Chapter 2678 No Answer 3
"So how does your country solve the problem of air defense?" Su Xiong asked.
"Crown Prince Ruprecht once said that offense is the best defense. Before the other party defeats us, we will defeat them first! We will concentrate all the carrier-based aircraft of each aircraft carrier to launch an attack, leaving no one behind. Hands, kill them in one wave! As for defense? We prefer to disperse the aircraft carrier detachments, so that we always have aircraft carriers that can survive the Japanese attack." Mitchell said.
"Don't you put all your eggs in one basket?" Su Xiong said. Su Xiong actually disagrees with the Americans' way of fighting. It's not that he thinks the Americans' approach of losing part of their aircraft carriers in the battle is unreasonable. In fact, war is a kind of exchange. If you want yourself There is no loss here at all, and it is impossible to defeat the opponent. Even with the strength of the German High Seas Fleet and Crown Prince Ruprecht's talent and strategy, in the final naval battle in the Norwegian Sea, facing the British Grand Fleet that had been weakened many times, the Crown Prince still chose to use Hipper as bait. Therefore, reasonable losses are allowed.
The most important thing is, if the aircraft carrier is dispersed, what will be done about this specific operation? Su Xiong has flown on a naval carrier-based aircraft, and he is very clear about the vision the air force has in clear weather. When you are at sea level, two fleets may not be able to detect each other if they are 20 kilometers apart. But if it is in the air, this distance is nothing at all. For a carrier-based aircraft, it may be only ten minutes away. This level of dispersion may not be effective at all in actual combat.
However, for our own side, if the fleet is dispersed, how to coordinate the attack waves of different aircraft carriers? The most taboo thing in fighting is the fueling tactic. An attack that could have been carried out in one wave becomes several small waves. This will lengthen the attack time, reduce the intensity of the attack, and make your own attack weak.
In fact, the Germans' current aircraft carrier tactics are also based on concentrating their strength to defeat their opponents in one wave, but the Germans do it more purely! If we take the current aircraft carriers of the German High Seas Fleet as an example, if they really encounter a comparable opponent, the German approach is to concentrate 4 to 5 aircraft carriers, everyone is together, and then attack nearly half of the fleet in one wave. Before the opponent's attack wave comes, release the second wave of aircraft. Then he started to defend with all his strength, as much as he could defend. In exercises, such tactics are actually relatively efficient, but no one knows how it will fare in actual combat.
After a round of exchanges between the two sides, the Americans were relatively pleased. First of all, they could confirm that most of what the Germans said was the truth. There were traps at some points when the U.S. Navy made inquiries, but the Germans successfully avoided them. So from a rational analysis point of view, the Germans are quite interesting to their allies. Secondly, the Americans found that the Germans did not have a truly mature system for the use of aircraft carriers. Compared with the gap in the combat power of the two battleship squadrons, the Americans felt that the gap between them in the use of aircraft carriers was not large. In short, after a period of After some testing, the Germans eliminated the tactics currently implemented by the Americans, and the Americans also knew the tactics that the Germans had tested before. Su Xiong obviously only told half of the story and did not mention the tactical problems and possible remedies.
The Americans have almost fully explained their current tactics.
Therefore, after ending the general talk about aircraft carrier tactics, Mitchell began to discuss the specific details of the implementation of this campaign with Su Xiong.
"My idea is simple. The aircraft carrying daily aerial reconnaissance are provided by our warships and seaplane carriers. The USS Constellation aircraft carrier is fully loaded for attack. If we encounter a Japanese warship, then I will let Meike The Lundborg is separated from the aircraft carrier. The carrier-based aircraft will attack first, and then the battleship will go up to finish the damage. If we find two Japanese battleships and evacuate in different directions, then we can only perform the tasks separately, Mecklenburg and Constellation. Each of them will chase one ship, but I will assign an independent destroyer detachment to the Constellation. After the bombing, the destroyers will completely send the opponent to the bottom of the sea." Su Xiong said.
"In terms of combat effectiveness, we have an absolute advantage, but the problem is how we find our opponents. This is the key to the problem." Mitchell said.
"Actually, I chose a tricky direction. When the U.S. Navy focuses on the direction of Australia, then we only need to focus on New Zealand. New Zealand is very small, and there are not many large ships coming and going. Keep an eye on every ship. Then just wait for the Japanese fleet to surrender!" Su Xiong said.
"Of course, we have to hide ourselves as much as possible, so our route is like this." Su Xiong used a pencil to outline the route of his fleet on the map, not only avoiding busy commercial routes, but even all radio-controlled routes. Islands of communication equipment are also avoided. The armed merchant ships and camouflaged reconnaissance ships assigned to Su Xiong were divided into two parts. One part was evenly distributed in areas where the Japanese army might evacuate, using seaplanes and radios to search for the Japanese fleet, while the other part was responsible for targeting certain "special targets." "Carry out surveillance.
It is impossible for Su Xiong's fleet to keep an eye on all the ships, nor to wait for the fleet to search for all the ships. Whether it can be done is one aspect, and to avoid alerting the enemy is another aspect. For those most likely suspects, what Su Xiong meant was to use disguised merchant ships to track. The charade machine did make the intelligence difficult to decipher, but its seemingly disorganized content also made it appear very special. It could even be said that when a person When the ship used the charade machine to send the message, it was already certain that it was a British and Japanese military ship!
Therefore, if you track well, you can follow the clues and eliminate your opponent!
Seven days later, when the Mecklenburg made final combat preparations, it sailed out of Pearl Harbor together with the aircraft carrier Constellation and the seaplane carrier Saipan under the escort of 1 light cruiser and 8 destroyers. In addition to receiving supplies along the way, they rushed towards New Zealand at a speed of more than 20 knots per hour. Before the German fleet set off, the U.S. Navy's blockade fleet had quietly arrived off the coast of Australia, while a larger number of camouflaged reconnaissance ships and armed merchant ships were distributed in the Eastern Pacific. An invisible web has been completely unfolded, but the Japanese and the British still know nothing about it!
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