"Your Excellency, Commander. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 🔥 Urgent Telegram! General Thomas's fleet is under siege! "After returning to Shetland with the fleet, Jericho had just taken a nap in the fleet commander's room for less than two hours, when there was a sharp knock and a slightly panicked sound outside the door.

"Well, what's going on again?" Jericho, who was a little dazed from his sleep, pressed his temples, intending to wake himself up. But when he heard the words Thomas Fleet, Jericho, who was still a little confused, instantly woke up, and he could feel a cold air rushing from the tail vertebrae directly to his head, and then buzzed. It's as if someone poured a large basin of ice water on their head in the summer! Jericho jumped out of bed in fright!

"What's the situation?!" Jericho walked to the door with agility beyond his age, and snatched the telegram from his men. This telegram was sent by Thomas just after the confrontation with his opponent, and the situation was far less bad than later, but after it mentioned that at least eight or more German fast battleships had encountered him and that there was a fierce exchange of fire, Jericho realized the seriousness of the problem.

"The whole fleet immediately raised its fire and prepared to go." Although he didn't know much about the situation, Jericho knew that with the current strength of Thomas's fleet, 5 queens and 2 battle cruisers would definitely not be able to defeat the opponent's 8 or 9 capital ships!

Moreover, judging the combat habits of the German fleet, the commander on the opposite side would never have made a seemingly evenly matched battle. In line with the theory that it is a fool not to take advantage of it, this time, in order to deal with Thomas's fleet, the other party is likely to do its best! The other half of the German fleet did not know where to hide! Under the current circumstances, Thomas can't eat and walk around, if he waits until the other German battleships arrive, won't he be beaten and there will be no scum left?!

"General, I'm afraid it's too late for us to rush over now, it will take about half an hour for the fleet to fire and set off, and if we want to rush to the battlefield, it will be at least three hours later! By then, we'll probably not even have time to collect Thomas's body! "Chief of Staff of the Grand Fleet, Charles. Lieutenant General Madden apparently received the news as well, and he said to Jericho, who had hurried to the conning tower.

"Then you mean you can't let us watch one of the Royal Navy's most elite fleets being wiped out by the Germans, do you?! That's the only fast force we can rely on, and without them, would we still be able to rely on these invincible guys? Jericho snarled at his men in a rare way.

"It is better to rely on us than on land-based aircraft or submarines in the water. Perhaps there will be some submarines in the nearby areas of engagement, and these submarines will definitely make the opponent hesitate, even if they cannot effectively supply the opponent. Lieutenant General Madden explained.

Actually, this is also a way to do it. Although both sides have done things to attack surface ships with torpedoes on water planes, they have also achieved some success. But such small-scale piecemeal attacks were no threat to the main fleet, and it is true that the anti-aircraft fire of the battleships in these days was not as reliable as the anti-ship fire of the aircraft. But now which capital ship does not have a couple of seaplanes of its own? Not to mention the world's leading large fleets like Britain and Germany, it would be a shame for the main force to go out without a few seaplane carriers!

Although the seaplane can't beat a normal fighter, but if you hit a seaplane with a torpedo on it, it's not handy? For an ordinary seaplane, it is good to be able to fly at a speed of 100 kilometers after hanging a torpedo. And the vertical climb performance is almost impossible to count on ....... It is enough to deal with the current small, scattered seaplane lightning strikes.

"As you say. We can't afford to see Thomas's fleet destroyed. Looking at the hesitant Admiral Jericho, Lieutenant General Madden said.

"Well, I don't have the right to transfer the shore-based aviation department, I will contact the Admiralty, and as for the actions of the submarine force, I will also arrange for someone to coordinate it. Hopefully Thomas will support us until we arrive. So be it. Jericho said.

Half an hour later, the Grand Fleet, which had just returned to port for less than eight hours, went out to sea again and headed for the battlefield in the southwest. Prior to this, the British fleet had also sent a telegram in plain code, telling Thomas's fleet that the Grand Fleet would soon arrive in the war zone. As if for fear that the Germans would not know. And the prince's assessment of this telegram is also very simple, bluffing! Or that there are no three hundred taels of silver here!

At the same time as the Jericho fleet departed, the British Admiralty also received the bad news, and the British, who were sick and rushed to the hospital, also turned their minds to the aviation units and submarines, and threw themselves into the battlefield with the intention that although they felt that it was not very useful, it was better than nothing. And this time the British did it decisively enough, and in the absence of enough torpedoes and torpedo machines, the British loaded 500-pound bombs on top of various bombers ....... Although it is not comparable with the 4,000-pound bombs that the Americans experimented with the V1500 after the war, it has to be said that even if the 500-pound battleship is thrown on the capital ship, it is a threat, of course, provided that you can hit it!

"Go brother! The big guys of Thomas's fleet are still waiting for us to save them! A British soldier said jokingly as he patted the pilot on the shoulder after two 500-pound bombs were fixed to the O-400 bomber.

"We may not be able to get the results, but at least we won't be defeated. If the air defense of the Germans was as bad as ours. The pilot said jokingly, half-seriously.

As a result, the world's first large-scale land-based air force attack on the sea kicked off in a vague way. Although this attack can be regarded as a duck on the shelf, although, the largest organized attack unit this time is only half a squadron. But it must be said that this operation of the British opened a new era. More than three-digit twin-engine bombers, four-engine bombers, and various seaplanes took off from Forth Bay and the surrounding bases, and they flew to the battlefield in a scattered manner, although a considerable number of bombs were thrown into the sea when they could not find a target, but the behavior of the British still changed the situation on the battlefield somewhat!

At the same time, the sharks hidden in the depths of the seabed also began to maneuver in the direction of the battlefield, and in order to reach the battlefield faster, many of them chose to sail on the surface. And this battle is far from over, and it will continue!

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