Your Excellency, Commander, all the carrier-based units are ready, and the fighter units can be lifted into the air at any time. The fighters on the hangar, according to your command, were also already loaded with ammunition, but were not refueled. When the first wave of aircraft is released, up to 45 minutes, we can release the second wave of fighters. The watchtower radar sentry planes of Huaxia have already arrived at the designated position, and they and the British reconnaissance planes together form an early warning network with high and low matches, even if the other side is a fast group, we can still have about 50 minutes of early warning time. An officer reported to Nimitz.

"After 20 minutes, the fleet positions were adjusted for the last time, the wounded battleships were close to the inner ring, and large armored aircraft carriers were deployed in the outer layer. Then turn east for half a compass point. An hour to recover. Another officer reported to Nimizzy the course of the fleet, and after adjustments, the U.S. fleet would deploy the most vulnerable wounded ships in the inner ring while moving closer to the French mainland.

"Admiral Dar Lang said that the French fleet would go to the port of Brest after the disbandment of the fleet." The last officer in charge of liaison said. Nimitz was silent for a long time. "That's the French themselves, we don't care for the time being. But Washington and London should be informed that our U.S. Army in Brittany and the Royal Air Force across the Channel must ensure the safety of the French fleet! "In the end, there was a hint of hideousness in Nimitz's words!" This damn old fox! Nimitz cursed inwardly. Nimitz knew Darlan's little calculations very well. He's waiting for the price to sell! Do you really think that in France we can't do anything? It's too naïve to get the Germans, and we can't deal with you yet? Subsequently. Nimitz dismissed distractions and put other things aside. Today the day will be the most critical time, and the German fleet has only one day to attack itself. The current cruising speed of the entire fleet is more than 20 knots, and it is conservatively estimated that it can run a distance of more than 800 kilometers a day! As long as they survive today, the Allied fleet will be considered to have escaped and ascended to heaven!

According to intelligence, long before the outbreak of the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Navy and Air Force were planning to intercept the Allied fleet, accumulating strength for two weeks, and the intensity of the Luftwaffe's thunderous blow can be imagined. Originally, Nimitz even planned to forcibly break through the interception of the Allied fleet and return to Britain, but then after learning that the Huaxia Air Force would provide cover for the fleet, he finally chose to return along the French coast. "I hope that the performance of the Huaxia Air Force will be as good as ever." Now, Nimitz could only pray for his allies to be stronger. Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven!

When the sun finally jumped over the sea, it heralded the official start of the day's killing, and above the huge Allied fleet were at least 2 squadrons of watchtower AWACS aircraft and British reconnaissance planes converted from Halifax bombers, flying at an altitude of 7,000 meters. The huge radar antenna on the belly of the airframe constantly emits powerful electromagnetic waves in all directions, like a pair of huge eyes monitoring the movement of the nearby sea. And under them, hundreds of Foxbat fighters are patrolling the periphery. They repeatedly searched the area according to their previous agreement, and occasionally some planes lowered their altitude to look for fish that had slipped through the net from low altitudes. And in the vicinity of the fleet, hundreds of F6F Hellcat fighters have also risen into the air one after another. Subsequently, with the help of ground crew, Spitfire 9 fighters were transported up from the hangar. Then position, refuel, ready to fly. The entire fleet was ready for battle in an atmosphere of solemnity!

At the same time, the Germans' attack aircraft rushed towards the target like a pack of hunting lions. The German forces involved in the offensive were mainly divided into two groups. One was the Allied fleet to the west of the Entente fleet, while the other was the Luftwaffe under the personal command of Kesselring. Count Spee cherished his remaining air force, and this time, the navy mainly sent fighter troops, and about 500 FW190T fighters were to enter the engaged airspace before the Luftwaffe attacked, weakening the defenders.

"Isn't there a little bit less of planes sent by the Navy?" After learning of the Navy's plans, the Air Force liaison officer raised objections. "No, it's not easy to come up with these planes, after all, apart from the German Navy, neither the Austrians nor the Spaniards are capable of maintaining a double carrier fleet while maintaining a double carrier-based aircraft force! We used our stocks to make up this formation, and you know, before we used our reserves, the number of fighters available to the German Navy after the war had dropped to less than 300! And the Austrians made only 80 sorties! There was a thick resentment and a hint of anger in Raeder's words!

It was only yesterday that Count Spee and Marshal Jordi finalized the battle plan. Originally, according to Count Spee's plan, after the Allied fleet was replenished with carrier-based aircraft, the Allied aircraft carrier battle group should release 700 aircraft at a time to participate in today's attack, which should include about 250 attack aircraft. But this plan was opposed by the Austro-Hungarian fleet, represented by Jordi! First of all, Holdie said that compared with the attack power of the Air Force, the remaining attack power of the Allied Navy is very limited, and it is better to release all the fighters and then ensure the penetration of the Air Force attack aircraft formation.

Secondly, Holdie said that the scale of the Austro-Hungarian fleet's participation in the battle must be reduced, and in the end the Austro-Hungarian fleet could only send 80 aircraft to participate in the battle! This amount even made Count Speeze angry, he really couldn't imagine that a national fleet with 5 aircraft carriers would actually come up with this little thing to fool itself! When is it? At the critical moment, can't Austria-Hungary give a little force!

"Did you know that all the remaining pilots of the entire Austro-Hungarian carrier-based aircraft force are not even satisfied with the officer's cafeteria, and we currently have only 150 fighter pilots who can fight, and there are more than 30 wounded among them! I don't want my men to be a bunch of rookies when the next battle breaks out! After Jordi said this in a calm tone, even Count Spee was shocked, and if calculated proportionally, the losses in the aviation of the Austro-Hungarian fleet were greater than those of the Germans. It is not an exaggeration to describe the total annihilation of the army!

And the Austro-Hungarian fleet was no longer able to fight, which meant that the German navy needed to carry both the attack and the defense on its own. Therefore, it was not easy for the German Navy to finally draw 500 fighters to support the air force in combat. After all, there is not much surplus food at home for the German Navy!

According to the agreement with the Luftwaffe, the Allied fleet would release carrier-based aircraft at 9 a.m. and arrive in operational airspace at 10:30 a.m., which coincided with the Luftwaffe offensive. Releasing 500 aircraft is not too easy for the Allied fleet with 2 dozen aircraft carriers. So the Allies only concentrated 15 aircraft carriers for the release of these aircraft, and the remaining aircraft carriers were not idle, their decks agreed to be full of aircraft, after all, no one dared to guarantee that the Entente, which had already played red-eyed, would not organize a wave of desperate charges! Moreover, according to the information provided by some special channels, Huaxia has already sold some guided weapons to the Entente countries, think about the happiness when it attacked the US fleet at the beginning. The Earl's heart beat a drum!

Just as the Allied fleet was about to release carrier-based aircraft, the huge formation of the Luftwaffe was flying across the Bay of Biscay towards the target, and this time the commander of the Reaper bomber wing was Lieutenant General Jeshunek, unlike Grimm, who commanded the bomber wing during the Italian Civil War, this lieutenant general was very low-key, not that he was not capable or qualified, but because he always liked to study something special, such as night combat aircraft and guided weapons. In the end, of course, he chose the latter. It was not only the Luftwaffe that produced the guided weapons and tactics of the Luftwaffe. Even the German Navy almost copied his theories and tactics. The first appearance of German guided weapons was at the Battle of Saint-Nazaire on the first day of the war.

During that engagement, the Germans destroyed an American heavy cruiser with guided bombs, and since then they have been out of control, with special bombers carrying guided weapons in the name of death frequenting the battlefield. They deliver a fatal blow to their opponents with precise bombardment! These bombers were generally in squadrons. At most, they will act separately as a group, and this is the first time that the Luftwaffe has used the Reaper brigade together! Although there are not many planes of the Reaper troops, from a strategic level. Lieutenant General Jeshunek's Reaper Wing and Grimm's St. Millega Strategic Bomber Aviation are of one rank! This shows how much attention the Luftwaffe attaches to it! And this time, with the idea of wiping out the Allied fleet, the Luftwaffe can be regarded as overpowered!

About 300 bombers of various types formed a dense box formation in the air. An average of 25 bombers form a formation, and then these formations compound in different airspace to form a three-dimensional multi-level formation. After absorbing the lessons of previous air battles, the Germans' box formation became more and more level. It has the style of American imperialism in history.

Outside these bombers, there was an escort fighter formation composed of 500 DO335 long-range fighters, and a total of four wings of fighter units were deployed in the front of the bomber group, on the left and right wings, and in the air. The bomber force flew at an altitude of about 5,500 meters, while the highest group, the DO335, was around 6,500 meters, and the Germans attacked exactly according to the performance of their aircraft. In addition to these aircraft, the Germans assigned an additional group of electronic warfare aircraft to the fleet, which was located 100 kilometers in front of the group, which was used to suppress the radar of the Allied warships. But what they didn't expect was that this time, the other party's eyes were in the sky! These planes are just the first wave, they will take on the task of attacking the fortification, and then there will be a wave of twin-engine bombers carrying ordinary bombs and torpedoes to make up for the knife, which is a bit different from what Huaxia began to envision!

It has to be said that after the new magnetron was replaced, and the filtering device and the new frequency hopping equipment were installed, the early warning ability and anti-jamming ability of the watchtower 3 radar sentry aircraft have been greatly improved, and the simple aiming jamming is no longer useful. These watchmen, who cruised at altitudes of 7,000 to 8,000 meters, relied on their long range and ultra-long radar to spot their opponents as soon as the Germans had just flown off the Spanish border. All kinds of information were transmitted to the general dispatch center located on the ground through radio waves, and the first wave of Shicha Falcon 3 fighters ready to meet was also ready to go, and 120 Shicha Falcon 3 fighters in 6 squadrons took off from various airfields in northwestern France, and they would become the vanguard of intercepting the Germans!

"I was going to deal with the FW190, but it turned out to be DO335! Why do I have to face a new German plane every time I go to war? "Lu Yifan, the former captain of the Sword of the South China Sea, was the pilot who fought FW190 fighters for the first time in the late Iranian war. The current captain of the Harrier Eagle Wing complained in his heart as he commanded his fleet to take off to meet the enemy. The last time in Iran, Lu Yifan's brigade was caught off guard by the new German planes, and he almost lost his life. After changing to a new aircraft, he hoped to fight FW190 again, and if he could, he was even willing to knock down the guy who was chasing him everywhere, but in the end, after the order was issued, Lu Yifan needed to face the German DO335 fighter!

"Whatever, isn't he just a thick-skinned guy?" With the completion of the whole team, Lu Yifan immediately calmed down. Lu Yifan is still very confident in his skills, especially after escaping death last time, so he always thinks that as long as he gives himself a plane that is not too bad, he will never be afraid of any opponent. And the Shicha Falcon 3 fighter he is flying now is a very good aircraft! In Lu Yifan's opinion, the performance of this aircraft in all aspects surpasses almost all the opponents he has ever encountered! Including the Skua fighter equipped with the aircraft carrier of the Chinese Navy!

This time Lu Yifan's Harrier Eagle Wing will act alone, their main target is the German escort fighters, not those huge heavy bombers, although the four 20 guns of the Shicha Falcon 3 fighter can be called powerful firepower, but in the face of those big guys weighing more than 30 tons, there is still some power. The task of the Harrier Eagle Wing is to exchange fire with the opponent's fighters, in line with the principle that it is better to take advantage of the advantage and cause chaos, anyway, the German escort group is tied around the bomber formation, and the Huaxia Air Force has the right to choose to fight, and thanks to the watchtower 3 radar sentry plane, they have plenty of time to go around in circles with the other side.

The Ishicha Falcon group, carrying two 200-liter fuel tanks, began to climb after completing the formation, and they began to fly at an altitude of 4,000 meters, which is the low rev state of the superchargers. As the distance between the two sides narrowed, the group began to climb, 4500 meters! 5500 meters! It was not until the altitude of 7500 meters that the whole fleet ended to climb, at this time the two-stage supercharging of the Casa Falcon fighter was in the best working condition, at this altitude, the Cascha Falcon with 2 levels of supercharging is better than the DO335 with a single supercharger, and the Germans never dared to exceed the 7000 meters because once the altitude continues to increase, the performance of the aircraft will deteriorate sharply. In comparison, this is the biggest advantage of the Cascha Falcon 3 aircraft over its opponents!

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