Li Mingbo has always been unable to figure out how Bai Zhizhan has such a good appetite.

The telegram was sent by the command of the Navy, and it was expedited.

There is only one content: last night local time, a convoy of transport ships from Colombo to Lion Springs was ambushed in the south of the Bay of Bengal.

In total, 22 ships, including 6 escort destroyers, were sunk, and only a few freighters behind the flotilla turned in time and escaped by chance.

Four escort destroyers reported before the sinking of the battle, claiming that they had been bombarded by heavy artillery from a distance of 20 km.

The Bran Royal Navy's Fanyan Ocean Squadron had long since returned to the Kibu Fortress, and even if it was out of port, it was mainly in the Gulf of Aden and the narrow sea.

It was definitely the Nuland battleship that launched the attack.

It is possible to fire at a distance of 20 kilometers, and it can also sink destroyers, at least heavy cruisers equipped with gun-sighting radars, and the number is not too small.

There is no doubt that it was a broken fleet of the Nuland Navy!

If anything, there's nothing surprising about that.

On the side of Fanyanyang, the Imperial ships mainly operate in the Mua Sea and the Bay of Bengal in the North Fanyan Ocean, and there are many military bases along the way, which can deploy patrol aircraft to carry out anti-submarine missions, and the Imperial Navy also sends warships to escort the fleet, so the results of the Nuland submarine are not very large.

Comparatively speaking, the Imperial Navy's task force was always active on the Mua side of the Sea and rarely returned to the Bay of Bengal.

After the capture of Sri Lanka, the Sixth Bureau sounded an alarm to alert the enemy's broken fleet, and it was better to arrange cruisers to carry out escort missions.

It really doesn't work, and it is also necessary to try to have the cruiser serve as the flagship of the escort fleet.

The main thing is that destroyers carrying out escort missions are often mainly anti-submarine, and their main combat weapons are depth charges, which are not equipped with too many naval guns, and some do not even have torpedo tubes installed.

In addition, almost all of the escort ships in Fanyanyang are old destroyers that are more than 20 years old, and some of them even participated in the last global war.

It's just that the alarm of the Sixth Bureau did not attract the attention of the Imperial Navy.

Compared with the anti-submarine escort in the Fanyan Ocean, the tasks of the Imperial Navy in the Guia Ocean were more onerous, and there were no extra cruisers available for the time being.

The new cruisers were grouped in the task force, while the older cruisers were flanked by the landing fleet and the support fleet.

Obviously, it was a broken fleet of the Nuland Navy.

The point is that the main force of this fleet may not be broken cruisers, it may not be real warships, and maybe battleships!

It was in this way that the command of the Navy sent the telegram at the first time.

The telegram also mentioned that shore-based air forces deployed in Lion Springs and Sri Lanka had been dispatched and would certainly be able to find enemy ships attacking the convoy after dawn.

Of course, new discoveries are immediately reported.

Li Mingbo dared to delay at all, and immediately sent a communications staff officer to find Bai Zhizhan.

Where did I think that Bai Zhizhan was not in a hurry.

After breakfast, he came to command the bridge.

Subsequently, he asked Li Mingbo to gather the main staff officers, in fact, to inform Zhou Yongtao, and to call the main officers, including Shen Pu.

When Li Mingbo went to prepare for the meeting, Bai Zhizhan gave instructions on last night's combat report.

It's not that he doesn't pay attention to it, but that he can't pay attention to it.

The telegram sent by the command of the Navy, which only mentioned that the convoy had been attacked and that 22 ships had been sunk, did not provide more detailed information.

Even the broken fleet of the Nuland Navy cannot be sure that there are capital ships, let alone aircraft carriers.

The key is that the battle on the side of the transit island is in full swing, and the Nuland Navy is trying to make trouble for the Imperial Navy and let the Imperial Navy divide its forces to reduce the pressure on the defenders of the transit island, or buy some time so that the Nuland Navy can strengthen the defense deployment of the transit island.

All in all, intelligence is valuable, but it doesn't say anything.

After the arrival of senior staff officers and principal officers, Bai Zhizhan only asked for increased preparedness, but did not say that adjustments should be made to combat operations.

However, it is only a matter of a few hours.

In the afternoon, almost evening, to be exact, the Navy command sent the latest news.

On the morning of local time, a long-range reconnaissance plane taking off from Lion Springs was intercepted by Nuland fighters over the sea area about 1,000 kilometers from Jakarta in the southwest of Sumatra Island and shot down while sending a telegram. A few hours later, another reconnaissance plane was again intercepted by Nuland fighters in nearby waters and was shot down while also making a telegram, although more detailed information was provided.

It was the F4F carrier-based fighter that launched the attack!

The sea area where the incident occurred is more than 1,500 kilometers away from the Austrian mainland, so those carrier-based fighters must not be from Austria, but from a nearby aircraft carrier!

It's just that the Nuland aircraft carrier was not detected by the 2 reconnaissance aircraft.

As for what kind of aircraft carrier, it is even more unknown.

Crucially, the other patrol planes and reconnaissance planes were too far away to arrive after a few hours, and the Nuland fleet might not be found.

According to the judgment of the command of the Navy, perhaps an escort aircraft carrier.

On the North Sunset, the Nuland Navy has more than 20 escort aircraft carriers.

In addition, there are more than 10 escort aircraft carriers in the southwestern and eastern seas.

According to the information provided by the Sixth Bureau, the Nuland Federation not only used fast freighters to transform escort aircraft carriers, but also built a number of escort aircraft carriers with higher speed, which were specially used to escort the fast transport fleet. Because of their high speed, these escort carriers can be seen as miniature versions of small carriers.

In fact, in many cases, fast escort aircraft carriers are used as small aircraft carriers.

In the southwestern and southwestern seas, the Nuland Navy has been strengthening its military presence by sending combat aircraft to the dotted islands with escort carriers.

It is not a strange thing to send a few escort aircraft carriers to Fanyan Ocean to provide air defense cover for the broken fleet and to send reconnaissance planes to search for the convoy.

Of course, in the broken fleet, there must be warships equipped with radar, which can detect approaching patrol planes and reconnaissance planes in time.

In the telegram, it is also clearly mentioned.

The command of the Navy has already made arrangements to send a combined fleet to the Bay of Bengal.

If there is a Newland Navy's broken fleet over there, then in the next encounter, the three fast battleships of the Combined Fleet will definitely give it a head-on blow.

As for the aircraft carrier, it is clear that there is no need to worry.

The aircraft-carrying capacity of escort aircraft carriers is very weak, far from being comparable with fleet aircraft carriers, and even small aircraft carriers cannot be compared, and generally can only carry fighters.

Even a fast escort aircraft carrier is difficult to operate carrier-based aircraft on the large side.

Even if it can carry bombers and torpedo planes, it is limited by its sortie ability, and its tactical value is very limited.

When performing anti-submarine escort missions, it is definitely enough.

It's just that if you want to get escort aircraft carriers to participate in fleet operations, it is reluctantly difficult.

In fact, this is also the key to the Nuland Navy's failure to let escort aircraft carriers participate in the decisive battle of the fleet.

It's just that the speed of less than 20 knots makes it difficult for the escort aircraft carrier to keep up with the fleet and send it away, and it is difficult to play an active role in the decisive battle of the fleet.

This is where Bai Zhizhan worries.

After receiving this telegram, Bai Zhizhan took the others to the officer's cafeteria.

It's said to be going to dinner, but it's actually a meeting.

If I want to say it, it was only at this time that Bai Zhizhan seemed a little nervous.