Spruance finally decided to fight, this time he will be fully prepared, he is not ignorant of the Chinese fleet, and he knows the Japanese fleet well, and he will not let the two countries exploit any loopholes, and will not give the two countries any chance to sneak attack,

Spruance immediately made the fleets ready for readiness, and summoned his staff to draw up a battle plan, and he also listened to Nimitz's advice.

At 10:30 a.m. on the 27th, five fleets had already converged, and the other five fleets would not arrive until dark tomorrow.

The ship-island aircraft carrier fleet is watching all this from a thousand kilometers away, the American fleet is already assembling, and Huang Feihu knows that the sea battle has begun,

At this moment, all he has to do is not to be discovered by the US Navy, all the communication equipment on the ship has stopped, and all the communication between them is in flags.

The ships composed of three aircraft carriers are still cruising off Wake Island, and they are still very nervous, once the US Air Force comes to attack, they may not be able to support it, and the fleet will also suffer heavy losses.

Li Huixian said to Huang Peiyao on the other end of the walkie-talkie: "Old Huang, it's better to go outside." ”

Huang Peiyao said: "We are already two hundred kilometers outside the island, so we don't need to go there, it will not be safe if it is farther." ”

"Damn, we have three aircraft carriers, nearly 300 aircraft, and more than 30 cruisers and destroyers, and we still have to rely on the protection of the land-based aircraft of the bus family, and if it reaches the army, it won't make people laugh to death."

"No matter what, don't run around, the Americans must have discovered us, go to the open sea, it will be difficult to get the support of the army in a short time."

"Alas, I don't know what the above thinks, we are swimming around here now, and the Americans will obviously find out about our conspiracy."

"Lao Li, we don't have to worry about this, we just need to prevent US planes from sneaking attack."

At the same time, Spruance had mastered the basic movements of the Northern Fleet, or rather, the Northern Fleet was completely in his hands,

The Beiyang Fleet loitered in the sea area about 200 kilometers north of Wake Island, and did not leave, obviously deliberately allowing US warships to discover it.

Spruance is most worried now that the Chinese fleet has a conspiracy, but he also thinks that the tricks of the Chinese are too retarded, and this trick that leads people to the hook can hide from anyone, as long as they are not fools, they can see through the tricks of the Chinese at a glance,

But it is precisely because of this that Spruance has to think about whether the Chinese are stubble or really have a conspiracy, and the Chinese have played conspiracy and trickery for thousands of years, and should not engage in such a retarded scheme.

There is a saying in China that "the real is virtual, and the virtual is real", the Chinese may be suspicious because of the huge difference in strength and naval strength between China and the United States, maybe the Chinese are waiting for something, but he can't guess,

It is also possible that the Chinese have laid a huge trap for them to drill, or the Chinese want to use the planes on the road to fight against the United States,

Last time, the squadron took the US Pacific Fleet by surprise and caused incalculable losses to the US fleet, and this time the damage was continuous, and the Chinese have reason to believe that the Americans will not be stupid enough not to be alert, not to strengthen their defenses, and will let the Chinese fleet sneak attack succeed,

In addition, the strength of the US Navy is obvious to all, in just four years the United States has built about 150 aircraft carriers of various kinds, even if the Chinese fleet won the last battle and killed the four main fleets of the Pacific Fleet, but the United States can make up for it in an instant, but if China loses it, there is no way.

If the Chinese fleet intends to use itself as bait and let the planes on the island assist in the operation, then it will be difficult for the American fleet to steal chickens, China is not Japan, China has a powerful radar system, plus the air force on the island can take off and land at night, and the range is longer, if the American fleet does not find the right time, but really attacks the Chinese fleet and Wake Island, it will inevitably bear very large losses.

Spruance also doubts that the Chinese have some conspiracy, such as deliberately trying to contain them, if this is also beneficial, at least the US fleet will not be able to effectively hit the Alaska squadron, or to sneak attack their transport fleet,

Frankly speaking, the Chinese have landed in the Americas and control such a large territory, so it doesn't matter whether they take Hawaii or not, it is no longer very important for China.

However, no matter what the Chinese are like, Spruance has no reason to be afraid, because he can concentrate at least 25 aircraft carriers, while China only has 3, and Japan can concentrate only 20 ships, adding up to not as much as the United States, in addition, most of Japan's current navies do not have rich combat experience, and the weapons are not as good as the US military, in general, the US Navy has an advantage,

Spruance doesn't care what tricks the Chinese play, or what planes the Chinese and Japanese join forces to build, this time he must take out the Chinese fleet and seize Wake Island,

"Well, I didn't find anything." At 4 p.m. Spruance asked,

"General, there is no news yet, within five hundred kilometers of Wake Island, no fleets other than the Chinese fleet have been found, but several of our submarines have been found and sunk."

Spruance nodded, "Keep searching, search somewhere else." ”

"Okay, General."

There was no fleet other than the Chinese fleet within 500 kilometers, which made Spruance feel a lot more uncertain.

Wake Island has a radius of 500 kilometers, and the diameter is more than 1,000 kilometers, basically the combat diameter of carrier-based aircraft is difficult to exceed this number, especially Japanese aircraft, I am afraid it is only 500 kilometers, but it is not excluded that they will drive to Wake Island at night,

Aircraft carriers can generally reach a speed of 33 knots per hour, about 70 kilometers per hour, and can travel more than 700 kilometers in one night.

Spruance sent a large number of submarines to these waters to conduct reconnaissance, and even now there are a large number of submarines operating in these areas.

The Beiyang Navy has more than 20 destroyers in such a huge sea area, relying on detection radars to fight against submarines in these areas.

The activity of the destroyers further deepened Spruance's suspicions, because China's destroyers are all in the south, east, west, and west, and in the north, only the Beiyang Fleet has anti-submarine ships.

It can be seen from this that the Chinese's assistance probably comes from three directions, southeast and west, or one of them, and the north is the world of the US Pacific Fleet, and it is impossible for the Japanese fleet to come out of this place.

Although there was no big battle throughout the day, there were skirmishes, and China lost two destroyers and one submarine, while the United States lost almost twenty submarines.

Spruance was annoyed, but the sacrifice of these submarines was not worthless, at least Spruance knew that most of these submarines were not shot down by Chinese destroyers, but sunk by an aerial weapon.

This conclusion was all sent back by the submarine before it sank, and at the same time three other escaped submarines sent back such telegrams.

Spruance quickly guessed that it was a helicopter that sank the American submarine, and he had seen this thing, but he didn't care about it before, and he didn't expect that this thing could be used for anti-submarine purposes.

Spruance had to admire the Chinese, always at the forefront of the world, so he also had to admit that the last victory of the Chinese Navy was not accidental, nor accidental, he has many inevitability, such as China's helicopter not only played a huge role in land warfare, changed the tactics of the battlefield, but also changed the tactics of the naval battle,

Remembering the two aircraft carriers captured last time, although there is no evidence that the helicopter did it, Spruance now understands that it must be the Chinese who destroyed the anti-aircraft fire on the aircraft carrier with a helicopter, and then carried the army to parachute on the aircraft carrier, suppressing the crews of the two aircraft carriers in the cabin, the warships outside did not dare to attack, and the American troops in the cabin did not dare to sink themselves, otherwise they had only a dead end, so the aircraft carrier was vilely occupied by the Chinese,

Spruance admired it, but he also had a little more awe and more attention to the Chinese fleet in his heart.

He doesn't want his fate to die inexplicably like his comrades-in-arms, he doesn't want to fail, he must pay attention to it, only by defeating the Chinese fleet and the Japanese fleet, can the United States seize the initiative in the Pacific War, and the Pacific Fleet can cut off the supply of enemy forces attacking the Americas, as long as they have no supplies, with the powerful industrial strength of the United States, they can immediately organize a counteroffensive and wipe out some aggressors or go to sea.

"These Chinese are too cunning." The chief of staff said,

"Yes, but it's also smart, we've always looked down on our opponents too much, and even though they seem so weak, they've done two miracles, haven't they?"

"Well, isn't it one, they got lucky enough to take out some of our ships."

"Wouldn't they be one if they could cross the Bering Strait and land in Alaska?"

"It seems that we were really careless before, and if we don't pay attention to it this time, we will repeat the mistakes of the past."

"No, we have come to our senses, we will not give them any more opportunities to cut corners, even if they unite with the Japanese, we will not give them this opportunity."

Spruance already had a complete plan in mind, and he believed that this time he would be able to kill the Chinese fleet and annihilate the Japanese fleet at the same time.

At this moment, the Japanese on the one hand prevented the navy and army from preparing to attack the Americas, but he could not fully concentrate on attacking South America, at least he needed a strong fleet to defend against the threat from the Hawaiian fleet after the election war.

And this Japanese fleet is deployed on the side of the Marshall Islands, once it attacks South America, if the United States wants to intervene, it will inevitably attack the Marshall Islands, and then the Japanese fleet will give the Americans a head-on blow, of course, the Japanese think so,