The so-called Nine-Dan confrontation is the decisive tactic of the Japanese Navy's fantasy of the United States before the Pacific War. Specifically, it is to arrange submarines, aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers layer by layer, and confront the US fleet one after another to weaken the opponent's strength. The battleships are placed at the end, and the Japanese design and construction of the Yamato-class cannon is the idea of ​​this, which is used to fight the Nine-Dan decisive battle.

However, when the Pacific War started, except for the decisive battleships that occurred when fighting the Hawaiian Islands at the beginning, the Japanese battleships seemed to be fighting, and aviation warfare became the main means of combat.

However, starting from the Christmas Island Battle in September 1943, Japan began to encounter setbacks in a series of aviation wars. The generation of elites who joined the naval aviation before the war broke out were completely lost. By the time of the Second Battle of the Hawaiian Islands, even the elites of the army aviation war were taken out and fought all out.

Although the advantage of the shore-based advantage also consumed more than 4,000 US fighter jets and defeated many elite American carrier-based pilots. However, since June, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse.

It turned out that the US military repaired and expanded the airport on Niho Island, and then transferred the Army Air Force's p51b/c and p47d. The battle over the Hawaiian Islands became the shore-based opposite shore. Japan's gusts and Zidian was no match for p51b/c and p47d at all. As for the three medium-sized heavy bombers "Galaxy", "Swallowing Dragon" and "Flying Dragon" that Japan is proud of were even beaten to pieces when it encountered the "interceptor" of p47d. The combination of 8 12.7mm Browning Aviation Machine Guns and aviation rockets can completely shoot down the Japanese bomber with a solid fuselage in one blow!

And what's worse is that because the Japanese planes on the Hawaiian Islands have been exhausted, the Japanese Navy and Army had to adopt long-range transition tactics and aircraft carrier relay methods to supplement fighter jets on the battlefield of the Hawaiian Islands. The former is used to supplement the Galaxy medium bomber with a super-large range, while the latter transforms the "Breaking Wind" and "Purple Electric" into aircraft carriers equipped with flywheel catapults (imported from Germany), and then flies to the Hawaiian Islands at night.

However, these two supplementary methods consume a lot of money, and the amount that can be supplemented is insufficient. In particular, the US military also deployed P61 night fighters on Niho Island, but Japanese planes flying to the Hawaiian Islands were often intercepted by P61! Those Japanese rookie pilots who had been exhausted after long-distance night flights often did not even see the Hawaiian Islands, and were confusedly shot down by the American p61.

Therefore, in the past June, Japan lost more than 1,100 aircraft in the Hawaiian Islands, but the number of US military aircraft shot down by them was far less than this.

The air war exchange ratio in the Battle of the Hawaiian Islands is now greatly detrimental to Japan! It is utterly a dream to rely on aviation war to win.

But the fleet battles...that's just fighting the Japanese Navy's old capital!

Is this really cost-effective?

"Ito-kun," Yamamoto Izuru said in a leisurely tone, "Do you think the joint fleet will have the confidence to win if you fight the decisive battle?"

"This..." Ito thought for a while and nodded, "The United Fleet has 4 Yamato-class battleships, while the United States has only 4 Iava-class battleships on the battlefield of the Hawaiian Islands, and it is not our opponent at all."

"Where is the American plane?" Yamamoto asked, "Ido Jun wouldn't think that the American plane would stand by and watch their battleships and our battleships fight to the death, right?"

"It's naturally impossible," Ito said, shaking his head, "but Commander Nagamo and Commander Ozawa will use aircraft carriers to cover the battleship forces."

Yamamoto Izuru also shook his head and said, "No, no, this is a reckless act without any confidence!"

Yamamoto was right. Japan can now produce less than 20 aircraft carriers, while the United States has at least 50-60 aircraft carriers near the Hawaiian Islands. In terms of commonly used carrier-based aircraft, Japan can produce up to 800 aircraft.

Even if the United States does not consider escorting aircraft carriers, it can at least produce 25 large and light fleet aircraft carriers. Even if the number of permanent carrier-based aircraft on it is insufficient, 1,200-1,300 aircraft can still be collected.

Although American carrier-based pilots suffered heavy losses in previous operations, most of the pilots flying the 1,300 carrier-based aircraft are "rookies" who have switched from the Army Air Force (the rest are of course the elite carrier-based aircraft), they are still better than Japanese carrier-based aircraft pilots. Their technology of flying aircraft takes off and lands on aircraft carriers and flies at sea is quite good, but the technology of air combat and bombing is not bad at all!

The best pilots of the Japanese Navy have long been exhausted, but the Japanese Navy cannot get experienced pilots from the Army Malu like the US Navy...

In addition, the carrier-based aircraft on Japanese aircraft carriers are also at a major disadvantage when facing US carrier-based aircraft. In order to make up for this weakness, the Japanese Navy recently introduced a batch of F-190t from Germany for trial use. However, the results are not satisfactory, because the F-190t was improved from shore-based aircraft and the take-off and landing performance is not very ideal. When taking off on an aircraft carrier, you must rely on high-power hydraulic catapults to be fully oiled and bombed. The landing speed is too fast, which is a headache. It is not an experienced veteran pilot who cannot fly the F-190t landing at all.

Therefore, the Japanese Navy's carrier-based fighter jets are still using the Zero Type, but they only refer to the Folk Zero Type D to launch the Zero Type 62/63 model, which has turned into a fighter bomber. However, the performance of the Zero Type 62/63 model is still not as good as the American f4u and f6f.

"But..." Ito Kazuichi seemed very embarrassed, "Marson, this is the case with the joint fleet. If you don't fight fleet wars and have no confidence in aviation wars, how can you fight to the decisive battle?"

"How to fight to the decisive battle?" Yamamoto Iroku glared at Ito all in a panic, "Why do you need a decisive battle?"

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"Has the empire not won? Did the United States not seek peace? Isn't the Army also planning to end the Pacific operations and instead use troops on the Asian continent? Why does the Navy still fight a meaningless decisive battle?"

Yamamoto's series of problems made Ito Chiuchi unexpectedly.

Izuru Yamamoto doesn’t want to fight anymore... Oh, in fact, most of the people who have the final say in Japan don’t want to fight the Pacific War with the United States anymore.

Even the big head of the army's red deer said: the United States is the "Jin", Japan is the "Song", and Germany is the "Great Mongolia"?

Who doesn’t know what the outcome of the Great Song Kingdom, which defeated the Jin Dynasty, did Japan? But can Japan not fight now?

"But Germany has acquiesced to the expansion of the empire in the Far East, and has also provided a set of equipment to produce nuclear fission bombs, and allowing the United States to occupy the Hawaiian Islands to have a long-term development of the empire..."

When Ito said this, his brows were already twisted.

Japan has taken Germany's benefits now. If the matter is not done, can the Germans spare Japan? Germany now has an atomic bomb!

As for the United States occupying the Hawaiian Islands, the Japanese are not very worried because they believe that a unified United States of Europe is the main enemy of the United States of America...

There is actually no hatred between Japan and the United States that cannot be resolved.

"What are we afraid of? The big gold in the United States is not over yet," Yamamoto Iroku waved his hand, "and it's not that we are not failing to fulfill our promises...but that we must fulfill our promises on the premise of keeping the fleet."

"Save the fleet?"

Yamamoto Izuru nodded and said, "Only by protecting the ship can you defeat the enemy!"

"Protect the ship and defeat the enemy? Is there a fleet?"

"Yes!" Yamamoto Izuru's key point was, "The joint fleet must exist! Only when the fleet exists can the navy defeat the enemy! Not only external enemies, but also internal enemies!"

This enemy... is not only the United States and the Soviet Union, but also the Japanese Army's Red Deer!

The joint fleet is the capital of the Japanese navy. If the struggle is gone, the army will decide the major laws of Japan in the future.

The Navy made such a great contribution and had nothing in the end. How could Yamamoto Iroku and Nagano be willing to cultivate themselves?

Although the Pacific War is about to end, Japan is about to fight a land war below, but Yamamoto and Nagano are still preparing for a grand new shipbuilding plan!

Not only are we preparing to start construction of Yamato-class follow-up ships, but we also need to build more Dafeng-class aircraft carriers. This may be ridiculous to the United States and Germany, but for the Japanese Navy, it is a reward they deserve!

No matter how clear-headed Yamamoto Izuru was, he was also a member of the Japanese Navy and must consider the interests of the Navy.

"The Battle of the Hawaiian Islands must be fought," said Iroji Yamamoto, "but it must be clear that this is not a battle of the empire, but a battle to deal with Germany. So most of the main battleships must be kept... Do you understand?"

Yamamoto said half of what he said, and half of it was that it didn’t matter if he lost the battle, and it didn’t matter if the Hawaiian Islands were lost, as long as the fleet was not lost.

"The Lord understands..." Ito stood up, picked up the text of the "Jie 2 Battle Plan" in front of Yamamoto and said goodbye.

"Ito-kun, why did you take away the plan?" Yamamoto Iroku said to stop Ito, "I haven't read it yet?"

"Marson, you mean..."

Yamamoto Iroku smiled and said, "The plan does not need to be changed... The Germans will also send members to observe with the fleet. But the plan always cannot keep up with the changes, right?"
Chapter completed!