Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 574
Ten minutes later, the destroyer fleet on guard at the forefront issued an air-to-air combat alert, saying that a large number of enemy planes from the north were approaching here.Obviously, this is the second attack wave of the Chinese.Now Yamamoto can only bite the bullet and go up. One minute later, Yamamoto's flagship Mutsu hoisted two flags, the Z flag and the signal flag for air defense preparations.

The sound of the fleet engine came from the sky, and the detector in charge of the sound detection marked the source of the sound: "1 o'clock direction due north, 50 kilometers away from the core position."

"Listen to me and order the whole ship to fire!" Yamamoto, standing on the bridge of the Mutsu, shouted loudly to the entire fleet through the loudspeaker.At this time, he was wearing a navy blue navy dress, a large white cap, white gloves on his hands, and various medals and medals hanging on his chest, as if he was not fighting, but preparing to participate in a grand ceremony.

Directly opposite Yamamoto is the second wave of the Beiyang Fleet's air attack force consisting of 132 combat aircraft.

"Attention! Attention! Prepare to attack, prepare to attack. The target is the opponent's capital ship. The fighter jets go down first to clear the way for us. The torpedo planes release torpedoes to disrupt the opponent's formation. The dive bombers follow me." After assigning the task, Lin Jiannan took a deep breath, and then shouted loudly: "Start attacking!"

With an order, the Chinese warhawks rushed down from high altitude, and the first ones to rush down were the group of blue bird fighter jets. These fighter jets were mainly responsible for clearing the way for the bombers and suppressing the anti-aircraft firepower of the enemy ships at the same time. The dynamism of the 20mm cannon and 7.92mm machine gun will force opposing anti-aircraft gunners out of their positions or outright eliminate them.The Lanxiang dive bomber followed closely behind, using fighter jets to create a vacuum of firepower on the opponent to target and drop bombs, while the Swordfish torpedo fleet on the other side came from below and launched a torpedo attack on the opponent.This is the trinity's sea attack tactics painstakingly studied by the Imperial Air Force Academy.

This time, they first attacked the two battleships in the middle of the joint fleet, Ise and Fuso, because the two battleships were not only huge in size and prominent in position, but also had a peculiar appearance with three turrets in front.The three Lanxiang fighter jets put down their speedbrakes from the place where they dived from 3000 meters, and fell sharply at high speed, and the buzzer in front issued a mournful sound.

The Ise and Fuso below were clumsy in S-shaped evasion.However, because the center of gravity of the two ships is in the front and the position of the bridge behind is too high, the warship cannot make a large-angle turn in a short time.In the face of wave after wave of attacks by enemy planes, the two warships seemed a little powerless.

Soon, the Ise was fatally attacked. Three Lanxiang bombers roared down and dropped four bombs in a row. Three of the 500kg bombs blew up the two turrets of the Ise in one fell swoop, but the fatal blow It was the third plane that dropped the 1100kg bomb, which flew into the towering bridge and landed near the rear boiler room.A huge fireball exploded from the rear of the Ise in an instant, and the fireball became bigger and bigger until it swallowed the entire hull.

At the same time, groups of Lanxiang fighters rushed towards the Fusang. A Bluebird fighter that was responsible for cleaning up the front was shot down and fell down with a long tail of smoke, but the two Bluebirds that followed him The Xiang fighter plane avoided the barrage very beautifully, and dived at an angle of 2500 degrees at an altitude of 80 meters.A huge bomb fell heavily on the front deck of the Fuso with a roar.At the same time, one of the Lanxiang fighter planes was also hit by anti-aircraft guns the moment it pulled up its nose, turning into a ball of fire, rolling and falling downward.However, in comparison, the huge ship Fuso was much worse. The 500kg bomb just now penetrated the ammunition depot of the right turret. Amid a series of huge explosions, the entire warship began to sink. The area is too large, and the damage control team has nothing to do.Three and ten minutes later, all attempts to save the warship failed.As a last resort, the formation commander Yamada Yuji had to issue an order to retreat.The command flag hung on the mast of the Fuso was hastily lowered.The sinking speed of the warship became faster and faster, and the stern of the ship was raised high, like a giant's finger standing upright on the sea.After another 10 minutes, the pride of the navy, a model of modern warships, disappeared from people's sight forever.

The successive sinkings of flagships and formation command ships such as Yamato, Akasei, Nagato, Ise and Fuso dealt a great blow to people. There were serious problems in command and coordination. For a time, most of the warships began to separate In order to fight, the originally dense anti-aircraft artillery also became sparse.

Under the fierce attack of the Chinese warhawks, the East Asia Maru oil tanker of the United Fleet, the heavy cruisers Tone, Chikuma, Myoko, and Haguro, the battleship Haruna, and the minelayer Zhenjin Maru were successively sunk or exploded and caught fire. Combat sequence, combined fleet was severely damaged.

Yamamoto 56, who was repeatedly hit by sap, finally came to his senses.

"All turn around, leaving a few destroyers in charge of rescue, and all fleets leave the battlefield immediately at maximum speed!" He gave an order loudly.As a result, the remnants of the United Fleet immediately began to turn around, and fled to the southern waters under the leadership of the flagship Mutsu. The plan to seize Jeju Island failed completely.

At this time, the Chinese warhawks had already completed their expected air strike mission.Under the leadership of the leader of the entire attacking team, after circling for a while, they gathered their formation and returned together.

Although the attack aircraft group flew away, the Griffon reconnaissance plane was still scouting every move of the combined fleet at high altitude, and notified the Beiyang Fleet Command of the new coordinates of the enemy ship by radio.

After hearing the news, Lin Taizeng smiled slightly. The current actions of the other party were within his expectations. What he did now was to slowly tighten the noose around the other party's neck.However, just as he was about to order the third wave of attacking troops to take off, a telegram from the Department of Naval Operations surprised him!
Meteorological experts arranged by the Ministry of the Navy in Jeju Island have discovered through detection that there may be heavy fog in the waters around Jeju Island tonight, and there will be huge waves of about magnitude 10 on the sea surface.This situation shows that if the third batch of troops attacks, it is likely that they will not be able to return smoothly.Lin Tai once had an emergency consultation with a group of think tanks in the headquarters, and then issued an order: "The third wave of troops will return immediately and do not make any attacks." At the same time, he ordered the fleet to advance south immediately to shorten the distance between it and the United Fleet , people want to leave so easily, it is not so easy.

At the same time, Yamamoto was leading his combined fleet to the southwest like a bereaved dog.The most troublesome thing at this time was Yamamoto 56. He never expected that the powerful combined fleet would be defeated by the opponent in a day's battle. What was even more depressing was that he didn't even see the shadow of the opponent's fleet. He led his fleet to flee the battlefield.But the loss is simply too great.Six giant battleships, a dozen light and heavy cruisers, 35 frigates and destroyers, gunboats, torpedo ships, and minesweepers are countless, and 700 naval aviation elites and nearly 8000 naval officers and soldiers were lost.Not only was the task of landing on Jeju Island not completed, but even his own flagship, the Yamato, went in. After returning to Tokyo, how should he explain to the emperor and the citizens of the Great Empire?At the thought of this, he had the urge to commit suicide.

"General, I just received the information that there will be heavy fog on the sea soon. Is it appropriate to increase the distance between the ships, or let them spread out, so that unnecessary collisions caused by collisions will be avoided? Loss?" Shintaro Hashimoto, commander of the second security formation, glanced at the frustrated Yamamoto.

"Well! Just do as you want!" At this time, Yamamoto, who had lost his mind, had completely lost his ability to judge the current situation.

"Report, the Beiyang Fleet has sent a telegram." In the 17th Command of the Weihai Navy Department, a communications officer held a telegram and said: "The combined fleet is fleeing southwest at a speed of 20 knots. It is estimated that their target is the Pacific Ocean A temporary island base in the middle."

Deng Shichang was the first to stand up and said loudly to the other generals: "Now that we know the enemy's goal, we should pursue the victory."

But Lin Jianzhang waved his hand: "Zhengqing, but the Beiyang Fleet has no cards in its hands. It is heavy fog, the plane cannot go out, and it is night, and the vision is extremely poor. It is impossible to realize the wolf pack tactics." Paused: "In the current situation, we have to use the submarine force. The role of the submarine is mainly to ambush the opponent's poorly defended capital ships, but if he is asked to actively attack the heavily defended enemy fleet, it will be moths to the flame. After all, the United Fleet now has not just one or two destroyers, but also submarine hunters and submarine hunters that are specially responsible for anti-submarine patrols. Although I also know that General Lin Taizeng has begun to mobilize submarine troops to intercept. But in case the other party If we had been prepared, we would have suffered a great loss." Lin Jianzhang expressed his worries in a single brain.

"Zeng Rong, I know what you mean, the battle has reached this point. We can no longer look forward and backward at this time, and delay the opportunity of the war. Besides, now that we have an absolute advantage, it should be Yamamoto 56 who is afraid of it now." Deng Shichang smiled. Said.

Lin Jianzhang thought for a while and nodded: "Then I will immediately let Lin Taizeng launch an attack and strive for the greatest gain."

At this time, more than 30 submarines under the jurisdiction of the Beiyang Fleet began to leave their predetermined channel and head towards the place where the United Fleet gathered at high speed.

At eight o'clock in the evening, groups of white fog rose from the calm sea, slowly connecting into one piece, covering the sky and the moon.The high-speed combined fleet has opened up the distance between the ships and readjusted their speed.The leaders of each squadron also turned on their searchlights to prevent the fleet from getting separated.Only then did Yamamoto breathe a sigh of relief. At this moment, he no longer needed to worry about the enemy's attack, because even a fool knew what the consequences would be if he launched an attack when the visibility was almost zero.

(End of this chapter)