"Report! The reconnaissance aircraft in the Solomon direction lost contact! ”

Almost at the same time, Nimitz received another message.

The news came from Brigadier General Paul Tibbetts of the Nuclear Bomber Force, the 1st Nuclear Bomber Group, which was about to arrive in the airspace near the island of Fiji and asked for assistance in escorting the convoy.

Suddenly, a bold idea popped into Nimitz's mind.

Los Alamos Lab has a secret research project to explore the possibility of using an atomic bomb to attack the ships of the Imperial Navy, Nimitz knows about the relevant plan, and he also knows a thing or two about the lethal radiation left behind after the nuclear explosion.

After Nimitz made his decision, he directly contacted Brigadier General Paul Tibbetts, who was still in the air, "In accordance with the Guidelines for the Use of Nuclear Weapons, I now ask you to cooperate in the operation. ”

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Yamamoto Isoroku waited for the other party's reaction, is it to fight or retreat?

In the other party's battle, they tried their best to eat this mixed formation of aircraft carriers, and then chose the opportunity to choose a decisive battle with the fleet.

When the other party retreats, he will take advantage of the situation to pull out the nail of Fiji Island, which is not worth the trip.

However, the huge group of planes roared in, but unexpectedly got the news that this mixed formation of the United States broke the formation in the sea area between Fiji Island and Vanuatu Island, and actually chose to be frontal and rigid, which made Yamamoto 56 surprised.

It was a surprise that Nimitz reversed his previous move to avoid war, is there some conspiracy?

The good news is that if this mixed fleet can be eaten and the main force of the Pacific Fleet is found to fight a decisive battle, then the Shengyang Empire, which has an absolute advantage in the number of aircraft carriers, can win a period of strategic initiative.

"Gentlemen! Wuyun is prosperous! ”

"Hey!"

On the flagship of the mixed formation, the huge attacking group made Nimitz secretly pinch a cold sweat, but he quietly issued a combat order on his face, and the group of planes hovering over the mixed formation met it after receiving the order.

When Nimitz saw that the two groups were entangled together, he immediately ordered the fleet to turn around and sail towards the east of Fiji Island.

Yamamoto Fifty-six looked at the mixed fleet that fled immediately after a short contact, and after a rare moment of hesitation, he still gave the order to pursue.

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On the No. 23 platform of the space-based weapon combat system, which is constantly monitoring this sea area, it can be clearly seen that five fleet clusters have surrounded the path of the mixed formation from three sides.

"The Rising Sun Empire is miserable." The weapon operator sighed, and in this way, the pursuit left the relatively slow aircraft carriers behind, and subconsciously hugged the group. Isn't this dense formation just what Nimitz wanted?

"Yes, this formation is really terrible in the face of American nuclear bombers."

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The 1st Nuclear Bombardment Group suddenly appeared from a high altitude after the second wave of carrier-based aircraft of the Imperial Navy in Shengyang took off.

The collimator on one bomber was aimed at the slow-moving carrier cluster in the open sea, and the other three also found their target.

The automatic bomb dropper was then activated, and 60 seconds later, the atomic bomb fell into the air through the open hatch.

At this moment, the bomber made a 155° turn and quickly climbed to escape.

About 50 seconds later, the atomic bomb was detonated at a depth of 55 meters.

At the moment of the detonation of the nuclear bomb, a high-speed expanding fireball appeared at the detonation point and generated a supersonic hydraulic shock wave underwater, tearing apart the keel of the nearby ship.

As the shock wave spreads outward, the color of the sea water becomes dark, like oil spilled from the sea. The sea level immediately after the shock wave immediately turns white, because the sound transmission speed of the water is as much as five times faster than that of the air, when the shock wave spreads at high speed under the water, the sea surface behind it is quickly turned white, like a thin white surface extending outward at high speed at sea.

One millisecond after the nuclear explosion, the bubbles caused by the fireball reach the seabed and sea level at the same time, and the bubbles explode a large crater in the seabed, atomizing the seawater and spraying it into the air in the shape of a dome.

One second after the explosion, the bubbles sprayed about 2,000,000 tons of seawater and sand within a diameter of 150 meters, forming a wall of water 1,800 meters high, 610 meters wide and 91 meters thick.

Finally, when the bubble rises into the air, it triggers another shock wave of air.

Due to the sudden drop in air pressure behind the shock wave, the water vapor immediately condenses into clouds. The condensation cloud rose rapidly from the sea and covered the entire wall of water, spreading outward in a disc shape before disappearing as the air pressure gradually recovered.

As the condensation clouds disappear, the top of the wall of water begins to turn cauliflower-shaped, and all seawater, sand, and mist run out of power and are about to fall back to the surface of the sea with gravity.

At the same time, the bubbles suck up a large amount of seawater, causing a vacuum to appear underwater.

When seawater rushes in to fill the space, it exerts a thrust against the outside seawater, causing tsunami-like waves.

The first wave was nearly 300 meters from the center of the explosion 11 seconds after the explosion, with a wave height of 29 meters, and when the wave reached 5,600 meters away, it was still 4.6 meters high, and repeatedly hit as many as nine times.

Twelve seconds after the nuclear explosion, the wall of water began to fall with gravity, forming a huge waterfall 270 meters high, this waterfall fell from the sky, stirring up a once high-radiation tide, flooding most of the ships on the sea, and about 12 aircraft carriers were damaged and sunk.

At this time, many shore-based aircraft in the Shengyang Empire had already consumed most of their fuel and began to return one after another.

The pressure on the mixed formation was greatly reduced, and Nimitz also got the good news of the 1st Group of nuclear bombardment, and was overjoyed and directly ordered the whole fleet to prepare for battle!

Looking at the mixed formation that seemed to be preparing to turn around, Yamamoto Isoroku was a little puzzled, "What are the Americans thinking?" ”

It's no wonder that Yamamoto Fifty-six would think so, on the surface alone, the loss of the entire Shengyang Empire's naval ships is not serious, most of the twelve aircraft carriers that were directly sunk were merchant ships converted into aircraft carriers, and there were some old outdated warships converted into aircraft carriers, and only one of its main fleet aircraft carriers was sunk, and the others were far from the explosion and were not destroyed.

In addition, there are four cutting-edge battleships of the Shengyang class, which are also largely preserved after the nuclear explosion.

Therefore, in Yamamoto's view, this mixed formation trying to turn around and engage in battle is tantamount to voluntary suicide.

If a nuclear expert is here, he will definitely tell him that the main sources of lethality of a nuclear explosion are strong light radiation, shock waves and radiation fallout.

If a person is exposed to strong radiation at close range, it is likely that the person will be immediately vaporized alive, and if a person is exposed at a distance, he will be burned. Even if you block the bright light, you can't stop the super heat wave and shock wave generated by the nuclear explosion, and the hot air will burn the skin and lungs, and if you don't do it in airtight and solid bunker, the pressure difference generated by the shock wave will blow people apart.

The effects of radiation may seem inconspicuous, but they are the most deadly.

The lethality of radioactive fallout will only be exerted 15-40 minutes after the nuclear explosion, and the high-intensity gamma rays contained in it will make the organism suffer from decreased immunity as long as it is exposed to radioactive fallout for about 2 minutes, and once there is even a small wound, it will be infected, and there is no direct exposure to high-intensity radioactive fallout, and death will be certain within 5 minutes.

A large amount of radioactive fallout poured into the nearby sea with the seawater, and it was attached to almost every ship of the Rising Sun Empire's navy.

Yamamoto Fifty-six didn't know that the fleet, which seemed to have suffered little losses, had suffered countless casualties among the soldiers inside, and had basically lost its ability to fight. In front of Nimitz were nothing more than 'steel coffins' filled with corpses.

For Nimitz, the naval battle was over.