Chapter 549 The final choice

Nimitz's future military career will also lead to the final result because of this order. If the action is successful, he will be exempted from punishment for sacrificing small interests in exchange for big interests.

But once it fails, he will lose the support of the big interests and will be sent to the military court.

Once again, Nimitz felt a deep sense of powerlessness and humiliation. He was not so humiliated or powerless when he was commanding the fleet and the Japanese fleet in the Midway Battle.

In the past, Japan's naval strength was indeed pretty good, but it did not fall into the dilemma of being passively beaten or even choosing cannon fodder victims to ensure the safety of the main force of the fleet.

In front of the new Chinese navy, he truly tasted this humiliation and powerlessness for the first time. What made Nimitz feel particularly uncomfortable was that the number of the opponent's fleet was several times smaller or even dozens of times smaller than his tonnage, and there were not even light battleships in the Chinese expeditionary fleet.

In other words, it is such an opponent whose tonnage is far smaller than that of the US fleet, but he beat a giant combat group to flee like a dog.

Nimitz had nowhere to extricate his anger and resentment. He had also imagined that when the huge mixed fleet formed by two special mixed fleets suffered most of the losses, he would attack the Chinese expeditionary fleet that was pursuing him, and use the cannons of the mixed fleet to teach the arrogant Chinese a lesson.

Unfortunately, this idea was denied by itself in the end. This is because the Chinese dared to use such a small tonnage and a small number of troops to pursue them with fearless advantage, and this advantage is precisely to ensure their own air defense capabilities and long-range ship attack capabilities.

As an outstanding and meticulous US Navy chief Nimitz, the idea is indeed good. If you play artillery battles with the US fleet, you cannot say that you suffer a loss. It should be said that the destruction of the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet must be the one who destroyed it.

The largest caliber artillery in the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet has only one or two five caliber, and it cannot be compared with the American warship with an arbitrary caliber of eight inches and two or three caliber.

However, Chinese naval warships will not play artillery battles with the US Navy's super battleships at all. Even if they don't know how far the Chinese cigar weapons can hit, they are definitely more than 100 kilometers.

Although the giant cannons on the battleships are far away, they are definitely not reaching this distance. As long as the Chinese fleet maintains a sufficient distance, they continue to use their cigar weapons to attack battleships with insufficient range.

Even if a 100,000-ton battleship came, it would have to be beaten and eventually sunk in front of a missile ship with only 5,000-ton.

The only submarine that can attack these annoying pursuers across this distance is needless to mention. It only has a few knots of speed underwater. The submarine that only uses direct torpedoes to attack before entering the attack area can avoid the torpedo and throw the submarine far away after a turn.

There are only aircraft, only aircraft can attack these pursuers.

But second, the fourth mixed fleet is a fleet that has basically exhausted air power and is waiting for new blood to be injected into it. It is a bit difficult to protect yourself, let alone attacks.

Even if the two fleets of aircraft are still full and one is still undamaged, facing the automatic attack of the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet, I dare not say that I will definitely win.

After all, protecting oneself and one’s future interests is the most important thing in the hearts of Westerners. What kind of country and justice are considered a bird in front of one’s own lives!

The most difficult order is the second half of the order. It is the most difficult thing to select some warships from the mixed fleet to intercept and counterattack the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet.

Is this different from those guys who committed suicide attacks in Japan some time ago?

The abandoned will naturally have the awareness of the abandoned ones, and for these complex interception and attack warships, this is a life-and-death judgment that orders them to die!

For pursuers, the thing they hate most is these blockers who jump out of their own happiness during the pursuit and hunting process!

"Execute command! The attack list is as follows???????"

Words jumped out of the words from the commander of the mixed fleet, and the fate of warships and sailors on the warships were written on the life and death verdict as the words in the commander's mouth.

When this order and list were announced to the entire fleet through the fleet communication system, everyone in the mixed fleet was silent. The lost-selected people changed from nervousness and anxiety to joy from hell to heaven.

And the chosen one is despair, helplessness and loss...

Only those who have experienced great joy and sorrow can feel this kind of mood slightly, and only feel it slightly, because they cannot know that this is the feeling of two mentalities of life and death...

However, no matter how complicated the mood is, the order is still the order. The warships selected to be cannon fodder intercept the pursuers turned to the detached fleet formation under their complex mentality and the more complex mentality and gaze of the lucky ones.

On two destroyers with completely different fates, the selected cannon fodder destroyer slowed down and the other destroyer continued to move forward and fled the battlefield.

Among the people standing on the decks of the two destroyers, two twin brothers are celebrating their life and death.

Affected by the tragedy of the triplets serving on the warship at the same time and being sunk by the Japanese devils, this regulation is to prevent brothers in the army from serving in the same unit or on the same warship to avoid the death of the whole family's children. However, today, this situation of witnessing the separation of brothers and yin and yang has made the American soldiers who witnessed all this heartbroken.

Due to the difference in position and direction of the two warships, one from the bow to the stern, and the other from the stern to the bow, making a final farewell to each other.

The brother who was selected to be cannon fodder asked his younger brother to live well and must go back alive to take care of his elderly mother; the other one cried and shouted that he would let his brother jump out of the boat and go home with him.

The scene made many American sailors who witnessed all this cry. The powerful US Navy actually wanted to fight with this way of life and death?

But all this happened so truly before my own eyes. This scene of pain before life and death became the main plot of Western films in some post-war films and television works.

The first movie "The Battle of Augusta" filmed this scene has turned this scene into a classic on the screen.

The Americans' life-and-death choice also affected the Chinese army. The news obtained from the early warning aircraft immediately made the expeditionary fleet Su Qiaoen difficult, and the other party's actions also made Su Qiaoen difficult to make a decision.

Should we give priority to the fight against the main ships of the mixed fleet that continue to flee? Or should we focus on the fight against the American ships that come to intercept and die?

It is not difficult to fight the American ships that came to die. It is only a matter of time to wipe out these warships that died. But it is precisely this problem that has stumped itself. If you fight for too long, you will let the opponent's main warships escape. Without destroying these warships that fight to the death, the expeditionary fleet will face the situation where the opponent's warships are close to the back cannon strike.

Use missile ships like their own fleet with low defense and warships with opposing giant cannons and thick armor to play artillery battles? Even if Lei Mingze is killed, he won’t do this!

The command center also divided two different opinions. One side believed that it was impossible to be greedy and could not eat. Now, with the power-damaged US warships, together with the warships that came to die and intercepted, the Expeditionary Fleet has created a very impressive record, and there is no need to continue to be greedy too much.

If the expeditionary fleet ships are damaged due to too much greed, it would be quite a waste. The other side is obviously the supporters of the main ships who continue to hunt down the main ships. After all, from the news from the early warning aircraft and some attack aircraft that the US fleet commanders chose mostly old warships and destroyers with small tonnage, light cruisers, and the main warships with newer technological content and combat effectiveness, all of them escaped.

Even if it is completely wiped out these old warships, it doesn’t make much sense. With the strong industrial foundation and shipbuilding strength of the United States, this kind of battle is actually just to clean up old and defective products for the US Navy.

The two different opinions quickly became quarrels, and Lei Mingze, who had been listening to the content of these disputes and the reasons for the argument, also kept saying nothing. This was the old practice of the senior strategic decision-making of the Chinese army.

Before the overall strategic plan was finalized, everyone would brainstorm discussions with various methods, methods and thinking to design and discuss the most.

At this time, there is no difference in size and level of military rank. As long as you have your own opinions and opinions, even new recruits who have just joined the army for three months can express their opinions and opinions. This is exactly the case!

"All discussions have been completed?"

Seeing the plan gradually being removed from the discussion, leaving only two of the command center members who continued to discuss, Lei Mingze knew that it was time for him to finally decide which plan he would decide.

As soon as he spoke, he quickly calmed down in the command center, which was still arguing about the whole time, listening to which plan Lei Mingze finally chose.

"It is indeed worthy of praise for the Americans to be beaten like this and forced them to make such decisions that go against their morals and values. This is the best way to solve the current difficulties facing the mixed fleet. I believe that when this order is issued, the American commander is under how much pressure and unacceptable psychological trauma is under."

"And all this was created by the joint efforts of all the soldiers and commanders of our Expeditionary Fleet. I am here first, thank you everyone!"

Lei Mingze's standard salute made the atmosphere of the command center suddenly become solemn. They knew that after joining the army, the general who grew up from an ordinary sailor to become the commander of the most popular expeditionary fleet in China now.

Although many people were very jealous of his position, when they touched their conscience and their command level, many people still sighed and acknowledged that Lei Mingze would take the position of commander of the expeditionary fleet.

"At the same time, I would like to thank you. In such a naval battle with a totally disproportionate number and tonnage, our Chinese expeditionary fleet was several times different from the opponent's tonnage, and tens of times, and only the more critical personnel who broke their tails and fled like geckos, that is, those scientific and technological workers expressed their deepest gratitude. They were the research and creation of advanced weapons such as missiles and jets, so that we could achieve such easy results!"

Another salute made the weapons research scientists in the command center pound and their hearts were pounding.

"The choice we are facing now is very difficult. No matter which one we choose, it is a crucial choice for our fleet and our country. I am very happy that everyone is observing from various angles and discussing the results and results of the two choices. I also know clearly which result will lay the groundwork for our China to fight against the world's powerful navies in the next few years."

"It is precisely because of this that I cannot accept that the retainer only wants to preserve the current irrelevant results, nor can I accept that the chasing party will allow our country to let these elite warships be damaged and continue to expand the results and increase the pursuit of their own casualties."

Lei Mingze's words on both sides made many people unable to figure out their minds at once, but these people didn't say anything because they knew that the commander must have his own intention and foreshadowing when he said these words.

"So I decided: I will adopt the advantages of both of you and face the disadvantages of both of you."

"Order: Four Jiao-class missile cruisers, Feijiao, Linjiao, Guijiao, Qingjiao, under the cover of the fleet, break through the opponent's suicide intercepting fleet, and launch the most attacks on the US fleeing fleet on their own! The remaining ships cover the four main missile ships to break through the opponent's interception blockade line! This time, we do not have to retain our strength, but directly bring infinite fear and despair to the enemy in the most violent way!"

In desperation, Lei Mingze still made this compromise decision. This is a key battle to whether the Chinese Navy can rise and cannot be missed!

In Australia not far away, the aggressiveness of the Chinese Army also caused Patton, the commander of the US Army aid to Australia, to feel a headache. The successive failures made him look extremely haggard.

Standing outside the command center, Patton looked west. Several fighter jets flew through the sky from time to time, but even without a telescope or model, you can know that these fighter jets are definitely not Americans.

But now, American fighter jets have even reached the point where they cannot even pass the front line, and the right to speak in the sky has been firmly controlled by the Chinese Air Force.

In order to ensure this absolute air supremacy, the Chinese even sent several teams of bombers to the rear of the Australian and American coalition positions, and washed the last several airports with cloud bombs.

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Chapter completed!