Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 339 Attacking the Aircraft Carrier Formation
There are five provinces in the northwestern part of the Great Qin State, namely Ganjiang Province, Lankang Province, Longxi Province, Tiansu Province and Fu'an Province. The northeastern part of the Great Qin State consists of six provinces, namely Jinping Province, Huijiang Province, Yuan'an Province, Hushan Province, Tongyu Province and Guangyuan Province.

From March 2539, 2539 in the divine calendar, the Yueyang Front Army launched a counterattack against the Northwest and Northeast regions at the same time. By the end of March in the Divine Calendar [-], the Yueyang Front Army had captured Longxi Province, Tiansu Province and Fu'an in the Northwest Region. province, as well as most of Ganjiang Province and most of Lankang Province.

The remaining half of Ganjiang Province and half of Lankang Province are close to the southern part of the Ice Lion Country.

Under the fierce offensive of the Yueyang Front Army, the Ice Lion Army troops stationed in Yongkang Province and Qiannan Province in the southwestern region of the Great Qin State have been cut off from the other troops of the Ice Lion Country by the Yueyang Front Army.

In the Northeast, the Yueyang Front Army captured almost most of Jinping Province, Huijiang Province, Yuan'an Province, and Guangyuan Province, as well as most of Hushan Province and most of Tongyu Province.

The remaining half of Hushan Province and the smaller half of Tongyu Province also border on the southern part of the Ice Lion Country. In addition, some cities in Huijiang Province, Yuan'an Province and Guangyuan Province are close to the coast. Due to the existence of the Ice Lion Kingdom Navy, The Yueyang front army has not recovered yet.

In the early morning of March 29th, outside the county seat of Minggang County, Huijiang Province, Li Haichuan, the commander of the 11nd Division of the No. 62 Army of the Yueyang Front Army, put down the telescope in his hand, turned his head and said to Gao Peng, the deputy division commander: "When will the Air Force start?" action?"

The deputy division commander Gao Peng then said in a deep voice: "There is news from the Air Force that at nine o'clock this morning, the main force of the Ice Lion Navy in Minggang Port will be launched on time."

The county seat of Minggang County, Huijiang Province has the largest port in the northeast of the Great Qin Kingdom. At present, most of the warships of the Ice Lion Navy in the northeast of the Great Qin Kingdom are gathered in the Minggang Port.

Division commander Li Haichuan frowned and said, "Old Gao, do you think the air force's attack on the Ice Lion's navy will be successful? If the Air Force can't defeat the Ice Lion's navy's fleet stationed in Minggang, then our 62nd Division will never be able to attack Minggang." In the county seat of Gang County, the largest caliber artillery of our 62nd Division is only 155 mm, while the main guns of the super dreadnought battleships, battlecruisers and dreadnought battleships of the Ice Lion Navy all have a caliber of more than 300 mm, and even have guns of more than 400 mm. Naval guns."

Deputy Commander Gao Peng hesitated for a moment and said: "The air force should be able to succeed! Our Yueyang Front Army does not have a navy. Now if we want to defeat the Ice Lion Kingdom's navy, we can only rely on the Air Force Independent Division belonging to our Yueyang Front Army!"

Li Haichuan, the division commander of the provisional 62nd Division, and Gao Peng, the deputy division commander, both followed Su Yi during the bloody battle in Xinji Town. With the continuous expansion of Su Yi's army, both of them have now become division-level officers.

The division commander Li Haichuan sighed and said: "Since our 62nd Division entered the Northeast region, it can be said that it has been pushed all the way. Unexpectedly, it was stumped by a small county. According to information, in the county town of Minggang County , The Ice Lion Army may not even have 1 people."

The deputy division commander Gao Peng said with a wry smile: "There is no other way. The Ice Lion Navy has gathered a medium-sized aircraft carrier, a small aircraft carrier, a super dreadnought battleship, a battlecruiser, and two dreadnought battleships in the port of Minggang. , two heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, ten destroyers, and more than a dozen other auxiliary ships, if our 62nd Division launches a strong attack on the county seat of Minggang County, it is very likely that we will encounter a broken head."

Division Commander Li Haichuan glanced at the blue sky, sighed and said: "I don't know when our Yueyang Front Army will have its own navy. Next, the brothers in the Air Force will clear the way for our 62nd Division."

At around eight o'clock in the morning on March 29, at a military field airport in Huijiang Province, Leng Jian, head of the No.13 Air Force Regiment of the Independent Division of the Daqin Air Force, said to a large group of pilots: "Brothers, today's mission is very important. It is difficult. Our No.13 Air Force Regiment needs to cooperate with the other nine air regiments to attack the Ice Lion Navy Fleet in Minggang Port. If we cannot complete this arduous task, then our Yueyang Front Army will not be able to recover Huijiang Province, For the coastal areas of Yuan'an Province and Guangyuan Province, only if the navy of the Ice Lion Kingdom knows that they are not invincible in the waters of our Great Qin Kingdom, our Yueyang Front Army will have a chance to recover the entire territory of the six northeastern provinces!"

Now the Air Force Independent Division affiliated to the Yueyang Front Army has a very large establishment. A total of 72 air regiments have been formed. The normal establishment of each air regiment has 36 Xiuniao fighter jets and [-] Goshawk dive bombers.

Each air force regiment has two fighter brigades and one bomber brigade, each brigade has 36 fighters, and the brigade has three squadrons, each squadron has twelve fighters.

This time, in order to attack the Ice Lion Navy gathered along the coast of the Northeast region, the independent air force division of the Yueyang Front Army gathered seventeen air regiments at once, and ten of them will attack the Ice Lion Navy in Minggang Port. The fleet attacked.

Today, most of the warships of the Ice Lions Navy on the northeast coast of Daqin are gathered in the port of Minggang. In several other ports along the coast of the Northeast, the Ice Lions Navy also has a small aircraft carrier, a Battlecruiser, one Dreadnought, one heavy cruiser, four light cruisers and seven destroyers.

A captain of the No.13 Air Force Regiment immediately shouted: "Regiment commander, don't worry! The brothers of our regiment will never lose the chain at a critical moment!"

The other pilots also agreed one after another, and they all patted their chests and promised that the navy of the Ice Lion Kingdom must know how powerful the Daqin Air Force is.

The head of the group, Leng Jian, then waved his hand, "Brothers! Don't talk too much, everyone boards the plane, and we will teach the navy of the Ice Lion Kingdom a lesson!"

In a lounge of the Ice Lion Navy's medium-sized aircraft carrier, the commander of the Ice Lion Navy's fourth aircraft carrier formation, Lolit, was brushing his teeth after getting up, when there was an urgent knock on the door of the lounge, "Commander Officer, the radar has detected a large number of planes flying towards the port of Minggang!"

Upon hearing this, Lolitt rinsed his mouth in a hurry, and came to the bridge of the aircraft carrier Brave, and ordered all the fighter jets on the Brave and another small aircraft carrier, the Protector, to be lifted into the air, and ordered that all the fighter jets in the port of Minggang be launched. All the Ice Lions' naval warships were activated immediately and sailed to the waters outside Minggang Port to form an air defense formation.

The Ice Lions Navy has a total of four aircraft carrier formations, of which the fourth aircraft carrier formation is arranged on the coast of the northeast region of the Great Qin State, the third aircraft carrier formation is arranged on the coast of the southeastern region of the Great Qin State, and the remaining first aircraft carrier formation and the No. The second aircraft carrier formation will stay in the sea area of ​​the ice lion country.

The first aircraft carrier formation and the second aircraft carrier formation of the Ice Lions Navy both have a large aircraft carrier, and the third aircraft carrier formation has two medium-sized aircraft carriers.

As one of the main fleets of the Ice Lions Navy, the fourth aircraft carrier formation not only has a medium-sized aircraft carrier and two small aircraft carriers, but also has a super dreadnought battleship, two battlecruisers, three dreadnought battleships, three Heavy cruisers, ten light cruisers and seventeen destroyers.

The medium-sized aircraft carrier Brave, the flagship of the fourth aircraft carrier formation of the Ice Lions Navy, has a full-load displacement of about 76 tons and has 42 carrier-based aircraft, including [-] fighters, [-] bombers and four reconnaissance aircraft.

At this time, the small aircraft carrier USS Protector, which was in the same port as the Brave, had a full load displacement of 44 tons and had 24 carrier-based aircraft, including [-] fighter jets, [-] bombers and two reconnaissance planes.

Retano, the captain of the aircraft carrier Brave, said to the commander of the fourth aircraft carrier formation, Lolite, in a deep voice: "Commander, the radar shows that the fleet of the Daqin Air Force flying to Minggang port this time is very large. There are hundreds of fighter planes, but our two aircraft carriers combined only have more than 100 carrier-based planes, of which there are only 66 fighter jets, I am worried..."

Retano, the captain of the USS Brave Aircraft Carrier, hadn't finished speaking when he was interrupted by the commander of the fourth aircraft carrier formation, Lolit, "Our Ice Lion Navy has never had an example of fleeing without a fight, no matter how powerful the enemy is. , Our fourth aircraft carrier formation also has to touch the enemy!"

This attack on the main force of the fourth aircraft carrier formation of the Ice Lions Navy in Minggang Port, the independent air division of the Yueyang Front Army, sent all the fighters of the five air regiments in the first wave of attack, including nearly 340 eight Xiuniao fighter jets and 160 six Goshawk dive bombers.

Although according to the establishment of the Air Force Independent Division, each Air Force regiment has 72 Showbird fighters and 36 Goshawk dive bombers, but in the previous fierce battle with the Army to capture the Northwest and Northeast regions, the Air Force Independent Division's various air regiments They all lost some fighter planes, and some fighter planes lost by the air force regiment have not been replenished.

The attack aircraft fleet of the five air regiments immediately launched an attack on the Ice Lion Navy warships in the port after they came to the sky above Minggang Port.

At this time, the 66 fighter jets of the Ice Lion Navy's aircraft carrier Brave and Protector had all taken off, but they were soon besieged by many Xiubird fighter jets.

The other part of the Xiuniao fighter jets cooperated with 160 six Goshawk dive bombers to bomb the Ice Lion Navy warships on the sea.

On the sea, two aircraft carriers, a super dreadnought battleship, a battlecruiser, two dreadnought battleships and two heavy cruisers of the Ice Lions Navy became the focus of the 160 six Goshawk dive bombers.

The Goshawk dive bomber is also the German Junker-88 bomber, which can load 2.5 tons of ammunition. This time, in order to attack the large warships of the Ice Lion Navy, most of the Goshawk dive bombers carry 533 kg and [-] kg of air Bombs, and even some Goshawk dive bombers were simply modified to carry a [-]mm torpedo.

When the attack of the 160 six Goshawk dive bombers began, a heavy cruiser with a full load displacement of about 533 tons was soon sunk by a [-]mm torpedo.

On the bridge of the USS Brave, the commander of the [-]th Aircraft Carrier Fleet, Lolett, saw that a heavy cruiser had been sunk just after the battle started. Nuo said: "Order all warships to maintain the air defense formation. Once there is a gap in the formation, it must be plugged immediately to ensure the safety of the two aircraft carriers in the center of the formation!"

The anti-aircraft firepower on the warships of the Ice Lions Navy is very strong. From time to time, Xiuniao fighter jets or Goshawk dive bombers are shot down by the anti-aircraft firepower of the warships. However, as time goes by, the fourth aircraft carrier formation of the Ice Lions Navy losses are also increasing.

"Boom—boom—" the dreadnought battleship Tower Light of the Ice Lion Navy with a full load of 533 tons suffered two [-]mm torpedoes, four [-]kg aerial bombs and three [-]kg aerial bombs. Afterwards, he finally couldn't stand it any longer. Amid a violent explosion, he was blown into two pieces and quickly disappeared on the sea.

Immediately afterwards, the battlecruiser Honor of the fourth aircraft carrier formation of the Ice Lions Navy was also detonated by an [-]-kilogram aerial bomb, and an ammunition compartment was detonated. The battlecruiser was blown in two and quickly sank to the sea.

After the first wave of attacks by the Air Force Independent Division belonging to the Yueyang Front Army ended, the main force of the fourth aircraft carrier formation of the Ice Lion Navy in Minggang Port had already been sunk by a battlecruiser, a dreadnought battleship, and a heavy ship. The cruiser, two light cruisers, two destroyers, and the remaining warships of the Ice Lion Navy's fourth aircraft carrier formation were almost all injured, and several warships were seriously injured.

However, to the despair of the officers and soldiers of the fourth aircraft carrier formation of the Ice Lions Navy, not long after the first wave of attack aircraft left, the second wave of attack aircraft of the Daqin Air Force flew to the remaining warships of the fourth aircraft carrier formation of the Ice Lions Navy. above.

The second attack fleet of the Air Force Independent Division was also composed of five air regiments. After the second wave of attack began, the small aircraft carrier USS Protector of the Ice Lion Navy was soon sunk. There was no aircraft carrier on the USS Protector. The eighteen bombers and two reconnaissance planes that were empty also sank into the sea along with the USS Protector.

Seeing the aircraft carrier Protector being sunk, the commander of the [-]th aircraft carrier formation, Lolitt, said with a sad expression: "It seems that our [-]th aircraft carrier formation cannot help the army to defend the coast of the northeast of Great Qin."

Retano, the captain of the aircraft carrier Brave, said with a wry smile: "Now not only the warships of our fourth aircraft carrier formation in Minggang are being attacked by the Daqin Air Force, but also the warships of our fourth aircraft carrier formation in other ports along the northeast coast of the Great Qin State. , were also attacked at the same time, and the situation is not good."

(End of this chapter)