Chapter 828 - Difficulties
"Don't be too busy thanking just yet, we can help you with more, we can arrange a seaplane carrier for your fleet to scout the location of the opposing fleet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info "said Major General Kuhl.
"You're so thoughtful." Thomas said with some surprise that the seaplane is actually not new. There are all major naval powers, and there are also seaplane carriers in the first-class navy, but it is not easy to have such a ship in the Indian Ocean region far from the core theater of operations. At least in Thomas's memory, the famous seaplane carriers of the British Navy should have been both on home and in the Mediterranean.
"This is not what we think, this seaplane aircraft carrier belongs to the Imperial Japanese Navy, you know, they also suffered heavy losses in the last attack, not to mention the loss of tens of thousands of army officers and soldiers, and they were also sunk two quasi-dreadnoughts, you don't know, when I told the Japanese about this, their faces were ugly, they were like green potatoes."
Although they rejected the Imperial Empire's request for the Japanese Navy to send capital ships to besiege the Suo fleet, they expressed their willingness to send auxiliary forces to help the Imperial Fleet take out the Germans, so the seaplane carrier, named Akitsuzu, was sent to India. The Japanese captain commanding the seaplane seems to be called Kantaro Suzuki. It's a big sa. ā
After summarizing the previous raids of the Suxiong fleet, the British found that in the case of better sea conditions and better weather, the seaplanes carried by the battleships greatly improved the reconnaissance capability of the fleet, especially in the original battle of the Gulf of Aden, if it were not for the German seaplanes to accurately determine the location of the British transport fleet, the Germans' attacks would not be so accurate, and the British were caught off guard when they were defenseless, so the Japanese said that they could not send capital ships to help encircle and suppress. The British demanded that the Japanese Navy provide at least one seaplane carrier. So that at least it is possible to catch up with the superiority of the Suchon fleet in aviation reconnaissance!
Up to now, Major General Kuhl has done everything he can, providing you with supplies, providing you with eyes, and replacing it with the terminology in the LOL game in the future, you go down the road and PK with people, and you have already been equipped with a nurse to plug in your eyes, it depends on whether you can keep the opponent! You 4 beat 2 people, if you can't catch it anymore, you can't blame the auxiliary! But in fact, even if the support is fine, it is still not easy for Thomas to catch Su Xiong!
No way, naval battles don't have control, jumping, and teleportation like in the game. If Thomas directly led the fleet to ambush at the ambush site, and immediately ran over to open the film after seeing Su Xiong's fleet, then ....... Basically, the British should not be able to catch .......
Nonsense, if it was so easy to catch the opponent, then the business of attacking at sea would have died long ago, otherwise why would there be an attack ship at sea in World War 2? Especially this time the situation that Thomas encountered, it was even worse to a certain level, the other party's theoretical speed seems to be faster than his own, so okay, you tell me, if the other party finds the British, and then the British artillery can't reach the opponent, how can you keep people?
Some people may say that the German fleet may not be able to run at this speed because of the fuel and ship conditions, and yes, this is true. As a battleship with a superior side at sea, its ship condition will generally be better, and the supply will be more sufficient, but the problem is that the Suxiong fleet has not been out of the port for a long time, and it seems to be about 28 days now, and the ship condition is okay, and under normal circumstances, the boilers of the Scharnhorst-class fast battleships will not be all used, and there are always some left for backup. And those boilers that are not in use will naturally be fine if they are ignited and used.
Taking the situation of Count Spee's fleet in history as an example, if you start counting from August 1, 1914, (Germany declared war on Russia) to December 8, 1914, Count Spee's fleet sailed at sea for 4 months, that is, nearly 130 days! By the time of the Battle of Falkland, the situation of Earl Spee's fleet was indeed not good, and the two capital ships were said to be at a speed of 15 knots, and they naturally couldn't beat or run in the face of the two British battlecruisers that had just arrived from the mainland.
But the Suxiong fleet is different, the people came out after resting, the time of coming out was less than a month, the condition of the ship is very good, and it is worth noting that the warships of the Suxiong fleet are kerosene mixed burning, and most of them use fuel oil (no way, it is much more convenient to get fuel oil in the two river basins than to get coal...... So the burden of cleaning the flue will be small, and the pressure of cleaning the coal ash will not hit, so the condition of the ship is naturally much stronger than that of the fleet of Count Spee, which has been at sea for more than 4 months.
So, even if the British estimate with the most optimistic attitude, the German fleet in the present situation may still be able to surpass the fundamentalist dreadnoughts! If everybody were running at top speed. Thomas's fleet had a speed advantage of about 1 knot at most. Don't forget, there is also a subtext that you need to refuel for sea voyages, that is, there is not much fuel, and the load also goes down. It's faster in a short time!
What if Thomas's queens are about to get out of the verse? Do the easiest elementary school math chase problem if the German fleet finds the British fleet 25 kilometers away (which is actually too close). The Queen's attack range is 15 km. (This distance is not far or not, the normal combat distance of the First World War, of course, the author does not deny that there were many hits 15 kilometers away in the First World War.) ļ¼
Well, now the question arises, how long will the British fleet need to catch up before it can bring the German fleet into its own range! One nautical mile is equal to 1,825 meters, which can take ...... 6 hours. And what does 6 hours mean? What if it's dark? Then this arithmetic is equal to a vain calculation! Where did you tell the British to go to the Germans the next day? Blind in the dark one night, chasing two light controls, and running a battleship with a speed of more than 20 knots, you can still find your opponent in visual range the next day, you need not only skills and experience, but also luck! The kind of luck that can win 5 million in a single ticket!
So, even if you know when and where it happened and who will appear in it, if Thomas wants to write a perfect, thrilling essay, then he still needs to think carefully about how to start! Su Xiong is not a mediocre player, and Thomas is destined to have a lot of brains to catch his opponent.
"Alright, since you're all here, let's assign tasks first." Thomas said.
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