Although the drone discovered the Big Eagle, there were carrier-based aircraft taking off, which made Cheng Dayang and Lin Xiuxuan have a premonition that something was not good. Previous experience had taught them that even if one escaped, it could be a traverser, but they decided to stay and participate in the upcoming decisive battle. After all, this was a pivotal battle that determined the course of the war in 1943.

Although Yamamoto's fleet formation was relatively loose, its five strongest aircraft carriers were still twisted into a rope as a whole. Only the Wyvern is slightly further behind.

When Asano was alive, he repeatedly mentioned to Yamamoto the Battle of Midway, which did not exist in this time and space, and talked about the defeat of this battle. Asano's emphasis was only on the general conclusions he had seen in various books, such as simply blaming the failure on the chaos of deck work, or...... The information leaked ahead of time, but Yamamoto heard the truth from it - the Battle of Midway was actually lost by insufficient troops.

Abandoning Asano's subjective analysis of the head of the road, from the description alone, Yamamoto believes that there are two reasons for the defeat - the lack of troops in the battle, the number of aircraft carriers is 4 to 3, and the strategic mistake lies in the unclear purpose, whether to lure and destroy the aircraft carriers, or to conquer Midway?

This is something of real useful value that Yamamoto heard from Asano, who smeared and flew sideways and pained Chen Nanyun's scheduling mistakes.

The Battle of Midway, which did not take place in this time and space, was basically useless because of the intelligence superiority of the Americans, who had painstakingly managed to deceive the enemy and feint attacks. If we count the army planes that took off from Midway, there were significantly more US fighters than Japan in this campaign. Later generations of Japanese people were obsessed with this defeat and blamed it on chance, but Yamamoto had a draft in his stomach before Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway itself, so he was able to comprehend the real defeat faster and more deeply than anything else.

This campaign was still planned by the Kuroshima staff officers, and the first principle was to conduct a purely naval battle on a sea far from any land airfield, and there was absolutely no other intention to contain naval action. For this naval battle, he left behind the Army, which was fighting hard in Queensland, just to get away from the land. In addition, in terms of intelligence, he does not expect that he can gain an intelligence advantage, but if the fleet is united, he can crack the intelligence advantage of the US military.

The destruction of the Dragons has left the Wyvern to be used as a single team. This made Yamamoto feel that he could try a new tactic. He was going to have Wyvern wander as a guerrilla force near the other two warbands. At the right time, receiving other warband planes that could not land due to chaos was the second inspiration he got from Asano's story. The deck of the Wyvern can solve the problem of scheduling other aircraft carriers, which is almost inevitable in the event of a fierce battle. Next, when the battle is heated and both sides are exhausted, the Wyvern can also be used as a sneak attacker.

Judging from the US military formation detected by sonar, Cheng Dayang showed that the US troops were also very complete, with three Yorktown-class ships and one small tonnage Raider colliding head-on. The advantage of the American army is that the sailors are well rested, and the Japanese have been searching for American troops at sea for a month. However, the performance of US fighters and the experience of pilots are still at a disadvantage.

Cheng Dayang studied Yamamoto's formation, which seemed to be chaotic, but in fact it was negligent but not leaky. To put it simply, it may be difficult for the 419 to mobilize the US fleet through ventilation and signaling to defeat the enemy, and the enemy does not have a weak aircraft carrier squadron that can be destroyed first. Although there were a large number of ships scattered around, and it was of little significance to sink one or two as tentacles, Yamamoto set up such a position was to sacrifice some troops on the periphery and grasp the enemy's attack in advance. In addition, of course, the existence of unknown nuclear submarines is also fearful. He knows his intelligence inferiority, and no longer distinguishes between surprise soldiers and regular soldiers, and plays those clever tactics, which is to coax up the brain, so that you can't find a place to start. He now has an absolute advantage in strength, and he has neither the extravagant hope of a surprise victory nor the fear of failure.

A few people on 419 studied it, and the defeat of the US army in this battle was already obvious, especially from the information deciphered by the radio, the US commander was Manniu Halsey, and his skin disease did not know how to be cured in advance. It seems that in the dark, the fortunes of the United States are declining.

Cheng Dayang's opinion is to let it go, at this juncture, don't worry about the stock of 419 weapons, you must change the balance. Otherwise, the Japanese would have gained a foothold in most of the Pacific Ocean.

His analysis is not unreasonable, the superiority of the US military will gradually form after the year, but it is necessary to retain some veterans, otherwise it is easy to form a vicious circle, or add fuel. The primary problem facing 419 was how to hold back the pace of Japan, and the easiest way was to wipe out more than half of the enemy's main mobile force.

The political commissar and Lin Xiuxuan did not oppose Cheng's general plan, but hoped to wait for the two sides to start a war first, in case the US military ran out of shit luck. Although the US military could not take off as many planes as Japan, it had no less ammunition than the Japanese army, and this kind of battle was at a low technical level on both sides. Serendipity is still important.

The first contact between the two sides came on the morning of Pearl Harbor's anniversary, when a patrolling U.S. submarine spotted a large fleet slowly moving past the sea level. Although there is only one peripheral Fengxiang aircraft carrier to see. However, due to the distance, the captain did not carefully distinguish the dimensions and other details, such as the location of the island bridge.

Dec. 7, 7:15 a.m. 419 intercepted a telegram from a U.S. submarine, which said: The enemy aircraft carrier Chicheng was found passing.

The battles of this year are actually made up of all kinds of inconsistencies.

At 8:40, the Japanese escort heavy patrol slowed down, apparently to lay down the seaplane and conduct reconnaissance. It seems that Yamamoto had the intention of striking first. And he roughly knew that he would bump into the enemy fleet in that area.

The mobile unit did not completely maintain radio silence, the main communication came from Nagumo's flagship Akasei, and the Yamato and several cruisers dragging in the rear also communicated from time to time, it is estimated that Yamamoto himself is in the fleet, but he may not be on the Yamato or one of the other ships, and he is probably afraid that he will be assassinated. It is not possible to analyze the location of its command ship for the time being. Of course, Yamamoto was worried that it was a little redundant, and the whole of 419 didn't think about wasting precious weapons to sink a battleship, his life was not so important.

Eight Japanese seaplanes took off in a radiating 180-degree radiation, roughly east. Each aircraft is spaced 20 to 22 degrees apart.

Two hours later, a Japanese seaplane telegram was intercepted, and a U.S. aircraft carrier and a large U.S. fleet were discovered. Identified as the Assaulter.

The Japanese pilots were clearly better at identifying enemy ships than someone on an American submarine, and the assaulters were close to the Yorktown plane's silhouette from the air, and needed to recognize some details in order to make a correct judgment.

The U.S. fleet did not take off its fighters, but began to turn, apparently judging that it was seen by the enemy first, and that the first opportunity had been lost, and temporarily evaded the battle.

Judging from this, the US tactics are based on a sneak attack, so after the submarine discovers the enemy fleet, it still approaches at high speed, and does not take off reconnaissance planes (reconnaissance planes will also expose its own existence), so they plan to make a hammer deal and hit and run.

The drone observed that the deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier was foggy and steaming, and the sailors were full of energy, and soon the deck was full of combat aircraft, ready to take off. But this quasi-combat state could not be maintained for long, because there were cover fighters on duty in the air and could not land. Counting the fuel, about 3 Zero fighters in the air are running out of fuel. Cheng Dayang noticed that the deck of the Flying Dragon was empty, and perhaps he would receive these planes, the lone main aircraft carrier, seemed to be out of the entire operation.

Nagumo sent a telegram asking the seaplanes to keep up with the US fleet and continue to track its whereabouts. Nagumo didn't care about the fact that the seaplane's fuel was almost halfway through, what he needed most now was intelligence, the Japanese soldiers were pawns that could be sacrificed at any time, and they should also have this awareness.

After the seaplane was exposed for the first time, it had already penetrated into the clouds and got rid of the US fleet, but it was forced to hide in the clouds again to track the US fleet, it got too close, and was discovered by the radar on the US ship, and the Wildcat fighter jet that took off from the Raider flew into the clouds to search for possible targets, of course, it is not ruled out that it is a false alarm, because the radar of this era is not very reliable, especially for a single aircraft.

Seaplanes, try to hide to the east of the low-altitude fighters to avoid reflecting the sun. It continued to track for an hour, waiting for the fleet to summon it to return, but Nagumo had long since put their life and death on the line, and had no intention of recalling the plane. Nagumo's resoluteness paid off, and the seaplane sent back a telegram discovering a second American aircraft carrier to the northeast, identified as a Yorktown-class.

Before the outbreak of the naval battle, the US fleet was already at an intelligence disadvantage, and their grasp of the position of the Japanese fleet was still limited to the telegram sent back by the submarine five hours ago, as well as the azimuth measurement of several telegrams from Nagumo's command of the seaplane, and the Japanese had much more accurate information. The biggest factor in timing in naval battles is actually distance, not bearing.

Nagumo on Chicheng and Yamamoto on the Maya re-patrol 1,000 kilometers in the rear received a seaplane telegram at the same time, and the respective staff teams of both sides immediately updated the enemy situation on the charts.

Yamamoto hid on the Maya was also to avoid submarine attacks, which was the idea given to him by Makino, and of course prevented him from directing directly, because the Maya itself was strictly silent on the radio. However, the current battlefield situation is gradually gaining the upper hand, and it seems that there is no need for him to intervene, it seems that everything is like Pearl Harbor a year ago, just let Nagumo play normally, and he doesn't have to put pressure on Nagumo.

U.S. fighter planes finally spotted the Japanese seaplane, which was flying at an extremely low speed and desperately trying to burrow into the clouds, but its high-altitude performance was weaker, and it was quickly twisted by the high-speed wildcat. A machine gun was beaten down. The first battle damage of this campaign appeared.

At the same time, on the Japanese mobile fleet, a large group of aircraft had already begun to take off, they had just entered the attack radius, and Nagumo couldn't wait to take off the first batch. Due to the high complexity of aircraft carrier operations, the timing of the first wave is very important, and no matter how tightly organized, the number of takeoffs that can be taken off in subsequent waves will show a decreasing trend.

Nagumo's timing was a little early, if he knew that the seaplane had been shot down, he should not have taken off so many planes, because after an hour-long flight, he might not be able to find the US aircraft carrier near its original position, and the aircraft carrier could also fly at 30 knots in an hour, and it was not easy to find it in the vast sea.