"Yes, the airship reports that there are at least twelve old battleships, a large cruiser, a Warrior-class cruiser, and three Frigate-class destroyers in Kwajalein Atoll, plus a number of torpedo boats and gunboats."

"Twelve old battleships? It's a big fish!" George. Yilu raised his eyebrows, the old-fashioned battleship..... It's a battleship, too! Since the Battle of Kii Waterway a few years ago, the British Empire has suffered losses again and again in successive conflicts with the Ming Empire, and has never really fought a cheap battle. As a result, the confidence of the Ming side is getting stronger and stronger, and the people of the Ming Dynasty, who were not very supportive of fighting a world war, have now begun to support their country to fight. And the morale of the people on the British side is getting lower and lower...... Now a decisive naval battle is about to be fought, but the morale of the troops is still very low.

The night battle on Kuah Island a few days ago further hit morale, although William. General Baga has already ordered ***, but the paper can't hold the fire...... The news of the defeat was still spread on the warships.

If the fleet in this case can fight a turnaround battle in Kwajalein Atoll...... Sink ten or eight battleships, and the morale of the army will rise immediately!

In addition, this battleship also has the advantage of being old. The old battleships had weaker air defense and slower speeds, and the pigeon planes were enough to deal with them.

Come to think of it, George. Yilu asked again, "Have you found the aircraft-carrying battleships of the Ming Dynasty?" How many planes are there at the airfield in Kwajalein Atoll?"

"There are no aircraft carriers, there are only a few planes on the airfield in Kwajalein Atoll, and they are still seaplanes."

George. Yilu took a breath and finally made up his mind, so he turned to the aviation staff officer: "Is the carrier-based plane ready?"

"Alright, the first wave of 72 pigeon planes, 36 of which have a 100-pound high-explosive bomb on board and 36 on a 100-pound armor-piercing bomb." The fleet's aviation staff paused and thought for a moment, "Do you want to change them all to armor-piercing shells?"

George. The British Australian Fleet D Fleet under the command of Yi Lu is now the vanguard of the entire Royal Navy's Australian Grand Fleet, concentrating one of the aircraft-carrying armored cruisers under the Australian Grand Fleet. And William. The task given to him by Baga is to "blow up, bomb, bomb...... Bomb whatever you catch in the Kwajalein Atoll! Various facilities on the Kwajalein Atoll, the Daming naval fleet moored in the lagoon, and the Daming naval fleet that came to help. Blow up whatever comes! Bomb until you can't blow it up, you can't blow it up, and you can't blow it up.

Wait until the D fleet is blown up...... Or let people blow up! William. Baga would command the A and C fleets, which had merged the four cruiser detachments of BEGH (of which Detachment B had only a few destroyers left) and all or part of the warships of Detachment D (including aircraft-mounted cruisers), to rush forward for a decisive battle.

"No need," George. Yoshiru looked at his watch, and then swept the excited eyes that swept across the bridge, "There's no need to waste time, just blow it up once more and you'll have everything...... Remember, planes carrying high-explosive bombs should give priority to destroying airfields! And aircraft, carrying armor-piercing shells, give priority to attacking the enemy's large surface ships! Tell the pilots below that the British Empire needs every one of them to do their duty!"

"Yes!"

Amid the loud cheers, the bow of the aircraft-carrying armored cruiser shuttled in the wind, and the howling deck wind widened the pigeon plane, and the skin on the wings, which looked like the spread wings of a bird, crackled. ….

As the flight commander waved the flag, a pigeon machine at the end of the flight deck had already turned its in-line engine to the maximum, and the blocking iron that held the plane was suddenly released, only to see the pigeon plane roaring towards the end of the deck, and then "fluttering" a few times, jumping up, out of the gravity discovered by King Zhuge Wuzhong......

As the "war pigeons" took off into the air, in less than a minute, the pigeon planes had already left the deck, and the flight deck, which was as crowded as London's busiest subway, was suddenly empty—half of the planes were missing, and the remaining half belonged to the second assault wave, which had originally folded its wings and shrunk on the deck of the stern of those aircraft-carrying ships.

Now that the first wave has taken off, they can finally be pushed out

Load up the bomb and fly out to blow up Kwajalein Atoll.

Due to the short range of the pigeon aircraft, the combat radius is less than a kilometer when fully fueled and full of ammunition, and they are basically deck defenders, so one of their attack waves can only go and return, so the time left for the second strike wave is not long. The ground crew on deck had to hurry up to push the second wave of planes out, hang up the bombs and fill up the tank...... Then the second strike wave must be sent out before the first wave of planes returns. Otherwise, the first wave of pigeon planes would not have been able to land.

It's really a moment to be delayed!

Because there can be no delay for a moment, the ground crew on the deck is how fast and how to come, and when the aircraft-carrying armored cruiser is designed these days, the speed of deck operations is also fully taken into account. As a result, the ammunition depot and the aircraft's fuel depot were installed directly in the deck superstructure on the side. Sometimes, in order to facilitate operation, the deck crew will also pull the bomb out of the storeroom and place it under the deck building......

And George. The scene of Yilu's D fleet "releasing pigeons" certainly can't hide the seaplanes and airships of the Ming Naval Air Force hovering over Kwajalein Atoll...... Because the "pigeon planes" were so close, the D fleet could only sail to the edge of Kwajalein Atoll to "release pigeons". If there is a hill tens or hundreds of meters above Kwajalein Atoll, you can see the aircraft-carrying armored cruisers on the sea surface directly from the mountain with a telescope.

Therefore, the news of the British fleet's "pigeon release" was immediately telegraphed to the "Nanjing," the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, which had just left Pearl Harbor.

Tons of standard displacement, tons of full displacement, equipped with a set. With a 10,000-horsepower fuel-steam turbine power system, a top speed that can soar to knots, and the "Nanjing", which has the world's most advanced and highest-power long-wave and short-wave radio stations, is actually a headquarters that can move at sea and a sea hotel...... It will definitely make the headquarters personnel, including Zhuge Weidao, spend a pleasant "journey".

Just when Zhuge Weidao was leaning on the railing to look at the sea view, Zhuge Yangyang, the chief of staff of the Pacific Fleet, who was of the same clan as him and was about the same age, but a generation younger, came up with the telegram he had just received.

"Junmen, the British aircraft carriers have arrived near Kwajalein Atoll, there are a total of them, all of them are aircraft-carrying armored cruisers...... They're currently using carrier-based aircraft to bomb Kwajalein Atoll!"

"Where are our carriers?" Zhuge Weidao immediately turned around, and while walking towards the operational command center of the "Nanjing", he asked Zhuge Yangyang, "How far is it from Kwajalein Atoll?"

"There's still nearly 300 kilometers to go!" Zhuge Yangyang said, "It's a little out of reach! Moreover, there was only one Shuzhong King airborne aircraft battlecruiser in the second battleship fleet...... In total, it can only carry less than one ship, a little less."

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