On June 27, 915, six "Sea Hawk" water fighters of the 901st Water Battle Squadron of the Third Air Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy were quietly floating beside a narrow wooden trestle bridge in Cape, the capital of the Andaman Islands of British India.

Squadron Leader Captain Tang Peng, holding half a filter cigarette, paced back and forth in front of the pilot's duty room, a simple wooden house, at the end of the trestle.

In the scorching sunlight of eleven degrees north latitude, no less than that of Bangkok or Manila, Tang Peng's bare upper body had been tanned, and the heavy flight suit with his name plate written on his left chest hung wiltedly on the mission blackboard in front of the duty room.

The Andaman Islands, together with the Nicobar Islands, which are separated by a ten-degree strait to the south, were captured by lightning in early 5 May by the Indian Ocean detachment of the 1st Fleet of the Joint East Asian Navy (consisting of battleships "Jinghai" and "Weihai", battle patrols "Kirishima", "~=: battalion reinforced artillery and amphibious vehicle units").

North Preparris Strait of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Ilo, Myanmar: Five or six hundred kilometers to the Andaman Sea, the Clark Isthmus connecting the Malay Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula; Across the Nicobar Strait to the southeast is the island of Sumatra; The westward voyage to the Bay of Bengal is thousands of kilometers away, and can reach the Indian subcontinent. On the map, it looks like a long chain of scattered pieces, enclosing the western side of the Andaman Sea, and at the same time closing the exit of the Strait of Malacca to the depths of the Indian Ocean. However, the term "chains" should be from the perspective of Britain or the Entente, and from the perspective of China or the Allies, it is more like a natural barrier and a great wall of the sea that guards the "Nanyang Liberated Zone" of the East Asian Alliance.

Nearly ninety percent of the 467-kilometre-long 204 islands are covered with lush tropical forests. Many of the islands are uninhabited. It has been used for a long time since its British occupation in 1789, and by this time, together with the remaining Black Dwarf Aborigines, the total number of inhabitants was only fifty or sixty thousand, half of whom were concentrated in Port Blair, the largest city and port in the whole archipelago, on the island of Central Andaman.

After the navy occupied the islands, it established a sea and air cordon with Port Blair as the core, and stationed the Eighth Air Force and the 11th Fleet of the three ships, of which the permanent units of the Eighth Air Force included the 1st Combined Naval Wing, the 211th Independent Maritime Reconnaissance Squadron, and the 901st and 902nd Independent Naval Combat Squadrons. It has 24 water reconnaissance planes and 12 water fighters, and the 11th Fleet is composed of 3 submarine submarines and a number of patrol boats and #队 of the 5th submarine detachment, and the two forces are combined into the Andao Task Force, which is directly under Ma Shengyu, commander of the South China Sea Fleet, and is responsible for guarding the Bay of Bengal and guarding against the Allied forces from breaking through into the Andaman Sea.

By the end of May, in view of the increasingly tense situation in the Indian Ocean, the submarine and cruiser forces of the Entente side continued to attack the Empire's sea lines of communication to Burma, and the original forces were unable to cope with it, it was decided to build a land airfield in Port Blair. In order to allow the land-based aviation units of the three ships to be stationed, and at the same time to expand the port facilities of the wharf. Strengthen coastal air defense facilities and establish the Ando Defense Command to take unified control of the island's defense.

On 25 June, two four-engine "Haiyan Lei Reconnaissance" land reconnaissance planes of the 11 th Air Corps successfully landed, followed by the 667 Squadron of the Army Attack (9 "Haiyan Lei" land attack planes) and the 405 Lu Squadron (12 new "Yundian" land fighters) of the 11 th Air Corps on 26 June.

Obviously, the better-performing land-based fighter unit is about to assume the main air supremacy mission of the Port Blair base, and the water fighter unit that has not fired a single bomb after being stationed should be moved to other islands that lack land airfields -- Tang Peng does not mind moving his defense, he is just tired of waiting.

Five months ago. To be precise, it was during the naval and air battle of Lingayen on 2 January this year that Tang Peng's 901 Squadron took off from a humble bay mooring ground and intercepted and shot down four reconnaissance planes released by the four-nation joint fleet. The forced landing and capture of one plane ensured the one-way transparency of our East Asian Combined Army's battlefield situation and created the necessary conditions for our army to successfully ambush and inflict heavy damage on the enemy's superior forces.

However. Since then, the 901 Squadron has no more to fight, and most of the time is on long and boring tasks such as escort vigilance, during which the squadron suffered three accidents, lost two aircraft, and the deputy squadron leader and squadron leader of the 2nd squadron, Lieutenant Liang Mingrui, was killed.

New planes were added, new pilots were added, but the position of deputy squadron leader remained vacant.

Tang Peng made a report more than once, proposing to expand the squadron to the scale of 12 planes, but he had no choice but to sink into the sea, and the Xindi water combat squadron was formed one after another, all of which were small formations of six planes, and Tang Peng was completely ignored.

Spit out the cigarette butt on his mouth, Tang Peng stood in front of a bay of sea water that emitted a strong salty and wet smell, put his hand in the shade, and habitually looked at the sky.

Lazy clouds like cotton balls, swimming beneath the clear emerald blue sky, seagulls flying back and forth—the sky is beautiful and serene, but the sun is too dazzling.

Underneath the largest and fattest cloud, a black spot suddenly popped out...... No, densely packed, getting closer, either flocks of birds, or ......

The air defense siren suddenly screamed, Tang Peng reflexively ran to the trestle, and when he passed the duty room, he picked up the flight suit next to the blackboard.

Without the squadron leader's orders, the sleepy-eyed lads in the duty room rushed to their respective landlines like cheetahs on the African savannah that had begun to attack the antelope, followed by the mechanic with the crankshaft in his hand, which was used to shake the engine.

Before untying the mooring cables, the maintenance soldiers did not forget to tie the red and blue triangular leader flying flags to the wings of Tang Peng's squadron leader's plane plane.

Push the throttle valve, refuel the engine, the propeller whined to tear the air, the fusiform pontoon carrying the fuselage began to slide on the water, the exhaust gas of the engine rushed head-on, Tang Peng pulled down the goggles on the flight cap, took a deep breath, and looked up to the sky. The sky is full of ...... Blue and white crosses! A large formation of no less than a hundred machines!