Jin decided to have a good exchange with Yamaguchi, but he didn't know that at the same time he received the hint from his friend, Yamaguchi also received instructions from his superiors. Unlike New Guinea, which was given to the Americans by the Japanese as a front station, Papua The area occupied by Japanese troops on Papua Island was regarded by Koizumi Miichiro as a food and industrial plant cultivation base. Therefore, the expansion of China's Pacific Fleet's attacks and bombing on Papua and nearby islands only meant materials and personnel to the Americans. Suffering losses, but for the Japanese, it was an act that cut off their ability to continue their voyages. How could Koizumi not be anxious?
"What the Chinese people are doing now is clearly to attack our agricultural and industrial plant cultivation base. This will inevitably affect the income of the Papua reclamation area and the overall layout of the empire in Southeast Asia. Therefore, I hope that Commander Yamaguchi can do it in the shortest possible time." Launch a war within a certain period of time to at least drive away the Chinese from the Pacific coast of Papua..."
How could Yamaguchi not listen to the highest instructions from Koizumi Minichiro? Therefore, not only could he not accept Jin's goodwill, but he also had to insist on his own point of view and ask Jin to give up the attack on Guam and still go all out to search and pursue the Chinese fleet.
Jin was not a patient person. Yamaguchi refused his kindness and even lectured him. This was not something he could accept. So, he said to the Japanese something like "Whatever you want" and he led the troops directly. The U.S. Pacific Fleet broke away from the mixed formation with the Japanese combined fleet and headed towards Guam.
Li Mei didn't know that Yamaguchi's refusal to accept Jin's kindness was because of the order of Koizumi Minichiro. He was puzzled and said to Jin: "From my observation, Commander Yamaguchi is not a person who cannot distinguish priorities. He Don't you know that he is giving the Chinese an opportunity? Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi are both masters in the art of war. They will never let go of this opportunity. Your Excellency, Commander, I think maybe we should prepare again. A set of combat plans. You know, the reason why we can stay ahead of the situation and prevent the Chinese from showing up is by joining forces with the Japanese. Therefore, the Japanese can ignore the overall situation, but we absolutely cannot In this way, this is the third time that the Pacific Fleet has been rebuilt, and you don't want it to make any mistakes in your hands. Since the Chinese have been able to prevent the Japanese from operating in the Pacific for a long time, they must have something to rely on. If they are really taken advantage of, We defeated the Japanese when we attacked Guam, and then we had to face the Chinese threat alone. Of course, the Chinese fleet was damaged at that time, so it may not be our opponent, but after all, it is too far away from the Chinese homeland. Recently, who knows if they have hidden power in the country..."
Jin Qi is ignorant, otherwise he would not be able to listen to Li Mei's opinion. He bowed to Yamaguchi first. Li Mei's sincere words made him calm down completely. After thinking about it again and again, he said to Li Mei: "What you say makes sense, but if you do that, doesn't it mean that we have to divide the fleet into two parts? If we do this, our strength to attack Guam will be greatly reduced, leaving some ships, they can contain the Chinese. Does it work?"
"Your Excellency, you have noticed that based on the information we currently have on Guam, attacking Guam only requires the dispatch of battleships and some cruisers coupled with a number of marines. This has been confirmed by the fact that the entire Chinese fleet has left Guam. , and the land-based aviation force they deployed in Guam is only a brigade. The fighters of this brigade pose no threat to our battleships equipped with cruisers."
"What you mean is to keep all the aircraft carriers."
"That's exactly what I mean. After all, the main combat force in naval warfare now is the aviation force."
"This matter is no small matter, please let me think about it carefully."
After Jin thought deeply, he finally agreed to Li Mei's suggestion. However, in order to ensure that he could capture Guam in a relatively short period of time, he did not fully follow Li Mei's suggestion. When allocating ships, he used the fifth and third troops to attack Guam. Two aircraft carriers were retained in Task Force 11.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet now has a total of eight fleet aircraft carriers and five escort aircraft carriers. In other words, after the division of forces, the U.S. fleet attacking Guam has two fleet aircraft carriers, while the U.S. fleet that stayed to support the Japanese army has six fleet aircraft carriers. and five escort aircraft carriers.
Based on Li Mei's suggestion, he hoped to hide a large-scale fleet behind the Japanese combined fleet so that it could act as a surprise force when the Chinese and Japanese navies were fighting. Jin Zai divided his forces and asked Li Mei to command the second aircraft carrier fleet and the third aircraft carrier fleet. After the Fifth Aircraft Carrier Fleet, the First and Second Escort Carrier Fleets, and the Sixth, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Task Forces were responsible for the decision to stay, they did not notify the Japanese of the relevant information. In Li Mei's words , the separation of the U.S. and Japanese navies may not necessarily mean that the combined fleet has an opportunity to defeat the Chinese fleet, that is, use the Japanese fleet as bait to lure the Chinese fleet to attack the Japanese fleet, and then the remaining U.S. fleet will be the oriole waiting behind, at the critical moment Then appear as the battlefield terminator.
I have to admit that Li Mei's strategy is very vicious. If the war develops as he imagined, and if the Chinese fleet cannot detect the existence of its remaining fleet in advance, then the Americans may really become the final winner of the Second Pacific War. .
Unfortunately for Li Mei, just as Jivan, the US and Japanese defenders ignored the electronic warfare capabilities of the Chinese navy, which caused the peripheral warning ships to appear to be useless, Li Mei also ignored one thing when he conducted the above deduction. The crucial factor is the scientific and technological strength of the Chinese navy. What he and Jin couldn't have imagined was that because the Chinese were ahead in electronic technology, even though their division of troops was very covert, they actually failed to do so. Get away from the eyes of Chinese reconnaissance forces.
Did Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi dare to lead the Pacific Fleet in an uninhabited rampage in the Pacific offshore of Papua Island? Did they only rely on the advanced engine technology of Chinese ships? What a mistake. What they really relied on was the almost ubiquitous lurking force in the Pacific Ocean. Down eyes.
It was Chen Shichang's initiative to ambush reconnaissance submarines at fixed points on the only routes in the Pacific Ocean. When the Chinese and Japanese navies were fighting in the Pacific, because the strength of the two sides was not on the same level, it could not yet reflect its power. , and now, when the strength of the US-Japan combined fleet has completely overwhelmed the Chinese Pacific Fleet, the existence of this method is too necessary.
This is also the reason why Chen Ce said the following words when he returned to Chongqing to accept the award from the Supreme Command after the Battle of Palau ended and China's Pacific Fleet achieved a great victory, "I want to thank one unit in particular, because Without them, who endured humiliation and lurked for a long time, there would be no great victory for us later. They are the eyes that guide us to victory..."