At this time, on the "Accompanying Beijing".

After receiving the message from the attack aircraft group, the operation to attack the Newland fleet had begun, and there were not many fighter jets above the Newland fleet, Bai Zhizhan quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but he did not order the fleet to be lifted silent, but just said that he would prepare to accept the return carrier-based aircraft as soon as possible.

The entire combat operation was only a little beyond the expectations of Bai Zhi Zhan.

The whereabouts were first exposed, and the one sailing south was the Bran Fleet!

Last night, after receiving the news of the attack on the fleet's oil tanker, Bai Zhizhan immediately concluded that the Newland fleet was here, and it is very likely that it had given up going north, and would go to Austria soon after, and be incorporated into the Southwest East Ocean Fleet to continue fighting the Imperial Navy.

The reason is that going north is meaningless.

The Imperial army took down the city of Lion Spring, and Bran's army had to retreat to the Kibu Fortress. In the Muahai, there was no room for the aircraft carrier to show its strength. Since the effort might not be able to defend the Posar Bay, the Newland Navy would not continue to take risks in Fanyan Ocean.

Fundamentally, the key is that the imperial army quickly captured the city of Lion Spring.

In a few months, the Imperial Navy will turn its focus back to the East Ocean, so the Newland Navy will have to send its main force to the East Ocean before this.

In addition, the Newland Navy has to strive for or create a strategic environment that is beneficial to itself.

There is only one thing to say: lead the Imperial Navy to the southwest to the east as far as possible, and avoid a decisive battle with the Imperial Navy in the Hovay Islands too early.

To do this, we must make full use of the first half of the 101st year of the New Calendar.

In a sense, this is the last window of time for the Newland Navy and even the Newland Federation. If you miss this six months, you will inevitably be defeated!

By the second half of the year, Liang Xia's Navy will have 4 large aircraft carriers and 3 fleet aircraft carriers, and in addition, it is hoped to obtain a large number of auxiliary aircraft carriers converted from fast cargo ships. If Boshawan is successfully captured, Liang Xia's Navy will mobilize heavy troops to attack the Hovayi Islands.

For this reason, the Newland Navy must take the lead in attacking.

Obviously, the only option is to make a fuss in the southwest ocean.

It is precisely because Bai Zhizhan concluded that the Newland fleet was in the south and was sailing eastward.

The 11th Special Mixed Fleet sailed southwest overnight, or to be precise, almost directly sailing southward.

However, the biggest problem is actually how to ensure that the Newland fleet is found around dawn.

Carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft are not omnipotent, especially in the harsh weather, even if they can take off, they may not be able to detect enemy ships in time.

If it is at night, that's even more so.

Fortunately, Zhou Yongtao proposed a very bold idea.

Using the tactics used in the Northwest and East Ocean Battle, the seaplanes were sent out at night, landed in the waters where the enemy fleet was most likely to appear, and then waited for dawn.

The key is that the eight seaplanes carried by two fast battleships are all equipped with new voice radios.

Even when used on the sea surface, the working distance of this type of radio station exceeds 150 kilometers.

The key point is that electronic officers found in previous training that if they use voice radio stations at sea level and are too close, it will be difficult to intercept the radio signals sent by the radio station. Even if they are intercepted, they are often considered warships and will not be regarded as reconnaissance aircraft.

As for the reason, it depends on the working frequency.

In addition, radio monitoring stations generally work in the medium and long wave bands. The signals of key ships' long wave stations are not very sensitive to voice stations working in the short wave band.

With this, Zhou Yongtao designed and deployed a very clever reconnaissance tactic.

After departure, the seaplane will maintain a distance of 100 to 120 kilometers. If an enemy ship is found at night, use a voice radio to contact the nearby seaplane, and the friend aircraft will use a long-wave radio to send a report to the fleet. If it is during the day, take off to observe and judge the nature of the enemy ship, and then report to the fleet.

Simply put, it is necessary to keep it hidden first.

As for the importance of keeping concealed, there is no need to say more.

The 11th Special Mixed Fleet was fighting alone, and Bai Zhizhan felt that the Newland Fleet was on the south side and the Bran Fleet was on the way to Muahai. Therefore, on the morning of the 28th, the 11th Special Mixed Fleet was likely to be attacked between these two enemy fleets.

According to Bai Zhizhan's meaning, even if the enemy fleet cannot be found, the whereabouts cannot be exposed.

It really didn't work, so I turned back in the evening.

After all, it becomes more difficult to obtain fuel supply after the fleet tanker is attacked. If you do not return on the 29th, you may burn out the fuel before rendezvous with the accompanying fleet.

It was this deployment that allowed Bai Zhizhan to seize the opportunity of the fighter.

Can it be said to be luck?

Although many people believe that the Eleventh Special Mixed Fleet was in the Southwest Fanyan Ocean Naval Battle, because it was close to the Klose Sea Basin, and all fleets also known as the Klose Sea Basin, were mainly due to luck to discover and attack two enemy fleets at the same time, fundamentally speaking, if Bai Zhizhan did not make an accurate judgment, Zhou Yongtao did not propose this clever tactic, and the high quality that the fleet officers and soldiers showed in the battle, it would be impossible to have such good luck.

If you want to say something, the God of Luck prefers prepared people.

Of course, there is indeed a great factor of luck in this battle.

At that time, all four seaplanes sent by the Yanhai went to the south, and the distribution range from north to south exceeded 400 kilometers.

The other four, the seaplanes carried by the "Xuhai", went to the northwest.

Just after 3 a.m., a seaplane sent by the Yanhai discovered the Bran fleet and contacted another seaplane closest to it.

However, it was not confirmed at that time whether it was a fleet, or whether there were aircraft carriers in the fleet.

In order to find out the situation of the enemy fleet, especially to determine whether there are aircraft carriers, the pilot of the seaplane did an extremely crazy thing.

Follow the enemy fleet in a gliding manner.

At night, the pilots of the seaplane can see the warships, but the lookouts on the warship may not see the seaplane ten kilometers away.

Compared with warships, seaplanes are too small.

The key point is that the lookouts on the battleship must have no idea that there were enemy seaplanes on the nearby sea.

It was almost dawn that the seaplane accelerated to take off, and after visually discovering the two Bran aircraft carriers in the fleet, it sent a telegram.

Before that, after 3 a.m., when he received the first report from the seaplane, Bai Zhizhan issued a combat readiness order.

Although it was impossible to be sure that what was discovered was a fleet, not a few individual warships, and the pilots of the seaplane did not see the aircraft carrier, their intuition told Bai Zhizhan that it was the enemy fleet he had been looking for, and there must be an enemy aircraft carrier nearby.

That's why the carrier-based aircraft immediately began to take off when it received a second report from the seaplane.

In addition, it is too close.

In order to save time, Bai Zhizhan sent air defense fighters that were lifted out in advance to perform escort missions. After the attack aircraft group set off, the fighters originally planned to carry out escort missions were lifted out for patrol. Although it was a little troublesome, it saved more than ten minutes.
Chapter completed!