Although the Huaxia and U.S. navies are ready to bear the losses of some transport ships, no matter how small the ship is, it has a full load displacement of tens of thousands of tons, plus the cargo on it, the value of it is so great that people dare not take it lightly. Although the above is good, "understand the Navy's suffering", but if the result is really too bad, I am afraid that no one here will be able to escape a meal. So Soumer and Nimitz still planned the route of the entire fleet very carefully. As the Germans thought, the fleet would sail through the Far North, trying to avoid the blows of the German Navy and land-based aviation. Now that the weather has warmed up, the sea conditions and ice floe conditions have improved a lot, and generally speaking, there is no impact on large fleets.

"The convoy from the ports of the eastern United States, as well as from Canada, will be concentrated on the island of Newfoundland, and our fleet will be there when it is assembled near Bermuda. The entire fleet would then sail north, along the northern edge of the Gulf of Finland, then to Cape Favel, the southernmost tip of Greenland, and then northwest along the edge of Greenland, before entering the Danish Strait, making a circle in the north of Iceland, and following the Faroe Islands and Shetland Islands into the United Kingdom. Relying on the support of aviation bases in Iceland and the island chain near the United Kingdom, we can at least get a good warning, and Newfoundland also has some land-based air forces deployed, which are relatively safe on both sides, the only problem is that the middle section may be attacked by the Germans while sailing at the northern end of the Reykjanes Ridge. It takes about a week for the convoy to cover this distance. Our fleet will be mixed in the middle and rear of the transport fleet. Summer eventually reported to the Joint Command the final plan for the entire operation.

"How about the British fleet? Their last operation has been doing well, how will they cooperate with our operation? Nimitz asked.

"The British fleet will enter the waters near Iceland under the cover of General Cunningham, and guarantee the safety of the western entrance to the Danish Channel 100 nautical miles to the British mainland. Unless the Germans received intelligence beforehand. Launching an attack on the British fleet at any cost, the British believed they could accomplish the task. Fletcher said. If all goes well. We could join up with the British fleet and move into Sparka Bay. After the transport fleet has finished unloading. We will return the way we came, but I don't think the plan will be used, and the Germans will engage us on the way we came. ”

"As long as there is a draw, then we will also win, the German fleet of air cruisers has been severely damaged, and our escort aircraft carriers plus the British Royal Navy are enough to deal with the German broken fleet. In terms of planning, I have at least a 70% chance of winning, and the rest depends on the actual engagement. We now have better planes and pilots, and I'm confident in this plan. Sumer concluded. The plan that Summer had begun to come up with was eventually partially modified. This is the result of taking into account both the fleet and the transport fleet.

"If there are no problems, the fleet will leave in 3 days." Finally, Nimitz concluded, at this point, the Storm plan, which China and the U.S. Navy had been preparing for months, had finally begun. The mightiest fleet ever built will cross the Atlantic in a fateful showdown with an equally powerful fleet on the other side! The winner will decide the fate of Britain and the world!

The huge combined fleet of the Entente countries sailed out of the port, and as many as 220 warships of various kinds and hundreds of submarines assembled at the northern tip of the Atlantic, and the submarine force that set off first completed the deployment on the line from Cape Favel to the Danish Strait, and the whole 140 submarines were divided into six submarine groups, which formed a huge arc-shaped warning network under the sea surface. They formed the outermost cordon of the Entente. Inside was the transport fleet and the escort fleet, and up to 15 escort carriers were involved in the operation, which were carried out in groups of 2 to 3 units, each of which also had 4 to 6 anti-submarine destroyers. Each escort group provides cover for up to 50 to 70 transport vessels. These escort carriers alone have almost 500 aircraft of all kinds, although they are vulnerable in front of the German high seas fleet, but they are still enough to deal with all kinds of submarines!

In this huge fleet of hundreds of ships of all kinds. The combined fleet commanded by Nimitz and Summer was hidden, waiting for an opportunity like a lion hidden in a flock. Waiting for the Germans to take the initiative and then seize the opportunity to inflict heavy damage. Naturally, such a large-scale transfer could not hide from the eyes of the Germans. The day after the combined fleet of the Entente went to sea, Count Spee, who was far away across the ocean, learned of the situation. Day 3. The huge Allied Combined Fleet also went to sea, and this time, the German lineup was about the same as the last time, the only difference was the addition of a Caesar-class aircraft carrier!

The Allied Combined Fleet was still divided into four subfleets, with Raeder commanding the 1st Aircraft Carrier Strike Group, which commanded two 18,000-ton aircraft carriers Blücher and Von der Tann, two Moltke-class aircraft carriers, Moltke and Goeben, and the Spanish Fleet's Ibilis. It is equipped with 450 aircraft of various types. Count Luckner's fleet consisted of four Moltke-class armored aircraft carriers, the Cedritz, the Rütsov, the Hindenburg, and the De Fllinger. It is equipped with 420 aircraft. The Third Aircraft Carrier Strike Group commanded by Count Spee consists of three Europa-class aircraft carriers, namely the Europa, Bremen and Hamburg, as well as two new Caesar-class supercarriers, the Caesar and Frederick the Great. There are also 2 light aircraft carriers of 18,000 tons, the Tiger and the Panther. The number of aircraft carried remained at around 540, but the number of twin-engine aircraft increased significantly. The Austro-Hungarian fleet was similar to the last grouping, except for the four 27,000-ton armored aircraft carriers of the Lord Laoden class, the 18,000-ton Silesian medium-sized aircraft carrier went south to ensure the safety of the Indian Ocean route, and missed the naval battle, but as a supplement, the Spanish aircraft carrier was incorporated into the Austro-Hungarian fleet.

In this way, the total number of aircraft carriers of the Allied fleet reached 20, and these 20 were all fleet aircraft carriers, against the 20 fleet carriers of the Entente plus 4 light aircraft carriers, and the number of carrier-based aircraft was 2000 against about 2300 enemy aircraft. This time the Germans did not bring aviation cruisers, because the Chinese broke diplomatic relations in the Indian Ocean intensified, and the Germans did not have a special escort aircraft carrier. The Austro-Crarian aviation cruiser was photographed in the Indian Ocean on escort anti-submarine missions. Although there is a numerical disadvantage, it relies on the attack power advantage of twin-engine aircraft. The Germans believed that they still had the upper hand in offensive operations, according to the Germans themselves. THE LETHALITY OF THREE 500KG BOMBS IS NOT AS GOOD AS ONE 1000KG BOMB. The characteristics of the twin-engine bomber's one-hit kill are simply too terrifying! An even bigger naval battle is about to take place in the middle of the Atlantic!

Like the Entente, the Allied fleet relied heavily on submarines to provide intelligence, and in order to ensure the success of the operation, the Germans also mobilized more than 150 submarines of various types to search the vast ocean, but unlike the Allied countries' targeted deployment of submarine cordons, the Allies were more like looking for a needle in a haystack, and the huge submarine scale was diluted by the larger sea area. Although the Allies also increased their forces in the north, it turned out that the more than 50 submarines deployed near Greenland were really not enough!

When after 4 days. The Germans realized that the route taken by the Entente transport fleet was already a little late, of course, this is a later story, so I will not mention it for the time being. At this time, two huge fleets were engaged in a battle of hide and seek in the Atlantic. Both sides had the upper hand, with the Allied fleets hiding in convoys and the Allied fleets drifting erratically, cruising the vast oceans, but generally time was on the side of the Allies. As long as the fleet can reach Britain, then it can bring millions of tons of various materials to Britain. Even if it failed to make a difference with the Allied fleet, the blockade of the German High Seas Fleet had been broken.

The wait is long and boring. It's boring and even panicked. This was true for both fleets, with huge fleets sailing on the seas, and aircraft carriers and battleships forming the most central inner circle. In the middle layer were various cruisers and destroyers. The outermost layer of defense consisted of radar-carrying aircraft and radar sentry ships. Every minute and every second at sea, people are under tremendous pressure. Both sides have the power to destroy their opponents. The slightest negligence can lead to unpredictable results, under tremendous stress. All but the newcomers were on their toes.

"Where do we say, where will we find the American transports and their fleet?" In the pilot's cafeteria, a newcomer who had just been on the ship for less than a month was full of interest and communicated with the people next to him. Compared to the old bird next to him, this newcomer, who had just graduated from aviation school and had only more than twenty combat flight hours, was more eager to fight than those old people, hoping to prove himself with the blood of his opponent in battle.

"It's really nostalgic, those days of youth and ignorance and the passion of the past." A squadron leader looked at the young man who was chirping like a sparrow and didn't listen, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, once upon a time he was also such a person, when he was only 19 years old, he just went to the battlefield to participate in the Iran War, after months of fighting, he has become an old bird, and he was the only one of the 6 newcomers who entered this squadron at the same time, and the other 5 people were killed 3 and 2 were wounded. From then on, he learned that fighting was not as passionate as advertised. Understands that there is too much cannon fodder behind the hero, and although he has survived more than 200 battles so far, he is still walking on thin ice.

"Boy, cherish every minute and every second of the moment, because this may be the last meal you eat, the last few words you say. From the beginning of the war to the present, less than half of the aviation personnel at the beginning of the war are now serving in the carrier-based air wing. And the death rate of those new rookies is even more terrifying. In the first three battles, the rookies had a half chance of being shot down and a quarter of the chance of dying in battle, and those rookies who died were so confident before, thinking that they were born heroes, and now, they are all gone, talk less, learn more. Do you understand? An old bird finally couldn't help it, and he lectured with a straight face.

This scene fell on Count Lukner, who had just passed by the door of the pilot's canteen, and all kinds of negative statements had already been circulating on his flagship, and the German Navy, especially the pilots, had begun to fear battle, and the indomitable momentum of the early development was fading. The brutal fighting has worn out the passion of the pilots. Count Luknall found it very difficult to understand, because as a senior naval officer who participated in World War I, the German navy also had war-weariness in the late First World War, but that was at the end of the war, not now. In any case, the war is still in favor of Germany for the time being, so what exactly are these people worried about?

"The rate of loss of our pilots is too fast, except for a few guys with a very high level of skill or good enough luck, most of the pilots only have a lifespan of about 5 or 6 air battles. Of course, this is talking about pure air combat, simple tactical patrols do not count. As with the Air Force, the Navy's submarine forces also have a high casualty rate, and the morale of these two units has dropped the fastest, and although we have ensured morale by raising salaries, the huge casualties still demoralize the pilots and submarine officers. And it must be noted that the technical level of our newcomers really cannot be compared with the old ones, even if the scale is the same, our combat effectiveness has dropped by more than 2% compared with the original. Said the officer of the aviation department next to him.

The same situation existed in the US Navy, and in terms of losses, the Americans sank battleships and lost no less pilots than the Germans. But fortunately, most of the pilots who mainly participated in the war this time were from China. Relatively speaking, the Chinese pilots still have a lot of trust in their fighters, and the performance of the Skua fighter equipped with the new R2800-57 engine crushes almost all other naval fighters, and as an air-cooled fighter, its own resistance to losses is relatively good. At the same time, in China, almost all naval aviation squadrons have conducted targeted training against the German FW190A aircraft. Although the FW190A was in the early days of the war for a while, but now, this aircraft really has no secrets for the Entente, and even the speed and climb advantages are gone!

The middle and lower ranks were so nervous, and even more so at the top, that the senior officers of the Allied and Allied navies could only rest for about four hours a day, and they had to use coffee and even medicine to keep themselves in shape. Countless pieces of information come to them through various channels, and they have to process everything as efficiently and accurately as a machine!

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