When Lan Yun rushed out of the bridge, several fighter jets patrolling nearby had already rushed up and beaten the enemy plane that suddenly emerged from the clouds to death.

From a distance, the shot down enemy plane looked like a meteor falling from the sky.

Unfortunately, it's too late!

After watching the reconnaissance plane crash into the sea, Lan Yun turned around and looked at Tian Shi who was standing at the cabin door.

Tian Shi didn't say much, shook his head first, and then sighed.

However, Lan Yun was obviously very dissatisfied with Tian Shi's "answer".

"I just asked the telecommunication staff. About three minutes ago, the plane sent a telegram, and it was revealed that we discovered it." Tian Shi paused for a moment and said: "It is using the frequency band of Liang Xia Navy, and the password is also consistent. It must be Liang Xia Navy's carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft."

Lan Yun's facial muscles twitched a few times before saying, "Which direction did it fly?"

"It has not been confirmed yet, and it can only be determined to be west for the time being."

"temporary?"

"The clouds floated from the west and were always in the west. The enemy planes were not discovered by our fighters, so they could only fly from the west." Another point, Tian Shi did not say. In order to shorten the flight distance of the return aircraft group, the maneuver fleet sailed northwest.

Lan Yun glanced at the clouds to the west, then turned around and returned to the commander's bridge.

In fact, it was a cumulonimbus cloud from the north, but the wind direction changed last night, from the north wind to the west wind, so the clouds appeared to the west of the fleet.

"Go and prepare now, how long will it take to get the reconnaissance plane to take off?"

"It will take at least fifteen minutes."

"Go and prepare!"

"yes!"

"Wait a minute!" Lan Yun called Tian Shi and said again: "Go to find Colonel Yuantian and ask him to make adjustments immediately. After the reconnaissance plane sets off, add fighter jets. Other carrier-based aircraft must also be prepared. If you find the special mixed fleet, launch an attack before the You Yong Chuang group returns."

"There is less than an hour left, we..."

"Go and arrange it quickly, don't be too verbally!"

Tian Shi gritted his teeth and didn't say anything more.

In fact, he saw that Lan Yun was already panicked and was almost speechless.

In the past decade, although the Navy has not pulled out the fleet every year like the wealthy Liang Xia Navy and the Newland Navy, and conducted several months of confrontational exercises, it has also insisted on training and will conduct war chess deductions every year based on actual conditions.

The so-called "actual situation" mainly refers to the stolen information.

Simply put, it is to deduce based on the opponent's development, then summarize new tactics, or correct existing tactics.

In response to aviation operations, the Nai Navy has long concluded a crucial conclusion.

Take the initiative first, and take the initiative later!

Of course, this is not a far-sighted vision. After all, the Liang Xia Navy and the Newland Navy have long reached similar conclusions through confrontation exercises.

Now, the mobile fleet has been discovered by the enemy's reconnaissance plane, which is equivalent to a late launch.

As expected, the aircraft carrier of the Special Mixed Fleet has been converted to sail in the wind and is about to release carrier-based aircraft. Maybe it is already taking off.

Perhaps in one hour, at most one and a half hours, the attack aircraft fleet of the special mixed fleet will arrive.

This time is very deadly.

The You Yong aircraft group will definitely return within an hour and then take half an hour to carry out recycling operations, allowing those carrier-based aircraft that are about to burn out their fuel to land.

Not recycle carrier-based aircraft?

Without carrier-based aircraft, what kind of war should we use?

With Lan Yun's character, he would never dare to abandon hundreds of carrier-based aircraft, because if he was not attacked and abandoned hundreds of carrier-based aircraft worth a billion for no reason, even the commander of the mobile fleet would have to apologize for death. Lan Yun obviously did not have the courage to use a short knife to cut the stomach.

However, these are all later stories.

The most urgent task is to dispatch reconnaissance planes immediately and then release all fighter planes.

Fortunately, it was delivered this year and just completed the dress-up training. The zero battle mastered by the pilot has extraordinary battery life.

After hanging on a large secondary fuel tank, this lightweight and flexible fighter can linger in the air for six hours!

In other words, if there is no air strike, the fighter jets that have been lifted off the air will be allowed to perform escort missions after the You Yong fleet returns.

No matter what, let’s stop attacking first!

At this time, the "Hengjiang" aircraft carrier was more than 300 kilometers southwest.

After receiving the telegram, the staff officer took some more effort to figure out the situation.

There is no different reason: the reconnaissance plane was shot down before sending the telegram, so the telegram received was incomplete and lacked crucial information, that is, the location of the enemy fleet.

The reconnaissance plane took off from the Mohe. The First Aircraft Special Mixed Fleet was under the thunderstorm clouds. Because of fear of being struck by lightning, it turned off the long-wave radio station and put away the antenna. By the time the accompanying Longjiang sailed out of the thunderstorm area and started the radio station, it was more than ten minutes later.

Fortunately, there were two more critical messages in the telegram. One was that the reconnaissance aircraft flew according to the scheduled route, and the other was that the enemy fleet was discovered fifteen minutes before the sending of the report.

Because it is necessary to visually identify, to be precise, it is to find the aircraft carrier in the enemy fleet, so it has to fly closer, which has been delayed for more than ten minutes.

Based on these two information, Major Zhu Huasheng, the captain of the Second Ship-based Aircraft Corps of the First Aviation Special Mixed Fleet, made a rough guess about the position of the enemy fleet.

When the report was delivered, Liu Xiangzhen was also surprised.

The mobile fleet is about 400 kilometers away from Chengjiang Port, which is almost the maximum combat radius of the attack of 97 and the explosion of 99 under full load.

Lan Yun is too bold!

Being so far away, aren't you afraid that the carrier-based aircraft will not fly back?

Of course, it can also be said to be too timid.

Get closer, are you going to die?

If you got closer, you might have been exposed long ago.

As far as Liu Xiangzhen knew, before dawn, a Southern Fleet destroyer was moving northwest of the mobile fleet, less than one hundred kilometers away.

It can be seen that if the mobile fleet gets closer, it will be discovered before dawn.

The problem was handed over to Liu Xiangzhen.

The distance is still too far!

The distance between the mobile fleet and the special mixed group is estimated to be 300 kilometers.

The three main carrier-based aircraft of the Imperial Navy, in addition to the Typhoon carrier-based fighter, the combat radius of the "Hornet" dive bomber and the "Flying Fish" torpedo attack aircraft is only 400 kilometers, and it is an ideal situation. If you encounter a headwind, you will definitely not be able to fly so far.

The worst thing is that the location of the mobile fleet is just a speculation.

In other words, the attack aircraft group will take time to search after reaching the speculated sea area. Because the mobile fleet is definitely sailing and will turn to avoid it after shooting down the reconnaissance aircraft, the actual combat radius is definitely more than 300 kilometers, which can usually reach 15 times the speculated distance.

Four hundred and fifty kilometers?

Obviously, this also means that dive bombers and torpedo attack aircraft may not have enough fuel to return to the fleet after completing the attack mission.

Of course, there is no need to worry about insufficient fuel before completing the attack.

As for the speculation made by Zhu Huasheng, Liu Xiangzhen had no doubts at all.

In addition, Liu Xiangzhen did not hesitate.

After receiving the combat plan sent by the aviation combat staff, he immediately issued a combat order and then went to the aviation combat center.
Chapter completed!