"Your Excellency, what should we do?" Lieutenant General Delaya, the commander of the colonial army on the side, couldn't help but remind him when he saw that the governor was looking at the information and didn't say a word.

On the other side, the commander of the Saar Empire's Southern Fleet, Olanka, also said, "Let's let our navy strike first." "He still has a lot of confidence in the fleet under his command.

Governor Campunan sighed: "You don't have an aircraft carrier in your hands, what if the other side attacks you with airplanes?" Now our country's navy is no longer strong enough to continue to lose. ”

Before Vice Admiral Olanka could answer, Vice Admiral Draya on the side said: "Don't worry, our army still has more than 60 fighters and 20 bombers, use them as bait to attract the opponent's carrier-based aircraft, we use battleships to fight a dignified naval battle with them, and now the Chinese Empire only has such a first-class battleship as the Zhonghua-class, which was indeed infinitely powerful back then, and now it is lagging behind our battleships." ”

Lieutenant General Delaya's words were reasonable, making the other two nod their heads again and again, which was the only feasible way at present.

The entire southern colony was busy, and Vice Admiral Orlanka personally led the fleet on sail, and they would directly meet the opposing fleet, hoping to rely on the superiority of the battleships to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop. After the fleet sailed, the air forces of the entire colony also began to concentrate on several airfields on the eastern coast, where they would launch the first wave of offensive in order to attract opposing carrier-based aircraft.

At this time, in the Southern Ocean Fleet, Sun Xiaohu stood on the bridge with a frown, he was also a little careless today, he thought that he was still far away from the other party, and only three fighters were arranged to escort him over the fleet. As a result, they did not expect that the other side had a five-plane formation patrolling the sea, and that they fled when they saw their own fleet, and that one of them escaped despite the vigorous interception of their own fighters.

The original sneak attack was discovered, Sun Xiaohu couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and now he had to consider the possible obstruction of the other party, especially the other party's air force. Thinking of this, Sun Xiaohu immediately summoned the general staff, and he wanted to reformulate the plan and change the sneak attack to a strong attack.

In order to protect the transport fleet from attack, Sun Xiaohu decided to divide the fleet into two parts, with the aircraft carrier and the battleship acting separately, each leading the frigate forward. Sun Xiaohu led the battlefleet in front, and they would deal with the opposing fleet that might appear, while Wan Yong's aircraft carrier fleet protected the troop carriers, following behind, and in addition to protecting these troop carriers, they also shouldered the responsibility of air defense.

The battleship fleet was moving at high speed, and they had to rush to the port of Cape Town as soon as possible, trying to block the southern fleet of the Saar Empire in the harbor before the other side could react. Sun Xiaohu also knew that this possibility was very slim, but as long as he could reduce the losses, he was willing to try, of course, he would not just hope for this, in the process of marching, the battlefleet had already spread out the battle formation, ready to fight a fleet encounter at any time.

A Sahr fighter flew high in the sky, and he was surprised to see the battlefleet lined up in neat lines, but not the aircraft carrier. Seeing the Saar plane coming, the anti-aircraft guns of the Southern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire immediately began to fire, and the dense artillery fire came fiercely, frightening the plane to quickly pull up the altitude.

The aircraft carrier was not found, and the plane did not give up, and he continued to fly forward. But soon he noticed that several black spots appeared in the distance, and after discovering that the Sahr planes continued to fly forward, Sun Xiaohu notified Wan Yong by radio, and the escort fighters immediately met him.

The Thar pilot was quite clever, he knew what happened to the five reconnaissance planes in front of him before he came, and when he saw those dark shadows, he immediately turned around and ran, but the escort fighters failed to catch up.

After receiving the information that the opposing fleet was moving separately, Vice Admiral Delaya felt that the opportunity had come, and on the one hand, he arranged for a coastal speedboat to set off immediately with the information to chase the Southern Fleet, which had not gone far, to report the news, and on the other hand, he ordered the air force to take off immediately to find the opponent's aircraft carrier fleet to attack.

The reconnaissance plane, which had fled back earlier, only said that it had spotted the fleet, but did not elaborate on how its companions had been shot down, so Vice Admiral Delaya thought they were under siege.

According to the experience of the Saar Empire, carrier-based aircraft must not be as good as land-based aircraft, so Vice Admiral Draga hopes to use better land-based aircraft to first disable the opponent's aircraft carrier fleet, and then destroy the opponent's troop carriers to eliminate the land threat. If the losses after the destruction of the aircraft carrier are too heavy, it can also clear the obstacles for the battlefleet, and it is also possible to rely on the battlefleet to attack.

The Sahr land-based fighters quickly all took off and flew towards the spot reported by the reconnaissance plane, and the bombers took off five minutes later, attacking the aircraft carrier after the fighters had eliminated the enemy's air defenses.

The fleet of the Chinese Empire was not far from Cape Town, so the Sahr Air Force flew and searched for only an hour before discovering aircraft carriers and troop carriers on the sea. The fleet was so large that the rapid sailing of the ships, with their white wakes on the sea, was spectacular from afar, and could easily be spotted by planes in the sky.

Spotting the Chinese Empire's aircraft carrier fleet, the Sahr fighter group immediately rushed forward. After the discovery of the Sahr reconnaissance plane, a third of the aircraft carrier's fighters had already risen into the air to serve as a cover mission, and at this time it was already replaced by the second batch of alert fighters.

Seeing the arrival of the Saar fighters, more than 20 Sailfish-type carrier-based fighters immediately met them, and at the same time, air defense sirens sounded on all warships, and the fighter pilots on each aircraft carrier quickly ran to their own planes, and the command staff on the deck were busy back and forth, directing one plane after another to begin to rise into the air, while the cruisers and destroyers escorting the ships set up their air defense formations and protected the aircraft carriers and troop carriers in the middle.

The Sahr made a fatal mistake, if the bombers and fighters came together, they might be able to take advantage of the chaos to attack the aircraft carriers and inflict some losses on the Chinese Empire, but they could not go into battle in batches.

The Sahr were very confident in their fighters, but they greatly underestimated the combat capabilities of the Sailfish fighters, believing that their Camel fighters could sweep through the air, shoot down all the carrier-based fighters of the Chinese Empire, and wait until the bombers arrived to attack with impunity without causing bomber losses.

Speaking of which, it is also because Handley Page bombers are too expensive and troublesome to manufacture, so the Saar Empire does not make many of them, and there are only twenty in the southern colonies, and these only air attack forces make Lieutenant General Delaya reluctant to use them easily, fearing that the losses will be too large and the air force will lose its offensive ability, so he decided to put the planes into the battlefield in batches.

The more than 60 camel fighters that arrived in advance quickly saw the enemy clearly, and when they saw that there were only about 20 enemy planes on the opposite side, the Sahr people immediately became excited, and they decided to take advantage of the numerical advantage to quickly shoot down these enemy planes, and then block the sky over the aircraft carrier to prevent the opponent's fighters from taking to the air for battle, so that they would win.

More than 60 camel fighters accelerated forward, and more than 20 Sailfish fighters rushed forward without any desire. As soon as they fought, the Thar pilots were surprised to find that the opposing fighters were much faster than them.

Qi Hui was also among the more than 20 fighters, and when he flew the Exocet reconnaissance plane in the Battle of Skagerrak, he applied to his superiors for transfer soon after, and he was more willing to experience the exciting career of a fighter pilot than a leisurely reconnaissance plane.

Due to the new construction of the carrier-based aircraft unit at that time, there was a great need for experienced pilots, especially those who had experience in flying at sea like Qi Hui, so after passing the assessment, he not only quickly joined the carrier-based fighter unit, but also became a squadron leader.

At this time, the group of fighters on alert in the air was Qi Hui's squadron, and when he saw the oncoming Thar fighters, Qi Hui opened the accelerator and damper of the aircraft to the maximum, and led his subordinates to rush towards the Thar people at the fastest speed.

The monoplane design of the Sailfish fighter is very advanced, more flexible than the biplane structure of the camel fighter, and those Saar pilots have not yet put the opposing aircraft into the crosshairs, and the carrier-based aircraft squadron led by Qi Hui has disappeared in front of them.

Many Sailfish fighters relied on flexible turns, and quickly bit those camel fighters from behind, the first Sailfish fighter was Qi Hui's car, when the tail of the opponent's plane was set into Qi Hui's sights, he pressed the machine gun button fiercely, and the two 12.7 mm caliber aviation machine guns suddenly spewed out long flames, and the recoil of the machine gun even made the plane slam in the air.

Compared to the Camel's 7.7mm machine gun, the Sailfish's two 12.7mm machine guns greatly surpassed it in terms of range, power and fire density.

Large-caliber machine-gun bullets hit the wooden camel fighters, causing a splash of wood chips, and one after another Sahr Air Force fighters were shot down one after another.

The camel fighter with a wooden fuselage could not resist bullets from large-caliber machine guns at all, while the Sailfish fighter with an aluminum alloy skin and special armor plates protecting the key parts did not care about the Sahr's 7.7mm machine gun at all, even if it was hit, it only left a row of bullet holes, and there was no danger of crashing at all.

More and more Chinese carrier-based aircraft have taken to the air one after another, joining the battle, and the already disparity in performance in air combat has gradually changed in quantity, and the technology of the world-famous elven pilots is not comparable to the Sahr, the Saar Air Force fighters were completely overwhelmed by the Chinese Empire, they had to be shot down, and when the Sahr people woke up and wanted to escape, there was no chance.

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