After determining the key points of the waters of breaking through the intercession, Ozawa regrouped the fleet composition. ([[[( ?( ? He carefully analyzed the fleet composition and the tasks he undertakes, and believed that from the perspective of breaking through the intercession, it was more beneficial to disperse the fleet, but from the combat effectiveness, the two aircraft carriers could not be separated, because Europa is not a complete aircraft carrier and must be used with Zeppelin to be valuable. When the two are combined together, they are equivalent to two aircraft carriers. After separation, Zeppelin can still be counted as one aircraft carrier, but Europa is going to be blind. In addition, the vague sense of uneasiness in his heart is not based on intelligence inference, but based on logic or deep anxiety, so he chose to put the two aircraft carriers together to maximize their value.

Marshal and Crank did not understand the middle link, and the two subconsciously believed that aircraft carriers should be used together to be valuable, so they did not question this arrangement. However, Ozawa still divided the troops appropriately. After all, he now has a battleship, a battle cruiser, two aircraft carriers, and four heavy cruisers, which is almost the same as the entire German navy's wealth, and the scale is far greater than the power required for ordinary breakups. The harvest of the "Tropical" made Ozawa lit up at the beginning and was very yearning. But when he thought about the 20,000 tons of heavy oil poured into Spain, he began to think about whether it was cost-effective. The question of 20,000 tons of heavy oil is not a small amount!

The adjusted formation arrangement of Ozawa was very interesting. He divided the entire fleet into three clusters. The left wing was Tirpitz, Admiral Scher and Oki and two destroyers, the right wing was Strasbourg, Lyzov and Nikko and the destroyer, and the middle back was Hippel and Seedlitz. The two light cruisers and six destroyers escorted the aircraft carrier. The distance between the left and right wings and the main formation was more than 1oo nautical miles. This was a careful arrangement. The distance between the 1oo nautical miles can be calmly expanded and the search range can be easily expanded. If something happens, the support force of the carrier-based aircraft can arrive within half an hour, which is very convenient.

According to this arrangement, Lieutenant General Belarus was in charge of the Tirpitz to command the left wing formation, and General Kumetz was in charge of the Strasbourg to command the right wing formation. The two of them were very relaxed now and had seen the strong winds and waves in the North Sea. It would be too easy to rush to South America to fight merchant ships.

"Sir, I found them..." On the fleet's flagship Victory aircraft carrier, the intelligence officer handed the telegram to Spruenz. "We sent a secret telegram from the Spanish intelligence officer. Last night, the German fleet stopped in La Coruña and refueled, leaving in the morning, with unknown wherever."

"How many warships are there?"

"I can't see the specific model clearly, and the telegram said at least a dozen ships."

Spruins felt relieved after thinking about it. Such a large fleet would not go to Hero Port to refuel, because all the fuel in the island needs to be transferred from the outside world. The island's inventory may support small-scale refueling of merchant ships, but compared with a whole formation composed of aircraft carriers and battleships, the Yar fuel inventory seems too small, and the Germans should not be willing to use it easily.

"Where do you think they will go?" he turned his head and asked his chief of staff, Royal Rear Admiral Chris.

"Given that the Strait of Gibraltar has been blocked, they will not go to the Mediterranean, so there will be three choices. First, return to the Yar Islands; second, go north and enter the North Sea again; third, go south to carry out other missions for breaking the transfer." Chris commented after reading the chart, "I think it is more likely to go south. First, the German army has just moved south from the north, and we have been following behind. The reconnaissance planes cannot turn a blind eye to such a huge target; secondly, although the possibility of returning to Yar cannot be ruled out, I suggest that the fleet go south first, and listen to the information of the crows tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to see if they have gone to Hero Port."

Of course, the German fleet did not return to Hero Port, but the intercepted Tropical entered Hero Port. The Crow wanted to get more news, but the port had been blocked by the German army. He could not easily get in without a ticket, and even if he got the ticket, he would not dare to go in because he could not come out again. Now his activity space is getting smaller and smaller, and there are only a few people left in the hotel and no new visitors. The most reliable, and traditional intelligence instantly cut off the source. The Portuguese residents who refused to leave before the German radio propaganda a few days ago suddenly changed their temper and quickly surrendered in front of the bombs dropped by British bombers. There were people queuing up on the docks to leave Hero Port and return to their hometowns.

Faced with such a difficult situation, he even thought angrily who was in the country who was making random air strikes. This person was probably a German spy. Isn’t this cooperating with Germany to drive people out? If the air strikes were harvested, it would be fine. The key was that the results were pitifully few, but it destroyed a section of the airport runway, 2-3 anti-aircraft gun positions, 1 hangar, and the German army lost a total of 6 aircraft, and the soldiers were killed or killed. However, the loss rate of the Lancaster bomber group, which changed to a daytime air strike, rose sharply. In three days, more than 20 aircraft were shot down by German anti-aircraft guns and fighters.

General Tro, who was in charge of commanding the air strikes, was also in trouble. Yar was too far away. For safety reasons, the Air Force Command reduced Lancaster's ammunition load to 1.5 tons, leaving enough fuel for the aircraft to fly 55oo kilometers. However, even in recent days, more than a dozen aircraft were forced to change to Portugal's emergency landing because they were unable to persist after being injured. They were undoubtedly detained by the Portuguese authorities. The Royal Air Force paid more than 40 aircraft for this ineffective air strike, which was completely unworthy of the loss. Those Lancaster who were forced to land entered the Portuguese military system in a blink of an eye. Salazar first collected German fighter jets and tanks, and now they also collected heavy bombers sent by the British, and their military strength suddenly increased.

The crow hoped to have the opportunity to meet a few German soldiers on the street to ask about the situation, but the Germans were very cold. The worst thing was that he knew Portuguese, English, Spanish, and a little French, but he didn't understand German. When he was sending intelligence officers, he never expected that one day the place would be occupied by the Germans. His superiors were already very amazing. Considering the French factors, who knew it was Germany?

After leaving the port of La Corunia, the German fleet route turned southwest and galloped towards Brazil, because the U-boat troops mentioned that the waters near Brazil were escorted by a large number of fleets escorted by cruisers or destroyers. On the afternoon of March 9, the Tilpitz watchtower halfway through the journey showed smoke columns rising from the eastern water antenna. If you were to catch the treasure, Lieutenant General Bei immediately ordered the right-wing formation to prepare for combat, and at the same time increased the degree to 25 knots and leaned forward in the target direction. But after careful inspection

The result was ridiculous, because these were all empty ships that transported goods and personnel to the Canary Islands and returned to Spain. They served the German side and were all wearing Spanish flags. When they saw the German ship arrive, the sailors on the ship immediately sounded their whistle to pay tribute. In their eyes, Spain is now a quasi-ally of Germany. Except for not firing directly at Britain and the United States, they did almost everything that an Axis member state should do. Lieutenant General Belarus returned the gift awkwardly, and then led the fleet back to the left wing position...

The incident was soon returned to Zeppelin and caused a burst of laughter, but a few minutes later, the laughter came to an abrupt end. The fleet received a telegram from Yarlai, reporting that there were at least four aircraft carriers in the enemy's main fleet.

In order to chase the German army southward, the Y fleet had to cross the waters between the Yar Islands and Portugal. This was the most common thing, but Yar was occupied by the German army. After Spain had German reconnaissance aircraft, the waterway was no longer as safe as before. Spruins considered it over and over again and finally decided that the Y fleet would temporarily cancel the 2O nautical mile interval and join forces to cross the waterway center line together. In this way, the fleet was more than 8O kilometers away from Yar and more than 8O kilometers away from Spain or Portugal. He believed that this would cleverly avoid the air defense patrol ring in both directions.

Unfortunately, the British and American fleets encountered the third batch of F-19O fighter jets and joint attack aircraft that flew from Spain to the Yar Islands to reinforce. When there was a fleet on the sea, the navigation aircraft sent by the naval aviation in the air thought it was Mashar's fleet, and they wanted to rush down and say hello. Unexpectedly, after lowering the altitude, there were four aircraft carriers on the sea. This was not right. When did the North Sea Fleet turn out to create another two ships? If you look carefully, the bow of the ship was not the most common one of its own navy, and it was obviously an enemy ship.

The navigation machine instinctively wants to attack, but for the convenience of transition, the joint attack aircraft group is flying without load. Except for the bullets of the self-defense machine gun, there is not even a bomb or a torpedo. The escorted F-19o fighter jet only has a small amount of fuel. If the entanglement takes too long, it will fall if it cannot fly.

"People are careful, members are careful... Below are the enemy fleets. We keep the formation and height passing quickly, don't get entangled, repeat, don't get entangled."

Spruins also saw the German aircraft fleet passing through the sky, and even saw an aircraft deliberately lowering its altitude to check. At first, he decided that this was an enemy aircraft coming to deal with him, and decisively ordered the fighter aircraft to take off immediately and prepare to face the enemy. However, before the cover aircraft fleet was taken off, the German aircraft fleet flew away on its own, and none of them rushed down to attack.

He breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered the cover aircraft group not to climb again, so as not to stimulate the Germans to attack, he had no idea that these enemy aircraft had no ammunition that could deter the warships.

"Sir, the support fleet from Spain reported that it had appeared in an enemy fleet, with at least 4 aircraft carriers."

"Are they attacked?" asked Major General Vaughns, commander of the Yar Air Force.

"No, the navigation aircraft sent by the Navy is very smart and pretends not to recognize it and flew away."

"Where is the enemy fleet? Did you come to us?"

"Sailing south, maybe to chase our fleet."

He pondered: The distance is a bit far, more than 8oo kilometers, the range of he-218 is obviously not enough, can he fight? But when he thinks of those joint attack aircraft with more than 2oo kilometers, he laughed. (To be continued.) 8
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