Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 307 Air Combat
Lexington was not exaggerating. When she responded to Hood's communication, the carrier-based aircraft she controlled had already discovered the aircraft group in the southeast sky.

At the same time, the Mirage Force and the Hood Fleet, which was retreating to Maran Island, also came into her sight.Saratoga had the fastest reaction. As soon as the fleet was discovered, the carrier-based aircraft in her hand quickly left the cruising speed, the engine roared, and flew over the Hood fleet at the fastest speed.

Lexington followed closely behind, and the flying altitude of the carrier-based aircraft dropped rapidly, falling directly under the clouds, and then quickly re-formed, but she did not let these aircraft fly over the Hood fleet, but flew over the mirage. Intercept on the only way the shadow machine group must pass.

This time it was not a probing attack like last time. The number of carrier-based aircraft of the "Flying Fish" force was obviously aimed at annihilating the Hood fleet. Lexington did not dare to overdo it. Even with its powerful air superiority capabilities, It is impossible to completely prevent the fleet on the sea from being attacked by the air, and the Royal Navy at sea is now at the end of its battle. Once it is attacked by an air attack, it may not be able to exert its usual evasion and air defense capabilities. Lexington will never dare to go Bet, then the best way is to reduce their number by a part before the mirage's fleet attacks Hood and the others.

Dafeng, who followed closely behind, did not perform the air defense mission of the Hood Fleet with the Lexington sisters. Instead, after hovering in the air for a while, he controlled the bomber and began to dive in the direction of the Mirage troops.

This is a tactic that has been discussed long ago. After all, the dilemma faced by Hood and the others is not just as simple as the mirage air raid. The mirage main fleet is also full of threats to them. Dafeng must ensure that Tirpitz leads Before the remaining main fleet arrives, stop this mirage force from attacking Hood's fleet.

The speed of the plane is very fast.

Soon, the Lexington's fighter jets were engaged in a firefight with the Mirage's aircraft.

Lexington is an experienced aircraft carrier girl. Only relying on the slight difference in the flying posture of the opponent's carrier-based aircraft, she can see that the mirage bomber group in front of her is obviously slightly different from the mirage group that attacked Bismarck and the others last time. difference.

They all looked like the same model of aircraft, but his intuition told Lexington that there was definitely some kind of difference between them.

Lexington didn't wait long. As she fought against the bomber formation, she was surprised to find that they were divided into two formations.One type of aircraft has a lighter body and does not seem to be carrying too heavy bombs. The other type of aircraft is slower and flies at a lower speed.

Lexington's fighter jets take off.

At the same time, the "Flying Fish" also discovered the carrier-based aircraft group appearing in front. Those lighter aircraft quickly broke away from the formation and rushed directly towards Lexington's carrier-based aircraft.

Escort formation!

Lexington was shocked. Mirage didn't have such tactics last time.

At this time, she finally intuitively felt the flexibility of mirages. It is no wonder that Huang Jiang did not dare to underestimate these mirages even if he had the illustrations of the ship girls in the port area. After they suffered a loss, they quickly adjusted tactics.Although these aircraft did not yet have the performance of fighter aircraft, their obstruction still caused Lexington to miss the opportunity to prevent the real bomber group from breaking through her air defense network.

Lexington drove into the bomber group that had rushed into Saratoga, a little annoyed.

The machine guns of the fighter jets fired fiercely, and the mirage aircraft were shot into sieves by bullets, falling into the afterglow of dusk with black smoke.

Lexington looked at the still dark sky and knew that there was not much time left for "Flying Fish" and himself.Once darkness falls, it will be difficult for Mirage's air strikes to cause damage to the Hood fleet, which has turned off its lights. Before that, the aircraft carriers must do their best to prevent Mirage's aircraft from dropping bombs.

Lexington controlled the carrier-based aircraft and began to methodically kill these aircraft with clumsy fighting skills.Now that the escort formation has appeared, it is even more impossible to let them fly over. Once Saratoga's aircraft is entangled by these guys, the air control effect will definitely be greatly reduced.

On Saratoga's side, she was already at war with Mirage's bomber group.Fighters roared and began to attack the Mirage's bombers.

Suddenly, Mirage's plane accelerated, its nose pressed down, and it formed a sixty-degree angle with the sea, diving straight towards the location of Hood's fleet.

"Fuck!" Saratoga was caught off guard. The last battle was obviously a parallel bombing, so why was it changed to a dive bombing this time?

But Saratoga did not let this group of bombers slip through the net, and the fighters that were placed at low altitudes because of habit finally came in handy.They came out in force and tore the bombers that broke through the high-altitude air defense network to pieces.

The wreckage of the plane continued to fall into the sea. Sometimes the fuse of the bomb was activated by the impact, and the violent explosion formed a towering water column on the sea.

Hood breathed a sigh of relief and began to lead the fleet to retreat in an orderly manner towards Malan Island. Since it was Mirage's stronghold, it had some resources. Although the efficiency of supplying ship equipment was far lower than that of armed refurbishment equipment, it could even be said that it was An epic waste, but at this time, it is no longer a question of whether to waste or not. They must complete basic supplies in a short time, at least to restore their combat capabilities.

This is not only to face Violet's mirage main force, but also to completely control Malan Island in Glory's hands. If she can't take Malan Island as her own after all this hard work, Hu De will have no shame in going. See the Huangjiang River.

There is no doubt that even without the attack of the Violet Mirage this time, Malan Island will definitely be attacked by mirages from the direction of Violet and further east. Before completely controlling Malan Island, Hood needs to lead the Royal Navy Stay firmly stationed here until the submarines explore the situation in the waters east of Malan Island before making the next step.

Suddenly, there was a whistling sound in the air.

Hood looked for the sound and saw a Mirage plane swooping down directly towards her.

Saratoga still failed to completely stop the bomber bombing. A Mirage aircraft broke through the three air defense networks composed of Lexington and Saratoga, and dived towards Hood, who was in the flagship position. .

The anti-aircraft artillery began to fire violently. Like a pile driver, the anti-aircraft artillery shells formed a powerful fire net in the air, directly tearing the fish that slipped through the net into pieces.

Another plane swooped down, this time attacking Rodney.

Again, it was torn to pieces by the ship's AA guns.

In addition to these lucky ones, many more planes were buried at sea by Saratoga before they even had time to dive!
However, the anti-aircraft guns of the ship girls are not omnipotent. Even if they are not 37 mobile phones, they cannot guarantee a 100% interception rate.

After several successful interceptions, another Mirage aircraft broke through the firepower network composed of anti-aircraft guns and rushed towards the vanguard at the end of the fleet.

(End of this chapter)