The difference in mentality makes the Americans and the Japanese look at the incoming Chinese fighter planes from completely different perspectives. The Americans simply thought it was an air strike launched by the Chinese navy to support the troops defending the island, while Yamaguchi and Ozawa thought more After thinking about it for several steps, I thought that the Chinese must have some conspiracy behind it.
"We should send a sufficient number of reconnaissance planes to Guam. The Chinese have tolerated it for so long. It will definitely not be easy to take action this time." Ozawa Jizaburo frowned and pondered for a long time before saying. Ozawa Jisaburo had been in Southeast Asia before he came to Southeast Asia. He commanded the submarine force under the Combined Fleet locally to fight against the Pacific Fleet, so he had studied Chen Shichang, Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi. In the small book he used to record the characteristics of Chinese generals, after Bai Chongxi's name he wrote: The following words and sentences: A China general who can be called a military god. He is particularly good at commanding large-scale battles and likes to use tricks...
Precisely because Ozawa "understood" Bai Chongxi so well, when he learned that the chief of staff of the Pacific Fleet had been replaced by Bai Chongxi, he became even more vigilant about the sudden rise of the Chinese fleet.
Yamaguchi Wendo also believed that the attack of the Chinese naval aviation force would not be as simple as it seemed on the surface. However, based on his understanding of the strength of the US-Japanese combined fleet, he was not worried about Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi's conspiracy. Instead, he hoped that they would This time, the entire army can be mobilized to give the U.S.-Japanese combined fleet a chance to fight decisively.
"Not only in the direction of Guam, but also in the direction of Luzon in the Philippines and Micronesia, we should send a sufficient number of reconnaissance planes, and immediately order Colonel Abe Toshio and Colonel Harada Page to expand the search area. Strictly guard against the infiltration of China's submarines." Yamaguchi Wenduo ordered.
After his order was conveyed, the 1st and 2nd Destroyer Squadrons and the 1st and 2nd Submarine Squadrons of the Japanese Combined Fleet were dispatched one after another, leaving the main group to conduct diffusion reconnaissance in the northeast, due east, southeast and southwest directions.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet noticed the unusual movements of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and Kim immediately asked Yamaguchi via radio. After learning the intentions of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Kim pondered over and over again, revised the order, dispatched almost identical destroyers and submarines, and decided to cooperate with the Japanese military in carrying out proliferation. Reconnaissance mission.
When the U.S.-Japanese combined fleet went to war and sent out sufficient reconnaissance ships in multiple directions, Chinese and Japanese fighter jets exchanged fire in the air thirty kilometers due east of the main island of Palau. The aviation force led by the Chinese side this time commanded His official title is Lieutenant Colonel Shan Shanhai. Shan Shanhai is an aviation commander trained by the Guangzhou Air Force Academy. He is twenty-nine years old this year. Because of his loud voice and his arrogant appearance, he is nicknamed "Sai Zhang". "Fly", the Japanese naval forces responded surprisingly quickly, which was beyond Sai Zhangfei's expectation. According to the tactical deployment, their mission was to launch a surprise attack on the US and Japanese landing forces and ships, and destroy as much of the US-Japan alliance as possible The landing ships of the fleet achieved the purpose of delaying the progress of the US-Japanese coalition's battle to seize the island. Now, because the Japanese naval forces took off early to fight, in order to ensure the safety of the Chinese sturgeons in the sea, this plan had to be modified.
"Commander Bai really tricked him, the little devil has been on high alert." Sai Zhangfei thought to himself, and immediately adjusted his order, first ordering the bomber troops to disperse immediately, with the first priority being to avoid enemy aircraft attacks. Then he ordered the fighter units to immediately go into battle, giving priority to attacking the latest Japanese "Harrier" jet fighters.
Yamaguchi and Ozawa still had foresight. At this time, the main force of China's Pacific Fleet was indeed moving toward the Palau Islands near the Pacific waters between Guam and the Palau Islands.
In the captain's room of the Huangdi aircraft carrier, Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi were discussing something on a sand table with a sea view. After receiving Sai Zhangfei's report and learning that the US-Japanese combined fleet had been prepared, Chen Ce put down his hands. The baton said to Bai Chongxi: "It seems that our opponent is not stupid."
Bai Chongxi also put down the baton in his hand, pressed his hands on the frame of the sand table, and said: "The current commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet is Yamaguchi Wenta. This person's name is in the archives of the Supreme Command. He is a very difficult person to deal with." The opponent has a very good overall view, and the commander-in-chief of the aviation force, Ozawa Jisaburo, is also very capable. He has considerable research on naval aviation operations, but it doesn't matter, the more nervous they are, the more nervous they are, "Zhang Fei" them, we are in Jiwan The easier it is to succeed."
"I don't have as much confidence as you. After all, the ships attacking Jiwan are all small ships. If they encounter a typhoon, it will be difficult for them to withstand it due to their size."
Guiuan, this port town in the Philippines, fell into the eyes of Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi because after the Chinese navy seized control of the South China Sea, Koizumi Minichiro thought that it could transport strategic resources from the Pacific to the mainland, so He built Jiwan into a large shipping warehousing and distribution center. After the United States and Japan formed a joint fleet and decided to launch the second Pacific War, because Jiwan was relatively close to Guam and Taiwan, Kim Jae and Yamaguchi Wenduo After discussion, this place was turned into a logistics supply base for the US-Japanese combined fleet.
The United States and Japan formed a joint fleet to launch the Second Pacific War. Their offensive route was to first seize Midway Island to ensure the security of the U.S. naval base in Hawaii, and then launch a naval battle on the Palau Islands in an effort to seize the Palau Islands, thus threatening China's presence in the Pacific. Guam, the most important naval base in the world, has formed an encirclement. According to Jin and Yamaguchi Bunta's calculations, as long as the Palau Islands are successfully captured, the U.S.-Japanese combined fleet can directly attack Guam to the east and attack Taiwan to the northeast, regardless of whether it is Whether to attack Taiwan or Guam first, the U.S.-Japanese combined fleet will have absolute dominance. By then, the Chinese navy will be left running for its life.
"The biggest weakness of the Chinese is that they are too greedy. With the current size of the Chinese navy, they are not enough to control the vast sea area from Midway to the Palau Islands to Guam and even the Ryukyu Islands. We can definitely take advantage of the Chinese navy's We will implement a point-by-point attack method to capture the Chinese navy's bases in the Pacific one by one. As long as the navies of our two countries can unite as a team, I believe that whether the Chinese choose to defend gradually or directly fight decisively, they will win. No chance of winning."
The above words came from the mouth of Yamaguchi Wenta. In theory, his words have no flaws and seem to be very feasible. However, he forgot that the Chinese Navy has been in a weak position since the beginning of World War II, but they were able to Having won many battles and grown stronger, the Chinese Navy was able to defeat their combined fleet without the Pacific Fleet. Now that it has the Pacific Fleet, will the Chinese Navy still be afraid of them?