readx; After losing a large number of carrier-based air forces, the question of 'whether this navy can still rely on a large number of battle fleets to resist the attack of the Chinese navy has already been answered in the eyes of many people, and that is 'no.'" Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The battleships of both sides in this battle, as always, did not show much effect, whether it was the Yandi and the Yellow Emperor of the Chinese Navy, or several of my high-speed battleships, they did not get the opportunity to fire their main guns, and from dawn to two o'clock in the afternoon, what these battleships could do was passive air defense and provide cover for the aircraft carrier formation.

From around 4 a.m. onwards, the two fleets had the opportunity to engage in an artillery battle, and the Chinese 25th Squadron engaged in a fierce artillery battle with the escort formation, which was a fierce artillery battle between the two fleets and the escort formation, in which both sides poured countless shells and took advantage of the limited opportunity to fire torpedoes.

Although the 24th Squadron arrived after dawn, the 24th Squadron's Emperor and Emperor Yao did not have much opportunity to engage in an artillery battle with the escort formation, because the air attack aircraft group of the 24th and 25th Squadron carried out intensive strikes on the 24th and 25th Squadrons, and the Emperor was attacked by the suicide planes of the Shore.

For almost the entire morning, the 24th and 25th Squadrons were actually engaged in air defense operations, and in the process they had been separated from the actual contact with the transport and escort formations.

In these processes, the twelve-inch main gun on the Emperor Yu actually only fired a few times with great effectiveness, and no results were achieved at all.

During the battle, which lasted about eight hours, neither side of the main surface artillery ships could get a chance to prove themselves!

The third wave of attacks had just ended, and Fu Changpeng transmitted the results of the air raid to the Yandi of the Second Mobile Fleet through radio waves, and when he saw the wireless telegram sent by Fu Changpeng saying that at least one aircraft carrier had been sunk and two were heavily damaged, Vice Admiral Lu Jian couldn't help but be ecstatic in his heart!

Before, he was worried that he would not be able to detect the enemy ship, and after discovering the enemy ship, he was afraid that the enemy's anti-aircraft fire would be too intensive, after all, the enemy had reinforced as many as three aircraft carriers, but he did not expect to say, "I am much more vulnerable than he imagined!"

Coupled with the results of the second wave of attacks launched by the 21st Squadron, Lu Jian has so far determined that he has sunk one enemy aircraft carrier, severely damaged as many as four enemy ships, and also defeated at least two battleships, many cruisers and destroyers.

Although the information obtained by Lu Jian from various aspects may not be accurate, the deviation is not large, and some preliminary situations can still be rewarded.

"Now that the enemy fleet has been heavily damaged, if we work harder, we can create a greater record, and strive to keep most of this fleet left!" The colonel's person next to him made Lieutenant General Lu Jian also full of joy.

"Now the fourth wave of attacks is on the way, and it is expected to reach the sky above the enemy fleet in an hour!" Lieutenant General Lu Jian said: "Although the intensity of the fourth wave of attacks is not as strong as the previous third wave, it will not make me feel better!" ”

After dispatching the third wave of attacks at 11 a.m., the Second Mobile Fleet did not stop the pace of sorties, but reorganized the fourth wave of aircraft, but due to time constraints, only about 60 planes were hastily prepared from the five aircraft carriers of the 21st and 22nd Fleets.

"Commander, now that the third wave of aircraft is about to return, do you want to continue to prepare the aircraft group and prepare for the fifth wave of attacks?" The colonel was much more excited than Lieutenant General Lu Jian.

However, Lieutenant General Lu Jian suppressed the excitement in his heart, and after calculating the time a little, he said: "I'm afraid it's a little difficult!" ”

The third wave of aircraft has just completed the attack at this moment, and it is expected to arrive over the fleet in an hour and a half, and then these hard-fought planes will need to land in time, and this time period means that the second mobile fleet will not have time to squeeze in the aircraft group.

And in the more than an hour before the return of the third wave group, part of the time was needed to take off and land the Guard fighters on duty, as well as a large number of reconnaissance aircraft. After that, the deck had to be cleared to welcome the third wave of aircraft returning home, which also had a lot of preparation time.

That is, after the dispatch of the fourth wave of attack groups, it is difficult for the second mobile fleet to have enough time to dispatch the fifth wave of aircraft.

In addition, the ground crews of the 21st and 22nd Squadrons have been working at high intensity for more than 10 hours in a row, and human physical strength is limited, and it is impossible to maintain a high speed for 24 hours in a row like a machine. In addition to the ground crew, the physical exertion of the pilots is greater, and the long-term flight and combat are very energy-consuming, and many pilots have repeatedly fought two or three times, especially the fighter pilots of the 21st Squadron, almost all of them have fought more than three times, and their energy consumption is very large.

After the physical strength of his pilots and ground crew was highly depleted, and Vice Admiral Lu Jian decided that "this fleet has lost most of its combat effectiveness," Vice Admiral Lu Jian also decided to postpone the fifth wave of attacks, and instead took off a certain number of reconnaissance planes to maintain surveillance over the surrounding waters and the fleet. At the same time, it also frees up a certain amount of time to prepare for the landing of the third wave of aircraft.

At 2:50 p.m., when the third wave approached the second mobile fleet and was preparing to land for the operation, the fourth wave also launched an attack on the current fleet, but the effect of this wave was far less than the previous second and third waves of attacks.

After a tragic third wave of air raids, the fleet had adopted a more sophisticated air defense formation, and at the same time began to retreat to the northwest. Moreover, before the attack, the fourth wave of aircraft also lost the trace of the fleet called "this fleet", and it took a lot of time to search, although after the attack was launched, it also achieved certain results, and even the Maya, which had been heavily damaged, was hit again, and at the same time damaged several other warships, but the overall result was not great.

Starting at 3:15 p.m., the second mobile fleet also began the landing operation of the third wave of aircraft groups!

The Songshan and Taishan took the traditional straight deck landing, while the Mengshan side was due to the existence of the beveled deck, and the landing was carried out on the beveled deck last night, and the landing safety was much improved and the fighters on the front deck were able to take off. It's just that now there are more than 160 planes in the sky waiting to land, and whether it is the Mengshan or other aircraft carriers, they are all focusing on landing operations.

At the same time, the other escort ships in the fleet are also scattered on the periphery to carry out air defense early warning and anti-submarine patrols, and the aircraft carrier formation carrying out landing operations at this time can be said to be the most vulnerable time, the sky is chaotic with planes waiting to land, and the deck of the aircraft carrier is full of freshly landed aircraft. If it is attacked by enemy submarines or air strikes at this time, then the consequences will be catastrophic.

Because too many planes landed at the same time, the air command system of the Second Mobile Fleet was almost paralyzed, and in order to allow the group to land, Rear Admiral Zhao Zidong of the 21st Squadron set up an emergency air command group to direct the planes of various squadrons in the sky to land one after another.

In the process of landing, due to factors such as too tight time and insufficient preparation time, there were many landing accidents in a row, and several planes were forced to make a forced landing on the sea because they ran out of fuel but could not get the opportunity to land.

After the landing operation was completed, Lieutenant General Lu Jian tragically discovered that in the process of landing, he had lost more than 20 planes, half of the more than 40 planes shot down in the third wave of sortie groups. I have to say that this is an extremely tragic thing!

After the landing operation was completed, Lu Jianzhong did not have time to sigh and ordered the fifth wave of attack groups to be prepared, and he wanted to launch a wave of attacks before the fourth wave of aircraft returned!

However, the landing operation has just been completed, and a large number of aircraft after landing are still piled up on the front deck of the aircraft carrier, and only three Aoyama-class aircraft carriers with angled decks such as the Mengshan can take off under such circumstances. With the help of a hydraulic catapult, they will catapult off from the beveled deck, but this take-off mode is quite slow and simply cannot compare to the previous queue take-off mode. After spending a considerable amount of time, the 22nd Squadron only took off about fifty aircraft.

And these fifty planes formed the fifth wave of attack groups in today's Second Mobile Fleet.

As soon as the fifth wave of attacks was launched, the aircrews of the 22nd Squadron began to nervously transport the large number of planes piled up on the deck to the hangar through the elevators to make enough space to accommodate the fourth wave of attack aircraft that was about to return.

Although the number of aircraft that the Qingshan-class aircraft carrier can carry exceeds 100, the number of deck operating aircraft of the Qingshan-class aircraft carrier is far less than this number due to the influence of the deck area, and this leads to the fact that there are many aircraft on the Mengshan, but the number of aircraft that take off and land each time is limited, and each large-scale landing operation needs to be cleared in advance to obtain enough deck area to accommodate the landing aircraft.

After the Second Mobile Fleet completed the landing of the fourth wave of returning planes, the 22nd Squadron did not have time to stop for a moment, and the fighter group on duty hovering in the sky also needed to land because of the fuel exhaustion, and a large number of reconnaissance planes sent out before also returned one after another because of the fuel exhaustion.

As a result, the second mobile fleet has been carrying out landing operations since mid-afternoon, and the three aircraft carriers of the Aoyama-class are even busier, and after receiving the third and fourth waves of aircraft in succession, they also take off the fifth wave of attacks because of the advantage of the beveled deck, and then take off fighters and reconnaissance planes on duty on the forward deck while receiving landing planes.

This busy situation made it difficult for the 21st and 22nd Divisions of the Second Mobile Fleet to prepare a super-large group of attack aircraft to continue the offensive in the afternoon.

At 4:20 p.m., the Songshan, Taishan, and Yandangshan took off the last wave of today's attack, forming the sixth wave of today's second mobile fleet, and the number of planes was not large, only more than 80.

However, after a long dusk flight, the sixth wave of attack groups was unable to find the main fleet, and finally due to the darkening sky, the sixth wave of aircraft began to return.

At 7:30 p.m., the sixth wave returned in the night!

And this landing also brought big trouble to the second mobile fleet, this year the aircraft carrier does not have the ability to fight at night, which has nothing to do with the aircraft carrier itself, this is because the carrier-based aircraft do not have the ability to fight at night, can not do accurate attacks at night, and more importantly, it is difficult to land at night.

The night fighter pilots attached to the aircraft carrier are the most elite pilots, and only these elite pilots can land on the night ship after a long period of training.

And ordinary carrier-based aircraft pilots are lacking.

In order to provide guidance for the pilots to land at night, Vice Admiral Lu Jian took the risk of ordering the whole fleet to turn on the searchlights, almost illuminating several aircraft carriers as bright as day, and in order to avoid being attacked by submarines, the destroyers on the periphery were also on high alert.

In spite of this, this night landing still brought serious losses to the carrier-based air force of the Second Mobile Fleet, and as many as 10 accidents occurred during the landing, and 12 planes were lost, one of which B18 planes even directly hit the ship island of Mengshan.

After the sixth wave of aircraft also returned, the night was already shrouded in the sea, and at this time, it was also announced that the battle between the aircraft carriers of the two sides was temporarily over!

It's just that the battle between aircraft carriers has come to an end for the time being, which does not mean that this naval battle is over!

About eighty nautical miles northeast of the 21st and 22nd Fleets, a huge high-speed fleet was coming in a straight direction towards the Second Mobile Fleet on the dark sea, and the sun flag on the mast and the sixteen-inch cannon in front of the battleship could be faintly discerned in the sparse starlight!

If the day belongs to an aircraft carrier, then the night at this time belongs to a battleship!