Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Rise of China

Soon, the specific damage situation of each ship was calculated by the fleet chief of staff and sent to the fleet commander, Lieutenant General Otani.

Seeing such a heavy loss in his hands, Lieutenant General Da Gu was shocked.After taking a deep look at Takagi Yutake, who was silent from the beginning to the end, he had to admit a fact: If the fleet had withdrawn from the battlefield a few minutes ago, it would not have paid for a battleship and a heavy cruiser. huge price.

However, there is no regret "medicine" in this world. Since you have made your own decision, you should bear the corresponding responsibility.

After a short period of contemplation, he turned to the chief of staff in front of him and asked, "Chief of staff, can the remaining two cruisers, including our flagship King Kong and the aircraft carrier Akagi, still be able to participate in the battle freely?"

"Report to Your Excellency, the heavy cruiser Nachi cannot be used due to flooding in the power compartment, and can only be used as a mobile turret. The remaining battleship Kongo and heavy cruiser Haguro have undergone short-term repairs and emergency treatment of closing all hatches in the bottom cabin. In the future, it can already be used on the battlefield. The Akagi aircraft carrier can be used on the battlefield without any repairs..." the chief of staff of the fleet reported. [

A solemn expression slowly appeared on the face of Otani.Facing the same serious-looking subordinates in front of him, he said: "It seems that there are only the last three ships left in our escort fleet...>

After finishing speaking, a pair of eyes quickly swept around the subordinates in front of him, and finally, after staying on Takagi Yuwu, he continued to ask: "Everyone, it is now a critical moment for the survival of my escort fleet. I hope everyone can work together and find a way together Let the escort fleet escape this catastrophe. I don’t know what everyone thinks about the current battle situation. You can say it...>

There are Chinese planes in the sky, Chinese submarines under the water...and myself.There are only three usable ships left.Under such circumstances, is there any way to get out of the immediate situation.

Besides, it was the commander-in-chief himself who insisted on a decisive battle with the Chinese navy here.Now that the fleet is damaged and the battle is lost, I want to ask others to help solve this problem.At that time, the problem will be solved, and I will be the hero.However, if the problem is not resolved well, I will be with the commander-in-chief in front of me.Take responsibility for the defeat of the escort fleet.

As mid-level officers of the Japanese Navy, these people are not fools, and they are very aware of the pros and cons.

Facing Lieutenant General Otani's gaze looking at him, he directly lowered his head, pretending not to see it, and remained silent.

In the end, Lieutenant General Otani had no choice but to pin his hopes on the Deputy Chief of Staff Takagi Yutake who he least liked.Facing Colonel Takagi Yuwu, he asked sincerely, "Takagi-kun. I don't know if you can do anything."

Although Lieutenant General Otani didn't make an apology explicitly, he did so to his subordinates under the watchful eyes of everyone.Moreover, he was a very unwelcoming subordinate, saying such polite words, and making compromises with his subordinates.There has been no difference.

At this time, facing Lieutenant General Otani's complicated eyes looking at him.If Takagi Yutake didn't stand up, he would be too ungrateful.

After paying a military salute to Lieutenant General Otani.He said with a humble face: "Your Excellency, I dare not take a humble position...>

"For the current battle situation, there is no good way for the humble job. I just have some simple opinions, I hope your Excellency can listen to it... >

"Um, what exactly is it...>

"Your Excellency, when the air superiority on the battlefield is completely controlled by the Chinese Air Force, the separate operations of each fleet will undoubtedly give the Chinese Air Force a chance to defeat them individually. Although the anti-aircraft firepower on the ships of my escort fleet has been strengthened. However, no matter how dense The anti-aircraft firepower can't stop the attacks from the Chinese Air Force from all directions."

"So, there is only one way to survive the attack of the Chinese Air Force...>

Seeing Lieutenant General Otani nodding his head noncommittally, Takagi Yutake changed his subject and continued to speak: "However, Your Excellency General... If you gather all the ships together, you will be attacked by the Chinese submarine force again... >

"After the submarine attack just now, I believe that Your Excellency, General, has already seen that the specific number of Chinese submarine forces is not as high as the special high-level investigation, which is less than ten ships. It is more than twenty submarine forces... >

"A submarine force of this size can completely hide on our way of retreat, and drop a full 96 torpedoes on us at one time...>

"Your Excellency, my colleagues, I dare not imagine what will happen after the remaining three ships of my escort fleet are attacked by more than forty torpedoes at the same time..."

For a moment, the faces of all the officers, including Lieutenant General Da Gu, turned pale.The commander-in-chief of the fleet, Lieutenant General Otani, first said: "Takagi-kun's analysis is very correct. However, no matter what our specific response plan is, the final result of evacuating the mouth of the Yalu River is already certain...>

After finishing speaking, a dignified and serious expression quickly enveloped General Otani's face.

Facing his subordinates, he ordered in a firm tone: "Now I order that the battleship King Kong will be the vanguard, and the aircraft carrier Akagi and the heavy cruiser Haguro will follow...>

Just as everyone happily accepted the order and was about to convey the order, a staff officer with the rank of Lieutenant Assistant stood up and said tentatively, "Your Excellency, what about the heavy cruiser Zhi? Although the heavy cruiser Nazhi Lost power, but. The entire hull is still intact...>

"Heavy cruiser Nachi..." Hearing this question, Lieutenant General Otani was just about to take a step forward.Suddenly stopped.Frowning tightly, he fell into a difficult choice.

soon.A serious expression of farewell slowly appeared on Lieutenant General Otani's face.Facing all the subordinates who were looking at him at the same time, he said decisively: "Masters, there is a saying in China that goes, 'If you can't bear children, you can't hold wolves'. In order for the remaining ships of our escort fleet to return home smoothly, we must to give up...>

After finishing speaking, he ordered to the chief of staff: "Chief of staff, give an order to the cruiser Nachi: all the officers and soldiers of the cruiser Nachi. Abandon the ship immediately and transfer to the King Kong and Haguro. After all the officers and soldiers have been transferred, sink Cruiser. In a word, even if the cruiser sinks, the cruiser cannot fall into the hands of the Chinese."

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In the air above the naval battle battlefield, after continuous combat consumption and losses, there are only two squadrons of Wildcat fighters and four squadrons of bombers left in the air.A total of more than seventy fighters.

However, even so, Guo Zhenghua, the commander of the First Air Division, is full of confidence in the next battle.

The Japanese escort fleet quickly changed formation.And put on a posture ready to escape.It did not escape Guo Zhenghua's eyes.

After a quick sneer flashed across the corner of his mouth, he said to himself: "The submarine deserves to be called the ghost of the seabed. One volley will kill the two large surface ships of the little devil. Okay, good fight..."

finished.Facing the airborne radio station in front of him that has been tuned to the public communication frequency, he ordered loudly: "Brothers of the First Air Division. The formation of the little devil fleet is "disordered". Stand by me and order you. Immediately launch an attack on the remaining Japanese ships! If you don’t act, the combat achievements you get will be snatched by the Second Air Force Division and HNA.”

"All the bomber squadrons are divided into two: the fifth and sixth squadrons are responsible for attacking the leading Japanese battleships. The remaining bomber squadrons are attacking the Japanese heavy cruisers. As for their aircraft carriers, they will stay at the end to attack, and start to act now."

The order was issued, and dozens of bombers that had already been ready to launch quickly rushed towards the Japanese ships that were slowly retreating on the sea with a sharp roar.

A Stuka bomber, with a characteristic scream, first attacked the Japanese battleship King Kong.However, when the fighter plane diving at a 5000-degree angle was still a full [-] meters away from the sea, flames of varying thickness quickly appeared over the ship, directly in front of the bomber.

Although the bomber's dive angle is tricky, it reduces the bombing area to the lowest state.However, the anti-aircraft firepower network fired by the Japanese army was too dense, as if forming an airtight barrage directly in front of the bomber.

The bomber rushed to the ground again after 2000 meters at a sound-breaking dive speed.Just now, the silver-white fighter exploded an orange-red fireball directly from the mailbox, followed by the explosion of three heavy bombs in the air.The huge bomber was directly torn into pieces in the sound of the explosion, and fell to the sea along with the fireball.

The bomber exploded in the air, and immediately told all the pilots of the First Air Division that the air defense formation of the Japanese escort fleet was disrupted.However, the anti-aircraft firepower on each ship is still not to be underestimated.

For a moment, all the remaining pilots of the First Air Division put away their underestimation of the enemy from the bottom of their hearts.

Afterwards, a bomber squadron, three bombers lined up in a "pin" shape, covered each other, and launched a second round of air strikes on the battleship King Kong.

The louder and sharper piercing whistle quickly sounded in midair.

On the wide deck of the King Kong battleship, the reaction speed of the Japanese air defense force was also very fast.Three fighters have just entered range.Dense anti-aircraft flames began to spew out from the muzzles and muzzles of the anti-aircraft weapons that were constantly jumping.Finally, in the attack direction of the three fighters, an airtight air defense barrage was formed. [

Although the dense anti-aircraft firepower has not been reduced, the firepower on each bomber fuselage has been reduced by at least half after the average of the three bomber fuselages.

More importantly, what the three bombers carried were not [-]-kilogram high-explosive bombs designed to destroy warships, but small [-]-kilogram high-explosive bombs designed to kill the active forces of the Japanese army on the deck surface of warships.

Facing the rain of bullets fired by the Japanese army, the three bombers swooped down to two or three kilometers away from the sea.When it was really impossible to go any further, he decisively dropped the bomb.Pull up the fuselage suddenly.After changing the course and avoiding the local anti-aircraft fire.Quickly begin the climb.

Bombs were dropped at an altitude of 3000 meters, and the target was still a Japanese surface ship that was constantly swimming.Even if the three bombers all use dive bombing, it is a blessing in misfortune to have a hit rate of more than [-]%.

However, for the total of [-] high-explosive bombs carried by the three bombers, even a [-]% hit rate is enough to cause a devastating blow to the Japanese army on the surface of the warship deck.

The distance of 3000 meters is only a few seconds for a bomb flying at high speed.The three bombers had just escaped from the pursuit of the Japanese anti-aircraft firepower on the deck of the warship, densely packed with bombs.It has fallen on the sea surface around the ship and exploded on the deck of the ship.

Because it was the first time for the First Air Division to participate in the high-altitude dive bombing of moving targets on the sea surface, the hit rate of the bombs was not high.Of the ninety small high-explosive bombs, only six successfully hit the deck of the warship.

After the sound of juliè's bomb explosion spread from the deck of the King Kong, groups of orange fireballs quickly rose into the air from the deck of the warship.

Under the cover of the six rapidly spreading fireballs, with the impact point as the center, people and things within a radius of 20 meters on the deck of the warship are without exception.All were overwhelmed by fireballs and thick gunpowder.

Countless corpses of Japanese soldiers with mutilated limbs, limbs and arms completely severed by bombs.Driven by the huge air wave generated by the bomb explosion, it was quickly blown into the air, mixed with thick black smoke.Over the deck of the warship, a huge mushroom cloud as high as 20 meters was formed.

Six small aerial bombs did not penetrate a single deck.but.On deck with unobstructed views and nothing to hide.The lethality of the six high-explosive bombs on Japanese officers and soldiers is already invisible.expanded to the extreme.

Fifty percent of the anti-aircraft troops active on the deck of the warship were directly shrouded in the raging fire caused by the bomb explosion, and were completely lost.More than [-]% of the anti-aircraft weapons were also shrouded in flames, and it was not known whether they could still be used.

However, these killings were only aimed at Japanese officers and soldiers on the surface of the warship deck.For the officers and soldiers inside the warship, it did not have the slightest lethality.The huge warship, still carrying thick smoke billowing on the deck, headed towards the open sea.

Over the battlefield, the three bombers have finished dropping bombs, although the specific results are not yet known.However, seeing that the deck of Nuo Da's warship was quickly shrouded in thick smoke, to a certain extent, it played a role in blocking the vision of the Japanese air defense forces.The remaining bombers immediately seize this fighter and launch a new round of attacks on the battleship King Kong.

Three bombers, accompanied by the sound of piercing through the air, quickly smashed towards the position of the Japanese warship on the sea.

The Japanese air defense forces on the deck suffered heavy losses under the attack of six aviation high-explosive bombs.However, in a situation that is really related to one's own life and death.The remaining officers and soldiers rushed to their combat positions at the first time, set up anti-aircraft weapons that could still be used on the deck, and prepared to fire.

Although the thick gunpowder smoke covered everyone's eyes, it couldn't stop the ears of these Japanese soldiers.Relying on the ear-piercing whistling sound from the sky, an anti-aircraft machine gun and a pair of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns quickly adjusted their targets, aiming the muzzle of the black hole in the direction of the three bombers.

As soon as the roaring bomber came into range, tongues of flame began to shoot from the deck into the sky.

Although the tongues of fire were not very accurate, due to their density, they were still directly in front of the three bombers, forming an airtight air defense barrage.In order to prevent the fighter planes from being hit, the three bombers forcibly dived to an altitude of 2000 meters before dropping a total of nine heavy bombs.Then, with a deafening roar, it climbed quickly and got rid of the ground air defense fire.

Nine heavy bombs, under the watchful eyes of all the enemy and us, smashed towards the sea at a speed exceeding the speed of sound.

"Boom boom boom... >

Because the battleship King Kong continued to retreat towards the high seas in an 'S' shape, nine heavy bombs, except one that exploded five meters away from the side of the warship, blasted a large hole with a diameter of more than one meter on the side of the warship .The remaining bombs all deviated from the target and did not achieve any results.

After witnessing this round of bombing that did not achieve any results.The face of Guo Zhenghua, the commander of the First Air Division, was suddenly enveloped by a serious expression.He said to himself, "We can't continue fighting like this. We must find a way to stop the little devil's warship. Otherwise, under the counterattack of the Japanese anti-aircraft fire, the bomber would not be able to hit the target at all."

What Guo Zhenghua didn't expect was that a complaint he had inadvertently reached the ears of Jia Yuwen, head of the Navy's First Aviation Regiment, who rushed over through the radio station.

Master Guo Zhenghua frowned just now, thinking about specific countermeasures to defeat the enemy.In the airborne radio station in front of him, the voice of Jia Yuwen, the current head of HNA's first regiment, suddenly came from his old subordinate...

"Master, the task of stopping the little devil's warship will be handed over to the First Aviation Regiment of the Navy...>

Just when Guo Zhenghua wanted to ask Jia Yuwen what method he planned to use to destroy the power systems of the remaining three Japanese ships.In the sky to the southwest of the battlefield, a dense cluster of aircraft has already appeared.

The densely packed aircraft group covered the sky and covered the earth, pressing towards the battlefield in a mighty way. (to be continued...)