Zumwalt didn't bother to put the formation in order, and ordered the fleet to flee at full speed, not even looking at the warships that had been injured and slowed down. As the torpedoes ran out, the Swordfish attack aircraft had to return to the carrier, and the Albatross dive bombers that followed were not going to let them go.

Carrying aerial bombs weighing up to one ton, albatross dive bombers rushed toward Boston warships at a wide angle of more than 70 degrees, braving dense antiaircraft fire and releasing bombs at dangerous low altitudes. The bombshells landed accurately on the large warships of the Boston Empire, blowing up terrifying holes, and several battleships were severely damaged in an instant, and the suffering suffered by the St. Martin fleet just now finally befell the Boston fleet.

Admiral Romus saw the opportunity and ordered the battleships that could still attack to quickly approach the wounded Boston warship. Heavy shells were fired out in a dense manner, blasting terrifying columns of water around the Bostonian warships. Due to the severe injuries they sustained, these abandoned Boston warships slowed down very badly and were easily locked onto by the St. Martin's Navy's fire control radar. In a burst of gunfire, the Bostonian warships were shot and caught fire, and began to sink one after another. After the carrier-based aircraft arrived on the battlefield, the St. Martin Navy finally managed to turn the tables at the last moment and narrowly defeated the Bostonians.

"What's going on? What happened to the plane? "The pilots of the B17 bombers, who had just returned home, all the engines were stalled. A mechanic descended into the basement, and after a cursory inspection, he informed the pilot of the bad news that the fuel gauge had been altered, and although the gauge showed that half of the fuel was still left, the fuel tank was actually empty.

The planes that had lost power could only glide forward by inertia, and their altitude continued to fall, and the bombers that had been flying at an altitude of 8,000 meters fell below 5,000 meters, and the rate of their altitude decline was increasing. Faced with such a dangerous situation, the bomber crews simply did not have time to react, they had no choice but to parachute immediately.

Umbrella flowers soon bloomed in the air, and the B17 bombers that lost control plunged diagonally into the sea, being turned into a pile of debris by the powerful tearing force of the sea. Struggling to inflate his life jacket, Navigator Jimmy slid his hands as he struggled to keep himself steady in the water, and not far from him was Carter, a machine gunner on the plane.

"Hi Carter, are you alright?" Jimmy asked aloud as he struggled to swim to his companion.

Carter also tried to keep his balance, he wiped the seawater from his face, turned his head to look in the direction from which the voice came, and found that Jimmy was only more than thirty meters away from him.

Being alone on the sea with no land to see is a human being who feels panicked, and the feeling of seeing a companion at this time is indescribable. Seeing Jimmy swimming, Carter swam over to his companion as well, and soon the two of them converged.

"Are you alright?" Carter knew that Jimmy couldn't swim, and he quickly asked.

Jimmy smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm afraid of drowning, so I opened the inflator valve of my life jacket in the air, making me look like a stupid duck when I fell into the water." At this time, he did not forget to make a joke.

Carter said: "When is it, still joking." Have you spotted any other companions? ”

Jimmy shook his head: "I didn't see it, I only saw you, but I saw a few parachutes fall to the east, and I'm sure everyone will be able to converge soon." ”

Carter looked at the few parachutes that were still falling in the air, and then looked at the waves that had calmed down in the distance, he sighed and said: "Those bastards in the military actually changed our fuel gauge, no wonder I think this plane has a particularly long flight time." ”

Jimmy sighed: "The military department is less and less regarded as human beings, I think they want to sacrifice us in order to defeat the fleet of the Saint Martin Empire, for fear that we will not dare to carry out this suicidal attack, so they will do it." It's also that we were too careless, only believing in the display of the fuel gauge, but forgetting to calculate the flight time, otherwise we would have found out a long time ago. ”

Carter comforted: "It's not the pilot's fault, and it's not your fault as a navigator." The fault is that we believe in the bastards of the military department too much, and now they have fallen into the sea, what should we do? ”

Jimmy said, "What else can I do?" In addition to waiting for a passing boat to rescue us, there is also the possibility of finding a small island to settle down temporarily, but the odds of both are very small, not much higher than betting on dice to buy three sixes. ”

At that moment, another parachute floated down next to them, and the two of them looked to see that it was their pilot, Luke. "Hi Rook, we're here." Carter waved his hand and shouted, his shouting quickly attracting Luke's attention. Rook was in good water, he didn't turn on the lifeguard, he just swam over, and the three of them quickly came together. Luke had an inflatable dinghy specially equipped for pilots, and he unscrewed the gas tank to inflate the dinghy, and his three companions struggled to flip it over.

The rubber boat is not small, enough to sit five people, and it is more than enough for three people to sit on it at this time, although there is no water and food, but it is finally more comfortable without the immersion of the seawater.

"Did our companions jump out?" The long voyage and the fear of falling from a height had exhausted their strength, and the three of them had rested for a while before Rook had the strength to speak, and he immediately asked about his companion.

Carter shook his head: "I don't know, I just know that the hatch in the tail has not been opened, and it seems that it is difficult for the two people in the tail to escape, and when the bomb was dropped, the machine gunner Banker was also killed, and even if the others jumped out, there were only five." ”

The higher position on the rubber boat gave the three men a better view, and they quickly rescued the machine gunners on the other planes, completely filling the rubber boat, and as more and more people were found, a dozen rubber boats were soon gathered together.

A pilot who used to be a fisherman looked at the position of the sun, sniffed the sea breeze and said, "Let's go in the direction of the sun, and we can get on land." ”

"How do you know? What if we paddle into the ocean? Carter questioned.

Rook stopped: "Listen to him, he used to be a fisherman, he fished in this area, and he has a lot of experience at sea. Apparently Rook was familiar with the pilot and knew where he came from.

The pilot nodded, "Yes, I've been here before, and now we're in Moss Bay, at least six or seven hundred kilometers from the southern coastline of the Boston Empire. If we relied on our rubber rafts, it would be difficult to reach them even if it took ten days, and now our only chance was to go west, to find the east coast of the kingdom of Moss, which should not be far away. ”

Under the pilot's guidance, the group rowed in rubber boats and headed west, because according to the pilot who was a fisherman, it should be only about twenty kilometers from the coastline of the Kingdom of Moss, and if they were lucky, they should see the coastline before sunset.

No matter how the B17 crew survived, and no matter how embarrassed Zumwalt's fleet retreated to port. Admiral Romus, who had just won the victory, had already begun to order the fleet to treat the wounded and salvage those who had fallen overboard. The ships of the St. Martin's Navy quickly dispersed and began to clean up the battlefield, and even the Boston sailors who had not had time to be rescued were also rescued, and when they reached the shore, these Boston sailors were to be handed over to the gendarmerie and then imprisoned in the prisoner camp.

Soon even two aircraft carriers rushed over, and the large hangar on the aircraft carrier became a temporary ward, and they also began to help treat the wounded. Due to the failure of the steering gear and the heavy damage to the hull, Romus had to order the destroyer to use a torpedo to sink the battleship Cowpens, which was also the world's first sunken Naoli-class battleship.

The naval battle between the Empire of St. Martin and the Empire of Boston attracted the attention of the warring parties, and everyone once again saw the influence of air power on naval warfare. Admiral Romus, who had suffered too much damage to the fleet because he did not attach importance to air power, announced his resignation and surrendered the command of the two-ocean fleet of the St. Martin Empire to Vice Admiral Kachin of the aircraft carrier faction, of course, he was already Admiral Kachin at this time.

The gloomy retirement of Admiral Romus marked the decline of the Dinant line, and the complete loss of power of the Dinant line, which still insisted on partial autonomy, left the pro-China Marshal of Diolan without constraints. The strength of the Chinese Empire was rapidly strengthened in the San Martin Empire, and through years of intermarriage and immigration, the territory of the San Martin Empire was already filled with Chinese and their mixed descendants, and the entire San Martin Empire began to consider the possibility of fully joining the Chinese Empire.

Regardless of the changes in domestic political tendencies, this is after all a big war, and everything is based on stability and everything is in the service of war. The newly appointed Admiral Kachin knew that by the time the Boston Navy had suffered heavy losses, he had seized control of the sea south of the Storm Ocean.

With complete sea supremacy, Admiral Kachin immediately led the entire fleet to sail again, this time under the cover of aircraft carriers, the Zhili-class battleship showed its might, using its huge guns to violently bombard various military installations in the territory of the Moss Kingdom. The shells fired by the 406-mm main guns were not at all able to withstand any reinforced concrete fortifications, and a large number of coastal fortifications were destroyed and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, which further increased the panic of the Moss government army.

Lieutenant General Kachin's attack was very measured, they avoided the air force attack range in the Boston Empire, and only attacked the coastline of the Moss Kingdom to avoid a sneak attack by the opponent's land-based aviation, and at the same time, he also applied for the help of the Chinese Imperial Air Force, allowing them to use the Black Feather high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft to monitor at high altitude and search for possible bomber groups for them.