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Text Chapter 1505 The Crisis of the Aircraft Carrier

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    "Your Majesty! General Schultz's suggestion can be considered! If we can sink the Chinese aircraft carrier, then their aircraft will have to take off from the Mediterranean Sea, and the range will more than double. And only a small number of long-range aircraft can fly  Arrive at Astre. This will be very helpful for us to defeat the Chinese aircraft and seize the air supremacy of Astre!" said Marshal Tirpitz, Minister of the Navy.

    "Marshal Tirpitz! Naval aviation will start arranging this plan! I hope to receive good news about sinking the Chinese aircraft carrier!" William II said with anticipation.  The German Navy's aircraft carrier fleet is still operating on the side of the North Sea close to Germany and does not dare to go out to the Atlantic Ocean.  The Chinese Navy's Second Fleet has already been waiting for the German Navy in the Atlantic Ocean.  If they fail to win, Germany's coastline will be blocked again.  Germany does not dare to take this risk!

    "Yes, Your Majesty! The naval aviation will try its best to start operations within two days! However, given that the performance of Chinese fighter planes is higher than ours, the naval aviation needs to send part of the air force to escort the dive bombers and torpedo attack aircraft performing bombing missions!" Tire  Marshal Pitts said.  Previously, the German naval aviation had been competing for air supremacy with the Chinese Air Force and naval aviation on the British Isles, resulting in considerable losses.  When bombing the Austro-Hungarian Navy, they were beaten up by the Chinese Air Force and lost a lot of fighter planes.  Before the war began, the German naval aviation had more than 1,200 combat aircraft, but now only about 60% of this number remains.

    "The Air Force can provide a wing of fighter jets!" Air Force Commander General Schultz said.

    German Army Minister and Chief of General Staff Field Marshal Falkenhayn also stated that the Army Aviation could also be involved in this operation.  The German Army, like the Chinese Army, has established an independent aviation force, but it is smaller in scale, with only 4 wings and less than 500 combat aircraft.  Among them, fighters and dive bombers each accounted for half.

    Next.  The German army, navy and air force began to actively plan how to send the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier deployed in the Adriatic Sea to the bottom of the sea.  To attack the Chinese Navy's aircraft carriers, these aircraft carriers must first be discovered.  Otherwise, attacks and the like would be out of the question.  Although the Adriatic Sea is not large, it is very narrow. It is necessary to find the location of the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier.  It's not easy.

    The staff officers of the German Admiralty still found a way.  Based on the fire support provided by the Chinese Navy's carrier-based aircraft units to the Army, they roughly calculated the approximate location of the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier battle group.  After all, the combat radius of carrier-based aircraft is limited. To maintain a long enough combat time, the aircraft carrier must stay in a specific position.

    after.  The German Navy has come up with a combat plan and is preparing to launch an attack on the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier battle group on the morning of January 16.  The German Navy estimates that this plan will require the investment of at least two wings of fighters and three to four wings of dive bombers and torpedo attack aircraft.  In the end, the German Naval Air Force dispatched a wing of dive bombers and two wings of torpedo attack aircraft, the German Army Air Force dispatched a wing of Hurricane IV fighters and a wing of dive bombers, and the German Air Force dispatched a wing of Hurricanes.  Type IV fighter, with a total of six wings.  More than 700 aircraft, including 4 wings of dive bombers and torpedo attack aircraft, can pose a fatal threat to the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier!

    On the evening of January 15, these planes began to transfer from Germany, and all transferred to airports in the southern state of Bavaria.  At 5 o'clock in the morning, these planes began to take off from the airport.  It takes just over an hour to get to the Astor Bay from southern Germany and then continue south.  It will probably take about an hour to find the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier battle group.  It is winter now, and the daybreak is relatively late. If nothing else happens, it is expected to take more than seven o'clock to find the location of the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier formation.  At this time, it's daylight and you can launch an attack!

    In order to provide air fire support to the 19th Army Group.  The Chinese Navy's Third Fleet dispatched both Task Force 31 and Task Force 32 to the Adriatic Sea.  Every day, at least hundreds of fighter planes would take off from the four aircraft carriers of these two task forces to bomb the German forces in the Maritime Province and support the 19th Army's attack.  Naval aviation fire support.  It strongly supported the actions of the 19th Army. Although the 19th Army had few troops, its advanced equipment and air support completely defeated the German army.  In addition, the Austro-Hungarian Army has always been accustomed to fighting against the wind. If they faced the German army alone, they would definitely lose.  But if they cooperate with the Chinese army, their combat effectiveness will at least double!  In this case, driving the German troops out of the Maritime Province is no longer a problem!

    January 16, 6 a.m.?Two task forces of the Chinese Navy's Third Fleet were cruising fifty kilometers southwest of Astre.  The ground crew on the aircraft carrier have begun to get busy.  Half an hour later, each of the four aircraft carriers will take off a small group of fighter jets, responsible for guarding the northeast, north and northwest of the fleet.  The German naval aviation bombed the Austro-Hungarian Navy, which also sounded the alarm for the Chinese Navy.  After all, the Gulf of Astor is within the combat radius of German bombers. If Germany sends out bombers to bomb the Chinese Navy, the Chinese Navy will probably have nowhere to hide!  In such a situation, you can only find the enemy first, then take off the fighter jets and shoot down the enemy bombers!

    At the same time, a small fleet of the Chinese Navy consisting of two 'Mountain Class' heavy cruisers, two 'City Class' destroyers and two 'Erhai Class' destroyers is also operating in the northern Adriatic Sea.  The radars on the two 'Mountain Class' heavy cruisers have been turned on, and they will serve as a warning barrier for the aircraft carrier battle group.  If the German air force can occur in time, they will report to the fleet and at the same time guide the fighter jets performing air defense missions to attack the enemy fighter planes!

    At 6:25, dense light spots appeared on the radar screen of the heavy cruiser Dabashan.  The radar soldiers immediately warned, and the officers on the battleship immediately sent an alert to the flagship, and at the same time the fleet switched to air defense operations.  Whether it is a 'mountain-class' heavy cruiser or a 'city-class' destroyer, they are all equipped with a lot of anti-aircraft weapons.

    Ten minutes later, densely packed aircraft flew over the head of the small fleet.  In order to search for the position of the Chinese fleet, these German aircraft had lowered their altitude after entering the ocean.

    "Fire! Shoot down the German plane!" The captain of the heavy cruiser "Dabashan" gave the order to fire.

    The 6 twin-mounted 120mm high-level dual-purpose guns, 12 twin-mounted 88mm anti-aircraft guns, 14 40mm anti-aircraft guns, and 12 20mm machine guns on the heavy cruiser Dabashan opened fire one after another.  Thirty additional anti-aircraft machine guns also joined the attack.

    In an instant, pillars of crimson fire rose from the heavy cruiser Daba Mountain and swept towards the German aircraft in the sky.  Two German naval aviation dive bombers were instantly hit and exploded in the air.

    After the heavy cruiser Dabashan opened fire, another mountain-class heavy cruiser, two city-class destroyers and two Erhai-class frigates also opened fire.

    The fierce anti-aircraft firepower caused the German aircraft to suffer a lot. More than a dozen aircraft were unable to dodge and were shot down.

    The German planes in the sky also lifted up one after another, as if they were fleeing in all directions like frightened birds.  Some German bombers prepared to attack Chinese warships on the sea, but were stopped.  Although the Chinese Navy's 'Mountain Class' heavy cruiser is 198 meters long, it looks like a battleship.  But this time their target was an aircraft carrier, not a battleship.

    Under the orders of the commander leading the group, the German aircraft group accelerated towards the south.

    At this time, on the sea a hundred kilometers away from here, the 31st Task Force and the 32nd Task Force of the Chinese Navy have been alerted and learned that hundreds of enemy fighter planes are rushing toward them.  All fighters on the four aircraft carriers took off and headed to the northern waters to intercept enemy fighters. At the same time, the fleet also switched to air defense combat mode. Frigates, destroyers, heavy cruisers and anti-aircraft cruisers protected the aircraft carriers in the center and began to sail south.  In addition, the Navy also contacted the Air Force and requested the Air Force to send fighter jets for reinforcements.  After all, Germany dispatched hundreds of combat aircraft, which put great pressure on the Chinese Navy's 31st Task Force and 32nd Task Force!

    "Emeishan-class" aircraft carriers can each carry only 80 aircraft, of which there is only one brigade of fighter jets, which is 24!  The four aircraft carriers also took off a total of 96 fighter jets.  For Germany, which dispatched six wings of fighters and bombers, this seemed not enough at all.  All fighter pilots demanded that when intercepting German planes, attack the bombers first and spare those fighters!  After all, the threat of fighter jets to aircraft carriers is very low!  The heavy aerial bombs carried by bombers and the torpedoes carried by torpedo attack aircraft can all pose a fatal threat to the aircraft carrier!

    At 6:36, Chinese Navy fighter jets encountered a German fleet.  The Chinese navy's fighter jets attacked the German aircraft fleet from high altitude.  German bombers and torpedo attack aircraft became priority targets. In the first round of attacks, more than thirty bombers and torpedo attack aircraft were shot down!
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