At 4:50 p.m., after an hour and a half of flying in formation, the Chinese Army's Second Air Attack Wave, led by Colonel Situ Qi, Wing Commander of the 3rd Carrier-based Wing of the "Golden Falcon," flew over the advance guard of the Allied Combined Fleet, and only one of the 84 planes (12 fighters and 7 attack planes) at the time of departure returned home ahead of schedule due to engine failure.

The first thing that caught Colonel Situ Qi's field of vision was a large elliptical formation spread across the sea, dozens of clear tracks quickly extended to the east, and later, when Situ Qi carefully observed from the telescope, he made a new discovery: in the southwest of the large formation below, a black smoke belt that had been slanted by the wind was rising into the clouds, and below the smoke belt, the silhouettes of two all-through flat-topped ships were faintly visible, skewed, and paralyzed motionless on the sea - this should be the result of the first attack wave.

Look at the large formation in the vicinity: the left and right wings with 5 warships or battle cruisers as the core tightly protect the central part with 2 remnant aircraft carriers as the core, and if you want to launch a flanking attack on the enemy aircraft carrier formation from both sides according to the original plan, you must pass through the double air defense fire circle of the battleship/battleship formation and the aircraft carrier formation one after another, and - fighters!

As soon as more than a dozen "Seal Cub" fighters hovering around the British aircraft carrier formation saw the Chinese military aircraft group appear, they rushed over from several directions in a vigorous manner, and one "Haiyun Dian" that served as the escort immediately split up to meet them. (The fighter plane is fleeting, and Situ Qi must decide as soon as possible: whether to divide the aircraft group into two parts according to the original combat plan and launch attacks from both sides of the enemy aircraft carrier formation at the same time, or to use the reserve plan accordingly - or to launch an attack on the battleship/battle patrol formation guarding the side of the aircraft carrier formation first, disrupt the enemy formation, and then take advantage of the gap to continue to attack the aircraft carrier formation; Or one attack the two damaged aircraft carriers that have been grounded but are still floating on the surface of the sea to prevent the enemy's follow-up forces from towing them away, and the other simply concentrating on one of the battleships/battle patrol formations. [Read the text version, please go to] weaken the surface combat power of the enemy's avant-garde forces and create fighters for your own combat patrol forces.

After a short period of trade-offs, Situ Qi chose the second backup plan, which seemed to be more secure.

It is better to hurt his nine fingers, it is better to cut off one of his fingers, Situ Qi's choice is not unreasonable. In his opinion, the huge main force of the Entente Combined Fleet should follow not far behind the avant-garde force, as long as the damaged aircraft carrier of the other side can still maintain its afloat, it will have a chance to be rescued, and if it is dragged back to repair and then return to the battlefield, it will cause trouble for its own side, and if there is a chance, it should still rush over to make up for a few mines to ensure that they can honestly see the Dragon King. (

What about other schemes? Judging from the results of the first attack wave, Situ Qi is hard to believe that the attack aircraft team in his hands is one-fifth less than the first attack wave. Under the premise that the escort fighters were less than half the first attack wave, it was enough to destroy the remaining two aircraft carriers after passing through the greatly thickened anti-aircraft fire net in two parts. Even if you attack one of the ships/battle patrol formations with half of your strength first. After opening the gap, it will be difficult to attack the aircraft carrier formation with the other half of the force, I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve the desired results.

Not to mention...... Situ Qi thought that the plan he chose could greatly reduce the battle damage, how much loss would it be to fight those two dead fish that were only accompanied by three or four small boats? Wouldn't it be a lot of loss to hit and run from the outskirts of a group of enemy ships that were packed up in a group of enemy ships instead of burrowing into the heart of the heart and then breaking away layer by layer?

Save as many troops as possible at the moment, and then solve the problem with a more powerful attack tomorrow - with this in mind, Situ Qi ordered the radio crew to turn on the voice communication of the whole group, and quickly transmitted the order to the ears of every crew member in the field. This would have been completely unthinkable a few months ago – and in the current British carrier-based aviation.

The attack aircraft flotilla was soon divided into two parts in the air: 48 of them under Situ Qi's personal command turned to the port side of the enemy battle patrol formation, and the other 23 planes commanded by Colonel Zhao Zixi, commander of the 4th Carrier-based Wing of the "Saker," pounced on the two damaged aircraft carriers in the southwest.

Facts have proved that Situ Qi's temporary change of operational plan did avoid certain losses: the British army, with the "experience" of defending against the previous wave of attacks, arranged two fighter lines, of which the second line of defense was to divide a squadron of 12 fighters into two parts, which were arranged on both sides of the formation, however. This time, the Chinese attack aircraft group only launched an attack from one side, and the ground fighters on the other side were not able to come to intercept it at all.

In the face of the six British fighters guarding this side of the formation, Situ Qi ordered all planes to come close together to form a dense formation, and concentrated on self-defense machine gun fire to confront them, and a fierce battle began. Although 5 of our planes were shot and fell. However, they also knocked out two enemy planes one after another, forcing the other plane to circle around and dare not approach. As soon as he entered the range of the enemy's large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery, Situ Qi urgently ordered the group of planes to disperse, and each plane attacked independently.

"Each aircraft aimed at the No. 2 and No. 2 ships in the column to attack, and after throwing mines, they broke away from the rear of the enemy formation, and did not hesitate to rush over in one breath! 500 meters to throw mines, remember, 500 meters! Don't be early, don't be late, vote at 500 meters! ”

Clearly receiving the commander's order from the earset, the pilots of the 42 attack planes immediately pushed their rods and kicked the rudder, braved the smoke of airburst bombs that burst into the sky, and drove the planes down to a low altitude of tens of meters or even more than 10 meters, and went straight to the target on the surface of the sea: the "Royal Princess," a "Lion"-class battlecruiser with a total length of more than 230 meters, spewing thick black smoke from three chimneys, one small and two large, and the slightly larger "Queen Mary."

In the black smoke of the seemingly terrible 3-inch and 4-inch airburst bombs, and in front of the 7-millimeter, 1-pound, and 2-pound tracer bullets intertwined in the sky, only two planes crashed before the mines were dropped, and in just five or six minutes, a total of 40 torpedoes were connected to the water at a distance of four or five hundred meters, drawing straight and narrow snow-white thunder trails, most of which passed through the gaps between the enemy ships and suddenly disappeared in the wake of the churning warships, however, one, two, three...... A total of six tall and abrupt columns of water rose one after another - hit!

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