Five, six, eight, take that road?

Sitting in front of the sea chart, Chen Ping forgot about the hustle and bustle around him, looked directly at the Atlantic chart, turned his head after half a ring, and his eyes passed through the figures coming and going, and cast his eyes on the decoder working in the corner. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

He also learned from the emperor a few days ago about the possibility of the German radio code being leaked, and although he didn't know how the emperor knew about it, he made a serious mistake.

Germany was not informed in time!

This was not due to any political motives, yes it was delayed, because by then the German battle patrol assault had failed, so it made no difference between a day earlier and a day later, and no one expected that Li Xiuyan would borrow the German communication system in the Atlantic to send a telegram back.

This is an extremely serious incident, and if there is to be accountability, he, the chief of the General Staff, will bear the brunt.

It has not been a day or two since the emergence of radio technology, and countries have invested a lot of research before the war, and technologies such as radiolocation, decoders, and communication code manuals have also begun to be applied, which has made radio a double-edged sword.

Well used, it's a weapon.

If you don't use it well, you will hurt yourself.

Just like at this moment, Germany has invested a lot in radio research, but according to Wang Shizhen before, the grassroots officers still do not have a good understanding of this kind of thing, although they have a rudimentary code book and other things, but when forwarding telegrams from other troops, they will still indicate who forwarded it from where and so on.

Although this information was also encrypted, Britain got the vital codebook from Russia!

Even if only a small part can be translated, as long as they deduce that the 31st Fleet has reached the coast of West Africa, then the search range of the original half of the Atlantic will be compressed into a small area.

Since the battlecruiser Tiger was in the middle of the U-turn and rushed back, both the fleet and the fleet had already set off at that time, which also meant that if Britain moved from north to south, the fleet could increase by 2 knots with the help of the Canary cold current from north to south! If the inference is correct, they should have arrived at the Cape Verde base and even had half a day to refuel, while the American fleet had already completed its resupply in Puerto Rico, moved to the position of Maceio (the place where the Atlantic Ocean protruded from the Brazilian mainland), and began to cross the Atlantic from there!

Because it takes a day for Li Xiuyan's telegram to be forwarded back, this means that the encirclement is forming rapidly!

According to incomplete statistics, at least half of these nearly 100 warships are equipped with radios, that is, 40 can send back messages at any time, and then according to their reconnaissance results, the search range will be gradually reduced until the initial positioning is completed!

That's where radio comes in. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

The important thing is that the emperor once said that Hua is the best radio technology in the world, has rich experience in operation, coupled with his pointing, has formed a very strict operating rules, such as the disorder decoder, even if the enemy gets it, the translation is also some numbers, these numbers can only be obtained through special code instincts, and the final code language also needs to be re-translated, which can become the final information.

It is precisely because of China's advanced and strict operational methods that a huge gap has been formed between China and other countries, and this gap often causes many inadvertent mistakes, for example, although Li Xiuyan asked Germany to send back encrypted telegrams, but Germany did not have such strict means, and the submarine would receive it there, forward it from there, and send it back together.

The annoying thing is that China can't ally ally radio and encryption and other technologies, whether it is political or military, are not allowed, because the importance of radio is too great!

Chen Ping turned his head heavily.

From the previous telegrams and time of the 31st Fleet, it was inferred that the 31st Fleet should be operating in the area of the Gulf of Guinea, because this is already the limit of supplies, so they need to delay there for at least one night, which gives the opponent time again.

Moreover, it is impossible for Li Xiuyan to maintain a high speed all the time, in which case the fuel will be insufficient, on the contrary, because the two interception fleets have a general goal and can get base supplies in the middle, they can maintain a relatively high speed for a long time, which is also giving the opponent time to rush to the battlefield.

The 31 st Fleet will undoubtedly face a serious test, and at this moment the two interception fleets must have formed a situation of blocking in the front, cutting through, and chasing behind, the British fleet in front of the blockade, the American fleet in the crossing, and the South African fleet that temporarily has a battlecruiser Australia that can fight.

If it were another warship, maybe this would be a hundred deaths, but after all, the Guam-class is Huaqiang, and even the most powerful battleship in the world at present, with the ability to shred the enemy from a distance of 20,000 meters, but the question is whether Li Xiuyan has received a warning, can he give full play to the advantages of radar and electrical capabilities, and go all out to break out of the encirclement?

"Chief of Staff."

The voice interrupted Chen Ping's thoughts, and he turned his head to see that Zhang Zuolin was already standing beside him with a telegram.

Looking at the telegram in his hand, Chen Ping suddenly stood up: "31 fleet?!" ”

"It's about them." Zhang Zuolin walked to the chart, picked up the pen and drew a straight line towards Cape Verde in the Caribbean Sea: "The information just transferred by Germany is that the two Wyoming-class battleships that have been operating on the east coast of Panama suddenly left there last night, and we speculate that they may have gone to support the fleet. ”

The Wyoming class is an American-built first-class battleship with two ships, the USS Wyoming and the USS Arkansas, which has six twin 305mm guns and a displacement of 27,000 tons.

The two battleships had been operating in the Caribbean Sea and entered Panama after the war to support the U.S. Army and serve as a final lock to guard the Panama Canal.

Their abrupt departure undoubtedly confirmed that the Anglo-Americans really cracked the German telegraph and had a rough idea of where the 31 fleet was.

Now there are three ways in front of the 31st fleet, the first is to immediately turn around and abandon the mission, with their endurance at this time, they can hold out to Chile or even the Colon Islands, and the South African fleet behind them can't stop them.

The second way is to cross the Atlantic Ocean immediately, play against the American fleet, and use the speed advantage to quickly go to the Caribbean Sea, where there are many islands, and then wait for the opportunity to continue the mission north after avoiding the limelight.

Of course, there is a third one that is also difficult, that is, to penetrate the British fleet that has been prepared head-on, and then take advantage of the false news that Long Guozhang said in Shanghai that he was going to Germany, put on a posture of going straight to the North Sea, attract all British and American forces to the area of Gibraltar, and then cross the Atlantic from there, and withdraw immediately after shelling New York!

It was a difficult road, not that the British fleet was better than the American fleet, because there were so many interceptors along the way, and the route from Gibraltar to the east coast of the United States was a busy shipping lane, and there were too many fleets along the way that would expose them to their whereabouts.

So how will Li Xiuyan and Chen Shaokuan choose?

"Yuting, do you think the 31st fleet will go a way?"

Hearing Chen Ping's inquiry, Zhang Zuolin thought about it, and pointed his finger at Gibraltar, he is not a naval expert, nor is he a superb strategic vision, but he knows that these two captains are not afraid of heaven and earth, and the third road is dangerous, but it is the route that catches Britain and the United States off guard!

"Send a telegram at once, order the ship and the Dongmeng that are on trial in Guam to go to Honolulu and get ready."

"Inform the Yaksha formation to temporarily cancel the operation to Gapo and move towards the Ogasawara Islands."

"Also inform Lefei to get ready to bomb San Francisco!"

After issuing a series of orders, Chen Ping turned his head suddenly, and his eyes were already shining coldly when he looked at the chart: "Order Ji Weishan to be prepared, if something happens to the 31st fleet, I will burn the flames of war to the mainland of the United States in advance!" ”

Time passed minute by minute, and the news that they had suddenly entered combat readiness made the tired sailors who had just finished the supply mission very surprised, but everyone still dutifully ran into their battle positions to standby.

As the steel cable was quickly retracted, the Guam sent out a series of light signals, and together with the Dongting Lake, it sailed in the direction where the Tumen River disappeared, and standing in the bridge, Li Xiuyan clenched his fists fiercely.

At the same time, the tile-like antenna on the top of the bridge in front of the Tumen River began to rotate slowly, and in an instant, countless electromagnetic wave signals were sent out in all directions, and then the radio waves fed back were received by signal detectors distributed throughout the ship, and were converted into radio signals and quickly transmitted to the enclosed electric fire control cabin located under the command tower.

In front of the dresser-like metal console, the electric officer's eyes widened, staring at the small round screen in front of him, a green horizontal line kept moving down from the top of the screen, and then when it disappeared to the bottom of the screen, the horizontal line began to rapidly descend again.

Behind him, the engineers accompanying the ship also became nervous, after all, it was the first actual combat performance of this radar, so while commanding several assistants to carefully check the operation of the components, he did not dare to leave half a step.

The sudden order to turn on and prepare for combat made the air in the cabin almost scorching, and just as everyone felt that the cabin was getting hotter and hotter, a small dot suddenly lit up in the middle of the green horizontal line that had just fallen from the top of the screen.

This scene made both the electrician and the engineer lean forward sharply, and although the green dot flashed and disappeared, the green dot appeared again as the horizontal line continued to shine and sweep vertically across the screen.

Just a minute later, two more green dots appeared on the upper edge of the screen.

Caught the enemy!

", calculate the distance, notify the bridge that an enemy ship has been spotted!"

"No. 3 will be turned on immediately, full power, and the radio communication will be suppressed in the full spectrum!"

"Fire control group, start calculating the ballistics!"

The fire control compartment of the electric cabin suddenly became busy, and the speed and distance calculated by the radar were fed back to the bridge, and almost at the same time, twelve 152-mm main guns and four 130-mm secondary guns were aimed at the direction in which the enemy appeared.

Twenty minutes later, when the Tumenjiang optical rangefinder tower, which had completely turned off its lights, reported the discovery of three shadows resembling protective cruisers, the ship's guns roared in anger.

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