As the sun slowly sets, the whole sky is rendered orange, beautiful clouds seem to be touched, and on the wide sea, a long and narrow aircraft carrier is sailing on the sea at a speed of fifteen knots, and the rising sun naval flag on the bridge is hunting in the evening breeze.

On the low deck bridge, the captain of the aircraft carrier Akasei wearing a dark blue naval uniform, Teraoka Jinhei Osa, was looking at the western side and was silent, and Chief of Staff Nagashima Kazuma and several officers stood behind him and looked at Teraoka's face, which was as heavy as water, and wanted to speak but did not dare to speak, because the bombing formation that had left Yongkang to support the 104th Division had not yet returned.

Just two days ago, Teraoka Jinhei Daisa, who was leading the Chicheng aircraft carrier squadron cruising around the Penghu Islands, received an order from the combined fleet to immediately lead the aircraft carrier formation to support the 104th Division, which was fighting fiercely with the Chinese army in Yongkang.

After receiving the order, Teraoka Jinhei Daisaku led the aircraft carrier formation to the vicinity of Dachen Island in a hurry, and after contacting the 104th Division, he sent 24 Type 97 carrier-based bombers and 32 Type 96 fighters to Yongkang to bomb the 349th Division, which was fighting fiercely with the 104th Division.

It stands to reason that the distance from Dachen Island to Yongkang is only one hundred and seventy or eighty kilometers, and two hours for the flight formation is enough to complete the mission and then return, but now two and a half hours have passed, and there is still no news from the flight formation, which also makes Teraoka Jinhei Dazuo very worried.

Looking at Teraoka Shinhei Daisa, who was standing on the bridge and looking into the distance, Chief of Staff Kazuma Nagashima and several officers next to him couldn't help but secretly get anxious in their hearts, if the bombing formation didn't come back. They are running out of fuel.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and a young man walked over quickly. After seeing the comer, Kazuma Nagashima hurriedly asked: "Kawakami-kun, have you contacted the 104th Division, what did they say?" ”

The young man replied, "Nagashima-kun, I have already contacted the 104th Division. The people of the 104th Division said that just an hour ago, the flight formation encountered an attack by the Chinese fighters while carrying out the bombing, and the escort fighters of the formation fought with the Chinese planes, and the two sides fought fiercely for half an hour. The Reich's bombing formations suffered heavy losses, and then the bombing formations had to retreat to the east. ”

"Nani? The bombing formation encountered the Chinese fighters and suffered heavy losses? Nagashima couldn't help but be shocked when he heard it. Then he asked in disbelief: "Our bombing formation has thirty-two Type 96 escorts, how can we suffer heavy losses, and how many fighters did the people dispatch?" ”

The young man hesitated for a moment before saying, "This ...... The 104th Division did not give an exact number, but they said that the Chinese probably dispatched about 30 fighters. ”

"Impossible!" Kazuma Nagashima hasn't spoken yet. An officer behind him immediately couldn't help but shout: "The Imperial Navy also has thirty-two fighters to escort it. And the pilots of these fighters are the elite of the Imperial Naval Aviation, how can they be beaten by almost the same number of Chinese fighters and suffer heavy losses, just rely on those old-fashioned **** fighters of the Chinese people? ”

"Shut up!"

A hoarse voice with a hint of majesty sounded, and I saw Teraoka Jinhei Daisa turn around and scolded: "I know that you are still arguing here, why don't you hurry up and get the deck personnel and loss prevention team members ready!" ”

"Hay!"

Seeing the anger of the supreme commander on the ship, several officers were startled, and then they quickly bowed to him, and a communications officer ran into the bridge.

That's when it happened. One of the lieutenants suddenly pointed to the west and shouted: "Here it is, the bombing formation is back!" ”

Follow the direction the lieutenant pointed. Everyone immediately saw a group of small black dots flying in the sky in the distance. After a while, this group of small black dots flew into the sky above the aircraft carrier formation, and soon a rapid alarm bell sounded, and the aircraft carrier immediately turned and began to sail downwind, and at the same time, a loss prevention team member and the sailor responsible for the take-off and landing of the aircraft also began to run onto the deck and began to take position.

A few minutes later, a Type 96 fighter began to fly over the aircraft carrier, only to see its nose lowered, rushing down towards the bow of the ship, and when it approached the deck, the nose was raised, and then the rear wheel touched the deck and a puff of green smoke came out, and soon the hook on the tail of the plane touched the blocking lock, and then the whole plane quickly stopped.

As soon as the plane came to a stop, a Shao Zuo jumped out of the cabin and said loudly: "Quick, hurry up and tow the plane away, and the loss prevention team members will prepare immediately." ”

In fact, there was no need for this Shao Zuo to speak, and the ground crew who had been waiting on the deck for a long time immediately drove the trailer to tow the fighter to the side.

Immediately after that, the second Type 96 fighter also landed, followed by the third and fourth, but when it was the turn of the fifth fighter, it still happened. When the smoke-emitting Type 96 carrier-based plane staggered towards the deck, the ground crew waiting on the deck found that the fighter had forgotten to put down the hook, and they immediately gestured vigorously to the pilot and shouted loudly.

"Go-around...... Hurry up and get back to flying......"

But as if the pilot didn't react, the three tires slammed into the deck, and then the whole plane slammed up, crashing into a Type 96 plane that had just been parked aside, and the two colliding fighters immediately burst into flames.

"It's not good, something happened, the loss prevention team members hurry over!"

For a moment, there was chaos on the deck, and the loss prevention team sprayed wildly with fire extinguishers while dragging a bloody pilot out of the cockpit of that plane.

On the bridge, Kazuma Nagashima shouted and scolded below: "Yaga...... A group of stupid people hurriedly pushed the damaged plane into the sea to make way for the fighters behind. ”

The shouting, shouting, and smoke on the deck mingled, and for a moment the whole deck was in chaos.

However, the quality of the Japanese Navy was still very high, and after a few minutes, the two damaged planes were pushed into the sea by the ground crew, and the flight deck was quickly ready for use again.

And Teraoka Jinhei on the bridge watched the scarred warplanes land on the deck one after another, and his originally silent face darkened, just now he had been counting the number of planes that landed, until the planes in the sky were almost finished landing, and he only counted twenty-three.

The last thing to land was a Type 97 carrier-based attack plane, its left wing had been damaged, thick black smoke came out from its left wing wings from time to time, when it staggered from the deck to land, everyone on the deck began to get nervous, and many ground crew members were so nervous that cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.

"Quick...... Pull high, the height is too low...... Pull it up...... Pull it up......" The people on the deck shouted and waved their arms to slow down the plane, but the plane still swayed and rushed straight down the deck.

"Boom ......"

The Type 97 attack plane eventually hit the bow of the ship, and the entire plane exploded violently and fell into the sea, and for a time the originally noisy deck fell silent.

Teraoka Shinhei turned his head to Nagashima Kazuma behind him and said, "You go down right away and ask, if there are any planes that haven't come back." ”

"Hay!" Kazuma Nagashima ran to the deck.

Soon, Nagashima Kazuma ran over out of breath, his face full of grief and indignation: "Your Excellency Captain, I asked, and the planes are back." ”

Teraoka was silent, the planes were coming, which also meant that there were thirty-two planes that would never come back.

Looking at the face of the sinking Teraoka Jinhei, Nagashima Kazuma and the others were all silent and did not dare to speak, this time the loss was too great, when the entire formation had fifty-six planes, but only twenty-four returned, and in the process of landing, three were lost, such a loss reached almost two-thirds, such a big loss is unprecedented since the completion of the Chicheng aircraft carrier.

Looking at the billowing smoke rising from the originally neat deck, Teraoka Jinhei closed his eyes helplessly, the flight formation suffered such heavy losses, although he, the commander of the aircraft carrier, was blamed, but it made him feel even more sad and indignant After this battle, the aircraft carrier lost one-third of its fighters, and if it continued like this, it would be used up twice more than two times.

"Baga, how can these people be so powerful." Kazuma Nagashima's teeth on the side shook loudly, and then he ordered: "Come on, immediately call the commander of the formation for this sortie, I want to ask him, how did he command, and why were the losses so serious?" ”

A few minutes later, a captain with a bandage on his left arm came up to them, and Nagashima Kazuma glared at the captain in front of him and shouted viciously: "Yasui-kun, how did you fight this battle, and why did the losses be so serious?" ”

The captain, who was about thirty years old, turned pale, and he bowed to Kazuma Nagashima and Teraoka Jinhei before saying miserably: "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, Your Excellency the Chief of Staff, we actually lost this battle unjustly, although those pilots of the Zhina people are much inferior in tactical experience and technology to ours, their aircraft performance is very advanced, and all of them are the most advanced German Bf-109 fighters. These fighters are much stronger than our Type 96 in terms of agility, speed and firepower, although the warriors have worked hard, but the difference in aircraft performance between the two sides is too great, which is no longer compensated by technical experience. ”

"Excuses...... All excuses! Nagashima Kazuma shouted loudly, he pointed at Yasui and shouted: "You blame all the losses on the excellence of the Shina plane, that is a manifestation of your incompetence, so many warriors are dead, why did you come back alive!" ”

"Chief of Staff of Long Island!" Yasui Kuneng also looked at Nagashima Kazuma without showing weakness and said: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, if you have to say that, I have nothing to say, I can immediately cut the funds." But I have to ask, do you dare to personally lead the next wave of formations to bomb Yongkang before I cut my stomach? ”

"You ......"

Kazuma Nagashima was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while...... (To be continued.) )