Judging from the current intelligence, as long as the German fleet enters the waters near Portugal, it will definitely be discovered by the other side. Just fall in love with WwW. LＷＸＳ。 ORG Watermark Ad Test Watermark Ad Test And Majifen will definitely flash when he sees that the situation is not good. This brought the whole plan to a dead end, that is, without entering the Mediterranean, it was impossible to join the Tycho fleet, and without converging, it was impossible to gain an advantage. And if the Tycho fleet comes out, it will definitely be resisted, the big fleet will go to sea and the smoke will cover the clouds, and it will be too difficult not to be discovered, not to mention that the fleet can only pass through the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Entente will definitely have air and sea forces to conduct reconnaissance.

However, after being reminded by Sa Zhenbing, Hipper thought of another way, and now the Allied fleet is divided into two parts, and the Allied fleet is also divided into two parts! If the Tycho fleet had gone to Lisbon to find Majifen's bad luck and then intercepted the Sims fleet itself, at least the Tycho fleet would have gained some advantage. And although there is one less capital ship on his side than Sims...... However, the American fleet was mixed, but on his side was all Bismarck-class battleships, and Hipper thought that if he faced Sims, he was at least 70% sure that he would win. The only concern is the ......... of the opposing air force.

Although he knew that there would never be many flying groups with attack capabilities on the west coast of France, but at the point where the war had progressed to the point where the slightest negligence would lead to irreparable consequences, even if Sa Zhenbing mentioned that the other party's air force was not worried, he was still not at ease. Subsequently, Sa Zhenbing put forward a suggestion, that is, to mobilize part of the air force into the Bay of Biscay to limit the air power of the other Allied powers, and at the same time send a small number of submarines into the area, in this case, Sims will choose to go to the far sea in order to avoid the opponent's air attack or to avoid submarines, at least to operate outside the bomber's combat radius. And if this is the case, the air forces of both sides are excluded. If you can find the opponent's position through the reconnaissance aircraft. Naturally, Hipper could solve the opponent with a standard battleship showdown.

The U.S. fleet is like a two-headed snake, and all the Allies need to do is choke both heads at the same time, as long as they can take out Sims. Then at least it will already be considered a victory. And if Lisbon can be blocked with Tycho again, then with the cooperation of the army. The U.S. fleet is really a fish at the bottom of the kettle! Blocking a country's fleet in the harbor and completely annihilating it has not been done several times in history! From the current point of view, this plan is still somewhat feasible, first of all, the American fleet is not aware of its arrival, and Tycho can go to Lisbon from the Gibraltar fortress at any time. Majifen will not give up this place easily, and will definitely let the Sims fleet support quickly, and at this time, if long-range reconnaissance aircraft and submarines are deployed in northern Spain in advance, the probability of discovering the Sims fleet is still very high. Then you can intercept it yourself! And when the two sides play each other. Even if Magiffen knew that the Sims fleet was blocked, there would naturally be a Tycho fleet to deal with him once he came out! …。

"This method seems to be good, if you can get the intelligence support of Huaxia. The odds are even greater. Hipper calculated in his heart that although Huaxia was a neutral country, if he wanted to say that Huaxia had no intelligence network within the Entente, he would not believe it. Not only did there be an intelligence network within the Entente, but there would certainly also be an intelligence network within the Allies, and there were no permanent friends in the world, only eternal interests. Germany also deployed spies in China, and it was normal for China to deploy spies on both sides of the war. Hipper was not in the slightest worried that Huaxia would leak the plan for this operation, and Huaxia did not want the Allies to lose the war completely, as long as Germany did not interfere with Huaxia's actions against Russia. Huaxia will definitely not sit with the Entente. After all, the Allies were too far away from China, and Britain's colonies were on the edge of China, and the United States was also a superpower that spanned the entire Americas, and its Pacific Fleet was also one of the targets of China's defense. China needed the Allies to contain Britain, the United States, and France. …。

"But it is difficult for us to know the whereabouts of the American fleet. A sudden change of plan would cause great trouble, and at least our reconnaissance operations would be disrupted. Thinking of this, Hipper said, and peeked at the other party's reaction ..........

"It doesn't matter, we have this, through him, you can receive the intelligence of the Sims fleet, although it is not complete, but if it can be matched with the reconnaissance force deployed by your country in northern Spain, then it is not difficult to keep an eye on the other party, the key is that it must be fast, your fleet cannot always go undetected, and if you continue to go south, the greater the probability of being discovered." So you have to make a decision right away. After hearing what the other party said, Sa Zhenbing knew that Hipper had already proposed to join forces with Huaxia, the war has been fought to this extent, the allies seem to have unlimited scenery, but they have also reached the peak of victory, and if they continue to fight, they will only become more and more empty...... Nor can it always export resources to the Allies. Therefore, Huaxia also hopes that the war will end soon!

Sa Zhenbing said as he took out a box from a corner of the room, and when this box was opened, Hipper's eyes couldn't help but light up, he had seen this thing, he had seen it in the German Naval Intelligence Department, this machine was the so-called dumb puzzle level, but looking at his volume, it was larger than the German navy used, and the German navy currently used more 4-rotor dumb puzzle machines, this may be 5 rotors. Obviously, this should be a cipher machine used internally in Huaxia to contact ......... overseas spies.

"I think Your Excellency should be very aware of this, it will be sent to your warship with those supplies, and you can use it to receive some information. It is then used to decrypt but not encrypt. Every day you just have to listen to the radio to receive information, this is the specific reception schedule, you see. "When this cipher machine is sent out. Sa Zhenbing's task is completed, and he has given Germany some help, and then it is up to the Germans to do what to do next. After all, Sa Zhenbing is not aware of the situation, he is not in the navy to do intelligence. What's more, Huaxia is still a neutral country after all, and if it does too much, it will not be good if it is discovered.

After hours of replenishment, Hipper's fleet finally separated from the Huaxia supply fleet and continued on its journey, and after this meeting, Hipper began to try to contact Trough so that he could adjust his actions in time. "If the Tycho fleet is heading for Lisbon under the cover of night, will Majfen wait for the Sims fleet or evacuate?" "When does the Sims fleet depart? What if the American fleets converge in advance? Hipper wrote in his notebook. In any case, it is necessary to increase the air and submarine forces in northern Spain to monitor the Bay of Biscay. And after all, there is a sea between the Portuguese battlefield and the main one. Under the threat of Allied submarines, the efficiency of merchant shipping was greatly reduced, coupled with the brutal war attrition, the front-line fighters were quickly depleted and replenished very slowly, so the Allied air force could also allocate part of its forces to take into account the ......... in the direction of the Bay of Biscay.

Although Hipper persuaded the Germans on the southern front to make such an arrangement, there was still a slight concern about whether to carry out the plan of separate attacks in the end, and the whole fleet began to slow down. In order to wait for the final decision. At this time, Majifen, who had been helping the army defend Lisbon, was also in an increasingly difficult situation. Not that the German Army's 150 cannons and 210 heavy howitzers could threaten his fleet, on the contrary, since the Allied fleet was fully used to support land battles, the German Army not only failed to capture Lisbon, but even abandoned some non-important areas. The Germans were unable to do anything within the protection of the naval guns, but they began to attack the rest of Portugal and completely cut off the land access to Lisbon, turning the city into an island, and the Luftwaffe began to exhaust the Allied air force. …。

"The Entente in Lisbon was like a cage, they could not get enough supplies and support, whatever supplies they needed had to be obtained from the sea, and supplies arriving from the United States would be attacked by submarines and raiders along the way, and even if they were close to Portugal, they would be harassed by land-based air forces. Even near the port there were mines laid by the Germans. Even if we sweep the bottom of the sea over and over again! As time went on, we got less and less supplies, and by the way, here we are talking about the supply level of the navy, army and air force that is higher than ours...... Because they were fighting the Germans all the time, and our transport troops had to not only feed hundreds of thousands of troops, but also be responsible for the attrition of civilians in the city of Lisbon. ”。 …。

"This makes sense, but it greatly weakens the fleet's combat effectiveness, and we are not short of fuel and all kinds of other supplies, but we lack propellants and shells, especially after the last time the Angel fast freighter was accidentally destroyed by a submarine to supply the fleet. There are no underground ammunition depots in Lisbon. Targets on the ground may be attacked by the opponent's air attack at any time, so objectively we dare not accumulate too much ammunition in the harbor, and the reserve ammunition for each main gun on the battleship is only 100 rounds. Although there were more secondary guns, the range was not enough, so we were forced to attack some very small targets with the main guns. And this aggravates the consumption of our ammunition even more, in this case. The combat effectiveness of my fleet continues to decline. Magiffen wrote in the report. And this time, when the Sims fleet was about to arrive, Magifin was going to order him to bring at least two ammunition carriers and provide them to the main fleet, which was not very rich in ammunition. But a series of unexpected events alarmed Majifen, and the number of German submarines near the Bay of Biscay increased dramatically, and Allied reconnaissance planes began to frequent the area, and repeatedly tracked Allied merchant ships.

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