Chapter 1710 Information Issues
In fact, it is not just this world or the importance of battlefield information in history, which is extremely important. The Midway Naval Battle in history is very typical. The winner and loser of the Midway Naval Battle is the inevitable result of the information asymmetry between the two sides.
Historically, before the Battle of Midway, a certain island country had obvious advantages in the Pacific Ocean. He had been a military officer in the United States who had visited the United States at his own expense. Yamamoto, commander of the United States' joint fleet, knew deeply how terrible the US war machines were when they started. Therefore, at the beginning of the Pacific War, Yamamoto advocated the fight to solve the US Pacific Fleet in one battle and then fight the Atlantic Fleet that was supported. After winning, he had bargaining chips for negotiations with the United States. A certain island country had never thought of defeating the United States.
After the Pearl Harbor incident, the US Pacific Fleet was basically wiped out. Only the nine battleships of the Pacific Fleet escaped in Colorado, which was repaired on the west coast. The remaining eight ships were damaged to varying degrees. The severe damage to Oklahoma was basically finished. Arizona was later converted into an underwater park, and Oklahoma sank on the way back to the United States.
Among other battleships that were attacked, California and West Virginia were sunk, Nevada was stranded, Pennsylvania was also injured. Tennessee was on the inside of West Virginia. West Virginia blocked Tennessee's route so that Tennessee could not be attacked by torpedoes. But later, with West Virginia's sinking, Tennessee was unable to move, and several aircraft were injured. Maryland was parked on the inside of Oklahoma at that time. Oklahoma finally capsized but covered Maryland like West Virginia, so that Maryland was not attacked by torpedoes and was only hit by two bombs. Compared with other battleships, Tennessee and Maryland were less injured.
Pennsylvania is a bit special. During the Pearl Harbor incident, Pennsylvania was the flagship of the Pacific Fleet. Pennsylvania was not attacked by torpedoes in the dock, but was attacked by dive bombers. The fire caused by the ammunition chamber and fuel explosion of the destroyer Carson ammunition chamber and fuel explosion affected Pennsylvania. After the Pearl Harbor incident, Pennsylvania left Pearl Harbor and returned to the West Coast for overhaul.
The Pearl Harbor incident almost destroyed the main force of the US Pacific Fleet, but only Arizona and Oklahoma were really lost. California and West Virginia were seriously injured and Pennsylvania was not very serious, but Maryland and Tennessee were not so serious. Yamamoto knew the situation here, so he was very anxious. Yamamoto formulated a Midway Naval Battle Plan.
The plan for the Midway Naval Battle was extremely large at the beginning. The highest authority of a certain island country denied Yamamoto's big and unscrupulous plan. However, Doolittle's air strike on Tokyo helped Yamamoto 781. The revised combat plan was divided into several parts. The combat in the northern Aleutian Islands was to restrain the battle, and the function was to occupy the Aleutian Islands to attract the main force of the US military. Then the mobile fleet led by Tadaichi Nagamoto sneaked into the direction of Midway to cover Kondo Nobutake occupying Midway.
However, the subsequent Coral Sea Battle disrupted the deployment of an island country. Although the Coral Sea Battle took advantage of it, it injured York City and sank Lexington, Shochi was also severely damaged. Although Rui Chu had no problem, the plane suffered a great loss. Yamamoto 70% of the battle was forcibly passed the combat plan when the Shochi 2 Crane could not participate in the battle.
It can be said that after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, a certain island country had a mysterious confidence from top to bottom. The Midway Naval Battle always expected another Pearl Harbor incident, so that the result of the deduction on the picture was modified. The homework on the picture was that Ugaki Chan was not Natsumoto Tadaichi, but later the movie made by the United States directly attached this big pot to Natsumoto Tadaichi.
According to the deployment of a certain island country, the fleet was divided into four parts. The direction of the Aleutian Islands was directed by Hoshisuke Hoshisuke as the direction to attract the attention of the US military. The main forces include two aircraft carriers, Ryuko Shirou and two heavy cruisers. The fleet led by Kondo Nobutake is to land on Midway Island, including twelve transport ships, four heavy cruisers, and a support fleet composed of two battleships, four battleships, four heavy cruisers, and four heavy cruisers, a little farther away. The three battleships, including the Yamato battleship, led by Yamato, three battleships, the USS Fengxiang aircraft carrier, and some other destroyers. As the main fleet, the mission is to deal with the possible U.S. battleship fleet. The last part is the most important Nagashima Fleet. The main force of the Nagashima Fleet is very famous. The two battleships, two heavy cruisers, and some destroyers.
What the island country doesn't know is that the US military has noticed the movement of a certain island country and knows that the focus of the attack of a certain island country is Midway Island. This is the first impact of information. Since we know the focus of the attack of a certain island country, the US military did not care about the actions of a certain island country in the direction of the Aleutian Islands. With strong industrial capabilities, the three York City-class aircraft carriers went to the front line to carry out the first and last combat operation of all the personnel of this class of aircraft carriers.
The intelligence error has a huge impact on a certain island country, because the destination of Midway is prepared, not to mention that there are more than 100 aircraft, plus the planes of the three sisters in York City, it can be said that although the Nanyun Fleet is four aircraft carriers against three aircraft carriers in the entire Midway Battle, it seems that a certain island country has the advantage, but you should know that Midway has more than 100 aircraft, and the total number of US aircraft is much higher than that of a certain island country, which has a huge impact on the battle situation.
Because the feint attack in the direction of the Aleutian Islands separated the two aircraft carriers, Falcon and Ryuxiang. Although one of the two aircraft carriers was transformed and the other was built by exploiting the loopholes in the Washington Navy Treaty, the origin of these two aircraft carriers has great problems, but if these two aircraft carriers can participate in the Nanyun Fleet, it can greatly alleviate the problem of the Nanyun Fleet's insufficient military force. The intelligence errors made the direction of the Aleutian Islands, which originally had feint attacks, not only did they have any useful effects on the direction of Midway Island, but also separated two precious aircraft carriers.
Chapter completed!