When Ram returned to the team, he talked to his comrades about his and Ron's analysis of Japanese planes and their tactics, and conducted a diagram exercise on some of the tactics. Some of these tactics, especially the twin-machine scissor tactic, have been praised as genius creations. Plus the news from which side of the Army confirmed the identity of his ace pilot, for which the commander of the Air Wing, Oscar. Rear Admiral Peterson approached Admiral Fletcher and offered to let Ron come and talk to everyone. In his words: "Take the ship on which he is still in the Navy and squeeze his experience dry." ”

As a result, Ron was taken aboard the USS Yorktown by a small boat.

No sooner had he reached the deck than Ron saw several officers in flight jackets walking towards him. Ron recognized one of them as Ram.

"Hello sir!" Ron hurriedly saluted them, and he noticed that all of them, except Ram, had the rank of major.

"Well, the young man is good, very spirited!" A tall officer nodded after returning the salute and said, "Ram has talked to us about some of your ideas, and we are interested...... You see it's too windy on deck, so let's go to the pilot's dining room and talk. ”

The pilot's dining room is where pilots usually stay most often, especially when there is no combat mission. It's not time to eat, but the restaurant is crowded, with many pilots drinking coffee or playing poker. Seeing Ron and them come in, everyone was looking at Ron. Moreover, Ron also faintly heard some discussions

"This is the trump card of the Army? It doesn't look like it's young at all. ”

"The Army likes to brag the most, maybe it's a ......"

Hearing this, the corners of Ron's mouth unconsciously showed a smile, he knew that the U.S. Navy and the Army often parted ways, and it was common for Navy pilots to suspect the Army, but it didn't develop to the point where the Japanese Army and Navy were enemies of each other.

Rear Admiral Peterson sat down at one of the largest dining tables, and to his left was the commander of the VF-3 Wildcat squadron, John Peterson. Rear Admiral Thatch, on the right is the commander of the VB-3 Dreadnought Dive Bomber Unit, Maxwell. Rear Admiral Leslie, and the commander of the VT-3 Avenger torpedo bomber unit, Lance. Rear Admiral Marcy. The main officers of the entire flight wing, except for Wallace Jr., who commanded the VS-3. Rear Admiral Short was not able to be present because he was on combat readiness duty, almost all of them were here. The pilots in the restaurant also spontaneously gathered over.

"Ram said that you know something about Japanese aircraft, especially the Zero War...... You know, this kind of aircraft is a lot of trouble for our team. We feel that your experience may be helpful to us. So we'd like you to talk to us about it, and I think it's not only good for the Navy but also good for the Army. "It was John, who commanded the wildcats. Rear Admiral Thatch.

Ron understood that "trouble" was more than just "trouble", and that the fact was that in the early days of the war, the planes of both the U.S. Navy Air Corps and the Army Air Corps were basically the objects of abuse in the face of the Zero War. Historically, in the Battle of Midway, which was fought shortly after, the U.S. Navy won a decisive victory, but they shot down only 42 Japanese planes in the air, while they themselves were shot down more than 140 planes. Obviously, "trouble" is a face-saving statement, especially in front of the Army. But Ron understands this too, who doesn't have a little vanity. Seeing that everyone is here to fight devils, Ron decides to divulge the background of Zero War to them. Of course, he will not say that this is the common knowledge that can be seen everywhere on the Internet in later generations, but will say that this is his own conjecture.

"A lot of my peers here have met Zero in battle. The Zero is indeed a very good aircraft, with fast speed, especially fast acceleration, terrifyingly good climbing, and excellent hovering performance. Both horizontally and vertically, there is an advantage over our P40, and I think the situation in the Navy may be similar to what I encountered. The first time I encountered Zero, I was almost beaten stupid. I remember I was following behind a Zero, and that Zero started to climb, and then I climbed with it, and as I climbed, my speed got lower and lower, and I got closer and closer to stalling. At this time, the Zero suddenly did a backflip, and it occupied my rear hemisphere, and then the stormy bullets kept hitting my plane. Ron looked around and saw that many people were nodding silently, it seemed that many people had encountered this situation.

"In the first battle, I was wounded and a bullet hit me. I was unconscious in the air for a while, and when I woke up, the plane was rolling to the left and diving frantically towards the sea, and I tried my best to flatten the plane, but fortunately no enemy plane was chasing after me. Then I spent some time in the hospital, and I had nightmares almost every day. As soon as I closed my eyes, I saw a Zero Fight flipped to my six o'clock direction. Ron smiled self-deprecatingly and continued.

"In the hospital, I was wondering how I managed to get out. Why did the Japanese not shoot me down during the time when I was unconscious, and I got rid of it? Then I finally figured out how I managed to get out of Zero. ”

"Tell me about it!" One pilot interjected.

"I think I was unconscious and my hand pressed the lever forward and left, so the plane did a downward and left barrel roll. Maybe it was this action that saved my life. I've been thinking about Zero Fight ever since. I've never believed it, and I think you'll feel the same way I do. Ron looked up at everyone, "I don't believe that Japan's aviation technology is completely ahead of us. Therefore, the advantage of Zero-War must have been obtained by paranoia! ”

Everyone looked thoughtful, John. Rear Admiral Thatch was the first to speak: "You mean that the Zero War is an unbalanced aircraft that enhances others by sacrificing some performance?" ”

"Yes, sir. That's what I thought. I don't think the Zero has a big nose diameter and probably won't have a powerful engine, but he has a great climb and acceleration. This is perhaps due to its very low weight. This speculation also explains why the Zero can have such excellent hovering performance, and also explains why the Zero can fly so far. I don't know how the Japanese made the Zero so light, but I think it's impossible for a plane that is so light not to make sacrifices in other areas. So I had some guesses. ”

"Go on, Ron! Say it! ”

"My father was an aircraft engineer, so I also had some knowledge of aircraft design. I think if an airplane is very light, then it may have some trouble like this. First of all, the strength of its structure is probably limited, so its dive speed must not be high, which explains why Zero didn't bite me when I dived. And it must struggle to overcome propeller torque. This means that it rolls in the opposite direction of the propeller torque, i.e. to the left, and the higher the speed, the more so. And I was rolling to the left while I was unconscious. So when I started rolling, he didn't bite me right away, and by the time he finished rolling to the left and was in the dive, I was already so fast that he couldn't pursue me anymore - that's how I got my life. ”

At this, Ron laughed. "I have to say, I was lucky."

"Ron, I wonder if you are God's illegitimate child, and the unconscious movements when you are temporarily unconscious are actually correct." John. Admiral Thatch said as he stood up and reached out across the table to pat Ron on the shoulder, "Keynes had a similar escape last time. But he didn't sum up anything valuable, and after getting off the plane, his face was as white as a woman's...... "I could see that he was so happy to know what he could rely on to get out of the Zero War, so much so that he forgot to pay attention to the face of the Navy in front of the army."

"Sir, you can't slander me like that!" There were protests in the crowd.

"Come on! We all saw what you were like at that time. Someone went on to heckle him.

"Alright, don't make a fuss, let Ron continue!" Rear Admiral Peterson spoke, and everyone fell silent again.

"If you are bitten, the height is not high enough and there is not enough space to do the roll and dive, you can also take advantage of the problem of the zero battle roll and use the barrel roll as a defense. Of course, timing is very important, if you do it late, the shells will hit you, and if you do it early, people will climb up directly and see you waste energy there. And the Zero is too light, which means that the same air currents interfere with it more. There is really no way, and it is also an option to escape from the sea at high speed. The turbulence of air close to the surface of the sea can make the Zero shake violently, interfering with its shooting. In addition, its machine gun is very powerful, the rate of fire of the machine gun is not high, and the trajectory is bent like pee (laughing all around). That way we have a better chance of escaping. ”

"But wars are not won by running away. Now I'm going to talk about some of my thoughts on how to fight Zero, which I have already tried in the original army, and the results have been very good. I think that the Zero Combat is so light, and its protection must also have problems. Even, perhaps, not even a self-closing tank. It's just that we didn't have a chance to shoot at it before, because we couldn't get around to its six. It's too flexible, and that flexibility is its protection. ”

"It's just, even if you know it's unarmoured, it's not in vain if you can't hit it."

"I think it's really difficult to deal with Zero War on a single machine, so you can rely on group cooperation to protect each other. For this reason, I devised a tactic...... "Here, Ron once again shamelessly appropriates the future creations of others for himself."

"It turns out that whether it's a dive attack, a hitandrun that hits away with a blow, or a scissor cross that protects each other with 6 points, it works well." Ron ended his experience introduction with such a sentence. He looked around at the audience, and they all looked thoughtful. It seems that their own experience of transcending time and space is still very enlightening to them.

Ron's lecture earned him considerable respect among naval pilots, and by the next day, when the pilots were together for tactical drills, that respect had risen even further, almost to the point of respect.

The day's tactical drill was actually a review of the Coral Sea Battle that had just passed. This allows them to analyze the problems exposed in the battle in order to improve the efficiency of the next battle. This is extremely important for the flight troops, and also for the fleet as a whole. So including the commander of the fleet, Admiral Fletcher, was also present. Ron had only intended to listen with his ears, but after a general review of the entire battle, General Fletcher asked him to give his opinion by name.

"I think we have some problems with this fight. Some of our strengths have not been fully exploited. After being named by General Fletcher, Ron began to drive a donkey to the shelves and uttered his opinion - in fact, some of the stuffing content he had seen in the forums of later generations.

"First of all, the Japanese were not sure of the existence of our fleet, which would have been a big advantage, and we could have been able to hide on the one hand, and on the other hand, use the long range of the land-based B17 to help search for targets. After waiting for the Japanese carrier-based aircraft to attack the port, use the window through which they recovered the planes and attack them. Ron looked up at General Fletcher, a fifty-something veteran furrowed.

"He's thinking I'm going too far? Wake me am accusing his command? Ron thought, "Maybe it's better not to say anything about the stuffing content from the future website." ”

"That's a good idea," the general spoke, as if sensing Ron's hesitation, "Go on." This battle was the first duel between aircraft carriers in history, and we had no previous experience, so there must have been a lot of problems. ”

"Okay, General." Ron looked at General Fletcher, and there seemed to be a glint of appreciation in his eyes, and he decided to continue.

"We mistakenly took the initiative to attack an unimportant anchorage, and although we hit the Japanese, we also exposed the presence of the fleet. This is our first mistake. Secondly, our pilots had problems with the interpretation of the Japanese ships, recognizing the light carriers as fleet carriers. This directly affected the subsequent operation. Our pilots later again misjudged that the aircraft carrier of the enemy fleet was heavily damaged and even sunk, which affected the operational arrangements. Of course...... After all, this is the first aircraft carrier battle, lack of experience, and it is normal for such omissions to occur. "Although he is an army and the navy are two systems, Ron doesn't intend to offend them for no reason.

"Training in this area must be further strengthened." It was Maxwell who interjected. Rear Admiral Leslie

"We have radar, which gives us a head start when it comes to intercepting enemy aircraft. But this advantage was not fully used, and the interception points we set were so close that our interceptor aircraft would even be attacked by the anti-aircraft artillery of the fleet. "John. Rear Admiral Thatch said, "I think our interception point should be a little bit earlier." Just get to this position in advance, and in terms of time, it can be done. ”

"Yes, so that our anti-aircraft artillery department doesn't have to worry about fighting our own people."

"And when we intercepted, it was too easy to get entangled with the escort Zero, and as a result, too many bombers ran through. The enemy's altitude is about 13,000 feet at this time, if we can climb higher here, climb to 16,000 feet, and then dive towards the bomber at high speed from this height, the Zero can attack us head-on at most once, as Ron said yesterday, the Zero's cannon has a curved trajectory, and it is far less efficient than our four .50 when firing head-on. And once staggered, they were not as fast as us in diving, and even if they appeared at our six, they could not pursue us, so that we could more effectively teach those bombers a memorable lesson. ”

"But is there enough time to climb to 16,000 feet?"

"General, unless the warning time can be extended by more than five minutes, it will be difficult for the fighter unit to climb to such a height while expanding the interception range." John. Rear Admiral Thatch replied.

"Oh, that's a problem." The general muttered, "What do any of you think?" ”

"General,......" Ron began, "I wonder if the Navy has destroyers with radars, and if so, we can put some distance in the dangerous direction that the enemy might attack, as the eyes of the fleet." Of course, this will also be more dangerous for the ships that go forward, like ......" Ron stopped, he almost told the Falklands and Sheffield destroyers.

"Ron, you have a good idea, but now the Navy only has radars on cruisers, and not every one of them has them, so the loss of anti-aircraft fire is not small for them to go forward, and their number is limited, so it is difficult to take into account too many directions. However, we can order and refit a batch of such destroyers in the future. General Fletcher nodded.

"General, the radar is too big, and the existing destroyers can't fit them."

"Ah, that's not something we're worried about, it's up to the shipyard to consider, and we'll just ask for it."

"In fact, as long as there are enough radars, we can also cut out one of the destroyer's rear main guns, so that it can basically be installed. Such modifications were even possible at Pearl Harbor. Another officer added.

……

The meeting ended victoriously after a heated discussion, and the officers and men attending the meeting said one after another: This is a meeting of unity, a meeting of victory, and a meeting of marching from victory to victory. After the meeting, the officers and men said that they must conscientiously study and comprehend the spirit of the meeting, step up their study, and make continuous progress......

The meeting was over, and Ron got up and left like everyone else. Just then, he heard someone calling him.

"Ensign Ron, can you walk with me on the deck?"

Ron turned around and saw that it was General Fletcher who was speaking. He wanted the general to nod, "Yes, General!" ”

The deck of an aircraft carrier used to be the busiest and dangerous place in the world, but now a bomb has made it almost impossible for planes to take off and land. So now the deck is quiet, only the sea breeze blows, bringing with it the chirping of seagulls. As far as the eye can see, the sea is endless and calm, and it is almost noon, and you can see the tropical sun dancing between the waves.

"Ron, how old are you?" General Fletcher asked, leaning on the railing and looking out into the sea in the distance.

"General, I'm probably 25 years old this year, well. I have been in the army for 3 years. ”

"About 25? Haha, this is the first time I've heard such an answer. General Fletcher turned his face, leaned his body on the side of the railing, and said with a smile.

"General, the last time I crashed, I touched my head, and as a result, I was often a little confused about the past."

"I see, but fortunately your head wasn't broken." The general laughed, "At least it's a lot better than I was back then." I joined the Navy around your age. At that time, my head was full of fantasies, always thinking that maybe there would be a war soon, and I would have a chance to become a hero, but when a big war came, it turned out that there was nothing to do with our navy, so I waited, year after year, and when I was old, I thought I was going to leave the navy, but it turned out that there was a war. But did you know? ”

The general shook his head, smiled, and continued, "You know, when this war, this war that I have been waiting for and preparing for decades, finally came, I didn't feel excited at all. Instead......" the general paused, as if considering what words to use, "instead...... Instead, I feel overwhelmed. Yes, it's overwhelming. For decades, I was preparing for a Jutland-style decisive battle - battle lines, maneuvering in formation, seizing T-heads, organizing artillery fire. For decades, all I dreamed about was the roar of battleship guns. As a result, when the war began, I realized that the things that I had prepared for decades and cherished for decades were like, well, I had watched "Gone with the Wind", right? ”

"Yes, General. Watched the movie. ”

"Oh, as it says in Gone with the Wind, the world of ladies and knights has ...... What does that say? ”

"I'm sorry, General, I don't remember that." After all, Ron didn't come from a school, and he can remember anywhere. At most, I remember the beautiful and stubborn heroine.

"It's okay, anyway, it's everything I'm familiar with, it's like being blown away by a gust of wind. You see how many mistakes I made in this battle, if it was still a decisive battle on the battle line...... It seems that I am really old, and I actually like to talk about this with young people. The general smiled self-deprecatingly, "Okay, without further ado, now is not the era of old gunners." Ron, this era is for you Sky Knights. ”

The general faced Ron and straightened up. Stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, "Hello, young man! You have the technology, and more importantly you have the brain! It's your time, grab it! ”

With that, General Fletcher slowly turned around and walked towards the bridge, and walked to the hatch, where a sailor helped him pull it open. He turned back and said to Ron with a smile, "I can bring you to the Navy if you want, and in the Pacific, the Navy has more chances...... Don't rush to answer, you can think about it. ”

After saying that, the general squeezed his eyes at him, and then walked in.