"George V" bridge.

“…… Xunlei-class 2, Pinghai-class 4, Yangbo-class 8, and the previous Longwei-class and Dongyue and Beiyue classes were not found. Adjutant Captain Anson finished his briefing succinctly, straightening up for instructions.

Colonel Brown, the chief of staff who was leaning over the recliner, had a bright eye: "19 pairs: time advantage, do you want to ......"

Admiral Jericho, who was reclining on another recliner, reluctantly spoke, "This illusory advantage is meaningless. ”

"We also have the USS Revenge and the 3 Queen-class, a total of 4 15-inch main gun battleships; 2 Orion-class 4 George V class and USS Canada, for a total of 7 135-inch and 14-inch main gun ships; If the above 11 ships fight one-on-one, the other 812-inch battleships with main guns will not have no chance of winning against the remaining Yangbo-class. Unconvinced, Colonel Brown counted his fingers and analyzed.

Lieutenant Colonel Willy, a senior staff officer on Jellico's side, put his hands on his lower abdomen, and still reminded in a gentlemanly manner: "Of the two Orion classes, there are only two usable main turrets left on the Sovereign, and the main rangefinder fails; The Thundering entered the water and lost speed, so that it dragged down the whole ship and could only maintain the speed of 18 formations; The 4 George V class, including this one, also had their own damage - as for the 12-inch main gun battleships, I suspect that they were beaten into a sieve by the opponent's larger guns before they could reach the range of their own main guns. ”

Brown pondered for a long time, and raised his eyes helplessly: "Since there is no chance of victory, and you are determined to sacrifice the part to save the whole, then you should order the Thundering that dragged down the main force to also turn back and charge, at least this can make the capital ship column recover the speed difference of 2, and have a better chance of dragging it until dark." ”

"I agree, the current position of the Thunder is just before the Queen, and you can directly turn around and follow Betty to charge." Willie nodded in agreement.

In the past hour, the main ships of the Allied forces first turned sharply to the south, and the ships drove side by side, and then turned southwest in turn, the front formation changed to the rear formation, and the rear formation became the front formation, with the original rearward ship "Barham" as the lead ship, changed back to a column, and the original lead ship "Revenge" became the rearward ship.

After the completion of the change of formation, the captain of the "Thundering", which was located before the "Sovereign", had taken the initiative to ask for a separate queen, but Jericho refused, but agreed that the "Thundering" would be relocated to the "Sovereign", so that at least the "Thundering" would have the "Queen", "Bravery", and "Revenge" behind the three ships.

Now that even the 3 most elite warships at the end of the package are willing to sacrifice, and the Thundering Horn, which has dragged down the whole army, is also sacrificed, although it is a little cruel in terms of feelings, it is natural in terms of reason.

Jericho just nodded slightly. It's the default.

"Light forces are also going to attack together. to achieve the best results. Brown added.

Willy said with his back hand: "It will take time to gather light forces. Now only the unfought ground destroyer fleet can be immediately put into battle. ”

Brown coughed a few times. A punch hit the edge of the recliner: "Throw as much as you want." Drag it out until dark anyway. And also. What about submarines? We don't have half of our submarines in this area. Why don't you see any effect at all? ”

"E-7 reported in the afternoon the discovery of an enemy aircraft carrier force. There has been no contact since...... In fact. It's hard for those little toys to catch up with a high-speed maneuvering ground fleet. It's all about luck. It is better to count on them than to count on roulette - the task given to the submarine force is only reconnaissance and surveillance. ”

Brown frowned, glanced at Jericho, who was bandaged around his neck and silent, and sighed softly, "It looks like our luck is not much worse than roulette......"

……

Jingshi, Xinhua Palace Chengxian Hall, base camp temporary No. 3 (I operation) real-time demonstration area.

Above the command platform surrounded by a glass curtain wall, several round clocks were opened, indicating different times, and the labels affixed to the clocks had the names of places written on them, so that it was 1945 Beijing time, and the corresponding Calcutta time, that is, the time approved by the theater of operations for this operation, was 17:15.

"Half an hour until sunset."

The young man in white who held his hands on the shiny railing and looked down at the demo panel and the girl in uniform and skirt below through the glass curtain wall was one of the henchmen of Her Majesty the Empress, the new Second Operations Staff Officer of the Navy Staff, Rear Admiral Pan Guochen.

"It's still a night battle after the worst, really, staying up late will make you feel bags under your eyes......"

Qianhua, dressed in a special marshal's skirt and black stockings, leaned on the soft couch near the curtain wall, yawning lazily, and her pair of black shiny high heels were crooked under the soft couch.

Pan Guochen already had a natural immunity to the rare squeamishness of the empress who had just revealed her iron-fisted methods, and turned his head and lowered his eyes: "Your Majesty, you don't have to keep an eye on here, there is me here, if there is any important situation, I will send someone to report at any time." ”

"It's so lonely in the dormitory......"

Qianhua unconsciously rubbed her slender long legs wrapped in black silk, today she did not let the mirror paint herself with the kind of heavy makeup that deliberately aged her actual appearance, and the beautiful appearance that was almost the same as ten years ago was unguarded, even Pan Guochen, who had served as her princess as a guard for many years, rarely saw this kind of seductive posture in front of her.

Swallowing something slightly into his throat, Pan Guochen twisted his neck back into place without changing his face.

"The enemy's support forces are heading north, and they will be able to converge in about an hour or two, and Ma Shengyu's support troops on our side will not be able to arrive no matter what, the night battle is really fighting, we have no advantage in quantity, and the quality advantage of the capital ship cannot be brought into play, and the only experimental teleprobe has sunk with the Dapeng, but even if our capital ship is equipped with that kind of barely improvisable thing in advance, the actual effect should be very limited."

"Two aircraft carriers have already been abandoned by the mobile force, and the remaining two are not lightly injured, even if they can safely reach the coastal waters of Port Blair before dawn to receive the reserve fleet, I am afraid it will be difficult to catch up with the enemy again. If the main forces do not leave the strike range of the enemy's shore-based air forces before dawn, they will have to take a great risk......"

"How big?" Qian Hua unconsciously raised her hand to her chest again and landed between the peaks and valleys, and under the marshal's uniform, the bulge of the D cup trembled slightly with her breathing.

Pan Guochen hurriedly put away the afterglow from the corner of his eyes, swallowed harder, and said solemnly with his back hand: "It's big...... I mean, it's likely to detract from the day's gains. ”

"You mean, be satisfied with the day's results, reap the benefits after dark, and avoid gambling adventures as much as possible?"

"Basically...... Of course, the judgment of the commander present is also important. ”

Qian Hua stretched out his fingers and rolled up the straight hair in his ears, and pondered silently, Pan Guochen stood with his hands behind his back, like a needle in the sea god.

Behind the two of them, a certain female official, who had stood stupidly for a while with refreshments, smiled insincerely, but her face was frighteningly dark, and her shining eyes revealed ......... Of course it's not a fierce light or anything......