On May 5, 2783 (1943), the largest naval battle since the start of the war between the United States and Japan broke out in the waters south of Port Elizabeth.

Originally, the main battlefield of the United States and Japan was on land in South Africa.

The U.S. Army and the Japanese Army were engaged in a bloody tug-of-war near the 25th parallel of east longitude, and at the same time sent a large number of bombers to desperately bomb Japan's bases, military stations, and communication lines on the southern border of Japan and France, such as Pretoria and Francestown, under the cover of fighter planes. Japan also pumped back, and in the same way, it also went to bomb bases, military stations, and communication lines on the southern border of the United States.

The air forces and armies of both sides are strangled each other, with more than 10,000 casualties every day. The Japanese army had an advantage in equipment and technology, and the US army had an advantage in production and cannon fodder, so the two sides were evenly matched. However, Japan's air force advantage is too great, FC-15 "Ghost Owl" (prototype F-4D / E) and FC-14 "Phantom Eagle" (prototype Mirage F1) partner, plus air-to-air missiles, so that the US aircraft suffered heavy losses, the United States P-58, P-60 and other fighters are not opponents at all, although the United States is also equipped with air-to-air missiles, but the performance is too poor, usually have to hang up two to five to fight a Japanese fighter.

Those who are familiar with the history of World War II know that the biggest disadvantage of the Japanese air force in the original time and space is the lack of pilots, and when the old batch of top men are hung up, they will all be rookies. However, the original plane was different, and the new Japan completely imitated China's aeroclub system, using cheap "socialist pesticide machines" and cheap fuel oil (the internal price of the People's Revolutionary Federation) to train a large number of reserve pilots in the civilian sector. The most important thing is that the system of the Japanese Air Force has also changed, they no longer send the ace elite to be consumed, and most of the elites who shot down more than 10 planes were ordered to withdraw from the front line and go to the rear to teach rookies.

Therefore, Japan in this plane is not too afraid of this kind of consumption, but the Yankees can't stand it.

Of course, in addition to the above factors, there is also one of the most important reasons, that is, Japan's aircraft can be replenished nearby, the industrial system of western Japan is very perfect, and the production capacity is also the world's top five level, plus China's bias frame, new aircraft can continue to supply front-line demand.

The United States is different, although they attach great importance to the three states of West Africa, but they basically regard the three states of West Africa as raw material production areas and agricultural and animal husbandry areas, although there are also many industries, but most of them are smelting, agricultural and animal husbandry products processing and other upstream enterprises, such as the aviation industry is not such a thing.

As a result, the planes they lost had to be transported across the Atlantic from the mainland of North America. This is very fatal, even if the industrial capacity of the United States is ten times higher than that of Japan, it will not be able to send things to Africa all at once.

Even worse is the activity of German-Japanese submarines. As mentioned earlier, the German wolf pack has already inflicted huge losses on the Anglo-American camp. Now that Japanese submarines have been added, this is even more fatal. The Japanese submarines of the original time and space performed funny in World War II, not because their submarines were poor, or the level of officers and men was too stinky, but because the tactics were wrong. Due to the change in the strategic situation and the fact that the new Japan in this plane has the Chinese boss as a learning object, it naturally adjusts its submarine tactics.

Now Japan's submarines are almost all of Chinese origin, all of them are drop-shaped electric submarines with snorkels, and they are equipped with copper dragon batteries that are one level worse, which is better than the German ones. The Japanese wolves also followed the example of the Germans and ambushed American convoys in the Atlantic.

As soon as these two joined forces, they made the Yankees miserable. The largest part of the loss of US fighters was not shot down or blown up by the Japanese and German air forces, but was sunk by German and Japanese submarines when the transport ship was in a state of encapsulated disassembly and transportation. Submarines can often destroy hundreds of US warplanes or combat vehicles with only one or two torpedoes hits, which is far more efficient than the air force. During this period, as many as 70 percent of the planes lost by the United States were buried on the sea route, and only 30 percent were lost in air battles. That is, the speed at which German and Japanese submarines destroy American military aircraft is actually more than twice as fast as the air forces of the two countries.

No matter how thick the Yankees are, they can't withstand this kind of toss, so their air force in South Africa has declined.

After gradually gaining air supremacy, the Japanese army steadily expanded the occupied area through brutal artillery bombardment and carpet bombardment of the city, as well as the courageous fighting of its army soldiers, and by April 43, the Japanese army had captured Port Elizabeth and advanced to the border of the Cape Province. U.S. and Australian forces were compressed into the Cape and Northern Cape provinces in southwestern South Africa. South Africa's civilian casualties have exceeded 1.5 million, more than one-third of the population. If it were just the South African government, it would have surrendered, but now the US military has firmly controlled the South African government, so that it can only continue to fight and lose blood.

In order to open up the situation, the U.S. military has desperately strengthened the Atlantic escort force, although it has not yet found a way to completely eradicate electric submarines, but a large number of escort and air suppression, have also controlled the loss of merchant ships and made it no longer increase. The United States, which had relieved itself, also learned to behave, and while establishing an aviation enterprise in West Africa, in order to start construction as soon as possible, they directly packaged the domestic aircraft factory and shipped it to Africa for reassembly. At the same time, the other side is also massively transporting new aircraft to the African front.

Such a brutal tug-of-war is not something the United States wants to see, but they do not have an advantage in terms of the army and air force, both in terms of numbers and equipment, so they decided to open up the situation from the sea. MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the American Volunteer Army, decided to conduct an unprecedented landing operation in the port of East London in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, so as to cut off the supply of the Japanese front line. If the Japanese Southern Front led by Yamashita Fumimi could be annihilated, the situation could be reversed.

If they want to land, they naturally have to control the sea, and the Japanese will certainly not be foolish enough to wait for the US soldiers to land, because the Japanese navy is the fifth in the world. As a result, the United States sent a large number of fleets to Africa, and they didn't even care about the Pacific side, and transferred eighty percent of the Pacific Fleet's strength to the past.

On May 5, the U.S. and Japanese fleets engaged in the largest naval and air battle in the southern Indian Ocean since the war began. This battle was not only a naval battle, but also the armies and air forces of the two countries.

In this war, the United States committed 18 battleships, 9 regular aircraft carriers, 9 light aircraft carriers, 12 heavy cruisers, and hundreds of light cruisers and destroyers. And the Japanese were not bad, their navy was almost full of sorts, dispatching all 16 battleships, 12 regular aircraft carriers, 4 light aircraft carriers, 10 heavy cruisers, and hundreds of light cruisers and destroyers.

On paper, the strength of the two sides is about the same, and the tonnage is close. But Japan's carrier-based aircraft are more advanced, and there are also anti-ship missiles, and in the eyes of military experts from China and the People's Revolutionary Union, the Yankees must be on their knees.

But the outcome of the battle caused the experts to shatter their glasses, and the Japanese lost the naval and air battle, and allowed the Yankees to successfully land in the port of East London. The biggest reason for this is that the United States has used a secret weapon - bird-controlled anti-ship missiles!

To put it bluntly, this kind of thing is a bird version of the cherry blossom bomb, using carrier pigeons that have been trained in warship recognition to control missiles instead of humans. The Yankees also found that it was better to give the carrier pigeon drugs before the attack. As a result, these drugged carrier pigeon "pilots" became a nightmare for the Japanese Navy.

To put it bluntly, the "bird-controlled anti-ship missile" is not worth mentioning, that is, there is a lens in the front section of the missile, which transmits the target screen to the internal screen, so that specially trained pigeons can identify it by pecking at the screen. When the pigeon's pecking position coincides with the center of the screen, the missile flies straight. When the pigeon pecks off-center, the screen tilts, triggering the flight control and allowing the missile to change its direction. One missile is controlled by three pigeons, and when the three pigeons "disagree", the principle of "minority obeys majority" is implemented.

The Yankees of the original plane also played this thing, but shamefully failed. The main reason was that the electronic components at that time were not good, and it was easy to have problems, and the pigeons often misidentified the target, and it was easy to blow up their own warships.

But the original plane is different, the electronic components are more advanced, and they are real missiles, not rockets in the original space-time. Moreover, the United States changed three pigeons to one, and also came up with the trick of taking drugs to increase judgment and reflexes. In other words, the bird-controlled anti-ship missile on the plane is two sets of control systems, one is the pigeon, and the other is the missile's own system, and the pigeon only plays an auxiliary role.

In fact, even the people of the United States themselves have no bottom in their hearts about the effect of this kind of effect, but they can't take care of the situation in front of them. They prepared 400 bird-controlled anti-ship missiles, which were carried by bombers at a high altitude away from their own fleets, and released them along with more than 200 other types of anti-ship missiles before the two fleets made contact.

Although the Japanese Navy had also conducted anti-missile exercises, the Japanese Navy, which had never been bombed by missile saturation, was stunned and saw missiles falling from the sky like meteor showers. Despite the desperate efforts of Japanese aircraft and anti-aircraft fire, about half of them were stopped. In the end, the Japanese Navy was sunk and more than 50 ships were damaged.

But the U.S. fleet didn't do any better, and Japan also responded with a ruthless response to the Yankees with shipborne and air-dropped anti-ship missiles. Although Japan did not have so many missiles launched this time, the anti-missile technology of the United States was even worse. In the end, the United States was also sunk and damaged, damaging more than 80 ships and transport ships of various types.

However, Admiral Keno Kurita, commander of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, feared another blow and ordered the fleet to move in. Although the U.S. fleet and landing force also suffered heavy losses, they succeeded in achieving the strategic goal of landing.