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Japan, Wu Jungang.

July 3, early morning.

The snow-white searchlights pierced the night, countless trucks were rushing between the warehouse and the dock, the sailors shouted from time to time, and the iron wall of the crane swung back and forth, hoisting countless supplies onto the warships parked outside the dock.

Standing on the top of the bridge of the "Nagato" battleship, looking at the battleships being prepared around him, even Togo Heihachiro, the military god of the Japanese Imperial Navy, was flushed with excitement. stand right here.

It seems that I have returned to the Sino-Japanese War 37 years ago, and the Russo-Japanese War 27 years ago. It was these two wars that defeated powerful opponents that pushed Japan from a "small country" to a hegemony in East Asia. the throne of the ruler.

In order to safeguard the honor of the empire and the hegemony of the East, the United Fleet will set off again. This time, the one who will challenge the hegemony of the empire is the defeated general 37 years ago.

Standing behind him are the three commanders of the operation code-named "Special One Operation Plan".

Admiral Kanji Kato, Commander of the Combined Fleet and Commander of the First Fleet, Kato will command a fleet that includes the flagship of the Combined Fleet, the battleship Nagato, the battleship Mutsu, two heavy cruisers, four light cruisers and six destroyers, plus the "Fengxiang" aircraft carrier, which only carried Type [-] fighter jets, and a supply ship.It is the main force of this battle and the largest strike force of the United Fleet.

Lieutenant Admiral Kobayashi, commander of the Second Fleet, the Second Fleet is composed of the battlecruiser "Zhenming", the battleship "Yamashiro", two heavy cruisers, four light cruisers and six destroyers. supply ship.The task of the Second Fleet is to feign attack to attract the powerful Chinese aviation force, which is basically a dead end!

Lieutenant General Minai Mitsumasa, commander of the First Air Fleet, the First Air Fleet consists of the aircraft carrier "Akagi", the aircraft carrier "Kaga", two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, five destroyers, and one supply ship.The mission of the First Air Fleet is to lure the enemy. Naval Commander Hidesuke Yamamoto believes that the China Navy attaches great importance to aviation combat power, so it will definitely regard the Japanese aircraft carrier as the most dangerous potential enemy!Therefore, only an aircraft carrier can be used to lure the Chinese aircraft carrier out.

This is all the mobile forces that the United Fleet of the Japanese Empire can mobilize at present, and it is also a desperate attempt by the Japanese Empire to return the army!

With victory, the Japanese Empire will be able to regain the sea power in the East Ocean. Although it may not be able to save the precarious Taiwan Island, after annihilating the main force of the Chinese Navy, it can still completely block the coast of China outside the combat radius of shore-based aircraft!

fail?No, the Combined Fleet will never fail!

Dongxiang Heihachiro glanced at the huge fleet moored in Wujun Port.

Every ship is always in top condition, every sailor is one of a hundred, and has undergone the most rigorous training in the world, and every officer is also an elite graduated from the world's best Etajima Naval Academy.How could the China Navy be the opponent of the Imperial Japanese Navy?

So this battle will never fail!

"The imperial kingdom rises and falls, and this battle is here, all officers and soldiers, work hard!"

Togo Heihachiro turned around, and once again yelled the famous slogan to the three people behind him.At the same time, a Z flag was slowly raised on the flagship of the United Fleet "Nagato".

Three o'clock sharp.

Under the expectant eyes of the Minister of the Navy, the Minister of Military Command, and veterans of the Navy Togo Heihachiro and Yamamoto Gonbei who came to see him off, the First Fleet slowly sailed out of Wujun Port and headed for the South China Sea more than 2000 kilometers away. .

When the three fleets all disappeared from sight, Togo Heihachiro found that his eyes were full of tears, and when he looked back, Yamamoto Eisuke and others were also in tears.

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"Auxiliary commander, the combined Japanese fleet has set off!"

Luo Yaoguo stood up abruptly from behind the desk, rushed over hastily, and took the telegram from Natalie's hands.Sun Ke and Li Shunen, who were sitting cross-legged on the sofa beside the desk, looked at each other.They all came to discuss with Luo Yaoguo the development progress of the new monoplane prototype Machine Research-1.Seeing Luo Yaoguo's eager look, Young Master Sun of the Armament Department and Commander-in-Chief Li of the Air Force couldn't help but look serious.

As the core figures of the Kuomintang military, they all know the true combat power of the Kuomintang navy.Although the so-called century-old navy is somewhat exaggerated, it is not completely unreasonable.Although since the 14th year of the Republic of China, the national government has continued to invest huge sums of money in the navy, and hired the best naval officers from Germany with high salaries to serve as military advisors and naval academy instructors, but the time is only six short years after all!Six years is too short to build a truly powerful army, let alone a navy that claims to take a hundred years to build?

Apart from submarines and aircraft, the current Kuomintang navy has no commendable combat power at all. Although its ranking has risen to the third place in the world, if it really wants to fight surface artillery battles, the Japanese will probably be able to take out a few heavy cruisers. Beat all the surface ships of the Nanyang Fleet to the ground!

Even the entire Kuomintang navy does not deny this, and is extremely worried about the well-trained Japanese surface ships... except for Zhao Zheng and Zhang Yiming.One of them thinks that as long as the surface fleet can sail, shoot anti-aircraft guns and anti-submarine, it will be enough. The enemy's battleships, heavy cruisers and so on are all handled by aircraft!The other thinks that the Japanese combined fleet with weak anti-submarine capabilities is a tragedy at all. In the world war, German U-type submarines have shown extraordinary combat effectiveness for more than ten years, and they have not trained anti-submarines well. Just dreaming of using naval guns and battleships to conquer the world is a bunch of rusty fools.

However, Luo Yaoguo did not have the confidence of these two "Navy Twins". In fact, so far, the threats to the surface fleet from aircraft and submarines are still very limited.It can't be compared with the period of World War II at all. Even the Yankee-1 sample aircraft, which was hyped up by the Minister of Armaments Sun Ke and the general manager of the Republic Aircraft Company (owned by Luo Yaoguo) Shevelsky, is in Luo Yaoguo's eyes. It's not advanced at all.

So this time he had no idea about the decisive battle with the Japanese United Fleet.

Luo Yaoguo took the telegram.Hastily disassembled and looked at it carefully several times.

North Korean spies lurking in Wujun Port, Japan sent an urgent call. When they returned to work at the naval factory near Wujun Port this morning, the combined Japanese navy fleet in Wujun Port had disappeared!Including three aircraft carriers and four battleships and battlecruisers, all six heavy cruisers (armored cruisers) are all dispatched, and the Japanese are going desperate!

Chapter 0589 war of aggression against Japan! ([-]) Will it be tricked?

March 1th, [-]:[-] p.m.

"Dangdang!"

With a startling sound, an officer in the Communications Department of the Nanyang Fleet Headquarters in Zhanjiang Naval Port jumped up suddenly just after he had translated a secret message, and even knocked down the chair he was sitting on.He hurriedly grabbed the phone on the desk, and after shaking it a few times, the ringtone rang in the war room of the Nanyang Fleet Command.

At this time, Admiral Zhao Zheng, the commander of the Nanyang Fleet, was sitting next to the chart in the war room, resting his head on his hand, and looking at the island of Taiwan on the chart with his eyes half closed.Due to operational needs, the current Nanyang Fleet has also been divided into three.

The leased battlecruiser "Selim Sultan" and three cruisers, five destroyers, and six torpedo boats formed the Second Fleet of the Navy, commanded by Rear Admiral Chen Si, and is now preparing to bombard Japanese positions near Kaohsiung Port.

Kaohsiung was the first important target of the Kuomintang army's attack on Taiwan this time, and the Japanese defense there was ridiculously empty.There are neither fortresses nor many garrisons.

According to intelligence, the current Japanese Taiwan Army has a total of three infantry regiments, one in Taipei, one in Taichung, and one in Tainan; Mountain Artillery Brigade, stationed in Taipei.

And Kaohsiung is now stationed in the second battalion of Taiwan's second infantry regiment, with about 800 people, in addition to some miscellaneous armed forces such as soldiers in the countryside and volunteers.The artillery is estimated to be only a 150mm howitzer at most, and I don’t know if these Japanese soldiers can survive to the moment when the marines land under the bombardment of the ten 280mm main guns of the "Selim Sultan".

The 32 submarines attached to the Nanyang Fleet formed the Third Fleet, with Vice Admiral Zhang Yiming as the commander.The main task of the Third Fleet is to blockade, guard, and luck.Uh, if the "Nagato" comes out for a walk sometime and happens to be hit by a group of submarines, it will be sunk directly.However, in the vast waters around Taiwan, relying on the poor performance of the current Type 2 submarines, the probability of encountering such a good thing is basically negligible.

Finally, there is a protagonist who does not know whether to appear or not-the First Air Fleet!The name is the same as the Japanese First Air Fleet led by "Akagi" and "Kaga", and it is also equipped with two aircraft carriers, "Zhongshan" and "Guangdong", and three "Guangzhou" class air defense cruisers And four destroyers, six torpedo boats, and one supply ship.The commander of the First Air Fleet is Zhao Zheng himself. The Nanyang Fleet has followed the path of the aircraft carrier school from the beginning, and the main force of the fleet is the aircraft carrier.

And this First Air Fleet and its commander, Zhao Zheng, have been waiting in Zhanjiang Port for the news of the departure of the Japanese United Fleet these days.

At this moment, when he finally received the exact information from Wu Jungang, Zhao Zheng not only didn't feel nervous, but felt a sense of relief.

Now, the prey is finally out of the hole!

"Immediately hold a military meeting and inform Wang Shuming, the commander of the First Naval Division, Meng Hailong, the chief of staff of the Nanyang Fleet, Zhang Yiming, the commander of the Second Fleet, Luo Youjun, the captain of the 'Zhongshan' ship, Li Zhi, the captain of the 'Guangzhou' ship, and Luster. Consultant Yan has all gone to the conference room for a meeting, and it looks like we have work to do!" Zhao Zheng got up calmly and walked slowly towards the conference room, which was in stark contrast to the tension and anxiety of the previous few days.

Ten minutes later, in the oval conference room of the Nanyang Fleet Headquarters, the senior generals of the Nanyang Fleet and the Naval Division had almost arrived.

"The Japanese are dispatched! They are dispatched with all their strength!" Zhao Zheng glanced at the generals in the conference room, and immediately got to the point: "This morning, the military intelligence bureau's eyeliner at Wujun Port discovered that the Japanese fleet in the port had disappeared. There is no trace, it is estimated that it set off last night."

"Hehe, the Japanese are going to do their best, right?" After hearing Zhao Zheng's report, Wang Shuming, a handsome Shandong man, burst out laughing.He graduated from the first phase of Whampoa, and was also the first generation pilot of the National Revolutionary Army. Together with Li Wenhua and Liu Yongyao, he studied flying with Soviet consultants, and participated in the formation of the National Revolutionary Army Army Aviation Corps.Later, he was transferred to the Navy to be responsible for the formation and training of the Naval Aviation, and now he is the commander of the First Division of the Naval Aviation, and he is in charge of more than 300 aircraft.In the early stage of the sea battle in Bohai Bay, the first division of HNA was also considered to have made great achievements, so this Master Wang is naturally a little bit smug.

"Well, it's going to be desperate. The entire United Fleet is dispatched. It looks like it's going to fight to the death with our Nanyang Fleet!" Zhao Zhengchao and Wang Shuming shook his head.

What he said made everyone's faces sink. Is there any way for Little Japan to reverse the defeat?With their outdated battleships, can they break through the blockade formed by submarines and planes, and rescue the precarious Taiwan Island?

Lu Steyan was smoking a pipe. He thought he had discovered a way to wipe out the main fleet of the British Empire Navy from the Bohai Bay sea battle, so he was in a good mood, and joked: "Probably the Japanese have realized that their battleships are just a bunch of ships. It’s a tragedy made of steel, so it’s broken and smashed to the Taiwan Strait to sink itself?”

As soon as the joke came out, the atmosphere in the meeting room suddenly relaxed a lot.

"Well, that would save us a lot of trouble." Zhao Zheng replied with a smile.

"Could it be that they went to the South China Sea to implement the blockade route? That's the main channel for us to import supplies!" Zhang Yiming frowned, his face still a little dignified.He pointed to the Bashi Channel on the chart above the conference table and said: "The Japanese fleet can go to the Pacific Ocean to bypass Taiwan, and then take advantage of the darkness to break through the cordon of our submarines deployed in the Bashi Channel and break into the South China Sea! As long as they are in our If we operate outside the combat radius of shore-based aircraft, we have nothing to do with them, unless we use aircraft carriers!"

"Don't want Taiwan?" Meng Hailong shook his head: "As long as we occupy Taiwan, we can deploy aircraft there, and we can control the Bashi Channel, and then send submarines and aircraft carriers to the South China Sea, and we can always send them to Taiwan." Evicted! Their blockade doesn't look like it will last for a few days."

"Aircraft carrier!" Zhao Zheng's eyes lit up, he tapped his fingers on the map on the table, and said with a smile, "Isn't Little Japan trying to learn how we use naval aviation to fight wars?"

Zhao Zheng looked at everyone with a smile, stood up, picked up his baton and pointed to the depths of the South China Sea, saying: "The Japanese also have three aircraft carriers. Although their aircraft are not very good, they can fight anyway. They may use The battleship was used as bait to lure our two aircraft carriers out of Zhanjiang Port, and then use the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier to attack our aircraft carrier!" He gritted his teeth: "The Japanese learn so fast! Let's play naval aviation, hehe, they are still young, so we will give them a trick!"

As he spoke, Zhao Zheng picked up his baton and fiercely drew a circle in the center of the South China Sea. The fierceness in his eyes could be seen at a glance: "The Japanese aircraft carriers will definitely set up ambushes in the depths of the South China Sea. Let's go too and hide in them." There should be nearly [-] carrier-based aircraft pilots on the three Japanese aircraft carriers. They are all elites! They are the hope and fire of the Japanese aviation force. As long as they are eliminated, the gap between the Japanese and ours in aviation will be at least two Expand for five years! The Japanese battleships are nothing, they are all obsolete. As long as their aircraft carriers are eliminated and their last air combat power is destroyed, our battle will be considered complete. So this battle, Our target is the Japanese aircraft carrier!"