After July, the weather begins to improve.

On July 2, it was cloudy and windless.

Each flight squadron took off from the Trincomali Airport in Ceylon to meet the aircraft carrier that had already departed.

When a torpedo plane landed on the Guangxi, it hit the rear flight deck of the aircraft carrier, and it suddenly turned into a pile of debris, rolling and falling into the sea. The escorted destroyer rushed to the accident site, busy rescuing the pilots who fell into the water. Major General Sa Shijun, commander of the Chinese Second Air Fleet, stood on the bridge, frowned and looked at everything in front of him. Although various landing accidents on the aircraft carrier were not uncommon, he still felt a bit bad omen when he set out on the battle.

This feeling was very strange and it always made him feel very uncomfortable.

The Austrian-China Joint Fleet was ordered to dispatch again to the waters near the Mindawei Strait to support the Marine Corps' landing operations in the Mingguru area. Shortly after the pilots of the Chinese aviation fleet landed on the aircraft carrier, the combat order to go outside the Sunda Strait to intercept the Japanese fleet on the blackboard in the standby room, which caused a burst of excitement among the pilots. After more than two years of grievance, they finally had the opportunity to fight with the Japanese fleet. In the next three days, the crew members discussed the topic of how to bomb Japanese warships, and the shame that the Chinese navy suffered since the Sino-Japanese War.

At noon on July 5, the fleet had sailed to the sea area in the western part of Ngano Island, which was basically located in the south of Sumatra. The sea was swelling and the weather was not very good. There were large cumulonimbus cloud areas over the fleet from time to time.

The entire Austrian fleet lined up in a circular air defense formation, circling around the sea, waiting for the German special-mix fleet to meet. Now almost all of the Axis Expeditionary Fleets were dispatched, leaving only two Italian modified aircraft carriers to carry out alert missions in the Bay of Bengal.

The ten aircraft carriers in the center of the fleet are about 10 chains apart. Headed by the Istria and Queen Irene, followed by the Bosnia and Macedonia. The smaller displacement of the Albania and Dalmatia were mixed into three columns with four Chinese aircraft carriers, and there were six large supply ships behind them. Around these aircraft carriers, there were four battleships, four heavy cruisers and six large air defense light cruisers, and on the outer layer of the fleet. There were also anti-layer anti-submarine and air defense guard circles composed of eight light cruisers and sixteen destroyers.

In the southern part of the Mindave Islands, General Marshall's flagship "Prussia" was sailing at full speed on the sea and finally entered the sight of the Austro-China fleet. Behind the flagship was a huge transport fleet. According to the plan, the Austro-Hungarian Marine Division will first carry out landing operations in Mingguru, and the German fleet will provide maritime support and air cover for this landing operation, while attracting the Japanese fleet to dispatch.

The Austrian-China Combined Fleet was ambushed at the scheduled ambush site behind it, waiting for the Japanese fleet to appear, and can launch an attack immediately.

The "Prussian" battleship with a standard displacement of more than 46,000 tons looks majestic and powerful. It is very consistent with the image of the main ship in people's traditional consciousness. Looking at it from about 4 or 5 nautical miles apart, the heavy body of the battleship and 10 410mm main guns will still bring people a strong shock. The halo on the old maritime overlord is fading, but its influence on the battlefield is still incomparable to aircraft carriers.

Looking at this sea area with black waves, about half of the surface ships of the Axis Navy have been concentrated. In fact, no country in the world can withstand their attacks. The standard displacement of the German Navy's "York-class" aircraft carrier and the Austro-Hungarian Navy's "Istrian Kurdish-class" aircraft carriers both exceed 40,000 tons, and the number of carrier-based aircraft equipped exceeds more than 100, making it the most powerful aircraft carrier in the world. The other eight "Graf Zeppelin-class" aircraft carriers, although the standard displacement is 27,500 tons, are classified as medium aircraft carriers by the German and Austrian Navy, in fact, they have 76 carrier-based aircraft carriers. The combat effectiveness is not inferior to the main aircraft carriers of various countries during this period.

Major General Sa Shijun took a traffic boat to the "Frederiki Grand Official" to attend the routine pre-war meeting. In the Guangxi combat room, the combat staff were bored discussing how many aircraft it would take to sink a heavy battleship like the "Prussian". The German Navy's "Germany" battleship was very strong in defense, and had a considerable amount of watertight compartment and large reserve buoyancy. If any three watertight compartments were penetrated on either side, it would not be able to sink such a heavy battleship. According to calculations, either side of the battleship could be banned from attacking by six aerial torpedoes. If it was a single ship, the "Guangxi" only needed to send one attack to deal with it, but if it was acting with the fleet, the Chinese fleet would need all four aircraft carriers to be dispatched together to settle the fleet.

The results of the war chess deduction made the personnel in the aircraft carrier war room very excited. At least if the "Guangxi" competes one-on-one with the German super battleship, it is 80% sure to win.

The fleet continued to cruise in this sea area at the junction of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The sea was swelling and rolling, and the weather was hot and tide. There were no annoying cumulonimbus clouds in the sky, but it made people even more sad. The crew members working on the warship seemed to be scorched. The temperature exceeded 30 degrees Celsius in the water more than ten meters underwater inside the warship.

The sea water is almost opaque, showing the black and blue color of the bay current. The Guangxi aircraft carrier, like other warships, is sailing against the heat and humidity of summer on the equatorial ocean. The steel plates outside the warship are covered with salt, and distilled water naturally formed by water vapor flows everywhere. The scorching tropical sunlight burns the flight deck, superstructures and anti-aircraft artillery, pillars, railings, and all superstructures are so hot that they will burn when they touch them.

I don't know if it was because of the sun or the dazzling sunlight that made the lookouts often dazzled. In the next hour, the fleet issued enemy alarms twice in a row. When news of the discovery of enemy submarines or enemy aircraft was heard, it was necessary to come to the old and busy emergency evasion operation: all ships made a sharp turn, the flight deck tilted desperately to one side, and the sailors hurriedly caught up with the cannon position and aimed at the target. The escorted destroyers splashed waves and crossed and drove quickly on the sea, searching for suspicious target locations; then they were bored waiting, lifting the alarm, recycling the aircraft, and restoring their daily routine duty.

Such scenes have been staged many times these days, and finally it turned out to be a false alarm. Japanese submarines did not appear in the waters of this area. Instead, the Axis fleet has deployed more than 30 submarines inside and outside the Sunda Strait to conduct alert and surveillance activities.

General Sa Shijun returned to his flagship, and the entire Austrian-China mixed fleet circled the southern part of the Mingdawei Islands on the sea. The combat plan formulated by General Yankel was no different from the North Atlantic Naval Battle. The German fleet protected the landing fleet in Mingkouru and carried out landing in Mingguru, while the Austrian-China combined fleet was ambushing behind him, which was really unrealistic.
Chapter completed!