Chapter 1156: Eyes in the night

Chapter 1156: Eyes in the Night

"It's really magnificent. This is the heritage and strength of a century-old empire." The S-85 reconnaissance airship is hidden in the black night sky. Even without moonlight, the German navy officers and soldiers on the airship are still at an altitude of 3000 meters. You can clearly see the British fleet that is returning, because the British fleet navigating at night is not under light control. The huge fleet composed of more than 30 battleships, more than 20 various cruisers, and more than 4 dozen destroyers is in mighty force. Withdrew to the mainland.

"Captain, the British fleet is beginning to disperse!" Moments later, a crew member pointed to the two fleets that were dispersing on the sea in the distance and said loudly. Three hours after the end of the battle, the British fast fleet and the main fleet finally separated. The huge fleet, which was originally like a magnificent sea city, was divided into two regiments, one large and one small, and sailed to the Shetland Islands and the Gulf of Forth. .

"Three hours later, in the C5 area, the British fleet began to disperse. Previously, the average speed of the British fleet was around 15 knots. The British fleet did not implement radio silence or light control." Captain S-85 was in his own battle. It says in the record.

The reason why the German airship can easily determine its position in the North Sea at night is still relying on the radio positioning system called Salzburg. With the strong support of the prince, the German radio technology is actually no worse than the British. Each has its own strengths. The British have an advantage in single items, while the Germans are strong in system integration. Relying on 36 radio direction finding and ranging stations located along the coast of Germany and Belgium, they can not only provide night navigation for their submarines and airships. , And at the same time can roughly determine the position of the British fleet with the cooperation of the airship.

"The British fleet went very slowly. After 4 hours of sailing, they reduced the speed to about 14 knots. And they often carried out irregular Z-shaped maneuvers, which should be to avoid ambushes by our submarines. But in general. Said that they chose the closest route to sail.” After a while, the S-90 airship replaced the S-85 airship to continue tracking the British fast fleet.

However, when it was about 150 kilometers away from the port, the British fleet suddenly gave up its previous caution and chose to return in a straight line. After a while, the S-90 airship found a group of aircraft coming from the direction of the British mainland. When approaching the fleet, more than 20 planes in this team turned on the searchlights on the fuselage almost simultaneously, and one oval beam of light swept back and forth on the sea.

"At around 11:30 in the evening, 130 kilometers away from the Gulf of Forth in the UK, the British land-based aviation troops dispatched planes to respond. The number is very large, about 2 dozen. According to the analysis of the aircraft outline, there are V1500 4 large aircraft. , And V400 twin-engine aircraft, but the largest number is the Felixstowe F2A 4-engine large seaplane. Their main task should be anti-submarine.” The captain of the S-90 airship also recorded in the combat report. Measures and steps when the British retreated.

"Okay, let's fly higher. I don't want to have a head-on conflict with these guys who are covered with machine guns and are comparable to an extra-large flying hedgehog." The British fleet sailed to less than 70 kilometers from Forth Bay. After the distance, more and more planes appeared in the air, and at this time the S-90 airship chose to increase the altitude to 4500 meters.

But just as the airship in the sky stared at the British fast fleet and aircraft. A submarine on the surface of the sea in a semi-submersible state is also carrying out no attack but still very important tasks.

Several German navy personnel opened the sealed hatch, and then moved carefully on the wet surface of the submarine. Several people laboriously opened a huge arc-shaped antenna along the steel lifting rod. Inside the submarine, several A naval technical officer is busy on an instrument. Although they were around the route of the British fleet, they did not take any attacks.

After all, the carrying capacity of the airship is limited. The radio equipment above cannot cover all the frequency bands used by the British. Therefore, other means must be used to supplement at this time. At this time, submarines that can also avoid most of the British Navy's detection methods can play. Worked. (What? Why didn’t the British plane spot this submarine? Please, there was no radar in World War I. Just rely on searchlights to drive away the submarine 3000 meters around the fleet. I want to discover Germany dozens of kilometers away. Submarine? What do you think?)

"Finally found them!" A bearded officer rubbed his hands in excitement. "Let the brothers above turn the wire to the 10 o'clock direction!" The officer walked to the submarine passage and said to his colleagues outside the control tower.

Subsequently, several soldiers laboriously turned the antenna with a diameter of 3 meters. After the rotation is completed, do not forget to fix it with a bracket.

"At 30 kilometers away from the Gulf of Forth, from the signal analysis, it should be a British submarine. In addition to this point, there are three other points. After these points are connected together, the Gulf of Forth is formed. The curved curve in the center. This should be the submarine cordon deployed by the British in the Gulf of Forth.” The bearded officer marked on the chart the position of the British submarine that had just been determined in general. This positioning is very inaccurate. It is said that the error can be calculated in kilometers, but if you want to anti-pass back, you can only know the approximate location of the opponent.

"Come on, take a look at these pictures." The captain took out several other nautical charts~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and then together with the officer used different colored pencils to locate the British submarine positions determined during the previous investigations. Mark them one by one on a chart.

"Although there are some changes, they are generally offshore warnings. Their warning lines are generally in a circular area with a radius of 15 to 40 kilometers centered on the base. The number of British submarines deployed in the Gulf of Forth is not large. The gap is also relatively large.” The captain wrote in the report after comparing the data collected many times.

When the British fast fleet returned to the Gulf of Forth, the eyes distributed in the air and under the sea also retracted. In the following days, a large amount of intelligence was sent back to the German navy base camp in Wilhelmshaven through various channels.

"Well, in the next three weeks, we need to adjust the entire fleet to the best condition. If possible, I hope that each ship can be maintained to a certain degree. When the Mochi and Saxony return The time is when we strike again. Believe me, next time, it will definitely not be a trifle. Those battlecruisers can no longer satisfy our appetite!" At the end of the battle summary meeting on the second day, the prince was excited. Said.

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