Chapter 232: Avoid the important and take it lightly
"Your Excellency the General, please look!" Michiyuki Yamada pointed to the map and said, "We have a total of six main airports in the Marshall Islands, among which the airports in the Eniwetok Atoll are far away, and the airports of the other five islands are clustered in the central and southeastern parts of the archipelago, and they are not far from each other, so I think we can adopt a strategy of avoiding the important and light!" ”
"Avoid the important and light?" Koga was a little puzzled, although he knew the meaning of this Chinese idiom, but he didn't understand what Michiyuki Yamada wanted to say.
"Yes!" Michiyuki Yamada explained: "The American ghost beast has thousands of fighters, if we go head-to-head with them...... It is very likely that more than 100 of our fighters will be annihilated by the US ghost animals in the first place. ”
Koga Feng nodded, although he didn't want to admit this, but the current situation of the Japanese air force is really not optimistic, not only because the US fighters are nearly ten times that of the Japanese army, but also because the quality of the Japanese pilots is constantly declining, and now it can almost be said that few pilots on the battlefield are experienced...... At this time, Japan had no choice but to transfer experienced pilots back to its homeland to train new pilots, because if these experienced and well-qualified pilots were allowed to go to the battlefield and die on the battlefield, then it was very likely that no one in Japan would pass on the experience they had learned on the battlefield against the enemy.
In fact, at this time, Japan had begun to pay attention to the training of pilots...... However, the word "focus" here does not seem to be accurate, and it may be more appropriate to describe it as "temporary cramming".
The Japanese army's method was to summon college students to act as pilots for emergency training.
It can also be seen from this that the Japanese army was already in a hurry, because Japan had never been willing to recruit from college students, and the Japanese idea at that time was ...... College students are the hope of the country's science and technology and the future, and there is a slogan: "Fighting a war is someone else's business, and the task of college students is to read well."
It should be said that this view is correct, and the Japanese are uncharacteristically far-sighted in this regard, especially since many of Japan's technologies are still learned from the United States, and a war with the United States means that the Japanese have to acquire and study these technologies themselves...... And the people who study these techniques are, of course, not Japanese soldiers who can only shoot and kill, but those college students.
This is also a strange phenomenon in Japan: because college students are not allowed to join the army, some fanatics who want to join the army have dropped out of school under the pretext of joining the army; On the contrary, some people who are unwilling to join the army but need an excuse do everything possible to get the identity of a college student.
Merely...... At this point, the Japanese are thinking too far and too far.
As Yamamoto Fifty-six said...... "It's okay for half a year, but it's not sure in two or three years!" ”。
In other words, it would be good if Japan could hold out for "two or three years", and it would be possible to wait until the day when college students became successful and developed science and technology?!
On the other hand, at this time, the Japanese army trained pilots in the hope that they could master flying skills in a short period of time and put them into battle, which required the recruits to have a high level of quality in all aspects, such as their learning ability.
So the Japanese army had to reach out to the university students.
It is a pity that in the end, the recruits trained by this group of college students still failed to fill the vacancy of the Japanese pilots, because the Japanese army was defeated so quickly and the pilots were not trained, so that these college students could only become "kamikazes" and rush to the US warships with fighters full of explosives.
"So......" Michiyuki Yamada continued, explaining, "In this case, I think we should avoid a head-on confrontation with the American ghost animals!" ”
"Avoid a head-to-head showdown?" Koga Feng was a little confused when he heard it: "Yamada-kun...... If we don't fight the enemy head-on, does that mean we have to expose the airfield to enemy bombers? ”
"So to speak!" Michiyuki Yamada nodded.
"If so!" Hearing this, Koga Feng couldn't help but feel angry: "Then can our aviation brigade still exist?" Didn't the aviation brigade have to rely on airfields to survive? There is no airport...... Where is Yamada-kun's fighter going to stop again?! ”
"Your Excellency General, this is what I mean by avoiding the important and taking it lightly!" Michiyuki Yamada replied, "Actually...... We are also powerless to stop the bombing of us by the US ghost animals, because before the US ghost animals bomb our airfields, they will certainly send a large number of warplanes to compete with our military for air supremacy, or bomb our airfields while fighting for air supremacy. Other words...... If we want to ensure that the airfield is not bombed, it is not the airfield that will perish first, but our more than a hundred warplanes! If there are no fighters, then what's the use of an airfield? Is it like Tarawa Airport for American ghost animals?! ”
Hearing this, Koga Feng couldn't help but be stunned, and then nodded heavily.
Michiyuki Yamada's statement is obviously justified, at least the airports in the three islands of Makin, Beato, and Abemama are used by the United States in this situation, and a few airports in the Marshall Islands will not become the next case.
"So, first of all, we should save the fighters......"
"How do I save it?" Koga Mine interrupted Michiyuki Yamada.
"Be prepared to be bombed!" Michiyuki Yamada replied, "First of all, we need to widen some of the airfields so that they can accommodate more fighters. Secondly, the airport facilities such as fuel and parts will be moved underground to ensure that each airport has enough fuel for fighters and enough parts for fighters to replace. Finally, when the enemy's fighters come to bomb the airfield, our fighters should take off and retreat to another airfield that has not been bombed...... We have five airfields, each of which can be a shelter for these fighters, and unless the American ghost beast bombs five airfields at the same time, there will always be an airfield where our fighters can land. ”
Hearing this, Koga Feng couldn't help but nodded: "In this way, the bombing of the American ghost beast will be useless!" And what we have to do is to quickly restore the airfield to service after being bombed by the enemy! ”
"Yes!" Michiyuki Yamada replied, "Moreover, if we find that the American ghost animal force is weaker, we can concentrate our forces to launch a fatal blow against it!" Wait until the American ghost beast thinks that it has annihilated our air group, and then launch an attack on our defense line with confidence...... That's where our fighters come into play! This role is not only to strike at the enemy's landing force, but also to cover the combined fleet to launch an attack on the enemy! ”
"I see!" Koga Feng couldn't help but nod his head again and again when he heard this: "This idea is very good!" Yamada-kun really deserves to be the pillar of my Great Nippon Empire...... Then Yamada-kun, let's do it! For the sake of the Great Japanese Empire, work hard! ”
(To be continued.) )