When the ground crew began to get busy, and when the "Flying Fish" carrying out reconnaissance missions was sent to the front of the flight deck, Li Yunxiang came to the commander's bridge.

By this time, it was almost six o'clock, and the sky was already cloudy.

Like Bai Zhizhan, he only slept for a few hours.

"To be honest, you can't do it if you don't recognize the old. It's only been two days, and I can't stand it. When I was young, even if I didn't sleep for seven days and seven nights, there was no! ”

"You slept in the confinement room for seven days and seven nights, right?"

Li Yunxiang rolled his eyes, and was very dissatisfied with Bai Zhizhan's behavior of revealing his scars in person.

"Have you had breakfast?" Bai Zhizhan smiled and didn't turn over Li Yunxiang's old bottom again.

There is also a version that Li Yunxiang leaked his mouth after getting drunk, and said that the newly married "seven times in one night" was "once in seven nights", and he was ridiculed for many years.

"Don't worry, we'll talk about it after the reconnaissance plane leaves."

"You go to breakfast first, I'll keep an eye on it for you." Bai Zhizhan sighed, Li Yunxiang's stomach was not good, it was an old problem that fell when he was young. Back then, on the Southwest Front, as long as the battle started, there was no day and night, and veterans like Li Yunxiang were all sick.

Li Yunxiang didn't say a word, looking preoccupied.

All night, he was not at ease.

Bai Zhizhan sent all the cruisers out, and now there are only a few destroyers left that are not even qualified to fill the numbers. To make matters worse, the fleet turned around in the middle of the night yesterday and sailed in a northeasterly direction in an attempt to shorten the distance with the enemy fleet and try to launch an attack during the day.

In this way, the Third Air Task Force not only went deep behind enemy lines alone, but also had no way back!

Last night, Li Yunxiang asked Li Mingbo.

After more than a day of continuous high-speed sailing, the two "Imperial Capital" class ships had burned 20 percent of their fuel, while the accompanying destroyers had already consumed more than a third of their fuel. In peacetime, destroyers have to join up with the fleet tankers and replenish fuel from them. At this rate, within three days at the latest, the fuel consumption of the two fleet aircraft carriers will exceed the warning line, that is, half.

If there is no encounter with the enemy fleet, it is not much of a problem.

As long as you slow down your speed, even if it's a detour, you can return to the empire itself.

In the event of an encounter with an enemy fleet and being pursued by an enemy fleet, there is a good chance that both aircraft carriers will run out of fuel before they can receive assistance.

Don't forget, the four fast battleships of the mobile fleet have not yet come out of the sea of fire!

As for the fleet tanker that was not sunk by the bombing, because it did not join the fleet, it had already returned to the port of Jianzhou yesterday afternoon, and it will return to the port of Assassin today.

In Li Yunxiang's view, what Bai Zhizhan is doing now is actually a desperate gamble.

If all of them were guessed by Bai Zhizhan, there would be nothing to say.

If something goes wrong, even if there is only the slightest omission, such as the first main team not going to the Watcher Strait, but returning to the military port of Honshu in Samu, or going to Liuhuang Island in the north of the Northern Malaysia Islands, the consequences will be unimaginable. Why? Because the current location of the Third Air Task Force happens to be on the route of the First Main Fleet sailing to the mainland and Liuhuang Island, it may have to stay here for a whole day.

When it gets dark and encounters the first main team, I'm afraid I won't even have a chance to escape.

Of course, no matter how worried you are, it will have to wait until the evening.

When Li Yunxiang was thinking about this, the "Imperial Capital" began to turn.

Because all the reconnaissance planes were overloaded and took off, the aircraft carrier had to sail against the wind at full speed.

After the aircraft carrier adjusted its course, the first Exocet was ejected.

In more than 10 minutes, all seven other reconnaissance planes took off.

The "Imperial Capital" did not slow down, but returned to its original course. Next, it is necessary to lift fighters on air defense missions.

This is a routine task, and there is no need for Li Yunxiang to make arrangements.

"Report!"

The telecommunications officer suddenly walked over and shouted, and Li Yunxiang trembled with fright. By the time he came back to his senses, Bai Zhizhan had already received the telegram from the telecommunications officer.

After a quick glance, Bai Zhizhan handed the message to Li Yunxiang.

A set of coordinates, a string of codes and a line of numbers.

It's simple and clear, and you can see it at a glance.

The approximate meaning is that at 6:35 a.m., a seaplane sent by the home fleet spotted the lead ship of the Sagi Navy southeast of the Watchman Strait, and visually judged it to be the "Imuro" class of the former treaty type, and it was presumed that the second main force had arrived in the Watchman Strait.

The timing coincides exactly, nothing surprising.

"After breakfast, I gathered the pilots and arranged the mission in advance. As soon as you receive a report from a reconnaissance aircraft, you will immediately go out! “

Li Yunxiang nodded and agreed, even if Bai Zhizhan didn't give orders, he would arrange it like this.

"Report!"

Before Bai Zhizhan could turn around, the telecommunications officer ran over again, holding a telegram whose ink had not yet dried.

Still from the home fleet, but without the use of shortcodes, the content of the message is a sentence.

The seaplane was intercepted by 96 ship battles.

In addition, the "96 Ship Battle" used bold fonts.

After handing the telegram to Li Yunxiang, Bai Zhizhan walked to the chart table and used a compass and ruler to draw it on the chart with his own hands.

By the time Li Yunxiang walked over after reading the message, Bai Zhizhan had already circled a sea area on the chart.

After a closer look, Li Yunxiang frowned.

This sea area is centered on the Watchman Strait, with a radius of 300 kilometers. On the southeastern side of the Sadou Islands, it was covered by seaplanes of the Home Fleet and reconnaissance planes of the Third Air Task Force. Theoretically, the Third Air Force in the area will certainly be found this morning.

The maximum combat radius of the 96 ship battle is three hundred kilometers, and if it is necessary to patrol the skies over the fleet, it is not yet three hundred kilometers.

Normally, when carrying out patrol missions, the flight radius will be controlled within two-thirds of the combat radius in order to obtain more time in the air.

Looking at it this way, the Third Air Force must be in the sea area circled by the White Stop War.

Li Yunxiang glanced at his watch, and it was already 6:50.

Within an hour, the reconnaissance plane will send back a report. Even if you start now, it will take close to an hour to complete the preparation.

"Let's make arrangements."

When Li Yunxiang went out, Bai Zhizhan let out a long breath, and then called a staff officer over and asked the staff officer to go to the officers' cafeteria to get some food, and then send it to the aviation operations center. This has to be busy, and I am afraid that Li Yunxiang will not even want to stop before the first attack plane group departs.

According to his style, I am afraid that he will be busy until noon, and he will not think about eating.

Although what is now being done by Li Yunxiang can also be done by the staff officers below him, but at his level, what is more important is the influence of standing there and commanding the battle.

This is like fighting in ancient times, where the veteran swept the formation in the back, and the young general was released in front.

Now, of course, the situation is good.

It turned out to be 96 is a ship battle!

The previous intelligence was indeed not wrong, the Sakuyi Navy only received 180 Zeros, and all of them had been used, leaving the Third Air Force with the 96 ship battles, which had long been behind.

The "Typhoon" could not fight zero battles, but could deal with the much slower 96 ship battles, and was basically ten out of ten.

Maybe it's the same as yesterday, and the wait will be an easy and enjoyable battle of annihilation.

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