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Halsey did keep his promise and immediately began to agree to Zhang Chi's two things after he returned to the command center.

The first thing is relatively simple. Halsey only needs to collect a few merchant ships from Audalia. Some of these merchant ships do not even need destroyers to escort, because Japanese submarines still do not attack merchant ships as they go... According to the orders of the Japanese Navy, Japanese submarines can fire a torpedo at merchant ships, but in fact, Japanese submarines cannot even waste a torpedo. The reason is that they were lost by the previous results of "Is 19" and "Is 26". Among them, "Is 29", which only launched five torpedoes and sank a US aircraft carrier and a warship, which has become an example for Japanese submarines to learn from.

Baiwu Qingji not only did not stop this trend, but instead praised it to encourage it.

This approach of the Japanese is understandable. Although they were sunk five submarines by the US military in this process, this is obviously insignificant compared to the result of sinking one enemy and hurting one aircraft carrier. If this continues, when the last US aircraft carrier is also sunk by a Japanese submarine, the US Navy will completely lose the protection of the aircraft carrier and fall into a full passive position.

Therefore, Haruki Hakuba even held a competition to pursue the last submarine of the US military in the Japanese submarine force, and set up generous prizes for this.

The result of this is that Japanese submarines are not even willing to waste even a torpedo on merchant ships... Their saying is, what can the merchant ships that destroy American ghost animals? American ghost animals have supplies, and they have airports on Guadao. Even if they destroy their merchant ships, they can still transport supplies to Guadao with transport planes.

If any sailor requests to attack the merchant ship, he will definitely be scolded by the captain: "What's wrong with you? Don't you know that there are only 14 torpedoes on our submarine? Use such precious torpedoes to attack the merchant ship? What if we encounter an enemy aircraft carrier and the torpedo is insufficient?!"

Halsey actually knew about the Japanese competition, so he grasped their psychology and made a series of actions.

First of all, the merchant ships requisitioned from Austria for transportation and supplies for the replenishment of the North Guadalia are small and medium-sized, but the quantity and total transportation tonnage can meet the needs.

The reason for doing this is to capture the Japanese's unwillingness to waste torpedoes on merchant ships... If it is a large merchant ship or an oil tanker, the Japanese army may not be able to stop the temptation to shoot a torpedo, but if it is a small merchant ship, the Japanese submarine will not look down on it at all.

Moreover, using a larger number of small and medium tonnage merchant ships to transport means that Japanese submarines must launch more torpedoes to destroy merchant ships of the same tonnage.

Secondly, Halsey occasionally lets the only aircraft carrier that can be used at present go out and circle around.

On the one hand, this is to attract the attention of the Japanese army and make the merchant ship transport supplies to Guadalam more smoothly. On the other hand, its purpose is to lure and kill Japanese submarines... The bait is an aircraft carrier. Every time the aircraft carrier goes out and circles, it will always send destroyers to patrol secretly on the route the aircraft carrier will pass, so that the safety of the aircraft carrier can be ensured as much as possible. On the other hand, the aircraft carrier always maintains a speed of ten nautical miles per hour.

The maximum speed of Japanese submarines underwater is seven nautical miles, the maximum speed on the water is seventeen nautical miles, and the aircraft carrier's speed is neither fast nor slow, which will make Japanese submarines very confused... They are reluctant to give up and cannot catch up if they don't give up.

But there are always some Japanese submarines following behind unwillingly, and soon they will find that they are wrong soon... because a dozen destroyers will suddenly appear halfway through the way, dropping a large area of ​​deep-water bombs in the back.

The second thing is relatively difficult to handle, but it is actually not difficult to handle.

The most difficult thing among these should be what time is the "right time".

At first, Halsey was not sure, but after receiving the Japanese reinforcements three days later, Halsey hung up a phone call to Zhang Chi.

"Colin!" said Halsey: "It's time for you!"

"I understand. General!" Zhang Chi replied.

The dialogue is simple, but both sides understand the meaning... The arrival of the Japanese reinforcement fleet in Labaur means that the Japanese naval and air forces once again have a comprehensive advantage.

Then... In order to avoid the long nights and dreams, the Japanese would definitely hope that the earlier they started the attack, the better, because if it was late, the Americans would be likely to repair the aircraft carrier or reinforce the troops, which means that the "Cactus" air force was withdrawn.

The method Halsey used was basically to put Zhang Chi on the island and put the fighter planes upside down... At that time, Zhang Chi had occasionally mixed several fighter planes to Gua Island after a bombing of the Japanese army on Gua Island. Now Halsey is to bomb the Japanese army and withdraw several fighter planes from time to time afterwards.

To be honest, it is easier to withdraw than to get in, because those opportunities for withdrawal are only a few seconds under the Japanese observation range. And it is very likely to be assisting other fighter jets to bomb together, and the Japanese cannot know when they will fly out of the island.

Sometimes it is not necessary to do this at all... Guadalam fighter jets take off to patrol the waters north of Guadalam every day during the day. As long as there are more aircraft when taking off, a few aircraft are missing when flying back. Of course, the Japanese would not calculate the orders of aircraft flying in and out of these aircraft. Even if they feel that the orders are fewer, they would think that they were lost in the battle with the Japanese Navy, which is very normal during the war.

However, the "Cactus" airline team was a little reluctant to leave when they evacuated.

Although these pilots didn't deal with Zhang Chi much, and they didn't even meet each other a few times... Zhang Chi was commanding at the command center most of the time, while the pilots either went at the base or flew in the sky. In addition, the battle was very fierce, so there was basically no contact between them except for contacting them on the radio.

But before the pilots left, they would almost come to meet Zhang Chi without exception.

What they said is:

"I'm honored to fight with you, sir!"

"I hope there is still a chance to fight together in the future, sir!"

...

When Smith and Manlum were about to withdraw, Smith sighed and held Zhang Chi's hand and said, "Col. You don't know how reluctant I was to come to this broken island when I left the aircraft carrier, but now... I find that I can't live without this broken island!"

"So too, colonel!" said Manlum: "If you need a pilot in the future, please remember us! We are always ready!"

[The 515 is coming soon. I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list. By May 15th, the red envelope rain can give back to readers and promote works. It is also love, so it will definitely be better!] (To be continued.)
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