The Americans still underestimated the anti-submarine capabilities of the Royal Navy.

Going out on an ocean-going expedition, there are no nuclear submarines with unlimited power, and the two oceanic fleets, which have lost their underwater protection power, will certainly not ignore the anti-submarine forces. Not to mention the four helicopters on the Marshal-class aircraft carriers, even the light and heavy cruisers have one FQ-5 anti-submarine helicopter each. As an anti-submarine battleship with a large target, slow evasion, and the easiest to attack, it is also equipped with an anti-submarine and a transport helicopter.

During this expedition, both helicopters were deliberately replaced with FQ-20 Dolphin anti-submarine helicopters.

Since he made a joke because of his carelessness during the bloody battle on Pei Island, General Mao Shiying, the pipe control, has become much more cautious, and in the Central Pacific, thousands of kilometers away from the mainland, Commander Mao will not make low-level mistakes.

The twelve anti-submarine helicopters in the landing fleet were divided into three groups and took turns to take the air, ensuring that at all times, helicopters were on duty on all sides of the fleet. The Wing De Heavy Patrol also dropped several fixed-depth magnetic mines in the surrounding waters to ensure the safety of the fleet.

Unfortunately, the Saury hit the jackpot. The sailors who were looking for the flaws in the Han fleet and waiting for the opportunity to attack ignored the magnetic mines suspended at a depth of fifty meters.

The close contact between the Saury and the magnetic mine only made a small splash on the surface of the sea, and the sonar soldiers clearly heard a muffled sound. Several cheers rang out from the communicator at once: a submarine was hit by a mine!

The battleship Wenju (Kong Rong) immediately aimed all the guns on the right chord at the place where the water was splashing, but after waiting for a long time, there was no movement except for the oil stain that floated up.

The sailors pouted, "The quality of the US submarines is not very good!" ”

This is obviously a cool remark, and there is a chance that a submarine that detonates a mine under water will have no chance to surface again.

The American sailors on the Sailfish deeply felt the sadness of the dead rabbit and fox, but they did not retreat, and waited patiently for the opportunity under the command of the captain, Major Auden.

Commander Mao did not let his guard down, and if he could sink a submarine, there might still be. However, General Pipe had a bad year, and the radar showed that a group of fighters were flying from the north to the fleet!

"North? Commander Long led the main force of the two ocean fleets in the south, and there are no planes of his own in the north, so it must be the US army! But...... Is there a fish that slips through the net? ”

Although he has absolute confidence in his own carrier-based aircraft, at this time, it is obviously not the time to discuss where this group of aircraft came from, call the commander-in-chief of Longzhou on the Mengde, and send the sea dragon shipboard to save his life!

No matter how crazy Commander Mao is, he will not be so arrogant as to try to respond to the attack of American planes with four plus four battleships and heavy cruisers.

Received a clear telegram from the landing fleet, and Commander Long was also hairy, can he not be hairy? They were all in a hurry to use the clear code telegram, and the landing fleet must be very dangerous. The landing fleet cannot afford to be missed, and the landing is a very important part of the entire "Storm" plan, and failure to successfully land on Oahu will be a failure of Operation "Storm." Just sinking a couple of American ships, for the Royal Navy, did not make much sense. This expedition wants a base, a springboard that can be used as a springboard to attack the continental United States.

If the landing fleet is lost or if the marines suffer significant losses, it will be irreparable. Long Zhou didn't plan to send sailors to the beach to attack the American artillery fire at the end, His Majesty was right, "Professional work still has to be handed over to professionals." ”

The protection of the landing fleet is the first priority, and it is no longer even necessary to wait for the effect of a second wave of attacks. "Order all the remaining Sea Dragons of all ships to take off, and those who have already replenished fuel and ammunition will also take off immediately to rescue the landing fleet."

As a commander, the more critical the moment, the more calm you must be. Long Zhou, who gave the order, walked to the chart, "Midway, it can only be a bomber on Midway!" "There are no other U.S. military bases around Hawaii, and the only one that can take off planes and fly to Hawaii is Midway, which is 2,000 kilometers away. But the problem is that there are no ultra-long-range strategic bombers stationed on Midway, and the distance of 2,000 kilometers is enough to make most American-made aircraft daunting, and even if they can fly to Hawaii, they will not have much time to stay in the air, and these fighters will not have a chance to return, and the sea will be their only destination.

There is no problem with the judgment of the fat man, and the foodie general is definitely worthy of his reputation in terms of military literacy. But the wise and genius Commander Dragon also overlooked an important point, that is, the Enterprise!

Before the first wave of attacks, the Linglong reconnaissance plane had already discovered that the USS Enterprise, the only aircraft carrier of the US Pacific Fleet, was not inside Pearl Harbor. This is not the American army's failure to go to the prophet, or that they once had an opportunity to not go to the prophet, but was given up by Admiral Nimitz.

The real reason the Enterprise was not at Pearl Harbor was that it went to Midway Island under the escort of two cruisers with the mission of transporting the F-94 Starfire high-speed interceptors that had just been deployed to the Pacific.

The Imperial Military Intelligence Agency's MI5, which is responsible for intelligence in the Americas, is quite effective, and the information they provide about the F-94 is quite accurate. The U.S. military has indeed begun mass production of the Spark high-speed interceptor.

This is the first subtone super interceptor in the United States, and its top speed at an altitude of 8,000 meters is close to 1,200 kilometers per hour. This is a speed that is beyond the reach of all fighters in the world, including the Celestial Dragon fighter of the Han Empire.

In order to defend against Han attacks from the Japanese direction, the first Starfires were assigned to the Navy and deployed to the Midway Naval Air Station. The Ministry of Defense judged that if the Han Royal Navy wanted to attack the continental United States, it would be a must for them to attack Midway Island from Japan. The deployment of advanced Spark fighters on Midway Island can firmly control the air supremacy in the waters off Midway Island in the hands of the US military, and this will have a great deterrent effect on the Royal Han Navy, which mainly attacks by air forces. Without air supremacy, they did not dare to attack Midway easily

It must be admitted that this is an extremely orthodox line of thought, and if this defense plan can be known to Zhong Yi, His Majesty will definitely give a thumbs up and praise the US Secretary of the Navy Knox, because in the previous life, naval battles in the Pacific were based on his line of thought.

But in this life...... He's clearly OUT. Compared to Japan's Combined Fleet, the Royal Navy's ocean-going capabilities were not a little bit stronger; In terms of intelligence, under the leadership of Mu Yu, the capabilities of the Military Intelligence Bureau are by no means comparable to those of the Yugoslav organs. Don't you see, can even the chairman bury a "scheme" around him?

The most important thing is that the comprehensive strength of the empire is not comparable to that of the island country that fights big with small and gambles on the fortunes of the country at every turn. After also eliminating the main force of the Pacific Fleet, Yamamoto gambled on the road would suffer a crushing defeat at Midway, and the four aircraft carriers would be sunk and there would be no strength to fight back. But Longzhou can calmly lay out and establish several supply bases in the Pacific Ocean, without the need for an expedition like the Combined Fleet.

Before the two oceanic ships set out for the expedition, His Majesty's words to Long Zhou were the most revealing, "Regardless of the success of the 'Storm', you must come back alive." Don't be afraid if the ship is gone, sink one, and I'll make up for you two. ”

This is the confidence of a great power!

Just like in the previous life, after the Pearl Harbor attack, the United States built more than a dozen capital aircraft carriers and dozens of escort aircraft carriers in a few years, and in the Nimitz attack on Saipan in the Northern Marianas, there were 17 aircraft carriers in the Pacific Fleet. With a strong industrial heritage, people can complete the construction of two Casablanca-class escort aircraft carriers in seventy-six days, and Yamamoto Fifty-six would have to vomit blood if he knew about it.

Not in Japan, but in the big Han can! It's been seventy-six days, even if it's the main aircraft carrier of the marshal-class class, it won't take us more than a month!

Compared with the explosion of planes and warships, can there be a country that is better than the main base?

Therefore, Zhong Yi has this confidence, it is not important whether a battle is won or lost, the important thing is that the Han Empire must win this war, win the fresh air in the highest place in the forest of nations, the bluest sky!

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F-94 Starfire fighters were transported to Midway Island in the first week of Project Storm. What if the storm was planned a week earlier? What if these thirty-two high-speed Starfire interceptors joined the air battle on Oahu?

History doesn't have so many ifs. There was no Starfire, and even in order to transport Starfire, only half of the fighters on the Enterprise were left (this is also the reason why the Kraken appeared on Ford Island, because half of the Banshees on the Enterprise went ashore to make room for Starfire. ), but it will still pose a great threat to the landing fleet. The HVAR (High Speed Aviation Rocket) and HPAG (High Performance Air-to-Surface Rocket) carried under the Banshee's wings are extremely lethal to the warship, not to mention that the Banshee can also carry large aerial bombs weighing up to 500 pounds.

The shipboard radar equipped with the battleships of the Princes-class can detect targets 200 kilometers away, while the main forces of the two oceanic fleets are more than 300 kilometers away from the landing ships, and in addition to the time for Hailong to take off, the landing fleet will have to deal with the attack from the air alone in nearly 40 minutes.

But Long Zhou still didn't know that the US planes took off from the enterprise, and not the bombers from Midway. He optimistically said that if the US planes that had made the long journey from Midway Island attacked the landing fleet for 15 minutes at most, they would crash because they ran out of fuel. Taking off the sea dragon is completely a safer behavior.

The two Fengshen Pterodactyl early warning planes also leaned in the direction of the landing fleet under the dispatch of the command ship, but the communication system of the early warning aircraft could not be directly connected to the battleship.

General Mao Shiying still had to rely on the battleship radar to judge the number of US aircraft. In order to be able to sail at high speed to avoid torpedo and aircraft bombardment, Pipe Commander commanded the fleet to protect the Yanhuang and amphibious landing ships out of the mine protection area, and roughly divided the air defense zone of each battleship, and the transport ships and landing ships with weak anti-aircraft fire were ordered to sail at full speed to the main force of the fleet.

Commander Mao wanted to use eight battleships and heavy cruisers to attract the firepower of US planes, and to keep the Yanhuang steamer carrying the Marine Corps and the three scribe-class dock landing ships as the main force of the landing.

This idea is not wrong, and Long Zhou also expressed his appreciation for this plan.

But that's where the tragedy began, and the wolf that was waiting for an opportunity in the water bypassed the warning area of the four-plus-four fleet. Major Auden's eyes were filled with greed and excitement, "Here's the chance to save America!" ”