Bai Zhizhan’s worries are not redundant.

At 8 o'clock, the "Longjiang" intercepted the telegram from the seaplane of the 41.2nd Team, and then received the telegram from the "Wuzhou". It was known that the 41st Special Mixed Fleet had discovered the Newland aircraft carrier and was reviewing the reconnaissance discovery, and the next step was to launch an attack.

The key is that the two Newland aircraft carriers are closer to the 21st Special Mixed Fleet.

It is only 400 kilometers, and the "Flying Fish" and "Hornets" can take off with full load, and there is no need to turn the aircraft carrier, that is, to welcome the return carrier-based aircraft.

However, the problem was also placed in front of Liu Xiangzhen.

When the news was received, the 21st Special Mix Fleet had just sent out several carrier-based aircraft to perform attack missions, and they were also dispatched in a full-deck attack state.

In other words, it is impossible to send too many carrier-based aircraft to take off in a short period of time.

In addition, you have to choose between attack and air defense.

If you want to focus on air defense, you must first send the fighter to the flight deck, and let the fighter park at the front of the deck, so that it can be ejected after completing the preparation.

Otherwise, the bomber and torpedo aircraft would have to be placed in front.

In fact, before receiving the news, the service personnel on the two aircraft carriers were preparing for air defense, that is, to send the fighter jets to the flight deck.

At 8:30, after receiving a telegram from the second seaplane of the 41.2 team, Liu Xiangzhen ordered the tactics to be adjusted.

That's right, it's just asking the air service staff to arrange an attack.

Of course, the fighter jets that were prepared before were still launched first, just to perform escort missions, and a large secondary fuel tank was required.

But next we have to prepare for the bomber and torpedo aircraft.

Liu Xiangzhen made this decision with one basis: the 41st Special Mixed Fleet will not attack the two Newland aircraft carriers, but it is not because it is too far away.

In fact, Liu Xiangzhen had no idea that the 41.2 team and the 41.1 team had separated.

In other words, if the position of the "Wuzhou" is the basis, the 41st Special Mixed Fleet will be closer to the two Newland aircraft carriers.

What led to Liu Xiangzhen making this wrong judgment was actually a telegram sent by the "Wuzhou".

The "Wuzhou" is the escort warship of the "Imperial Capital" and has also replaced the fast battleship. It is definitely the absolute main force to cover the "Imperial Capital".

As long as there is any accident, and it is particularly serious, why break the radio silence?

The signals sent by the long-wave radio stations carried by the warship can be intercepted even if they are thousands of kilometers away, and they can definitely be positioned using the triangular method.

Also, why was the telegram sent by the "Wuzhou"?

According to Liu Xiangzhen's judgment, Bai Zhizhan deliberately asked the "Wuzhou" to send a report instead of the "Imperial Capital" to confuse the enemy.

Next, we have to strengthen the fleet's air defense. After all, after sending a telegram, we may be targeted by the enemy.

The key is that there are two "York" class ships that have not appeared.

In fact, at that time, a staff officer mentioned that the discovery of the seaplane of the 41.2nd Team was inconsistent with the discovery of the seaplane of the 42.2nd Team.

The Newland Navy has two "Lek" class ships, so it is possible that three ships will appear at the same time?

However, Liu Xiangzhen tended to find something wrong with the 41.2 team, that is, the pilots of the seaplane regarded the "York" class as the "Leck" class.

In addition, there is only one aircraft carrier, not two, reported in the sea area of ​​the 41.2nd Detachment.

What if Bai Zhizhan had a similar judgment?

Obviously, he would try to lure out the other two aircraft carriers, and be prepared to launch an attack, ensuring that he takes action immediately after discovery.

In other words, Bai Zhizhan is actually luring the enemy, attracting the enemy's attention, and leaving the opportunity to Liu Xiangzhen.

The Newland aircraft carrier special fleet targeted Bai Zhizhan, so naturally there was no way to deal with Liu Xiangzhen, so Liu Xiangzhen was able to take the opportunity to harvest the heads.

In this way, the 41st Special Mixed Fleet will definitely not launch an attack immediately.

At that time, Liu Xiangzhen ignored a very critical issue.

If his speculations are correct, Bai Zhizhan really puts the overall situation first, puts down his personal grievances and is willing to serve as a foil.

So, why not send a telegram directly on the "Imperial Capital"?

Even if the "Wuzhou" is next to the "Imperial Capital", it is very troublesome to communicate with each other through voice radio stations and forward telegrams.

Besides, even if the "Wuzhou" is asked to shoot and send a telegram, why not just say it?

Can't you stand it?

Since I have decided to be a green leaf, can I still have face?

At 8:30, Liu Xiangzhen issued an order.

According to the arrangement, the air service staff first let the fighter planes that had been sent to the flight deck take off, and then began to prepare for the bomber and torpedo planes.

At that time, the Longjiang and Mohe each dispatched eight "Xiaotian" aircraft.

The two aircraft carriers each prepared 8 fighter jets, but in fact, the 16 fighter jets that took off before dawn were sent to cover the 42nd and 43rd special-mix fleets. In addition, they launched the first wave of attacks and arranged 16 fighter jets to perform escort missions.

After sending these 16 fighter jets, the two aircraft carriers also have a squadron of fighter jets.

Unfortunately, these fighter jets were not sent to heaven in time.

What's even more, because bombers and torpedo planes are required to prepare for attack, there is no way to let these fighters stand by on the flight deck.

According to normal arrangements, these fighter jets must be sent up after all the second wave of attack aircraft groups set off.

At around 8:40, the "Longjiang" allowed the last "Xiaotian" to take off.

At this time, there were less than twenty minutes left before the 21st Special Mixed Fleet was attacked.

Just as Bai Zhizhan was worried, the 21st Special Mixed Fleet was long been discovered.

Shortly after dawn, to be precise, after 7 o'clock, a Newland Navy seaplane discovered the "Xuncheng" light cruiser sailing twenty kilometers in front of the "Longjiang". Because the flight altitude was very low, the radar on the "Luhe" escorted did not detect the seaplane. More importantly, the pilot of the seaplane saw the fighter plane flying from the northwest in time.

That's right, it was the fighter jet sent by the "Longjiang" to cover the 42nd Special Mixed Fleet.

The two air defense fighters were climbing, and the pilots did not pay attention to the low altitude in the east and did not find the Newland seaplane flying at low altitudes.

Then, the Newland seaplane turned back and sent a telegram at 7:30, which was more than 100 kilometers away.

The worst thing is that the warships in the 21st Special Mix Fleet did not intercept the radio signals sent by the Newland seaplane!

Perhaps because of the radar, I feel that I can rest assured.

At around 7:35, Hal on the "Lek" issued an attack order.

In order to save time, the Lek first dispatched bombers and torpedoes, to be precise, allowing the slow-speed torpedo to take off first.

The fighter plane performing an escort mission will remain at the end.

By 8 o'clock, all torpedo planes and bombers had been dispatched, and some fighter planes had also been dispatched.

At that time, it was a seaplane that was performing an escort mission. After taking off, it was hovering nearby, waiting for the formation. It discovered the seaplane that was dispatched by the 41.2nd team and successfully approached the Lek because it was flying at a low altitude, and rushed over to shoot it down.

Before being shot down, the pilot failed to send a message that the enemy fleet had sent an attacking fleet.
Chapter completed!