Chapter 2976 Turning Point
The Chinese Pacific Fleet still swims without fighting or with just one shot. If Yamaguchi and Jin can work together, they will not be confused by the Chinese Fleet's apparent weakness.And as long as they are always in a group, then with the current strength of China's Pacific Fleet, at least in the short term, it is impossible to have a decisive battle.However, the situation changed because the "telegram incident" made Kim seriously dissatisfied with Yamaguchi and began to doubt his character.

The U.S. Pacific Fleet began to act alone in disregard of the instructions and orders issued by the Joint Command. At first, Yamaguchi didn't feel the taste and took the initiative to connect with Jin to question him. After realizing the obvious hostility in Jin's words, Yamaguchi was surprised at first, and then was irritated.From Jin's point of view, Yamaguchi is the kind of villain who has a serious problem with his personality and personality. For this kind of person, he is certainly not willing to make a fool of himself; but from Yamaguchi's perspective, he is not aware Realizing that his previous behavior was suspected of making a "small report" behind his back, he felt that he was thinking about the future of the United Fleet and that he was helping the Americans.

Misunderstandings between the two supreme commanders will naturally affect their subordinates. Unknowingly, a strange atmosphere is permeating the Joint Command, which not only affects the work efficiency of the Joint Command, but also It paved the way for the future defeat of Palau.

Compared with the United States and Japan's joint fleet, which has signs of fighting on its own due to a crisis of trust among high-level commanders, the Chinese Pacific Fleet is still resolutely implementing the strategy formulated before.Therefore, after Jayapura, the Chinese HNA troops dispatched again, made a long-distance raid, and successfully destroyed a supply station set up by the Japanese army in Ternate.

Ternate's supply station was attacked, and a large amount of supplies was lost again. This made Koizumi Toshiichiro very angry. He finally couldn't hold back, and began to call Yamaguchi in a stern tone, asking why they still couldn't bite the China Pacific Fleet, and asked Yamaguchi to stop the Chinese Pacific Fleet at the end of the month.After sending this scathing report to Yamaguchi, he called Truman again, accusing the U.S. Pacific Fleet of inaction during this period and threatening that if Commander Kim did not change his attitude, he would not be able to guarantee It also continued to fulfill its pre-war promises.

Koizumi's telegram has a series of resounding prefixes in later generations-"the most stupid and self-righteous".Undoubtedly, this sternly worded and threatening intelligence letter has deepened the estrangement between the top leaders of the United States and Japan, and has also made the already contradictory relationship between the Japanese Combined Fleet and the US Pacific Fleet more delicate.

For the Japanese and Americans, it is even more unfortunate that this telegram was intercepted and deciphered by the Chinese intelligence agency. After receiving the translated version of this telegram, Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi felt like a treasure. Realized that the time for a decisive battle with the US-Japan Combined Fleet is not far away.

That night, at a routine military meeting, Bai Chongxi said after summarizing the recent combat results: "We can speed up and throw them away. With the attack on the stronghold, Yamaguchi and Jin will definitely disagree on whether to continue to pursue or directly attack Guam. And as long as they disagree, we will have the opportunity to defeat each of us! At that time, according to the previous plan, we will focus on attacking the Americans—"

When later military historians studied the Second Pacific War and summed up the reasons why China’s Pacific Fleet was able to achieve the final victory, they reached a consensus on two points. Second, the Chinese were able to achieve the final victory is definitely not accidental, this is a technical victory.

China's Pacific Fleet is technologically advanced in many ways.First, the application of electronic technology in Chinese ships is much higher than that of the United States and Japan; second, the engine technology of Chinese ships is at least 20 years ahead of the United States and Japan.Such a conclusion was drawn by relevant US departments after the Palau naval battle.This conclusion is suspected of being an afterthought, but it is still timely for the Americans.At least since then, the Americans have never suffered in this regard again.

The speed of China's Pacific Fleet increased all of a sudden, and the Americans and Japanese couldn't catch up immediately.One day later, when Yamaguchi and Jin Yijue woke up and found that the trace of the Chinese fleet had been lost, both of them panicked a little.

In the current naval battle, it is still very important to obtain the right of first hand.And because Chinese large ships are generally equipped with medium and short-range ship-to-ship missiles, Yamaguchi and Jin have to worry that the Chinese fleet has hidden in a certain corner, setting up an ambush circle waiting for them to sneak in.

At the juncture of life and death, the two of them didn't care about the emotional dispute, and adopted a shrinking tactic tacitly. While slowing down the overall speed of the fleet, they scattered a large number of reconnaissance planes and reconnaissance ships to scout around.In doing so, they gave China's Pacific Fleet more room to move, so in just one day, the United States first reported that its multiple supply stations and military bases in New Guinea had been attacked by air, and then Japan Multiple military stations on the island of New Guinea in Indonesia frequently called the police, claiming that they had been attacked by Chinese naval forces.

The United States and Japan formed a joint fleet, hoping to achieve the goal of dominating the Pacific Ocean by completely annihilating China's Pacific Fleet.In doing so, they also meant to replace defense with offense, that is, by actively attacking China's Pacific Fleet, they forced it to give up harassment of the US and Japan coastal military strongholds.It's good now, not to mention the loss of the Chinese Pacific Fleet, and the offshore military strongholds have become targets of attack. It seems that they have completely lost the meaning of launching the Second Pacific War.

In comparison, between Yamaguchi and Jin, the former is more pragmatic. In the face of the cruel reality, he doesn't care who will destroy the good war situation first. He bows to Jin and sincerely proposes to strengthen the cooperation between the two armies. , "The Chinese navy cannot be allowed to go on rampant any longer."

Ordinarily, one of the conflicting parties with a common goal bows its head, which should lead to the elimination of misunderstandings and the strengthening of consensus between the two parties, thereby strengthening cooperation.This is not the case, as Bai Chongxi expected, because there are differences on whether to continue to pursue the Chinese Pacific Fleet or directly attack Guam, and Yamaguchi's efforts have not changed anything at all.

The Americans launched the Second Pacific War in order to regain the previously lost islands, while the Japanese hoped to completely annihilate the Chinese Pacific Fleet, so as to permanently protect the safety of the Pacific passage between the mainland and the Southeast Asian colonies.Therefore, although Jin felt Yamaguchi's goodwill and was willing to accept it, he could not agree to continue to pursue the Chinese Pacific Fleet because of the different demands of the war.

Jin's reason is very good: "Since the facts have proved that we can't keep up with the speed of the Chinese fleet, why should we be led by the nose? I suspect that this is simply a Chinese conspiracy. They are consuming our fuel. And patience. If they show up and attack us when our fuel consumption is almost the same, then what awaits us will be unable to catch up and run away—what should we do then? So I insist that we should now Attack Guam first and force it to rescue. In that case, with our overwhelming advantage, we will definitely be able to win the final victory!"

(End of this chapter)

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