At about 2 o'clock in the morning, the main fleet of Nimitz rushed forward, 2 battleships, 4 light cruisers, and 8 air defense cruisers tightly protected the three main aircraft carriers in the center of the formation, and the more than 20 destroyers on the periphery did not care whether they were useful or useless, and launched the hedgehog bullets in one go, and the sound on the sea was huge and the sound was earth-shattering. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It seems to be scurrying like a headless fly, but to tell the truth, this trick still has a positive effect -- because Germany now relies on sonar to determine the direction and range, and the explosion of the hedgehog bullet in pieces interferes with the sonar soldier's ability to discriminate, making the sound guidance of the second interception line less successful, and it must also rely on periscopes to carry out line-of-sight attacks.

However, since the US military has become a frightened bird, and the microwave search radar can no longer be used quietly, the intercepted German submarines are much more free, and with the loss of several escort aircraft carriers and cruisers, the second batch of work is more neat. Experienced and bold sea wolves floated directly, and no matter how accurate they aimed, they directly used the 6-thunder fan-shaped salvo method. It doesn't matter if you hit or miss after shooting, just dive and continue to reload.

The tragic U.S. military finally learned the power of Torpedo Night.

The battleship Missouri, located in the core of the formation, was hit by a torpedo fired from more than 6,000 meters away, and was blown open with a huge explosion, although the damage control team tried desperately to plug the leak, but the seawater still poured nearly 5,000 tons, and the cutting-edge battleship, which had only been in service for a few days, had an 11-degree roll, and the speed was reduced to only 23 knots. This torpedo was supposed to go to the Franklin, and he was nothing more than a shield.

Nimitz let him reluctantly follow, and let 4 destroyers protect him. But the good times did not last long, seeing that a battleship was left alone, the U3318 submarine saw the gap, launched three Tiger Sharks, and went straight to the Missouri, although one was blown by the destroyer on the way, and the other deviated from the stern, but there was still a strong one that hit the port bow of the USS Missouri, almost blowing up the entire bow. Now the bow of the warship is low, the entire front of the ship is buried in the sea, and the broken steel plates that have been rolled outward have increased the running resistance, forcing the ship to fall to a speed of only 17 knots - now the XXI and XXIII classes can run faster than the Missouri at full speed.

"Sir, the USS Missouri has been badly damaged!" Smith's heart was in his throat, "And then 2 more escort aircraft carriers were sunk behind!" ”

"Damn it!" Nimitz angrily slapped against the wall but couldn't do anything, he wanted to look back at the Missouri, only to find that there was nothing he could do in the dark.

"Continue to rush out of the ambush area." While saying this, the port side of the light cruiser USS Pasadena (Cleveland-class), which was guarding the left flank of the fleet, was hit by a mine, and the 10,000-ton light cruiser barely struggled for three minutes, sinking with anger and reluctance.

This is the second Cleveland-class light cruiser to sink today, and during the first round of the blockade, the ship, the Springfield, also sank after eating a Tiger Shark, plus the loss of 3 air defense cruisers. 5 cruisers have been reimbursed tonight.

Since the losses of the US Navy in this time and space far exceeded those in the same period in history, even the US imperialists, who have deep pockets and superior industrial capabilities, have to make careful calculations. The heavy cruiser construction plan, which lasted for nearly three years, has long been cut -- the subsequent construction plans of the Baltimore class have been cancelled, and the Des Moines class, which is known as the strongest heavy cruiser, simply has only drawings and no budget.

The construction plan of the light cruisers, which lasted for nearly two years, was also greatly adjusted, and the construction plans of the Cleveland-class ships that started before 1944 continued to be maintained and accelerated, and the new Cleveland-class was no longer built after 1944, and the so-called last all-gun light cruiser, the Worcester-class with a displacement of nearly 15,000 tons, was directly mothballed without even the final completion of the drawings.

The U.S. Navy currently builds only one class of cruisers - the Oakland class, a successor to the Atlanta class, which has been greatly simplified in non-critical positions compared to the historical Oakland class. One of the simplified features was the replacement of four quadruple 28mm secondary guns with 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, the second was the elimination of eight 21-inch (533mm) torpedo tubes and supporting torpedo storage compartments, and the third was that each Oakland-class attempt to carry two Seahawk seaplanes - both for reconnaissance and fleet anti-submarine purposes.

Although the US Navy's shipbuilding ideas are not as radical as Hoffman's, such as changing destroyers to Phalanx air defense and battleships into fleet air defense platforms, there is no shortage of innovative ideas. They clearly saw the weakness of the United States in the field of torpedoes: there were no good torpedoes, let alone effective torpedo combat opportunities, so they simply canceled the matter, saving money and displacement. Carrying a seaplane can effectively enhance the reconnaissance effect and anti-submarine capability -- although the anti-submarine is still blind at night.

In a word, in the face of the general situation of aviation warfare, air defense cruisers with enhanced air defense capabilities are more conducive to accompanying Essex-class operations.

After the improvement, the standard displacement of the Auckland class has been reduced to 5,700 tons, and the difficulty has been reduced, and more shipyards with poor technical level can be used to build new buildings. After absorbing more than 100,000 British shipyard workers and engineers, the technology and construction strength of the medium and large shipyards have been greatly improved, and the construction period of a single ship has been compressed from the original 18 months to 12 months under the premise of rotational operation and construction. The cost was compressed to $21 million (FY44 prices, or less than $7 million if you use the FY38 currency index), compared to $14 million for a Fletcher-class destroyer and $3 million for a Victory ship.

The increase in American war spending, the loss of American capital, and the loss of European bonds caused the dollar exchange rate to plummet -- all the countries that joined the Axis had lost their American debts, and countries like Argentina had confiscated large amounts of American capital, which had caused more damage to the United States than the defeat of several major wars.

Debt to the United States and the confiscation of American capital even became a major weapon for the Axis to recruit younger brothers: the Brazilian government immediately announced that it would "not recognize" all dollar loans from the Vargas government after the Montero coup. The British, by contrast, were much more subtle and civilized: Edward VIII demanded reparations from the United States for supporting the military coup, a slightly larger amount than the bad debt Britain owed to the United States. Other countries in Europe and the Middle East, all countries that have declared war on the United States have relied on their debts to the United States with the support of the Axis.

Some pro-Axis countries that did not declare war on the United States but also had debts to the United States also benefited. Germany demanded compensation from these countries for the heavy property damage caused to the German population during the American bombing of Germany - in lieu of their debts to the United States. The compensation rate demanded by Germany is only 50%, and it does not need to pay real dollar currency, it can be repaid with marks or German bonds, and it is okay to use goods or raw materials without taking out marks. In other words, 50% of these bad debts were written off by the German collector at once. Why not curry favor with Germany and lose half of its debts? As for the post-war? The sky will fall and Germany will stand on top of it, and the Germans will come forward to settle it.

In 1942, Japan "returned" the Anglo-American concession to the Wang Ji Nationalist Government, and then in early 1944, President Wang came forward to "not recognize" the Anglo-American debts owed or borrowed by the Chongqing government, and after the Japan-US "Final Peace Effort Plan" submitted by Sweden and Switzerland last week was again rejected by the United States, all the Far Eastern countries occupied by Japan and supported by Japan (such as the governments of the Philippines and Siam) announced that they would confiscate American capital and not recognize the debts owed by the United States.

The base camp of the Japanese army and navy was infuriated by the attitude of the United States in refusal, and prepared to hold a swearing-in meeting for the decisive battle between Japan and the United States in Tokyo, determined to "fight to the end" with the United States! As for Horiyoshi himself, he will soon go to Cairo to attend the Axis Summit together with Prime Minister Minoru Higashikunomiya, Land Minister Tada Jun, and Foreign Minister Tani Masaiyuki, and at that time Ishihara Wanji and Yamamoto Isoroku will preside over the work of the army and navy in Japan.

Of course, Japan's strength is still weaker, the surrounding countries are poorer, and no one has yet transferred to Japan to "pay off its debts to the United States." Even this is enough for the United States to be disgusting.

On the one hand, there were huge debts and capital losses, and on the other hand, a large number of currency and government bonds were issued, which caused a sharp decline in the exchange rate of the US dollar. Originally, the black market exchange rate between the dollar and the mark before the war was around 1:5 (official 1:4), but by mid-1944, the black market exchange rate between the dollar and the mark had dropped to only 1:3 (official 1:3.5). But the more than 1,000 tons of gold and more than 2,000 tons of silver that Japan got from Japan gave Germany great confidence, and even if it was hard to consume, it was not afraid of the US imperialism now.

The results of 2 escort aircraft carriers and 5 cruisers have locked in advance the cost of the torpedo array used by Krark and 200% of the profit, and the next step is to prepare to harvest high net profits.

At 2:47, the first excess profit hit Rank's account: the remaining 4 escort carriers besieged by 7 submarines were hit by 2 more, and the other 2 scattered and escaped;

At 2:58, the second excess profit arrived: the USS Missouri, which had been hit by two torpedoes, was repaired with two spears, the hull had more than 13,000 tons of water, and the bow and No. 1 turret had been basically swallowed by seawater. The warship, which had historically held a surrender ceremony and a signing ceremony, had come to the end of its service life, and the captain had no choice but to abandon the ship.

At this time, the Missouri had not sunk until seven minutes later, when the German submarine, which had completed the second round of loading, completely sent it into the sea with a tiger shark.

The warship alone cost the Americans $140 million (1942 budgeted price), but the German harvest continued......