The Battle of Christmas Island in September 1943 and the subsequent "Grand Fleet Break" had a consequence that Hirschman did not even expect: naval experts from all over the world began to doubt the "theory of victory in aviation," and the battleships, which had already been reduced to aircraft carrier escorts and landing support ships, had a chance to turn around and call the shots. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, naval experts who hold this opinion do not deny the role of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft, but believe that aircraft carriers and warships are two types of capital ships that are interdependent. It must be used together to seal the victory in naval battles.

The specific cooperation method refers to the experience of the Battle of Christmas Island. The aircraft carrier can be configured with all fighter aircraft, and the battleship will accompany the aircraft carrier, supplemented by frigates with strong anti-aircraft firepower, forming an incomparably large formation. Then swagger close to the enemy's front-line islands to seek a decisive battle.

To deal with such a fleet with perverted anti-aircraft firepower, it is impossible to deal with it by ordinary means of air warfare alone -- for example, in the Battle of Christmas Island, Japan lost hundreds of excellent pilots, and although it sank a large number of ships, it still outweighed the losses and greatly damaged the vitality of its air force!

The correct tactic should be to assemble a few Yamato-class battleships and other Japanese naval battleships, escorted by aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and other ships, and go to the battlefield to collide with the huge US fleet on Mars and the earth. Rely on the powerful destructive power of Yamato-class battleships to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

On February 20, 1944, when Palmyra Atoll was finally occupied by the U.S. military, all the 2,000 Japanese troops on the reef were shattered. Isoroku Yamamoto was watching the test firing of the main guns of the battleship Kii at the anchorage of the Combined Fleet.

According to the procedure for the trial of the capital ship of the Japanese Navy, the test firing of the main gun is the last step of the sea trial, and after the test firing is completed, the sea trial will be declared over, and the capital ship will officially join the combined fleet.

The battleship "Kii" that was test-fired today is the fourth ship of the "Yamato" class, and it has not resumed work since it was stopped in March 1942. However, on this time and space, both the Kii and Shinano were completed as battleships and became the most powerful capital ships of the Combined Fleet.

"Great, the four Yamato-class ships have finally gathered, and this time the battle of Hawaii has a few more chances of winning!" Seeing the 460mm shells fired by the Kii stirring up a huge column of water on the sea in the distance, Marshal Yamamoto Isoroku, the Minister of the Japanese Navy, nodded with satisfaction.

As for whether to build four Yamato-class ships, it can be said that there is a lot of controversy within the Japanese Navy. Many people think that instead of spending huge sums of money on the construction of the "Yamato" class, it is better to build a few more aircraft carriers.

However, the experience of the "Battle of Christmas Island" has shown the limitations of relying solely on aviation warfare. This is because the foundation of air warfare is incomparably valuable carrier-based aircraft pilots -- it is impossible for Japan to train such elites in unlimited quantities, and it is simply too late to replenish consumption when the fuel supply is tight in wartime. In the heat of air warfare, it is only a matter of time before it is exhausted.

In comparison, the 36 46mm guns of the 4 Yamato-class battleships are very reliable.

According to reliable intelligence, not only the United States could not build a battleship comparable to the Yamato, but even Germany and Britain, which claimed to be advanced in science and technology, could not build such a powerful battleship. At least none of these three countries have 460mm first-class guns, let alone the Type 98 L45/510mm caliber naval guns that will be used by the "Yamatokai".

"Your Excellency Marshal," although Nagumo Tadaichi was the commander of the First Air Fleet at the beginning of the Pacific War, he was not an aviation faction that believed in aircraft carriers, and he also had extremely high expectations for the "unsinkable Yamato," he said to Yamamoto Isoroku, "The Combined Fleet has recently summed up the lessons and lessons of the Battle of Christmas Island, the Battle of the Mariana Islands (the time when the aircraft carrier Yorktown was sunk), the night battle of Midway, and the night battle of the Palmyra Islands, and has achieved more than 70 percent success in the upcoming decisive battle. ”

Nagumo doesn't dare to say anything about winning 100% in front of Yamamoto now, because the Japanese Navy has not won any hearty battles since the Panama Campaign! And the recent night battles at Midway and Palmyra Atoll were fought quite badly.

It is clear that the surface fleet of the United States is not easy to bully!

"Seventy percent of the odds of victory is not small," Yamamoto fifty-six withdrew his gaze from the distant sea, and then nodded at Nagumo, "Recently, Germany has also taken action in South America, and I have just received a telegram from the Ministry of the Navy saying that the German landing force has attacked Belém, an important port city in northern Brazil, on the afternoon of the 19th. A German fleet is also attacking Natal, an important port in Rio Grande Norte, Brazil.

So the Americans are now on fire in their backyards, and they are attacked in the belly and back! As long as the Combined Fleet can work hard in the battle for the Hawaiian Islands, it will inflict heavy losses on the US Navy. Decent conditions of peace can be expected. ”

"Hay!" Nagumo Tadashi bowed respectfully as soon as he heard Yamamoto's words of encouragement, and then showed some embarrassment on his face.

"What's wrong?" Yamamoto asked, "Is there anything you want to say?" ”

Nagumo nodded and lowered his voice: "Your Excellency Marshal, there are quite a few powerful new battleships in the European Combined Fleet now, right?" ”

"There are 2 Hindenburg-class, 2 Bismarck-class, 4 Veneto-class, 3 Richelieu-class...... A total of 11 battleships can be called cutting-edge. Yamamoto Isoroku also had a slight envy in his tone, although Japan has the Yamato-class that it is proud of, it is still far inferior to Europe in terms of the number of cutting-edge battleships. Moreover, the German Navy also commissioned Britain to build three 43,000-ton battleships, and France and Italy both had two similar battleships under construction. It is estimated that it will be completed by next year, and Europe will have 18 cutting-edge battleships. So the United States will be under tremendous pressure in the Atlantic! ”

"But these European battleships can only be watched now......," Nagumo said, looking at Yamamoto, "and now that the Germans are moving in South America, it seems that the overall situation has been decided, and it should not be a problem to transfer a new battleship to join the 9th Fleet." ”

The home port of the European 9th Fleet is in Cam Ranh Bay, but due to the cold relations between Japan and Germany, the fleet has no strength now, and it is basically an empty shelf. Nagumo Tadaichi is now proposing to join the 9th Fleet with Europe's cutting-edge battleships, of course, in order to unite them in battle.

He whispered: "Even if there are two more Hindenburg-class and two Zeppelin-class, the battle for the Hawaiian Islands will be 90% successful." ”

The success is high, but what is the cost?

Yamamoto only shook his head when he heard this, and it was possible for the Germans to send fleets and planes. But not without conditions, Japan must first provide a whole cell vaccine against plague (Unit 731 does not have a really reliable whole cell vaccine, in fact, there is no one in the 21st century, but there are still unreliable whole cell vaccines), and then it will also provide the port of Surabaya as a base for Europe's counterattack on Australia.

It's okay to say about the vaccine, anyway, now that Americans are being forced out, it is impossible to get the vaccine through various channels and retract it. But the port of Surabaya ...... Although Japan does not have the strength to conquer Australia and New Zealand for the time being, it will be extremely detrimental to Japan in the future if they are allowed to return to the embrace of Europe.

In particular, the Anglo-Japanese peace talks have been postponed to this day, and the British are bitter about the loss of Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, hoping to use the power of the Germans to recover them, at least Singapore.

Germany's attitude in the Anglo-German peace talks was very ambiguous, and it was reluctant to exert pressure on London......

In addition, the Russian-Japanese peace talks were also on the verge of breaking down, and the White Russian regime in Olga was unwilling to cede an inch of land, insisting on demarcating the border between Japan and Russia in accordance with the provisions of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty. And this position is supported by Germany!

It is clear that both Britain and Russia are hostile to Japan. France, on the other hand, hated Japan for the loss of French Indochina, but was unable to reverse itself because of the signing of the treaty.

Recently, however, the Pétain government has interacted frequently with local politicians in French Indochina, and has repeatedly expressed its support for the full independence of the Kingdom of Vietnam......

It can be seen that France is also hostile to Japan!

The three powers of the European Community, second only to Germany, were now hostile to Japan, and Britain and Russia among them would become part of the Hohenzollern dynasty in the future – which meant that the upper nobility of Anglo-Russian-German Germany would become one in the future.

In this context, Japan should of course be wary of the eastward expansion of the European Community.

"There's no need to think about this kind of thing," Yamamoto fifty-six paused, and then said to Nagumo Tadaichi, "Seventy percent of the odds of victory is enough, and this officer is looking forward to the good news of the combined fleet."

In addition, the German invasion of Brazil meant that the door to peace between Germany and the United States was closed. Therefore, the international situation is favorable to us. As long as the Imperial Army can triumph in the Hawaiian Islands, peace will soon come. ”

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"Sir, look there!"

Commander Halsey, commander of Task Force 30, heard from Chief of Staff Dennis Murphy. Callahan's voice looked back at the sea outside the starboard side of the USS Enterprise. A huge rectangular object was seen slowly approaching by several Fletcher-class destroyers, protected by a circle of Benson-class destroyers.

"Great, they've finally towed the floating dry dock, and now we can start a counterattack on the Hawaiian Islands!"

What Halsey saw turned out to be a floating dock, and it was planned that after the capture of Palmyra Atoll, four floating docks would be placed there to repair American ships damaged during the attack on the Hawaiian Islands.

Now there is the first floating dock in place, and three more will be towed to Palmyra Atoll, which has just been recaptured by U.S. forces.

By the time the floating dock arrived, Palmyra Atoll, where the smell of blood and gunsmoke had not yet dissipated, had become a large construction site. Sappers and engineering machines have been put on the island, airfields have been repaired, wharves have been built, barracks have been built, and there has been a fiery scene of building capitalism.

And once the floating dock is in place and the airport is repaired, the Hawaiian Islands will become a purgatory of blood and fire.