Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 689 Tea Island Tea Island
On Saratoga's side, Hornet and Dafeng successively controlled carrier-based aircraft to search the sea.

On the vast sea, there is no difference between the islands and a lonely boat. Especially when the reconnaissance plane flies high in the sky, some smaller islands are not as big as mice.

But the job here at Saratoga is a little easier than the one at the company, because at least they know the direction of their trip.For an aircraft carrier, identifying the direction is the most basic skill. If the carrier-based aircraft flies in the wrong direction, it will be a big oolong incident.

Of course, it is quite common to fly in the wrong direction. There are even aircraft carriers that control their carrier-based aircraft and land on the wrong deck.

"Is it this direction?" Bumblebee asked again in an uncertain tone.

"It should be..." Dafeng glanced at the map. On it were the islands that may exist in this sea area after sorting out the oral memories of the Xuedong survivors. Because the memory is biased over time, this map is only for reference. , and the reference point for all guessed islands is Rose Island.

Therefore, Saratoga and the others still have a very heavy task, and they have not even found the starting point of the route yet.

"...Okay." Dafeng spent a long time and finally finished the sentence.

"Hey, don't say 'ba'." Bumblebee said helplessly, "The more you say that, the less sure I feel."

"Don't give up on yourself!" Saratoga waved her fists to encourage, "As long as you keep moving forward, there will always be light!"

"JiaJia seems to have always been so optimistic." Dafeng said to Bumblebee. She envied this optimism, but it was a pity that it was a state that she could never reach.

Bumblebee glanced at Saratoga secretly, leaned into Dafeng's ear, and whispered: "If it were you, after experiencing what Saratoga experienced, I'm afraid you would be so optimistic."

Hearing Bumblebee's words, Dafeng couldn't help but recall the deeds of Saratoga.

As an aircraft carrier that fought through an entire civil war like the Enterprise, Saratoga's performance was a little bit miserable even if it was not comparable to that of the Enterprise. Throughout the war, she spent most of her time in the repair shop and It was spent on the way to repair, but this does not mean that Saratoga's ability is not good. Her performance is just not that ideal, which can only show that the sister-in-law in the admiral's circle is not very lucky.

But if she was really unlucky, she survived to the end of the civil war very well.

But she was lucky...Saratoga was jumped out to sunbathe a little hot shortly after the war.

"If you think about it carefully, this optimism is really reasonable." Dafeng sighed.

"What are you talking about?" Saratoga cast a doubtful look.

Dafeng and Bumblebee immediately shook their heads in unison.

"Is it possible that we flew over and didn't see it?" Saratoga asked.

"Impossible." Dafeng shook his head, "It doesn't matter if one of them didn't find it, but the three of us flew by one after another, so it's too unreasonable that we didn't find it."

The direction due east does not seem to be the correct direction.

Although the aircraft carriers were disappointed, they did not feel discouraged. This kind of thing is very common on the sea. They were not stupid enough to put all their eggs in one basket. It was just that compared with other directions, due east Just pour more resources into it.

After determining that this direction was not the correct direction, most of the reconnaissance planes changed their routes. Only one of the Hornet's reconnaissance planes continued to fly eastward. There was no Rose Island in front of it, but it did not mean that there were no other islands, such as Snow. The remaining two lesser-known iron ore islands in Velvet Flower Collar?While the Hornet was still moving forward with a little bit of luck, Saratoga finally made a major breakthrough - her reconnaissance plane finally discovered a strange island in the sea not far from Anzu Island. of islands.

From the appearance, it is very similar to the Rose Island in the description.

And its location is only about 1° south of due east.

For the sea, this is a very big deviation.Of course, this is within the scope of understanding. After all, a few decades ago, the Blue Federation had not yet entered industrialization. The method of detecting positions was still the most primitive visual hand-drawing with a telescope, and everyone had agreed upon it, so they rarely went back to change it. Yes, due east is obviously easier to remember than 1° south of due east.

In fact, there are many deviations between the stories, legends and reality handed down because of the loss of some complex but useful information in the process of word of mouth for simplicity and easy to remember.

The discovery of Rose Island made the three aircraft carriers who were a little disappointed suddenly became full of energy again. Dafeng immediately told Akagi and the others about the news. At the same time, he also received news from Akagi that a small aluminum ore island had been discovered.

Saratoga and the others were even happier.They were still very confused before, but now at least they know the location of an aluminum ore island, which is another precious discovery for the normalization of bombing.

Of course, the aircraft carriers will not be satisfied with this. Their goal is to produce aluminum that can be used by the B-25 like the port area.So after a short rest and meal, the aircraft carriers entered into intense work again.

This time, compared to the aimless search in the past few days, the aircraft carriers were much more precise. The discovery of anchor points and new aluminum ore islands proved that there is a high possibility of large aluminum ore islands in this sea area. .

The two aircraft carrier teams marked the islands discovered by the other side on the map. After checking, they drew a circle to the east of the line connecting the two islands.

Tea Island is very likely to be in this circle.

As the most important precious metal mineral in Edelweiss, the large aluminum ore island Tea Island is mentioned in all Edelweiss survivors and federal information. Even if it is a long time ago, all the information collected shows that the possible location of Tea Island is here. within the circle.

With a clear goal, you will naturally be more motivated to work.

Even Dafeng, who usually likes fishing and reading, started searching very seriously at this time.

This circle does not look very big on the map, but in reality it is enough to keep the aircraft carriers busy for several days. Moreover, in safe waters, the aircraft carriers can only fly a little past the center of the circle. If they want to continue the rest, For reconnaissance, Hood can only send a team to escort.And once it enters the sea area actually controlled by the West Wind Drift, it is unknown whether it will encounter changes.

You know, even if Quincy is looking for food, he can trigger a melee, involving most of the ship girls in Gloriosa, let alone going deep with purpose this time.

Carrier-based aircraft pierced the sky, and the buzzing sound of propellers lingered in the air.

Since it is an aluminum ore producing area, it is impossible not to have "flying fish" mirages here.Soon, the aircraft carriers encountered harassment from mirage carrier-based aircraft again, but the frequency was not very high, and most of the mirages did not detect the eyes in the sky.

In the few battles, they basically encountered the new "Flying Fish" Mirage who was conducting patrol training in the air.

In terms of types, most of them are fighter jets.

It seems that West Wind Drift has also regarded Jialan Territory as an important enemy.

(End of this chapter)