Chapter 863

"Command room! Command room! This is the first observation post. There's no sign of US ships now! " A Japanese Navy soldier put down his telescope at the observation post on the mast. The waters near the Marshall Islands have always been warm as spring. The sea breeze blows on my face and I feel very comfortable.

Just as the U.S. Navy is preparing to learn from the advanced combat experience of the German Navy, it will install radar, an advanced device, on destroyers, which are cheap warships. However, the Japanese Navy does not have such a high treatment, because the "electric detection" used by the Japanese Navy is almost the size of a truck, and it can barely be installed on a heavy cruiser. There is no blessing in using a warship like a destroyer.

Moreover, this kind of radar is not very easy to use, and the price is also very expensive. Japan has not produced a few easy-to-use radars, all of which have been reserved by battleships and new aircraft carriers. There is no surplus for small boats like destroyers.

So when the German Navy destroyers have enjoyed the color radar screen, and the U.S. Navy has begun to use radar instead of personnel guard, the sailors of the Japanese Navy can only stand on the high mast and use telescopes to guard the vast sea.

On the bridge of the destroyer, a Japanese zhongzuo destroyer captain put down his telescope and gave the order to slightly adjust the course to his first mate. Since the U.S. Navy gained the initiative in the battlefield, the Japanese Navy's life has become worse day by day.

The King Kong class battlecruisers were transferred to the mainland to participate in the modification of radar system, so the joint fleet lost three main battleships for no reason. Due to the lack of sufficient naval air force, the two aircraft carriers, Canglong and Feilong, under the jurisdiction of the second air fleet, were forced to retreat to Taiwan for reorganization. It can be said that the current combined fleet can not even reach half of its peak combat power.

Marshal Yamamoto, who has been sitting in the Marshall Islands, always seeks to fight a decisive battle with the U.S. Navy, has now become a besieged Marshall Islands, struggling to support not to fight with the U.S. military. He didn't know what had happened to make the situation he faced collapse so quickly.

"Keep alert! The fleet of the US Navy has been operating more and more frequently in the vicinity recently. We should be careful! " The destroyer's captain is also the commander of a destroyer fleet. He is responsible for commanding three destroyers to guard the sea area and prevent the U.S. Navy from getting too close to the joint fleet of Marshall Islands.

As he said, the U.S. Navy has been making frequent door-to-door provocations recently, because the strength between the United States and Japan is close to balance. Nimitz, Spruance and Hardy are not easy. They have judged that the Japanese Navy is out of touch, so they decisively changed their strategy of shrinking defense and are ready to use this time to play a better situation as much as possible.

The war situation in Europe is no longer optimistic for the high-level of the United States. The situation in the Middle East is on the verge of collapse. Turkey and Egypt are under attack. The United States forces in the Middle East are in dire straits. Britain's last family background is not enough to cope with Rommel's aggression.

However, the aid to the Soviet Union did not achieve the expected effect. The Soviet Union lost its city and land on the battlefield between the Soviet Union and Germany, and lost again and again. As a result, the current American high-level officials are quite critical of Roosevelt's war strategy. It was precisely because the United States was a little weak on the battlefield against Germany that the Roosevelt group hoped to regain their lost self-confidence on the Pacific battlefield.

This is also the latest strategy put forward by the United States - first the Pacific and then Europe. The central idea of this strategy is to destroy Japan, which is a real threat to the United States, and then go back to the battlefield of Europe and the Middle East.

The introduction of such a strategy shows that the German army has basically achieved its strategic purpose: to eliminate the US attempt to interfere in Europe and the Middle East with continuous victories, and force the US Army to avoid a decisive battle with the German army in unfavorable areas.

However, in fact, the United States did not give up completely interfering in the Soviet German war. Based on data comparison, the United States has provided the Soviet Union with three times more strategic materials at this moment than at the beginning of the Soviet German war, including more tank aiming systems, more steel raw materials, and more advanced machine tools. Many American engineers even went to the Far East of the Soviet Union to help train skilled workers.

In the Far East, the reason why the Soviet Army dared to transfer 30 divisions to the West was that the United States provided a total of 20 divisions of guns and ammunition to help the Soviet Union set up a new 20 divisions of American weapons in the Far East. Although these troops were recruits and their combat effectiveness was not reliable, they actually helped the Soviet Union solve the problem of insufficient equipment.

However, there is no doubt about one thing, that is, the United States has put its strategic focus on the Pacific Ocean, and this shift of strategic focus has indeed brought huge returns - the U.S. military has regained the initiative in the Pacific battlefield, and successive victories have given Roosevelt and the groups behind him a breathing space, at least on the surface, The prospect of war in the United States is very good.

"Signal the other two destroyers! Tell them that we are adjusting our course and let them follow up. " The destroyer's captain then added an order. All of a sudden, I don't know why, his heart began to be inexplicably irritable, making his whole person feel uncomfortable.

So he turned his head, looked at the two destroyers running on his flank in the distance, and then said to his deputy, "I don't know what the purpose of Marshal Yamamoto's frequent inspection of this sea area is. Without carrier based aircraft and radar, we can't find the traces of the Americans first."

As if to confirm his complaint, and as if to explain his inexplicable irritability just now, the telephone bell corresponding to the guard post on the mast suddenly rang. The chief officer went over and grabbed the phone. The Japanese watchman on the guard called out a heartbreaking warning: "straight ahead! Straight ahead! Enemy warships! It's very fast! It's coming closer to us! "“ what? What's going on? " The Japanese captain frowned and asked in a loud voice. His first mate quickly reported his life to him: "Mr. zhongzuo! Now the U.S. Navy warship! The specific model cannot be judged! Please give the battle order and ring the battle alarm. " Because the destroyer training of the Japanese Navy is very good, as a naval power, Japan has always attached great importance to the destroyer tactics, and the oxygen torpedo developed by the Japanese Navy is a very advanced torpedo weapon in World War II, so the Japanese Navy has never suffered a big loss in the single battle against the destroyers of the US Navy. In several small-scale collisions, the Japanese destroyers won with less, sinking many destroyers of the US Navy. Although they have suffered great losses, they have never failed. This is one of the reasons why Yamamoto dared to release the destroyer for investigation. However, the U.S. Navy can build destroyers much faster than Japan, so even if the Japanese Navy wins the U.S. in Destroyer competition, it can not afford such huge consumption, which is one of the important reasons for Yamamoto's depression“ Ring the battle alarm! Fleet adjustment! Pull in the distance As the commander of the reconnaissance fleet, this zhongzuo immediately gave the order of battle. He didn't have to retreat. In general, in this case, the US ships would retreat first or lose. As a naval commander of the Japanese Imperial Army, he still has the confidence to surpass his counterparts in the US Navy. As time went on, the U.S. Navy didn't mean to evade this time. The two sides were facing each other and the distance was quickly pulled in. At this time, the watchman of the Japanese Navy had a problem, so he sent back very important information: "report the bridge! The size of the U.S. Navy is larger, should be a larger cruiser or heavy cruiser! It's not a destroyer This is worthy of careful consideration. Although the Japanese Navy is sure to win in the competition between destroyers, if the destroyers are used to fight the cruisers, zhongzuo thinks that he is not sure of winning. Besides, the other side is not just a cruiser, but a cruiser with several destroyers“ Signal the other two destroyers and tell them to adjust their course 3O degrees to the left and be ready for shelling and torpedoing! " After thinking about it, Zoss decided to give priority to safety. At the same time, he gave an order to report to the United Fleet: "telegraph the main fleet! Tell them we've got the U.S. cruiser fleet ready to fight! Let them respond in time and send reinforcements“ Hi The first mate nodded at attention and quickly went to do these things. Just when the first mate went to handle the captain's order, a large caliber shell suddenly landed on the sea near the side of the destroyer, arousing a huge water column. The captain was stunned by the scene before him. He didn't know why the U.S. army fired at a distance of 15 kilometers, and it was so accurate“ Baga road! Are all these Yankee shells with eyes? " Zhongzuo looked pale at the water column exploding on the side and swore. What he didn't know was that the opposite US Navy was also stunned by their own magic shot. They were cheering and shooting their more magical second shot“ Boom With a loud bang, the 2o3mm main gun on the U.S. Navy cruiser fired the second time and hit the Japanese destroyer with great accuracy. The shell hit the front turret of the destroyer and killed more than half of the Japanese troops on the front turret and Bridge in an instant“ Call snow wind! Call snow wind! We're hit! The captain is dead! Ask for help On the collapsed bridge, the first mate's face was covered with blood, and the Japanese first mate lamented---------- Good night, warriors of the Empire