The sound of bomb explosions in the port of Heraklion shattered the calm of Crete's early Sunday morning. Most of the officers and men in the harbor base have just gotten up for breakfast, and today is the weekend, for sailors and coastal guards, the weekend is the best day of the week. Even the soldiers on duty have a more relaxed schedule than in the past.

The first wave of attack planes emblazoned with the Japanese logo was already roaring towards the harbor bend and swooping down. Six or seven of the warships anchored in the harbor were hit by bullets and exploded at the first time, and the sirens sounding in the base became even more poignant and piercing.

By the time Necker and Tony drove their cars outside the airport, the airfield had been relentlessly bombed by Japanese planes, and thick smoke emanated from the bombed and flaming warplanes parked on the runway. From time to time, planes swooped down from high altitudes and dropped 100-kilogram bombs on the hangar.

It has been five minutes since the airfield was attacked, and the planes parked on the tarmac have completely turned into fires, and the hangars and oil depots have also been seriously hit. Necker decisively drove the car to the anti-aircraft artillery position, which was located next to the airfield. As soon as the car stopped, the two of them kicked the car door and ran directly towards the position.

A Japanese dive bomber that had just returned from dropping bombs at the airfield, saw Tony and Necker driving in, the pilot controlled the plane to dive low again, and the aviation machine gun in the nose of the plane 'Dadada' swept out a chain of fire to the ground.

It was really like a long fire-colored whip struck the ground, and where the bullet passed, the asphalt road shattered and flew, leaving two neat rows of bullet holes. Machine gun bullets grazed the sides of the two men lying on the ground. Tony's face was also bloodied by the debris of the road that was flying.

Having a brush with death, Necker and Tony did not dare to delay in the slightest. Tumbling into the grass beside the road, Tony's face turned pale. As a top pilot. If you are killed by a bullet from an airplane on land, you really can't see it.

Not daring to stop for the slightest, the two men immediately jumped up from the grass and rushed into the bunker of an anti-aircraft artillery position.

The semi-open bunker, made entirely of concrete and sandbags, is very sturdy. Unless it was directly hit by an aerial bomb, no matter whether it was a wave of air set off by an aerial bomb or a splash of shrapnel, it would not cause any damage to the air defense personnel inside. The armament was a double-barreled anti-aircraft gun with a caliber of 42mm. This is already a medium-caliber anti-aircraft gun with a rate of fire of more than 500 / min.

"Tony, come and help me load the shells."

This air raid came too suddenly, and the defenders of the anti-aircraft artillery positions were not yet in place. It was very reluctant for Necker and Tony to operate an anti-aircraft gun, and a 42mm double-barreled anti-aircraft gun could not be operated by just two people. But they can only do this, do their best to resist.

Smoke filled the sky, and fire raged all over the harbor.

Tony took out a volley of anti-aircraft shells and pressed them hard into the anti-aircraft gun's shells. As Necker took aim, he stirred the direction and the high and low planes, and the Grand Cross Ring aimed at a bomber approaching from a distance, and immediately stepped on the firing mechanism under his feet. Amid the sound of "bang bang bang", artillery shells were fired at enemy planes at a rapid pace.

However, it was too difficult for a single anti-aircraft gun to shoot down an aircraft.

Necker and Tony emptied a shell and failed to shoot down or even damage a plane. However, it attracted the attention of a fighter. Swooping down towards the anti-aircraft gun emplacement, two machine guns in the nose. Pumped like a fire-breathing whip to the ground anti-aircraft artillery positions. Nicker and Tony held their heads and retreated into cover.

There were at least 120 planes attacking Heraklion this time. In just ten minutes, the whole of Heraklion was plunged into a sea of smoke and fire.

But the bomb load of the aircraft was limited. More than two dozen planes ravaged the airfield for more than ten minutes before finally leaving.

Necker and Tony did not know that the second batch of 'Japanese planes' had arrived at the port of Heraklion, and they took advantage of the departure of the 'Japanese planes' to rush back to the airport.

In order to save time, the two men entered the airport through the gap in the bombed wall and directly entered the airport to the southwest of the airport entrance. After entering the airport, I ran along the road, and there was a scene of destruction everywhere. In the distance, you can see the planes parked on both sides of the runway, which have been blown up or destroyed by machine guns, emitting thick black smoke, some of which are still burning, and there are slight explosions from time to time.

It's too serious!

More than two hundred fighters were stationed at the Heraklion airfield, a small part were spare aircraft, and then three air wings. Among them, there were as many as 64 fighters in the apron area on both sides of the runway. Now it's all ruined!

Some of the surviving airport staff are urgently clearing the airstrip in an effort to clear a runway for fighter planes to take off as soon as possible. The two remaining trailers are hauling the wreckage of the blown plane, and a bulldozer is filling in the large crater left on the runway when the bomb exploded.

Tony and Necker managed to get to the hangar at the end of the runway, but fortunately, only three of the six hangars were blown up, but the two base dormitory buildings not far from the hangar collapsed in the bombing. When Necker and Tony saw this scene, blood instantly rushed to their heads.

"Our base is over, and you're the only pilot left." A lieutenant colonel looked extremely sad. There were only seven pilots in front of him, including Tony and Necker.

There were at least fifty of them, but the lieutenant colonel would not agree to let the seven pilots take to the skies. For the aviation forces of Heraklion, the war was over.

The second group of enemy aircraft has already arrived!

"God, how many planes did the Chinese use? I see that the first wave of their attack aircraft has returned, are they going to make a forced landing at sea? Tony held his head in his hands, and with his idea of war, it was incomprehensible to him. This is the difference between the two sides' concepts of war, and it is also the difference between the social concepts of the East and the West.

It is difficult for Westerners to voluntarily carry out 'suicidal attacks', so when considering the problem, they have exposed a huge gap in the threat of Chinese aircraft.

And the Orientals. Under the call of the motherland and the encouragement of honor. It cannot be said that all military personnel are willing to give with their lives, and even this proportion will definitely not exceed 50% or 30%. But there will always be a group of people who will volunteer to 'sacrifice'.

What's more, are these plane pilots really attacking 'suicidal'?

Today's Westerners may already have the idea of an aircraft carrier, but they would never have thought that China had already realized it. Moreover, through the transformation and testing of container carriers, a certain degree of interconnection between large container carriers and escort aircraft carriers has been realized.

The French and Italians sealed the Aegean Sea and blockaded Istanbul. So a large number of Chinese transport ships were stranded in the Ottoman Empire. Then, when the Europeans did not mean it at all, container carriers of more than 10,000 tons turned into escort aircraft carriers with only a dozen or twenty loaders, and at most twenty or thirty aircraft.

The shipbuilding industry of the Ottomans was not well developed, and although they received comprehensive technology from the Chinese side and a large number of Chinese technicians provided assistance, it took a long time to turn 12 large container carriers of more than 10,000 tons into escort aircraft carriers. In total, they were able to carry 355 aircraft. However, the reasonable number of aircraft carried is only 235, and the extra 120 aircraft are tied to the deck.

At this point, China will not learn from the small Japan in history, and although the deck of our aircraft carrier is very neat and clean, it is not an egg. The number of aircraft is the first factor in the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers, and the convenience of aircraft taking off is also the key to directly affecting the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers.

The little devils of the original time and space learned from the British, and the planes were usually kept in the hangar, but in wartime, the elevators were used to lift the planes to the deck and then take off. The advantage of this approach is that the aircraft is not easily damaged. However, the number of carrier aircraft is small -- under the same tonnage, the number of carrier aircraft is less than that of the United States, and the flexibility of sorties is poor.

China is now following the path of the United States, attacking on all decks. Use the deck as a place to park your aircraft. The hangar really just serves as a repair station as well as a place to store spare aircraft. The entire deck of the aircraft carrier was piled with aircraft. The advantage of this approach is that the aircraft take off and attack quickly, and the number of loaded aircraft is large, but in normal times the aircraft is on the deck. Easily damaged.

But this is not a problem at all for China behind the Ottomans.

There is only one demand from China. Give full play to the combat effectiveness of these 12 escort aircraft carriers. The main force of the Ottoman naval fleet they organized would be the winner or loser of the Ottoman War in the future. It is also one of the important components of the whole war.

Whether it is Liu Xian, who is in seclusion behind the scenes, or Emperor Xiao Liu standing in front of the stage, this cabinet, as well as the bigwigs of all arms in the army, they are all extremely looking forward to the performance of the aircraft carrier. And this first shot hit Heraklion!

In charge of this aircraft carrier fleet is the uncle of the current Ottoman Sultan Ahmadi IV, Muhammad. Vahidedin. Root. Abdul. McGid. Root. Mahmoud. But Muhammad was clearly not capable of actually leading the fleet, which was now commanded by a group of Japanese and a handful of Chinese officers.

Heihachiro Togo, who was nearly seventy years old, stood in the command tower of the flagship Xingyue, and he was directly marked by Liu Xian. The chief of staff of the fleet is Masayuki Akiyama, who is 20 years younger than Heihachiro Togo, a former deputy chief of the Navy Department of the Tokyo government, and the principal of the Etajima Naval Academy in Japan.

Japan has long been out of China's eyes, but Togo Heihachiro, Akiyama Shinyuki and other Japanese heroes in the original time and space, Emperor Liu will not forget for a moment. Especially the talent of the Navy.

In this time and space, without the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War, let alone the Russo-Japanese War, no matter how radiant the pearl of Heihachiro Togo is, it can only be buried deep in the yellow sand.

Liu Xian also wants to have a little more fun for the rest of his life. He chose Heihachiro Togo, who had retired home for three years, and naturally Lao Togo immediately went out of the mountain. Now China is the father of the little devil, the Chinese father has spoken, do the little dwarfs dare not listen?

And Togo Heihachiro himself is obviously a person who is not willing to be lonely. He admires Wang Yangming very much, but if Wang Yangming didn't have that great achievement, only a philosophical thought, Dongxiang Heihachiro should not worship such a person in his bones. [Personally, I feel that Wang Yangming is very pretending to be a fan] What's more, Togo Heihachiro is a Japanese, a soldier of a small country who has been suppressed, and there is a sense of 'hatred' in his bones.

Now Liu Xian has given him this opportunity, and he has also systematically sorted out the aircraft carrier tactics and concepts that the Chinese Navy has summed up over the years, and completely made it public and taught to the Japanese Navy. Whether the next 12 escort aircraft carriers can make a contribution depends on the ability of this group of little devils.

The code name of Heraklion's air raid operation was also preemptively registered by Liu Xian -- the general code: Climbing the New Mountain, and the offensive codename: Tiger Tiger Tiger!

This is completely out of the bad taste of the old Emperor Liu.

Of course, no one else knows about it. The little dwarfs who got the code name of the operation were still very happy. This was sent directly to them in the name of Liu Sheng. Let the little devils be so unfrozen!

There were a total of 355 aircraft, including 80 fighters, 160 dive bombers, 10 reconnaissance aircraft, and 105 torpedo aircraft. Akiyama Shinyuki led the Japanese staff and perfectly completed the entire battle plan.

Whether it is the fighters of the attack group, or the resistance encountered, the time of return, the time interval between the handover of the front and rear attack groups, ......, and so on, everything is perfectly structured.

The time was also set for the early morning of the weekend, the most lax time in the port of Heraklion. Although this will also allow a large number of French and Italian soldiers to escape because of vacation, but human life is more important than warships and materials at this moment. The choice to carry out air strikes on weekends, which is the largest possible density of anti-aircraft fire in any other time period, is itself aimed at warships, rather than on the lives of French and Italian sailors.

The first group of attack planes immediately attacked the outermost ships in the harbor, and they were trying to sink the ships and block the waterways. At the same time, they bombed airfields, bombed large quantities of supplies piled up in ports, and bombed fuel reserve tanks.

This first wave of attacks alone dealt a heavy blow to Heraklion.

The whole port was in chaos, and countless warships sounded their whistles, eager to be full of kinetic energy in the next second, pull anchors and set sail, and jump out of the Heraklion port area in the next second. But this is not possible.

No matter how fast the reaction is, it will take an hour for a warship!

Only a few minutes had passed since the first wave of the attack, and a large group of bombers and torpedo planes had already swarmed again.

Dozens of warships moored throughout the port area were like pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered, and they were extremely miserable. Even if the anti-aircraft fire on the warship is fully opened, there are still big loopholes because of panic and difficulty in cooperating with each other. Bombers and torpedo planes shuttled through these loopholes, calmly harvesting the 'life' of warships! (To be continued.) )