Chapter 784: patiently waiting

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It was not that Yamamoto 56 was so convinced of the battleship Yamato still under construction, but that he lost faith in the tactics that relied solely on Japanese naval aviation to compete for battlefield superiority. Originally, Yamamoto was a general who strongly supported the development of naval aviation. He also relied on this support to promise the battle of Pearl Harbor and win the battle of Wake Island, the battle of the Marshall Islands, and the US Army in the Philippines. Malacca sank many British warships. This made him more convinced of his theory and the superiority of the Japanese naval aviation.
But the successive attacks made him have to re-examine his trust. After all, the brief years of invincibility of the naval aviation are now gone, and the current war situation has proved time and time again that the Japanese naval aviation lost its original glory.
During the first Battle of Kauai, this army was full of fatigue, and as a result Yamamoto had to give up the battle plan that he insisted on defeating the US Navy. This allowed Japan to give up the opportunity of a decisive battle for the first time, and also allowed the Japanese navy to end its unrelenting history of battle.
In the subsequent second Kauai battle, the Japanese naval aviation was technically at a disadvantage. The myth that the zero fighter is invincible is broken by the improved version of the US Navy p-40 fighter, and because of the evil with Germany, the United States also has the first-hand zero fighter information from Germany. As a result, in the second Kauai battle, Japan was forced to lose due to the huge loss of aviation.
This time, Japan lost the aircraft carrier Long Xiang in the battle of Midway Island. Yamamoto eventually came up with another tactical idea. He felt that naval aviation was increasingly unable to sustain the need for an offensive, and Japan must come up with more deadly tactics in the next battle.
So he was influenced by the commander of the battleship, which had always been the majority in the Japanese navy. Instead, he began to believe that the more mature tactics of battleship decisive battle came to Japan's advantage.
His idea is very simple: since the naval aviation has been unable to maintain its own advantages, then it can be entangled with the US Navy ’s carrier aircraft, and the attack task is handed over to the Japanese navy ’s battleships with certain quality and quantity to perform. Utilize the super giant artillery and heavy armor of the new battleships Yamato and Nagato to rush into the US fleet and destroy the US fleet.
I have to say that this idea is actually a tactic that the Japanese Navy only went to in another time and space. It can be said that this set of tactics actually conforms to the national conditions of Japan at some times. It was not used when the Japanese Navy was in a desperate situation. It was totally whimsical and groundless.
Of course, the idea of ​​Yamamoto 56 is essentially different from the idea of ​​another Japanese high-level war in the Wright Bay in the late World War II. The other time and space Japanese navy is the carrier-based aircraft, and Yamamoto The core idea of ​​fifty-six is ​​to use carrier-based aircraft to cover battleships for fleet decisive battles.
This set of tactics is a bit like the Cold War period of the 1970s and 1980s. The Soviet navy ’s combat ideas used the only carrier aircraft on the Kuznetsov carrier to destroy American air control and cover other warships with long-range anti-ship missiles. ". However, this set of tactics is not an advanced combat idea, but a compromise made by the limitations of the weapon in hand.
On the other hand, the battleship Yamato did indeed allow Yamamoto 56 to see the reason for the battleship's decisive battle. This epoch-making super battleship has the world's first strength in terms of armor thickness and artillery caliber. A battleship that is enough to overwhelm your opponent is more reassuring than relying on those carrier-based aircraft units that have already lost several times, right?
At the same time that the Japanese Navy retreated to Wake Island and the Marshall Islands, the German Navy ’s aircraft carrier fleet sailed the North Atlantic for a week. The purpose of this huge fleet is to cut off the supply line between Iceland and the United States.
Lütjens was watching the fighter jets released from his carrier fleet take off from the deck. In addition to the maintenance of one carrier Bismarck in France, the remaining four aircraft carriers were all present. Now there are three carriers in the fleet. Flying six carrier-based fighters in one breath is not difficult at all.
"Long live the head of state! Report to the general, the first batch of 18 aircraft responsible for reconnaissance and patrol have been sent out, and the surrounding destroyers passed the news that no suspicious targets were found in the nearby waters." An officer stood in Lütjens Behind him, Lizheng salutes to report to him: "The security helicopter on the Empire is taking off, and the security helicopter on the Zeppelin is also ready to take off."
"Order the entire fleet to remain vigilant. This route will encounter enemy aircraft taking off from Greenland. Be careful not to enter the radius of movement of land-based aircraft." Lütjens lowered his telescope and ordered the officer behind : "Is there any news about the attack on the squadron?"
The officer opened the logbook and looked at it and said: "No news other than the telegrams sent on time. They are keeping the radio silent, and according to their fixed route, they may hit the patrolling British Navy. Squadron. "
The largest aircraft carrier formation commanded by Lütjens is four, and now there is one more battleship in Germany. The entire fleet is obviously not suitable for Lütjens, so the aircraft carrier Tierbitz and Ryder The battleship Marshal Naval constituted the first squadron, which, over a hundred nautical miles away, attacked the US transport line as a guerrilla fleet.
The commander of this squadron is Admiral Lindeman, a 45-year-old middle-aged general. He is like Lütjens in the navy's traditional gunboat faction, and also has a future with the promotion of Lütjens bright. Because of his eye-catching performance in the Battle of the English Channel and the tenacious fighting, he was eventually promoted to lieutenant general.
He was originally a gunship commander, but now he has transformed into an aircraft carrier commander along with Lütjens. It is because he first became a gunship commander and also served as an aircraft carrier commander. This time he was appointed as a squadron. Commander, responsible for commanding the German attack fleet.
The mission plan of the Navy of the Third Reich this time was as follows: the attacking fleet attacked and disturbed the U.S. transport ship, entice the British main fleet to come to support, and then attracted the other side out of the land-based aviation cover, using three aircraft carriers ambushing in the offshore The main fleet formed to annihilate opponents and achieve the purpose of hitting the British army.
It can be seen that the German tactics are almost the same as the decisive tactics prepared by Yamamoto 56, except that the Germans used the aircraft carrier fleet to fight, and Japan used the battleship fleet.
"The modified fw-190 fighter jets were ordered to mount torpedoes, and the Stuka dive bomber mounted aerial bombs and stood by in the hangar." Lütjens was different from Yamamoto, and the German navy had never been captured from the beginning. The combat missions of the islands, to put it bluntly, the German Navy is still a maritime commando, but the scale of this guerrillas is a bit large.
It is not necessary to take on an offensive mission, but simply be responsible for destruction and annihilate the enemy's vital forces. This is the operational purpose of the German Navy, and it is almost the purpose of all military operations in Germany today. The Army is also the same as the Air Force. The same is true of the Navy, but it is purely aimed at destroying the opponent's living power. Whether it is defensive or offensive, it is nothing more than a kind of The means to achieve the goal.
Happier than the Japanese Navy is that the performance of the FW-190 fighter equipped with an air-cooled engine is better than that of the zero fighter. After continuous improvement, the speed of this fighter is 100 kilometers faster than the zero fighter. Moreover, the German pilot's battle damage is much smaller than that of Japan. These advantages allowed the Germans to firmly control air control over the Atlantic Ocean. In addition to the troubles caused by the British military ’s secret weapons being put into combat over Iceland, the German Navy ’s air force was unmanned over the Atlantic.
Speaking of the qualities of pilots, German pilots are also much stronger than Japanese pilots. At least under the leadership of Lütjens, German pilots including Günter Lal, the trump card and even the super trump card are too many to count. Come. How powerful are these pilots? With less than 300 aircraft, it is possible to wipe out the entire Polish Air Force.
It stands to reason that such a powerful German naval carrier aircraft force should have trapped Iceland in its embryonic stage. However, the two sides said that the geographical location of Iceland really makes the German fleet a bit dogged and has a hedgehog feeling. Transport ships departing from Canada can travel under the shelter of the Greenland Field Airfield as long as they detour some distance north. This has kept the German naval ship forces from having a very good way.
Like today, the German navy has fought many times to harass the transport supply line. Each time, the Germans took advantage of the small advantage, but they never achieved the desired strategic effect. After all, the voyage of the fleet requires a lot of fuel, and returning empty-handed again and again so that the German navy does not have the ambition of a male and female determination.
After all, the Eastern Front's large brigade battles require a lot of oil, so in order to raise oil, the naval surface ship has not appeared on the North Atlantic for two months. This is Lütjens' helplessness, and it is also a continent like Germany. The helplessness of the navy under the country.
"Wait." After issuing the standby order, Lütjens looked at the distant sea again. He didn't know whether the British Royal Navy would appear as expected this time, or how much he could find this time to go hunting. prey. All he can do now is wait patiently.