Late at night, two fleets of attacking each other advance in the same sea area. Mitchell issued a speed order that the fleet aircraft carrier will advance at 26 knots and the escort aircraft carrier will advance at 18 knots. Although the fleet will be separated into two echelons in the short term, it is still within a controllable range, because it is expected that the fleet will start to turn back after 8 o'clock in the morning, and the distance between more than 60 knots will be opened in 8 hours, which is less than 100 kilometers. This is only a few minutes for fighters taking off from the escort aircraft carrier, and there is no big problem.

According to the changes in combat experience, aircraft carrier operations have now generally become a routine of escorting aircraft carriers with pure fighters, and aircraft carriers with multiple attack aircraft. As for the cross-platform tactics and bevel-angle aircraft carrier design used by Japan and Germany, American experts have also fully understood it and conducted on-site verification during the training and running-in of the Atlantic Fleet. Nimitz, Spruins, Mitchell and others personally stared at the aircraft using modified ships for experiments, and kept nodding and complimenting the effect, believing it was a genius and extremely creative idea.

The ultimate reason why the British and American joint fleet lost in the "unexpected" naval battle was also clarified: it was not that the Germans were madly attacking at one time, but that they used new tactics!

In terms of the absorption of advanced tactical experience and equipment, the United States is not conservative, and even follows up and learns quickly. Any good things that can be found can be quickly launched, such as the seized German Iron Fist rocket, such as the stg43 that fell into the hands of the US military in the first Bermuda Battle. There are imitations soon. The quality can be discussed, but the level of solving the problem is unique to the United States, and its strong industrial capacity gives it extremely abnormal mass production capabilities.

For example, the United States got the physical objects and drawings of the IS1\2 tank from Stalin, and the relatively complete wreckage of the Tiger tank. Although the same thing cannot be cloned, the m26/sp that grafted the Soviet chassis has now completely formed a mass production scale. The "Red Army Working Group" who came to help the work was stunned. Given that Germany launched the more powerful Tiger 2 and Leopard tanks, the United States has strengthened its armor and improved its artillery on the basis of the m26 to form an m26/e4 (Super Pershing), which increased the tonnage from 41 tons to 45 tons, has thicker armor and a brand new t15e1 type 90mm cannon with higher initial velocity. The ordnance experts swear that after using the new armor-piercing bomb, they can penetrate the Tiger armor at a distance of 2,000 meters, and ensure mutual destruction with Tiger 2 within a range of 1,500 meters.

Since Germany also created the 128mm caliber Tiger 3, the deeply stimulated US military launched an m46 based on the Super Pershing, weighing more than 50 tons. It uses a 105mm tank gun that is exactly the same as the t28/95 test super heavy tank. In order to commemorate George Patton, who died in the South American battle, it is preparing to name this tank Patton.

In addition to the continuous deepening of the field of medium-sized and heavy tanks, the United States found out from some corner the performance data of Germany's subsequent super-heavy tank lion-type and mouse-type, and also learned from the Russian population that the other party brought 122mm or even 152mm cannons onto the tank. Under great stimulation, relying on the data of test tanks such as t95, they finally built all prototype vehicles such as t29 and t30: the t29 weighed nearly 70 tons, and used 105mm tank guns, which were still within a barely acceptable range, but the t30 weighed nearly 90 tons, and the inclined armor thickness exceeded 240mm (equivalent to 400mm vertical armor). It was equipped with a 155mm cannon used on a cruiser, known as a land cruiser.

In the Americans' vision, t30 is used to fight against rats, while t29 is intended to compete with lions.

In order to solve the 90 tons of T30, the US military also used 4 tracks ingeniously. In the equipment department's plan, by September 1945, the t29 must be completed 300 vehicles and t30 must be completed 100 vehicles. However, American experts still have the last point of self-knowledge, knowing that the weight and speed of the t30 are absolutely not good for tank warfare, and it is still possible to act as a destructive fortification and concealed anti-tank gun.

Although Germany failed to lead the Americans in the field of jet heavy bombers, it finally led the Americans in the field of heavy tanks.

The Army is desperately learning the German army's tricks, and the Navy is no exception. This time, Mitchell proposed a shuttle bombing tactic after in-depth study. It was highly praised by the Joint Conference and also broke the views of many generals on Mitchell's "cowardly fighting", "fearing war" and "avoiding war".

Now, the two fleets are getting closer at a speed of more than 40 kilometers per hour. And since Ozawa commanded the fleet to set off from 8 pm, running 4 hours more than Mitchell, the distance between the two sides at 12 o'clock was not the estimated 1,000 kilometers of the US military, but only less than 900 kilometers. In addition, the continuous closer after nightfall, by 4 a.m., the distance between the two sides had narrowed to only over 700 kilometers.

Under the cover of night, the fleets of both the United States and Germany did not know that their opponents had been fully dispatched, and were still preparing with all their hearts and planning to give their opponent a sudden blow.

Since the German army was deployed in the early morning attack and the US army was deployed in the early morning attack, the German army first dispatched. At around 3 o'clock, when the US fleet was carrying out pre-war preparations, the huge Axis fleet had released the first attack wave and planned to attack Puerto Rico. Earlier, the location was further away, and the Luftwaffe aircraft group that had been deployed in Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago set out in advance.

At 4:45 am on March 15, at Puerto Rico Airport, the US military aircraft group preparing to attack was in full swing. The ground crews were busy pushing the aircraft out of the hangar, then filled up one by one, and loading bombs or secondary fuel tanks. At 4 o'clock before this, 12 B29s who were in the reconnaissance mission had taken off first. They will go to the Bolamar line for searching for 6:15, which is the approximately sunrise time of that day. They can just arrive at the search waters. According to Mitchell's tactical deployment, at 5:30, the Puerto Rico attack aircraft group took off, at 6:00, the aircraft carrier combat group took off, at 6:30, the aircraft carrier formation turned around, and all attack aircraft groups will relied on the direction guided by the reconnaissance aircraft in the middle to correct the route and launch attacks.

In order to eliminate the main German forces in one fell swoop, Mitchell made a big bet. The aircraft carrier formation had a total of 750 aircraft, which he divided into two echelons, dispatching a total of 400 aircraft; Puerto Rico has a total of 500 aircraft. Except for aircraft that cannot operate long distances, the remaining 350 aircraft must be dispatched. He is preparing to use 750 huge aircraft to submerge the axial fleet.

His idea is logical: even if he cannot completely eliminate his opponent, he can at least protect the 7 hard-won fleet aircraft carriers in his hands. In another two months, the strength of the Atlantic Fleet will increase to 9. As one rises and the other falls, he believes that the balance of advantage will gradually tilt.

4:47, Puerto Rico radar station suddenly issued an emergency report: "32 unknown targets, speeds of 750 km/h!, distances of 175 km and altitude of 8,000 meters!"

"Hey, is this a German jet?" Major General Josenal, who was commanding on the scene in Puerto Rico, cursed, "How did they touch it?"

"Sir, we must let the fleet take off urgently, and at the same time let the fighter planes find ways to intercept it."

“Emergency takeoff!”

"All aircraft that completed the oil bomb replenishment mission took off urgently!"

Although I can't figure out what these 32 planes are, Josenal still issued a combat order.

Five minutes later, the radar station reported more data in fear: "The large group of aircraft is approaching, with no less than 200 aircraft, with a speed of 500 kilometers, a distance of 160 kilometers, and an altitude of 6,500 meters."

Looking at the large shiny spots on the screen, Josenna felt his throat dry and his lips bitter, and he was afraid of whatever he was going to go.

"Take off at full speed, take off" he waved his arms while shouting, "Send a telegram to the Navy to inform us that we are about to be attacked."

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