The flagship of the 21st Task Force "Pu".

After dark, the last carrier-based aircraft returned and landed steadily on the flight deck, and Bai Zhizhan quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

In just 2 waves of attacks, the Nurant Mixed Fleet was annihilated and 2 fleet aircraft carriers were sunk, which did not surprise Bai Zhizhan.

What really surprised Bai Zhizhan was that the Nuland fleet would be defenseless!

Not to mention sending fighter jets to patrol the air, even the radar on the escort warship was not turned on.

The commander of the Nuland fleet probably felt that this was his own backyard and that there was no need to worry about being attacked.

Of course, the price of carelessness is the total annihilation of the army.

It's just that the victory came so smoothly that it made Bai Zhizhan worried.

When drawing up the plan, Zhou Yongtao proposed that as long as there was an opportunity, he would sneak attack the Wangxi Canal and block the choke point for the Nuland navy to increase troops to the east.

Of course, it's not that difficult.

According to Zhou Yongtao's plan, as long as he approached the Wangxi Canal at night, he launched a wave of attacks after dawn, and then turned to retreat.

At most, a few dozen dive bombers need to be dispatched to blow up those locks.

If you want to expand the success, you only need to send more bombers and use the submunitions used on the transit islands to cause problems for the Nuland army.

At that time, Bai Zhizhan did not veto Zhou Yongtao's proposal.

The point is, the temptation is too great.

As long as the Wangxi Canal is paralyzed for a few months, the Imperial Navy will not only be able to take the transit island, but it is even expected to capture or paralyze the Treasure Harbor in one fell swoop.

However, Bai Zhizhan did not underestimate the risk of a sneak attack on the Wangxi Canal.

If you want to say anything, it is actually whether you can achieve the suddenness of the battle.

If the fleet is discovered before approaching the Wangxi Canal, even at night, by daybreak, it will definitely be attacked by the Nuland Air Force with all its might.

It's just that 2 fleet aircraft carriers can't withstand it at all.

Herein lies the problem.

After engaging the Nurant Mixed Fleet, can the suddenness of the battle still be achieved?

It is precisely in this way that when the plan was formulated, the White Stop War prepared two sets of plans, for the two scenarios of whether or not to encounter the Nurant Mixed Fleet first.

Only when the Nurant Mixed Fleet was not encountered, and the whereabouts were not revealed, did they attack the Wangxi Canal.

Actually, it's also about intelligence.

On 14 August, or before the early hours of the 15th, there was no certainty that the Nulan Squadron would enter the Guia through the Lookout Canal.

The point is, it is entirely possible that the task force will go south in the sunset.

In addition, it is even possible to turn to Fanyanyang, first join up with the broken fleet over there, and then ambush the "Yokoe" as a bait. If the opportunity is seized, it is guaranteed that the 11th task force commanded by Liu Xiangzhen can be killed in Muahai or the Bay of Bengal.

That's right, it was the "Hengjiang" that rushed to Fan Yanyang.

According to the arrangement of the White Stop War, the 22nd Task Force under the command of the Wei Army turned back to the southern part of Yanhai, and was replaced by the "Hengjiang", which had already arrived ahead of schedule, to deceive the Nuland submarine that was ambushed to the east of Shiquan City, so that the Nuland Navy would believe that the 22nd Task Force was sent to Fanyanyang.

After that, Task Force 22 will first return to the northern waters of the Yanhai Sea.

Even if all goes well, after getting the exact news, we must return to the Guia Ocean by the Shuangche Strait and return to the transit island at full speed.

The task assigned to the guards by Bai Zhizhan was actually to serve as a substitute.

To put it simply, if Task Force 21 had been in the air and had not been able to annihilate the Nuland fleet or destroy the Wangyu Canal, the Guards would have to cover the landing fleet on the Transit Island side and, together with the support fleet, meet the attack from the Nuland fleet.

The plan itself is not complicated, the key is the return time of Task Force 21.

Of course, the smooth implementation of this plan depends on 2 full-time flagships.

Rather than acting as a communication point, it makes full use of the radio monitoring equipment installed on the flagship.

On the way back, it was by relying on the radio signals intercepted by the "Kunlun" that it was possible to determine when and where it was discovered by the Nuland submarine.

More importantly, the Nuland Navy apparently did not know that the full-time flagship of the Imperial Navy was capable of performing radio reconnaissance missions.

It was precisely in this way that the 22nd Task Force sailed all the way to the southern waters of Yanhai.

The telegram sent by the Nuland submarine intercepted by the "Kunlun" made it possible to deduce the whereabouts of the Nuland Navy, or the Newland Task Force to be precise.

In Zhou Yongtao's words, if the Nuland Navy uses the reconnaissance report provided by the submarine as a reference, then the task force that appeared in Lu Xinhai before will inevitably return to the Guia Ocean from the Wangxi Canal, so that it can reach the transit island in time and launch a counterattack together with the Diplomatic Destruction Fleet that has returned from the Dongfan Yanyang at the same time.

If you go south to bypass Hejiao, you will have to delay for more than ten days.

These hours will make the Nuland Navy's counterattack meaningless.

From a military point of view, if there is no return from the Wangxi Canal, then the Nurant Mixed Fleet is more likely to turn eastward in the South Sunset Ocean, go to the Fanyan Ocean to join the Broken Fleet, strengthen the combat operation of breaking the Diplomatic Relations in the Fanyan Ocean, and even cut off the route of the North Fanyan Ocean.

Of course, the opportunity to destroy the 11th Task Force was also available.

All in all, no matter who planned this round of combat operations, it was necessary to achieve a quick victory, and we must not waste time on the voyage.

To put it mildly, "quick victory" is also a major feature of the decisive battle of the fleet, which is aimed at seizing sea supremacy as the ultimate goal in this war.

This can be seen as a characteristic of modern naval warfare with aircraft carriers as the main force.

There is also the "Qinling" that has made great contributions.

Although it was only in the early morning of 15 August that it received information from the rear, on the night of 11 August, the "Qinling" intercepted a large number of long-wave telegrams sent by the Newland warships, and it was inferred from this that the task force with two fleet aircraft carriers as the core was about to enter the Guia Ocean through the Wangxi Canal.

The reason is very sufficient, the number of Nuland battleships that sent telegrams exceeded 20, and covering 1 small aircraft carrier, it was clear that so many warships were not needed.

By the early morning of the 15th, the "Qinling" once again concluded through the intercepted radio signal that the two fleet aircraft carriers had passed through the Wangxi Canal.

Among the intercepted long-wave communication signals, there were signals from two unfamiliar radio stations. The chief telecommunications analyst of the "Qinling" deduced that perhaps the "Lek" and "Endeavour" had replaced their long-wave radio stations during maintenance, so there were no warships corresponding to the signal.

In order to make Bai Zhizhan pay attention to this matter, the captain of the "Qinling" also made a guarantee.

It's actually a bit redundant.

As early as the attack on the transit island, the radio reconnaissance capability of the "Qinling" was confirmed, and it was trusted by the main commanders such as Bai Zhizhan.

In several large-scale night naval battles, it was the "Qinling" that was the first to discover the approaching enemy ships and issued an alarm in time to prepare the fleet for battle.

All in all, the 2 full-time flagships provided the commander with a lot of critical intelligence through radio reconnaissance.

If anything, this is also the first time that electromagnetic countermeasures and electromagnetic reconnaissance have played a campaignal-level and tactical-level value on the maritime battlefield, which was mainly reflected in the campaign and strategic level before.

Even in the end, the information obtained by electromagnetic reconnaissance was the main basis for Bai Zhizhan to launch an attack.