Late on the night of 19 July, China's Second Atlantic Fleet, which was sailing 100 nautical miles north of Grand Abaco Island, raided and followed a US Tucker-class destroyer, which had a speed of less than 30 knots and could not escape the pursuit of the Tianshan-class destroyer, which was completely crushed by its tonnage and speed, and in just 22 minutes, the US destroyer overturned on its side.

Before dawn, when the battleship formations of the USS Wyoming and the USS Florida arrived from St. Augustine, the Second Atlantic Fleet led by Wu Tiexin had completely disappeared into the waters off the west coast of the United States. Under the leadership of Lieutenant General Schile, he prepared to blockade the Panama Canal, and the difficulty of this task was obviously far greater than imagined.

At the same time, the US-British Combined Fleet Command also issued an operational order to the Royal Navy's Second Atlantic Detachment stationed at Patrick, and Vice Admiral Betty personally led the flagship Centurion and the battlecruiser HMS Royal Princess to form an interception fleet to assist the US Navy in searching for Chinese warships that might have attacked along the west coast.

At 9:12 a.m., at this moment, after a night of maneuvering, Wu Tiexin, who had appeared 700 kilometers away from Nacalerona, suddenly received an encrypted telegram that the No. 041 submarine carrying out reconnaissance missions in the waters off Virginia had accidentally discovered an American fleet sailing out of Baltimore, including at least 2 battleships and as many as 17 destroyers......

Although it is not clear whether this US fleet is an interceptor fleet, Wu Tiexin obviously attaches great importance to this intelligence. A large number of American destroyers appeared. As a naval commander. He naturally understood that these warships, which had a short range but had an extremely superior speed, were definitely the best tool for searching for the enemy on a large scale, and at this time, although the telegram from the fleet command had informed him that Britain had not declared war on China at the first moment, the possibility that Britain would also participate in the search and operation could not be ruled out at all.

On the chart, within 1000 kilometers of the fleet at this moment, news of at least 3 American fleets has already appeared. The task given by the Fleet Command to the Second Atlantic Fleet was not at all a request for the fleet to attack, but hoped to use the port of Haiti to project the military power on the west coast of the United States to Panama in Central America.

However, Wu Tiexin is obviously not a soldier who is willing to be lonely, the Fujian battleship is definitely the pride of China's maritime power today, although there is only one battleship, but the battleship that does not sail into the sea is not a maritime deterrent force at all, and the defense of the entire Haitian port. Thanks to the original fortress built by the German side, plus the two countries stationed more than 24,000 troops in the area. Any attempt to attack the port will obviously have to pay a staggering price.

Therefore, he took the initiative to ask Ying to propose a surprise attack operation in the Atlantic, Tang Qingshan naturally understood the risks and values, but he still did not hesitate to immediately approve the battle plan, the more American military power the Atlantic Fleet can hold, it means that in the Pacific Ocean, China can get more advantages and opportunities, after all, this will be a super-large-scale, super-large sea area naval battle that shocks the world,

Pin down more enemies, while also doing everything you can to preserve the fleet...... Especially in the Atlantic, where the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy have absolute power, this is almost an impossible task! But these difficulties obviously could not stop a true Chinese naval man from challenging his beliefs, and after intense mapping on the chart, Wu Tiexin made the decision to continue north.

Only by creating enough trouble for your opponent can you achieve more perfect results!

In the early morning of 20 July, an urgent telegram was sent to Subic Naval Base, and Chen Ming, chief of staff of the theater, unexpectedly discovered that the main warships under the jurisdiction of the US Second Pacific Fleet had appeared in the adjacent waters in the past 10 days during the continuous flight reconnaissance of the east coast of Australia.

He immediately issued an order to the Second Squadron stationed on Guam to intensify reconnaissance of the US fleet, and at the same time asked 20 reconnaissance planes under the jurisdiction of the North Australian Military Region to continuously reconnoiter the movements of the Australian British and American forces...... In the afternoon of the same day, the intelligence officers lurking in Sydney sent important news that the main cruisers of the Australian Navy, "Australia" and "Sydney", were urgently assembled, and more importantly, an expeditionary force that the Australian government had originally prepared to put into the European theater also appeared in Sydney.

Due to the urgency of the situation, the encrypted telegram delivered through the Sydney public telegraph channel after many transmissions did not have too detailed information, but this was enough to make Chen Ming feel the urgent atmosphere in the Pacific Ocean, and at the war briefing urgently held by the Theater Command at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Han got the prediction made by the Theater Staff!

"Britain has not officially declared war yet, but it is expected that the official declaration of war is likely to be within a few days!"

"Based on the intelligence gathered so far, the integration of the US Pacific Fleet is complete, Edward? Vice Admiral Abel will be in command of the 2nd Pacific Fleet and the 1st Fleet stationed on the west coast of the United States, and we have detected that the battleship Georgia, which is part of the 1st Fleet, has appeared in New Zealand harbor, so it can be inferred that Abel has gathered almost all of his forces and is ready to move......"

"The Abel fleet has 4 dreadnoughts, including the flagship USS Utah Dreadnought and 9 former Dreadnoughts, of which the Connecticut-class is believed to have been modernized, including the latest MKC-type fire control system provided by Tylantep Precision Manufacturing Company, which is in the same class as the MK-56 that the New York-class battleships under construction by the US Navy will be equipped with!"

MK series fire control platform...... When Lu Han heard this term, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, as the commander of the highest core level of the military, he naturally knew the details of Tailan Taipu Precision Manufacturing Company, after the complex equity mutual holding, this factory that competed strongly with Demerrick Precision Company, which controlled the Entente fire control platform, was undoubtedly a dark chess piece laid by Qin Kai earlier.

With the huge resources in the Royal Navy and strong industrial manufacturing capabilities, the Demerrick Fire Control Platform defeated almost all commercial competitors with its amazing industrial power and design capabilities before the intervention of Tylantap Precision Manufacturing Company, but Tylan Pipeline Precision Manufacturing Company still squeezed into the procurement platform of the Royal Navy and the United States Navy with the MK series fire control system derived from the Storm series.

The advantage of this is self-evident, that is, the opportunity to participate in the Royal Navy's testing based on different fire control platforms, although it is not possible to obtain all the information about the Demerrick fire control platform, but the MK56 series of MK Systems fire control platforms currently launched can get a little less than half of the order volume in the past five years, which is enough to say too much.

"The General Staff predicts that if Britain declares war immediately, the US-British joint fleet will add 2 dreadnoughts, 2 Invincible-class battle cruisers, 4 former dreadnought battleships, no less than 7 diplomatic cruisers and at least 30 destroyers, and the submarine forces of the United States and Britain in the Far East are weak, and the prediction is not enough to pose a direct threat!"

When Lu Han heard this, he was obviously not very satisfied, the position of submarines in the Chinese Navy has long been raised to the height of a separate army, although the range problem that plagues submarines is the biggest shortcoming of submarines today, but because of the abundant supply points controlled by China in the Pacific Ocean, the submarine force of the Navy can fully operate along the coast of Australia.

Similarly, despite the range limitations, the submarine forces of Britain and the United States are fighting the German wolves in the Atlantic, and they do not show too much weakness, and the natural concealment ability of submarines also makes the prediction a big mistake......

"Send a report to Don Town that it is necessary to obtain information on the submarine of the Yankees and the British in Australia as soon as possible...... Guam's defense capability must also continue to be strengthened, but don't fall on the doorstep of the fight! Lu Han knocked on the table and adjusted the plan of the General Staff, the Pacific Ocean is his home turf, and there can be no mistakes no matter what!

At this moment, there was a hurried report outside the conference hall, and a staff officer ran in and handed a telegram to Chen Ming, the chief of staff who was presiding over the exercise, and this telegram was immediately handed to Lu Han by Chen Ming.

"Albert's fleet is out to sea! But the whereabouts are unknown! (To be continued.) )