After Bai Zhizhan adjusted the mark on the chart, not to mention Li Mingbo, even Zhou Yongtao, who had just returned to the commander's bridge, frowned.

This is the deduction of the battle situation made by Bai Zhizhan, and it is the battlefield situation around tomorrow morning.

The symbol representing the Newland Task Force 16 is in the yellow zone, south of the sea where the transport fleet is located, and the distance is more than 300 kilometers.

The sign representing Task Force 17 Nuland did not move to the northwest, but retreated to the southeast of the Yellow Zone, at a distance of more than 500 kilometers, about 300 kilometers away from Task Force 16 Nuland, in an ideal position to provide anti-aircraft cover.

Part of the Nuland's First Fleet, the main task force with six battleships, sailed more than 200 kilometers to the south.

The whole situation is that the Nuland First Fleet has increased the frontal width, and instead of blocking the 42nd Task Force on the front, it has moved south to prevent the 43rd Task Force.

Crucially, it also cut off the route of the 21st Task Force to the east.

"How is this possible?"

"Don't rush, listen to me." Bai Zhizhan took two sips of coffee, and then said, "Let's assume first, it is indeed Sipu who commands the battle, and it is Tian Shi who cooperates with him, or acts as his assistant. First of all, they will decide that Liu Xiangzhen will follow Zhang Guozhu's ass, and the possibility of taking the risk is not very large. Don't forget, Liu Xiangzhen's performance in Yanhai is not positive, and he is very conservative in the later stage. ”

Zhou Yongtao frowned, but did not refute.

According to Liu Xiangzhen's character, if he didn't want to fight with Bai Zhi, but just to stabilize the situation, he would definitely stay behind the 42nd Task Force honestly.

"If this is the case, attacking Task Force 21 will be the biggest trouble."

"You mean, Hal will go around south?" Li Mingbo asked directly.

Bai Zhizhan nodded and said, "Only by going around to the south can we achieve the suddenness of the attack, and at the same time attack the 21st Task Force, we can get the cover of Spu." Also to provide cover for Hal, and even more to catch us, Sp will stay behind Hal. ”

"How can you deal with us?" Without waiting for Bai Zhizhan to speak, Zhou Yongtao said again, "If we concentrate our forces to attack the 21st Task Force first, then tomorrow morning, let alone attack us, Hal may not even be able to send reconnaissance planes to search for us." As for the task force commanded by Sp, it is too far back, and unless we take the initiative to rush forward, there is no threat. ”

"Indeed, if you can't kill us, you will exchange Hal for Liu Xiangzhen." Li Mingbo shrugged his shoulders when he said this.

His expression, if it was really an exchange of fleet commanders, not warships, would have been better.

"Why didn't we rush on our own?"

Hearing Bai Zhizhan say this, Li Mingbo and Zhou Yongtao were stunned.

"Or rather, what reason does Sp have to think we won't rush forward? Don't forget, it was Tian Shi of the Narrow Navy who advised him. Bai Zhizhan smiled and said, "In the battle with the permanent fleet, we were alone in the west. At that time, the risk taken was definitely much greater than that of taking the initiative now. As long as Tian is real, he will convince Spu that we will definitely take the initiative. ”

"Will Sp believe it?" Li Mingbo still thinks it's impossible.

Tian Shi, the general of the defeated army.

No matter how bad Sipu is, he won't obey the words of a foreign general who has suffered a heavy defeat, after all, Tian Shi is really powerful, so he shouldn't be defeated so badly.

"Why don't you believe it?"

was asked by Bai Zhizhan rhetorically, Li Mingbo pursed his mouth.

"There is indeed this possibility, if Tian Shi is really by Spu's side, then with his previous experience, it must be determined that we will take the initiative to go forward." Zhou Yongtao let out a long breath and said, "The key is that we are indeed sailing towards the southeast now, that is, taking the initiative to go forward. ”

"Now turn or slow down......"

As soon as he said the words, after noticing the faces of Bai Zhizhan and Zhou Yongtao, Li Mingbo immediately closed his mouth.

If the opportunity is given up because of this, Bai Zhizhan will not spend so much tongue.

Bai Zhizhan said so much, in fact, to solve a choice puzzle.

Whether to deal with Hal first, or to kill Sp first.

The former is much less risky, but the gains are much smaller. The latter, in turn, is riskier, but the potential gains are also more significant.

To put it bluntly, if you can kill Sp in the east first, you will have a great chance of completely destroying the Nuland aircraft carrier task force.

On the other hand, there is no guarantee that you will miss the opportunity to eliminate Sp.

The point is that Task Force 41 has only two aircraft carriers.

Because it was already night, the task forces were in combat again, and there was only an approximate route, so there was no way to communicate with the other fleets except to break the radio silence. If you send a plane to Liuhuangdao, it will take four hours to fly each way, which is meaningless.

With more than 100 carrier-based aircraft on two ships, even if the attack can be ensured, it will not be able to deal with two aircraft carrier task forces of equal strength at the same time.

In fact, just escort fighters can't be arranged.

Then, you have to choose one of them!

The indecisiveness of the White Stop War is related to geographical factors, that is, the island of Wei is in the southeast direction.

Task Force 41 is heading southeast at high speed, that is, towards Koh Wil, and there is a very high probability that it will be spotted by patrol aircraft early tomorrow morning.

If Spark believes that Bai Zhizhan will take the initiative to go forward, he will definitely arrange patrol planes to focus on searching this sea area.

"Otherwise, we can first consider strengthening our defenses." Seeing that Bai Zhizhan and Zhou Yongtao didn't speak, Li Mingbo said tentatively again.

Zhou Yongtao was just about to speak, but Bai Zhizhan pressed his hand towards him.

"Don't take it seriously, I'm just talking about ......"

"Defense is true, but it's not a passive defense, it's an active defense." Bai Zhizhan smiled before he said, "In the back, in addition to providing cover for Hal, there is also a very key reason, which can make full use of the long-range patrol aircraft deployed on Wei Island, and even on the transit island, without having to carry many reconnaissance aircraft, let alone arranging carrier-based aircraft to carry out reconnaissance missions, so as to always remain hidden." ”

"You mean ......"

"What we have to do is actually keep an eye on the patrol planes in the direction of Koh Wih. If I can convince Spu, we are indeed over there......"

"Will he believe it?"

Bai Zhizhan glanced at Zhou Yongtao and said, "What if it's two ocean-going cruisers?" ”

"What?"

"We had the heavy cruiser out and it had been spotted by patrol aircraft, but it was not attacked. The Spoo would have thought that we would use heavy cruisers for air defense alert and leave the ocean-going cruisers behind. So as soon as an ocean-going cruiser is found, he will believe that we have been found. What's more, it was an ocean-going cruiser that had never appeared before, and in itself it had a huge appeal. ”

"This ......"

"Anyway, this is an opportunity to completely annihilate the Nuland aircraft carrier task force."

Bai Zhizhan said so, Zhou Yongtao didn't refute it again, after all, Bai Zhizhan was the commander, he was just a little worried, or not very relieved.

Spu's lack of experience may be fooled.

However, will Tian Shi also be fooled?

At the beginning of the east side of the Shuangche Strait, Bai Zhizhan used four heavy cruisers to put Takano together, and Tian Minori was standing by Takano's side at that time!

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