In late June 1942, the situation in Southeast Asia began to become increasingly tense.

Since the British and American governments began lengthy commercial negotiations at Wharton, the United States has been strengthening its military presence in the Philippines, especially its naval forces.

In this plane, after the Anglo-German negotiations in 1940 and peace in Europe, the U.S. Navy and Army still did not stop the pace of mobilization and expansion. After the cactus Ghana stepped down, the newly inaugurated President Wilkee still continued Ghana's military expansion policy.

By June 1942, the total number of troops in the United States had exceeded 500,000. Compared with the Soviet Union and Germany in Europe, this number of land forces is not "too large", but the 500,000 troops are enough for them to fight a war in Southeast Asia.

As for the Navy, two North Carolina-class and three South Dakota-class battleships have all joined the US Navy in June. In order to form an absolutely superior strategic pressure on the British and Japanese navies in the Pacific, the five newly commissioned battleships, two North Carolina-class battleships and two South Dakota-class battleships, were all deployed by the U.S. government in the Pacific Ocean and were subordinate to Hessbend. Pacific Fleet under the command of Admiral Kimmel.

Today's Pacific Fleet, in terms of size, is the largest fleet in the world.

Today, all the assets of the U.S. Navy are as follows:

Battleships: Florida-class two: USS Florida BB30 and USS Utah

There are two New York-class ships: USS New York BB34 and USS Texas BB35.

Two Pennsylvania-class ships: USS Pennsylvania and USS Arizona

Three New Mexico-class vessels: USS New Mexico BB40, USS Mississippi BB41, and USS Idaho BB42.

Two Tennessee class ships: USS Tennessee and USS California

There are three Colorado class ships: USS Colorado BB45, USS Maryland BB46, and USS West Virginia BB48

The above fourteen battleships are all products of the treaty era, and the ships are more than fifteen or even twenty years old. Among them, the three Colorado-class battleships of the United States, seven of which were Japan's two Nagato-class battleships and two British Nelson-class battleships, were the battleships with the largest caliber guns (406 mm) at the treaty era, and were called 'BIG7' (the world's seven ace battleships) by naval circles around the world.

If not for the two Waiming-class and two Nevada-class battleships. Sold to the British Kaizi during the One Year War, the U.S. Navy will be even stronger today.

Of the fourteen battleships, only the West Virginia and the old Florida-class battleships were deployed in the Atlantic, and the rest were transferred to the Pacific region off the west coast of the United States.

In addition to this old ship, the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet was supplemented by two North Carolina-class battleships and two South Dakota-class battleships from 1941 to June 1942. So much so that by June 1942. The tonnage of the US Navy's battleships in the Pacific Ocean has reached as many as fifteen terrifying.

In terms of aircraft carriers, the US Navy has a slightly smaller number, but it is also deployed in the Pacific Ocean. USS Lexington (CV-2), USS Yorktown (CV-5), USS Enterprise (CV-6), USS Wasp (CV-7), USS Hornet (CV-8).

Before the Anglo-American negotiations in May 1942, the Americans successively transferred two Pennsylvania-class and three New Mexico-class battleships, as well as a Lexington aircraft carrier, to the Philippines as a strategic deterrent to Southeast Asia because of the humiliating experience in the Natuna Islands. The battleship USS North Carolina, which had been moored here, returned to the Pearl Harbor shipyard in January of that year for some renovation and improvement work.

When May 1942. When President Wilkie announced that the U.S. Navy was going to conduct large-scale military exercises in the South China Sea in order to scare the British, the powerful Pacific ships of the United States were actually split in two.

Fifteen battleships, five of which were anchored in the Philippines and the other ten were at Pearl Harbor and the West Coast of the United States. The location of the five aircraft carriers located in the Pacific Ocean is also scattered and scattered.

President Wilkie's plan for the exercise had actually been planned and prepared as early as March of that year. Assemble such a large fleet. Crossing a distance of more than 6,000 kilometers in the Pacific Ocean to the other side of the globe to pretend to threaten others requires mobilization of resources. The amount of work required in advance is extremely large.

Even the enormous industrial power of the United States now took two months to prepare, and it was not until the end of May that the fleet was assembled at Pearl Harbor.

On 28 May, the Anglo-US Washington talks broke down again, and the abolition of the "Anglo-American Washington Agreement" was basically a foregone conclusion. Also on the same day. A huge task force of ten battleships and four aircraft carriers, plus dozens of destroyers and cruisers, and dozens of auxiliary supply fleets, left Pearl Harbor in a very high-profile manner. Began to move towards the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, preparing to join up with the detachment previously stationed in the Philippines.

During this sortie, all the US warships were painted gray and white, and the US domestic media called the Navy's operation the second Great White Fleet.

Although the US Navy made a high-profile dispatch to the west, all of them, from President Wilkie to fleet commanders and captains, to ordinary sailors, were not psychologically prepared for war. Although on the westward journey, the fleet issued orders for officers and men to be mentally prepared for an encounter. However, with the fact that the U.S. Navy is now unprecedentedly powerful, the Americans simply do not believe that anyone will have the courage to challenge the majesty of the U.S. Navy during this westward trip.

At this time, the entire United States saw this westward trip as an opportunity for the powerful United States of America to "flex its muscles" to the world after the Great White Fleet sailed around the world that year.

Arrogance, excessive self-confidence, was the first mistake made by the US Navy.

On the west coast of the Pacific Ocean at this time, the opponent of the U.S. Navy, the Japanese side, in addition to a dreadnought left over from the same old treaty era, had only one cutting-edge battleship in name, even if the tonnage was exaggerated to the 60,000-ton super battleship Yamato. The ship is a thorn in the side of the US Navy, but the Americans boast that they have four cutting-edge battleships equipped with 16-inch guns, and the four-to-one ratio makes the US Navy full of confidence in this regard. As for the battleship Yamato Shinano, which was newly launched by the Japanese, the Japanese have always done an excellent job of keeping secrets in building ships, and Japan itself is a relatively closed country. The American side still does not know the specifics of this battleship, and even does not know that the Japanese Navy has just received a second Yamato-class battleship to join.

In terms of aircraft carriers, the Americans also have limited knowledge of the Japanese Navy. The information in their hands only knows that the main aircraft carrier of the Japanese Navy is now, except for the frighteningly large supercarrier Musashi, and the only thing at home is the cutting-edge aircraft carriers Zuihe and Xianghe. As well as the Akagi, an old cargo from the treaty era, and a dragon mosaic that could only be used for training. As for the two ships, Fengxiang and Kaga, which had already sunk into the waters of the East China Sea in 1935 during the Chinese intervention war.

However, what the U.S. Navy also did not know was that the two aircraft carriers, Soryu and Flying Dragon, which began construction in early 1940, joined the Japanese Navy in May 1942 after two years and four months of rush construction.

The Musashi, Zuizuru, Shozuru, Soryu, and Flying Dragons, plus the Akagi, these six aircraft carriers can carry more than 600 carrier-based aircraft, and once the whole army is dispatched, the number of aircraft that can be dispatched alone will exceed more than 50 percent of the four aircraft carriers of the US Navy.

Americans don't know even more. The original plan for the construction of the Japanese navy was to start the Pacific War at the end of 1940, but it was only because Britain bowed its head prematurely and conceded defeat and missed the opportunity, so that the plan was postponed again and again. At that time, because the two ships of Soryu and Flying Dragon had just been built, in order to make up for the shortcomings of the number of aircraft carriers, the Japanese were reminded by the "Yamato Nadeshiko". Also began to secretly Condor-class aircraft carriers.

The so-called Condor-class aircraft carrier is actually an escort aircraft carrier converted from a merchant ship. The carriers of this series are slow. The carrier aircraft is small, and it can usually only be used for escort anti-submarine operations.

However, Japan's Condor-class aircraft carriers are slightly different, although they were originally merchant ships, but when they were built in 1938, they considered the possibility of transforming into aircraft carriers in the future, and made reservations in advance when designing. It can be transformed into an aircraft carrier very quickly. Although relatively professional combat aircraft carriers are slow and do not have enough aircraft, they are more than enough to cope with the old treaty-class battleships.

At the end of the European war at the end of 1940, the Japanese secretly modified six aircraft carriers of this class. Due to the premature end of the war, after the war four ships were repurposed for freight. But at the beginning of 1942. With the rapid deterioration of relations between Britain and the United States, the Japanese Navy urgently rebuilt these four "aircraft carrier reserve ships" that had been prepared for a long time. On the surface, it seems that it is laborious to change the six aircraft carriers, but in fact it is due to the reservation and advance design preparation. The whole renovation process took only one month, and it was completed smoothly without overtime, and the speed was very fast.

These six Condor-class aircraft carriers can carry an average of 40 aircraft per ship, and with the addition of the deck mooring overload method, it can be forcibly increased to about 60 aircraft. Although the result was fragile, once the six ships went into battle, all the six ships combined with more than 300 fighters were dispatched, which was also a survival that no enemy fleet dared to ignore.

The lack of strict knowledge of the opponent's intelligence was the second mistake made by the US Navy in this war.

The third mistake comes from the decipherment of the radio code.

The third mistake of the Americans was brought about by the Prophet of the Travelers.

In the Pacific War, the U.S. Navy had countless advantages over the Japanese Navy, the first of which was the successful decipherment of the Japanese Navy's military communication code. Mastered their one-qiē operation, which resulted in several heavy achievements, such as the famous Battle of Midway, and the ambush on Kuah Island that killed the commander of the Combined Fleet, Fifty-Six Sanmoto.

As the doppelganger of the traverser Lin Han, how could Li Huamei let this flaw be seized by the Americans.

Password security is also a problem in Germany, and the German Navy has also eaten the bones of password leakage in history. For this reason, after Hannah came to power in 1932, she ordered the improvement and re-upgrading of the existing Enig cipher machine in Germany, and after years of hard work, finally developed a satisfactory product. Later, the Germans also provided Li Huamei with ideas and drawings for the improved cipher design.

Then Li Huamei came forward and asked the Japanese military to improve the existing cipher machine, and she handed over the ideas and drawings sent by the Germans to the relevant scientific and technological personnel, and produced a reassuring cipher machine. However, the Japanese Navy did not immediately replace the full cipher machine, and has been using the old cipher equipment that has long been deciphered by the Americans for communication.

The Americans deliberately let the Japanese Navy have access to communications and information in order to set a trap and make them make wrong judgments. The Japanese Navy has been digging a trap for a whole year and is waiting to trap the Americans to death at the most critical moment, even though it has long confirmed that the navy's password has been leaked.

At the end of May 1942, when the U.S. Navy was departing from Pearl Harbor in a high-profile manner, the Americans set up a radio listening battle in the Pacific Ocean, and immediately overheard a large number of telegrams sent to the Japanese Navy from the Japanese Navy headquarters in Tokyo.

"You must be restrained, and there must be no dangerous actions to maliciously provoke the US Navy."

"Strengthen the discipline of the officers of the fleet and prevent the appearance of acts of maliciously provoking wars by going alone!"

All kinds of Japanese military communication messages were all admonished by the Tokyo side to the navy, and the content was similar, all of which demanded that the fleet commander strengthen the control of his subordinates and prevent the appearance of the second red deer in the middle of the country who went on their own way.

In addition, there are some more interesting cables, the content of which is nothing more than that once the US Navy launches a conflict with the British Navy, it is required that the Japanese Combined Fleet must make clear to the US Navy at the first time that it will take a position of "good faith and neutrality" and that no dangerous moves will occur.

After seeing these deciphered communication cables, the senior officers of the US Navy were immediately relieved, and their already modest vigilance was further weakened.

On the way to the Philippines, an interesting thing happened.

On 10 June, the intelligence agencies of the US Navy overheard a telegram sent by the Japanese Navy to a Japanese submarine in the Pacific Ocean. From the contents of the telegram, it is known that the submarine is on the route of the US Navy and will meet the US fleet in a day at most.

In the deciphered message, the Japanese Navy Headquarters repeatedly asked the captain of the ship to surface to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings when encountering the American fleet the next day.

The next day, the U.S. fleet, heading west, soon encountered this "lonely" Japanese submarine on board the Pacific ship, and the captain of the submarine not only surfaced at the request of Tokyo, but also stood on the deck with all the crew and captain, including the captain, to pay homage to the U.S. fleet. This act greatly satisfied the pride of the Americans, and the American reporters accompanying him at the time even filmed the scene with their cameras, and prepared to send it back to China for publication after docking, so as to brag about it again. (To be continued......)

ps:It's too late.,Update first.,Then proofread.,Let's take a look at it first.,After twelve o'clock, I proofread the typos and then modify it R1292.