After the two fleets converged, the number and quality of warships had surpassed the native fleet of the Saar Empire, and after consultation, the two countries decided to jointly attack Scapa Bay and destroy the main fleet of the Saar people, with Marshal Scheer of the Yaman Empire as the commander-in-chief.

When the combined fleets of the two countries approached the northern part of the Sahr Empire, the huge fleet was soon discovered by the Sahr people who were on alert, and the Saar Air Force, which got the news, immediately took off reconnaissance planes to conduct reconnaissance.

The Yaman people have long been prepared, and the Yaman air force at the coastal airfields is on alert, taking off to meet the enemy at any time, and at the same time, there is always a squadron of Golden Eagle 1 fighters taking turns to be on guard over the fleet, ready to meet the battle at any time, the Saar Strait is not wide, and the air force of the Yaman army will not suffer too much in the flight range.

Receiving an early warning from the reconnaissance troops, Marshal Jericho also immediately ordered the fleet to set sail due north and meet it directly. The entire Sahr Empire was nervous, and they knew very well that this was a war related to the fortunes of the country, and if the Saar Empire lost its sea dominance, the Entente bloc could surrender directly.

In order to neutralize the superiority of the other side, the air force of the Saar Empire launched the attack first, a large number of camel fighters covered dozens of Handley Page bombers to fly towards the Combined Fleet, the Yaman Empire ships were sailing along the coastline of the Saar Empire, and through the transmission of information from various reconnaissance posts, they quickly found the location of the Combined Fleet.

The Yaman Empire had been prepared for a long time, after seeing the Sahr Empire reconnaissance planes, they increased the Golden Eagle 1 fighter from one squadron to two divisions, and at this time they saw the dense Sahr planes rushing towards them, they immediately stepped forward to meet them, and a Yaman fighter that had been cruising in the distance immediately flew into the distance, and it would return to the Yaman airport on the mainland to summon more reinforcements.

Seeing the other party's arrival, more than 100 Golden Eagle 1 fighters immediately accelerated to meet them. The Camel fighters of the Sahr Air Force also met them, and a fierce air battle broke out between the two sides at sea.

The bombers of the Yaman Empire were all old models imported from the Chinese Empire, and they did not have enough range to cross the strait to attack the Saar Empire itself, so their mission could only be to cover the sky above the fleet.

The Thar Air Force is to defend the homeland and close the numerical gap for its own fleet as much as possible. Both sides fought desperately for their own interests, and the Golden Eagle 1 fighter of the Yaman Air Force was slightly superior in performance, but far inferior in number to the Camel fighters of the Saar Empire, and the fighters of both sides flew up and down in the air, and the battle was very fierce.

At this time, the Yaman Air Force could no longer take care of the air defense over the fleet, and taking advantage of this gap, the bomber group of the Sahr Air Force immediately flew towards the combined fleet.

Since most of the air force was used for air transport in the southern subcontinent, the Sahr Air Force had collected stocks of airfields across the country and only brought in eighty bombers, but even if they were alone, they would be enough for the Combined Fleet to have a headache.

Field Marshal Schell was an old-school admiral who firmly believed in the theory of victory with large artillery ships and did not attach any importance to the air force. He did not expect that the opponent's air force would attack this time, and in the face of the rapidly rushing Sahr bombers, the Yaman Navy was a little unprepared, and the combined fleet could only passively meet the battle.

Fortunately, Tirpis, the Admiral of the Yaman Empire, had a clear understanding of the threat from the air, and the cover of the air force was his idea, in addition to adding anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns to all warships.

The Thar bombers flew over the fleet, and the warships of the Yaman Empire immediately organized anti-aircraft firing, and the anti-aircraft firepower that was not dense was fired into the sky, although the firepower was not dense enough, but it still had enough lethality against the poor performance of the Handley Page bombers.

The bombers of the Sahr Air Force circled around the air several times, but those pilots did not dare to lower their altitude to bomb, and if they carried out high-altitude bombing, those planes without sights would not be able to attack accurately at all, not to mention that they were still bombing some moving targets.

Seeing that the bombing was very dangerous, and the pilots did not know what to do, one of the bombers was a little slow to circle and flew over the Boston fleet, and he suddenly found that the Boston fleet had no anti-aircraft fire coming at him.

In order to test the veracity of his judgment, he gritted his teeth and pushed the joystick to slowly lower the height, while the Bostonian still did not move. The excited bomber bomber pressed the bomb button hard.

The bomb compartment in the belly of Handley Page's bomber slowly opened, and two 500-kilogram bombs fell one after the other, and since there was no anti-aircraft fire, he dropped the bomb at a very low altitude, and the bombs landed accurately on the foredeck of a cruiser.

Even the warhead of a 356-mm gun weighs less than 200 kilograms, and the power of a 500-kilogram bomb can be imagined. The cruiser was hit by a bomb, first with a violent shock, and then blown to pieces.

Seeing the success of their own planes, the other Handley Page bombers also came over, and they began to concentrate on bombing the warships of the Boston fleet. At this time, the Boston people were extremely depressed, not because they did not want to fight against air defense, but because the Boston warships were built without considering the problem of air defense, resulting in the general lack of elevation angle of their cannons, and they could not return fire at all.

The Sahr bombers wreaked havoc over the Boston Fleet for ten minutes, and the Boston Fleet suffered heavy losses, with two Chinese ships, two former Chinese ships, and six cruisers sunk, but the destroyers were all spared because they were too small for the Sahr Air Force to look down on.

Seeing that his own warships were sunk one by one, Admiral Godar, the commander-in-chief of the Boston fleet, even had the heart to die, and he scolded the domestic warship designers for being idiots, and the warships built were too flawed, and there was nothing they could do in the face of bombardment from the air at this time.

Just as the Thar bombers were raging, a black cloud appeared in the distance, the black cloud was getting closer and closer, and the rumbling of the engine was getting louder and louder, which was the reinforcements of the Yaman Air Force who rushed to hear the news.

Seeing the fighters of the Yaman Air Force group coming, the Sahr bombers began to retreat gradually, and some of the fighters of the Saar Air Force broke away from the fight and won. Handley Page's bombers were extremely slow, and although they began to retreat early, they still did not escape the pursuit of the Golden Eagle 1 fighters, they were shot down one by one, and they were quickly lost, and finally only six of them flew back to the airfield.

The fighters of the two sides fought for a long time, and in the end, the Sahr Air Force found that the bombers were lost, and there was no point in staying here anymore, so they chose to retreat on their own initiative, and the Yaman Air Force was about to run out of fuel, so they did not go deep into the interior to pursue, and also chose to return.

The design of the Boston warships was backward in their thinking, which cost their fleet a lot, and even then, the combined fleet still had the upper hand. After returning a wounded battleship and two cruisers with the wounded, Field Marshal Scheer led the fleet on, this time applying to the Air Force for more powerful air cover.

The air battle at sea just now caused the loss of hundreds of fighters on both sides, and the Sahr Air Force lost more than 70 bombers, and Marshal Scheer believed that the Sahr Air Force's attack capability had been mostly wiped out and would no longer become a threat to the fleet, not to mention that he still had air superiority.

After discovering that the performance of the Entente's self-produced aircraft was close to the Golden Eagle 1 fighter, the Chinese Empire began to replace the Golden Eagle 2 fighter, and the replacement Golden Eagle 1 was naturally exported to the allies, and the Yaman Empire was also in need of advanced fighters to protect its own sky.

The Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire did not have an aviation industry before the war, and began to build their own aviation industry during the war, and everything was done from scratch. In wartime, most of the industrial capacity of the two countries was more inclined to the production of equipment for the army and navy, and they had neither experience nor rich industrial capacity for the construction of the aviation industry, so their production rate was not high.

Sun Xiaohu's fleet relied on carrier-based aircraft to successfully attack the port of Tunisia at night, so that all countries in the Western Continent saw the value of the air force in the war, and it was only at this time that the Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire paid enough attention to the aviation industry, and with their strong support, aircraft production skyrocketed.

It was also at this time that Su Zhizhen's headquarters in the southern subcontinent had all been reequipped with Golden Eagle 2 fighters with better performance, and because the Chinese Air Force strangled the Allied air transport lines, and also because the performance of the Allied planes was not high, the Allied fighters covering the transportation lines suffered great losses, so that the newly manufactured aircraft of the Entente countries had to fully supply the battlefield in the southern subcontinent, which caused the shortage of the number of local fighters in the Saar Empire.

According to the report of the spies, there are only about 500 fighters in the whole country of the Saar Empire, and more than 100 of them are young eagle fighters belonging to the second-line establishment, and they are simply cannon fodder in air combat. Compared with the Sar Empire's air force, the Yaman Empire's air force is much stronger, and they are equipped with 600 fighters along the coast, which can completely overwhelm the Saar Empire.

With sufficient confidence in his own air force, Marshal Scheer no longer cared about the air power of the other side and continued to advance towards Scarpa Bay, but for better air defense, the fleets of the two countries were mixed, and the Yaman warships with anti-aircraft guns covered the Boston warships, and their fighter cover forces in the air were also increased from two divisions to three.

"The enemy fleet is already close." The signalman learned of this from the flag-bearers on the shore, and he immediately reported it to Marshal Jericho. The entire Saar Empire was mobilized, and observation posts were placed on all the heights along the route, and they communicated by telephone and cable telegraph, and then notified the native fleet of the Saar not far from the coast with flags.

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