1825 My New Daming

Chapter 303 I have a plane, I have an aircraft carrier, the advantage is mine! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
James Hood's confidence is not unreasonable.

Although he lost a lot in the previous battle... But that should be just bad luck.

Obviously he could win, but he lost for some reason, and it was a miserable loss!
But Hood's capital is very thick.He still has as many as 22 cutting-edge battleships in his hand!

If the 12 battleships of the Ming Nanyang Fleet were not withdrawn to the anchorage of Batam Port, but were led to the western section of the Strait of Malacca by the Blake.

James Hood can completely beat them to pieces by relying on the superiority of his troops!

But it doesn't matter if you can't fight the main force of the Nanyang Fleet now, because the Ming Navy's Nanyang Fleet has also allocated part of its troops to go west around Sumatra... I don't know if it wants to outflank the west entrance of the Strait of Malacca?Anyway, it was almost delivered to James Hood's lips.

According to the results of the airship investigation, this fleet has about five battleships and three airship motherships, and its strength can only be said to be quite average.

James Hood suspected at first that this fleet was a bait sent by Guan Tianpei... But after sending out more than a dozen airships to investigate repeatedly, he has already determined that this is a huge mistake Guan Tianpei made!

Therefore, he is going to eat this fleet in one bite!
And Lieutenant General Hood does have such confidence, not only from his 22 battleships, but also from his secret weapon - the plane!
Yes, it is the plane!

However, the plane in James Hood's hands is different from the plane in Zhuge Weidao's hands.

They are actually a delta hang glider equipped with a small rotating cylinder motor... It is the kind of man-operated guided gliding bomb that adds a motor and a propeller, so it has a certain amount of power, can fly farther, and can also realize Fly against the wind.

According to the evaluation of Dr. Kelly, a British air expert, this kind of man-operated guided glide bomb equipped with a small motor... is actually a kind of flying machine, this is an airplane!
Compared with the aircraft with landing gear (Dr. Kelly's team has already produced a powered glider with landing gear), this aircraft has a simpler structure and lighter weight, and can be folded into an airship, and Launch from high altitude for greater payload and range.

The plane dropped from an altitude of 3000 meters can carry up to 50 pounds of bombs, relying on gliding and the power generated by a small motor to fly over [-] kilometers!

In this way, after the pilots who operate these aircraft complete the bombing, they can still use the remaining fuel to drive small motors and propellers to fly a considerable distance.This is enough for them to fly to their own destroyers and fall into the sea after the bombing is over.The ratio of being rescued and surviving will be greatly increased!
And a latest type of Kelly IV carrier-based airship can carry 6 such aircraft and launch them from an altitude of up to 3000 meters.

James Hood's 15 airship motherships can carry a total of 15 airships, and each airship can carry 6 aircraft, that is a total of 90 aircraft, or bombers!
This is the hard power of "aircraft riding on the face", how could it be possible to lose?
In the waters west of Sumatra Island, the aircraft-carrying battlecruiser Shu Zhongwang, the flagship of the "First Air War" of the Ming Nanyang Fleet.

Inside the bridge, Ma Xuchen, the Chief of Staff of the First Aviation War, took a telegram he had just received and said to Zhuge Weidao: "Junmen, the telegram from the Hongwu Emperor, Guan Junmen has led the main force of the Nanyang Fleet to return, and it is expected to arrive today." Arrive at anchorage south of Batam in the evening.

The statistics of the battle results from last night to today's daytime have also come out. 18 armored cruisers were sunk, 10 shallow-water heavy gunships were destroyed, and more than 20 second- and third-class cruisers were sunk.A total of about 40 ships... This is an unprecedented victory! "

Zhuge Weidao stood in front of the chart platform, concentrating on the position of the main force of the Second Indian Ocean Fleet on the chart.

"Where is the big British fleet?" Zhuge Weidao asked.

"It has withdrawn from the Strait of Malacca." Ma Xuchen said in a low voice: "This is the result of the submarine's investigation, and there should be no mistake."

In fact, when the Second Indian Fleet entered the Strait of Malacca for the first time, it was discovered by the submarines ambush there.

After Guan Tianpei got the news, on the one hand, he ordered the submarine to continue monitoring, and on the other hand, he canceled several airship reconnaissance.In order to make the British think that their position is still not exposed!

And Zhuge Weidao also learned of the existence and whereabouts of the Second Indian Fleet immediately!

However, he didn't know that this fleet also had 15 airship motherships and as many as 90 bombers!
The reason why they were not discovered was that those airship motherships did not follow the main activities of the Second Indian Fleet—the range of airships was much greater than that of airplanes, so airship motherships could hide in very safe sea areas without having to approach the battlefield.

In addition, this man-operated guided glide bomb of the British has been the top secret since its birth.

The intelligence agencies of the Ming Navy and Army have not found this kind of weapon that sounds very absurd... Maybe someone has found some clues, but because the news seems too untrue, they gave up the pursuit.

So Zhuge Weidao didn't know that the British came up with this kind of alternative aircraft used in conjunction with airships.

Until now, he thought that only Daming had aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft!

"They probably won't return to India, right?" Zhuge Weidao looked at the chart and said with a slight frown, "They're going to run away, and our aircraft carriers, planes and battlecruisers will be useless."

"Impossible," Chief Staff Officer Guo Xiaobao said with a smile, "It is impossible for the British fleet to return to India... They have 10,000+ British and Indian troops in the Malay Peninsula, and they are preparing to fight us. How can the navy return to India?" India?"

Fleet Aviation Staff Wang Wen also laughed and said: "Baozi is right, the British fleet is leaving now, and the 10,000+ army in the Malay Peninsula will collapse... They will lose miserably!
Moreover, the terrain of the Malay Peninsula is complex, densely covered with jungles, and the climate is humid, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.If you want to get it quickly, you can only advance by sea and land.

The British fleet had to be guarded by the British troops on the Malay Peninsula. "

Wang Wen has served in the Nanyang Fleet for several years and is also very familiar with the situation in the Malay Peninsula.However, Zhuge Weidao knew very well that the terrain and climate of the Malay Peninsula could not stop the two Japanese divisions...

"Since the British fleet refuses to leave," Zhuge Weidao sneered, "then it's almost time for a decisive battle tomorrow... We should fight a sea-air coordination this time, how are we going to fight? Have you guys figured it out yet?"

His question was addressed to Ma Xuchen, Chief of Staff of the First Air Force, Guo Xiaobao, Chief of Staff of the Fleet, and Wang Wen, Chief of Staff of Fleet Aviation.

"Think it over!" Wang Wendao, the aviation staff officer, "Junmen, their battleships are much more than ours, we must avoid head-to-head confrontation. We must give full play to the advantages of aviation. We can send planes to blow them up first!"

"Blow up their battleships?" Zhuge Weidao said, "I heard that the British strategic ships have also installed a lot of anti-aircraft weapons during this period. I'm afraid it's not easy to blow up?"

"Let's not blow up their battleships first, battleships are not easy to blow up." Wang Wen laughed, "Junmen, my idea is to blow up their supply ships and coal ships!

With such a large fleet, they must have a lot of supply ships and coal carriers when they attack... If we can find them and blow them up, then we will be sure to win! "

"it is good!"

(End of this chapter)