According to Wang Kai's proposal, the Beiyang Fleet soon decided to take a risk, of course, there is actually a risk, but it is not big, but it is worth the risk,

There are only two things that the Beiyang Fleet is worried about, one is that the other two fleets of the US military will suddenly come out, and the second is that the US military has secretly replenished the planes to them, frankly speaking, if there is a plan for this step in advance, it is very simple to replenish the aircraft, so the fleet decided to use carrier-based helicopters to launch an attack at night, anyway, the helicopters take off and land vertically, and will not be affected by the wind and waves,

The Alaska fleet is still sending telegrams at this time, but they are also quite careful in order to be realistic, and it is already the third day, and Dave and the others don't know if they have been discovered by the Chinese fleet, but in order to annihilate the Chinese fleet, they are willing to make sacrifices,

Although Dave and the others have not yet found the shadow of the Chinese fleet and submarines, but he thinks that it is soon, maybe the Chinese fleet has discovered them, and is now plotting how to destroy them, at this time all the remaining officers and soldiers of the Alaska fleet are very nervous, this time the bait is too dangerous,

On July 24, the Alaska fleet discovered the Chinese submarine, and at this moment they were really nervous, the Chinese submarine would definitely inform the Chinese fleet of their whereabouts, and then hundreds of planes would come to bomb them, and with their few warships, they would be killed in a few minutes.

Dave immediately informed Spruance of the situation, Spruance was also nervous at the moment, what he hoped most was that the Chinese fleet had not yet taken out the Alaska fleet, their planes found the Chinese fleet to take out the Chinese fleet, so that they could almost lose the Chinese fleet, but the actual situation no one knows, the behavior of the Chinese is very elusive, no one knows that they will do this, now Spruance is more relieved that their strength far exceeds the Chinese fleet,

The Chinese fleet will not have more than two aircraft carriers in any case, and it is highly likely that there will be only one aircraft carrier, so that as long as they do it well, they can win a big victory,

And at this moment, the plan of the Beiyang Fleet is that the main fleet does not care about the crippled fleet of the Alaska fleet, their goal is to find an opportunity to kill the two fleets of the United States in Hawaii, as long as these two fleets are killed, the crippled fleet is not yet handy,

They understand the plan of the Americans, but it will be difficult to fool the Americans, and the sacrifice may not be small.

The Beiyang Fleet is in a dilemma, the Americans hope to use the Alaska Fleet as a bait to lure the Chinese fleet to bomb, and if the planes of the Chinese fleet leave, then the planes of the 14th and 15th task forces of the United States can easily take out the largest Chinese fleet.

The Beiyang Fleet was called the Beiyang Naval Division in the Qing Dynasty, and was annihilated by Japan in its own port, and the failure of the navy led to the fiasco of the army, and later signed a treaty that was extremely humiliating and humiliating, which also made European and American countries see the weakness of the Qing government and could be bullied, and at the same time greatly deepened the semi-colonization of the Qing Dynasty! Among them, the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War objectively declared the defeat of the Westernization Movement.

The Qing Dynasty lost its status as a great power in East Asia, and the nine years from the end of the Sino-French War to the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War were the best period of the Qing Dynasty in the second half of the nineteenth century. Feng Zicai defeated the French army in the battles of Zhennanguan and Langshan; Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army repeatedly defeated the French army; and the failure of the Japanese soldiers to cooperate with the Korean Kaihua Party to create a coup d'état, etc., at that time the Qing Dynasty was not weaker than Japan, and the British authoritative commented: "Asia is now in the hands of the three great powers, Russia, Britain and the Qing Dynasty. "In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Qing Dynasty fought five foreign wars and signed a number of unequal treaties, and the Sino-French peace treaty of 1885 was the only peace treaty without land reparations.

Before the First Sino-Japanese War, the Far East was basically Russia and Britain competing for hegemony, although the situation of the Qing Dynasty and Japan was different, but they were all subject to the constraints of unequal treaties, the victory of the First Sino-Japanese War made Japan become an Asian power, completely got rid of the status of a semi-colony, and the international status of the Qing Dynasty plummeted, and the wealth of the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War Museum Sino-Japanese War Museum

The defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War shook the Qing Dynasty society unprecedentedly, and the "Japanese Invaders" who had always been looked down upon by the Qing Dynasty completely annihilated the Beiyang Naval Division, demanded huge sums of money, cut off the country, and the government and the opposition, thus losing their self-confidence, and the Qing Dynasty's independent finances went bankrupt and relied on borrowing money from the Western powers to survive.

In the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan became an upstart in Asia, and the war reparations were 230 million taels of silver; The value of the warships and other trophies was more than 100 million yen, and the annual revenue of the Japanese government at that time was only 80 million yen. "After occupying Korea and Taiwan, it strategically posed a direct threat to Northeast China and East China, and became a springboard for attacking the mainland of the Qing Dynasty.

Wang Hanzhang reorganized the Beiyang Fleet in the hope that they could be ashamed and brave, hoping that they could win the next naval battle and wash away the shame, so there was the Beiyang Fleet, the strength of the Chinese Navy is not strong, but the Beiyang Fleet is equipped with the best equipment in China.

If the Beiyang Fleet is completely annihilated, this is not only the death and injury of tens of thousands of people, the loss of China's small number of naval personnel, the consumption of the strength of the Chinese Navy is as simple as that, more importantly, if the Beiyang Fleet is completely annihilated again, it will be a major blow to the Chinese people who have just regained the confidence of the Celestial Empire, this matter no one wants to see, so Huang Feihu must ensure the safety of the fleet, of course, the war is inevitable, but he does not want to put the fleet to death because of his carelessness,

For Huang Feihu, whether he is using an aircraft carrier as bait, or whether the fleet relies on early warning aircraft to search for the two American fleets, if the latter, then for the Chinese fleet, the Americans have twice as many aircraft, if the aircraft carriers are separated, their aircraft carriers will have to deal with the entire US fleet, this is too difficult, unless the American planes have no time to take off, otherwise they will be defeated, when China's carrier-based aircraft are killed, if the fleet is discovered, Then their fate is to sink to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish,

The Beiyang Fleet can't do that kind of unreliable and very risky thing, but he didn't use an aircraft carrier as a bait, China is not the United States, and it can't build a few aircraft carriers and more other warships every month, and it can't afford to lose.

Huang Feihu plans to do his best as long as he kills one of the US fleets, and then it is safer to clean up the crippled fleet at night, even if it is discovered by the US fleet, the chances of the two fleets surviving together will be much greater, with nearly 200 aircraft, even if the two US fleets attack, I believe that with the cooperation of anti-aircraft fire, they can still escape.

Just in case, Huang Feihu also planned that once the U.S. fleet was discovered, as long as the situation allowed, they would try their best to launch an attack on the other night, so that if the attack failed and they were discovered, they would also escape under the cover of night for a moment.

At one o'clock at noon on the 24th, early warning planes, reconnaissance planes, and submarines were still searching for the whereabouts of the US task force, and at this moment the Beiyang Fleet had already made a detour back to the waters east of Nantori Island, southeast of the Alaska Fleet, west of the 14th Task Force, and southwest of the 15th Task Force, but the 15th Task Force was far away from the Beiyang Fleet.

Although Spruance knew that if the Chinese fleet appeared, it must be in the huge sea area of South Bird Island, Wake Island, and Midway Island, and the possibility of the Chinese fleet appearing in the waters near Wake Island and Midway Island is relatively small, otherwise even if it dodges the attack of the fleet, it will be difficult to avoid the attack of land-based aviation, and the 9000-kilometer range of the B29 Aerial Fortress is no joke, even if it takes off from Wake Island to bomb South Bird Island, there is no problem, but the fleet is mobile, and it takes a long time for the plane to fly, In addition, although the range of the B29 is good, there is no fighter that can protect them all the time, so it is very unwise to bomb a fleet protected by carrier-based aircraft.

Spruance had the 14th Task Force search north of Wake Island to South Bird Island, while he himself led the 15th Task Force to search farther south of the Pacific Ocean in the northwest.

"How's it going, is there any news from Task Force 14?"

"General, there's no news yet."

"Didn't you find anything on the Army Air Corps?"

The adjutant shook his head and said, "Not either." ”

Spruance pondered, for a few days, it is said that the Chinese fleet has discovered the Alaska fleet, but why is there no Chinese fleet in the area where it should appear most, could it be that the Chinese fleet has already left and returned to China,

Spruance does not believe in his own speculation, this is unreasonable, the strength of the Chinese fleet is weak, if it does not take the initiative to attack, it will be defeated very quickly, only by relying on the vast Pacific Ocean to take the initiative, not only can contain the US fleet, but also surprise the US fleet to deal a heavy blow,