Chapter 941: Final Battle Order

readx; In the course of the landing in Kyushu in November, in addition to the sinking of the aircraft carrier Huashan and the wounding of many warships, including the Shundi, a large number of warships and transport ships were sunk one after another, and both warships and transport ships were sunk or damaged, resulting in a large number of casualties, and in one unlucky case, a destroyer or cruiser was sunk. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although it is said that the Chinese navy has a great cause, and the loss of a few destroyers will not even make those naval generals frown, but not caring about the loss of equipment does not mean that they don't care about the loss of personnel, and the number of casualties of hundreds or thousands of people every day is a very terrifying loss, so this situation has to make Chen Jingyun reconsider some tactics of the war.

First of all, the first aspect is military, he has issued a number of warrants in succession, requiring the Air Force to put more fighters in this theater, and the Air Force has transferred almost all the advanced F4H and F5E fighters into this battlefield to compete for air supremacy, and in addition, a large number of F12A that has just appeared in the theater are also put into it.

On the navy, on the one hand, the proportion of fighters in the carrier-based air wing was urgently increased, and the ratio of torpedo bombers and dive bombers decreased sharply, because after November 1944, with the loss of the main force of the navy, the main task of the Chinese navy was no longer to fight for sea supremacy, but to support the ground and air defense of the fleet. Taking the Mengshan as an example, the number of fighters in the original carrier-based aircraft wing of the 30,000-ton Tsing-class beveled deck aircraft carrier was 46, but in November 1944, on the eve of the landing, the number of fighters on the Mengshan had climbed to as many as 54.

And it also accelerates the production and equipment of the F15A fighter, the F15A fighter, that is, the first mass production model of the X15 program, and the F15 fighter is designed to be a transitional model before the jet carrier-based aircraft enters service, not to completely replace the F8G, but as a supplement to the combat damage of the F8G fighter, after all, by the second half of 1944, the F8 fighter has been in service for many years, and the improvement potential has basically been exhausted, and after the F15A is finalized in September, The Navy immediately stopped the production of the F8G and began full-scale production of the F15A fighter to supplement the combat wear and tear of the F8G and the shortage of carrier-based fighters on the newly commissioned aircraft carriers.

Therefore, now and for a period of time in the future, the Navy is the coexistence of F8G fighters and F15A fighters, if the jet carrier-based fighters can not be put into service for a long time, then the last F15 series fighters will gradually replace the F8G fighters, if the carrier-based fighters can be put into service earlier, then the F15 will be launched with the F8 series in the current service of the Navy.

In addition to increasing the number of carrier-based fighters and accelerating the equipping of F15A fighters, the Navy is also urgently strengthening the anti-aircraft fire of a large number of warships.

Since the power of 40-mm anti-aircraft guns in actual combat was not enough to deal with the large number of suicide planes in this case, the Chinese Navy accelerated the pace of equipping itself with 75-mm anti-aircraft guns, and no longer limited itself to the use of 75-mm anti-aircraft guns only on some new-building ships, but also replaced 75-mm anti-aircraft guns on ships in service in large quantities in an attempt to enhance the anti-aircraft firepower and density of warships.

Of course, the large-scale armament of 75-mm anti-aircraft guns does not mean that the 40-mm anti-aircraft guns will be abandoned; in fact, the Chinese Navy has now positioned the 40-mm anti-aircraft guns on short-range air defense to replace the 20-mm anti-aircraft guns, which are seriously inadequate.

The air defense system in 1944 was different from the missile era before and even later, if it was a simple air defense, it would not use the 40mm anti-aircraft gun as a short-range air defense, but in 1944, the Chinese Navy was faced with a suicide plane called "Ben, that thing is a large human missile, and the 20-mm anti-aircraft gun will not be used no matter how fast the rate of fire is, because it will not work if it hits, after all, these suicide planes are not missiles in later generations, In later generations, the 20-millimeter rapid-fire cannon of the missile could destroy the missile if it hit, but now it is of little use in the face of the suicide plane that says, "My own suicide plane, as for the development of a rapid-fire gun with a caliber of about 30 millimeters, the main reason is that the time and technology are too late, so the Chinese Navy simply uses the 40-mm anti-aircraft gun as a short-range air defense gun, and replaces the 20-mm anti-aircraft gun on a large scale." Although its rate of fire is not as good as that of a 20-millimeter anti-aircraft gun, it cannot withstand much equipment, and dozens or even hundreds of 40-millimeter anti-aircraft guns on a warship can form a dense enough barrage.

Therefore, in the later stage of World War II, you will find a very interesting thing, that is, whether it is the warships of the Chinese Navy or the warships of the Americans, almost every seam, and anti-aircraft guns are deployed in all positions where anti-aircraft guns can be deployed, just like hedgehogs. And the personnel on the warship are also greatly overstaffed, and there are many examples of a battleship originally rated for 1,000 people being squeezed with 1,300 or even 1,500 people.

In addition to the military, Chen Jingyun also gave him strong pressure diplomatically, and even did not hesitate to use the fourth nuclear bomb to kill the political axe of "Ben", in order to force him to surrender as soon as possible!

He said: "The sooner I surrendered, it means that the Chinese landing force will be able to reduce the losses of one day, and hundreds, if not thousands, of people will live until the end of the war."

In the afternoon of the second nuclear bombing of Tokyo by Sakura-4, China once again issued a public warning to Ben, saying that more nuclear bombs were ready, and that if the remnants of Ben did not surrender, then all the cities of Ben would be hit by nuclear bombs one after another!

In addition to saying "myself," this warning also has another meaning, that is, it is meant to show the Americans, and the meaning is nothing more than that Lao Tzu has no shortage of nuclear bombs, and there are still a lot of four thrown away, if you continue to fool around with Lao Tzu in the Pacific direction, I will throw nuclear bombs on your Americans' heads.

Let's not mention why the United States is panicking, but let's say 'this side' first.

Now that the emperor has hung up and is facing a new round of China's nuclear threat, the remnants of Ben's military top brass are finally committing suicide and desperately preparing to accept China's unconditional surrender.

On November 21, some of the remaining high-level officials of Ben, led by Marshal Shunroku Hatata, commander of the Kyushu Front, and Marshal Sugiyama, commander of the Kwantung Front, united with other remaining high-level military and political dignitaries to issue a 'final battle order,' declaring that 'this side will unilaterally stop military operations against Chiang Kai-shek and prepare to contact the Chinese side for peace talks.'

After the final battle order was issued, it was not recognized by all the military generals, and many young Zhuang generals on the local side announced that they did not recognize this final battle order, and the commander-in-chief of the Australian Front, Field Marshal Terauchi Shouichi, also announced that he did not recognize this final battle order.

It is worth noting that their marshal is not a military rank, but an honorary title of a high-ranking general of the army and navy, which is generally awarded to a general who is about to retire from active service, as a final honorary award, but in the Pacific War, it was said that "Ben has successively awarded the title of marshal to several generals, which can be regarded as a special example in wartime."

Although Terauchi Shouichi of the Australian Front was opposed, the two field marshals in the homeland reached a unanimous agreement and suppressed some of the young Zhuang generals who opposed the final battle order.

At the same time, a large number of generals who said 'Ben began their suicide journey, and only after the final battle order was issued by Shunroku Hata on the 21st, more than 20 naval and land generals with the rank of major general and above committed suicide by disembowelment, and even more middle and low-level officers below the rank of general! Later generations counted that on this day, nearly 500 of the officers above the rank of second lieutenant committed suicide, disemboweling or using pistols, etc., which can be called the most spectacular and tragic suicide scene of this century! And this wave of suicide did not end, the next day, that is, on the 22nd and in the following days, a large number of officers committed suicide, including the mainland, the Ryukyus, Australia, New Guinea and many islands in the Pacific Ocean, there were many officers committing suicide almost every moment, as for ordinary soldiers, there were not many examples, and of course there was no shortage of examples of collective suicide.

For example, on the Ryukyu Islands, the defenders who had been holding out for many months and were already starving to the bones said, "This is a case of large-scale collective suicide."

Speaking of the Ryukyu Islands, it is said that the defenders of the Ryukyu Islands are super hard, and the defensive strategy of Lieutenant General Ushijima Mitsuru is very successful, and he said, "Ben used the complex terrain on the Ryukyu to build a large number of fortifications, and gave the Ryukyu Front led by Admiral Zhao Zhike a lot of casualties in the early anti-landing operation, but then Zhao Zhike simply did not attack, and everyone stayed with each other, the navy blockaded, and the air force bombed every day, but the ground forces never attacked. This made Ushijima's anticipation plan to inflict massive casualties on Chinese ground forces in later operations fail.

Due to the complete blockade by China, the island's army could not even be supplied with food, not to mention ammunition, and after several months the ammunition was not exhausted, but the food was gone, so a large number of defenders and civilians on the island starved to death.

In the later period, Ushijima was in despair and found that it was useless to defend it, because the Chinese army did not attack at all, and after Zhao Zhike's Ryukyu Front consolidated the beachhead and advanced inland for a short time, it completely stopped, bombarding with artillery, planes, and naval artillery every day, but it did not need infantry to attack. This made Ushijima quite desperate, because he didn't think that he could hold the Ryukyus, all he wanted was to use the defensive battle to inflict heavy casualties on the Chinese troops, but now Zhao Zhike did not give him this opportunity, as the food became less and less, so many front-line troops of the army took the initiative to walk out of the hidden fortifications with empty bodies, and then shouted various slogans and launched a suicidal charge towards the front line of the Chinese troops.

Because at this time, death is not a relief for them!