As Minister of State and President of the Planning Institute who is in charge of wartime economy, Sadaichi Suzuki approved the civilian ship mobilization plan for Australian operations.

Because the beginning of Australian operations has long been the national policy of the Japanese Empire, Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Tojo both approved this "ultimate case of going south", Navy Minister Shimada Shintaro, Military Order Chief Nagano Cultivation, and Joint Fleet Commander Ioroku Yamamoto supported it.

So no matter whether Sakuichi Suzuki can deploy enough transport ships, it is imperative to attack Australia!

However, the purpose of the Australian war is actually different in all aspects. Emperor Hirohito and Hideki Tojo really want to take Australia, which is an unprecedented expansion of territory! In the current situation where the dream of conquering the East Asian continent cannot be realized, taking the Australian continent is enough to ensure that the Japanese Empire will become the leader of the Eastern world in the next 1,000 years. Therefore, Tojo and Hirohito are very serious about fighting in Australia.

However, the commander-in-chief of the Joint Fleet in the "Yamato Hotel" in Rabaul Port is not on the Australian continent itself. The strong US shipbuilding capabilities and the aircraft carrier forces of the remaining Pacific Fleet are what really worries him that if the US Pacific Fleet can be destroyed, Australia will not be a problem at all.

From early 1942 to the present, Yamamoto Iroku has always wanted to set up a trap to destroy the American fleet aircraft carriers in the Pacific. However, the Americans have always avoided fighting. After the fall of Hawaii, the US Pacific Fleet seemed to be doing only one thing, which was to transport troops and supplies to Australia.

The six fleet aircraft carriers of the US Pacific Fleet (Lexington, Saratoga, York City, Enterprise, Assaulter, and Hornet) all became escort aircraft carriers, taking turns to cover American transport fleets to and from the United States and Australia.

These American transport fleets are not afraid of detours and do not pass by 1,500 nautical miles near Hawaii. Even if the Japanese submarines discovered them, it would be difficult for the fleet to intercept American fleets from Hawaii. The American fleets are all large formations, with at least three aircraft carriers escorting them. If the Japanese aircraft carriers are fewer, they cannot defeat them. If the subsidiaries are too much, they will be life. The Pearl Harbor base seized by Japan is almost in ruins. It is impossible to become the home port of the fleet without reconstruction. Moreover, Japan cannot deploy the main fleet to Pearl Harbor for a long time. The logistics line of more than 3,000 nautical miles is unbearable.

So in the first nine months of 42 years, the US Pacific Fleet's "avoid war" was successful, and a large number of troops and materials were transported to Australia. In addition, Yamamoto Iroku also received intelligence that the American engineers' troops were making every effort to expand the Port of Brisbane and Sydney Ports. Not only were the port facilities, but also the large-scale barracks, airports and warehouses were also being built.

It is obvious that the US Pacific Fleet is ready to use Brisbane and Sydney on the Australian continent as base camps for launching a counterattack!

Once the Americans' terrifying shipbuilding plan is completed, there will be a large number of American ships that are enough to crush the Japanese joint fleet to head north from Sydney and Brisbane...

So Yamamoto Iroku wanted to seek a decisive battle before the US counter-offensive deployment was completed, and to break the US counter-offensive deployment by severely damaging and annihilation of the US Pacific Fleet's aircraft carrier forces and gain more time for Japan.

Another reason that prompted Yamamoto Iroji to seek a decisive battle as soon as possible was that the Folk Zero on the European battlefield gradually showed fatigue! Even at the mid- and low altitudes of his ability, he encountered a P51 fighter that was enough to compete with the United States!

According to the latest report from the Luftwaffe Air Force, if there is no medium and high altitude model similar to the F-190 series, the Fox Zero will be difficult to fight against the P51. Because even the low-altitude p51 has high altitude performance that exceeds the Fox Zero. Once it is in a disadvantage in low-altitude fighting, the P51 can choose to dive and escape and quickly pull up.

Even the p51 can take advantage of its good dive performance, constantly using dive + pull-up tactics and Folk Zero confrontation, thereby completely avoiding falling into combat!

Therefore, in the last 2-3 months, in the battle cases where the Folk Zero fought against P51 alone, the Folk Zero was at a disadvantage in most cases. Therefore, in the latest air combat tactical arrangements of the Luftwaffe and Naval Air Force, the Folk Zero had no tactics of escorting long-range bombers alone.

This shows that the myth of Zero Invincible has been completely broken at least on the European battlefield!

Of course, this situation is not entirely because the performance of the Zero aircraft is really not as good as the P51. Instead, after the F-190t was finalized, Folk abandoned the mid-to-high-altitude performance of the Folk Zero and launched the Folk Zero D series focusing on low altitude.

This series of Folk Zero shortened the range (the combat radius without hanging the secondary fuel tank was reduced to 500 kilometers), increased armor protection (reduced the weight of the fuel to enhance the protection), and strengthened firepower (6 mg131 aircraft machine guns), completely becoming a specialized in the low-altitude "Jacques Killer" and "Il Killer". Of course, it was also for the needs of the Eastern Front battlefield.

The most important function of Folk Zero has now become to cover ground forces, and at the same time escort the ground attack aircraft such as HS-129, Ju87 and Breguet B.703.

However, the German Fokker company's approach still sounded the alarm for the Japanese Navy. The era of the Zero as an excellent all-around fighter may be about to pass!

Regarding this upcoming change, Yamamoto Isori-July, on the one hand, demanded to accelerate the development of the new fighter "Seventeen Test Ship War" project (Liefeng); on the other hand, it is more actively preparing for the USS Mi operation aimed at eliminating the US Pacific Fleet aircraft carrier.

The so-called Mi war is actually a siege to attack the port of Moresby to siege Port Moresby to lure the main force of the US Pacific Fleet into the Coral Sea in northeastern Australia. If the US Pacific Fleet watches Port Moresby fall, then the Japanese army will land near Cape York on the Australian continent next!

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"Commander, the aircraft carriers that can now be deployed in the USS Mi operation include 12 ships including 'Fengxiang', 'Akagi', 'Kaga', 'Canglong', 'Flying Dragon', 'Aricai', 'Suichuan', 'Suichuan', 'Suichuan', 'Suichuan', 'Aricai', 'Flying Eagle', 'Falcon', 'Falcon', 'Dragon', 'Dragon', etc.! It is far stronger than the six aircraft carriers that the United States may invest, and the carrier-based aircraft on these 12 aircraft carriers have also been upgraded. The carrier-based fighter jets have been replaced with the latest Zero Type 32, and the carrier-based bomber is Comet 33. Therefore, the USS Mi operation will inevitably be victorious."

The person who was talking to Yamamoto Iroku was the Sage Staff Gunjima Turtle. He was very proud of the many powerful ships in the current Japanese Joint Fleet.

In fact, the 12 aircraft carriers he just reported were not all the assets of the Joint Fleet. Now the Joint Fleet has sent an Indian Ocean mission fleet, with the USS Fusang battleship, Hyuga battleship, Ryugao aircraft carrier and Fengxiang aircraft carrier as the core to help Germany attack South Africa, Madagascar, Ceylon and other places.

Because of the powerful force of up to 12 aircraft carriers, the current Japanese Combined Fleet does not bother Germany to provide any "blue streamer aircraft carrier".

Moreover, since the Japanese Navy has not fought fiercely in the past nine months, the pilot's losses are very small, and newcomers who have completed HNA pilot training continue to join, so the support of German pilots is no longer needed.

After the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, all German pilots serving on Japanese aircraft carriers left.

In addition, with the help of the Germans, Japan's Hitachi Company also successfully developed the No. 13 Detector (air search radar) and No. 22 Detector (sea search radar). This further enhanced the fleet's air defense and night combat capabilities.

"Kuroshima, we have more than 12 aircraft carriers in our hands!" Yamamoto Irojiro said slowly, "The Yamato and Musashi are the most powerful battleships in the world. Now they have the No. 13 and No. 22, and their power will be further improved. Therefore, in the Mi battle, we should also fully consider the power of the two super battleships, Yamato and Musashi."

In this time and space battle of Hawaii and the Battle of the Mist Sea, battleships played a huge role, so no one dares to say that battleships are outdated weapons that will be eliminated. Therefore, the Shinano aircraft carrier will definitely not have them in this time and space. Yamato's ships No. 3 and No. 4 are now stepping up construction with the support of Germany.

Among them, the No. 3 Shinno is expected to be launched before the end of October and can be put into service before the end of 43 years. The No. 4 Shinno will also be launched in early 43 years. It will be completed and put into service at the latest by June 44. At that time, the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet will have 4 Yamato Ki battleships, enough to fight against the Iowa and Montana class under construction in the United States.

"Hay," replied the Kuroshima Turtle, "The two Yamato and four King Kong classes will all perform in the Mi war."

Among the current Japanese battleship units, only the Yamato and King Kong classes have speeds that can follow the rapid aircraft carriers. Therefore, these six battleships are now anchored in Rabaul Port and are preparing to participate in the Mi battle.

Regarding this "Mi Battle", Yamamoto Iroku regarded it as the ultimate battle that determines the future hegemony of the Pacific. Therefore, the troops invested were unprecedented, far exceeding the Battle of Midway Island, which also used the "Mi Battle" as the code name in history.
Chapter completed!