It wasn't until noon that Spu regained his breath, or rathered himself a little.

After that, his first order was to turn the fleet back to Ozhou.

In the evening, when the night was about to fall, he sent a telegram to Nyz to report the whereabouts of the fleet, and no longer go to the transit island to find the decisive battle of the Liangxia fleet.

Apparently, Spark was also worried about a surprise attack.

Theoretically, the probability that the Liang Xia fleet will go to the southwest and the Guia Ocean to attack the Nuland fleet is almost zero, not that the Liang Xia fleet lacks the ability to sneak attack, let alone that the commander has no guts, but that it cannot be done at all, that is, there are patrol planes of the Nuland Navy on many islands in the southwest and Guia Ocean. Not to mention a large fleet, even if a submarine operating alone, may not be able to reach the vicinity of the Samoan Islands without realizing it.

However, who would have thought that Task Force 51 would be attacked near the Wangyu Canal?

To say anything, that is, negligence.

If Hal hadn't taken it lightly and sent a reconnaissance plane in the afternoon, he might have been able to spot the Liangxia fleet in time, or at least avoid a surprise attack.

It's just that there are no ifs.

All hope has sunk to the bottom with 2 fleet carriers.

The next thing to consider is probably to fight to the death with Liang Xia's army on Honu Island.

At this time, Jumbo Harbor.

Although Nitsu did not faint on the spot after receiving the telegram, his mood was heavier than that of Spud, or rather more desperate.

After receiving the last telegram, he gave the order for the remaining warships of Task Force 51 to be sent to the Canal Zone to standby.

In addition, it is to send out patrol planes and reconnaissance planes stationed at the Wangxi Canal to search for the Liang Xia fleet that may still be operating nearby, or even preparing to launch a sneak attack.

If anything, guarding the Wangxi Canal has always been the number one task of the Nuland Navy.

For more than a decade before the outbreak of the war, the Nuland Navy had been following the example of the Liangxia Navy, holding a targeted fleet exercise every year.

The point is that almost all of the exercises were about guarding the Wangxi Canal.

The reason is also very simple, the Wangxi Canal is the deadliest point of the Nuland Navy, and even the Nuland Federation.

Because the core area of the Nuland Federation is the east coast and the area around the Great Lakes, and almost all the shipyards are on the side of the sunset, the Wangxi Canal is a necessary place to connect the east and west coasts of the Newland Federation and the Nuland Navy to send fleets to the Guia Ocean, and it can be said that it is the choke point of the shipping route.

Not to mention being occupied by the enemy, even if it is paralyzed, the Nuland Navy will lose the entire Guia Ocean.

What's even worse is that paralyzing the Wangyu Canal is not a difficult thing to do.

Theoretically, a few dozen bombers would be able to blow up the locks on the canal, making it impassable for months, if not years.

It is for this reason that the Nuland Navy has always attached great importance to the protection of the Wangxi Canal.

Otherwise, Niz would not have immediately put the garrison of the Canal Zone into combat readiness, to be precise, the entire naval aviation deployed in the Canal Zone.

Although he had not yet recovered from the blow of the destruction of Task Force 51, it was clear that Nitsu's actions showed the true colors of the commander-in-chief.

If anything, what we need to worry about now is the bombing of the Wangyu Canal.

At that time, Nizz's first thought was that the Liang Xia fleet was not actually going to the 31st Task Force, and it was probably the result of a mistake.

To put it simply, Liang Xia's fleet was heading for the Wangxi Canal.

As early as Spu's proposal to let the two fleet aircraft carriers go to Lu Xinhai to assist the Royal Navy of Bran in launching a counterattack, forcing the Liang Xia Navy to enter Lu Xinhai in advance, so as to give up attacking the transit island, or give up supporting the ground forces attacking the transit island, Niz raised a question. If this is done, will it force the Liang Xia Navy to aim its guns at the Wangxi Canal, which is easier to destroy?

To put it bluntly, as long as the Wangxi Canal is paralyzed, all potential threats can be eliminated.

Not to mention anything else, when the two fleet aircraft carriers went to the Guia Ocean, they could only bypass the Nangu Continent from Hejiao, which not only extended their voyage by more than 10,000 kilometers, but also delayed for more than 10 days.

Will the defenders of the transit island be able to hold out for more than ten days?

Also, after so much delay, the Liang Xia Navy will inevitably be suspicious, and it will definitely strengthen its investment on the transit island.

At least at the strategic level, there is no way to rule out the possibility of a sneak attack by the Liangxia Navy on the Wangxi Canal.

Of course, Nyze did not veto Sp's proposed battle plan because of this concern.

After that, he simply ordered dozens of additional patrol planes to be sent to the Wangxi Canal and asked the army to strengthen its defense deployment in the canal zone as soon as possible.

If possible, it would be better to deploy more combat aircraft in the Canal Zone.

It's just that now it seems that such a defensive deployment did not frighten the Liang Xia Navy.

More importantly, after the loss of Task Force 31, even if the Wangxi Canal was not attacked, the Nuland Navy would have lost the transit island.

With 3 small aircraft carriers left, what can they do?

What's more, Sp has already returned to Austria with 2 small aircraft carriers, and with the current situation, he will probably not return to Jumbo Harbor in the near future.

From another point of view, if there is still a slight chance of winning, it is also on the southwest and the Guia side.

In fact, this is also the key to Spu's return to Austria with the fleet, and Niz has no objection.

With the current situation, what the Nuland Navy can grasp may be the last hope.

If there is no hope, defeat is a sure thing.

In this way, the only one that can be used in the direction of the transit island is the "Independence" commanded by Frye.

There is only 1 small aircraft carrier, and I am not even qualified to go to the transit island to see the excitement.

After thinking about it for a whole night, Nyze sent a telegram to the commander of the Transit Island, Major General Hancock of the Marine Corps.

There's a lot of content, but it's just one point.

With the loss of sea supremacy, and the inability to regain sea supremacy, the Guia Fleet was no longer able to provide strong assistance to the defenders of the transit island. However, it is still necessary for the soldiers on the transit island to fight to the death to buy time for the navy to strengthen the defense deployment on other islands.

The meaning is very clear, and in the end it will definitely give up the transit island.

In addition, how long to fight, or how long to hold on, is determined by Hancock according to the actual situation.

Of course, according to the unwritten rule, before the loss of the transit island, unless Hancock decides to share the weal and woe with the defending officers and soldiers, Nyze will arrange for a plane to meet him.

After receiving the callback, Niz boarded a special plane back to his homeland.

In fact, just as Tian Shi thought, after the destruction of the 51st Task Force, the top level of the Nuland Navy was no longer thinking about how to hold the transit island, but how to stabilize the war after the fall of the transit island, or even after the fall of the Khowaii Islands.

In other words, after this battle, how to stop the Liangxia navy from continuing to advance eastward.

At this point, the situation could not be more obvious.

Unsurprisingly, after the fall of the Khowaii Islands, the Nuland Federation had to face a battle to defend the homeland and prevent the Liangxia army from landing on its west coast.

In addition, it is necessary to extend the defense line to the south, at least to hold the northern solitary continent north of the canal.

It is definitely not an easy task to hold a line of defense that is thousands of kilometers long.

Don't look at the vast Guia Ocean, but the initiative to attack is in the hands of the Liang Xia Empire.

It can be seen that the first thing that the Nuland top brass should consider now is actually to carry out all-out war mobilization!