On the bridge of the British aircraft carrier "Brilliant", through the portholes that had been partially tortoiseshell-like cracks, and looking at the group of Chinese attack planes that were gradually moving away, Vice Admiral Hood clenched the telegram in his hand.

"Crazy attacks, cunning maneuvers ......"

While muttering to himself, Hood handed the telegram back to Intelligence Staff Officer Revere: "Lieutenant Colonel, I need you to inform the air raid team, including the shore-based troops, of this situation as soon as possible. ”

Revere nodded with a look of grief, "I'll do my best, but I can't guarantee they'll get it as soon as possible, especially after they've already taken off an hour - you know, our on-board radios are always ......."

Hood frowned unhappily: "Then keep sending it, sending it again and again, until they receive it, we can't pay such a big loss in vain and gain nothing, unless the Chinese aircraft carrier can dive into the water, don't want to escape this deserved revenge!" ”

"Yes—"

After sending Cliff Awayre, Hood turned to the captain of the ship, Colonel Victoria, and asked, "Captain, are you sure this ship can hold out?" ”

The colonel, with a dark gray beard, stretched out his hand to remove the pipe from his mouth, and said with a calm expression: "General, it's just a small torpedo that hits under the bow of the ship, and I can assure you that everything is business as usual except that there is no way to run to a top speed of 8 knots." ”

"Is it okay to maintain the current speed of the knot?" Hood was a little unconvinced.

"At least until the evening." Captain Vittorik was confident, "However, I don't think the next two ships are doing so well, even if they are small torpedoes. If you eat three or four in one sitting, the end should not be much better than those unlucky eggs in Pearl Harbor or Kiel Harbor. ”

Without saying a word, Hood paced to the corner of the bridge with his hands behind his back, lit his pipe and smoked, although he did not say anything, in fact, he knew very well in his heart that the "Eagle" and the "Hundred-Eyed Giant" were not saved.

The "Eagle," which was located in a protruding position on the left side of the diamond-shaped formation of four aircraft carriers, was attacked by dozens of enemy planes from the port side, and within a few minutes four torpedoes were hit in the amidships and stern companies. The boiler compartment and engine room were flooded at the same time. Power was immediately lost, and the hull tilted sharply. Almost at the same time, an enemy plane that caught fire and fell after being hit by a bullet hit the No. 3 elevator at the back of the flight deck of the "Eagle," which was lifting the plane, and suddenly a large area of flame and smoke rose up, and the fire escaped from the elevator shaft into the interior of the hangar, detonating several carrier-based planes that had been filled with oil bombs and were ready to fire one by one. =Novel debut== Not long. The "Eagle", with a full load displacement of more than 20,000 tons, has become a huge barbecue shop that is paralyzed on the sea...... In the confusion, a crooked torpedo hit a thousand-ton destroyer near the "Eagle", and with a flash of light, the explosion of the ammunition depot blew the poor boat in two. It completely disappeared from the sea in just two or three minutes!

The "Hundred-Eyed Giant," which was located in the backward position of the diamond-shaped formation, was attacked by another large group of enemy planes from the starboard side; after three torpedoes were hit on the starboard side, and the speed was sharply reduced to less than one knot, because the hull of the ship was tilted to the right, it was unable to use the port side of the anti-aircraft weapons, and as a result, a small group of scattered enemy planes gathered again and dropped five torpedoes from the port side of the "Hundred-Eyed Giant" one after another, one of which hit the engine room behind the port side of the "Hundred-Eyed Giant," causing a complete loss of power for the entire ship. The other accidentally hit the cruiser Boadisia, which had come close to the Hundred-Eyed Giant. The small cruiser, with a displacement of only 33 tons, was immediately smashed to the surface of the sea. =Novel debut==

It makes no sense to complain about bad luck on the battlefield, Hood said. In addition to hoping that your ground air strike team will inflict heavy damage on the enemy's aircraft carrier force, the next step is to try to save your two surviving aircraft carriers - in any case, the main force must not lose the closest and most reliable air support before entering the battlefield.

Hood quickly made up his mind.

"The order goes: 1. The Goddess of War and the remaining 3 destroyers of the 1st Destroyer Fleet are left to rescue the damaged ships; 2. Inform Betty, Thomas, Westland, and the Commander-in-Chief of the new position of the enemy's aircraft carrier forces; 3. Inform Betty and Thomas that the whole team should change to the No. 1 air defense formation, and suggest that Betty turn east to pursue the enemy aircraft carrier force-"Mother, Liang Shuming, who had been pondering for a long time, finally waited for a brief battle report sent back by Colonel Cai Yong, commander of the first attack wave: "Hit aircraft carrier 3, cruiser 1 or, destroyer 1, report later." ”

Liang Shuming was suddenly overjoyed, and punched him in the face: "The first wave hit 3 aircraft carriers? Good job! ”

The chief of staff, Colonel Wang Zilong, also smiled happily, smacked his lips and rubbed his hands: "In this way, it is not a problem to completely destroy the enemy's aircraft carrier force before sunset." *”

Liang Shuming breathed a long sigh of relief, crossed his waist and paced back and forth in the bridge for a few steps, and suddenly stopped with some apprehension: "I just don't know how big the loss of Lu Dao is, this Cai Yong, I can't report it clearly......

Wang Zilong seemed more confident than Liang Shuming: "It's okay to lose half of it, once the threat of enemy carrier-based aircraft is eliminated, even if there is only half of the aviation force left, isn't it easy to clean up those clumsy and outdated broken battleships?" ”

Liang Shuming nodded "hmm", and paced back to the chart with his back hand.

"From this point of view, the enemy is still heading north, but the reconnaissance plane just now ...... The other party should already know our new location, Zilong, what do you think they will do next? ”

Without thinking, Wang Zilong drew a straight line between the blue and red arrows on the chart indicating the position of friend and foe.

"Of course, they chased after us and took revenge on us with their superior cannon ships."

Liang Shuming sneered with his hands behind his back: "Yuan Feng should really want to fight, but I won't give him any chance today, today, only our mobile fleet plays a role - no one else can take their turn!" ”

Wang Zilong echoed, and turned his head to look at the battle bell on the wall: "Sir, it's not too early, we should also turn south and sail to the scheduled return point, otherwise Cai Yong's first attack Boke will have to feed the fish." \”

Liang Shuming nodded, and asked casually: "Where is the second attack wave?" ”

Wang Zilong neatly picked up the ruler and measured it on the chart, and drew a cross with a pencil in three strokes: "It's been 4 minutes since departure, and the current location should be here." ”

"Send a telegram to Situ Qi and ask him to deviate the original route to the south by a degree and pay attention to the search. After another order, the whole team turned 9 degrees to the right and headed for full speed towards the direction 18 - don't forget to report to Yuan Feng. ”

"Yes—"

Half an hour later, Wang Zilong hurriedly rushed back to the bridge, mysteriously leaned into Liang Shuming's ear, and whispered: "That D device has been discovered, west-northwest, two aircraft groups, the distance between the larger one is about 3 kilometers, and the smaller one is about 3 kilometers, and it continues to approach." ”

"It's not going to be the first wave of return, is it?"

Liang Shuming did not have a special affection for the strange-looking grille-like device on the top of the island, as well as the pile of iron cabinets and screens full of wires hidden deep under the island, let alone trust—these godly "top-secret equipment" were hastily loaded on the ship only a week before the "Dapeng" went to sea, and most of the operators were young people with a student-like face who did not seem to have received a formal military education.

"No way, the first attack wave should also be from our southwest

Wang Zilong is very interested in this new thing, since he went to sea, he has run to the east and the west to ask, and when he came back, he praised Liang Shuming, and at this time he saw that Liang Shuming was still a little hesitant, and proposed: "It's better to send two squadrons over, leave two squadrons on standby over the mothership, and then let Yuan Feng change the course, just between us and the enemy plane." ”

Liang Shuming thought about it for a while, and it seemed that he couldn't find a better way, so he had to bow his head suspiciously: "Well, let's do as you say first." ”

More than ten minutes later, Liang Shuming's suspicions were wiped out by the British aircraft group that came from the light blue sky in the northwest......

The first wave of British troops led by Colonel Lam of CVBV - and the only wave of the day - carrier-based air raid team finally found the Chinese aircraft carrier formation that changed course for the second time after a painstaking search for the next minute.

After completing the formation at 14 o'clock, the air raid team flew straight to the northeast where the Chinese aircraft carrier was first discovered, and when it was about to arrive at the predetermined position half an hour later, Colonel Ram suddenly received a notice from his own mothership about the new location of the Chinese aircraft carrier, and immediately led his troops to turn east in pursuit, probably because of poor communication, the "Hundred-Eyed Giant" attack detachment (1 fighter and 3 attack planes) at the end of the air raid team actually disappeared!

When the air raid team arrived at its new position at 4 p.m., Colonel Ram still did not see the shadow of the Chinese aircraft carrier, and by this time, one of the 166 planes (36 fighters and 13 attack planes) of the air raid team had fallen behind or returned ahead of schedule.

Unwilling to run in vain, Colonel Ram ignored the fact that the fuel might not be able to support the return ship, so he forced his troops to search to the southeast, and finally discovered the formation of East Asian Army battle cruisers that were moving south at full speed at about 16:04.

At this moment, a row of Chinese fighters swooping down from directly above the British fleet -

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