In any case, the "Prime Minister" finally passed the crisis.

If everything goes well, then as early as one month, or two and a half months at the latest, this main ship that made the Tauran Empire proud will arrive at the empire.

As for whether it can be smooth sailing, it is impossible to control the battle.

In fact, Bai Zhizhan had no intention of dealing with the battle on Beixi Luoyang.

On January 11, the combat operation to attack Shiquan City began as planned, and the bombers of the Land Airlines took the lead in fighting early that morning.

The bombing was originally scheduled to be carried out in the early morning, to be precise, before dawn.

Because the navigator made a low-level mistake and did not calibrate the navigator before takeoff, the course had a serious deviation, so the arrival time was about an hour late. The bomber group only flew over Shiquan City after dawn, and the bombing continued until after 8 a.m.

Fortunately, the bombing went smoothly.

In addition, the bomber group dispersed on the way. When the first bombers arrived, the RAB fighter planes of the RAF did not immediately take off to fight.

The reason is: the scale of the aircraft fleet is too small, with only more than 20 aircraft in total.

After 7:30, the air defense forces in Shiquan City suddenly reacted.

By the time the air defense fighter took off, only more than 40 bombers from the last two brigades were still dropping bombs, and more than 30 long-range fighter jets were provided with cover.

In the end, only 7 bombers and 3 escort fighters were shot down.

In addition, 12 bombers and 4 fighters were severely damaged and were scrapped due to their inability to repair.

According to the battle report sent by Du Kang, more than 50 Bran Air Force fighter jets were blown up, mainly "hurricane", and the escort fighter jets also shot down 6 enemy aircraft.

Only one brigade was unable to destroy the predetermined target, and all the other brigades completed the bombing mission.

Of course, the combat reports provided by the pilots are full of moisture.

It was not until the afternoon that we received a relatively accurate report provided by the reconnaissance aircraft unit.

All three airports in Lion Spring City were bombed, but the runways were still available. The Royal Bran Air Force also sent fighters to intercept reconnaissance planes.

The damage to the port was severe, with several major material warehouses blown up, and the fire in the oil warehouse had not yet been extinguished.

The effect of bombing the military camps was not very ideal. Some barracks were destroyed, but the casualties were not large, and it was far from being a cause for the defenders to lose their combat capabilities.

Relatively speaking, the bombing of residential areas has had a good effect.

Just maintaining order requires a lot of troops.

It was based on this identification report that Du Kang made adjustments to night bombing and made more than half of the bombers with special incendiary bombs.

However, the use of incendiary bombs in Shiquan City is not very effective.

The reason is also very simple. Shiquan City is a militarized city with no forest that can obtain wood. Instead, there are several factories that mainly serve the garrison, one of which is a cement factory. Therefore, the houses in Shiquan City are almost all concrete structures and will not be ignited.

The impact of night bombing is that the garrison cannot relax and rest.

By the 12th, the bombing operation changed from concentrated to scattered, and the direction of the aircraft group entering was also adjusted.

That night, the 11th Special Mixed Fleet, which arrived in the southern part of the Yanhai Sea, dispatched carrier-based aircraft to bomb Shiquan City.

It must be said that this is also the first time that the Imperial Navy's carrier-based aviation force was dispatched from the aircraft carrier at night, and after completing the mission, it returned to the aircraft carrier at night.

In fact, during the Xuhai training period, the main training subject was night flight operations.

Not only take off and land at night, but also includes navigation, bomb drops and air combat, and even mastering the skills of forced landing at night.

As for the bombing effect, it can basically be ignored.

It has nothing to do with the pilot.

Fundamentally, carrier-based aviation is not very suitable for bombing missions at night.

Compared with the shore-based aviation force, the carrier-based aviation force has a very distinctive feature. The carrier-based aircraft are all tactical aircraft and the bomb load capacity is far less than that of the bomber of the land aviation aircraft.

That's why carrier-based aviation is more suitable for performing precise bombing missions.

In fact, this is also the specialty of the carrier-based aviation force.

It is definitely much more difficult to drop a bomb on a warship that is sailing rapidly and is constantly changing its route than to bomb a bunker.

During landing operations, carrier-based aviation troops are usually sent to deal with fortifications such as bunkers and turrets.

Obviously, there is no accuracy at all when bombing at night.

It is definitely of great value to let the carrier-based aviation force master night combat capabilities.

By the 13th, Bai Zhizhan received the latest news.

On the night of the 12th, the Royal Bran Navy's local fleet dispatched carrier-based aircraft and sank a fast tanker from the Taman Empire 1,500 kilometers south of Iceland.

However, the "Prime Minister" was not found.

According to the news sent by the Tsuman Naval Command, the tanker left the fleet after providing supplies to the "Prime Minister" and several other ships in the early morning of the 11th, preparing to go to the port of the Rock Kingdom in Beixi Luoyang, and set off again after replenishing fuel.

As a result, he was discovered by the Royal Bran Navy's reconnaissance plane during the voyage and was attacked.

The key is that the "Prime Minister" had already broken through the encirclement of the local fleet. At that time, it was sailing south at the fastest cruise speed of 19 knots, about 1,000 kilometers south.

Although the Prime Minister has remained radio silent and did not contact the Tiaoman Naval Command, a Tiaoman submarine discovered the Prime Minister on the evening of the 12th and sent a telegram in time to tell the Naval Command that the Prime Minister had broken through safely.

The Thuman Navy Command sent a message to ask the Imperial Navy to prepare for the response.

At the latest in early February, we have to decide whether the "Prime Minister" will go to the east or to the Fanyan Ocean.

In any case, Liang Xia's Navy had to send ships to pick them up, because relying on the load of fuel, the Tsuman fleet led by the "Prime Minister" could not reach the Imperial Port.

However, Bai Zhizhan is concerned about another thing.

The Royal Bran Navy used carrier-based aircraft to perform reconnaissance missions and sank the fast tanker with the carrier-based aircraft.

So, is the small aircraft carrier compiled into the local fleet?

The "Brave" was already torpedoed by a Tyman submarine while performing a blockade mission in the North Sea at the beginning of the year, shortly after the war with the Tyman Empire.

This ship has thus become the first Bran aircraft carrier to sink and the world's first fleet aircraft carrier to be sunk by a submarine.

Its sister ship "Glory" is even more unlucky.

About three months later, when the Tyman Empire attacked the Kingdom of Weijing, the "Glory" carried out evacuation missions in the nearshore waters north of the Kingdom of Weijing. To be precise, it was to cover the fleet that carried out evacuation missions and sent carrier-based fighter jets to deal with combat aircraft deployed nearby Tyman Air Force. As a result, they encountered the "Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau" that came out to fight for the autumn wind, and were sunk by two large cruisers with ship guns.

This ship has thus become the only fleet aircraft carrier sunk by the main ship with ship shelling.

In this way, except for the "Furious" in a bad state and the three ships taken away by Cunningham, the Royal Bran Navy no longer has a fleet aircraft carrier available.

All the rest are small aircraft carriers, as well as escort aircraft carriers modified from merchant ships.

But the problem is that the small aircraft carrier and the escort aircraft carrier are not fast enough and are not qualified to participate in the battle to encircle the "Prime Minister".

Could it be that there is also the fleet aircraft carrier of the Royal Bran Navy in the North Sunset Ocean?
Chapter completed!