All-people naval warfare: from patrol boats to aircraft carrier fleets

The reason for being so bold is that Yamamoto Isoroku's main fleet has 7 battleships. If they really close the fighting distance, the Third Fleet and the player fleet will have to pay a heavy price of casualties.

After all, the Third Fleet and the player fleet are still attacking the mixed fleet. According to Halsey's estimate, it will take at least about 3 hours to sink all the remaining warships in the mixed fleet.

This period of time is enough for Yamamoto Isoroku's main formation to enter the battlefield, so a fleet must be sent to intercept it.

As for the safety issues on the Yanhuang after dispatching half of the escort warships, Nimitz did not worry too much, not to mention the Yanhuang's powerful air strike force in base mode.

When necessary, the Yanhuang, which has long passed the cooldown period for its form transformation, can transform into a battleship form at any time.

Although the Yanhuang in battleship form is less efficient at taking off and landing fighter planes, it still exceeds that of conventional aircraft carriers. The most important thing is that the Yanhuang in battleship form can still use those installed in the main gun spaces on both sides of the battleship. The firepower of the 406mm gun is even more terrifying than that of a battleship.

If a squadron of the Japanese-Benzene joint fleet really comes over for a close-range artillery battle, the Yanhuang will tell these little devils with its terrifying firepower, whether it is an air battle from a carrier-based aircraft or a close-range artillery fire from a large-caliber naval gun. Zhan, your uncle will always be your uncle.

Of course, it is certainly impossible for the squadron sent by Nimitz to defeat Yamamoto Isoroku's main formation in a close naval battle. The main 01 force in the battle is still the huge air fleet that took off from the Yanhuang. The squadron is only responsible for interception and containment, and it is not for direct confrontation.

In addition to this not-so-small squadron, Nimitz also dispatched two formations of 200 Type XXI submarines to accompany the squadron.

Yamamoto Isoroku's main formation is indeed not weak, but in addition to 7 battleships, there are only 3 light cruisers and 21 destroyers left. The number of small and medium-sized battleships is too scarce.

The squadron is fully capable of defeating the destroyer formation of the Little Devil with its larger number of light and heavy cruisers and destroyers. Without these destroyers that serve as the main anti-submarine force, the seven battleships of the Little Devil will become the target of the underwater wolf killers.

With the all-round attack of the trinity of air, sea and submarine, Nimitz was able to trick the old devil Yamamoto Isoroku. The most important thing is that until now, Yamamoto Isoroku didn't even know that he had fallen. Falling into Nimitz's trap, he was still complacent in thinking that he had discovered the main force of the Pacific Fleet and was about to win the final victory.

On the sea, sharp air defense warnings continued to echo on the warships. The warships in the main formation of the Japanese-Benzene joint fleet, which was rushing forward, quickly reduced their speed, adjusted their formations, and barely formed a small formation under the urgent orders of the officers. Nice looking air defense formation.

There was no way. After all, there was a lack of auxiliary battleships. It was impossible to form a defensive circle around 7 battleships, 1 aircraft carrier, and 2 seaplane carriers. We could only adjust as much as possible.

Yamamoto Isoroku was already pale at this time. He stood on the bridge of the flagship Yamato and looked at the sky in the distance through the porthole. A large number of black spots were approaching quickly. Because there were so many, they even blocked out the sunlight. Blocked, it was like a huge dark cloud floating from the sky.

Putting aside personal preferences, purely in terms of naval battle command ability, as a senior admiral of the Japanese Navy, Yamamoto Isoroku's ability is not bad, maybe not as good as Nimitz, but compared to Halsey, Cunningham and others. Not weak at all, even slightly stronger.

When he saw the rapidly approaching"dark clouds" on the horizon, he knew that this was a large-scale attack aircraft group, obviously heading for the main formation.

Although it is not known how many aircraft there are in this huge fleet, a cursory glance shows that there are no less than 300 aircraft.

Yamamoto Isoroku felt a deep uneasiness in his heart. Even though his first reaction was to think that this huge group of attack aircraft might have taken off from Midway, he couldn't help but have another thought in his mind..

That is, the U.S. Pacific Fleet is likely to far exceed its previous expectations and include more than just a few aircraft carriers.

Today, Nagumo Chuichi's side, despite heavy losses, is still fighting. There are a large number of carrier-based aircraft overhead that are constantly bombing the remaining warships of the Nagumo fleet, and the Hiryu is also persisting.

The mixed fleet suffered greater losses, but was still not completely wiped out. According to the telegram, the number of fighter planes flying overhead was no less than 200.

In these two battlefields alone, the Pacific Fleet dispatched more than 600 fighter planes, which exceeded his expectation of all the Pacific Fleet's carrier-based aircraft and Midway land-based fighters combined.

Now there are hundreds of fighter planes that are about to fly over the main formation. Where did these fighter planes come from?

"boom"、"boom"、"boom"

"Da da da"、"Da da da"、"Da da da"

"boom"、"boom"、""Boom!"

As the huge attack aircraft group approached, each warship in the main formation of the Japanese-Benzene joint fleet launched anti-aircraft shooting defense. Anti-aircraft artillery shells and anti-aircraft machine gun bullets fired from the muzzle and gun muzzle with scorching heat. Flying out.

As the fire flickered, clouds of smoke exploded in the air, and the dense rain of bullets formed a defensive barrier above the main formation. All 10 Zero fighter jets had already taken off, hiding in the air. They stood ready behind the air defense fire network, ready for aerial combat at any time.

Outside the portholes, the fire flickered, the guns roared, and the explosions came one after another. However, Yamamoto Isoroku, who stood behind the portholes, did not pay attention to the fleet's air defense operations at all.

Instead, he put all his thoughts on analyzing and guessing the origin of this large attack fleet. If this problem was unclear, he would really be unwilling to do so.

But no matter how he thought about it, he had to think about it in his head. Broken, and I don’t understand why the Pacific Fleet can still have such a strong strength.

In the Battle of Pearl Harbor, weren’t all the Pacific Fleet’s main aircraft carriers and battleships sunk by their Big Sun Locust Army? Now these Where did the aircraft carrier appear from?

In the end, Yamamoto Isoroku could only draw one conclusion, that is, the Pacific Fleet was supported by the home fleet, otherwise so many aircraft carriers and battleships would not suddenly appear.

Similarly, Yamamoto Isoroku also I secretly rejoiced that in the Battle of Pearl Harbor, all the battleships of the Pacific Fleet were sunk and only a few aircraft carriers escaped.

Otherwise, it would not be just these few ships that would appear at Midway this time. With the extra aircraft carriers, there should be more battleships, not just the two battleships attacking the mixed fleet. The

American navy is indeed very powerful, and there are also a lot of battleships, aircraft carriers and other capital ships. But after the heavy losses at Pearl Harbor, there were not many battleships left to replenish the Pacific Fleet. Being able to produce two more battleships would be considered the last resort.

"Order the fleet to ignore the planes in the sky and speed up each ship immediately to the fastest speed.If we continue to move forward, as long as we can close the distance, we can use the Yamato's powerful firepower."

Without enough escort warships, even a complete fleet air defense network cannot be established. To continue to stay in place and compete with this huge fleet of carrier-based aircraft in the sky is simply an act of seeking death. Anyway, the fleet's air defense firepower can defeat a large number of aircraft in the sky. For aircraft, the threat is not too great. It is better to give up air defense operations completely, speed up the ship, continue to move forward, and avoid aerial bombs in the sky during the voyage. In the direction of air defense operations, the caliber of the main guns of Yamato-class and Nagato-class battleships No matter how big it is, there is nothing you can do against these flies flying in the sky, so you might as well take a chance.

If you can quickly approach the opponent's main fleet, the large-caliber main guns of the Yamato-class and Nagato-class battle fleets can exert huge power. , no matter how bad the 147 is, it can sink all the opponent's main battleships such as aircraft carriers and battleships.

Without the aircraft carrier as a carrier, these aircraft that are still showing off their power in the sky can only return to Midway Island to land, and the air threats faced by the main formations will be easily solved. It has to be said that gambling is in the blood of the people of Japan and Benxi. They like to gamble at any time. As the country that is most keen on gambling on the national destiny, no one in Japan dares to claim the first place even if it dares to be second. To put it boldly, the modern history of Japan and Japan is a book of huge bets. The

Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and even the attack on Pearl Harbor were all acts of gambling on the destiny of the country. There was also the Sino-Japanese War that ruined the little devil. Which one was not I was gambling, but the kid won the first two times, but he lost the last two times, and he was defeated completely. The locals were left with a fat man and a little boy.

This time, Yamamoto Isoroku was also gambling. The bet is to bet that these battleships in the main formation can persist with their thick armor, arrive at the location of the main fleet of the Pacific Fleet before being sunk, and turn defeat into victory.

However, destiny has its own destiny, little devil His gambling luck has not always been so good. Against the aerial bombs and aerial torpedoes that continued to fall from the sky, he paid the price of five destroyers being sunk and many warships being injured. He finally made it to the Chinese fleet, which is the third When the three fleets only had less than 40 kilometers of sea area, a fleet suddenly came out from the side and fired a salvo before the little devil could react.

"boom"、"boom"、""Boom!"

Small black dots roared from a distance, landed on the main force formation that was advancing rapidly, and exploded into huge water columns.

"16-inch naval gun? Is this a battleship?"

As a senior naval officer, Isoroku Yamamoto almost immediately identified the approximate caliber of these flying shells. All the blood on his face disappeared, and he was as pale as a geisha.