Don't look at Liu Xiangzhen's calm appearance on the surface, Taishan collapsed in front of him and his color remained unchanged, but he was already scolding his mother in his heart.

In Bai Zhizhan's words, Liu Xiang is really a typical Sven beast, with a polite appearance and a violent beast with teeth and claws inside.

After receiving the telegram yesterday afternoon, Liu Xiangzhen scolded his mother, starting with the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the navy, and scolded all the bigwigs in charge of the navy headquarters and the home fleet.

What was he doing?

For the same reason, this vital telegram, to be precise, was delayed for a whole day!

It's been a whole day.

On the battlefield, not to mention a day, even if it is a few hours, you can tell the winner from the loser.

Fleet exercises that have been conducted for more than 10 years, especially in recent years, have not been exceptional, and the winners and losers have been decided in just a few hours. Every exercise over the years has proved that the most important thing is intelligence, and whoever obtains accurate intelligence first will win.

However, the big guy in charge still hasn't woken up!

Throughout the night, Liu Xiangzhen didn't fall asleep.

As a result, early in the morning, the communications staff officers sent the latest intelligence. Strictly speaking, it is not intelligence, at most it is a discovery with low credibility.

On the 24th, the maritime patrol planes of the home fleet repeatedly encountered the carrier-based aircraft of the Sagi Navy in South Zhuhai.

Alas, there is nothing else.

No one is to blame, because all the seaplanes that can fly to South Zhuhai to carry out search missions are seaplanes, and seaplanes will certainly not be able to catch up with carrier-based aircraft.

Moreover, these findings do not tell much.

The point is, there is no way to prove whether those carrier-based aircraft came from land airfields, or took off from aircraft carriers, and which aircraft carrier.

Don't forget that the Navy also has a small aircraft carrier similar to the Sea Dragon.

What we should be concerned about now is actually the permanent fleet of the Sagi Navy, to be precise, where the three air squadrons under the permanent fleet have gone.

How many air teams have entered the Sea of Fire?

Two, or three?

Although there was early information that the two "Ruihe" class ships had not yet completed sea trials, but they were only incorporated into the battle sequence due to the situation, and they had not formed combat effectiveness, Liu Xiangzhen always believed that it was a desperate gamble to attack the Southern Fleet in the Yanhai Sea, and there was no reason for the Narrow Navy not to use all its forces.

What's more, the commander of the permanent fleet is a gambler Takaya.

That madman, if you start to be ruthless, will cut off your own fingers with your own hands!

Bringing two more aircraft carriers is equivalent to more than 100 more carrier-based aircraft. With sufficient troops, both the offense and the defense are more calm.

From a different angle, if you change it to Liu Xiangzhen, you will definitely bring all the air teams.

It's just that Bai Zhizhan doesn't think so.

In the last discussion, Bai Zhizhan also specifically emphasized the issue that it is very likely that the Narrow Navy will only dispatch four aircraft carriers.

To this end, Bai Zhizhan emphasized three points.

First of all, Gao Ye is very good at gambling and dares to gamble, but he is not the kind of gambler who does not know the importance and does not know the high and low, he generally only does things that he is sure of.

Four aircraft carriers, is it big enough?

The answer is a clear yes.

If it is mainly a surprise attack, then the key is not how many aircraft carriers there are, but concealment and suddenness. As long as the attack can be sudden, the more than 300 carrier-based aircraft carried by the four aircraft carriers can launch at least two waves of bombing, and a third wave can be carried out in turn.

Three waves of bombardment are enough to destroy the entire Southern Fleet!

The second is that the Navy may not be able to dispatch six aircraft carriers at the same time, to be precise, the value of six aircraft carriers at the same time can be brought into play.

What do you mean?

There are not so many carrier-based aircraft pilots in the Sagai Navy!

The two "Ruihe" were only delivered at the beginning of the year, and even if the Navy worked overtime for training, it would be difficult to train enough excellent pilots in just a few months.

Pilots drawn from two other air teams?

Obviously, that's messing around!

In high-intensity combat, all it takes is a rookie, and a trivial miss, to paralyze an aircraft carrier for several hours.

In fact, this is also a major feature of carrier-based aviation.

Even the worst is the elite, because they can only rely on themselves when it comes to landing.

There are not enough pilots, so what's the use of taking the 3rd Air Force?

Finally, and most critically.

The strategic purpose of the narrow navy is not necessarily to completely annihilate the Liangxia navy, perhaps it is only to seize the initiative in the early stage of the war, and it must be reserved.

Leaving two aircraft carriers behind, there is still something to play if the sneak attack fails.

If you take it all, it will really be an unsuccessful and desperate gamble.

Even if Gao Ye is bold, he may not run counter to his strategic goals, and he will gamble on the fate of the Navy and even the entire country.

In the words of Bai Zhizhan, if this is the case, it is the God Bless Empire!

Although he was not convinced, Liu Xiangzhen knew that Bai Zhizhan would not be untargeted, and he deliberately emphasized this, he must have been worried.

It's just that by this time, what Liu Xiangzhen needs to consider is not how many aircraft carriers have entered the Yanhai.

What's the number one problem?

After the narrow fleet entered the Yanhai, where did it go!?

Wandering around the Nanzhu Kingdom, or is it killing it violently, or is it already under the city?

Although in the past few decades, the Yanhai Sea has almost become the inland sea of the Empire, but the Yanhai Sea is the second largest sea in the world, with an area of almost 3.5 million square kilometers, and there is no way to completely control it. The key point is that, with the exception of the two large islands in the north, the other islands are mainly located in the central and southern regions. In the north, about a million square kilometers of water, there are not many islands, let alone large islands that can build airfields.

In addition, the Imperial Navy did not have many large patrol aircraft.

Of the more than 20 patrol planes purchased before the war, only four were assigned to the Southern Fleet, and the others were all in the Home Fleet.

Relying on four patrol planes to find a fleet in a sea area of one million square kilometers is almost as difficult as looking for a needle in a haystack.

Even if the search area is smaller, it will take several days.

It was precisely because of this that Liu Xiangzhen allowed the fleet to remain to the south of Foot Island, between Foot Island and the Lixi Islands to be precise. More than 200 kilometers to the southeast is Yongyue Island, the largest in the Lisi Islands. The point is that on Wing Yue Island, there is a runway that reaches a length of two kilometers.

Yesterday evening, the Southern Fleet temporarily sent thirty fighters to Wing Yue Island.

It is arranged that these fighters will be deployed after dawn to operate to the east of the task force to provide vital perimeter cover for the task force.

It can be seen that the location of the special mix group is relatively safe.

So, isn't it too safe?

Safety, also indicates that the position is backward.

If the Narrow-Wing Fleet had already been killed, and the purpose was to raid Chengjiang Harbor, then it would be difficult for the Special Task Force to immediately launch an attack on the Narrow-Wing Fleet where it was now.

Why?

If you attack beyond the combat radius of the carrier-based aircraft, there is no return!

Until the communications staff officer came in a hurry.

"Report, an urgent battle report from Chengjiang Port."

Liu Xiangzhen trembled slightly a few times before reaching out to catch the message handed over.

Actually, there is no need to look at it at all, the communications staff officer made it clear from the beginning.

Here's the battle report!

It's time to come or it's coming!