Chapter 250 Prepare for the decisive battle
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As night falls, sea cucumbers do not fall into darkness. They just shine on the city, not on the past, but on the fireworks that shine from time to time. Some of these fireworks were caused by artillery fire in the Chinese team, and more were caused by the Soviet army's broken troops.
"It exploded. It all exploded... It cannot be left to Chinese monkeys at all." A Soviet captain was commanding his taxis to blow up the equipment in the factory one by one. Looking at the blooming fireworks, the captain's eyes became more and more bloody. The bottles in his hand kept sending strong wine into his mouth.
Due to the short time, there is not enough explosives. This blasting project is not thorough. For various equipment of machine tools, punching machines and milling machines, Soviet soldiers can only use grenades to damage them after using the explosives used for blasting.
Watching grenades thrown into the machine, all the workers in the factory were bleeding...
"Comrade, you can't blow it up anymore. These are all your dependencies on your future life. Blow it up. What will we rely on in the future..." An old worker begged to the big man. - A blowout made his facial muscles twitch. He is an old worker in this factory. The whole family can count on his own income in this factory to support the whole family.
"There are no factories now. These machines are all states. The state will not let these machines fall into the hands of Chinese monkeys. And there are no workers, let alone women and children. Everyone will be great soldiers of the Soviet Union's defense. Everyone will take up weapons to defend the Soviet Union." The captain said his future behavior firmly. It's a pity that the captain's words made people bloody and moving and warm words. But everyone felt the chill that was colder than Siberia.
"Comrade Captain, please say it more in detail." The request was not requested to this Captain.
"Now everyone is in the Patriotic War. Some people will become soldiers who resist the invaders. You must collect all the martial arts but fight the Chinese monkeys to the best moment!!!" The captain did not vaguely and directly put forward his own suggestions and orders to everyone.
"Comrade Captain, but we have weapons..." The first middle-aged man shouted from behind to announce the truth that he had no iron.
"Wrench, hammer, crowbar. Anything that can be killed is the weapon in your hands..."
Captain's cold words all the people were frustrated
"If you follow behind, when I die, you can pick up my weapons and fight against the Chinese monkeys..." The captain's eyes lit up!
Another series of explosions sounded and the dimness of many people after their eyes lit up.""
May 5, 1942. When the Battle of the Coral Sea gradually entered the U.S., the Japanese cities and villages were crowded with parades. The team played brightly colored fish flags and paper kites with a cheerful mood unique to a frequent military victory country. Celebrating the annual "Boy's Day". The Tokyo Imperial General Office chose this day to issue a combat order. This combat order will reverse the trend of victory.
"His Majesty the Emperor ordered Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Fleet." The Navy Order No. 18 said. The specific plan of the "Midway Battle" was arranged: "The Commander of the Joint Fleet cooperated with the Army to occupy the strategic strongholds west of Midway and Aleutian Islands." This order moved the largest battle that the Imperial Navy had never dared to carry out. It also advocated a strategy Yamamoto hoped that this strategy would lead to a "decisive naval battle". He believed that the Japanese Navy's overwhelming advantage would surely win a decisive victory. Then, he planned to use his personal high reputation to persuade Prime Minister Tojo to make concessions so that the United States would come to the negotiating table and quickly ended the Pacific War.
The one Yamamoto received the order was anchored on the flagship of the picturesque Matsushima anchor south of Hiroshima. He held a briefing and conducted a planned combat exercise with his senior officers. For half a year, the main ships of the Imperial Navy, including the newly-in-service 80,000-ton warship "Yamato". During their buoy week | swaying idle. The carrier-based aircraft pilots who had seen the maritime battle despise them as the "Matsushima Fleet". Now, the naval generals gathered in the spacious secret rooms of the world's large warships finally knew that the fleet was about to head to the battlefield to participate in a large-scale naval battle.
Combining all aspects of Yamamoto's complex and huge plan together. This task was the result of his capable combat staff, the Navy Colonel Kuroshima, who had been pondering for many days. Under the personal guidance of the commander-in-chief, the staff made a intensive study and developed a strategy to extend the Japanese defense line for two thousand miles and extend it to the central Pacific to threaten Australia's life. Yamamoto intends to show up with the U.S. Navy. During the four-day meeting, he proposed plans to the captains and senior officers of the fleet, demanding a series of chain offensives. Eleven battleships, eight aircraft carriers, twenty-two cruisers, sixty destroyers, twenty-one submarines, and more than two hundred naval aircraft will participate in the battle. The entire fleet will be divided into six separate
The small fleet is located on the vast Pacific from the Mariana Islands to the Aleutian Islands. The entire battle will consist of a series of operations that cooperate closely in time. The attack target is concentrated on Midway. A two thousand troops will attack the Ring of Sanitary Island on "n" day. Seventy-two hours before this. A restrained attack on the American Key of the Aleutian Islands will be carried out. On the second day of "n" day, "n-2" day, the invading ship set sail from Saipan. Nanyun's aircraft carrier assault forces must bomb and weaken the fortifications of Midway before the attack. This is the key to the success or failure of the entire strategy. Yamamoto ambushed between these two attack fleets far apart. The Pacific ship waiting to go out of Pearl Harbor to attack. His submarine ambushed behind
On the route. Get ready to give it a blow before the final surface battle
Senior officers present on the Yamato were not without criticism of the complex plan. The Second Fleet Commander Lieutenant General Kondo Nobutake was wise to attack Midway Island. Because the island's land-based bombers could pose a powerful threat to warships. Lieutenant General Nagamo's aviation ship commanders expressed uneasiness that the main fleet would be deployed more than three hundred miles away. This distance was too far. Once they needed support, they would not be able to rescue them. More potential shortcomings of this master plan were to be planned for naval battles in the spacious combat room of the flagship.
It was revealed. Communications and liaisons were obviously titled that the commander-in-chief of the Joint Fleet would be at sea. Radio silence must be implemented. Moreover, the northwest direction of the aircraft carrier was greatly exposed and vulnerable to attack. However, Yamamoto flatly refused to consider the late June 1st, which did not allow further plans or major changes to the details of his strategic plan. He also suffered from overconfident myopia. It is interesting that although he always emphasized the attack power of carrier-based aircraft. The tactical plan he formulated for "decisive naval battles". In the end, it emphasized the old-fashioned artillery battle between warships.
"Victory" seems to have dulled Yamamoto's strong sense of strategy. He ignored - or deliberately ignored - a serious defect. This defect happened to be based on his grand plan to attack Midway and Aleutian. He wanted to capture two goals far apart. Forgot Mahan's rules about concentrating naval forces. Since six small fleets were scattered across thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean, the joint fleet would lose its overwhelming advantage. In order to lure his opponents into a "decisive battle." Yamamoto's strategy required the U.S. Navy commander to act according to his grand plan. However, given that the Americans had enough knowledge of the Midway Campaign plan in advance, they would be able to concentrate the power of the Pacific Fleet to defeat the invasion of Midway, thereby destroying the entire complex arrangement.
History often repeats itself. The decision to launch a large-scale offensive against Midway in the first few days of June is a ridiculous ridicule of history.
Thirty-six years ago, the same week of the Navy General John Jellicott also mistakenly believed that Germany would act according to his combat strategy, so he led the large fleet to the North Sea to show off with the German Emperor's high seas fleet. The combined fleet of the mountain followed its mistake.
Japanese naval generals carefully studied the Battle of Jutland. But they obviously forgot the following lesson: the speed of modern naval battles, and chaos were as expected as the Royal Navy did not win the expected victory of the Second Battle of Trafalgar. Nelson's traditional concept was that two rows of unwieldy warships launched a fierce artillery battle. The firepower and maneuverability of the dauntless warships had changed this concept. In 1916, aircraft that played only a slight role in the Jutland Sea. In the era between the two wars, they had brought another to the battle.
A great revolution - a transformation that would have promoted the role of Ben himself. What is even more surprising is that he has no lessons from the confrontation of the Coral Sea aircraft carriers. Just when the Midway Battle Conference was held on the Yamato, the confrontation was still known. This powerfully proves how the speed and power of the air attack changed the navy's tactics; but to the surprise, Yamamoto and his staff still firmly believe that the US Pacific Fleet will respond to their strategy of attacking Midway as scheduled.
It is crucial for the Japanese to strive to achieve the second phase of the war. It is crucial to keep confidential. But the secret will be gradually stripped away. It exposes its main targets neither in the central Pacific nor in the southern Pacific. The intercepted a telegram of March 4, 142, which provided the first clue in this regard. The AF mentioned in the telegram was temporarily identified as Midway Island. At the end of April, the telegram mentioned that the Aleutian Islands were also identified as a battle to occur after the Mo operation in the Coral Sea. Nimitz probably was convinced and doubted. Therefore, on May 2, do not hurry to inspect the naval warfare that was alone in Midway Island.
But then, in the later stage, it seemed like a bizarre foresight of the enemy's plan. At most it was a premonition. Because on the morning of the day Nimitz took off from Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Headquarters Intelligence Department estimated that the main attack was still in the Coral Sea. All existing American Airlines 39 motherships and Allied warships were concentrated there. As the commander of the Pacific Fleet believed, they were ready to show up with the Japanese. It was not until May 4, two days after Nimitz returned from Midway. This estimate was reconsidered. The Pacific Fleet Operations Intelligence Department led by Rocheford discovered that they called the battleships and submarines.
Confused. These call signs imply that the continued southward advance. On that day, two partially deciphered secret telegrams provided important clues: "After June 20, the unit and the commando will stay in Truk for about two weeks. Please arrange - and mark the anchor." and "the ship will undergo repairs during the above operations. The repair date will be set at [about the 21st of the month]. They will not be able to accompany you to the battle." In total, these two secret telegrams indicate that the second major operation will be launched in the last ten days of May. The troops will then move to the Truk Islands. A secret telegram will be deciphered the next day. Disclosure the joint fleet
It is requesting Tokyo to "quickly provide refueling pipes". It implies that a long-distance combat plan in the central Pacific is being formulated. Lieutenant Colonel Leiden looked at the picture and expressed concern about Midway. Nimitz ordered reinforcements to speed up to the island. During the Battle of the Shanhai Sea, the electric analysts did not find that the enemy had a large fleet heading south to participate in the battle. It is noted that the Pacific Fleet Command made the following estimate of the situation on May 6: "Although Japan continued to launch an offensive in the South Pacific, they now found that they had enough troops in the central and northern Pacific. They could launch attacks on the central and northern Pacific."
Chapter completed!