Chapter 148: Enemy Tracks Found

This made those executives of the command department wonder why the aircraft carrier formation was traveling on the established route well, why Ondel ordered to turn ninety degrees, whether it was the luck of the Krupp family, or the luck of the Krupp family, or the favor of God, or whether this kid was indeed a genius of war, and he sensed Marshal Raeder's intentions. At this time, all the high-level leaders of the command department couldn't understand Li Mo's person, who was Ondet! used to be a thing that stole incense and jade, but in just two years, he has become an all-rounder who knows both land and sea, which is incredible.

The planes sent by Limer searched for the Raeder fleet in a large area with an aircraft carrier as the center and a radius of three hundred nautical miles, and soon the searching planes found Rutte's outflanking sub-fleet, and the pilots who discovered the Raeder sub-fleet immediately reported the location of this sub-fleet by radio:

"Report to the commander-in-chief, we have found a part of the warships of Raeder's fleet at 121 degrees east longitude and 33 degrees 11 seconds west longitude, the number is twenty-one, including fourteen destroyers, five light cruisers, and two supply ships, and no submarines have been found."

Vice Captain Stephen has been guarding the telegraph all the time, dealing with all kinds of messages and intelligence sent from the front line at any time, Stephen who received this telegram was really surprised, Marshal Raeder This is the rhythm of making dumplings! Stephen didn't dare to delay in the slightest, and hurriedly sent a very telegram to Li Mo's hand:

"Commander-in-chief, the big thing is not good, our right side has found Marshal Raeder's detachment, about two hundred and fifty kilometers from us, and they are interspersed behind us at full speed."

"Oh, don't panic. This means is not difficult for us, and the mountain people have their own clever plans. First: order my formation to immediately turn one hundred and eight degrees to the left, and then retreat at full speed. Second, all BF109 continued to search for the main forces of the Raeder fleet. All JU87 dive bombers immediately returned home, refueled with torpedoes, and attacked the Raeder detachment with all their might. ”

Stephen hurriedly went to convey Li Mo's order, and the entire aircraft carrier formation sounded a terrible battle alarm in an instant, and all the people on the Zeppelin aircraft carrier rushed to their combat posts. It's really good.

The news that the Limer aircraft carrier formation had discovered the Raeder detachment was sent back to the high command as soon as possible, and even Marshal Keitel, who was very supportive of Marshal Raeder, was speechless. Originally, from the beginning of the war, Marshal Raeder's arrangement was very rigorous, and there was no trace of mistakes, but why was it so passive everywhere, and now Limer's aircraft carrier fleet has discovered Raeder's detachment, and Raeder still doesn't know the specific location of Limer's aircraft carrier formation, because Limer is attacking with carrier-based aircraft, which shows that Marshal Raeder can only be beaten and cannot fight back. Everyone had nothing to say, and those who supported Marshal Raeder prayed in their hearts that Li Mo's air raids suffered heavy losses and had no effect, could this really be the case?

Li Mo's aircraft carrier formation turned to evacuate at full speed. In order to widen the distance between him and Raeder's main fleet, why not widen the distance between him and the Rutte detachment! Because Li Mo's aircraft carrier formation and the Rutte detachment were running parallel to each other at this time, and the route was the same. The distance between the two is two hundred and fifty kilometers, which is a very good air strike distance. Li Mo's aircraft carrier formation was not at all afraid that the Rutte fleet would catch up with him.

Now Limer's course is also the same as Marshal Raeder's main fleet, and the vertical distance between the two courses is a hundred nautical miles. And Li Mo's aircraft carrier formation can make the slow submarine surface and sail at full strength, while the submarine of Raeder's main fleet cannot surface to sail, at least not during the day, so the speed of Raeder's main fleet is at least 30 percent slower than Li Mo.

Li Mo's plan was to distance himself from Raeder's main fleet and make every effort to deal with the Rutte detachment, and then turn back to deal with Raeder's old stubbornness.

Just when Li Mo's plane discovered the Rutte detachment, Rutte also discovered the plane in the air, which was sad for Rutte, he was exposed, it seemed that the method of outflanking Ondette's back road would not work, Rute hurriedly sent this information to Marshal Raeder, Marshal Raeder was certainly not stupid, and hurriedly ordered the Rutte detachment to change the route, search and advance against the established route of the exercise, and at the same time send his own water reconnaissance plane to search.

The Zeppelin aircraft carrier is full of busy figures, those JU87 and BF109 who are returning one after another are nervously loading torpedoes and refueling, ready to take off one immediately, these take-off planes are hovering over the aircraft carrier formation, waiting for other planes to take off and come to join the formation, this process takes about twenty minutes, this is also a matter of no way, the Zeppelin aircraft carrier can not take off and land forty-two planes at one time, can only fly batches to take off.

Schmidt personally led the bombing mission, because this was an exercise, the danger was not very great, all the warheads were special plastic warheads, but they were also dangerous, just not as powerful as real shells.

Soon Li Mo, who was standing on the lookout, heard Schmidt's instructions:

"Report to the commander-in-chief, my formation is ready, a total of 30 JU87 dive bombers, all carrying heavy torpedoes, escort BF109 combat 4, request to start the bombing mission."

"Execute it immediately, and I wish you a long way, my friend."

"Commander-in-chief, just wait for my good news!"

Schmidt led the entire formation to kill the Ben Rutte detachment with great momentum, and Rutte also sent his only two, these two aircraft water reconnaissance planes searched side by side, they met Schmidt's group of planes on the way, the two seaplanes saw Li Mo's group, while quickly reporting the situation to their superiors, while quickly escaping, how could Schmidt let these two water reconnaissance planes escape, their own aircraft carrier must not be exposed, the wolf pack tactics of the Dönitz submarine are not so easy to deal with.

One of the seaplanes was hit by the BF109 with dozens of inkjet plastic warheads, and the pilot of the BF109 fighter immediately called the pilot of the seaplane through the public radio, telling him that he had been shot down and immediately quit the exercise, and the plane must also immediately withdraw from the exercise, otherwise it would be a violation. The other seaplane hid in the clouds and disappeared, and Schmidt could only send two BF109s to continue to chase down the local water reconnaissance plane that had slipped through the net.

Half an hour later, Schmidt found the Rutte detachment that had searched for his own formation, which was still good, the entire fleet was searching in an aviation formation, the destroyers were on the periphery, and the light cruisers, which were the main force of the detachment, were placed in the center of the fleet.

…… (To be continued......)