When Jiang Haoran heard that there was such a good thing, he was immediately happy, he was really worried about whether Chen Shaokuan had the ability to bring this navy out, after all, he had no experience in aircraft carrier operations, but if there was a group of naval backbones sent by Nimitz, all problems would be solved. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the same time, Nimitz's thinking coincided with his own idea of delaying the course of the war and using various forces to rapidly develop industry. The reason is very simple: As long as the island army preserves the strength of the combined fleet, it will also preserve their illusion in Southeast Asia, and in order to keep this illusion from being shattered, they must invest a large amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources in Southeast Asia, which can not only further drag down the economy and resources of the island army, but also relieve pressure on the domestic battlefield. And if the threat in Southeast Asia is not eliminated, he can also justifiably reach out to the Mi army and the British army, asking for guns, artillery, planes, tanks, and all kinds of materials that he needs.

Therefore, for Jiang Haoran, it is to move his mouth and do nothing, it is completely beneficial and harmless, it is simply pie in the sky, and a fool will not agree.

Jiang Haoran immediately clapped his chest, and this matter was covered with himself, and immediately suggested that Nimitz once again mobilize long-range bombers to carry out jamming and bombing of the island army, delaying their advance speed, the "Yorktown" still has a speed of 15 knots, and add a tugboat, if the ambush distance is set at 450 nautical miles, now the distance from the target is only 50 nautical miles, how can it be reached in two hours.

As for how to explain the temporary change of the battle plan to the top level of the United States, it is actually very simple, with the current distance between the enemy and us, out of the security considerations of the Third Fleet, it is reasonable to start the war in advance. As long as Jiang Haoran didn't say that all this was caused by Nimitz's command error, the two of them joined forces to issue a reasonable report, and there was no problem in fooling this matter around.

Reaching a consensus, both of them seemed a little excited, and Nimitz proposed a drink to celebrate the two of them becoming true friends and strategic partners, and Jiang Haoran naturally would not refuse.

Nimitz quickly went out and arranged for the bomber to bomb again, and when he came in, he already had an extra bottle of red wine and two glasses in his hand.

After a glass of red wine, Jiang Haoran said: "Old ghost, for the sake of you being so attentive to me, I will give you a great credit when the time comes, and I guarantee that you will immediately suppress the 'veteran'." ”

"Veteran? Who is a veteran? Nimitz frowned.

"Oh"

Jiang Haoran was speechless for a while, and the "veteran" in his mouth referred to Douglas?? MacArthur, because he once had a famous speech - "Veterans Never Die, Just Fade Away", so later generations called him veteran MacArthur, but this is already after the Korean War, of course Nimitz has not heard of it, in a flash, Jiang Haoran quickly reacted, and said with a smile: "After fighting World War I and World War II, what is not a veteran?" ”

Nimitz smiled, and immediately understood who Jiang Haoran was talking about, among the senior generals of the entire United States, there were only a few generals who participated in World War I, and the only one with enough weight was the current Commander-in-Chief of the Southwest Pacific Army, MacArthur, who was also Nimitz's most important political opponent at present.

"Jiang, you are so humorous, I like you more and more, I am very curious about your 'gift', I can't wait."

"Don't worry, old ghost, wait until this battle is over." At the critical moment, Jiang Haoran sold Guanzi.

"Jiang, you can't be so bad, I just praised you."

"Hehe, it's not that I won't tell you, but it's related to the battle in front of me, and I have to decide the size of the 'gift' according to the outcome of the battle. So, you'll have to be patient. ”

"Alright then, we'll make up our minds!" Nimitz raised his palm at Jiang Haoran as he spoke.

With a "snap", two palms struck in the air, and Jiang Haoran said: "One word is a certainty!" ”

At this moment, a senior staff officer knocked on the door and came in, reporting that the reconnaissance plane had discovered that the island military aircraft group had begun to take off from the aircraft carrier, and it seemed that it was preparing to attack.

The two hurriedly walked out of the lounge and entered the war room.

Nimitz immediately ordered the fighters on the aircraft carrier to take off immediately and prepare to meet the enemy, and at the same time ordered the submarines in the rear to approach the island pursuit fleet at all costs and fire torpedoes at them in order to delay their advance.

The slow speed of the Mi fleet, coupled with the fact that the Yorktown needs to be driven by tugboats, it is not difficult for the island army to know that the "Yorktown" is injured, and it is far easier to destroy the Third Fleet before attacking Midway than to face seven aircraft carriers at the same time.

Therefore, it is also easy to explain why the island army is in a hurry to attack.

Ten minutes later, a report came from the front that a tragic air battle had broken out 30 nautical miles from the rear, and the island army dispatched all the fighters of the First Assault Fleet and the Second Assault Fleet to attack the Mi army's air force at multiple points by taking advantage of its numerical superiority.

Because of the need to guard against a sneak attack by the island army, half of the remaining hundreds of Hellcat fighters of the Mi army had to be set aside to escort the fleet, and less than 50 of them participated in the battle, and the number of fighters of the island army was three times that of the Mi army.

Although the F6F Hellcat is superior to the Zero fighter of the Island Army, it is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, and the quality of the pilots is also lower than that of the Island Army pilots. After nearly half an hour of air fighting, only fifteen Hellcats flew back, and the rest were all shot down by the island army.

On the contrary, more than 20 submarines in the front played a tremendous role at the critical moment, firing more than 100 torpedoes at the enemy's fleet, sinking two destroyers and cruisers, and even causing damage to three or four ships to varying degrees, greatly delaying the speed of the island army's attack, but its own losses were also very alarming, and nearly half of them were sunk by the island army.

At this point in the battle, in fact, the Mi army has fully possessed the ability to compete with the island army, and at a distance of 500 nautical miles, the ground aviation fighters on Midway Island can easily reach it, and the Seventh Fleet on the left and right flanks of the Third Fleet and the British East India Fleet are already within 200 nautical miles of the Third Fleet at this time, and the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier can swarm in a short time, but this means that more island warships will be outside the encirclement.

The planned ambush circle was 350 nautical miles from Midway, which was the optimal combat radius for Army fighters. Of course, even the current four hundred and fifty nautical miles are not a problem for the P-51 Mustang, if the auxiliary fuel tank is loaded, the combat radius of the Mustang can reach 1,600 roads, but the farther the distance, the more time is wasted on the voyage, and the firepower put into the battlefield is correspondingly reduced.

Therefore, Nimitz's drama had to be played on, and he had to drag the injured aircraft carrier "Yorktown" forward another fifty nautical miles.