"This is a critical moment that determines whether the Roman Empire can stand in the Mediterranean again. I order every Italian plane that can fly to the battlefield to join the war immediately! I ask every Italian air force soldier who believes in fascism to devote himself to the battle with the greatest enthusiasm! History will remember today, and will remember this day when the Roman Empire rose and the collapse of the British Empire!

Fight, the Air Force soldiers of the National Fascist Party! Fight for the motherland and for the glorious fascism!”

When Hessman and his comrades flew towards the ocean east of the Calabria Peninsula in eight Fokker Zero fighters, Italian leader Mussolini delivered a enthusiastic speech at his Air Force General Command, and also issued an order to "Assault of the Italian Air Force."

The fascist leader has always loved the air force. Many of his close friends would fly planes and even fly planes to participate in the Abyssian War. But no one told the leader Mussolini that most of the national fascist air force soldiers would not identify from the air who was the ship on the water, because they had not received relevant training.

In addition, most of the more than 600 most dangerous S.M.79 medium bombers for the British Mediterranean Fleet cannot be mounted torpedoes, and there are no armor-piercing bombs used to deal with battleships in the ammunition depot of the airport where they are located. However, this does not affect the fascist fighters flying the plane to attack...

"Enemy ship!" With the loud report of the lookout officer on the battleship of the Earl Cafre, the fleet decisive battle, known by the Italians as Ponta Stilo, was finally about to take place. About 15 minutes later, Admiral Compioni discovered a series of flashes in front of a battleship coming from the west at high speed. This was the 15-inch cannon on the battleship of the Earl Cafre that fired. The shells flew at an extremely fast speed and landed on the sea 1,500 meters away from the right front of the Earl Cafre, which aroused several huge water columns.

"26,000 meters!" The rangefinder on the bow of the USS Cafur began to work, and the non-commissioned officer immediately read the distance between the two sides.

"Left rudder 15 degrees!" General Compioni decisively issued a rudder order, and then shouted, "Order Caesar to follow and prepare to seize the T-head position."

The Italian admiral was very clear that his advantage was speed. When Count Cafur and Caesar were undergoing large-scale modifications, they increased their power at all costs, increasing the main engine's output power from 31,000 horsepower to 93,000 horsepower, and therefore the speed also increased from 21.5 knots to 28 knots.

The maximum theoretical maximum speed of two Queen Elizabeth-class (War-War-War-War-War-Water-Air and Malaya) is only 25 knots, while the maximum speed of the other Revenge-class battleship, the King of the True. If the three British battleships form a shelling formation, their maximum speed will be subject to the King of the True. It will be easy to be grabbed by the King of the True.

If the British fleet only uses two Queen Elizabeth-class shelling formations, the firepower comparison between the two sides will be Italy's 20 320mm/43.8-caliber main guns against Britain's 16 381mm (15-inch)/42-caliber main guns.

"The British ship also turned, two battleships!" Major General Baroni reported.

That is the two Queen Elizabeth class vs. the two Earl Caful! Although the Earl Caful still has a speed advantage of 3 knots, this speed advantage is not enough to help the Earl Caful Caful Caful Caful Career to win the leading position in the t character.

"The enemy ship formation turned to the right!" A new situation came from the lookout whistle.

Now the Italian fleet and the British fleet are heading towards each other. The British fleet is from northwest to southeast, while the Italian fleet is from southeast to northwest. In addition, from the position of the Italian fleet, the Italian fleet is on the right, while the British fleet is on the left. Now the Italian fleet is turning 15 degrees to the left, while the British fleet is turning to the right (seeing from the position of the British fleet). Both sides are actually sailing in the same direction.

"Prepare to shoot!" Admiral Compioni ordered, "Target, Earl Cafur aims at the enemy flagship, and Caesar aims at the enemy battleship No. 2."

The combat method he chose was not to concentrate firepower, but to confront one-on-one.

Two or three minutes later, the gun officer of the Count Cafur yelled: "Aim at the target! Aim at the target!"

Major General Baroni, who also captained the Earl of Cafur, shouted: "Fire!"

Ten 320mm naval guns sprayed out orange-red fireballs, and white smoke rose from the deck. Ten armor-piercing bullets roared towards the Battleship of the Warcraft more than 20,000 meters away. At the same time, the second round of the Warcraft was fired, and the shells landed more than 800 meters on the port side of the Earl Cafur, and seven or eight water columns dozens of meters high were blown up.

Seeing the British shell landing point getting closer, everyone in the Commander Tower of Earl Cafre was frightened. The 381mm caliber artillery was obviously not something that a battleship of the level of Earl Cafre could bear. Admiral Compioni did not dare to let the warship continue to approach the other side, and ordered the warship to turn right 15 degrees again to keep the distance between the two sides.

At the same time, the two Italian cruisers began to approach the C fleet behind the British Fleet B. Because the maximum speed of the USS Junquan battleship and the USS British aircraft carrier in the C fleet were only about 21 knots, the B fleet landed behind after it was 25 knots. It became the prey of the Italian cruiser that approached at high speed!

At around 3:30, the eight Ansaldado 1927 203mm main guns of the Italian heavy cruiser Zara were fired. The target was the British battleship Junquan, which was 25,000 meters away. Later, five other Italian heavy cruisers joined the exchange of fire, and all aimed at the Junquan. Although their 203mm main guns could not cause fatal damage to the Junquan, the 48 203mm guns of the six cruisers (4 Zara and 2 Taranto) fired at the same time, which was quite spectacular.

Moreover, the artillery of these Italian cruisers was aiming very well. At 3:38, the Zara, who first opened fire, fired a cross-fire. Two minutes later, a shell hit the tall main mast of the Junquan. The main mast swayed violently, the mast top was blown away, and the 279 radar was also broken.

At the same time, several Italian light cruisers and destroyers began to rush towards the USS Eagle and USS Glory aircraft carriers, which were heavily protected by British destroyers. These two aircraft carriers had long ejected all the sea spitfire and swordfish. The fighter jets roared in the air, and the torpedoes were dropped like raindrops. Italian cruisers and destroyers had to dodge left and right. Although not a torpedo hit (the launch distance was too far), it interfered with their impact. The British destroyer escorted the aircraft carrier took the opportunity to cast smoke and surrounded two British aircraft carriers.

Just as the Italian light cruiser and destroyer flashed past the torpedo and were about to move forward, a huge fireball suddenly popped up on the sea. It turned out that a 15-inch shell fired by the War War hit the Italian battleship Caesar. The shell exploded on its lower deck, causing a fire. The flames rotated through the ventilation cylinder, extinguishing several boilers, slowing the ship from 28 knots to 19 knots.

"Let the destroyer release smoke around the Caesar!" Compionnie received a report of Caesar's loss and immediately ordered the deportation of the smoke.

"We have to drive away the two British battleships," the Italian admiral said to Major General Baroni next to him, "The Caesar must retreat!"

With a speed of 19 knots, it is impossible to guarantee that the distance between it and the British battleship is far enough. If two British battleships with 15-inch cannons are brought close to the Caesar, this Italian battleship of more than 20,000 tons will definitely be bombarded into pieces.

However, Compionni's concerns were soon proved redundant, because after injuring Caesar, Cunningham ordered Fleet B to turn and rescue the besieged Fleet C. Fleet C has two precious aircraft carriers. Cunningham would rather let the invaded Caesar than let the two motherships take risks.

And at this moment, the 279 radar on the War Yan suddenly discovered it again!

"Admiral, there are enemy planes approaching! Flying from the northwest."

"It should be g.50," said Major General Krachley. "In our northwest, there is an Italian fleet of two battleships and one aircraft carrier...I think they are less than 100 nautical miles away from us."

"Don't worry about them!" Cunningham said without changing his face, "Let's kill a heavy cruiser from the Italians first."

However, the news sent by the USS Glory aircraft carrier quickly surprised Cunningham.

"It's Folk Zero!" Major General Krachley reported, "There are 9-12 aircraft fighting the sea spitfire."

"What?" Cunningham took a breath, 12 aircraft came at a time. Is this going to launch a large-scale air strike?

"Admiral! The radar discovered another enemy aircraft, with more than 10 aircraft, in the east direction!"

Just one minute later, the radar of War Yan discovered the target again, an enemy plane flying from the east.

"Is it g.50?" Cunningham asked.
Chapter completed!