Glorious Mission 1937

Chen Feng really understood Takasu Shiro's mood very well, because at this time his mood was the same as Takasu Shiro's.After receiving the telegram, Chen Feng's first reaction was disbelief, followed by anger, and finally helplessness.

The navy is no match for the Japanese navy, and Chen Feng is mentally prepared for this.After all, the strength of the Japanese navy has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. As early as more than 30 years ago, the Qing Beiyang Navy ranked sixth in the world and died in a battle. The Russian Baltic Fleet and the Far East Fleet, which ranked third in the world in the Russo-Japanese War, also lost to the Japanese Navy. , It can be seen that the strength of the Japanese navy is by no means blown out of the mouth, but actually played out.

Besides, the navy under his command has only been established for more than a year, and it doesn't even have a decent naval officer. For the navy, which pays attention to tradition and inheritance, the three major fleets under Chen Feng's command lack such necessary skills. historical background.

The second is the issue of naval ships. The navy under Chen Feng's command does have quite a few ships. According to the statistics from last month, the navy stationed in Nanyang Territory has 187 surface ships of various types, including 122 large warships. The rest are auxiliary ships such as torpedo boats and submarines.

It looks pretty good on the surface, but in Chen Feng's words, it's just a donkey dung, just a shiny surface.Among the 187 large and small ships, there are less than a hundred ships that can really be taken out to fight with the Japanese Navy. The rest are all junk that the United States and the Soviet Union are about to eliminate. They are barely used for training, let alone pulled out. Fucked hard with the Japanese Navy.

In contrast to Japan, because the island country is surrounded by the sea.Foreign enemies and supplies come from the sea, so the navy is given the highest priority.Coupled with Japan's high level of domestic manufacturing and technology, absorbing the most advanced technology from the United States, combining internal and external technologies, it designs and produces first-class ships with reliable quality and advanced technology.

In addition, Japan's national education level is high, and the personal education level of ordinary officers and soldiers is at the forefront of the world.The navy is a technical arm, and the country's basic education level restricts the combat effectiveness of the navy.

The most important thing is that Japan has a tradition of naval power that lasted for more than [-] years, with a sound talent training system and a high level of talent training.The Navy sees a lot of naval warfare.There is a lot of experience and tradition passed down, which is an advantage in software.

Therefore, Japan's most powerful armed force is not the army that shows off its power and rampage on the Chinese battlefield, but the navy that the entire Japanese people are proud of.

There is no doubt about the strength of the Japanese navy.Japan has a famous saying: "The sea protects Japan. The sea also isolates Japan." As an island country.The sea is the lifeline of Japan, and the navy is the defender of the lifeline.

The Japanese have long attached importance to the construction of the navy, and the time can even be traced back to the end of the 16th century.At the same time, the Japanese navy has always been the vanguard of foreign aggression. Even hundreds of years ago, the Japanese navy participated in the war of aggression against Korea. Unfortunately, they met the genius commander Yi Sun-shin of North Korea. After a disastrous defeat, he returned with a brake.

The real rise of the Japanese navy began after the Meiji Restoration, which was a peak period of Japanese naval construction.At that time, the size of the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy ranked 11th in the world, lagging behind the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty.In order to annex North Korea and occupy Northeast China, Emperor Meiji shouted the slogan of concentrating the power of the whole country to build a navy.

He took the lead in donating 10% of the royal family's annual savings to the navy; in order to buy the Yoshino, the emperor only ate one meal a day, so all Japanese only ate one meal a day; even the games that Japanese children usually play It is "Dingyuan".This kind of perseverance and perseverance of the Japanese nation is indeed terrifying.

Later, in the Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-], the combined fleet commanded by Yuheng Ito severely damaged the Beiyang Navy and gained control of the sea, which ensured the smooth implementation of the Japanese army's invasion of Korea and the occupation brigade's grand strategy.

In 1905, the United Fleet once again challenged an opponent stronger than itself. This time, the enemy they faced was the Russian Navy, which ranked third in the world.Togo Heihachiro commanded the joint fleet to ambush the Russian Far East Fleet on the Tsushima Strait and won a complete victory.At a small cost of losing 3 torpedo boats, the Japanese sank 3 Russian battleships and 8 cruisers, captured 4 other large battleships, and almost completely wiped out the Russian Pacific Fleet and Baltic Fleet. The world's top three.

In the following 30 years, the Japanese Navy has expanded at an alarming rate every year. In 1922, the Hosho was launched. This is the first aircraft carrier in human history. Afterwards, world-class large aircraft carriers such as Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Taiho were launched one after another. Its strength has been ranked first in Asia for decades. The third throne in the world.

It has been less than 1894 years since Japan emerged from the First Sino-Japanese War in 50.Thinking about the achievements of the Japanese navy in the past half century, it is not difficult for us to find out how powerful the Japanese navy is. Since the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War, Japan defeated the Beiyang Fleet of the Qing Dynasty, and first drove the Russians away from Lushun, China. Later, the Germans in Qingdao, Shandong were expelled, and as the main force of the Japanese invading army-the navy all showed its decisive role.

The Jiawu Year in 1894 was by far the most glorious and most declining year for the Chinese Navy in the past 50 years.What was brilliant was that in early 1894, the Chinese navy claimed to be the number one in Asia, but what fell was the complete annihilation of the Beiyang Navy in the Battle of Weihaiwei.

Since then, the Chinese navy has never "raised up".If the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty still had the opportunity to go out to sea and fight the Japanese Navy in a dignified manner at sea, then the Navy of the Republic of China later did not even have the courage to go to sea to fight the Japanese Navy.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the main combat strategy of the Chinese Navy was shipwrecking, sinking the steel ships that cost "huge sums of money" into rivers like "cheap" stones, in an attempt to prevent the Japanese army from entering the inland by sinking the ships on the waterway To "reject" the Japanese Navy.

After 1894, the Japanese navy no longer regarded the Chinese navy as its main combat opponent. Since then, Japan has aimed its main opponents at the navies of major powers such as Russia and the United States. On the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese navy has always been It is to cooperate with the auxiliary and secondary direction of land operations.

Chen Feng knows the strength and fear of the Japanese navy best. In the early days of World War II, the Japanese navy was known as the "world's third navy". There are about 6.6 small aircraft carriers in total, the famous ones are "Chicheng", "Yunlong", "Canglong", "Flying Dragon", "Kaga", "Xianfeng", "Zuihe", "Shinano" and so on; the super battleship 15 to 10 ships, the famous ones are "Yamato", "Musashi", "Kirishima", "Nagato", "Kingo", "Mutsu", "Fuso", "Ise", "Hyuga" and so on; There are also dozens of heavy cruisers, the famous ones are "Kumano", "Mogami", "Tone", "Atago", "Haguro", "Mikuma", "Nachi", "Furutaka", "Takao", etc. .

In addition, there are many destroyers and frigates, but they are not the main force of the Japanese Navy. The submarine force of the Japanese Navy is the weakest force of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the performance of submarines is not as good as virtue.However, the number of carrier-based aircraft in Japan is surprisingly large. Even when Japan surrendered, there were more than 5 carrier-based aircraft in Japan.

Because of this, Chen Feng has always warned naval officers and soldiers not to confront the Japanese navy head-on for the time being. Unexpectedly, the Japanese navy came to them by themselves, and immediately beat up the Heilongjiang Fleet, one of the three major fleets under Chen Feng's command. If there is no way to rescue it, I am afraid that the Heilongjiang Fleet will die before it leaves, just like the Titanic.

Chen Feng is now in a very anxious mood. According to the telegram sent back by Jiang Haitao, although the Japanese army suddenly stopped attacking, nearly a hundred large warships of the Japanese army blocked all the nearby sea areas. To send them all to the bottom of the sea, he and all the officers and soldiers of the fleet are ready to sacrifice their lives for the country. I implore Chen Feng to treat their families well.

How to solve the crisis situation of the Heilongjiang Fleet made Chen Feng quite troubled. He tried several methods but all failed. The most likely way to successfully save the lives of Jiang Haitao and all the officers and soldiers of the fleet was to order them to surrender to the Japanese Navy.

But this method may not work, because this is China, the East, not the West.According to the Western point of view, as long as a qualified soldier has fulfilled his duties, it is his duty to fight well. When a soldier finds that he can no longer perform his duties, he chooses to surrender. From the Western point of view, the soldier has fulfilled his own obligations That's it, the rest is out of his reach.

But that is Western thinking after all. In the final analysis, the West’s understanding of family and country is not as deep as that of China. It is common for countries to split and merge. The winners are not so harsh on the losers. The sense of honor is not so strong, or the recognition of honor is far from that of the East.

For the Easterners, war is a matter of immortality, either to win or to die.Heroes don't necessarily have to win, and those who lose will be respected, and surrender is always despised by everyone.Xiang Yu and Wen Tianxiang were both defeated and died, but they were all heroes, and Shi Kefa was also defeated and died.On the contrary, Hong Tingyu surrendered, but was classified as a second minister by the Qing Dynasty.It was opened and finally surrendered, and it didn't end well. Therefore, in the East, real soldiers don't bother to surrender.

The main officers of the Heilongjiang Fleet were selected by Chen Feng himself. He knew all the officers above the major level. Under such circumstances, even if he, the commander of the war zone, ordered them to lay down their weapons and surrender to the Japanese, few of them would seriously implement it. Yes, therefore, the only way to rescue Jiang Haitao and others is to negotiate with the Japanese and use the Ninth Division as a bargaining chip. (To be continued..)