1. Diego Garcia Island is the largest and southernmost coral island in the Chagos archipelago in the central Indian Ocean, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, with an island area of 27 square kilometers.

The island is more than 1,900 kilometers from the southernmost tip of India, and is strategically located at the meeting point of many shipping routes between the Cape of Good Hope, Singapore, the Red Sea and Australia.

After the outbreak of World War II, the island was a British air base and an important naval anchor.

In the early hours of April 1, 1943, before the sky was bright, a group of unwelcome guests headed west to the eastern part of the island of Diego Garcia.

Among the uninvited guests, the leader was the tall and mighty battleship Musashi.

Clustered around the Musashi were two battleships, Hiei and Kirishima, as well as four light cruisers and eight destroyers.

The fleet rode the wind and waves, and under the cover of night, quickly approached the island, and then turned sharply south, and circled from the south of the island to the port on the west side of the island.

When the Japanese fleet circled the southern part of Diego Garcia, the British airfield near the western port of Diego Garcia was already covered in battle.

Of the 18 Type 99 dive bombers that took off from the aircraft carrier Soryu in the Japanese First Mobile Fleet, eight fighters arrived at Diego Garcia Island in advance and entered the battle in a surprise attack.

By the time the Japanese fleet arrived at the western port, the group had already finished bombing and left the airfield triumphantly.

The fleet led by the battleship Musashi then approached the harbor and covered it with a second round of fire from the ship's huge cannons, pouring tons of steel and explosives onto the island of Diego Garcia.

Eighty nautical miles southeast of Diego Garcia Island, on the aircraft carrier Akagi, the flagship of the Japanese First Mobile Fleet, fleet commander Nagumo Tadaichi did not feel excited when he heard the news of the successful attack on Diego Garcia Island, but instead sat on a chair, holding the command knife in both hands, and his eyes were slightly open, as if he had not woken up.

Unexpectedly, the Imperial Japanese Navy also had a day when they learned from the army red deer, and it was funny just thinking about it.

The First Mobile Fleet consisted of three aircraft carriers, Akagi, Kaga, and Soryu, three battleships Musashi, Hiei, and Kirishima, and four heavy cruisers and other light warships.

After the start of the Indian Ocean Sweeping War, Nagumo led the fleet into the Indian Ocean, then turned around and headed south, detouring to the eastern waters of Diego Garcia Island outside the combat radius of the Allied land-based aircraft on the island of Sri Lanka, and then implemented a plan to use Diego Garcia Island as a decoy to destroy the Allied fleet behind him.

The official name of this project is "Encirclement and Reinforcement".

Speaking of the plan to encircle the point and send reinforcements, we must start with a staff officer of the Japanese Combined Fleet surnamed Aoki.

At the end of '42, Aoki Shosa was given a precious vacation to go home and reunite with his family for the New Year.

During his vacation, Aoki met his childhood friend and long-time neighbor Nakasa Futaki.

When old friends meet, they are all soldiers, so it is natural to talk about the ongoing war.

During the chat, after a few glasses of sake, Futaki Nakasa, who served in the army, completely opened up the conversation box and talked about the details of his war of law and order in North China.

What Futaki Nakasa encountered in the public security war was a very earthy army, compared with the noble Imperial Japanese Army, this army was uniformed with soil, equipped with soil, in short, the kind of soil that got rid of the slag.

However, Futaki Nakasa's assessment of this force is "cunning and cunning".

One of the things that this cunning and cunning army often did was to attack a Japanese stronghold with great fanfare, causing the defenders in the stronghold to panic and call for help.

Seeing death and not saving is not the style of the Imperial Army, the defenders of the surrounding strongholds heard the wind and urgently sent troops to rescue the besieged comrades, and then crashed headlong into the ambush circle of the enemy army.

Niki Nakasa's predecessor, Ichiro Kuroki Nakasa, was killed in an ambush when he led his subordinates to rescue friendly forces.

After the death of Kuroki Nakasa, the original Futaki Shaosa, as the most senior Shaosa, was successfully promoted to the rank of one level and promoted to Nakasa.

This tactic has a very Chinese name, which is called encirclement and reinforcement.

Encirclement and reinforcement is only one of the various tactics encountered by Erki Nakasa, and what other cunning and cunning tactics such as mine warfare, tunnel warfare and sparrow warfare encountered by Erki Nakasa, and against these tactics, Erki Nakasa has a feeling that he cannot be used.

After a series of tosses, Futaki Nakasa sighed that the Imperial Army, which was moving with a bad smell of friendly forces, was transforming and embarked on the road of no return where "friendly troops are as immobile as a mountain".

After listening to Erki Nakasa's vomit of bitter water, Aoki Shaosa was very entangled, because it sounded like Erki Nakasa and his subordinates had a miserable wartime life, but after seeing Erki's Nakasa epaulettes, some sympathy in Aoki Shaosa's heart immediately dissipated.

Ermu, his classmate back then, why is he one level higher than his military rank?

After a few drinks, the two returned to their respective teams at the end of the holiday.

When the Combined Fleet was formulating a plan for the Indian Ocean Sweeping Campaign, when they saw the island of Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Aoki Shosa was reminded of the tactic of encircling the point and sending reinforcements.

After secretly organizing some language, Aoki Shosa proposed the tactic of using Diego Garcia Island as a bait to lure the Allied fleet into a decisive battle near the island.

In Aoki's description, Diego Garcia Island was transformed into a turret built by army red deer, and as for the Allied fleet, it naturally played the role of army red deer.

The great Imperial Japanese Navy, undoubtedly playing the first male lead, a force with both wisdom and courage.

Aoki Shaosa's plan to encircle and send reinforcements satisfied the vanity of the Japanese naval officers, and was soon unanimously approved by the staff officers.

As a senior general, Nagumo Tadaichi knew the true origin of this plan, so he sighed that he wanted to learn from the army red deer.

The fleet led by the battleship Musashi, with the cooperation of the aircraft carrier Soryu, had already begun to besiege the "turret" named Diego Garcia, and the two aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga, which he commanded, were waiting for the "army red deer" to come to the rescue.

Nanyun touched his bald head and silently thought, how many "army red deer" can be killed in this ambush battle?

When Nagumo was planning a big battle with the "Army Red Deer", about three hundred nautical miles northeast of Diego Garcia Island, Vice Admiral Cayario, commander of the Italian Indian Ocean Fleet, stood on the bridge of the aircraft carrier Eagle, staring at the endless sea, which could be said to be anxious.

It is arrogant that the Japanese fleet should go to the island of Diego Garcia and bombard the ports and airfields in a grand manner, as if the Italian Navy did not exist.

Now that I've found your place, don't try to run away.

At the urging of Vice Admiral Callario, the Eagle and Sparrowhawk, two aircraft carriers converted from ocean-going luxury cruise ships, and the two battleships Cavour and Caesar, as the main forces, slaughtered Diego Garcia, but they did not know that they were playing the role of "army deer" with fearless courage.

Three hours later, on the aircraft carrier Akagi, Nagumo suddenly opened his eyes and stood up.

"Found the Italian fleet?"

"Yes, the reconnaissance aircraft on the Kaga spotted the Italian fleet, about two hundred nautical miles north of us."

"Yo Xi, army red deer, let's die, let's go to the bridge."