The thirteenth amphibious fleet, having received the news, acted quickly. In less than 15 minutes, thirty bombers and eight carrier-based fighters aboard the LHD-13 amphibious assault ship took to the skies and roared to attack the Sea Hawk.

As soon as the attack aircraft group was dispatched, a series of even more ominous information poured into the ears of everyone in the headquarters of the 13th Amphibious Fleet, causing many staff officers to be dizzy.

If the information gathered is correct, it means that the Japanese are playing a conspiracy.

Soon Guo Shaohua also understood the situation here, and issued new instructions, allowing the three amphibious fleets to play freely and not have scruples.

This is also Luo Haiping's request, in the face of the small actions of the Japanese, Luo Haiping has Guo Shaohua and Luo Haiping, both aware of the Japanese fleet's conspiracy, but what the conspiracy is, the two are naturally not clear.

Rather than missing out on a great opportunity, let the people below play freely.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, a seaplane of the Red Guard Regiment reported that a Japanese aircraft carrier had been spotted sixty nautical miles northeast of the Japanese pinning group.

Then, the reconnaissance plane that took off from the amphibious assault ship LHD-14 sent back several astonishing reports: a Japanese aircraft carrier was spotted at an azimuth of 317 degrees, less than 200 nautical miles away.

Half an hour later, two aircraft carriers of the main Japanese group were discovered, with an azimuth of 340 degrees and a distance of 200 nautical miles.

10 minutes later, the report came again, saying that 4 Japanese cruisers and several destroyers had been spotted at the same time.

The 14th Amphibious Fleet suddenly realized that the situation was clearly unfavorable to its side.

Because of the suspicion of the Japanese Navy, 30 bombers and 15 carrier-based aircraft were already in the air to carry out reconnaissance, attack, and anti-submarine missions, and less than 15 bombers and 12 carrier-based fighters remained on the flight decks of the two amphibious assault ships.

However, fortunately, the location of the Japanese aircraft carrier was discovered in time, and there was sufficient time to react to the amount of fuel used by the carrier-based aircraft, and the 14th Amphibious Fleet immediately ordered the Red Alert carrier-based aircraft attacking the Sea Eagle to turn around halfway and attack the two large Japanese aircraft carriers.

At the same time, all carrier-based aircraft on the LHD-14 were combat-ready, but no order was given to take off, because the target was too far away and it was necessary to land at night when returning.

The command of the 14th Amphibious Fleet believed that the Japanese reconnaissance planes had sent back a report that the enemy already knew the location of the amphibious assault ships of the Red Guard Corps, and that he must prepare for the Japanese air attack.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, two carrier-based fighters taking off from the Red Guard amphibious assault ship LHD-14 spotted the Japanese aircraft carrier "Shohe" and attacked.

But because it didn't carry a bomb, it just caused a little trouble for the Shozuru with a cannon.

At the same time, eighteen carrier-based bombers that took off from the LHD-13 unknowingly reached the sky over the Sea Hawk.

At this time, the Sea Eagle was turning to headwind.

The Red Alert carrier-based aircraft seized the favorable moment of attack and immediately launched an encirclement and suppression.

Carrier-based bombers pounced on the sea from an altitude of 1,000 meters, and four bombs exploded on the deck of the Sea Hawk. One torpedo hit the target, and about 10 bombs exploded on the deck.

The whole ship was shrouded in fire and smoke, and the hull quickly tilted to starboard, and in the blink of an eye, it could not move.

Two hours later, the "ghost for the dead" finally sank miserably.

When the Sea Hawk was a victim of Hasegawa Kiyoshi's plan and was attacked like a wolf by the Red Alert carrier-based aircraft, Hasegawa Kiyoshi was overjoyed.

He thought that the people of the Red Alert Empire had fallen for the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain.

At half past three in the afternoon, Hasegawa Kiyoshi sent more than 90 carrier-based aircraft to strike the Red Alert amphibious assault fleet for the first time.

The 15th Amphibious Assault Ship Group of the Red Guard Regiment was 10 nautical miles northwest of the 14th Amphibious Assault Ship Group, and the 14th Amphibious Fleet ordered the amphibious assault ship LHD-14 to guide the fighters.

At half past four in the afternoon, the ship's radar detected a number of air targets, which were coming to attack the Japanese aircraft group.

The fourteenth and fifteenth amphibious flotilla decks stood by planes took off and headed for the interception. Soon, twelve Intruder carrier-based fighters took to the skies and were on emergency standby in the air

At the same time, twenty nautical miles away, the LHD-13, with only eighteen bombers and six carrier-based fighters, took off to attack the Japanese aircraft carrier.

At this point, the three amphibious ship battle groups have pushed out all the "family bases".

In just a moment's time, at a distance of 14 nautical miles from the LHD-42 amphibious assault ship, an aerial battle began.

The Red Alert fighters who intercepted the Japanese plane group were well aware of the heavy responsibility and did not give in, and desperately pounced on the Japanese plane.

A plane of the Red Police Regiment approached an incoming plane at high speed and was about to shoot it down, when it saw that it turned out to be one of its own returning reconnaissance planes.

The situation was urgent, and in order to avoid accidental damage, the fighter commander of the LHD-14 immediately issued an order to all reconnaissance planes to get out of the way.

Ten minutes later, a fighter squad over the northwest reported: "36 enemy bombers have been spotted. The height is 10,000 meters, and above them there are many planes. ”

The fighter guidance officer of the Red Alert Navy's carrier-based aircraft unit quickly gave the attack instructions and shot down the Japanese plane before it could deploy and reach the airspace over the amphibious assault ship.

At this moment, the Japanese aircraft were less than 250 nautical miles from the Red Alert amphibious assault ship LHD-14 and spread out into several small groups.

The first attack wave, consisting of thirty-six Japanese dive bombers and twelve torpedo planes, gradually approached the Red Guard fleet under the cover of forty-eight Zero fighters.

As soon as the planes of the Red Guard Corps, which had already taken off and were on standby, spotted the Japanese plane, they immediately rushed to meet them. The two groups of planes formed positions in the dense clouds, and a brutal air battle began.

The sky was filled with the shrill and piercing noise characteristic of air combat. Although the Red Alert carrier-based fighters that had returned from attacking the Sea Eagle had not much fuel, they lost no time in rushing to participate in this vicious battle in the air.

The Red Alert carrier-based planes bravely attacked and disrupted the Japanese aircraft formation, but the number of Japanese carrier-based planes used to contain the Red Alert carrier-based planes was too great to completely intercept them, and dozens of Japanese dive bombers still broke through the interception net and directly took the amphibious assault ship LHD-14.

The situation was extremely critical, and LHD-14 and all the surrounding air defense cruisers and destroyers fought back. Cannonballs fired from the ship's surface burst into the air, staining the snow-white clouds with black ink.

Regardless of casualties, Japanese planes still rushed forward at the risk of death, and in the end, 13 dive bombers broke through the fire protection network of the Red Guard Regiment one after another.

The first Japanese carrier-based aircraft to enter the target made a dive, dropping bombs at an altitude of less than one and a half thousand meters.

More than 30,000 tons of LHD-14 became very dangerous.

The captain of the LHD-14 desperately made a sharp turn with a large rudder angle to avoid the bomb.

Ten minutes later, LHD-14 was hit by a total of 3 shots.

The first bomb let out a piercing scream and landed diagonally on the deck. It was a timed armor-piercing projectile that did not explode as it passed through the first deck, and when it reached the side of the boatswain cabin on the second deck, it made an earth-shattering bang, killing the occupants of the cabin instantly.

A minute later, a second bomb with an instantaneous detonator hit the right side of the LHD-14 stern elevator. Orange sparks flew everywhere, and the people close to the explosion point suddenly flew flesh and blood.

The third bomb blew off the take-off signal station, sending the ship into flames. Immediately afterward, a bomb landed on the side of the ship, setting off a huge column of water, and the splash of sea water almost immediately extinguished the raging fire caused by the previous bomb.

Soon, the LHD-14 hull tilted slightly, and the fire on the surface of the ship was quite violent, but fortunately, the firefighters on the ship did a very good job, and in less than an hour, the LHD-14 fire was extinguished and the speed began to recover.

Although he was seriously injured, he was still able to turn the bow of the ship, brave the wind and waves, and meet the returning plane.

The 14th Amphibious Fleet immediately ordered 1 cruiser and 4 destroyers to escort the LHD-14 back to Australia for repairs.

Towards five o'clock in the afternoon, the Red Guard fleet was again in danger.

The second attack wave, consisting of 18 Japanese bombers, 10 torpedo planes and 3 Zero fighters, gradually approached the 14th Amphibious Fleet.

However, at this time, the Red Alert carrier-based aircraft already had sufficient space to intercept, and under the interception of twelve carrier-based fighters, the second wave of attacks was long in the sky, and not even one of them returned.

Due to the lack of early warning aircraft guidance, coupled with the dense fog blockade at the sea at dusk, the attack formation that took off to attack the Japanese fleet did not find the target, and the two main aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy were safe and sound.

The carrier-based planes that searched other seas were also helpless to return, and the cunning of the Japanese Navy, in the case of relative strength, the degree of difficulty has already made the Red Guard Corps deeply understand.

However, the Japanese Combined Fleet did not have a good time, and in the evening, Hasegawa Kiyoshi ordered to withdraw from the battle.

In this battle, the Japanese army and the Red Guard Corps suffered their own injuries, and there was no difference between victory and defeat.

However, in the sense of value, although in this naval battle, an amphibious assault ship of the Red Alert Navy was injured, but the price in exchange was more than 110 carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese, while the Red Guard Regiment had almost no losses in carrier-based aircraft.

The damaged amphibious assault ship, which only needs simple repairs, will soon be able to restore its combat effectiveness.

Strategically speaking, this naval battle smashed Hasegawa Kiyoshi's strategic attempt to defeat the Red Guard fleet and quickly consolidate the Kuah Island airfield.

The tactics of the Japanese were successful, but the combat effectiveness was a failure.

What's more, from the very beginning, Hasegawa Kiyoshi found the wrong target, and the target attacked by the Japanese carrier-based aircraft was not considered an aircraft carrier in the Red Alert Empire.

But from this point of view, Hasegawa Kiyoshi is also lucky, if Hasegawa Kiyoshi finds the right target, the target is the Kuimu Wolf or the Pleiades Chicken, which is approaching Kuah Island, then the result will be a disaster for Japan.

And what remains unchanged is the loss of one hundred and ten carrier-based aircraft, and the combat effectiveness of the combined fleet has been greatly discounted.