readx; Chen Jingyun looked at the schematic diagram of the naval battle, although he was not a naval general, but he could also see that the Second Mobile Fleet still had a relatively large advantage, and if it could win a big victory in this naval battle, then the obstruction in the next landing operation on the Ryukyu Islands would be weakened. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chen Jingyun had no intention of interfering in the naval battle, he just asked and wanted to know the whole process of the naval battle, after all, the stakes were very high, and the Chinese Navy had put six aircraft carriers, two battleships, up to four large cruisers, and a large number of cruisers and destroyers, accounting for almost one-third of the Chinese Navy's troops, and he couldn't do it if he didn't care.

Guan Shijie also discussed with Jin Hongye various possible surnames of the naval battle, and Jin Hongye explained in detail.

Jin Hongye, like most of the high-ranking generals of the Chinese Navy, was born in the former Qing Navy, and joined the national army during the civil war, during the civil war, Jin Hongye was the captain of the river gunboat detachment under the Second Fleet, with the rank of colonel, promoted to rear admiral in the twenties, promoted to lieutenant general in the thirties, and promoted to admiral in 1943 and served as the head of the naval operations department. He also served as Director of the Department of Naval Aviation, as Commander of the Second Fleet, and as Deputy Chief of the Admiralty.

After all, the Admiralty Operations Department is not only commanding aircraft carriers, but commanding all arms of the entire Chinese Navy, and it is difficult for a single battleship general or aviation general to be competent, at least Chen Shaokuan, a famous aviation general in the Chinese Navy, is not qualified to hold this position.

is also an admiral, Chen Shaokuan's reputation is also greater, and he was promoted to admiral earlier, but in today's status within the navy, Chen Shaokuan is inferior to Jin Hongye.

This is similar to the political axe, Ma Yin's primary one-vote political axe high-level seniority and reputation are much greater than that of Wu Yanqing, the chief minister of finance, but in today's political axe's internal power order, Wu Yanqing, who relied on wartime economic planning and was entrusted with important tasks by Chen Jingyun, has more power, and he is now the chairman of the wartime committee, and even Ma Yin's primary cabinet boss has to obey his arrangement to plan domestic wartime economic production.

Although Admiral Jin Hongye's reputation is not obvious, in today's high-level ranking of the Navy, the actual power is second only to Guan Shijie, even if he is nominally under the command of Marshal Guan Shijie, the chief of the Navy Department, but as the head of the Naval Operations Department, he is more often not responsible to Guan Shijie, but directly to Chen Jingyun, the chairman of the National Military Commission.

And other naval marshals and admirals, such as Wen Tinghe, Chen Shaokuan and others, although they have prominent reputations and hold important positions one by one, they are still slightly inferior to Jin Hongye.

To put it simply, Chen Shaokuan was only in charge of the administrative and strategic arrangements of the First Fleet, but Jin Hongye was in charge of the operational affairs of the entire Chinese Navy, and the three major mobile fleets in the First Fleet were all under the direct command of the Operations Department.

In fact, whether it is the army or the navy, although the admiral and marshal have a large number of votes, the real core of power is only two or three people, although these people may not be well known by the majority of the people and officers and soldiers, but they dominate the entire course of the war, and those famous generals who are well known to outsiders are just the specific executors of various strategies.

After listening to Jin Hongye's analysis, Chen Jingyun looked at the watch on his wrist and saw that it was already past eleven o'clock, and the follow-up operation of the second mobile fleet was estimated to have begun.

Immediately, he said: "Order, award Vice Admiral Lu Jian the Golden Double Sword Medal, Rear Admiral Zhao Zidong Golden Double Sword Medal, and all other meritorious soldiers of all ships will be awarded!" ”

"Send another telegram to Lu Jian, I'll wait for him to enter the State Military Commission!" Chen Jingyun thought for a while and then said: "Give Zhao Zidong another message, if this battle is won, I will give him the rank of lieutenant general!" ”

The meaning of his words is already very obvious, if he can win a big victory in this naval battle, then Lu Jian's promotion to general will be safe, and after being promoted to general, he will be able to enter the State Military Commission. In addition, Zhao Zidong booked the rank of lieutenant general in advance.

He knew that if he wanted to make the soldiers fight bravely, he had to give encouragement, and for a general, there was nothing more effective than promotion, and this is the reason why Chen Jingyun likes to promote and reward soldiers to boost morale at the tense juncture of the battle.

In the eastern waters of the Amami Islands, Zhao Zidong of the 21st Squadron looked at the telegram in his hand, and he had almost already seen the rank of lieutenant general beckoning to him.

He knew very well that this naval battle was his opportunity, and if he lost, he would be infamous, and if he won, he would become an upstart in the navy.

There are hundreds of rear admirals in the navy, but how many can be qualified and lucky to lead the fleet in such a large-scale naval battle? However, he Zhao Zidong met, if he can make a huge contribution, it will be of great benefit to his military career, and the future lieutenant general and general are not the end, and there is no possibility of being promoted to marshal.

With the excitement in his heart, Zhao Zidong was busy preparing the fleet to which he belonged, on the one hand, to extinguish the Huashan, restore the combat effectiveness of the Huashan as soon as possible, and at the same time search and rescue the crew who fell into the water, and other injured ships also needed to be temporarily repaired and rescued by personnel, so as to restore the combat effectiveness of the entire fleet as soon as possible. At the same time, he also had to use the Songshan and Huashan to gather the second wave of returning aircraft, and then prepare to prepare the third wave of attack groups with the 22nd Fleet.

At this time, the 21st Squadron was busy, and the 22nd Squadron, which had been reinforced by a long period of high-speed sailing, was also undergoing intense rearmament work, and they had spent a lot of time receiving the returning fleet, and the group that was ready to be sent out was preparing to form an attack formation with the third wave of the 21st Fleet.

In fact, the third wave of attack groups this time was also dominated by the 22nd Squadron's aircraft group, and although the 21st Squadron had previously sent the first and second wave of aircraft to achieve a lot of results, its own losses were relatively large, and a certain number of fighters were also lost in air defense operations, and some of the fighters that were tied to the deck were damaged by the impact when the Huashan was heavily damaged.

At the same time, due to the heavy damage of the Huashan, it was no longer possible to continue to take off the aircraft group, and could only rely on the Songshan and Taishan, which further weakened the strength of the 21st Squadron.

Although the 22nd Squadron had suffered some losses in the aircraft group it had sent before, the losses were not large, and only less than ten fighters were shot down, which did not constitute any loss for the entire 22nd Squadron.

More importantly, the three aircraft carriers attached to the Fourth Air Group under the jurisdiction of the 22nd Squadron are all Aoyama-class aircraft carriers, and they are stronger than the three old aircraft carriers belonging to the Third Air Group of the 21st Squadron in terms of the number of aircraft they carry and the speed of sending and receiving aircraft.

A Castle Peak-class aircraft carrier can carry 88 common aircraft and 12 spare aircraft, and the total number of aircraft on board is as high as 104 aircraft. However, the Songshan class and Huashan were limited by the early design and the small capacity of the hangar, and there were only 76 commonly used aircraft, 9 spare aircraft, and only 85 aircraft in total.

As for the Tianshan-class aircraft carriers that have not appeared on the battlefield, there are even more, the Tianshan-class aircraft carriers that were originally scheduled to carry jet fighters are still equipped with propeller aircraft, but the total number of common and spare aircraft in the propeller aircraft it carries is as high as 143, and almost the carrying capacity of one Tianshan-class aircraft carrier can be comparable to that of two old aircraft carriers.

However, the number of vehicles does not mean that the combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the two old aircraft carriers, because this involves the preparation time and the speed of sending and receiving, and the battle that broke out in the Tianshan-class aircraft carrier per unit time will not be much stronger than that of the Qingshan-class aircraft carriers. Of course, in other aspects, the Tianshan-class aircraft carrier is far more than other aircraft carriers, such as defense and sustained combat capabilities, and the ability to modify future jet fighters after entering service, which is most important to the Navy.

Speaking of jet carrier-based aircraft, in fact, its progress is far behind the estimates of the admirals, and Guan Shijie has been looking forward to the service of jet carrier-based aircraft since the design of the Tianshan-class aircraft carrier and the successor ships of the Qingshan-class aircraft carrier successively switched to the inclined deck design.

However, the Navy's X11 program, also known as the 'Navy Jet Carrier-Based Fighter Program', began in 1940 and has not been able to solve all problems until today in 1944, and even the development progress is far behind the Air Force's X12 program.

The Air Force's F12 fighter has long been designed and finalized, and the prototype has already undergone intensive test flights at the end of last year, that is, in 1943, waiting for the mass production of high-power jet engines to enter into service after mass production. Although the research and development of the high-power jet engine has not yet been completed, the Air Force is ready to equip the prototype engine provided by Föhler Electric in advance, that is, the engine with a thrust of only 1,700 kilograms. This engine was first used for small-scale equipment in the early stage to train pilots and carry out various test flights, and small-scale production has begun at present, and more than 60 aircraft have been produced for training and test flights.

Although this prototype F12 fighter cannot meet the design standards of the X12 program in terms of surname, its surname can far surpass all fighters in China and even the world, whether it is a propeller or a jet.

Once the high-thrust jet engine on the side of Fule Electric was successfully developed and mass-produced, it was immediately replaced with a new engine, and this time was about 1944 low.

Chen Jingyun has given a death order to the Fule Electric Aviation Branch, and the finished product must be produced before 1945! He has given the domestic aviation industry more than ten years to develop, and the research and development of this engine alone began in 1940, and it has been more than four years.

Once the qualified engine came out, the Air Force's F12 fighter was able to be mass-produced at the beginning of 1945, and then gradually formed combat effectiveness and became the Air Force's first-line air superiority fighter.