Chapter 1231: Target Sevastopol!
So where will the Russians go now? Constantinople is also impossible, not to mention that the batteries at the entrance still exist, the two battleships of the Allied fleet have been damaged, and the Russians have no need to continue the attack, then well, the Russians have only one option, and that is to attack the main fleet commanded by Count Spee with the British group!
"Yes, it must be so!" Count Luknall threw away the tip of his pen. The pen www.biquge.info walked a few steps to the chart kilometer, and shook his head after carefully measuring the distance from the fleet to Herreli with a slide rule. "No, it's too far away." The Earl said to himself helplessly,
Count Luknall has already figured out the crux of the problem, but it is useless now, judging from the current speed of the fleet, it will be about 6 hours before he gets there, so long? The winner has long been decided. The daylilies are cold! If Count Spee wins, he just runs for nothing, and if the Count loses, will he deliver food in the past? And thinking about the plane above his head just now, Count Luknall himself also felt very tricky, God knows how many bombers the British sent to deal with their teacher, in the case of one side having air supremacy, this battle is too difficult to fight, so after weighing the pros and cons, the count thinks that it is not a good choice to go to Herreli and merge with the teacher at this time!
"So, it's better for us to choose this place at this time!" The Count shifted his gaze to the east, and finally pointed at a certain area in the eastern part of the Black Sea with his hand! "Having solved the fire on the Redbeard Valedin, immediately go to Sevastopol! Where are we waiting for the Russians! Count Luckner said categorically.
"Your Excellency, are you crazy, Your Excellency Count Spee is fighting the Russians, and we are going to Sevastopol?" An officer said in surprise.
"Regardless of the situation at Ereli, the Russians will eventually have to come back here. And here we ambush them! If the count wins, then we will have to deal with nothing more than the miscellaneous pieces of the Russian fleet, and send them to the western sky. If the teacher loses, then let's save the battle in the Mediterranean. Count Luknall said.
In the end, this decision was made by Count Luknall after some deliberation. He fully considered the comparison of combat effectiveness, to be honest, if you only count the battle at sea, it would definitely be a matter of minutes for Earl Spee's main fleet to kill the Russian Black Sea Fleet, 3 super dreadnoughts plus 3 quasi-dreadnoughts to fight 2 dreadnoughts and 4 pre-dreadnoughts ....... This combat effectiveness is generally several grades worse!
The only variable is the British Air Force, but what is certain is that even if the Russians and the British defeat the Count's fleet, the Russian Navy will definitely not be comfortable! The sinking of a few battleships was inevitable. The state of the remaining warships is definitely not good, and on their own side, one super dreadnought may be hanging a little against two full dreadnoughts. But it shouldn't be too much of a problem to fight two remnant dreadnoughts, although the armored cruiser is a little earlier, but the sex can be advanced, and it is not a big problem to kill one dreadnought. That is, theoretically, judging by large warships, the combat effectiveness of the remaining Russian warships will not exceed the upper limit of their own fleet!
Of course, to say that there are still risks, Count Luknar's fleet did not bring destroyers, which is an obvious shortcoming in terms of escorting warships, and if it is a night battle, then anything can really happen, and even during the day, a few destroyers may change the tide of the war, but relative to the risks faced, this benefit is large enough, a chance to solve the Black Sea war!
In that case, why not block them in front of the other side's house?! And also avoid the British bombers, as for the enemy? With 4 seaplanes in Count Luknar's fleet, plus submarines deployed around, it should be almost enough.
"Before nightfall tomorrow at the latest, there must be a result in the struggle for sea supremacy in the Black Sea." Once again, the Count of Luknall cheered himself up in his heart. He had a hunch that if the Russian Black Sea Fleet could not be completely solved now, then in the near future, the Allied Mediterranean Fleet and Turkey would face an extremely difficult situation, and Britain's background as a great power would still be terrible. There are some places that are really not comparable to those of Germany, which only emerged after the Second Industrial Revolution.
Half an hour later, the fast battleship Suman Osman I and the armored cruiser Amitye were advancing at a speed of 18 knots towards the fortress of Sevastopol, while the battered Redbeard Valedin headed northwest with his scars here, where he would go to Romania, which was under the control of the Bavarian Legion. At this point, before 10 o'clock in the morning, the battle between the two sides in the two secondary battlefields of this round of exchanges had ended. The RAF's battle report showed the destruction of two fast battleships and an armored cruiser. A total of 3 squadrons, 54 bombers of various types, as well as 6 guidance aircraft were put into operation. So far, 27 of these bombers have been confirmed to have been lost and 8 damaged. And about 12 of them returned victorious. The whereabouts of the remaining aircraft are temporarily unknown.
"Our plan was a success, wasn't it?" At the headquarters located on the peninsula of the Holy Mountain in Greece, Vice Admiral Sterdi, the representative of the Navy, said with a smile.
"The cost is still a bit big, we lost nearly 70% of the air crew. And it is far from the time when the dust has settled, and if we do not destroy or severely damage the fleet of the Earl of Spee, then our operation will not be a success. Lieutenant General Trumhard said with some trepidation. A formed German interceptor unit appeared in the skies over Turkey, turning the originally low-risk operation into a hell of a bomber unit in an instant! This unit of interceptors, which specifically targeted twin and four-engine large bombers, was only heard of by the lieutenant general in battle reports. It is said that they had choked the Russians enough, and they also caused some suffering to the British bomber units involved in the bombing in the North Sea.
He originally thought that the number of such air squadrons would be very scarce, and even if there were, I am afraid it would be on the Eastern Front. But judging by the telegrams sent from this operation, this time the Germans sent at least 2 squadrons of interceptors to intercept the bomber units. The intensity of the interception and the strength of the combat effectiveness far exceeded Lieutenant General Trenchard's estimate!
"Let's hope these bombers don't show up in Ereli." Lieutenant General Trenchard closed his eyes and prayed in his heart for his colleagues who were still fighting on the front lines. The existence of these bomber killers made Lieutenant General Trenhard sweat for the future development of British bomber forces.
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