Of course, you have to say that the Japanese were dealing with this time, which is absolutely unfair. In fact, although the Japanese only participated in this war with a limited amount, the Japanese military also learned about the war in the war! They were also trying their best to keep this fleet!

The Japanese studied the operational characteristics of the Suxiong fleet. In addition to the Americans' intelligence, the fleet focused more on obtaining intelligence through radio monitoring and aviation reconnaissance. In addition to the help of submarines and camouflage cruisers, it was not difficult to ambush a fleet with a large scale and slow speed.

The Japanese also realized a problem. It is useless to fight with world-class navy in terms of pure battleships. The navy is a system that involves all aspects. According to the principle of barrel effect, these shortcomings directly reduce the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the Japanese fleet. Maybe you would say that radio technology and aircraft in this era are quite simple? That is compared with later generations! How many countries can build engines above 350 horsepower in this era? In history, Germany cannot do it, so Britain can confirm! The United States did not have a real NB engine at that time, let alone Japan.

Therefore, the Japanese still decided to learn from their teachers, the British, especially the navy, which could almost be said to follow the steps. What the British did, whether the Japanese could understand this thing or not, and whether they were used now, they would first try a small set of aircraft carriers. For example, the British directly used a warship of more than 15,000 tons to change the aircraft carrier. Although the Japanese did not have a ready-made hull, they also decided to use a high-speed merchant ship to change it. As for the British, the Japanese had a complete range of types and large scale naval aviation, the Japanese also ordered a large number of aircraft from the British, ranging from v1500, fb27, from camel fighter jets and cuckoo torpedo aircraft, and the Japanese bought some more or less.

As for the relatively mature anti-submarine and escort systems of the British, they were naturally moved directly to use. The Japanese Navy planned to improve about half of its destroyers, including adding hydrophones and primitive sonar systems, dismantling too many lightning equipment, and increasing the number of anti-submarine bombs. At the same time, the British specially provided personnel to train the Japanese Navy's anti-submarine. After several months of hard work, the anti-submarine capabilities of the Japanese destroyer team have also been improved to a certain extent.

Of course, these are all big. In terms of this escort, the Japanese Navy has made special responses, especially in radio and aviation reconnaissance. It has put a lot of effort into radio and aviation reconnaissance. Now, the Japanese understand very well that if the German fleet is allowed to catch the fleet, then apart from disbanding the fleet, any idea of ​​expelling the opponent head-on is to die! The Japanese fleet cannot provide enough power to suppress the two German battleships. Of course, if you throw half of the joint fleet into the Indian Ocean, you will definitely be unable to suppress the Germans, but by then, I am afraid that the US Pacific Fleet, which has more than one battleship on Midway, will you not be able to withstand loneliness?

Under tremendous pressure, the Japanese did not even dare to ship out warships above fearless this time, so they could only use the former fearless meaning... so much so that the Joint Fleet Command gave Saburo Hachibu. Once it was confirmed that the German fleet was discovered, you allowed you to disband the fleet immediately and then take the fleet to evacuate.

Well, since it is impossible to fight to the death, the only way is to warn, discover the German fleet in advance and then bypass the opponent! However, to achieve this, we can only start from two aspects. The first is naturally to rely on the radio side, and the other is to suppress the opponent's reconnaissance force and improve our own reconnaissance efficiency.

For the first one, the Japanese did not have any good idea, because the Germans' radio technology was more advanced, and the Japanese's antennas could not be received in certain communication bands. Moreover, in order to keep them confidential, both sides of the warring parties would use some hidden frequency bands. The British might be able to find the Germans on a wider reception band, but the Japanese are not able to do it now. On the other hand, the Eniger cipher machine used by the Germans could not be cracked in this era, and even if they were given physical objects, they could not be cracked. Therefore, radio detection and monitoring were too difficult for the Japanese.

As for the second article, the Japanese chose to suppress the German fleet's ability to obtain battlefield intelligence. In fact, no matter how much intelligence the Americans provided, they could only provide approximate fleet routes and configurations, which could tell where the German fleet was and when to intercept it. After arriving in the designated sea area, if you want to intercept the target, you would also need to pretend to be the battlefield real-time intelligence provided by cruisers, submarines and seaplanes.

In order to limit the acquisition of German fleet intelligence, the Japanese specially assigned a seaplane mothership to the escort fleet. The eight seaplanes on it, plus the four seaplanes on the Kasuga, formed the aviation force of the Japanese fleet. The mission of these seaplanes is to search for suspicious ships. Once they find some "inexplicable" ships around them, the Tianlong light cruiser will go up to investigate. The seaplanes patrolling in the air will also deter the submarines, making them lie in the sea and dare not show up. In this way, the submarines cannot keep up with the fleet underwater and cannot send telegrams, so they will naturally not have the purpose of reconnaissance.

Moreover, if in special circumstances, the Japanese fleet can even rely on a large number of seaplanes for counter-reconnaissance and discover the German fleet in advance to respond. In short, the Japanese Navy greatly strengthened its reconnaissance power this time, and at the same time, it relied on taking a relatively secluded route to avoid the other side as much as possible.

"The British have already stated that after our fleet enters the waters near South Africa, we will not provide any resupply in the middle after the last supply from Sumatra. The intelligence network established by the Americans cannot cover the entire Indian Ocean, so we are relatively safe this time." Nagashikazu Nagamoto said.

"Safety? Look at the ships in our fleet. Half of them have been used for more than 15 years, and the tonnage is not large, the endurance is limited, and there is no intermediate supply. We don't have many routes. If the Germans decide to catch us, as long as they can stand their patience and deploy in the east of Madagascar in advance, we will still be very dangerous." Saburo Hakuba said.

"So, this time we have a fleet of ships acting at the same time as us. They went to India. It is estimated that the Americans have received the news and will send submarines and camouflage cruisers to attack, right? They can disperse the German forces and cover us up." Nagashima Tadakaichi said.

"I hope we will have a good journey." Baiwu Saburo said with a wry smile.
Chapter completed!