Rise from the sword

Chapter 685

"Heavy artillery."

"Cannons!"

In the underground prime minister's office in Tokyo, Konoe Fumimaro, who was once again promoted to the position of prime minister, fell into a sluggish state.

Although the devil brigade stationed in Ryukyu was sent to Yang by Zhang Dabiao's artillery fire, the correspondent still sent a telegram at the last moment to introduce the situation encountered by his brigade.

Came under fire from artillery, including several twelve-inch guns.

But the tanks were helpless. At that time, the entire communication unit of the brigade had been dusted by heavy artillery, and the reconnaissance planes could not get close. Naturally, the high-level devils could not know.

"Where did the heavy artillery come from? Where did the artillery group come from?"

Konoe Fumimaro was puzzled:

"Do they have battleships?"

It had only been a few hours since the enemy landed, and all of them were rushed ashore by light motorboats. This was clearly stated by the half of the brigade stationed in Naha.

Light motorboats can also carry some light artillery, such as the enemy's excellent 105 mountain cannon, but the way of landing on the beach will cause violent vibrations, which is not suitable for carrying artillery.

Not to mention the 12-inch heavy gun.

Even if the enemy has a landing ship in the future, the artillery of this level weighs at least tens of tons. Even the tractor tracked self-propelled by the bear in the north, it is impossible to land on the shallow beach.

There had to be port unloading, and there had to be port installations, which the Imperial defenders had destroyed.

Then there is only one possibility left.

The enemy already has battleships, or the Americans are there too.

"It's a big trouble."

Then, Konoe Fumimaro realized a big problem.

If the enemy has a battleship, or a battleship dispatched by the Americans, coupled with the enemy's air superiority, then.

Naha may be far away from the empire.

Once the enemy occupies Naha and builds an air force base there to deploy aircraft, the routes to the west and south of the empire will be completely cut off, and the already fragile external blood transfusion channels of the empire will suffer heavy losses again.

"Contact me with Deputy Takeshi Toyoda."

Konoe Fumimaro's tone was a little flustered.

Although he and Fubu Toyoda had a hard time dealing with each other, and the number of times they scolded each other was no less than the fingers of two hands, but now, they can't take care of these anymore.

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"12-inch heavy gun."

"Cannon group."

When Deputy Takeshi Toyoda received the news, there was only a sliver of the sun in the sky.

According to the battle plan, at this time, his fleet of two battleships, one heavy cruiser, and three destroyers was only more than 50 nautical miles away from Naha, and it only took three hours to arrive.

"The enemy has battleships?"

Staff Officer Kuroda on the side looked puzzled.

According to intelligence, the enemy seems to have a destroyer, but the displacement will not be too large, [-] tons at most.

Not enough to be afraid of.

But there are absolutely no battleships. As for the American warships, except for some stationed on the east coast and nearby island ports, the rest have gone to the west to participate in the war.

Although there are no satellites, the huge system of warships and the need for ports for logistical support, even if the devil's intelligence system is basically destroyed, it is not difficult to find it.

"really."

On the other hand, Deputy Takeshi Toyoda's heart flashed suddenly.

"They really are prepared."

Natuna's base, where the planes appeared, and Yamamoto and Okamura's personal reminders made Vice Takeshi Toyota understand that the enemy had a means of providing logistics that they did not know.

"Order Nishimura to continue to cooperate with the army's offensive according to the original plan."

Deputy Takeshi Toyoda's face remained unchanged.

The possibility of a battleship is very low, and it is more likely to be shore artillery, but no matter what the enemy is prepared, the fleet led by Nishimura will launch an artillery bombardment on Naha according to the original plan.

Yamato, Musashi, Zuikaku... The main force of the United Fleet still exists, but the enemy's technical capabilities are too strong. He needs more intelligence to analyze the enemy's weaknesses and formulate targeted tactics for a decisive battle.

"Hi."

Staff Kuroda immediately organized communications.

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"Speed ​​up."

Nishimura Fleet, flagship Mogami cockpit command room, Nishimura Shoji immediately ordered the fleet to speed up after receiving the order from Deputy Takeshi Toyoda.

He didn't know that Fuwu Toyoda used him as cannon fodder to test the enemy's weapons, but he also knew that the enemy's technical level was very strong, and this battle was very difficult to fight, even at night.

At present, the fleet still has no effective means to deal with the enemy's 'missiles'. The chaff jamming bombs under development are full of problems, and it will take at least a month before they can be used in service.

Only whether it is effective or not needs to be tested in actual combat.

But now he can't even get the test.

But he wasn't caught without a fight.

Studies have proved that dense smog will interfere with electromagnetic waves, and radar uses electromagnetic waves to explore targets, which is the same as the impact on radar in bad weather.

In theory, as long as the smoke is thick enough, it can interfere with electromagnetic waves and make radar lose its target.

It has been proven in practice that this also seems to work.

Two weeks ago, the destroyer Xuefeng was attacked by enemy missiles. By releasing a large number of smoke grenades, it successfully interfered with three enemy missiles. Although the process was very dangerous, two of them almost flew past the deck.

Probably because there are too few smoke bombs on the destroyer.

But it turned out that the Yukikaze-class destroyer was unscathed.

Therefore, a large number of smoke grenade launchers were installed on his two battleships, one heavy cruiser, and three destroyers.

It is the number of armaments in the past.

Following his orders, a fleet of two battleships, one heavy cruiser, and three destroyers headed for Ryukyu in the dark.

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And two hours before that.

"The devil is here."

In the second AWACS aircraft changing guard in the sky, observers spotted the enemy fleet on the radar screen:

"The number is six, 150 kilometers away from Naha Port."

"take off."

Two minutes later, at the coastal airport, twenty radar attack aircraft converted from four-engine transport aircraft started their engines.

at the same time.

Near Naha Port.

"full speed."

Inside the bridge of the 01-class destroyer 'Heyuan', Wang Gensheng also gave orders.

Four gas turbines based on the LM1500 started to start, pushing the warship of more than 7000 tons to the position of the enemy fleet at a speed of 35 knots.

Around her, twenty missile boats and fifteen torpedo boats were scattered but lined up in an orderly manner.

two hours later.

When the Nishimura Fleet accelerated, twenty missile attack aircraft had arrived at a position of 7000 meters [-] kilometers away from the Nishimura Fleet.Wang Gensheng's fleet is only [-] kilometers away from the Nishimura fleet.

"Enter coordinates."

In the fleet, the commander gave the order.

"Enter coordinates."

In the fleet, Wang Gensheng also issued the same order.

Current missiles require manual input of coordinates before attacking.

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"Mr. President, let's begin."

At the White House, a secretary reports a telegram to the president.

"Ah."

Franklin nodded, pulled his thoughts away from the Western Pacific, and transferred to the Western Front.

Today is not only the day when the group on the other side occupied Ryukyu, but also the day when the Allied forces launched a general offensive on the Ziegfeller line of defense.

The first half of the night in the Western Pacific is the afternoon in Europe.

In the Normandy area, thousands of transport ships are being unloaded in three artificial ports.

Tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, troops, and planes were unloaded from the port and stationed in camps on the coast. Looking down from the sky, they looked like towering colonies of ants.

The view is forward.

More can be seen, the densely packed ant colony is extending to the depths.

From June last year to April now, the real Overlord Project, which has been delayed for ten months, has shown a larger volume than the Overlord Project, with twice the army and twice the ships.

As for the aircraft, it is due to losses, which are comparable to last year.

In the sky, jet fighter jets passed by at high speed.

In order to defend the sky of Normandy and avoid the harassment of the bombers sent by the mustache, the Allied forces sent the most elite jet combat group.

After delays due to weather and various accidents, the offensive, which was delayed for a full five hours, finally started. In an area [-] kilometers north of Cherbourg, five divisions launched another attack against two adjacent air defense towers.

The first to enter were [-] dive bombers and [-] fighter jets.

Dive bombers carry ground penetrating bombs to destroy anti-aircraft towers, and fighter jets fire smoke bombs for cover.

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Also at the same time.

Eastern line.

The No. [-] tanks, which reached five figures, started their engines and surged towards the defensive positions on the eastern front.

At the same time, accompanying the tanks and rushing to the enemy's position on the opposite side, were troops that surpassed the total strength of Barbarossa's plan back then, and a considerable part of them were servants.

Especially Lomaria.

After the mustache got rich in his hands, he also gave great support to this number one dog leg.

Loans of more than one billion marks, a large amount of low-priced materials and even direct food aid have made domestic prices several times lower, as well as a large number of various orders, factories are full, and a large number of job opportunities are waiting for people to apply for.

The standard of living of the people has risen several times.
Originally, I had no food to eat, no money or medicine when I was sick, and then, all of a sudden.

Days suddenly improved.

Food is cheap and plentiful enough to feed livestock, jobs are plentiful and readily available, wages are decent, and medicines line the shelves of pharmacies.

Straight from hell to heaven.

There is nothing more insane than the benefits you get.

In an instant, the whole country fell into frenzy, the credibility of the government increased sharply, all the contradictions exposed before were temporarily buried by wealth, and a large number of young people enthusiastically joined the army.

In the army, morale also soared.

For the fanatical and combat-effective dog-legged troops, the rich mustache is also stingy, and the troops are also top-notch treatment. They are generally equipped with No. [-] tanks, but the number is a little less than their regular troops.

Enthusiasm + advanced equipment + sufficient supplies, Lomaria instantly changed from a slave army to an ally comparable to the main force.

In a head-to-head confrontation, the Slavs are not at a disadvantage.

Although the rest of the countries are inferior, they have no disadvantages in terms of equipment compared to the bearded second-line troops. With a small number of German logistics troops to transport supplies, there is no problem in dealing with the guerrillas.

(End of this chapter)