Unbeknownst to Pruance, the Atlantic Fleet had been monitored by 332 submarines> and I said for sure, three nights. Little did he know that the Atlantic Fleet's whereabouts to Santiago had been revealed. At that time, he was still glad that he did not encounter the long-range reconnaissance aircraft of the Tang Empire. Soon after arriving at the port of San Diego, Spruance was not at all happy.

Before 10 o'clock on the night of 22 July, that is, more than an hour before the Atlantic Fleet entered the port of Santiago, six groups of reconnaissance planes had already "visited" the port of Santiago. At that time, Tan Renhao did not expect that the Atlantic Fleet would not immediately go to the port of San Diego, but would delay time on the way, so these reconnaissance planes all flew into the air. However, the seventh batch of reconnaissance planes, which arrived at half past one in the morning of 23 July, had a harvest. At that time, the Atlantic Fleet had just entered the port of San Diego, and in order to guide the battleship to the dock, or to reach the exact anchorage position, the harbor was brilliant, and the reconnaissance plane from the port immediately took several photos.

These photographs were developed at 7 a.m. on the 23rd, less than half an hour after the reconnaissance plane returned to the airfield, and although the scene was very vague, it was enough to distinguish the outline of a large warship. Only the Atlantic Fleet has large warships, that is, the Atlantic Fleet has already reached the port of Santiago. Then, at eight o'clock in the morning of the same day, the first reconnaissance plane to fly over the port of San Diego confirmed this, and the pilots could distinguish with the naked eye the aircraft carriers and battleships anchored in the harbor. Cruiser. At about 3 p.m. on the same day, the intelligence was confirmed after the reconnaissance plane's photographs of the site taken during the day were developed.

According to Tan Renhao's request, Lei Shaoqing sent the first telegram to Tan Renhao on the morning of the 23rd, and after getting accurate information in the afternoon. He sent another telegram. Because the First Fleet and the Third Fleet had already hidden their whereabouts at that time, and Lei Shaoqing did not know the exact location of the two fleets, he could not send planes to send aerial photos over, and could only tell Tan Renhao the general situation through the telegram package, and this was enough.

That is, on the morning of the 23rd, when Spruance had breakfast and was ready to relax on the docks. He saw the large plane flying quickly overhead. If you don't make it closely, it's hard to identify the model of the aircraft flying at an altitude of 2,000 meters. Moreover, there were several US airfields near San Diego at that time, and two of them were equipped with heavy bombers or long-range reconnaissance aircraft. Therefore, the plane did not attract the attention of others. Spruance didn't notice the plane's uniqueness at first. It wasn't until five minutes later that the plane turned back. It was only when he flew over the harbor again that Spruance realized that something was wrong.

If it was a U.S. plane, then it was only possible that it flew over the harbor during a training mission, and it flew twice. However, when heavy bombers are carrying out training tasks, they are at least in a two-plane formation, and it is rare for bombers to come out for training alone, and even less for bombers to fly over again and again. The second time it flew over the ground, the bomber flew to the southwest, that is, to the open sea. After waiting for ten minutes, the plane did not turn back, and Spruance was even more puzzled, if the plane was from a nearby airport, then it should return to the airport, should it have been flying in a southwesterly direction? Perhaps, this is an aircraft that went on a reconnaissance mission to Central America, but the problem is. Previously, the plane entered from the southwest, that is, it was returning to the airport. How did they fly back again?

Thinking of this, Spruance immediately sent a staff officer to contact all nearby airfields to determine if there were any planes on a training mission at that time, and whether there were any reconnaissance planes heading to Central America, or whether they had completed a night reconnaissance operation and were returning to the airfield. Soon, the airport gave Spruance an answer, and that morning, not a single heavy bomber took off for training, because their training time was after ten o'clock, and most of them were scheduled in the afternoon, not in the morning. In addition, no reconnaissance planes were dispatched to Central America, let alone reconnaissance planes returning from reconnaissance missions at night.

At this moment, Spruance immediately realized that it was a reconnaissance plane of the Tang Empire, and this reconnaissance plane passed over the port twice, and it must have taken pictures of the port. If this was just routine reconnaissance, Spruance still didn't think it was a big problem, but as soon as the Atlantic Fleet arrived, the enemy's ground reconnaissance plane came, was this too coincidental?

Soon, Spruance personally rushed to the port headquarters, and after inquiry, he learned that the Tang Empire's reconnaissance planes did not come to San Diego very often, basically only one every three or four days, but since yesterday, the Tang Empire's reconnaissance planes have appeared frequently, and there are several reconnaissance planes flying over the port from low altitudes, and it is obvious that they are all large reconnaissance planes with multiple cameras. It was at this time that the second group of reconnaissance planes during the day on the 23rd reached the skies over Santiago. This time, the reconnaissance plane was not able to deceive the American troops, and was soon intercepted by anti-aircraft guns.

The dull sound of anti-aircraft guns alerted Spruance that the last reconnaissance plane had been gone for less than two hours, and new reconnaissance planes had arrived, no doubt not to photograph the scenery of the port of San Diego, but to determine the Atlantic Fleet that had been parked in the harbor. In other words, the enemy already knew that the Atlantic Fleet had arrived at the port of Santiago, and even knew that the Atlantic Fleet would have gone to the port of Santiago, otherwise, reconnaissance planes would not have been arranged to closely monitor the movements in the port of Santiago since yesterday.

Spruance became nervous, the position of the port of Santiago was too high, the main fleet of the Tang Empire did not even need to be too close to Cuba, only in the central waters of the Caribbean Sea, or in the southwest waters of the Cayman Islands to send bombers to attack the port of Santiago, and it was impossible for the shore-based reconnaissance planes deployed here to search all the surrounding waters, and the number of fighters covering the port was also quite limited, and it was impossible to intercept all the bombers of the two main fleets. In addition, heavy bombers deployed in Central America can fly directly to the port of San Diego to drop bombs, and when the time comes, they will be able to take out the Atlantic Fleet without even sending a fleet!

Realizing that the fleet had reached a dead end, Spruance did not dare to hesitate. He immediately sent the staff officers who had been with him to the port command back to the fleet, and all the battleships had their boilers lit and ready to sail. And then, he.

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