Chapter 1472 The Late Battle of Midway (Continued)
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There are always a few people in this world who never care about whether their ideals violate morality, human nature, and the basic rules of peaceful coexistence between people and countries. They just strive without hesitation to fight their ideals. Hitler is such a guy, Emperor Hirohito, and Mussolini are all such guys. Chapter 1472 The late Midway Battle (continued), General Yamamoto Is No. 16, Commander of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet, was absolutely birds of a feather!
Yamamoto's 56th General is already 58 years old this year and is a very powerful guy.
Originally, Izuru Yamamoto was opposed to the war with Britain and the United States. He stayed in the Japanese Embassy in the United States and knew that the United States' industrial strength would be disappointed. But this is not to say that he is a knowledgeable man who opposes Japanese aggression. On the contrary, he is a fanatical militarist, but he knows that he can't afford to offend the United States. He is very enthusiastic about the war of aggression against China. As a result, the Imperial Conference decided to launch the Pacific War. Izuru Yamamoto formulated a plan to attack Pearl Harbor, determined to take the initiative and eliminate the main force of the US Navy's Taiping Fleet, and win more time for Japan to take the initiative in the battlefield, so there was a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
What Yamamoto Izuru unexpectedly was that the attack on Pearl Harbor was very perfect, but unfortunately there was a flaw, and this flaw was fatal, that was, the three aircraft carriers of the US Pacific Fleet were not in the military port at that time. This made Yamamoto Izuru who personally organized the use of carrier-based aircraft to attack the sea cucumber power and sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and there was a hint of worry in his eyes, knowing that the US Pacific Fleet might restore its strength in Chapter 1472, the late Midway War (continued).
Yamamoto Izuru was the most advanced person with the tactical thinking of the Japanese Navy. The Japanese Navy Air Force matured under his personal organization and training. You should know that at this time, many people in the Japanese Navy still remained in the naval combat ideas during World War I. They were keen on building huge and bulky battleships and naval gun combat. Yamamoto Izuru keenly saw the inevitable change in the future naval combat mode from the aircraft on board the ship. During his tenure as the chief instructor and deputy captain of the Kasu Air Force, the captain of the aircraft carrier, the technical director of the Naval Aviation Headquarters, the commander of the First Aviation Team, the commander of the Navy’s Aviation Headquarters, the deputy commander of the Navy’s Ministry, the commander of the Joint Fleet, and advocated the construction of the Navy’s aviation force, and personally organized training to build the Japanese Navy into a powerful navy with advanced tactical ideas and advanced equipment.
After Yamamoto Iroru discovered that he did not sink a US aircraft carrier in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, although he was suspicious and was careless and did not search for the remaining US aircraft carriers and pursued them with victory because he did not expect that the strength of the US Pacific Fleet would recover so quickly, and soon gave the Japanese Navy a backhand sword in the Coral Sea.
The combat policy of capturing Midway Island and blocking the west coast of the United States was already determined at the meeting. Couple Sea Naval War and Liu Yimin's use of the 20th Air Force of the US Army to wipe out the main force of the Kwantung Army, which made Yamamoto Izuru extremely angry and determined to capture Midway Island. Using the capture of Midway Island as bait, it attracted the aircraft carrier formation of the Pacific Fleet that had recovered its combat effectiveness to help and annihilate it in one fell swoop!
This time, Yamamoto Iroku tried his best to concentrate all the aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy, formed several formations, and rushed to Midway Island.
Among them, the mobile formation commanded by Lieutenant General Tadichi Nagamo was under the jurisdiction of four aircraft carriers, including Akagi, Kaga, Feilong, and Aolong, including 266 carrier-based aircraft, 2 battleships, and 2 cruisers. They were responsible for air support for the attack on Midway Island and searching for aircraft to eliminate the US Pacific Fleet;
The landing formation has 1 light aircraft carrier, 2 seaplane carriers, 23 carrier-based aircraft, 40 seaplanes, 2 battleships, 8 heavy cruisers, and 5,800 ground troops. It is responsible for landing on Midway Island;
The Northern Formation is under the jurisdiction of the Flying Eagle and the Falcon Eagle, which carry 82 carrier-based aircraft, 1 seaplane and 10 seaplanes, 3 heavy cruisers, and 1,800 ground troops, of which about 1,200 are responsible for landing on Atu Island and about 600 are responsible for landing on Kiska Island as a feint;
The advance reconnaissance formation is responsible for establishing three submarine cordons between Midway Island and Hawaii to reconnaise the movements of the US military; there are also 214 shore-based aircraft based on the Nanyang Islands, responsible for aerial reconnaissance and cover.
General Issamoto Yamamoto personally led the main formation to follow up 600 nautical miles behind Lieutenant General Tadonic of Nagamoto. The formation was under the jurisdiction of 1 aircraft carrier, 2 seaplane carriers, 19 carrier-based aircraft, 50 seaplanes, and 7 battleships, and was responsible for supporting Midway Island and the Aleutian Islands.
This formation is the same as the Japanese Midway Battle in history, both of which are eight aircraft carriers. The difference is that since the USSRyongxiang aircraft carrier formation was sunk by Feng Dafei and the first aviation brigade, the Japanese army lost the USS Fengxiang aircraft carrier and the USSRyongxiang light aircraft carrier. The northern formation formed by Yamamoto Izuru will not have the historical USSRyongxiang aircraft carrier, but is composed of the USSRyongxiang aircraft carrier and the USSRYOHAO aircraft carrier, which have just been transformed this year. These are the two sister ships, both of which were urgently transformed by luxury passenger ships. Strictly speaking, there are huge flaws in the design, but Yamamoto Izuru has no choice but to adjust it like this.
The Dafeng aircraft carrier, the main formation led by Yamamoto Iroku, was built by the Japanese army to make up for the losses after the formation of the Ryugao aircraft carrier was sunk. Unlike the first Japanese aircraft carrier, the main formation of Yamamoto Iroku during the Midway Battle in history, this is a heavily armored aircraft carrier, called "unsinkable aircraft carrier" by the Japanese, which means strong armor protection capabilities. The Japanese are really funny. They even attacked the Sea Cucumber Power and Pearl Harbor. Naturally, they knew that under the attack of the aircraft carrier-based aircraft, even the strongest warships could not escape the bad luck. They were still dreaming of creating a nonsinkable aircraft carrier like the Dafeng. Isn't this a fantasy?
General Issamoto Issue, Yamamoto, didn't know that traps had been set up in Midway Island at this time, waiting for his mobile formation to jump!
Admiral Nimitz learned from Liu Yimin that the Japanese Navy's narrow attack target must be Midway Island, and like General Yamamoto's 56th General, he made up his mind to use Midway Island as bait to eliminate the main force of the Japanese joint fleet. To this end, he formed the aircraft carrier with the USS Enterprise commanded by Major General Spruins, mobilized the 16th special-mixed fleet with the aircraft carrier and the 17th special-mixed fleet with the USS York City aircraft carrier referred to by Major General Fletcher, organized more than 230 carrier-based aircraft and more than 40 other ships, 3 (more than 230 carrier-based aircraft) and other combat ships, about 40 ships were hidden and standby in the northeastern waters of Midway Island. At the same time, 19 submarines were deployed to monitor the Japanese ship operations in the waters near Midway Island, and were waiting for the Japanese aircraft carrier formation to come and die.
No one can do anything if God wants to destroy the Japanese army. Two special-mixed fleets of the US military were waiting in the northeastern waters of Midway Island. The advance reconnaissance formation sent by Yamamoto Iroku did not find it. I wonder if the three submarine defense lines deployed by the Japanese advanced submarine formation between Midway Island and Hawaii were not established or had no effect at all. Anyway, they did not discover the two special-mixed fleets of the US military.
Although two special mixed fleets of the US military were not found, in the combat plan of attacking Midway by Yamamoto Iroku, a very important part of the combat plan to attack Midway by Yamamoto Iroku was to eliminate the US aircraft carrier formation that was sent from Pearl Harbor to the aid of Midway. Therefore, in addition to the advance reconnaissance formation composed of submarines, the first task of the mobile formation commanded by Lieutenant General Tadonico Nagamoto arrived at the attack site was to release the reconnaissance aircraft and search and discover the US aircraft carrier formation. Iroku Yamamoto Iroku did not doubt whether the US aircraft carrier formation would attack the mobile formation. In his opinion, the mobile formation composed of four aircraft carriers led by Tadonico Nagamoto had 266 carrier-based aircraft, while the US Pacific Fleet's USS Lexington aircraft carrier was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea, and the USS York City aircraft carrier was severely damaged. The Pacific Fleet was the only two aircraft carriers that could reinforce Midway, the Enterprise and the Hornet aircraft carrier, and Nagamoto and others were sure to win.
Yamamoto Iroku's strategy of attacking Midway Island was correct, but he was too arrogant and did not know deeply about the Americans. He didn't know that in order to enhance his combat effectiveness, General Nimitz dragged the York City, which was severely damaged in the Coral Sea Battle back to the military port and mobilized all the emergency repair forces he could mobilize. It took only 72 hours to restore the York City to combat effectiveness, form the 17th Special Mixed Fleet, and set off with the 16th Special Mixed Fleet.
In the early morning of June 8, the ocean was calm and the commander of the Japanese mobile formation, Lieutenant General Tadao Nakamoto, ordered the fighter plane to take off and bomb Midway Island.
The fierce Midway War finally began after four days delaying from history!
The four aircraft carriers of the Japanese mobile formations, Akagi, Kaga, Feilong and Aolong, were busy immediately. Carrier-based fighter jets and bombers took off one after another. After the air formation, the first wave of 144 fighter jets attacking Midway rushed towards Midway. The remaining fighters left the hangar in advance and stood on the deck to prepare for the US military reinforcement of the aircraft carrier formation.
Yamamoto Iroku, who was 600 nautical miles away, never dreamed that the disaster occurred on Tadaichi Nagamoto's reconnaissance plane.
While Nagashi Yuntao ordered the attack, he ordered the reconnaissance plane to take off and search the US aircraft carrier formation. As a result, the two reconnaissance planes of the heavy cruiser Ligan took off for half an hour late due to catapult failure. One reconnaissance plane taken off on the heavy cruiser Jumo, which was responsible for the northeast direction of Midway Island, failed to take off after the engine and returned midway, which was equivalent to the search and reconnaissance mission of the northeast direction of Midway Island.
Early in the morning of that day, a Japanese carrier-based aircraft group that flew from the sky launched a bombing of the US Air Force Base and port of Midway Island. The US fighter jets in Midway, who were prepared, immediately took off to meet the enemy and fought with the Japanese fighter fleet. At the same time, all US shore-based bombers in Midway Island also took off, facing the Japanese mobile formation and bombing Japanese ships.
Chapter completed!