While the Germans were slaughtering in the Soviet Union and winning the Battle of the Crimean Peninsula and the Battle of Donetsk one after another, the Japanese army in the Pacific Ocean was getting worse day by day. After Yamamoto Isoroku and the Combined Fleet assembled at Wake Island, he slaughtered Midway Island with great vigour, but only halfway through the journey, he received the news that Midway Island had fallen.

In order to delay the battle, the Japanese military can be said to have tried everything possible. Since they received the news of the US attack on Midway, they have organized various reinforcements in an attempt to delay the US army's capture of Midway. But it now appears that these efforts ultimately failed.

The Japanese army's naïve performance in the defensive battle on the island was fully exposed in the defensive battle of Midway, and a large number of beachheads were easily destroyed by the large-caliber naval guns of the US army, which did not serve the expected purpose of keeping the enemy at bay on the beachhead. Facts have proved that the anti-landing operation, which has lost its superiority in the sea and air, and the deployment of defenses on the beachhead is a thankless waste of troops.

In this battle, the US military took the lead in destroying the Japanese airfield and the beachhead defensive positions on the periphery of the island with the typical landing operation idea. As a result, the Japanese army was passive and tired of dealing with the battle at the beginning of the battle, and finally lost Midway, a military stronghold that was important to them.

As a result, Japanese Navy Marshal Yamamoto Fifty-Six was furious and led the Combined Fleet to engage in a decisive battle with the US Navy in the waters off Midway, but the US forces had no choice but to complete the repair of the airport on Midway, and the US fighter units that arrived from Hawaii had a clear advantage in numbers, and the battle was very arduous, and in the end it could only be regarded as the final outcome of the Midway Battle with defeat and retreat.

In this battle, the Combined Fleet was sunk for the first time aircraft carriers, the main naval decisive weapon, and under the repeated attacks of the US Army Air Force, the Japanese Navy's air force finally showed its flaws, and several torpedoes dropped from the US Navy Air Force planes hit the aircraft carrier Ryuchamp, sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier, which was barely completed in 1933.

According to the age of the ship, this battleship is definitely the main aircraft carrier newly launched, but because it is a halfway way out of the ship modified with the hull of a cruiser, the overall performance is not very good, and being sunk this time is not a real injury for the Japanese Navy.

However, the information here made the Japanese top brass start to fidget. First inexplicably lost an old battleship Yamashiro, and then lost an aircraft carrier Longxiang at Midway, the meaning revealed in the middle is not as simple as losing battleships once or twice.

It turns out that the U.S. Navy is regaining strength, and at a pace that the Japanese Navy cannot parry. The loss of Midway Island deprived the Japanese Navy of its strategic depth, exposing Wake Island and the Marshall Islands to attacks by the U.S. Navy, and the entire Australian strategy was greatly affected.

The Japanese attack on the Hawaiian Islands was initially frustrated, and the battle for Kauai ended in a crushing defeat for the Japanese army. More than 40,000 stubborn Japanese soldiers died on Kauai, and the Japanese Navy ended its strategic offensive posture of winning consecutive battles.

This was followed by the Japanese navy going south to participate in the Australian raiding operation, and as a result, it lost the crucial Midway Island in a daze, which cannot be explained by bad luck for Japan. The army lost more than 20,000 soldiers, the navy lost more than 13,000 soldiers, and what was even more terrifying was that the army aviation also lost more than 200 experienced pilots, which was an irreparable loss for Japan.

Infantry can be quickly replenished by conscription, and there are many young Japanese who have been trained in bushido since childhood and have been brainwashed by distorted patriotism for many years, and even if they lose 100,000 infantry, they can train and recruit more infantry personnel in a short period of time. Although the quality will inevitably decline, it can be completely compensated for by quantity.

However, pilots have always been Japan's weakness, and the cultural and industrial heritage has made this nation not have much popularization and understanding of machinery, and Japan's training of pilots can only rely on the training and accumulation of flight schools, which is much worse than the United States and Germany. Once the pilots were lost, Japan could not quickly replenish them, and this directly caused a situation in which the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Air Force was seriously reduced.

The performance of the aircraft could not be changed in a short period of time because of the design reasons, and the quality of the pilots also dropped wildly at the speed of diving, which directly led the Japanese aviation force into a vicious circle of dead ends: the poor performance of the aircraft led to too much loss of pilots, and the increase in pilot losses led to a significant reduction in the ability of new pilots to control the aircraft, and the inability to control the already backward aircraft caused the pilots to lose even more......

On the calm sea, the Japanese Combined Fleet was still murderous. In terms of scale, it is still a behemoth that the US Navy cannot challenge head-on, but the sky above this fleet is full of gloomy clouds. The whole fleet did not have the fierce and sharp feeling when the war had just begun, and there was a faint sense of decadence and sadness.

Yamamoto Isoroku left his command ship, handed over the battleship Nagato to the command of Captain Furushi, and came to the captain's room of the aircraft carrier Akagi alone, and sat down with Nagumo Tadashi and one or two. He looked at his subordinates with a faint sadness in his eyes, not as sharp as before.

"Nagumo-kun, as I feared, the period of our superiority has passed, and now the United States has come out of the shadow of the failure of Pearl Harbor. Yamamoto 56 worriedly poured out his worries to his subordinates: "Now that the United States has recovered its decline, as long as we stabilize our position, we have no chance of winning." ”

Nagumo sighed, he had sighed countless times more recently than Yamamoto Fifty-Six. As a commander, he knew the disadvantages of the Japanese naval aviation best, so he sighed and worried, but he couldn't think of any good way.

After he sighed, he said helplessly: "Your Excellency Marshal, the situation may be even more serious than you think, and there is no doubt that the performance of our fighters has been known by the Americans. Coupled with the reduction in the quality of the replenishment pilots, we have achieved fewer and fewer results in air battles, but our losses are getting bigger and bigger. Although we have not lost air supremacy on the battlefield at the moment, the example of the Dragon Xiang ......"

When he talked about the sunken aircraft carrier Longxiang, he obviously paused, which was the battleship he commanded, and the sinking was naturally extremely heartbroken: "The example of the Longxiang has shown that our aircraft can no longer ensure that our fleet is invulnerable. Next time, maybe next time we will fight, we will have to prepare for the anti-aircraft defense of the warship. ”

"I'm worried about the Marshall Islands and Wake Island, and the whole of Australia. Yamamoto poured Nagumo a cup of tea and poured himself a cup before he continued: "It is not advisable for the Combined Fleet to fight again in a short period of time, and these places will have to face the attack of the US Navy alone." Australia is good to say, after all, the area is huge, and it is difficult for the United States to eat for a while, Wake Island and the Marshall Islands...... But it's hard to say. ”

"In any case, we have to wait until the new fighter enters service and the new pilots are trained. Nagumo Tadaichi ignored Yamamoto's concerns, and he was more worried about the future of the Combined Fleet: "If necessary, even if the islands are abandoned, what about it?"

Everyone knows that the renunciation in his mouth is not the kind of renunciation that is handed over to the United States, but the kind of renunciation that uses the blood of countless soldiers to delay and fight, and finally consumes the American troops. The lives of countless soldiers were so ruthlessly abandoned under the collision of the two mouths of the superiors.

"I've thought about all of what you said, and I can't think of a good countermeasure to the final result. So we can only take one step at a time, after all, even I, as a marshal, cannot be held responsible for the successive failures. After Yamamoto took a sip of tea, he slowly spoke: "This time I reluctantly let the base camp not move to replace my mind, if there is no good result next time, I can only give His Majesty the Emperor an explanation." ”

Nagumo Zhongyi hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand, bowed his head and saluted: "Your Excellency Marshal, you are the person I respect the most, and the United Fleet cannot do without you." I assure you that when the future is ready, the Combined Fleet will inevitably win a decisive victory over the American fleet. ”

"Okay! Nangumo-kun, I believe in you. Yamamoto was comforted by Nanyun like this, and somewhat regained some of his former momentum, he motioned to Nanyun to continue drinking tea, and then he also picked up the teacup: "General Nagano from the base camp called, saying that the secret weapon of the navy is almost finished, and it is estimated that when we counterattack, we can use the latest warships in the world to compete with our enemies." ”

"Oh, your Excellency, that's a good thing. I heard that the fighter design department led by Jiro Horikoshi has launched several new fighter jets, several of which are already in test flights and ready to be put into production...... Coupled with the new weapons of the navy, it seems that the national fortunes of our Great Japanese Empire still have the ability to fight. As soon as Nanyun Zhong heard the good news, he also came to his senses.

Yamamoto nodded, agreeing with Nagumo's words. However, when he continued to speak, his tone was still not too optimistic: "But we don't have many chips in our hands, just enough for us to gamble again." ”

"Is that new warship really worthy of our high hopes?" When the two ended their conversation, Nagumo couldn't help but ask curiously.

"It's worth it, otherwise why would it be named 'Yamato'?" replied Yamamoto confidently.

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