After confirming the weather conditions in the target sea for the last time, Captain Zhu Tiansen finally issued an order to allow takeoff. At this time, the aircraft carrier turbines were fully powered. Driven by four steam turbines, the giant bronze propeller made the aircraft carrier sailed against the wind at a speed of 317 revolutions per minute. The flight commander had long stood beside the takeoff line. In the dark night, he was holding no longer the red and white color flags, but two rod-shaped color lights, and the color was still one red and one white.￥f

After receiving the captain's order, he lit the red light early. When the deck wind reached its maximum, he lowered the red light. Lieutenant Colonel Tan Gen, who was in the first row, saw this and rammed the accelerator to slide the reconnaissance plane to the front of the takeoff line to wait for his next order. Finally, after the white light was raised, he hurriedly put it down. This was the order for takeoff. He immediately opened the accelerator to the maximum with the engine. With the roar of the engine, the plane moved forward along the deck indicator light, and the speed became faster and faster. Because it had a relatively light fuselage, the plane was lifted out of less than a hundred meters and was lifted by the oncoming rapid airflow and flew.

Lieutenant Colonel Tan Gen flew 300 meters along the original course before turning right, then pulled high and hovering over the aircraft carrier to wait for the plane behind. In fact, it doesn't take long. Without catapults, the standard interval for aircraft takeoff is 30 seconds each. He only needs to wait in the air for more than ten minutes. In fact, for the offensive cluster, the real trouble is that the bulky torpedo planes flew too slowly. Fortunately, the target sea area is within 150 kilometers this time, and even if these bulky torpedo planes are accommodated, it will not take long.

The plane took off one by one, and on the signal platform eight meters above the flight deck. Colonel Zhu Tiansen watched them as they formed and then flew northward. At this time, the empty deck. The ground crew began to put three reconnaissance aircraft that did not attack on the deck. They also had to take off and patrol later - for the aircraft carriers. There were two most dangerous moments in the day, one was dusk, and the background of the sunset easily highlighted the hull, and the other was dawn. In addition to the sunrise factor, the strange sea area we arrived at was full of various dangers.

"Did you contact the cruiser?" Zhu Tiansen asked as soon as he returned to the command tower.

"Contacted." The communications officer replied, "and received their confirmation."

"It's a mule or a horse, I'm going to take a walk this time." Xi Dingmo looked at Zhu Tiansen, who was a little uneasy, and said with a smile. "Maybe it really sank four Japanese ships."

While the two joked, one hundred and fifty kilometers north of the north, Major General Liu Guanxiong, the acting commander of the cruiser fleet, who had not slept for a night, felt more and more that he didn't leave last night. Waiting for the plane's support was a huge mistake, but the big mistake was already done. Whether he could escape the encirclement depends on luck. He threw away these annoyances, at 3:40, at his order, the four ships of Haichou, Haichen, Zhaohe and Yingrui left the waters of the Beida East Island that had been staying all night. The formation rushed south, and in order to take care of the Haichen, the formation's speed was only fourteen knots.

Although the sunrise is 4:44, there will be more than half an hour before sunrise in summer. This means that after four o'clock, there will be a glimmer of light. Liu Guanxiong, who was in the commander tower of Haichou, looked around in a daze, didn't know what he would meet after dawn. At this time, he only saw that the moon had gone down. The stars began to blur, and the sea surface became darker and darker. The dark sea seemed boundless, making people feel restless. At this time, Major General Liu Guanxiong suddenly remembered that night ten years ago. At that time, the Haitian was also driving at such a high speed, and then with a loud "touch", the entire warship rushed forward, and the stern of the ship was suddenly raised. He hit the wall and realized that it had hit the reef.

‘It won’t hit the rock again, right?’ Liu Guanxiong couldn’t help but think, and then he said he was unlucky.

When Liu Guanxiong was furious, Tan Gen, who was a thousand meters above the sky, had already seen the glimmer of light in the east. It was already 4:00 and 3:00. The sky suddenly became very bright. It was a good weather with a clear and cloudy weather. The blue sea surface under him that had not been seen for a long time could finally be displayed in front of everyone.

"Sir, there is no error in the position, and you will soon reach the target sea area. They should be sailing south in formation, with a speed of 14 knots." The navigator sitting behind him reminded.

Inconvenient to answer, Lieutenant Colonel Tan Gen just pulled the flight altitude to 700 meters, and then used the swing wings to notify the fleet behind him. This is a large formation composed of a fighter jet, each of which is a squadron of dive bombers and torpedo bombers. Unlike reconnaissance aircraft flying at a height of 1,000 meters, the torpedo aircraft is not only slowly but also low because it is carrying a 450-kilogram 457mm torpedo. In order to accommodate it, the height of the entire formation is only 700 meters.

The sky became brighter and brighter, and the light changed and the color of the sea became bluer. However, the fleet had not found any target, and neither its own warship nor the Japanese warships were seen. Lt. Col. Tan Gen, who was anxious, began to order the fighter to look for it in different directions, while he led the fleet behind him to circle around aimlessly. Several times he asked the pilot to try radio calls, but they all failed, which means that the cruiser was not within a range of forty kilometers.

"Call the time! Keep calling!" Lieutenant Colonel Tan Gen shouted in the wind, his voice and saliva floated to the face of the pilot behind him. However, at this time the pilot didn't bother to wipe his saliva. He kept calling into the microphone with his headphones: "Osprey calls Haichou, Osprey calls Haichou, please answer if you hear it! Osprey calls Haichou, Osprey calls Haichou, please answer if you hear it..."

The navigator called, but his eyes were looking around. Before the lieutenant colonel could react, he slapped the lieutenant colonel's shoulder and shouted: "Over there! Signal flare, over there!"

The white signal flare was not conspicuous at sunrise, but the rising flames fell into the eyes of the navigator. He followed the direction he pointed. After flying high, Lieutenant Colonel Tan Gen saw that it was a fighter plane that kept firing the signal flare.

Not long after Major General Liu Guanxiong was secretly scolding himself for being unlucky, reality once again fulfilled his misfortune ten years ago. After dawn, the lookout hand suddenly discovered that there was a Japanese ship on the west side of the fleet, which was the direction of Naha. It was too late to see what kind of ship it was. While raising the battle flag, the rudder of the Haichou Ship hurriedly turned left, and then led the entire fleet to widen the distance from the enemy ship. However, the Japanese ship was not too slow. After discovering the Chinese warship, it followed from a distance and was not in a hurry to rush up to start the war.

The more the Japanese were like this, the more worried Liu Guanxiong was. After asking the communications officer again, he knew that he had not contacted the seaplane fleet. He did not want to put his life on the slim seaplane anymore. He asked in a rough voice: "What ship is following?"

"It's the Ligen." Chief Qin Yulin replied.

"Ligan?" Liu Guanxiong smiled bitterly. Although the Ligan is not a big ship, its speed is more than 20 knots. If you encounter it, you can't get rid of it. Thinking that although the Ligan is only more than 4,000 tons, its gun caliber is almost the same as that of him, Liu Guanxiong suddenly said: "Go back! The left rudder is full."

"What! Go back?" Zheng Zuyi, the chief of staff standing on one side, exclaimed, "Although there was only the Ligen at the time, if anyone was injured in the artillery battle, he would have to explain it here."

"If you don't go back, you will die." Liu Guanxiong said. "The Japanese are rushing us to go east. What's wrong with you waiting for us in front."

The commander decided, and when the helmsman saw this, the rudder began to fill the left rudder, and the center of gravity of the people moved down right, and the Haichuang began to turn the rudder. The entire cruiser fleet sailed in a column in a row. When the Haichuang turned, the HaiChen and others following him were very surprised, but the captain Lin Baoyi, who knew the meaning of it, said: "The cooper was right, and you know what was ahead. Follow up and fill the rudder!"

The Haichou first turned around, followed by Haichen, then Zhaohe, Ying Rui. Ben looked at the captain of the Ligen who fled the Chinese fleet in panic and Colonel Kishiro Kishiro who was escaping from the Chinese fleet and laughed: "The Chinese Reef is going to be anxious to jump over the wall!"

He did so, but the Chief of Staff said, "Your Excellency, there are four cruisers in China. We..."

"Rise the battle flag and sink them!" Colonel Kishiro of the Webu was still confident. He grabbed the command knife and said, "Let the Chinese know what the real navy is!"

The ship was heading east. The Japanese ship came towards him, and Liu Guanxiong, who was sailing in the front, was suddenly disappointed. He thought that this Japanese ship would avoid him, but now the battle flag was flying on the Ligan. He didn't want to avoid the channel at all.

"What should I do?" Zheng Zuyi also saw the battle flag on the Ligen. He knew what the Japanese wanted to do, that is, they would leave wounds on themselves regardless of everything. If they accumulate, these bleeding wounds would eventually die.

"What else can I do? Just fight!" Liu Guanxiong also took the initiative at this time. "The artillery skills taught by the foreign commander can be practiced. Look, the targets are ready-made."

After the Battle of the East China Sea, the fleet officially used the mast plate observation point as the artillery center of the entire ship. Each artillery no longer fires freely, but uses the instructions of the gun mate as the shooting parameters. This is called a volley. However, for the current light cruisers of the fleet, the volley technique can only be realized on Haichou and Haichen - the volley below six cannons is not very meaningful. Although these four cruisers only have two to three main guns, only Haichou and Haichen have eight 105mm secondary guns, so the new artillery can only be realized on the old ship.

The sound of guns and cannons on the mast plate spreading branches has been transmitted to various places through the wired system. Listening to the distance of one thousand meters and one thousand meters, Liu Guanxiong's somewhat hungry heart has come true. Although he has expectations for the battle, he can still accept the result of failure. Isn't it just Shenhai? By his age, he has made a lot of money than those who were twenty years ago. After his death, if the court preferential treatment, he might be able to become a lieutenant general, which is enough to glorify his ancestors.

When the two sides approached 7,000 meters, the hull of the Ligen in the telescope swayed, and then made a big turn proudly. Liu Guanxiong knew about the big turn of Donggo in the Battle of Mahai, but he didn't expect that the Ligen dared to turn in front of him. Although the Ligen ship was small and narrow, he turned in front of his four cruisers so boldly made him so angry that he almost wanted to cry. He said anxiously: "Woman! Order down, fire the cannon immediately and sink him!"

The commander ordered the fire to fire immediately. Lin Chuanzhi, the first mate of the guns and cannons on the tail plate, reported the latest shelling parameters based on the rangefinder and distance clock. However, before he had ordered, an aircraft passed by a buzzing sound above his head. After one aircraft, four more, four more... Thirty-four planes passed by the entire fleet. This made Lin Chuanzhi's face change drastically. However, when he saw the dragon and tiger beast on the plane, he immediately forgot the shelling order and shouted: "They are here, they are here!"

When he was very close to the fleet, the radio call did not respond. Lieutenant Colonel Tan Gen had to take the fleet to start from the Yingrui at the end of the fleet, and go forward until he swept across the Haichou. He swept over his warship just to say hello. More importantly, he flew over the arrogant Japanese warship in front.

During the Russo-Japanese War, in order to block the Russian ship's way, Hirayaro Togo used an Alpha turn to seize the T-shaped placement, and also intercepted the Russian ship's way. It was the fog on the sea. Although the distance between the two sides was within 7,000 meters, the commander of the Russian fleet, Roger Stwinsky, thought the distance was still far. The Russian ship did not fire until the last two minutes of the turn, thus missing the opportunity to severely damage the Japanese ship. Now the Ligan is making a big turn in front of the cruiser. Although its 4,000-ton hull has a smaller turning radius at a higher speed, and the time is not ten minutes. However, the problem of its turning point being a static point still cannot be solved.

Lieutenant Colonel Tan Gen flew over his ship with his fleet, and then the dive bomber squadron immediately dispersed to make way for the torpedo bombers behind him. Captain Li Qi'an, the squadron leader of the torpedo aircraft squadron, had long known what the Dongxiang turn was. During the flight, after signaling to both sides, the squadron leader Li Guanghui left the team with his wingman and flew towards the turning point of the Ligen.

On the battlefield, he was originally treating four Chinese cruisers, but he didn't expect a group of uninvited guests to come. The Ligen came on the lookout hand and looked at the aircraft from afar and shouted. Like General Dongxiang, Colonel Kishiro, who was on the bridge and did not enter the command tower, turned his telescope into the air. The dragon and tiger beast logo on the fuselage knew that it was the Chinese navy's flight aircraft. The long-horned tiger with glaring eyes was painted on the fuselage, which was very majestic.

When Colonel Kishiro of the Martial Arts team was not quite clear about what was going on, the lookout hand on the masthouse shouted again: "Water thunder! There is water thunder in the aircraft."

The colonel was shocked when he heard the sound of thunder on the water. After looking at the belly of the aircraft, he became nervous. But when he wanted to call for shooting, he found that there was no weapon on the Ligan to deal with the Chinar aircraft - two 152mm single-load guns, ten 120mm single-load guns, four 76mm single-load guns, and three 457mm torpedo launch tubes. No matter which one of these is, it is not a weapon to deal with air targets.

Colonel Kishiro Fubu's mind flashed through various weapons on the ship. In desperation, he shouted to the sound tube: "Right full of rudder! Right full of rudder! Get ready for rushing on water! Get ready for rushing on water!"

In order to reduce the time of being shot by enemy ships to occupy the t-head, Ligan is sailing at the highest speed at this time. When the turn is halfway, it requires a change in the direction of the turning, which will also make the ship stand still at a certain moment. However, even so, Ligan has no time to turn. The approaching torpedo bomber swallows usually throw the torpedo more than 100 meters away from the static point of the turning point. Then, while pulling the head of the machine, it uses the machine gun of the machine head to scurry across the chimneys of the Ligan.

Seeing the plane dropping the torpedoes so close, Colonel Kishiro of the Webu was no longer in a mood to shout for a retreat. He was about to say when a shuttle bullet swept over him, and the momentum of the bullet took him away from the bridge and then fell like a sandbag.

Before the adjutant standing beside him, he had just avoided the plane's strafing, the two torpedo hit the hull and the stern. In the violent flames, Liu Guanxiong, who was in the command tower of the Sea Chop, not only saw the Japanese sailors aroused by the explosion, but also saw the propeller that was blown up at the stern of the ship. "Woman! Is this a seaplane?" He was stunned.

He was like this, the adjutant staff around him and the sailors who saw this scene on the ship. The plane attacked the warship with torpedoes. This kind of tactic was unheard of, but it happened in front of him now. The Ligan wanted to be punched twice by a huge fist. While thundering, the entire ship drifted to the other side for several meters. When it stopped, the break after the torpedo exploded caused the sea water to surge in, and the hull began to gradually tilt, and the speed was decreasing rapidly.

Looking at the tragic situation of the Ligan, Major General Liu Guanxiong, who knew that the ship would not sink so quickly, shouted to the sound tube when everyone was still amazed: "Fire the cannon immediately and sink Ligan!"

Everyone was shocked by the extremely sharp attack of the torpedo bomber before. Now, after hearing the commander's order, they realized that they had not finished what they wanted to do. Lin Chuanzhi, the first mate of the guns and cannons on the mast plate, immediately shouted: "The main and deputy in front are aimed at the nine sections in the left front, with a distance of 4,300, ready to fire!"

The sound from the mast plate reached the guns in front. After one round of adjustment, at 4:37 in the morning, after several "boom", the main and deputy guns of the Haichou No. 1 start firing.

The hit rate of more than 4,000 meters was extremely high. After the first round of artillery, the Haichou 150 main gun adjusted again hit a shell on the head of the ship of Ligen. Later, Haichen, Zhaohe and Ying Rui, who changed their formation, all fell into the water dog together. Ligen also wanted to fight back, but at this time the ship was in chaos. The hull not only stalled but also tilted violently. The several guns fired lost their accuracy and landed on the sea far away from the ships.

"It should be sunk with torpedo!" Seeing that the Ligen was about to move, Chief of Staff Zheng Zuyi's eyes flashed. No matter what, sinking Ligen is also a contribution.

Others can think of things that Zheng Zuyi can think of. Before Liu Guanxiong could answer, the signalman shouted in the sound tube: "Report, the Haichen asked for instructions and said that he would suddenly use torpedoes to sink the enemy ship."

"The Haichen was injured, what did he go?" Liu Guanxiong said unhappily. "It's also the flagship to go."

Listening to Liu Guanxiong's orders, everyone in the commander's tower was happy, but Liu Guanxiong was thinking about how to contact the planes in the sky. He could fully see the combat effectiveness of these planes in this battle. There are dozens of planes in the sky. It seems that as long as you don't encounter the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet, you should be able to go home safely.

"Can't you contact them?" asked Liu Guanxiong, a dead fish-like Ligen, asked at the highway.

"Can't contact us." Staff officer Qin Yulin had asked the communication room before.

"What should I do? They fly in the sky, so I can't shout." Liu Guanxiong said unhappily.

"Maybe they can use flag language. They are on high places, and there are Japanese ships that can see clearly. As long as they follow them, they can always avoid them." Chief of Staff Zheng Zuyi said. He felt that this plane could not only throw torpedoes, but also help to guard the surroundings, which was really useful.

"Then let's talk about the flag." Liu Guanxiong could not think of a better way, so he had to say this.

The Sea Chop fired three torpedoes one thousand meters from Ligan. At this time, the Ligan had tilted more than the irreversible fourteen degrees. The naval guns on the ship pointed to the sky, and they could not resist the killer who gave him the last blow. After the three torpedoes were shot out, the Japanese sailors on the ship fled wildly. After reading it in dozens of seconds, one torpedo was lost and two hits. The Ligan, who was hit hard, was blown upside down and sank into the bottom of the sea.

Although it was impossible to contact, the cruiser still quickly sank the Liegen according to Lieutenant Colonel Tangen. After seeing the flag words from the signalman on the mast plate, he flew around the sea cup for a few laps and flew away. At this time, the fighter planes scattered in search of the fleet had returned. In addition to the two torpedoes that had fired the torpedoes, there were thirty-five planes in the sky, hovering over the fleet's heads, adding infinite confidence to the fleet officers and soldiers.

However, in the sea-shocking, Liu Guanxiong's face was lengthened a few minutes at the beginning. Before the Ligen sinks to the bottom of the sea, he actually sent a clear telegram. Perhaps because of the short time, the ship is in chaos, but the short telegram still gave the current position and the information about the ship being sinking. Zheng Zuyi, who received the telegram, was very regretful. He felt that if the Ligen sinks a few minutes earlier, there would be no such thing.

"What should I do?" Zheng Zuyi said, "Now the Japanese ship knows the location, how should I go when I pick it up? With an airplane, can I walk in another direction?"

"What should I do? The previous Ligan sent out our location, but the one sent it was encrypted and we couldn't crack it. The disadvantage now is that the Ligan talked about its own situation, which means that the Japanese ship that originally thought we were fighting with Ligan would know that we would leave here immediately at this moment." Liu Guanxiong said the impact of this telegram on himself, but in fact, the real bad thing was the four words "the ship will sink" behind it.

"It's better to use flag words to the plane." said Qin Yulin, the staff officer. "There are so many planes, let them explore around so that we can avoid the Japanese ships."
Chapter completed!