Of course, this is only an estimate, in fact, the battleship may be a little faster, or it may be slower. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And one thing that the British missed was that because these two warships fought in the Indian Ocean, with the port of Faw as their home port, in later Iraq, water was more expensive than fuel! It's not easy to get coal, but it's so convenient to get heavy oil! So, the fuel carrying of Su Xiong's two warships is like this, 2400 tons of coal and 3000 tons of fuel reserves! At the same weight, the endurance of fuel is naturally much higher than that of coal, so when calculating the range. The British made a large mistake.

Of course, the tactical mistake was serious, but the British were right about the fact that the German fleet had to be constantly replenished, and while maintaining the most basic fuel reserves, the two battleships had to merge with the camouflaged supply ships every 18 days or so.

It's not easy to find two fast battleships, because they run too fast! When necessary, it is the same as playing 40 kilometers in an hour. Moreover, the code used by the Germans was never deciphered by the British, and even Room 40, which was dedicated to intelligence interpretation in the British Navy, admitted in the Admiralty that it was almost impossible to decipher the coded communication between German warships! After all, the Enig cipher machine was invincible at the beginning of World War 2, and even more so in World War 1. That is, it was impossible to determine the location of the German battleship by intercepting the coded communication between the German Suchon fleet and the raiding ship!

But it's a pity that there are also fine brothers in the British Navy! After analyzing a large amount of intelligence, they gradually discovered a problem, that is, the operation of the German fleet in the Indian Ocean actually relied on two sets of ciphers! German battleships and camouflage raid ships used codes that could not be deciphered, but camouflage supply ships that supplied German naval warships used ordinary simple replacement codes! In other words, this set of codes can be deciphered!

And why is this problem occurring? The British were also puzzled at first! But as more and more intelligence was collected, the British finally understood why! Because it was the Americans who supplied the German fleet! That's right, it's the Americans! German transport ships in the oceans were either "sold" to neutral countries or cleaned up by the Royal Navy, so there were ships that resupplied two warships so frequently? Even if you have a boat, where do you go to find supplies? Thousands of tons of coal and fuel oil are supplied at a time, as well as food and water.

And judging from the current relations between the United States and Germany and the United States and the Entente, there are too many reasons for the United States to help Germany! The United States and Britain and Japan had a feud as early as 1898, and now Japan occupies the islands that Germany had ceded to the United States. As long as the United States wants these islands, then it can only count on Germany to agree, and the British are now thinking about when the United States will return to copy the guys in person. Therefore, a special ....... for the war against the United States was made. So the Americans privately helped the Germans with supplies, and this is so normal!

Why, one might ask, did the German battleships not be resupplied through capture? In fact, Suchon's fleet was sometimes captured, but the Germans were reluctant to use it if the coal used by the captured ships was too low. After all, these inferior coal-fired output is not much, but there is too much coal ash, which directly affects the efficiency of the boiler, and shoveling ash is a troublesome matter, and compared to coal, the Suxiong fleet prefers heavy oil, but in World War 1, most of the ships are coal-burning .......

What's more, the coaling operation is originally a time-consuming and laborious thing, if there is a camouflage supply ship, Su Xiong is not willing to do this, after all, most of the supply ships are to replenish fuel, this thing can be connected to a pipe, easy and fast! Well, Su Xiong is also used to this treatment now!

The Enig cipher machine is one of the most important technical equipment of the German military, for this kind of thing, Germany naturally cannot easily hand over to the Americans, who can only be regarded as half allies, so the communication between the American camouflage supply ship and the German warship is through another set of simple passwords, but for the British Empire, as long as it is a simple password, not mechanical encryption, it is too easy! After all, this set of things has been played for hundreds of years, and although it is constantly improving, it is essentially a change of soup and not a change of medicine!

Then the British discovered the breakthrough point of the whole thing, that is, starting with camouflaged transport ships, to lure the German fleet into the predetermined sea area! Of course, intercepting the telegram, deciphering the code, and confirming the communication bands between the two sides were only early steps in designing this trap, and if this plan was to be realized, the British would need to capture an American camouflaged supply ship and use it as bait to catch their opponents!

Now the question is how to catch a camouflaged supply ship, and it will be much less difficult to achieve this goal. First of all, the radio communication of camouflaged supply ships can be deciphered, their approximate range of activity can be determined, and most importantly, they themselves are not fast in this kind of thing, and there are almost no weapons. As long as you can find it, there is basically no problem with sinking.

And there can't be only one of these supply ships, in fact, according to the intelligence of the British, when the German Navy attacked, in the Indian Ocean west of India, they found at least 6 camouflaged supply ships suspected of being Americans, because there may be things missed when replenishing, and after all, it is very long from the United States to the Indian Ocean, in order to ensure the smooth flow of the entire supply chain, it is not too much for the Americans to send double-digit ships! And the more targets there are, the more likely it is that they will be captured.

However, the prudence and shrewdness of the British are also reflected here! They didn't just pick one at random, because the destruction or capture of a single camouflaged supply ship would have limited impact on the German fleet, as the Germans and Americans knew about the backup options. And if you catch a ship that has already been resupplied, it will really be useless. Because no supply ship will only supply the fleet once! That is, even if the Germans were lured to the bait, then they could only find ships that had not yet supplied the German fleet! Therefore, the British have not taken action, waiting for the opportunity to prepare to solve the Suchon fleet in one fell swoop!

"Is our plan clear?" Thomas asked, curious.

"Generally speaking, the plan has reached the final step, we have even selected the battlefield, and now the last step is left, your fleet can go to the preset battlefield after resting." Major General Cook said with a smile.

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