, the captain of the Fengtian, walked to Sun Xitao's side with a telegram, "Brother Sun, the first wave of carrier-based aircraft groups has completed the air raid mission, and is currently on the way back, about 10 or so battleships of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet were sunk in the first wave of air raids, maybe there will be more, In addition, many warships of other types of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet were also sunk by our carrier-based aircraft in this wave of air raids. ”

After the first wave of carrier-based aircraft group completed the air attack, when returning, the joint expeditionary fleet had some warships that were bound to sink, and they had not completely disappeared on the sea, such as the British Navy's Orion-class super dreadnought battleship Brilliance, after the first wave of carrier-based aircraft left, most of the hull of the entire warship was still above the sea, but the keel of the super dreadnought battleship Brilliant had been blown off, and the armor outside had also been torn, and it was a matter of time before it sank, and even the British captain of the Brilliant had already given the order to abandon the ship, and it had not sunk like this, However, there are still quite a few warships of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet that must have sunk, and after all the first wave of carrier-based aircraft have finished their air raids, it is not certain that the specific results will be achieved.

Sun Xitao nodded calmly, "What is the situation of the first wave of carrier-based aircraft losses?" ”

Yin Jian replied: "The specific data cannot be counted at present, but according to the news from the carrier-based aircraft group, the loss is at least more than 100 aircraft." ”

Hearing that at least more than 100 carrier-based aircraft had been lost, Sun Xitao's brows furrowed slightly, and he sighed and said: "It seems that the new air defense weapons developed by Britain, France and Germany are very powerful. More than a hundred carrier-based aircraft were lost in just one wave of air strikes, these veteran powers. The scientific and technological power is still very strong, the last time our Royal Navy fought a naval battle with the first joint expeditionary fleet. Their air defense weapons are not a big threat to our carrier-based aircraft, it has not been long since the last naval battle, and now their air defense weapons have already posed a very big threat to our carrier-based aircraft, and I don't care about the loss of hundreds of aircraft, but the loss of those pilots on the carrier-based aircraft, as well as the loss of bomber crews, make me feel distressed enough. ”

Yin Jian also sighed and said: "It's a pity that the high-altitude bombing sight of our carrier-based bomber has not yet been manufactured. Otherwise, the losses of carrier-based aircraft will definitely be reduced much, much. ”

In some technical aspects, the reserve strength of the Chinese Empire is still relatively weak, and it can be said that the Chinese Empire can be strong today, basically relying on Lin Daxin's golden finger.

For the high-altitude bombing sight that needs to be equipped on the bomber, Lin Daxin did not get it in the future time and space, after all, the modern bombers in the future time and space rely on satellites to position, the kind of high-altitude bombing sight that has been eliminated, Lin Daxin has been looking for a long time in the future time and space and has not gotten one.

So Lin Daxin can only be on the network of future time and space. After finding the principle of the high-altitude bombing sight, he asked the technical department of the Chinese Imperial Aircraft Factory to develop the high-altitude bombing sight on its own, but it has not been developed so far.

Sun Xitao looked at the watch on his wrist. Then he said: "The second wave of carrier-based aircraft groups is already about to fly over the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, and all the warships of the three aircraft carrier battle groups are ordered to cruise at a speed of 14 knots. Move closer to the Joint Expeditionary Fleet and shorten the distance between the fleets of the two sides. The return distance of the carrier-based aircraft will also be shortened, and as many waves of air attacks as possible will be launched against the Joint Expeditionary Fleet. ”

In the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, the first wave of air strikes by carrier-based aircraft ended in less than half an hour. Something that made the officers and men of the navies of the countries of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet extremely frightened appeared again, and once again a dense crowd of Chinese Imperial fighters appeared in the sky, and the scale was definitely not inferior to that of the first wave of Chinese Imperial fighters.

With the help of the advanced steam catapult of the US Navy in the future space-time, it took only 20 minutes for the 720 carrier-based aircraft on the 9 Emperor-class aircraft carriers as the first wave of air raids to take off, and then the 9 Emperor-class aircraft carriers began to release the remaining 720 carrier-based aircraft after 20 minutes. The 20 minutes interval is to allow a time lag between the two waves of carrier-based aircraft groups, otherwise the first wave of carrier-based aircraft groups may have completed their bombing and just returned to the aircraft carrier's skies not long after, and these carrier-based aircraft have not all landed back on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier, and the second wave of carrier-based aircraft groups will complete the air attack mission and come back.

Landing on an aircraft carrier takes a little more time than it takes to fly, so that a sustained air attack on the Joint Expeditionary Fleet cannot be formed.

Although there was an interval of nearly half an hour between the second wave of air strikes by the Royal Chinese Navy's carrier-based aircraft group and the end of the first wave of carrier-based air strikes, because the navies of the countries of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet were unwilling to pursue the direction in which the first wave of Imperial Chinese carrier-based aircraft had left, the joint expeditionary fleet formed by the Entente Powers, the Allies, and the United States was still circling the sea area during the first wave of air raids.

The naval fleets of all countries are reluctant to go first on the grounds of rescuing the officers and men who have fallen into the water, and they all hope that the navies of other countries will take the lead and their own navies will follow behind, so that when the Chinese Imperial fighters attack again, their own navy may suffer less losses.

When the second wave of carrier-based aircraft groups of the Royal Navy aircraft carriers of the Imperial Chinese Navy flew over the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, the positions of the navies of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet remained the same as before, with the British naval fleet at the front and the navies of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Turkish empires at the rear.

Inside the bridge of the Orion-class super dreadnought battleship Orion, the commander-in-chief of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, Bridget, shouted angrily to the captain of the Orion, Ray McCal, "These bastards! It's been almost half an hour, and as a result, our entire Joint Expeditionary Fleet has not moved in place, and it is still in the sea area at the time of the first wave of air raids by the Chinese Imperial Fighters. The commanders of the naval fleets of those countries are so selfish that none of the navies of any country are willing to take the lead. Pursue in the direction of the departure of the Chinese Imperial fighters. ”

With a righteous expression of indignation on his face, Ray Maikar said indignantly: "It's really too selfish! Commanders of the naval fleets of these countries. I don't have the spirit to take care of the big picture at all, and I don't even carry out Bridget's orders. You are the commander-in-chief of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, chosen by all nations! ”

Bridget scolded in his mouth, and then said fiercely: "If our joint expeditionary fleet is defeated again this time, the commanders of their fleets will definitely not be able to get rid of it, and even I, the commander-in-chief, will dare not carry out the order." ”

Just now, Bridget saw that no country's naval fleet was willing to take the lead, so he successively issued orders to the US Navy, the German Navy, and the French Navy, asking the navies of these countries to take the lead so that the entire joint expeditionary fleet could search for those warships of the Chinese Empire that could carry fighters, but the commanders of the naval fleets of the three countries refused to set off immediately on the grounds of salvaging the surviving officers and men of their own sunken warships. Moreover, they all said that their own naval fleet had suffered too much loss in the first wave of air raids by the Chinese Imperial fighters, and could not afford to be the vanguard of the entire Combined Expeditionary Fleet, and the three commanders all sent telegrams to Bridget, hoping to let the navies of other countries take the lead, and implicitly suggested that the British Navy should take the lead.

Bridget, of course, was reluctant to let the British Navy take the lead, although perhaps there was not much difference between the first and the back, when the Chinese Imperial fighters were bombed, but people were lucky. In the first wave of air raids by the fighters of the Chinese Empire, the navy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the navy of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which were at the back of the joint expeditionary fleet, did not sink a single warship.

It's a pity that the commanders of the naval fleets of other countries can't hear Bridget and Ray Macal's conversation, otherwise they will definitely spit on their faces. You British are not selfish and are willing to take care of the overall situation, but you are directly pursuing in the direction of the withdrawal of the first wave of fighters of the Chinese Empire!

Since everyone has the same mind. Don't talk about the eldest brother and the second brother, it seems that you British can be noble.

Bridget looked up at the second wave of the Chinese Empire's fleet that was getting closer. There was a tremor in my heart, the warship of the British Navy. Although they have all gathered together to form a powerful anti-aircraft firepower, and the anti-aircraft firepower between warships can support each other, but the dense Chinese Imperial fighters are really too much pressure on Bridget, in the last wave of air raids, the British Navy's Orion-class super dreadnought battleship Brilliant was blown up and sunk, and Bridget's current flagship Orion super dreadnought battleship is the same level of battleship as the sunken Brilliant Battleship.

The Super Dreadnought Battleship Radiance can be blown up and sunk by the fighters of the Chinese Empire, and the Orion Super Dreadnought Battleship where Bridget is located does not have much armor, and it will sink if it takes too many bombs.

Bridget kept making crosses on his chest, nervous and no longer talking, and Ray Macal, who was pale next to him, also began to draw crosses on his chest, hoping that God would bless Orion from suffering the same fate as the Brilliant.

The second wave of carrier-based aircraft groups of the Royal Navy aircraft carriers of the Imperial Chinese Navy, as soon as they were about to reach the skies above the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, immediately dispersed and pounced on the numerous warships on the sea.

"Boom-" One Seagull fighter had just dived from an altitude of more than 7,000 meters to a position about 5,000 meters above the sea surface when it was directly hit by an anti-aircraft shell, turning into a ball of fireball in the air.

In the joint expeditionary fleet, the navies of various countries have gathered their warships together and strengthened the anti-aircraft fire between the warships, which made the second wave of air raids begin, and fireballs appeared in the sky, all of which were fireballs generated by the airborne aircraft of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire being hit by anti-aircraft fire and exploding in the air.

Although the anti-aircraft firepower of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet was very strong, the carrier-based planes of the Royal Navy of the Imperial Chinese Empire were not afraid and still resolutely launched dive bombardment against the warships of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet on the sea.

"Boom-boom-boom-" A continuous explosion sounded on the British Navy's Giant-class dreadnought battleship Giant, and it turned out that an 800-kilogram aerial bomb dropped by a Seahawk bomber on the Dreadnought Battleship Giant fell directly on the deck armor that had already been hit by several aerial bombs, and as a result, the 800-kilogram aerial bomb suddenly penetrated into the hull of the Dreadnought Giant, and landed next to the ammunition compartment of a main gun shell. The power of the explosion of this 800-kilogram aerial bomb immediately detonated dozens of 305-mm shells in the ammunition compartment.

In the first joint expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Central Powers, the Giant dreadnought battleship, which served as the flagship of the British Navy, did not withstand the power of dozens of 305 mm main gun shells, and was blown into two at once, and it didn't take much time for the Giant dreadnought battleship with a full load displacement of 23,050 tons to disappear on the sea.

None of the 757 British naval officers and men, including the captain of the Giant, Rustit, could successfully escape from the sinking Giant, and all of them sank to the bottom of the sea with the Giant, and the Giant sank too quickly, even the British naval officers and sailors who escaped by jumping into the sea were also sucked into the sea by the whirlpool generated when the Giant sank.

The French Navy's lone-class dreadnought battleship Arctic Circle was hit by three 800-kilogram aerial bombs, two 500-kilogram aerial bombs and one aerial torpedo in a row, and finally because of serious water leakage, the Arctic Circle dreadnought battleship tilted, and after tilting to more than 30 degrees, the Arctic Circle dreadnought battleship overturned and smashed on the sea, sinking to the bottom of the sea with nearly 500 French naval officers and sailors.

A Seahawk bomber of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, when diving, was hit by an anti-aircraft shell, although it exploded without a volley, but almost all the crew members of the Seahawk bomber were killed, leaving only the seriously injured pilot, and then the pilot endured the pain and controlled the Seahawk bomber to directly hit the bow of a US Navy Florida-class dreadnought battleship Syrta, and the five 800-kilogram aerial bombs on the Seahawk bomber were instantly detonated. It almost blew up the bow of the Syrta dreadnought, and the sea water immediately poured into the inside of the Syrta's hull through the gap in the bow, and it didn't take long for the stern of the Srta to warp out of the sea, and soon the Srta dreadnought disappeared diagonally into the sea. (To be continued.) )