Before investing enough firepower to launch an attack on the Japanese coastal defenses, the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet must be the biggest potential threat that the Huangdi aircraft carrier fleet must solve. The Battle of Grass has proved that the Japanese Marine Corps built with all the efforts of Koizumi Miichiro still has The so-called South Asia Co-Prosperity Army may be stronger than the Marine Corps before the Japanese Navy, but it is still no match for the Cadet Army, especially the Cadet Expeditionary Force. Moreover, the Huangdi aircraft carrier fleet also has ship-to-ship missiles. A sharp weapon against coastal defenses. Therefore, no matter how impregnable the Japanese army claims to be in managing Guadalcanal, in Chen Shichang's mind, there is actually only one opponent that can cause them trouble in this battle, and that is the USS Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet. He is so There is another reason for attaching importance to the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet. In order to use the leapfrog strategy in the future, he must weaken the combat effectiveness of the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet to a certain extent. The reason why the aircraft carrier fleet has attracted more and more attention from major military powers in the world is that the aircraft carrier fleet It is a movable military platform that can advance, attack, retreat or defend. From this perspective, if this battle cannot weaken the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet, then even if Guadalcanal can be successfully captured, the security of Guadalcanal will not be guaranteed. When the Chinese Supreme Command launches full-scale leapfrog tactics, the USS Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet will conduct another battle to seize the island. At that time, the US and Australian governments will ask the Chinese government for help. How should the Xue Pacific Fleet deal with it? Anyone who knows the top brass of the Xue Bing Army knows this. , Among the top leaders of the Xuebing Army, Chen Shichang is known for his stability, but now, if he is stable, it has a bearing on whether the Third Guadalcanal Battle can achieve the goals set before the war, and his mood has begun to become anxious.
"Increase the search range. Within two hours, I want to know the location of the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet." After giving this order to Wang Hai, Chen Shichang frowned slightly as he looked at the air combat battlefield getting closer and closer to the Huangdi aircraft carrier. , began to think about whether to slow down the advancement speed,
In the air battle situation, after the subsequent echelons of the Huangdi aircraft carrier fleet and naval aviation units joined the battlefield one after another, the outcome was no longer in suspense. For Jin and his men, this was an observation experience that made them suddenly realize that it could still be like this. Against the fifty special attack aircraft, it turned out that the Japanese special attack tactics were not invincible. Chen Shichang did not speed up the battle because of the advantage in air combat. Instead, he ordered the HNA troops to strengthen the search for the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet. Jin was deeply convinced of this. , so he also looked up to Chen Shichang, feeling that although this man was young, he still lacked the strategic vision and awareness that a famous general should have. "He is not yet thirty years old." He immediately thought of this question, and then he admired him very much. Ouyang Yun, Chen Shichang was only 25 years old when he first joined the Pacific Fleet. He became the supreme commander of a large-scale ocean fleet at the age of 25. Putting himself in his shoes, Jin felt that he definitely did not have the courage, so he not only sincerely admired Ouyang Yun for watching People's vision and the courage to employ people. "The rapid rise of the Xuebing Army is really not an accident. This has something to do with Ouyang Yun's ability to know people and make good use of them. But considering that he is only in his early thirties, isn't this too weird?" It's over." He thought in his mind, and his thoughts once digressed from the battlefield in front of him.
Chen Shichang was anxious because he could not discover the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet. What he didn't know was that his opponent, Tsukahara 243, the commander of the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet, was even more anxious than him at this time. After the battle in the Timor Sea, Tsukahara The original 243 lost its arrogance and became more pragmatic. In fact, this was also a collective change among the top brass of the Japanese Navy. The Yamato aircraft carrier was the pride of Japan, but it was such a giant ship that was said to be unsinkable. The battleship was actually sunk in a confrontation with the young Pacific Fleet. The failure of the Yamato aircraft carrier fleet was not only the pride of Nagumo Chuichi and other senior Japanese naval officers, but also the failure of the Japanese naval development strategy. It seemed that Yamamoto Isoroku and Yoneuchi Mitsumasa, after the victory in the attack on Pearl Harbor, they thought they were at the forefront of the world and seized the development opportunity of the aircraft carrier era. Even if Japan could not dominate the Pacific for a long time, it would be able to maintain it for at least two to three years. After the Yamato aircraft carrier sank, they realized that there were missiles in addition to aircraft carriers, and jet fighters in addition to propeller fighters. It turned out that Japan had lost the military technology competition.
The defeat in the Timor Sea battle made the Japanese pick up the special attack tactics again. No matter how many shortcomings the special attack tactics have, they are the only ones that can compete with the technical advantages of the Chinese, like Yamamoto Isoroku and Tsukasa. It turns out that they don't know that using special attack tactics is actually a poison to quench their thirst. However, for the war that has blocked the fate of the country, they have no other choice but to bite the bullet and persevere. Judging from the effect, special attack tactics are not effective. They did not live up to the expectations of the Japanese, so from giving up to strengthening, what the Japanese did not know was that they were going further and further on a road destined to destruction, and it is now impossible to turn back.
Special attack tactics have actually become the last resort for the Japanese to persist. If the opponent is the Chinese, without the special attack force, the Japanese simply don’t know how to fight this battle. There are three major types of special attack force and fifty special attack aircraft. Because the troops suffered too many defeats at the hands of the Xuebing Army, Tsukahara Er43 no longer dared to have high expectations for them, so he asked Somura Ichiro to launch the attack first, hoping to distract the attention of the Chinese people and let The special attack submarine and the special attack torpedo came unexpectedly. The battle had been going on for three hours, but the special attack submarine force had not been able to launch a surprise attack. When Tsukahara 243 received the report, the little confidence he had in his heart completely turned into anger, making him In just half an hour, four consecutive telegrams were sent to the commander of the special attack submarine force, Haruji Ishii, sternly reproaching him.
Ishii Haruna knew his own suffering. Within three hours, he tried many times, but he could not find any gaps. Compared with the fifty special attack aircraft that could use their speed to pounce on the target when they found the target, special attack submarines and special attack torpedoes Limited by speed and range, there must be a process of getting closer. If it is discovered by enemy sonar during this process, then unless the attack target is changed, the target is changed from those large ships with strategic significance to about a thousand tons. small ship, otherwise, they can only choose to escape. Before this, Ishii had not competed with the Xue Pacific Fleet, and successfully defeated the Beijing Mobile Fleet. It was precisely because of this successful experience that before the war, Ishii was still very confident in completing the combat mission assigned by Tsukahara 243. However, now, after two special attack submarines were bombed and sunk by the anti-submarine helicopters of the Huangdi aircraft carrier fleet, he could not even continue to try to infiltrate. I don’t dare anymore,
With the presence of anti-submarine helicopters, the anti-submarine combat radius of the Huangdi aircraft carrier fleet has been expanded several times. Even if Ishii's special attack submarines want to temporarily change the attack target, they have no chance to attack the destroyers towing sonar. Ishii cannot Stupid, since he knew that a surprise attack and death would be inevitable under the surveillance of the opponent's sonar, how could he continue to carry out it?
"It's not that our army is incompetent, it's that the enemy is too cunning." Now, this is what Ishii wants to say to Tsukahara 243 the most. However, he is used to obeying and executing, so he only dares to think about it in his heart.