The crying sea that happened in the Hawaiian Islands began to be touching.

Although the Republic Navy has obvious advantages in terms of force and combat effectiveness, especially in the main fleet, three to two is the force ratio and nearly two to one combat power ratio, which gives the Republic Navy the initiative in the battlefield, but both sides have the number of attacks that can defeat the opponent and even annihilate the opponent in an attack that has a tactical advantage. Therefore, any nature of mistakes and mistakes may lead to catastrophic consequences.

Affected by this, before contacting the fleet commanders of both sides were shocked and cautious. Not only did they not take risks, they also left the surveillance range of the other party's reconnaissance force and disappeared into the vast sea.

Relatively speaking, the weaker US Navy was more cautious. After the main fleet of Diego entered the Pacific Ocean, the US Navy did not follow the previous methods, that is, to let the combat fleets meet at Pearl Harbor and then go to the battlefield, nor did the main fleet of Diego go to San Diego. After all, the largest naval base on the west coast of the United States is too eye-catching, and there must be many attack submarines of the Republic's navy outside. From a safe start, the US Navy selected the Fleet's rendezvous Islands in the Revia Shihdo Islands, which were brewed kilometer south of the Baja California Peninsula, and deployed attack submarines to the sea area in advance to perform reconnaissance and surveillance missions.

The problem is that the US Navy chose the fleet's rendezvous in the Revia Hikhdo Islands, which is not a secret at all.

As we all know, the distribution of islands in the Pacific is dense in the west and sparse in the east, especially in the southwest and northeast directions, that is, the dense islands in the southwest and the lack of several islands in the northeast. From the perspective of island distribution, Polynesia mainly includes the Hawaiian Islands, the Ryan Islands, the Tuamotu Islands, the Tuboai Islands, and some sporadic islands, the west is dense, and the east is a handful of islands. It can be seen that there are only a few islands between the Hawaiian Islands and the North American continent, among which Guadalupe is too close to San Diego and is not suitable for temporary cobalt mooring for fleets. Only the Revia Shihdo Islands are suitable for distance. That is, they are not within the surveillance range of the Republic's naval submarines, and are relatively close to the North American continent. Under the control of the US military.

Some people may ask, do the fleet must meet near the island?

Here comes a very simple tactical issue, that is, what is the purpose of fleet rendezvous?

In case of specific purpose, the fleet does not need to meet in the waters near the island. There is even no need to meet before joining the war. It is entirely possible to formulate a strict combat plan to allow the participating fleets to arrive at the battlefield at the same time and engage in battle at the same time, that is, meet on the battlefield. For example, when raiding a fixed target, the participating fleets can be scattered and deployed in different ports and naval bases to avoid attracting the attention of the enemy, and then use a strict combat plan to constrain the fleet's actions. The participating fleets launch an attack at the same time. The typical significance of the typical is that in World War II, the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet attacked Pearl Harbor and attacked Midway Island. From two typical naval battles, it can be seen that this kind of combat operation with specific purpose is very rare in the marine battlefield and takes great risks. The combat results are affected by key factors. They tend to be more inclined to two extremes, that is, if you win, you will win, and if you lose, you will lose.

In fact, such a situation with a specific purpose is very rare in naval warfare.

The main purpose of naval warfare is to seize sea control power. The main force for seizing sea control power is fleets, so naval warfare is often a battle between fleets on both sides, and fleets are the target of activity, and both tactical mobility and strategic mobility are excellent. Therefore, the battle between fleets basically has no specific purpose. It is impossible to use a tactical plan to constrain fleet actions and allow fleets to meet on the battlefield.

Affected by this, fleets often have to meet outside the battlefield. Because it is impossible to determine the specific time of the rendezvous, nor the specific situation of each fleet. Therefore, the rendezvous location is often near the island. Most of them choose coral atolls that allow the fleet to temporarily cobalt moor the cobalt, or natural bays of large islands.

This time, the U.S. Navy was facing such a situation. In addition to being unable to confirm the specific whereabouts of the Republic's Navy fleet, the U.S. Navy could not even accurately grasp the time when the main fleet of Disau arrived in the waters of the convergence. There was nothing strange about this. The Revia Shihdor Islands were located between the routes from the Panama Canal to the West Coast of the United States. Before entering the Hawaiian Islands, the Republic's Navy sent dozens of attack submarines to the East Pacific Ocean by early July 2018. Half of the attack submarines operating in the Eastern Pacific were searching for opportunities on the routes from the Panama Canal to the West Coast of the United States, although the U.S. Navy had been in southern Mexico.

Hundreds of anti-submarine patrol aircraft were deployed in the Tevantepec area, and an orifice regional escort fleet was deployed on this route that only kilometers from Panama City to Luo Huiyan. It is specifically responsible for anti-submarine search and attack tasks in various seas. The regional escort fleet does not accompany fleet activities, but specializes in submarine search and hunting missions. However, the significance of these defensive deployments is still very limited and does not prevent the attack submarine of the Republic's Navy from hunting hundreds of American ships on this route to June 19, Tiannian. The merchant ships sunk exceeded Jiangkou ships, with a total tonnage of up to 10,000 tons, and it was impossible to prevent the Republic's Navy's submarines from surveillance of the US fleet from reinforced the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic.

Affected by this, when planning this combat operation, the US Navy had to let the fleet meet in the Revia Shihdo Islands, and was very cautious when formulating tactical plans.

To put it bluntly, it is more conservative.

Take the actions of the main fleet of Disau, after passing through the Panama Canal and entering the Bay of Panama, it did not sail directly to the Revia Shikhdo Islands. Instead, it turned south after arriving at Koko Island. When Darwin followed the Beagle to sail around the world, he stayed in this archipelago for several months. According to the puffins on the island, he thought of the impact of the environment on biological evolution, which was the later "evolution theory. After a short stay, he sailed westward and finally detoured Clipperton Island to head north, and finally arrived at the Revia Shikhdo Island. It took him 3 days to complete this section and only take an hour to get there.

The voyage of the voyage. The different body clams, old knife, Jiafountain, was known to the main fleet detours the Galapagos Islands and Clipperton Islands for a long time. The required navigation time will not be too big. Therefore, after the voyage of the main fleet and the Basketball Air Fleet set off from San Diego, they did not go directly to the Revia Shikhdo Islands, but sailed west and left the offshore waters where the Republic's naval attack submarines frequently appeared in San Diego. Therefore, after being within the patrol coverage of the attack submarines that performed the mission of the detours, they detoured south and finally drove from the west to the Revia Shikhdo Islands.

Even so, the two combat fleets heading south only took 2 days to arrive at the Revia Hikhdo Islands. So before the arrival of the Dishao Lord Fleet, the two fleets had been waiting at the meeting place for a day.

It can be seen that it is precisely because of the uncertainty of the punishment that the US Navy chose the fleet's rendezvous sea area near the island. In any case, fleets entering the shallow sea area near the island are less likely to be attacked by submarines than fleets that stay in the depths of the ocean. In fact, for attack submarines with a displacement of thousands of tons or even tens of thousands of tons, it is a relatively dangerous thing to go to shallow seas with harsh environments. Generally speaking, unless it is absolutely necessary, no submarine captain is willing to command submarines with a deep, old and multimeter-long water depth to carry out hunting missions.

Of course, rendezvous is just the first step. How to act after rendezvous is the most critical.

After the three combat fleets of the US Navy met, they would consider the specific combat operations. After all, with the situation at that time, the US Navy could not predict the battlefield situation in early July, and even more so, it would be impossible to predict how the Republic Navy would respond after the main fleet of Dishau entered the Pacific Ocean.

The actual situation is indeed the case. When the three combat fleets of the US Navy met on July 7 to form the large Fifth Fleet, the combat fleet of the Republican Navy had left the eastern waters of the Hawaiian Islands. Not only did they not continue to shell the US bases on the Clan, but they did not even enter the sequential waters of US submarines and patrol aircraft. More importantly, within these three days, the long-range reconnaissance aircraft and maritime patrol aircraft sent by the US Navy did not even encounter the fighter jets of the Republican Navy. At least they did not encounter them in the eastern waters of the archipelago. That is, the Hansuo. The Republic fleet that had previously made a plan to bombard the Hawaiian Islands into ruins disappeared almost overnight.

If the Republic Fleet was afraid of the U.S. fleet that was coming, no one would believe it.

All signs indicate that the Republic Navy took the initiative to advance eastward before the Marine Corps landed on Midway, attacking large islands in the eastern part of the archipelago such as Oahu. The main purpose was to force the US fleet to come for a decisive battle and gain absolute sea control before officially entering Oahu. From this, it can be roughly concluded that the Republic Navy fleet did not leave the battlefield. It was just leaving the US military's reconnaissance and search range, and was looking for a decisive opportunity.

So, in which direction is the Republic's naval fleet?

Judging from the information obtained after the war, this is not only the most critical issue faced by the US Navy, but also the biggest issue of internal debate within the US Navy at that time.

In the eyes of some naval generals, the Republic's Navy fleet sailed south after the July 4th shelling, and before the US Navy made adjustments to long-range reconnaissance forces and redeployed reconnaissance operations, it passed between the U.S. U.S. U.S. Navy and Muen Islands and entered the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Because the maximum navigation speed of the Republic's Navy fleet reached the Blade Festival, the U.S. Navy took many old times to adjust its reconnaissance deployment, so the Republic's Navy had enough time to leave the search area of ​​the U.S. reconnaissance aircraft. The problem is that the Republic's Navy could not know in advance that the U.S. Navy would need to use the old hours to adjust its reconnaissance deployment, nor could it know how the U.S. Navy would use long-range reconnaissance forces, so when interspersing eastward, it would not choose such a risky route.

What is important is that the straight-line distance between Hawaii Island and Christmas Island is only a knife-knife. When the Republic Fleet shelled the Hawaiian Islands, the US reconnaissance aircraft deployed on Christmas Island also participated in the search operation. Therefore, if the Republic Fleet wants to enter the Eastern Pacific from the south of Hawaii Island, it must consider the reconnaissance aircraft deployed on Christmas Island. Of course, there is another thing that cannot be ignored. That is, along this route, as early as July 6, and at the latest on July 7, the Republic Navy Fleet should reach the waters near the Revia Shihdo Islands. At this time, the US fleet is also in this waters, so the decisive battle will inevitably be inevitable. The actual situation is that the US fleet did not encounter a sudden attack, and the reconnaissance aircraft arranged by the US Navy did not persuade the Republic Navy to discover within a thousand meters near the archipelago.

The Republic's fleet could have gone north without going south. At that time, many U.S. naval generals believed that the powerful Republic's naval fleet might have gone north from the central Hawaiian islands on the night of July 4, and entered the North Pacific under the nose of the US military. According to these generals, the Republic's naval fleet had strong enough strength, and the front-line commander of the Republic's navy was more adventurous. More importantly, before that, the Republic

The National Fleet has attacked US military bases on all nearby islands with artillery fire, including the center of US seaplanes on several small islands west of Oahu, so the Republic's Navy fleet may head north from the central waters of the archipelago under the cover of night. In this way, the Republic's Navy fleet should sail eastward after entering the North Pacific Ocean, and the greatness of Honolulu on the west coast of the United States is about lower than that of the Luoyang alum. That is, the Luoyang alum is in the northeast of Honolulu.

Not in the east direction. Although the Republic's Navy Fleet mainly believes that it is a decisive battle with the US fleet and seizes sea control, it is fruitless in the decisive battle, especially when the US fleet takes the initiative to avoid war. The Republic's Navy Fleet will definitely take the opportunity to attack the US mainland's West Coast. Affected by this, these naval generals suggested strengthening the defense of the local west coast. Of course, these generals also ignored a very critical factor, that is, the Republic's Navy really wanted to attack the US mainland's West Coast.

In the shore area, artillery will arrive before July 7, and will not be dragged until after July 7. More importantly, when the destination of the US fleet is unknown, the Republic's Navy fleet has no reason to use precious shells to deal with ground targets without guaranteed ammunition supply. What's more, when sea-making operations are the main task, the ammunition carried by the main ship should be clustered mother-and-child factories; armor shells are the main, and these two shells are not suitable for attacking ground...

After eliminating these two possibilities, there is only one possibility left, that is, after the Republic's Navy fleet ended its shelling on July 4, it returned west to the western waters of the archipelago, and on July or 6, it entered the North Pacific Hawaiian Islands from the west of Midway to form the natural line between the North Pacific and the Central Pacific.

The question is, where did the Republic's naval fleet go after entering the North Pacific?

It can be said that this is the issue that the US Navy is most concerned about.

In terms of time, even if the Republic's Navy fleet detours the western waters of the archipelago, heading northwest from Midway Island, and at the speed of the Republic's Navy fleet, it is possible to reach the north of Oahu Island by July 7, and it is very likely that it is searching for the US combat fleet.

Of course, where the Republic's naval fleet is, it depends on the purpose of the Republic's navy's campaign.

When talking about this issue, let alone the senior U.S. Navy's top leaders were in trouble, even U.S. President Duchwie was confused.

You should know that if the Republic Navy fleet retreated to the western waters of the Hawaiian Islands on July 4, then the Republic Navy's combat operations before and after this would be completely different, and even the purpose of the battle had changed. Not to mention experienced generals, even the most ordinary staff knew that when the battle was halfway through the implementation of the battle, changing the purpose of the battle was equivalent to self-defeating. To put it bluntly, before July 4, all combat operations of the Republic Navy were forcing the US Navy to come for a decisive battle. The main purpose was to seize sea control as the main purpose of seizing the power of the sea.

.If the previous analysis is true, that is, the Republic's Navy fleet gave up the opportunity to assault the Eastern Pacific and fight the US fleet in a decisive battle, it would be equivalent to giving up the purpose of this battle and putting the attack on Midway in the first place. Although it is also important to capture Midway, it can even be said to be related to whether the Hawaiian Islands can be successfully captured, compared to sea control, the significance of capturing Midway at this time is not obvious. To be said, the Republic's Navy does not need to limit its vision to an island before obtaining sea control.

In short, even Duchwit didn't believe at that time that the Republic's Navy would give up the decisive battle.

In a sense, the US Navy and the senior management of the United States are unwilling to believe it because of practical reasons.

From the previous analysis, we can see that it is precisely because of the desire for war in the Republic's Navy. Therefore, the US Navy made full use of this when formulating a combat plan. Judging from some information obtained after the war, the US Navy's wishful thinking at that time was to lure the Republic's Navy fleet to the Eastern Pacific to fight to the decisive battle. The US fleet could back the North American continent and fight under the support and cover of the shore-based aviation force. The Republic's Navy fleet could only obtain limited support from the carrier-based aviation force and had to deal with the threat of the US aviation force, so naturally it could not devote all its efforts to sea-control operations.

It can be said that this is also the only chance for the US Navy to win this naval battle. Affected by this, all combat deployments of the US Navy are related to the Jigo, that is, the combat fleet is concentrated in the waters east of the Hawaiian Islands, and mainly operates within the cover of the shore-based aviation force. If conditions permit, attack submarines will be deployed in advance to the fleet's active waters. In short, the US Navy's idea is very simple. It is to do its best to protect its fleet and seize the opportunity to eliminate the Republic's Navy fleet when the time is ripe.

The question is, will the Republic Navy not understand such a simple tactical idea?

It is undeniable that during the small naval battle in Cego, the Republic's Navy indeed put the seizure of sea control first, that is, the priority is to annihilate the US fleet rather than capture Midway. According to some information released after the war, the Republic's Navy even thought about using attacks on Midway as bait to obtain a favorable naval battle situation when necessary. In other words, the Republic's Navy was even prepared to annihilate the US fleet by sacrificing the Marine Corps.

Compared with the US Navy, the Republic's Navy made a big difference when formulating combat plans was that it did not make the plan too deadly, but left a lot of room for adjustment. This includes changing the purpose of the battle in the event of unfavorable situation and deciding to capture Midway Island as its top priority.

The US military did not know that after the main fleet of the Trade Force entered the Pacific, it attracted the high attention of the Republic's Navy.

More importantly, on the night of July 4, when the main fleet of Disau arrived at Koko Island and turned south toward the Galapagos Islands, the attack submarine of the Republic Navy happened to be active in the waters near Koko Island and intercepted the noise from the main fleet of Dieshou. More importantly, the submarine originally repaired a faulty torpedo launch system in the sea area, that is, it turned off the main power, sank the seabed, and was powered by a battery. In other words, in this case, the submarine would hardly make any noise, and it would be difficult to be discovered by the anti-submarine warships in the US fleet. No, the luck of the Republic Navy at this time

It's time to go home. After the main fleet of Dishao arrived south from Koko Island, the submarine sent out the latest discovery. Based on this information, the Republican Navy immediately concluded that the US military had no intention of a decisive battle immediately, and it was speculated that the US military would try to lure the Republican fleet to the Eastern Pacific. Although there were still people in the Republican Navy at that time, they still advocated a decisive battle. However, when the enemy situation was not clear and there was no grasp of the activities of the main fleet and the Air Fleet. Moreover, the battlefield situation and combat plans were too obvious, Zhang Xuefeng, who had been promoted to the commander-in-chief of the fleet, made a quick decision and let the fleet that was preparing to advance east retreat westward and return to the waters of Midway Island.

Judging from the entire battle situation, Zhang Xuefeng's decision was very timely and accurate.

After the war, some people used computers to perform simulation analysis. That is, Zhang Xuefeng did not issue a retreat order at that time, and still followed the combat strategy formulated, allowing the four combat fleets that had already reached the North Pacific from the central waters of the archipelago to advance eastward, and then drove southeastward, and finally fought with the US fleet in a certain waters between the Hawaiian Islands and the Revia Shihdo Islands. Although the US military was unlikely to expect that the Republic's Navy fleet would bypass the Hawaiian Islands from the north, instead of interspersing from the south in a more direct way, it would definitely be lacking in tactical deployment, making it difficult to fully utilize its strategic advantages. However, in this sea area, in addition to being able to invest 3 combat fleets, the US Navy could also mobilize thousands of strategic bombers at the same time. At that time, the US "Yangrang West Coast area had as many as the recesses. Most of them had the ability to sea borders, thousands of tactical fighters, and even

Dozens of attack submarines were invested, and the Republic's Navy fleet, as analyzed earlier, could only fight alone and almost no support or cover. Even according to the simulation analysis done by the Republic's Navy after the war, even at the beginning of the naval battle, the three main fleets used the performance advantages of the "Han" class battleship and the "Xingkai Lake" class cruiser, and the "Changbaizhi" class destroyer, especially the range advantage when projecting "reconnaissance shells".

He took the tactical initiative and launched an attack in advance. In the next battle, the three main fleets, as well as the air fleet, will be wiped out under the joint encirclement of the US military's air, sea surface and underwater forces. Not to mention whether the results of this simulation analysis are exaggerated, after all, this is suspected of deliberately raising Zhang Xuefeng's status. However, from the situation at that time, the Republic's Navy fleet did not have much chance of winning when it was alone.

Influenced by this, the purpose of the Republic's Navy's campaign naturally changed to capture Midway Island.

The problem is that it was Zhang Xuefeng who commanded the naval battle, and the admiral, who was already recognized as the commander of the number one fleet during the war, was not willing to accept such results.

From another perspective, if you cannot seize the sea power in this naval battle, even if you can successfully capture Midway Island, you have to try to annihilate the US fleet before entering Oahu, otherwise the combat operations to attack Oahu will not be guaranteed. The problem is here, there is always a big environment for the decisive battle at sea. That is, why is it impossible to fight for the decisive battle for the decisive battle? In fact, when the troops do not have any advantage and the purpose of stabilizing the front line, the US Navy will try to avoid it as much as possible.

Decisive battle. In other words, if the Republic Navy wants to gain the control of the entire Pacific Ocean through a decisive battle, it has to make a fuss outside the naval battle. This is why the Republic Navy had to fight the US Navy when attacking Midway, because only attacking Midway can allow the US Navy to fight to the decisive battle. It can be seen that after capturing Midway, the Republic Navy would have to wait for the next landing battle, that is, to attack Oahu.

There is no doubt that the pressure and difficulty of fighting the US Navy when attacking Oahu is much more stressful and difficult.

Although from the perspective of force, by the end of the year, the Republic's Navy can increase the number of main ships to the old ones, and will have 8 additional second-generation main ships, the Tang class, is the first-generation main ship, and its combat effectiveness is significantly greater than that of the US Navy, but near Oahu, the US Navy has more support points. More importantly, Oahu is in the eastern part of the Hawaiian Islands, less than 1,000 meters away from the US mainland. The US fleet fighting in this waters can obtain air support and air cover from the local area. The US Navy invested and developed will definitely be mass-produced and put into service in the second half of the year. This is a design completely according to wartime requirements, with the main performance

More importantly, before the design work of 3 was completed, the US military had already lost the offensive and defensive battle of Saipan. In order to defend the Hawaiian Islands, the US Navy required the maximum combat radius to be increased from the kilometer previously determined for the knife to kilometer, and required a minute of air combat time on the maximum combat radius. Therefore, this fighter can take off from the US mainland and perform a nearly force-minute air combat mission over Oahu. In this way, even if the Republican Navy has the advantage of force, it will be difficult to obtain absolute initiative in the face of the US Navy's naval and air superiority.

Of course, it should not be ignored. Attacking Oahu is much more important than attacking Midway.

As mentioned earlier, in order to seize the sea control power, Zhang Xuefeng even sacrificed the combat troops attacking Midway Island. The problem is that when attacking Oahu, even if Zhang Xuefeng still hopes to seize the sea control power as the main purpose, the top leaders of the Republic will not let him do this. After all, occupying Oahu is the main step to advance to the US mainland. It is related to future combat operations and strategic deployments. There must be no mistakes.

Affected by these factors, Zhang Xuefeng made a major decision on July 6, allowing the combat fleet that had returned to the northwest of Midway Island to be transferred to the southwest of Midway Island, that is, the direction of Wake Island, and asked the sea base group deployed to the west of Midway Island to dispatch reconnaissance aircraft to closely search the sea area east of Midway Island. Judging from this deployment, Zhang Xuefeng's intention was very obvious, that is, to make a fuss in attacking Midway Island, use the Marines attacking Midway Island as bait, and if necessary, the combat fleet would even go to shell Oahu again. To be honest, Zhang Xuefeng has been prepared to bear the losses and can pay a greater price to win.

No matter how much risk Zhang Xuefeng took when he did this, he must first admit that the pressure on the US Navy commander is no more than him. If Zhang Xuefeng is eager to gain sea control in the battle to attack Midway Island, then the US Navy hopes to turn the situation around before Oahu is attacked.

For the U.S. Navy, losing Midway is not much different from losing Oahu.

Although in the middle of the Tiannian year, the Republic's Navy did not formulate any combat plan to carry out strategic strikes on the main islands in the eastern Hawaiian Islands, and according to the Republic's overall strategic plan, only in the most forced situation, would only deal with Australia to deal with the Hawaiian Islands when it was most forced, but from the perspective of the US Navy, the problem was not that simple. Judging from the situation at that time, the first thing the US Navy had to worry about was that the Republic used Midway as a springboard to lose its military value through strategic bombing. In fact, the Republic's Navy deployed the "Female Milk" maritime base to the front line, and the strategic bombing operation in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. The US Navy had enough reason to believe that if the cost of attacking Oahu was too great, the Republic's Navy would not occupy this key island. In short, from the standpoint of the US Navy, losing Midway would be equivalent to losing Oahu.

Obviously, when the Republic's Navy fleet retreated westward, it was the U.S. Navy who was even more eager to fight to the decisive battle.

In order to ensure this, three combat fleets of the US Navy left the Revia Hikhdo Islands on the night of July 7. However, when the Republic's Navy fleet was unknown, the US military was running directly to the Hawaiian Islands, but sailed northwest. That is, the North Indian Ocean waters to the north of the Waiian Islands. It can be seen that when Yuan and France determined that they could fight the Republic's Navy fleet, the US Navy also adjusted its battle plan and changed its main goal to defend Midway, that is, let the fleet attack the Republic's Navy amphibious fleet near Midway and the maritime base west of Midway, striving to turn the situation around before the Republic's Marines landed on Midway.

Of course, it must be admitted that the US Navy is also very cautious in receiving commanders.

It can be seen from the actions of the US fleet. That is, the US commander is still worried about encountering the Republic's Navy fleet in combat, especially when attacking the landing ground in Midway, and was suddenly attacked by the Republic's Navy fleet. It is precisely this way that the US fleet circled north of the Hawaiian Islands. In this way, it can stay in the sea area of ​​1,000 meters northwest of Oahu. It does not need to be too close to Midway. It can also obtain air cover from the local west coast. More importantly, if the Republic's Navy fleet wants to launch a sneak attack,

It only enters the strike range of US strategic bombers. That is to say, even if the Republic's naval fleet successfully attacks, it will be attacked by thousands of strategic bombers in turn. Because it is more than 4 kilometers to the North King, it is even possible to mobilize bombers deployed in Alaska in the area to carry out long-term combat missions to bomb the Republic's mainland, increasing the bombing power by multiples. There is no doubt that no fleet in the world can withstand the successive attacks of concave bombers.

Looking at Zhang Xuefeng's deployment, it is not difficult to find that he had already anticipated this action by the US Navy.

Before July 6, the Republic's Navy combat fleet was northwest of Midway, that is, on the left rear of the landing ground. Therefore, if the US fleet attacked the landing ground in the northern waters of the Hawaiian Islands, it would definitely enter the attack range of the Republic's Navy fleet. If the US fleet attacked the maritime base group, it would actively hit the muzzle of the Republic's Navy fleet. Of course, the biggest problem of this deployment is to expose the fleet to the front. In any case, before the US fleet arrived, it would definitely mobilize all reconnaissance forces to search for the waters ahead. The US strategic reconnaissance aircraft deployed in the Aleutian Islands only need to adjust the patrol method, that is, to transform the fixed area alert patrol into full-process reconnaissance, and then it can

Increase the reconnaissance radius to more than kilometers of Dankuang, and thus discover the Republic's Navy fleet at a kilometer of force in the south. By the same token, the Republic's Navy fleet can also rely on the strategic reconnaissance aircraft deployed on the "My Ma" to extend the reconnaissance range eastward to the east, thereby ensuring that the US fleet entering the wartime waters can be discovered in a timely manner. It can be seen that the basic tactical idea of ​​this deployment is to fight a dignified naval battle with the US military that also hopes to use a maritime decisive battle to decide the Pacific sea power. Of course, this is also a naval battle that determines the victory or defeat with strength. After the adjustment and deployment, the Republic's Navy fleet also chose to ambush.

I have to admit that Zhang Xuefeng is very good at tactical decision-making, at least when judging the opponent's tactical intentions, he has a very strong intuition. According to the situation at that time, even if the US Navy is eager to fight and is eager to achieve maritime victory before the fall of Midway, if his strength is obviously inferior to the Republic Navy, the US fleet will definitely not fight on the battlefield chosen by the Republic Navy. However, after discovering the Republic Navy fleet, he will try every means to delay the Republic Marines' landing on Midway and strive to get better.

The opportunity to fight to the battlefield becomes more complicated. More importantly, when the US fleet approaches and the Republic's Navy fleet cannot wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop, the Republic's Marines must remeasure the combat operations landing on Midway, adjust the combat strategy and even withdraw the landing fleet. That is to say, as long as the US fleet can create a tense atmosphere on the battlefield, it can defend Midway without fighting with the Republic's Navy. In a sense, this is the fundamental purpose of the US fleet's voluntary rushing to the Midway waters.

From this we can see that even if the fleet is withdrawn, it is equivalent to pushing the Marines forward and even exposing the sea base group to the enemy. This is why many people think that Zhang Xuefeng is a very typical "naval general." That is, a general like Lin Xiaolei, who only considers the interests of the navy. What type of general Zhang Xuefeng is depends not only on his decision, but also on the impact of the decision. Take this decision as an example. On the surface, Zhang Xuefeng regarded both the Marines and the sea base group as bait that can be sacrificed, but from the overall goal, the Marines' mission is to capture Midway Island. If they can take this opportunity to eliminate the US fleet, even if the Marines suffer heavy losses, they can still capture Midway Island. Because it is not who has more ground troops to decide the ownership of Midway Island, but who has the control of the sea.

Anyway, on July 7, the situation on the battlefield had changed.

On the morning of July 8, the US Navy adjusted its reconnaissance deployment and dispatched a large number of strategic reconnaissance aircraft and long-range maritime patrol aircraft, focusing on searching the waters west of Midway Island, especially the northwest and southwest waters, and extending the reconnaissance and search range from 4,000 meters to 1,000 meters.

In order to cooperate with the reconnaissance operation, the US military also attacked the maritime base group on the same day, forcing the Republic's Navy to use fighter jets to intercept US bombers instead of those reconnaissance aircraft that went to perform search missions.

In the evening of that day, the US military increased the intensity of the bombing again. According to the US military's combat records, in the attack operation that evening, it was involved in persuading multiple bombers to consume multiple heavy anti-ship missile blades. Although the attack result was far from the US military's expectations, such frequent and high-intensity bombing operations had forced the Republic Marines to retreat to the sea area where the maritime base group was located, and temporarily terminated the combat operation to attack Midway Island.

As the curtain descended, the atmosphere on the battlefield seemed even more tense.

After fighting for a day, the Republic's Navy fleet did not show up, and the US Navy fleet did not show up. Neither side seemed to appear on the battlefield. Will there be any changes in the battles at night?
Chapter completed!