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When arranging the attack power, Dongxiang Zuwang was indeed in a bit embarrassed.

If all fighter jets are sent to attack the First Fleet and the Second Fleet is discovered, then they will not be able to launch an attack as soon as possible. If some fighter jets are left and they cannot ensure that the First Fleet is killed in one fell swoop, it is very likely that a second strike will be required.

Of course, this is not the most serious problem.

Dongxiang Zuwang made a decision after only two minutes of consideration, that is, to first dispatch half of the fighter jets to ensure that the first fleet is severely damaged with one attack. If the reconnaissance aircraft discovers the second fleet, dispatch the remaining fighter jets to ensure that the second fleet is severely damaged, and then launch an attack again before dawn.

The key question is: How to arrange the escort force?

Practical combat has proved that the performance of Chinese naval carrier-based fighters is more advanced, whether it is j-25m or j-32, it is much better than the Japanese Navy's f-35cj. In this way, when attacking the first fleet, the first thing to consider is whether it can break through the fleet air defense network.

To this end, enough escort fighter jets must be dispatched and carrier-based early warning aircraft must be dispatched.

For the Joint Fleet, this is equivalent to increasing the difficulty of air strikes.

Before 11 o'clock, four e-2fs that were responsible for attack command missions took the lead in launching. Because the early warning aircraft was slow, they needed to take off in advance.

Subsequently, thirty-two F-35cjs, who were in the escort mission, took off from four aircraft carriers one after another.

It must be admitted that Dongxiang Zuwang took into account the worst results and arranged the escort force within his ability based on actual conditions.

At that time, there were only 340 fighter jets on the four "Flying Dragon" class aircraft carriers.

Obviously, this number is smaller than the standard load capacity. It is mainly because some fighter jets are damaged in particle storms, and the joint fleet has not been supplemented.

Of the 340 fighter jets, sixty-four are already performing reconnaissance missions.

In addition, there are twenty-four air defense fighters over the fleet, and six air defense fighters on each aircraft carrier.

As a result, only about 220 fighter jets were left. When they were dispatched in two batches, they could only dispatch more than 110 fighter jets at a time, and arranged 32 F-35cj to perform escort missions, which exceeded the normal ratio of one to three.

In Dongxiang Zuwang's view, the thirty-two F-35cj air defense fighter jets were enough to attract the Chinese fleet.

The mission of escorting fighters is not to seize air supremacy, but to attract the opponent's air defense fighter jets to cover the attacking aircraft group to launch a smooth attack.

To put it bluntly, you only need to buy a few minutes for the attack aircraft fleet.

From this point of view, there are thirty-two f-35cjs.

After the escort fighter jets were launched, eighty-two F-35cjs that were performing attack missions began to take off.

Because of the huge dispatch momentum, the four aircraft carriers distributed attack tasks equally, and eighty-two F-35cj formed four attack aircraft groups.

After completing these tasks, the service staff on the aircraft carrier did not relax.

In a few minutes, the thirty-two reconnaissance aircraft that set out after dark will return one after another, and these fighters will all park on the flight deck after replenishing fuel. According to Dongxiang Zuwang's judgment, the first fleet's reconnaissance aircraft is about to arrive, so the first fleet is likely to send an attack aircraft group before being attacked, so it is necessary to strengthen the fleet's air defense and prepare for the attack.

Of course, none of these are the most important.

As long as the attack can be launched first, Dongxiang Zuwang has enough reason to believe that the First Fleet cannot launch an attack in time.

For this reason, the fleet of aircraft responsible for the attack mission did not detour, but flew straight to the First Fleet.

This has another advantage: it does not have enough time to strengthen air defense.

However, the God of Luck has not taken sides.

When the Japanese reconnaissance plane discovered the first fleet, Yang Yufang also received a report from the electronic officer. The radio monitoring equipment on the warship reconnaissed the radar signal sent by the Japanese reconnaissance plane and judged that the Japanese reconnaissance plane continued to illuminate two aircraft carriers with radar.

In other words, the First Fleet has been exposed.

Yang Yufang did not hesitate and immediately ordered the air defense fighter jets on standby on the flight deck to take off urgently, and then dispatched four carrier-based early warning aircraft.

According to his order, the other fighter jets immediately ejected and took off after completing their preparations.

Before eleven o'clock, there were more than sixty air defense fighters over the First Fleet, and six zy-1ds patrolled in all directions, two of which hovered over the fleet. No matter which direction the Japanese fighter entered, the zy-1d could be discovered in time and could directly guide twenty-four fighters to fight. In the next two minutes, early warning aircraft in both adjacent directions could also be put into combat, and the number of air defense fighters directly commanded by the early warning aircraft will increase to forty. If all six early warning aircraft arrive, forty-eight fighters can be put into combat in the best condition.

There is no doubt that this is definitely a strong enough air defense force.

Yang Yufang did not rush to send more air defense fighters because he did not want to be beaten passively.

Although Yang Yufang was a relatively conservative commander, as a general of HNA, he knew very well that taking the initiative to attack was the way to win.

Even in an unfavorable situation, you must seize the offensive opportunity as much as possible.

For this reason, he left behind a batch of fighter jets.

At that time, the two "Kunlunshan" class aircraft carriers had a total of 220 fighters. Eliminated forty reconnaissance aircraft, sixty air defense fighters, twenty-three attack aircraft and one faulty fighter aircraft, and there were ninety-six fighters left, which was enough to launch a fatal strike.

According to Yang Yufang's idea, after resisting the attack from the joint fleet, he immediately launched a counterattack.

Perhaps, the joint fleet cannot be eliminated, but there is enough confidence to severely damage the joint fleet.

From the perspective of the battlefield situation, as long as the joint fleet can be severely damaged, the joint fleet can be eliminated, because the second fleet will arrive soon.

Of course, the prerequisite is that the attack of the joint fleet must withstand.

After ten o'clock, four cruisers in the fleet took the lead in starting the radar and worked passively. Then eight destroyers also activated the radar.

As long as an incoming aircraft group is discovered, the air defense warship can adjust the working mode of the radar in seconds.

At this moment, Yang Yufang received a crucial tactical intelligence: a J-25m that attacked the cruiser encountered a group of Japanese naval carrier-based fighters while flying southeast.

Before being shot down by Japanese fighter jets, the j-25m reported on the enemy situation.

The Japanese fleet is flying towards the First Fleet and is expected to arrive in twenty minutes.

Yang Yufang did not hesitate, immediately broke the radio silence, issued an air defense combat order, and contacted eight j-32s who were performing reconnaissance missions.

Discovering a Japanese fleet does not mean discovering a joint fleet.

Yang Yufang also thought that the Japanese fleet was likely to adjust its flight direction after taking off and not fly directly, but the joint fleet must be not far away.

Within five minutes, the First Fleet's air defense deployment reached its best condition.

At 11:20, a J-32 encountered a second batch of Japanese fighter jets after turning, and was not discovered by Japanese fighter jets.

After two minutes of trailing, the j-32 obtained crucial intelligence: this was a group of attack aircraft divided into four groups.

At 11:25, another J-32 finally discovered the joint fleet and it was determined that there were at least four large aircraft carriers in the fleet.

However, at this time, Yang Yufang had no time to send out an attack aircraft group.

At 11:27, the air defense operation began.

The f-35cj escort fleet was sixteen j-32 with more advanced performance, and the command was two zy-1d hovering about two hundred kilometers behind.

Although the f-35cj machine group is also supported by e-2f, the performance of e-2f is far less than zy-1d.

More importantly, the e-2f has only four command channels and can only command four fighter jets to fight at the same time, while the f-35cj has thirty-two.

In other words, only half of the f-35cj can be supported by early warning machines.

In addition, the detection capability of e-2f on j-32 is far from enough, less than a hundred kilometers, and it is impossible to provide effective support for f-35cj.

There is no suspense in this air battle, and j-32 took the lead in launching an attack outside the visual range.

After twenty-two f-35cjs were shot down, the remaining ten f-35cjs had to face sixteen j-32s with better performance in close combat.

Having gained a military advantage, j-32 did not let e-2f go.

At 11:32, the first e-2f was shot down by a j-32 aviation artillery.

Although the Japanese pilots were determined to die, the early warning aircraft had no chance of survival in front of the fighter planes. In less than two minutes, the remaining three e-2fs were shot down by the j-32.

At 11:35, the second air battle began.

Eighty-two F-35cjs were intercepted by twenty J-32s and twenty-four J-25m about three hundred kilometers away from the First Fleet.

Because the early warning aircraft was shot down and the escort fighter was disbanded, the f-35cj, which was performing the attack mission, did not obtain the necessary tactical intelligence and did not launch anti-ship missiles in time. After being intercepted, the thirty-three f-35cj, which were not shot down by medium-range air-to-air missiles, had no choice but to launch anti-ship missiles according to the intelligence provided by the reconnaissance aircraft, and then turned to escape before the air defense fighter arrived.

According to Yang Yufang's arrangement, twenty j-32s went to chase the escaped f-35cj.

Twenty-four j-25m did not chase f-35cj. After all, it is unlikely that j-25m can catch up.

These fighters all began to intercept anti-ship missiles launched by F-35cj as soon as possible.

At this time, the air defense warships in the fleet also started to fight one after another.

Under the dual interception of fighter jets and long-range air defense missiles, less than 20 of the more than 100 anti-ship missiles launched by Japanese fighters broke through the peripheral air defense network. Unfortunately, these anti-ship missiles flew around about twenty nautical miles behind the First Fleet, rather than directly shooting towards the First Fleet. Therefore, before re-locking the attack target, all were shot down by the air defense missiles launched by the warships.

At the end of the battle, except for the injury of a J-32 in the fight, the biggest loss was the consumption of more than 100 long-range air defense missiles.
Chapter completed!