December 27, morning.

400 nautical miles north of Nauru, in waters near Kwajalein Atoll.

A fleet of dozens of warships of all kinds is plowing white waves on the vast ocean. The core of this fleet is 6 aircraft-carrying armored cruisers with angled decks, 2 of which are converted from Blake-class armored cruisers with a standard displacement of 9,300 tons, 2 from 11,000 tons of Crown-class armored cruisers, and 2 of the largest with a standard displacement of 14,400 tons.

However, no matter what class of armored cruiser hull was used to change it, these six British "aircraft-carrying ships" all took the route of "stitching monsters", and the idea was the same as that of the "Shuzhong Wang" class of the Ming Dynasty, which retained the bow of the aircraft-carrying cruiser, the superstructure of the amidships, and the guns on the starboard side, but the stern guns and the backmast were removed and replaced with a flat deck. At the same time, a bevel was added to the port side to work overtime, and all the miscellaneous things on the port deck were removed, and the port side deck was also turned into a part of the flight deck.

Unlike the Shuzhong King level, these 6 British "stitching monsters" did not build a closed hangar - first, the size is not so big, even if you open your stomach and build a hangar, you can't swallow a few planes; Second, because the construction period is too tight, there is no time to build a hangar.

Therefore, the planes on these six "aircraft-carrying ships" were simply crowded into the original aft deck position. In order to shelter these small pigeon planes from the wind and rain, the British also built "pigeon canopies" on the "butts" of six aircraft-carrying ships, and the conditions were still very good.

The official name of the pigeon aircraft is the F2 pigeon carrier-based fighter!

Among them, the Black-class aircraft-carrying armored cruisers can carry up to 21 F2 "pigeon machines", the Crown-class aircraft-carrying cruisers can carry up to 24 "pigeon machines", and the Qiangsheng-class can carry 27 "pigeon machines" because of their largest size. In total, 6 aircraft carriers carried up to 144 "pigeon machines...... That's not a small number!

Not only are these "pigeon machines" available in large quantities, but they are also of no bad quality, all of which were carefully manufactured by the Mumbai-based Hindustan Aircraft Company, and these planes are not the same as the "prototype pigeons" that the British brought from the Austrian Empire. The "prototype pigeon" was a monoplane two-seater, which was changed to a monoplane single-seater by Hindustan aircraft engineers...... If you change from a two-seater to a single-seater, you will have to install one less person, and you will have to install a 200-pound fat man, so how much weight will you have to save? The weight saved can be used to fill more fuel and hang another bomb. So these Indian-made "Indian pigeons", said to be fighters, but in fact they are all clan bombers, they are amazing!

Because of these 144 fighter-bombers, William . Baga and George. Yilu can also devise a plan for an air attack on Kwajalein Atoll.

According to the intelligence gathered by the British, the Kwajalein atoll, while not as exaggerated as the Truk Lagoon and Oahu, is not weak, and it has everything it should have - Kwajalein has a land area of 15 square kilometers and a lagoon of 1,684 square kilometers...... It is also a good place to put the Pacific Fleet in the whole country, and after being liberated by the Ming Dynasty, of course, we must do a good job of infrastructure construction in order to better serve the local people.

After more than a year of construction, there are battery batteries, airfields, anti-landing obstacles, minefields, minefields, reinforced concrete firing bunkers, underground oil depots and warehouses, ship docks, submarine docks, and so on. The reef is full of special forbidden areas where "no entry, violators are shot...... It's so convenient to shoot the whole thing, you don't have to go to Hawaii, you can make a surprise directly on the atoll.

In addition to the atoll, the lagoon is also home to torpedo boats, gunboats and shallow heavy gunboats!

Although these "good things" on the Kwajalein Atoll and in the lagoon are difficult to resist the main forces of the British Royal Navy, it is not easy to rely on the traditional giant ship cannons to gnaw down the atoll in a short time, and it may even suffer a lot of losses...... And the British Royal Navy didn't really want to take Kwajalein Atoll, they came all the way to encircle the point and send reinforcements to the Pacific Fleet!

Therefore, it really doesn't make much sense to take a valuable capital ship to fight this valuable (for the British) and quite a difficult bone to gnaw.

Hence William. Baga and his Air Fleet Commander George Brown. Yilu drew up an attack plan of "aircraft bombing" and "battleship hiding".

That is, first by George. Yilu commanded planes to bomb Kwajalein Atoll, destroying the defenses above and forcing ...... Or lure the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy to come to the rescue.

As long as the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy comes, George. Yilu took the method of blowing up and withdrawing at the same time, and guided them to William. Baga's main fleet went to the ...... And then William. Baga will command his battleship formation, and fight to the death with a powerful battleship formation composed of William IV, Emperor of India, Victory, and Indomitable and the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy!

Although the Ming Navy has a large number of well-designed and well-built cutting-edge battleships, these battleships are all on the path of balanced development, and the three lines of power, armor, and firepower are almost "equilateral...... It is true that such a ship has no weaknesses, but its advantages are not outstanding either.

The British King William IV class and the Indian Emperor class are both "ships" that go off the rails, giving up speed and focusing on armor and firepower...... Although they can't outrun the fast battleships of the Ming Dynasty, the artillery and armor are not left behind.

If you can put it out and fight, there is no problem in fighting to break the net.

For the current British Empire, as long as it can fight with the Ming Pacific Fleet, it can delay their attack on India and Australia...... Where there is time, there are variables.

Maybe the Americans in North America showed their might and crushed the Japanese and Mexicans in Texas?

Maybe there will be some big basket on the European side, such as the republican revolution in Rakshasa! Or is it that the French Republic and the Rakshasa Empire are fighting over the revolution?

Maybe Prussia and Austria agreed at that German Congress to form a unified German Empire or Republic......

In short, as long as Britain can hold Australia without losing it, and prevent the Ming court from achieving results that are enough to make the country unanimously support, then there is still hope to play a situation of "peace and pro-communist world......

George. Standing on the bridge of his flagship, the USS Black's aircraft-carrying armored cruiser, nicknamed the "Lucky Black," he watched as the soldiers below fiddled with a "pigeon plane" that had flown into the sky to drive out an uninvited reconnaissance airship of the Ming Navy.

Watching the plane finally taxi down the deck for a while and then rise to the sky, George. Yilu exhaled and asked, "Has our reconnaissance airship generated electricity?" How far are we from Kwajalein Atoll? ”

"Also ......" The staff officer was just about to reply, when a telegram was handed over to interrupt him, and after a few glances at the telegram, he reported as soon as his eyebrows relaxed: "The telegram of the reconnaissance airship, there are more than a dozen Ming warships and cruisers docked in Kwajalein Atoll!" ”

"What?" George. Yilu also looked happy, "There are still battleships!" ”