After 8 a.m. on August 15, the "Hornet" was in the southwest and east of the Samoan Islands.

Because it is in the southern hemisphere, the sky has just turned bright.

When Spoo arrived at the Commander's Bridge, Tian Shi was arranging a morning patrol mission.

Although it is still thousands of kilometers away from the transit island and further away from the island controlled by Liang Xia's naval forces, the threat from Liang Xia's submarine has always existed and he dared not relax at all.

After returning to the southwest and eastward, you will encounter suspicious targets suspected to be Liang Xia's submarine every few days.

Of course, objects suspected to be periscopes, or small pieces of oil, and some garbage thrown into the sea from the submarine.

Just the day before yesterday, the escorted destroyer also picked up a plastic bag of packaging food, which was produced by the Liangxia Empire and the symbol of Liangxia's naval submarine force.

It is precisely this that we have to sail with the transport fleet. Two small aircraft carriers are mixed in the fleet, and even the carrier-based aircraft have been replaced with the old batch of SBD and F4F.

Because there is a special escort fleet, no other escort warships are arranged.

Like the previous few days, Spur was very energetic and seemed to have a comfortable sleep last night.

Spear has been quite excited for the past few days.

The reason is that the situation is moving in the direction he envisions.

Although at the beginning, when he received the first submarine's reconnaissance report and learned that Liang Xia's special mixed fleet had left the transit island and was speeding westward, Spear was still skeptical, but in the next few days, submarines sent reconnaissance reports one after another.

Among them, the discovery on August 7 is the most critical.

A submarine moving in the Yanhai discovered the Liang Shate Fleet. In the evening, the submarine was in the east and the Liang Shate Fleet was in the west. Taking advantage of the opportunity obtained by sunset a few minutes in advance, the submarine took several extremely critical photos using a periscope camera.

Three days later, a seaplane brought the photos taken by the submarine back to Austria.

It is indeed the aircraft carrier of Liang Xia Navy, and it can be judged by the shape of the ship island, that is, the "provincial"-level large aircraft carrier that shows its power on the transit island.

At this point, it was finally confirmed that Liang Xiate's fleet was rushing to Fan Yanyang.

In fact, on August 9, one day before the submarine was taken to take photos, another submarine lurking on the east side of Shiquan City also discovered the fleet.

Although this submarine did not get the opportunity to take photos, it was judged by the sound of water that there must be aircraft carriers and battleships in the Liangxiate fleet.

On the night of August 10, Spear finally determined the combat plan and sent a telegram.

According to the plan, Hal will lead a special mixed fleet with two fleet aircraft carriers as the core to the East Ocean and rush to the waters east of the Howayi Islands at full speed, striving to arrive before August 21, and wait for an opportunity here, to be precise, to be precise, and to act as the main force of the counterattack operation.

At the same time, the special mixed fleet commanded by Spoo will return from the southwest east ocean, turn east of the Samoan Islands, and rush directly to the transit island.

As for the "Independence" battle group commanded by Fry, it will act as a suspect soldier. After passing through the Wangxi Canal, it will head north to the local West Coast port.

If all goes well, then around August 20, Fry's Tymph fleet will arrive at the local West Coast port.

At this time, after obtaining the exact news, the Liang Xia fleet near the transit island would inevitably relax its vigilance and provide support to the ground forces again.

One day later, the special-mix fleet commanded by Spoo will reach about 500 kilometers south of the transit island, and the special-mix fleet of Hal will be on the east of the transit island.

The key is here.

In the first plan, or the main plan, Spoo acted as a vanguard and first sent carrier-based aircraft to attack Liang Xia's fleet near the transit island.

There are only two main tasks: one is to confirm the size of Liang Xia's fleet and the number of main warships, and the other is to attract the attention of Liang Xia's fleet.

After finding Liangxia aircraft carrier, Hal's special-mix fleet took action.

However, there is a prerequisite, in addition to supporting fleets near the transit island, there is also a special mixed fleet with 2 large aircraft carriers.

If this premise does not hold true, Spur and Hal will launch an attack at the same time.

In fact, this is also what Spear is most worried about.

So far, all submarines have sent back the report, only mentioning one special mixed fleet, and at most two large aircraft carriers have been discovered at the same time.

Although submarines are all scattered, the two special-mix fleets will definitely not gather together. So theoretically, the probability of a submarine discovering two special-mix fleets at the same time is almost zero, but Spr always felt that Liang Xia's Navy would not send both special-mix fleets to Fanyanyang.

The key is that there is no need.

The 11th Special Mixed Fleet has been on the Fanyan Ocean, and the three fleet aircraft carriers are in a relatively ideal state. Even if they attack Jibu Fortress, they only need to send one Special Mixed Fleet. From a strategic perspective, Liang Xia's Navy should also leave one Special Mixed Fleet to guard the East Ocean.

If so, there are 2 large aircraft carriers and 4 small aircraft carriers near the transit island.

This is also the key to Sppe's decision to launch a surprise attack from two directions.

In fact, he even prepared for self-sacrifice.

If this is a bloody battle after all, the best result that can be achieved may be to wipe out the Liang Xia fleet at the cost of sacrificing two small aircraft carriers.

However, Tian Shi always felt that Spoo was worried about nothing.

After so many days, all the information has proved that Liang Xia's Navy has sent two special mixed fleets to Fan Yanyang, and the leader is likely to be Bai Zhizhan.

Near the transit island, there is no special mixed fleet of Liang Xia Navy.

Not to mention anything else, the long-range reconnaissance aircraft and long-range patrol aircraft of China Aviation and HNA have searched all the sea areas near the transit island, with a radius of 1,500 kilometers.

If there was a Liangshate fleet still near the transit island, it would have been discovered long ago.

Hidden in the distance?

Is that necessary?

If the transfer island is more than 1,500 kilometers away, then when the landing fleet is attacked, it is impossible to dispatch carrier-based aircraft to provide cover.

Of course, let alone counterattacking the Newland Fleet.

The key is that even if there is a Liangshat fleet there, it will definitely be on the south or southwest of the transit island, and focus on guarding against the 31st Special Fleet commanded by Spoo.

Isn't this the same combat plan as Spoo's?

Even with the worst result, the 51st Special Mixed Fleet commanded by Hal will definitely win a great victory and crush Liang Xia's navy's dream of capturing the transit island.

That's true, Tian Shi always felt that Spear had no need to worry.

When Liang Xia's Navy sent troops to Fan Yanyang and even marched into Lu Xinhai, the Newland Navy took the opportunity to regain the transit island and restore the defense line in the Middle East.

Perhaps in a few months, the two sides will fight fiercely in the southwest ocean.

If you want to worry about something, it is actually to keep it hidden.

According to Tian Shi's analysis, since Liang Xia's Navy withdrew the Special Mixed Fleet from the Transit Island, he must be prepared to withdraw his troops from the Transit Island.

I haven't withdrawn for the time being, but I'm just making the final effort.

After all, if you invest so much force and suffer such great losses, you will definitely be reluctant to give up directly.

If the Newland Fleet is found to be coming at full speed, Liang Xia's Navy will withdraw the landing fleet and the support fleet as soon as possible.

Obviously, don't underestimate those four small aircraft carriers.

If you don't have a good job, you may even capsize in the gutter.
Chapter completed!