It is really super strange to say that the US Navy somehow fought smoothly at the beginning of this naval battle, and at a distance of more than ten kilometers, it opened fire first, and it was miraculously sunk a destroyer of the Japanese Navy during the second round of firing.

Such a high accuracy of hits has never been achieved even by the naval power Britain, and the Japanese Navy, which boasts of being invincible in the world with its artillery battles, should lose to the US Navy in an artillery battle in such a vague way.

However, it is possible that the extremes of things must be reversed, it is also possible that the US Navy used up its good luck at the moment of war, and it is more likely that the destroyers of the other side really have some kind of magical power...... In short, a miracle never happened to the US Navy again.

Or, to put it mildly, the quality of the U.S. Navy in the battles that followed is almost a real reflection of their level of training in peacetime.

The cruiser at the head continued to fire, aiming at the Japanese destroyer Yukikaze, which was sailing directly opposite it, and as a result, this cannon did not even hit the shadow of the Yukikaze, and the shells were at least a few hundred meters away from the Yukikaze, which simply made the mood of the jubilant US Navy fall to the bottom at once.

Immediately after the American warships, today's evil journey began -- the three cruisers opened fire in turn, and the shells of the main guns flew densely towards the two Japanese destroyers, but the two destroyers were as if they had their own defensive shields, and even a single shell could not hit.

Then there was the U.S. Navy's scrambling scramble to dodge the torpedoes dropped by the Japanese Navy, and the result was that they themselves almost collided and gave the Japanese Navy a record in vain. Although they escaped in the end, they were also scared into a cold sweat.

The Japanese destroyer on the opposite side suddenly changed course and turned around and fled, which also made the US Navy breathe a sigh of relief -- anyway, our goal of expelling the opponent's warship had been achieved, and we had also created a record of sinking one of the opponent's destroyers in two rounds of artillery bombardment, which was enough to make a difference.

As a result, these two Japanese destroyers, named Shiyu and Yukikaze, miraculously shook around the periphery of the main US fleet, returned unscathed to the main combat sequence of the Japanese Combined Fleet in the Marshall Islands, and began their legendary journey to conquer the Pacific Ocean.

The telegram was sent back to the command of the Combined Fleet, and Yamamoto felt that what he feared was finally coming true. The United States, which could not find any benefit on the side of the Germans, was destined to focus its attention on the Japanese Combined Fleet. And this time happened to be the weakest moment when the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy was weakening.

At this moment, only the aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga of the Japanese Navy are fully organized and have a certain combat capability, and then they can only start counting the pitiful battleships and cruisers in their hands. In this case, the best combat method Yamamoto could think of was to rely on army fighters on the Marshall Islands to help take out the U.S. Navy fleet.

His plan is very feasible, mainly relying on army aviation to contain the US Navy's fighter units, and then using naval aviation units that are relatively well trained in naval attacks to raid the US Navy and disrupt US combat deployments. He then relied on his battleships to cut into the U.S. Navy fleet and won a decisive victory.

So while ordering the Combined Fleet to start preparing for a sortie, Yamamoto grabbed the phone in his hand and ordered his subordinates to send a telegram asking the Australian Theater Army Command, which could immediately reinforce the Marshall Islands, to send reinforcements.

However, just as Yamamoto Isoroku boarded his flagship, the battleship Nagato of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and was talking to Fukuru Shigeru about how to take advantage of the chaos to attack the American fleet, he received a response from the Army, and this response made Yamamoto Isoroku almost vomit a mouthful of blood.

It turned out that as early as 10 days ago, in order to carry out the operational plan to march into India, the army had transferred most of the combat strength it could find, and the army fighters in the Australian theater had been transferred by almost one-third, and there was really no surplus force to support the naval battle.

The plan to attack India was criticized by the Japanese Navy from the very beginning, but in the end, it did not expect that the Army would insist on going its own way to such a point, directly ignoring the navy, and carrying out this huge offensive plan on its own, and began an attack on the Imphal region of India in March.

This battle is still going on, and the army side claims that its offensive is like a bamboo, and Yamamoto 561 is not good to comment on this battle in Southeast Asia for a while, but this battle has weakened the Japanese forces in the Pacific, which is indeed an indisputable fact. And these army aviation units that were transferred were an important reason why Yamamoto could not linger in the Marshall Islands.

But now, the army air force that should be available near the Marshall Islands has become a luxury, and then a decisive battle with the US fleet in the Marshall Islands has become a joke.

Standing on the deck of the battleship Nagato, Yamamoto Fifty-six trembled with anger, and his carefully arranged Marshallese strategy for luring the enemy in a decisive battle turned into a bubble because of the Army Air Force's failure to say goodbye. Fortunately, Yamamoto's concentration is amazing, and if he was replaced by other people, it is estimated that he has already begun to scold.

At any time, the news is not completely closed, especially in Japan, when there is a problem in the navy, the army helps with propaganda, or the army makes jokes and the navy helps gossip, so even if it is far away in the Marshall Islands, the Japanese navy knows that the army made a lot of jokes in the battle of Imphal in India.

The attacking troops, driven by sheep and cattle, on bicycles, with a few days' rations, set off with a rifle on their backs and with a small amount of ammunition, and their slogan was "Take Imphal, sit and eat Mountbatten", and the 31st Division, which was in charge of the attack, was forced to set off without even completing basic combat preparations.

However, General Mutaguchi, commander of the 15th Army, who was in charge of commanding the front-line operations, instructed his subordinates: "Without supplies, you cannot fight? There's no food to take from the enemy. I don't believe we're any worse than the cowards in the Navy!"

The Japanese Army did not assess the Chinese Expeditionary Force in northern Burma, nor did it take into account the resistance of the British, who was considered vulnerable to the Chinese army in the eyes of the Japanese army general Mutaguchi, and the British army in India was even more indiscriminate, and his troops would collapse and surrender if they drove all the way through.

However, Mutaguchi's subordinates were not so optimistic, many felt that this was an unwinnable battle, and many soldiers in the army pessimistically felt that they were going to die.

Before crossing the Chinton River, the commander of the 31st Division of the Army, Sato Division, told his subordinates pessimistically: "Ladies and gentlemen, tonight we will begin to cross the Chinton River. Before that, I have something to say to you, so listen well! As long as no miracle happens, your lives will be lost in the upcoming battle. But instead of falling under bullets, most of you will starve to death in the Arakan Mountains. Please be prepared!"

Of course, Yamamoto doesn't know about these things now, and he is still angry about the army's transfer of aviation. In the end, the embarrassed Yamamoto Isoroku gave the order for the whole army to retreat, leaving behind the 30,000 Japanese troops stationed on the Marshall Islands, and retreating to the Solomon Islands behind the Marshall Islands with the combined fleet.

"Since you have done such a terrible job, then don't blame me Yamamoto Isoroku for using your army as a backing in order to keep the navy! The entire combined fleet withdrew to Solomon, and the two destroyers Yukikaze and Shiyu were respectively incorporated into the 16th and 27th destroyer fleets at the back of the palace" This was the last sentence Yamamoto Isoroku said before he fell ill in a fit of anger, and then the marshal fainted at his post.

The combined fleet, which had lost the mainstay of Yamamoto Isoroku, fled in a hurry, and after losing the two destroyer fleets behind the palace, it reluctantly retreated to the Solomon Islands, and after counting the troops and horses, it was found that in addition to the two destroyers of Yukikaze and Shiyu, the poor 16th and 27th destroyer fleets were completely wiped out.

In this battle, the Japanese Navy returned all the advantages of the Japanese Navy's destroyer fleet in the previous Marshall Islands patrol encounters to the US Navy, and the Japanese Navy was the latecomer in the loss of destroyers between the two sides, and the total number of sunken ships in this war exceeded that of the US Navy, and the Japanese Combined Fleet suffered greater losses than the US Navy in the most reluctant war of attrition.

Such an intolerable thing actually happened so realistically, and when Yamamoto 56 painstakingly calculated that a Japanese destroyer would have to be replaced with at least a few American destroyers, the answer sheet handed over to him by the Japanese Navy was an average loss of 1. 1 Japanese destroyer to sink 1 American destroyer......

Time is not on Japan's side, and it seems that luck is not on Japan's side either. And Yamamoto Isoroku is now in no mood to fight to the death with the US Navy, because what he needs to face now is the fact that after retreating to the Solomon Islands without authorization and abandoning the Marshalls, the Army's complaint letter flew like snowflakes to the base camp.

The Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy was gloomy at this moment. As the saying goes, the bird is dying, and its song is also mourning.