"It's a good coffee."

"What Xiao Wang brought is said to be this year's new product."

Bai Zhizhan was stunned for a moment, and then nodded. The "little Wang" that Li Mingbo said is Wang Jun, and the coffee brought by the third prince must be good.

At this time, Zhou Yongtao rushed back.

While Bai Zhizhan was looking at the charts, he went to the telecommunications center.

"Just got it." Walking over, Zhou Yongtao handed the telegram in his hand to Bai Zhizhan, and said at the same time: "The news has been confirmed, it is Major General Niz who is in charge of Zhenbao Harbor, and when this battle is over, Lofos will give him the rank of general." The commanders of the two carrier task forces were also appointed by Niz, Rear Admiral Hal and Rear Admiral Fry. It is presumed that there were three York-class task forces under the command of Hal. ”

When Zhou Yongtao said this, Bai Zhizhan quickly read the message.

This information, which has been received before, is now confirmed.

The key is the whereabouts of the two aircraft carrier task forces.

After handing the telegram to Li Mingbo, Bai Zhizhan walked to the chart table.

If the Asahi Sea is said to be a bathtub, then the Guia Ocean can only be regarded as a pond, while the Guia Ocean in the Northwest is a large lake twice the size of the Guina.

In addition, there are not many islands on this side of the Guia!

To the west is the Sayi Islands, to the northwest is the Necklace Islands, to the north is the Aliu Islands, to the east is the Northern Eastern Ocean, until there are no islands on the lonely mainland, to the southeast are the Howai Islands, and to the south are the Wai Islands and the Marsho Islands, and to the southwest are the North Horse Islands and the Volcanic Islands.

These archipelagos and islands span thousands of kilometers!

In these thousands of kilometers of sea area, there is enough space for several task forces.

The battlefield is so vast that it poses a very serious problem.

The patrol planes deployed on the surrounding islands are almost useless.

Even long-range patrol aircraft such as the "White Swan" are not very valuable. The distance is too far for even the discovery of the enemy fleet does not make much sense.

When formulating the battle plan, Bai Zhizhan and Liu Xiangzhen also had a huge disagreement because of this.

White stopped fighting and advocated retracting and blocking Nuland's convoy in the waters near the Narrow Mainland.

Not to be afraid, nor to use long-range patrol aircraft in the volcanic archipelago, but to narrow the scope of reconnaissance and improve the efficiency of reconnaissance and search.

According to Bai Zhizhan's judgment, because of the fear of long-range patrol aircraft deployed in the volcanic islands, the farther west, the farther north the Nuland Navy's aircraft carrier task force will be.

Theoretically, it is possible to reduce the search area by two-thirds!

In this way, it is not necessary to rely on long-range patrol aircraft, but only to dispatch carrier-based reconnaissance planes and seaplanes on cruisers to complete the search mission.

At the tactical level, this maximizes the concealment of Task Force 41.

It's just that Liu Xiangzhen is worried that he will be attacked by the narrow shore-based air force.

Although there is some truth to this concern, fundamentally, it is actually Liu Xiangzhen who is unwilling to give up the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

If the tactics of the White Stop War were followed, the Task Force would have to reduce the number of torpedo planes and bombers, and carry more fighters to enhance its air defense capabilities.

To put it bluntly, it is necessary to be both a magnet and a cutting board.

In this way, the attack power of the task force will inevitably be greatly weakened, and at that time it will be able to organize and launch a maximum of two waves of attacks.

It's just that it can't be denied that Liu Xiang is really worried.

There is sufficient information that in the past few months, the Nuland Federation has provided the Narrows with a number of key equipment for the manufacture of the Zero, including dozens of parts that are necessary for the production of engines and that cannot be manufactured by the Narrows' factories.

In addition, the Sagai Navy has preserved hundreds of Type 96 land attacks.

When properly organized, these combat aircraft are capable of posing a lethal threat to the task force.

The key is that the narrow navy has killed the red eye and set up the "Tianfeng" unit.

It's a suicide force!

Last month, Task Force was attacked, and a light cruiser on anti-aircraft alert was rammed by a bomb-laden Zero and nearly sank.

According to the war report, the Zero that launched the attack did not exchange fire with the air defense fighters at all, and directly attacked in a dive.

In addition, the sea area where the task force was attacked was about 1,000 kilometers away from the Saji mainland, which was far beyond the combat radius of the Zero Battle.

Because it was the first encounter, plus it was indeed a zero battle, the pilots of the air defense fighters did not become alert at all before the enemy aircraft dived. In fact, before being hit by the Zero, the gunners on the cruiser were still watching the excitement and did not think about intercepting enemy aircraft with anti-aircraft guns.

At that time, there were fighters of their own side nearby, so anti-aircraft guns could not be used.

This incident showed that the Narrowish Navy would certainly attack the Imperial warships in a similar way.

It was precisely for this reason that Bai Zhizhan personally asked Li Yunxiang whether the army air force could deploy combat planes on Kudao to bomb the northern island of the Saoyi Imperial State and the northern part of the main island, or at least suppress it, even if it was just to paralyze the airfields in these places in a short period of time.

Unfortunately, it can't be done.

According to the agreements that were forced to be signed with the Western powers after the "Liangluo War", the Liangxia Empire was not allowed to develop the annexed Wailing region for the next 99 years.

Although the island is not a wailing area, it is a related zone as stipulated in the agreement.

Until now, it was also a desert island, to be precise, an undeveloped island, with only hundreds of thousands of aboriginal residents, not to mention a military airport, and only one road, and it was a dirt road. There is a fishing port, but there is no supporting infrastructure, and there is no way to deploy warships.

Of course, sea freight itself is not very reliable.

Although the strategic air force deployed on the Ice Storm Peninsula can be dispatched to bomb the northern part of the island, the range exceeds the combat radius of the fighters, and it is difficult to provide the necessary escort cover. The point is that the strategic aviation of the army is shifting to the southwest and northwest.

In Li Yunxiang's words, he could send reconnaissance planes to monitor airfields in the northern part of the Sagi mainland, but there was no guarantee of sustained suppression.

To put it bluntly, bombing military facilities such as airports is much more difficult and risky than bombing cities, and the results are not very good.

In ground operations, it is generally tactical aviation, not strategic aviation, that performs such tasks.

It was precisely because of this that Bai Zhizhan made a compromise, and the naval command adopted Liu Xiangzhen's suggestion.

However, some adjustments have been made.

The main thing is to make Task Force Fleet farther forward, more northerly to be precise, so as to leave a wider sea area to the south.

After the first task force goes north, the Nuland Navy's carrier task force is more likely to operate in the south.

In addition, with Task Force 1 on the north side, you can concentrate on searching the southern waters without worrying about being attacked from the north.

This is also the key to the fact that Task Force 41 maintains a distance of more than 300 kilometers to the southwest of Task Force and sails in the same direction.

If the Nuland Navy's task force had set its sights on Task Force and had not been to the east, i.e., the area where Task Force had focused its search, it would have been possible only to the southeast of Task Force, that is, to the east of Task Force 41, and to attack at a distance of no more than 500 kilometers from Task Force 41. If you want to eat Task Force 1 in one bite, you have to send at least three aircraft carriers.

If that's the case, that's the decisive pose! 8)