Chapter 41: The Combined Fleet and Yamamoto Fifty-Six
Yamamoto Isoroku, Admiral Wako, served as commander-in-chief of the 26th and 27th Wako Combined Fleets. He launched the Pacific War and planned and commanded several battles in the early stages of the war, including the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway. With a height of 1.59 meters, he is the most famous admiral in the Japanese Navy, known as the Eagle of the Pacific, and is known as an excellent administrative bureaucrat and a bold gambler. Historically, on April 18, 1943, due to the decipherment of the Japanese code, Yamamoto Isoroku took a medium bomber, escorted by 6 Zero fighters, and the news of the inspection to the front line was known to the Stars and Stripes Republic, and then sent fighter jets to ambush in the air, shooting down Yamamoto Isoroku's plane over Bougainville Island. A few days later, when the wreckage of the plane was found, Yamamoto's body was still tied to his seat with a belt, he had been shot in the head, and he was still holding a saber.
On the night of April 17, 1943, Yamamoto was sitting in the office of the headquarters of the United Japanese Fleet on Rabaul Island in the South Pacific, thinking about going to the front tomorrow to offer condolences. At this time, his prestige in the country had already reached its peak. Every member of the Japanese Navy and all the people know that it was he who planned the famous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, which dealt a heavy blow to the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Stars and Stripes Republic, and made the Japanese Navy invincible in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and enabled the Japanese to establish a "Great Eastern Ya Co-Prosperity Circle" in just half a year, which stretched from Midway Island in the east, to the Aleutian Islands in the north, to the coastal waters of Australia in the south, and to the Indian Ocean in the west. The territory and sphere of influence of the Japanese have never been so large, and the aggressive ambitions of the Japanese have swelled to the extreme. Yamamoto, who led the combined fleet to the east and west, was worshipped as a god by the Japanese people.
But the peak was followed by decline, to paraphrase Nagumo Tadaichi after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor: "I'm afraid we've awakened a sleeping giant, and now he's full of rage." "The Stars and Stripes Republic quickly counterattacked, and the Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal were terrifying battles that engulfed the elite main forces of the Japanese Navy and Air Force, and the Pacific Ocean had become a huge tomb for the emperor's samurai. In particular, the Stars and Stripes Banner Republic ** changed the original strategy of attacking island by island and began to jump islands to attack, which greatly accelerated the demise of the Japanese army, and one after another the islands and the garrisoned Japanese army disappeared from the Japanese sphere of influence. In order to boost the morale of the soldiers on the front line, Yamamoto decided to personally go on patrol to the front line to inspect the battle situation.
"Are you really going to the front line to inspect?" An abrupt voice suddenly sounded from behind Yamamoto.
Yamamoto instinctively drew his saber and quickly turned around, and when he was about to slash behind him with the knife in both hands, the figure of the speaker on the opposite side finally met his eyes,
"Emperor Meiji? No way! Who are you? The shocked look in Yamamoto's eyes flashed and he said loudly.
Emperor Meiji, the initiator of the Meiji Restoration Movement, is a great wonder in the history of the world. It took only half a century for a small, poor, and resource-poor feudal country to be reborn in all aspects of society, economy, and military and become an advanced capitalist country. All of this is closely related to the "Meiji Emperor", and the people of the Japanese reverence the Meiji Emperor as a living god!!
"It doesn't matter who I am, but the fate of the combined fleet is worrying, if the fleet is destroyed, your country will fall into a situation where you will run out of ammunition and food, and you will never recover, I think that if that is the case, that Meiji kid will also jump up from the grave!" The puppet Meiji Emperor said (the shameless Comrade Wang Fan appeared again).
"Who is Your Excellency? If you don't answer, I'll call the guards! Yamamoto said gloomily.
"Hehe, Yamamoto, I ask you, how many warships do you need to remain undefeated in the war with the Stars and Stripes Republic, or even win!"
"How many ships?" Yamamoto looked at this Meiji Emperor and was a little stunned, but his brain, which had been thinking about the Pacific War for a long time, subconsciously wanted to talk to others, so Yamamoto Fifty-six replied in a slightly deep voice: "If you want to compete with the Pacific Fleet of the Stars and Stripes Republic in the Pacific Theater, at least based on the existing number of warships, more than double the number of warships, especially aircraft carriers and destroyers, without more than 10 aircraft carriers, it is impossible to gain battlefield superiority at all (Japan planed out what was being built at that time, and there were about 3~4 aircraft carriers are available), there are not enough escort destroyers, merchant ships cannot deliver enough supplies to the mainland, factories are under-opened, warships damaged in battle simply cannot be replenished in time! ”
"I can't help you with the latter one for the time being, the first aircraft carrier, come with me to the outside of the port, there are the battleships I prepared for you, 3 "Xianghe"-class aircraft carriers! (A few days before coming to Yamamoto 56, Wang Fan went to Sasebo Port with his flying machine, scanned the structural drawings of various warships of all levels such as the "Xianghe" aircraft carrier, and then used the kernel to copy and produce the Xianghe "class aircraft carrier" in the past two days.)
Yamamoto didn't move when he heard this, and looked at the pseudo-Meiji Emperor suspiciously.
"Don't believe me?" Emperor Meiji said deep in his right hand, turned his palm up, and four blue laser beams suddenly appeared, evolving into a blue laser sphere above the heads of the two, forming a 4D map of the military port of Rabaul Island that was 10,000 times smaller (advanced scientific and technological imaging technology once again shocked the little devil Yamamoto, alas ~ The last time it was the honest boy Paulus!) "This is a topographic map of the whole island of Rabaul!" ”
10 minutes later, in the dark of night, Emperor Meiji and Yamamoto Isoroku, accompanied by a group of shocked senior naval officers, took a destroyer to the nearby sea, after leaving the port, drove about 15 nautical miles to the northwest, and a few blurred figures slowly appeared in the dark night, until they got closer and closer, they could see clearly the three behemoths that appeared in front of them, which were the main forces of the Wako Navy at this stage - the "Xianghe" class aircraft carrier: the maximum displacement of 33,200 tons, the maximum speed of 34 knots, Anti-aircraft artillery 25mmx45, 13.2mmx22, standard carrier-based aircraft: 21 zero-combat, 30 99 ship-explosive, 30 97-ship attack, 1690 standard crew.
Looking at the three aircraft carriers floating abruptly on the sea, everyone showed an expression of disbelief, how did they pass through the layers of levels in the depths of the Imperial Island Chain Defense Circle? The officers of the Japanese Navy, who had continued to be caught by the mines, quickly approached one of the three aircraft carriers, lowered their boats and sailed into the aircraft carriers, and after finally confirming that the warships were real and not dream illusions, they quickly asked the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto, and after obtaining his consent, they went to the naval base on Rabaul Island to wake up all the naval officers and soldiers in the harbor and come to receive the three aircraft carriers.
At the bridge of the destroyer, Emperor Meiji and Yamamoto Isoroku stood side by side,
"All carrier-based aircraft, weapons, ammunition, and fuel for these three "Xianghe"-class aircraft carriers have been fully equipped, and they only need to be stationed with sufficient manpower and pilots to be put into use and operation. Wang Fan looked at the aircraft carrier and said to Yamamoto Fifty-six.
"Although I don't know your specific intentions, I am very grateful for your support to the United Fleet!" After Yamamoto Fifty-six finished speaking, he bowed 90 degrees to Wang Fan, and at the same time, all the generals around him also instinctively bowed deeply.
"Just call me Meiji!" Wang Fan ignored Yamamoto Fifty-six's beating brows, and pursed his lips tightly (probably angry ^_^), "I can also provide you with 2 "Xianghe" aircraft carriers in half a month, but one thing to be clear, this time I have already advanced for these 3 (Wang Fan will definitely not give away the Japanese equipment drop!!) It has emptied your family, so if you really want it, you need to pay for gold, jewelry, relics, etc. in exchange. The companies that produce these battleships are mercenary, as long as you pay the starting price, destroyers, cruisers, battleships, aircraft carriers are in stock there! I'll get it for you. I didn't bear to see his foundation ruined by you, so I came to help! Otherwise, I don't bother to care about you (Wang Fan continues to pretend to be uncle~~). Remember that in half a month, the location will be in Sasebo Port, and if necessary, I will have enough gold and cultural relics, and I will be paid along with the price of the three aircraft carriers this time. Saying that, Wang Fan began to blur in front of Yamamoto and the other officers, until he disappeared! Finally, a sentence came from the air with the wind, "Yamamoto, cancel tomorrow's inspection, change the codebook, your black and purple secrets have been cracked by the intelligence department of the Stars and Stripes Republic, and they have already prepared an ambush circle for you." ”
Yamamoto Fifty-six looked at the disappeared Wang Fan in astonishment (he didn't know it himself, from this time on, he had subconsciously regarded Wang Fan as the Meiji Emperor~~).
After being silent for 5 seconds, Yamamoto, who had regained his true character, said solemnly to the surroundings: "Everything you saw today, everyone must keep it a secret, and it must be rotten in the psyche, and the offender will be punished for treason, understand?" ”
"Hey!!" The other naval officers looked at each other and replied in unison.
"For these 3 aircraft carriers, the Navy unifies that they were built secretly by the Empire, understand?"
"Hey!!"
In the early morning of April 18, 1943, the Japanese naval units received a telegram from the headquarters of the Combined Fleet, using the new codebook, "Cancel the inspection, assemble the fleet!!" ”
Note: I also checked a lot of information about the number of warships sold to the Japanese Invaders, and finally preliminarily set 5 ships, because I don't know the number of aircraft carriers of the Pacific Fleet in the early 1943 of the Stars and Stripes, so the basis for estimation is:
At the beginning of the Pacific War, the Stars and Stripes Republic had 2 Lexington-class aircraft carriers (USS Lexington CV-2 and USS Saratoga CV-3) and 3 Yorktown-class aircraft carriers (USS Yorktown, CV-5, USS Enterprise CV-6, USS Hornet CV-8); A total of 5 aircraft carriers.
At the end of the war, the Stars and Stripes Republic had 43 fleet carriers and 86 escort carriers (of which 16 aircraft carriers were used for fleet decisive battles, mainly of the "Essex" class, the others were light aircraft carriers and escort aircraft carriers)
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