"Whoa!" In the temporary headquarters of the Japanese Navy Marshal in the Marshall Islands, Yamamoto Isoroku slammed the wine glass in his hand to the ground. His anger had swelled to an incomprehensible level, and if it weren't for the presence of many of his subordinates, he would probably have scolded the street on the spot.

Waiting for the U.S. Navy's counterattack at Midway, the U.S. Navy eventually became a turtle with a shrunken head, and the expected U.S. Navy's hot-headed attack on Midway Island did not come, and Yamamoto also realized that the U.S. Navy might have to adopt the most correct tactics to drag down Japan.

So he had to do his best before the defeat to get more fighting money for Japan. As long as a stalemate can be fought on the battlefield, the hard war will also make the Americans choose temporary peace. Yamamoto believes that the Americans will eventually compromise, but Japan cannot now imagine winning the war without paying a little price, and the best outcome for Japan now is to exhaust the United States' war resolve with a tragic battlefield.

After thinking about it for a long time, Yamamoto decided to use the naval guerrilla warfare used by the United States to delay time, improve the quality of his own supplementary troops, and at the same time consume the vital strength of the American Navy. So Yamamoto made a bold decision to leave Midway and go south, first to help the Japanese in the south achieve a decisive victory in Australia, and then to go north to find trouble with the U.S. Navy.

But who would have thought that in Yamamoto's thinking, the U.S. Navy, which had been cunning to the extreme, and the U.S. Admiral Nimitz, who had been a turtle for almost a month, would resolutely launch the Second Battle of Midway on the ninth day after the Combined Fleet arrived in the Marshall Islands as soon as it went south.

The Americans already know the specific location of our main force! The US Navy fleet, which did not even dare to go to Midway, appeared in the waters near Midway Island in this way! What are you generals doing intelligence work for? The first thing that needs to be reprimanded is the department in charge of intelligence secrecy, and the US Navy must need sufficient intelligence information to support its attack with such determination, and if the Americans get the information they want, then it proves that the intelligence work on the Japanese side is not very good.

"Hey!" several Japanese naval commanders in charge of Nanyang intelligence warfare stood up one after another, bowing their heads in front of Yamamoto Isoroku. After all, the dereliction of duty of the intelligence department is already a fait accompli, and now it is useless to quibble, and it has left a bad impression on Yamamoto Isoroku.

In addition to the intelligence department, what annoyed Yamamoto even more was that Spruance went south to the Marshall Islands before the battle for Kauai, which caused considerable trouble to the Japanese Navy, and Yamamoto's combined fleet had to go south to expel the American task force, so that the best opportunity for the decisive battle between the United States and Japan on Kauai was missed.

Now, when the Japanese Navy uses this trick in turn, it has not played a role in containing the US Navy at all, but has wasted time and consumed troops, and the entire fleet has not been able to get time to rest. The same tactics are used by different people, but they have very different effects.

In fact, this is also very easy to explain, the first is that the US Navy at that time was mainly engaged in attack warfare, mainly to destroy Japan's sea transportation lines, to put it bluntly, it was to cause trouble everywhere, and its natural whereabouts were erratic, flexible and not easy to intercept. The second reason is that the U.S. Navy is equipped with more advanced radar systems, which are enough to enable the U.S. fleet to avoid the Japanese fleet and achieve the goal of running away in advance.

However, the strategic purpose of the Japanese Navy was not to sabotage the attack, but to occupy it permanently, so its route was relatively fixed, and the position of its main force was easier to determine than when the US Navy went south.

Putting all this aside, there are now two choices in front of Yamamoto Isoroku: one is to go north to seek a strategic decisive battle and fight a fateful battle with the US Navy in the waters of Midway; the other is to continue to stay in the South Seas region as a shrunken turtle and watch the US Navy take Midway.

Now that the entire Combined Fleet is rushing all the way south to the Marshalls, and a battleship fleet and an aircraft carrier squadron are being dispatched non-stop to provide support to the Japanese Army operating in northern Australia, and there has been no rest at all for a few days, it is not a good idea to rush north and engage in a decisive battle with the US Navy.

At the same time, Yamamoto Isoroku was reluctant to give up Midway, after all, the location of Midway Island was too important. As an important island base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it can be said to be an important bridgehead to contain the US offensive and expand the range of the Combined Fleet's maritime maneuvers. Once lost to the U.S. Navy, the combined fleet's maneuver space would be cut in half, which the Japanese Navy's top brass did not want to see.

Don't underestimate this inconspicuous island, at least the Japanese navy with this island in its hands will be able to better protect its northern defense line. In this way, the Japanese army can be safer and more efficient to invest troops in Australia, and Japan's future will only have the opportunity to reluctantly have the capital to fight with the United States on the basis of completely integrating China, Australia and the whole of Southeast Asia.

Unlike the strong foundation of the United States, Japan has nothing to dare to lose, Australia is its strategic buffer zone, and the islands in the South Seas and Southeast Asia behind it are Japan's raw material bases, and China has always involved more than half of the Japanese army.

If Midway is lost, the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet is forced to shrink back, and the Marshall Islands and Wake Island, which have lost their sea supremacy, will have to face harassment by the US Navy, and the situation will be even worse for the Australian Army. Once Australia is lost, it will not be far from defeat for Japan.

"Assemble the fleet in two days and rendezvous in the waters near Wake Island using the original plan of retreat Plan No. 1. In the end, Yamamoto decided to choose the lesser of two evils, gritted his teeth and ordered the combined fleet to assemble in the waters near Wake Island and go north to fight a decisive battle with the US Navy fleet: "Midway, it is absolutely impossible to let it, I have a hunch that the battle of Midway will become the most important battle in the Pacific theater!"

The Japanese naval forces, who had escaped the fiasco at the First Battle of Midway, had to go to this ominous place for Japan, where they were more tired and had a weaker advantage in weapons than when they first arrived.

Yamamoto Fifty-six instinctively sensed the danger, but he still wanted to go and fight the US Navy in a dignified manner, after all, the teacher of the Japanese Navy, the British Navy, paid attention to the idea of fighting in the face of the enemy, and the Japanese Navy had won all the previous wars by relying on this kind of thinking -- this time there was no reason to change their minds, as long as they defeated the Pacific Fleet of the US Navy in front of them, everything would return to a few months ago, and the Great Japanese Empire would not be a dream for a thousand years.

"Gentlemen, pray, pray that His Majesty the Emperor can bless us, and the military fortune of the Great Japanese Empire will last for a long time!" Yamamoto stood up, looked at all the Japanese generals present, and said slowly: "This war is a decisive battle related to our future, I hope that all the kings can forget all the unpleasantness, cooperate sincerely, and strive for the most brilliant victory for our nation!"

"Hey!" On both sides of the conference table, all the officers stood up, bowed their heads, and answered Yamamoto's expectations.

And just as Yamamoto was preparing to send troops to Midway, the positions on Midway had been patronized by the heavy artillery of the U.S. Navy for a while. Anton's troops had never fought under such harsh coastal defense conditions, and for a time the morale of the army even tended to be unstable.

"Baga, why do these American bastards only fire and don't attack? What are they going to do?" a Japanese soldier scolded in the trench with a sad face. Beside him, next to a broken Type 92 heavy machine gun, the bodies of two Japanese soldiers with bloody faces were still steaming, and a shell just now hit this machine gun position, taking the lives of five Japanese soldiers.

"Jun Cao...... I have already felt the call of His Majesty the Emperor. I can't do it, I'm going to die. Don't waste any more medicine to save me, please give me a samurai dignity. A soldier lying in the trench wailed loudly, his legs were gone, blood stained his khaki uniform, and the wounds on his body made him look terrible, but his words remained firm.

Jun Cao put down the binoculars hanging on his chest and looked back at his companion, this soldier is a veteran of many years of fighting, who has killed more than 10 Chinese soldiers on the battlefield in China, but unfortunately now he can only lie there, and he does not even have the strength to kill himself.

"Asami-kun...... Your home......" Jun Cao was obviously a little unbearable, their wars have always been fought smoothly, and there are rarely such heavy casualties, so that kind of large-scale jade crushing suicide has not yet appeared, and the atmosphere on the battlefield is still relatively normal.

The only thing that really Japan lost was the Battle of Kauai, and that battle did not cause any waves because there were no survivors returning to friendly forces, and the myth of the great Japanese empire not being defeated in a hundred battles is still there, and this kind of thing is bloodshed and sacrifice, after all, only by experiencing it yourself, can you know how tragic and terrible it is.

"Jun Cao...... Give me dignity......" The soldier closed his eyes, but from the expression on his face, he could still feel the pain he was experiencing.