At this time, on the "Accompany Beijing".

After receiving the news from the attack aircraft group that the attack on the Nuland fleet had begun, and there were not many fighters in the sky over the Nuland fleet, Bai Zhizhan quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but did not give the order to let the fleet lift the silence, but only said that preparations for accepting the returning carrier-based aircraft as soon as possible.

The whole combat operation, only one point was not expected by the White Stop War.

The first to reveal their whereabouts, and it was the Bran fleet that sailed to the south!

Last night, after receiving the news of the attack on the fleet's oil tankers, Bai Zhizhan immediately concluded that the Nuland fleet was here, and most likely had given up going north, and would soon go to Austria and be incorporated into the Southwest Guia Fleet to continue the battle with the Imperial Navy.

The reason is that there is no point in going north.

The Imperial army took Lion Springs City, and the Bran army could only retreat to the Kib fortress, and in Muahai, there was no room for the aircraft carrier to show its strength. Since no one can defend Posha Bay despite all their might, the Nuland Navy will not continue to venture in the Fanyan Ocean.

Fundamentally, the key is for the Imperial Army to quickly capture Lion Springs City.

In a few months, the Imperial Navy would turn its focus back to Guia, so the Nuland Navy would have to send its main forces to Guia before then.

In addition, the Nuland Navy must strive for or create a strategic environment favorable to itself.

There is only one thing to say: to lure the Imperial Navy to the south-west and the Guia as much as possible, and to avoid a decisive battle with the Imperial Navy in the Khowaii Islands too soon.

To do this, it is necessary to make full use of the first half of the year 101 of the new calendar.

In a sense, this is the final window of time for the Nuland Navy, and indeed for the Nuland Federation. If you miss this half year, you will inevitably lose!

By the second half of the year, the Liangxia Navy will have four large aircraft carriers and three fleet aircraft carriers, in addition to the hope of obtaining a large number of auxiliary aircraft carriers converted from fast freighters. If Posha Bay is successfully captured, the Liangxia Navy will mobilize heavy forces to attack the Khowaii Islands.

For this reason, the Nuland Navy must be the first to strike.

Obviously, the only option is to make a fuss in the southwestern and southwestern Guia.

It was in this way that the White Stop concluded that the Nuland fleet was to the south, and to the east.

The 11th Task Force headed southwest overnight, almost directly to the south to be exact.

The big question, however, was how to make sure that the Nuland fleet was found around dawn.

Carrier-based reconnaissance planes are not omnipotent, especially in bad weather, and even if they can take off, they may not be able to detect enemy ships in time.

This is even more true if it is at night.

Fortunately, Zhou Yongtao came up with a very bold idea.

Using the same tactics used in the Battle of the Northwest and Guia, the seaplanes were sent out at night, landed in the sea where the enemy fleet was most likely to appear, and then waited for dawn.

The point is that the 8 seaplanes carried by the 2 fast battleships are all equipped with new voice radios.

Even when used on the sea, the radio has a working distance of more than 150 km.

The key point is that in previous training, electronic officers have found that if they use voice radio stations at sea level and the distance is too close, it will be difficult to intercept the radio signals emitted by the radio, and even if they do, they will often be recognized as warships and will not be regarded as reconnaissance aircraft.

As for the reason, it has to do with the frequency of work.

In addition, radio monitoring stations generally work in the medium-wave and long-wave bands, and the signals of long-wave stations on key ships are not very sensitive to voice stations working in the short-wave band.

With this, Zhou Yongtao designed and deployed a set of very ingenious reconnaissance tactics.

Seaplanes maintain a distance of 100 to 120 kilometers from each other after departure. If an enemy ship is spotted at night, a nearby seaplane is contacted by a voice radio station, and a friendly aircraft sends a message to the fleet using a long-wave radio. If it is in the daytime, it will take to the air to visually observe and judge the nature of the enemy ship, and then report to the fleet.

To put it simply, you have to stay hidden first.

As for the importance of staying hidden, it goes without saying.

The 11th Task Force was alone, and Bai Zhizhan felt that the Nuland fleet was in the south and the Bran fleet was on its way north to Muahai, so by the morning of the 28th, the 11th Task Force was likely to be between the two enemy fleets, and it was also possible to be flanked.

According to the meaning of the White War, even if the enemy fleet cannot be found, the whereabouts cannot be revealed.

It really didn't work, so I turned back in the evening.

After all, after the attack on the fleet's tankers, it became more difficult to get fuel supplies, and if they did not return on the 29th, it was possible to burn out the fuel before they joined the receiving fleet.

It was this deployment that allowed Bai Zhizhan to seize the fighter.

Can it be said to be luck?

Although many people believe that the 11th Task Force found and attacked two enemy fleets at the same time mainly by luck in the decisive battle of the fleet also known as the Battle of Klose in the Battle of the Southwest Fanyan Ocean, because of its proximity to the Klose Basin, it would not have been possible to have such good luck if the White Task Force had not made an accurate judgment, Zhou Yongtao had not proposed this set of ingenious tactics, and the officers and men of the fleet had demonstrated high quality in the battle.

If anything, the god of luck prefers the prepared.

Of course, there is a big luck factor in this fight.

At that time, all four seaplanes sent by the "Yanhai" went to the south, and the distribution range from north to south exceeded 400 kilometers.

The other 4, that is, the seaplanes carried by the "Asahimi", went to the northwest.

Just after 3 a.m., a seaplane sent by the "Yanhai" spotted the Bran fleet and contacted the nearest other seaplane.

However, at that time, it was not determined whether it was which fleet, or whether there were aircraft carriers in the fleet.

In order to find out the situation with the enemy fleet and, in particular, to determine the presence or absence of aircraft carriers, the pilots of the seaplane did something extremely crazy.

In a gliding way, follow behind the enemy fleet.

At night, seaplane pilots can see battleships, but lookouts on battleships may not be able to see seaplanes more than a dozen kilometers away.

Compared to battleships, seaplanes are too small.

Crucially, the lookout on the battleship would never have imagined that there were enemy seaplanes on the nearby sea.

It was almost dawn that the seaplane sped into the air and sent a telegram after visually spotting the two Bran aircraft carriers in the fleet.

Prior to that, that is, after 3 a.m., when the first report from the seaplane was received, the White Stopper gave an order for combat readiness.

Although it was not certain that what was found at that time was a fleet, not a few battleships operating alone, and the pilots of the seaplanes did not see the aircraft carrier, but intuition told Bai Zhizhan that it was the enemy fleet that had been looking for it, and there must be enemy aircraft carriers nearby.

It was this that when the second report from the seaplane was received, the carrier-based aircraft immediately began to rise into the air.

In addition, it is too close.

In order to save time, Bai Zhizhan sent the air defense fighters that had been lifted into the air in advance to carry out escort missions. After the departure of the attack group, the fighters originally planned for escort missions were released to patrol the air. Although it was a little troublesome, it saved about ten minutes.

At that time, the 11th Task Force was northwest of the Bran fleet, about 40 degrees west-west to be exact, and a distance of less than 200 kilometers.