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    On May 5, Republic 2783 (1943 AD), the largest naval battle since the beginning of the war between the United States and Japan broke out in the waters south of Port Elizabeth.  Originally, the main battlefield between the United States and Japan was on land in South Africa.  The U.S. Army and the Japanese Army were engaged in a bloody tug-of-war near the 25th parallel east longitude. At the same time, they dispatched a large number of bombers to desperately bomb Japanese bases on the southern border of Japan such as Pretoria and Francistown under the cover of fighter jets.  Military depots and transportation lines.  Japan also withdrew and bombed bases, military depots and transportation lines on the southern border of the United States.  The air forces and armies of both sides just strangled each other, with more than 10,000 casualties every day.  The Japanese army had the advantage in equipment and technology, and the US military had the advantage in production and cannon fodder, so the two sides were evenly matched.  However, Japan's air force advantage is too great. The partnership of FC-15 "Demon Owl" (prototype F-4D/E) and FC-14 "Phantom Eagle" (prototype Phantom F1), coupled with air-to-air missiles, caused heavy losses to US military aircraft.  American P-58, P-60 and other fighter jets are no match at all. Although the United States is also equipped with air-to-air missiles, their performance is far inferior. It usually takes two to five aircraft to kill one Japanese fighter.  Anyone familiar with the history of World War II knows that the biggest disadvantage of the Japanese aviation force in the original time and space was the lack of pilots. After the old batch of top fighters died, they would all be rookies.  But this level is different. New Japan fully imitated China's aviation club system, using cheap "socialist pesticide machines" and cheap fuel (price within the People's Revolutionary Federation) to train a large number of reserve pilots among the private sector.  The most important thing is that the Japanese Air Force's system has also changed. They no longer send their ace elites to be consumed. Most of the elites who have shot down more than 10 aircraft are ordered to withdraw from the front line and go to the rear to teach rookies.  So Japan in this plane is not too afraid of this kind of consumption, but the Americans can't stand it.  Of course, in addition to the above factors, there is another most important reason, which is that Japanese aircraft can be replenished nearby. Western Japan's industrial system is very complete, and its production capacity is among the top five in the world. Coupled with China's eccentric frames, new aircraft  Aircraft can continuously supply frontline needs.  The United States is different. Although they attach great importance to the three states in West Africa, they basically regard the three states in West Africa as raw material production areas and agricultural and animal husbandry areas. Although there are many industries, most of them are smelting, agricultural and animal husbandry product processing, etc.  Mainly upstream companies, but there is no such thing as the aviation industry.  Therefore, the aircraft they lost had to be sent across the Atlantic Ocean all the way from North America.  This is very fatal. Even if the industrial production capacity of the United States is ten times higher than that of Japan, it cannot send things to Africa at once.  What¡¯s even more terrible is the activity of German and Japanese submarines.  As mentioned before, the German wolves have already caused huge losses to the British and American camps.  Now that Japanese submarines have been added, this is even more fatal.  The performance of Japanese submarines in the original time and space was funny in World War II. It was not because their submarines were poor or their officers and soldiers were too bad, but because their tactics were wrong. They actually used submarines as battleships, mainly to attack enemy warships. This could have good results.  It¡¯s the grades that matter.  Due to changes in the strategic situation of New Japan in this plane, and having the Chinese boss as a learning object, it naturally adjusted its submarine tactics.  Nowadays, almost all Japanese submarines are of Chinese descent. They are all water-drop-shaped electric submarines with breathing tubes. They are equipped with inferior copper dragon batteries, which are better than the German ones.  Japanese wolves also imitated the Germans and ambushed the American transport fleet in the Atlantic Ocean.  "When these two families joined forces, they made the Yankees miserable."  The largest part of the current losses of US military fighter aircraft is not shot down or blown up by the Japanese and German air forces, but sunk by German and Japanese submarines while the transport ship was in an encapsulated, decomposed and transported state.  Submarines often only need to hit one or two torpedoes to destroy hundreds of US military fighters or tanks, which is much more efficient than the air force.  During this period, up to 70% of the aircraft lost by the United States were lost on shipping routes, and only 30% were lost in air battles.  In other words, the speed at which German and Japanese submarines destroyed U.S. aircraft was actually more than twice that of the two air forces.  No matter how rich the Americans are, they can't withstand this kind of tossing, so the air force in South Africa has declined.  After gradually gaining control of the air, the Japanese Army steadily expanded the occupied area through brutal shelling and carpet bombing of cities, as well as the heroic fighting of its Army soldiers. By April 1943, the Japanese Army had captured Port Elizabeth.  , advancing to the Cape Province border.  The U.S. and Australian troops were compressed into the Cape and Northern Cape provinces in southwestern South Africa.  The civilian casualties in South Africa have exceeded 1.5 million, accounting for more than 30% of the total population.  If it were just the South African government, it would have surrendered, but now the US military has firmly controlled the South African government, forcing it to continue fighting and losing blood.  In order to open up the situation, the U.S. military desperately strengthened itsAlthough Western escort forces have not found a way to completely eradicate electric submarines, a large number of escorts and air suppression have also controlled the loss of merchant ships so that they will not increase.  The United States, which had taken a breather, also learned the lesson. While establishing aviation companies in West Africa, in order to start construction as soon as possible, they directly packed up domestic aircraft factories and shipped them to Africa for reassembly.  At the same time, a large number of new aircraft were also transported to the African front.  Such a cruel tug-of-war is not what the United States wants to see, but they do not have the advantage in terms of land and air force, whether in numbers or equipment, so they decided to open the situation from the sea.  MacArthur, the commander-in-chief of the American Volunteer Army, decided to conduct an unprecedented landing operation at East London Port in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, so as to cut off the supplies to the Japanese front line.  If this Japanese Southern Front Army led by Yamashita Tomofumi can be annihilated, the situation can be reversed.  To land, it is natural to control the sea, and the Japanese will certainly not wait foolishly for American soldiers to land. The Japanese navy is the fifth in the world.  So the United States dispatched a large number of fleets to Africa. They didn't even care about the Pacific, and dispatched 80% of the Pacific Fleet's strength.  On May 5, the fleets of the United States and Japan engaged in the largest sea and air battle since the war began in the southern Indian Ocean.  This battle was not only a battle between the navies, but also the armies and air forces of the two countries.  In this war, the United States invested 18 battleships, 9 regular aircraft carriers, 9 light aircraft carriers, 12 heavy cruisers and hundreds of light cruisers and destroyers.  Japan was not bad either. Their navy was almost fully mobilized, dispatching all 16 battleships, 12 regular aircraft carriers, 4 light aircraft carriers, 10 heavy cruisers and hundreds of light cruisers and destroyers.  From the paper data, the two sides have almost the same troop strength and similar tonnage.  However, Japan's carrier-based aircraft are more advanced, and they also have anti-ship missiles. In the eyes of military experts from China and the People's Revolutionary League, the Yankees must be on their knees.  But the result of the battle made the experts break their glasses. Japan actually lost this sea and air battle, and it also allowed the Yankees to successfully land in East London Port.  The biggest reason is that the United States uses a secret weapon-bird-controlled anti-ship missiles!  To put it bluntly, this kind of thing is the bird version of the Sakura bomb, using homing pigeons that have been trained to identify warships to replace humans in controlling the missiles.  The Yankees also discovered that it would be more effective if the homing pigeons were drugged before the attack.  As a result, these drugged carrier pigeon "pilots" became a nightmare for the Japanese Navy.  "The bird-controlled anti-ship missile" is not worth mentioning to put it bluntly, that is, there is a lens in the front of the missile to transmit the target image to the internal screen, so that specially trained pigeons can identify it by pecking at the screen.  When the position of the pigeon's peck coincides with the center of the screen, the missile flies straight.  When the pigeon pecks off-center, the screen tilts, triggering the flight controls and causing the missile to change direction.  A missile is controlled by three pigeons. When the three pigeons disagree, the principle of "minority obeys the majority" is implemented.  The Americans in the original time and space also tried this thing, but failed shamefully.  The main reason was that the electronic components at that time were not good enough and could easily cause problems. Moreover, the pigeons often identified the wrong targets and could easily blow up their own warships.  But this plane is different. The electronic components are more advanced. They are real missiles, not rockets in the original space and time.  Moreover, the United States changed three pigeons into one, and also came up with the idea of ??taking drugs to increase judgment and reaction.  In other words, the bird-controlled anti-ship missile in this plane has two control systems, one is the pigeon, and the other is the missile's own system. The pigeon only plays a supporting role.  ¡°In fact, even the Americans themselves are not sure of the consequences of this, but they can¡¯t care less about the current situation.  They prepared 400 bird-controlled anti-ship missiles, which were carried by bombers and were on standby at high altitudes far away from their own fleets. Before the fleets of the two armies came into contact, they released these bird-controlled anti-ship missiles together with more than 200 other types of anti-ship missiles.  .  Although the Japanese Navy also conducted anti-missile drills, the Japanese Navy, which had never experienced saturation bombing by missiles, was stunned. Missiles fell from the sky like a meteor shower.  Although Japanese aircraft and anti-aircraft firepower tried their best to intercept, they were able to stop about half of them.  In the end, the Japanese navy was sunk and damaged more than 50 ships.  But the U.S. fleet did not fare well, and Japan also used ship-based and air-dropped anti-ship missiles to retaliate hard against the Yankees.  Although Japan did not launch that many missiles this time, the United States' anti-missile technology is even worse.  In the end, the United States was also sunk and damaged more than 80 warships and transport ships of various types.  ¡°But Admiral Takeo Kurita, commander of the Japanese Navy¡¯s Combined Fleet, was afraid of being hit like this again, so he ordered the fleet to turn in.  Although the US fleet and landing troops also suffered heavy losses, they successfully achieved the strategic goal of landing.
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