Tan Renhao returned to his cabin, and Lei Shaoqing followed, and then he closed the hatch.

"Renhao, don't you think the decision to start was too hasty?" Lei Shaoqing never expressed his opinion at first, this was to maintain Tan Renhao's authority in the eyes of other officers, but this did not mean that he agreed with Tan Renhao's adventurous tactics.

"You mean what I talked about to the pilots?" Tan Renhao laughed, and then handed the chair to Lei Shaoqing, "Sit, sit and say, do you think there is any problem?" ”

"Lots of questions!" Lei Shaoqing sat down unceremoniously, "The basic tactical idea of the navy is to save yourself first, and then destroy the enemy. By doing so, you're risking the Fifth Fleet. Now, the Fifth Fleet is the only force that the Imperial Navy can count on, and if the Fifth Fleet makes any mistakes, what if it destroys the Japanese Southwest Combined Fleet? Japan also has the Southern Fleet, the Home Fleet, the Northeast Pacific Fleet. All three fleets could complete the naval blockade of the Empire. As long as the Fifth Fleet is poor, it means that the empire will not have the sea power to deal with the challenges and threats of the Japanese Navy in the next year, or even two years, and this one-on-one tactic is simply wrong. ”

Tan Renhao laughed, Lei Shaoqing's meaning was very clear. In the course of hundreds of years of war, the Imperial Navy, or a maritime power like the Empire, summed up the experience of this navy, which is the experience of the Navy alone. The tactical basis of the navy is to preserve itself first, and then try to destroy the enemy. This is very different from the tactical basis of the Army.

"If you still laugh, you won't laugh anymore!" Lei Shaoqing shook his head and took out his cigarette a little distraught.

"You think I'll let the Fifth Fleet go on an adventure?" Tan Renhao also shook his head, and then went to take a large-scale nautical chart, "You help me mark the sailing route of the Japanese Southwest Combined Fleet based on the information we have received." ”

Lei Shaoqing frowned, and immediately roughly marked the route of the Japanese Southwest Combined Fleet on the chart. He had always been in charge of helping Tan Renhao deal with intelligence, and the route of the Japanese fleet was one of the most important pieces of information, which he kept in mind.

"Now, you can help me analyze which direction the Japanese Southwest Combined Fleet should sail in next, and what their intentions are in adopting this route." Tan Renhao also lit a cigarette.

Lei Shaoqing hesitated for a moment, then looked at the sea chart and thought for a while, and then looked at Tan Renhao with a little surprise.

"After leaving the port of Nagasaki, the Japanese Southwest Combined Fleet did not observe radio silence as strictly as we did, although they only sent out the report twice a day, but it was sufficient." Tan Renhao spread the chart on the bed, "Judging from the location of the Japanese Southwest Combined Fleet that we have marked in the past few days, they have been moving towards the southern waters of Jeju Island, and basically nothing has changed, what do you think, what is the Japanese Southwest Combined Fleet going to do?" ”

Lei Shaoqing didn't speak, but he was still very worried about Tan Renhao's battle plan.

"Yesterday, the Japanese convoy had already left the port of Songsan, and now it has probably bypassed Kyushu Island and is heading in the direction of Jeju Island." Tan Renhao took out a document from the bedside table and handed it to Lei Shaoqing, "This is a piece of information you received yesterday, you take a closer look." ”

Lei Shaoqing glanced at the name of the document, and then opened the document. He had already looked at it carefully yesterday and didn't think it was much of a problem.

"Don't you think there's a problem with radio activity on the Japanese islands of Kyushu, Shikoku, and the southern part of Honshu in three days?" Tan Renhao sneered, "Perhaps, many people think that this is not a problem, after all, Japan has only occupied the Ryukyu Islands, and the war is in the most intense stage, what is a multi-point radio signal?" However, the Japanese Navy Command is not here, and the Japanese Army Command is not here, why are there so many radio signals, and what is the reason? ”

Lei Shaoqing frowned slightly, and then closed the file.

"There is only one explanation, and that is that the number of combat units deployed by Japan in this area has increased a lot." Tan Renhao sighed, "Yes, we haven't received any relevant information, but can we fully count on those intelligence officers?" Of course not, and at this point, we have to make a judgment based on other clues that we have. What did Japan do with the sudden accumulation of so many troops in the southwestern regions of Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu? Now that Japan has captured Ichi Island, even if it wants to occupy Tsushima Island, it will not take many troops, and there are only a few thousand garrisons of the Korean Kingdom. Could it be that Japan will land on the Korean Peninsula? Unless they mobilize 300,000 ground troops and completely guarantee sea supremacy in the Korean Strait, they will not dare to land on the Korean Peninsula at all. Now, you tell me, why did Japan gather so many troops? ”

"Attack Jeju Island?"

"That's right, Shaoqing, it seems that you are not stupid!" Tan Renhao laughed, "After Japan occupies Ryukyu Island, the next step is to capture Jeju Island, and use this to control the sea dominance in the Yellow Sea to prepare for their next attack." Now, you make an arc with a radius of 1,000 kilometers. ”

Lei Shaoqing only glanced at the chart, and he roughly understood what Tan Renhao meant.

"The combat radius of Japan's shore-based dual-release bombers is about 1,000 kilometers, and if they carry ammunition and fly at high altitudes, they can reach about 1,400 kilometers." Tan Renhao tapped his finger on the chart, "In other words, the Japanese bombers deployed in its southwestern region can completely bomb Jeju Island, and they can also move out to the central waters of the Yellow Sea to strike at our fleet and fleet. So, what do you think the Japanese Southwestern Combined Fleet is doing right now? ”

"Ready to deal with us?" Lei Shaoqing was a little hesitant.

Tan Renhao laughed and said, "You didn't say this, if the Japanese Southwest Combined Fleet was not used against us, it would have gone to open up the battlefields in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean a long time ago." Didn't the Japanese Navy want to join forces with the fleets of the British Empire and the Kingdom of France? ”

Lei Shaoqing laughed awkwardly, he felt that the question he started to ask was indeed a little mentally retarded.