The sea, like a pool of turquoise amber, clouds of cotton wool drifting through the window, and the tall Chiriki volcano in the distance, rising like a pagoda, did not make Shun frown. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

Because he was in big trouble, the fuel gauge on the dashboard didn't even go!

The table showed that it was already 3:50 p.m.

This is not a good thing, although he can be sure that he set off with a full tank of fuel, but it has been 90 minutes since the departure, and although it has been flying at a fuel-efficient speed of 280 kilometers, the Hornet can only fly for 200 minutes in this case, which can guarantee fuel consumption for another ten minutes when it lands later.

Shun is very confident in his skills, as a Silver Star pilot who has successfully taken off and landed more than 50 sorties on the small deck of the Raider-class training mothership, the wide deck of the Xiqin is no different from the ground airfield runway, but he still needs spare fuel, because when he returns, he may encounter a squadron of attack aircraft, even if he can clear the deck and make an emergency landing, it will take enough time.

He knew that there could be no longer delay, so with a flick of the lever on his wrist, the dexterous bumblebee reacted immediately, but when the Panamanian coast in front of him began to shrink, white dots flashed under the clouds.

"SCHOTT 184!"

Shun's pupils shrank into a cold star, he knew this kind of famous British seaplane, although it was painted with the American flag, but he was sure that he was not mistaken, and he also knew that the United States had recently introduced this kind of aircraft imitation, the horsepower was much stronger than that made in the United Kingdom, and the wings were also large, it was said that it was to learn to install torpedoes at home and use them as torpedo machines.

"This big plagiarism country that infringes on knowledge and patents!" Looking at this American version of the Schott 184, I remembered the words of my sworn friend Zhang Ou, according to that guy's statement, the United States has now become the world's number one thief, the car engine is copied from China, the warship imitates China's, the radio is secretly made and the patent fee is not paid, the plane is imitated by the British, the machine gun is also, and the tank is still sent by France, but the gas is not paid for the emperor's electricity recently!

Thinking of Zhang Ou's gritted teeth when he said this, he felt funny, he didn't worry about these things, he only knew that this American-made Schott 184 was a little weird, because it didn't go to the battlefield in the Gulf of Panama in the south, but was desperately flying north!

This is weird, the transfer range of the SCHOTT 184 is only 480 kilometers, it is impossible to fly back to the United States from here in one go, where is it going?

Shun looked at the oil gauge that didn't move, and some couldn't make up his mind, if he tracked it, he might not have enough fuel to go back, but if he didn't follow it, what if? After hesitating for a moment, he looked at his watch repeatedly, and finally made up his mind to hide in the clouds high in the sky and chase for a while.

Time passed minute by minute, sitting in the cockpit Shun could almost feel the plane getting lighter and lighter, seeing that it had been more than ten minutes, if he didn't go back, he would really have to make a forced landing at sea.

To chase or not to chase?

When it came to the Schott 184 flying directly under the clouds, there was no sign of turning, so Shun had to sigh, but when his hand was just about to flick the joystick, in the distance of the cloud gap, thick smoke suddenly made the qi and blood rush to his head.

"I've got you!"

"What!"

Inside the Idaho, Vice Admiral Andrew stood up suddenly, his tall body blocked in front of the staff like a brown bear, and snatched the telegram from the N fleet, and the blood on his face quickly faded.

"The power of the Oklahoma and Wisconsin is damaged and we can't get out, we are dragged into the decisive battle, ask for reinforcements, ask for reinforcements!"

"He should be sent to the gallows!" Lieutenant General Andrew was pacing and roaring, his staff jacket was also covered with beads of sweat, pinching the telegram, and the corners of his eyes secretly swept the last two consecutive repeating words.

Mayo, this idiot, he should leave immediately after encountering the enemy instead of catching up, although the Nevada class is almost built in imitation of the Hebei class, but it is not the real Hebei class after all, the Chinese Empire has much more experience in battleship construction technology and application than the United States, so there is almost no comparison between the two.

If he quickly breaks away and executes the decoy plan, then now Hua's operational intentions will be exposed, and according to previous speculations, if Hua does not catch up, it means that they do not want to attack Panama at all, because no one will risk landing without destroying the enemy's naval mobile forces and controlling the sea area.

If they pursue, it means that they really want to attack Panama, and at that time, as long as the time is dragged on for 2 hours, even if the Chinese aircraft carrier appears, the aircraft will be useless in the night, and the own side, which occupies an absolute advantage in forces, can at least inflict heavy damage on the enemy, and even desperately sink three or four capital ships of the opponent!

But now, it's all over!

Before the opponent's purpose was tried out, and before the key of whether the aircraft carrier was nearby, Mayo sent the N fleet to the side of people's teeth. 【 I want: super fast update 】

He knew Mayo very well, this was a poor creature who was majestic when he bullied the weak, but when he met the strong, he was restrained, and he would even be beaten down, if it weren't for the fact that he had a little experience in commanding the fleet, if it weren't for the fact that he was one of the few generals with actual combat experience, if it weren't for the fact that the fleet couldn't find a replacement, maybe he wouldn't have come here at all.

Andrew was indeed enraged, and he would have given him a bullet if Mayo was in front of him, but now he had to calm himself down.

"How long will it be before we arrive?"

"An hour and a half to reach the shelling distance!"

"Then how long do you estimate that Mei, N Fleet can last?" Andrew asked.

The staff officer noticed Andrew's words, and he no longer wanted to mention Mayo, so he immediately said: "We don't have much information about Hebei-class battleships, but judging from China's consistent battleship construction level, the combat capability of each Hebei-class battleship should be about 15 times that of Nevada."

According to this calculation, if you want to sink the Nevada that has strengthened the protection of key parts, you must at least close to a distance of 15,000 meters, but Nevada can also cause damage to them at this distance, so they must first knock out the counterattack ability of the N fleet at a long distance, and they can continue to shorten the distance, I personally think that the N fleet can hold out for at least an hour, as long as N keeps going north during this period, we can see it after an hour late, and we still have a chance to rescue them. ”

Andrew nodded and took a deep breath: "Cancel the radio silence, send a telegram to the N fleet, let them move closer to me at any cost, order all the planes stationed in Panama to depart, protect their retreat!" ”

The staff officer nodded, this is the last way, whether it is the Camel F1 or the Schott 184, it is impossible to cause too much trouble to the main fleet of China, but now this is the only way to test whether the aircraft carrier is nearby.

"Go tell everyone, get ready, an hour and a half late, we'll be engaged!" Andrew walked to the porthole and looked out at the blue sea, his fists almost clenching out of the water.

"One hour!"

On the deck, Xi Zhiyong stood in front of his beloved dragon tooth torpedo machine, padded his feet to the two gold stars, and then wiped it with cotton yarn to make it shiny and shiny.

He was previously a Seahawk pilot in the 2nd Flying Wing of the Task Force, with two gold stars, representing him in all two naval battles of the fleet, the Battle of False Bay, where he and his partners sank the USS France, and the Battle off Colombo, where the USS Spain was sunk.

Although he was transferred to the 3rd Flying Wing and promoted to the captain of the assault group due to the needs of the troops, and was also equipped with a Dragon's Tooth single-wing all-metal torpedo plane, the two Venus were retained.

On the deck, the comrades-in-arms of the third wing quietly looked at the gold stars on the captain's plane, their eyes were full of envy, and they couldn't wait to add a string of gold stars to their planes immediately.

After seeing them out of the corner of his eye, Xi Zhiyong smiled slightly, like his former captain Jin Wei, he is not a person who likes to talk a lot, he likes to use actions to encourage his comrades, these burning and envious eyes, this is exactly what he wants to see, because the little guy with golden light will inspire these hands who are about to go to the battlefield for the first time**, victorious**!

"Don't look at it, you should all have it in a while."

After Xi Zhiyong handed over the cotton yarn to the air crew, he clapped his hands and was about to explain a few more words, but a shrill alarm suddenly sounded on the deck, and the sound was as pleasant as heaven in his ears!

"Get on board!"

"Grandma, it's finally here!"

"Mother, I love you!"

In the shouting, the dragon teeth who had just been waiting for nothing to do were annoyed immediately turned into wild monkeys with chili peppers on their buttocks, and quickly got into the cockpit, and in just a few minutes, Xi Zhiyong's dragon tooth propeller had turned into a light curtain.

"23 ships!"

Fang Lan, who came to the third wing of the HNA with Xi Zhiyong, pressed his military hat, ran to him under the roar of the propeller, stuffed the information into the cockpit, and slapped his hand fiercely: "Kill them!" ”

"Don't worry, they won't be able to run away!" Xi Zhiyong put his fingers together and raised his eyebrows

In the salute, the two motherships were already racing into the wind, and in just five minutes, eight Hornets that had already been prepared took off from the two motherships, because the enemy had no air power, so this time they were only responsible for hitting outposts, detecting and guiding the dragon's tooth group, so as not to waste fuel.

A few minutes later, the deck wind had reached a strong level, the deck flight commander raised his hands, the chess players in the distance raised the flag, and when the body squatted down, his hands suddenly turned into arrows pointing at the bow, and Xi Zhiyong quickly released the brakes.

The dragon's teeth with the "fish bones" were not as flexible as before, but the fierce deck wind still provided enough lift, and when the ship island passed by, Xi Zhiyong saw the tall posture of the commander and the chief of staff on the air traffic control platform, and the right hand of Qi Er raised in salute.

"Get up, baby!"

Xi Zhiyong used all his strength to pull the joystick, and when the fuselage was light and jumped out of the deck abruptly, the war eagle seemed to hear a shout, and the wind carried it into the void along the wide wings.

Twenty minutes, the 52 dragon teeth of the two dragon tooth attack squadrons that had been prepared on the Xiqin were successfully lifted into the air, and the black pressure group immediately flew north.

Thirty minutes later, the Dongqi also unleashed the same number of two attack squadrons, following the former and disappearing above the blue sea.

"It was reported that the main force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet was found north of the Azuero Peninsula, with a total of 23 warships, respectively." During the staff officer's report, Fang Jin immediately walked to the chart.

23 warships, calculated at a speed of 18 knots per hour, can appear in an extra hour and a half at a combat distance of 25 kilometers to the north, and the four guys in front of them are still going north, although the speed is only 16 knots, but they must keep chasing and fighting, so that it will only take more than an hour to encounter.

Similarly, because the two aircraft carriers are far away from the detection range of the opponent's aircraft, it will take an hour for the attack aircraft group to arrive, which shows that the opponent who came is very calculating!

"Want to fight for an hour?"

"Humph!" Fang Jin sneered, it was useless to calculate, and he should know what it meant to be close to the end of the world in a while!

"Sir, plane!" Before Fang Jin could give the order, the navigator next to him had already shouted, and then everyone only saw that a large group of dense planes rushed out of Panama Bay.

"It's going to be desperate." Watching the four light cruisers with strong air defense capabilities facing these planes that didn't even carry torpedoes, everyone in the compass bridge couldn't cry or laugh, did they want to crash headlong?

With the 12th fleet resuming the traditional four-on-four mode, Tan Haodong, who was watching the battle, also knew that it was now time for the final stage!

At 4:21, the two fleets that had approached to 19,000 meters knew that they had entered a critical time, the shells were shuttling back and forth on the sea surface frantically, and after many rounds of completely locking on to the target, the Wisconsin, which had been hit at a speed of 16 knots, was the first to be hit hard, and a 680-kilogram armor-piercing projectile passed through the tower base of the No. 3 turret in the stern, causing an explosion that tilted the turret.

Two minutes later, the Hubei, which was facing the Wisconsin, also ate two shells in a row, causing the rear chimney to be broken, but this was also the result of the Wisconsin's success.

In the next two consecutive rounds, the Hubei let the other side taste the difference between 50 times and 45 times the body tube, five armor-piercing shells hit the Wisconsin one after another, the first one drilled into the navigation bridge and flattened the upper part of the front bridge, and the second did not penetrate the main armor belt of the side side that was protected by the key protection, but the last three found the big weakness of the battleship of this class.

Horizontal armor!

Since the distance of naval warfare has become farther and farther, all countries have realized that horizontal armor will be tested in the future, but because this turmoil has come too much, many people are not fully prepared, for example, although the Nevada class has adopted the key protection concept proposed by Hua, it has not continued to strengthen horizontal protection, and its horizontal armor is only 5 inches thick.

The next three armor-piercing shells, one after another, drilled through the horizontal deck, and the fatal one was the fourth, which passed through the middle of the No. 3 and 4 boiler rooms, destroyed five boilers, and unexpectedly deflected and exploded into the oil tank.

Heavy oil is also incompressible, although the armor-piercing charge is only 7 kilograms of TNT, but it still caused huge trouble, with the help of the expanding heavy oil, swept through four compartments, and also squeezed through the underwater hull, causing a fire that completely destroyed all the boiler compartments, and then although the Wisconsin still stubbornly fired across the water, but after losing all power, it was destined to be unable to leave the Bay of Panama.

At 4:29, the duel Nevada Henan also completed the lore, in a round of perfect 12 in 5 of the perfect shelling, a 680 kg armor-piercing projectile told the Americans that China is not only ahead in the concept of building ships.

According to the observer's report, the armor-piercing projectile was drilled into the top of the triple turret of the Nevada Stern No. 4, and later American sailors confirmed that the shell went all the way down into the sealed compartment where the propellant was stored in the depths of the well, and the propellant was sensitive, and the power was not much worse than TNT.

After two ships were hit in succession and almost lost their combat effectiveness, Tan Haodong and everyone didn't have time to be happy, and a worrying scene appeared.

At 4:35, the Washington hit his opponent Hunan with two consecutive armor-piercing shells, although none of the armor-piercing shells penetrated the frontal armor of the turret, but like the previous Oklahoma, the shells of No. 1 and No. 3 temporarily lost their combat effectiveness, so that the Hunan had to open fire with only half of the firepower left.

Again, the USS Washington was not good, because each battleship had its own character!

Hunan captain Han Linchun led the Hunan to inject it with the unique pungent character of Xiangxi brother, although there were only 6 main guns left, and the speed was disappearing, but the whole Hunan was not only not depressed, but all of them were red-eyed, when the shells hit the opponent one after another, when the crazy rounds later, the sights on the front and rear bridges of the Washington disappeared, and the navigation bridge was also gone, almost instantly, the opponents who beat each other were on fire.

It should be said that whether it is the USS Washington, or the Nevada, or the USS Wisconsin, which suffered heavy losses before, although they all, they still reflect the aggressive character of the American cowboy, and even now they have not completely conceded defeat, even the seriously injured Nevada, when the hull is seriously flooded and the speed has dropped to 8 knots, it still fires with the only four main guns left in the bow.

But what was surprising was that the Oklahoma, when it was time to fight bayonets, the flagship of the N fleet was constantly maneuvering on the sea to avoid battle, which even Fang Jin felt inexplicable at that time.

Later, it was learned from the rescued American sailors that Rear Admiral Mayo, who was later called a disgrace within the US Navy, had been frightened and only cared about converging according to Andrew's orders, but forgot that his partners needed a flagship to fight with them.

Perhaps the Hebei and Oklahoma were an uninteresting pair on the battlefield, and the continuous maneuvers made the hits of both sides extremely poor, until 5 o'clock sharp, when the artillery battle heated up after Rear Admiral Mayo could no longer stand his officers from their duties.

After two armor-piercing shells hit the main armor belt of the Hebei's side line in succession, pulling out a wound about 3 meters long and 50 centimeters wide, the Hebei also completed the lore with a bizarre shell on the battlefield.

Observers did not record the shell until many years later when an underwater search team unraveled the cause of the final sinking of the Oklahoma.

A close-arrow bullet.

The shell, which landed on the port side of the USS Oklahoma, was supposed to go straight to the bottom of the sea, but with the help of water buoyancy, it deflected and hit the 5-inch torpedo bulkhead wall, pulling a rift 11 meters long and one meter wide on it, and then burrowing into the ballast seal under the middle of the hull.

The shells tore through the thin steel plates, swept everything and exploded in the water compartment, and with the help of the cavity effect, they finally penetrated the power compartment above, causing the ship's amidships to flood rapidly.

At this time, the Oklahoma regained a little dignity of the US Navy, and the second officer, Sean, personally led people to plug the gap and close the sealed cabin, but he was crushed into the water tank by the smashed steel pipe.

At 5:15, when a large stream of smoke appeared in the north, Fang Jin sneered and ordered the distance to be shortened to 15,000 meters, and then aimed all the shells at the waterline of the four Nevada-class battleships!

On the Idaho 29,000 meters away, Vice Admiral Andrew, who was holding a high-powered telescope and anxiously waiting to enter the distance of the shelling, almost gritted his teeth, and when he saw that the four Nevada ships were flooded by shells and began to capsize one by one, he suddenly raised his arms and wanted to force fire regardless of the range.

But the arm was frozen forever in that moment.

"Enemy planes!"