Taking advantage of the confusion of the opponent's formation, the submarine group of the Chinese Navy, which had been lurking nearby for a long time, seized the opportunity and floated to the periscope depth one after another to start firing torpedoes. In order to ensure sinking, most of them chose merchant ships and supply ships with thin skins and poor sinking resistance.

At this time, the Boston fleet was in chaos, where could we talk about anti-submarine formation, not to mention that the destroyers were concentrated in the east, and it would take time to rescue them. This most undesirable loophole made the submarines of the Chinese Navy make a lot of profits, and even those old-fashioned Seawolf 2 submarines rushed to join in the fun.

The successive explosions made the sailors think that it was another missile attack, but when they saw the jets of water bursting from the warship's waterline, they finally realized that the attack was coming from underwater. The Bostonians, who saw that there was a submarine sortie on the other side, immediately withdrew the destroyer, and they rushed towards the submarine at maximum speed, but in this way, there was a hole in the tin foil defense line, and one after another missiles came out of the gap and rushed towards the defenseless large warships.

Attacks from the air and under the water were carried out at the same time, leaving the Bostonians unconcerned, and one warship after another was sunk. The Thunderbolt-2 anti-ship missiles, with their heavy warheads and powerful explosions, were not picky eaters, attacking not only aircraft carriers and cruisers, but also huge battleships.

The three-dimensional attack cost the Bostonians a great deal of damage, sinking seven more aircraft carriers, three of which had been previously wounded, in addition to four battleships, twenty-one cruisers, and fifty-five destroyers, most of which were achieved by missiles.

In order to ensure that the submarines were sunk, most of the attacks this time were merchant ships and supply ships. Due to the focus on the submarines, most of the merchant ships and supply ships that came with the team sank this time, causing tens of thousands of army soldiers to fall into the sea, which made Remus furious.

At this time, a reconnaissance plane happened to land, reporting the position of the opposing fleet, and he immediately ordered all the carrier-based aircraft to take off and attack the opposing fleet, and even the planes at the land airfield also took off to participate in the battle.

Those reconnaissance planes bypassed the surveillance range of AWACS aircraft and entered at ultra-low altitudes, so they were not detected until the aircraft arrived near the fleet. Even so, only one of the more than a dozen reconnaissance planes ran away, but with this one plane surviving, it was enough to be able to send back intelligence.

After careful consideration, Remus had already concluded that the last air raid on Pearl Harbor was definitely a false target, no wonder the other side blocked the area around the military port a few days before the air raid, and it happened that the opponent's radar broke down at that time, which was simply arranged in advance, and its purpose was to lure the Boston Navy to boldly break away from the protection of shore-based carrier-based aircraft and enter this trap.

Now that the cause and effect have been figured out, Remus decided to use his own carrier-based aircraft to launch an attack on the Eastern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire, and take advantage of his superiority in the number of aircraft to destroy the opponent at sea. Since the reconnaissance planes were only a quick glance, they could not determine the number of the other side at all, only that there were a lot of them, so Remus judged that all the Eastern Ocean Fleet had arrived.

Although Remus judged very accurately, in the intelligence of the Boston Empire, the Eastern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire only had twelve aircraft carriers, and its fighters were definitely not comparable to its own forty-five aircraft carriers, of course, after the first round of attacks, the number was no longer so large. Even so, the number of aircraft carriers and aircraft on the land airfields of the own side is definitely several times more than that of the other side. Taking advantage of these favorable conditions, Remus decided to attack the other side by air.

If it is inevitable that the Boston Empire's ocean-going fleet will be disabled, then dragging the opponent's fleet to be destroyed together is also a good option, at least so that the Boston Empire will not suffer in the comparison of strength between the two sides in the Eastern Ocean. Therefore, Remus immediately gave the order for carrier-based aircraft to take off, and the first wave of more than 1,000 planes took off from aircraft carriers and land airfields one after another, and flew towards the Eastern Ocean Fleet at ultra-low altitudes.

After the enemy reconnaissance plane fled, Feng Ju knew that the opponent's air raid would come soon, but most of the carrier-based planes had already been dispatched, and even if they returned to the sea, they would need to refuel and ammunition, which would take time, so he could only rely on the air defense of the warship in a short time. After taking off eight AWACS planes to guard the situation, all the warships formed an air defense formation around their aircraft carriers and were ready for battle.

The fast, early-departing Chinese carrier-based aircraft units began to land one after another, and the take-off and landing planes were busy sending the planes below deck, where they would refuel and hang bombs. The inspectors have been following the aircraft, taking advantage of this opportunity, they will hang the detector on the aircraft instrument, nervously detect the operation of the aircraft's electronic equipment. Some maintenance crews began to examine bullet holes in the surface of the fuselage to assess whether the aircraft would continue to operate, and the carriers of the Eastern Ocean Fleet were busy.

Other aircraft that had completed their missions also returned to the skies over the aircraft carrier and began to land one after another. At this moment, the AWACS gave a signal of the approach of enemy aircraft, and the entire fleet immediately got busy. At present, there are only more than 50 planes in the air to escort them, and after receiving the early warning, these planes immediately opened up at full speed and headed towards the enemy's aircraft group, so that they could distance themselves from the defense circle of the warships so as not to be accidentally injured by anti-aircraft fire.

All the fighters on standby on the deck of the aircraft carrier began to glide towards the take-off point, and with the help of steam catapults, they quickly flew into the sky.

Because the Nanming-class aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire are different from other aircraft carriers, when the planes take off on the foredeck, those planes that have just returned from attacking the Boston ocean-going fleet and are already short of fuel can still rely on the blocking cables of the oblique flight deck to land, and the aircraft carriers that take off and land at the same time are in an orderly manner, and there is no chaotic situation like the aircraft carriers that go straight to the deck.

The Boston fleet flying in formation also quickly spotted these interceptors, and more than 200 Corsair fighters rushed towards these escort planes in a dense formation, making them unable to get out for a while. Seeing that the other party had realized it, the Boston group immediately raised its flight altitude and rushed towards the fleet.

The planes of the Boston Navy have gradually approached, and at this time, the aircraft of the Nanming-class aircraft carriers are no longer taking off, because it is easy to be accidentally injured by anti-aircraft fire. At this time, warships with anti-aircraft missiles began to use fire control radars to lock on to Boston carrier-based aircraft, and successively launched missiles into the air.

The anti-aircraft missiles on the warships of the Chinese Empire are all launched by rocker arms, and the fastest speed is only one per second, so the density of the attack is not large, but against the slow propeller aircraft, the hit rate is still very high. Braving the long-range attack of missiles, the Bostonians were shot down by more than 400 carrier-based aircraft, and the rest of the carrier-based aircraft finally approached the fleet, but they were greeted by more intense artillery fire.

The air defense formation of the East Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Navy is quite distinctive, and the entire formation is organized by relying on battleships; except for the four unmodified 'Zhili'-class cruisers, which form an inner circle of air defense firepower together with the aircraft carrier group, all destroyers are equally distributed among the four 'Shannan' class and eight 'Zhonghua' class battleships that have been recommissioned after refit.

Both the Shannan-class battleships and the Zhonghua-class battleships had their main gun turrets No. 2 and No. 3 removed, and in addition to four single-swingarm anti-aircraft missile launchers, various numbers of Type 730 super-high-velocity guns were installed.

This rapid-fire gun belongs to the "Meishan" class cruiser equipped with the 620 type of ultra-high-speed gun of the improved version, it will be the 620 type ultra-high-speed gun of the 20 mm six-barreled rapid-fire gun, changed to a 30 mm seven-barrel rapid-fire gun, in addition to all the ultra-high-speed guns and the shipboard fire control radar connected, such an improvement makes the accuracy and power of the 730 type ultra-high-speed gun greatly improved, with these super firepower air defense battleships here, it is naturally very easy to deal with those Boston propeller aircraft.

Four 'Shannan'-class battleships were stationed in the inner circle, and eight 'Zhonghua'-class battleships occupied eight directions around the outer ring, and they led their respective destroyer groups to form an unflawed anti-aircraft fire circle.

Originally, there should have been an outermost ring of anti-aircraft fire composed of 'Meishan'-class cruisers, but this time it was impossible to come back because those cruisers were asked to go forward to carry out missile attack missions, but even so, a simplified version of the air defense network still made the Bostonians bleed.

The anti-aircraft fire of the Eastern Ocean Fleet is so dense that even those modified destroyers of the 'Hunhe' class have as many as eight 620 super-high-speed guns, and such an anti-aircraft fire configuration is simply a graveyard for enemy aircraft.

At this time, the entire sky was already filled with black smoke and scorching bullet streams from anti-aircraft shells, and under the dense layers of firepower, the 400 planes were devastated before they could rush in front of the aircraft carrier. The losses of the Eastern Ocean Fleet were small, only a dozen destroyers, which were hit, sunk or seriously damaged, and only one battleship was slightly damaged.

The fate of the more than 200 Corsair fighters that intercepted the escort plane was also tragic, under the threat of the ultra-fast Sailfish 2C attack aircraft and the Thunderbolt 3 short-range air-to-air missiles, they had no power to fight back, and the escorted Sailfish 2C fighters were all equipped with air-to-air missiles, and they were able to fight air battles with ease, and soon wiped out the Pirate fighters.

After the first wave of attacks was completely destroyed, the battle was not over, and since the entire Boston side of the battlefield was under the all-round interference of thirty-six electronic warfare aircraft, Remus did not know what was ahead. Soon the Bostonians were rescued from the seriously damaged aircraft carrier, and the nearly 2,000 planes that had risen to the air again formed an even larger group of attack planes and flew towards the Eastern Ocean Fleet. This quickly allows all aircraft to take off, thanks to the fact that there are enough supply ships, and some aircraft carriers with only the aft deck bombed can barely allow the planes to take off from the foredeck, just landing without thinking about it.