The corners of Liu Junguo's mouth turned up slightly, revealing a weird smile: "It's a pity that our fleet gets lost because of the fog at sea, and the Allied fleet with friendly forces misses it." In the end, we found out that we had reached the shores of the Saar Empire, what do you think we should do? ”

Fang Xiaoyu patted the case and said: "Good idea, then we can only reluctantly attack the Saar Empire directly, to attract the attention of the allies, in order to weaken the enemy country, it is necessary to land and loot on a large scale." ”

Zhang Haiyang raised his mouth and said, "This is too fake, are we going to take the Marines with us?" Is this called a naval battle? It's clearly a landing battle. ”

Liu Junguo said: "As long as we are strong enough, whoever dares to be verbose, they can only choose to acquiesce." ”

At this time, the combined fleet of the Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire was gathering in the port of Brest of the Nantes Empire. The Allied fleet assembled this time was quite powerful, including forty-eight Chinese ships, seventy-one former Chinese ships, one hundred and seventeen cruisers, three hundred and fourteen destroyers, and four seaplane carriers of the Saar Empire, which was unprecedented in scale.

The combined naval fleets of the Saar and Nantes empires were unprecedented, but not unprecedented. After the Joint Staff of the Chinese Empire designated the corresponding battle plan, the Chinese Imperial Navy began to urgently assemble, and the main forces of the Mediterranean Fleet and the Southern Ocean Fleet assembled at the port of Ceuta in the Mediterranean immediately pulled anchor and set sail towards the predetermined assembly place.

In addition to the huge fleet that departed from the port of Ceuta, there was also the main force of the Eastern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire from the St. Martin Empire.

Before the departure of the Chinese Imperial Navy, Sun Xiaohu, in the name of the Chinese Imperial Admiralty, sent the news that the Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire were assembling fleets to the Allied countries, and of course, this news was also sent to the Boston Empire, and at the same time announced that his own navy had all gone to sea to prepare for battle.

After receiving a telegram from the Chinese Empire, the countries of the Central Powers immediately communicated. In the end, the countries decided to act jointly against the combined fleet of the Entente.

The expeditionary fleet of the Boston Empire was still in Wilhelmshaven of the Yaman Empire at this time, which could come in handy, so the fleets of the Yaman Empire and the Boston Empire formed the Allied Northern Fleet, which set out from Wilhelmshaven and searched south, preparing to intercept the Allied fleet.

The fleets of the Grand Duchy of Sardinia and the Kingdom of Habfsburg formed the Southern Fleet of the Central Powers, and attacked north from the Mediterranean, attempting to attack the Allied fleet together with the Northern Fleet, and a super-large-scale naval Armageddon was coming.

Since it was a time of war, and all the fleets were on standby, without much preparation, the two fleets of the Central Powers pulled anchor and set sail in two directions, heading towards the port of Brest, where they wanted to destroy the Allied fleet from the north and south, dashing their last hopes.

The decisive naval battle between the Allies and the Entente was about to break out, and at this time, the four fleets of the Chinese Imperial Navy had also gathered in the Storm Ocean, and under the full command of Sun Xiaohu, the fleet sailed north, aiming directly at Poolsport, the capital of the Saar Empire.

During the voyage, the warning radars on several radar ships equipped by the Chinese Imperial Navy took turns on, and the Exocet-type water reconnaissance planes on the 'Eagle's Nest' also took turns to set sail for reconnaissance. Now it was the Imperial Chinese Navy that was playing tricks on both sides, and he didn't want to let the plan of the joint command fall through because of a sudden encounter.

Due to the long distance and the fact that the speed of many civilian freighters could not be improved, even if the Chinese Imperial fleet set off ahead of the two fleets, it was still more than 300 nautical miles away from the mainland of the Saar Empire. And the fleets of the Entente and the Central Powers, which were seeking a decisive battle, were already on the verge of contact.

The news of the departure of the two fleets of the Allied powers was quickly passed on to the hands of the Entente, and Marshal Jericho, as the commander of the Allied fleet, knew very well that the maritime superiority of the Allied powers had now disappeared with the accession of the Chinese Empire and the Boston Empire.

If the two sides completely put up a hard fight, the Allied fleet would only be wiped out, so after receiving accurate information, he decided to preemptively attack and rely on the superior fleet to destroy the Yaman Empire fleet in the north first, and then go south to fight a decisive battle with the Mediterranean Allied fleet led by the Chinese Empire (the commanders of both sides did not know that the Chinese Imperial fleet's attack had another purpose, and thought that they had also joined the Allied fleet).

As Jericho thought, the commander of the Northern Fleet of the Allied Powers, Admiral Scheer of the Yaman Empire, was also very clear about the other side's thoughts. When he concluded that the Allied fleet would go north to attack him, he decided to rely on the naval fleets of the Yaman Empire and the Boston Empire to hold each other back, and then let the fleets of several allied countries such as the Chinese Empire encircle from the south and completely destroy the last main maritime force of the Entente.

Marshal Jericho continued to refine his tactics after several naval battles. Although the "Fury" was accidentally sunk in the first naval battle, the use of aircraft in the naval battle still gave Marshal Jericho hope, so this sortie, he brought the Saar Empire's latest construction of four 20,000-ton seaplane carriers "Daring", "Hundred Eyes", "Royal Ark" and "Empress", for these four motherships, the Saar Navy also specially developed two kinds of seaplanes.

The first is the 'Haviland' twin-engine water bomber developed on the basis of the land-based Handley Pace 400 type, although this kind of aircraft is relatively heavy, it also has a power of more than 300 horsepower, and the bomb load reaches 700 kilograms, which is enough to pose a threat to the warship.

The other is the 'Avro' water combat \ reconnaissance aircraft, which is almost a copy of the 'Camel' aircraft, the only difference is that this aircraft has changed the landing gear into a pontoon, and at the same time, auxiliary fuel tanks have been added to the aircraft to increase the range, and the machine guns have also changed from one to two.

Due to the large size of these seaplanes, the fact that the biplanes could not fold their wings, and the fact that the Saar Empire did not have the concept of hangars, but only parked these planes on the deck, the four motherships only carried a total of thirty-seven 'Avro', and the 'Havilland' bombers, due to the large size of the four-engine bombers, were only twelve.

With the addition of these aircraft, Jericho has a lot more tactical options. He knew very well that such a large-scale sortie of the Allied fleets could not be concealed, and the Allied powers would definitely be able to get the news from the direction of the Allies, and the fleets of the Allied countries had already attacked from the north and south in order to encircle their own fleets.

In order to create a time difference and create an opportunity for his side to destroy the Yaman Empire's fleet, Jericho not only ordered the fleet to sail north at maximum speed and directly meet the Allied Northern Fleet, but also ordered the 'Avro' water combat \ reconnaissance aircraft on the four motherships to take turns to take up reconnaissance to ensure that the other side could be detected in advance.

At 14 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, an 'Avro' plane numbered 091 finally spotted a huge formation of warships at sea, and the thick black smoke from the chimneys of the hundreds of battleships was intertwined into a thick black cloud, and the white wake generated by the simultaneous movement was as dense as a school of migratory sardines, which made the Saar pilot who operated the plane gasp.

Since the Sahr's plane had no radio on board, he had to increase his speed and quickly return to his own fleet, and what he did not notice was that the Allied Northern Fleet also spotted the plane.

Seeing the other party's plane returning, Scheer immediately realized that it was so far away from the coast that the Sahr land-based planes could not fly here, this must be the carrier-based aircraft of the other side's navy, and the direction it flew in must be the location of the opponent's fleet, so Marshal Scheer immediately ordered the fleet to form a battle formation, and the whole fleet was ready for battle, and galloped in the direction where the plane was far away.

Aircraft operations at sea were still in their infancy, and no one had much experience, so the pilot did not make any detours and flew straight towards his own fleet, which revealed the location of his own fleet, but this was irrelevant. After receiving the pilot's report, Marshal Jericho immediately ordered a battle formation to meet him.

Half an hour later, the observation posts on both sides saw the thick black smoke in the sky, which was the black smoke coming from the chimneys of the battleship formations that still commonly used coal-fired boilers, and the two sides were already less than twelve nautical miles away.

The main force of the Imperial Empire's navy consisted of eight 'Zhonghua' class battleships purchased from the Chinese Empire, which were later modified by the Chinese Empire at the request of the Yamaman Empire, replacing the 305 mm main guns with 330 mm and 50 times the diameter. Although their main guns were not the largest after the replacement, due to the long enough calibre, their range was slightly higher than that of the ships on both sides in service, so the eight battleships were the first to fire from the front guns, and the prelude to the naval battle in the North Sea began.

The Allied Northern Fleet also had 32 Chinese ships and 51 former Chinese ships, and these behemoths were divided into formations and galloped towards the Allied fleet at full speed. Marshal Jericho did not dare to show weakness, and all the capital ships also formed a small formation and rushed towards the other side at full speed.

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