The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

"Finally going to attack?!"

Chen Shaokuan's order made all the young generals in the fleet excited, and cheers in lowered tones resounded in the major battleships. Not only did they not feel tired after a day of tossing around, but they became even more alert because of the arrival of the battle order. God is high!

Excited!It has been more than six years since becoming a navy, but few people have actually fought face to face with the Japanese fleet! The one in 35 years is not counted. It took a long time to work hard and use all kinds of tricks and tricks to achieve a narrow victory, but it did not cause much loss to the strength of the Japanese navy.

Today, it's different!What they are facing is the strongest core force of the Japanese United Fleet, and what they put on is a stance of the weak attacking the strong, but from the commander of the fleet to the small soldiers, no one puts on the stance of a mourning soldier. Look at that, It seems to be a general mobilization before hunting in the mountains and fishing in the sea. If you don't know, you think there will be a big harvest in the future!

This morale doesn't need any encouragement!

Chen Shaokuan didn't say anything, but secretly nodded with satisfaction, the military spirit is available!There is no need for him to make more statements, it seems that they all have a high level of consciousness!

What a pity if you get someone like this!He couldn't help feeling a lot of emotions, how many years, he used to be such a hot-blooded young man, and then he was tossed into an angry young man, and later, the middle-aged man who should have made achievements was spent in aggrieved, without Zhu Bin's rise, only Afraid of a completely disappointed old age?

Now, there is such a group of brave men who are ecstatic in the face of life and death.As a commander, how can you not feel relieved?

Ready to fight!

The horn sounded silently, and dense orders were quickly communicated from the flagship to all places, and the formation cut to the waist of the Japanese First Squadron at a large oblique angle changed again. The two aircraft carriers gradually merged into the left of the center. In the lead, the four heavy cruisers formed a vertical line at the front and back, and only a few destroyers were left on the periphery to echo back and forth, constantly scanning the sea surface to prevent infiltration by submarines that might be lurking in.

The battleships prepared their turrets one after another.Going deep into the ammunition depot at the bottom of the protective armor, the huge artillery shells taller than one person are assembled, and the silk-wrapped ammunition package is rolled onto the automatic bomb lifter. The huge electric drive motor quickly and slowly rotates the turret as a whole, aiming at the unreachable enemy in the dark night.

The multi-channel cooperation of the air search radar can scan the 360-degree airspace without dead ends.Once a suspicious target is found, immediately mobilize enough anti-aircraft artillery fire to point at it mercilessly, and wait until it enters the killing range, and suddenly it will be full of she!

The Japanese army's night flight death squads are very hard to search and investigate. If they fly too high, they can't see the situation on the sea at all, and they can only fly at low altitudes.Only by relying on good eyesight can we spot the huge black warship under the blackout, and we must search carefully at a low speed of [-] kilometers. On a reconnaissance plane, there are two or three people, and their eyes are wide open almost non-stop.Even if you are too tired to cry, you must persist.Because if you find the enemy's traces earlier, you can take the initiative on the battlefield, otherwise, once the enemy fires first, the losses will be immeasurable!

But in this way.It is doomed to their tragic fate!A slow flight at an altitude of several hundred meters is almost a live target for precise artillery fire!Whether it is a small-caliber 40mm Bofors gun or a 30mm 6-barreled close-in anti-aircraft gun with terrifying firepower, there is not much sound and it will not spread too far, but a sudden blow with all its strength will immediately make the lonely reconnaissance plane like a bird with broken wings crashed down.And the brief flames caused by their explosions cannot even be noticed by people in the distance.

but. Ri himself is obviously more cunning than he imagined. All the reconnaissance planes roughly followed a relatively balanced angle after they set off on the fan-shaped search plane that cast a net all over the ground. The maximum distance they flew out would not be more than 20 kilometers away, at the moment when the closest to the target was blown up in the air, the last brilliant fireworks directly revealed the general position of the target.

Just when the third reconnaissance plane was shot down, the Japanese planes in the other direction finally saw it, and sent a telegram to the fleet immediately: "I found the enemy's trace! The direction...!"

"Found them!"

Yamamoto 56 was so anxious that his eyes were red. Although he remained calm on the surface, he was burning with anxiety in his heart!Yese is becoming more and more unfavorable for them!

With decades of experience in the past, the Japanese navy, which has generally excellent eyesight, can often gain an advantage in night battles and is proud of it. However, with the emergence of radar technology in recent years, it has become less advantageous!At least Yamamoto himself knows that the Germans, who in his mind have the strongest technology, have sea and air radars that can detect targets at a distance of more than [-] kilometers. As far as it is concerned, it is nothing less than a huge assistance!

The South China Sea naval battle that took place in 35, according to later analysis, in addition to giving full play to the advantages of submarines, China probably used radar technology to achieve the advantage and victory. Now, three years later, their level Certainly not standing still.

Yese is no longer the exclusive world of the Yamato nation, the danger lies in the vast and endless ocean!

so far so good!Those brave pilots did not lose face, and finally found the target ahead of time!Yamamoto 56 was so happy that he almost jumped up, but fortunately, his strong mental will prevailed. He seemed to be calm and nodded gently, but his eyes turned to the chart. Seeing the general position marked by the staff officer, he almost fell The eyeballs bulged out: "They have turned to the back!?"

It's only two hours!Those guys can change direction so fast!You know, it's normal for a formation of dozens of warships to stretch dozens of kilometers apart. It's not that simple to change uniformly. The Imperial Japanese Navy is well-trained and can do it calmly. The guy on the opposite side is How did you play?

That's still the second thing, the point is, at this time, the joint first team sailed straight for 50 nautical miles, and it was scheduled to meet the enemy head-on for an hour and a half, but now it suddenly turned into them showing their soft belly to the other party. The destroyers hovering around were exposed to the guns of the opponent's battleship first!The nearest three "Fubuki-class" destroyers and one "Furutaka-class" heavy cruiser are within range!

If you couldn't understand the other party's purpose before, then it's clear now!These daring fellows actually want to repeat their old tricks, trying to reproduce the scene of the night attack in the South China Sea three years ago in this mighty Pacific Ocean!

"Wishful thinking! Here, there is no such special terrain for you to use!" Yamamoto 56 couldn't help but secretly gritted his teeth. His friend Mitsumasa Minai suffered a big loss at the beginning, and I must help him get it back today!

He raised his head abruptly, and hurriedly yelled at Sanben's staff officer: "Order the ships on the right wing to enter the combat state immediately, and do a good job of artillery defense! The main ship's left rudder avoids!"

"Hi!"

San Ben's staff answered straightforwardly, but cold sweat broke out on his face!This was the first time he encountered such a tense situation!It's too dangerous to be pushed into the range of the main gun by an enemy ship!Fortunately, it's not the capital ship on our side!

Their response is still late!

On the "Hengshan", Chen Shaokuan glanced regretfully at the light that had not completely dissipated in the sky, knowing that it would be too abnormal if the Japanese fleet couldn't see it so close!According to his understanding, the best observer of the Japanese Navy can see flashing targets 25 nautical miles away on a clear night, and the fireball caused by the explosion of the reconnaissance plane will definitely attract their attention. It must have been exposed.

Radar detection has clearly found the Japanese warships closest to the periphery. Judging from their size and reflection waves, they are only small ships, but they are the size of a mosquito!Now that you have encountered it, you can't let it go!

"Target, the right-wing auxiliary ship of the Japanese army, the main guns of the battleship fire three times, fire!" Chen Shaokuan issued an order tepidly, with a stern smile on the corner of his mouth, "Warm up the Japanese themselves first!"

"Okay! Brothers, roll up your sleeves and do it! Fire!"

On the "Taishan", Wang Wenda rolled up his sleeves and let out a strange cry. The next moment, a series of loud noises from the nine 406mm main guns "boom boom boom" suddenly erupted!

Ten years of sharpening a sword!The six 18 large-caliber main guns representing the highest achievement and the greatest force of the Chinese navy roared at the enemy for the first time!Amidst the huge roar, a piece of orange flames shone brightly on the sea surface for several miles around, like lightning splitting the dark night, and the wind from the muzzle forcefully pressed down the sea surface half a mile wide into a huge depression, the highest displacement The giant steel ship of more than 4 tons was abruptly pushed away more than ten meters away, and the high-speed train roared as it passed the cave and emptied out!

The huge earthquake caused by the salvo of the main gun made the whole ship of "Taishan" tremble violently. Wang Wenda, who propped his hands on the table, almost couldn't stand still. The outside world is different, seeing all the nine shells blasting towards the intended target, cheers spread all over the inside and outside of the turret!

In the Japanese fleet 30 kilometers away, the nearest destroyer and heavy cruiser saw the flash almost immediately. Although the sound was far away, they still couldn't help but exclaimed: "Enemy ship shelling!"

The distance visible to the naked eye must be within the range of the main gun!And there is absolutely no little guy who launches from such a distance!It can't be assumed that the opponent will fire the cannon, no matter how bad the accuracy of the cannon is, once they are caught, even if they just miss the bullet, they will all be finished!

The shrill sirens resounded across the sea, and the Japanese naval officers and soldiers on the ship immediately entered their combat positions, but strict blackout was still maintained, and no one dared to reveal their location!

After 50 seconds, the whistling sound broke through the air!The first round of 18 high-explosive bombs weighing 1.2 tons hit like meteors falling, "Boom! Boom!" A series of huge explosions were like a volcanic eruption, blasting strips around several Japanese warships The thick water column with a height of more than [-] meters, the instant waves caused by the rumble rumble like overwhelming mountains and seas, sweeping away! (to be continued)rq