The Axis air force dispatched in a very timely manner, and half an hour after the fighter squadrons were dispatched, the second fleet saw a group of black spots on the vast sea, which were oncoming escort fighters, and four Sailfish 3A fighters were approaching.

One after another, the medium-range missiles flew across a distance of 30 kilometers towards the Axis air forces, and the pilots of those F104 fighters had long known the power of the opponent's missiles, and when they saw the missiles coming, they immediately turned the nose of the aircraft and fled towards the western continent at maximum speed.

A medium-range missile flying at a speed of Mach 2 was confronted by an F104 fighter plane flying at a speed of Mach 1.5, and because the Boston people saw the plane quickly, they chose to flee as soon as possible, and as a result, one of the F104 fighters escaped alive. Seeing that an enemy plane was not shot down, at a top speed of Mach 2, four Sailfish 3A fighters chased after it for a distance of more than 100 kilometers before finally shooting it down.

The fact that a group of fighters closest to the Predator's fleet did not return to base immediately attracted the attention of the military, who quickly informed Field Marshal Halsey of the situation. Several fighter fleets were fan-shaped, and they all had a fixed search range, so the disappearance of one fleet allowed Marshal Halsey to roughly determine the location of the opposing fleet.

Field Marshal Halsey knew he was running out of time and had no time to make further checks, or he would lose his last chance to counterattack. Marshal Halsey decided to take a wild gamble, and he immediately ordered all the carrier-based aircraft to take off and strike in the direction where the fleet was missing, leaving them to find the location of the Predator Fleet themselves. Field Marshal Halsey didn't have much hope for these propeller carrier-based aircraft, they were meant to be decoys to force the Predator fleet to expose their targets, and the real killer moves would be carried out by the army's jets.

At this time, Halsey immediately informed the Air Force of the airspace where the carrier-based aircraft group was going, asking them to send a small number of F104 fighters to follow behind the carrier-based aircraft group for reconnaissance, and when the position was determined, they would use the air force planes to annihilate the Iron Army fleet in one fell swoop.

After briefing on the situation, Marshal Halsey immediately ordered the fleet to retreat at full speed and sail towards the Aegean Sea. In Halsey's view, there was no hope of survival for those carrier-based aircraft, and instead of letting the fleet risk staying here and waiting for a carrier-based aircraft group that could never return, it was better to let the fleet return to the waters under its control to avoid possible carrier-based aircraft and submarine attacks from the other side. When the war was about to begin, Halsey did not hesitate to abandon those carrier-based aircraft in order to save the warships.

Unsuspecting, the carrier-based fleet continued to advance, and in order to be able to expand the search range, they divided the fleet into five parts, each ten kilometers apart, and advanced parallel to the sea, so that the groups maintained visual visibility between them, and extended the search range to tens of kilometers.

Such a large fleet of aircraft did not have any stealth effect, and the AWACS aircraft of the Predator Army quickly spotted them. After seeing a large number of planes coming in the direction of the fleet, 600 Sailfish 3A fighters took off urgently from the sixteen aircraft carriers and met them as the first batch of interceptors.

Six hundred jet fighters were also divided into five groups, pressing towards two thousand four hundred enemy aircraft. 2,400 carrier-based aircraft of various types, which is already the entire strength of the 26 carrier-based aircraft of the Halsey fleet, but in today's rampant jet aircraft, these propeller carrier-based aircraft have obviously fallen behind, and they can only rely on the superiority in numbers to fight for that small chance of victory, which is also the reason why the Axis group is paying less and less attention to the navy.

The Predator's carrier-based aircraft group soon collided with the Axis aircraft group, and various types of missiles began to be launched, and the Iron Blood Army attacked the enemy aircraft group with missiles at any cost, and one Axis aircraft began to fall, but they still charged forward at the fastest speed with the large number of aircraft.

The pilots of the Axis countries knew very well that if their propeller planes wanted to fight with the other side, they would soon be shot down, and only by relying on the large number of their own side that the opponent could not shoot them all down in a short period of time, they could rush as close to the opposing fleet as possible, so as to pose a threat to the enemy fleet.

After all, the number of carrier-based aircraft of the Predator Army was too small, and more than half of the Axis carrier-based aircraft were missed, but the second wave of the Predator Army, the same 600 Sailfish 3A fighters, met it again, and they also began to attack with missiles, and the Axis aircraft group suffered from the baptism of missile rain again, and this time more planes were shot down.

The onslaught of the Axis carrier-based aircraft group was not without effect, and finally more than 100 planes saw the shadow of the iron-blooded fleet from afar, but at this time these more than 100 planes were the only ones left among the more than 2,000 carrier-based aircraft, and most of the surviving were more mobile and flexible Corsair fighters, each of which could only carry 100 kilograms of bombs, and was almost no threat to large warships.

The third wave of escort aircraft swooped towards the Axis carrier-based aircraft, these surviving planes had no reason to survive, only three minutes later, these self-sufficient carrier-based aircraft had all fallen into the sea, but the iron-blooded army who was concentrating on dealing with the carrier-based aircraft did not notice, two F104 fighters mixed in the propeller aircraft approached the iron-blooded fleet, when they saw the huge figure of the Sea King-class aircraft carrier from a distance, these jets turned their noses and returned as fast as possible.

Receiving the return of the F104 fighters, the Axis air forces finally obtained the exact position of the other side. The air force did not lose time, and after getting the exact position, they immediately took off a large number of planes and headed for the Iron Fleet.

This time, the Axis powers were determined to annihilate this Chinese imperial fleet, so they collected all the air forces that could be mobilized, including more than 1,700 F104 fighters alone, nearly 3,000 old F86 fighters, more than 1,400 B29 bombers, and more than 700 air samurai attack aircraft that they had just mass-produced.

The Air Samurai attack aircraft is the first jet attack aircraft designed by the Boston Empire, it uses two 5,000-horsepower turbojet engines, has a maximum speed of 981 kilometers per hour, can carry 5.5 tons of bombs, and has a combat radius of 1,500 kilometers.