After being silent for a while, Naoto Ohara seemed to have woken up from a dream, and turned to his subordinates and shouted, "Quick! Find out the location of the enemy ship group now! ”

"Yes!" The staff officer answered, and immediately passed on the order. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was not difficult to do this, since the Japanese army still had more than two dozen seaplanes...... As soon as Naoto Ohara gave the order, these seaplanes scattered everywhere to look for the Chinese fleet, and even some of the more courageous Japanese pilots followed the Chinese fighters who returned to the aircraft carrier after the battle, and then quickly found the location of the Chinese fleet.

Naoto Ohara found the location of the Chinese fleet on the map, then gritted his teeth and ordered: "Turn immediately and approach the enemy fleet at full speed!" ”

"Your Excellency, Major General!" Hearing this, the staff officer couldn't help but be surprised, now that it was too late to escape in this situation, he was still approaching the enemy fleet?

"Execute it now!" Naoto Ohara doesn't have much to explain.

"Yes!" The staff officer answered, turned around and shouted the order.

The movements of the Japanese fleet were soon reported to Zhang Chi by the radar soldiers, and Zhang Chi couldn't help but smile...... He knew what the Japanese commander wanted to do. If you can't beat it, you can't run away, so you just fight. Moreover, the distance between the two fleets is only about 50 kilometers, and the speed of the warships is more than 30 knots, if the Chinese fleet sails to Iwo Jima and the Japanese fleet sails to the Chinese fleet, then it will only take ten minutes to enter the range of each other's naval guns.

To put it simply, the Japanese army hoped to use naval guns to fight a naval battle in the traditional sense.

But how could Zhang Chi fight with the devil's naval guns against naval guns...... Especially the Japanese army also has battleships that are good at ship combat!

"Keep your distance from enemy ships!" Zhang Chi ordered without thinking about it: "Another...... Knock out those little planes of the devils first! ”

"Yes!"

As soon as the Chinese fleet moved, Naoto Ohara wilted like a deflated ball...... The speed of Japanese warships was more than 30 knots, but the speed of Chinese warships was also more than 30 knots, and even the "Ise" class battleships had a speed of only 25 knots because of their thick armor, equipment, and fighters. This also means that as long as the Chinese fleet is willing, then the Japanese fleet will never be able to catch up with the Chinese fleet.

Just now, Naoto Ohara still hoped that the enemy would carry forward a little "bushido spirit" and be willing to fight with him, but now, the enemy obviously didn't pay attention to his own set.

So Naoto Ohara could only order: "Disperse and retreat in all directions!" ”

"Yes!"

So the Japanese reinforcement fleet of more than ten warships turned around and divided into several parts and sailed north, needless to say, what the intention of this intention was, that is, hoping to break into pieces on the vast ocean and eventually escape back to a few warships.

But to be honest, it's also difficult...... Because the Chinese fleet has radars and fighters, it can easily track every warship of the Japanese Navy.

In fact, this decision of Naoto Ohara should be said to be wrong.

The reason why it is wrong is that the performance of the Japanese anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns was not satisfactory...... The Japanese army did not have anti-aircraft guns with close-to-fuse shells like the Yankees.

Therefore, if these dozen or so warships are gathered together, their anti-aircraft firepower can still pose some threat to the bombing organs of the Chinese army, and the Chinese army has only about 30 bombers, and if we want to blow up and sink all these Japanese ships, it will inevitably have to suffer some losses.

But now......

After the Japanese battleships were dispersed, Zhang Chi immediately sent a bomber formation to name them one by one, and the battleship "Ise" was the first to bear the brunt.

However, the Ise was not targeted to sink it...... Battleships are hard to sink because of their rough skin, and the historical "Ise" was only sunk after being hit by 16 aerial bombs.

If this is the U.S. military, it will definitely be aimed at blowing it up, because although the battleship has withdrawn from the important role of naval warfare, it can be regarded as a high-cost thing, and the record created by blowing up and sinking a battleship is calculated by the cost of the battleship, which is of course stronger than sinking a destroyer.

But that's not what Zhang Chi thinks......

Battleships are indeed useful in ship-to-ship naval battles, but after the era of "cannon ships" has passed, this thing is destined to be a money-eating and ineffective goods.

And judging by the current state of affairs, it takes time to sink one battleship to sink two destroyers or even a cruiser.

On the other hand, for the Japanese army, a wounded battleship was definitely more damaging than a sunken battleship...... If the bombing sinks, there will be no more, and the Japanese army will no longer have to be entangled. But if it was only wounded, then did the Japanese army repair it or not?

If you don't fix it, you can let a expensive thing rust at sea, and that will be no different from being blown up and sunk.

Repair words...... With the resources and costs of repair, I'm afraid that another destroyer can be built!

Therefore, Zhang Chi's order to Zhang Junhua was that the bombing of the "Ise" was limited to injuring it, especially the flight deck and hangar at the rear, so that at least the "Ise" would lose the ability to take off seaplanes.

For the other warships of the Japanese army, the bomber group was frequently dispatched to send them to the bottom of the sea, one after another...... The final result was the sinking of five Japanese destroyers, one cruiser, and one transport, and the destruction of two destroyers and one battleship.

Even Halsey was surprised by this result, because in Philippine waters, the US military and even several aircraft carrier battle groups could not achieve such a result.

On the other hand, there is the battle on Iwo Jima.

At this time, Zhang Chi finally sent the 50th Division to Iwo Jima...... This is a new force, and the soldiers of the 50th Division have already held back their strength to show their friends of the new 1st Division, so they roared vigorously as soon as they landed on the island.

On the other hand, the Japanese army, because of the reversal of the whole situation, especially the Japanese attack on several high grounds, consumed a lot of fresh forces and ammunition and became demoralized, even if there were tunnels to defend, the situation was frequent, but in two days, the 50th Division was occupied, divided and encircled, and only a remnant of breath remained.

On the third day of the battle, the Battle of Iwo Jima was finally declared over as the last high ground, Heights 362C, fell under the control of the 50th Division, and all that remained was to search for the remnants of the Japanese army.

However, in the end, the Chinese army did not capture Kuribayashi Tadamichi and did not find his body, according to the Japanese prisoners' answers, Kuribayashi Tadamichi walked into the darkness with two guards at the last moment...... The two guards carried not guns but shovels on their backs, apparently for Kuribayashi Tadamichi to dig a pit.

It's just that no one knows where Kuribayashi Tadamichi is buried. (To be continued.) )