Jiang Haoran pondered a little and talked eloquently. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

His plan is actually very simple, that is, to exchange space for time, the speed of the aircraft carrier of the island army is 33 knots in the Dafeng, and the difference between the front and rear aircraft carrier fleets is 100 nautical miles, that is to say, from the beginning of the battle, it will take at least two hours for the aircraft carrier fleet in the rear to press up.

If the Third Fleet of the US Army controls the end of the battle within two hours, it can completely avoid confronting the island army's group of more than four aircraft carriers, and in this way, their living space will be greatly improved, and they will resolutely retreat after two hours, regardless of the battle situation.

However, even if they retreat, they cannot let the island army see that they have already prepared for retreat, otherwise they still cannot escape the suspicion of luring the enemy into depth, so the performance of the Mi army on the battlefield must be "fighting and not daring to fight, but having to fight, retreating and not daring to retreat, but having to withdraw".

And to do this, it seems difficult, but in fact it is not difficult, the key is that the time point must be controlled.

Now the time is 10 o'clock in the morning, and the distance between the island army and the Third Fleet is about 200 nautical miles, such a long distance, it is not difficult for the Third Fleet to control the start time of the war at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, two hours later, the sky will be completely dark, and the Mi army can use the cover of the night to retreat smoothly, and the island army may not dare to pursue it with all its might, after all, they do not know where the specific location of the other four aircraft carriers of the Mi army is.

Although subjectively, they will think that the other four aircraft carriers must be conducting exercises between Pearl Harbor and Midway, but they must also consider objective reasons, in case this is a trap set for them by the Mi army? Stupidly run into the ambush circle, and then we use the cover of the night and absolute air superiority to catch them by surprise, then they will lose more than they gain, so at night, they will inevitably expand the search area, advance cautiously, and the speed of progress will inevitably slow down.

In this way, the Third Fleet not only avoided a large-scale head-to-head confrontation with the island army, but also used the dark night to constantly harass them, and most importantly, of course, completed the task of luring the enemy as scheduled.

Jiang Haoran's idea was immediately recognized by Nimitz, and the staff generals in the war room also nodded, but this only solved the problem of the aftermath, and a hard-fought confrontation in front of everyone was still inevitable.

This time, Nimitz did not hesitate and immediately ordered the staff officers to convey the tactical ideas, and the aircraft carrier ships in front began to arrange their troops according to this line of thought.

At the same time, Nimitz ordered the battleship "Iowa" to move closer to the aircraft carrier "Hornet", and the command moved to the "Hornet".

The position of the aircraft carrier will be relatively backward, and the battleship "Ayihua" was specially designed to deal with the "Yamato" battleship of the island army, and of course it had to go to the front line to act as the main force.

After doing all this, Nimitz began to deduce the war games, and did not pay attention to Jiang Haoran from beginning to end, perhaps in his opinion, with Jiang Haoran's ingenuity, it may be no problem to get a feasible tactical plan, but the actual combat has to rely on himself.

And Jiang Haoran didn't say much, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and watched them deduce on the sand table very calmly, never saying a word.

According to Nimitz's plan, at five o'clock, 50 long-range bombers will fly from Midway Island and Pearl Harbor to the sky over the enemy ships, and under the cover of more than 120 F6F Hellcats on the three aircraft carriers of the Third Fleet, they will launch a round of bombardment of the enemy ships to contain the enemy's pursuit and give the fleet time to arrange their troops.

Naval warfare is different from land warfare, land warfare can also take advantage of mountainous terrain, and tactics can be used to win in the case of insufficient firepower, but sea warfare can be seen at a glance, except for weather reasons such as wind direction and wind speed, everything else is purely spoken by artillery fire.

As early as the Ming Dynasty, Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general, said, "The strength of firepower is the key to naval warfare." In his writings, he wrote: "There is no other way to fight at sea, the big ship is better than the small ship, the big gun is better than the small gun, the many ships are better than the few ships, and the many guns are better than the few guns." Therefore, when the difference in strength between the two sides is not too great, it is particularly important to arrange troops and maximize the firepower advantage of the fleet.

In terms of tactics, Nimitz chose the "T-shaped cross-head tactic", the so-called "T-shaped cross-head tactic", the full name is to seize the T-shaped cross-head firing position, theoretically that is, the attacking column crosses the front of the enemy column at an angle of about 90 degrees, so that the attacking side can concentrate all the side firepower to shoot at the enemy's lead ship at a wide angle, while the opponent can only use part of the front main gun to return fire. This means that the side that occupies the T-shaped position can fully fire firepower, while the opposite side has a greatly suppressed firepower. This is a common tactic used in the Navy, and it is the most ideal state that every fleet commander dreams of.

At the end of the war games, the Third Fleet of the United States lost one battleship, three heavy cruisers, and more than 20 warships of other sizes in exchange for the successful withdrawal of the main force of the Third Fleet from the battlefield two hours later.

Although Nimitz was a little distressed about this result, he was still able to accept it, and he didn't know how many times stronger than the original plan to complete this mission with the total annihilation.

Just as Nimitz was about to give an order according to this plan, Jiang Haoran spoke.

"Wait, General Nimitz, can I ask you a question?"

Nimitz stretched out his right hand and made a gesture of please, "You're welcome, Jiang, if you have anything, just say it." ”

Jiang Haoran said: "Are these fifty long-range bombers a one-time attack or multiple attacks?" And is there an increase in numbers? ”

Nimitz was silent for a few seconds, and said: "Jiang, I know what you mean, if you can reduce the pressure on the Third Fleet with bomber continuous attacks, I think I am willing to do this, but the fact is that there are only these fifty bombers that can be mobilized on Midway Island and Pearl Harbor, unless the ambush part is used, which is obviously unrealistic, so these fifty bombers can only be an attack, and if the island army really has ten aircraft carriers behind, with their air defense power, the fighters of the Third Fleet may not be able to withstand their large number, I'm afraid that there will be no return. ”

Jiang Haoran said: "West coast, can you still send bombers from the west coast of the United States to participate in the war?" ”

Nimitz smiled bitterly: "Jiang, you probably don't know, at present, we only have the longest range of B-24 bombers, with a range of 5,200 kilometers, but from the west coast to the battlefield in front of us is almost this distance, and the bombers are not in the air for a long time, unless they choose to automatically fall into the sea and die after completing the combat mission, but this loss is too great, and our Mr. President will not agree, so there is no other way to do this." ”