Chapter 810 July Fire 5

July 9, 1917.

If you regard the two sides of the Atlantic as a magnificent movie, then when the remote control is fixed again and again, you can see a picture of numbness and unforgettable life.

The curtain took the lead in opening from the south of Paris. After Hager personally led 11 armies to attack regardless of casualties, forcing the German troops to defend the south of Paris to retreat and retreat back to Paris. On July 9, it carried out a general attack on the southern suburbs of Paris at 4 a.m. on July 9. With the cooperation of thousands of cannons, nearly two million British and France The soldiers launched a tidal offensive.

When the Paris defense line was about to collapse, Rudendorff suddenly slapped his opponent in the face!

At 6 o'clock sharp, he ignored the crisis in the southern suburbs of Paris and visited Danfeng Bailu in the north. At the same time, five German armies carried out a general attack on four French armies with the help of nearly 300 tanks and 2,000 cannons along the retreat channel of the Italian army that had been seized before.

The Battle of Paris has entered the most critical day. Judging from the map, it is like two left hooks waving at the opponent at the same time. Tens of thousands of soldiers turned into blood mud under the tyrannical swing of iron fists, and the strong wind made the whole of Paris full of the smell of blood.

And this is just the beginning.

After Xinhua launched a strategic bombing of the inland cities of the United States in early July, the Allied Countries also quickly learned this trick, and Kitchiner pulled out nearly 4,000 fighters from the whole battlefield and deployed them around Paris in a few days.

At 10 o'clock sharp, Marshal Kitchinna ordered all the planes that could be mobilized on the front line to set out and bomb Paris. In the tearful eyes of Fuch and other French generals, in the cry of France, Kitchinna still ruthlessly ignored the value of this famous historical and cultural city and launched the most fiercest in the history of Europe. The air bombardment.

Until the detailed data of the post-war bombing finally came out, on the day of only 9 days, the Allies dispatched 6,000 fighters, dropping a total of 10,000 bombs of all kinds. At the same time, German pilots also attacked 4,500 all day, shooting down more than 500 allied aircraft, and also lost themselves. There are about 400 aircraft. Throughout July, Paris was hit by a total of 210,000 bombs, with a total tonnage of more than 23,000 tons. Even without the incendiary bombs and heavy high-explosive bombs of the Xinhua Air Force, Paris has almost become a pile of rubble.

Europe has entered a turning point. The two sides are biting and fighting, and no one dares to breathe a sigh of relief.

The North American continent across the Atlantic Ocean is also wonderful.

At 11 a.m., Xinhua and German envoys knocked on the door of Ottawa again and launched the second round of closed-door negotiations with Canadian political axes. At the same time, 88 Thor bombers and 126 Kunpeng bombers reappeared over Oklahoma City after two days of rest, which had already been bombed before. The scary empty city repeated the scene a few days ago. Although most of the residents fled to the suburbs and the countryside, the city was basically destroyed.

This has caused millions of U.S. troops in Oklahoma to retreat to Kansas and Missouri once again.

Three days later, Major General Wu Peifu of the Imperial Army, led a jocped division and an armored division to Oklahoma City with the cooperation of the Korean Army and officially announced the state's loss. Although the Oklahomans spontaneously carried out small-scale guerrilla resistance, it still could not change the outcome of the fall.

At 15 p.m., his eyes turned to Europe again. Tirpitz was interviewed by a German reporter for the first time after returning to the Admiralty. In a simple ten-minute interview, he only expressed one point of view.

Either Britain surrenders now, or waits for the coast to be blown up by Germany!

At 17:00 p.m., the British Admiralty was also very nervous after receiving the news. In response to Tirpitz's remarks, it almost exerted its energy and even loaded several old sailboats into mines and drove them out of the sea to strengthen the North Sea defense line again.

As the night gradually opened, in order to prevent being bombed, there was almost no light in the United States. Everyone thought that a day full of blood, killing and tension was finally over.

In the Caribbean Sea, the sea breeze suddenly became fierce

.. 20:30 p.m.

The hot wind brushed his face and made the corners of his clothes hunt. The Caribbean Sea at night finally attracted a trace of coolness, but Yang Feng, who was next to the deck island of the State Wei, frowned and could not feel any comfort, making the soldiers up and down feel a trace of tension.

"Captain."

The flight officer Gao Liangtian came out from behind, handed a cigarette to Yang Feng and asked, "The reconnaissance plane is coming back, but it still can't be found."

After avoiding the strong wind and lighting the cigarette, Yang Feng's face became darker and darker.

Gao Liangtian sucked his nose. He and Yang Feng were both from the young guards in those years. Later, they were all under the hands of General Lefei. First, they studied aviation and captain for two years, and later worked as a rotating captain and flight officer on the training mother ship. After the service of Wei, the two became partners.

Seeing the old partner's face, he knew that things were a little tricky.

After getting the information from the headquarters, he immediately sent three batches of reconnaissance aircraft to the target sea area, but no trace of the enemy has been found so on, which made him greatly discouraged. You should know that the aircraft carrier is not only the main force of the attack, but also the eyes and ears of the fleet. Knowing that the other party is already approaching, if it cannot find the enemy in time and provide long-range interception and target guidance for the fleet, then the mother ship will lose its value.

Although five imperial ships in the third battleship formation, including Wei Guo, are equipped with radar, the radar range is only 4 or 50 kilometers, that is, more than 20 nautical miles. In addition, the surrounding islands and reefs will also reduce the radar detection distance, and the distance of the target found in actual use is not reliable. At the current speed of the Allied Fleet, it can be close to the artillery distance in about half an hour. According to the headquarters, the attack may be two teams, so it is very likely to be found after approaching.

For battleships, visual discovery is no different from radar discovery, but for aircraft carriers, if they are pulled too close, even if they can rely on speed to leave, it is shameful enough!

What should I do?

When Gao Liangtian was in a hurry, he suddenly found that Yang Feng was squatting on the deck and began to draw something on the deck through the light.

After seeing Gao Liangtian squatted down, Yang Feng immediately said, "You see, when we found the enemy, they were near Coburn City in 170 nautical miles northwest, beyond the attack range of carrier aircraft. The time was about 14 p.m. The maximum speed of Gangut and Queen Maria was around 21 knots, according to 1 It takes about 7 hours to get here at 8 knots. If they can stay at this speed, they should arrive at our periphery in half an hour!

The peripheral light patrol has turned on the radar, but there is no news yet, so there are only two possibilities. The first is that it has not reached the edge of the radar, and the second is that there is something wrong with our radar.

The latter may have a relatively small surname. After all, in addition to the two light patrols, the two battleships have also turned on the radar, plus the outer destroyer defense line, there is no reason to miss all of them, so they should not have arrived yet!

But even if it doesn't arrive, the distance should not be far away. I estimate that it should be about 50 nautical miles (93 kilometers) near us!

So."

"So you want to attack without a target!"

Gao Liangtian opened his mouth wide. Targetless attack is one of the specific tactics of the aircraft carrier. It is applied to a special environment where there is accurate information that the enemy is nearby, but the aircraft carrier's own reconnaissance force has not been found. The advantage of this is that it is better to start first, and the disadvantage is that it is necessary to go all the way to the target sea area. The fighter planes search for the target by themselves, and the fleet can hardly help, so it is very likely to encounter a situation where the target cannot be found. What's more serious is that once the fuel runs out, there will be a problem even when it comes back.

In addition to the possibility of running in vain, it is also because the British and American fleets are not in the era of not having aircraft before. The intelligence says that there should be a mother ship between the two teams. Even if it is modified, the carrying capacity is not large, and the aircraft is still poor. But in this environment, once the attack fleet on your side does not find the target, it will run in vain. On the way, the enemy's attack aircraft arrived, which was really a pleasure. Even if they were sure to save the empire's warships, what about the other countries? Once something like Seychelles happens, it will be a great blow to morale.

"I can't control this much. I have to gamble!" Yang Feng gritted his teeth and stood up: "I'll give you 20 minutes, leave 20 fighters to escort, and send out all the rest!"

Gao Liangtian nodded. He knew Yang Feng very well. He was a person who made up his mind and would definitely do it. What's more, this was the only way at present, so he immediately became busy on the deck.

It is very dangerous for the aircraft carrier to take off and land at full speed in the wind at night, not only because of the sky, but also because the light is like a big light bulb at this moment, which is likely to attract enemy reconnaissance aircraft hovering nearby. Therefore, when the last dragon tooth left the deck 20 minutes later, Wei immediately turned off all the lights, and the fleet also stood. That is, it begins to move westward.

Yang Feng's action was indeed very bold. In the case that the reconnaissance aircraft did not find the enemy, he took the lead in all the attack aircraft, even for the first time in the Xinhua Navy. Gao Liangtian's worries were also true. Just as the plane took off, the Wei was indeed found by two night reconnaissance camel fighters.

At 21:10, a total of 82 Curtis D300 torpedo planes took off from the hidden airport in the Dominican rainforest. At the same time, off the coast of the Virgin Islands in the northeast of Puerto Rico, Campbell also received the coordinates from the Dominican telegraph station. The former commander-in-chief of the Indian Grand Fleet gritted his teeth. Order all 36 azalea torpedo planes on the only aircraft carrier Rage, which was converted from a 15,000-ton cruise ship, to attack!

Unlike the Royal Navy of the New China Empire, the problem of taking off at night is not too big, but it does not have the ability to land at night, so Campbell, who stands in the bridge, knows very well that even if these aircraft can complete the task, they will not return to the USS Fury tonight.

21:30.

The fifth team of Jelico's fleet suddenly turned before reaching the target. Two Queen Maria-class battleships and the American aircraft carrier Riley in the fleet suddenly left the formation, while two Gangut-class battleships continued to march towards Puerto Rico with two Brooklyn-class light cruisers and 10 destroyers.

At 21:45, a bumblebee that guided the reconnaissance for the rear attack group was the first to find two Gangut-class battleships in transit.

At the same time, the radio station of the battleship Yanjing, which escorted Wei Guo, intercepted the radio signal from the Dominican Republic.

The bright cigarette butt was severely extinguished!

(to be continued)