"Your Excellency, Governor, how should we respond?" Lieutenant General Draya, commander of the colonial army on the side, saw that the Governor was looking at the intelligence without saying a word, and couldn't help but remind him.
Standing on the other side, Commander of the Saar Empire's Southern Fleet, Oulanka, also said: "Let's let our navy attack first." He was still very confident in the fleet under his command.
Governor Campnan sighed: "You don't have an aircraft carrier in your hands. What if the other party uses planes to attack you? Our country's navy is no longer strong enough and we can no longer sustain losses."
Before Lieutenant General Oulanka could answer, Lieutenant General Draya said: "Don't worry, our army still has more than 60 fighter jets and 20 bombers. We can use them as bait to attract the opponent's carrier-based aircraft.
We use battleships to fight them in an upright naval battle. Now the Chinese Empire only has first-class battleships like the Zhonghua class. It was indeed extremely powerful back then, but now it lags behind our battleships."
Lieutenant General Draya's words were so reasonable that the other two nodded repeatedly. This was the only feasible way at present.
The entire southern colony was busy for a while. Lieutenant General Oulanka personally led the fleet to sail. They would directly face the opponent's fleet, hoping to rely on the advantage of the battleships to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop. After the fleet set sail, the air force of the entire colony also began to sail towards
Several airports are concentrated on the eastern coast, and they will launch the first wave of offensives to attract the opponent's carrier-based aircraft.
In the Southern Ocean Fleet at this time, Sun Xiaohu stood on the bridge with a frown. He was also a little careless today. He originally thought that he was still far away from the opponent, so he only arranged three fighter jets to escort him over the fleet. But he did not expect that the opponent was there.
The five-plane formation patrolled the sea and fled when it saw its own fleet. Despite the efforts of its own fighter jets to intercept it, one of them still escaped.
The original sneak attack was discovered, and Sun Xiaohu couldn't help but feel a little annoyed. Now he had to consider the possible obstruction of the opponent, especially the opponent's air force. Thinking of this, Sun Xiaohu immediately summoned the staff. He wanted to re-formulate the plan and change the sneak attack into a strong attack.
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In order to protect the transport fleet from being attacked, Sun Xiaohu decided to divide the fleet into two parts. The aircraft carrier and the battleship acted separately, each leading the escort ships forward. Sun Xiaohu led the battle fleet in front, and they would deal with the possible opponent's fleet.
, while Wan Yong's aircraft carrier fleet protected the troop carriers and followed behind. In addition to protecting these troop carriers, they also shouldered the responsibility of air defense.
The battleship fleet moved forward at high speed. They wanted to rush to Cape Town Port as soon as possible, striving to block the Saar Empire's Southern Fleet in the port before the other party could react. Sun Xiaohu also knew that this possibility was very slim, but as long as the losses could be reduced
, he is willing to try, and of course he will not just place his hope on it. During the march, the battle fleet has already formed a battle formation, ready for a fleet encounter at any time.
A Saar fighter jet flew over from high in the sky. He was surprised to see a neatly lined up battle fleet, but no aircraft carrier. Seeing the Saar plane coming over, the anti-aircraft guns of the Chinese Empire's Southern Ocean Fleet immediately started firing.
, intensive artillery fire came, frightening the plane to quickly raise its altitude.
Although the aircraft carrier was not found, the plane did not give up and continued to fly forward. But soon he found a few black spots in the distance. After discovering that the Sarr plane continued to fly forward, Sun Xiaohu used the radio to
After notifying Wan Yong, the escorting fighter jets immediately came up to greet him.
The Saar pilot was quite clever. He knew what happened to the five reconnaissance planes in front of him before he came. When he saw those black figures, he immediately turned around and ran away. As a result, the escorting fighter jets failed to catch up.
After receiving the information that the opposing fleet was moving separately, Lieutenant General Draya felt that an opportunity had come. On the one hand, he arranged for a coastal speedboat to set off immediately with the information to chase the Southern Fleet, which had not gone far, to report the news. On the other hand, he ordered the air force to
Take off immediately and look for the opponent's aircraft carrier fleet to launch an attack.
The reconnaissance plane that had escaped earlier only said it had discovered the fleet and did not elaborate on how its companions were shot down. Therefore, Lieutenant General Draya thought they were under siege.
According to the experience of the Saar Empire, carrier-based aircraft must not be as good as land-based aircraft, so Lieutenant General Draya hopes to use land-based aircraft with better performance to first cripple the opponent's aircraft carrier fleet, and then destroy the opponent's troop transports to eliminate land-based aircraft.
Threat. If the losses after destroying the aircraft carrier are too heavy, you can also clear the obstacles for the battle fleet, and then rely on the battle fleet to attack.
All the Sarr land-based fighter jets quickly took off and flew towards the location reported by the reconnaissance plane. The bombers took off one after another five minutes later. They wanted to attack the aircraft carrier after the fighter jets eliminated the opponent's air defense force.
The fleet of the Chinese Empire was not far from Cape Town, so the Sal Air Force only flew and searched for an hour before discovering the aircraft carrier and troop transport ship on the sea. This fleet was really too big, and the fast sailing of each ship,
White trails are drawn on the sea, which look spectacular from a distance and can easily be spotted by high-altitude aircraft.
After discovering the Chinese Empire's aircraft carrier fleet, the Saar fighter group immediately rushed forward. After discovering the Saar reconnaissance plane, one-third of the aircraft carrier's fighter jets had already taken off to serve as a cover in the air. At this time, it was already time to change the aircraft carrier.
The second batch of alert fighter jets took off.
Seeing the arrival of the Saar fighter jets, more than twenty Sailfish carrier-based fighter jets immediately rushed forward. At the same time, air defense sirens sounded on each warship. The fighter pilots on each aircraft carrier quickly ran to their planes and decks.
The commanders were busy back and forth, directing the aircraft to take off one after another, while the escorting cruisers and destroyers set up air defense formations to protect the aircraft carrier and troop transports.
The Saar people made a fatal mistake. Originally, if bombers and fighter jets came together, they might be able to take advantage of the chaos to attack the aircraft carrier and cause some losses to the Chinese Empire, but they could not enter the battle in batches.
The Saar people were very confident in their fighter jets, and greatly underestimated the combat capabilities of the Sailfish fighter jets. They believed that their Camel fighter jets could sweep across the air and shoot down all the carrier-based fighter jets of the Chinese Empire. When the bombers arrived, they could attack without restraint.
, without causing losses to the bombers.
Speaking of which, it is also because Handley Page bombers are too expensive and troublesome to manufacture, so the Thrall Empire does not manufacture many, and there are only twenty of them in the southern colonies. These only air attack forces allow Dela
Lieutenant General Ya was reluctant to use it easily, fearing that the losses would be too great and the air force would lose its offensive capabilities, so he decided to put the aircraft into the battlefield in batches.
The more than 60 Camel fighter jets that arrived early quickly saw the enemy clearly. When they saw that there were only more than 20 enemy aircraft on the opposite side, the Saar people immediately became excited. They decided to take advantage of their numerical advantage and shoot them down as soon as possible.
These enemy planes then block the sky above the aircraft carrier and prevent the opponent's fighter jets from taking off to fight. This way they will win.
More than 60 Camel fighter jets accelerated forward, while more than 20 Sailfish fighter jets also rushed forward without any thought. As soon as they fought, the Sarr pilots were surprised to find that the opponent's fighter jets were much faster than them.
Qi Hui was also among the more than 20 fighter jets. He had flown the Exocet reconnaissance aircraft in the Battle of Skagerrak. Soon after, he applied to his superiors for a transfer. Compared to the leisurely reconnaissance aircraft, he
I would rather experience the exciting career of a fighter pilot.
Since the carrier-based fighter force was newly built at that time, there was a great need for experienced pilots, especially people like Qi Hui who had experience in flying at sea. Therefore, after passing the assessment, he not only quickly joined the carrier-based fighter force, but also became a squadron leader.
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The group of fighter jets on alert in the air at this time was Qi Hui's squadron. Seeing the oncoming Saar fighter jets, Qi Hui opened the throttle and throttle of the plane to the maximum, led his men, and flew as fast as possible.
Rushing towards the Sal people at high speed.
The single-wing design of the Sailfish fighter is very advanced and is more flexible than the double-wing structure of the Camel fighter. Before the Saar pilots could get the opponent's aircraft into the crosshairs, the carrier-based aircraft squadron led by Qi Hui had already disappeared in front of them.
Numerous Sailfish fighter jets relied on their flexible turns to quickly bite those Camel fighter jets from behind. The first Sailfish fighter jet in front was Qi Hui's vehicle. When the tail of the opponent's plane caught Qi Hui's aim,
In the tool, he pressed the machine gun button hard, and the two 12.7 mm aviation machine guns suddenly spurted out long flames. The recoil of the machine guns even caused the plane to jerk violently in the air.
Compared with the Camel fighter's one 7.7mm machine gun, the Sailfish's two 12.7mm machine guns greatly surpass it in terms of range, power and firepower density.
Large-caliber machine gun bullets hit the wooden Camel fighter jets, causing wood chips to fly into the sky. Fighters of the Saar Air Force were shot down one after another.
The Camel fighter with a wooden fuselage cannot resist bullets from large-caliber machine guns. The Sailfish fighter, which is covered in aluminum alloy skin and has special armor plates protecting key parts, does not care at all about the 7.7 mm of the Saar.
Even if the machine gun is hit, it will only leave a row of bullet holes and there is no danger of crashing.
More and more Chinese carrier-based aircraft are taking off one after another and joining the battle. The number of air battles with already widely different performance has also gradually changed, and the skills of the world-famous elf pilots are even more incomparable to those of the Sarr people.
In comparison, the fighter jets of the Saar Air Force were completely overwhelmed by the Chinese Empire. They had to be shot down. By the time the Saar people woke up and wanted to escape, they had no chance.
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