Your Excellency, Commander, all the carrier-based units are ready, and the fighter units can be lifted into the air at any time. According to your orders, the fighter jets in the hangar are also full of ammunition, but they are not refueled. When the first wave of aircraft is released, up to 45 minutes, we can release the second wave of fighters. The watchtower radar sentry planes of Huaxia have already arrived at the designated position, and they and the British reconnaissance planes together form an early warning network with high and low matches, even if the other side is a fast group, we can still have about 50 minutes of early warning time. An officer reported to Nimitz.

"After 20 minutes, the fleet positions were adjusted for the last time, the wounded battleships were close to the inner ring, and large armored aircraft carriers were deployed in the outer layer. Then turn east for half a compass point. An hour to recover. Another officer reported to Nimizzy the course of the fleet, and after adjustments, the U.S. fleet would deploy the most vulnerable wounded ships in the inner ring while moving closer to the French mainland.

"Admiral Dar Lang said that the French fleet would go to the port of Brest after the disbandment of the fleet." The last officer in charge of liaison said. Nimitz was silent for a long time. "That's the French themselves, we don't care for the time being. But we have to inform Washington and London that our U.S. Army in Brittany and the Royal Air Force across the Channel must ensure the safety of the French fleet," Nimitz said in the end, with a hint of hideousness in his words, "This damn old fox," Nimitz cursed in his heart. Nimitz knew Darlan's little calculations very well. He is waiting for the price to sell, does he really think that in France we will have no choice? It's too naïve to get the Germans, and we can't deal with you yet? Subsequently, Nimitz eliminated distractions and put other things aside, today daytime will be the most critical time, the German aircraft group only has one day to attack itself, the current cruising speed of the entire fleet is more than 20 knots, conservative estimates, a day can run a distance of more than 800 kilometers as long as you survive today. The Entente fleet escaped and ascended to heaven

The Allies would not let themselves go so smoothly, and according to intelligence, the German navy and air force were planning to intercept the Allied fleet long before the outbreak of the Battle of the Atlantic. After accumulating strength for two weeks, the intensity of the Luftwaffe's thunderous blow can be imagined, and Nimitz even planned to forcibly break through the interception of the Allied fleet and return to Britain, but then after learning that the Huaxia Air Force would provide cover for the fleet, he finally chose to go back along the French coast. "I hope that the performance of the Huaxia Air Force will be as good as ever." So far. Nimitz could only pray for his allies to be stronger. Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven

When the sun finally jumped over the sea, it heralded the official start of the day's killing, and above the huge Allied fleet were at least 2 squadrons of watchtower AWACS aircraft and British reconnaissance planes converted from Halifax bombers, flying at an altitude of 7,000 meters. The huge radar antenna on the belly of the airframe constantly emits powerful electromagnetic waves in all directions, like a pair of huge eyes monitoring the movement of the nearby sea. Under them, hundreds of Flying Bat fighters were patrolling the periphery, repeatedly searching the areas they had agreed upon, and occasionally some planes lowered their altitudes to look for fish that had slipped through the net from low altitudes. And in the vicinity of the fleet, hundreds of F6F Hellcat fighters also rose into the air one after another. Subsequently, with the help of ground crews, one after another Spitfire 9 fighters were transported up from the hangar, then positioned, refueled and ready to fly, and the entire fleet completed combat readiness in a solemn atmosphere

At the same time, the Germans' attack aircraft rushed towards the target like a pack of hunting lions. The German forces involved in the offensive were mainly divided into two groups, one was the Allied fleet west of the Allied fleet, and the other was the Luftwaffe under the personal command of Kesselring. Count Spee cherished his remaining air fleet, this time. The navy will mainly send fighter forces, and about 500 FW190T fighters will enter the engaged airspace before the Luftwaffe attacks, weakening the defenders.

"Isn't there a little bit less of planes sent by the Navy?" After learning of the Navy's plans, the Air Force liaison officer raised objections. "Nope. It's not easy to make up these planes, after all, apart from the German Navy, whether it's the Austrians or the Spaniards, they don't have the ability to maintain double the carrier-based aircraft force while maintaining the carrier fleet, and we used our stocks to make up this and this formation, you know, before we use our reserves. By the end of the war, the number of fighters available to the German navy had dropped to less than 300, while the Austrians had only dispatched 80 aircraft," Raeder's words revealed a thick sense of resentment and a hint of anger

It was only yesterday that Count Spee and Marshal Jordi finalized the battle plan. Originally, according to Count Spee's plan, after the Allied fleet was replenished with carrier-based aircraft, the Allied aircraft carrier battle group should release 700 aircraft at a time to participate in today's attack, which should include about 250 attack aircraft. However, this plan was opposed by the Austro-Hungarian fleet represented by Haldi, who first said that compared with the attack power of the air force, the remaining attack power of the Allied navy was very limited, and it was better to release all the fighters and then ensure the penetration of the air force attack aircraft formation.

Secondly, Haldy said that the scale of the Austro-Hungarian fleet participating in the battle must be reduced, and in the end the Austro-Hungarian fleet could only send 80 aircraft to participate in the battle, this number even made Count Spee angry, he really couldn't imagine that a national fleet with 5 aircraft carriers would actually take out this thing to fool itself, and when would Austria-Hungary not be able to give more strength at the critical moment

"Do you know that all the remaining pilots of the entire Austro-Hungarian carrier-based aircraft force are not even satisfied with the officers' cafeteria of the Caesar, and we currently have only 150 fighter pilots who can fight, and there are more than 30 wounded among them, I don't want my men to be a bunch of rookies when the next battle breaks out" After Jordi said this in a calm tone, even Count Spee was shocked, if calculated proportionally, the loss of the aviation power of the Austro-Hungarian fleet was greater than that of the Germans, It is not an exaggeration to describe the total annihilation of the army

After the Austro-Hungarian fleet was no longer able to fight, it meant that the German Navy needed to carry both the attack and defense by itself, so it was not easy for the German Navy to finally draw out 500 fighters to support the air force in combat, after all, the German Navy did not have much surplus food at home

According to the agreement with the Luftwaffe, the Allied fleet was to release carrier-based aircraft at 9 a.m. and arrive in operational airspace at 10:30 a.m. This coincided with the Luftwaffe offensive. Releasing 500 aircraft is not too easy for the Allied fleet with 2 dozen aircraft carriers. So the Allies only concentrated 15 aircraft carriers for the release of these aircraft, and the remaining aircraft carriers were not idle, their decks agreed to be full of aircraft, after all, no one dared to guarantee that the already red-eyed Entente would not organize a wave of desperate charges and according to the information provided by some special channels. Huaxia had already sold some of its guided weapons to the Entente, and thinking about the joy he had when he fought the American fleet, the earl's heart beat a drum

Just as the Allied fleet was preparing to release its carrier-based aircraft, the Luftwaffe's huge formation was flying across the Bay of Biscay towards its target, and this time it was Vice Admiral Jeshunek who commanded the Reaper bomber wing. Unlike Grim, who commanded the bomber wing during the Italian Civil War, the lieutenant general kept a low profile, not because he was incompetent or unqualified, but because he always liked to work on special things, such as night planes and guided weapons. In the end, of course, he chose the latter. Not only did the Luftwaffe use guided weapons and tactics come from him, but even the German Navy almost copied his theories and tactics. The first appearance of German guided weapons was at the Battle of Saint-Nazaire on the first day of the war.

During that engagement, the Germans destroyed an American heavy cruiser with guided bombs, and since then they have been out of control, with special bombers carrying guided weapons in the name of death frequenting the battlefield. They inflict lethal blows on their opponents with precision bombing, and these bombers are generally in squadrons. At most, the Luftwaffe will use the Reaper Brigade for the first time, although there are not many planes in the Reaper unit, but from the strategic level, Lieutenant General Jeshunek's Reaper wing and Grimm's St. Millega Strategic Bomber Air Force are of the same level, which shows how much the Luftwaffe attaches great importance to it, and this time with the idea of wiping out the Entente fleet, the Luftwaffe is also considered to be on the old capital

About 300 bombers of various kinds formed a dense box formation in the air, with an average of 25 bombers forming a small formation, and then these small formations formed a three-dimensional multi-level formation in different airspace. It has the style of American imperialism in history.

Outside these bombers were a convoy of 500 DO335 long-range fighters. A total of four fighter wings were deployed in the front of the bomber group, on the left and right flanks, and in the air. The bomber force flew at an altitude of about 5,500 meters, while the highest group of DO335s was about 6,500 meters, and the Germans attacked exactly according to the performance of their aircraft. In addition to these aircraft. The Germans also assigned an additional group of electronic warfare aircraft to the fleet, which was located 100 kilometers in front of the group, and was used to suppress the radars of Allied warships. But what they didn't expect was that this time, the other party's eyes were in the sky, and these planes were just the first wave, and they would take on the task of attacking the fortifications. Subsequently, there will be a wave of twin-engine bombers carrying ordinary bombs and torpedoes to make up for the swords, which is somewhat different from what Huaxia initially envisioned

It has to be said that after the new magnetron was replaced, and the filtering device and the new frequency hopping equipment were installed, the early warning ability and anti-jamming ability of the watchtower 3 radar sentry aircraft have been greatly improved, and the simple aiming jamming is no longer useful. These watchmen, who cruised at altitudes of 7,000 to 8,000 meters, relied on their long range and ultra-long radar to spot their opponents as soon as the Germans had just flown off the Spanish border. All kinds of information were transmitted to the general dispatch center on the ground through radio waves, and the first wave of Shicha Falcon 3 fighters ready to meet was also ready to fight, and 120 Shicha Falcon 3 fighters in six squadrons took off from various airfields in northwestern France, and they were to be the vanguard of intercepting the Germans

"I was going to deal with the FW190, but it turned out to be a do335, why do I have to face the new planes of the Germans every time I go to the battlefield?" Lu Yifan, the former captain of the Sword of the South China Sea Brigade, was the pilot who fought the FW190 fighter for the first time in the late Iranian war. The current captain of the Harrier Eagle Wing complained in his heart as he commanded his fleet to take off to meet the enemy. The last time in Iran, Lu Yifan's brigade was caught off guard by the new German planes, and he almost lost his life. After changing to a new aircraft, he hoped to fight the FW190 again, and if he could, he was even willing to knock down the guy who was chasing him everywhere, but in the end, after the order was issued, Lu Yifan needed to face the German DO335 fighter

"Whatever, isn't he just a thick-skinned guy?" With the completion of the whole team, Lu Yifan immediately calmed down. Lu Yifan is still very confident in his skills, especially after escaping death last time, so he always thinks that as long as he gives himself a plane that is not too bad, he will never be afraid of any opponent. In Lu Yifan's opinion, the performance of this aircraft in all aspects has surpassed almost all the opponents he has encountered, including the Skua fighter equipped with the aircraft carrier of the Chinese Navy

This time Lu Yifan's Harrier Eagle Wing will act alone, their main target is the German escort fighters, not those huge heavy bombers, although the four 20 guns of the Shicha Falcon 3 fighter can be called powerful firepower, but in the face of those big guys weighing more than 30 tons, there is still some power. The task of the Harrier Eagle Wing is to exchange fire with the opponent's fighters, in line with the principle that it is better to take advantage of the advantage and cause chaos, anyway, the German escort group is tied around the bomber formation, and the Huaxia Air Force has the right to choose to fight, and thanks to the watchtower 3 radar sentry plane, they have plenty of time to go around in circles with the other side.

The Secha Falcon group carrying two 200-liter fuel tanks began to climb after completing the formation, and they began to fly at an altitude of 4,000 meters, which is the low rev state of the superchargers. As the distance between the two sides narrowed, the group began to climb, 4500 meters 5500 meters until the height of 7500 meters The whole group ended climbing, at this time the two-stage supercharging of the Cascha Falcon fighter is in the best working condition, at this altitude, the Cascha Falcon with 2 levels of supercharging is better than the DO335 with a single supercharger, the Germans have never dared to exceed the 7000 meters of this hurdle because once the altitude continues to increase, the performance of the aircraft will deteriorate sharply. In comparison, this is the biggest advantage of the Shicha Falcon 3 aircraft over its opponents

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