Chapter 275
The reason is that Saratoga likes to carry its own bombers for bombing, and does not pay much attention to air control. The deep-sea carrier-based aircraft in her assigned area caused a lot of trouble to the surface warships.
If that was all, it would be fine. At that time, Saratoga, who was focused on her sister, could not bear to be lectured by others.
She's not her sister, so why should she care about her?
Now the relationship between the two ship girls has deteriorated. Although it is impossible to fight, they usually bicker and dislike each other. but now.
Saratoga, who was always against her, felt strange to her.
During the last joint assessment, she was still the same as before, and the limelight was stolen by Lexington. but now.
Saratoga was no longer the Saratoga she had known.
The hull of the ship has changed. Anyone who makes a fuss when seeing her is now being disciplined. Even the carrier-based aircraft she uses has changed drastically.
Everything has changed, for the better.
And she was still treading water.
Even before, she could deceive herself by saying that her strength only increased in number but did not necessarily increase in strength.
Now the naked reality was before her.
Saratoga is not only stronger, but extremely strong.
Her formidable naval fighters met the Lexington and Saratoga like mice to rats.
She erased the advantage of the navy's legendary skills, and what was left was a competition of the quality of carrier-based aircraft.
But now the results on the battlefield have told her the answer.
The admiral who made her curious, the aircraft carrier under his command was powerful not only in terms of the number of launches, but also the biggest problem that troubled aircraft carrier mothers, the ship's equipment, had also been solved.
Being able to so easily deal with a large number of fighters that she couldn't deal with, and all of them were exactly the same, she knew that this was a large batch of powerful ships.
But now there is no more time for her to think about the mysteries about Saratoga and the others, as well as her curiosity about Wei An.
During this period of time, many ship girls in the J-Union Department have been holding back their anger. It turns out that air control is their specialty.
But after coming here, the fight against the Southern Navy became more and more frustrating every day, and Akagi became more and more powerless.
Now that she finally had a chance to counterattack, she immediately used her fighter plane to pursue the victory, entangled them, and provided support for Saratoga and the others.
After all, without her weakening the strength of the Navy's aircraft carriers, Lexington's consumption would definitely increase.
The most important thing now is to ensure victory, and many questions will be discussed after victory.
When encountering ordinary aircraft carriers, with the tacit cooperation of Lexington and Saratoga, they can even fight against multiple enemies, with 1 fighter plane against 2 aircraft, and 2 fighter planes against 5 aircraft.
At the same time, one side still had the energy to fight back and forth with the Southern Governor's aircraft carrier.
The southern governor, who was already confident of victory, turned pale at this time.
Why have you been testing the J-Union Headquarters during this period? Isn't it just to give Akagi and the others a fatal blow?
As a result, some unfamiliar fighter planes suddenly appeared and beat his aircraft carriers to retreat. How could he not be angry?
He knows most of the flagship aircraft carriers of the Ship Girl Alliance, and he also knows that the U.S. Navy is fighting against the Western Navy and has no energy to come over.
The only one on this side is Akagi's J-Union Headquarters. Once he knows his strength, he won't worry about not being able to win here.
But what is this now? Whose general is this? So brave.
He was also playing aircraft carrier, and he had already seriously realized that something was wrong when he heard the report from his own ship's wife.
The Ship Girl Alliance does not have such an aircraft carrier, and the legendary aircraft carriers that appear now seem to appear out of nowhere.
And it is not in line with the normal cultivation of admirals by the ship girl alliance.
Outrageous, too outrageous.
But when he encounters a powerful opponent, he cannot easily back down.
"Ticonderoga, can you still hold on?"
The southern governor asked seriously
"The opponent's fighter planes are stronger than ours and have more numbers than ours....If this continues, sooner or later we will lose control of the air."
"We are now in a balance of air superiority, and my legendary skills only have a 7% bonus."
Hearing this, the Southern Governor couldn't help but rub his brows. Ticonderoga is good everywhere, but the downwind game is very fierce, and the disadvantage is not good.
And when it comes to the use of aircraft carriers, he has always used more to defeat less. At the same time, the quality of the carrier-based aircraft is better, but now everything is reversed.
For the first time, his shipmates can hardly hold on.
"Got it, don’t be obsessed with fighting, regroup and prepare for the next attack. I’ll do it myself. This time I want to see if it’s really that powerful?"
"clear."
As soon as the Southern Governor gave the order, Lexington and the others saw that the navy fighters that were still fighting suddenly shrank.
The navy fighters retreated.
In such a situation, Lexington could only look at Wei An
"Commander, do you want to pursue me?"
"Don't be in a hurry, just assemble the fleet and wait for the next attack. Air superiority is our advantage for the time being."
"Let Akagi and the others do the reconnaissance."
"Let's help Bismarck and the others stabilize their battleships on the water first."
""Understood!"
This confrontation has tested the hidden strength of both sides, but overall it is still disadvantageous to both sides.
They were originally prepared to rely on sudden sneak attacks to shoot down Akagi's fighter planes, and then use the advantage gained in this way to control the J-Union's aircraft carrier.
Completely control the air superiority, and then play Wei'an's most familiar trick of dragging the aircraft carrier on the water surface and bombing it in the sky.
But now, unexpectedly, his most confident aircraft carrier has failed, and he was forced to recall some fighter planes to prevent the expansion of war losses.
The worried Southern Governor forgot the most important thing at this moment.
Since he likes to play aircraft carrier bombing, wouldn't an aircraft carrier stronger than him bomb?
But there is no if in all this. Now his attention is drawn to the fight for air supremacy, but he has forgotten the aircraft carrier's favorite tactics.
He also temporarily transferred the leader who was originally close to their command area The air was given up.
For the next attack, the initiative was handed over to the opponent.
Therefore, Akagi, who was under the command of Wei'an, immediately arranged for the J-United Aircraft Carriers that could still perform reconnaissance to fly into the navy's waters in a scattered manner.
At the same time, the J-United Aircraft Carriers also discovered some unusual things about the navy.
Except for some warships that clashed with the warships, most of the warships were dawdling when sailing in the rear.
At the same time, waves appeared on the water from time to time.
Like Wei'an, he was used to maintaining a safe depth and had never thought of relying on gunboats to decide the outcome. So when Bismarck and the others were advancing faster, he had already arranged for his warships to quickly lay mines. The important thing was not to defeat Bismarck and the others, but to delay them.
To hinder their progress in sailing and teach them a lesson with aircraft carriers.
But he never thought that he would lose air superiority.