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Yamamoto's plan for a decisive battle went awry at the beginning. Because of the fog, the 13 submarines that went to Pearl Harbor to intercept the American fleet arrived a day late. This is the conclusion reached by the Japanese army after the war, but in reality there is only one reason, the preparation time is too short. And the battle plan formulated by the Black Island Turtle People is too tight, and there is no margin for error. It is not uncommon for a warship or submarine to encounter an accident during a voyage of several days or even more than ten days. There are no satellites in the weather forecast in these years, and with a little bad luck, it is possible to be involved in tropical storms or even typhoons, and it is not uncommon to delay the trip.

On the night of the 30th, the Liberty Dragon and Yorktown were only repaired in the dockyard at Pearl Harbor for three days before they were urged out of Pearl Harbor by Admiral Nimitz.

However, the Japanese submarine force arrived outside Pearl Harbor on 1 June. Therefore, the Japanese were unaware of the departure of the two aircraft carriers.

Admiral Nimitz's judgment of the battle situation is quite accurate, and his battlefield intuition is also quite sharp. Nimitz's arrangement caused the Japanese submarine blockade force to pounce. Not only was there no result, but even basic reconnaissance yielded nothing. As a result, throughout the Battle of Midway, these thirteen submarines simply played soy sauce.

Living on the verge of life and death, soldiers are actually a little superstitious.

The US staff officers identified the sea area 480 kilometers northwest of Midway Island as the staging point, and this staging point was called the "lucky spot" by the US military. Li Guang has some understanding of the customs of Westerners, but he is not as deep as superstition, he can't understand how the so-called lucky points are obtained, could it be that there are not only priests but also astrologers at the Pearl Harbor base?

When the Liberty Dragon went to sea, there was the 17th Task Force led by Rear Admiral Spruance. Two aircraft carriers, Enterprise and Hornet, five heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, as well as destroyers.

On the evening of 2 June, the 16th Task Force led by Major General Fletcher and the Liberty Dragon Formation of the Naval Resistance Army successfully reached the lucky point and the two armies converged.

According to Nimitz's instructions, the Liberty Dragon of the Naval Resistance Army belonged to the 16th Task Force, and in short, Li Guang was to listen to the command of Major General Fletcher. And nominally, Major General Spruance's 17th Task Force was also to be under the command of Major General Fletcher.

In fact, Li Guang was very unhappy to be with Major General Fletcher. Look at the Battle of the Coral Sea, the mistakes made by Rear Admiral Fletcher, and you can see what his command level was.

Information was obtained in advance. Knowing that the Japanese army had an aircraft carrier formation, it still launched a large-scale attack on the Japanese troops in Tulagi. Clearly told the Japanese army that there were US aircraft carriers here, and they lost the lead of the US military at the beginning.

In aircraft carrier warfare, the importance of the first strike cannot be overstated.

And Li Guang also heard a rumor. After the success of the Naval Resistance Army's "Gift-giving Operation", the Liberty Dragon arrived at Pearl Harbor. Later came across the aircraft carrier Enterprise led by Rear Admiral Halsey. The two were supposed to reinforce Wake Island. But because of the time delay. There was no time. At that time, the Rear Admiral Fletcher was leading the two aircraft carriers, the Lexington and the Yorktown, and they were already in the ocean west of Pearl Harbor. At that time, Rear Admiral Fletcher also suggested that the battleship needed to be refueled, so it was delayed for three whole days. Also missed the battle for Wake Island.

Come on. Do you understand? Very high-sounding reason. In fact, although the fuel on these two aircraft carriers was not fully loaded at that time, it was at least eighty percent. Major General Fletcher's reputation for passively avoiding war has spread one after another.

There are many people in the US military who chew their tongues and pass on gossip. Tian Muyi, a staff officer of the submarine team, spent several months at Pearl Harbor. He knew a lot of gossip, and he also analyzed some of Major General Fletcher's "future" problems to Li Guang with the kind of officialdom that Chinese often have. In simple terms, Rear Admiral Fletcher was the man of the former commander of the Pacific Fleet, Kimmel. And not the people of Nimitz, the current commander of the Pacific. And Admiral Nimitz and the current US Navy boss - Admiral King, Chief of the US Navy General Staff, are in the same faction. Therefore, the future of Major General Fletcher is not so rosy.

Regardless of the actual situation, Li Guang and Major General Fletcher belonged to the same formation, and there was some psychological disorder.

Li Guang actually knows a lot about the Battle of Midway, but that is all knowledge from movies. The so-called movie, but the artwork, how much truth and how much interpretation there is, there is no way to judge.

In the movie, Nagumo's defeat is the so-called Five Minutes of Destiny. What is described is that when the Nagumo Fleet was changing ammunition for fighters, it was broken in by US fighters, and three aircraft carriers were destroyed at once, so that it was defeated.

Li Guang was very worried about whether his arrival would change anything. And it's hard to say whether the so-called Five Minutes of Destiny exists or not. Even if this fate does exist for five minutes, you can't grasp it when you're in the middle of the game.

There are too many factors to win or lose a war.

It can be said that the US military intelligence won the victory in this war, and it had the upper hand, and there is no doubt that it took the lead.

But in the Battle of Ceylon, the British army also got the intelligence of the Japanese army, the tactics were correct, and they also took the lead, but what was the result?

In the Battle of the Coral Sea, the U.S. military also got the intelligence of the Japanese army, and it also took the lead, but what was the result?

The performance of the generals is very important, and once the first move is sent, if you want to move back, you will have to pay a terrible price. And the combat effectiveness of the US Air Force is also very important, even if the commanders are very successful in command and have not lost the first hand, but the Air Force is not a sharp spear but a silver-like pewter spearhead, and no matter how many first hands there are, they will be buried.

War can change a person. Li Guang used to be an atheist, but he was on the verge of life and death for a long time, and gradually Li Guang was also a little superstitious. His superstitions are more offbeat, and he is superstitious about some of the "history" he knows.

Although he had only spoken to Spruance during the bombing of Tokyo under Halsey's introduction, he only stayed on the surface and did not know much about it. And at Pearl Harbor, it was only an exchange at a military meeting.

However, Li Guang has such a name among the famous generals of the US Navy known in another time and space. And Fletcher, Li Guang is lonely and unheard, and he has not heard of it at all.

It should not be an ordinary person who can leave a strong mark in history. Li Guang is a little superstitious about this.

This is also the reason why Li Guang is reluctant to be with Major General Fletcher.

Although there were some doubts in his heart, in Li Guang's consciousness. Spruance was supposed to be the commander of Midway in the U.S. military, but now he was Fletcher. Could it be that something has changed?

But Li Guang didn't show it on his face either. The Liberty Dragon is inseparable from the Yorktown, because the Yorktown has an anti-aircraft radar.

The shipborne radar of the US military can warn of a hundred kilometers. Even if the weather is bad, it can warn fifty kilometers. This leaves the aircraft carrier with ten minutes to half an hour. This is so important that it can be said to be a matter of life and death.

In Li Guang's view, radar is an important factor in the victory of the US military.

The US military's ground-based air defense radar on Midway Island can warn of 200 kilometers, but it is too large to be installed on an aircraft carrier.

Just from the radar this one. The U.S. military's odds of victory are one more point.

On the evening of 2 June, all the US warships participating in the battle had already arrived at their designated positions. And the US reconnaissance planes at Midway found nothing.

The US military has done a good enough reconnaissance work. At Midway alone, there were thirty-two Yekarina water reconnaissance aircraft. This kind of reconnaissance plane is not a small reconnaissance plane that catapults on a warship, but a large water reconnaissance plane that weighs 9.5 tons and can reach 16 tons when fully loaded. Its range exceeds that of the B17 strategic bomber, if not hung bombs. With the addition of an auxiliary fuel tank, the maximum time in the air can reach 32 hours. Normal. Fifteen or sixteen hours of airtime can also be guaranteed.

Plus sixteen B17 strategic bombers. and a large number of submarines, all of which were within 180 degrees of the west of Midway, and within 700 nautical miles. U.S. submarines also set up several lines of reconnaissance defense west of Midway. No other country with such a powerful reconnaissance force than the United States can be so extravagant. Not to mention the few British reconnaissance planes that have just arrived at Midway, the reconnaissance force deployed by the US military at Midway on 3 June has gone beyond the concept of a military man in this era.

Li Guang carefully read the reconnaissance situation of the US military on that day.

There is a phenomenon that Li Guang is a little worried about. That is, a tropical storm formed in the ocean six hundred nautical miles west of Midway, and the storm was very wide. The reconnaissance activities of reconnaissance aircraft were seriously affected. And because of the storm, much of the area west of Midway was covered with thick fog.

And today, Nimitz mobilized twelve British biplane torpedo planes from thousands of miles away - radar-equipped reconnaissance aircraft. After a series of jumps, it took five days and five nights. Finally arrived at Pearl Harbor. In the process, the British lost four reconnaissance aircraft, and only eight were able to be put in place.

No matter how difficult it is, these eight reconnaissance planes, Nimitz guaranteed to arrive at Pearl Harbor tomorrow. It can be regarded as relieving Li Guang's worries a little. In the fog, the effectiveness of these radar-equipped reconnaissance planes is not a little higher than that of the human eye.

June 3, 9 a.m.

A U.S. Kalimna reconnaissance plane finally spotted a Japanese fleet. Due to the considerable distance from Midway, B17 bombers could only be dispatched to bomb it. The level of horizontal bombing by the US Army and Air Force is as high as ever, and it is a miracle that it hits, but it is normal that it cannot be bombed, and no results have been achieved.

According to the information sent back by the American pilots, Nimitz made an accurate judgment that this fleet was not the main force of the Japanese army, and he ordered the two mixed formations not to act rashly.

Nimitz's judgment was accurate, and he completely grasped the key to victory and defeat. Midway is the bait on the surface, and the aircraft carrier group is the assassin hiding in the shadows. Until the Japanese aircraft carrier formation is discovered, it is absolutely necessary to remain hidden.

At noon on the 3rd, Major General Fletcher sent a light signal.

He's going to come on. And the refueling point is a full fifty nautical miles from the lucky point.

Due to the use of gas cutting and electric welding for repairs, the Yorktown was indeed not satisfied with the fuel it carried. Therefore, neither Li Guang nor Major General Spruance could refuse Fletcher's request.

Originally, four aircraft carriers were together, surrounded by a circle of cruisers, and further beyond was a circle of destroyers. It's a fairly secure ring defense. As soon as Fletcher left, he took with him two heavy cruisers of the XVII Task Force and several destroyers.

Rear Admiral Spruance did not have much of an opinion on this, anyway, there were five heavy cruisers of the XVI Task Force, as well as one light cruiser, several destroyers. The defense is not bad.

He has no opinion, Li Guang has an opinion, the naval resistance force has only three air defense destroyers, and the air defense force is not weak, but the combat effectiveness in close combat is extremely weak.

Besides, if there are heavy cruisers by your side in battle, you don't expect air defense to be very effective, but you can also share a little of the devil's attack firepower. According to the normal perception of devils, if there is a battleship next to the aircraft carrier, I am afraid that seventy or eighty percent of the pilots will abandon the aircraft carrier and attack the battleship instead. Heavy cruisers also have great temptation for devils.

In fact, a heavy cruiser is not only tempting to devil pilots, but also to American pilots, in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the second wave of US air strike force not only hit the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuizuru but also the escort of the two heavy cruisers.

The Japanese Combined Fleet spent several days at sea and gradually approached the target. These days, though, it doesn't seem to be beautiful, with strong winds and waves in the Pacific Ocean all day long.

It's not a good sign.

General Yamamoto, who is very superstitious, is very uncomfortable. He also received a report from the Japanese I-168 submarine that the defenders of Midway were rushing to repair the fortifications, which made Yamamoto somewhat uneasy, and he had a hunch that the US military had strengthened its vigilance.

But when the fleet went to sea, it was like buying and leaving at the table, and the chips were already pressed to allow Yamamoto Isoroku to retreat, so he still ordered the fleet to move quickly.

Yamamoto Fifty-six has been a little uncertain since he went to sea. The tremendous mental stress made Yamamoto's stomach problem worse, and for a few days, the stomach pain did not abate, but some of it became more serious. This made the superstitious Yamamoto feel a little heavy.

However, the Japanese generals and staff officers on the Yamato were overjoyed by Chief Yamamoto's illness.

Why is it so weird? Yamamoto is sick, shouldn't his loyal subordinates show their loyalty and empathy?

The wind of superstition in the Japanese navy was not weak at all, and in the eyes of these middle-ranking officers, it was only fitting that Admiral Yamamoto was sick, and that was also a stomach problem. Because in the naval battle of the Sea of Japan between the Japanese Navy and the Russian Navy, the Japanese Navy defeated the Russian Navy, and the Japanese general at that time, Marshal Yuzaburo Kato (the marshal was posthumously gifted) was suffering from stomach problems and was holding his stomach to command the battle.

Therefore, the Japanese officers thought that Chief Yamamoto's stomach ailment was a good sign.

On June 3, bad weather had a considerable impact on both sides. Although the sailing speed of the Japanese army was affected, it also affected the reconnaissance level of the US reconnaissance planes. Not to mention the battles or fleets in other directions, at least Nagumo Tadaichi's mobile fleet was lucky.

The mobile fleet led by Nagumo Tadaichi had entered the US military alert circle 700 nautical miles from Midway, and the US military did not detect it. In the rain and fog storm, Nagumo Zhongyi was in a happy mood. (To be continued......)