At 5:12, the first carrier-based Stuka began to take off.

The Shandong and Liaodong ships began to rapidly launch Stukas! None of these Stukas carried bombs, all of them carried airborne torpedoes.

After more than a year of research, the airborne torpedo was finally successfully developed. This time it came to fight in the Mediterranean, it was the result of ten years of hard work by the Ming Navy.

"Commander, it's already past five o'clock. It will be dark in more than an hour. Can they...can they complete the mission?"

Chen Laohu glanced at the clock on the wall, and then looked out the window at the setting sun that was already close to the sea level.

"Have you ever seen the Bohai Sea exercise? The speed of aircraft is definitely not comparable to that of airships. Look, they have already taken off and started forming.

According to their speed, they can reach the enemy ship in more than half an hour."

Li Xiu put down the telescope in his hand and was very satisfied with the launch speed of the two aircraft carriers.

In just thirteen minutes, the two aircraft carriers each launched fifteen carrier-based Stukas. In total, one aircraft was launched in less than a minute.

I have to say, this efficiency is really high.

After completing the formation in the air, thirty Stukas flew in the identified direction.

The silhouette of the plane quickly turned into a bunch of small black dots. Only the roar of the engine still echoed in the air.

Li Xiu looked at the clock, it was five twenty-five.

They had at most one and a half hours. No matter what, Li Xiu felt that those Israeli warships were doomed.

These warships were manufactured by the Ming Dynasty and required huge cannons, diesel engines, telegraph communications, and motors to transport cannonballs.

All of this, Ming Dynasty satisfied them.

The Ming Dynasty even installed generators and the latest seawater desalination technology on its battleships.

There is only one thing that the Israelis forgot. The Ming Dynasty people also selectively forgot it!

That's the cannon!

The main gun in front of the battleship and the main gun in the rear, plus the forts on both sides, totaled more than a hundred guns on the entire battleship.

But there is not even an anti-aircraft gun!

In the view of the Hebrews, air attacks on the sea mainly come from airships. To deal with these airships, the anti-aircraft guns equipped on each starboard side of the destroyer are enough to deal with them.

If the airship chooses to avoid anti-aircraft gun attacks at high altitude, then they will have to fly to an altitude of more than 8,000 meters.

If a bomb is dropped above 8,000 meters, it will still hit a warship sailing at high speed. This probability is smaller than being struck by lightning.

But the Israelis never dreamed that the Ming Dynasty actually had such a thing as an airplane.

"General, we will soon enter the waters of Crete. After attacking Crete this time, we can only supply supplies in Athens.

But we can only replenish oil there! Our ammunition." The staff officer looked at Israeli Navy Vice Admiral Eliezer Marom with some worry.

"In Naples, we have replenished a lot of ammunition. However, we have not replenished much fuel. This is for this purpose.

As long as we attack Crete and Rhodes, then go north to Constantinople, and support the main force of the navy to rush out of the Bosphorus Strait and the Dardanelles Strait.

When our two fleets merge into one, this will be the largest naval force in the world.

We will go to Cyrenaica, where there is a naval supply base of the Ming Dynasty. Where we arrive, we will not only have oil supplies, but even ammunition supplies.

Of course, there is also Alexandria. There are also Ming people's oil and ammunition warehouses there.

Those Arabs listen to us. As soon as our warships arrive there, the workers will revolt and drive away those Ming people.

We can capture the oil and ammunition without any loss!

They are all warships built in the Ming Dynasty, and their artillery calibers are the same. The problem of common ammunition has even been solved.

Morsi! You are worried too much. You should think carefully about how to direct the battle tonight.

Night attacks with limited visibility will test our artillery."

"General, we will launch the attack before sunrise. At that time, although the sun has not come out, the skylight has improved the visibility.

In this way, the power of artillery can be maximized."

"Well! Your battle plan is always good, so let's follow your plan." Eliezer Marom nodded.

This time, he brought two battleships and several destroyers all the way towards the Eastern Mediterranean.

Ben Gurion played a great move!

Everyone thought that the Israeli navy was trapped in the Black Sea and could not move, but they ignored this amazing Israeli force overseas.

Before Ben Gurion sent troops to attack Constantinople, he had secretly arranged for Eliezer Marom to go to Sweden, Denmark, and Norway to receive these warships.

They sailed along the Atlantic coast and even stayed off the coast of Gibraltar for three days in order to keep it secret.

Just have to wait for a moonless night!

The entire fleet took advantage of the darkness, shut down their engines, and drifted into the Mediterranean Sea along the ocean currents.

Therefore, the Ming army stationed in Gibraltar did not notice it.

Until they reached the Sicilian waters and were discovered by local fishermen.

After reporting the situation to the local Kafka family, who were very knowledgeable, the Kafka family members sent a telegram directly asking old Kafka what to do.

After careful consideration, Kafka decided to send a telegram to warn the Ming Dynasty.

Because he did not believe that the fleet could deceive the Ming garrison in Gibraltar and slip into the Mediterranean Sea completely silently.

Since the Ming Dynasty may have discovered this fleet, why not give it an empty favor?

Little did he know that Eliezer Marom's fleet had slipped into the Mediterranean without anyone noticing, and the Gibraltar army was not aware of it at all.

Entering the Eastern Mediterranean, Malta cannot be bypassed.

So, the fleet attacked Malta and directly blew Malta into pieces!

The warships at the island's dock and the airships in the airship landing site were all wiped out.

It was originally a fang of the Ming Dynasty in the Mediterranean, but now it was broken by the Israeli navy.

Although the fleet was exposed as a result, intelligence showed that there was no longer a single battleship in the entire Eastern Mediterranean.

These two battleships are already the dominant presence in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The destroyers on Crete are not worth mentioning in front of the battleships.

Just kill Crete and add Rhodes.

There is no longer any power to stop Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean.

If the Ming Dynasty wanted to mobilize warships to regain control of the sea, it would take several months.

At that time, Israel's main fleet had already cooperated with the army to capture Constantinople.

As for the navy's main fleet, after it merges with its own squadron, the fleet will have five battleships and three cruisers.

There are more than fifty destroyers guarding both sides!

A fleet of this size, let alone European countries, even if the Ming Dynasty devoted its main force, would be nothing more than this.

When Eliezer Marom was feeling complacent, he suddenly saw groups of black dots appearing in the distant sky.

These black spots are outflanking the fleet from both sides at a terrifyingly fast speed.

"What is that?" Eliezer Marom shouted in panic.

Although he didn't know what that thing was, his intuition told him that danger was approaching.

"I don't know, but it doesn't look like an airship.

This thing is much smaller than an airship and has no airbags. It sails extremely fast!" None of his men looked at the telescope, but no one knew what it was.

"Order the destroyers to move forward to protect the flagship."

Eliezer Marom immediately issued the order!

There is no other way. After all, destroyers have anti-aircraft guns, but battleships don't even have an anti-aircraft gun.

Seeing the semaphore sent from the flagship, the five destroyers immediately rushed towards the Ming aircraft.

They formed a ring, preparing to fight to the death to protect the two battleships they had worked so hard to buy.

The anti-aircraft gunners adjusted their angles one after another, aiming at the unseen weapons flying from the sky.

There are no radios on the planes, so the formations are very dense. The pilots communicate entirely with gestures.

Ye Xiaoqing grabbed the control stick with both hands and waved to the wingman. The two planes began to lower their altitude!

The Stuka's unique high-pitched whistling sound spread throughout the Mediterranean.

Just before they understood the situation, Stuka had reached the final stage of the sprint.

One kilometer!

0.7 kilometers!

The Stukas swooped down from the sky like strange birds with bright lights.

According to the situation in the training, Ye Xiaoqing and his wingmen cut in directly from two angles!
To be continued...