Chapter 107 give up when you don't have to

The new plan is to concentrate all the battleships including the "Yamato" and use the method of naval artillery to directly seize Midway Island during the daytime of the next day. Using battleships to capture Midway Island would have been a bold and clever strategy before the aircraft carrier of the mobile force was destroyed, but it is too late now. Yamamoto resolutely rejected this plan: "This battle is coming to an end. Fighting a war is like playing chess. When playing chess, you should retreat when you retreat. Too much fighting and confrontation will cause the consequences of losing everything."

Ugaki also expressed strong opposition.The United Fleet has lost its aircraft carrier group, and in addition to the carrier-based aircraft, the U.S. military also has the remaining land-based aviation forces on the island, as well as a basically intact airport. Eliminated by U.S. aviation and submarine forces. Needless to say about other battles, the end of the British Far East Fleet in the Malaysian naval battle is a clear proof. What a powerful battleship the "Prince of Wales" "countered" was, wasn't it sent into the bottom of the sea by a torpedo plane? It was the United Fleet that sent the British battleships to the bottom of the sea. Because they had operated on others, they were extremely sensitive about the fact that they would also be sent to the operating table.

Ugaki is in depression, he will not be as gentle, courteous and frugal as Yamamoto, but directly use machine gun-like sharp words to continue to explain Yamamoto's "chess theory": "In a game of chess, the game is doomed, and you have to fight hard again and again. Only a fool with a brain would make such a move!" Hitting people don't slap people in the face, cursing people don't expose faults, but Yu Yuan takes both of them.Even if the planner really had Han Xin and Zhang Liang's plan, he would have been so frightened that he retracted his neck at this moment.

It was almost dawn, and it was not going to hit Midway, which meant that the United Fleet had to swallow the bitter fruit of failure.Someone said: "Just withdraw it like this, we can't explain to His Majesty the Emperor." As soon as the emperor was mentioned, everyone habitually returned to the old tune, some were ashamed, some were sad and indignant, most of them burst into tears, sobbing that their throats were choked, and they couldn't even breathe. Yamamoto didn't cry, but he might be more sad and painful than the crying person. After a while, he finally spoke in a slow and heavy tone: "Leave it to me. I will apologize to the Emperor. The responsibility is all on my shoulders."

Just waiting for this sentence, Yamamoto finished his sentence, and the whole room dispersed. "Yamato" then issued a signal to "cancel the Battle of Midway Island" and ordered all ministries to withdraw westward, leaving the US airspace area of ​​Midway Island.Layton had predicted that Yamamoto would stick to the end and would not withdraw until he achieved his goal, but this time, he guessed wrong. In fact, Yamamoto did not have to give up at all.Continuing the fight is not as simple as saving face or how to plead guilty to the emperor, but that he does still have a lot of chances of winning.

Not to mention that the Midway Island Air Force has no power to parry. As far as the surface forces are concerned, Yamamoto's troops and firepower still greatly exceed the task force. With the Kondo and Takasu forces, he can at least regroup one heavy aircraft carrier , 3 small aircraft carriers, with 50 "zero" fighters and 60 bombers, its air power is enough to fight. Before, Yamamoto overestimated his own ability and underestimated the opponent's ability, and now the opposite happened again.He didn't know that the game of chess wasn't over yet, and it wasn't time for him to concede defeat either.

When a person loses his spirit, he loses his last chance to equalize. On the morning of June 5, 1942, after discovering that the United Fleet was retreating westward, Spruance immediately pursued it.By June 6, the carrier-based aircraft finally caught up with the pair of Japanese sister ships "Mogami" and "Mikuma". This pair of warships is a heavy cruiser, and it is also nicknamed "deceitful cruiser".On the surface, they are manufactured according to the regulations of the London Maritime Conference, but in fact, their specifications and firepower far exceed the rated standards. Any American battleship at Pearl Harbor is not as long as them, so that the American planes looked away and thought it was Japanese. What about battleships?

When receiving the retreat order, "Mogami" and "Mikuma" had already been injured due to a collision with each other by mistake. It means that they had broken two tendons in their legs before they started running, so it was naturally difficult to escape the pursuit. Since there is no "zero" type to escort it, the US pilots can almost do whatever they want when attacking, and the dive bombing is more accurate and effective. One pilot muttered: "Look, it's on fire... It's like catching a turtle in a jar, it's easy to fight these devils." Another pilot shouted: "Tojo, you bastard, send other warships too , I still clean them up one by one."

The conversations of the pilots could be monitored from the bridge of the aircraft carrier, and Spruance listened with delight.Knowing that Nimitz also loves to listen to these "Quotations from Private Soldiers" in private, he specially asked someone to copy a copy and send it to Nimitz. Both "Mogami" and "Mikuma" were hit by many bombs. The difference between them is that "Mogami" sank after being rescued, while "Mikuma" sank. This is the largest ship sunk except for aircraft carriers since the beginning of the Pacific War A Japanese warship.

After receiving the order to abandon the ship, Lieutenant Masao Koyama, the main gun commander of the "Mikuma", chose to commit suicide by caesarean section.Koyama was not even the deputy captain, and he had nothing to do with the responsibility for the sinking of the warship, so he became a national hero of Japan just like Yamaguchi when he died. The Americans smirked again. Mountain passes, hills, and the like are brave generals. Wouldn't it be easier to fight in future battles if more people died like this? A society that requires too much of people's moral standards will often have the opposite effect.After the U.S. military is captured, although they will not forcefully resist, they often refuse to disclose core secrets until their death, such as the U.S. pilots who were unfortunately captured during the air raid on Tokyo.Because they couldn't pry their mouths open, the Japanese side couldn't figure out the specific method of the US air strike for a long time.

The Japanese army is the other way around. Usually, it seems that one commits suicide and the other has caesarean section, but the typical ones are typical after all. Many people still don’t get this opportunity, and once they are captured, they will end up miserable after returning to China. What awaits them is not to do it. Heroes, but bears, no matter in society or in the family, they will be disgusted, and none of their relatives and friends think highly of them. When the psychological bottom line collapsed, the Japanese prisoners usually reported their false names, and then they were willing to say anything, as long as they knew it-before they were captured, the officers always ordered them to fight to the death, and they never taught them how to be prisoners. Nor was it told what they could not say or do. This was the case with a third-class marine engineer captured on "Mikuma". When he was interrogated, he not only knew everything, but when asked what he would do in the future, he also frankly expressed his willingness to stay in the United States.