On August 24, the Beiyang Fleet had already been deployed, because it had not been able to hide from the US Navy, and at this moment the Americans were also ready, and they were waiting for the squadron to attack.

After the last painful defeat, Spruance was not dismissed, but was retained, of course, the Americans did this because they did not have any talent to stand alone.

Nimitz's mistake is too big, and the other two people made very big mistakes, but Nimitz has been imprisoned, in order to ensure the safety of the United States, Nimitz can only take the responsibility on himself, to avoid Spruance being involved, he knows that Spruance is the best commander of the Pacific Fleet, if Spruance is transferred out of Hawaii, he really doesn't know who can stop the Chinese and Japanese navies,

Nimitz also shared his thoughts with Truman and Marshall when they visited him, and both agreed with Nimitz's suggestion,

And Nimitz was finally pardoned by Truman, and now he is at home.

The Beiyang Fleet is now configured in echelons, with the ordinary aircraft carrier fleet deployed in the first line and the ship-island aircraft carrier deployed in the second line.

In order to avoid being attacked on both sides, Huang Feihu decided to take Wake Island first, an atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, an unorganized territory of the United States, 3.700 kilometers west of Honolulu, including three small coral islands, with a total land area of 6.5 square kilometers, the three islands are connected by causeways, spread out in a crescent shape, and there is a lagoon in the middle,

The terrain is low and flat, the altitude is 6 meters, the rainfall is small, the island covers an area of about 8 square kilometers, composed of three small reef islands of Wick, Wilkes and Peel, located in the Pacific Ocean in the volcanic island group flooded by the sea, 3200 kilometers away from Hawaii in the east, 2060 kilometers away from Guam in the west, strategically important, known as the "stepping stone of the Pacific Ocean", the temporary population of Wake Island includes the United States, civilian personnel and some foreign workers and military contractors hundreds, food and industrial products are completely dependent on imports,

On December 8, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and Wake Island was bombed at the same time and occupied by the Japanese army, becoming an important part of the Japanese Pacific defense line.

After Japan and the United States talked about it, the United States believed that taking back Wake Island could increase the strategic space, and after building a radar, it could effectively defend against the Japanese army, otherwise Japan would directly attack Hawaii if it attacked again.

Although this place is important, it is not worth mentioning compared to the huge area such as Australia, and the Japanese gave it back to the United States after a little thought.

The defense capability of the army on the island is not very strong, but the air force is incredible, there are 80 fighters and bombers on it, plus there are advanced radars on it, and the US Air Force has a strong night combat capability, so if the attacking side cannot grasp the air supremacy, it will be a disaster for the attacking side.

It is also very simple for the Beiyang Fleet to take this place, to avoid the attack of the air force and navy fighting close to Wake Island from the Wake Island side.

Of course, this is mainly because the U.S. Navy has already discovered the Chinese Navy, so the Beiyang Fleet wants to take it by surprise and loses the opportunity, and now it can only confront the U.S. side, so it can only eliminate the surrounding threats first, consume the U.S. military little by little, and finally take Hawaii.

Huang Feihu is not fighting on the front line now, as the commander-in-chief, he is now staying in a cruiser next to the ship-island aircraft carrier to direct this operation.

The U.S. military is always careful of the attack of the Chinese navy, of course, their navy has also been dispatched, and they also want to find an opportunity to do the Chinese fleet.

At this moment, the U.S. military mobilized half of the Atlantic Fleet as quickly as possible, and quickly strengthened the defense of Hawaiian waters.

As we all know, it has been 6 years since the beginning of the European War, the German navy was not very good, after six years of blows, the German navy has little left, and now France has returned to the country, with the British and French navies are enough to suppress the German navy, the German mainland was destroyed, and can only rely on the rotten equipment left by the Soviet Union and Poland, which was originally destroyed by the war, how can it undertake the task of building ships?

In addition, Germany needs to build aggressively to ensure follow-up operations, and also fight against the Allies on the Franco-German border and other places, and they do not have surplus steel and other materials to build ships, so the German maritime threat is not to be worried.

And the Pacific Ocean is indeed in danger, fighting with the Chinese Navy, and before I can understand it, the Chinese fleet will kill four aircraft carrier fleets, and almost all the personnel will be lost.

Although the United States has many warships, it does not have a sufficiently experienced navy, and even the most elite navy of the United States Navy has been defeated, and they dare not send those recruits.

The comeback of the Chinese Navy is inevitable, the last time the Chinese fought both the suspicion of throwing stones and asking for directions, and also wanted to see the strength of the US Navy, and then make corresponding policies, if it were not for Hawaii's strong land defense forces, there was still a fleet of equal strength to them, I am afraid that Hawaii has been occupied,

Although they don't know how the Chinese will capture Hawaii with their weak navy, the Chinese always attack unexpectedly, making them feel uneasy, and they have to guard against it.

No, the submarine patrolling outside discovered the Chinese fleet off Minami Bird Island, and they immediately reported it, and Spruance immediately prepared the fleet for battle, and at the same time the island was on increased alert,

After the replenishment, the US fleet has been replenished with 35 light and heavy aircraft carriers of various kinds, and more than 400 other ships, which are still ships deployed on Wake Island and the Hawaiian Islands.

If you add the Coast Guard on the West Coast of the United States, the number is even larger.

At the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet in Hawaii, Spruance looked at the direction where the Chinese fleet came, he was still very worried, the Chinese fleet captured two American aircraft carriers, and now the Chinese fleet has five aircraft carriers, according to intelligence, the Chinese fleet operating in Alaska has two aircraft carriers, which means that the Chinese Beiyang Fleet has three aircraft carriers, and it can carry nearly 300 aircraft,

After the Chinese army takes the whole of Alaska, there is no need for the Pacific Fleet, and China only needs to rely on the land-based air force and coastal fleet to protect the safety of those cargo ships.

These navies in Hawaii have to send at least two aircraft carrier fleets to defend against China's Pacific Fleet, or even three, so that the aircraft carriers will go six, and at least three heavy aircraft carriers are gone, and Hawaii needs to send fleets to patrol all around, as the defending side, without fully understanding the position of the opposing fleet, you must always be vigilant that the opponent will attack from that direction,

Spruance is even more cautious against the Chinese fleet, who said that the Chinese fleet has never played cards according to common sense,

Generally speaking, Spruance knows that the Chinese Navy is most likely to come from the northeast, but it is not ruled out that the Chinese Pacific Fleet will directly enter Hawaii and the US mainland from the north to fight, and in such a large sea area, there is an aircraft carrier fleet on the way to intercept passing American ships, which is indeed a huge threat.

Spruance had to send two more aircraft carrier fleets, or even three, to patrol this road, but the sister paper fleet has one aircraft carrier to protect the force,

But without a transport caravan, the US Navy will arrange a light aircraft carrier to escort it, although it can only carry a dozen or twenty aircraft, but the emergency is enough,

However, now there are relatively few aircraft carriers, and most of today's escort aircraft carriers are Casablanca-class, which can carry 28 carrier-based aircraft, 1 127 mm single-barreled gun (stern), 12 20 mm guns, and a speed of 18 knots.

Compared with the previous Borg-class escort aircraft carriers, the design has been further improved compared with the Borg-class, making up for the shortcomings of the difficulty of taking off and landing aircraft in bad weather conditions.

Spruance intends to use a fleet of 10 aircraft carriers to defend against China's Pacific Fleet in the north and east, while the remaining 25 aircraft carriers will focus on the waters of Midway to carry out search attacks on the Chinese fleet.

Spruance doesn't believe that he has so many aircraft carriers, China only has three, which is eight times the number of Chinese aircraft carriers, he doesn't believe that the Chinese fleet is three-headed and six-armed, he doesn't believe that in the face of this absolute strength, the Chinese fleet cannot be destroyed,

Spruance didn't plan to play any intrigues, that would be a waste of time, it didn't have that time to play with the Chinese,

The 25 aircraft carriers are divided into 10 aircraft carrier formations and almost line up in a straight line to kill the Chinese fleet, no matter what tricks the Chinese fleet plays, like this long snake formation, the Chinese fleet takes the lead, then at least the aircraft carrier formation in the middle can help, and the aircraft carrier formation in the middle of the big tail can also help, if the aircraft carrier fleet in the middle is hit, the Americans will be even more happy, so that they can make dumplings for the Chinese fleet,

In addition, there is an aircraft carrier fleet stationed near Wake Island, and they have two tasks, one is to defend Wake Island, and the second is to pick up the personnel on the island when it can't be kept.

At 12 o'clock in the evening of August 23, the U.S. military on Wake Island was on strong alert as usual, and night cruise planes also took off from the airport to cruise.

The U.S. military on the ground looked at the radar meticulously, and now their radar not only has air-to-air and sea-to-sea, but of course there is also air-to-air.

"Dididi......" The radar sounded, and when the radar soldiers looked at it, they saw patches of red light on it, and at a glance they knew that a large number of planes were coming towards them.

The radar crews immediately informed the commander of the island, and then, on the orders of the commander, they tried to contact the planes, but the other side did not respond.

At first, the Americans thought that it was their own planes, because they had not heard that planes could take off and land from aircraft carriers at night, so these planes must be their own, and it was possible to fly from Hawaii, but the Hawaiian side did not inform them, which made them unsure, so after trying to contact them without success, the commander ordered all the planes to take off immediately,