Rise from the sword

Chapter 657

"Bohai Bay's defense line was defeated, Commander Hattori was broken."

"The Subcontinent Transport Fleet was ambushed in the waters [-] kilometers outside Nan County. Seventeen transport ships and eight escort warships sank. The crew of the transport ships and the sailors of the escort fleet were all destroyed."

"The Palembang Oilfield was bombed, and the enemy used new bombers and bombs. Half of the oil wells suffered devastating damage, and one third of the skilled workers died."

The three pieces of news were delivered to the prime minister's office of Minai Mitsumasa and Ishihara Wanji almost at the same time.

"This is impossible!"

Minai Mitsumasa swept away the information on the table.

He couldn't believe it, he couldn't accept it.

He can understand and accept Bo Haiwan's failure.

The difference in strength between the two sides on the battlefield here is too great. The enemy is very strong, and the Imperial Locust Army is not strong enough. He had already prepared for it, but he was defeated across the board in a day, and he couldn't even organize a strong resistance.

He couldn't understand it, let alone accept it.

In addition, the subcontinent transport fleet was completely wiped out in the attack, more than half of the Palembang Oilfield was bombed and destroyed, and one third of the skilled workers died. He also couldn't understand and accept it.

"Fleet attack? Didn't Deputy Takeshi Toyoda say that the transport fleet is absolutely safe? Didn't he say that enemy planes are impossible in the South China Sea?"

Minai Mitsumasa continued to howl, venting his anger and confusion.

Not long ago, Yamamoto and Okamura jointly called to warn the Prime Minister's Office and the United Fleet to be careful of the enemy's establishment of an air base in Nan County, threatening the South China Sea route, and proposed to move the route south.

Although the distance will be [-] kilometers longer, the safety will be greatly increased.

After deliberating and consulting some staff, the two rejected the proposal considering the shortage of resources in the country, but also sent the warning telegram to the Joint Fleet Command.

The commander of the United Fleet, Deputy Takeshi Toyoda, did not act like he imagined, but he also took it very seriously, and sent people to investigate the possibility of an enemy aviation base in Nan County.

Finally came to a conclusion.

It is impossible for the enemy's air base to appear in Nan County, at least within three months. When the enemy starts to build, the combined fleet is also capable of destroying the enemy's airport.

The escort fleet is also sufficient to deal with the attack of enemy torpedo boats.

but now.

According to the telegram sent back by the escort fleet, it encountered a joint attack by nearly [-] torpedo planes and [-] torpedo boats. The entire fleet was wiped out, and none of them survived.

The loss of 20 tons of supplies is not enough to make them feel distressed. The eight warships, including a light cruiser, do not feel distressed, but the fleet of 20 tons is really distressed to the bone.

Today, the total transport fleet of the Empire of Japan is only more than 500 million tons, and there are even fewer ocean-going ships, which are already seriously lacking. Moreover, many of the [-] giant ships that sank this time are the latest [-]-ton ships.

This thing cannot be replenished in a short time, or even cannot be replenished at all.

Distressed to the point of being unable to breathe.

"Sure enough, as Yamamoto-kun said, our enemies cannot be judged by common sense."

Ishihara Waner remembered a sentence in Yamamoto's telegram.

He didn't understand it before, couldn't understand it, but at this moment, he deeply understood it.

"Ishihara-kun, what should we do now?"

After venting his emotions and regaining his composure, Mitsumasa Minai began to think about countermeasures.

Although it is not clear how so many impossible things happened, but these are not important, or temporarily unimportant, the most important thing now is how to deal with the current situation.

Now the Songhu area has long been eaten away, and there are almost no organized locust garrisons. Now the failure of Bohai Bay represents the complete failure of the empire's all-out war, and a complete return to the situation seven years ago.

Even worse.

The Republic of China is much stronger than it was then, and the economic situation of the empire is also in jeopardy.

The Palembang Oilfield was bombed, and more than half of it was lost. Although Balikpapan and others are still there, the enemy will definitely continue to bomb, and self-sufficiency in fuel oil has become a thing of the past.What's more troublesome is that the heavy oil collected from the Republic of China has begun to decrease.

For a while, Minai Guangzheng lost his position.

After a pause, Ishihara Waner chose to say the good news first:
"Although Yamamoto and Gang Village were bombed, the battle went smoothly. Many important cities have been occupied. Food and minerals and other materials are sufficient to meet the needs of the empire. As for transportation, we only need to take the southern route to avoid the threat area of ​​​​the Republic of China."

"The problem of insufficient capacity can be solved slowly."

Hearing these words, Minai Mitsumasa's complexion obviously improved.

Although the additional distance of [-] kilometers will reduce the transportation volume a lot, it is better to be safe, and we will slowly find a solution to the problem of insufficient transportation fleet, and solve some of the needs first.

"Bo Bay area."

After a pause, Ishihara smiled and continued:

"Give up, order the troops to retreat to the north, join the Kwantung Army, and find a way to defend the northeast territory."

"But once we give up, the fuel and food we collect will be greatly reduced."

Mitsumasa Minai let out a long sigh.

It is only a matter of time before the Southeast Oilfield is destroyed.

The huge pressure on the mainland made it impossible for him to deploy troops to defend the sky in the oil field area. The oil field cannot be kept, but the empire needs fuel, and without the Bohai Bay, the proficiency of fuel obtained will definitely be greatly reduced.

This is fatal to the empire.

The materials on the subcontinent made the empire urgently need a large amount of shipping capacity, and the fuel consumption was huge. Relying on the fuel in stock, it could support it for up to three months, which was not even enough.

Without foreign supplies, how can the empire continue to operate?
"I recommend."

Ishihara Waner continued:

"Give some of the elite troops to Tsutomu Tanaka, and ask him to join forces with Kotaro Ito to collect supplies."

Tian Zhongqin, who used to be the head of the 25th Brigade and is now the head of the 125th Division, is completely a miracle in the entire battlefield of the Republic of China.

The rest of the troops were retreating steadily, throwing away their helmets and armor, and the collected supplies were getting less and less.Only this one, not to mention keeping the territory or even expanding the territory, also won small victories from time to time, and collected more and more materials.

Although they are only some mountainous areas, they are sparsely populated.

But also too unbelievable.

This was not abnormal, which aroused Ishihara Waner's vigilance, and suspected that there was a conspiracy, but he sent someone to investigate and found that there was no problem.

"It can only be this way."

Minai Mitsumasa sighed again.

Food doesn’t matter, and coal doesn’t matter. There are Southeast Asia and the subcontinent. There are plenty of food, coal, iron ore, etc., as long as they can be transported back, that’s enough.

But fuel, lost Bohai Bay, lost oil fields in Southeast Asia, the empire will once again fall into a shortage of oil.

Tanaka Tsutomu and Ito are just relieving it, and cannot solve the fundamental problem.

"The locust over there."

After a pause, Minai Mitsumasa turned the topic to the core issue.

For such a huge failure, they have to accept the accountability of the important ministers in the country, and they will be questioned by the locusts, which is also a big trouble.

"Prime Minister, please allow me to resign."

Contrary to Minai Mitsumasa's expectations, Ishihara Wanji resigned decisively.

From recent events, he could see it.

The enemy is very strong, and various methods emerge in endlessly. The empire is not an opponent at all. According to Yamamoto's speculation, it will not be long before the enemy will attack the empire's sea, although he does not understand what ability those people have to cut off the empire's sea.

but.

Those huge bombers, weird new bombs, and the sudden appearance of Nan County's airport, which one can he figure out?

Although the feeling of holding power and controlling the empire is very memorable for him, but in the current situation of the empire, he is not at the helm of the empire, but is pulled into the abyss by the ruined ship of the empire.

Still staying in the prime minister's mansion, isn't this courting death?

"Nani!"

Mitsumasa Minai was dumbfounded.

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"Is this a missile?"

Zhao Jiayu, weapons testing ground, Zhao Gang looked at a huge cylinder and said.

"Correct."

Beside him, Li Yunlong, who had an elite hairstyle, a suit and leather shoes, and a tie, spoke very solemnly:

"The full name is guided bomb."

"It is an aircraft carrying a warhead, propelled by its own power plant, guided by a guidance system to control the flight trajectory, guiding the target and destroying the target."

"It is a high-tech weapon that integrates rocketry, aerodynamics, guidance, and material science. It is the development direction of future weapons."

Leader Li's attire at this time, combined with this set of professional words, made Zhao Gang feel a little dazed for a while as a top expert studying abroad, as if he had seen all the top talents who exchanged troops from the United States.

Like that rocket scientist.

"This is an anti-ship missile."

Li Yunlong continued to introduce. He pointed to a cylindrical projectile with four tail fins and short wings in the middle and said:

"The maximum range is 42 kilometers, the total weight is 2400 kilograms, and the warhead weighs 500 kilograms. It uses the interrupt autopilot and the terminal active radar homing guidance. It can be launched by a torpedo boat. Of course, it has to be renamed a missile boat, and it can also be launched by an aircraft. "

At this time, in front of Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang was the "Styx" missile. Of course, the system has been improved to some extent, and the performance has not changed, but an air-launched model has been developed, which can be launched by large bombers and transport aircraft.

Finally, Li Yunlong made a conclusion:

"This is the real automatic weapon. It can be launched outside the defense zone, and it doesn't matter after it is launched."

"Our torpedo can only be regarded as a semi-automatic weapon."

Compared with the wire-guided torpedoes currently equipped by independent regiments, the missiles operate in the air, and the air environment is much better than the underwater environment, especially the sea surface, where there is less clutter, and the difficulty of self-guidance technology is naturally much lower, and it can be realized after launch.However, wire-guided torpedoes require human intervention almost throughout the process.

It will take more than ten years of development to truly realize the underwater torpedo launch and leave it alone, that is, the further development of electronic technology in the 70s.

"Yes, with this, combined with bombers and new transport aircraft, early warning aircraft, we can cut off the devil's overseas transportation lines."

Zhao Gang talked about the benefits of missiles in a very casual tone.

Even without missiles, after a period of time, the army will be able to block the Devil's Southeast Asia route, which is nothing more than a little troublesome, so at this time he is thinking about another matter.

Environment, can promote people to learn.

A good environment can also greatly increase people's learning efficiency, which he has long experienced.

But the influence of environment and atmosphere is limited.

And the group of old people in the independent group, Sun Desheng, Zhang Dabiao, the monk, Wang Gensheng, and this Li Yunlong dog, all of them have reached the standard for master's degree from a small number of characters.

Perhaps the breadth of knowledge is not enough, but the depth of knowledge even exceeds.

Sun Desheng can design and improve high-precision machine tools.

It's only three years if it's full.

And he himself, also in just three years, has learned more than a dozen subjects such as management, economics, sociology, international relations, etc., and all of them are very deep.

Even with the guidance of a master master, this speed is hard to imagine.

Thinking of the incomprehensible 'warehouse', Zhao Gang had an idea in his mind.

It must be the reason of Boss Chen, otherwise it would be impossible to learn knowledge so fast, it is very simple, because the people who learn so fast are only limited to the elite group of old people in the independent group.

At this point, he withdrew his thoughts.

When it comes to Boss Chen, it's meaningless to think about it, as long as it's a good thing.

"Is the original plan still going on?"

Zhao Gang looked at Li Yunlong.

Because they didn't expect the missiles to be available so soon, they planned to secretly occupy an island at the beginning, build an airport and deploy planes to cut off the devil's transportation route.

With a warehouse, it's not difficult at all.

"Why not continue."

Li Yunlong patted the missile and said with a smile:
"With this thing, the devil's transportation route can be completely cut off."

In the past, even if an island airport was established, the devils could still use the strategy of passing through at night and covertly during the day, but the traffic volume was reduced. At present, they have no surface ships, and the torpedo boats cannot completely block the channel.

At night, the aircraft are not combat effective.

But now that there are missiles, the little devils transport fleet can't get close to the mainland.

(End of this chapter)