7:15 AM, flagship "Chicheng" of the Mobile Fleet.
After watching the last ship attack aircraft take off, Lan Yun finally raised the binoculars hanging from his neck and looked towards the "Jiahe," some ten kilometers away.
A few minutes later, a red flare shot up from the "Jiahe," signifying that all ship-borne aircraft had taken off.
By this point, the Air Corps of the first squadron had both carriers completed their aviation operations, deploying a total of twenty-two fighter aircraft, twenty-one bombers, and thirty-two attack aircraft.
It wasn't long before a thunderous roar echoed through the sky as a dense group of planes flew in from the east.
These were the ship-borne aircraft deployed by the second Air Corps, comprising eighteen fighters, twenty-two bombers, and twenty-six attack aircraft.
These two groups of ship-borne aircraft would merge en route and then launch an attack under the leadership of Colonel Genda from the first Air Corps.
However, that wasn't all.