The missiles, which flew at a speed of Mach 1.5, with huge kinetic energy and heavy high explosives, accurately hit their targets. In just half an hour, missiles fired from the arsenal ships destroyed 17 army group headquarters, 52 military airfields, 31 ammunition depots, and 44 coastal batteries, and the entire Axis forces along the Strait of Gibraltar were thrown into chaos.

The fleet of the Chinese Empire sailed at high speed to the Strait of Gibraltar, and with them were hundreds of dock landing ships dedicated to the Navy. Each of these landing ships has a displacement of more than 30,000 tons, and each warship can accommodate an armored battalion of troops and carry them with all the heavy equipment.

The whole fleet rushed towards the strait at a high speed of 27 knots, and at this speed, after 11 hours, they would appear near the strait, and Peng Dechao would not wait so long, after sailing for four hours, a Sailfish 3 carrier-based fighter began to take off, and the new early warning aircraft and electronic jamming aircraft also took off simultaneously, and the large group of planes was divided into three layers, upper, middle and lower, and flew towards the vicinity of the strait.

The Lombok-2 AWACS aircraft is at the top level, and this AWACS aircraft optimized and modified from the Monster 2 transport ship is 47 meters long, with a wingspan of 50.5 meters and a maximum take-off weight of 170 tons. Although its maximum speed is only 850 kilometers per hour, which is much slower than that of a fighter jet, its detection range is already as high as 1,200 kilometers, which can completely safely provide intelligence support for fighter groups outside the battlefield, and it can even track a hundred air targets at the same time.

The reason why the radar of the Lombok-2 AWACS aircraft is so powerful is that the radar of the early warning aircraft of the Predator Army has abandoned the pulse Doppler radar of mechanical scanning and switched to the active phased array radar of electrical scanning, which uses a large number of radiators to form an array, and each emitter forms a transmitting \ receiving module, and each emitter can generate and receive radio waves by itself.

The active phased array radar beam pointing is very flexible and fast, and the numerous emitters of a radar can form a plurality of independent beams at the same time, and simultaneously carry out search, identification, tracking, guidance, passive detection and other work, and its multi-target identification and engagement capabilities are strong, and can monitor and track multiple targets at the same time, and have good anti-jamming performance. In addition, the reliability of the phased array radar is high, and even if a small number of radiators are damaged and fail, the entire radar can still work normally.

With such a strong radar support, the early warning aircraft can monitor the vast airspace and also ensure the intelligence support in the operation of fighter groups.

Located on the lower level is the Sailfish 3A carrier-based fighter, the reason why the aircraft carrier is loaded with fighters instead of attack aircraft is because this new fighter can already complete the tasks of a variety of aircraft. The Sailfish-3A fighter is 15.3 meters long, has a wingspan of 10.9 meters, can carry up to 9 tons of ammunition on 14 pylons, has a combat radius of 1,100 meters, and can reach a maximum level flight speed of Mach 2.

The aircraft has an active phased array radar installed in the nose of the aircraft, which can guide various air-to-air, air-to-ship, air-to-surface, and even cruise missiles, as well as various guided bombs and rockets, in addition to a 30-mm cannon for self-defense.

Between the AWACS and the fighter are more than 30 Sailfish 3B electronic warfare aircraft, which are a variant of the Sailfish 3 fighter jet, which is equipped with a tactical jamming pod, a jamming counter-elimination system and a tactical terminal receiver. This kind of aircraft can not only carry out a wide range of electronic jamming and confrontation, but also can carry out limited air combat and ground attack missions, and its strength has made a qualitative leap forward after all, the Sailfish 2 series carrier-based aircraft equipped with the Imperial Navy.

Under the guidance of the early warning planes, more than 2,000 Sailfish-3A fighters soon arrived at the coastline of the western continent, and at this time, more than 30 Sailfish-3B electronic warfare planes had already started at full power, and with powerful electromagnetic interference, the radar and communication systems of the Axis countries, which had already been damaged by cruise missiles, were completely paralyzed.

Without any resistance, numerous fighters quickly flew to various key targets, destroying the targets attacked by the cruise missiles for a second time. This time, as many of the ammunition depots and planes had been destroyed, their attacks were aimed at the defenseless Axis soldiers in the barracks. Axis soldiers were killed in large numbers under the precise attack of laser-guided bombs, and weapons such as heavy combat vehicles and heavy artillery, which had no air defense, were also devastated.

Taking advantage of the arrival of the fleet, the carrier-based aircraft group bombed back and forth four times, destroying a large number of military targets of the Axis powers, and by the time the fleet reached a distance of 20 nautical miles from the coast, the various military targets within 50 kilometers of the coast had ceased to exist.

When they arrived in the offshore area, it was time for the battleships of the Eastern Ocean Fleet to exert their might, and the battleships of the Zhili-class and Shannan-class raised their huge main gun muzzles and launched artillery attacks on Cape Sires and Cape Marroki on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar at the same time.

By this time, the heavy firepower of the Axis powers had been completely destroyed, and the infantry positions that had not been followed by missiles and aircraft had no firepower to fight the navy, and at this time they were subjected to direct fire from large-caliber naval guns. Under the intensive artillery bombardment, the infantry positions that were not too strong were quickly scarred, and many trenches were directly turned into large pits.

The infantry positions near the coast, which themselves were used only as auxiliary batteries to prevent the landing of the opposing infantry. Now that the coastal forts have been completely destroyed, they are left with only one to be beaten. After enduring ten minutes of shelling, the commanders of the Axis forces had no choice but to give the order to retreat.

The shelling of the naval guns lasted for half an hour, and in the end even the cruisers and destroyers joined the shelling, and the entire coastline was completely turned over, and there were craters everywhere. A large number of dock landing ships opened the dock hatches at the stern, and one by one the hovercraft slid into the sea, carrying infantry and combat vehicles at great speed towards the beach.

At the same time as the hovercraft launched the charge, transport helicopters also took off from the amphibious assault ships of the Eastern Ocean Fleet, carrying the marines to the depths. Unlike the Eastern Ocean Fleet, the amphibious assault ships in the Predator Fleet use not twin Hornet transport helicopters, but a new type of tiltrotor aircraft.

Named the Sea Serpent 1, the odd aircraft has a fixed wing similar to that of a normal aircraft, with two turboprop engines mounted at both ends of the fixed wing instead of the nose or under the wings. The two engines can tilt at an angle of 90 degrees, and when the aircraft takes off, the propellers of the engines are facing upwards, allowing the aircraft to take off and land vertically, and after rising into the air, the propellers can tilt forward, allowing the aircraft to fly like a fixed-wing propeller aircraft.

Such an aircraft can take off and land vertically, and can move at more than twice the speed of a helicopter, and it has a larger cabin capacity, which can carry 32 people at the same time, and carries a lot of heavy equipment. With this better landing weapon, the Predator's airborne troops arrived at their destination at a faster pace, although they departed later than the Imperial Navy's helicopters.

Landing on the ground, the Iron Army took out all kinds of individual missiles, which are specially prepared for light infantry, and they are divided into anti-tank missiles, anti-low-altitude missiles and other types, which can effectively supplement the heavy weapons that the light infantry lacks. The Predators and Marines joined forces, and they soon took control of a radius of several kilometers and cut off the Axis coastal defense forces from their return routes, and after a modest battle, the coastal forces surrendered en masse.

Large areas of land on both sides of the Taiwan Strait were quickly occupied, and those military airfields that had been blown up were repaired as a priority, and a large number of Golden Eagle 6 fighters of the Iron and Blood Air Force were soon stationed in these areas, which effectively guaranteed the air supremacy of the Chinese Imperial Fleet.

This time, the transport ships brought not many army troops, only more than 200,000 people, and they were more than capable of defending and not enterprising, not to mention that Peng Dechao's target was not the mainland, but the last maritime backbone of the Axis powers.

Crossing the strait, the fleet continued to the depths of the Mediterranean, where the Axis air forces along the coast attempted to intercept them, but the fleet did not suffer any damage under the cover of carrier-based aircraft with which they were clearly generational, as well as land-based aircraft in the area of the Strait of Gibraltar.

Knowing that this naval battle was of great importance, Cai Tingyuan also started a new offensive. After Gao Hong transferred the two army groups to the Southern Subcontinent, Cai Tingyuan had enough troops, and he immediately launched a new offensive. The army set out from the port of Alexandra and attacked west along the coastline.

The Iron and Blood Army fleet entered the Mediterranean, cutting off the connection between the western continent of the Axis group and the southern subcontinent, and a large number of supplies to the southern subcontinent could not be transported due to the blockade of the sea and air, and a large amount of grain produced by the colonies of the southern subcontinent could not be transported to the western continent, and the war materials of the two battlefields suddenly became tense.

Taking advantage of the serious shortage of supplies from the other side, Cai Tingyuan mobilized the forces of a mechanized army group and launched an attack on the port of Tunis, while the two Chinese-class battleship detachments of the Imperial Fleet, which were responsible for the blockade mission nearby, also joined the attack.

The port of Alexandra is nearly 2,000 kilometers away from the port of Tunis, but by the time the Predator Fleet advanced to the southern tip of the Balkans, most of the Mediterranean Sea had fallen into the hands of the Predator Fleet, which not only trapped Halsey's fleet in the Aegean Sea, but also allowed NATO Allied transport ships to freely shuttle to the southern shore of the Mediterranean, and quickly replenish the necessary supplies to the front line by sea.