Anti-Japanese heroic righteousness

Jiang Haoran shook his head with a wry smile, a bit disrespectful to the Americans who don’t know how to work around, but in fact this problem is easy to solve.

Because the runways at Midway Island and Pearl Harbor were occupied by fighter jets and bombers used to ambush and attack, and then mobilizing the planes forward would cause congestion and chaos, so it was impossible for planes on the west coast of the United States to fly to the two places.

But the planes take off from the west coast to the battlefield. After completing the bombing mission, they can choose to land on Midway Island and Pearl Harbor when they return, and the bombers that take off from Midway Island and Pearl Harbor can return to the west coast after completing the bombing mission, so that they can take off from the west coast. The bomber's flight range has been shortened by thousands of kilometers. With this time, the bombing mission can be completed, and the bombers that take off from Midway Island and Pearl Harbor can easily fly to the west coast because of their short range.

Of course, the number of bombers taking off from the West Coast can only be fifty, so that there will be no landing pressure on Midway and Pearl Harbor.

In this way, the bombers can be guaranteed to shuttle and bomb back and forth. Even if they attack the island army continuously, there is no problem. As long as the escort fighter jets of the third fleet can continue to escort them, even if the attack effect of a horizontal bomber like the B-24 is not enough. Not very ideal, but it would be enough to bring endless troubles to the island army. At least their attack power against the Third Fleet would be reduced by more than half, virtually expanding the living space for the Third Fleet. The number of bombers will be staggering, but compared to battleships, the loss of bombers is of course much more cost-effective.

Nimitz did not understand such a simple question. In fact, this is also determined by the mindset of the Americans. In this regard, the Chinese are often much more flexible.

When Jiang Haoran presented the truth, Nimitz's face was very ugly. As a supreme military commander, he didn't see such a simple problem. This is undoubtedly a shameful thing in front of his subordinates, but he didn't Thinking, this is the beginning, and more embarrassing things are yet to come.

Nimitz accepted Jiang Haoran's plan and ordered the land base on the west coast to prepare for battle. For such a long voyage, to go to the battlefield on time, the time must be well controlled.

Just when Nimitz was about to announce the attack plan, Jiang Haoran spoke again.

"Wait, General Nimitz, can I have one more word?"

Nimitz looked at Jiang Haoran for four or five seconds. He was really afraid that Jiang Haoran would veto his attack plan, but he still nodded and signaled Jiang Haoran to say.

As expected, Jiang Haoran did not disappoint him, and he opened his mouth and said, "I think your tactics are flawed, and the T-shaped horizontal head tactics are not suitable for the current battle."

As soon as these words came out, there was a sudden silence in the room, and Jiang Haoran completely overthrew all of Nimitz's carefully planned tactics in an instant, which made Nimitz feel so embarrassing.

Everyone looked at Nimitz unconsciously, not daring to make a sound, but Nimitz's face suddenly turned from red to purple and instantly turned into a liver color, and the masseter muscles on his cheeks kept beating, and finally he suffocated. A few words: "Then what tactics do you think should be used?"

Jiang Haoran raised his hand and touched his nose, without looking at Nimitz at all, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Flying Geese!"

A look of disdain suddenly appeared on Nimitz's face, and he said with some contempt: "I thought you had some amazing tactics, so it turned out to be the tactics that you were beaten by the island army in the Sino-Japanese War. Another failed tactic, is there still a place to turn decay into magic?"

Nimitz is right. The flying geese that Jiang Haoran mentioned was indeed a tactic used by the Chinese Beiyang Fleet during the Sino-Japanese War. The outcome of the war is self-evident. The "Shimonoseki Agreement" came to an end.

When two fleets or two warships are engaged in battle, the most favorable and unfavorable battle positions can be represented by the English mother "t". , in exchange for maximizing the firepower of the entire fleet; while being in the "t" vertical position is the most unfavorable, and its characteristic is to give up firepower to the maximum extent in exchange for the smallest bomb area.

Therefore, in a naval battle, if the firepower of the two warring parties is equal, either side should try its best to avoid being in or close to the battle position of the "t".

Back then, when the Beiyang Fleet decided to confront each other with a "flying geese formation" and take the "bow against the enemy", each warship would form a column formation and form a "t" with most of the island army warships that passed before the formation. In every confrontation, the warships of the Beiyang Fleet are in the absolutely unfavorable "t" vertical battle position, and the island army warships are in the most favorable "t" horizontal battle position. Although the warships of the Beiyang Fleet occupy the smallest Although the warships of the island army have the disadvantage of exposing the maximum area of ​​bombardment, because the firepower of the warships of the Beiyang Fleet has been reduced to the minimum level, it is impossible to use the maximum area of ​​bombardment exposed by the opponent to deal a fatal blow. On the contrary, the warships of the island army can give full play to their maximum firepower advantage without any worries. Therefore, normally speaking, the Beiyang Fleet's sandwiched geese formation is indeed the worst battle formation, and it is no wonder that Nimitz despises it.

Jiang Haoran smiled slightly, ignoring Nimitz's contempt and cynicism, and said: "At this time and at that time, the reason why the Beiyang Fleet was defeated back then was not a problem with the tactics itself, the problem was the firepower and flexibility of the battleship. Compared with the island army, the Beiyang fleet is far behind. I have carefully studied that battle, and based on the data one hour before the start of the battle, the island army combined fleet fired 42 shells in one hour, while the Beiyang fleet The fleet only has 360 rounds, and the fire rate ratio is [-] to [-]. The firepower of the island army is [-] times that of the Beiyang fleet. With such a disparity in firepower, any tactics are useless. I think, Ni General Miz should understand that?"

The Sino-Japanese naval battle was so famous, of course Nimitz knew the whole process, what Jiang Haoran said was true, so even if Jiang Haoran cast him a questioning look, Nimitz would not have seen it and was unwilling to respond.

Jiang Haoran didn't take it seriously, and continued: "Although the 't-shaped horizontal head tactic' is the best offensive formation, our purpose in this campaign is not to attack, but to defend. During defense, the camera retreats. Once't Zi Hengtou' is quite difficult to retreat, and once the retreat begins, the rear ships cannot be gathered quickly at all, and they are easily chased and wiped out by the island army. Although the 'flying geese' sacrificed some firepower advantages, it is the fastest and fastest way to retreat. Most quickly, if another bomber successfully penetrates the air defense of the island army, carries out two or three rounds of effective attacks, and successfully restrains the advance speed of the island army, I can guarantee that the casualties of the Third Fleet can be reduced by [-]%.”