Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 2935 Nimitz's gift
The Americans actually abandoned the ship and fled, which Chen Shichang, Bian Jingdao, and the student pilots who were carrying out the third wave of bombing missions could never have imagined.Perhaps it can be understood that the Americans did this because they absorbed the experience and lessons of the Pearl Harbor naval battle.In the Pearl Harbor naval battle, how many ships the U.S. Pacific Fleet lost is another matter. The real fatal blow to the U.S. Navy was the death of a large number of soldiers and crew members with combat experience and rich sailing experience. However, due to the lack of veterans and old sailors, the combat power of the Pacific Fleet has not been able to recover before the war. After being humiliated twice, its commander, Admiral Jin, summed up his experience and came to this conclusion.That is to say, their subsequent failures were not due to ships and technology, but to the quality of soldiers and crews.A lesson learned from a pitfall, and now, when the Americans discovered that the naval battle in French Guiana was irreversible, from Truman to Nimitz, they immediately made what seemed to be the most correct decision.Abandon the guarantor.

For Nimitz, even if he has the most correct reasons, even if he can convince himself rationally, it is still a very painful thing to really do this.Perhaps, this can also be understood as the reason why he abandoned so many heavy cruisers and light cruisers but wanted to take this light cruiser USS Cleveland.He hoped to prove by keeping this light cruiser that he did not really give up the entire fleet.Of course, there is another possibility.Because the speed of the Cleveland-class light cruiser is faster, perhaps he thought that taking this cruiser would not affect the retreat of the entire team.

The facts proved him wrong.Of course, it can also be understood that the Chinese pilots are too confused.

The Chinese pilots let go of so many heavy cruisers and light cruisers that stopped quietly and obediently, and they took aim at the light cruiser USS Cleveland that Nimitz was riding on as soon as they came up.

After the war, sensitive Chinese journalists interviewed several Chinese pilots on this issue.A few years later, when Nimitz saw the video materials of these interviews, the old American was so angry that he almost died of a relapse of STD.

The following is a Chinese pilot's answer at the time - "Our original target was those big ships, but because we were not attacked by these big ships from the beginning, we thought that the resistance of these big ships had been destroyed, of course We need to find another valuable attack target."

Nimitz did it thoroughly, ordering everyone to transfer to small ships such as destroyers or simply escape directly in lifeboats.It cannot be said that his order was wrong.The problem is that the group of Chinese fighter planes came here to destroy the combat power of the Atlantic Fleet. Since they encountered no resistance, they naturally wanted to search for more valuable targets.As a result, the light cruiser USS Cleveland, which is overcrowded and the largest among the escape ships, naturally became the most eye-catching target.

In terms of air defense capabilities, the Cleveland light cruiser is actually not weak.But the so-called two fists are difficult to defeat many hands, facing dozens of Chinese fighter planes, no matter how strong their air defense firepower is, they will only be killed in the end.

Therefore, unlike Spruance who quickly left the battlefield on a destroyer, Nimitz was finally rescued by an American submarine on the bridge.

Nimitz has a great fate, and he is the highest officer of the Atlantic Fleet, so he can enjoy the highest level of rescue treatment.The other American officers and soldiers on the same ship as him were not so lucky.Most of them became the sacrificial objects of the Cleveland light cruiser. In the end, including Nimitz, only 59 American officers and soldiers escaped from the Cleveland light cruiser, including 32 named prisoners of war.The number 59 is only one-ninth of the actual number of people on board the light cruiser Cleveland at that time.

Because of the "decisiveness" of Truman and Nimitz, the French Guiana naval battle ended in an anticlimactic defeat for the US Atlantic Fleet.

Also because of the "decisiveness" of Truman and Nimitz, when Chen Shichang led the main force of the Genghis Khan aircraft carrier fleet to the battlefield, he was greeted by a smiling Bian Jingdao——

On the phone, he reported to Chen Shichang: "Nimitz gave us a big gift!"

Bian Jingdao arrived at the battlefield two and a half hours earlier than Chen Shichang and the others.After arriving at the battlefield, because he couldn't believe that the Americans would be so kind and give them so many light cruisers and repairable heavy cruisers and even battleships for nothing, he didn't send a team to occupy these American ships immediately, but Immediately expand the scope of reconnaissance to prevent the Americans from engaging in any conspiracy.

Two and a half hours later, the farthest reconnaissance plane he sent out had already flown to the Atlantic coast of the United States and was intercepted by American fighter planes. The submarine he sent out also checked the surrounding waters within [-] kilometers. But no abnormality was found.He finally determined that these drifting American ships in front of him were not traps set by the Americans, but indeed a "big gift" left to them.

Chen Shichang has been in a high position for a long time, and he has long developed the ability to hide his emotions and anger.Even so, when he was sure that the American ships he saw in front of him had been completely abandoned by their original owners, he still exclaimed and asked again and again: "Really? Did you send someone to inspect it? Has the cordon been released?"

"I'm also very surprised, what do the Americans mean by this? No matter how much they spare their lives, they still have time to escape after being bombed and sunk? Surely we won't send fighter planes to bomb the speedboat they used to escape!? Chief, I think about it For a long time, I thought there might be another possibility. That is Nimitz and the command of the Atlantic Fleet, they might not want to be our enemy..."

Bian Jingdao's final understanding made some sense, but Chen Shichang didn't want to make unreasonable comments. "Let's do whatever the Americans think, it's enough for us to do our part well. Since the Americans have already run away, let's send someone to accept it, and then return to the voyage! By the way, let's see if there are still those bombed ships." The possibility of repair. If there is a possibility of repair, it will be dragged back. After this battle, it is impossible for the Americans to pose a threat to us in the short term.”

When the news was sent back to China, Ouyang Yun couldn't understand it after receiving the report.The behavior of the Americans was too weird, and considering that the commander-in-chief of the Atlantic Fleet at the time was Nimitz, the suspicion of a command error can be completely ruled out.Is it an American conspiracy?But what can the Americans do to back it up?You must know that the American Atlantic Fleet is still in Australian waters at this time, and it is impossible for them to rush to the Atlantic Ocean in a short time.

"Strange!" said "Strange" in his mouth, but Ouyang Yun couldn't hold back the smile on his face.The Americans are rich and powerful, so they don't care about those light cruisers called small ships, but it's different for China.You know, there were as many as 25 light cruisers abandoned by the Americans in the end, of which [-] were almost intact.This can satisfy the escort fleet of two aircraft carrier fleets.

(End of this chapter)