Chapter 451: One More Move
"Endeavour".
Like Bai Zhizhan, Sp was also woken up by a phone call from the staff officer on duty.
By the time he arrived at the commander's bridge, Tian Shi had already sorted out the several telegrams he had received one after another, and marked the key information on the chart.
If you want to say it, Tian Shi is even more desperate than Spu.
In Tian Shi's words, only when the Nuland Federation won the final victory and defeated the Liangxia Empire, could the Narrow Imperial Kingdom escape the fate of enslavement.
He served the Nuland Navy with all his heart, and he was also serving his country.
After learning about the situation from Tian Shi, Spu's expression immediately became gloomy.
That's right, it was a Newland submarine that ambushed the oil tankers of the Liangxia naval fleet.
However, it has nothing to do with Spu.
After the Battle of the Guia Naval Campaign, the Nuland Navy sent submarines to monitor several straits entering the Fanyan Ocean from the Guia Ocean, in accordance with the president's orders.
This is in the service of politics, that is, the whip of the Royal Navy of Bran is beyond the reach of the whip and cannot take care of Fan Yanyang for the time being.
To this end, the Nuland Navy deployed more than a dozen ocean-going submarines to Austria.
This is almost half of the active ocean-going submarines of the Nuland Navy, if anything.
At the end of last year, the submarines were transferred to Perth after the docks built for the submarines and the camps for the submariners were completed.
In order to facilitate the submarine officers and men, the Nuland Navy also opened a flight from Perth to Sydney.
Based in Perth, the Nuland submarine is even more at home in the Fanyan Ocean.
Of course, the combat mission in the direction of Fan Yanyang is not heavy, it is more like a vacation.
Before the Liang Xia Empire conquered Shiquan City, the powerful Liang Xia Navy could not enter the Fanyan Ocean, so there was no possibility of fighting the Liang Xia Navy on the Fanyan Ocean.
At that time, going to Perth became a difference in the beauty of the Nuland submariners.
These are things of the past, though.
According to the Guia Fleet Command, the submarine had previously operated in the Longyan Strait and embarked on a voyage back to Perth after being threatened. As a result, halfway through the voyage, he received a telegram from the headquarters and went to the central waters of the Fanyan Ocean to continue the vigilance mission.
It's just that the submarine was sent to carry out the alert mission for the 61st task force.
When proposing to lead the "Endeavour" to Fanyanyang to assist the Bran Royal Navy in the battle, Spu also proposed that regardless of whether the goal was achieved or not, he would go to Austria after the operation meeting to join the Southwest Fanyanyang fleet and prepare for the next combat operation.
Based on the situation at that time, it was very likely that the Liang Xia Navy would go south to seize the Tuke Fortress after taking the Saidao and Guan Islands, and use it as a base to march into Austria.
From a strategic point of view, unless the Liang Xia Navy can capture and control the oil-rich Posha Bay at lightning speed and without losing the fleet aircraft carriers, it will definitely attack the Tuke fortress after conquering the islands and the islands, and then it will consider taking the Austrian countries indirectly controlled by the Nuland Federation.
The reason is also very simple: it is much less difficult to advance step by step towards the southwest Fanyan Ocean than to cross thousands of kilometers and directly attack the Khowaii Islands.
Geographically, Transit Island is the westernmost island of the Howaii archipelago.
Even from Koh Wai, it is close to 2,000 kilometers to the transit island, and if you start from Sai Island, the straight-line distance to the transit island is more than 4,000 kilometers.
So far away, there must be enough fleet carriers.
Without enough aircraft carriers, relying mainly on shore-based aviation, this road will not work.
Theoretically, unless it can keep all the current fleet aircraft carriers, and in the 101st year of the new calendar, in addition to 4 large aircraft carriers, and a few smaller aircraft carriers, the Liang Xia Navy will have the capital to directly attack the Howaii Islands, and most of them will have to take down Wei Island first.
Is it possible to preserve all fleet carriers?
At least at the time, it was almost impossible.
It is precisely because of this that at the end of last year, even Sipu believed that after the decisive battle of Fanyanyang, the two sides would continue to fight in the southwest and eastward oceans!
For this reason, the "Endeavour" will definitely have to move to the southwest and the east.
As a result, the Southwest Guia Fleet Command made a kind move and sent submarines to the central waters of the Fanyan Ocean to carry out a vigilance mission in advance.
"In any case, we can at least infer from this that the White Stop War is indeed in the southwest Fanyan Ocean, and there are at least 2 fleet aircraft carriers."
Minoru Asada's eyes were there, and Spu's expression didn't change at all.
Tian Shi was also embarrassed, because he knew why Spu was so angry.
The Royal Navy of Bran will not send submarines to the central waters of the Fanyan Ocean, and even if they do, they will not be able to arrive in time, so it is easy to guess that it is a Newland submarine stationed in Perth and still operating on the other side of the Longyan Strait, and it is temporarily sent to the central waters of the Fanyan Ocean.
From this, it can be inferred that it is not difficult for the "Endeavour" to be in the southwest Fanyanyang.
It can be seen that the "feat" of that submarine is tantamount to the betrayal of the 61st task force.
If anything, Bai Zhizhan may have been retreating and preparing to give up, or he had already made the decision to return.
The strongest evidence is that the two fleet tankers were sailing at a speed of 24 knots.
Obviously, if there is not enough fuel, plus it is a return voyage, the fleet tanker should sail at cruising speed to minimize the fuel consumed.
Only in combat condition is it necessary to sail quickly.
According to Tian Shi's speculation, perhaps Bai Zhizhan had already issued an order to return home, so the two fleet oil tankers pulling behind took the lead in turning back.
The task force commanded by Bai Zhizhan is very likely to be not far to the southwest!
But the problem is that after it is concluded that the "Endeavour" is also on the southwest Fanyan Ocean, even if it loses one fleet oil tanker, it is very likely that Bai Zhizhan will stay and continue to fight.
Obviously, this is the last thing Spp wants to see.
Although it was initially Spu who advocated sending troops to Fan Yanyang, his position changed when Lion Springs was captured in just a few days.
In Spu's eyes, Lion Spring City is not only the east gate of Fan Yanyang.
The battle around Lion Spring City very intuitively reflected the combat effectiveness of Bran's army, especially the morale and fighting spirit of the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level.
If the Bran defenders were strong enough, they would have been defeated in a few days?
At the time of Passival's surrender, there were still more than 100,000 officers and soldiers, and there were plenty of food reserves, and most of the city was under the control of the defenders.
As a result, more than 100,000 Bran soldiers surrendered like this!
It won't take long, as long as Percival can hold out for another half a month, maybe there will be a turnaround, and it may even be a decisive victory.
It's just that there is no possibility or possibility.
After the fall of Shiquan City, the action of increasing the troops of Fan Yanyang has lost its value, so what reason is there to fight against Bai Zhizhan on this side?
In other words, Bran's army has given up resistance, so what else is there to fight for?
Won, that's the credit of Bran's fleet.
If it loses, it is the responsibility of the Nuland fleet.
Spark is not a fool, let alone a wrongdoer, why bother to make a wedding dress for Cunningham?
What's more, some of Cunningham's initiatives did chill Spu.
If it hadn't been for that submarine, in the next two days, Sp would have led Task Force 61 to Austria.
But now, it seems unlikely.
If Bai Zhizhan is determined to kill the "Endeavour" here, then the first thing to focus on is the route from the southwest Fanyan Ocean to Austria.
Breaking through alone, almost to death!
Then, we can only join forces with Cunningham to face the White Stop!