Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 2928 Spruance

When Nimitz was helped down into a lifeboat by two Marines, it happened that the second batch of Chinese fighter planes began to attack the US fleet.

Braving the heavy anti-aircraft artillery fire from the US ships, Xue Shanghai first carefully observed the two US aircraft carriers, and after confirming that they were doomed, he pulled up the fighter plane, found the secondary strike target, and shouted in the command channel: "Brother! We, targets, American battleships and heavy cruisers, attack freely!"

The air defense radar equipped by the US Atlantic Fleet has an effective radiation radius of 350 kilometers.In order to gain speed, Xue Shanghai did not fly close to the sea to hide his whereabouts like his comrades in front of them.Therefore, when they entered the air defense warning range of the US ship, they were immediately intercepted by American air defense artillery fire.However, within the range of the first five to ten kilometers, the American anti-aircraft artillery fire was still very weak, but when Xue Shanghai lowered the flying altitude to about 3000 meters, the anti-aircraft artillery fire immediately became denser.

The Americans are not fools. Even if they have lost Nimitz's guidance now, they know that the most important thing at this time is to protect the few heavy ships that still exist in the fleet.Therefore, when it was discovered that Chinese fighter planes might break through the air defense cordon, Spruance, the deputy commander of the US Atlantic Fleet who temporarily replaced Nimitz's command, immediately ordered all ships to be put into air defense operations, and the focus was to protect Oklahoma City. Several heavy ships, such as the battleship Homer, made it impossible for Chinese fighters to threaten them.

Because of the unexpected rise of Ouyang Yun and Koizumi Toshiichiro, history has reached a turning point here.That is, the once invincible US Pacific Fleet has actually been reduced to a second-rate fleet because of repeated defeats.On the contrary, although the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, which has hardly caught any battles, is inferior to the U.S. Pacific Fleet in terms of equipment level and scale, it has become the hope of the Americans because it has not suffered a defeat.In addition, the U.S. Pacific Fleet had to frequently replenish troops from the Atlantic Fleet after losing a large number of front-line combatants, which to a certain extent enhanced the status of the Atlantic Fleet in the navy.Therefore, from bottom to top, the Atlantic Fleet is much stronger than the US Pacific Fleet in terms of morale and desire to win.

Nimitz and Spruance were the mainstays of the U.S. Navy in that time and space, and they all made great names in the Pacific War.In this time and space, although they did not appear in the US Pacific Fleet by accident, they have moved forward smoothly, until now they have become the sole senior commanders.

Be it Nimitz or Spruance, before the French Guinaa naval battle, their biggest wish was to be able to lead the fleet to the Pacific Ocean, and then defeat the Hitakehisa aircraft carrier fleet in one fell swoop.After the secret treaty between the United States and Japan, although they were not very willing, they still adapted to the changing tide and began to regard China's Pacific Fleet as an imaginary enemy.Then, because they found that China's Pacific Fleet was stronger and more difficult than Japan's Takehisa aircraft carrier fleet, they became competitive and began to think about what to do when they encountered China's Pacific Fleet in a certain sea area in the future to ensure victory. .

Compared to Admiral Kim who lived in the US Pacific Fleet trembling like walking on thin ice, because the US Atlantic Fleet basically had no enemies in the Atlantic Ocean, so Nimitz and Spruance once spent a very leisurely time and had a lot of time It is used for war chess drills and for battle drills with various enemies in various environments.

Spruance once imagined encountering China's Pacific Fleet at Midway Island and used the US Atlantic Fleet as the Red Army's deduction.The game, which lasted nearly three hours, finally won with the Red Army under his command destroying three aircraft carriers of China's Pacific Fleet.Through this deduction, Spruance concluded that in order to defeat China's Pacific Fleet with a similar number of ships, the most critical point is not to let the Chinese aircraft carrier continue to fly carrier-based aircraft.It is also because of this deduction that he searched a large amount of intelligence materials afterwards to understand China's Pacific Fleet, and based on this, he deduced the tactical characteristics of the Chinese Navy, that is, "the theory of aircraft carrier victory."Because of this incident, he specifically pointed out in a subsequent conversation with Nimitz: I studied the growth process of the Chinese navy and found a very terrifying feature. The Chinese never made detours from the very beginning...Obviously, From the very beginning, the Chinese realized the irreplaceable role of aircraft carriers in modern naval warfare. Therefore, when China and the United States were in the honeymoon period, they repeatedly asked us to provide aircraft carriers... The Chinese Navy Although the history is very short, but because they chose the most correct path from the very beginning, in fact, they are almost catching up with us now...

At that time, Spruance used the sentence "It's almost catching up with us", indicating that although he recognized the strength of the Chinese Navy, he also believed that the US Navy still had to win.

Just because of what happened at that time, and what is happening now, it was like a slap in the face that slapped him hard.

Spruance, like Nimitz, is by no means mediocre, so he breathed a sigh of relief after the two waves of attacks launched by the Genghis Khan aircraft carrier fleet failed.Like Nimitz's thoughts at the time, Spruance believed that since the Chinese had survived the first two waves of attacks, especially missile attacks, the Atlantic Fleet would be able to withstand whatever the Chinese did in the future. .Even, because he knew that the Chinese had only four aircraft carriers in total, he was already calculating that if he could smash the Chinese air strikes again like before, then the Atlantic Fleet should launch a counterattack, and he could consider using the same method to give the Chinese A heavy hammer.

"The Chinese certainly didn't expect that our air defense firepower would be so powerful. Then, after smashing their air strike again, we can send fighter planes to attack them in turn! This time, we have to teach the despicable Chinese a painful lesson—— At that time, Spruance was saying such words to the adjutant, when suddenly, the exclamation of "torpedo, found torpedo" came from the headset.Then, before he could react, the flagship San Francisco aircraft carrier and another aircraft carrier had already been hit by several torpedoes, and his idea of ​​countering the air attack was also smashed to pieces.

After the war, Spruance admitted that even if God gave him another chance, he would never have imagined that the Chinese's killer moves would be submarines and torpedoes.However, Spruance is not an ordinary person after all. Even after suffering such a heavy blow, he still maintains a calm mind, which is why he was able to make the most correct response when Nimitz temporarily left the post of commander-in-chief.

However, as he said in the previous deduction, once the aircraft carrier fleet loses the aircraft carrier, it means that it loses its offensive weapons. In modern naval warfare, it can only be passively attacked.

(End of this chapter)