"Comrade Commander, Comrade Political Commissar, the Massachusetts reported that a new enemy ship formation was discovered, with a number of more than 10, with a distance of 42,000 yards, and 7 of which were large ships!"

At 10:10 pm, the commuter officer on the Soviet Union loudly reported the news from the USS Massachusetts battleship another battleship formation of the European Combined Fleet appeared on the radar screen!

General Ingersoll Lieutenant General Fraser looked at each other, and both of them saw a bit of solemnity in each other's eyes.

7 plus 7 means 14! If it is all battleships or battlecruisers, it is still quite difficult to deal with!

"Comrade Commander, Comrade Political Commissar, and the radar of the USS Massachusetts discovered another formation... it is also 7 large ships!" Just 2 minutes later, another news came.

There are 7 more battleships/battleship cruisers? That is 21...what is going on?

Could it be that the French and Italian master battleships have also arrived? This is a bit troublesome.

Although the combat power of Italy's Cafur class, Duillio class, France's Guba class, and Provence class cannot be compared with new battleships, it is better than that of none? Now General Ingersoll has a little regretful of sending 12 old battleships to protect the N fleet.

The atmosphere inside the Soviet Commander Tower was even more tense. But no one spoke. Burganing and Kuznetsov were flirting with each other, and Ingersoll kept exchanging eyes with Fraser. If it was really a disaster, should we leave our friends and run first?

Before the eyes were right, the voice of the report came back: "Comrade Commander, Comrade Political Commissar, and the radar of the Duke of York has been discovered again... There are still 7 large ships, just behind the other 21 large ships!"

28 ships!?

There is too much, right? Could it be that the Japanese battleships have also come to the Atlantic Ocean? What should I do? Comrade Burganing looked at Ingersoll with a grim expression.

"It should be... the enemy should be mixed with the battleship." General Ingersoll guessed correctly this time.

"Comrade Commander, what should we do?" asked Burganing.

"Fight!" Ingersoll answered without hesitation. "Even if the enemy has a large number of battleships/battleship cruisers, we will definitely win! Because the outcome of the fleet's decisive battle is never determined by the number. We have an absolute advantage in the quality of the battleship!"

At 10:20 pm, the Joint Fleet Command of the Allied Powers made the final battle decision. The huge ship formation, which originally followed the European Combined Powers fleet at a speed of 20 knots on the sea (the two were 40,000-42,000 yards, which is 36. kilometers), began to speed up in order to narrow the distance with the enemy formation.

At this time, the situation on the sea surface has changed a lot compared to before the encounter of the main formation of the double-engine forces.

First of all, the courses of both sides changed. Because the Marshal Lütjens ordered his heavy patrol formation to turn north at 9:30, and the Allied Combined Fleet then adopted the tactic of follow-up. Therefore, the courses of both sides became sailing north.

Secondly, the formation of both sides has also changed. The main battleship of the Allied Combined Fleet originally formed a long column, like a giant dragon swimming on the sea. However, after discovering seven enemy "battleships", the head (the 2nd Advance Team) and the body separated, and accelerated to the front of the seven "battleships" to search for the lightning strike ships that would launch T-93 torpedoes.

Therefore, the number of ships of the battleship formation of the Allied Combined Fleet (excluding light cruisers and destroyers guarding around) became 11 battleships/battlecruisers were Massachusetts, Alabama, Soviet Union, Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Belarus, Soviet Russia, Duke of York, Ansen, Haus, Kronstadt and Sevastopol.

At around 10:10, two Soviet heavy cruisers, the Red Caucasus and Kirov, who had fallen into the water, rushed to the battlefield. After the two ships followed 11 battleships/battleship cruisers together, a large formation consisting of 13 main battleships (heavy cruisers are also main battleships). Around this large formation, there were twenty or thirty light cruisers and destroyers responsible for covering and guarding the ward.

In addition, there are 3 American medical ships, 2 American seaplane motherships, 3 light cruisers, and more than a dozen destroyers wandering around the battlefield.

The main fleet of the European Combined Fleet has also changed, from 4 columns to 1 super long column, and 28 main battleships (including battleships, battlecruisers and heavy cruisers) are lined up in a long line. There are also twenty or thirty destroyers and light cruisers surrounding them.

Several medical ships and seaplane motherships of the European Union Fleet also hid outside the battlefield under the protection of light patrols and destroyers.

In addition, the 30 lightning strike ships (torpedo boats) that had previously attacked the 1st advance team of the Allied Fleet did not hit the house. Instead, they went to find the torpedo supply ship (actually the freighter equipped with cranes) and then installed the T-93 torpedoes. According to the plan, they were preparing to find an opportunity to launch another attack!

...

"Boom boom boom..."

At around 10:40 pm, the USS Massachusetts battleship relied on the command of the fire-controlled radar to launch the first round of volleys at the heavy cruiser Luzov, who was mistaken for the Bismarck-class battleship!

"Marson, Luzov, reported that the shells fired by the enemy ships fell more than 80 meters away from the starboard side!"

The communications officer of the Hindenburg quickly told the Marshal of the Lütjens about the report of the heavy cruiser Lutjens.

"Marson, the one who fired at South Dakota level should be the South Dakota level. It fired very accurately, which means that its fire control radar is very good." Lieutenant General Messel said with a frown.

"Better than ours!" Marshal Lütjens shook his head slightly, then turned around and asked the Hindenburg radar officer and gun officer, "Has the distance been measured?"

"Marson, the distance is too far, it should be measured within 30,000 meters..."

Although the fire control radar used by the German Navy is better than in history, it is still not as good as the equipment used by Britain and the United States. The 32,000 meters are a bit far from the Germans.

"The location of the seaplane?" asked the Marshal Lütjens.

"There are 2 bv-138c and 2 he-115 over the enemy formation and 4 ar-196d." Lieutenant General Messer replied.

"His Excellency Marshal, the enemy has ejected the seaplane...boom boom boom!"

As soon as the radar officer finished speaking, another sound of cannon volleys came. This time the battleship Ludendorf was bombarded.

"12 muzzle flames! It's a King George V-class!" shouted Major General Brinkman, the captain of the Hindenburg.

"It must have found the biggest target from the radar screen," Lieutenant General Messel said with a smile, "but it will be in trouble."

Because now the two large formations of the European Combined Fleet and the Allied Fleet are moving forward in parallel. Since the European Combined Fleet has 28 ships, while the opponent's Allied Fleet only has 13 ships. Therefore, the formation of the European Combined Fleet has a larger length than the opponent. Now parallel to the 1st team of the European Combined Fleet is the 2nd team of the Allied Fleet, which is three King George V class and two Kronstadt class.

"Order the heavy patrol team not to open fire and keep a distance of more than 30,000 meters from the opponent." Marshal Lütjens ordered, "The 1st Team, the 3rd Team turn left 10 degrees, and lean up at full speed... and let the seaplane hit a flare in 10 minutes."

The heavy patrol team was obviously mistaken for the battleship formation, so it is best to just be beaten and not fight back, otherwise it will leak when the fire is opened!

As for the other three teams in Lütjens's hands, they rushed towards the opponent's second team at full speed.

"Fire was opened within 25,000 meters, and the 1st team gathered fire to strike the King George V-class ship that had just fired." The Marshal Lütjens continued to issue an order."

Team 2 keeps up with the heavy patrol team and is ready to cover the heavy patrol team's retreat at any time.

Team 3 followed Team 1 and prepared to launch missiles."

A few minutes after the arrival of the Marshal Lütjens, the large European fleet on the sea changed from one column to two columns, one of which continued to be parallel to the other, while the other column narrowed the distance from the opponent at full speed.

This change was soon discovered by the radar on the Soviet Union.

"The enemy approached us, maybe we wanted to launch remote-controlled missiles!" Admiral Ingersoll made a judgment, and then he told Burganing, "You can turn the 2nd team left and see if you can lead them away. The 1st team turned right 10 degrees to narrow the distance from the enemy's 1st team (actually the heavy patrol team and the 2nd team)."

Burganin looked at Kuznetsov, who was very good-looking, and saw that the other party did not express any objection, so he agreed to the American arrangement.

So the situation on the battlefield began to change again, and it turned into two battle groups fighting each other.

At 10:48 pm, three American Kingfisher seaplanes flew over the heavy cruiser of the Luzov and began to take turns to drop flares. With the help of the flares, the optical fire control instrument on the USS Massachusetts battleship can finally perform ballistic correction.

But at the same time, observers on a Kingfisher plane also discovered that the enemy ship being attacked on the water was not a battleship, but a heavy cruiser with much smaller tonnage.

"What? Is it an Admiral Hippel?" Admiral Ingersoll found out that he had made a mistake and frowned. "So what are the ships that followed it?"

"I don't know yet." Lieutenant General Fraser shook his head.

"Go and find out now!"

After Lieutenant General Fraser immediately arranged the mission, he said to Ingersoll: "Admiral, are you going to continue to attack the heavy cruiser? We have locked it!"
Chapter completed!