Seven Hundred and Eighty-Three Super Battleships

When the German army killed all sides in the Soviet Union and won the Battle of the Crimean Peninsula and the Battle of Donetsk one after another, the days of the Japanese army in the Pacific Ocean were getting worse day by day. After Yamamoto Fifty-Six led the combined fleet to assemble on Wake Island, he aggressively attacked Midway Island. As a result, he got the news of the fall of Midway Island just after halfway.

In order to delay the battle, the Japanese military tried everything possible. Since they got the news that the US military was attacking Midway Island, they organized various reinforcements in an attempt to delay the time for the US military to seize Midway Island. But it now appears that these efforts ultimately failed.

The naive performance of the Japanese army in the defense of the island was fully exposed in the defense of Midway Island. A large number of beachhead positions were easily destroyed by the large-caliber naval guns of the US military, which failed to achieve the expected purpose of defending the beachhead against the enemy. Facts have proved that it is a thankless waste of troops to deploy defenses on the beachhead in an anti-landing operation that has lost its sea and air advantages.

In this battle, the U.S. military took the lead in destroying the Japanese airport and the beachhead defense positions on the periphery of the island with a typical landing strategy. As a result, the Japanese army was passive and tired of coping at the beginning of the battle, and finally lost the important military center Midway to them.

As a result, Japanese Navy Admiral Yamamoto Fifty-Six was furious and led the combined fleet to a decisive battle with the U.S. Navy in the waters of Midway Island. However, the U.S. military on Midway Island has already repaired the airport, and the number of U.S. fighter jets coming from Hawaii has a significant share. Advantages, the battle process is very difficult, and in the end it can only be defeated as the final outcome of the Battle of Midway Island.

In this battle, the United Fleet was sunk for the first time, the aircraft carrier, the main naval decisive weapon. Under the repeated attacks of the U.S. Army Aviation Corps, the Japanese Navy’s aviation unit finally showed its flaws. The torpedoes dropped hit the aircraft carrier Ryujo and sank the Japanese aircraft carrier, which was barely completed in 1933.

According to the age of the ship, this battleship is definitely a newly launched main aircraft carrier, but because it was refitted with the hull of a cruiser, the overall performance is not very good. This time it was sunk, for the Japanese navy. It's not really a pain in the ass either.

However, the information contained here has made the Japanese high-level leaders start to fidget. First, an old-fashioned battleship Yamashiro was lost inexplicably, and then an aircraft carrier Ryujo was lost at Midway Island. The meaning revealed in the middle is not as simple as losing a battleship once or twice.

Facts have proved that the US Navy is recovering its strength, and it is recovering its strength at a speed that the Japanese Navy cannot parry. The loss of Midway made the Japanese Navy lose its strategic depth, exposed Wake Island and the Marshall Islands to the attacks of the US Navy, and the entire Australian strategy was greatly affected.

At the beginning, the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian Islands was frustrated, and the battle for Kauai ended in a disastrous defeat for the Japanese. More than 40,000 Japanese soldiers who fought tenaciously died on Kauai Island.

The Japanese Navy thus ended its strategic offensive posture of consecutive victories.

Immediately afterwards, the Japanese navy went south to participate in the Australian offensive. As a result, it lost the crucial Midway Island just after the start. This cannot be explained by bad luck for Japan. The army lost more than 20,000 soldiers, and the navy also lost more than 13,000 people. What's more terrifying is that more than 200 combat-experienced pilots of the Army Aviation Corps also lost all of them. This is an irreparable loss for Japan.

The infantry can be quickly replenished through conscription. Many Japanese youths have been influenced by bushido since childhood and have been brainwashed by distorted patriotism for many years. Even if they lose 100,000 infantry, they can train and recruit more infantry personnel in a short period of time. Although the quality will inevitably decline, it can be made up for by quantity.

However, pilots have always been Japan’s weakness. The nation’s cultural and industrial heritage has limited the popularity and understanding of machinery. Japan’s training of pilots can only rely on the training and accumulation of flight schools. In this regard, it is much worse than the United States and Germany. . Once the pilots are lost, Japan cannot quickly replenish them, which directly caused a serious decline in the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Air Force.

The performance of the aircraft cannot be changed in a short period of time due to design reasons, and the quality of the pilots has also dropped crazily at a diving speed. This directly led to the Japanese aviation force entering a vicious circle of dead ends: poor aircraft performance led to the loss of pilots If it is too large, the increase in pilot losses leads to a significant reduction in the ability of new pilots to control the aircraft, and the inability to control the aircraft that is already outdated will cause the pilots to lose more...

On the calm sea, the Japanese combined fleet is still murderous. In terms of scale, it is still a behemoth that the U.S. Navy cannot challenge head-on, but the sky above this fleet is clouded with gloom. The entire fleet no longer had the vicious and sharp feeling it had just started the war, and instead had a vaguely decadent and melancholic temperament.

Yamamoto Fifty-Six left his command ship, handed over the battleship Nagato to Captain Fukurushige, and came to the captain's room of the Akagi aircraft carrier alone, and sat opposite Nagumo Tadashi and one or two people. He looked at his subordinates with a touch of sadness in his eyes, which was no longer the fierceness of the past.

"Mr. Nagumo, just as I feared, our period of advantage has passed, and now the United States has stepped out of the shadow of the failure of Pearl Harbor." Yamamoto Fifty-Six worriedly poured out his thoughts to his subordinates: "Now the United States The decline has been restored, as long as we hold our ground, we have no chance of winning."

Nagumo sighed, the number of times he has sighed recently is countless times more than that of Yamamoto Fifty-Six. As a commander, he could not understand the disadvantages of Japanese naval aviation, so he sighed and worried, but he couldn't think of any good solution.

After he finished sighing, he said helplessly: "Your Excellency, Marshal, the situation may be more serious than you think. The performance of our fighter jets has been known to the Americans. There is no doubt about it. Coupled with the reduction in the quality of supplementary pilots, we The results obtained in the air battle are getting fewer and fewer, but the losses are getting bigger and bigger. Although we have not lost the air supremacy on the battlefield, the example of the Ryujo..."

He obviously paused when he talked about the sunken Ryujo aircraft carrier, which was the battleship he commanded, and the sinking was naturally extremely heartbreaking: "The example of the Ryujo has already shown that our aircraft can no longer ensure that our fleet is invulnerable." .Next time, maybe the next battle, we have to prepare for the battleship's air defense."

"I'm worried about the Marshall Islands, Wake Island, and even the whole of Australia." Yamamoto poured Nagumo a cup of tea, and poured himself a cup, and then continued: "The combined fleet is not suitable for a short period of time. If we fight again, these places will have to face the attack of the U.S. Navy alone. It’s okay for Australia, after all, because of its huge size, it’s hard for the U.S. to swallow it for a while, but Wake Island and the Marshall Islands... But it’s hard to say.”

"In any case, we have to wait until the new fighter jets enter service and the new pilots are trained before we can easily fight." Nan Yunzhong ignored Yamamoto's concerns, and he was more worried about the future of the combined fleet: "Necessary At that time, even if these islands are abandoned, so what?"

Everyone knows that the renunciation he spoke of was not the kind of renunciation that was handed over to the United States, but the kind of renunciation that used the blood of countless soldiers to delay and fight, and ultimately consume the American military. The lives of countless soldiers were ruthlessly abandoned under the collision of the two lips of the superior.

"I have considered what you said, and I can't think of a good countermeasure for the final result. So we can only take one step at a time. After all, even as the admiral of the navy, I can't help the one after another. Take responsibility for the failure." After taking a sip of tea, Yamamoto said slowly, "This time I managed to keep the headquarters from moving and replacing me. If there is no good result next time, I can only give an explanation to His Majesty the Emperor. "

Nanyun Zhongyi quickly put down the teacup in his hand, bowed his head and persuaded him: "Your Excellency, Marshal, you are the person I respect the most, and the United Fleet cannot live without you. I assure you that when the preparations are complete in the future, the United Fleet will definitely A decisive victory over the American fleet."

"Okay! Nagumo-kun, I believe you." Yamamoto was comforted by Nagumo, and somewhat recovered his previous momentum. He motioned for Nayun to continue drinking tea, and then he picked up the teacup himself: "General Nagano from the headquarters is calling, It is said that the navy's secret weapon is almost completed, and it is estimated that when we counterattack, we can use the world's latest warships to compete with our enemies."

"Oh? Your Excellency, Marshal, this is a good thing. I heard that the fighter design department led by Jiro Horikoshi has launched several new fighter jets, some of which are already undergoing test flights and can be put into production at any time... In addition, the navy's New weapons, the national destiny of our Great Japanese Empire, seems to have the ability to fight." Nagumo Chuichi heard the good news, and he also regained his spirits.

Yamamoto nodded, agreeing with Nagumo's words. However, when he continued to speak, his tone was still not too optimistic: "But we don't have many chips in our hands, it's only enough for us to gamble again."

"That new warship is really worthy of our high hopes?" When the two finished their conversation, Nagumo couldn't help asking curiously.

"It's worth it, otherwise why would it be named 'Yamato'?" Yamamoto replied confidently.

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