"The Tuna reports that no main force of the Combined Fleet has been found outside the Bungo Channel. 』”

"Kumejima telegraphed that the enemy forces attacking the camp had been routed, and Major General Kuribayashi Tadamichi of the 36th Division committed suicide half an hour ago."

"The Moganshan confirmed that it was the light cruiser Dajing that sank just now."

"It was reported that there was an explosion on the deck of the Nenjiang, the towing cable was broken, and Colonel Yang has ordered the ship to be abandoned." At three o'clock in the morning, the command hall of the Navy's Qingdao base was still noisy. In the center of the hall, there is a huge sand table, on which is a Pacific plane chart with latitude and longitude lines, on which more than 100 special wooden models are placed horizontally and vertically. Around the sand table, five or six heroic female soldiers with short ear-length hair, black navy berets, dresses of the same color, and white canvas shoes were withdrawing or pushing small models representing marines, reconnaissance planes, or warships to designated positions with long push rods in accordance with the messages of the electronic communications officers around them.

The Typhoon Plan is a super-large transoceanic operation plan completely led by the Navy, and its scale and material consumption are close to the early stage of the Talas Plan. Therefore, within the navy, it is regarded as a watershed in the struggle between land power and sea power, and not only attaches great importance to this battle, but also draws back most of the elite and strong generals. This front hall alone has to deal with thousands of pieces of information and orders every day. In the corner of the sand table, Bingwen and Shen Honglie talked softly, until they reported that the light patrol of the Nenjiang had been abandoned for rescue, and then raised their heads and looked at the sand table a few times. The two are under a lot of pressure right now. Not to mention the accident of the First Battle of Kumejima, Yamamoto Isoroku deliberately hid in Tibet, taking advantage of the familiar Japanese coastal environment to constantly change positions, and several times he saw that he was about to seize it, and even sent bombers over, but there was no trace, which made people hate it. Seeing that Oshima was still a week before the landing day, if he could not attract Yamamoto out, he had to take the risk of forcibly landing.

"Stand upright!"

The two had just received the loss report from the staff officer for the night battle of Keirama. A loud stand up silenced the hall. "President?!" Bingwen looked up and was suddenly surprised. I saw that Yang Qiu, who was still inspecting Tomsk yesterday morning, actually walked in with Yue Peng, Song Ziqing and others.

"Presidents, marshals, ministers." The two hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and secretly wondered in their hearts, not understanding why Yang Qiu would come to Qingdao in the middle of the night to inspect. Seeing that there was no displeasure on his face, Bingwen breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "President, why are you here?" The Central Asian side. ”

"Nothing. It's just that I heard Chu Nan say that you changed your plan. I happened to go to Wuhan at noon to attend the Federation of Industry and Commerce Council, so I took a detour to take a look. Yang Qiu smiled, avoiding the nervous topic of Central Asia. After waving his hand to signal everyone to continue working, he walked to the sand table: "Just now I received a telegram on the plane saying that the Yamamoto 56 faction has already started?" Bingwen knew that Yang Qiu was not worried about the navy, so he immediately introduced the situation of the night battle in Keirama: "Sink four light and heavy cruisers Tone, Chikuma, Oi and Kitagami, as well as three destroyers. We ourselves lost the heavy patrol of Sakhalin and the light patrol of Nenjiang. Also hitched on four destroyers. The Chongming Island was also seriously injured, and it was initially judged that it would not be able to fight for at least seven months, and the Suifenhe also needed to be docked for repairs immediately. ”

"Hehe, that's good." Hearing about such a big loss, Yue Peng not only was not annoyed, but smiled at Song Ziqing and said, "I remember before the war. Japan has a total of 31 cruisers, right? This time he lost 4 more ships, how much more can Yamamoto spoil? ”

"We have sunk 15 ships one after another, and there are 16 left. On the retour, we led 18-8 before the war. Now 11 to 11, not counting the 6 leased from France. Bingwen nodded to Yue Peng gratefully, knowing that he was deliberately using these words to encourage everyone. After all, when it comes to fighting consumption. Japan is far from its own rival. Yang Qiu didn't care about this loss, looked at his watch and said, "Time is not much, tell me about your new plan." ”

Bingwen nodded and signaled to Shen Honglie, who took a push rod from the female soldier's hand, walked to Yang Qiu's side and introduced it eloquently: "President, marshal, look." The main forces of the Japanese Navy have been divided into two parts, one part is the main force led by Yamamoto. We suspect that he is hiding in the waters of Kyushu, Shikoku, and the Izu Islands, secretly confronting us across the Ryukyu Islands. The current situation is that no matter which of our two families crosses the archipelago first, they will inevitably be attacked head-on by the other side. The other part is the southbound detachment. Judging from the deciphered telegrams, there were three escort aircraft carriers in this fleet, namely the Flying Eagle, the Hayabusa, and the Ryuho, four Myo-class heavy cruisers, and the remaining nineteen ships, and the commander was Nagumo Tadaichi.

Since its departure from the Izu Islands, the Nagumo fleet has been sending radio signals and has held several naval exercises. Therefore, we analyzed that he should be trying to lure our XN21 aircraft carrier battle group to pursue and relieve Yamamoto of the trouble. If we continue to follow the original plan and have Pan Duheng attack the Nagumo fleet, then Yamamoto only needs to rely on the Izu Islands and the To-Ochi Islands to form a long-term confrontation with us, so that after landing on Oshima, the landing force will inevitably be attacked by Japanese aircraft carriers. In response to this situation, we decided to modify the plan. With the 121st aircraft carrier formation of the 12th battle group, Zhang Zhaoyang led the three aircraft carriers to pursue south, and let Pan Duheng lead the 21st battle group to rush back after a false shot in the east of the Philippines. In this way, Yamamoto would not be able to use the Philippine Sea to the west of the Ryukyus to deal with us. But just like this, Yamamoto will not come out yet, because we still have four escort aircraft carriers in the East China Sea, plus he doesn't know that the 121 formation has gone south, so he will think that we have two aircraft carrier battle groups, 121 and 122, in the East China Sea. Three ships against seven, with the help of the Air Force, his chances of victory are very small. He launched an attack tonight to force us to cross the island chain first.

So we're ready to count it out!

After dawn, the air force would bomb the Japanese airfields in the Daito Islands first, and destroy the Japanese air force in the Todai Islands west of the Ryukyus. At the same time, the 123rd Battleship Formation had joined Liao Changfeng's landing fleet to protect the 5th Marine Division, the 157th, 158th, 233rd and 240th Infantry Divisions and carried out the landing on Iheiya Island, further forcing Yamamoto. Judging from the situation just now, if the landing on Iheiya Island is successful, Yamamoto will definitely come and send a fleet to attack him tonight, because he will not be able to enter unless he lures out a few of our aircraft carriers. So we decided to let the four Beijing-class battleships of the 123 battleship also join the night cruise to protect the safety of the landing site. It is also planned that the 122 escort aircraft carrier group will temporarily abandon the landing cover mission and that Kumejima airfield will be responsible for air support instead. They played the role of the 121 aircraft carrier battle group, leading more than a dozen empty ships to sneak out between Miyako Island and Ryukyu Island, feigning to land on the Daito Islands. ”

"Not bad!"

Hearing this, Yue Peng and Song Ziqing both patted the border of the sand table, and the latter also asked, "Kume Island is already safe?" ”

"I just got the news that at one o'clock in the morning, about 500 Japanese soldiers tried to sneak up on the airfield, but now they have all been routed, and Kuribayashi Tadamichi has committed suicide. I think it should be fine. "Tadamichi Kuribayashi is the soul of the defenders of Kumejima, and his suicide shows that the Japanese army on Kumejima has been completely finished. Shen Honglie also said: "Kume Island plans to build three field airfields, and now one of them is ready for use, and the other is also being repaired overnight, so it should be able to undertake the task of supporting Iheya Island and blocking enemy planes on Oshima." ”

"It's a character, it's a pity." Yue Peng smacked his lips and sighed for Kuritabayashi Zhongdao. Yang Qiu picked up the putter and pointed to the north of Yipingya Island: "What are you going to do here?" Zhang Zhaoyang went south, Pan Duheng was still rushing back in the Pacific Ocean, and then sent out the 122 aircraft carrier formation, wouldn't there be a big gap in the north? ”

"That's exactly what we planned." Shen Honglie said: "Look. This is the location of Pan Duheng in the afternoon, which is less than 400 nautical miles from the Dongda Islands. If Yamamoto drilled into the East China Sea from Anmi Oshima, he would be able to follow behind and block the retreat, block Yamamoto's three main aircraft carriers in the East China Sea, and cooperate with the bombers on Kume Island and the southeast coast to carry out an encirclement attack. ”

"What about the Nagumo Fleet and the Japanese Fourth Fleet in the Philippines?" Yang Qiu was very unfamiliar with the Japanese naval generals, but Nagumo, who attacked Pearl Harbor and defeated Midway, knew about it, so he was very concerned about how to deal with both directions at the same time, and he couldn't let the other party get into the Philippines, which was densely populated with islands, and hide. However, this worry is not valid in Bingwen's opinion, and he said with a smile: "President, Japan only has six aircraft carriers left, and Xu Huansheng has already blown up crazy, and if this continues, the Dafeng may not be completed." Therefore, Yamamoto must have reminded Nagumo before setting off to try his best to keep the aircraft carrier and fleet, and strive to bring them back to participate in the decisive battle of the Ryukyus. In this case, his confidence in fighting to the death will be very low. So I asked Chen Shiying to stay in Penghu, he had five cruisers and six Taishan-class high-speed destroyers in his hands, and as soon as Nanyun appeared, he would immediately pounce on them and cooperate with the Taiwan Air Wing to bite a few times. Speaking of this, he picked up a model representing an aircraft carrier, stretched out his hand and put it heavily on Keelung: "Zhang Zhaoyang didn't go to Penghu, I asked him to wait for Nanyun here." ”

"You think he's going to turn around, so he's going to intercept him on the way back?" Song Ziqing's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked: "What if he doesn't come back and drill directly to the Philippines?" ”

"He's not going to the Philippines because it's useless to go." Before Bingwen could answer, Yue Peng couldn't help nodding. Laughing: "From a psychological point of view, after a thief is discovered, the first thing is definitely not a fight. ”

"Report! Discover Nagumo's fleet, located 170 nautical miles south of the Bass Strait. ”

As soon as Yue Peng's words fell, he found that the report of the Nanyun fleet sounded from everyone's side. This unexpected coincidence made Yang Qiu laugh, glanced at Bingwen, and nodded with satisfaction...... (To be continued......)