"Take off the fourth batch of Stukas immediately! Take off the fighter jets at the same time! Let the third batch of carrier-based aircraft wait!" John Cleeves, who seized the opportunity, paused the recovery of the carrier-based aircraft and prepared to send out his own
The attack fleet regained its previous position.
This is the intuition of a veteran, and in fact his idea is correct. Such a huge fleet has been being beaten for no reason. If we don't counterattack quickly at this time to reverse the passive situation, then it will be destroyed sooner or later.
As long as you seize the opportunity and bite back, you may be able to buy yourself a chance of survival: as long as the opponent becomes wary, the pursuit speed will slow down, and you can throw away the opponent and save the day.
In addition, if the opponent is allowed to maintain an offensive rhythm, it is tantamount to allowing the opponent to attack itself at will. The aircraft carrier fleet is particular about rhythm when attacking the opponent. To put it bluntly, it is the rhythm of taking off carrier-based aircraft. If the opponent's rhythm remains stable,
Then the attacks will naturally be overwhelming and continuous.
However, if a counterattack disrupts the opponent's rhythm, the opponent will have to adjust the rhythm of taking off and recovering carrier-based aircraft. This can delay the opponent's attack and ensure the safety of his own fleet.
The third batch of Stuka attack aircraft has taken off not long ago, and there is still enough fuel. It may not be enough to attack the enemy fleet, but it is indeed no problem to hover over the fleet for a while and wait for recovery.
Another reason is that John Cleeves is worried that if he recovers the third batch of Stuka carrier-based aircraft first, he will not have enough space on the aircraft carrier. He only has seven aircraft carriers left, and the Stukas that can take off from the other two aircraft carriers can
If they are all crammed into these seven aircraft carriers, there may not be enough space to recover all the aircraft in the sky.
So he fantasized about playing a "catch game", first sending some planes out to perform the mission, leaving space to receive the returning planes, filling up the returning planes with fuel before letting them take off, and the planes that had previously performed the mission returned.
Then land again...and repeat this cycle to solve the problem of insufficient space.
It's just that the implementation of this plan will not be as smooth as promised, because of communication problems and pilot competency issues... It is estimated that many planes will be involved in accidents.
"Commander...the fourth batch of Stukas taking off at this time...is it..." the chief of staff wanted to remind John Cleeves that they had not yet confirmed the enemy's location.
"After the fourth batch of Stukas takes off, immediately form a formation and search southeast! The enemy fleet must be in that direction! Find them! Sink them!" John Cleeves clenched his fist and smashed it.
On the chart table.
So, is the Tang Empire's naval fleet in the southeast? It is indeed there, and they are rushing towards the combined fleet at a very high speed.
The distance between the two sides has now been shortened to more than 500 kilometers... Yes, more than 500 kilometers! In other words, John Cleeves did correctly judge the location of the Tang Empire's naval fleet, but he did not guess that the Tang Empire's
The naval fleet's current position is still outside his strike range!
The Stuka only has a range of about 500 kilometers when loaded with bombs, and this range is very extreme. The naval Stuka has a much more complicated structure because its wings need to be folded, and its fuel tank is smaller, so its range is only about 400 kilometers.
About kilometers.
In addition to the complexity of the situation, some fuel must be reserved for recovery by the aircraft carrier after returning. In fact, the strike radius of the combined fleet is approximately 350 kilometers.
Therefore, when 28 Stuka dive bombers loaded with torpedoes and under the cover of 7 pirate fighter jets fiercely headed in the direction of the Tang Empire Navy, they were destined to gain nothing.
But John Cleeves didn't know all this. He instinctively believed that the enemy's carrier-based aircraft had a range of only about 300 kilometers.
Moreover, he also judged that the opponent's carrier-based aircraft had changed the direction of the attack in order to confuse him, which further reduced the opponent's range.
Therefore, he believed that the opponent's fleet should be about 200 kilometers southeast of his location. This distance was definitely a good opportunity for him to counterattack.
As long as the fourth batch of Stukas disrupts the opponent's deployment, his situation will get better. Maybe the opponent's interference with radio and radar signals will disappear, and then it will be his turn to launch a full counterattack.
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When Rudel flew the Thunder attack aircraft over the battlefield, the ground beneath his feet was already scorched. He has been like a vulture these days, circling in various places. As long as he finds any target, his Thunder will swoop down.
Then, it used its machine cannon to straf the ground wildly. The road was filled with various vehicle wreckage, extending to near the horizon.
These vehicles are all vehicles belonging to the central cluster of the Qin Army, including imported No. 4 tanks, self-developed Qin 3 tanks, and Qin 4 tanks.
There were even more than a dozen precious Scud missile launchers that were sold to the Qin State by the Tang Empire, and were worth as much as gold.
Now they have all been destroyed. There are tanks next to the missile vehicles, and Type 113 armored vehicles next to the tanks. Next to the armored vehicles are cars, trucks, even oxcarts and horse-drawn carriages, as well as various artillery pieces.
Ever since he knew that he might not be able to defend Dongqing, Ying'an tried to mobilize troops to retreat westward. First it was the main force, and later it was some logistics supply troops and material transportation troops.
But none of these troops could escape the destruction of the Tang Empire's air force. They were destroyed on the road, stretching for hundreds of kilometers, and their wreckage was piled everywhere.
Now, the road has basically been paralyzed by the Tang Empire's air force. Except for a few infantry, no vehicles can pass here.
Because they destroyed it so completely, the subsequent Tang army units complained. After all, it was impossible for them to attack quickly on such a road.
Qin's troops were in defeat, Wang Luo's army in Xiajuan's encirclement had collapsed, and the battle situation near Dongqing was not optimistic either.
Once Ying'an is surrounded in Dongqing, the Blackwater Oil Field in the north of Dongqing City will be completely unprotected. The Tang Army will easily obtain supplies from the Blackwater Oil Field, and the attack speed will only be faster.
In order to delay the Tang army, Ying'an has ordered the blowing up of the Blackwater Oilfield and the destruction of all the airports near Dongqing. But everyone knows that this can only delay a little time. The engineers of the Tang Empire will soon repair these facilities.
