Chapter 2123: 2 Hands Ready

"It's like this, because of the fearlessness and sacrifice of the Seventh Destroyer Squadron, the Earl's fleet escaped disaster. Although the other two battleships were in bad condition, only one was sunk!" Lieutenant General Scheer said.

"In this way, the British operation was not successful." Hipper said on the side.

"That's right, so the situation is better than we thought." Ruprecht thought for a while and continued: "If the British are gone, then tonight's action is just a small failure for us. It is still possible to organize a considerable fleet to enter the Strait of Dover. If the British want to invalidate our naval blockade, they can only keep the Earl's remaining warships! If this is the case, at least they will be delayed time!"

Ruprecht walked up to the chart in a few steps, re-estimated the British route with a slide rule, and said: "If the British have not left the safety line of the Strait of Dover at 4 o'clock in the morning, Then at dawn, the opponent's position can only be here! And this distance is far from the safety zone provided by the British Air Force, but it is very close to the base of our land-based air force. We have a chance! One that does not use An opportunity to send this British fleet to the bottom of the sea with an aircraft carrier!"

"If you can kill this British fleet without using an aircraft carrier, it would be a very good choice." Admiral Scheer was also a little moved. It's not that Admiral Scheer doesn't trust the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers, but because he is worried that if the German Navy's last trump card is exposed, it may have an extremely adverse impact on future decisive battles. After all, secret weapons are used for the first time. When the power is the greatest!

"So now there are two questions. The first question is whether the Earl can hold back the British. The second question is whether the British will choose to accept it as soon as it is good?" Admiral Hipper thought for a while and continued: "If possible, my fast fleet can cover the aircraft carrier squadron and enter the designated position to stand by according to the predetermined plan, and the land-based aviation can also be ready to take action at any time. Let's have a double insurance."

"I think it can." Admiral Scheer nodded and said.

"That's it." To this, Ruprecht agreed, and from now on, the German Navy and the Bavarian Air Force will make two preparations for the ambush tomorrow morning. Admiral Pell and Lieutenant Admiral Rodhart, commander of the Navy Aircraft Carrier Squadron, were in charge of planning, while Crown Prince Ruprecht discussed the Luji Air Force with Admiral Halder, Director of the Bavarian Air Force.

The reason why the crown prince decided to discuss the plan with the Luji Air Force is largely because he believes that Earl Spey can entangle the British, and he also believes that the British fleet command will not easily let go of this evening's opportunity ! The Spey fleet is now the bait, and the German aviation power during the day is the hook, so now it depends on whether the British fish ate the bait and then unhooked it, or was it directly caught by the crown prince? ! In the dark, the crown prince feels that it is more likely that the land-based air force will kill the British fleet tomorrow!

Of course, this is not simply the so-called feeling, which is largely based on data analysis. Let alone the confrontation in the Strait area. From the perspective of hardware, the heavy aircraft owned by the land-based aviation force is not very powerful in terms of attack power. The current carrier-based aircraft can be compared. Among other things, the K8 bomber, after loading two 750KG torpedoes, has a battery life and combat radius that are 2 levels stronger than the German Navy's carrier-based torpedo planes.... And in terms of firepower, the most advanced torpedo that the latter can equip is only 600KG! And it can only be installed once!

Admiral Halder's professional ability is still very trustworthy,

After the navy calculated the possible route and area of ​​action of the British fleet, Admiral Halder quickly arranged for the reconnaissance fleet and bomber attack waves, and at the same time made defense preparations for possible British fighter forces.

"The most serious interference to the investigation in the North Sea in the morning is the morning fog. It may be troublesome to conduct investigations at high altitudes, but it doesn't matter. We can arrange a large number of seaplanes to conduct investigations at altitudes close to the sea surface. If possible, I hope we We can arrange a few more submarines on the only way for the British, not to be able to attack their opponents, but to be able to find out their general whereabouts." Admiral Halder said.

"This is no problem, continue." Ruprecht nodded.

"The attack fleet? The Swan Castle Air Force can fully undertake the attack mission, but just now the navy's reconnaissance aircraft unit sent a request, hoping that they can participate in the guidance of this battle and prepare for future actual combat." Halder said the admiral.

"Hehe, is this a bet on two sides?" Ruprecht said with a smile. Each aircraft carrier in the German Navy's aircraft carrier detachment is equipped with a reconnaissance/fighter squadron, and the number is about 12. In the future battle plan Among them, the 60 reconnaissance/fighter aircraft on these 5 aircraft carriers will be responsible for more than 50% of the reconnaissance missions! But this time, because it is dealing with a small British fleet, and the direction and position of the opponent's voyage can almost be predicted, then naturally there is no need for as many as 60 reconnaissance planes to search, and considering that it is very likely to be landed Therefore, Lieutenant Admiral Rodhart proposed the idea of ​​letting some naval carrier-based aircraft join the land-based air force to implement guidance together. No matter who captures the British fleet in the end, it can train the German naval aircraft carrier Squad search and guidance capabilities.

"That's a good idea, you can arrange it." Naturally, the crown prince will not interfere with this kind of behavior. After all, he knows very well that until World War II, the detection and guidance of carrier-based aircraft troops was a very high-tech matter!

In fact, looking through the history of naval battles, it is quite common that the reconnaissance planes sent out before the aircraft carriers of the two sides engaged in battle did not find the opponent's fleet, or found it, but the attack aircraft fleet behind did not find the opponent's aircraft carrier fleet. Hundreds of kilometers away, in the era without GPS and Beidou, it is very difficult for an aircraft to locate itself while flying in the vast sea, and even if you find the opponent's fleet, how do you locate the opponent's position and put this data Passing it back is also very difficult! After all, your own aircraft carrier fleet must also be moving, and positioning in this constant motion situation is really too difficult!

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