As soon as Jiang Haoran's voice fell, there was an exclamation in the war room, reducing the casualties by thirty percent, this is not a small amount, even if this plan challenges Nimitz's authority, the generals of the United States still look at Nimitz with hopeful eyes on their faces. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Prepare for a wargame deduction!" Nimitz's expression was extremely painful, his hands were clenched into fists, although he did not approve of Jiang Haoran's plan in his heart, but the eyes of his subordinates told him that they believed it, and if they did not show effective persuasion, I am afraid that the soldiers would not be convinced.

There was a sudden rush in the war room, and the staff generals began to nervously prepare for the war games, but Jiang Haoran took this opportunity to walk up to Nimitz and said softly: "Don't be superstitious that your 'Iowa' battleships can fight against the 'Yamato' and 'Musashi' battleships of the island army, I heard that these two battleships are in their first assault fleet this time, don't try to confront them head-on, otherwise you will suffer a big loss." ”

Nimitz was stunned for a moment, and then said with some excitement: "Do you doubt our country's ability to build ships?" You know, the battleship 'Iowa' was built specifically for the 'Yamato', and I never doubt it at this point. ”

Jiang Haoran said: "I have never doubted your ship-building ability, but your intelligence is wrong, the caliber of the main gun of the 'Yamato' is 460 mm, not the 406 mm you know, its armor thickness can withstand the blow of its own 460 mm main gun at a distance of 20,000-30,000 meters, and the middle deck can also resist 800 kg of aerial bombs dropped from a height of 3,900 meters." The Type 91 armor-piercing projectile used weighs 1,460 kilograms, has a maximum range of 42,000 meters, and can easily penetrate 560 mm of vertical armor at a distance of 20,000 meters. On the other hand, the thickness of your 'Iowa' main armor belt is only 409 mm and 25.4 mm steel lining, 406 mm naval guns, the weight of armor-piercing shells is 1,224 kg, the maximum range is 38,700 meters, and it is possible to penetrate 509 mm of vertical armor at a distance of 18,000 meters. In other words, if the Iowa wants to penetrate its armor, it must be within 18,000 kilometers, and the Yamato can penetrate the armor of the Iowa at a distance of 20,000 meters, so it is difficult to win against you head-on. ”

Nimitz was full of horror, looking at Jiang Haoran as if he had seen a ghost, these data are top secrets of various countries, he doesn't know if the 'Yamato' is accurate, but he still knows the "Iowa", Jiang Haoran said it, the shock in his heart can be imagined, but the war is imminent, he doesn't have time to care about where Jiang Haoran got this information, of course, even if he asks Jiang Haoran, he may not tell him the truth, it is better to save this time for war games, originally planned to let "Iowa" and "Yamato" The idea of competing for the long and short suddenly wavered.

After some nervous deduction, the results came out quickly, but when it was announced, it made a room full of people a little dumbfounded, although the actual combat would be a big deviation from the deduction, but the results of the deduction were exactly the same as Jiang Haoran's budget, if the "wild goose marching array" was used against the enemy, compared with Nimitz's "T-shaped cross-head tactic", it just reduced the battle loss by three percent.

The war game deduction is a complicated drill process, the result of the intense calculation of more than a dozen staff generals arranging troops for nearly an hour, Jiang Haoran can actually be consistent with them, if this is just a guess, it is amazing.

At around noon, Jiang Haoran, Nimitz, and other personnel of the command board the "Hornet" aircraft carrier as scheduled, and the Iowa headed for the front line of the battlefield at full speed.

Time flew by, and soon it was four o'clock in the afternoon, and there was only one hour left before the set time for the start of the war.

The enemy was only seventy or eighty nautical miles away from the Third Fleet, and even the submarines in front of them had already had close encounters with them.

The fighters of the First Commando of the Island Army were seriously damaged and did not take the initiative to launch an air attack, and the Third Fleet of the US Army naturally could not launch an attack on them because the aircraft carrier was not loaded with torpedo planes and bombers, and the fighters and reconnaissance planes of both sides were only closely monitoring each other's movements at their outposts, and neither of them had the intention of taking the initiative to cross the opponent's defense area.

This move can be said that both sides have their own ghosts, and the intentions of the Mi army are self-evident, but the island army wants to use their ships and guns to fight hand-to-hand combat.

They do not have an advantage in air combat with the F6F Hellcat of the Mi Army, and they cannot consume the air power in the first battle, then the next capture of Midway Island is purely a joke, since the advent of the aircraft carrier, carrier-based aircraft have become the dominant naval warfare, they are happy that the Mi Army is not loaded with torpedo planes and dive bombers with attack capabilities, if they can use the number and firepower advantage of the ships to completely annihilate the Third Fleet in front of them, the most important thing is to destroy the aircraft carrier of the Mi Army, so that more than 100 Hellcats crashed in the sea, The next battle will be much easier.

Although the combat effectiveness of the F6F Hellcat is terrifying, the island army believes that more than 100 aircraft on the three aircraft carriers in front of them are definitely their backbone, after all, they are the latest developed weapons, and the number cannot be too much.

At 4:45 p.m., in the war room of the aircraft carrier "Hornet".

Nimitz and a group of staff generals had already begun to get busy nervously, and before the battle had even begun, there was a faint smell of gunpowder smoke in the war room.

Jiang Haoran was quite idle, sitting on the sofa next to Mei Xiang, Mei Xin, and Zhuang Yingying drinking coffee and chatting, as if he was out of the way, and was a little out of place with the tense atmosphere in the room.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the command headquarters, and a staff officer exclaimed that the battle had begun, that the enemy ships were only 2,300 kilometers away from the outposts of the Third Fleet, and that the nine 406-mm guns of the battleship "Iowa," with the assistance of the new fire control radar and the commander, opened fire on the island fleet and fired the first salvo, and then the 12 356-mm guns on the battleship "Pennsylvania" and the guns on several heavy cruisers also opened fire one after another, and in the first round of shelling, two shells hit an enemy cruiser. Smoke billowed from the enemy ship, the hull was heavily tilted, and it was only a matter of time before it sank.

There was thunderous applause in the war room, and Nimitz even took the time to glance at Jiang Haoran, with a slight smug look on his face.

Jiang Haoran frowned into the word "Chuan" at this time, Nimitz did not accept his overall plan in the end, and while implementing the "Wild Goose Formation", even the "bow against the enemy" was also fully followed.

Maybe he was not convinced, so he put several heavy firepower ships in the forefront, and the subjective consciousness of fighting with the Japanese fleet was obvious, but Jiang Haoran knew that this sweetness in front of him was nothing at all, and next, Nimitz would pay a painful price for his reckless behavior.