Jiang Haoran shook his head with a wry smile, a little afraid to compliment the people of the United States for not knowing how to adapt, in fact, this problem is very easy to solve. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Because the runways of Midway and Pearl Harbor were occupied by fighters and bombers used for ambush attacks, and it would be crowded and chaotic before mobilizing planes to attack, it was impossible for planes on the west coast of the United States to fly to the two places.

However, after the plane takes off from the West Coast and arrives at the battlefield, and after completing the bombing mission, it can choose to land at Midway Island and Pearl Harbor when it returns, and the bombers that take off from Midway Island and Pearl Harbor can return to the West Coast after completing the bombing mission, so that the range of the bombers taking off from the West Coast is shortened by thousands of kilometers, and the bombers that take off from Midway Island and Pearl Harbor can easily fly to the West Coast because of their short range.

Of course, the number of bombers taking off from the West Coast could only be fifty, so that there would be no landing pressure on Midway and Pearl Harbor.

In this way, it can ensure that the bombers shuttle back and forth to bomb, even if they attack the island army without interruption, there is no problem, as long as the escort fighters of the Third Fleet can continue to escort them, even if the attack effect of the B-24 horizontal bombers is not very ideal, it is enough to bring endless trouble to the island army, at least their attack on the Third Fleet will be sharply reduced by more than half, and the living space of the Third Fleet will be expanded invisibly. The loss of bombers, of course, is much more cost-effective.

Just such a simple question, Nimitz did not understand, in fact, this is also determined by the mindset of the American people, in this regard, the Chinese are often much more flexible.

When Jiang Haoran laid out the truth, Nimitz's face was very ugly, as a supreme military commander, such a simple problem was not seen, this was undoubtedly a very faceless thing in front of his subordinates, but he didn't expect that this was the beginning, and more embarrassing things were still to come.

Nimitz accepted Jiang Haoran's plan and ordered the land base on the west coast to be ready for battle, and for such a long voyage, it was necessary to go to the battlefield on time, and the time must be well controlled.

Just as Nimitz was about to release the offensive plan again, Jiang Haoran spoke again.

"Wait, General Nimitz, can I say one more word?"

Nimitz looked at Jiang Haoran for four or five seconds, he was really a little afraid that Jiang Haoran would veto his attack plan, but he still nodded and motioned to Jiang Haoran to say.

Jiang Haoran really didn't disappoint him, and opened his mouth to say: "I think your tactics are flawed, and the T-shaped horizontal head tactics are not suitable for the battle in front of you." ”

As soon as these words came out, the room suddenly fell silent, and Nimitz's carefully planned tactics were overturned by Jiang Haoran in an instant, which made Nimitz embarrassed.

Everyone looked at Nimitz unconsciously, and they didn't dare to make a sound, and Nimitz's face suddenly turned from red to purple and instantly turned into the color of pig liver, and the masseter muscles of his cheeks kept beating, and finally he held back a few words: "Then what tactics do you think should be used?" ”

Jiang Haoran raised his hand and touched his nose, didn't look at Nimitz at all, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Wild goose formation!" ”

Nimitz suddenly showed a look of disdain on his face, and said with some disdain: "I thought you had some amazing tactics, it turned out to be the tactics of you being beaten by the island army in the First Sino-Japanese War, this kind of outdated and failed tactics, is there still a place to turn decay into magic?" ”

Nimitz was right, Jiang Haoran said that the wild goose array was indeed the tactics used by the Chinese Beiyang Fleet during the First Sino-Japanese War, and the results of the war were self-evident, the Beiyang Fleet was beaten by the island army and lost its armor, and then was forced to sign the "Shimonoseki Agreement" that humiliated the country.

When two fleets or two warships are engaged, the most advantageous and unfavorable battle positions can be expressed by the English mother "t", and the "t" horizontal battle position is the most advantageous, which is characterized by the maximum bomb area at the expense of the maximum firepower of the entire fleet; However, being in the "T" vertical position is the most disadvantageous, and it is characterized by giving up firepower to the maximum extent in exchange for the smallest bomb area.

Therefore, in naval warfare, if the two belligerents have equal firepower, either side will try to avoid being in or close to the "T" position.

When the Beiyang Fleet decided to fight against the enemy in a "flank formation" and "bow to the enemy," every warship would form a column formation and form a "T" confrontation with most of the island warships passing in front of the formation, while the Beiyang Fleet warships were in an absolutely unfavorable "T" vertical position in every confrontation, and the island warships were in the most favorable "T" horizontal position. Although the warships of the Beiyang Fleet had the advantage of having a minimum area of bombing, their firepower was also reduced to a minimum. Although the battleships of the island army have the disadvantage of exposing the maximum bomb area, because the firepower of the Beiyang Fleet warships has been reduced to a minimum, they cannot use the maximum bomb area exposed by the opponent to deal a fatal blow. Therefore, normally speaking, the Beiyang Fleet's Flying Goose Formation is indeed the worst battle formation, and it is no wonder that Nimitz despises it.

Jiang Haoran smiled slightly, ignoring Nimitz's disdain and cynicism, and said: "At this time and that time, the reason why the Beiyang Fleet was defeated back then was that there was no problem with the tactics themselves, the problem was in the firepower of the battleships and the flexibility of the battleships. Compared to the island army, the Beiyang Fleet was far behind. I have carefully studied that battle, based on the data of the hour before the start of the battle, the combined fleet of the island army fired 40,042 shells in an hour, while the Beiyang Fleet was only 2,368 rounds, the rate of fire ratio was 17.76 to 1, and the firepower of the island army was 18 times that of the Beiyang Fleet. ”

The First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle was too famous, of course Nimitz knew the whole process, and Jiang Haoran was telling the truth, so even if Jiang Haoran cast an inquiring glance at him, Nimitz didn't see it and was unwilling to respond.

Jiang Haoran didn't care, and continued: "Although the 'T-shaped cross-head tactic' is the best offensive formation, our purpose in this battle is not to attack, but to defend, and to retreat in defense, once the 'T-shaped cross-head' retreats are quite difficult, and once the retreat begins, the rear ships cannot be quickly retracted, and it is easy to be annihilated by the island army, and although the 'Wild Goose Formation' sacrifices some firepower advantages, the retreat is the fastest and most rapid, if there are bombers who successfully penetrate the air defense of the island army, After two or three effective rounds of attacks, and successfully pinning down the speed of the island's advance, I can guarantee that the casualties of the Third Fleet will be reduced by 30 percent. ”