Chapter 642

"It's not Japanese style! I think it should be the good work done by the small German fleet in Australia! " Nimitz stared at the report in his hand and complained to the general Spruance nearby: "the method of destroying the transport line is very similar to the wolves in the Atlantic Ocean. I bet it must be Donitz's men who did it!"

Spruance had read the report and sighed helplessly before he said: "the people in the foreign ministry said that the German diplomats denied that their submarines attacked the US transport ships in the Pacific Ocean and asked us to come up with evidence before speaking."

"Evidence? I have been sunk 150000 tons of transport ships and fishing boats in the past ten days! What evidence do you need? The merchant ships we lost in the past ten days are the total tonnage of all the supply ships lost since the war with Japan! If the Japanese have this ability, why didn't they show it before? " Rao is a well-educated Nimitz. After seeing the pure official standard speech of German diplomats, he can't help swearing. It seems that diplomats are not a profession that anyone can do. At least if someone in the army talks nonsense in his face, he can greet them with one fist, but diplomats can't.

General Spruance pointed to the chart and said to Nimitz, "it's better to study how to deal with the Japanese soldiers on the lovely island. According to the report of the speed boat of the reconnaissance patrol, the other side is replenishing the materials on the island through the submarine. It seems that our plan to trap the other side is a little too taken for granted."

"The Japanese joint fleet has now returned to the mainland for rest. The source of this information is still very reliable, so I decided to let the fleet go south and attack the Japanese maritime supply line near Darwin port!" Nimitz stopped his meaningless abuse and said to general Spruance, "anyway, the Japanese fleet can't fly back to the waters near Oahu. We have a huge time gap to use!"

"You mean, let the whole fleet go south?" Spruance frowned and asked, fearing that his fleet would be blocked by the Japanese in the archipelago of Southeast Asia and forced to fight a decisive battle with no chance of winning. If the Japanese Navy succeeds, the US Pacific fleet will be wiped out again. Even if the US has the most powerful industrial productivity in the world, it can not resist such large-scale consumption.

Moreover, the time for the U.S. fleet to go south is nearly a month later than that for the Japanese fleet. The Japanese fleet has recovered and can continue to fight. If the U.S. fleet makes a long-distance attack on Darwin harbor, it will become the U.S. fleet and the situation will be unfavorable to the U.S. Navy once again. So Spruance said again: "general, our warship team has not been resting. In this case... Is it not safe to rush the attack?"

Nimitz nodded, and then said his own idea: "the military port of Hawaii has been almost demolished by us, and most of the remaining fuel has been consumed. Now we lead the fleet south to sneak attack once, take advantage of it and then retreat, leaving the Hawaiian Islands to the Japanese!"

The fundamental core of this plan is to exchange land for the other party's elite troops, rely on the advantage of strategic space to annihilate the other party's effective forces as far as possible, consume Japan's war potential, and make a gamble to win the initiative at sea faster.

"I'll take the hornet and the Raider south, and you and the Yorktown and the fleet will stay in Pearl Harbor... Is that safer?" Spruance's suggestion is better than Nimitz's. after all, the loss of Pearl Harbor has a great impact on the United States, and the lack of Pearl Harbor is definitely not an easy thing for the United States to fight back in the future.

"Are you sure you can come back before that guy Yamamoto comes back?" Nimitz looked at his old friend, general Spruance, the leader of the U.S. aircraft carrier fleet commander. If Barton is the most capable U.S. Army General, Spruance may be the most powerful general in the U.S. Navy.

"When dealing with the Royal Navy of the British Empire, the Germans set a good example for us. They proved with facts that they could gain an advantage in naval warfare only by relying on aircraft carriers!" As a rare aircraft carrier fleet commander of the U.S. Navy, Spruance has studied the rise of the German Navy. He can be said to be the American who knows the history of the German Navy in recent years best.

When he saw that the German Navy skillfully used radar and aircraft carrier to form a technical advantage, fought with the British Royal Navy in the narrow North Sea, and won a decisive victory, he seemed to see a ray of dawn, a ray of dawn shining on the future development direction of the US Navy Fleet, which came into his mind.

Germany's radar advantage, now the U.S. Navy to the Japanese Navy also have! The US aircraft carrier can absolutely rely on the aircraft carrier fleet and the Japanese battleships in the wider Pacific Ocean! Spruance decided not to let lutjans specialize in the United States. He was determined to become the world's leading aircraft carrier command expert.

"I think so! general. The German Navy had examples of such victories in the past. I have carefully studied the methods they used in combat. They simply attacked during the day and retreated at night. As long as we strictly avoid the risk of night battle, we can win the sea battle! " Spruance finally said firmly to Nimitz.

"The aircraft carrier... Is a very useful weapon. But why? Can't aircraft carriers really fight at night? " Nimitz looked up regretfully and asked general Spruance around him.

"Can't aircraft carriers fight at night?" At the other end of the world, it can be said that lutjans, the world's first aircraft carrier command expert, is asking the same question, while a German naval technical expert beside him is anxiously looking at the flight deck outside the bridge. How to make the aircraft take off from the aircraft carrier is a problem worth thinking about. If this short board can be connected and the aircraft carrier can fight at night, then this kind of weapon is worthy of being the king of naval warfare, and no ship can shake its hegemony. On that day, the bullshit battleship will be driven out of the historical stage and become a souvenir in the harbor! Innumerable methods have been developed, such as erecting high poles around the aircraft carrier deck, and then installing lighting equipment on the top of the poles to illuminate the entire aircraft carrier deck and provide a safe take-off and landing environment. However, lighting such a bright light in the dark night is absolutely likely to be found by the opposite hand and used as a target. It is not a good way to hurt yourself before hurting the enemy. However, another good way was thought out by the head of state akado, or akado learned from the scientific and technological crystallization of his previous American aircraft carrier, and easily thought of a simple way to safely take off and land at night. As long as a set of lights of different colors are installed at the end of the deck of the aircraft carrier, the aircraft can land safely on the dark deck. In fact, the principle is to simply rely on occlusion light to let pilots get reference information, but many times people have to be embarrassed for such a simple problem for more than ten years without enlightenment. The new German aircraft carrier, Prussia, is equipped with this kind of light group and is undergoing night landing test of carrier based aircraft. According to the service time of this aircraft carrier equipped with night take-off and landing equipment, in fact, the German has already experimented with the problem of night fighter take-off and landing for a long time. However, the fighter in this experiment is somewhat different. It can be said that it is a new weapon that the German Navy and even the whole German air force keep strictly confidential. The reason why the German Navy has not started the night battle of aircraft carrier is that although taking off and landing aircraft at night is a technical problem, what is more troublesome is how to make the carrier based aircraft on the aircraft carrier find the target they need to attack in the dark sea. Now, this technology has been solved by German scientists and technicians. They have finally made unremitting efforts to get radar, an advanced equipment, to the size that can be crammed into an aircraft. After such a long time of evolution, the volume of German radar can be crammed into a twin engine aircraft, giving it the ability to find targets at night. As a result, this sea experiment, which has attracted the attention of the Navy and air force today, and this dialogue between lutjans and the technicians around him. As long as this experiment can be successful, then the German Navy has a kind of aircraft that can carry out sea strike missions at night, and the aircraft carrier fleet can really carry out night attack operations at sea! In order to take off and land on the aircraft carrier, Germany redesigned a dual engine aircraft. This kind of aircraft is much smaller than the normal dual engine bomber, and its wings can be folded. The flight speed of this kind of aircraft is very fast, and it can be used as an early warning aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft in the daytime. The most important thing is that it can carry torpedoes and bombs to attack enemy warships. In order to match the new aircraft with radar, the Prussian aircraft carrier even cut 10 fw-190 naval fighters and made room to equip seven new owl multi-purpose aircraft. At the same time, two models of the aircraft will be produced in the future, including the air force night interceptor owl a and the Navy night multi-purpose aircraft owl B“ Nighthawk 1, radar shows you are approaching the carrier, you are approaching the carrier position! Confirm the light angle, confirm the light angle! " The air controller on one side is holding a walkie talkie to confirm the position of the plane over and over again. This is the first time in human history that a special fighter plane is used to take off and land on an aircraft carrier at night“ I'm Nighthawk one! I'm Nighthawk one The pilot's voice was clear: "I see the landing light! I'm adjusting the angle! I'm adjusting the angle! " Soon, a shadow from the sky rushed to the runway of the aircraft carrier, the German Navy night fighter landing experiment, a complete success!