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"Command room! Command room! This is the first observation post, and there is no sign of the American warship!" A soldier of the Japanese navy put down his binoculars in the observation post on the mast. Please search () to see the most complete! The fastest-updated novel The waters near the Marshall Islands have been warm like spring, and the sea breeze blows on my face, making me feel very comfortable.

Just when the U.S. Navy was preparing to learn from the advanced combat experience of the German Navy, it installed advanced gadgets such as radars on cheap naval combat ships such as destroyers. The Japanese Navy does not have such high treatment, because the "electric detector" used by the Japanese Navy is almost the size of a truck, and it can barely be installed on a heavy cruiser. Warships like destroyers are not blessed to enjoy it.

Moreover, this kind of radar is not very easy to use, and the price is very expensive. Japan has not produced a few useful ones, and they are all reserved by battleships and new aircraft carriers.

So when German Navy destroyers had already enjoyed color radar screens, and when the U.S. Navy had begun to use radar to replace personnel for vigilance, the sailors of the Japanese Navy could only stand on high masts and use binoculars to guard the vast sea ​​surface.

On the bridge of the destroyer, a captain of the destroyer Lieutenant of the Japanese army put down the binoculars in his hand, and gave an order to his first officer to slightly adjust the course. Since the U.S. Navy gained the initiative on the battlefield, the life of the Japanese Navy has become worse day by day.

The King Kong-class battlecruisers were transferred to the mainland to participate in the modification of the radar system. The combined fleet lost three main battleships for no reason. Due to the lack of sufficient naval aviation, the two aircraft carriers Canglong and Feilong under the Second Air Fleet were also forced to retreat to Taiwan for reorganization. It can be said that the current combined fleet cannot even reach half of its peak combat power.

Marshal Yamamoto Fifty-Six has been sitting in the Marshall Islands, looking for a decisive battle with the U.S. Navy all the time, and has become the current marshall islands, struggling to support not to fight the U.S. military. He himself didn't know what happened to make the situation he was facing collapse so quickly.

"Continue to be vigilant! The US Navy's fleet has been moving around more and more frequently recently, we have to be careful!" The captain of the destroyer is also the commander of a destroyer squadron. He is in charge of commanding three destroyers to guard the area. sea ​​area, to prevent the US Navy from getting too close to the joint fleet stationed in the Marshall Islands.

As he said, the U.S. Navy has indeed come to provocations frequently recently, because the power between the United States and Japan is close to balance. Nimitz, Spruance, and the titan Halsey are not easy people. They judge Out of the Japanese navy's lack of success, he decisively changed his defensive strategy, and prepared to use this time to create a better situation as much as possible.

The war situation in Europe is no longer optimistic for the top leaders of the United States.

The situation in the Middle East is on the verge of collapse. Turkey and Egypt are flanking each other. The American troops in the Middle East are miserable. Counting the last bit of British wealth, it is not enough to deal with Rommel's aggression.

And the aid from the Soviet Union did not have the expected effect. On the Soviet-German battlefield, the Soviet Union lost cities and lost ground, and suffered repeated defeats, which made the current high-level US officials criticize Roosevelt's war strategy. Precisely because the United States was a little weak on the battlefield against Germany, the Roosevelt Group hoped that they could regain their lost confidence in the Pacific battlefield.

This is also the latest strategy put forward by the United States - first the Pacific Ocean and then Europe. The central idea of ​​this strategy is to first destroy Japan, which is a real threat to the United States, and then go back and worry about the gains and losses in the European and Middle East battlefields.

The introduction of such a strategy shows that the German army has basically achieved its strategic goal: to dispel the United States' attempts to intervene in Europe and the Middle East with successive victories, and force the US military to avoid decisive battles with the German army in unfavorable regions.

However, in fact, the United States has not completely given up on interfering in the Soviet-German war. Based on data comparison, the United States has provided the Soviet Union with three times more strategic materials at this moment than when the Soviet-German war began, including more tank targeting systems. More steel raw materials, and more advanced machinery and equipment. Many American engineers even went to the Far East of the Soviet Union to help the Soviet Union train skilled workers.

In the Far East, the reason why the Soviet Army dared to deploy 30 divisions to the west was because the United States provided guns and ammunition for 20 divisions, helping the Soviet Union to form 20 new American divisions in the Far East. Unreliable, but it really helped the Soviet Union solve the problem of insufficient equipment.

However, there is one thing that is unquestionable, that is, the United States has placed its strategic focus on the Pacific Ocean, and this shift in strategic focus has indeed brought rich returns-the US military has regained The initiative in the Pacific battlefield and successive victories gave Roosevelt and the group behind him a chance to breathe. At least on the surface, the prospects for the war in the United States are bright.

"Signal to the other two destroyers! Tell them we are adjusting the course and let them pay attention to follow up." The captain of the destroyer then added another order. Suddenly, without knowing why, his heart began to feel inexplicably irritable, which made his whole body feel uncomfortable.

So he turned his head, looked at the two destroyers sailing on his flank in the distance, and then said to his deputy: "I don't know what purpose Marshal Yamamoto has for us to patrol this sea area frequently. There are no carrier-based aircraft and Radar, it is impossible for us to detect the traces of the Americans first."

As if to confirm his complaint, and as if to explain his inexplicable irritability just now, the telephone bell corresponding to the guard post on the mast suddenly rang. The first officer walked over and grabbed the phone, and the Japanese watchman on the guard post shouted a heart-piercing warning: "Directly ahead! Directly ahead! The enemy's battleship! It is moving very fast! It is approaching us!"

"What? What's going on?" the Japanese captain asked loudly, frowning.

His first officer hurriedly reported what happened to him: "Your Excellency, Commander! A U.S. Navy warship has been discovered! The specific model cannot be determined! Please issue a combat order and sound the combat alarm."

Because the destroyer training of the Japanese Navy is very good. As a naval power, Japan has always paid more attention to destroyer tactics. In addition, the oxygen torpedo developed by the Japanese Navy was a very advanced torpedo weapon in World War II. Therefore, the Japanese Navy singled out the destroyers of the US Navy. , Never suffered a big loss.

In several small-scale collisions, the Japanese destroyers always won more with fewer destroyers, and sank many destroyers of the US Navy. Although he has also suffered a lot of losses, he has never been defeated. This is also one of the reasons why Yamamoto Fifty-Six dared to release the destroyer for investigation.

However, the U.S. Navy built destroyers much faster than Japan, so even if the Japanese Navy beat the U.S. in the destroyer contest, it could not afford such a huge consumption. This was one of the important reasons for Yamamoto Fifty-Six's depression.

"Sound the battle alarm! The fleet adjusts its speed! Pull in the distance!" As the commander of this scouting fleet, the lieutenant officer immediately issued a combat order, and he didn't need to back down. Generally, the contact in this situation is the United States * The *ship retreats first, or suffers a loss and loses. As a naval commander of the Imperial Japanese Army, he still has the confidence to outperform his US Navy counterparts.

As time went by, the U.S. Navy had no intention of evading this time. The two sides moved towards each other, and the distance was quickly drawn in. At this time, the lookout of the Japanese Navy discovered the problem, so he sent back very important information: "Report the bridge! The US Navy is relatively large, and it should be a larger cruiser or heavy cruiser! Not a destroyer!"

This is worth considering carefully. Although the destroyers compete with each other, the Japanese navy is sure to win, but if the destroyers are used to fight the cruisers, the lieutenant himself thinks that he still lacks the certainty of victory. What's more, the opponent is not just a cruiser, but a cruiser with several destroyers.

"Send a signal to the other two destroyers, tell them to adjust their course to the left by 30 degrees, and get ready for shelling and launching torpedoes!" After thinking about it, Zhong Zuosi decided to focus on safety. At the same time he issued the combat order, he also issued an order to report to the United Fleet: "Send a telegram to the main fleet! Tell them that we have discovered the US cruiser fleet and are preparing to engage! Let them respond in time and send reinforcements!"

"Hi!" The first officer stood at attention and nodded, and hurried to do these things. Just as the first officer was going to get the captain's order, a large-caliber shell suddenly landed near the side of the destroyer. On the surface of the sea, a huge water column was stirred up. The captain was stunned by the scene in front of him. He didn't know why the U.S. military fired at a distance of fifteen kilometers, and it was so accurate.

"Baga! These Yankee shells have eyes?" Zhong Zuo looked pale at the exploding water column and cursed. What he didn't know was that the U.S. Navy on the opposite side was also stunned by the miraculous shot he fired. They were cheering and firing their even more miraculous second shot.

"Boom!" With a loud noise, the 203mm main gun on the US Navy cruiser fired for the second time and hit the Japanese destroyer with great accuracy. Killed more than half of the Japanese troops on the front turret and bridge.

"Call the Yukikaze! Call the Yukikaze! We have been hit! The captain is dead! Please rescue!" On the collapsed bridge, the first officer of the Japanese army with his face covered in blood wailed.

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At the third watch, all warriors of the empire, good night!