"The Japanese planes may have already taken off! It's too late to send out reconnaissance planes now!" Spruance looked at the nautical map in front of him with annoyance, because the Pacific Ocean was once the backyard of the U.S. Navy, so this nautical chart was very detailed.

It was marked with the dense reef islands of the Solomon Islands, which provided good cover for the approach of the Japanese fleet. Everyone knows that this is not the time to complain, but being slapped hard by the enemy really makes it difficult for people to cheer up in a short period of time.

"No, we still have to send reconnaissance planes! If possible! We must find the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet!" In the end, Spruance still ordered a few seaplanes to take off and immediately rush to the west to patrol and try to find the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet. After he gave this order, his mind was still full of chaos.

The battleship forces of the Japanese Navy on the east side, his fleet seems to have no way to resist, once the Japanese Navy's battleships rush in, the American fleet has no chance of winning at all, but now there are not many opportunities to send planes, maybe only once, which requires Spruance to choose.

If he had chosen to take off his aircraft to attack the Japanese battleship fleet on the eastern flank, he would have been able to achieve the result of the total annihilation of the Japanese battleship force, perhaps at the cost of the Pacific Fleet's heavy losses to the Japanese. Perhaps Japan will take the opportunity to retake the Marshall Islands, go north to Wake Island and Midway, and enter Hawaii again, and the United States will no longer have a fleet to stop it.

Of course, if he ordered to attack the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet, the end would not be much better, at least the Japanese battleship fleet would let the fleet under his command be wiped out, and when the two battleships in Halsey's hands came back, the daylily would be cold.

However, he has an advantage that the Japanese Navy does not have in any case, that is, even if the fleet in his hand is completely destroyed, the US Navy will still have more newer warships launched, and these family members of the Japanese Navy are, to put it modestly, sinking one less ship.

Therefore, according to this starting point, Spruance resolutely made his own reaction: "Order the fighter unit to take off first! Expelle the possible Japanese attack aircraft group! We must seize the time to contain all the planes of the first wave of attack echelons! Let the third wave of attack echelons continue to be on standby! Be ready to go at any time!"

"Yes!" a liaison officer of the aviation unit saluted, and then began to arrange the task, the United States has an advantage in the number of aircraft carriers, even if the scene is a little chaotic now, but squeezing out time, little by little, it is still barely possible.

Spruance's plan was to get some fighters flying first, to ensure absolute safety over his fleet, and to find a way to defeat the first wave of Japanese attack planes.

Then use battleships and other ships to drag the Japanese battleships to the east for as long as they can, and then take off planes from this side to pounce on the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet and sink the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet, which is not superior in numbers. In the process, his carrier fleet moved westward, leaning towards the Japanese carrier fleet to the west, and pulling away from the Japanese battleship forces. Halsey's battleships then began to move north, blocking the Japanese battleship fleet to the east, and after paying a heavy price, the combined Japanese fleet was annihilated.

I have to say that if he can come up with such a set of counterattacks in such a short time, General Spruance is worthy of the title of a famous general of his generation, but there are also some wishful thinking in his plan, such as counting on those two old battleships to withstand the attack of Nagato Mutsu's two new Japanese battleships.

There are loopholes in the plan, so when Halsey heard about the plan, he nodded in agreement, and he led his two battleships, the battleship Washington and the battleship North Carolina, to abandon the pursuit of the wounded battleship Hyuga and turn around and start heading north.

Miura Daisa's side was anxious to fight against the American planes and warships, but when he saw that he was about to embark on the end of the Ise, he ushered in his own "peak turn". He watched as the American battleship, which had already entered the firing range, hurriedly fired a few shells, then turned around and stopped the pursuit.

"Yamamoto-kun's plan has succeeded! These Americans are shrinking their forces!" In the bridge command room of the Hyuga, Miura Daisa put down the binoculars in his hand and said to his first mate: "They have given up attacking us, which means that they are going back to do more important things!"

He gritted his teeth, touched his command knife with his hand, and finally gave a fierce battle order: "Turn around! Pursue the American battleships! Go full speed! Entangle those two battleships and prepare for an artillery battle!"

Miura is worthy of the ruthlessness of a Japanese soldier, and he knows that even if his battleship leaves the war zone safely and eventually returns to the Japanese mainland, it will not be able to form any greater combat power. However, in this chaotic time, helping Yamamoto's main fleet and Nagumo Tadaichi's air fleet share some of the pressure of the American fleet, it is possible to help his own fleet win the war.

So he resolutely decided to turn around and return to the sea, entangled with the American battleships, and bought more time for Yamamoto Isoroku's attack battle plan. I have to say that the Japanese Navy has gained a foothold in the world with two naval battles in the past 70 years, not by boasting and luck, but by relying on that cunning and ferocity. Miura Daisa is a typical example of such a Japanese navy, stalking and unreasonable.

The second wave of American attack planes in the sky has been ordered to start their return voyages, and the US Navy has taken advantage of some advantages and achieved the record of sinking the Japanese Navy's battleship Ise, which is equivalent to taking the "blood" of the Battle of the Solomons, and it can definitely be regarded as a morale boost.

"Open fire! Tell those Yankees! We're coming!" Miura pressed his command knife and stared at the sea and gave a combat order: "Pay attention to air combat vigilance! Be careful of the Americans' planes going and returning! Send a telegram to Marshal Yamamoto! Tell him that our ship is returning to the war zone, preparing to entangle the American battleship, and ask him to wait for the opportunity to move!"

"Yo Xi! Miura Daisa is indeed a model for the Imperial Navy!" Yamamoto even felt a little regretful, he felt that if he appointed Miura as the commander-in-chief of the decoy fleet, maybe the decoy fleet would be able to fight better. However, when he heard that the battlefleet of the United States had begun to shrink, he was frightened into a cold sweat by the rapid reaction of the American Navy.

Since Miura decided to completely sacrifice the decoy fleet and help him Yamamoto achieve great things, then he Yamamoto should not be stingy with anything, so he immediately ordered to send a telegram to the base camp to temporarily promote Miura Daisa to rear admiral Miura.

As a result, Spruance's plan had a serious loophole, that is, he wanted to turn back to Halsey's fleet against Yamamoto's fleet, which was now entangled in a broken ship from Miura. The entire battlefield is now unpredictable, and it has become a mess.

"The Japanese attack aircraft group is approaching!" The US Navy, which has radar, really has an advantage over the Japanese Navy, which is as blind as its eyes, and when the Japanese planes are close to the US fleet, the US radar detects these uninvited guests.

As a result, the US planes on standby in the sky rushed to meet the Japanese attack planes. Even if the Japanese Zero is familiar with its performance by the United States, it is still a very dangerous opponent, because these planes are piloted by the most elite Japanese pilots, and if they are not careful, they will be bitten by these crazy sky hounds.

The fighter jets of both sides soon intertwined, and the sound of planes exploding in the sky, the roar of the engines when the planes were pulled up, and the roar of the engines when diving, made the sky of the Solomon Islands very noisy. A great air battle began, and the first wave of the Japanese attack echelon fell into a bitter battle.

"Armed with a long life!" the pilot of a Japanese plane shouted a slogan and flew a torpedoed plane to a US aircraft carrier. Obviously, the anti-aircraft fire of the US forces was very fierce, and some American destroyers were also trying to disperse the attacking formation of the Japanese planes as much as possible. The sky was full of dazzling straight lines dragged by tracer bullets, forming an impenetrable net.

The plane crashed into a net of fire ejected by an American anti-aircraft gun, and then instantly turned into a pile of burning debris, but another Japanese plane following this plane narrowly escaped the anti-aircraft fire net and dropped a torpedo accurately at the American aircraft carrier in the distance.

A straight white line stretched quickly in the sea, and then it collided with the US Navy's aircraft carrier Raider, and then the huge explosion slowed down the aircraft carrier, igniting a raging fire that was difficult to extinguish for a while. With such a good start, the Japanese planes, naturally, did not waste the opportunity and seized the opportunity to drop a few torpedoes on the aircraft carrier.

So the hull of the USS Raider began to tilt in the sound of explosions, and the main fleet had just begun to engage in battle, and an aircraft carrier was sunk, which was definitely not good news for the US Navy fleet, Spruance looked at the billowing smoke in the distance on the bridge of the USS Wasp, and did not know how to end it all as soon as possible.

Soon, these Japanese carrier-based aircraft showed their superiority in attack quality, after all, these carrier-based aircraft pilots were also the last elite of the Japanese naval aviation. They continued to attack the American fleet, and despite heavy casualties, they created an unparalleled opportunity.

The USS Saratoga was hit by a Japanese aircraft and began to burn, the second capital aircraft carrier of the US Navy to be hit. This also means that the US aircraft carrier fleet has lost almost half of its strength before it has even begun to counterattack.

This is not counted today, but is made up for yesterday's Christmas plus more =. =!Long Ling has been making up for it all his life.,But this time it's a make-up change.,Not a make-up change (there are two more at night)...... Since it's made up, then ask for some monthly pass recommendation tickets, thank you for your support~~