Unlike Tian Shi, Lan Yun went back to the commander's cabin to sleep after dark, got up before dawn, and then returned to the commander's bridge.

After that, except for going to the toilet, he stayed on the bridge of the commander's ship, and even breakfast and lunch were delivered by the staff officer.

Yesterday evening, after receiving the second telegram from Tian Shi, Lan Yun was really frightened.

If the "Yokoe" had been commanded by Bai Zhizhan and had already entered the Guia Ocean, the probability of appearing near the North Malaysia Islands would be very high.

This means that a swarm of attack aircraft could arrive at any time!

Lan Yun dared not delay, and after receiving the telegram, he ordered to sail east at full speed to avoid possible bombing.

Refueling?

I definitely can't take care of it.

In order to keep it secret, Lan Yun also ordered the whole fleet to enter a state of radio control, and did not even send a message to contact the four oil tankers following behind.

If you want to say it, you don't need to contact it.

The four oil tankers carried the flag of the Nuland Federation were only requisitioned by the Narrow Imperial State, and according to the calculations given by the navigation staff, even if the farthest route was chosen, the remaining fuel could still be returned to the mainland after completing the task of assaulting the Huangdao landing site.

If needed, it can even return to the gallery fortress at cruising speed.

What's more, you can also go to Guandao when necessary.

With such a focus on range, or fuel, the problem lies with the "Takeshima".

During the battle to cover the "Soryu", the "Wudao" suffered a near-miss bomb, and did not notice anything unusual at that time. After returning to the Tuke Fortress, it was found that the outer plates of the No. 3 and No. 5 oil tanks on the left had been severely deformed, and the oil pipeline had been damaged. Because there were no pipelines of the same size, and there was a lack of necessary accessories such as valves, it was not possible to carry out repairs at the Tuk Fortress.

All that can be done is to seal these two oil tanks.

As a result, the fuel capacity of the "Mishima" was reduced by about 800 tons.

In order to ensure balance, try not to use fuel from the No. 4 and No. 6 tanks on the right.

Even at a cruising speed of 18 knots, the "Mijima" can only run 6,000 nautical miles, and if it sails at full speed, the range will be drastically shortened to about 2,500 nautical miles, so according to the basic replenishment regulations, it must be refueled after 1,000 nautical miles at full speed.

The fuel replenishment carried out on the night of the 17th was because of the "Wudao", otherwise it would have had to be resupplied by the platoon on the night of the 18th.

Last night, after giving the order to sail eastward at full speed, Lan Yun sent a seaplane and brought his order to Fujinao Osa, who was leading two destroyers and covering four oil tankers, and asked the oil tankers to continue sailing north to the sea north of the Volcanic Islands to stand by.

Why?

If the "Mijima" does not have enough fuel, it can also be resupplied there.

Those were four Nuland oil tankers, and they were still flying the Nuland flag, no matter how bold the Liang Xia Navy was, they would not dare to attack the oil tankers of the Nuland Federation.

In the last war, it was because civilian ships were frequently attacked by the Entente that the Nuland Federation joined the Alliance.

At the very least, the cruise ship "Lucy" was sunk by a submarine of the Empire without warning, which became a major motivation for the Newland Federation to send troops into the war.

Unless the Liang Xia Empire was ready to go to war with the Newland Federation, it would think twice.

Besides, that's just four tankers.

What is the difference between sinking and not sinking?

After making these arrangements, Lan Yun went to sleep, and slept until dawn.

It was only during the day that he became nervous.

The battle on the Liuhuang side continued all night, and the landing Marines had taken full control of the beachhead and crushed the defenders' counterattack during the night. After daybreak, the Marines began to advance inland, and the defenders, who had suffered heavy losses, could not hold the forward line at all.

The firepower of the Liang Xia battleship was too fierce.

In just one night, at least eight large warships arrived at the landing site and covered the landing force with heavy artillery, inflicting huge casualties on the counterattacking defenders.

By the morning, the megaships were once again playing a key role.

According to the report sent by the garrison command, there was at least one battleship at the landing site. The reason was that many of the fortified fortresses that could withstand 200-mm shells were destroyed by huge shells fired from the sea. Although the battleship was not observed, it was certain that it was a battleship.

The power was greater than the 200-mm naval guns of heavy cruisers, and only the main guns of battleships.

In addition, it was a fast battleship.

It had been previously proved that the four "Yongheung"-class ships of the home fleet shelled Changsi, and then returned to the vicinity of Jedo, which is now probably on the side of Buju.

These four battleships could not appear on the side of Liuhuang Island under any circumstances.

If it is a fast battleship, then it must be not one, but several.

The Liang Xia navy may have received information that the permanent fleet had left the Tuke fortress, so it sent fast battleships to the landing grounds.

The first task of these battleships was, in fact, to cover the landing fleet.

Since the permanent fleet had not yet arrived, it provided artillery support to the landing force after it ran into trouble.

Well, is it still necessary to assault the landing field?

Even if some heavy armor-piercing shells produced by the Newland Federation are obtained, the combat effectiveness of the "Golden Steel" class is at most comparable to that of the "Luhe" class, and it is not comparable to the "Beihe" class at all, let alone the cutting-edge "Xuhai" class. As long as there were four fast battleships at the landing site, the permanent fleet would have been sent to death in the past.

In particular, two ships of the "Asahimi" class.

There is enough information to indicate that in the battle in the Watcher Strait, two "Asahimi" class ships cleanly and unscathed the two "Gate" class.

Or in the night battle that the Narrow Navy is proud of!

Until the battle sank, neither "gate" fired a threatening counterattack.

Lan Yun was a little big, or rather uneasy.

If it were up to him to decide, he would turn the permanent fleet back or continue eastward, make a big circle, and return to Sagi mainland.

Unfortunately, it is not up to him to decide.

Throughout the morning, no orders were received from the Military Command Department, and the combat operation of the assault on the landing site of Liuliu Huangdao was not canceled and still had to be carried out according to plan.

The plan was that the permanent fleet must arrive at the landing site within 10 hours after sunset on the 19th and before sunrise on the 20th, and the primary task was to shell and destroy the landing ships and transport ships in the landing field, and the secondary task was to shell the enemy forces that had landed on Liuhuang Island.

Because it avoided to the east and did not turn northwest after that, it was impossible to reach it on the night of the 19th anyway, and it could arrive at about 4 a.m. on the 20th at the earliest.

If all goes well, the two hours before dawn should not be much of a problem to take out the landing fleet.

After lunch, Lan Yun only went to the toilet and then returned to the Commander's Bridge.

Although Lan Yun didn't say anything, the staff officers of the headquarters knew that he was waiting for a telegram from the military command department announcing the end of the "Tianfeng" combat operation.

Unfortunately, it was not this telegram that was waiting for it.

When the telecommunications officer hurriedly walked over, Lan Yun immediately turned around to meet him, and took the telegram without waiting for the telecommunications officer to speak.

It's not a telegram, it's a battle report, sent by Fujinao Daisa from the destroyer "Autumn Yun".

At the beginning, the oil tankers heading north, as well as the two destroyers providing cover, were bombed, and enemy planes flew in from the north.