The flagship of the 17th Task Force, the Endeavour, inside the bridge of the commanding ship.

As the young man with the eastern face came in, Sp nodded at him and said hello.

It was none other than Rear Admiral Tanmi of the Sagai Navy.

He is now wearing a Newland Navy uniform, and he does not have a military rank, not only because he is not a Nuland soldier, but also has some relationship with Spu.

Despite the fact that Sp is now the commander of Task Force 17, he is still only a colonel.

Not surprisingly, even Niz is still a major general.

After winning the battle, it is not surprising that he will definitely be promoted exceptionally after he goes back, and it is even possible to jump two levels in a row and be directly promoted to lieutenant general.

In addition, the rank does not mean anything.

After the last war, twenty years of peace, fifteen of which were naval holidays, and many of the officers in the Nuland Navy were not promoted.

This means that a lot of talented officers do not have high ranks.

In fact, the same is true of the narrow navy.

Before the outbreak of the Great War, Tian Shi was just a major staff officer, and then in just a few months, he directly skipped the third rank and became a major general.

If you want to say anything, Tian Shi has to thank Sp.

A few months ago, it was at the instigation of Spur that Hal came forward to persuade Nitz, who proposed to the Admiralty, and finally the State Department invited Tian Shi and a group of narrow-minded naval officers with actual combat experience to the Newland Federation in the name of military exchanges through a diplomatic note.

The key point is that Tian Shi was directly mentioned in the diplomatic note.

If he had not received a direct invitation, the wartime cabinet headed by Bunei would definitely not let him go.

Although the permanent fleet has been wiped out, several large shipyards have been suspended because of bombing, and the narrow navy has long been an empty shelf, there are still quite a few small ships and dozens of submarines with not bad performance.

In addition, hundreds of thousands of naval officers and sailors looked at Tian Shi.

In June, Tian Minoru left the Sasinoi Imperial Kingdom on a submarine with a dozen high-ranking officers.

Upon arrival at Treasure Harbor, they immediately changed into the uniform of the Nuland Navy.

Since then, Tian Shi has participated in several wargames conducted by Niz himself, and has cooperated with Spu, and the two have played imaginary enemies together.

The key is that Tian Shi and Bai Zhizhan fought against Liu Xiangzhen!

Among today's admirals, only Tian Shi has fought against the two major generals of the Liang Xia Navy on the battlefield. At the beginning of the war, he followed the mobile fleet as a guest staff officer to command a special mixed operation with Liu Xiangzhen in Yanhai. After that, he returned to the 1st Main Force and engaged the 3rd Air Task Force under the command of Bai Zhizhan in the Guia Ocean, even if both battles ended in disastrous defeats.

In Nitz's words, failure is also a valuable experience.

This is also the greatest value of Tian Shi.

Compared with the generals of the Nuland Navy, he knows Bai Zhizhan and Liu Xiangzhen better, so when acting as an imaginary enemy, he can imitate the two people more realistically.

It was in these wargames that Tian Shi gained attention.

That's right, it was Tian Shi who sang the leading role, not Sp.

In addition to serving the purpose of formulating battle plans, the main purpose of organizing wargames is to let fleet commanders such as Hal and Frye understand their opponents.

With Sp playing the imaginary enemy, no other high-ranking officer is willing to do this.

It is through cooperation that Tian Shi has been highly valued by Spu.

In terms of external propaganda, Tian Shi, the naval officers and soldiers from the Imperial Kingdom of Narrow-mindedness, did not exist, or they were all soldiers of Narrow-minded descent from Newland.

Tian Shi also has a pseudonym, Tennessee?? Spear.

Of course, people who usually come into contact with him don't call him that.

Through several war games, Tian Shi also had a deep enough understanding of Sp, and felt that Sp was one of the most talented naval officers he had encountered.

For the same reason, Sp has a far more intuition than ordinary people, and it is extremely accurate!

Don't look at him usually unrestrained and smiling, even a little wooden, but when the opportunity arises, he can always react in front of others and act decisively.

In this respect, it is very similar to the White Stop.

Spu's upbringing, or way, is also very similar to Bai Zhizhan.

For the past decade or so, the Nuland Navy has followed the example of the Liangxia Navy by holding an annual fleet exercise that lasts for several months.

The difference is that the Nuland Navy's fleet exercises mainly revolve around offensive and defensive battles in important areas, such as guarding the Wangxi Canal as the main subject of exercises, or responding to enemy surprise attacks in the Khowaii Islands, or crossing the Guia Ocean to attack enemy naval bases.

Relatively speaking, the Nuland Navy's fleet exercises lacked a part of direct fleet confrontation, or it was never dominated by fleet confrontation.

Even so, Spark was given plenty of opportunities to exercise.

For the previous five years of fleet exercises, Sp had been Howl's chief of staff, in charge of aviation operations in the task force under Howl's command.

It was during these five years that Spark was valued by the Nuland Navy and was promoted from major to colonel.

Otherwise, he would have retired as a major four years ago.

These exercises and training are certainly not perfect, and what is lacking is actual combat experience.

The arrival of Tian Shi made up for this shortcoming.

Now, he is Spu's assistant, claiming to be an operational staff officer of Task Force 17, but in fact the chief of staff in charge of operational planning.

In the afternoon, Tian Shi told Spark that the battle must be somewhere southeast of the Volcanic Islands, that is, to the west of the 17th Task Force, near the sea area where the three "sailors" were intercepted, so by tomorrow morning, it is necessary to concentrate on searching the sea area to the west.

It's just that until now, I haven't received any news related to the White Stop War.

In the morning, before receiving the telegram forwarded by Zhenbao Harbor, Tian Shi was making a bet with Spu that Bai Zhizhan did not participate in the big wedding in China and had already returned to the fleet.

It was on this basis that Tian Shi deduced that Liang Xia's 41st Task Force would boldly move forward.

If you want to say anything, the most important thing for Bai Zhizhan is guts.

At the beginning of the year, he only had one aircraft carrier, and he dared to rush to the four fast battleships commanded by Lan Yun, what else in this world did he dare not do?

Of course, even now, this is only Tian Shi's speculation.

After dinner, Tian Shi went to do something, in fact, to check a message, and then rushed over.

When Spu looked over, Tian Shi just nodded.

Because of language problems, when Tian Shi communicates with Sp, he is generally concise and to the point, and those who can use body language will never talk nonsense.

Actually, it was to confirm the whereabouts of Task Force 16.

After nightfall, the 16th Task Force under the direct command of Hal has already moved forward at full speed, and will send reconnaissance planes before the early hours of the morning to focus on searching the waters southeast of the Volcanic Islands in an effort to find the 41st Task Force of Liangxia. Tomorrow morning, after the president officially declared war on the Liangxia Empire, he dispatched carrier-based aircraft to attack the Liangxia 21st Task Force operating in the northwest direction, completing the first battle after entering the war.

If you can, you have to keep an eye on Liang Xia's 43rd Task Force Fleet, which may appear.

It can be seen that Hal picked up the burden and left the opportunity for meritorious service to Sp.

The mission of Task Force 17?

That was the absolute main force against Liang Xia's 41st Task Force, and it would only strike after making a definite discovery.

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