Judging from the current intelligence, as long as the German fleet enters the waters near Portugal, it will definitely be discovered by the other side. And Majifen will definitely flash when he sees that the situation is not good. This brought the whole plan to a dead end, that is, without entering the Mediterranean, it was impossible to join the Tycho fleet, and without converging, it was impossible to gain an advantage. And if the Tycho fleet comes out, it will definitely be resisted, the big fleet will go out to sea and the smoke will cover the clouds, and it will be too difficult not to be discovered, not to mention that the fleet can only go from the Strait of Gibraltar to Guò, and the Entente will definitely have air and sea forces to conduct reconnaissance.

However, after being reminded by Sa Zhenbing, Hipper thought of another way, and now the Allied fleet is divided into two parts, and the Allied fleet is also divided into two parts! If the Tycho fleet had gone to Lisbon to find Majifen's bad luck and then intercepted the Sims fleet itself, at least the Tycho fleet would have gained some advantage. And although there is one less capital ship on his side than Sims, but the American fleet is mixed, but his side is all Bismarck-class battleships, and Hipper thinks that if he confronts Sims, he is at least 70% sure that he can win. The only concern is the opposing air force.

Although he knew that there would definitely not be many flying groups with attack capabilities on the west coast of France, but the war was going on so far, and the slightest negligence would lead to irreparable consequences, even if Sa Zhenbing mentioned that the opponent's air force was not worried, he was still not at ease. Subsequently, Sa Zhenbing proposed to move part of the air force into the Bay of Biscay to limit the air power of the other Allied powers, and at the same time send a small number of submarines into the area. In this case, Sims will choose to go out to sea, at least outside the bomber's combat radius, whether to avoid the opponent's air attack or to avoid submarines. And if that's the case. With both air forces excluded, if the opponent's position could be found through the Guò reconnaissance aircraft, Hipper could naturally solve the opponent with a standard battleship battle.

The U.S. fleet is like a two-headed snake, and all the Allies need to do is choke both heads at the same time, and if they can kill Sims themselves, then at least it will be considered a victory, and if they can block Lisbon with Tycho. Then, with the cooperation of the Army, the American fleet is really a fish at the bottom of the kettle! Blocking a country's fleet in the harbor and completely annihilating it has not been done several times in history! From the current point of view, this plan is still somewhat feasible. First of all, the American fleet did not know about its arrival, and Tycho could go to Lisbon from the Gibraltar fortress at any time, and Magifin would not give up this place lightly, and would definitely let the Sims fleet rush to support. And at this time, if long-range reconnaissance aircraft and submarines were deployed in northern Spain in advance. The probability of spotting the Sims fleet is still very high. Then you can intercept it yourself! And when the two sides fought, even if Majifen knew that the Sims fleet was blocked, once he came out, there would naturally be a Tycho fleet to deal with him!

"This method seems to be good, if you can get the intelligence support of Huaxia, then the chances of winning are even greater." Hipper calculated in his heart that although Huaxia was a neutral country, he would not believe it if Huaxia had no intelligence network within the Entente. There was an intelligence network not only within the Entente, but also within the Allies. There are no eternal friends in the world, only eternal interests. Germany also deployed spies in China, and it was normal for China to deploy spies on both sides of the war. Hipper was not in the slightest worried that Huaxia would leak the plan for this operation, and Huaxia did not want the Allies to lose the war completely, as long as Germany did not interfere with Huaxia's actions against Russia. Huaxia will definitely not sit with the Entente. After all, the Allies were too far away from China, and Britain's colonies were on the edge of China, and the United States was also a superpower that spanned the entire Americas, and its Pacific Fleet was also one of the targets of China's defense. China needed the Allies to contain Britain, the United States, and France.

"But it is difficult for us to know the whereabouts of the American fleet. A sudden change of plan would cause great trouble, and at least our reconnaissance operations would be disrupted. Thinking of this, Hipper said, and peeked at the other party's reaction.

"It doesn't matter, we have this, through guò him, you can receive the intelligence of the Sims fleet, although it is not complete, but if it can be matched with the reconnaissance force deployed by your country in northern Spain, then it is not difficult to keep an eye on the other party, the key is that it must be fast, your fleet cannot be undetected all the time, and if you continue to go south, the greater the probability of being discovered." So you have to make a decision right away. After hearing what the other party said, Sa Zhenbing knew that Hipper had already joined forces with Huaxia to build a project, and the war had been fought to the present, and the Allies seemed to have unlimited scenery, but they had also reached the pinnacle of victory, and if they continued to fight, they could only become more and more empty, and Huaxia had newly occupied a large area of land, and various constructions were in ruins, and it was impossible to export resources to the Allies all the time. Therefore, Huaxia also hopes that the war will end soon!

Sa Zhenbing said as he took out a box from a corner of the room, and when this box was opened, Hipper's eyes couldn't help but light up, he had seen this thing, he had seen it in the German Naval Intelligence Department, this machine was the so-called dumb puzzle level, but looking at his volume, it was larger than the German navy used, and the German navy currently used more 4-rotor dumb puzzle machines, this may be 5 rotors. Obviously, this should be a cipher machine used internally in Huaxia to contact overseas spies.

"I think Your Excellency should be very aware of this, it will be sent to your warship with those supplies, and you can use it to receive some information. It is then used to decrypt but not encrypt. Every day you just have to listen to the radio to receive information, this is the specific reception schedule, you see. "When this cipher machine is delivered, Sa Zhenbing's task will be completed, and he will give Germany some help, and then it will be up to the Germans to do what to do then. After all, Sa Zhenbing is not aware of the situation, he is not in the navy to do intelligence. What's more, Huaxia is still a neutral country after all, and if it does too much, it will not be good if it is discovered.

After hours of replenishment, Hipper's fleet finally separated from the Huaxia supply fleet and continued on its journey, and after this meeting, Hipper began to try to contact Trough so that he could adjust his actions in time. "If the Tycho fleet is heading for Lisbon under the cover of night, will Majfen wait for the Sims fleet or evacuate?" "When does the Sims fleet depart? What if the American fleets converge in advance? Hipper wrote in his notebook. In any case, it is necessary to increase the air and submarine forces in northern Spain to monitor the Bay of Biscay. And after all, there is a sea between the Portuguese battlefield and the main battlefield, and under the threat of Allied submarines, the efficiency of merchant shipping is greatly reduced, coupled with the brutal war attrition, the front-line fighters are consumed very quickly, and the replenishment is also very slow, so the Allied air force can also divide part of its forces to take into account the direction of the Bay of Biscay.

Although Hipper persuaded the Germans on the southern front to make such an arrangement, there was still a slight concern about whether to carry out the plan of separate attacks in the end, and the whole fleet began to slow down. In order to wait for the final decision. At this time, Majifen, who had been helping the army defend Lisbon, was also in an increasingly difficult situation. Not that the German Army's 150 cannons and 210 heavy howitzers could threaten his fleet, on the contrary, since the Allied fleet was fully used to support land battles, the German Army not only failed to capture Lisbon, but even abandoned some non-important areas. The Germans were unable to do anything within the protection of the naval guns, but they began to attack the rest of Portugal and completely cut off the land access to Lisbon, turning the city into an island, and the Luftwaffe began to exhaust the Allied air force.

"The Allied forces in Lisbon were locked in a cage, they could not get enough supplies and support, and whatever supplies they needed had to be obtained from the sea, while supplies arriving from the United States would be attacked by submarines and raiders along the way, and even if they were close to Portugal, they would be harassed by land-based air forces. Even near the port there were mines laid by the Germans. Even if we sweep the bottom of the sea over and over again! As time went on, we got less and less supplies, and by the way, here we are talking about the supply level of the navy, army and air force that is higher than ours, because they are fighting the Germans all the time, and our transport force has to feed not only hundreds of thousands of troops, but also responsible for the consumption of civilians in the city of Lisbon. ”

"This makes sense, but it greatly weakens the fleet's combat effectiveness, and we are not short of fuel and all kinds of other supplies, but we lack propellants and shells, especially after the last time the Angel fast freighter was accidentally destroyed by a submarine to supply the fleet. There are no underground ammunition depots in Lisbon, and targets on the ground can be attacked by the enemy at any time, so objectively we dare not accumulate too much ammunition in the harbor, and the reserve ammunition for each main gun on the battleship is only 100 rounds. Although there were more secondary guns, the range was not enough, so we were forced to attack some very small targets with the main guns. And this has exacerbated the consumption of our ammunition, and in this case, the combat effectiveness of our fleet continues to decline. Magiffen wrote in the report. And this time, when the Sims fleet was about to arrive, Magifin was going to order him to bring at least two ammunition carriers and provide them to the main fleet, which was not very rich in ammunition. But a series of unexpected events alarmed Majifen, and the number of German submarines near the Bay of Biscay increased dramatically, and Allied reconnaissance planes began to frequent the area, and repeatedly tracked Allied merchant ships.

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