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After Xi Ming carried a heavy camera on his back and climbed the light patrol mast with his hands and feet, he was stunned by the scene that appeared in front of him before he could set it up. I saw only the comrades-in-arms who "hit the aircraft carrier in a zigzag shape behind the light patrol and crashed into the waves, and one after another divided war eagles took off into the air" and then circled along the aircraft carrier formation, waiting for the follow-up takeoff.

As a military reporter, he had seen the aircraft carrier take off many times, but this was the first time he had seen the Ban Mu battle group show its full strength.

Even in the Imperial Navy, many people don't know how strong the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier is, and most people are used to using the results of the classic Gulf of Panama naval battle to explain the power of the aircraft carrier, but in fact, the Xiqin-class was not in service for long at that time, and the night owl dive bomber was not equipped, so it could not be regarded as a strong state.

But today, he finally saw it! 90 dive bombers, 72 Dragontooth torpedo quasi-horizontal bombers, plus 44 escort Hornet fighters "a full 206 fighters literally obscured the sky."

And this is only 3 ships "You must know that there are still 2 ships in the fleet participating in this attack that are maneuvering, and there are 6 Xiqin-class heavy, 2 Yinshang-class heavy and 5 Jinghai-class light ships currently known to be in service in the entire empire, not including the 2 ships that have been launched for sea trials" and 3 heavy ships under construction.

Seeing that the fighter formation was about to leave, Xi Ming didn't care about watching, and immediately set up his camera.

Many years later, when studying the Battle of Bermuda, people would always like to take out this photo first, "You can clearly see the formation of three large attack arrows flying over the fleet, because this is the world's first intuitive understanding of the strike capability of the Imperial aircraft carrier battle group."

"Speed 22 knots, distance 21000 meters" wind speed 3 "angle 110, fire! ”

"Hit, Shanghai reports hit!"

"Next round."

While the attack aircraft group took off one after another, the huge Lexington was like a dying beast on the "deep blue ocean", "although its eight 5/381mm guns roared every three minutes", but this roar was like a dying wail.

Opposite it, are the 3 Beijing-class battleships that should not be threats and opponents" As the world's first fast battleship, the Beijing-class is not too strong in terms of firepower and protection, and it is not even as good as the Xi'an-class large cruisers that have just been commissioned.

Moreover, in a confrontation of this scale, "the speed advantage will also be reduced, because if its own speed is too high, it will greatly affect the accuracy of the shell, and the 305 mm shell itself is too light, and if you don't slow down, you want to hit the opponent at a distance of 20,000 meters is the same as a dream" This is also one of the reasons why in the Jutland Sea Battle with 305 mm as the main force, it took so long to hit very few hits. 【 I want: super fast update 】

But this seemingly asymmetrical, according to the strength of the former has enough opportunities to escape, but it shows a one-sided situation.

The advanced optical ranging and radio communication overall command system made it possible for the three Beijing-class battleships to share the shelling data difference of each gun position, and with the help of the hand-cranked fire control computer, this data difference would be very calculated, and then find the final target data.

"Fire.

At the gunner's shout again, the 27 150/305 mm naval guns shouted in unison again: "The Lexington, which was supposed to return fire at about the same time, could only watch the black dots fall on the same head again because of the quality and training of the sailors, and its own cannons have not yet finished loading." 21000 meters was a bit far for 305-mm shells, but in this salvo there were still 2 shells that accurately hit the Lexington superstructure.

Similarly, the armor designed to protect against 15-inch shells once again withstood the shells, but the fire masses and exploding shrapnel brought great damage to the upper deck, and the centralized protection layout of the box type could indeed strengthen the protection of key areas, but there were also many places that were weakened.

Shrapnel pierced into the 127 mm secondary gun turret, these turrets that basically had no armor protection could not block the bombardment of the Beijing-class heavy artillery, the only thing to be thankful for was that because of the shortage of sailors and gunners, in the case of too long distance, the US army simply did not use the secondary artillery "so the explosion did not detonate the secondary artillery shells."

By the time the Lexington counterattacked again, the three Peking-class ships had already completed three consecutive salvos, "a full 81 armor-piercing shells still hit the target, and they couldn't penetrate the turret", "couldn't kill the command tower, and it was even difficult for the important parts of the horizontal armor to continue downward", but it still almost swept away except for these important parts.

From the sky, the brand-new Lexington looked like it had been gnawed by dogs, and the deck was "riddled with cratered bullet holes and the mess left by the explosion, except for the bridge and turrets," and all other ground responsibilities were barely visible, and even one of the four chimneys had fallen.

Jin Wei deflected his wings, and the miserable appearance of the Lexington below made him smile slightly, there is no need to waste bombs and torpedoes, just look at the destroyer next to him, no matter how good its armor and protection capabilities are, when the secondary guns are knocked out one by one, the naval torpedo can completely complete a blow.

A large white cloud gradually entered the line of sight, blocking the battle scene below, looking at the clouds like cotton wool, for some reason Jin Wei always had a feeling of going to the central government to find out, as if there was something hidden there.

In the end, he did not go, because there were dozens of enemy ships waiting for him in front of him, and it was impossible for anyone to consume fuel to satisfy his curiosity at this moment.

So Jin Wei didn't know that just 75 kilometers to the left of their group, the same huge group of American bombers was also using the clouds as a cover to search for the location of the second aircraft carrier battle group.

In the two-person cockpit of Handley Page's 400 biplane large bomber, Theodore in the back held a telescope and searched back and forth.

The beautiful white clouds of the past have become a big obstacle, and the blue sky and the sea in the distance seem to be condensed together, making it difficult to distinguish between the east and the west.

He hated this feeling, it was too difficult to locate a fleet in the vast sea, even if he had already obtained the approximate location of the enemy from the destroyer reconnaissance, and knew the specific number and type, but the fleet could maneuver at least 50 nautical miles in an hour, which meant that he had to search tens of thousands of square kilometers.

But there is no turning back now", because in the clouds behind them, hundreds of warplanes taking off from Bermuda have been flying for an hour, "if they don't find each other again", then this attack will be over.

Just when Theodore was anxious, a few black dots under the clouds on the left made him suddenly shout: "Man" look, it's ......"

"Enemy planes!" Before he finished speaking, the pilot had already deflected the fuselage violently, and in the shock, Theodore only heard a sharp whistling sound over his head, and looked up to see that the two Hornet fighters had swooped down towards him.

"Send a telegram."

Theodore scrambled to operate the radio, and finally connected to the group behind him, and before he could say a word, "a string of bullets swept down overhead."

"Sir, it's an enemy reconnaissance plane!"

On the flagship, the battleship Hebei, Sa Zhen looked coldly at the biplane that was shot down like a fireball, and asked, "Did you send a radio signal?" ”

"The ...... has been issued."

"All interceptor fighters take off" All ships are ready for air defense and protection, and pay attention to destroyers on the sea. With the help of the guards, Sa Zhenbing took off his dark blue officer's coat, and after pulling out the white shirt inside, he continued to ask: "Haven't you found the enemy's heavy patrol formation yet?" ”

"Not yet," and we have intensified our reconnaissance to the east and north. ”

"Don't talk to me so much." , Sa Zhenbing interrupted the staff officer with open hands: "Order the air wing, make all preparations for the attack" As soon as the reconnaissance finds the enemy's heavy patrol formation, set off immediately! Without waiting for the aviation staff officer to answer, Sa Zhenbing had already turned to the navigation staff officer: "Where is the first battleship formation?" "The First Battleship Formation had reached 85 nautical miles south of Bermuda, and within an hour the forward general had ordered full speed that, according to current estimates, they would stop Jericho's battleship formation and prevent them from escaping before the First Carrier Strike Group launched the Second Bō Attack." ”

"Sir...... Enemy planes are coming! ”

The shouting alarmed the officers in the command tower, and everyone turned their heads to look, "I saw that hundreds of biplanes had appeared under the white clouds in the distance, and the escort Hornet fighters that had been launched in advance on their side had also been strangled with the other side."

"With the aircraft carrier as the center, the ships are scattered, and the air defense formations are formed."

"The second bō came southeast of the chief" is a SCHOTT 184 seaplane! ”

The "North" reconnaissance aircraft spotted a large number of Curtiss D300s flying towards us from the north. ”

"Huh." In the face of a swarm of British and American planes rushing towards the second aircraft carrier battle group, Sa Zhenbing, who climbed the fire control observation and control tower on the top of the bridge with his officers, was not surprised and laughed.

He knew very well that this was Jericho's last resort, and he wanted to use the attack of the planes as a cover to close the distance between the two fleets, in order to avoid being surrounded by enemy planes and "falling into the embarrassment of failure without firing a single shot."

It's a trick to let the Bermuda fleet attack him, and it's also a trick to let the heavy patrol group hide with the few remaining aircraft carriers, and if he has good enough planes and pilots in his hands, he might be able to succeed, but for now............

"Chief" received a telegram in clear code from the 1st Carrier Strike Group.

"Clear? What does General Lefei want to do? As soon as he heard that it was a clear code, several officers next to him immediately looked at each other, "Only Sa Zhenbing took the telegram and saw it, "Air strike, I am the king." At five words, he smiled slightly, took out his old pocket watch and looked at it.

It's already 9:50 "If nothing else, the first bomb will fall on Jericho's head in a few minutes!"

And since this telegram was sent in clear code, then Jericho's heavy patrol formation may have also received it, and they will never let go of this good opportunity to fight the time difference!

"Turn the rudder, head northwest, full speed, and move closer to the first aircraft carrier battle group." @。