More than half an hour has passed, and the damned Tang State ship in front of it has been sailing at full speed along the coast to the southeast, and the distance between the "A Coruña" and it has widened to more than 7 nautical miles, and the sun is setting in the west, and the sky on the sea has begun to gradually darken, and the visibility is getting lower and lower.

"Signal it that we're going to board the ship and check it!" Major Castro finally couldn't hold back and began to give new orders.

The lights flickered over and over again, and after a while, the Tang steamer on the opposite side also replied: "This is the territorial waters of the United States, and your ship has no right to inspect me!" ”

"Report to the fleet, I'm going to sink this damn Tang ship!" Castro was so angry that he gritted his teeth and said, a little later, the Tang State cruise ship in front of him will run out of the range of his main gun, and in the high-speed chase, Castro is not sure that he can really hit the opponent.

After a while, a telegram from the command of the naval fleet returned, "It is forbidden to use any force in the waters of the Americas!" ”

Major Castro was deflated after seeing the telegram, and could only watch the Tang State cruise ship in front of him run farther and farther, and the huge figure gradually disappeared into the dusk sea.

"Blessed by the gods, I finally got rid of that damn Tessie's tail!" On the bridge of the "Yadong Ship", Captain Luo Tianyou also breathed a sigh of relief, "Heading east-southeast, full speed!" He began to give the order to turn.

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The mouth of the Nanda River (La Plata) is a bit like the Qiantang River, the whole estuary is in the shape of a trumpet, but it does not form a tidal surge like the Qiantang River, the tidal drop is about one meter, and both banks are excellent harbors.

The fleet underwent a short repair from the Xinsong River (Montivia) and continued its journey.

In the afternoon, this Datang task force had sailed through the mouth of the Nanda River and arrived at the waters of the South Atlantic Ocean in the south of Dongfang Prefecture. At this time, the fleet received a telegram from the Admiralty from the North Atlantic Fleet naval base in New Jinzhou (Maryland), which was an additional temporary mission: to go to the northern waters of the mouth of the Xindajiang (Amazon) River to pick up the cruise ship "Yadong", which had just escaped from the Caribbean Sea and was being pursued by the Spanish fleet.

Just as Chen Shiying was preparing to take advantage of the night to lead the fleet into the South Atlantic, the East Frankish Admiralty also received the news that the Tang fleet had sailed from the port of Xinsongjiang. After receiving the telegram, Rear Admiral François, chief of operations of the Naval Staff on duty, accurately judged the true intentions of the fleet of the Tang Empire.

Admiral Phillips, who had soon left work, was soon back in the war room of the Admiralty, and after a while, Field Marshal Le Pen and Admiral Asquith also rushed over.

Admiral Phillips had already completed the work of the staff officers on the chart table, marking the possible places where the Tang fleet could arrive with a pencil, and when the First Sea Secretary and the Navy Secretary had arrived in the war room, he sat down at the chart table and expressed his opinion: "The Tang fleet has been dispatched, which is what we have been looking forward to...... However, these are pretty bad times. Fortunately, we have drawn the 'Provence' and 'Sovereign' from the Mediterranean Fleet to strengthen the home fleet. This is Baseria, this is Trinidad, and there is no sign that it will attack either site. Now I'm sure these warships are heading for the South Atlantic, and they may want to break into the North Atlantic to disrupt our sea transports, right? So, from which direction will they enter the North Atlantic? But we have very little power left at our disposal...... What will they do next? ”

"Don't worry about the 'African fleet' for now, now the threat of this Tang fleet is more direct." "If they break into the North Atlantic, the damage to our shipping will be too great." ”

"Of course." Of course, Marshal Le Pen would agree with Asquiz, "In any case, it is most important to send planes from the land of the South American republic to reconnoiter the southern seas, and the situation in that telegram was after all more than ten hours ago." He drew a circle on the chart with a two-legged gauge, "Now that Tang fleet may be somewhere southeast of Baselia, asking them to reconnoiter and photograph Cape Baselia and any suspicious targets from there to the south." ”

"Your Excellency, in fact we sent two groups of reconnaissance planes to that area in the morning, but the pilots reported that the weather conditions in that area were so bad that they could not see the situation on the sea." Major General François said, "This operation of the Don people was carefully planned, they have taken into account the weather situation. ”

"Okay, let's release all the alert ships first, we need to find them first and determine the specific location before we can start the operation. Our dominant idea is to lure this Tang fleet out for a decisive battle while we still have the advantage, and then destroy them. Therefore, we must quickly assemble a strong fleet, including submarines, ready to intercept them in the North Sea. We can't let them go unharmed, or they will face more criticism from the public. Asquith quickly made a decision, and as for the specific naval battle plan, it was a matter for the First Sea Secretary, who was also the chief of the General Staff, Field Marshal Le Pen, and the commander of the Home Fleet, Admiral Jean Saul.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the Tang Task Force sailed on a waterway about 180 nautical miles southwest of Cape Orient (Boxria), and the position of the fleet was about 50 nautical miles from the coast. The entire fleet maintained a state of second-class combat readiness, and the sailors were originally on duty for four hours, but due to the cold weather, Vice Admiral Tang Jinchao, chief of staff of the fleet, ordered that the sailors on duty outside the deck and bridge be shortened to three hours. The standard staffing of the "Yunling" class battleships is 1,160 people, but now that it is wartime, nearly 100 antiaircraft artillery posts have been added, and the quarters of the entire warship are almost full.

In this fleet, the most staffed are the "Jeju" and "Bukdo", the two converted aircraft carriers have a staffing of 2,780 people, and their living conditions are more cramped than the battleships, which is one of the main reasons why the fleet commanders prefer to use the battleship as their flagship.

At midnight that same day, a communications officer walked into Admiral Chen Shiying's cabin, where the fleet commander was napping in an armchair with his head resting on his hands. On the long table in front of him was a complete chart of the Atlantic, with some of the destinations of their trip: Port-au-Prince in the Caribbean, where our fleet is about to sail unhindered, what can you do with me?

This is a provocation to the East Frankish fleet.

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