Should we raise the flight altitude a little?" Gates asked.

"I think..." However, before Cunningham finished speaking, the Japanese navigator next to him interrupted: "Look here, it seems to be a fighter!"

Hearing this, Cunningham's hair stood up! His plane is now flying at an altitude of about 50 meters above sea level. If a fighter rushes down at this time, then he will not even have room to dodge!

Cunningham immediately looked in the direction indicated by the Japanese and saw four planes flying quickly in the air from about 30 meters away from the sea. Perhaps because of their camouflage or light, the other party did not see them. And they seemed to have already had a goal, and the degree was very fast, and they soon disappeared from Cunningham's vision.

"We seem to have encountered a big thing. Order the plane to return quickly." Cunningham said seriously.&1t;i>&1t;/i>

"Don't we continue to investigate?" Gates said with some surprise.

"No more investigation, it's meaningless to find out which ships in the distance. What we see this time may be a big guy." Cunningham said.

"Do we want to contact the headquarters?" Gates said while preparing for the newspaper.

"Stop reporting until we leave here at least 1 oo kilometers. Do as I say, and I will explain why to you when I go back." Cunningham said.

So, before the last ray of sunlight disappeared from the sky, Cunningham and his crew flew quickly to their base. After two and a half hours, the moment the Felixtto F5 seaplane had just stopped, Cunningham jumped from the plane, regardless of the other crew members ran to the headquarters of the flight squadron, which was a two-story building made of stone and wood. The commander, former British Royal Navy Reconnaissance Team Brigadier General Goodnow, was working there.&1t;i>&1t;/i>

"God of General, there is an American fleet in the Ad5 area, which is very large!" Cunningham said loudly while pushing open the door. When he was in the Royal Navy, Cunningham was Goodnow's staff officer, so the two had a good relationship. Now in Japan, Goodnow has no military post as the Royal Navy, so the two are not so polite. Some things can be reported directly.

"Is that true? If that's the case, then the result of Unit 6 will be very bad." Goodno got up and then stroked the chart with the pencil in his hand, while spending an x ​​somewhere north.

"What does it mean?" Cunningham said with some surprise.

"One of our seaplanes disappeared, and when it reported, we had just received the verification code in the front part of the telegram, and then there was no further information. We estimated that it was shot down. It was a little northerly area of ​​Ad5." Goodnow said.&1t;i>&1t;/i>

"Is it this evening?" Cunningham said after thinking.

"Yes, before sunset, did you see Unit 6 being shot down?" Goodnow said.

"No, I just saw four planes flying in a certain direction. The light was not good at that time. I couldn't tell which model of plane it was, but it was definitely bigger than ordinary fighter planes. At the same time, their altitude was also very low, only about 3 oo meters. I felt that this height was obviously for searching for low-altitude targets. If there were no other factors, then it should be this team of planes that knocked down No. 6." Cunningham thought for a while and said.

"Does these planes have pontoons? Where did they fly over?" Goodnow asked.

"It should be no. It should be southeast," Cunningham said after thinking.

"Are there any other things you know? Don't ask me, say everything you know!" Goodno said, picking up the drawing tool and pencil and starting to mark the drawing.&1t;i>&1t;/i>

"We found a destroyer team at this position, and then a team of medium and above battleships slightly behind, and then the flying fighter unit appeared in the southeast direction." Cunningham was also not vague, picked up a pencil and marked it one by one on the chart.

"What?" asked Goodnow.

"Then I'll go back," Cunningham said.

"Because the weather has darkened, or is it because of timidity?" Goodnow said with some dissatisfaction.

"Because I think the information we have obtained is enough. According to my experience, I think we are facing an outer cordon of a large fleet. Those destroyers and the medium warships behind are part of this cordon. Although I cannot determine the size and specific location of this fleet, judging from the fact that they can send 4 aircraft to conduct low-altitude attacks, I think there must be aircraft carriers in this fleet. Because these aircraft do not have pontoons, they are not seaplanes. If it is a single-use aircraft that is ejected, four ships will be sent out at once, which is simply unimaginable for a fleet without a dedicated aircraft carrier. So, I think that judging from the scale of the peripheral guard fleet and the regular carrier-based aircraft that appear, the scale of this fleet will definitely not be small!" Cunningham said confidently.&1t;i>&1t;/i>

Cunningham's inference is still very accurate. First, from the perspective of distance, referring to the warning line, there are two fleets at the same time, and a fleet of aircraft flew directly from places he didn't know, so we can confirm that the fleet's perception range is very large! The size of the fleet's perception range is directly determined by the size of the fleet! You know, although it was almost evening at that time, the weather was clear and the lighting conditions were reasonable. In this case, Cunningham and his colleagues could not see the aircraft carrier! This shows that this aircraft carrier team is at least 20 kilometers away!

Secondly, from the perspective of fleet formation principle, if this fleet has aircraft carriers, then there will definitely be battleships, because according to the experience of the German and British navy in the war, aircraft carriers are very important in reconnaissance and air defense, but their attack power is slightly insufficient. Therefore, under normal circumstances, aircraft carriers will be mixed with battleship detachments. Unless they encounter the last time when the carrier-based aircraft that was unable to be used due to weather problems during the last time in New Ireland, these two main battleships will definitely be together. Because after separation, their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, if you can confirm that there is an aircraft carrier, there will definitely be a battleship. Considering the location of the peripheral cordon, this core fleet, which is not sure where it is, will be relatively large. Of course, it is really hard to figure out how big it is.

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