"From now on, all inter-fleet communications can only use the spare frequency band, and only as a last resort! Vice Admiral Hipper, this is you leading a squadron of battleships alone, you have half the strength of the High Seas Fleet in your hands, and you have only one mission, to keep an eye on your opponents, and cut off their evacuation to the Shetland Islands, and if you can, to get close to them without premature detection! "Before the fleet parted ways, the prince said to Hipper. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Jericho guessed right, the prince would never take any drastic actions against the Grand Fleet! This time it's still aimed at Thomas's fleet! Why did you say that the last battle was very good? I thought that now there are only 5 queens in Thomas's fleet, plus two battle cruisers, there are only 7 battleships in total, and the combat effectiveness has dropped to less than half of the strength of the fast fleet of the high seas fleet! That's why the prince dared to divide his troops and outflank him!

Against a fleet with a speed similar to one's own, it is useless to simply pursue, the speed difference between the two sides is at most 1 to 2 knots, and it may take several hours to close the distance from visual detection to about 18 kilometers for artillery combat, and after a few hours, maybe the large fleet is almost there, and the opponent can still use a smoke screen to interfere. How do you go about hunting a fast fleet? Thomas has already told everyone with practical experience, and that is multi-way outflanking!

However, it was somewhat difficult to outflank during the day, and the British seaplanes and auxiliary warships could provide early warning to the fleet. So this outflanking is useless during the day! Therefore, there is only one solution, and the best solution, the outflanking maneuver is carried out at night, and the time for the two sides to meet is in the hands of dawn! At dawn there will be sea fog in the North Sea, which will still protect the fleet, and when the sun rises, the best position for the Scheer fleet is to get stuck on the way home for the British fleet!

The choice of this interception point could not have been too close to the Forth of Forth, otherwise it could have been discovered by British land-based aircraft or submarines if it was not discovered by Thomas's fleet. And because it relied on airships and radio direction finding to determine the position of the British fleet, this also had a large error. These things can only depend on the skill level and luck of the people involved. But this at least gives the prince a chance to hunt!

And what about the Hippert fleet? His mission is to track and block the retreat of the other side, and at the same time to alert the direction in which the Grand Fleet to the north may come. It stands to reason that when the British fleet found that it had a main fleet of about 7 ships in front of it, they might choose to fight, or they might turn around and run, and running north was the most likely, so theoretically the location of the Hippel fleet should be north or northeast, because that side was the Shetland Islands. It's okay to run south, but it's getting farther and farther away from the Grand Fleet, and the prince has a whole day to pursue, so he doesn't know if the British fleet's engines and fuel are enough to entangle the prince for a day!

It's actually a game, where you don't have enough troops to bet on the direction that the opponent will be most likely to choose. Then stop him! From the point of view of the present, the plan is quite good, and according to the telegrams of the British and the reports of airships, the German fleet can indicate the trajectory of Thomas's fleet with an incoherent curve. And the speed and direction of this trajectory are within the prince's expectations!

In order to avoid detection, the whole fleet is actually light-controlled, only to use signal lights to communicate with each other when necessary, in the dark night, except for the occasional flashing lights, no one is aware of the monsters hidden in the shadows, they are like cheetahs before hunting, cautiously approaching the prey, until the time is ripe to strike a fatal blow!

As the clock ticked by, if someone had stood above the sky with God's perspective and could see through the night, he would have seen the scene like this, Thomas's fleet was still heading towards Forth Bay at a speed of about 14 knots, and the first and second battleship detachments under the command of Vice Admiral Scheer took a shortcut at a speed of 22 knots, and gradually walked to the front of the British fleet, and according to the approximate position of the British fleet, cruising back and forth at a distance of 150 kilometers from the Forth of Forth, waiting for the other side to send them to the door.

And the Hipper fleet, after determining the general location of the British fleet, slowly followed, like a pack of lions waiting for an opportunity to approach their prey in the dark. At this time, if you open God's perspective, then you can find that the Hipper fleet has been about 25 kilometers northeast of the British fleet, and the closest time is close to 20 kilometers, but because it is night, the British did not find the fleet behind the implementation of light control and radio silence. And because the target had already been locked, Hipper did not send a single telegram, but continued to receive information on the location of the British fleet sent by airships.

With the exception of the officers and personnel on duty, the rest of the officers took advantage of the precious rest time to get a good night's sleep, and when it was 4 o'clock in the morning, they began to eat their first breakfast of the day, and the last meal before the war, and each soldier was given an extra cup of hot chocolate. This is not the brown liquid that tasted like golgo in the cafeteria of later generations, but was made by melting a whole piece of chocolate, and even if you drink it halfway, you can stick it in with a spoon and ...... stand in it.

After more than 6 hours of rapid sailing, the Scheer fleet, which had already entered the formation, began to relax a little, reducing their speed to about 16 knots, and at the same time repairing various minor problems in the steam lines on the battleship in preparation for the upcoming battle. At the same time, Thomas still did not know anything about the coming fierce battle, the whole fleet was in a relaxed attitude, especially the closer to dawn, the more relieved the British became, in addition to the reason for the arrival of home, another important reason was that the British land-based aircraft outside the Forth of Forth would soon be able to come over to provide themselves with anti-submarine and reconnaissance throughout the whole process, as Jericho said, under the clear sky, we had an unobstructed view of the situation at sea!

As the sun gradually rose, the morning fog gradually dissipated, the visibility gradually improved, and at this time Thomas also sent the last telegram to the Gulf of Forth before the battle! The location of the British fleet was clearly written in the telegram, and aircraft were requested to be sent to escort it. Thomas originally intended to make the fleet safer, but unfortunately, with the help of this telegram, the Germans finally determined the position of the British fleet, and the invisible radio waves woke up the hibernating giant bear like a spring thunder, and the German High Seas Fleet finally showed its sharp sword again!

The author Jun took a look at his mobile phone, and it seems that there will be a wireless recommendation tomorrow~~~! Tomorrow's three watches~~~! Ask for subscription, ask for tips~~~!