readx; "How is this possible? How could the planes of the Shina people sink our Ise and Shoko? "Yamamoto couldn't believe that the two battleships he sent to Lushun to support the army were actually sunk by that small plane!

You must know that although the Ise and the Shoki do not have a displacement of more than 40,000 tons like the Kaga, as an improved version of the Fuso-class super-dreadnought, the Ise-class has a standard displacement of 29,000 tons and close to 30,000 tons. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But this backwardness is only relative to the sixteen-inch naval gunnery battleships of various countries, and the total number of sixteen-inch naval gunpowder battleships in the world today is not much, China's two Yandi-class battleships, the United States three Colorado-class battleships, one South Dakota-class battleship, one Lexington-class battlecruiser, and then there are my two Nagato-class battleships, a Kaga-class battleship and a Amagi-class battlecruiser. In addition to the above eleven, there were only two Nelson-class battleships under construction by the British under treaty.

Although these fourteen-inch battleships with fourteen-inch guns are not as good as those sixteen-inch cutting-edge battleships, these warships are still the absolute main force for the navies of various countries, and only the warships that can defeat them are larger than them, and Yamamoto Bingwei never thought that these huge battleships would be sunk by aircraft?

"These wooden planes that look like they're going to fall apart at any moment? Are they the ones who sank our Ise and Shoko? "Yamamoto couldn't imagine how such a small plane could sink a battleship anyway.

An officer of the naval aviation unit next to him said embarrassedly: "After obtaining the news of the air raid on Lushun, our naval aviation also immediately organized relevant tests, and found that although the torpedoes and bombs of the aircraft could not hit the warships moving at high speed, in the case of Lushun, our fleet was anchored in the harbor, and the people of China shamelessly launched a large-scale sneak attack on our fleet anchored in the harbor!" ”

At this time, the test organized by the naval aviation unit to verify why the two battleships were sunk after the air attack on Arthur had begun, and when Yamamoto saw the wooden planes flying slowly and then a dozen planes dropping torpedoes at the same time, he finally closed his eyes.

According to the urgent report of the Lushun side, the naval air force reenacted the situation of the Lushun dispatch fleet at that time almost within three days, and now it is simulating the moment when the Ise was attacked.

To tell the truth, now that the planes imported by the naval air force from France are no longer inferior to the F1 fighters and B3 bombers of the Chinese Air Force, and the B3 bombers can deduce an air raid on Lushun, then the planes of the naval air force can naturally simulate the same attack. At present, there is not much distance between the technological level of the Chinese Air Force and the world powers, the only difference is that Chen Jingyun attaches more importance to the development of aircraft than them, and he knows what the Air Force and the Navy need.

Seeing this scene simulated by the naval aviation, Yamamoto Weiquan closed his eyes and did not speak for a long time, and those who said next to him also closed their mouths one by one, and there was no sound at all on the viewing platform where dozens of people lived.

After most of the day, Yamamoto Beiquan reopened his eyes, and then took a deep breath: "Even if the planes of the Shina people are ahead of us in a short period of time, they only have this one chance, and we will respond to them with more planes next!" ”

After saying that, he turned his head to look at the naval aviation general next to him, and then said: "It took us a heavy price to know the great threat that aircraft can pose to the port, and I hope you will remember this!" ”

It has to be said that the Chinese Air Force and the Chinese Navy have taught the navy a very educational lesson, and it was only from the day of the air raid on Lushun that the navy really began to attach importance to the role of aircraft. However, China Hainan Airlines gave him a lesson that really impressed him so much that he was deeply immersed in the idea of "attacking Hong Kong". On the one hand, it is necessary to vigorously develop shore-based forces for sea and navigation, and on the other hand, it is also to vigorously develop the tactics of aircraft carriers to attack enemy ports.

As for the aircraft carrier taking the initiative to attack the enemy's fleet moving at high speed, it was limited to the technical limitations of the 20s, and he said: "This navy gave up after making some attempts, and did not do the same as Chen Jingyun, even if the air raid on Lushun achieved brilliant results, but the focus of his development of the navy was still the decisive battle of the fleet dominated by aircraft carriers, and the Chinese air raid on Lushun caused a huge change in thinking, although it was said that the development direction of the naval aviation of China and the two countries was different, and he said, "Originally, we vigorously studied the tactics of attacking Hong Kong in accordance with the lessons of Lushun." China, on the other hand, will continue to develop the idea of a decisive battle for the aircraft carrier fleet advocated and adhered to by Chen Jingyun.

Not to mention the impact of the air raid on Lushun, for the time being, war was declared on May 8, and it was only two days before Lushun was subjected to a large-scale air raid, and more importantly, the two battleships sent to Lushun before the war were not even able to provide land bombing support to the army and were sunk in Port Arthur.

Therefore, after the news of the air raid on Lushun reached the country, the authorities quickly blocked the news, and openly declared that although Lushun was attacked by the air, it successfully repelled the bombing of Chinese planes in the fierce resistance of the brave soldiers of the empire, and several houses were blown up and dozens of people were injured in this battle, and as for the news of the sinking of the two battleships, they did not dare to be known by the people, and declared that the two ships fought bravely in the air raids, attracting a large number of enemy air raids and causing heavy damage. It is now being repaired in situ at Port Arthur. According to the plan, "The plan of the navy is naturally to hide this news, and then after the war is over, the two warships will be salvaged out of the water for repair, and then they will reappear in front of the people, and if they really cannot be repaired, they must also hide this news first."

At the same time, it was said: 'The main fleet of this navy has gone crazy and searched for traces of the Chinese task force in the waters of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea!'

"The revenge of Lushun for being attacked by air must be avenged, because of the despicable sneak attack of the Chinese people, we lost the Ise and the Yuxiang, and now what we have to do is to sink their Yandi and Huangdi! This proves the bravery of our Imperial Navy! Yamamoto sent this telegram to Vice Admiral Isamu Takeshita, commander of the First Fleet and commander of the Combined Fleet.

Although Isamu Takeshita is the commander of the Combined Fleet and can be regarded as the supreme commander of the Combined Fleet, he is still respectful to the real naval boss like Xiang Yamamoto Weiquan standing behind him, in fact, if it were not for the support of Yamamoto Beiquan, it would be impossible for Isamu Takeshita to concurrently serve as the commander of the Combined Fleet after the United Fleet was established.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured, the navy will definitely find those two Chinese warships and sink them!" Takeshita did not hesitate at all, and made a promise to Yamamoto in a return call to Yamamoto Guard.

Although the promise was made, it was not easy to fulfill the promise, and the combined fleet under the command of Isamu Takeshita at this time was under the jurisdiction of the First Fleet and the Second Fleet (PS: because the text says that 'the strength of this navy has changed, so the fleet size and historical situation are also different).

The 1st Squadron, the 2nd Squadron, the 3rd Squadron, the 6th Squadron, the 1st Mine Squadron, and the 1st Diving Squadron are subordinate to the 1st Fleet.

Among them, the first Sentai has Nagato, Mutsu, and Kaga. The Nagato and the Mutsu are both of the same class, and the Kaga is the latest battleship in the Navy, originally intended to build two, but the latter was forced to stop construction due to restrictions imposed by the Washington Naval Treaty. Because the guns of the Kaga and Nagato-class ships were similar and their speeds were similar, these three ships were assigned to the 1st Sentai team.

The second team is two Fuso-class, namely the Fuso and the Yamashiro. These two battleships are the first super dreadnought battleships built in Ben, and they are also the battleship-like versions of the Kongo-class battlecruisers.

The 3rd Sentai is the vanguard fleet of the main fleet, which has jurisdiction over the Amagi, Kuma, Tama, and Oi. The last three were cruisers, and the Amagi was a cutting-edge battle cruiser of the same era as the Kaga, and the construction of the follow-up ships was also stopped because of the Washington Naval Treaty, and only the Amagi was left alone.

The 6th Sentai was originally four Ise-class battleships, namely the Ise, the Zomi, the Suruga, and the Omi. In April, when the situation in Lushun was tense, Ben dispatched the Ise and the Soko, as well as some other auxiliary ships, to form the Lushun Dispatch Fleet. As a result, only the Suruga and Omi are left in the 6th Sentai team.

In addition, there are a large number of destroyers in the 1st Mine Squadron and a small number of submarines in the 1st Diving Squadron, and the submarines in the Navy, like the submarines in the Chinese Navy, are in a period of initial development, and there are only a few of them, and they are not very good, so they cannot play any role in this Sino-Chinese war.

In addition to the First Fleet, which is the absolute main fleet, the Combined Fleet also has the Second Fleet, which was reorganized just last year, and the Second Fleet has the 4th and 5th Fleets, as well as the 2nd Mine Squadron and the 2nd Diving Squadron.

The main force of the shutdown is the four Kongo-class battlecruisers in the 4th Sentai Squadron: Kongo, Haruna, Kirishima, and Hiei.

If the First Fleet is the main fleet for the decisive battle of the fleet, then the Second Fleet is a high-speed lightning strike fleet, and this is inseparable from the reason why the Navy attaches great importance to lightning strike operations, whether it is the Kongo-class battle patrol or the Amagi-class battle cruiser, and the Navy uses high speed and huge firepower to tear through the enemy's avant-garde protective net for its cruisers and destroyers, and launches lightning strike operations against the enemy's main fleet.

In terms of the strength of the Navy, it can be said that it far surpasses the Chinese Navy, even if it is said that Ben has now lost the Ise and the Rear due to the Lushun air raid, but Ben still has a huge strength of seven super-dreadnought battleships and five super-dreadnought battlecruisers, which is a huge strength that China's only two battleships cannot resist.

And this is also the fundamental reason why the Chinese Navy did not send the main fleet north to Lushun to support the army in the operation, but the Chinese Navy can never say that the warships that cost countless taxes of the people are just parked in the port and do nothing, and this kind of thing is something that Chen Jingyun cannot agree to and many citizens cannot agree to.

Even if they knew that they would be accused of inaction, but Sa Zhenbing, Cheng Biguang and others still did not dare to take risks with the two Yandi-class battleships that had become national symbols, in order to build these two battleships, it cost more than 150 million yuan, not only their own costs, in order to make these two battleships have combat effectiveness, the navy has spent a lot of money to build a large number of auxiliary ships, and the entire second phase of the navy's shipbuilding plan is carried out around these two battleships. One can imagine how important these two battleships are to the Chinese Navy, Sa Zhenbing can't imagine that if these two battleships and the main fleet of this navy suffered the terrible situation after the war sank, if the Second Sino-Japanese Naval War was really repeated, even if the people could forgive the navy, then Chen Jingyun would forgive the navy, but Sa Zhenbing himself would not be able to forgive himself.

On the one hand, Chen Jingyun and the people hoped that the navy would do everything, but on the other hand, the navy itself was afraid of irreparable losses caused by the main fleet of the navy. This ambivalence has plagued the admirals since before the war. First of all, the main fleet left Qingdao en masse and arrived in Shanghai, ostensibly saying that it was to protect the mouth of the Yangtze River and protect Shanghai, but in fact China had built a large number of coastal defense guns in Shanghai and at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and if the navy really planned to bomb or even land on Shanghai in close proximity, a large number of large-caliber coastal defense guns would teach the navy a profound lesson, and warships would rarely take the initiative to engage the coastal defense artillery until absolute superiority was achieved.

Chen Jingyun invested a lot of money in the navy, not to let the main force of the navy shrink under the coastal defense artillery to survive, but to hope that once a war broke out, the navy's high-speed attack fleet would go to sea and attack the sea supply lines to Korea and Lushun, otherwise he would not have always insisted on the high-speed warships of the navy.

In the face of heavy domestic pressure, the Chinese Navy was also forced to form a task force to take the initiative to go to sea to seek fighters, before going to sea, Sa Zhenbing personally said to the commander of the First Fleet, Cheng Biguang: "This war, mainly to attack the merchant ships, small-scale combat formations, must give a satisfactory answer to the president and the people!" ”

The meaning in these words is already very obvious, that is, only the merchant ships and the warships of the secondary front of the "Ben" must not be against the main force of the "Ben Navy, if you really want to match, then run as fast as you can, Sa Zhenbing does not ask for anything else, he only asks the two battleships to come back safe and sound."

Cheng Biguang naturally knew Sa Zhenbing's thoughts, and even he himself had this idea, so when he led the task force to go to sea, he did not go directly to the east at first, let alone to the north, but first went to the southeast for two hundred nautical miles, and then turned to the northeast to look for fighters, hoping to avoid the main force of the combined fleet that was looking for the Chinese task force.

Compared with the huge strength of this combined fleet, the task force fleet under the command of Cheng Biguang is actually the First Fleet, which has the Yandi and Huangdi of the battle fleet under its jurisdiction; The aircraft carriers Huangshan and Huashan of the Air Fleet, the Huatai Heavy Cruiser, the Huawu Heavy Cruiser, the Xia Yi Light Cruiser, and the Xia Sa Light Cruiser of the First Cruiser Fleet. In addition, there is one Lightning Strike Light Cruiser and nine destroyers of the First Lightning Strike Fleet. The other fleets remained at several naval bases such as Qingdao, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, and maintained a minimum of defensive strength.

This time, all the cutting-edge warships of the Chinese Navy went to sea, all of them were the products of the second phase of the naval development plan, and the oldest ship was only five years, while the two Fugui-class light cruisers in the First Cruiser Fleet, which were nine years old, did not go to sea this time, but stayed at the Shanghai base.

The task force consisted of: 2 battleships, 2 aircraft carriers, 2 heavy cruisers, 3 light cruisers, and 9 destroyers. The number of destroyers is not bad, but the number of capital ships, especially battleships, is too small.

After going to sea, the task force also successfully sank a number of merchant ships, and sank two old escort warships, and although the sinking process was short, those who said that they still reported the news of the discovery of China's main fleet, and then said, "Ben's main fleet rushed over, but by the time they rushed over from at least hundreds of nautical miles, China's task force had already left."

Because his own forces were weak, Cheng Biguang was worried all the way, for fear of encountering the main force of the navy, but fortunately, the two aircraft carriers in the task force gave full play to the role of maritime reconnaissance, providing the fleet with a reconnaissance range of up to more than 100 kilometers, so that Cheng Biguang's task force avoided the pursuit of the main fleet several times.

After coming like this several times, Isamu Takeshita of the combined fleet also frowned, looking at the big circle on the chart, he was very sure that the Chinese fleet was operating in this area, but how difficult it was to find them in the vast sea, coupled with the limited speed of a large number of their own capital ships, the only capital ships that could do high-speed maneuvering were those few battle cruisers, and these battle cruisers could not occupy any advantage in the face of China's two cutting-edge battleships, and they had to sink those two Chinese battleships, It was only possible to rely on a large number of battleships in the First Fleet, relying on numerical superiority to sink them in one fell swoop. And now the key is how to catch this Chinese fleet.

At this time, the chief of staff of the First Fleet, who is also the chief of staff of the Combined Fleet, Rear Admiral Bai and Xiong San, hurriedly walked in: "Commander, the 28th Destroyer Group of our army has discovered the main Chinese fleet!" ”

As soon as he heard the news, Isamu Takeshita hurriedly said, "Where are they?" ”

Bai and Xiong San walked in, and then marked a dot under the big circle on the chart on the table: "They are here, they attacked two supply ships of our navy here at seven o'clock last night, after receiving the distress signal, the nearby 28th destroyer team quickly rushed to the place of the incident, and scattered the search according to the escape route of the enemy fleet, at 5:40 this evening a destroyer belonging to the 28th destroyer group successfully discovered the Chinese main fleet, and immediately reported their position, speed and course, in order to avoid the enemy from discovering." The ships of the 28th Destroyer Group did not approach, and now it was almost dark, and the enemy planes could not reconnoitre, so it was impossible for them to detect that we were approaching them,"

Bai and Xiong San were also a little excited at this time: "According to their current course, they are sailing to the northeast direction of the Second Fleet, if they do not change course at a big angle, then after a night of maneuvering, the Second Fleet will be able to stop this Chinese main fleet in the early morning tomorrow morning." ”

Looking at the big black dot on the chart and the large number of red dots around the black dot, Isamu Takeshita did not speak immediately, but stared at the dense lines on the chart for a long time, at this time, the Chinese task force was in the western seas, and the course was due east, and the second fleet was due south of the Chinese task force, and Takeshita Yong's main team, that is, the first fleet, was located in the northeast direction of the Chinese task force. What's more critical is that now the Chinese task force has not discovered that the second fleet has already discovered them, and the next night is a whole night, so the second fleet of the second fleet has enough time, and after a long time, he took a deep breath and said: "Immediately order the second fleet to move forward to the northeast at full speed, and be sure to catch up with and entangle the main Chinese fleet!" ”

Then he said: "Immediately order this team to move forward to the southeast at full speed, and the 3rd team can break away from this team first to support the second fleet!" ”

If Isamu Takeshita's calculations are correct, and the Chinese Navy does not change course on a large scale tonight, then at dawn tomorrow, the Second Fleet will be able to make contact with the Chinese task force, and the 3rd Sentai will be able to arrive and support the 2nd Fleet in two hours. In naval battles, the course of the fleet often changes, and the current Takeshita Isamu could not predict the change in the battle situation after tomorrow, and now he can use this dark night to move his main fleet as close as possible.

Half a month after the declaration of war, the war between Lushun and Korea continued to stalemate, and the Chinese army had not even launched a large-scale attack on Lushun, and both sides were engaged in large-scale artillery battles during this half month, and the Chinese air force launched a large-scale bombing of Lushun in three days.

At 5:30 a.m., the Second Fleet finally discovered the traces of the Chinese task force after a whole night of high-speed sailing, and at this time the two fleets were sailing at an angle of 45 degrees, the sailors of each ship quickly ran into their combat posts. The commander-in-chief of the Chinese task force, the commander of the First Fleet, Cheng Biguang, immediately gave the order for operation.

Huang Pinghan, commander of the battle fleet, rarely looked at the small black dot on the sea in the distance and said nothing, while the other personnel in the war room were all nervous and busy, and in the hurried steps, it could be found that many people's hands were trembling slightly.

"The main guns of the Yandi and the Yellow Emperor have been prepared!" The chief of staff of the guns next to him ran to Huang Pinghan's side and said, he was as nervous as everyone else, and at the same time excited, this would be the first large-scale naval battle after the fleet went to sea.

"Now that you're ready, let's get started!" After Huang Pinghan's order was issued, it quickly reached the main artillery fire control room!

It didn't take long for the nine main guns of the Yellow Emperor that had been raised and oriented due south to fire in unison, and the nine dazzling fire regiments exploded one after another at the muzzles of the nine main guns, setting off a huge wave of air that directly opened a large circle on the sea surface below the warship, and the huge recoil of the main gun salvo made the Yellow Emperor, a huge battleship of more than 40,000 tons, move back several meters away.

Less than twenty seconds after the salvo of the Yellow Emperor's main guns, the nine main guns of the Yandi also followed closely behind and launched a roar belonging to the sixteen-inch naval guns!

Eighteen huge cannonballs burst out of the muzzle of the cannon, streaked across the sky and went straight to the second fleet!