"What do the Chinese want to do? They sent at least four hundred planes to bomb the port of Djibouti ......"

Hitler held in his hand a tagged canned jar of white iron, which was for bacon, which was eaten and was now used for drinking. Beside him was a red wine from Château Latour, a famous wine that would cost Hitler at least a month's salary when there was no war. Now he, a not-so-well-known war correspondent, can let go of his belly and drink.

But the strong smell of smoke and toast in Latour, as well as truffles, mint, and black cherries, did not attract Hitler's attention, and his eyes were engrossed in the distant sky.

Unlike Morrison, who was not good at military affairs and did not like it, Hitler was a mad military enthusiast, and he once dreamed more than once that he commanded the German army to sweep the world, German chariots, German planes, German sabers and leather boots......

So Hitler was very puzzled why the Chinese would attack Djibouti at this time?

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The news of the air raid on Djibouti quickly reached the rapid reaction fleet, and of course Jeliko, Scheer and others in the port of Aden also received the telegram, and everyone was overjoyed. At this critical moment, the Chinese threw the most deterrent weapon on Djibouti, which is a big stunt no matter how you look at it!

The rapid reaction fleet is only 100 nautical miles from the Chinese, and the remaining warships of the joint navy of the three countries in the port of Aden are all attacked!

Jericho, Scheer and the others did not waste any extra time, and within ten minutes they finalized the general battle plan, and immediately issued the order for all warships to leave the port.

The blue waves are blowing. More than 100 warships sounded their whistles, marking white marks on the sea for more than a dozen kilometers in succession. Columns of warships marched in unison. Around the destroyers and light patrol ships, Jericho and Scheer even brought many torpedo boats.

Nobody knows. At this time, the deck of the Chinese aircraft carrier was hoisting one fighter after another. Lifted from transport ships to the deck of an aircraft carrier.

Cranes are whining, planes are filling empty decks, elevators are also working, and the entire Grand Fleet is in tense and delicate operation.

The Grand Fleet was heading for the rapid reaction fleet of the Europeans at a low speed of ten knots. They have no intention of retreating at all, and some of them are full of pride in one battle.

Liu Xian wants to use his own scientific instruments to fight this battle with extremely precise 'calculations'. From the take-off of most of the fighters on the aircraft carrier itself, to the continuous replenishment of new fighters by the transport ships to the aircraft carrier, calculate the fuel reserve time of the two sides, that is, the time when the aircraft will stay in the air, and directly attack the pursuing three-nation combined fleet at the right time and at the right distance. With the most fearless spirit of sacrifice. A desperate onslaught.

The main force of China's Grand Fleet has more than 40 transport ships, each of which is loaded with at least 30 warplanes and a large number of heavy aerial bombs, torpedoes, depth charges, etc., and the political fleet also has 12 10,000-ton oil tankers, which are abundant in fuel. There are more than 1,500 naval sailors, all of whom have undergone rigorous flight training, and all of them have more than 10 rounds of experience in aircraft carrier takeoffs.

These people can only be regarded as rookies of the Navy, but as long as they fly steadily into the sky, they will immediately transform from rookies to excellent fighter pilots.

In recent years, the Chinese Air Force has fought in all directions, but it has trained a large number of outstanding pilots with actual combat experience.

The concept of aircraft carriers and pilots replenishing at any time does not exist in the minds of Europeans. None of them realized that the main force of the Chinese Grand Fleet, which had left the northern shore of the Gulf of Aden, had always maintained its strong combat power and hematopoietic ability, and only regarded their opponents as Europeans with 600 aircraft carriers, and this war was congenitally in the shadow of defeat.

15:40 p.m.

"Northeast wind, wind 3. Temperature 9. 4°, clear, high visibility at sea. High visibility in the air. "The personnel on the flight decks of the aircraft carriers, who received the order to take off and attack, immediately got busy, and the warship was on the loudspeaker. The weather monitoring post was the first to send the latest weather report. Since the planes at this time could not operate in all weather, the quality of the weather would directly affect the effect of attack bombing.

"It's a beautiful day. Just in time for the First World War. Liu Xian stood on the bridge, looking at the planes preparing to depart in the distance, and said in a faint voice. The position of the Grand Fleet has been detected by the submarines of the Europeans, but there are too few of them, and their speed is too slow, looking at the distance between the two sides, it is absolutely impossible to keep up.

The Chinese fighters are about to take off, and the fighters that take off in the third and fourth waves will come back to refuel in one hour. The planes on the decks of these aircraft carriers that bombed Djibouti had to take off to make room. And this kind of reincarnation-like rotation is the trick of the Chinese Grand Fleet to maintain its combat strength today, flying in waves, refueling and resting in waves, and when the aircraft group hovering above is about to refuel, the planes on the deck must take off immediately.

There is a four-hour interval in between, and there needs to be enough time for take-off, landing, and returning, and every time number must be tightly closed, otherwise what awaits the Chinese Navy will be a disaster.

Therefore, after the beginning and the end, a cycle is only a short 2 and a half hours.

Now it is the beginning of another cycle, the group of cruising planes flying in the sky is about to fall down to refuel, and the planes on the deck are about to take off immediately. It's just that they don't need to hover the fleet now, but immediately pounce on the rapid reaction fleet of the Europeans.

Just now a submarine has sent back a telegram reconfirming the location of the enemy's rapid reaction fleet, which is now only 224 kilometers from the Grand Fleet. But at the same time, the telegram also reported the bad news, the submarine found this fleet only one-third of the warships of the entire rapid reaction fleet.

The whole command room was in an uproar, only the old emperor knew in his heart, the Europeans knew that they had sent a group of air raids on Djibouti, so they immediately dispatched the remaining warships in the Gulf of Aden, and at noon, the two fleets of the Europeans completed the grouping, three on one side and five on the other. The entire fleet was divided into eight groups of ships and rushed towards the Chinese Navy's Grand Fleet, as for why? That's too self-explanatory.

The Europeans were all for close combat. It's all about melee combat, melee at all costs.

Their estimate for the Chinese Navy's Grand Fleet is only 600 fighters. A single sortie of these 600 fighters will deprive the entire Chinese Grand Fleet of its most deterrent weapon; even if the Chinese can repeatedly destroy the detachments of the joint navy of the three countries, only half of the eight squadrons will need to fight the Chinese in close quarters, and the Chinese navy will definitely lose.

These people know very well the significance of the Chinese Grand Fleet, not to mention that the old emperor himself is still in this fleet, as long as he wins the victory, as long as he can destroy this fleet, it is worth the great losses that the Europeans pay.

What if all the warships are gone?

The whole of Europe can still form a second coalition navy if it closes up its foundations. And how many task forces does China have? Five!

There are only five task forces in the whole of China. Don't look at their task force, there is already the so-called Eighth Fleet. There's a blank number in between. The Chinese' de facto sixth task force is still in their dock.

If the Chinese navy in the Gulf of Aden can be overturned in one fell swoop, and even the old Chinese emperor can be captured alive, the whole war will be over. The whole of Europe will have the capital to seek a decent peace.

What a great significance this was, for the top echelons of London, Berlin, and Paris, after a brief consultation and rapid communication with each other, gathered together in less than an hour, and all of them unanimously issued an order to their fleet commanders to 'do everything at all costs'.

It's a big gamble! The heads of state of the three countries all believe that they have a good chance of winning. If George V of England, Wilhelm II of Berlin, Vittorio Emanuele III of Rome, or even Karl I of Vienna. Not all of them sternly demanded that the fleets of all countries must find a living, preferably intact His Majesty the Old Emperor of China. This gamble will be even more crisp!

Europeans are well aware of Liu Xian's position in China, and such a person cannot die at their hands, otherwise it is very likely that he will have to fight to the death of hundreds of millions of people in China. But they can't tolerate such a great opportunity being let go in vain. Hence the demand. Isn't it very similar to Emperor Jianwen's 'compassionate heart' for his fourth uncle?

The warplanes took off. Three task forces, 12 aircraft carriers, all of them are running at maximum speed. The shouts of the people on deck. The shouting of the people in the loudspeakers, the roar of the planes. Noise from steam turbines inside an aircraft carrier......

Before the planes took off, each aircraft carrier turned on its own power to the maximum. And the heading is headwind, which can bring more acceleration to the fighters taking off on the deck.

The group of planes that are attacking now can fly above the head of the enemy fleet in a maximum of one and a half hours [plus the time for the fighters to take off and marshall], and the two sides are opposite each other, and there is still nearly two hours of attack time before it gets dark and sunset.

As for whether there is enough time, and how to fight, it depends on the high-level command. The soldiers don't need to think about this problem, the only thing the navy soldiers need to show is their own combat effectiveness.

The first wave consisted of 230 attack aircraft, 50 fighters, 4 reconnaissance aircraft, and the rest were bombers and torpedo aircraft. The second wave of attack aircraft had 220 aircraft, only 30 fighters, no reconnaissance aircraft, and the remaining 190 sorties were all torpedo and dive bombers.

After the successive fighters took off, the heavy aircraft carrier Poyang Lake gradually slowed down, and the group of planes hovering high in the sky still had planes flying towards the Poyang Lake aircraft carrier, whose deck was completely empty, and they were about to land.

Naturally, not all of the 12 aircraft carriers completed the take-off of fighters, and only 6 of them finished their take-off work and landed instead. The other six were still flying one plane after another full of ammunition.

When everything was completed, the six aircraft carriers immediately opened their arms to accept the landing fighters, and when everything was completed, the 12 aircraft carriers gathered together again, and the defense circle that had just been slightly enlarged by the lifting and landing of fighters quickly retracted, and the situation returned to the most proficient anti-submarine defense mode of the Chinese Navy.

At this moment, the first wave of attack planes has already gone away, and the second wave of attack planes has all taken off and is circling over the Grand Fleet to assemble in formation, and the sun's rays are blocked by them.

"As long as there is still a fighter plane flying on the sea of China, this earth can only belong to China." Looking up at the sky from the porthole and witnessing the gathering of fighter planes, Liu Xian's long-experienced heart also had a trace of agitation. Life is in a hurry, but a hundred years, for the motherland and children and grandchildren to lay such a grand foundation, he has no regrets.

Although today is destined to be a day of glory and sacrifice for the Chinese navy, relying on the performance of aircraft of the current era to impact the anti-aircraft firepower of the entire fleet, heavy sacrifices will be inevitable. But their sacrifice will also be won by the glory of victory.

The first batch of aircraft attacking the European fleet may lose 30%, or even 50%, and the second group will lose only 10% to 20%, and most likely will not exceed 15%. The losses of the third batch will be even smaller, and the probability of exceeding 10% is very small, which is the dedication and glory of the naval aviation soldiers.

Because most of the most elite people in the entire aviation team will be in the first team. There will also be elite pilots in the second and third teams, but in general their abilities will lag behind the first team.

The thin plane, far inferior to the speed and performance of the original World War II aircraft, but it had to face the anti-aircraft firepower that might be only one level weaker than the World War II warships. But even so, the old emperor's mind had to pay full attention to the virtual map, and from this moment on, he didn't dare to be negligent at all.

In the map of thousands of miles centered on the Gulf of Aden, Liu Xian only sank his mind on the Gulf of Aden.

Submarines, warships, and planes, two hours before the sun is about to set, will break out into a battle about the great war between the East and the West.

Although the first and second groups of fighters sent had not yet reached the top of the detachments of the joint navy of the three countries, the third and fourth groups had already taken off again. And after these two aircraft groups took off, the entire aircraft carrier group began to operate in an assembly line.

The fighters on the transport ship were transferred to the deck of the aircraft carrier, and one by one, the pilots who had been recuperating for a long time boarded the fighters, and under the guidance of the aircraft carrier personnel, one after another took off into the air and formed one flight formation after another at the fastest speed.

12 aircraft carriers, 12 fighters take off on each aircraft carrier, and then you can form a good attack aircraft group.

Those who have not seen this kind of constant jetting of planes cannot imagine this kind of magnificence, and to the shock of some outsiders, the entire Grand Fleet can still maintain a very good speed and efficiency while doing so.

It is not an easy task to safely lift an aircraft to the deck of an aircraft carrier, and how long does it take for an aircraft to take off from the engine to the take-off of the fighter, and the number of an attack aircraft group is set at between 108 and 144 aircraft, so that each batch of fighters can complete the formation in the shortest possible time, which is really not an easy task.

"Yoxi, Yoxi!" Heihachiro Togo, deputy commander-in-chief of the Ottoman Navy, who had been specially transferred from the Mediterranean Sea by the old emperor to serve as deputy chief of the general staff, had been standing on the deck for a long time, looking up at the sky, his eyes were so obsessed that there was only no doubt in his mouth. (To be continued.) )