Anti-Japanese heroic righteousness

Jiang Haoran pondered for a while, and then talked freely.

His plan is actually simple, which is to exchange space for time. The speed of the island army's aircraft carrier is 33 knots, taking Taiho as an example. The distance between the front and rear aircraft carrier fleets is [-] nautical miles. It will take at least two hours for the aircraft carrier fleet to come up.

If the Third Fleet of the Mi Army controls the battle to end within two hours, it can completely avoid confrontation with more than four aircraft carrier groups of the Island Army. In this way, their living space will be greatly improved. Whatever the situation, retreat decisively.

But even if it is a retreat, it cannot let the island army see that they have a plan to retreat, otherwise they still cannot escape the suspicion of luring the enemy into depth. Therefore, the performance of the Mi army on the battlefield must be "fighting but not daring to fight, but I had to fight, but I didn't dare to withdraw, but I had to withdraw", the embarrassment.

To achieve this, it may seem difficult, but it is actually not difficult. The key is that the timing must be well controlled.

The time is now ten o'clock in the morning, and the distance between the island army and the Third Fleet is about [-] nautical miles. With such a long distance, it is not difficult for the Third Fleet to control the start of the war at five o'clock in the afternoon. It was completely dark, and the Mi Army could use the cover of the night to retreat smoothly, but the island army may not dare to pursue it with all its strength. After all, they still don't know the exact location of the other four aircraft carriers of the Mi Army.

Although subjectively, they think that the other four aircraft carriers must be conducting exercises between Pearl Harbor and Midway Island, but they must also consider objective reasons. What if this is a trap set by the US military?If we foolishly ran into the ambush circle, we would take advantage of the cover of the night and our absolute air superiority to catch them off guard, and then they would lose more than the gain. Therefore, at night, they must expand their search range and move forward cautiously , the forward speed will inevitably slow down.

In this way, the Third Fleet not only avoided a large-scale confrontation with the island army, but could also use the dark night to continuously harass them. The most important thing, of course, was to complete the task of luring the enemy as scheduled.

Jiang Haoran's idea immediately won the approval of Nimitz, and all the staff generals in the war room also nodded, but this only solved the problem of aftermath, and a head-to-head confrontation lying in front of everyone is still inevitable.

This time Nimitz did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered the staff to convey the tactical idea, and the aircraft carrier ships in front began to line up according to this idea.

At the same time, Nimitz ordered the "Iowa" battleship to move closer to the "Hornet" aircraft carrier, and the headquarters moved to the "Hornet".

Fighting against each other at sea, fighting for the artillery superiority among battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and frigates, the position of the aircraft carrier will be relatively rearward, and the battleship "Aiwa" was specially designed to deal with the battleship "Yamato" of the Japanese army. Of course, you have to go to the frontier to act as the main force.

After all this was done, Nimitz started the war game and ignored Jiang Haoran from the beginning to the end. Perhaps in his opinion, with Jiang Haoran's intelligence and ability, it might be no problem to come up with a feasible tactical plan, but the actual combat still depends on himself .

And Jiang Haoran didn't say much, folded his arms around his chest, and watched them calmly deduce on the sand table, without saying a word.

According to Nimitz's plan, at five o'clock sharp, fifty long-range bombers will fly from Midway Island and Pearl Harbor to the sky above the enemy ships. Under the cover of more than 120 F6F Hellcats on three aircraft carriers of the Third Fleet, they will attack The enemy ship launched a round of bombing to curb the enemy's pursuit and give the fleet time to deploy troops.

Naval battles are different from land battles. Land battles can also take advantage of the mountainous terrain, and tactics can be used to win when the troops are insufficient.

As early as the Ming Dynasty, Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general, said, "The strength of firepower is the key to naval warfare."He wrote in his book: "There is no other way to fight at sea. A big ship is better than a small ship, a big gun is better than a small gun, many ships are better than a few ships, and many guns are better than a few guns."Therefore, when the difference in strength between the two sides is not too large, it is especially important to arrange troops and maximize the firepower advantage of the fleet.

In terms of tactics, Nimitz chose the "T-shaped horizontal head tactic". Penetrate the front of the enemy column, so that the attacker can concentrate all the broadside firepower to shoot at the enemy's leading ship at a wide angle, while the opponent can only use part of the front main guns to fight back.This means that the side occupying the T-shaped horizontal position can fully fire its firepower, while the firepower of the opposite side is greatly suppressed.This is a commonly used tactic in the navy, and it is also the ideal state that every fleet commander dreams of.

At the end of the war game, the US Third Fleet lost a battleship, three heavy cruisers, and more than [-] other large and small warships in exchange for the main force of the Third Fleet successfully withdrawing from the battlefield two hours later. How many fighters participated in the battle cannot be calculated for the time being.

For this result, although Nimitz felt a little distressed, he was still able to accept it. Compared with the original plan to complete this task with annihilation, he did not know how many times better.

Just when Nimitz was about to issue an order according to this plan, Jiang Haoran spoke.

"Wait, General Nimitz, can I ask you a question?"

Nimitz stretched out his right hand and made a gesture of invitation, "You're welcome, Jiang, just say what you want."

Jiang Haoran said: "Are these fifty long-range bombers a one-time attack or multiple attacks? And will the number increase?"

Nimitz was silent for a few seconds, and said: "Jiang, I know what you mean. If bombers can continuously attack to relieve the pressure on the Third Fleet, I think I am willing to do so. There are only these fifty bombers that can be mobilized, unless the part of the ambush is used, which is obviously unrealistic, so these fifty bombers can only be an attack, and if the island army really has ten aircraft carriers behind, then Their air defense force, the fighter jets of the Third Fleet may not be able to match their large numbers, and they may never return."

Jiang Haoran said: "West coast, you can also send bombers from the west coast of the United States to join the war?"

Nimitz smiled bitterly and said: "Jiang, you probably don't know that the only one with the farthest range is the B-24 bomber. The time spent fighting in the air, unless they choose to fall into the sea and perish automatically after completing their combat missions, but this loss is too great, and our Mr. President will not agree, so there is no other way to do this."