All-people naval warfare: from patrol boats to aircraft carrier fleets

After these newly built shipyards and affiliated factories are put into use, of course they cannot be left idle, and new construction and production plans will naturally have to be arranged. Ye Bai couldn't help but shudder when he thought about it, and found that he seemed a little too much. Too much bullying Speer.

But then I thought about it, if he had to deal with this kind of thing personally, he would be exhausted. Forget it, let Speer do it. After all, professional things should be left to professionals.

After replenishing dozens of large main warships, Langsdorff instantly became wealthy. Especially after experiencing the last incident where the transport fleet was attacked by pirates, he directly replenished the escort fleet with a wave of his hand. Nearly 10 large main warships and an equally large number of small and medium-sized warships were assembled.

With the addition of these new warships, the size of the escort fleet has been directly expanded, reaching about a hundred warships, of which there are nearly 20 large main warships.

Such a convoy fleet, even if it is attacked again by a pirate fleet of the same size as in the previous attack, can handle it alone. No matter how bad it is, it can persist for a longer time and wait for the arrival of the reinforcement fleet.

The reason why Langsdorf dared to add so many battleships to the escort fleet was naturally because the patrol mission was still undertaken by the main fleet, but now it was no longer Lütyan who led the second fleet to patrol the surrounding waters. Si, but Cunningham.

After a period of sailing, Fletcher commanded the new fleet and successfully arrived at Yuntong Island. He completed the handover with Cunningham and officially assumed the position of commander of the Yuntong Island Guard Fleet.

After Fletcher took office, Cunningham, the former commander of the Yuntong Island Guard Fleet, took an IL-4 bomber, escorted by P-38 Lightning fighter jets, and flew to Island No. 308, returning to the main fleet..

Today's main fleet has a limited number of warships, and the original 2nd 507th Fleet and 3rd Fleet are almost in name only. The 2nd Fleet that performs patrol missions is still a mixture of the two fleets, but there is no way to establish a new fleet to communicate. Commanded by Cunningham, I didn’t see that Spruance was still in the battle center to help Nimitz. It was not because there were not enough warships.

Therefore, Ye Bai simply made a decision, which was to let Cunningham, Lütjens, and Halsey respectively command the Second Fleet to perform maritime patrol missions, barely keeping everyone occupied.

As for Spruance, he still stayed in the War Situation Center to help Nimitz. Anyway, this guy had been working in the War Situation Center since he was recruited, and he had never actually commanded a fleet to participate in any There is no psychological gap in fighting, so you don’t need to think about it for the time being.

During the daily patrols of the Second Fleet, in addition to clearing out NPC pirate warships that appeared in the sea area as before, it now has another task, which is to provide logistical supplies to the submarine forces scattered throughout the sea area.

In order to provide supplies for so many submarines, Langsdorff transferred half of the 30 Dietmarschen-class comprehensive supply ships assigned to the guard fleet to operate with the Second Fleet.

At the same time, a group of transport ships have been specially prepared to transport various resources to the 15 Dietmarschen-class comprehensive supply ships to fully ensure logistical supply.

A large number of submarines all over the sea area are monitoring the situation in the sea area at all times. Once they discover that NPC pirate warships have begun to gather in large numbers, they will immediately send electricity to the guard fleet and report the specific situation.

Especially the semi-disabled pirate fleet that they focused on tracking, new information was sent back almost every day.

After half a month of rest, this pirate fleet has undergone considerable changes. Some NPC pirate warships randomly refreshed by the system will join the fleet from time to time, making this pirate fleet now have 70 The size of multiple battleships.

However, there are several more main battleships. From the NPC pirates integrated into the fleet, 3 escort aircraft carriers and 3 battlecruisers were obtained, bringing the number of large main battleships in the entire fleet to 12..

When a pirate fleet of this size appears, according to the system rules disclosed by Shen Deyi, there is a certain chance that the system will randomly refresh a pirate base island.

Therefore, Ye Bai immediately asked Nimitz to issue an order to the submarine force operating in the sea area, deploy more submarines, monitor the pirate fleet day and night, and report immediately if a pirate base island is discovered.

I have been busy for so long and sent out so many submarines. What is it for? Isn't it just for the pirate base island refreshed by the system?

In order for this pirate fleet to meet the system refresh requirements as soon as possible, even though this pirate fleet has been under the surveillance of the submarine force, the main fleet did not take the initiative to completely annihilate it.

Even the tracking and monitoring submarine force sent back telegrams more than once. This pirate fleet attacked other transport fleets or player fleets in the sea area. Ye Bai also resisted and did not take action. In the end, it was all for the sake of the ship that he didn’t know when he would be able to attack. The pirate base island refreshed by the system, or in other words, the system reward that can be obtained after successfully destroying this pirate base island.

Ye Bai's shipbuilding plan is quite crazy. The demand for raw material resources is of course very large. No matter how much raw material output is produced, he will not have any objection.

If a pirate base island can be destroyed again, it is very likely that the system will reward space crystals again, even if the system increases the number of space crystals required to upgrade small spaces.

But as long as it is upgraded to another level, the increased area will not be mentioned for the moment. The number of raw material resource points alone can be increased by hundreds. Adding the existing raw material resource points in the current small space, there will be a total of nearly 2,000 raw materials. Resource points.

With so many raw material resource points, the raw material resources that can be produced every day will be quite a lot (cbaj). Not only can it completely solve the problem of insufficient supply of raw material resources in small spaces, it can even satisfy Ye Bai's crazy shipbuilding plan. question.

However, although the pirate fleet deliberately retained by Ye Bai already has 12 large main warships and has met the minimum requirements for the system to refresh the pirate base island, it is not 100% certain that it will be refreshed.

Unless the size of its fleet is further increased, it will have more than 20 large main warships.

Therefore, in addition to strengthening the tracking and monitoring of this pirate fleet, Ye Bai could only wait silently. Even if he was not lucky enough, the system would really have to wait until the number of large main warships in this pirate fleet exceeded 20 before it was refreshed. Pirate base island.

Ye Bai can't take action against this pirate fleet and the newly born pirate base island yet. At least he has to wait until the shipyard's shipbuilding plan is completed, the keels have been laid, and the first batch of warships under construction are launched into service.

From this point of view, the system has not refreshed a new pirate base for a long time. Ye Bai himself is not too anxious. He just ensures that there are a sufficient number of submarines around the pirate fleet and conducts continuous tracking and monitoring to prevent the pirate fleet from letting go. Just get out of control.

Although Speer kept objecting when accepting Ye Bai's order, when he was actually doing things, he was in a different state, almost without any rest all day and night.

The production data of each resource point and the amount of raw materials required for various levels of battleships were accurately calculated. After 6 shipyards started building Essex-class medium-sized aircraft carriers and North Carolina-class battleships, 2 more were arranged. Shipyards began to build other classes of warships.

A week later, the first batch of 10 Fletcher-class destroyers had been launched into service. Good news came from the scientific research center. The construction technology of Yamato-class battleships was fully mastered and construction could be arranged.

At the first opportunity, Speer used all the large amounts of raw materials stored in the warehouse, arranged construction tasks for a total of 10 slipways in a shipyard, and started building 10 Yamato-class battleships at once.

The construction work of the Yamato-class battleship has been arranged, but at the same time, there is also a piece of not-so-good news. That is, after calculations by engineers and ship experts, the construction period of the Yamato-class battleship is actually as long as 60 days, which is enough to 2 months long.

This cycle is the longest among all the warships that the Chinese fleet has mastered the construction technology. The second longest is the Essex-class medium aircraft carrier, which takes a full 40 days, and the North Carolina-class battleship also takes 28 days. time.

When Ye Bai got the news, he felt bad. According to his plan, it would take one month to complete the construction of the first batch of new large-scale battleships, and then he could massively expand the establishment of the Chinese fleet. and scale.

Especially after the Yamato-class battleship is launched into service, a new attack will be launched. In a war world like the great maritime world, it is not a good strategy to lie dormant all the time. It is necessary to continuously attack, attack and attack again.

But the 60-day construction period of the Yamato-class battleship caught Ye Bai by surprise, which meant that his previously conceived plan needed to change again.

Of course, Ye Bai also understood that this construction cycle would be shortened over time with the development of technology and workers' familiarity with battleships.

But that will only happen after a long period of familiarity with the construction. The first batch has only been built now. It is good to be able to complete the construction of the warships on time. It is even possible that the construction period will be extended due to unfamiliarity.

This news made Ye Bai's originally good mood feel a bit lowered, but things are unpredictable, and sometimes they are so weird. Along with this not-so-beautiful news, there was another news that reached Ye Bai's ears. This news is also good news..