Brigadier General William couldn't help but laugh when he heard Clifton's report.

"Colonel!" Commodore William said: "Do your own thing, you don't need to worry about the navy!" Do you want the Navy to be on guard just for the Chinese's speculation? ”

"But the General!" Clifton replied: "What the Chinese said is reasonable, and only in this way can we explain why the Japanese did not bomb the airfield!" ”

"Say no more!" Brigadier Wilhelm replied: "War is always dangerous, and the navy has always been on high alert, and if the Japanese navy were to launch a surprise attack on the fleet, it would be exactly what we meant." Do your own thing, you know? ”

With that, Brigadier General William hung up the phone.

Clifton hung up the phone a little helplessly, and shook his head at Zhang Chi beside him: "They say the Navy is ready, but I don't think so!" ”

Zhang Chi could only nod, he knew that this would be the result, and the Navy would not listen to the advice of the Army, especially his Zhang Chi, who disobeyed orders and gave the Navy an ugly Chinese officer, because this represented that the US Navy was once again compared to the Army and the Chinese Army.

On the other hand, the U.S. Navy does have reason to be proud, because in the previous Battle of Midway, the U.S. Navy was able to fight a beautiful battle with fewer victories and more when there was such a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, while the current U.S. Navy has assembled three aircraft carrier battle groups, one battleship, 14 cruisers, and 32 destroyers in the area around Kuah Island.

With such a large number of troops, it is enough to fight face-to-face with the main fleet of the Japanese army stationed in Rabaul, and of course there is no need to worry about the so-called sneak attack of the Japanese army, because that would mean that the Japanese army will have to work on an expedition and even its fleet will have to fight outside the cover range of shore-based fighters at Rabaul airfield.

More importantly, the US Navy at this time overemphasized air supremacy, and they stubbornly believed that if the Japanese Navy wanted to seize sea and air supremacy in the waters of Kuah Island, then it should definitely start with air supremacy. Therefore, the US Navy has always been afraid of the hundreds of shore-based aircraft docked at Rabaul and the four aircraft carrier groups that may be organized. This is one of the reasons why the US Navy spends a lot of effort on the formation of "coast watchers".

As for the Japanese fleet coming to attack, it was as Commodore Wilhelm said...... In line with the meaning of the Navy, the US Navy will use a powerful formation of fighters to destroy these self-defeating clowns on the way to attack without much effort.

In conclusion, the US Navy focused almost all its attention on the air, not on the sea.

Objectively speaking, there is some truth in such an analysis, because it is well known. The most important thing in naval warfare is air supremacy, and it is basically impossible to win a naval battle without air supremacy, and it is unimaginable.

However, what we are talking about here is "basic," and the battlefield is a place of rapid change, and anything can happen, especially since the opponent of the United States is the Japanese, who basically do not talk about "military theory" but talk about "spiritual victory."

In fact, the Americans have repeatedly suffered from the losses of the Japanese in this unreasonable way of playing cards on the battlefield, and the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the examples, and the Japanese army's use of tanks in the terrain of Singapore, which is not suitable for the use of tanks, is also an example.

The Japanese troops on the other side are actually not having a good time, mainly because the Japanese side is not very clear about the combat intentions of the US military. Therefore, there was no great determination to recover Kuah Island, and the Japanese commander, Lieutenant General Hyakutake Haruyoshi, even thought that this would not be a formal counteroffensive by the US army, but just a reconnaissance and harassing attack.

Japanese Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa, commander of the Eighth Fleet, was one of the first officers to recognize the importance of the Kuah airfield and advocated for the recapture of Kuah, but his claim was not supported by Tokyo and Vice Admiral Hyakutake Haruyoshi.

There are good reasons why Tokyo and Lieutenant General Hyakutake Harumichi did not support the recapture of Kuah Island: in addition to the unclear intentions of the enemy, there was also the fact that the Japanese army had too little information about the American army...... The Japanese only knew that the U.S. fleet had entered the Solomon Islands when the U.S. military attacked Kuah Island, and they didn't know anything about the U.S. military, including how many aircraft carriers the U.S. military had, how many warships, and how many troops they had invested on Kuah Island. How many shore-based planes and so on, the Tokyo side thinks that it would be brutal to rush up and fight a war when the information is unknown.

From this point of view. The Japanese Navy is still relatively more rational than the Army, and what the Japanese Army often does in China is to launch an attack without knowing any information, and this attack is often successful because of the vulnerability of the ****. At this time, the Japanese Navy will at least consider intelligence issues, but this does not seem surprising, because many of the generals in the Japanese Navy are "returnees", and they will be relatively more sensible.

But this kind of sanity does not exist in Mikawa Junichi. Mikawa Junichi is a typical Japanese soldier who is influenced by the spirit of bushido, and he even looks down on those who open their mouths and say that airplanes are air supremacy, and "fighting when they see the enemy" has always been Mikawa Junichi's battlefield creed.

In this case, Hyakutake Haruyoshi also acquiesced to the sneak attack plan proposed by Mikawa Junichi.

The reason for acquiescing is that if the airfield on Kuah Island falls into the hands of the US military. It will indeed cause great trouble for the Japanese army.

The other is because you can also test the strength of the U.S. Navy through the sneak attack of Mikawa Junichi, or you can also know more information about the U.S. Navy.

The most important thing is that what the Sanchuan Army asked to participate in the war was just some "chicken ribs" that they had to deal with but were unwilling to deal with...... The five heavy cruisers were all old ships that were launched around 1925, and the two light cruisers were World War I ships, and only one destroyer was still somewhat decent.

With such a naval formation without the cover of aircraft carriers, to fight against the powerful US navy, aircraft carriers, and even shore fighters, then you don't need to think about it to know what the result will be, this is simply a navy-style "jade attack".

But this was the case with the Japanese generals, who would not stop their men from fighting the enemy with the determination to fight to the death, because it was contrary to the spirit of bushido, which had always been practiced throughout Japan.

So, in the end, Tokyo also acquiesced to Mikawa Junichi's almost suicidal sneak attack plan.

After receiving the combat clearance order, the Sanchuan Army urgently assembled the eight warships in the plan in the afternoon of the same day and headed for Kuah Island. (To be continued.) )