"I know, you want me to complete this with two battles, but I can tell you that only when we divide the troops will the Japanese army gather in the eastern part of the island will divide the troops. If we fight in the plateau area, we are actually an advantage because our weapons and equipment are better! We must give full play to our advantage in the advantages of our troops, launch attacks on multiple battlefields at the same time, and disperse the Japanese army's forces. We can gain a greater advantage. If we only have one goal, then the Japanese army will only have one defensive target. Do you understand?" Pershing paused and continued.

"There are also weather factors. The weather will be very beneficial to us in the future. There may be light rain, cloudy days and thick fog, which can effectively weaken the Japanese army's firepower. After this period, it will be difficult for us to find better weather."

"So, no matter how many difficulties there are, we must launch a battle at the same time and launch an offensive on the battlefield where the two Japanese troops cannot give up! So, now our goal is how to convince the Navy to solve our current fire support problem."

"Let's have a meeting, we, the Navy, and the Germans, together with us, together, will solve the problem in front of us like a way to solve the problem in front of us." Marshall said.

"Okay, we must solve this problem. You can contact the navy and the Germans now, and we will have a meeting tonight." Pershing said. In fact, Pershing was unwilling to hold this meeting, not to say that he had a bad political view of the Germans. In fact, if you only talk about personal relationships, whether it is Major General Karls or General Su Xiong of the German Army Officer Corps, Pershing has a good relationship with them. He is a very good friend.

However, if we discuss military issues together, there is no doubt that Su Xiong is the main one in the German army, and Su Xiong is the navy, so when considering the issue, he will definitely prefer Benson rather than himself. In this way, not to mention whether there is a way, at least the support he requested will inevitably shrink. However, the current situation is that this conference room must be opened, because he vaguely felt that if the Japanese fleet issue that Benson was concerned about, Benson would never let go of the issue of fire support...

"The Japanese Navy can't hold it in anymore." At the same time, on the flagship of the German fleet, Weimar, Su Xiong was evaluating the current situation with his chief of staff, Redel, and Major General Karls, the commander of the German Army Officer Regiment. After analyzing a large amount of data, Su Xiong and Redel vaguely felt that a large-scale war at sea was about to begin!

The US Navy has tried its best, and it is not his fault for the current battle situation! Is it really idle because the US Navy is idle? Of course it is impossible! In fact, colleagues who provided fire cover for the landing troops on the front, the submarine force and destroyer forces are actually very active. They conducted several assaults and ambush operations against the narrow waterway between New Ireland and New Britain!

Of course, submarines attack by setting up in the daytime, while destroyers sneak in at night to see if they can attack Japanese naval ships in the port and throw a bunch of mines. You must know that after passing through the barrier area of ​​New Ireland, the destroyer troops are very likely to encounter patrol ships of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

The so-called "will not be wet when you walk by the river often. The destroyer teams of both sides have really fought several times. In less than twenty days, the destroyer teams of both sides fought four times. Ten American destroyers sank, and five severely damaged, while the Japanese destroyer troops sank four, and six more were severely damaged.

Then, the Americans calculated it themselves and felt that they had made money now! This kind of battle can continue! What? You said that Americans learned mathematics from physical education teachers? Please, the number of US Navy destroyers is at least three times that of the Japanese Navy! The battlefield exchange ratio is two to three. Tell me, if you continue to fight like this, who will have a better advantage in the future?

And don't forget that American destroyers have to lay mines in the past, but these mines have indeed made the Japanese feel quite a headache! So far, according to the intelligence provided by the US submarines, the mines laid by the US Navy have at least killed more than double-digit Japanese transport ships! This includes a troop transport ship! These losses may not be anything to a real big country, but it is already very painful for Japan. And the most important thing is that because of the continuous mine laying of American submarines and destroyers, the Japanese must constantly clear mines and also guard against possible attacks. In fact, there have been serious problems in the transportation of New Ireland. This can be seen from the assessment of the daily consumption of Japanese ammunition in Major General Karls! The consumption of large-caliber artillery shells has dropped significantly. Otherwise, even with the suppression of long-range artillery on land, how could Pershing be so easy to mobilize a large number of troops under the gpf muzzle?

Of course, it is too early to conclude from this perspective that the Japanese Navy must attack. The Japanese army's supply was difficult, but it was not insurmountable. Therefore, in order to confirm whether this speculation was accurate, Su Xiong and others must also jump out of this battle and judge the Japanese army's mode of action from a strategic perspective.

Benson and Pershing are concerned about the landing ground and nearby waters, while Su Xiong and others are concerned about the Japanese joint fleet! There is no way, Su Xiong is from a navy and has experienced all kinds of combat experiences exceeding three digits! (Although most of them are transport ships.) They have also done things to survive in death. Therefore, after the baptism of war, Su Xiong is unusually sensitive to naval changes!

After several aviation reconnaissances, he found that the number of Japanese destroyers was abnormal! It was not that too much, but that it was less! The US reconnaissance aircraft troops have never given up tracking the Japanese joint fleet. Although the losses are huge, they can provide some direct information. In addition, through the reconnaissance of submarines, Su Xiong vaguely felt that the patrol density of Japanese destroyers was declining. The number of destroyers accompanied by the main fleet was also declining! After counting the damage to war and possible replacements, this number is still wrong. So now the problem is, where did the Japanese destroyers go?

"If the Americans' war report is correct, then with our submarines, in the month when the war started, our two countries killed at least 120,000 tons of Japanese transport ship tonnage. Although this is incomparable to the Imperial Navy's record of killing more than 800,000 tons in a month, it is definitely enough for the Japanese to feel unbearable. Therefore, I think some destroyers in the Japanese joint fleet have gone to carry out escort missions." Redell said the most critical sentence!

In short, the fleets of the United States and Japan are on the front line, and the battles in the rear are not idle! The U.S. and German submarine forces have already made a deep hole in Japan's maritime traffic line! Finally, the Japanese Navy cannot help but rely on how to plug the leak!
Chapter completed!