Chapter 2673： Tian Luo Di Wang Yi

"Your Excellency Commander, this is a telegram from Berlin." Just as Su Xiong was having breakfast with Raidel, an officer sent a telegram.

"Okay, let's go down first." Su Xiong looked up at the telegram and said to the person next to him after a moment of contemplation. After 1 minute, the attendants and other officers all left the fleet commander's special cabin.

"We reached an agreement with the Americans. The United States reduced some tariffs to pre-war levels and withdrew its influence from Turkey." Su Xiong told Raidel.

"If that's the case, it seems we need to go to work." Raidel put down the knife and fork in his hand and said. "It just so happens that General Sims will come to visit this afternoon. It is nominally to see how our warship is repaired. In fact, we may talk about some future tactics."

"How much pressure the Japanese are putting on American sea transportation lines now" Su Xiong asked.

"In the beginning, the Japanese caught the Americans by surprise, especially on the west side of the Panama Canal. The Japanese attacked a fairly successful attack on the most sensitive transportation line for the Americans. After that, the Americans reacted quickly. Former dreadnoughts and even dreadnoughts came to **** the transport fleet, and their fleets were super large-scale fleets, hundreds of various ships were escorted by the navy across the oceans. In this way, let the Japanese old-fashioned Dreadnoughts and armored cruisers are difficult to get started, so now the Japanese guerrilla fleet is just a small fleet. The actual threat is not very big, but it is very troublesome, and politically makes the US government ugly.” Ryder thought for a while and said. .

"Then whether the Japanese fleet is equipped with battleships such as seaplane mother ships for the attacking fleet, how about the Japanese submarine operations?" Su Xiong continued to ask.

"No, the Japanese don’t have so many seaplane carriers to be assigned to the broken fleet, but it’s said that the Japanese carry an excess of seaplanes to every warship. As for submarines, the Japanese submarine operations are very bad. On the one hand, because of its limited capabilities, on the other hand, there are too many American destroyers. Do you know how many destroyers there are on the American front? There are more than 280! This does not include the destroyers that are being maintained in the dock. Its tonnage is generally above 1,000 tons, what a terrifying industrial capability." Ryder couldn't help but sigh after he finished speaking.

"In terms of industrial scale, it far exceeds the current empire. Perhaps only after we integrate the new territories and colonies on the Eastern Front can we compete with the Americans in industrial scale." Su Xiong agreed with Raidel's views. Although the combat literacy of the U.S. Navy makes Su Xiong and others amused, the Americans have funds and industrial capabilities to withstand losses. After a period of war training, the fleet can always mature.

"I now somewhat understand Prince Ruprecht's attitude towards the Americans. If the crown prince tried to maintain relations with the United States before the end of the war, then he has actually begun to prepare for the distant future and hostility to the Americans. And the Americans will definitely be much stronger than the Allied powers we face in the war." Su Xiong said.

"Well, don't talk about these issues for the time being, at least I may not wait for the day when I meet with the American swordsman in the future, maybe you can. At that time I hope you can defeat these American counterparts who have fought side by side with us." Su Xiong ended the topic with a semi-serious joke.

"Tell me your opinion. If the Americans ask us to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese fleet, do you have any plans?" Su Xiong asked.

"If we want to attack immediately, we only have one Mecklenburg battleship to use, plus the aircraft carrier Zeppelin that accompanies us. In addition to the destroyers or light cruisers assigned to us by the Americans, we can form one. Efficient hunting team, as long as we can find them, everything else is not a problem, and for the dignity of the empire, I think we have to kill at least one Japanese battleship!" Raidel said.

"So what about the specific tactical implementation" Su Xiong asked.

"The Americans have sent a large number of reconnaissance fleets to search for traces of the Japanese fleet in the Pacific, but the overall effect is very little. After all, trying to search for the Japanese fleet hidden deep in the ocean with a limited fleet and naked eyes is undoubtedly a needle in a haystack. , And the Americans also tried to use a certain fleet as a trap to attract the Japanese fleet, but now it seems that the effect is very limited. As for the reason, I think it may be that the Japanese fleet has limited information sources, so I don’t know part of the decoy. Existence..." At this point, Ryder couldn't help but smile.

"The Americans will then assign seaplanes or even aircraft carriers to the hunting fleet. This does greatly increase the search range, but I still feel a little bit weak. The preparations are insufficient, the action is too hasty, and the Japanese are very It is possible that camouflage measures have been taken. Simple aerial reconnaissance may be deceived. At least when the Japanese fleet raided the Panama Canal, the Americans did aerial reconnaissance in this area, but the effect was very unsatisfactory."

"So I think The Americans have some problems with their thinking. They just piled up warships and airplanes, and then arbitrarily searched for the Japanese fleet in the Pacific, recklessly like a wild boar, and furiously running across the ocean. The idea was wrong, and they did not find the crux of the problem! That is, the warships that the Japanese fleet participated in the ocean-going break-through are old ships. Although they have been refurbished, they are actually due to constraints such as tonnage and hull structure. It is not suitable for long-distance combat on the ocean, because whether it is the armored cruiser we sold to the Japanese or the Rurik that we sold to the Russians, they were all born as fleet decisive battles."

"Therefore, the Japanese fleet must conduct frequent replenishment. According to our data, the Japanese fleet is still mainly coal-burning. The small fuel reserves and coal-burning make it necessary for the Japanese fleet to replenish frequently. Where can the supply fleet come from? I think it can only be Australia!" Raidel said.

"But we can't decipher the Japanese ciphers. The cipher they use should be similar to our Enigma cipher. The prototype may even come from the British seizures on the battlefield." Su Xiong said.

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