Blomeier knew that it was time for him to show off his talents. As Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, he should show some effect anyway.
So, he started thinking. No one else disturbed him, but quietly waited for the admiral to come up with a more appropriate countermeasure.
The warning fleet directly ahead was attacked, so there is a high probability that the opponent's fleet is on the route! This is Blomeier's speculation.
Obviously, this speculation is very reasonable: when an opponent comes to intercept, the best interception position is in front of the route of the Lions Empire fleet.
What about the distance? Bromeier cautiously speculated that it should be about 80 kilometers to 120 kilometers. At this distance, he thought that he had already given the Tang Imperial Navy a lot of face.
According to speculation, the attack distance of the Tang Empire's Styx anti-ship missiles should be 40 to 50 kilometers (this data is guessed by each country). Blommel doubled this distance, thinking that he had foreseen the enemy's leniency.
Already.
This distance was obviously within the strike range of carrier-based aircraft. Like John Cleeves, the commander of the combined fleet, his first thought was to counterattack.
Naval battles are like this. If you are passively beaten all the time, no matter how strong the warships are, no matter how many ships you have, you will not be able to win. Only by taking the initiative to sink the enemy's warships and destroy the enemy's fleet can you win the naval battle.
Therefore, Bromeier decided to launch the attack first and let the first batch of strike aircraft fly out to get a head start!
Therefore, he said to Lions I: "Your Majesty, we should take off the carrier-based aircraft! Search directly forward! Find the enemy's fleet! Launch an attack!"
He was still a little proud when he said this, because he felt that the naval generals on the Tang side were a little too trusting: they did not take off carrier-based aircraft immediately to cross the guard fleet and attack his main fleet!
This can be said to be a major mistake, which is equivalent to giving him the upper hand... Blomeier thought of this, and suddenly a bold idea came to his mind.
The other party did not send carrier-based aircraft to launch an attack first... Is it because the other party does not have an aircraft carrier at all?
In other words, the opponent's aircraft carrier is still in the Longdao port, and what's blocking the front of his fleet now is just the patrol destroyer of the Tang Army?
If you think about it carefully, it's completely possible! If the other party didn't know that its fleet had reached this position, it wouldn't have dispatched its aircraft carrier fleet to attack in time.
In other words, the Tang army was not ready for battle at all! They only had a few patrolling destroyers to rush to the battle, and the aircraft carrier fleet should still be near Long Island!
He only needs to destroy these destroyers, and then change the route, so that he can surprise and attack the hurried Tang Army aircraft carrier fleet from another direction!
Winning! God bless them, the Lions Empire, maybe they can really win this naval battle with dignity!
Thinking of this, he couldn't wait to explain his thoughts to Lions I. Sure enough, everyone who heard this explanation subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief!
That's right! It's entirely possible that this is the case! The attack was just a patrolling destroyer squadron of the Tang Army, maybe only two or three destroyers.
Relying on anti-ship missiles, they want to prevent the Lions Empire's fleet from continuing to advance and buy time for their main fleet to prepare for war.
As long as they destroy these destroyers and continue to move forward, the Lions Empire will be able to take the initiative!
"Take off the carrier-based aircraft! Take off immediately! Find those damn Tang Army destroyers! Sink them!" Lions I gave the order excitedly. He felt that the power had returned to his body, affected by the torture he had suffered before.
All have drifted away.
He seemed to have seen victory. If the Tang Army fleet in front of him really did not have an aircraft carrier, then for him... it would really be a loss of life.
But the fact is that Bloemeyer's conjecture was just as wrong as John Cleeves' conjecture: the Tang Army's anti-ship missiles were not launched from a destroyer at all!
The Tang Army's carrier-based aircraft immediately returned home after firing more than a dozen anti-ship missiles at once. Under the cover and dispatch of electronic warfare aircraft and early warning aircraft, the entire attack was well-organized.
The second batch of carrier-based aircraft has already taken off, and the third batch of carrier-based aircraft has begun to mount bombs in the hangar. The Tang Army only has one aircraft carrier, so the number of attack aircraft is not large, and they can only eat them up bit by bit.
The huge fleet of the Lions Empire.
However, even though the number of carrier-based aircraft is only about 80, the advanced nature of the Tang Army's aircraft carrier fleet still makes them invincible.
The counterattack of the Lines fleet was destined to be in vain, because the Tang Empire's fleet was hundreds of kilometers away and did not get close to the Lines Empire's fleet at all.
The Sea Spitfire fighter jets covered the sea area where the Type 97 carrier-based attack aircraft staggered towards. There was not even a ship from the Tang Empire. There was only a vast ocean and a strong attack from the Datang Empire's Prowler electronic warfare aircraft.
electromagnetic interference.
The Lines Empire shipboard that left the skies above the fleet would lose radio navigation there and lose contact with the fleet...
These aircraft can only return as soon as possible: they are lucky, because their flight direction is consistent with the direction of the fleet. Although the navigation fails, it is still relatively easy to find their own aircraft carrier fleet.
At the same time, after receiving the order, the submarine force of the Tang Empire Navy has begun to enter the attack position. It may not be easy for them to attack the main fleet of the Lines Empire, but it is no problem to open fire on the transport ships loaded with supplies and personnel.
question.
Anyway, the opponent's speed is very slow, and even if a submarine is discovered, it will not be able to speed up at all. Launching torpedoes at these ships is simply no different from target practice.
Soon, white tracks appeared on the calm sea, rushing towards various transport ships of different sizes that were sailing in the distance.
"No need to aim at all! Save all the wire-guided torpedoes!" Inside the dim submarine, the captain of the Tang Army ordered loudly in front of the periscope, looking at the prey on the horizon in the distance.
The opponent has too few destroyers to guarantee the safety of such a huge fleet. There are loopholes and flaws everywhere...
A minute later, a tragic explosion occurred in Lines's transport fleet. After a loud bang, a transport ship was cut in half and turned into two pieces.
Because it carried a large amount of cargo, the front and rear ends of the transport ship quickly tilted up, and the middle part quickly submerged into the sea.
At almost the same moment, another transport ship also had a huge explosion. A torpedo hit the hull and blew all the food transported into the air.
