When formulating the plan, the most serious problem facing the White Stop War was not the capture of the transit island, but how to achieve strategic deception.

The key to attacking the transit island is strategic deception.

Due to the lack of troops, it was impossible to attack the island at the same time, so the range of the fleet's activities was strictly limited, and it could only enter from the northwest direction of the transit island.

This seriously limited the tactical flexibility of the fleet.

As a direct consequence, as soon as the Imperial Navy's operational intentions are revealed, or guessed, the task force may be ambushed during the attack on the transit island.

Even if the Nuland Navy only has 2 small aircraft carriers, as long as it seizes the opportunity, it is also sure to take out 2 large aircraft carriers.

Obviously, the only way to do this is to make a strategic deception to convince the Nuland Navy that the Imperial Navy will not attack the Transit Island, but will attack somewhere else.

In fact, this is also the key to Bai Zhizhan having to cooperate with Wang Kaiyuan.

Only six rounds can make strategic deception work.

Of course, the Imperial Navy has also done a lot of homework on this.

For example, after the occupation of the island, the navy has been increasing troops to the island, transporting a large amount of war materials, and continuing to bomb the island.

During this period, long-range bombers were even sent to visit the Tuk fortress several times.

This move was to convince the Nuland Navy that the Imperial Navy was preparing to attack Guan Dao in the near future, or directly attack Tuk Fortress under the banner of attacking Guan Dao.

To enhance the deception, the Imperial Navy also sent more submarines to the southwestern and southwestern seas.

Of course, the Imperial Navy is also keeping a close watch on Wai Island.

In the past few months, a submarine has appeared near Koh Wiai every few days, making an emergency dive after taking a telegram on the surface.

It's very mysterious, and it feels like it's on a reconnaissance mission.

It's just that the Imperial Navy has never harassed the island of Wei, and has not even sent reconnaissance planes to the island.

This move, in fact, is also to confuse the Nuland Navy.

In Wang Kaiyuan's words, the Nuland Navy may not necessarily believe that the Imperial Navy wants to attack the Guandao and Tuke fortresses, especially at the strategic level, the Imperial Navy has no motive to enter the southwest and eastward for the time being, so it is very likely that the actions of the Imperial Navy in this direction will be regarded as a feint.

In this way, it will be determined that the Imperial Navy is going to attack the island of Wai.

But the problem is that these deceptions are all at the strategic level, at least at the campaign level.

When it comes to tactics, it doesn't have much effect!

To put it more bluntly, after the fleet was dispatched and the communication was carried out by the radio and intercepted by the Newland Navy, the intentions of the Imperial Navy would be revealed.

Maintain radio silence the entire time before the raid?

It's not impossible, it's just that it will greatly increase the difficulty of operations, and it will limit the operational flexibility of the fleet.

Besides, the risk is too great!

When making the plan, Bai Zhizhan and Zhou Yongtao engaged in several war games.

The results showed that if radio silence was maintained throughout the whole process and long-wave radio stations were not used, the two task forces would have to act together for tactical coordination.

If the two task forces were separated, it would certainly not be possible to maintain radio silence the entire time.

In order to keep the two task forces moving separately while maintaining radio silence, it was necessary to strictly implement the battle plan.

If you have a fixed battle plan and are completely inflexible, you are likely to get the situation out of control when you encounter unexpected situations that require a quick decision.

By now, the Imperial Navy has long abandoned the pre-war set, no longer emphasizing pre-war planning, and giving front-line commanders greater decision-making power.

If anything, the Imperial Navy won several opponents in a row, relying on the flexibility of the front-line commanders.

If everything had to go according to plan, everything would have been rigid, and the Imperial Navy would have been defeated long ago.

Then, only 2 task forces can act together, not too far away, at least within the working distance of the long-range voice radio.

In this way, the distance between the flagships of the two sides is 100 to 200 kilometers.

At this distance, there is no concealment at all.

According to the results of the exercise, no matter which task force exposes its whereabouts and is discovered by the enemy's reconnaissance plane, the other task force is very likely to be attacked.

Theoretically, it is possible for 4 fleet aircraft carriers to be hit at the same time!

Even in the worst-case scenario, the probability of 4 aircraft carriers being sunk is almost zero, but the probability of 4 aircraft carriers being damaged and losing their combat effectiveness is not low.

In fact, as long as 2 aircraft carriers are hit, the operation to attack the transit island will end in failure.

In several tactical exercises, without exception, all of them were due to the use of long-wave radio stations, which led to the exposure of the fleet's whereabouts, and then they were attacked.

There is no doubt that this is unacceptable to the White Stop.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Yongtao proposed to bring 2 full-time flagships.

This proposal woke up the white war.

The two flagships were only delivered to the Navy at the beginning of the year, because there were too many electronic equipment installed, many of them were the latest models, the reliability was not high, and there was a problem of mutual interference, so they have not passed the Navy acceptance, and have been carrying out relevant improvements and tests in Xuhai.

The point is, these two flagships have never been on the battlefield.

What Bai Zhizhan thought of was not to change places for the fleet headquarters.

At least from a personal point of view, Bai Zhizhan was very satisfied with the "provincial" level, and the officers and men of the fleet command had no complaints.

In any case, compared with the "Imperial Capital" level and the "Longjiang" level, the space of the "provincial" level is not a little spacious, but much more spacious.

According to his vision, the main value of the two flagships was to use them for tactical deception, so that the Nuland Navy could not accurately judge the intentions of the Imperial Navy.

The solution, in fact, is very simple.

Communication between the two task forces was carried out by the two flagships, and the radio stations were changed from time to time, making it impossible for the Nuland Navy to judge the type of warship based on the signal signature.

In other words, the Nuland Navy certainly cannot immediately identify the two full-time flagships that sent the radio signal, and it is more likely to be judged that it is multiple warships.

In addition, frequent communication is carried out.

In the words of the White Stop, these two full-time flagships are able to pretend to be dozens of warships, so that the Nuland Navy can not touch the north at all.

Who would have believed that the Imperial Navy would send dozens of warships to attack the transit island?

Even if the Nuland Navy concludes that they are two full-time flagships, it will not be associated with the Imperial Navy's task force.

The reason is also very simple, the two full-time flagships have not yet been officially put into service, so even if they are temporarily requisitioned, they will definitely not be used as fleet flagships.

Neither Bai Zhizhan nor some other fleet commander would put himself and the officers and men of the command on a warship that had not been tested by the fire of war, or even passed the military acceptance, even if he had to endure a narrow space and all kinds of troubles.

In fact, the Nuland Navy may not know about the two full-time flagships.

According to Zheng Jiangming, the outside world has always believed that the "Qinling" class is a fast combat support ship, and the level of secrecy is very high, and it is rarely publicized to the outside world.

Taking a step back, even if the Nuland Navy deduces from this that the Imperial Navy's two task forces are heading for the Transit Island, it can distract the Nuland Navy from the fleet by allowing the two full-time flagships to break away from the fleet, so that the task force can remain hidden, and at least avoid the two task forces being attacked at the same time.

However, it is not known whether this method will work.