The Rise of the Empire

"Well, as long as we can know the dispatch time of the Christmas Island water replenishment fleet, then we can naturally send aircraft or small warships to track it. And if Christmas Island wants to replenish the water transport fleet, then there will definitely be radio contact. We We can try to determine the opponent's position through radio positioning, and coupled with the large number of reconnaissance aircraft on the aircraft carrier, it does not seem difficult for us to find the opponent," Shimamura Hayao said with a smile.

"Yes, as long as we keep an eye on this water replenishment station, we can at least intercept and kill a wave of large transport fleets, but your idea is definitely not just to do this, right? Just imagine, if the Americans suddenly discover one of their fleets If dozens of ships in a large transport fleet are ambushed by the large fleet at once, what will they do? At least they will suspend this route and require ships on this route to return or change their routes immediately. We want to ambush the next one It would be a bit difficult to wave a ship." Betty said meaningfully.

"Then what do you think?" Yoshimatsu Motaro asked.

"This is not easy, so naturally I have to change the route and continue catching!" Betty said. This is like a very famous game in later generations, or a type of game, such as LOL or DOTA! As a wandering killer hero, you capture one of the opponent's lines, and then the opponent becomes more vigilant and huddles under the tower, making it impossible for you to take action. So what should you do? Naturally, I changed the route and continued catching! What else could happen? Just wait and see? !

"We have said before that the U.S. Navy mainly has two transportation channels. After we severely damaged the route passing through Christmas Island, the Americans will definitely increase the transportation intensity on the route passing through Pearl Harbor and then sailing to the southwest. In response to this situation , we can consider deploying a submarine cordon in some sea areas. Although it cannot be tracked, we can also know the opponent's approximate navigation data. At this time, if we rely on carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft for reconnaissance, we can always catch a fleet, and as long as This fleet was disbanded early without receiving the warning, which means that we have recorded a record of more than 200,000 tons," Betty said.

"In other words, according to your words, before the U.S. Navy reacts, we can get two attack opportunities. If we can grasp it well, we may have a record of 400,000 to 500,000 tons? This is really a terrifying number. . If we can do better, it seems that it is not impossible to force the Americans to surrender." Thinking of how easily he could kill a transport ship weighing hundreds of thousands of tons, Shimamura Hayao also felt a little confused. .

"500,000 tons? This record is truly astonishing purely in terms of quantity, but I can tell you clearly that although this kind of loss is painful to Americans, it is definitely not a traumatic injury. Americans' Although the fleet size is only the third in the world, its shipbuilding capacity is the first in the world. If the Japanese Navy cannot guarantee to sink an average of more than 600,000 tons of ships every month for a year, then it will have to rely on sea to break the war. It is simply impossible to force the United States to surrender."

"You know, the Germans did much better than your country when it came to breaking up the war. At the peak of the war, they sank more than 800,000 tons of Allied merchant ships every month for six months in a row! The highest record was 950,000 tons! Even so,

We still persisted for more than a year! "Betty said, his expression looked a bit contemptuous to the Japanese, but more of a strange expression!

Although Japan is stronger than in history, at this point in time, Japan is still far behind the real world's top power! Think about it, during the World War, the German fleet fought with the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea, while using submarines to break the diplomatic ties, and finally destroyed the Allied transport ship tonnage of 15 million tons! He also defeated the British Grand Fleet! What a power and result this is! Where do Japanese talents come from?

(In the history of World War I, the pinnacle of the German engagement seemed to be the destruction of 870,000 tons of Allied transport ships in one month. Throughout World War I, the German navy sank a total of 12,284,000 tons of Allied transport ships! And the Germans 178 submarines were lost. What is the concept? The average loss of one submarine can be exchanged for 30 transport ships with a total tonnage of 69,000 tons! This result is respectively 4 times and 2 times the German submarine warfare exchange ratio during World War II! )

"Uh. But no matter what, if we can achieve this goal, it will be a big victory." Shimamura Hayao said with some embarrassment.

"That's right, as long as you are happy." Betty said, resisting her desire to complain. In Betty's opinion, there are many generals with relatively high tactical level in the Japanese Navy. After all, the Japanese Navy has also participated in the war and fought many battles. As long as they can survive, they can learn something. In terms of tactics and training, the Japanese Navy It is indeed unique, but the Japanese Navy lacks a true strategic master. What is strategy? It is strategy that transcends tactical success and failure and reaches the outcome of war!

For example, before the war started, Crown Prince Ruprecht sent Count Spee to the Mediterranean to unify the Mediterranean fleet, and asked Su Xiong to take two super-dreadnoughts to the Indian Ocean. This is the strategy! The naval battle was dispersed into three battlefields that could not support each other, forcing the Allied fleets to disperse. The powerful British fleet sent precious fleets to support these battlefields again and again, thereby weakening the advantage of the local fleet, thus causing the Crown Prince to repeatedly Seize the opportunity and reverse the disadvantage bit by bit. The strategic layout and tactical success caused the British Grand Fleet to sink into the sand.

However, judging from the current war, the Japanese Navy has many proactive attacks, but it is mainly based on tactics at the tactical level, such as night attacks launched to reduce the defense pressure on New Ireland Island. However, there is a lack of offensive at the strategic level. Relatively speaking, the offensive launched by the Americans against the Tarakan Islands has huge strategic significance. Although the tactical level can be described as a failure, it affected Japan's war potential and gained time for frontal advancement. The American offensive is proactive and aggressive. And when Betty wanted the Japanese fleet to launch such an offensive, the Japanese were really hesitant and hesitant. It is true that the strong national power of the United States gives the U.S. fleet a fairly high fault tolerance rate, but the Japanese's conservatism is also an unavoidable problem.

"Okay, now we have your favorite part, the tactical discussion!" Betty said.

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