At 2:55, Admiral Nagumo, commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, vetoed the plan proposed by his chief staff officer, Kuroshima Daisa, to concentrate all the ships to bomb and land on Midway during the day, and ordered: "Cancel the occupation of Midway." www.biquge.info He said, "I will take all the responsibility alone, and I will go back and ask His Majesty the Emperor for guilt." He locked himself in a reception room and refused to meet with his subordinates for three days.

At 5:00, the Akagi aircraft carrier, which had failed to be rescued, was sunk by a torpedo fired by the Japanese destroyers Maikaze, Hagikaze, Nobu, and Arashi.

At 5:10, the unsalvage aircraft carrier Flying Dragon was sunk by a torpedo fired by a Japanese destroyer. The commander of the 2nd Air Force, Tawen Yamaguchi, and the captain of the ship, Jio Kalai, chose to sink with the ship, and some of the crew members trapped at the bottom of the cabin by the fire escaped from the hole where the torpedo had penetrated and were rescued. On this day, the U.S. military sent multiple waves of fighters to pursue the Japanese warships, but none of them found Nagumo's main fleet.

At 3:45 a.m. on June 6, two Japanese heavy cruisers, Mogami and Mikuma, collided with each other while turning in dense fog, and Mogami was heavily damaged, leaving Mikuma and two other destroyers behind to escort them.

At 8:05 a.m., 12 Marine bombers took off from Midway Island in pursuit of the Mikuma and Mogami. The Mikuma was sunk, while the badly wounded Mogami escaped the U.S. bombing and returned to the Truk Island base. The U.S. forces then tried to pursue the Wyvern, which had sunk a few hours earlier, but only found the destroyer Gufeng. However, there was no result for either side.

At 13:00, at 13:00 on June 7, the Japanese submarine I-168 discovered Yorktown, and immediately fired 4 torpedoes, 2 hit Yorktown, and 1 hit the escort Harman (DD-142USSHAMMANN) destroyer, and the destroyer Harman sank immediately, and Yorktown floated until noon the next day before sinking to the bottom of the sea. At the same time as the attack, the other six US destroyers tried to counterattack the IL-168, but the IL-168 eventually withdrew safely. This is also a blow to the Japanese to earn some face.

The arrogance and arrogance of the Japanese Navy finally brought doom to the Combined Fleet. In the initial stage of the war, the Japanese navy performed fairly well, especially in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and achieved careful planning and adequate preparations, and successfully realized its operational intentions, and achieved unexpected and brilliant results. But because this stage was too smooth, the Japanese Navy was carried away by the victory. In this naval battle, there was no conscientious attitude that was the attitude of the early days of the war. The battle plan was hastily drawn up, full of loopholes, and ignored objections. And the exercise on the map to test the battle plan was also perfunctory. For example, during the exercise, Nagumo's forces were attacked by U.S. land-based aircraft during an air raid on Midway, and the referee ruled that the Japanese fleet had been hit nine times and two aircraft carriers had been sunk. Rear Admiral Ugaki, who was able to preside over the exercise, ordered that the number of hits be changed to three, and the sentence was changed to that one aircraft carrier was sunk and the other was slightly damaged, but soon the sunken aircraft carrier surfaced from the bottom of the sea and participated in the next stage of the campaign. However, the officers and men of Japan's Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi and the officers and men of the Combined Fleet also had an attitude of "no matter what the task is" and did not make serious preparations for the campaign. The arrogance of the entire Japanese Navy was also the root cause of the subsequent series of mistakes that led to the defeat of the Japanese Navy.

At that time, warfare had already developed into a multidimensional space, and intelligence warfare and information warfare had become one of the main factors restricting victory in war. The trump card of the US military victory in this naval battle was to decipher the code of the Japanese Navy in advance and understand the operational plan and operational deployment of the Japanese Navy before the battle broke out. This made it possible to concentrate forces on ambushing the Japanese army. Lieutenant Colonel Layton, who was in charge of code-breaking at the time, predicted to the command: "The Japanese mobile fleet will come from the northwest at an azimuth of 325 degrees and will be spotted 175 nautical miles from Midway at 6 o'clock Midway time." When the Japanese fleet was spotted at the exact time, Nimitz said to Lieutenant Commander Leiden: "Congratulations, you are only 5 nautical miles short of what you predicted." Japan, on the other hand, did not gather any valuable information before the war, and the scheduled reconnaissance operation was canceled for various reasons. Therefore, a completely wrong judgment was made about the hostile situation. The two sides have made the United States enjoy the advantages of the first opportunity.

"It seems that the little devil still remembers to eat and not to fight." Chu Zhaodong was also very helpless, when the combined fleet was beaten by himself, he lost half his life, and when he went back, he just remembered the development of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft, but he did not understand that the advantages of the Chinese Navy and Air Force were not just a few advanced aircraft, but the all-round leadership from intelligence to tactics, from training to supply, from personnel to equipment, which created the one-sided situation of the Second Sino-Japanese War, if you can't win easily, then you don't deserve this handsome star on your shoulders. "The fatal mistake of the little devil is not in these details."

"What does Chu Shuai mean?" Chen Jialiang asked.

"The most fatal thing is the mistake of Japan's operational guiding ideology. First of all, Japan made the mistake of dispersing its forces. Although Japan had a large number of ships, it was divided into six groups that could not directly support each other, and two aircraft carriers were used in the far north, so that in the direction of Midway, four aircraft carriers mainly relied on the Nagumo Fleet, and these four aircraft carriers had a total of 261 carrier-based aircraft. However, the U.S. Navy concentrated its own forces to the greatest extent, and the number of planes that could be used in the Midway direction reached 354, which was superior in numbers. Secondly. The tasks given to the Nagumo fleet were two fundamentally contradictory tasks. One mission was to conduct an air raid on Midway Island in preparation for the landing operation. This severely restricts the freedom of action of the Nagumo fleet. However, the other task was to make contact with the enemy fleet and annihilate it, which in turn required the Nagumo fleet to be fully mobile according to the situation. Since no priority was specified, the Nagumo fleet was at a loss. Forced to load two waves of aircraft with ammunition for different tasks, later due to the delay in replacing the ammunition, delayed the fighter plane, and suffered a catastrophe. Third, they have not attached importance to strategic intelligence work and to the means of collecting information on the opponent's generals, equipment, and tactics, so that they have not correctly judged the enemy's situation. ”

"Chu Shuai is right, the little devil is still greedy and can't chew too much, too greedy and insufficient. And they are also lagging behind in fleet tactics. The United States sank all the battleships at Pearl Harbor, but instead made them free of their shackles and established a task force with aircraft carriers as the core, and other ships around protecting aircraft carriers. Although the little devils used carrier-based aircraft to achieve the victory of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, there were still many supporters in the navy who insisted on taking warships as the decisive force in the decisive naval battle, and the battlefleet, including the largest battleship in the world at that time, the "Yamato," was kept at the anchorage of Pillar Island for future decisive battles. They played no greater role than the American battleships sunk at Pearl Harbor. The little devils were reluctant to mix battleships and aircraft carriers into a fleet with aircraft carriers as the core, and let the battleships provide air cover for the aircraft carriers, so that the Nagumo fleet had to rely on its own patrol aircraft to protect itself. When attacked by Midway planes, the Combined Fleet had no choice but to take off the cover fighters in the second wave of planes to meet the battle, resulting in the fact that the dive bombers that had been prepared after receiving the intelligence of the US fleet had no fighter cover, and Nagumo witnessed the defeat of the US fighters without fighter cover, and did not want to repeat the mistake of the past, so he decided to reorganize his forces and attack the US fleet again, causing the fighters to be delayed. Moreover, the task of preparing firepower for the landing operation could be completely carried out by the battlefleet, so that the hands and feet of the Nagumo fleet could be freed. Chen Jialiang also immersed himself in studying this unprecedented sea and air battle, and he had a lot of experience.

In fact, both of them knew that there was a more fatal problem that was the driving force for Japan's eventual defeat, that is, Japan had obviously lagged behind the United States in science and technology, and an obvious proof of this was the application of radar technology. At that time, the US fleet was already equipped with radar, although it was not as advanced as China's phased array radar system, but it was still possible to detect and prepare in advance before the Japanese aircraft group arrived, and the Japanese fleet was not equipped with anti-aircraft radar, and only imported civilian fishery radar from China, and the sea construction could barely deal with it, and all anti-air alert depended on visual inspection, and when the US dive bombers attacked under the cover of clouds, they could not respond in time.

The industrial economic strength of Japan and the United States also played a large role. Before the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Coral Sea took place, in which the Japanese aircraft carrier "Shozuru" was injured and needed a month to repair, and the "Zuizuru" was unable to perform combat missions due to the large loss of personnel. The American aircraft carrier USS Enterprise sank, and USS Yorktown was injured. In order to allow the "Yorktown" to participate in the Battle of Midway, the United States concentrated all its efforts on repairing the "Yorktown" for three days and three nights, and finally brought it back to the battlefield, thus making great contributions to the victory. Japan has reduced two aircraft carriers, while the United States has increased one, and the ratio of aircraft carriers between the two sides has become 4:3, greatly reducing the gap between the two sides and laying a solid foundation for the United States to win.

The Chinese Navy did not participate in this naval battle, but sent observers on several ships of the Japanese Navy, while the American side rejected the request of the Chinese Foreign Ministry to send observers. After this war, the Chinese Navy has become more determined in the development direction of "air, submarine, and flight" that it has always adhered to. If the Chinese Navy is allowed to attack, neither the Japanese nor the US navies will be able to resist an attack by a task force; after all, the electronic reconnaissance technology and space-based surveillance network of the Chinese naval aviation are beyond the imagination of Japan and the United States, and if another killer trick that China has not yet exposed is used, I am afraid that the US Navy will not even have the strength to fight back.

But after all, Japan is not China, which is already the first in the world, and the little money accumulated by the buckle rope has been wiped out by Nagumo, and now they no longer want to occupy the northern territories, whether they can resist the next wave of aircraft carriers of the Americans is a serious matter, there is no way, the old few in the Akasaka Imperial Palace can only accept the new strategy of comprehensive contraction.