"There is there, there is, there is news!"

When Li Mingbo shouted and ran over, he attracted everyone's eyes. Seeing him like that, it seemed like the sky was about to fall.

Fortunately, Li Mingbo has noticed it.

After glaring at several staff officers of the navigation department who were laughing, Li Mingbo controlled his emotions and walked towards Bai Zhizhan.

Although he was still a navigator, Bai Zhizhan was personally responsible for aviation operations, and there was no possibility of artillery battles with the enemy fleet. The key was that he had not yet accepted the Chief of Staff, so in many cases, Li Mingbo took on the responsibilities of Chief of Staff of the Special Mixed Fleet.

If you want to say, you are the staff of the Fleet Command.

"The telegram I just received was found by Lao Zhu and Lao Shen."

"What!?"

This time, Bai Zhizhan's surprise move scared everyone.

After Li Mingbo said it, he stood up and almost jumped up.

"Lao Shen was unscathed, and Lao Zhu was only slightly injured. Both of them had arrived at the naval base on Xiaodao and were preparing to set up their planes to return to the fleet early tomorrow morning." Li Mingbo paused for a moment and continued: "In addition, more than 200 crew members have been rescued, but many of them were seriously injured, especially fighter pilots. Those who can continue flying will return to the fleet early tomorrow morning."

"So, will the special mixed group recover its combat effectiveness tomorrow?"

"It is the first special aviation fleet." Li Mingbo exhaled his breath. "The water inlet of the 'Hengjiang' has been controlled and is expected to arrive at Chengjiang Port in three days. According to the telegram, the damage is very serious. Even if you return to Chengjiang Port smoothly, it will take several months to repair it."

"How many months?"

Li Mingbo nodded and said, "Fortunately, the First Shipboard Air Force will be able to restore combat capabilities tomorrow morning at the latest."

Bai Zhizhan also nodded.

"Oh, I almost forgot. Nayi did not bomb the southern fleet oil depot and the 50,000-ton floating dock in Chengjiang Port. Liu Xiangdong mentioned in the telegram that perhaps the mobile fleet had prepared a third wave of attacks, because the special mixed group launched the attack first and severely damaged the "Jahe" in the first round of attacks, so the third wave of attacks was not launched. In any case, it was a blessing in disguise of the oil depot and the floating dock."

When Li Mingbo said this, Bai Zhizhan did not interrupt, but just frowned.

Li Mingbo did not say anything nonsense that the oil depot and the 50,000-ton floating dock in Chengjiang Port are equivalent to half a fleet. In the long run, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is equivalent to a fleet.

There is no need to say much about the value of the oil depot, even Master Tian Shi of the Navy knows it.

However, if you really want to say, the value of the 50,000-ton floating dock is still above the oil depot.

It was the only floating dock in the southern port of the Empire that can accommodate aircraft carriers and main battleships. There were only two in the Empire in total, and the other was in the home port of the local fleet. Looking around the world, there were only five giant floating docks that could accommodate main battleships. Apart from the two in the Liangxia Empire, there were two in the Newland Federation and the last one in the Kingdom of Bran, which showed its strategic value. The key is that only these three countries can build giant floating docks in the world, because they have huge military value, exports are prohibited!

After the war broke out, the floating dock became even more precious.

Don’t forget that there are twelve bombed battleships in Chengjiang Port!

Without this floating dock, you can only call another one from Mast Harbor. The local fleet may not agree. Maybe in a few days, the local fleet will also need to use the floating dock to repair damaged warships. If there is no floating dock, the efficiency of maintaining warships will definitely be greatly reduced.

Even according to the most optimistic estimate, without floating docks, it will take at least three years to repair those battleships.

On the contrary, it can be shortened to one and a half years.

In addition, there is also the "Hengjiang" that was severely damaged in the battle and needs to be repaired. If there is no floating dock, it is impossible to say whether it can be repaired within one year. With the floating dock, according to the message just sent, it only takes half a year at most, and maybe four months to repair it.

Of course, Bai Zhizhan is the happiest thing, but Zhu Huasheng and Shenpu have both been eliminated.

At this time, the telecommunications officer who started chatting with Li Mingbo ran over.

"Report to the commander, there are five minutes left."

Li Mingbo was stunned for a moment, then looked at his watch. It was already 8:25 in the empire time. He didn't say much, and turned his eyes to Bai Zhizhan.

"It seems that there will be no change. Go and prepare."

"yes!"

After the telecommunications officer turned around and walked away, Li Mingbo nodded to the communications officer who was looking at him and asked the communications officer to issue orders to other warships.

Although it is only more than 100 kilometers away from the empire, after receiving the news of the raid at Chengjiang Port in the morning, Bai Zhizhan ordered the fleet to enter a state of combat. All warships remained silent on radio, only received telegrams, not sent telegrams, and even short-wave radio stations were not allowed to be used.

The reason is that on the other side of Zu Island is the East Ocean.

In addition, hundreds of kilometers southeast is South Zhuhai where the Navy and the Newland Navy held a joint exercise!

With the speed of an aircraft carrier, a range of hundreds of kilometers or ten hours, the combat radius of a carrier-based aircraft is not even ten hours.

Don’t forget that the Fifth Air Force is still active in South Zhuhai.

In order to monitor the Imperial Navy, the Newland Navy built several radio monitoring stations in the South Pearl Islands, which can intercept radio waves in almost all frequency bands.

Soon, a noisy electric current sound came from the speaker.

That was the internal broadcast system of the warship, which is now connected to an oversized radio, which is actually a radio station, and the radio station is receiving broadcast signals from Imperial State Radio.

In the afternoon, the Navy Command issued an order.

If the plan does not change, to be precise, the Prime Minister of the Empire will read out a declaration of war against the Nayi Empire through national broadcast at 8:30.

As long as there is nothing else, organize officers and soldiers to listen to the radio on time.

The relevant work has been arranged long ago. Each warship has a radio station that can listen to the radio, and many officers and soldiers have their own radios.

Even if the radio is expensive, most naval officers can afford it.

In fact, it is no longer a rare thing to announce major events through radio broadcasts.

Ten years ago, after Xue Yuanzheng was elected as the first minister, he read the edict of appointment to listeners across the country through live broadcast for the first time through radio stations.

From then on, radio broadcast gradually replaced newspapers.

To date, radio broadcasting has been the only means to release major news, especially time-sensitive major news.

Just like an incident like declaration of war, published by newspapers, there will be at least one day delay, and it will not be possible to keep the military and civilians across the country informed about the situation in a timely manner.

Through the radio station, the news can be delivered to the whole country in an instant.

In addition, this method has been imitated by other countries. For example, four years after Xue Yuanzheng was elected as the first minister, the president-elect of the Newland Federation delivered an inaugural speech through radio.

"Old Bai, time is up."
Chapter completed!