Cunningham's long-awaited deduction was finally held as scheduled, after the two sides entered the deduction venue, Deng Shichang and Thomas entered the director's office to watch the deduction after some unnutritious politeness, while Cunningham and Potter played against the Chinese side led by Ye Ming, and the two sides began to engage on the chessboard, on the rectangular chessboard, the British fleet entered the warring sea from the southwest corner, and the Huaxia Navy entered the warring sea from the northeast corner.

"Huaxia actually uses a two-aircraft carrier formation? They put the large aircraft carrier Liaoning and the medium-sized aircraft carrier Jiangsu into one team, aren't they afraid of being put in one pot? Thomas, who was sitting in the director's department, was taken aback by the fleet formation of the Huaxia Navy at the beginning, and he really couldn't understand why the other party would arrange it like this. However, the good self-cultivation still made him suppress the doubts in his heart, and Thomas then picked up a document with the military strength table of the Huaxia Navy in this exercise, and soon, he found another problem.

The number of fighters in the Huaxia Navy actually accounted for half of the total! Among them, on the large aircraft carrier Liaoning were 40 fighters, 30 dive bombers and 30 plus torpedo aircraft. On the medium aircraft carrier Jiangsu, there were 40 fighters, 10 dive bombers and 10 torpedo planes. In comparison, the total number of fighters in the British fleet was only 50! The other side has nearly 6 percent more fighters! Although Thomas did not know much about aircraft carrier operations, after a few days of contact, he could also feel that the opponent's sea attack power mainly came from the large aircraft carrier Liaoning, and the attack aircraft on the Jiangsu were only enough for one wave at most. "What do they want to do?" Thomas was a little confused.

Soon the two fleets began to unfold, and the British fleet was divided into two groups. 100 kilometers from each other, and then, according to the predetermined plan, the USS Fury aircraft carrier battle group released 12 reconnaissance aircraft to reconnoiter within 90 degrees of the front. Among them, the maximum distance of reconnaissance reached 400 kilometers. At the same time, the aircraft on board the Fury were fully refurbished, with 15 fighters, 15 dive bombers and 15 torpedo planes placed on deck ready to attack. Soon, after half an hour (the exercise time is directly converted to the real time in a ratio of 1 to 10, that is, the real time is 3 minutes. The aircraft carrier Eagle released the first batch of 15 carrier-based aircraft for reconnaissance and fleet air defense, while the second wave of reconnaissance aircraft continued to be refurbished on deck.

The Huaxia Navy also acted accordingly. Sixteen seaplanes were released to carry out reconnaissance missions, and preparations were made for sorties on board the aircraft carrier Liaoning, which was arranged exactly the same as that of the British Navy. On the Jiangsu, 10 dive bombers were released for reconnaissance missions. This was followed by the release of 14 more aircraft responsible for the air defense of the fleet! Seeing this, Thomas's pupils couldn't help shrinking, and he seemed to understand the purpose of the Huaxia Navy's arrangement, the Jiangsu aircraft carrier is an aircraft carrier specially used for air defense and reconnaissance. There were a full 40 fighters on board the Jiangsu. This amount is sufficient for reconnaissance and self-defense, and according to the regulations of the exercise, the preparation time and take-off distance of fighter planes are superior to those of attack planes, and the number of fighters that can be used per unit of time is certainly more than that of attack planes. However, because the proportion of fighters on the Eagle aircraft carrier was too low, the director needed a mixture of fighters and attack aircraft when carrying out reconnaissance missions. And if you let a large-load attack aircraft take off, it will naturally occupy a long runway, so there are fewer aircraft that can take off and land in a wave.

Perhaps theoretically both sides should be the same, and some "smart" people can also come up with a countermeasure. For example, a medium aircraft carrier can take off 24 aircraft, of which 20 fighters can take off. And then 4 attack aircraft can also get the same number of releases as the number of Huaxia, but in fact, who dares to send all their fighters out? If the Eagle needs to attack, won't the attack aircraft formation send fighters to cover it? (Of course, there have been outlaw assaults in history, but no one dares to take this risk in the exercise deduction, especially in the current situation.) Don't you need fighter protection over your own aircraft carrier? Therefore, the final result was that the composition of the first wave of reconnaissance planes by the British was 5 fighters and 10 attack planes, of which the fighters were loaded with fleet air defense, and the number of attack planes was close to the specified limit, while the total amount of flights far from reaching the upper limit of the deck, resulting in a waste of aviation capabilities.

"The torpedo planes on the Jiangsu aircraft carrier are more like decorations, I looked at the briefing, and most of the attack planes were placed in the lower hangar, and it seems that it is difficult to use them." Thomas said to Deng Shichang on the side. "You're right, Mr. Admiral, these planes are called supplementary aircraft in the Huaxia Naval Aviation." Deng Shichang replied with a smile and gave him an ambiguous answer, as for what a supplementary machine is and what they do, Deng Shichang did not give any explanation.

The two sides are like hunters in the dark night carefully searching for each other's traces, with the advance of the fleet, the direct distance between the two sides is constantly changing, but the first wave of search did not get results, according to the world of exercises, the day of the first day of the battle ended quickly, and after releasing three waves of reconnaissance planes in a row, they failed to find each other's traces, because the two sides did not go straight to the middle of the battlefield, only fools would be like this, both sides are constantly changing their tracks, one will sail to the northeast, and the other will turn to the southwest, In less than 2 hours, the direction was changed again, but due to the limitations of the venue, the two sides were still slowly approaching.

"Starting the next day, please get ready." When the director announced that the night was over, the Huaxia fleet changed again, and the 8 destroyers thought about the external movement and spread out in a fan shape, each destroyer was directly separated by 15 kilometers, and the scattered destroyers were directly separated from the main fleet by 20 kilometers, like an open umbrella shrouded in the direction of the fleet. In this way, a warning line of nearly 100 kilometers long appeared in front of us, so that even if the Chinese Navy was attacked by a sneak attack, it would have a certain warning time, after all, it was possible to find a large aircraft group 15 kilometers away from the mast. The reconnaissance planes of both sides continued to reconnoitre, although the number of reconnaissance planes on both sides was similar, but because the British fleet carried out reconnaissance from two points, its coverage area was much larger than that of Huaxia, (of course, for reconnaissance range, Huaxia's reconnaissance density was greater.) ）

"Luck is on our side this time!" Whether the other side can be spotted at sea first really depends on luck, but this time the British seem to be lucky, the seaplanes departing from the Fury aircraft carrier battle group discovered the cordon arranged by Huaxia on the periphery, and the Eagle aircraft carrier readjusted the direction of the reconnaissance aircraft according to the orientation information provided by the Fury, preparing to find the main fleet of the other party hiding behind.

At the same time, Huaxia also discovered the British's reconnaissance plane, but Ye Ming, as the commander-in-chief of the fleet, was not nervous, because he knew that the other party was a single aircraft carrier battle group, and at present, he had only discovered his own cordon, and did not know the location of his fleet. When the officer on the side asked him why he concluded that the British Navy was a single-aircraft carrier battle group, Ye Ming replied like this: "Because their number of reconnaissance planes is not enough, after we found the reconnaissance plane dangling near the cordon and shot it down, no new planes appeared in our field of vision for a whole hour. And if according to our arrangement, this situation is impossible to happen, although our reconnaissance planes are in two groups, there must be other planes about 50 kilometers away from the seaplane, and the other side has not connected for a whole hour, then it can only mean that the other side's reconnaissance planes are not enough! ”

Although Huaxia failed to discover the location of the opponent's plane, Ye Ming already knew the general direction of the opponent, and the entire fleet immediately adjusted its course and headed towards the place where the British seaplane had just been discovered. And the British suddenly found that their first-mover advantage did not seem to be as great as they imagined, because they only knew the location of the opponent's cordon for a short time, and could not implement a steady tracking, after the seaplane was shot down, God knows which way the Huaxia Navy moved during this time! And if the opponent is traveling at full speed, he can run at least 45 kilometers in an hour! Cunningham, aware of the crisis, immediately rearranged the reconnaissance aircraft and began to concentrate the search in the target area. At the same time, the deck of the Eagle began to prepare for attack waves, and 12 fighters and 12 attack planes were parked on the deck ready to attack.

At this time, Thomas in the director's department can understand the overall situation of the battlefield, and Thomas, who has opened the perspective of God, is full of clouds. At this time, the Huaxia fleet is only 350 kilometers away from the Fury aircraft carrier battle group, and the course of the two sides is almost opposite, that is to say, at most 2 hours, the two sides will enter their respective strike ranges, and under the high-density reconnaissance of Huaxia, in 2 hours, the Fury has no possibility of escaping, unless it immediately turns around and escapes, and on the other side, the Eagle aircraft carrier battle group is 400 kilometers away from the other side, and the two sides will enter the combat distance in about 3 hours at most. That is to say, even if the Fury will send information to the high-speed Eagle aircraft carrier battle group as soon as it discovers the Huaxia fleet, then it may cause the Eagle aircraft carrier to still be unable to reach the opponent, and in this way, the battle may become a refueling tactic.

As time passed, the Fury aircraft carrier battle group finally met with the Huaxia fleet, this time, the encounter was no longer to discover the other party, but by a number of reconnaissance planes to discover each other at the same time, in this way, even if the other side dispatched fighters responsible for air defense to drive away, it is difficult to interfere with the enemy's continuous tracking, that is to say, at this time, the reconnaissance planes of the Huaxia and the British can guide their own attack aircraft group to attack! At the same time, the layout of the British also affirmed Ye Ming's speculation, the British used the aircraft carrier fleet separately! And they currently have only one aircraft carrier Fury in front of them, and it is not clear where the other aircraft carrier is! But it doesn't matter, for Ye Ming, let's sink what is in front of you first.

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