Chapter 217: The First Encounter at Sea

This time, Danguo was going to concentrate all its forces together to have a head-on collision with the aircraft carrier task force of the central country, because they had previously received information that the two aircraft carrier task forces of the central country were divided into two wings and left their home port to cruise on the sea.

The admiral of Dan is Admiral Nanyun Tula, this Nanyun Tula is an aircraft carrier pilot, from the time he joined the Dan Navy to serve on the aircraft carrier, he is cunning and fierce, his flying skills can only be said to be average, compared with many excellent pilots are much worse, his only advantage is that his mother once worked as a wet nurse for the king of Dan, because of this relationship he step by step to the position of naval commander.

Although he was not an excellent naval soldier, after all, he had been at sea for several decades and still had a good understanding of the navy's operational plans and tactics, so he formulated this operational policy of concentrating superior forces to break through each one, and was determined to break one of the central country's aircraft carrier formations at sea first, and then the other. With the naval strength in his hands, even if he collides head-on with the two aircraft carrier formations of the central country, he has a great chance of winning, let alone dealing with an aircraft carrier formation.

Therefore, Nagumo's fleet swaggered straight towards the sea area of Danguo. Just as it was approaching the combat radius of the Danguo aircraft carrier, a fog suddenly rose in the sea, covering the sea surface within a radius of 100 kilometers.

This kind of fog that often appears in the sea outside the central sea is random, sometimes spread throughout the sea area in a short period of time, some disappear quickly, and some will last all day, due to the randomness of the fog, it is difficult to predict accurately in weather forecasts.

The aircraft carrier formation, which had kept its communications silent, had to turn on radar to prevent ship collisions, and the central aircraft carrier had not even seen a shadow.

Nanyun hesitated a little whether to go further or take a step back, it is very dangerous to go further without turning on the main radar, in case of a sneak attack by the fighters of the central country, it is also very troublesome, if the search radar is turned on, it is estimated that the detection system of the central country will know the location of the Danguo formation faster, and a large number of fighters of the central country will arrive at that time. If he took a step back, even if this offensive operation was canceled, he got the news that the attack on land was not going well, and once this operation was canceled, the central country would definitely step up its defense at sea, and it would be difficult to find a suitable sneak attack opportunity.

While he was hesitating, the radio of the reconnaissance team received a powerful electromagnetic radiation, and a huge group of planes was coming from the sky, heading straight for the aircraft carrier formation.

Nagumo Tula did not hesitate and ordered the entire fleet to enter a combat state, all search radars were turned on, and carrier-based AWACS aircraft took off for detection.

From the report of the early warning aircraft, Nagumo learned that a formation of more than a dozen fighters was flying in the direction of the fleet, and it was likely that it was a fighter plane for daily training or patrol of the central country.

Nagumo breathed a sigh of relief, since it was a training and patrol plane, at least it showed that the central country was not ready, the suddenness of the attack could still be achieved, and the training and patrol fighters generally did not carry a large amount of ammunition, so it was easy to deal with.

Nagumo ordered a company on the aircraft carrier to take off to attack and destroy the central country's aircraft group formation, and with a roar, a Danguo fighter took off from the aircraft carrier. Because the aircraft carrier uses a magnetic monopole ejection device, the ejection speed of the fighter plane is very fast, and within a few minutes, more than a dozen Danguo fighters formed a formation and flew to meet the battle.

The fighters of the central country also discovered that the fighters of the Dan country were coming, probably because of lack of preparation or simply did not carry ammunition, and the group of planes of the central country hurriedly circled in the air and flew quickly in the direction of return.

How could the fighters of the Dan country let go of such a good opportunity to attack, it is extremely difficult to get rid of the opponent with their backs to the other side in the air battle, especially the circling performance of the Dan fighters is to surpass the fighters of the central country, if you want to win, you must first clean up the air power of the central country, and the fighters of the Dan country roared and chased after them.

When Nagumo was complacent, suddenly the air early warning plane reported that another flight formation composed of dozens of fighters from the central country was attacking the aircraft carrier formation of Danguo.

Nanyun sneered, it was almost meaningless for you fighters to fight with us, so he ordered more than a dozen fighters on another aircraft carrier to take off to meet the enemy.

Similarly, when the Danguo fighter approached the central fighter, the central fighter also flew away in a big circle in the air, and the Danish fighter chased after it.

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered all the fighters to return immediately, and at the same time, the remaining fighters on the two aircraft carriers immediately took off and stood by in the air to prevent the fighters from taking advantage of the situation.

The fighter planes on the Danguo aircraft carrier rose into the air one after another, forming a black and oppressive cloud of fighter planes around the aircraft carrier, which made the light very dim in the fog, and because the fighters took off to cover the sun, the sea surface was even darker.

Nearly 100 Danish fighter planes were constantly patrolling around the 100-kilometer Danguo aircraft carrier task force, but the display of Dan's airborne early warning aircraft was always only the echo of that batch of central fighters on the radar screen, and there were no other fighters.

Nagumo envisioned that there would be a central air assault force taking advantage of his fighter to chase the fleeing central fighter plane, and the situation of rushing straight from the front did not happen at all.

Could it be that those two groups of central fighters were really training and patrolling? Is the central country really not ready to go to war with us? Nagumo Tula felt very strange, and he ordered the early warning planes on standby to also take off and search for the traces of the central country's fighters and fleet in different directions.

The AWACS aircraft searched in the air for nearly an hour and did not find the shadow of the central country's fighters and ships, and Nagumo's plane had been in the air long enough, and it was time to come back to replenish fuel.

Just when the fighters that took off at the earliest came back to refuel, the early warning planes suddenly discovered that a huge group of central aircraft was rushing towards the Danguo aircraft carrier task force. Nagumo had to order the Dan fighters, who were still well fueled, to meet the enemy, and the rest came back to refuel.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and just when the medium-range air-to-air missiles of the two sides could reach each other, the huge fleet of aircraft of the central country turned again and flew back to their positions!

Nanyun forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, he understood that this was the central country trying to find a way to consume and disperse the empty time of their fighters, and when the fighters did not have much time, they would send a large number of fighters for a decisive battle, and at that time the time for their fighters to use in air combat would be very short, and it would be difficult to win in a hurry, and this should be the tactic of central country. Therefore, at the moment, we must not act rashly, and we must preserve our strength so that the fighter can fight at any time.

Nagumo immediately ordered all fighters to return to their homes, not to entangle with the fighters of the central country in the air, and the first batch of fighters immediately returned to the aircraft carrier to refuel.