North Atlantic, Nov. 27, 4 a.m.

Darkness shrouded the ocean, mist filled the sky, dark clouds obscured the moon, and the sea was undulating.

Suddenly, in the darkness, two white rays of light rose into the sky, and as these two white pillars of light pierced the darkness, the sea seemed to wake up from the long winter slumber in advance, and then several white beams of light from searchlights pierced the darkness around them.

In the Akagi bridge, Li Zhaoxun looked up at the Kaga not far away, and suddenly had a very unreal feeling in his heart. Could it be that the era of cannon ships has really passed? Just a small two-winged wooden plane of the level of the Sea Dragon and Ssangyong can blow up a large ship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons with a 100-kilogram bomb hanging on it?

He looked around again, and in the darkness of the ocean, there was only one Kaga left except for the Akagi he was on. Just like these two half-hung aircraft carriers converted from fast merchant ships, they don't even have a single destroyer and light cruiser on guard, and they can run rampant in the North Atlantic, a sea area that can be regarded as the enemy's heartland, just by relying on their own speed and a few dozen carrier-based aircraft.

What if it were replaced by those four Shuzhong-class aircraft-carrying battlecruisers?

This is simply subverting everyone's imagination!

"Report, all aircraft participating in the air strikes are ready." The voice of a staff officer of the air force from the Pacific Fleet echoed in the bridge of the Akagi, and all the officers of the Texas Sea and Land Forces, including Saigo, stopped what they were doing and turned their eyes to Li Zhaoxun.

Although he is only the head of the "flight instructor" sent by the Pacific Fleet, he can actually decide whether and how the flying teams of Akagi and Kaga can attack!

Without his nod, not even one of the 80 carriers on the Akagi and Kaga ships could take off!

The carrier-based aircraft sortie in the early hours of this morning was even more proposed by him, and he personally planned and organized it.

In fact, it is doubtful that the current carrier-based aircraft will be able to take off from aircraft carriers at night...... Even the Daming Naval Aviation Command did not, in principle, allow carrier-based aircraft to perform tasks in high sea conditions and low visibility.

But there are also cases where the principle is violated, or where the task is necessary because of a higher principle...... The final decision on whether or not to carry out the mission is in the hands of a flight group commander like Li Zhaoxun.

Those who can hold this position are undoubtedly the best pilots, and if they all feel that they can't fly, then they really can't fly.

Li Zhaoxun had already changed into a thickened flight suit, nodded to everyone's eyes, and did not say a word, but strode out of the bridge and went down to the flight deck where the sea breeze was howling.

Whether you can fly or not, empty words are meaningless, and the first one to fly on a Ssangyong plane is really able to fly!

On the deck, Feng Mingshan, who was also flying a Ssangyong plane, was standing in front of his beloved Ssangyong fighter, twisting his head to look at his brochure...... One bar three stars!

He is now a captain in the navy!

Before the start of the war, this rank was something that he could not have imagined as a non-commissioned officer who had never attended a military school. But now, he can be regarded as stepping on the cusp of naval aviation, and his rank has risen to fly. Just after the bombing of Wall Street, Captain Li Zhaoxun personally announced to all the pilots participating in the operation the collective first-class meritorious service commendation order and military rank promotion order issued by Zhuge Weidao.

All pilots who participated in the war, with a rank lower than major, were promoted to one level and received a military medal and a large bonus when they returned.

"Naruyama, don't look at it, when this battle is over, you should be promoted to major!"

Li Zhaoxun's loud voice suddenly came, telling Captain Feng Da a great news, and then a piercing alarm suddenly sounded on the deck, this voice in the ears of Feng Mingshan and the others is the sound of promotion and fortune!

"Get on board!"

Li Zhaoxun roared again when he hit Feng Mingshan's side.

"Yes, sir!" The future Major Feng Da responded and waved at his co-pilot: "Get on the plane, let's make meritorious service!" ”

Feng Mingshan's pilot is a newcomer, and his former co-pilot, Li Pingqing, is now also a pilot and is currently training at HNA's flight school. If nothing else, he will soon become a carrier-based aircraft pilot.

When Li Zhaoxun, Feng Mingshan, and others climbed into the cockpit of their carrier-based aircraft one after another, the two aircraft-carrying frigates had already begun to soar into the wind. The engines of the carrier-based aircraft were also started with the help of ground crew, and the propellers rotated rapidly, and soon turned into a circle of phantoms. After a few minutes, the deck wind was at its highest, and in the harsh searchlight, the deck flight commander raised his right hand, and the flag bearer in the distance raised the flag, and then reluctantly pointed forward. Li Zhaoxun immediately released the brakes, and a two-wing, twin-engine, two-seater Ssangyong plane he piloted, followed by the lift provided by the fierce deck wind, taxied for a while, and then rushed into the sky.

"Get up......"

Now it was Feng Mingshan's turn, and I saw that he used all his strength to pull the control stick, and then the fuselage was light, and the biplane jumped out of the deck abruptly.

The Ssangyong plane piloted by Li Zhaoxun and Feng Mingshan is the so-called "pilot aircraft" and needs to undertake the task of searching for and leading their fighters to the battlefield. At the same time, they are also command and communication aircraft, and these two-seaters have a spark telegraph that can send telegrams, and can keep in touch with ships in the rear at any time, receive orders and give them to other aircraft.

Now, these "pilots" also have various colored indicators turned on - different colors represent different flight squads, and the planes belonging to each squad will not fall behind as long as they fly with the corresponding lights.

Just as Li Zhaoxun and Feng Mingshan were hovering in the sky in their biplanes, waiting for the other planes to rise up and join them, they had already seen the sky red by the flames of war in the distance.

A fierce night battle at sea is underway...... Moreover, the destroyer formation of the Texas Sea under the command of Seiichiro Nobutomo Oya was already at a disadvantage of being beaten.

Although with the "Cat's Eye Samurai" and the steam gas torpedo, the Otani formation played a rather brilliant ambush. However, after all, the Guogong-class is already an "old ship", although the age of the ship is not old, but the current era is just the moment when the navy's technology is advancing by leaps and bounds. It can even be said that any warship, no matter how much advanced technology was used in the design, but by the time it enters service, it will definitely be lagging behind!

And the Guogong-class armored destroyer, an "old ship" that is more than 10 years old, can be said to have no firepower (not accurate is equal to none), speed without speed, protection without protection, if it is not for the advanced ammunition (Daming's torpedoes and armor-piercing shells are stronger than other countries), even the ambush just now would not have been able to hit.

However, after the 36 steam gas torpedoes were exhausted (the torpedo launchers of the national class were difficult to load, and they had to be operated in the port), the 6 national class were no match for the 4 Pennsylvania class.

Although their 210 mm guns are indeed very strong, the common problem of small boat cannons is that they cannot hit accurately and have a slow rate of fire. Moreover, the armor of the national armor could not resist the 8-inch and 6-inch armor-piercing shells of the Americans - if the advanced time-delay fuses used by these armor-piercing shells did not fail, a 6-inch shell exploded, and a national armor could not eat and walk.

Although the Pennsylvania class of the Americans did not have enough 8-inch main guns, they had a lot of 6-inch secondary guns, and they hit them very accurately! After a while, all 6 Guogong-class ships were injured, and none of them were light!

Nobuyo Oya's ship Maya was also dying, and was hit by 5 rounds of 6-inch shells, 2 of which were blown up, and a large hole was blown up in the bow of the ship, and a large fire was caused, and in order to avoid the explosion of ammunition, the ammunition depot had to be filled with water, and as a result, the speed of the Maya dropped to 10 knots, and the two main guns did not fire, and now they can only dodge left and right "butt to the enemy". Seeing that the whole ship was about to become a god, suddenly I don't know who in the bridge roared: "Plane, plane, our plane is coming!" ”