At this time, the Pacific Fleet was preparing for a large number of landing operations against the Americas. Pen %Fun %Cabinet www.biquge.info because it was necessary to carry an unusually large convoy of convoys to the American continent over a distance of thousands of kilometers, and it was necessary to resist a strong counterattack by the Americans and hold the beachhead. Therefore, the Pacific Fleet at this time gathered most of the forces of the Ming Navy.

Although the Ming navy was strong, there were thousands of warships of various types. However, because the Pacific Fleet occupies a large amount of resources, the strength of the Atlantic Fleet is not enough to eat the entire European Combined Fleet in one bite.

Under these circumstances, the main commanders of the Atlantic Fleet quickly developed their own combat plan, which was to select a single key target for attack. After all, the number of combined European fleets is too large, and the sea area is very large. Under these circumstances, it was unrealistic for the Ming army to carry out a full-scale attack. Therefore, they chose the main target of the German high seas fleet, which was the most powerful.

As long as the German High Seas Fleet can be eliminated, it will be equivalent to the elimination of most of the strength of the European Combined Fleet.

After all, the strength of the Russian Baltic Fleet is limited, although there are a lot of warships, but because this fleet was built to operate mainly in the Baltic Sea region, its performance is not suitable for ocean-going operations.

Moreover, the officers and men of the Baltic Fleet are demoralized, their training is poor, and their real combat effectiveness is low. As for the warships of other countries, they may be okay, but their numbers are too small to form too effective combat capabilities. Therefore, in the case that the British Royal Navy did not go to North America, the focus of the Ming army's attack must have been on the Germans.

Just as the Ming army was very aware of the movements of the Allied fleet, the allied forces had already predicted and monitored the attack of the Atlantic Fleet of the Ming Navy. After all, the Atlantic Fleet departed from various ports on the west coast of France. These places were formerly French territory, and there were many resistance groups on the ground, many of which were professional naval personnel or veterans of shipyards.

These men may not be able to scout near a heavily guarded military port, but they can often tell if a large fleet has sailed by the slightest hint of it. For example, all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables are sent into the military port in large quantities, special trains carrying artillery shells enter the military port, and the military port is brightly lit during air defense at night.

The judgment of one or two resistance groups may not be relied upon, but when almost all of them reported a large number of Ming fleets attacking, it was already obvious.

On the night of 30 September, a British Royal Navy vigilance submarine spotted a large unidentified fleet of large warships nine hundred nautical miles west of the island of Ireland and 1,600 nautical miles southwest of Iceland. Although the submarine was unable to identify the specific information of the battleship due to the darkness of the night and the distance, the captain reported in a telegram that several large flat-deck ships had been found.

A flat-deck ship is also an aircraft carrier. At this time, an unidentified fleet with many aircraft carriers can appear in such a place, and the only explanation is the large fleet of the Ming Navy.

The senior commanders of the Allied navies could easily determine that the target of this fleet was the Combined European Fleet bound for the Americas.

The Allied admirals sent telegrams to the Combined European Fleet asking them to prepare for battle, and the U.S. Navy fleets to speed up their efforts to join the Combined European Fleet. This fleet, which is dominated by the Atlantic Fleet of the US Navy, is very strong, and if it joins forces with the European Combined Fleet, it will surpass the Atlantic Fleet of the Ming Army in strength, and it is not impossible to eat the Ming Army in turn.

Based on the reports sent back by the French Resistance and the location and time of the British naval submarines, the Allied generals deduced that the Ming army was trying to intercept the combined European fleet halfway. But no one thought that this might be a ploy of the Ming army. A ploy to hide from the world.

After Zhang Cheng took over the Jiangnan Shipyard, he began to organize personnel to design and build a new cargo ship. This kind of cargo ship is a standard container packed on its own deck like a stack of arhats. And all the goods are stored in those standard containers.

The throughput capacity and speed of such vessels far exceed those of conventional vessels. After the Ming Dynasty entered the wartime, shipyards everywhere were building this kind of ship with huge transportation capacity on a large scale. And once such a ship does not place containers on its own deck, it will make some modifications to its superstructure. The one that came alive was a flat-deck ship that looked very similar to an aircraft carrier.

The Ming army secretly rebuilt many of these large and fast transport ships and sent them out as bait to attract the attention of the allies. Even for the sake of realism, many warplanes were actually strapped to the decks of those modified transport ships. At the same time, they were also renumbered and renamed.

This transformation is top secret, and no Allied spy will be able to get any information about it. When the Ming intelligence department made up its mind to do something, it was basically impossible for the allies to find out.

As for why, the reason is simple. The Atlantic Fleet of the Ming Navy is determined to conduct a continuous battle that is first weak and then strong. They used deceptive tactics to deceive the allies, making them mistakenly believe that the main force of their fleet was approaching the combined European fleet. However, the main fleet of the Ming Navy was at high speed towards the receiving fleet that set off from the west coast of the United States. The Ming Navy was ready to eat the American fleet first.

At the heart of this tactic is successful deception. If the Allies could not be fooled, the tactic would have failed. Not only will the American receiving fleet immediately turn around and flee, but the Ming army will also lose the opportunity to intercept the combined European fleet. To this end, the Ming Navy carried out a series of work in a very short period of time with the cooperation of the intelligence department.

Ship modifications, a lot of telecommunications deception, a large number of ships departing from different harbors and then making difficult maneuvers on the open sea, and then total radio silence, etc. All of this can only be achieved by having the super-high quality of officers and men. And the only one on this planet who can do this perfectly is the Ming Navy.

After being discovered by a British Navy submarine, the Ming army's camouflaged fleet encountered Allied reconnaissance several times. However, they were very well camouflaged, and many camouflaged warships were hiding in the core of the fleet and were difficult to observe in detail. The Allied submarines had a chance to get a little closer only at night.

It's just that the visibility at night and the overall flatness of the observation of the submarine directly lead to various miscalculations. The submarine forces of the allied countries have sent telegrams saying that many of the main aircraft carriers of the Ming army are in this fleet. After analyzing the number of high-ranking naval officials of the allied countries who received the information, they firmly believed that this was the main force of the Ming Atlantic Fleet.

In this case, the rescue fleet of the US Navy did not know that it had been targeted by the huge Ming army, and was still advancing at high speed to prepare for the convergence with the European Combined Fleet.

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"Don't send a report." In the command tower of the new ocean-going submarine Whale Shark with the number 527, Colonel Fang Renxu of the Daming Navy's submarine force told his first mate not to send a telegram immediately.

Fang Renxu, the commander of the submarine with the largest tonnage of sunk enemy warships in the Ming Navy, is also the commander of a single ship. The total tonnage he sank was not comparable to that of several of his comrades, but its quality was far from being comparable to that of those comrades who sank many transport ships.

For a national treasure-level front-line commander like Fang Renxu, the Ming Navy has asked him to return to the headquarters several times to serve as the deputy chief of general staff or operational director of the submarine force. And all these positions can be held by generals. In other words, as soon as he returned to the Submarine Command, he would immediately become a general. It was nothing short of a miracle given his age and seniority at this time.

It's just that Fang Renxu has always been reluctant to go to the office to drink tea and blow the air conditioner, so he still continues to serve in the front-line army. And with his brilliant fighter at this time, he has already been promoted to the rank of colonel. In this interception of the European Combined Fleet, Fang Renxu received an order to patrol the designated position to search for traces of the enemy fleet.

In the middle of the night on 1 October, a submarine under the command of Fang Renxu spotted traces of the US Navy's receiving unit.

"Why?" Fang Renxu's first mate looked at Fang Renxu with some incomprehension, and didn't understand why he didn't let the report go. Isn't it their task to report immediately after discovering the traces of the enemy fleet?

"The Americans are very advanced in radio detection and triangulation technology. This is also forced out by our submarine tactics. Fang Renxu, who was lying on the periscope and observing carefully, explained softly: "It will take time for our fleet to come over." If our whereabouts are exposed at this time, it may make Americans vigilant. There is a possibility that they will change course, which is not good for us. So we're slowly stepping away now, keeping an eye on them while it's safe to do so. In this way, the traces of the Americans can be sent all the time. ”

"I see." The first mate looked suddenly and nodded again and again.

Soon, the submarine Whale Shark under the command of Fang Renxu quietly distanced itself from the U.S. Navy fleet. The location of the Americans was quickly transmitted via a wireless telegraph attached to the snorkel.

The Whale Shark large ocean-going submarine is the latest generation of new submarines of the Ming Navy, with strong performance. Its sailing speed is very fast. Therefore, the fleet of Americans who were able to follow it for a long time did not lose its target.

Because the Whale Shark constantly transmits the position of the U.S. receiving fleet, the Ming Atlantic Fleet constantly adjusts its deployment. In the early morning of 2 October, a large group of attack planes was dispatched towards the American fleet. (To be continued.) )