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At this time, in the joint operations room of the internal compartment of the Hindu, the personnel of the 73rd Fleet Command were working nervously inside, and as the door was opened, Hong Ronghan strode in.

His adjutant also shouted: "Your Excellency the Commander has arrived!" ”

Many officers and non-commissioned officers in the war room looked at the door in unison, Hong Ronghan first saluted and signaled his subordinates to continue their work without much salute, and at this time several officers also walked up together.

"General, look here, we have found traces of high-speed small ships, their speed has reached at least thirty-one knots, such a high speed is absolutely impossible for civilian ships, and in addition, the other party did not respond to the radio inquiries we sent!" Colonel Qin, chief of staff of the 73rd Squadron, walked over and spoke first.

Hong Ronghan listened: "Oh, is it possible that it is an Allied ship?" ”

"We received a call back from the Americans half a minute ago, and they said that they did not have high-speed small vessels operating in this area!" Colonel Qin immediately replied.

After Hong Ronghan heard this, his face still did not change much, and it was just a small ship in front of him, at most a torpedo boat of tens of hundreds of tons or something, and it was very likely that it was the only coastal defense speedboat left by the German Navy or the Italian Navy. As long as a main fleet does not appear out of thin air on the sea, what else can move his face.

Immediately, he said: "Well, let the outpost force form an anti-lightning formation, and if they don't reveal their identity within five minutes, sink them!" ”

Hong Ronghan did not worry about any accidental hits, although there have been many incidents of accidental attacks by the Chinese Navy and the navies of other countries in the past few years, and the sinking of a US submarine by the Chinese Navy last year, which once caused tension between China and the United States, was one of them, and later there were incidents in which US submarines took a Chinese transport ship as if it were damaged in the darkness of the night, and there were even cases where the 31st Squadron of the Third Mobile Fleet was chasing a light cruiser, and a British Navy destroyer happened to be nearbyAt the request of the Chinese Navy, the light cruiser was intercepted in front of the 31st Division, but later in the evening, when the carrier-based aircraft of the 31st Fleet dispatched the last wave of attack aircraft, they attacked the British destroyer as a light cruiser called "Ben, and although it was not sunk, it blew up the British destroyer halfway, and if it were not for the British commander's timely contact with the Chinese carrier-based planes in the air through open channels, it is estimated that it could have been directly sunk."

After the incident, the British Navy scolded the Chinese Navy for being bloody, saying that if you invited other people's destroyers to help, the British kindly rushed over to help, but the result was good, saying, 'You don't fight your own light cruiser, but you blow up the British destroyer to the point of serious damage, isn't this just a slap in the face of the British.'

This incident also caused tensions between China and Britain for a while, but the fault was really on the side of the Chinese Navy, so that a person with such a tough attitude towards the outside world as Chen Jingyun had to send a private telegram to Churchill to explain the incident in person, and finally apologized to the families of the British officers and soldiers killed and injured in the incident in a private capacity as the commander of the 31st Fleet, and the person was later repatriated to China for a major command error, and at the same time, the Chinese Navy also paid more than 1 million yuan for the repair of the British destroyer that was seriously damaged. At the same time, pensions were paid to more than 20 British naval officers and men killed and wounded in the incident. That's how you understand it.

However, although there have been many incidents of accidental hits, it still has not allowed the Chinese Navy to restrain much!

When carrying out a mission, when encountering an enemy ship suspected to be the target, most of the commanders of the Chinese Navy will choose to sink it, and will definitely not waste a lot of time to determine the true identity of the target for no reason, because this period of time is enough for the target to escape or for the target to attack their own side first.

As a matter of fact, this is also due to the limitations of the lack of smooth information flow and backward communication capabilities in this era, and it is only the 40s now, not to mention the 21 st century in the future, and as soon as something happens, it can be found out immediately; in these days, there are no satellites, and the confirmation of targets can generally only be determined by the visual sight of officers and men on the spot.

Hong Ronghan is like this now, since it has been determined that the small ships in front are not their own, and the British and American navies say that they are not their own, Hong Ronghan has so much to do at this time, and he will sink it. Anyway, at this time, the high-speed ships active in this sea area are either coalition and Allied forces, or Axis countries, and there are no third-party naval forces in the vicinity.

But it turns out that Hong Yonghan is really wrong!

Just as the two outpost destroyers of the 73rd Squadron rushed to the scene, ready to expel or even sink the small high-speed ship, the lookout of the destroyer Yumatsu suddenly reported that the two small ships in front were flying the Chinese flag!

After learning of this situation, the destroyer Yumatsu continued to maintain vigilance on the one hand, and then sent a high-speed boat to approach, and finally determined that the high-speed boat was really not a military vessel, but a high-speed yacht of only about 80 tons.

The ship was carrying more than ten Chinese, to be precise, the people of the Military Intelligence Department, they were agents sent to Italy by the Military Intelligence Department, a day ago, they discovered the movement of the German Air Force in the direction of Italy, and at the same time, after the integration and analysis of multiple intelligence sources of the agents of the Military Intelligence Department, the people of the Military Intelligence Department came to a conclusion at two o'clock in the afternoon, that is, the German side had learned in advance the intelligence that the navies of China, Britain and the United States were preparing to attack Venice, and mobilized the air force units to prepare to intercept and bomb the fleets of the three countries. And the bombing time was three hours later, around six o'clock in the evening.

Due to the urgency of the incident, the agents of the Military Intelligence Department were about to report the situation from a small port nearby, but they were discovered by the defenders in the port, and they directly grabbed a speedboat and fled for their lives. Even more unfortunate was the fact that the radio equipment on the yacht, which was supposed to be snatched up, was damaged by the small-caliber artillery of the harbor defenders.

These plots can't be described as coincidences, they should be described as extremely unlucky.

In order to relay this news to the Navy before the Luftwaffe attacked the fleet, the agents of the Military Intelligence Department simply drove the speedboat all the way for more than two hours, preparing to directly find the Seventh Mobile Fleet to transmit the news to them.

From the point of view of the MI agents, what happened in these three or four hours was even more thrilling than what was shown in a secret agent movie.

When Hong Yonghan learned that the Germans were about to launch an air attack on him, his eyebrows furrowed slightly!

"Command the fleet, unfurl the air defense formation. In addition, immediately notify the Mobile Fleet Command, ask them to immediately send carrier-based aircraft to support the headquarters, and let them also do a good job in the air defense realm! ”

"What about the Americans, do you want to be informed?" The adjutant next to him asked as he memorized.

Hong Ronghan said: "No! We and the Americans are not allies, and there is no obligation to share intelligence! ”

With the issuance of Hong Ronghan's order, the 73rd Squadron also launched an air defense formation, and the orders for emergency battles were conveyed one after another, and the members of each air defense artillery group quickly arrived at the air defense gun position, and the management loss group was also prepared for the management of the loss, and the rest of the non-combatants such as the kitchen were also temporarily assigned to the management and loss department.

As time passed, at 6:30 p.m., the Zi Shao, which was on the right side of the 73rd Squadron, reported back and spotted an unknown small vessel on the right.

"Another one!" Hong Ronghan frowned when he heard the news, if it was placed half an hour ago, Hong Ronghan would definitely immediately order the Zi Shao to fight immediately and sink them, but after the high-speed yacht piloted by the agents of the Military Intelligence Department not long ago, he was a little cautious, and immediately ordered: "Confirm their identity!" ”

However, two minutes later, before Hong Ronghan could identify the second unidentified high-speed boat, he suddenly reported from the Shao: "They fired a torpedo, it's a German torpedo boat!" ”

When Hong Ronghan heard this, his eyebrows furrowed even tighter, and he cursed secretly in his heart and said: "Pull up the battle alarm and transfer the Qinghao to support the anti-lightning operation!" ”

At the same time, in the joint operations conference room, Colonel Qin hurriedly walked to Hong Ronghan's side as soon as he put down the phone: "General, at least eight enemy torpedo boats have been found on the right side!" ”

It didn't take long for Colonel Qin to report again: "The radar shows that in the sky about fifty nautical miles away in the north, enemy planes have been discovered, and there are more than fifty of them!" ”

Although Hong Ronghan's brows furrowed even tighter, his expression remained unchanged: "When will the support fighters of the 71st Squadron arrive!" ”

"Now the 71st Squadron is taking off fighters on duty, and it is expected that eight F15 fighters will arrive in fifteen minutes!"

What Hong Ronghan wanted to curse in his heart, how did those people from the 71st Squadron do it, how did they come so slowly, what he didn't know was that the two aircraft carriers of the 71st Squadron originally had fighters that carried out combat readiness missions in the sky, but before the incident, the Yandang Mountain had just landed, resulting in the Yandang Mountain being unable to send the fighters that had already taken off to support it at the first time, and could only urgently take off another batch of fighters on duty. At the same time, although there were fighters on duty on the Wuzhishan, Vice Admiral Zhao Zidong, commander of the Seventh Mobile Fleet at that time, was even more worried about the safety of his two aircraft carriers, so he ordered the fighters on duty on the Wuzhishan to continue to carry out the air defense mission of the 71st Fleet, and the reinforcement of the 73rd Fleet was to take off urgently.

At the same time, the 71st Squadron also had to send planes to the waters in other directions of the mobile fleet to carry out search and other missions, so there were only eight F15 fighters that could be dispatched to support the 73rd Squadron in a matter of minutes.