July 9, 1917. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

If you think of the two sides of the Atlantic as a grand movie, then when the remote control freezes again and again, you can see a picture of a numb scalp and a lifetime of unforgettable.

The curtain was the first to open from the south of Paris, and after Haig personally led the attack of 11 armies regardless of casualties, forcing the German troops defending the south of Paris to retreat back to Paris in great strides, a general attack on the southern suburbs of Paris was launched at 4 o'clock in the morning of July 9, with the cooperation of thousands of cannons, nearly two million British and French soldiers launched a flood of offensives.

Seeing that the Paris defense line was crumbling, Ludendorff suddenly slapped the opponent in the opposite direction!

At 6 o'clock, ignoring the crisis on the outskirts of southern Paris, he approached Danfeng Bù in the north, while five German armies carried out a general attack on four French armies with the help of nearly 300 tanks and 2,000 artillery pieces along the retreat route of the Italian army that had been seized earlier.

The battle of Paris entered a crucial day, and from the map, it looked like two left hooks thrown at the opponent at the same time, tens of thousands of soldiers were reduced to bloody mud under the tyrannical swing of the iron fist, and the wind filled the whole of Paris with the smell of blood.

And that's just the beginning.

After the strategic bombing of the inland cities of the United States at the beginning of the month, the Allies quickly learned this trick, and Kitchener removed nearly 4,000 warplanes from the entire battlefield and deployed them around Paris in a matter of days.

At 10 o'clock, Marshal Kitchener ordered all the planes that could be mobilized on the front line to set off and bomb Paris, and in the tearful eyes of Foch and other French generals, in the crying that resounded through France, Kitchener still ruthlessly disregarded the value of this famous historical and cultural city, and launched a fierce aerial bombardment in the history of Europe.

It was not until the detailed data of the bombing after the war finally came out that on the 9th alone, the Allies flew 6,000 sorties and dropped a total of 10,000 bombs of various types, and at the same time, German pilots also "made 4,500 sorties throughout the day, shot down more than 500 Allied planes, and lost about 400 of their own." In the month of rectification, Paris was hit by a total of 210,000 bombs, with a total tonnage of more than 23,000 tons, even without the incendiary bombs and heavy high-explosive bombs of the Chinese Air Force, Paris almost became a pile of rubble.

Europe has entered a turning point, and the two sides are biting and fighting, and no one dares to let go of even one. Gas.

And on the North American continent on the other side of the Atlantic, it is also wonderful.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, "Hua and the German envoy knocked on the door of Ottawa again, and started the second round of closed-door consultations with the Canadian government, 88 Thor bombers and 126 Brepeng bombers reappeared in the sky over Oklahoma City after a two-day break. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

This led to another major retreat of millions of U.S. troops in Oklahoma to Kansas and Missouri.

Three days later, Imperial Army Major General Wu Peifu arrived in Oklahoma City with a mechanized infantry division and an armored division with the cooperation of the Korean Army Group, officially declaring the loss of the state: "Although the Oklahomans spontaneously carried out small-scale guerrilla resistance, it still could not change the outcome of the fall."

At 15 o'clock in the afternoon, the eyes turned to Europe again, and Tirpitz was interviewed by a German journalist for the first time after returning to the Admiralty, and in a simple ten-minute interview, he expressed only one point.

Either Britain surrenders now, or just wait for the coast to be blown up by Germany!

At 17 o'clock in the evening, the British Admiralty was also very nervous when it received the news, and in order to deal with Tirpitz's "words", it almost used its strength to eat milk, and even loaded several old sailing ships with mines and drove them out of the sea to reinforce the North Sea defense line again.

As the night began to unfold, "in order to prevent bombing, there was hardly a ray of light to be seen in the whole of the United States, and everyone thought that the day of blood, killing, and tension was finally over."

In the Caribbean, the sea breeze suddenly became fierce.

20:30 p.m.

The hot wind blew on his face, blowing the corners of his clothes and hunting, and the Caribbean Sea at night finally attracted a little coolness, but Yang Feng, who was next to the deck ship island of the Wei State, frowned tightly and didn't feel any comfort, "so that the soldiers up and down noticed a trace of nervousness."

"Captain."

Flight Officer Gao Liangtian came out from behind, handed a cigarette to Yang Feng and asked, "The reconnaissance plane is coming back, is it still ...... Didn't find it. ”

After avoiding the strong wind and lighting a cigarette," Yang Feng's face became darker and darker.

Gao Liangtian sniffed, he and Yang Feng were both from the Young Guards of the year, "Later, they were both under General Lefei, first studied aviation and captain for two years, and later worked as a rotating captain and flight officer on the training mothership, and after the Wei Guo was served, the two became partners again.

Seeing his old partner's face, he knew that something was going to be tricky.

After receiving the information from the headquarters, he immediately dispatched three groups of reconnaissance planes to the target sea area, but he had not found any trace of the enemy until now, which made him very discouraged. In addition to being the main attacking force, the aircraft carrier is the eyes and ears of the fleet, and if it is unable to find out the enemy in time and provide long-range interception and target guidance for the fleet when it knows that the other side is already approaching, then the mother ship will lose its value in existence.

Although the five imperial ships in the third battleship formation, including the Wei Guo, were equipped with radars, the range of action of the mine method was only 450 kilometers, that is, more than 20 nautical miles, and the surrounding islands and reefs would also reduce the radar detection distance, and the distance of the target found in actual use was not very reliable. At the current speed of the Entente fleet, it will be possible to close the artillery bombardment distance in about half an hour, and according to the command, it may be two warbands attacking, so it is very likely that it will be detected after approaching.

For a battleship, visual detection is no different from radar detection, but for an aircraft carrier, if it is pulled too close, even if it can rely on speed to leave, it is enough to lose face!

What to do?

When Gao Liangtian was in a hurry, he suddenly found that Yang Feng was actually squatting on the deck, and began to draw something on the deck with the help of the light.

After seeing Gao Liangtian also squatting down, Yang Feng immediately said: "You see, when we found the enemy, they were near Coburn City, 170 nautical miles northwest, beyond the attack range of carrier-based aircraft, and the time was about a little in the afternoon" Gangut and Queen Maria's high speed was around 21 knots "According to the speed of the knot, it will take about 1 hours to reach here, if they can maintain this speed, it stands to reason that they should arrive at our periphery in half an hour!"

The light patrol on the periphery has turned on the radar, but there is no news yet, so there are only two possibilities, the first is that it has not yet reached the edge of the radar, and the second is that our radar has a problem.

The latter is less likely, after all, in addition to the two light cruisers, 2 battleships have also turned on the radar, plus the outer destroyer defense line "There is no reason to leak all of them, so they should not have arrived yet!"

But even if it doesn't arrive, it shouldn't be far, I guess it's about 50 nautical miles (93 km) near us!

So....... ”

"So you want to strike without a target!"

Gao Liangtian opened his mouth wide, a targetless attack is one of the specific tactics of the aircraft carrier, which should be used in a special environment where there is accurate intelligence to know that the enemy is nearby, but the aircraft carrier's own reconnaissance force has not found it, the advantage of this is that the first strike is stronger, and the disadvantage is that because it is necessary to search for the target by the fighter on its own on the way to the target sea area, "the fleet can hardly help anything, so it is likely to encounter a situation where the target cannot be found in vain, and the serious problem is that once the fuel runs out, there is a problem even when it comes back."

In addition to the possibility of running in vain, but also because the current British and American team is no longer the era when there were no planes before, the intelligence said that there should be a mothership between the two teams, even if it is refitted, the carrying capacity is not large, and the aircraft is still poor, but in this environment, once the attack aircraft group on their side did not find the target and ran in vain, the enemy's attack aircraft group arrived "That's really happy, even if you are sure to keep the empire's warships, but what about the other countries?" When something like the Seychelles happens, it can be a big blow to morale.

"I can't care about it, I have to gamble!" Yang Feng gritted his teeth and stood up: "Give you twenty minutes" Leave 20 fighters to escort, and all the others will be sent out! ”

Gao Liangtian nodded, he knew Yang Feng very well, "He is a person who will definitely do it if he has made up his mind, not to mention that this is the only way at the moment, so the deck immediately became busy."

It is very dangerous for the aircraft carrier to take off and land at full speed against the wind at night, not only because of the dark sky, but also because the lights are bright like a big light bulb at this moment, which is very likely to attract enemy reconnaissance planes hovering nearby, so when the last dragon tooth left the deck twenty minutes later, the Wei immediately extinguished all the lights, and at the same time the fleet immediately began to maneuver westward.

Yang Feng's action was indeed very bold, and it was the first time in the Chinese Navy that the reconnaissance planes had not discovered the enemy. And Gao Liangtian's worries were also true, just as the planes took off, the Wei Guo was indeed discovered by two ostrich fighters who were scouting at night. At 21:10, there were 82 Curtis. 300 torpedo planes took off from a hidden airfield in the Dominican rainforest, and at the same time, off the coast of the Virgin Islands northeast of Bō Rico, Campbell also received coordinates from the Dominican telegraph station, and the former commander-in-chief of the Indian Grand Fleet gritted his teeth and ordered all 36 cuckoo torpedo planes on his only aircraft carrier converted from a 15,000-ton Na ship, the Fury, to attack!

Unlike the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, the problem of British and American aircraft carriers taking off at night is not too big, but neither of them has the ability to land at night, so Campbell, who is standing on the bridge, knows very well that even if these planes can complete the mission, they will not be able to return to the shipship Fury tonight.

21:30 minutes.

Jellico's Fifth Fleet suddenly turned around before reaching its target, and the two Queen Maria-class battleships in the fleet and the American aircraft carrier Riley suddenly broke out of formation, while the two Gangut-class battleships continued to march towards Bō Dorico with Sabrooklyn-class light cruisers and 10 destroyers. At 21:45, a Hornet, which was guiding the reconnaissance for the attack aircraft group behind, was the first to spot the two Gangut-class battleships under sail.

At the same time, the radio station of the battleship Peking, which escorted the Wei State, intercepted a radio signal from Dominica.

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