Chapter 020: Night Combat

The battle for Alaska was still in full swing, and the U.S. task force in Hawaii had already left the harbor, this time they did not leave a task force to guard the naval base on Oahu, but sent the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th carrier battle groups out, and the base was handed over to the small fleet and air force guards.

Naval Commander Nimitz a billion experienced generals, who had extensive experience fighting the Japanese Combined Fleet,

However, at this time, the Hawaiian task force generally disdained the Chinese navy, and Japan's strength when it started the war against the United States could be said to have surpassed the United States fleet in Hawaii, so there was no shame in Japan's successful sneak attack, but today the Chinese fleet is too far worse than the United States, the aircraft carrier is 1:5, and the number of aircraft is also the same, in addition, the Chinese fleet has no strategic ships, cruisers are far less than the United States, and destroyers are the same...... The most important thing is that the Chinese fleet has only been established for three or four years, and there are few achievements.

As the saying goes: "One year for the Army, ten years for the Air Force, and a hundred years for the Navy." "In the case of throwing money wildly, although the time can be shortened, it is absolutely impossible for the century-old navy to shrink into three or four years at once to build up troops and form a relatively high combat effectiveness.

The reason why the Chinese Army was able to achieve such a huge victory on the battlefield of the Soviet Union is that China also has some foundation, and it has always been a land power, and the other is that the Soviet Union has undergone a great purge, and the capable officers and soldiers have been consumed very badly by the German army, plus the firepower of the squadron is very strong, while the Soviet army lacks weapons and ammunition...... And so on, so that the Soviet army was defeated and retreated again and again, and it can be said that the defeat of the Soviet Union was just a strategic defeat.

And the Soviet Union lost air supremacy, the army could not play well, and of course, there was the fact that China used helicopters that disturbed the laws of war.

The US Navy looks down on the Soviets, even more down on the Chinese, especially the Chinese Navy, only two aircraft carriers, the others they directly ignored, and the naval battle with Japan at Midway proved that it has now entered the era of aircraft carriers, and strategic ships have fallen behind,

They have ten aircraft carriers, more than 800 aircraft, and if they are close to land, they are supported by land-based aircraft, and they have the best pilots and seamen, so to speak, the US Navy has everything it can do, at least that's what the US Navy thinks,

During the three days of July 4, 5, and 6, the Chinese Navy and the U.S. military engaged only submarines, and they were single.

According to the original plan, Huang Feihu planned to fight freely in the east or north of Midway Island and in the south, but in the end, careful analysis found that the east and south were not safe, and these two directions were not conducive to supply, only the northwest direction was all the sea, and there were no islands without anyone, which was not conducive to the blockade after all, and cut off the supply of the Beiyang Fleet.

In the end, the Beiyang Fleet still planned to fight in the north or northwest direction, which was closer to Kamchatka, and it would be more convenient to replenish.

On July 8, the U.S. task force finally arrived in the predetermined area north and south of Midway Island in two ways, Nimitz knew the approximate location of the Chinese fleet, although the Chinese navy did not escape, but it was also very cunning, outside the bomber and reconnaissance range, so to deal with the Chinese navy, the only way to deal with the task force was the task force,

"General, although the Chinese have been in this area for the past five days, will he run away now." An adjutant said,

The adjutant thinks that this is very possible, the Chinese Navy does not want to return in vain, or for the reason of containing the Pacific Fleet, so when the main force of the Pacific Fleet is not coming, it will fight a few reconnaissance submarines to vent their anger, and now that their main force is coming, the Chinese Navy will naturally run away if it can't beat it.

"Continue the investigation, I'm afraid it's not that simple." Nimitz didn't think that the Chinese fleet would leave so easily, so it was better to be careful, after all, it had run so far,

At this moment, Nimitz is following the Southern Hawaiian fleet, which is mainly composed of four aircraft carriers, and Nimitz thinks that the squadron may risk the activities of the southern Midway Island and take the opportunity to sneak attack, but it is not 100% certain.

So three other task forces searched from east to west from the north side of the Hawaiian Islands.

At this time, the Chinese fleet had not been filled the day before, and Huang Feihu and others had also calculated the same, he calculated the time when the US fleet would arrive, and he was ready to take the next big battle without charging it once before the big war.

The hopes of Huang Feihu and all the officers and men of Beiyang were all pressed on the early warning plane, and they were very satisfied with this aircraft that could detect 120 kilometers, and with this aircraft, it would not be so troublesome to search for the enemy's fleet as a reconnaissance plane.

According to the analysis, they also knew that the Americans would inevitably attack from the north and south directions of Hawaii, but they did not know the bias of the American forces.

In the last U.S.-Japan Battle of Midway, Japan fought against the U.S. task force north of Midway in the northwest direction.

Japan did this because the south was the island of the United States and its allies, and their sphere of influence was easy to detect and attack, and supplies were not as convenient as in the northwest.

Today, China is different, the southwest is Japan's sphere of influence, and Wake Island southwest of Midway Island is American, which means that there will be American fleets or submarines in these places, so they can't fight the American military in this kind of place.

However, fighting entirely in the area where Japan originally attacked Midway Island would inevitably repeat Japan's mistakes, so the fleet could only fight in a more peripheral area, and absolutely could not let the US land-based air force steal chickens.

In the previous several submarine engagements, the Beiyang Fleet has been leaking its general position to the US military, the reason why Nimitz still followed a fleet to the south is mainly because he does not believe in the report of the submarine force, and is also worried that the Chinese fleet has a conspiracy, in the face of absolute superiority, the Chinese fleet actually does not escape, but provokes them, things are abnormal is a demon, and he prevents the Chinese Navy from doing something moths out,

Now the more real the gap is huge, the more careful you must be, if you win, nothing, but if you lose, he will not see people, the Chinese are good at creating miracles, there are many in ancient times, there are more in these two years, it is simply dazzling, dizzying,

"Did you find them?" Huang Feihu asked,

"Not yet." The interpreter said that at this moment, China's submarines have been dispatched, and early warning planes and reconnaissance planes have been dispatched to search for the location of the US fleet.

The detectives have already obtained some clues from the airwaves, and the American fleet has reached Midway, which means that a naval battle has begun.

The fleet is 600 nautical miles northwest of Midway Island at this time, Huang Feihu is a little worried that the US Navy will not chase after him, he still has a great plan to implement, if the US fleet does not come, then his plan will fail.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the AWACS aircraft finally sent a message that the US fleet had been spotted, which, judging from the radar display, was huge, and the distance,

Huang Feihu finally breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he could come, it was time for him to appear, but although he found a huge fleet, he still didn't figure out the size of the enemy fleet, and the Hawaiian fleet has so many aircraft carriers and strategic ships, they will definitely not act together, so the movements of the rest of the fleet are also very important, but don't just go out of your own planes, the planes of other fleets of the US military will come to bomb yourself, this is exactly the same as the fate of the Japanese at the beginning,

The U.S. fleets that were spotted were Task Force 11 and 12, which had four aircraft carriers, two battleships, 7 cruisers, 15 destroyers, 20 submarines, and some auxiliary ships.

At the moment they do not yet know that they have been discovered, and the Chinese submarine has already gone to confirm the number of the American fleet according to the latitude and longitude provided by the AWACS,

At 7 o'clock in the afternoon, the submarine cautiously arrived around the 11th and 12th task forces of the US army and began to reconnoitre, confirming the number of US ships.

The Beiyang Fleet had already made a nervous deployment after learning the news, but they did not immediately get close to it, which was not in line with Huang Feihu's plan, and it was not conducive to the actions of the Beiyang Fleet.

At seven o'clock in the afternoon, as night fell, the whole fleet of the Beiyang Fleet immediately pounced on the 11th and 12th task forces of the US army, and at this time the submarine also confirmed the number of ships of the US fleet, but even if it was not confirmed, Huang Feihu would lead the fleet to meet the battle, because in the dark they were not afraid of the US fleet.

At half past three o'clock in the morning of 9 July, after a night of rapid marching, the fleet finally arrived at its predetermined position, where the aircraft carriers were only 150 nautical miles away from the US fleet, and the cruisers and other close attack fleets also arrived at a distance of 50 nautical miles from the US fleet by virtue of their speed and starting time.

At 4:15 a.m., after 45 minutes of intense preparation, the planes on the aircraft carrier were all ready,

"Take off." With Huang Feihu's order, dive bombers, torpedo planes, and fighters began to take off, and Wang Hanzhang added neon lights to the take-off deck when improving the aircraft carrier at the beginning, which just illuminated the outline of the deck, and the helicopter's bright lights illuminated the deck and Zhou Wei's night sky, and the plane itself had night vision function, and there was no difficulty in taking off.

Although the fleet has such a function, but after all, it is not possible to land at night, it is not easy to land in the daytime in this kind of ocean where there is no wind and three feet of waves, let alone at night, so the planes on the aircraft carrier can take off in the dark, but if they do not plan to give up the planes, they must come back at dawn, otherwise they cannot land, which is why the fleet attacks at this time, and the broad daylight is conducive to the defense of the US fleet, so only at this time the US forces are the most lax in the air, It was absolutely impossible to imagine that in the dark, Chinese naval planes would come and bomb them,

Half an hour later, at 4:45 a.m., a total of 120 combat aircraft of various types took off from the two aircraft carriers, most of which were bombers and torpedo planes,