At sunset, the sun disappeared unwillingly on the horizon, and now, the time to sunrise is only about 6 hours. At night, both sides will make the last adjustment, because when the sun rises again, if neither side retreats, then a war will be inevitable! Both sides have more than 14 hours to compete! This period of time is enough for a country to hoard more than ten years to ashes! And in the last few hours before the war, the final game between the two sides finally kicked off!

"Can you still find the trace of the Spee fleet?" Jericho asked after a glance behind the dark night.

"Not found, the other party implemented strict radio silence and light control, and the last place they disappeared was here." An officer walked to the huge chart on the wall and marked the location of the Spee fleet, and continued: "Then General Thomas ventured to send light cruisers and destroyers to find each other, but did not find the target."

"What a cunning guy. Earl Spee is worthy of being the best night fighter among the entire Allied Navy. When night falls, this guy seems to have disappeared." Jericho shook his head and said helplessly. It would be great if the movements of Spee's fleet could be found at night.

"How is our target fleet?" Jericho asked.

"Target 1 fleet has gone to the north and is preparing to replace General Thomas's fast fleet. Target 2 ship has also arrived at the designated position. After an hour, they will contact the main fleet with the call sign of the main fleet, and the main force of the large fleet will enter a radio silent state and wait for the arrival of the Thomas fleet at the booking location." Lieutenant General Duff said.

"Very good. If everything goes well tonight, we will get a very good battle situation tomorrow at dawn!" After Jericho said that, he walked to his desk and picked up the combat plan in his hand for the last time to see if there were any omissions.

Jericho is indeed worthy of being Jericho. Before setting off, he had already considered the most crisis situation he was going to face and possible solutions! Now, when it comes to his last attempt, the British are doing their best to reverse the previous adverse situation!

The British knew that it was absolutely impossible for a large fleet to fight with two German fleets at the same time! Fighting at the same time was equivalent to suicide! Therefore, from beginning to end, the idea of ​​concentrating efforts to break one of the fleets has never changed. It was like this before and now it is the same! Unfortunately, it was precisely because Ruprecht had insight into the British's ideas that he used the Spee fleet as bait to attract the attention of the large fleet, so that the high seas fleet could smoothly pass through the North Sea and enter the Norwegian Sea, the home court of the German fleet.

Now, or in the previous few minutes, Jericho was still thinking about solving the problem of Spee fleet first, but unfortunately, the Spee fleet was very careful to hide itself. It was too difficult to find such a fleet that implemented light control and radio communication at night!

So, now Jericho decided to attack the High Seas Fleet commanded by Crown Prince Ruprecht! That's right, you read that right, it's the High Seas Fleet! Since the soft persimmon can no longer be held back, then the British fleet will fight with the High Seas Fleet. You can't wait to die, right?

So now the question is, how can the British fleet find the high seas fleet at night? Crown Prince Ruprecht is definitely not a mediocre player. He naturally knows radio silence and light control. Even if the high seas fleet is much larger than the Spe fleet, will the British have the ability to catch their opponents in the night? The answer is no! But it doesn't matter, Jericho is not thinking about night battles at all!

"In history, General Jericho was full of misjudgments, believing that he was a cautious and timid and mediocre person, but in fact, there were many bright spots in his battle command. Even in the final decisive battle of the Norwegian Sea, General Jericho still showed his extraordinary wisdom and insight. If it were not for some other factors, the fleet might not have been like that."

"Before the final battle, Admiral Jericho had a relatively complete understanding of the operation and command system of the German Navy. Whether it is the Spee Fleet or the main force of the High Seas Fleet, they will maintain a long radio silence at night. Before dawn, about 2 hours before dawn, the High Seas Fleet will break the radio silence. This is not a mistake by the German Navy, but a necessary one, because they need to contact ships and aviation forces deployed in the Norwegian Sea to arrange reconnaissance and combat missions after dawn. This is a real-time arrangement and cannot be carried out through planning or setting. Considering that Germany's power in this area is so huge, their contacts must be very frequent."

"And General Jericho seized this point. He decided to rely on the frequent radio contacts before dawn of the German fleet to determine the position of the German fleet, so as to get close to the opponent in the last period of night cover! And be prepared for war. Some people may say, is it not possible to fight at night? First of all, not to mention whether the distance between the other side is large enough when the other side is exposed to the fleet for night battles. In terms of combat situation, fighting at dawn is the best, because the German fleet is in the east, and the sun will first illuminate the German fleet, and the British fleet may still be hidden in the darkness at this time, and the battle situation is better!" After the war, Lieutenant General Duff defended his superiors in court.

Well, even if Jericho solves the search problem, does it mean that all the problems have been solved? It is definitely not! Jericho must do his best to fight the High Seas Fleet, so Thomas Fleet is necessary to recover, and he also needs to ensure that the Spe fleet will not suddenly rush over and attack the large fleet with the High Seas Fleet. So, how can Jericho block the Spe fleet in the absence of strength? There is only one answer, that is, singing an empty city plan! So, this involves another move, that is, the so-called target fleet!

It is impossible to directly withdraw the Thomas fleet. Even though the German fleet could not detect the evacuation of the Thomas fleet in the dark, like the German fleet, the Thomas fleet and Betty fleet still had to prepare to release the aircraft before the early morning to conduct necessary radio communications. This time, about 2 hours before dawn. Jericho couldn't guarantee that the keen Count Spey, who had a keen sense of smell, would not find anything from this abnormal movement!
Chapter completed!