To put it bluntly, the Japanese Navy divided the Combined Fleet into four and made separate deployments.

The original 1st Fleet was under the 2nd Sentai Squadron, that is, Fuso and other 4 battleships, which were transferred to the vicinity of Hawaii to prevent the US troops from landing and counterattacking.

After all, the defense over there is not yet complete, and it will take time. So it was right to use battleships to provide the necessary protection.

The 1st Fleet under the 3rd Fleet was retained in Rabaul, also to prevent the US Army from counterattacking in the direction of Rabaul - important here, important for Australia!

As long as the Japanese occupied Rabaul, then the Japanese army always had the opportunity to attack the Solomon further, and without this forward base, the outpost that threatened Australia and the Solomon would no longer exist.

In this way, the four battleships of the Kongo-class will be unable to move, and the only forces left are the direct fleet under Yamamoto Isoroku and the 1st Air Fleet that Ozawa Jizaburo has just taken over.

The only decent combat power left on Yamamoto's side was the flagship battleship Yamato, which was so powerful that it could even destroy more than two American battleships if it were to fight bayonets with battleships.

It's a pity that the situation has changed now, and both sides in the Pacific theater are fighting each other with aviation forces, and there is no chance for battleships to shell at close range, so the Yamato has just been put into service, and it has become a super-large command ship and a super-large sea hotel.

As a result, Yamamoto's only remaining fighting force was Ozawa Jizaburo's First Air Fleet.

"Such a dispersion of troops will weaken our army's combat capability on the frontal battlefield!" After listening to the order, Yamamoto 56 opened his mouth and complained to the two bosses in front of him.

"The transfer of the two battleships Nagato and Mutsu is also the meaning of the base camp. Now we are at a disadvantage, so we need outside help! Shiro Kazukawa explained.

Although none of the three people sitting here are pro-German "Axis fans", they all know that only the help of the Germans at the moment is real.

Even if it was reluctant, Japan needed German technology and all kinds of arms and equipment provided by Germany.

Even if a lot of equipment is backward, it is undoubtedly a good life-saving thing to use in Japan, where the production capacity is close to the limit.

In order to ensure the smooth shipping of the two sides, Japan had to mobilize a fleet to maintain a larger transportation of supplies.

On the one hand, this is because Japan has a large amount of rubber to be transported to Germany to earn back the gold it used to make.

On the other hand, it is also because the Japanese side wants to expand the scale of cooperation between the two sides and is ready to make this line of communication more secure.

The British Navy in exile in the Indian Ocean had only two battleships, so the Japanese Navy decided to send two battleships to stabilize the route.

"We have to do this, or we will bear the cost of the lost supplies." When it comes to the terms of transportation in the Indian Ocean, Shiro Kawakoro feels humiliated.

"When we defeat the United States, we must turn around and teach the Germans some lessons!" Yoshida Zengo gritted his teeth with hatred and added.

Yamamoto fifty-six snorted coldly in his heart, the United States in front of you doesn't know how to settle it, but you are worried about the hatred of the Germans.

"We have a new type of electric probe that we bought back from the Germans! With these electric scouts, the planes of the Americans will be spotted as soon as they approach Hawaii and Rabaul! At this time, Kazukawa Koshiro brought up the matter of teleproses.

This is also the technical basis for the Japanese Navy to draw up a defense plan this time! With these radars, they dared to divide their forces into battle.

"The newly shipped teleprobe has to deploy base stations in two places, one in Hawaii and one in Rabaul! In this way...... "Seeing that Yamamoto did not speak," Shiro Kawakoro continued.

Speaking of which, it was still a technical thing, which made Yamamoto Fifty-six more interested and made him feel more operational.

Being able to use the teleprobe provided by the Germans to detect the American planes in advance also allows the army aviation to give early warning and take off in advance, which has a strong operability!

As long as a large number of army aviation units are equipped, it is impossible for the United States to gnaw Hawaii or Rabaul in a short period of time.

And this is also the space for his mobile fleet, that is, the First Air Fleet under the command of Jizaburo Ozawa.

The script for the defensive counterattack has already been written by the Japanese top leadership: first use the army aviation and battleships to drag the opponent's attack, and then the mobile fleet rushes to the area attacked by the US forces as quickly as possible, and uses the battleship Yamato and aircraft carriers to counterattack and annihilate the invading enemy!

The whole plan is almost a replica of the tactics used by the United States in the Solomon Islands, only this time it has been changed to two areas of engagement. The mobile fleet has to wait for opportunities between the two places, and it will test the speed and timing of reinforcements.

Although the plan is not yet perfect, there is room for operation. It sounds much more reliable than the previous unrealistic plans.

Therefore, Yamamoto Isoroku did not bother with the fact that the two battleships of Nagato and Mutsu were transferred, and began to think about how to counterattack the American fleet.

Here, the meeting of the top brass of the Japanese Navy has not yet ended, and in the direction of the port, Jizaburo Ozawa has already taken office with his own order.

He stood on the port, watched the simple crane loading and unloading goods, and sighed to the staff officer beside him: "Nanyun Zhongyi has buried the future of the empire......"

Nagumo Tadaichi was killed in battle in the Solomon Islands, and his staff officers, adjutants, and even guards were all buried at the bottom of the sea. So Jizaburo Ozawa can only take a new team to take over all the work.

At this moment, the 1st Air Fleet was extremely weak, and there was only one aircraft carrier, Zuihe, docked in the far part of the harbor, waiting for the arrival of new orders.

Looking at the almost empty deck, Jizaburo Ozawa turned his head sideways and asked one of the officers in charge of supply who was following his buttocks, "So, next...... What about the addition of pilots? ”

"Your Excellency, there are ......only five of the additional pilots who have come with the ship," replied the supply officer in a low voice.

Within the Japanese army, whether it is the navy or the army, the supply officers are not considered soldiers, so they are very inferior and have a very low status.

It was precisely this lack of attention to logistics that caused Japan to suffer the loss of supply chaos later.

"There are only 5 people...... Looking at the Mizuru aircraft carrier docked in the port, Ozawa Jizaburo shook his head and sighed: "How should this battle be fought......"