The Rise of the Empire

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The only thing that can be sure to avoid the eyes of the US submarine force is the bad weather a few days ago! All the American submarines in this sea area did not surface all night, and observing the harsh sea conditions through the periscope at night can only be comforted in the heart. However, it is obviously unreasonable for a food supply ship to leave the port on such a bad night. After all, this ship does not undertake military missions most of the time.

"Maybe the Japanese want to eat some pastries from their hometown? Maybe the Mamiya is cleaning the coal bunker and flue? Maybe the Japanese fleet is about to launch a large-scale operation, so the Mamiya is going to replenish some specific food for the Japanese fleet? Like this I can think of ten thousand reasons! You are a little nervous." Charles said, frowning.

"No, no, no, it's definitely not nervousness. If the Mamiya is a special case, then we can focus on other aspects. According to the information we have obtained, a large number of fast oil tankers assigned to the Japanese Navy were killed two weeks ago. They once went to the oil fields in the former Dutch East Indies, where they installed at least 60,000 tons of heavy oil. Then these tankers disappeared at once. They did not appear in the waters north of the Philippines, and all went to Japan. The oil tankers are all low-speed ships, so good, now the question is, what is the purpose of this Japanese supply fleet with tens of thousands of tons of fuel?" Richard asked.

"This should be the task of the intelligence analysts of the Pacific Fleet, and has nothing to do with us." Charles said while recalling the previous intelligence. He did see the telegram forwarded by the Ministry of the Navy about the request to find the missing Japanese fuel carrier. The Navy is very concerned about this aspect and has issued at least three orders in this regard. After all, fighting in the Pacific Ocean, every large-scale operation of oil tankers at sea can be regarded as a sign of the beginning of a certain major battle!

"And the most important thing is that we can't confirm whether what you said is right or wrong. We can't enter the Davao Bay military port! And we don't have a plane that can fly over the port. From the sea, we don't have any It may be possible to discover the situation of the warships in the port!" Charles also said a little irritably.

"I feel that the recent situation has been very abnormal. Haven't you noticed that there are very few Japanese naval aviation aircraft training over the entire Davao Bay? You know, there may have been four aircraft carriers in this port before, and the Japanese Navy's carrier-based The air force maintains a very high training frequency. Every day during the day, there are at least 200 Japanese aircraft training in the sky above our heads, but now? If we don’t consider the occasional anti-submarine ships, we can even take a breath during the day! This It's very abnormal, such a big change happened within a few days! Don't you feel that our pressure has become very small?" Richard said.

"So? These are things we can't prove. What do you want to do? Are we going to write a telegram and write all the long-winded arguments you told me just now? We can write a novel and send it to Pearl Harbor What do you think the staff thinks about this? They think we're making a fuss out of a molehill,

Or is there something wrong with your head? said Charles.

In the end, Richard failed to persuade his first officer to jointly send a telegram with him to explain the change in Davao Port. So Richard could only send this telegram to the headquarters in his own name, describing the unusual situation in the past few days, and at the same time vaguely expressing that the Japanese fleet may have left the port under the cover of bad weather a few days ago. leave. Coincidentally, just a few hours after Richard sent the telegram, the Salmon submarine, which was also performing the same mission in Davao Port, also sent a similar telegram.

The Salmon has carried out 4 missions in the nearby waters. The personnel on the submarine can feel the changes in this sea area more keenly than others. Simply put, it means that the pressure has decreased. If it is more complicated, it will be a bit metaphysical. It's like you're frantically dying next to a sleeping lion, and you're under a lot of pressure, and one day, you find that the pressure is gone, and then you feel something different.

However, in the end, these two pieces of information were like two stones thrown into the sea, and did not cause much disturbance. As Charles said, this kind of unfounded and inferred intelligence will not attract the attention of high-level officials. After being forwarded several times, the two telegrams were accepted by the U.S. Navy's intelligence department, and then they were thrown aside by a certain officer when they changed hands, and then they simply recorded the content of the intelligence to complete the filing. In this way, nearly a week after the Japanese Combined Fleet left Davao Port, the U.S. Navy still did not know that the Japanese had left the Philippines. Now, the Japanese Combined Fleet has bypassed the island of New Guinea and Australia and is heading towards the depths of the ocean !

Well, now comes the question, what are Americans doing now? What is U.S. Naval Intelligence looking at? They always have something to do, right? In fact, the U.S. Navy intelligence department is really busy, they are looking for the bait thrown out by the Japanese before!

"Have you found the Japanese raid ship?" Sims asked as he ate his breakfast. Just 2 weeks ago, a fleet of transport ships was attacked 600 kilometers north of the Bismarck Islands. According to the information sent back, at least one of the Japanese warships participating in the attack had a warship of more than 10,000 tons!

And 2 days later, another transport convoy heading from Hawaii to the front line was also attacked. During this operation, the US escort warships discovered two large warships! The distance between the two attacks exceeded 1,500 kilometers. It can already be concluded that it was an attack by two attacking fleets. Facing the attack on its own aorta, the U.S. Navy's already relaxed nerves tightened up again. Although the loss of the attacked fleet is not large, in order to ensure the smooth flow of communication, the White House directly issued an order to the Pacific Fleet, asking Sims and others to remove these pirates as soon as possible!

"No, the Japanese fleet is very careful this time, even I think it's a bit too careful. All the warships involved in the breach are very conservative in their attacks. They usually use the dusk to launch attacks and never do too much entanglement. , It belongs to the kind that fights when you can fight, and runs when you can’t fight, using the last few hours before dark to launch an attack, and immediately move after the fight, it is difficult for us to keep an eye on the opponent." Ma Jifen said.

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