Land-based bombers are not suitable for bombing fleets, plus the Axis fleet is quite large, and the anti-aircraft firepower is innumerable, so the bombing of the Kunpeng 3 bombers has not achieved much results, only two aircraft carriers and seven destroyers have been sunk, and the other warships that have been hit are only injured, but the carrier-based aircraft of the Axis fleet have been completely destroyed, and they have lost their offensive capability.

Unable to salvage the pilots who had fallen into the sea, Halsey immediately ordered the aircraft carrier group to turn around and flee towards the port of Toulon, which he controlled, leaving only a few destroyers to rescue the people who had fallen into the water. Halsey's decision was quite wise, because after half an hour, a group of bombers from the direction of the Istanbul Peninsula arrived, but by this time the carrier fleet had already left, and they could only vent all their anger on the destroyers.

Although the war did not sink many warships of the Axis Navy, it severely humiliated them and destroyed all the carrier-based aircraft, and what made the Boston Navy top brass even more sad was that because all the destroyers used for rescue were sunk, thousands of the most elite naval pilots of the Boston Empire were either killed or captured, resulting in heavy losses for the Navy.

What the Axis powers did not notice was that after several major wars, the balance of naval forces between the two sides had quietly changed. After the sinking battle, the number of Essex-class aircraft carriers on the Axis side has been reduced to twenty-five, and even with the eleven aircraft carriers still in outfitting and sea trials, their number is still only thirty-six, and as for those aircraft carriers that are still on the slipway, it will take at least two years, and it is still unknown whether they will be able to get off the slipway.

Unlike the Axis fleet, at this time, the Nanming-class aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire had grown to thirty-two, plus three old-fashioned general-class aircraft carriers and eight governor-class aircraft carriers of the allies, the number of naval aircraft carriers of the NATO allies had steadily surpassed that of the Axis bloc, and the offensive and defensive trend at sea had been reversed.

The fierce battle in the sky has been continuing, and the retreat is also going on intensely, more than a dozen civilian ships are destroyed every day, but the civilian ships of the Istanbul Empire are still holding on, in order to speed up the retreat, most of the civilian ships of the Cossack Empire on the Black Sea coast have also been transferred to transport soldiers.

After all, the number of a million soldiers is too large, and even with a large number of civilian ships, only 700,000 people can be transported across the strait in a week. In addition to the number of dead men, there were still 170,000 soldiers in Istanbul who were completely resisting the Axis offensive, but the retreat was no longer possible. Because the Boston Empire deliberately strengthened the power of the land-based air force, the air superiority of the Axis air force became more and more obvious, and through the gradual control of air supremacy, the huge fleet of the Axis countries gradually approached the Strait area again.

Soon the communication in the strait was completely cut off, and all kinds of civilian ships had to withdraw into the Black Sea to avoid the attacks of the Axis air forces, and at the same time, in areas slightly away from the combat radius of the other side, the transportation of soldiers along the coastline continued, but such routes were further away from the protection of the NATO air forces, and under the attacks of the Axis air forces, the losses of civilian ships were even greater, and finally the imperial government of Istanbul had to call a halt to this unbearable sacrifice.

The curtain came down on the retreat from the strait, which lasted nearly half a month, and more than 700,000 Iranians retreated to the Iraqi Peninsula, while the remaining nearly 100,000 troops, after destroying all heavy weapons, surrendered to the Axis forces, and what awaited them was a long life in a prisoner camp.

In this retreat, NATO lost more than 100,000 tons of various civilian ships, more than 800 air force planes, and most of the heavy weapons of the Iraqi army, especially those heavy artillery, which were almost all blown up in the Istanbul area.

The losses of the Axis powers were not light, their air force lost more than 1,500 fighters, and in the early battles, their casualties were as high as more than 400,000, and what annoyed Marshal de Gaulle even more was that due to the leaks of Lieutenant Colonel Rand, his encirclement plan was not realized, so that most of the NATO Allied forces escaped the Channel area, and these troops will become the backbone of the resistance to the Axis attack in the future.

The defeat of the Southern Route Army tore a big hole in the defense line of the NATO coalition forces, and the Central and Southern Route troops had to draw more troops to defend the Black Sea coast to prevent the other side from carrying out amphibious landing operations and cut off the retreat of the Central Route Defending Forces. Kyiv, which had been defended for a year, was eventually abandoned, and NATO troops were completely passive on the entire western front.

The major military progress on the western continent made the Axis countries quite excited, which was undoubtedly a shot in the arm after the successive defeats on land, and the annihilation of the Boston Ocean Fleet, which also strengthened the confidence of the Axis countries in victory, and made a good start for the next year's land war.

The war situation once again tilted in favor of the Axis powers, but the overworked Prime Minister of the Boston Empire, Widman, vomited blood on the spot at the celebration banquet and could not be a director, because of the work day and night after the start of the war, the dutiful septuagenarian finally could not hold on any longer, and a few days after vomiting blood, he chose to return to his hometown, and was replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Bauer.

Bauer was a radical white man, and he always had his own team. With such a person in power, Le Cheng, who was a close confidant of Prime Minister Wiedman, naturally could no longer work in the Prime Minister's Mansion, so he chose to resign voluntarily, and after consulting with the intelligence department of the Chinese Empire, Le Cheng took the beautiful female spy Ina who had just become his wife, and boarded the ship bound for Hughes Harbor in the Southern Subcontinent.

Le Cheng and his wife would go ashore there, ride across the entire northern part of the southern subcontinent, enter the territory of the Chinese Empire, and then return to China by boat or plane, which is also the only way to return to China in a state of war, of course, before returning to China, he took a lot of confidential documents from the Prime Minister's Mansion. Lecheng's departure caused the Chinese Empire to lose a lot of information in the Boston Empire's intelligence network, at least it was much more difficult for them to obtain high-end intelligence.

After the victory of the Eastern Ocean Naval Battle, Fang Ruijun had already begun to draw a large number of troops in various coastal military regions. At the same time, the warships damaged in the Great War also needed to be overhauled and maintained in the shipyard, so the time for the attack was delayed.

It was not bad to delay the attack, and with this time the Chinese Empire was able to make better preparations. After several months of pre-war preparations, Fang Ruijun already had a large number of strategic reserves in his hands, but at this time he was a little hesitant about his future strategy.