"A British? The best commander is naturally Thomas, but he can't come here. So who else could it be? Duff, Hood, or someone else?" Su Xiong touched his chin and fell into deep thought. This was not because he was distracted at the critical moment. If he could guess the other party's identity and then target the other party's usual tactics or thinking methods, then the battle in front of him might turn around.

"Neither Duff nor Hood had the experience of commanding a large fleet. It would be nice if they could command a battleship squadron and a subordinate destroyer at best." Raidel shook his head and said.

"Who could that be? Geram and the others have already lost their battle in the Norwegian Sea. Stedee is still alive, but this person is only qualified and can perform tasks without fail. His tactics are fairly standard. Judging from the Japanese's actions this time, this plan is too risky. This tactic is rare in the British Royal Navy, which tends to be conservative. "Su Xiong was a little worried.

"If you want to say that it is full of adventure and enterprising, then there is someone who meets this condition. I feel that there is Betty's shadow behind this plan! Think about it, who in the British Royal Navy dares to go deep into the core area of ​​the enemy alone when they are at an absolute disadvantage? Don't you think this style is very similar to when Betty took the battlecruiser and rushed directly to the Helgoland Islands?" Raidel said.

"It's interesting, but to be honest, Betty's level has improved a lot compared to before." Su Xiong suddenly realized.

"Haha, after all, the British paid the tuition fee. You can always learn some of it." Redell said.

"Hiss Commander, new information on the enemy." At this moment, an officer sent the telegram he had just received.

"According to the reconnaissance situation, the Japanese fleet was divided into three! Two main fleets and a separate light cruiser team." Su Xiong's words were extremely heavy.

"Hiss. It's not easy to deal with." Raidel felt more and more that this battle would be very difficult to fight tonight. Although when Betty was allocating the fleet, he was considering that the light cruisers were concentrated to perform hunting missions alone to improve efficiency, but now, the concentrated light cruisers pose a great threat to Su Xiong's actions.

The reason is very simple. The Suxiong fleet lacks frigates, and the 6-inch secondary gun is quite good to deal with destroyers, but it has very limited effect on light cruisers. If the Suxiong fleet is fighting a certain Japanese main fleet, the concentrated light cruiser team uses its speed advantage to encircle and then covers the destroyer to launch a lightning strike, then the Suxiong fleet will be very dangerous!

The Japanese still have at least 5 light cruisers that can be used, and they cannot be suppressed without the main gun fire. If the main gun fire is used, what should we do if the Japanese battleship team, which is already very advantageous, be it? If the Fuso-class battleship is not disturbed, Bavaria will not be able to withstand it now! If the main gun is not allocated, then once a large number of destroyers are close, those torpedoes will be too terrible.

"Do we want to contact Fletcher now?" said Redell. "If you want to threaten the Japanese battleship, you must first cut off the light cruiser team or damage it. If Fletcher can directly choose to attack the Japanese light cruiser team, we will be able to fight later. What I worry most now is that Fletcher will directly choose to fight, so that we will lose a crucial maneuver force."

"No, our significance is to cause chaos in the entire Japanese fleet. At this time, if we are exposed and the Japanese split a fleet, the remaining warships can be hunted unscrupulously, then we will only restrain some of the enemies. It is not cost-effective." Su Xiong rejected Redel's suggestion.

"What should we do?" Redell asked.

"Let's look at Old Fletcher's choice first. If Old Fletcher attacks the Japanese light cruiser team, then we can naturally enter the battlefield when the Japanese battleship forces support the light cruiser fleet. If Old Fletcher chooses a wrong target and causes his fleet to be destroyed in a short period of time, then we can only wait until the Japanese fleet disperses a certain distance before taking action. At that time, we will attack the light cruiser team first and then consider other targets." Su Xiong said.

It is an impossible task to completely stop the massacre of the Japanese fleet. Therefore, in Su Xiong's view, only by first letting his fleet survive and then cleverly "utilizing" the American transport fleet can interfere with Japan's offense to the greatest extent. Of course, the Americans do not agree with this principle. But there is no way, Su Xiong's fleet is the decision!

Just as Su Xiong was making the final preparations before entering the battlefield, Old Fletcher was doing the same thing. At this time, he was hiding in the transport fleet, looking for possible fighter jets!

"When I saw that the Japanese fleet was divided into three squads, I knew that I could not stop them all, so in this case, I could only choose to attack the fleet closest to us so that some transport ships could escape the death pursuit." After the war, Fletcher, the old man recalled his thoughts when he issued the attack order!

It was a blessing in disguise! When the Japanese fleet was unfolding, the three Japanese fleets lined up one after another, which was very unfortunate for the Japanese, and for the Americans, the light cruiser detachment located on the far left of the three fleets was closest to the armored cruiser detachment of Old Fletcher! And unfortunately, because the Japanese army focused their attention on the scattered transport ship, the Japanese did not find Old Fletcher's armored cruiser detachment at the first time!

So, despite the dangerous situation, Old Fletcher still felt in his heart: we have a great advantage, and A will win if he goes up! This is definitely not Old Fletcher's arrogantness, but because the US Navy has indeed had a very advantage on this battlefield. You must know that the US fleet has 5 10,000-ton armored cruisers, with a total of 30 10-inch guns' main gun firepower! Plus more than 16 destroyers and torpedo boats!

And what about the opposite side? Although the other party also has 5 light cruisers, the tonnage of these light cruisers is only over 5,000 tons, and the gun caliber is 155MM, which cannot pose any threat to the armored cruisers in the hands of Fletcher. Moreover, the number of destroyers assigned to this light cruiser detachment is far less than that of the Americans, with only about 6 destroyers!
Chapter completed!