Under Shen Shoukun's order, the guns on all the warships of the Chinese Navy Expeditionary Fleet began to fire at the remnants of the Ottoman Navy, because the Ottoman Navy fleet had turned off the boilers of the remaining warships in accordance with Shen Shoukun's requirements, and now those remaining warships are all stopped on the sea, which is equivalent to letting the Chinese Navy guns hit fixed targets, and the first round of salvo will make the remaining dozen or so Ottoman warships all shot, and the bow of two small-tonnage battleships will be hit, and the explosion will make the two battleships stand upside down, Soon planted beneath the surface of the sea.

After several rounds of salvo fire, there were only a few Ottoman naval ships left on the sea, but all of them were on fire and smoke, and each one was scarred, but the Chinese naval fleet did not stop attacking because of this, and it was two more volleys, plus several torpedo ships were close to drop torpedoes, and within a few minutes, all the remaining ships of the Ottoman naval fleet were finished, and those battleships began to sink slowly, and some of them had sunk two-thirds, and some of them had bows exposed on the water, and some were broken into two.

The 40 fighters on the two aircraft carriers have all gone to meet the enemy, and a large part of the remaining bombers and torpedo planes have also taken to the air; although the air combat capabilities of the bombers and torpedo planes cannot be compared with the fighters at all, Shen Shoukun and Fang Datong decided after urgent deliberations that these bombers and torpedo planes should not be allowed to stop on the aircraft carriers and be bombed, even if these bombers and torpedo planes cannot be allowed to deal with the enemy's fighters, it is always possible to use bombers and torpedo planes against bombers. The Chinese bombers and torpedo planes were equipped with a machine gun, which was not as lethal as the machine guns on the fighters, but they could be used for emergencies. In order to reduce weight and increase maneuverability, these bombers and torpedo machines were unloaded with aerial bombs and torpedoes. Armed with only one machine gun.

According to the tactical arrangement of Shen Shoukun and Fang Datong, use your own fighter to entangle the opponent's fighter. If the enemy sends bombers and torpedo planes, they will certainly be preparing to bomb the Chinese expeditionary fleet, and the bombers will certainly be loaded with ammunition, while the Chinese bombers and torpedo planes will have no aerial bombs and torpedoes, and their mobility and flexibility will certainly be much better than those of the enemy bombers.

"Sir, the bomber and torpedo groups have all taken off, and the forward fighter group has called to say that it has encountered the Ottoman Air Force bomber group. The opponent has a total of 30 fighters and 70 bombers, Colonel Fan has ordered each fighter to entangle one enemy fighter and attack, destroy the other party as quickly as possible, and then go to help their companions, and the other ten fighters go to deal with the enemy bomber group, the enemy fighters began to fight with our fighters, and the enemy bombers continue to fly in the direction of our fleet, ready to bomb our fleet! ”

Shen Shoukun immediately said: "Immediately order the bomber and torpedo groups to meet the enemy and intercept them as much as possible." Don't let enemy bomber groups get close to our fleet! ”

"Yes, sir!" The combat staff officer stood up and saluted, then turned to leave.

Shen Shoukun took a puff of cigarette and said to the other party: "Although our fleet is ahead of other countries in terms of weapons and equipment such as warships and carrier-based aircraft, combat effectiveness is not only measured by the priority of weapons, weapons and equipment are important. But the person who uses them is more important, the weapon is operated by people, and no matter how advanced the weapon is, if it is operated by a fool. Then it also does not have any combat power to speak of, and we used to carry out massive bombing of the Japanese naval fleet. The Ottoman naval fleet was bombed just now, setting a historical precedent for large-scale bombing of ground and sea targets by land-based air and naval aviation. And achieved a perfect victory, but this is the first time to conduct a large-scale air battle with the enemy, although we have been trained in this area for a long time, but it is also the first time to conduct real combat, I am a little worried! ”

Fang Datong listened to his words and comforted: "Old Shen, don't worry, we have done everything we should have done, and we have done our best, now everything is handed over to Colonel Fan, I believe that with him in front of the command, there should be no problems!" ”

Shen Shoukun shook his head and said: "I'm not worried about failure, but I'm worried about too big losses, think about it, the Ottoman Empire's fighters were imported from Germany, and the most advanced fighters of the Germans are only equivalent to our first generation, and our army has used the third generation, and there is a difference of two generations in the middle, if we lose too much this time, you and I will not look good on our faces!" ”

Fang Datong shook his head and said: "It's not important to me to lose face, as long as the young men can come back safely, I will be thankful, and I can also explain everything to their parents and relatives!" ”

Although the Ottoman Air Force developed very early, it did not make much progress due to financial and technical reasons, and the Chinese Air Force was the fastest developing, not only ahead of other countries in terms of equipment, but also had a perfect establishment, and after systematic training, it also had a lot of experience in bombing actual combat.

At this time, the Ottoman Air Force did not even have a basic flight formation, but only let the pilots fly fighters to fight, while the Chinese Air Force had a complete establishment, using a two-plane formation, usually divided into long planes and wingmen, and the long planes and flirtatious planes were tactical formations in air combat. When a long plane attacks an enemy plane, the fighter is responsible for observation, vigilance, and cover. However, when the position of the propelling aircraft is more favorable, the propelling aircraft is responsible for attacking, while the long aircraft is responsible for observation, vigilance and cover. In general, the wingman is responsible for luring the enemy, while the long plane is responsible for attacking.

At this time, the Chinese Air Force generally had 20 fighters in a squadron, consisting of 10 twin-plane squadrons, three twin-plane squadrons, and three squadrons in a squadron, with the squadron leader piloting a fighter and a wingman, for a total of 20 fighters. The bomber has more pilots and operators than fighters, and from three bombers to a small group, two small groups to form a squadron, and three squadrons to form a squadron, so that is to say, with the addition of the squadron leader and his two wingmen, 21 bombers form a squadron.

It is advantageous for the bomber group to adopt a three-plane formation, because in terms of bombing intensity, it is necessary to completely explode the two-plane formation, and in addition, the self-defense machine guns that the bombers only carry can form a dense cross-fire network when the three-plane group is formed.

However, if the formation of fighters uses a three-plane formation, there are advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that the firepower network is dense when attacking, and the two wingmen can effectively protect the long aircraft, and the three fighters cooperate with each other to be very powerful in defense and attack, but the three-plane formation also has disadvantages, and the three-plane formation is generally formed into a wedge-shaped formation, which brings a lot of problems, such as when being raided, the fighter turns and dodges urgently, and it is easy to collide with their own people.

At present, whether it is Britain, Germany, or other Allied countries or Allied countries, there is basically no formation and formation in the air force, and there is no tactic, and there is no maneuver of fighters to speak of, and the two sides are all in a swarm when they engage in air battles or bombers, but the Chinese Air Force is different, not only has a clear way of forming and forming troops, but also has a perfect organization, and it has more operational strategy and tactics, and after a long period of training, it also has actual combat experience.

The fighter formation of the Chinese Air Force only has a two-plane formation, a long plane and a wingman, and the two planes are about 200 yards apart in front and rear during the combat cruise, and the wingman is behind, so that the long plane can concentrate on the search without worrying about the blind spot behind it, and in battle, the wingman is responsible for covering behind the long plane when it attacks. And every two two-plane formations can form a four-plane formation that covers and supports each other. In fact, this two-plane formation method was later paid off handsomely and was quickly copied by other countries.

In the Chinese Air Force, a fighter squadron, a bomber squadron, a torpedo squadron, and a transport aircraft squadron are organized into a flight group, three flight groups are organized into a flight group, and three flight regiments are organized into an air force division. For example, if you want to carry out a bomber mission on a ground target, you can be escorted by a small number of fighters, and a large number of bombers can be used to carry out the bombing mission.

The establishment of naval aviation units is basically the same, but the fighters in naval aviation are slightly less than bombers and torpedo planes, after all, the combat environment and combat objectives are different, and the main combat targets of naval aviation are enemy warships, followed by enemy ground targets and fighters, so the number of fighters is less, and an aircraft carrier can only accommodate one flight group at most, and it cannot bring transport aircraft and heavy bombers.

Naval aviation units do not have regimental units, the largest is only a flying group, and it is independent of the air force and directly under the command of the naval fleet.

Due to the advance warning, the fighter group of the Chinese carrier-based aircraft formation set up an ambush at a high altitude when it was heading to meet the enemy, and the Ottoman bomber group thought that its actions were very secret, but they did not know that such a huge group of planes had already been discovered by reconnaissance planes hidden above the clouds in the high altitude.

The main reason why the reconnaissance planes and fighter groups were able to fly higher above the clouds to conduct reconnaissance and ambush was that the Chinese army was equipped with third-generation fighters, and their performance was much better than that of the Ottoman bomber group in all aspects, and the gap between the two was not ordinarily large. (To be continued......)