A round of red sun slowly rose from the junction of sea and sky in the east, and the glow of the sun was ten thousand ways, dragging the figure of the Ruihe on the sea surface for a long time.

Vice Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa, commander of the First Air Operations, stood on the island bridge of the aircraft carrier Zuizuru, holding a glass of Coke in his right hand, and quietly looked at the figure of the sister ship Xiangzuru not far away, and his mood was very comfortable. Coke was the loot of a supply convoy bound for Hawaii the day before yesterday, which was loaded with supplies from San Francisco to Hawaii, but now it was all cheaper for the Japanese.

The "two cranes" of the combined fleet only took part in the initial feint attack on Luzon in the first few days, and in mid-July they withdrew from the battlefield early and returned to the Saipan base to rest and recuperate. After August, he went to Hawaii to replace the aircraft carrier Musashi, which had been on combat duty there for more than a month.

After the Battle of Guam, the Japanese combined ships concentrated most of their main forces to move westward and cooperated with the army to launch a strategic operation in the Philippines. However, the Musashi aircraft carrier took advantage of the victory to advance eastward, and with two Kongo-class battle cruisers, as well as the fourth team of the second fleet (Shigekatsu/Takao, Atago, Chokai, Maya), the fifth team (Shigekatsu/Nachi, Haguro, Myoko fleet), and an old-fashioned aircraft carrier Ryumosaic, began a strategic operation that swept through many islands in the Central Pacific Ocean.

Throughout July, they took Guam, Wake Island, and Midway, a strategic point necessary for the attack on Hawei. After the Battle of Guam, the U.S. Navy's mobile forces in the Pacific Ocean were almost completely wiped out, and the strength of its defenders on these small islands was extremely limited.

After occupying Midway, this detachment swept through the surrounding area, successively seizing a series of islands such as Lysan Island, Lysangi Island, and Gardner Island, and stabilizing this forward base for threatening Hawaii.

Later, Midway Island was used as the front line for the transit battle, where the Combined Fleet launched a breakthrough operation. Taking advantage of the long attack distance of the two aircraft carriers, Musashi and Ryumosa, as well as the characteristics of the ship's spirit in seeking the enemy, the Japanese detachment roaming northeast of Hawaii for nearly a month from 25 July to 20 August intercepted 16 cargo ships bound for Hawaii from the US mainland and captured 12 of them. Four ships were sunk and countless supplies were captured. As a result, Americans are now no longer afraid to act in teams to deliver supplies to Hawaii, but are moving alone one by one like rats.

The biggest result of the First Destruction Fleet in the waters of Hawaii for a month was that it attracted all the submarine forces deployed by the Americans here like a magnet. In the face of the ship's cheating ability, the US submarine force has suffered heavy losses in the past month, and a total of thirteen submarines have been sunk.

The new Chief of Naval Operations of the United States, Nimitz. Therefore, the Atlantic Fleet was hurriedly transferred to the Pacific Ocean precisely to break the blockade of Hawaii by the Japanese Navy. It's just that when more and more Japanese aircraft carriers and battleships gather around Hawaii, I'm afraid Nimitz doesn't have the courage to transfer the few remaining fleets to Hawaii.

On 20 August, Vice Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa led a new round of the Second Breaking Fleet with two cranes as the core to the waters of Hawaii, taking over from the First Breaking Fleet, which had been bumping at sea for two months.

At this time, the Philippine campaign was nearing its end, and the Japanese were preparing to launch a Hawaiian raid. At the end of July, as the Japanese Army gradually gained a foothold in the Philippines. The main ships of the Combined Fleet participating in the Philippine attack operations also withdrew from the Philippine battlefield and returned to Saipan Island for rest, leaving only a few warships for the blockade of Philippine waters.

Before taking over the Musashi. The Second Breaker Fleet made a short two-day stay at Midway. Midway has a circumference of 24 km. With a land area of 5 square kilometers, the US Navy established an aviation and submarine base here in 1940. However, it is now part of the Japanese Combined Fleet. The combined ships swept the surrounding islands in preparation for the next attack on Hawaii, and when the war in the Philippines was over, the Japanese navy and land forces would launch a Hawaii raid operation with all their might.

Jizaburo Ozawa looked out through the window on the ship, and eight Caiyun reconnaissance planes were lined up on the deck in turn to prepare for takeoff. Due to the quality of the domestic air-cooled Yu 21 engine, it is not up to par. This Caiyun currently uses BMW801G engines imported from Germany, which are the same type as the Navy's current FW190TF fighter-bombers, but their performance is better than the latter, because they are engines that have been "blessed" (magically modified) by the gods Yamato Nadeshiko.

The FW190TF fighter-bomber imported from Germany was named "Sky Thunder" by Yamato Nadeshiko. However, due to Japan's backward processing technology. At present, only the fuselage of this aircraft can be produced in China, and the core engine has to be imported from Germany.

The Caiyun reconnaissance plane has just been equipped with the navy this year, and the nominal maximum speed is 610 km/h, but even the Feiyan, which claims to have a maximum speed of more than 700 km/h in the army aviation, cannot catch up with him. Because the nominal speed of Caiyun is the maximum sustained speed at normal combat altitude, and the acceleration is particularly fast, the pilots of the Navy are very fond of this reconnaissance aircraft.

On the Zuihe aircraft carrier, each carries ten Caiyun, eight for reconnaissance and two for backup. There are twelve on board the Crane, four of which are in reserve. Each time the reconnaissance sortie was made, each of the two aircraft carriers dispatched eight Caiyun planes at the same time to search for the enemy in different directions. When searching for the enemy, two planes in a group conducted reconnaissance together, and the two planes in the same group cooperated with each other to corroborate each other.

Since the US Navy no longer has a decent naval force in the Pacific Ocean, and the Japanese fleet's main purpose in operations is to break up diplomatic relations and capture enemy transport ships, none of these reconnaissance planes have bombs under their bellies, and they only carry out reconnaissance missions purely in their bellies.

The professional Caiyun reconnaissance plane, with its high speed and long distance to seek the enemy, is very suitable for carrying out this kind of task of breaking diplomatic relations. Although the god Yamato Nadeshiko is now possessed on the Zuizuru, its maximum distance to the enemy is only about 250 kilometers. To search for the enemy at a longer distance and to discover the enemy's transport ships, it is necessary to rely on these specialized reconnaissance planes.

The "Toda" of the Japanese combined ships will only last until the beginning of September, and there is intelligence that the Americans are about to transfer the Atlantic Fleet to the Pacific Ocean. When the time comes, the combat missions will change, and the colorful clouds carried on the two cranes will all be replaced by professional fighter-bombers, which will replace reconnaissance planes to carry out reconnaissance and bombing missions, just like in history.

Watching the "colorful clouds" take off from the deck one after another, Jizaburo Ozawa sighed in his heart and snorted: "God bless the empire." ”

In the past five years, it is precisely because of the birth of Yamato Nadeshiko that Japan has been able to get rid of the series of crises that China has fallen into after the war, put an end to the declining trend, and the national strength and national strength have re-entered the upward track. In this regard, Jizaburo Ozawa is extremely grateful to His Excellency Nadeshiko.

Over the past few years, under the foresight and correct guidance of His Excellency Yamato Nadeshiko, the Japanese Empire has been able to reap the benefits of the British, American, and German powers, and its navy has also flourished. Under his guidance, the Imperial Navy embarked on the right path of development, while Britain and the United States spent great efforts to build "outdated" battleships, the Empire concentrated most of its forces to build a large number of aircraft carriers, and in the Battle of Guam, it was the attack of the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carriers, with the overwhelming results of the air force on the battleships, that completely ended the dispute between the aircraft carrier faction and the battleship faction for many years in the past.

Not only that, but in recent years, the empire has received a large amount of advanced military technology from Britain and Germany. Whether it is a British or German aero engine, it is a storage that the engine development department of the "Great Japanese Empire" can only look up to. It is precisely because of the "almost selfless" assistance of these two countries that the Japanese Navy has been able to achieve such brilliant results in the past two months.

Jizaburo Ozawa knows very well that Japan's current international strategic shape is so good, and it is entirely due to the Japanese god and Yamato Nadeshiko. Relying on her accurate prediction of the international situation and the contradictions between countries, the imperial side was able to obtain so many visible and invisible "allies" at the beginning of this war.

Looking at the colorful clouds in takeoff, Jizaburo Ozawa said to himself inside.

"Your Excellency Yamato Nadeshiko, she is truly the patron saint of the Great Japanese Empire!"

Sixteen clouds took off in turn, flying in eight different directions. An hour later, the news came from the clouds in one direction that about three hundred kilometers northwest of the fleet, an American freighter had been spotted, which was heading in the direction of Hawaii.

"It's a long detour, but even if it were, you wouldn't be able to get to Hawaii."

After receiving this information, Ozawa Jizaburo ordered the two light cruisers in the fleet to come out and change course to intercept the cargo ship, which was 300 kilometers away.

At this time, Ozawa Jizaburo did not know that this American freighter would be the last trophy of his second shipbreaker in the next two weeks. After that, because of the large number of transport ships intercepted, the United States had abandoned the plan of resupplying and increasing troops in Hawaii without escort, and no longer carried out this unintentional loss of ships and cargo and the addition of capital to the enemy.

On 7 September, the US Atlantic Fleet, with the USS Essex as the core, crossed the Panama Canal and entered the Great Plain Ocean.

Originally, the fleet was to rush to support Hawaii, which had become an isolated island, but after learning that "at least six Japanese aircraft carriers" and two Yamato-class battleships had also arrived in Hawaii, the U.S. Navy retreated.

In fact, during this time, the Japanese Navy had only four aircraft carriers in the waters off Hawaii, the aircraft carrier Musashi was receiving rest and replenishment on Saipan, and the two Yamato-class battleships were resting and maintaining on the mainland.

However, during war, it is not uncommon to misjudge the specific situation of the opponent. Even if there were only four Japanese aircraft carriers, the US Navy, which did not have much to defeat for the time being, would not dare to attack lightly at this time. Eventually, the fleet turned to San Francisco, where it rested and waited for an opportunity. (To be continued......)

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