The adjutant carefully recorded what Chief Chen said.
In the past, he would definitely persuade the General, but this time, he could not persuade him.
The navy has endured too many hardships. This time, it is the battle for the navy to stand up again. Not to mention the general in front of it, even he is ready to fight until the last moment.
"We may need to take a detour to replenish more coal and fresh water. In addition, as for food, we will temporarily give in to everyone and bring less, and then distribute it."
If you can bring more combat supplies, then bring more. As for the rest, even if you skip one meal, you won't starve to death.
A fight is about to begin.
Although Zhou Weiguo was in West Asia, he was still very concerned about the navy, so he went to the school headquarters to inquire about the situation.
Commander Bai explained without any concealment that the current fleet is replenishing and will set off soon. As for whether they can return to Mawei in the end, it depends on what the next battle will be like.
"Do you think the Japanese army will let it go?" Zhou Weiguo leaned at the door and asked a few people in the secret service group who were in a daze.
Several people said something illegal. After all, they were army officers and they really didn't understand the navy.
Nam Chung-mi has been exposed to the navy, and most of his family are naval officers. The strongest among them is the fleet commander.
"Sister, do you know?" Everyone knew what Nan Zhongmei did in the past, so Nan Zuolinzi, who knew him best, asked.
Nan Zhongmei was eating, listening to Nan Zaolinzi's words. She thought for a while and said: "How can we let it go? The fleet dispatched this time will be less than the returning fleet. If this is the case, the returning fleet will not be able to
Breaking through their interception, what else can we say? It looks good to raise this gold-eating beast."
The navy is not the army.
The Army puts on clothes and gives them a rifle and goes to the battlefield.
But the navy is different. At the very least, the navy burns coal. Don’t just look at the lack of coal. How much power can keep up with the speed? How much coal should be used? How to save. These must be considered.
Then there are the gunners. These gunners are not army artillery or navy artillery. They need to be trained again and again. They have to consider the turbulence of the ocean, the enemy's sailing speed, heavy artillery bombardment, etc.
It can be said that even if the navy is an artilleryman, it cannot be compared to the army.
This is the gold-eating beast.
The Japanese Navy has no plans to dispatch aviation this time. It just wants to give you a real naval battle head-on, with naval gunfire. Moreover, they only dispatched two battleships. There are three here. They have not dispatched their strongest yet.
What about the big battleships?
How do you want others to let me go?
Even if you can do it, you have to have a face, right?
If we can't break through this and have to let others give in, then the mountain city's navy, even if it has these ships, is actually an empty shell.
"To put it bluntly, even if we break out this time, maybe other countries will not really think highly of our navy, let alone give in. In the future, other countries will think that our navy is not very good and they want to take a bite.
no."
It makes sense, there are some things that you can never intimidate the enemy without fighting them.
Just like the Beiyang Fleet back then. It was powerful, number one in Asia and eighth in the world. However, it turned out to be a joke.
Let the weak little day navy be directly beaten to the point of annihilation.
"Then wish them all the best to come back victorious.
Ozawa stood on the bridge outside the battleship's command tower, looking at the sea in the distance in a daze.
He was the commander who was ordered to intercept Shanchen's returning fleet.
Two battleships, four cruisers, and five destroyers, this is the size of his entire fleet.
Moreover, the superiors have strictly ordered that aviation cannot be used this time.
He likes this kind of battle, using naval guns to have a real battle with the opponent.
However, facing the opponent's three battleships, seven or eight cruisers, a dozen destroyers and even submarines, he was a little scared inside.
However, he didn't like Shancheng's command system. No matter what, he couldn't compare with himself, but the size of their fleet was really too big.
A good man is hard to beat with four hands. No matter how capable he is, if the opponent uses the high speed of the destroyer to rush over and launch a round of torpedo attacks on him, then even if he is a god, he will not be able to stop it.
Either we don't intercept it, or we have to dispatch ships of the same size.
That's it, how could he stop it?
Moreover, no matter how you deal with it, you will have to bear the responsibility in the end.
"Your Majesty General, their fleet has already set off."
The adjutant came to the side and handed over a telegram.
Ozawa took a look at the telegram and knew that now, even if he was not happy, he could only leave now.
"Let's go to area three."
Area three?
Chief Chen looked at it again and again in the chart room, and finally pointed at area No. 3.
"General, do you mean they will intercept here?" The adjutant asked after seeing his commander and carefully drawing a line on the chart with a pencil.
Chief Chen looked at his adjutant; "Their fleet is not as large as ours. Naturally, they have to choose to intercept in a relatively wide sea area."
No, this shouldn't be right?
The adjutant pointed at the map; "Sir, shouldn't they choose the relatively small area No. 5? This place is so narrow that our fleet's numerical advantage will be limited and we will not be able to concentrate our superior forces to fight them. How could they?
Give up here and choose area three."
"Because it is convenient for our destroyers to move in this place. Once we use the destroyers to release torpedoes against them, the narrow channel will restrict our movements, but at the same time, it will also cause trouble for their avoidance."
So many torpedoes are launched at the same time, and you may hit them wherever you try to dodge.
Therefore, the best thing is to be in a spacious area. Although you will suffer a loss this way, you will have more opportunities to avoid torpedoes. If you were Ozawa, you would definitely choose area three.
Another point is that there is actually another way to go around area three. When Ozawa intercepts himself, he intercepts himself, but he will not intercept himself too much. In fact, this is another choice he gave. The choice given to Yamashiro
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But he doesn't need this choice.
"Sir, they really don't take our huge fleet seriously." In any case, there are more people here than them. They really plan to use that little force to destroy this fleet.
Just keep fighting.
"The troops are huge, but I have no intention of dispatching them all." Chief Chen threw away his pencil and looked at the suddenly confused adjutant in front of him and said, "Why, you don't understand."