To defeat the White Stop War, you need not only the patience of the turtle, but also the acuity of a greyhound and the decisiveness of a tiger to pounce.

All three of these qualities are present in Spu!

Since the 11th, Sp has been waiting for an opportunity, and has always remained hidden in order to wait for the opportunity, and has not even sent a seaplane to contact Hal in front.

According to Spu's arrangement, there is no need to contact until the battle starts.

When the battle starts, there is no need to contact, at least not to use water to get on the plane.

Even this morning, Sipu still sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, but in fact, he was silent.

Don't talk about communicating with Tian Shi, I don't have much to say to the staff officers of the 17th Task Force.

Most of the time, Sp sat in the position of the commander of the fleet, staring blankly ahead, as if there was something there that no one else could see.

In fact, this is also his norm.

Because that motionless appearance resembled a stone Buddha, Tian Shi called him that in private, and "Stone Buddha" became Spu's nickname.

Actually, the pronunciation is still a bit similar.

It was not until Hal sent a message from the "Lek" that he was fully prepared for the attack of Task Force 21, and a group of aircraft from the south attacked the "York".

Subsequently, the group also attacked the "Lek".

The point is not that the two aircraft carriers were attacked, but that the attacking group came from the south, and the previous heavy cruiser was exposed.

Obviously, the 41st Task Force of the White Stop War is over there!

The attack aircraft group can attack two fleet aircraft carriers at the same time, it must come from two aircraft carriers, that is, the 41st task force, it must not be wrong!

At this time, Spu woke up from the "petrification".

The first order he gave was for the carrier-based aircraft of the two aircraft carriers to be dispatched to attack the 41st Task Force according to the plan drawn up earlier.

The tactics arranged by Tian Shi are actually very simple.

After the first batch of carrier-based aircraft took off, they flew to the southwest, reached the south of the exposed sea area of the Liangxia heavy cruiser, and then turned to the northwest to fly around, striving to go around the rear of the 41st Task Force, at least to the flank, and then launch an attack to catch the opponent by surprise.

After the second group of carrier-based aircraft took off, they flew directly westward, attacking all enemy ships encountered along the way, attracting the attention of Task Force 41.

The task of this group is to create opportunities for the first attack group.

As for the combat radius, he didn't consider it when he did tactical planning, but when he was doing a mission briefing, Tian Shi still had an arrangement.

It's also very simple, after completing the attack mission, it would be nice to be able to return to Task Force 17. If you can't fly back, fly as far east as you can. Task Force 17 will send destroyers and cruisers to rescue pilots who have landed.

In fact, in a word, don't care about carrier-based aircraft, just protect the pilot.

Those carrier-based aircraft of the Nuland Navy are lagging behind, and torpedo attack aircraft, TBD "saboteurs", should have been sent to scrap recycling depots long ago.

After arriving at Zhenbao Harbor, Tian Shi also flew a few laps on several major carrier-based aircraft of the Nuland Navy.

According to the conclusion he gave, in addition to the dive bomber, that is, the SBD "Dreadnought", which is not bad, several other carrier-based aircraft, especially the TBD "Saboteur" and F2A "Buffalo", are lagging behind, and even the "Exocet" and "Typhoon" of the Liangxia Navy are not comparable.

Affected by this, the Nuland Navy started work on replacing F4A with F2F ahead of schedule.

Because it felt that the F2A "Buffalo" was no worse than the "Typhoon" of the Liangxia Navy, at the beginning of the year, the Nuland Navy set the F4F refitting time at the end of the year.

This arrangement is actually to save a batch of maintenance equipment purchased last year and has not been used!

It is a pity that the torpedo attack aircraft to replace the TBD have not yet been produced, and only the TBD can continue to be used.

Even if all goes well, the TBF "Avenger" will not be delivered to the Nuland Navy until the beginning of next year, and it is still unknown whether it will be able to play.

All in all, the loss of point carrier-based aircraft is simply not a pity.

According to this set of tactics arranged by Tian Shi, the two attack aircraft groups were able to reach the 41st Task Force almost simultaneously and launch an attack at the same time.

It's just that the situation is not what he imagined.

By 11 o'clock, the first group of attack aircraft, led by Major Clark, had not sent back a message.

According to Tian Shi's judgment, the first group of attack aircraft between 10:45 and 11 a.m. would definitely encounter the fleet carriers hiding behind the heavy cruiser.

Even if you don't encounter a fleet carrier, you will definitely encounter other warships, such as ocean-going cruisers.

That kind of battleship, Tian Shi has been paying attention to for months.

After arriving at Zhenbao Harbor, Tian Shi learned from the Nuland Navy that the Liangxia Navy had built a kind of battleship with only destroyer firepower with the tonnage of a heavy cruiser, focusing on strengthening anti-aircraft firepower, so the only value of this kind of battleship was to provide air defense cover for aircraft carriers.

The main gun fire of such a battleship is not comparable to that of a light cruiser!

Because there is no main gun!

The main gun of such a battleship is a 130-mm anti-aircraft gun!

In order to maintain the consistency of the trajectory, and probably to facilitate the command of the operation, the short barrel of the anti-aircraft gun was also adopted, and the combat capability against the sea was very limited.

Even for destroyers, the main guns are long-barreled 130 mm or 5-inch naval guns.

In addition, no torpedo tubes were installed, and anti-aircraft guns were arranged wherever they could be used!

That is, in addition to the greater number of artillery, this so-called cruiser is inferior to a destroyer in a battle against the sea!

The first batch of four ships had been built a few months earlier, and according to the latest information, they were placed in the 41st Task Force under the command of Bai Zhizhan.

It can be seen that the discovery of an ocean-going cruiser is equivalent to the discovery of an aircraft carrier.

One way or another, these warships dedicated to air defense will not be far from the aircraft carrier.

Unfortunately, it was not encountered.

Major Clark is a highly experienced pilot in his fifties, and his son is also a naval pilot.

In his fleet, there were also several officers in their forties.

Even if one person makes a mistake, the others, after discovering the enemy ship, will immediately report it to the flagship.

The attack aircraft group never sent a message, and it certainly did not find out!

As a result, by 11:15 a.m., the second group of attack aircraft arrived, and first encountered a formation of four heavy cruisers.

This finding proves Spu's concern.

The four heavy cruisers acted alone, not with the fleet carriers.

In fact, Tian Shi has similar concerns.

It would not be strange if White Stop decided that Newland's 17th Task Force was to the east and let four heavy cruisers assault at full speed overnight.

At the beginning, in the West and East of the ocean, the Third Air Task Force under the command of Bai Zhizhan was almost hit by a narrow heavy cruiser.

The key point is that Bai Zhizhan has four ocean-going cruisers with very strong anti-aircraft firepower, and there is no need to leave heavy cruisers to provide air defense cover.

As long as Bai Zhizhan decided that he could let the heavy cruiser catch Sp, even if there was no ocean cruiser, he would do so!

This is the war of white stopping, and there is no hesitation when the opportunity arises.

It was this concern that led Spu to take Tian Shi's suggestion last night, which was to reduce the speed by 5 knots, and thus sail about 100 kilometers less.

If there was no slowdown, by dawn the distance to the four heavy cruisers would have been only 100 kilometers.

Just when Tian Shi and Spu were nervous, the attack aircraft group had already made new discoveries.

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