In the Azores, the only territory that the Portuguese government-in-exile still had control, Marshal Fisher and his combined Allied fleet were anchored in Porto Sangra Sansímo, a huge fleet of nearly 200 warships of all types, the last naval combat force of the entire Entente bloc.

"What about our fleet, which once made the world tremble? What about our St. George's flag, where the sun never sets? Is our glory just gone? Marshal Fisher on St. Bastianburg said with a wry smile as he looked at the ten British capital ships moored in the bay in front of him.

"Marshal, we still have the strength to fight." Major General Betty, who was beside him, said respectfully.

"And then?" Marshal Fisher said lightly.

Betty didn't speak anymore, how could there be a future, even if this battle was won, the losses would definitely not be small, now the combined fleet only has a total of twelve capital ships, and a few more losses will be in single digits, and then there are more than 20 capital ships including two super battleships, well, even General Betty, who is known for his bravery, can't help but shudder.

"Report to the marshal, reconnaissance aircraft number four has lost contact." An officer walked up to Fisher and saluted.

"Lost contact?" Betty was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, General, a telegram was sent back ten minutes ago, saying that a search was being carried out in the southwest direction, and no enemy fleet was found, and another telegram should have been sent back under normal circumstances, but we did not receive it, and then we took the initiative to send a telegram to it and did not get a reply." The officer said.

"It seems that our enemy has arrived and ordered the fleet to anchor." Fisher said without hesitation, and as soon as he finished saying this, another officer ran over and said with a somewhat nervous expression: "Report to the marshal, the No. 3 reconnaissance plane has discovered the enemy's main fleet, nine capital ships, and fifty-six other warships. The distance is two hundred kilometers, and the direction is due south. ”

"Reconnaissance aircraft number three? So what happened to Four? Betty said blankly.

"Maybe it was a malfunction crash, and I didn't have time to send a report, don't worry about it!" Marshal Fisher said hurriedly as he walked, he didn't know what he was ignoring, at this time on the sea two hundred kilometers southwest of the sea, Cheng Biguang, commander of the Dingzhen formation, was leisurely looking at the sky not far away, a British reconnaissance plane was desperately twisting its body, trying to dodge the two Eagle fighter-bombers that were diving down from a high altitude, of course, what he couldn't see was the back seat of this reconnaissance plane. A dispatcher is desperately and in vain tapping the keys, trying to report to Sangra Sansmo the sudden arrival of a powerful enemy.

And just below, on the Royal Chinese Navy battlecruiser Yonghui, a long radio antenna is constantly emitting interfering radio waves.

The reconnaissance plane struggled in the sky for only two minutes, and then turned into a flaming flame and fell into the sea under the large-caliber bullets fired by the two Eagle fighter-bombers, and then the two Hawks returned and landed on the flight deck, and at the same time as they landed, the four reconnaissance planes dropped from the battlecruiser quickly took off from the sea and began to fly in the direction of Angra Herosmanshato.

At this time, in Sansa Sangra, the combined fleet of the Entente had set sail. On the giant warships, the propellers driven by the guò gearbox rotated at high speed amid the roar of high-power diesel, and slowly drove away from their berths amid the screeching sirens.

"It's a battle for glory. We have no way out, behind us is our homeland, behind us is England, France. Italy, warriors, for our homeland. For the sake of our loved ones, fight, tear apart the bodies of the invaders with our artillery, and defend our homeland with our lives! On the flagship Britannia, Marshal Fisher shouted into the microphone, and his roar resounded throughout Anmarsa Sangra in the loudspeaker, of course, His Excellency did not know that at this time, two hundred Eagle fighter-bombers and Swordfish torpedo attack planes had begun to be loaded on the two aircraft carriers in Dingzhen, two hundred kilometers away.

The combined fleet that sailed out of Herosmana Harbor headed straight south for Yang Yonglin's decoy fleet, and only half an hour later, a water reconnaissance plane that took off from a battlecruiser spotted them, and of course they also discovered the reconnaissance plane, but Marshal Fisher did not suspect the source of this reconnaissance plane, in his opinion it was from Yang Yonglin's fleet.

After receiving the telegram sent back by the reconnaissance plane, Cheng Biguang immediately issued an order to the carrier-based aircraft unit on the deck on standby; on the two aircraft carriers sailing against the wind, one after another the Eagle and the Swordfish quickly took off, carrying one after another 250-kilogram bombs or light aviation torpedoes directly at the combined fleet, the latter weighed 750 kilograms, had a range of nearly 2 kilometers at 40 knots, and had a 170-kilogram charge on the head of the mine, although it was weaker than the 533 torpedoes currently used by surface warships. But it was enough to deal with the capital ships of the Entente.

In the blue sky, a small reconnaissance plane is leisurely flying in the direction of Anglospor, this is the British No. 3 reconnaissance plane that discovered Yang Yonglin's fleet not long ago, as a decoy fleet, Yang Yonglin certainly will not turn on radio interference, and he is not interested in shooting it down, so this reconnaissance plane returned safely and prepared to return to Angra de Herosmandimo.

"Will, the fleet ordered, to make a turn on the course of the four going north, and the four lost contact." The transmitter in the back seat said to the pilot in the front seat that at this time, the combined fleet that was riding the wind and waves had appeared on the sea below them. After Marshal Fisher walked for a while, he was not very relieved about the missing No. 4 reconnaissance plane after all, although the intelligence said that only the fleet in front of him was there, but it was always good to be careful.

"Hell, we're all getting there." The pilot said dissatisfiedly, and then turned to fly towards the route of the No. 4 reconnaissance plane.

Less than 70 kilometers away, a huge air formation was flying at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, and 100 Hawk fighter-bombers and 100 Swordfish torpedo attack planes were like a moving cloud.

The two sides flying opposite each other found each other almost at the same time after only ten minutes, and the two people on the No. 3 reconnaissance plane were directly stupid when they looked at the air formation that suddenly appeared in the distance, and it was not until one of the eagles broke away from the formation and rushed towards him at high speed that Will was the first to react.

"Quick, send a report to the fleet and discover a group of Chinese bombers." He yelled at the reporter behind him, and then quickly controlled the plane to turn around and prepare to flee, the Eagle did not hesitate to drop the bomb mounted below, suddenly accelerated to nearly four hundred, dived down from a height of five thousand meters, and used a series of large-caliber machine gun bullets to beat the uninvited guest into a ball of fire.

On the battleship Britannia in the distance, Marshal Fisher was hit by this bad news and stumbled directly, although the No. 3 reconnaissance plane did not have time to explain the size of the Chinese bomber formation, but if you think about it, you will know that this must have taken off from an aircraft carrier, and the Jingzhi formation is tens of thousands of kilometers away in Africa, and only the Dingzhen formation in San Francisco can appear here, and the two aircraft carriers are 200 bombers.

"Quickly, change the air defense formation, turn to the southwest, and advance at full speed at 27 knots." This old guy also made a quick decision, the position of the Dingzhen formation is easy to judge, and this formation is only protected by four battle cruisers, as long as it can survive the bombs of the bombers and rush to the vicinity of the aircraft carrier formation at high speed, he can use naval artillery to sink these giant ships with no naval combat ability.

The combined fleet, which was sailing against Yang Yonglin's fleet, immediately turned around, and at this time, another Chinese reconnaissance plane also discovered the changes in the combined fleet below, and then the telegram was sent to the Dingyuan aircraft carrier, and Cheng Biguang immediately informed Yang Yonglin that Yang Yonglin's fleet, which was also sailing against the combined fleet, also began to turn to attack the combined fleet from the middle.

At this time, after throwing off the slow torpedo attack planes, the first Hawk fighter-bombers had appeared over the Combined Fleet, and in the terrible sound of air defense sirens, Marshal Fisher and General Betty looked at the dense bombers overhead with a shocked expression, and under their attention, the first Eagle began to dive, and its target was the only remaining battleship of the French, and the battleship Lone Pull, flying the tricolor flag, was as striking as the light in the dark night.

On the only remaining battleship of the French Navy, more than a dozen anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of various calibers fired frantically at the sky, and on the French cruisers and destroyers around it, more anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns also fired, and the lines of tracer fire were intertwined in the sky, but although they looked ferocious, the actual effect was zero, for the simple reason that these gunners or anti-aircraft machine gunners were facing such targets for the first time, Before that, they were at most using balloons or small planes with a speed of more than 100 mph to drag targets to practice, when had they ever seen a bomber diving at a high speed of 400 kilometers at a 70-degree angle?

What's more, no one interfered with the target shooting, but the plane overhead kept spraying large-caliber bullets, and in the frenzied and desperate shooting of the French, the Eagle rushed until it was less than 400 meters away from the target before it suddenly pulled up, and at the moment when it pulled up, a 250-kilogram bomb roared and fell.

Although the pilot of this Eagle fighter-bomber was also attacking a warship under sail for the first time, it was not the first time that he could bomb a ground target and anchor a warship, and the success rate of bombing a warship more than 100 meters long and tens of meters wide by hand could directly drop a bomb on a small pillbox. This bomb with a time-delay fuse smashed right on the deck of the Guba ship, and the fifty mm thick horizontal armor could not block the bomb of this level falling at such an angle, just like a bullet that penetrated the plank, this bomb easily drilled into the hull of the Guba, and then with the sound of a huge explosion, countless steel fragments flew into the sky in the firelight, and this explosion also officially opened the prelude to the first sea and air war in the history of war. (To be continued......)