If Hideki Tojo and Iroku Yamamoto saw the combat plan to attack the Hawaiian Islands named "Operation Overlord" in President Roosevelt's drawer, they were likely to be frightened.

Because the troops that "Unprepared America" ​​can invest in "Operation Overlord" are probably 10 times stronger than the fully prepared Japan!

The Mikawa Army Lieutenant General, who commanded 16 cruisers and destroyers with powerful torpedo fire, would probably feel as if he knew how many American ships were in the waters near Midway on the night of February 8.

Although he has the best sailors and the best ships under his command, at least 2 island-class destroyers are the best in the eyes of the Japanese.

But his enemy, Lieutenant General Richmond Kelly Turner, had a huge fleet of masters than he imagined. Among them, there were 140 flat-deck destroyers left during World War I alone, and there were 8 Faragette-class destroyers and 6 Port-class destroyers. These two destroyers were a little newer than the flat-deck model, and were both built during interwar.

In other words, the Mikawa Army has 7 elite Japanese heavy-thunder-mounted destroyers in its hands, while Lieutenant General Turner has not many destroyers, which is exactly 22 times that of the Mikawa fleet!

Of course, the 140 flat-deck destroyers in Lieutenant General Turner's official name is not destroyer, but has become "high-speed attack transport ship", "high-speed attack minesweeper", "high-speed attack military auxiliary ship" and "high-speed escort ship", etc.

These flat-deck destroyers are similar in performance to the Japanese Isofeng destroyers, and are both products of the same age. Now two of the four Isofeng destroyers are still first-class destroyers, striving for the militarist cause of the Great Japanese Empire (the other two were sunk by the Americans).

As for the "old dumplings" in the United States, most of the 267 flat-deck destroyers have now lost their names and are not qualified to be incorporated into the front-line combat fleet. They can only escort formations, mine-sweeping formations, and landing formations to make use of their remaining energy.

These World War I dumpling ships that can only exert their residual heat have of course been modified accordingly. Most ships have removed the torpedo tubes and part of the main gun (usually two or three main gun turrets at the stern), and only a part of the ships that serve as escorts retain the torpedo and all the main guns.

At the same time, all ships were equipped with anti-aircraft guns, turning the old guns from the World War I era into 40mm Bofos anti-aircraft guns and 20mm Eritokine machine guns.

In addition to these 140 "old dumpling ships", Lieutenant General Turner also has a 51.7 cruiser/destroyer brigade in his hands.

The brigade owns five heavy cruisers including the San Francisco, the Indianapolis, the Quincy, the Vincent, and the Wichita, five light cruisers including the Atlanta, the Savannah, the Honolulu, the St. Louis, and the Helena, as well as 14 old destroyers that are more advanced than the flat deck class.

The commander of the 51.7th Destroyer Battalion was Major General Wright of the U.S. Navy, who was taught a lesson by the lightning ship of the European Combined Fleet in the winter of 1942 by the lightning strike ship of the European Combined Fleet with oxygen torpedoes!

Such a crushing defeat would have to be on the bench for the rest of one's life if he had to sit in the navy of other countries. However, the situation in the United States was special, and various dumpling ships were lined up to serve. As a result, naval officers with practical experience were short of them. So a defeated general like Major General Wright sat on the bench for a few days and was re-activated.

"Sir," said on the afternoon of February 8, when Major General Wright received news again to confirm that the Japanese fleet was coming to Midway Island with murderous aura, he told his boss, Lieutenant General Turner, "It seems that there will be a fierce battle tonight. The Japanese are good at night attacks, and they also have a long-range 'spear' torpedo, which is a very difficult enemy to deal with. The 51.7th Battalion may not be able to complete the two tasks of repelling the Japanese formation and protecting the landing formation at the same time."

Major General Wright, who has suffered from the "German Spear" in the North Atlantic, dare not take it lightly now when facing the "Japanese Spear". He even complained that Spruins sent hundreds of planes to make it easier to deal with it. Why bother to let the landing formation and his 51.7 team take risks?

"Don't worry about the landing formation. All ships in the landing formation are modified with flat deck destroyers," Turner said to Major General Wright with confidence. "They know how to protect themselves."

The ships modified with flat deck destroyers were actually forced to perform the task of landing on Midway. Because no one knew what they would encounter near Midway? Now the US intelligence department didn't even know where the main force of the Japanese joint fleet was, so naturally it could not guarantee that a large-scale fleet decisive battle would break out on Midway.

If Spruins' 50th Special Mixed Fleet loses in the decisive battle, then according to the pre-planned plan, the 50th Special Mixed Fleet will take self-protection as its first goal and will not take into account the life and death of the 51st Special Mixed Fleet.

Therefore, those slow-speed large transport ships and landing ships are not suitable for use in the Battle of Midway. The only suitable one is to use a flat deck-class modified high-speed attack transport ship.

However, these small ships had limited capacity and could not bring much personnel and equipment. As a result, Lieutenant General Turner, who was responsible for the landing operations of the 5th Fleet, had to collect all the "flat deck class" owned by the entire Pacific Fleet.

I didn't expect to show my skills on the evening of February 8. These flat deck-classes still retain the power system of destroyers, and in theory they can run for more than 30 knots. If you can't beat them, can't you run?

After agreement with Major General Wright, Lieutenant General Turner immediately reorganized the 140 flat deck class of the landing formation (most of which had landing troops and supplies on the high-speed attack transport ships). They were divided into 14 formations, called the 1st-14th escort.

Each escort has 2 escort ships and 12 flat deck class for other purposes, and one of them is placed in the escort ship's position as the flagship, while the other is responsible for the rear-end arrangement. This is to use the sea-to-air search radar on the escort ship to timely discover the Japanese fleet and evade it.

Major General Wright's 24 cruisers and destroyers of the 51.7th battalion were wandering in two columns in the waters southeast of Midway, waiting for the Japanese fleet to arrive.

When the Americans were ready, it was already 6 pm on February 8. At this time, Mikawa Junichi's fleet was approaching Midway Island. However, he did not immediately rush into the battlefield to start a massacre, but sent five Zero-type water reconnaissance to search for the waters near Midway Island to see if there were any American battleships there, and at the same time determine the specific location of the American fleet.

After obtaining the "U.S. battleship not found" and the report on the location of the US fleet, the Mikawa Army ordered the preparation. At 7 pm, the Japanese ship threw all the flammable materials on the deck into the sea and conducted a final inspection of the ammunition. At 8 pm, it was completely dark. The main force of the Japanese 8th Fleet was led by the heavy cruiser "Touhai" and lined up in a single column with a spacing of 1,200 meters, and raised a white identification flag on the mast (although the Japanese Navy was generally equipped with detectives that imitated German radars, the performance of these Japanese detectives was unreliable, so the cat-eyed warriors still played an important role in the night battle). At a high speed of 28 knots, they broke into the waters of Midway from Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro

At 10:10 pm, two US fleet fleets that were heading towards the 18th Kraft heavy cruiser (the radar on the Japanese Kaohsiung-class heavy cruiser was imported from Germany, with superior performance) were discovered.

"The two formations have 18 knots of speed, of which there are more than 20 ships on the left of our side. According to the radar signal analysis, there are 5 large ships; the formation on the right of our side have more than 10 ships, all of which are small ships of more than 1,000 tons, which should be destroyers." Shen Chongde asked the Sanchuan Army, "Commander, who will we attack first?"

In fact, one of the two formations was an escort formation and the other was a 51.7th brigade. At this time, the American radar also discovered Sanchuan's fleet, so the 51.7th brigade wanted to cover the escort formation away, so he went to the opposite direction.

"Order the third destroyer team to cast torpedoes to the formation on the right, and the main force will fight with the main enemy formation on the left."

The Michuan Army immediately made a decision and sent seven destroyers led by the powerful "Island Wind" and "Tan Feng" to deal with 14 "flat deck" ships. It led its main force to attack the 51.7th Battalion commanded by Major General Wright.

A few minutes later, Shen Chongde reported again: "Commander, the enemy's right y formation turned and accelerated to escape towards Midway Island. It seems that he had discovered the first destroyer team."

"Let the three teams deal with it, there are two island winds there, and there is no reason to be able to defeat it." Mikawa Jun asked again, "Where is the enemy's main formation?"

"It's approaching us, with a distance of 22,000 meters!" A staff officer immediately replied loudly.

"Order all ships to follow the flagship and advance at full speed!" The Sanchuan Army ordered loudly, "All ships are ready to launch torpedoes!"

What needs to be prepared before launch is that the 93 oxygen torpedo oxygen is temporarily made by an oxygen generator and poured into the torpedo.

"Hayi!"

As soon as the staff's response fell, Mikawa Junichi's pupils suddenly tightened. It turned out that he had seen more than a dozen dazzling flames in the darkness ahead! Then there was a rolling roar of muffled thunder.
Chapter completed!