The Chinese Pacific Fleet still swims without fighting or leaves with a single shot. If Yamaguchi and Jin can work together, they will not be confused by the Chinese fleet's apparent weakness. As long as they always stick together, then With the current strength of China's Pacific Fleet, at least in the short term, it is impossible to have a decisive victory. However, because of the "telegram incident", Jin became seriously dissatisfied with Yamaguchi and began to doubt his character. The situation changed.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet began to act independently regardless of the instructions and orders issued by the joint command. Yamaguchi did not understand the situation at first and took the initiative to contact Jin for questioning. After noticing the obvious hostility in Jin's words, Yamaguchi was surprised at first, and then He was angered. From Jin's perspective, Yamaguchi is the kind of villain who talks a lot but has serious character problems behind his back. Of course, he is not willing to give in to such a person; and from Yamaguchi's perspective, He did not realize that his previous behavior was suspected of "snitching" behind his back. Instead, he felt that he was thinking about the future of the Combined Fleet and that he was helping the Americans.
A misunderstanding between the two top commanders will naturally affect their subordinates. Unknowingly, a strange atmosphere is spreading in the joint command, which not only affects the work efficiency of the joint command, but also affects the efficiency of the joint command. This paved the way for Palau's future defeat.
Compared with the U.S.-Japan Combined Fleet, which has signs of fighting on its own due to a crisis of trust between senior commanders, the Chinese Pacific Fleet is still resolutely implementing the previously formulated strategy. Therefore, after Jayapura, the Chinese HNA Forces once again Deployed, launched a long-distance attack, and successfully destroyed a Japanese supply depot in Ternate.
Ternate's supply depot was attacked and a large amount of supplies was lost again. This made Koizumi Toshiichiro very angry. He finally couldn't hold it back and began to call Yamaguchi in a stern tone, asking why they still couldn't bite the China Pacific. fleet, and required Yamaguchi to intercept the Chinese Pacific Fleet at the end of the month. After sending this harsh report to Yamaguchi, he sent a telegram to Truman, accusing the U.S. Pacific Fleet of inaction during this period, and threatening that if If Commander Kim does not change his attitude, he will not be able to guarantee that he will continue to fulfill his pre-war promises.
Koizumi's telegram had a string of loud prefixes in later generations, "the most stupid and self-righteous". There is no doubt that this severely worded and highly threatening intelligence deepened the gap between the top leaders of the United States and Japan, and also deepened the gap between the top leaders of the United States and Japan. This makes the already contradictory relationship between the Japanese Combined Fleet and the US Pacific Fleet even more subtle.
What is even more unfortunate for the Japanese and Americans is that this telegram was monitored and deciphered by the Chinese intelligence agency. After receiving the translation of this telegram, Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi felt like they had found a treasure. Both of them were Realizing that the time for a decisive battle with the US-Japan combined fleet is not far away.
That evening, at a regular military meeting, Bai Chongxi, after summarizing the recent combat results, said: "We can speed up and throw them away. I am sure that once we increase the speed and strengthen the military force against the US and Japan's coastal areas, During the attack on the stronghold, Yamaguchi and Jin will definitely disagree on whether to continue the pursuit or directly attack Guam. As long as they disagree, we will have the opportunity to defeat each other. At that time, we will still focus on attacking the Americans according to the previous plan."
When later military historians studied the Second Pacific War and summarized the reasons why China's Pacific Fleet was able to achieve final victory, they reached a consensus on two points. First, the Chinese cleverly used Yamaguchi and Jinzhi. Second, the Chinese people's final victory was definitely not an accident. It was a technological victory.
China's Pacific Fleet has a technological lead in many aspects. First, the electronic technology application of Chinese ships is much higher than that of the United States and Japan. Second, the engine technology of Chinese ships is at least 20 years ahead of the United States and Japan. In this way The conclusion was drawn by the relevant departments of the United States through analysis and research after the Battle of Palau. This conclusion is suspected of being an afterthought, but it is still timely for the Americans. At least since then, the Americans have never suffered in this regard again. deficit.
The speed of the Chinese Pacific Fleet suddenly increased, and immediately the Americans and Japanese could not catch up. One day later, when Yamaguchi and Jin woke up and found that they had lost track of the Chinese fleet, both of them were a little panicked. .
In current naval battles, it is still very important to gain the upper hand, and because China's large ships are generally equipped with short- and medium-range ship-to-ship missiles, Yamaguchi and Jin have to worry that the Chinese fleet has been hidden in a corner and is setting up an ambush. Wait for them to get in.
At the critical moment of life and death, the two people did not care about the dispute of spirit, and adopted a contraction tactic in a tacit understanding. While slowing down the overall speed of the fleet, they also sent a large number of reconnaissance aircraft and reconnaissance ships to conduct reconnaissance. However, in doing so, they gave China the Pacific The fleet had more space for activities, so in just one day, news came from the United States that its multiple supply depots and military bases in New Guinea had been attacked by air raids, and then that Japan's multiple military stations on the island of New Guinea, Indonesia Frequently calling the police, claiming to have been attacked by the Chinese navy.
The United States and Japan formed a joint fleet in the hope of completely annihilating the Chinese Pacific Fleet and then achieving the goal of dominating the Pacific. In doing so, they also meant to replace defense with offense, that is, by actively attacking the Chinese Pacific Fleet, forcing it to abandon its coastal defenses against the United States and Japan. The harassment of military strongholds is okay now. Not only did they lose track of the Chinese Pacific Fleet, they also made offshore military strongholds the target of attack. It seems that the significance of launching the second Pacific War has been completely lost.
In comparison, between Yamaguchi and Jin, the former was more pragmatic. In the face of the cruel reality, he didn't care who ruined the great war situation first. He took the initiative to bow to Jin and sincerely proposed to strengthen the cooperation between the two armies. , "The China Navy can no longer be allowed to run rampant."
Ordinarily, one of the conflicting parties with a common goal would take the initiative to bow its head. This should help both parties eliminate misunderstandings and strengthen consensus, thus strengthening collaboration. However, this is not the case. As Bai Chongxi expected, the next step is whether to continue to pursue the Chinese Pacific Fleet or to directly attack. There are differences on the issue of Guam, and Yamaguchi's efforts have failed to change anything.
The Americans launched the Second Pacific War in order to recapture the previously lost islands, while the Japanese hoped to completely annihilate the Chinese Pacific Fleet so as to permanently protect the safety of the Pacific passage between their homeland and Southeast Asian colonies. Therefore, although Jin felt Yamaguchi was kind and willing to accept it, but because of different war demands, he could not agree to continue to pursue the Chinese Pacific Fleet.
Jin's reason is very good: "Since facts have proven that we cannot keep up with the speed of the Chinese fleet, why are we still being led by the nose? I suspect that this is simply a conspiracy of the Chinese. They are consuming our fuel."
We still have to be patient. If they show up to attack us when we have almost exhausted our fuel, we will be unable to catch up or run away. What should we do then? So I insist that we should do it now.
Attack Guam first and force it to rescue. In that case, with our overwhelming advantage, we will definitely be able to win the final victory."