"That's it?" Cheng Dalong scratched his head, and looked into the distance inadequately, "The Americans are too bold, you see that the Nagato-class battleship of the little devil is crawling like a turtle, and if you beat it again, it may sink, why should you evacuate?" How many planes have only flown on the shore? Such a great opportunity was just missed! There are also the two Japanese aircraft carriers that sneaked up behind them, they no longer have the ability to protect themselves, so they can only wait to be beaten, why don't they have the courage to go over? ”

By dusk, the Battle of Sydney was over.

When the main Japanese fleet retreated, the Americans chased and fought for a while. Although it did not sink the Flying Crane, which had been in the fire, it almost knocked the Nagato-class Zhou Fang down with 3 torpedoes. If it hadn't been for the Apo by its side and even blocking a torpedo for it, I am afraid it would have been sunk by the American fighters that continued to follow it.

However, when the Japanese army planes appeared on the front line, the American fighters, which had consumed about the same amount of ammunition and fuel, did not dare to stay longer, and began to return en masse at about 3 p.m.

The aircraft carriers in the rear are seriously damaged, and future supply is still a problem, and there is simply no ability to continue operations. Once the fuel and ammunition are lost too much and are bitten by the Japanese fighters, I am afraid that it will be troublesome. Even if you escape back to the mothership, I am afraid that you will not get much rescue.

Naturally, they did not know that only 12 Zeros of the Japanese Army Aviation had come, and because of their bad relationship with the navy, they had no intention of contributing.

In the end, only 11 damaged Zero and Super Zero fighters landed on the aircraft carrier Shozuru of the Japanese main fleet, and they had no ability to chase after them at all.

On the battlefield of the main US fleet, the Japanese fighters were also withdrawn under the strong order of Yamaguchi Tashiwen, and they were evacuated by the American fighters all the way.

After a little hesitation, the Americans, who had the upper hand, exerted their strength.

Although the Yorktown also followed in the footsteps of the Hornet and sank to the bottom of the sea under the frenzied attack of the Japanese in the final stage, the Wasp was moribund, and the Saratoga suffered heavy damage, but there were still three aircraft carriers that suffered only minor damage. The Americans took advantage of three ships to quickly replenish ammunition and fuel. When the Japanese fighters began to run out of fuel and ammunition, they flew again into the blue sky and chased all the way.

Naturally, the Japanese pilots did not dare to lead them to the side of the Akagi, where the planes that attacked were basically all here, and the air defense was fragile, and if they were caught by the Americans, it would be dangerous.

In accordance with the set goal, they flew towards the Japanese temporary airfield on the Newcastle front.

On the way, he passed the battleship Osumi, which was also evacuating.

It had just tentatively engaged three rendezvous with the Montana-class battleships that had arrived at it. I received an evacuation order from Yamamoto Fifty-six.

Although it was unwilling, it shelled all the way and retreated.

The battleship Hawaii was not too close, and the latest intelligence showed that two more aircraft carriers appeared not far north of the Yamato. Let it not dare to press too close.

The Americans were unsure of the defenses over there, and the evacuated Zero fighters relied on the anti-aircraft fire of the Osumi fleet to reflexively block a pair of American fighters that followed.

In just ten minutes, after winning 7-5, he finally dispelled the tail behind.

The remaining Osumi-class battleships led the team to postpone.

The Hawaii followed from a distance, and the two sides exchanged a few shots from time to time.

At this time, there was a space for the display of direct firefights between the fleets of the two sides. Before, it was completely a performance stage for the aviation forces, and it was those aircraft carrier brothers who sang the leading roles.

It's a pity that one is in a hurry to evacuate, and the other does not dare to catch up excessively. The two sides just clanged and fired. Each took a cannonball from his opponent, and just before nightfall, widened the distance and returned to his own home.

"We are looking down from a high altitude, and we know the overall situation through Zhang Liang and Li Jing, and we know that Japan's strength is nothing more than that. The Americans don't know that they are still busy trying not to lose. Rescue the soldiers who have fallen into the water! Wang Xiu glanced at Cheng Dalong and said.

The Americans, fearing that the Japanese would set up another ambush and that they would be attacked by air from land, did not allow the Hawaii and the fighters in the air to continue to chase after them.

The loss of aircraft carriers also left them without sufficient operational follow-up capabilities.

They chose to retreat.

"Hmm!" Chen Guan nodded and said, "Our observation this time looks simple, and we can easily see many mistakes on both sides, but in actual combat, all kinds of information are intricate, and the fighters are fleeting. Being able to search for what you need in the limited information and make a quick decision is already very good for the commanders of both sides! How many of us can do it? ”

Everyone was silent, they were all naval officers, they knew the process of naval warfare, and a series of command arrangements were far from being as simple as talking on paper. A single decision can leave many people undecided.

"If we had these airships as our eyes and ears, wouldn't we be able to understand the whole picture!" Cheng Dalong suddenly diverted the topic.

Everyone was equally impressed.

They all understand the importance of intelligence. However, the intelligence of naval warfare is limited by communication and vision, and there is always a lot of luck involved. If you can really have a global vision all night, I'm afraid it can really be regarded as God's vision.

"This has been considered for a long time, do you think this flight is just for us to observe?" Wang Xiu looked at Chen Guan and said with a smile.

"Yes, the airship also has the task of testing the contact platform, we are just a downwind boat." At present, everyone is a selected naval elite, and the level of secrecy is enough, and Officer Chen did not hide it, but he did not talk about it in detail.

The crowd didn't know that the three airships had already delivered thousands of messages while they were watching the naval and air battles.

Not only the transmission between the three airships, but also the sending and receiving of messages to submarines on the surface or under the sea, to reconnaissance planes and transport planes flying in the air, and to escort fighter planes, and even to more than 30 communication stations on land, including those set up on the Australian mainland, the jungles and islands of Southeast Asia, the Chinese mainland, the Siberian Plain and the deserts of the Middle East, and even as far as Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

There is only one purpose, that is, to build and improve the strategic and tactical command system of the Chinese army, especially the overseas platform.

At present, in the Chinese National Defense Forces, radio and radio and other communication systems have been popularized to the company and platoon level. Coupled with the communication stations set up in various places and the radar stations at the base, as well as the control of communication by the clone soldiers, it is completely possible to quickly transmit Meng Xiang's instructions to every grassroots unit.

Overseas, however, terrestrial communication aids are not perfect, and radio and telephone alone are not enough.

Such drawbacks have already appeared in jungle warfare with the Japanese on the Indochina Peninsula, and in many places the signal cannot be received at all, and it is easy to delay both command and support.

Similarly, in naval battles and overseas air battles, it is still impossible to transmit and comprehensively analyze information in a timely manner by relying only on radio.

Meng Xiang has always wanted to wait until the satellite artifact appears, but the limitations of ultra-long-range rockets and space control technology have made the satellite program never completed.

In Meng Xiang's imagination, the satellite is just a large rocket launching a signal transceiver. But in reality, the orbit control of rockets and satellites alone stumped everyone.

Thinking about future generations, satellites are not something that ordinary countries can play, and it is not unreasonable.

Although the base also has satellites, it also needs to break the relevant technical limitations.

Moreover, Meng Xiang didn't know how effective the base satellite was at the beginning. Judging by the level of weapons in the base, it was definitely not much better at the beginning. On the contrary, it is not as effective as a high-altitude airship.

So the airship's signal relay station plan was launched first.

With the increasing number of Kirov airships, Meng Xiang has been able to lay out a large network of signal transmission for airships.

The Kirov's sheer size and impressive payload make it not only a signal platform and a radar station in the air to act as a reconnaissance outpost, but also an excellent strategic and tactical command platform.

A similar experiment was being conducted in the jungles of Southeast Asia, and as in this sea trial, the part-time work of the Kirov airship was very good.

The airship can easily collect communication signals from various places, and the command and staff system set up on the airship will comprehensively analyze and transmit them in a timely manner, striving to arrange complex battlefield intelligence in a step-by-step manner.

Later generations are also studying airship signal communication platforms, but considering security issues, they are less used in the military field.

But in this era, at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, there are very few threats to the Kirov airship, not to mention that the Kirov airship can rise to an altitude of 20,000 meters, and even the protection system on the airship has never been a decoration.

"I said, why are so many machines being moved? If we bring one more super bomb of that kind and drop it now, it will definitely make the little devil's battleship unable to escape, and maybe we can still leave the devil's Yamato. Chen Dalong still regretted that he could not participate in the war.

"We're just watching this time!" Wang Xiu also had a trace of regret in his heart, but said lightly.

"We are soldiers, and we will fight in the end! If you don't fight, what are you raising us for! We are not politicians and do not need to pick up the spoils of victory in vain on the corpses of the enemy. What we have to do is to directly knock down all the enemies with the most fierce attacks, and prove that our Huaxia people are stronger than any of them. Chen Dalong was stimulated by the war and felt a lot of regret in his heart, and he couldn't help but completely erupt in this sentence of observation.

He didn't know that Meng Xiang, who was thousands of miles away, was also distressed to find the balance between the violence of war and strategy.