The only thing that makes the Japanese dissatisfied with the current Japanese is the power system. After all, the Kasui-class armored cruiser came out too early and used a reciprocating steam engine. This problem is even more deadly than a boiler. Fortunately, the Japanese were prepared for it. They considered that these warships would still be used in the future, so they replaced the boiler and the steam turbine in the previous overhaul. This was not economical, but it saved time!

"How do you plan to use these cruisers?" asked Yamamoto Honbuki.

"The Americans will definitely not be able to set up only one landing ground. They will definitely have multiple. Under normal circumstances, these armored cruisers will be used to attack and harass some secondary landing grounds in order to confuse the Americans' sight. If it comes to the decisive battle, they will be cannon fodder and guards to restrain and delay the offensive of the US fleet." Shimamura Soo said.

"Have you ever thought about another way to use it?" Yamamoto Honbuki thought for a while and said, "Can we also imitate the Suxiong fleet deployed by Germany in the Indian Ocean during the war to harass the United States' maritime transportation lines?"

To be honest, in the whole war, the Japanese were the ones who dealt with the Suxiong fleet the most among all regular naval forces! Just by looking through the combat records, you can know that in addition to Thomas taking a vote of queens to encircle and suppress the Suxiong fleet, the Japanese fleet and the Suxiong fleet fought no less than three times on a large scale! The Japanese hated and feared this fleet! After all, Suxiong fought two waves of Japanese main battleships in succession at the peak, and the submarine force he cooperated with caused heavy losses to the Japanese transport fleet. In his awe of the enemy, Yamamoto Honbuki personally studied Suxiong's tactics and combat ideas. So a brainwave came out. Since the Germans could use supplies from the United States on the ocean to have a significant impact on the British maritime transportation line and involved a lot of troops, why couldn't the Japanese?

"We can use camouflage cruisers. Just use merchant ships to change them, and then install artillery. The cargo capacity of civilian ships is generally large, but the fuel consumption is very economical. These camouflage cruisers will have a very good range and are not easy to be discovered. Even if they are discovered, the losses will not be large." Shimamura Soo obviously had some opinions on Yamamoto's idea, but did not directly refute it. Instead, he made a counter-suggestion.

He also studied Germany's tactics in the war and keenly discovered that although the two main battleships of the Suxiong fleet were powerful! Unfortunately, the main losses of the Allied Transport Fleet in the entire Indian Ocean were caused by auxiliary cruisers, submarines and mines they laid out. Then Shimamura Suo thought, since that's the case, why don't you use cheap auxiliary cruisers to break through to the battleship and take the main battleship with them?

"Kun Shimamura, you are confused by appearance. The meaning of Suxiong's fleet exists is not how many transport ships they have destroyed, but because it prevents our transport fleet from joining together. You know, we cannot equip every small fleet with escort warships. Because we don't have so many ships, and neither does the British. If we want to equip a fairly appropriate escort fleet, the scale of the fleet will be very large, and Suxiong's value lies in destroying our escort system! Whenever we gather a large number of fleets to prepare for escort, Suxiong's fleet will pop up! Then break up the fleet with a clean and neat offensive!"

"In fact, you can understand this by looking at the time and rules of the Suxiong fleet. After repeated heavy blows, we dare not use the escort system to transport supplies. We can only operate small fleets, which gives camouflage cruisers the opportunity to fight! Therefore, this is the real value of the Suxiong fleet! In the future, the armored cruisers we deploy in the Eastern Pacific region will also be this purpose." Yamamoto Honbuki said.

"However, the Germans deployed two fast battleships and submarines. We don't have this capital. All we can draw is an armored cruiser. It is impossible for the main battleship." Shimamura Soo said.

"It's enough. We are certainly not as good as Germany, but the US Navy is far inferior to the original Allied Navy. The US fleet is huge, but it lacks enough fast warships. The newly built light cruisers by the Americans are not enough to defeat the Kasugi-class armored cruisers on the front. The number of heavy cruisers is insufficient. If they can find us in the vast sea, even if they can't beat us, they will have a chance to escape. As for the escort destroyers, just clean up them up."

"Of course, if they ask for help from the Germans, we will not suffer any loss. The help the Germans provide to the Americans is limited. If an armored cruiser can be exchanged for the Germans' Bavaria or aircraft carrier to be transferred from the main battlefield, then it will be a good thing for us! Do you think so?"

Yamamoto's Sorabushi was very clear about the calculations! The US Navy has huge shortcomings. The fleet's decisive battle can be said to be very strong. Escort anti-submarines can be considered as careless. Although there is no experience, there are many destroyers. The core goal of escort is to stop the attack of submarines. It does not necessarily mean to sink the submarines. This is a bit difficult in battle.

However, the US Navy was unable to respond to the battle with rapid warships. This is also the gap between a second-rate naval power and a first-rate naval power! In fact, there is only one powerful country that can deal with the decisive battle at sea and a breaking battle at sea at sea at the same time, that is, Britain.

Although the German Navy was a top-notch performance in the decisive battle, it was a third-rate in terms of counter-breaking and interrogation! Because the design of German warships is a decisive battle direction and lacks sufficient number. Overseas also lack sufficient logistics system support. Not to mention the result that Thomas Fleet failed to kill Su Xiong Fleet, it was able to immediately draw 5 fast battleships to go to the Indian Ocean thousands of miles away to hunt opponents in a short period of time. With this ability, all naval powers now do not have it!

Yamamoto Honbuki knew very well that if nothing unexpected happened, these armored cruisers that were responsible for the mission of breaking the mission would eventually die... This is no problem. Think about it, the armored cruisers who broke the mission went deep into the ocean alone. The areas west of Midway Island were all the American sphere of influence. Even if they were not prepared at first, their troops were weak, or they could not draw enough troops to encircle and suppress them in a short time due to problems on the front line. However, if they got angry and the Japanese fleet did not withdraw immediately, it would be a matter of time to be caught. After all, it was in their territory, and the other party had absolute military strength, technical and logistics supply advantages.

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