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As dawn came, the British and American combined fleets were waiting for their planes to come back. Through the radio, they knew that their sneak attack had been successful and almost all Chinese battleships were injured. Although the first air strike was not effective and the losses were too great, the coalition forces could also release the second batch of aircraft, so the coalition commander Lord Winston, the British commander, was not upset.

In fact, the second attack formation should have been released two hours ago. However, a submarine of unknown nationality broke through the anti-submarine circle and released several torpedoes to the aircraft carrier that was about to release the second batch of aircraft, causing injuries to the two aircraft carriers. In order to avoid being attacked by Chinese submarine groups, the coalition's aircraft carrier formation had to concentrate on anti-submarine to give up the release of the second batch of aircraft.

Afterwards, these two hours of pause became the focus of historians' debate. What would have happened if these two hours were not lost? Of course, there is no assumption that in the hot weather in South Asia in 1916, Winston was happily seeing his plane taking off. The aircraft carrier also began to turn to sail against the wind. Within half an hour, all planes could take off.

There were dense spots of light appearing in the coalition's radar, with more than one thousand. It should be that the first attack group had returned, and Winston was in a dilemma. Because the first fighter jets had too long battles, the remaining fuel was insufficient. If they did not land immediately, most of the fuel would be exhausted.

If the second wave of aircraft on the deck takes off first, some of the first batch of attack ground fighters may be lost. If the second batch of aircraft are withdrawn under the deck, it will be delayed by an hour. After an hour, the Chinese Air Force will probably feel that it will be difficult to expand the results.

While hesitating, Winston ordered the planes to circle in the air. He did not notice what if these planes were not his own plane. In fact, these planes were the Chinese Air Force that came secretly, with a total of 940 aircraft. 320 Hellfire-Poison Dragon Heavy Fighters, Cat Heavy Bombers, and 120 Osprey-1 torpedo attack aircraft. When the American planes were dispatched, they began to search for British and American coalition forces.

Originally, it was very difficult to search for battleship formations in the vast sea. The Air Force searched scatteredly, but a half hour ago, they received an radio wave, which revealed the position of the British and American fleets, which allowed the Air Force to concentrate its forces and start air strikes on the British and American fleets. The attack provided good conditions. 724. The Hornet issued an order to start taking off. The flight commander shook the small white flag. The first aircraft drove at full speed and flew away from the flight deck. At this moment, the lookout whistle shouted: "Chinese dive bombers!" Three Chinese planes dived straight towards the Hornet. Some of the US ship's machine guns began to fire, but it was too late!

The Chinese planes attacked calmly without being intercepted because the coalition forces did not have any fighter planes responsible for air surveillance! It can be said that the success of the Chinese dive bomber is thankful to the commander of the coalition forces! He always believed that his actions were dense and did not require any protection.

The coalition aircraft carrier had no time to avoid it, and was in the most vulnerable situation. - It was sailing against the wind for takeoff operations, and the flight deck was filled with aircraft loaded with ammunition and fuel ready to attack! One 0 grams of bombs fell on the back of the central elevator and the other fell on the rear side of the flight deck. Under normal circumstances, two bombs would not cause fatal damage to the huge aircraft carrier at all.

However, the bomb quickly detonated the planes on the deck full of oil bombs, and the fire spread rapidly. In a flash, the aircraft carrier's combat capability was completely lost, especially the communication and contact were all interrupted! 30 points,

The crew members of the Hornet were still trying to control the fire, but casualties continued to increase, and the fire became increasingly uncontrollable. At 12:13, the Hornet sank to the bottom of the sea during an explosion. Due to proper rescue, 63 people were rescued. 7:24, 1, and no one hit. A tall water column was raised around the Enterprise, but four of the next six bombs hit the front, middle and rear sections of the Enterprise flight deck. The bomb that hit the head of the ship happened to land next to the bridge, hitting a small refueling vehicle parked there. The entire bridge and surrounding deck areas suddenly caught fire, causing a huge explosion.

The captain and all the officers on the command bridge were killed on the spot. The first mate immediately took over the command of the ship. There was fire everywhere, and there was almost no place to hide on the entire warship. After the explosion, the survivors had to retreat to the deck of the small boat on the starboard side to avoid it.

Three and a half hours after being bombed, the aircraft carrier began to tilt and soon overturned! The Enterprise sank after two violent explosions, at 7 degrees south latitude 34 and 179 degrees east longitude. The Enterprise squad died 800 people, accounting for almost one-third of the total number of officers and soldiers in the ship. The York City was hit by three bombs within a few minutes. The first bomb hit the flight deck in front of the elevator in front of the ship, and the other two bombs hit the central elevator, and the flight deck was

The violent explosion was beyond recognition, and the fire quickly spread to the oil depot and ammunition depot. In just five minutes, the "York City" was completely shrouded in the flames. Explosions sounded from time to time in the sea of ​​fire. Ten minutes later, the main engine stopped, the wheel rudder system failed, and the damage system was unable to operate normally due to severe damage. Twenty minutes later, the captain had to order the ship to abandon the ship due to the strong fire. The survivors moved to the battleships of the "South Kota" and "Indiana" one after another.

However, the most tragic thing is the USS Lexington. As an aircraft carrier modified from a combat cruiser, its disadvantage is that it is obviously not spacious enough to make it difficult to damage the pipe, so although only

A 250-pound aviation bomb, the old aircraft carrier still caught fire and sank in many places. More than 1,500 people in the ship were rescued, becoming the ship with the largest losses in this raid.

The British aircraft carrier next door is no better than the American brothers. The three aircraft carriers "Brave", "Glory" and "Ark Royal" have turned into three huge torches, burning wildly. The only thing is that as an old-fashioned aircraft carrier, there are no aircraft on it, and many Chinese pilots think it is an aircraft carrier training ship, so they let it go.

Now there are only four aircraft carriers that are still resisting, as the latest aircraft carrier in the United States. Her strength has been recognized in this bloody battle. Although the Essex, York City, Brave, and Franklin also caught fire in many places, they were still able to react. They fled into the battleship formation in a hurry. The damage managers immediately pushed the aircraft worth tens of thousands of dollars into the sea. As soon as the fire was prevented from detonating the ammunition on it, after the damage was dealt with, the four aircraft carriers miraculously controlled the fire!

After that, the first Chinese air force began to control air supremacy. Some of the aircraft on the twelve aircraft carriers became a ball of fireballs, and some were pushed down the seabed. Only more than one hundred aircraft were released. Most of these aircraft were fighter jets. After flying into the sky, these aircraft rushed towards the bomber regardless of the powerful firepower of the poisonous dragon, because they knew that only bombers would pose a threat to the warships!

So a tragic scene occurred in the sky. The British and American Allied Forces planes chased the Chinese Air Force ground bombers, while Chinese fighters chased the British and American Allied Forces planes behind. In the end, the British and American Allied Forces planes died together with the Chinese Air Force ground bombers!

The British and American Allied Forces' air force was quickly removed due to its number disadvantage, but perhaps it should not be a death. At this time, the first batch of air raids of the British and American Allied Forces arrived and fought with the Chinese Air Force. Because of insufficient fuel, these aircraft often suddenly fell into the sea after fighting for a while. However, this high-mass action war also caused great losses to the Chinese Air Force's fuel tank.

Seeing that greater results were not achieved, the Chinese Air Force finally began to break off contact, and more than 700 aircraft evacuated from the battlefield in an orderly manner. On the other side, the British and American allied forces rushed to take back the plane. From time to time, one aircraft fell to the sea, and then a small boat rowed over to save people. In the end, more than 300 aircraft fell into the sea, but the pilot suffered little losses.

During this South China Sea war, the Chinese army lost five battleships, but six aircraft carriers escaped the disaster because of the replacement of catapults. The aircraft lost more than 500 aircraft and the pilots lost more than 300. The British and American coalition forces lost seven aircraft carriers, more than 1,200 aircraft and more than 700 pilots. Compared with the two sides, the British and American coalition forces suffered much greater losses than the Chinese.

Although the British and American coalition forces launched a surprise attack on China, from another perspective, this can also be regarded as a successful act of luring the enemy, attracting the hidden British and Americans, and allowing them to fight in this narrow waters, which is a success.

Moreover, the empire got a reason to start a war, a completely legitimate and tenable reason. This reason can inspire the fighting spirit of the people. With the support of the people, it is more important than a million soldiers.

On October 1, 1916, Emperor Zhao Gang of the Great Chinese Empire urgently read the declaration of war to his subjects.

"...The people of the Empire, the soldiers of the Empire, just a few days ago, the Empire suffered the most painful losses in history. Now, our warships are still burning in the port, and the bodies of soldiers are still placed on the docks. All of this is the one who pretended to show goodwill to the Empire more than twenty years ago, received the most selfless help from the Empire when it was invaded, received the most powerful help from the Empire when it was invaded, received the full support of the Empire when it was behind, defeated by us in the last war, and then forgiven by us, received the selfless help from every subject of the Empire after being divided, and received the generous support of the Empire on the verge of economic collapse, and caused by an aggressive war launched by a rogue country that we will never forgive.

Perhaps, we can forgive our relatives who have made mistakes, but we must never forgive those enemies who have tried to destroy the empire and those who have killed our relatives. We will never forgive such enemies. The war has been ignited, which is not what we want to see, nor is it what we can decide. However, we can decide one thing, that is, who will persevere until the end. The empire is not afraid of any opponent, and has never bowed to any enemy. In the past, now, I firmly believe that it will be like this in the future. All the people and soldiers of the empire have left us. Now we should put down the plow in our hands and pick up the hidden sword. We should tell any enemy with actions that provoke the empire, and those who play with fire will self-immolate. We should tell any enemy with actions that the empire will persevere until the end. The empire will persevere until the end. The empire will be invincible. We, our country, our nation will achieve the final victory and the greatest victory!"

His Majesty Zhao Gang's speech lasted for more than half an hour. Although he was not an excellent orator, his speech was enough to incite the hatred and anger in the hearts of every imperial subject and imperial soldiers, and to mobilize the battle of everyone in the imperial world.

"Now, I wish to announce as the Emperor of the Empire that the Empire will enter a state of total war from now on. Every subject and soldier of the Empire, for you, for your relatives, for your home, for your country, for your nation, from now on, contribute every part of your strength to the Empire, to this war initiated by the enemy, to our final victory! The horn of the battle has sounded, and we will beat our war drums, put on our armor, and take our weapons. We will fight the enemy to the end and never surrender!"

The land of China was boiling, and 400 million compatriots began to contribute their strength one after another. If China was still a second-rate power during World War I and could not win better interests for itself, then after twenty years of development, China has become the strongest country in the world. When this lion roared a shocking roar, the whole world will fight for it!
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