This time, Li Mo brought 16 modified aircraft carriers, six of which were more than 30,000 tons carrying 36 aircraft, and 10 ships of more than 20,000 tons were carrying 28 carrier-based aircraft, of which the ratio of BF109 and JU87 was 5 to 5 respectively, and Li Mo increased the ratio of BF109 to 50 percent for the sake of fleet safety. Li Mo has a total of 486 planes this time, half of each BF109 and JU87, and each of the other 10,000 tons of supply ships has two FW61 helicopters, and more than 100 lifeboats converted into assault boats.

FW61 is to search for submarines in the air, assault boats are to listen and search on the sea, destroyers and light cruisers are to provide air defense networks and anti-submarine for aircraft carrier formations, and at the same time, there are air patrols JU87 will also participate in the attack on the discovered submarines, judging from Li Mo's arrangement, Li Mo can be said to have arranged four anti-submarine networks for his aircraft carrier formation, and the last layer is the cat-ear air defense batteries on both sides of the aircraft carrier to intercept and shoot anti-torpedoes at close range. Li Mo has to pay attention to anti-submarine! One torpedo paralyzed the aircraft carrier that was to be refitted by itself, and two were sent directly to the bottom of the sea. It is fast to convert an aircraft carrier with a merchant ship, but the drawback is also obvious, that is, it cannot withstand the beating.

Under such tight protection, Li Mo did not believe that the British submarine could get close to his formation. As for the air defense of the aircraft carrier formation, it can only rely on carrier-based aircraft and the anti-aircraft artillery of the forest, and the aircraft carrier that has been rebuilt by Li Mo has the air defense weapons that are very perverted. With no less than 50 twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns on each aircraft carrier, plus the anti-aircraft weapons of destroyers and light cruisers, plus BF109 aircraft, Li Mo believed that his air defense force was still possible, and any enemy who wanted to break through his air defense circle would pay a heavy price. Of course, there is no air defense circle that must not be breached, it is unrealistic, and anything that may arise in a war will arise.

Scarpa Bend has a military airfield, and according to intelligence, the British have placed an air division here, about 480 aircraft. In addition to three heavy aircraft carriers. Britain has about 600 aircraft of all kinds here, and these planes and the Atlantic Fleet are all the naval forces that Britain controls in the North Sea and the Atlantic, as well as the Arctic Ocean.

Li Mo led the entire aircraft carrier formation to sail on the side. On one side, carrier-based aircraft are constantly taking off and landing. This is also a temporary pre-war training. Of course, there will be accidents when aircraft carriers take off and land carrier-based aircraft, and this cannot be avoided and can only be minimized. Fortunately, Li Mo has a lot of repairmen and spare planes.

In order not to arouse the suspicion of the British as much as possible, Li Mo chose to sail on the coast close to the Norwegian side, and the straight-line distance from Scapa Bend was not less than 800 nautical miles. Therefore, Li Mo must take the aircraft carrier battle group to the distance of about 250 kilometers away from Scarpa's bend at night, and can't let the British find out, this is the most difficult step, you must know that there are 600 British planes in Scapa Bend, if these planes are allowed to take off, Li Mo will have more than 200 fighters, and they will definitely not be able to kill the British, not to mention that planes from other parts of Britain will immediately come to reinforce it, simply put, once Li Mo is discovered by the British, then go directly to the sea to feed the sharks!

On the first day of the voyage, no British planes were found, and on the second day, Li Mo was discussing problems with Stephen and Schmidt, when suddenly the air defense siren sounded, and the air defense siren of "woo woo woo ......" made people goosebumps all over their bodies, and the three of them hurriedly glanced at each other, and Li Mo hurriedly rushed to the combat command room:

"Stephen, you go command tower, Schmidt, you command the carrier-based aircraft to take off."

Li Mo ordered his two brothers as he ran, and the two brothers did not say a word, and each went to his own post. Li Mo thought as he ran, it shouldn't be! Could it be that the British came to raid their own aircraft carrier formation, and they can't steal chickens and eat a handful of rice! I am more than 800 nautical miles away from Britain, and it is impossible for British planes to have a range of more than 1,600 kilometers! It seems that it is not Britain that wants to engage itself, is it Norway? With Norway's military strength, it is basically impossible.

The conference room and the combat command room were only a few meters apart, and as soon as Li Mo rushed into the combat command room, the telecommunications officer immediately stood up and reported loudly to Li Mo:

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the patrol aircraft found two unknown international planes coming towards our aircraft carrier formation."

All right! This air defense siren almost scared Li Mo, but it was better to be careful, he commanded all the hopes for the future of the German Navy, and he must not be buried because of negligence.

"Order the patrol plane to immediately go up and find out which country's plane it is, and report it immediately."

"Order the Z2, Z3, Z4 aircraft carriers to take off eight BF109 fighters each."

The number of aircraft carriers starts with the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, which is Z1, and so on, and the Z in front of it means Germany's "Plan Z".

The communications officer hurriedly conveyed Li Mo's order, and the entire combat command room was divided into two parts, the left side was the operations hall, which was full of nautical charts and sand tables, and the personnel were mostly naval combat staff officers, and the room on the right was the telecommunications room, which was the center of the entire aircraft carrier battle group, so it had the most complete equipment, the largest number of personnel, and the largest area.

After giving the order, Li Mo came to the center of the combat command room alone, where there was a huge sand table, on which the position of his current aircraft carrier was clearly placed, and several sand table deduction staff officers stood straight next to the sand table with a push rod in one hand. The push rod in the hands of the staff officer of the sand table deduction is to push the model in the sand table down to the designated position, and there are countless models on the file shelf next to it, all kinds of aircraft, ships, and even tanks.

The sand table has been placed where our patrol planes found enemy planes, and enemy planes were found at a distance of 100 kilometers from the aircraft carrier formation, which is still a bit close, and for the enemy planes attacking in the air, that is, more than ten minutes, which will make their fleet have very little time to react, and it is too dangerous to do it:

"Order, from now on, our patrol aircraft must be kept at more than two hundred kilometers, and the number cannot be less than thirty-six, tell Schmidt not to be afraid of wasting fuel, just be trained to fly, the safety of the aircraft carrier formation is much more important than that damn fuel."

This time the unknown plane was not discovered until it was 100 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier formation, most likely Schmidt's bastard put the patrol distance about 100 nautical miles in order to save fuel, Germany is short of fuel, but it can't do this, at least the straw to diesel technology provided by Li Mo has made Germany increase its diesel production by 2 million tons this year, and it will increase at a rate of 1 million tons per year in the future, not to mention those oil fields in Germany, Hitler is also organizing people to secretly drill day and night, and the problem of oil shortage in Germany is much better than in history.

…… (To be continued......)

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