Chapter 2673: The Net of Heaven and Earth One

"Your Excellency, this is a telegram from Berlin." Just as Su Xiong was having breakfast with Raeder, an officer sent a telegram.

"Okay, you guys go down first." Su Xiong looked at the header on the telegram, and after a moment of thought, he said to the people next to him. After 1 minute, the attendants and other officers all left the special cabin of the fleet commander.

"We reached an agreement with the Americans. The United States reduced some tariffs to pre-war levels and withdrew its influence from Turkey." Su Xiong said to Raeder.

"Really? If that's the case, it seems that we need to go to work." Raeder said, putting down the knife and fork in his hand. "It just so happens that General Sims will come to visit this afternoon, nominally to see how our warships are being repaired, and may actually talk about some future tactical matters."

"How much pressure is the Japanese putting on the American sea transportation line now?" Su Xiong asked.

"At the beginning, the Japanese caught the Americans by surprise, especially on the west side of the Panama Canal. The Japanese launched a fairly successful attack on the most sensitive traffic line for the Americans. Afterwards, the Americans reacted quickly. They used The former dreadnoughts and even dreadnoughts came to escort the transport fleet, and the fleets they formed were all super-large fleets, with hundreds of ships of various types crossing the ocean under the escort of the navy. In this way, the old-fashioned Japanese forward Dreadnoughts and armored cruisers are very difficult to attack, so now the Japanese guerrilla fleet is only attacking some small fleets. The actual threat is not very great, but it is very troublesome, and it makes the US government ugly politically." Raeder thought for a while and said .

"So did the Japanese fleet assign warships such as seaplane carriers to the attack fleet? How about the Japanese submarine operations?" Su Xiong continued to ask.

"No, the Japanese don't have so many seaplane motherships to assign to the fleet, but it is said that the Japanese have carried an excess of seaplanes for each warship. As for the submarines, the Japanese submarine operations are very bad. , on the one hand, it is because of its own limited capacity, and on the other hand, the number of American destroyers is too large. Do you know how many destroyers the Americans have on the front line? There are more than 280 ships! This does not include the destroyers that are being maintained in the dock. The tonnage is generally more than 1,000 tons, what a terrifying industrial capacity." Raeder couldn't help but sighed after finishing speaking.

"In terms of industrial scale, it far surpasses the current empire. Maybe we can compete with the Americans in terms of industrial scale only after we integrate the newly added territories and colonies on the Eastern Front." Su Xiong agreed with Raeder's opinion , although the combat literacy of the U.S. Navy makes Su Xiong and others feel funny, but the Americans have enough funds and industrial capabilities to bear the losses, and after a period of war training, the fleet can always mature.

"I now have a little understanding of Crown Prince Ruprecht's consistent attitude towards Americans. If the Crown Prince tried to maintain relations with the United States before the end of the war, he has already begun to prepare for hostility with the Americans in the distant future. up,

And the Americans will definitely be much stronger than the Allies we faced in the last war. " Su Xiong said.

"Okay, let's not talk about these issues for now. At least I may not be able to wait for the day when I meet the American swordsmen in the future. Maybe you can. At that time, I hope you can defeat these American counterparts who once fought side by side with us." Su-hyung ends the topic with a half-serious joke.

"Tell me what you think, if the Americans ask us to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese fleet, do you have any plans?" Su Xiong asked.

"If we want to attack immediately, we have only one battleship Mecklenburg to use, plus the aircraft carrier Zeppelin accompanying us. Coupled with the destroyers or light cruisers assigned to us by the Americans, we can form a Efficient hunting team, as long as we can find them, everything else is not a problem, and for the dignity of the empire, I think we must kill at least one Japanese battleship!" Raeder said.

"Then what about the specific tactical implementation?" Su Xiong asked.

"The Americans have sent a large number of reconnaissance fleets to search for the Japanese fleet in the Pacific Ocean, but overall the results have been minimal. After all, trying to search for the Japanese fleet hidden in the depths of the ocean with a limited fleet and the naked eye is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack , and the Americans also tried to use a certain fleet as a trap to attract the arrival of the Japanese fleet, but now it seems that the effect is very limited. As for the reason, I think it may be that the Japanese fleet has limited information sources, so I don’t know some of the bait. Existence...." Speaking of this, Raeder couldn't help but smiled.

"The Americans will then assign seaplanes and even aircraft carriers to the hunting fleet. This has indeed greatly increased the search range, but I still feel a little powerless. The preparation is not sufficient, the action is too hasty, and the Japanese are very aggressive. It is possible that camouflage measures have been taken, and simple aerial reconnaissance may be deceived, at least when the Japanese fleet raided the Panama Canal, the Americans had aerial reconnaissance in this sea area, but the effect was very unsatisfactory."

"So I think there is something wrong with the thinking of the Americans. They just piled up warships and planes, and then brutally searched the Japanese fleet in the Pacific Ocean. They were reckless like a wild boar, running around in anger on the ocean. This way of thinking It was wrong, and they did not find the crux of the problem! That is, the warships of the Japanese fleet participating in the ocean-going breach are all old ships. Although they have been refurbished, they are actually not suitable for long-distance and long-distance due to limiting factors such as tonnage and hull structure. Time to fight on the ocean, because whether it was the armored cruiser we sold to the Japanese or the Rurik that we sold to the Russians, they were all born as fleet decisive battles."

"Therefore, the Japanese fleet must carry out frequent replenishment, and according to our data, the Japanese fleet still mainly burns coal. The small fuel reserves plus coal burning make the Japanese fleet require frequent replenishment, and Where can the supply fleet come from? I think it can only be Australia!" Raeder said.

"But we can't decipher the Japanese cipher. The cipher machine they used should be similar to our Enigma cipher machine. The prototype machine may even come from the British captured on the battlefield." Su Xiong said.

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