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Chapter 625: Pig Sudden Tactics in the Making

After having a comfortable breakfast, Yamamoto Iroku immediately held a high-level meeting of the Joint Fleet.

"The main force of the joint fleet attacks. When we go to Truke, we will occupy Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in one fell swoop, and completely destroy the Australian Allied will to resist."

Two hours later, the main force of the joint fleet came out in full swing. The first mobile fleet with Akagi, Kaga and the Flying Dragon aircraft carriers as the core, and the first fleet with Yamato, Nagamon and the Muro battleships as the core left the port one after another, heading to Truk Port in a mighty manner.

When the main force of the joint fleet left the port, the victory achieved by the Second Mobile Fleet was spread rapidly in Japan and the occupied areas through newspapers and radio.

"The Imperial Japanese Imperial Army Combined Fleet, under the command of General Yamaguchi, wiped out the US NB-14 fleet, sank the US Navy battleships Washington, Indiana, Massachusetts, and sank the escort aircraft carrier Sangamon......"

When the main force of the joint fleet attacked, Yamaguchi Duowen was dispatching troops on the distant South Pacific sea.

The second mobile fleet was divided into three fleets.

The first fleet, with the Ruifeng aircraft carrier as the core, led three destroyers to continue wandering in the waters where naval battles had just broken out. The responsibility of this fleet is to cooperate with the submarine force to find out whether other US fleets appear in the nearby waters.

The second fleet, with the Hiei battleship and the injured Kirishima battleship as the core, led one light cruiser and five destroyers, escorted the captured US warships and returned to Truke Port.

The main force of the second mobile fleet, with the Suihe Shoto and Xiangfeng aircraft carriers, and the Musashi battleship as the core, returned to the waters near the Fiji Islands.

Three days after completely eliminating the US NB-14 fleet, 150 nautical miles northeast of the Fiji Islands, twelve Zero fighters and twelve Type 97 torpedo attack aircraft rushed out of the deck one after another, assembled over the fleet, and flew towards the Fiji Islands.

In a week, on Viti Island in the Fiji Islands, engineers have repaired the occupied U.S. airports.

Yamaguchi Tatsume immediately dispatched twelve Zero fighter jets and Type 97 torpedo attack aircraft to the airport according to the original plan. Viti Island transformed into an unsinkable aircraft carrier.

After completing the most critical step, the Second Mobile Fleet continued to wander around the Fiji Islands, monitoring nearby waters to find out whether there were any U.S. fleets.

However, with the destruction of the NB-14 fleet, the United States immediately suspended the transportation of the US-Australia route, and all the fleets that had departed turned around and returned to the United States, or transported the supplies to other US bases in the Pacific.

For more than half a month, the Second Maneuver Fleet did not find any new prey, but only fought several anti-submarine wars as a pastime for boring life at sea.

On October 17, a month after the breakup, Yamaguchi Tatsuki finally arrived at Kondo Nobutake's Second Fleet.

When the tankers in the Second Fleet refueled the warships of the Second Mobile Fleet at sea, Nobutake Kondo boarded the USS Ruihe aircraft carrier in a speedboat.

"Yamaguchi-kun, congratulations on your great victory for the empire. Commander Yamamoto has led the main force of the joint fleet to Truke Port and is waiting for you to return and will reward you in person."

"Go back now? Who will complete the following task?" Yamaguchi asked in surprise.

"The following mission was completed by the First Mobile Fleet led by Nagamo and his fleet will arrive here tomorrow."

"Saoga, please ask you and Senior Natsuyun for the following matters." Yamaguchi Tatsume.

At 10 o'clock the next morning, the first mobile fleet led by Nagashimo met with Yamaguchi Tatsume on time.

After friendly greetings between the two sides, Yamaguchi Tatsume led the fleet to embark on the road to return.

A day later, with the support of the First Mobile Fleet led by Nagamo, the Second Fleet commanded by Kondo launched a landing battle against American Samoa.

Samoa is located one thousand kilometers east of the Fiji Islands. According to the FS plan, after successfully capturing Samoa, the Japanese army will carry out devastating destruction on the island for a month, then withdraw from the island, and make every effort to consolidate its defense in the Fiji Islands.

After the first mobile fleet commanded by Nagamo, Kondo's second fleet completed the battle to land in Samoa, he continued to monitor the US and Australia routes.

However, all this has nothing to do with the Second Maneuver Fleet. After nearly three days of voyage, the Second Maneuver Fleet arrived at Truke Harbor.

Yamaguchi Dawen was the first to walk off the warship and hurried to Iris Yamamoto. After saluting, he stretched out his hands to shake hands with Yamamoto.

"Yamamoto was flattered."

"This is the reward that the heroes of the empire deserve. Yamaguchi Jun, do you know what you got for the empire?"

Seeing Yamaguchi Tatsuki looked confused, Yamamoto said to Gendashi: "Staff General Genda, come and tell Yamaguchi General what he got for the empire?"

"After counting, we caught nearly 3,000 infantrymen on the captured U.S. transport ship, who belonged to the 25th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. There were 330 tanks, 300 aircraft, 3,350 trucks and jeeps, as well as a large number of food, gasoline, tires, medicine, ammunition, radio stations, etc. In addition, we also found the SSC-to-air search radar and SG-to-sea search radar used by the Americans on the Santi escort aircraft carrier. The performance of these two radars is much higher than our Type 21 and Type 22 detectors."

Yamamoto continued: "After we study American radar, we can copy them. There are also American aircraft. After we study them, we can also study targeted tactics and make targeted improvements to the performance of our fighter jets."

"It seems that we will soon usher in great victory after great victory." Yamaguchi said.

"Yes, but the future series of victories will start with this victory."

After some prospects for victory, Yamaguchi followed Yamamoto and others to leave the port and sat down in the conference room.

Yamamoto Iroku said with a smile: "At the strong request of the army, we will postpone the attack on Port Moresby and shift the focus of the combat to the Solomon Islands, with the focus on Guadalcanal Island. Genda-kun, let me tell you about the situation there."

Minami Genda walked to the map and pointed to the map and said, "We used to occupy Gua Island first and tried to build an airport on it. However, in August this year, the US military suddenly landed on Gua Island and occupied the airport that we were almost about to build, and renamed it Henderson Airport. This name seems to be to commemorate a US major who performed bravely during the Battle of Midway.

Now, the US military has used this airport to control air supremacy in the waters near Guadalam, seriously limiting our supply to the island's army forces."

Yamamoto said: "We can only use the high speed of the destroyers to transport and support the island's troops at night as cover, but the US fleet patrols nearby waters at night, and everything is carried out in secret. To put it bluntly, we are carrying out rat-style transportation.

Now, everything is different. The Americans cut off our supply line near Guadao at the tactical level, but we cut off the supply line between the United States and Australia at the strategic level. However, this time will not last long. We must solve the US military on Guadao in one fell swoop before the Americans mobilize new troops and reopen the supply line. Yamaguchi-kun, do you have any good suggestions?"

Yamaguchi Tatsume stared at the chart for a while, then said, "On the way back, I thought about something. In our previous actions, there were the shadow of Diablo. Now that Germany has declared war on us, Diablo is still devoted to the empire, but she cannot provide us with help at any time. The most important thing is that the soldiers of the empire must have the confidence to win the war with their own strength and cannot always rely on external forces.

I designed several tactics about maximizing the power of the aircraft carrier formation. There is a tactic that can solve the Guadalam problem. Let the mouse transport go to the hell. We must openly send the supplies to Guadalam and then stomp that airport."

"Very good, Yamaguchi-kun, as long as you can solve the problem, just mention whatever you need."

"I need the full cooperation of the joint fleet, especially the battleship forces, and the cooperation of the army."

Yamamoto said: "There is no problem with the joint fleet. I will coordinate with the army. As long as you can win, tell me, what is your plan?"

Yamaguchi's little eyes were shining with a cold light.
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