"Colin!" Zhang Chi quickly received a call from Halsey: "We need you to attend a meeting!"

"Yes, General!" Zhang Chi didn't ask much because he didn't speak well when he heard Halsey in the microphone. [(?Net?

More than twenty minutes later, Zhang Chi took off from the Pinghai and landed on the Essex aircraft carrier where Halsey was located.

From this point of view, aircraft carriers are still very suitable as meeting places for senior officers, especially at sea... because it is equivalent to an airport, where officers can easily and quickly take planes to concentrate here, and once there is war, they can quickly return to continue commanding the battle. Otherwise, if the meeting location is set on a battleship or cruiser, it will not only be small, but it will also have to turn around on the ship, which is time-consuming and laborious... This is definitely a luxury waste on the battlefield.

However, the Americans had never realized this before, and even used battleships as command centers during the Battle of Tarawa... This can only be said that they have not completely separated from the combat thinking of "cannon giant ships"!

Under the guidance of several US military staff, Zhang Chi walked into the conference room without much effort.

As soon as he walked into the conference room, Zhang Chi felt a strange atmosphere... Every American general in the conference room held his head and said dejectedly without saying a word. The atmosphere was very dull.

So Zhang Chi knew that he must have defeated the battle, and it was an unusual defeat. Otherwise, this would not have happened in the current situation where the US military has fully occupied the sea and air superiority.

Sure enough, when Halsey saw Zhang Chi walk in, he stood up and signaled Zhang Chi to sit down in an empty seat, and then said heavily: "Col. Our attack on Kwajalin Island has been subjected to the extraordinary tenacious resistance of the Japanese!"

Zhang Chi didn't say anything because he didn't know what to say... According to Zhang Chi's idea, if the US military had not changed the attack time without authorization, these problems would not have occurred at all.

After pausing, Halsey raised his head to the side with some weakness and said, "It's better to have the commander of the Third Division of the 6th Battle... Brigadier General Johnson will introduce you to the details!"

Johnson nodded silently. He first stood up and shook hands with Zhang Chi, and then said: "This is the situation... When we set off on Kwajalin Island in the early morning, we were attacked by the Japanese air force. At least one flight division of the Japanese army had more than 100 fighter jets!"

"What? Flying Division?!" Zhang Chi was stunned when he heard this.

Zhang Chi was also quite surprised by this. He did not expect that the Japanese army would have another flight division fighter jet in this situation.

Johnson actually used a trick at this time. It is true that the Japanese army had more than 100 fighter jets, but the reason why the Japanese army's more than 100 fighter jets was based on the premise that he made one mistake after another. At this time, Johnson overemphasized the "surprise" that the Japanese army gave to the US military was, on the one hand, to divert others' attention, and on the other hand, to tell everyone... The failure of this battle was not my command error, but an accident.

Of course, Zhang Chi knew Johnson's intention to say this, but he was too lazy to point out Johnson. To be precise... this is still the "family affairs" of the US military. How to deal with it or whether to punish Johnson is all Americans' business.

"We lost all the tanks and boarded the 6 ships!" Halsey sighed: "The seven ships just equipped, four of which sank, and three subs were seriously injured... We originally expected that they could show their skills in the 6 battle, but they did not expect that they would suffer such heavy casualties when they first participated in the battle!"

"In addition... we boarded the 6th car and the personnel also suffered heavy casualties!" Johnson said.

Halsey and Johnson did not intend to continue to say that the casualties were too great that they could not speak to Zhang Chi, the colonel who had achieved great success.

But soon Zhang Chi heard about casualties from others soon... At least half of the more than 200 6 vehicles were unable to use normally. This was because they were top-down strafing and bombing from Japanese fighters. Like all armored vehicles, the 6 vehicles were thick on the front, while the top and bottom armor was the most fragile. Therefore, both the 7.7mm machine gun of the Zero fighter or the 2omm cannon could cause a devastating blow to the 6 vehicles.

It is precisely because of this that almost all the Japanese fighter jets drove out the bullets, shells and shells they brought.

As for the casualties, it was even more difficult for the US military to speak of... More than 2,000 casualties, but they couldn't even touch the beach on Kwajalin Island.

"Brother General Johnson!" Halsey stared at Johnson and said, "We can put casualties and losses aside for the time being. Now the important thing is how to continue fighting this battle!"

A hint of embarrassment flashed across Johnson's face, and of course he could hear Halsey's words meant to be dissatisfied with him.

"I think..." After thinking about it, Johnson replied: "First we should completely destroy the Japanese aviation division so that our 6th battle will not be disturbed or attacked by the Japanese!"

The naval generals agreed that this was also the usual tactic of the Americans, and they had to master air supremacy first. If they could not fully master air supremacy, they would at least have to severely damage the enemy's aviation forces or suppress them to the point where they could not move.

Among them, Zhang Chi is the only one who stares at the map and says nothing.

"Col. Do you have any disagreements?" Halsey asked.

Zhang Chi sighed and said, "Everyone, don't you know the purpose of the Japanese expanding the airport and adding airports on each island?"

Hearing this, the naval generals looked at Zhang Chi in surprise.

"Colin!" Smith interrupted, "You mean... the purpose of the Japanese expanding and adding airports is not to have more fighter planes settled?"

"Obviously not!" Zhang Chi replied: "Otherwise, the troops we were responsible for bombing the Japanese Wake and other three islands on the periphery would have been attacked long ago. But they had no sound at all, didn't they?"

Smith nodded, but then shook his head and said, "But this doesn't mean anything. Perhaps the Japanese dare not challenge our dual-carrier formation, so..."

"General!" Zhang Chi interrupted Smith and said, "If the Japanese had six hundred fighter jets as we estimated, and they didn't know that we were equipped with the 'Hellcats', then why would we think that the Japanese would not dare to challenge our dual-carrier formation?"

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but nod.

As we all know, the dual aircraft carrier formation is a combination of a main aircraft carrier and a light aircraft carrier, with only about 140 carrier-based aircraft. The reason why the US military dares to do this is because of its advanced radar system and "Hellcat" fighter jets.
Chapter completed!