Great time travel

Chapter 65、The Wind Rises
North Pacific, Midway waters
In the early morning mist, a huge fleet flying the Stars and Stripes is cleaving the waves and appearing mighty on the sea level.

This may be the largest fleet in the world today, and it is also the largest fleet in human history. The number of aircraft carriers alone is as high as [-], and there are hundreds of destroyers. It also has the largest tonnage in the world today. The super battleship "Hawaii" served as the backbone.Those [-]-inch and [-]-inch battleship cannons raised high can demonstrate their power to the world far more than the aircraft on the aircraft carrier.

When this mighty and murderous fleet sailed out of Pearl Harbor, Americans who came to watch and cheer were everywhere near the entire fleet's channel, and everyone waved their flags and hats desperately, looking forward to With this huge fleet able to return in triumph - instead of sending back the bad news of the entire army's annihilation and the shame of being smashed into the sand by radio like the previous fleet-wide general sorties...

Behind this fleet, on the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier, the flagship of the US Pacific Fleet, Admiral Halsey looked smug.

The flagship Enterprise was surrounded by battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers, surrounded by countless destroyers, covering the entire sea.And behind the combat ships, there are hundreds of oil tankers, cargo ships and troop carriers-the number of ships gathered under Halsey's command at this time is the most since he joined the army. , but also on a much larger scale, the scene was really spectacular.

Therefore, Admiral Halsey is even more confident about the victory of the Mariana Islands battle: a quarter of the US Navy's combat ships, more than 2000 landing troops, and more than [-] ships of various types Carrier!No matter what, they should be able to flatten those small islands!
——Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, the U.S. military controlled Wake Island, a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean, and Guam among the Mariana Islands, as an outpost for alerting Japan.Because these isolated islands are far away from the mainland of the United States, there are very few standing troops, so they were quickly captured by the Japanese army at the beginning of the war.

In the few years after the war, the navies of the United States and Japan mainly engaged in fierce confrontations in the Fiji Islands, Samoa Islands, New Caledonia Island and New Zealand in the South Pacific, and repeatedly engaged in tug-of-war.However, Wake Island, which is located in the northern hemisphere, is relatively calm. Wake Island is 500 nautical miles away from Guam in the west and 2000 nautical miles away from Hawaii in the east. .

In the absence of absolute command of the sea, if the U.S. Pacific Fleet travels thousands of miles from Hawaii to conquer Wake Island, it would be an active move to death.Even if Wake Island is barely captured, it will definitely not be able to defend against the Japanese navy's counterattack.Therefore, in the previous few years, except for the occasional fighter bombing and bombardment fleet sneak attack, the U.S. Navy has never tried to recover these lost islands.

Wait until the U.S. Strategic Air Force successfully nuclear bombs Tokyo, paralyzing the Japanese command system.The Halsey Fleet swept across the eastern part of the Japanese archipelago again, causing the old Japanese Empire to collapse for a while, and the U.S. Navy, which stayed behind at Pearl Harbor, tentatively organized a small fleet, and successfully recovered the land that was taken by the Japanese army without firing a single shot. Abandoned Wake Island-In view of the rapid deterioration of the situation, the Japanese Combined Fleet Command in Truk ordered hundreds of marines stationed on Wake Island to voluntarily abandon the base at the end of last year and retreat to the Mariana Islands. Saipan and Guam.

Next, with the successive surrenders of Taiwan, the Philippines, and Okinawa, the U.S. Navy has almost cut the territory of the Japanese Empire in half, leaving only the last stumbling block still to be broken—that is, Saipan, Guam, and Tinian. Island (Tinian Island) as the center of the Mariana Islands.

Now, Halsey is taking almost all the American warships in Pearl Harbor to attack, trying to crush these last few stumbling blocks!
Moreover, Halsey's real goal is not just these few small islands. The enemy he is most eager to defeat will always be the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy—even laymen know that Japan's wartime base camp is now The large-scale immigration of millions of people cannot hide their opponents at all.And Japan's wartime base camp is basically not kept secret.Therefore, as early as the preparatory stage of the "400 million people sailing to Nanyang" operation, the U.S. military obtained a considerable amount of intelligence information, and after confirming the authenticity of the information, it quickly judged that the Japanese fleet went south. route.

——The Taiwan Strait is impossible. Even if the US air force stationed in Taiwan and Fujian cannot fight the Japanese warships, it is enough to blow up dozens of percent of the cruise ships transporting immigrants.The South China Sea has basically been reduced to the sphere of influence of the Allied Forces. No matter how many warships the Japanese fleet escorts, entering it is equivalent to being in a hunting ground.Although the Philippine Islands are still raging with war, the US military has established forward bases on many islands.

The American torpedo boats, destroyers, and escort aircraft carriers stationed in the Philippines may be difficult to deal with the combined fleet, but if they are used for maritime guerrilla warfare and piecemeal attacks on the huge Japanese immigrant convoy, it is enough to make the Japanese feel miserable .

Therefore, there is actually only one relatively safe route that the Japanese combined fleet and immigrant convoy can take right now, and that is to stay away from the islands occupied by the US military, take the ocean route, and go south to Truk along the Mariana Islands.The reconnaissance report sent by the submarine force to Halsey also confirmed this point-the "Saury" submarine has just discovered at least four Yamato-class battleships and more than ten Japanese aircraft carriers in the waters of Iwo Jima!

Obviously, a battleship lineup of this size can only belong to the main force of the combined Japanese Navy Fleet covering the immigration convoy heading south!
This news made the US Pacific Fleet that had just sailed out of Pearl Harbor very excited. In addition to the excitement, Admiral Halsey also specially gave the "Saury" submarine and another small shark-class submarine that rushed to the waters of Iwo Jima. He issued an order to order the two submarines to continue to track the huge Japanese fleet until they could no longer persist. They only needed to report the position of the Japanese fleet once a day, but attacks were strictly prohibited! The words "Attack is strictly prohibited" were repeatedly emphasized by Admiral Halsey several times—for fear that the commanders of the two submarines could not hold back and acted rashly, sinking several merchant ships, but alarmed this prehistoric ship. The mammoth-like super large prey will bring more unnecessary variables to the upcoming sea battle...

However, Admiral Halsey, who was determined to beat up the Japanese devils at this time, did not expect that his fleet was also a prey in the eyes of the Japanese devils...

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More than 100 nautical miles ahead of the Halsey fleet, somewhere in an empty sea without ships, a huge submarine quietly surfaced.

After a while, as the sea water on the submarine deck ran away, various anti-sea radars, air defense radars, and satellite antennas that clearly surpassed the technological level of World War II were automatically deployed and operated on the top of the submarine's command tower.And with the "click" of a thick circular watertight door hatch, senior sister Ma Tong, the traverser in a sailor suit, also carried a [weather controller] onto the wet front deck of the submarine.

Looking around, the surrounding sea is empty, without any smoke pillars or sail shadows.And the sky was clear, and there were no annoying planes in sight.

"...Well, very good, it seems that this submarine has not been discovered by the Yankees..."

Ma Tong put down the [weather controller] on the deck, took a deep breath of the fresh sea air, and stretched his waist again. Then he used the telescope to observe the calm sea around him, thinking so much. He said, and then he yelled to someone, "...Hi, hey! Miss Sophie, is your antenna connected to the satellite? Is there anything wrong with our current position?"

The next moment, a young girl with light blue hair appeared beside her out of thin air. She is Miss Sophie's avatar on the submarine "Iona". According to the signal, the position of the ship is accurate, and the Halsey fleet is ahead... Moreover, according to the radar detection, there are no traces of ships or planes within [-] kilometers of the sea and air... ..."

"...Very well, then let's bring out a typhoon of level [-] and send the Yankee across to the [-]th floor of hell!"

Senior Ma Tong licked her lips excitedly, and was about to start operating the [weather controller], but she was slapped open by Miss Jianniang, "...Wait! Stop! You are trying to put my Is the submarine capsized too? Let’s dive underwater before operating it!”

——Next, with the tumbling water and bubbles, the "Iona" submarine, which adopted a lot of future black technology, disappeared from the sea again... After a while, on the originally calm Central Pacific sea, Suddenly it started to pick up slowly...

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PS: There is a saying called "I have witnessed the rise and fall of countless empires, the birth and extinction of species. For thousands of years, only the stupidity of mortals is eternal. Your appearance has verified this." Today's Turkey The coup can obviously be commented on with this sentence.

——The Turkish military seized the TV station to make a speech while the Egyptian Sultan was away.Ethiopian Sultan mobilized civilians to take to the streets to block them through social networking platforms. The rebel tanks on the streets of Istanbul were occupied by civilians, as if people saw the August [-]th Incident in the Soviet Union.In Ankara, the tanks fired, the helicopters bombed, and the staff battled, it was like the February [-] mutiny in Japan.In the end, the Turkish rebels hijacked a frigate and went into exile at sea, which is like the Russian Potemkin sailor uprising... In short, it feels that both sides of the coup are stupid.

It is reported that the rebels in the coup were religious radicals in Turkey, that is, the group of people who colluded with ISIS and shot down the Russian plane.Because the current government wants to ease its relations with Russia and intends to use them as accomplices of terrorists to take the blame, so this group of people don't want to be cooked by rabbits and dogs, so they have no choice but to jump the wall. That's why the coup d'état is so messy and nonsensical.It is estimated that Türkiye will be in chaos for a while.