When Mahan appeared on the scene in his plane, the battle was already in full swing!
The first wave of fighter jets that received Mahan's order had already arrived at the scene and concentrated their efforts to strangle the John Bull control barrier on a large scale. When Mahan's order was received, the vanguard of the first wave of attack 40
The remaining fighter planes had basically wiped out the enemy's reinforcements.
After receiving the order, the Imperial aircraft that had ended the battle immediately worked together to destroy the remaining enemy aircraft, and then flew to the air barrier area of the John Bull Empire. They climbed to a higher altitude, floated in the air and strafed the enemy barrier fire points.
The enemy's air barrier has a wide range, but when faced with the combined force, the Empire's first wave of vanguard fighter planes are unable to withstand it. This is because the Empire's fighter planes take advantage of their absolute advantages in speed and height to repeatedly strangle the defense line.
Since the enemy's firepower network was dispersed into a large area, it was impossible to form an effective joint force, and was quickly wiped out by the Imperial Vanguard Air Force.
In mid-air, the enemy's so-called aerial barrier fire network was wiped out by the joint stranglehold of dozens of imperial aircraft. However, the fire network was easy to eliminate, but facilities such as air cables could not be eradicated. These obstacles could not be cleared, which would have a great impact on subsequent fighters.
Action will cause great inconvenience.
However, the air force cannot imagine that only the ground force can completely eradicate this hidden danger.
In addition to the Imperial Vanguard Air Force, the originally planned fifth attack wave of the Empire also broke into depth in advance due to Mahan's order and advanced to the enemy's defense line where the Locust aircraft crashed to drop bombs. This was a very dangerous move. Because they were doing
However, there are still parts of the enemy's fire network that have not been removed.
But in order to prevent the fragments of the Locust aircraft from being obtained by the enemy, this behavior is still imperative.
Dozens of bombers repeatedly bombed deep inside the enemy, that is, in the southeastern area of the enemy's air barrier. This area formed a blazing fire field without any living creatures. And to Mahan's surprise, in the middle of the air barrier,
, because of the fierce flames, a huge gap was torn open.
This will play a relatively positive role in the parallel advancement of subsequent fighters. However, it also has a side effect, that is, this area will not be able to be crossed by imperial fighters for the time being. Because the flames form a huge oxygen-deficient heat flow in the air, causing
Fighter planes flying over this area are in danger of being detonated.
The Imperial fighter planes of the fifth attack wave began to return after completing their bombing mission to prepare for the second wave of bombing mission. However, Mahan and the fighter planes of the First Vanguard Team were performing security missions over the enemy's defense line in the southeast of the barrier.
, providing escort missions for the Imperial fighters after the second attack wave.
After the Sun Houzi Regiment carried out the first wave of bombing against the enemy naval fleet parked in the military port, but before the second wave of bombing came, all the remaining warships of John Bull promised to escape.
Military port. Pass through the Malacca waters and escape to the Aozhou Naval Base.
Tian Ergou's 12 Imperial Ghost Fleet submarines did not dare to act rashly, but watched helplessly as the other party escaped. You must know that the other party had more than 30 medium-sized and smaller warships, and some of them were fast-reaction warships. Tian Ergou
We dare not disregard the safety of 12 submarines and rashly surface the water to attack the opponent.
What he did was a helpless move. You must know that not only were there many enemy ships, but the Malacca Strait was completely within the effective shooting range of the opponent's shore-based artillery array. Once the ghost fleet showed its head, it would be no different than seeking death.
But it was these enemy warships that took away some fragments of the Imperial Locust aircraft that Mahan had been worried about. No one knew about this at the time. It was the Imperial Shenlong piloted by Zhou Yu who deciphered the opponent's radio waves.
.The specific information I just learned...
As a result, a thousand-mile pursuit for those few pieces of the Locust aircraft began in the vast sea. At this time, everyone knew nothing about it!
After the John Bull Far East Fleet was crippled by Sun Houzi's fleet in the first wave of surprise attacks, the Empire's South China Sea Task Force and the Empire's East China Sea Task Force were the most advanced First Task Force, which had d1
The two fleets of the aircraft carrier formation quickly advanced towards the Singapore Naval Base of the John Bull Empire.
Among these two fleets, there is also a special small fleet, composed of the Empire's six D-type torpedo destroyer leaders and four Imperial shallow-water heavy gunships. The Empire's small shore bombing fleet also slowly moves south to the waters of Malacca.
Advance.
For fear of revealing the purpose of the military operation, the Chinese Empire's task force did not block the sea area south of Malacca before the war. Moreover, the Imperial fighter planes also chose to launch a surprise attack at dawn for fear of being detected by enemy reconnaissance aircraft.
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This kind of flaw, which was made out of necessity, gave the enemy's remaining fleet a chance to escape safely from the Strait of Malacca. There was no way around it. After all, you can't have your cake and eat it too! You have to attack the enemy suddenly and make the other party
There is no defense; it is impossible to blockade the enemy's military port in advance!
When the two main task force fleets of the empire successfully arrived at the exit waters of the enemy's military port, the enemy's coastal defense heavy artillery began to roar and threaten the fleet, forcing the fleet not to get too close to the shore base.
The main guns of the empire's large ships are all 356 mm in caliber, and they are also equipped with artillery accelerators. However, compared with coastal defense guns, naval guns have inherent weaknesses. Heavy guns of the same caliber are fired from a shore base than from a shore base.
Launched from warships, it is countless times more powerful in terms of range and accuracy;
If coupled with the coordinated operations of the opponent's naval port warships, the attacking fleet will be at an absolute disadvantage; because shore defense artillery is not like warships at all. Every time a shell is fired, there is a possibility that it will be pushed away by strong recoil;
What's more, the firing height of the incoming coastal defense guns is much higher than the height of the warship's guns, which creates a condescending firing angle. This is also the John Bull fleet, which is far more powerful than the German Imperial fleet.
, but the real reason why he didn’t dare to knock on the door.
In comparison, the naval guns of the Chinese Empire are far more advanced than the naval guns of other countries in all aspects of performance. However, this problem still exists. Without completely solving the opponent's coastal defense guns, the navy
Before the fleet and air forces, the Imperial task force also could not approach the shore to launch artillery.
This is also the main reason why the Imperial General Staff, when formulating a battle plan, first prepares to destroy the opponent's Far East Fleet, and then to destroy the enemy's air defense fire network and the enemy's shore defense fire positions. (To be continued.
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