"This is not the Japanese style! I think it must have been a good thing done by the small German fleet in Australia!" Nimitz stared at the report in his hand and complained to General Spruance beside him: "The method of destroying the transport line is very similar to the wolf pack in the Atlantic, I bet it must have been Dönitz's men who did it!"

Spruance had already read the report, and sighed helplessly before saying: "The people in the Foreign Office said that the German diplomats flatly denied that their submarines attacked American transport ships in the Pacific Ocean, and asked us to show evidence before speaking. ”

"Evidence? I have sunk 150,000 tons of transport ships and fishing boats in the past 10 days! What more evidence do you need? The merchant ships we have lost in these 10 days are the total tonnage of all the supply ships we have lost since the war with Japan! If the Japanese have this ability, why didn't they take it out before?" Rao is Nimitz, who is relatively well-cultivated, couldn't help but scold his mother after seeing the purely official standard rhetoric of the German diplomat. It seems that diplomats are not a profession that everyone can do, at least if someone in the military talks nonsense in front of him, he can greet him with a fist, but diplomats cannot.

General Spruance pointed to the chart and said to Nimitz: "Let's study how to deal with the Japanese soldiers on Kauai, according to the speedboat report of the reconnaissance patrol, the other party is using the Guò submarine to replenish the supplies on the island, it seems that our plan to trap the other party is a bit too much." ”

"The Japanese Combined Fleet has now returned to the mainland to rest, and the source of this information is still very reliable, so I decided to let the fleet go south and attack the Japanese sea supply line near the port of Darwin!" Nimitz stopped the senseless invective and said to General Spruance: "Anyway, it is impossible for the Japanese fleet to fly back to the waters near Oahu, we have a huge time difference to use!"

"You mean to let the whole fleet go south?" Spruance asked, frowning, fearing that his fleet would be blocked by the Japanese in island-rich Southeast Asia and forced into a decisive battle with no chance of winning. If the Japanese Navy succeeds, then the US Pacific Fleet will once again be completely annihilated, and even the United States, which has the most powerful industrial production capacity in the world, cannot resist such large-scale consumption.

Moreover, the American fleet went south, nearly a month later than the Japanese fleet left, and the Japanese fleet had recovered and could continue to fight, and if the American fleet made a long-distance attack on the port of Darwin, the tired fleet would become the American fleet, and the shape would once again be unfavorable to the US Navy. So Spruance spoke again: "General, our fleet has not rested, in this case...... Isn't it unsafe to attack in a hurry?"

Nimitz nodded, and then said his thoughts: "The military port in Hawaii has been almost dismantled by us, and most of the remaining fuel has been consumed, we will now lead the fleet south to sneak attack once, take advantage of some and then retreat, and leave the Hawaiian Islands to the Japanese!"

The fundamental core of this plan is to exchange land for the opponent's elite troops, rely on the superiority of strategic space to annihilate the opponent's vital forces as much as possible, consume Japan's war potential, and make a big gamble to win the initiative at sea faster.

"I'm heading south with the USS Hornet and USS Raider, and you and the USS Yorktown and the fleet remain at Pearl Harbor...... "Spruance's construction is better than Nimitz's, after all, the loss of Pearl Harbor has a great impact on the United States, and it is definitely not an easy thing for the United States to counterattack without Pearl Harbor in the future."

"Are you sure you can rush back before that guy from Yamamoto comes back?" Nimitz looked at his old friend, the leader of the U.S. aircraft carrier fleet commanders, Admiral Spruance, if Patton is the most capable U.S. Army general, then Spruance may be the most powerful general in the U.S. Navy.

"The Germans set a very good example for us in dealing with the Royal Navy of the British Empire, and they proved that it was possible to gain superiority in naval warfare by relying only on aircraft carriers!" Spruance, as the commander of the US Navy's rare aircraft carrier fleet, had specialized in studying the rise of the German Navy, and he could be said to be the American who knew the history of the German Navy best in recent years.

When he saw that the German Navy skillfully used radar and aircraft carriers to form a technological superiority, and won a decisive victory against the British Royal Navy in the narrow North Sea, he seemed to see a ray of light, a ray of dawn shining on the future direction of the US naval fleet, and it was shot into his mind.

Germany's radar superiority is now also available to the US Navy over the Japanese Navy! US aircraft carriers can definitely rely on their aircraft carrier fleet to maneuver with Japanese battleships in the wider Pacific Ocean! Spruance decided not to let Lütjans specialize in the United States, and he was determined to become the world's premier aircraft carrier command expert.

"I think so! The German navy had examples of such victories before, and I have carefully studied the methods they used in battle, simply attacking during the day and retreating at night. As long as the risk of night combat on aircraft carriers is strictly avoided, the naval battle can be won!" Spruance finally said firmly to Nimitz.

"Aircraft carrier...... It's a really useful weapon. But why? Isn't it true that aircraft carriers can't fight at night?" Nimitz asked General Spruance beside him, looking up regretfully.

"Is it true that aircraft carriers can't fight at night?" On the other side of the world, Ruetjens, who is now arguably the world's number one aircraft carrier command expert, was asking the same question, while a German naval technical expert next to him was anxiously looking at the flight deck outside the bridge.

How to make the aircraft take off from the aircraft carrier, this is a very worthy question, if this short board can be connected, so that the aircraft carrier can carry out night battles, then this weapon is a well-deserved king of naval warfare, no ship can shake its hegemonic status. When that day comes, the bullshit battleship will be driven out of the stage of history and become a souvenir docked in the harbor!

Countless methods have been developed, such as erecting high poles around the deck of an aircraft carrier, and then installing lighting equipment at the top of the pole to illuminate the entire deck of the aircraft carrier and provide a safe take-off and landing environment -- but lighting such a bright light in the dark night is definitely possible for the opponent to discover and use as a target, and it is not a good idea to hurt yourself before the enemy.

However, another good way was thought up by Führer Accardo, or Accardo borrowed the scientific and technological crystallization of the American aircraft carrier in his previous life, and easily thought of a simple way for the plane to take off and land safely at night. Simply installing a set of lights of different colors somewhere at the end of the deck of an aircraft carrier allows the aircraft to land safely on a pitch-black deck.

The principle is actually to simply rely on blocking the light to allow the pilot to obtain reference information, but many times people have to be embarrassed by such a simple problem for more than ten years without enlightenment. Germany's new aircraft carrier, the Prussia, is equipped with this kind of light group, which is receiving carrier-based aircraft to land at night.

According to the time when this aircraft carrier was equipped with night take-off and landing equipment, in fact, the Germans had already overcome the problem of night fighter take-off and landing, but this time the real fighter was a little different, and it could be said that it was a new weapon that the German Navy and even the entire Luftwaffe kept strictly secret.

The reason why the German Navy has not opened the prelude to the night battle of aircraft carriers is because although taking off and landing aircraft at night is a technical problem, what is more troublesome is how to make the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier find the targets they need to attack on the dark sea.

Now, this technology has been solved by German scientific and technological personnel, and they have finally made unremitting efforts to get radar, a high-level equipment, to the size of an airplane. After such a long evolution, the size of the German radar could be crammed into the interior of a twin-engine aircraft, giving the aircraft the ability to find targets at night.

As a result, there is this time of sea reality that has attracted the attention of the Navy and Air Force today, and there is this dialogue between Lu Teyansi and the technicians around him. As long as this time the real yàn can be successful, then the German Navy will have an aircraft that can carry out maritime strike missions at night, and the aircraft carrier fleet will be able to carry out night attack operations at sea!

In order to take off and land on aircraft carriers, Germany redesigned a twin-engine aircraft, which is much smaller than a normal twin-engine bomber, and the wings can be folded, this kind of aircraft can fly very fast, can be used as an early warning aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft during the day, and the important thing is that it can carry torpedoes and bombs to carry out attacks on enemy warships.

In order to match this new aircraft with radar, the Prussian aircraft carrier even cut 10 FW-190 naval fighters and made room to equip seven of these new Owl multi-role aircraft. At the same time, two models of this aircraft will be produced in the future, including the Air Force Night Interceptor Owl A, and the Navy Night Multirole Aircraft Owl B.

"Nighthawk 1, the radar shows that you are approaching the aircraft carrier, you are approaching the position of the aircraft carrier! Confirm the angle of the lights, confirm the angle of the lights!" The air traffic controller on the side is holding a walkie-talkie and is confirming the position of the plane over and over again, this is the first time in human history that a special fighter jet for night has taken off and landed on an aircraft carrier.

"I'm Nighthawk 1!I'm Nighthawk 1!" the pilot's voice came clearly: "I see the landing lights! I'm adjusting the angle! I'm adjusting the angle!"

Soon, a dark shadow rushed from the sky to the runway of the aircraft carrier, and the German Navy night fighter landed on the ship, which was a complete success!