Chapter 1590: Seeing the Light and Dying

However, the main force of the national army to destroy the enemy is not in heavy aerial bombs and *, but in whaling fork anti-ship missile missiles.

Although after the Battle of Midway, the island army has come up with some countermeasures relative to the whaling forks, such as low-altitude dense fire network interception, firing jamming bombs, etc.

But in the end, it is a symptom rather than a cure, once the whaling fork is put down, it will not give up until it achieves its goal, as long as a few caught fish are enough to make the Yamato unable to eat and walk around.

In the first round of bombardment, the top cover of the turret of the Yamato No. 1 main gun was directly hit by a whale fork, and one was also hit in the bow and one on both sides, but because the armor of the Yamato was indeed heavy, it did not penetrate.

It was only slightly damaged under the waterline in the bow of the ship and began to enter the water.

Immediately, the second wave of bombing began by the national aviation, and six B24s pounced again.

A whaling fork hit directly into the rib 130 in the aft aft starboard side. As a result, the mine in the Yamato instantly tilted to the right by 5.5 degrees, the defense wall was deformed, and the No. 7 and No. 11 boiler rooms were flooded, and the speed began to decrease significantly.

The Yamato is worthy of being a behemoth with a displacement of nearly 70,000 tons, even if it is hit by four whaling forks in a row, it is not a big problem, but the huge vibration caused by the explosion makes the aiming device of the auxiliary gun position plate completely stuck and cannot be rotated, which makes the Yamato lose its salvo fire ability and the anti-aircraft fire is sharply reduced.

The national aviation immediately discovered this situation and immediately mobilized more than a dozen nearby bombers and planes to fly over the Yamato and began to dive and bomb in formation.

For a time, the entire Yamato was instantly surrounded by fire and smoke, and the sound of explosions was incessant.

In just ten minutes, no one knows how many bombs the Yamato was hit and how many planes dropped bombs on it? The Chinese Air Force, relying on the large number of planes and the abundance of ammunition, continued to join the bombing team with nearby planes until the hull of the Yamato continued to tilt, and finally the rat-gray steel hull as huge as a mountain turned over violently, and the planes were still diving and bombing at the hull facing the sky.

The violent explosion shook the mountain, and the explosion scene caused several planes that had not had time to pull up to be buried in the sea of fire, and this nearly 70,000-ton behemoth also quickly disappeared on the surface of the sea, leaving only a sea of fire that lasted for a long time, and a thick smoke in the sky did not disperse for a long time.

"Yamato" is the name of the island people for their own nation, and the "Yamato ship" is named after the pronoun of their own nation, which shows the degree of expectation of the island people for the ship.

But in this battle, the No. 1 ship of the Yamato-class battleship built by the Imperial Navy, which is also the largest battleship in human history, and the battleship "Yamato", which was once known as "the world's first battleship" and "the savior of the island empire", was buried at the bottom of the sea.

The nightmare of the island army did not end there, the Yamato was sunk, and the national air force rushed to tell each other the good news through the radio waves, and for a time their morale was high, and they drove fighter planes to roar into the sky, sweeping all the air forces of the island army, and showing no mercy to the enemy fleet on the sea, and began to bomb indiscriminately.

Since the Battle of Midway, the island army has lost a large number of excellent naval and aviation units, and now both naval and aviation qualities have declined sharply.

However, the Chinese army has won battles all the way, the casualties are getting smaller and smaller, and the overall quality of the soldiers is getting higher and higher, and the overall quality of the soldiers is not surpassing that of the island army, at least it will not lag behind, and there is no problem in basically keeping it the same.

Under the condition of equal literacy, the national army still has an advantage in the quantity and quality of aircraft, and its weapons are also better than those of the island army.

The Yamato sank, and the officers and men of the Nationalist Army quickly set their sights on the four battleships Nagato, Kongo, and Haruna, as well as other heavy cruisers and destroyers.

The enemy also lost confidence in the sinking of the flagship, coupled with the disparity in strength, began to flee in all directions like headless flies, and the warships left the air protection, and basically could only be beaten passively, for a time, the remaining three battleships were all destroyed, and only a few less than ten heavy cruisers and destroyers that fell behind the rear escaped smoothly under the desperate cover of carrier-based aircraft and army aviation aircraft.

This battle resulted in the destruction of the main warships of the island navy, and it was almost impossible to organize an effective offensive lineup again.

Although the aircraft carrier is unharmed, in the case of its already weak air force, it can only serve as a sea platform for carrier-based aircraft from a distance, and if it gets closer, it will be in danger of being destroyed.

Or simply anchored in a port with strong air defense, in short, it can already pose a deadly threat to the Chinese navy.

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The naval battle in the South China Sea has just ended, and the Micha-Australia coalition has begun to attack Saipan in the Mariana Islands.

Saipan is the second largest island in the Mariana Islands, about 21 kilometers long, 4 kilometers to 8 kilometers wide, with an area of about 184 square kilometers, the terrain is high in the center and low in all sides, the island has many peaks, hills, ravines, caves, the commanding height is the Tapocho peak at an altitude of 450 meters above sea level in the center of the island, there is a coral reef covering the entire beach on the west coast of the island, Cape Galapan divides it into two, and forms a natural harbor in the north - Port Tanapan.

The port is also the economic and cultural center of Saipan and the Mariana Islands, and is flanked to the south by the flat Marquiches Beach, making it an ideal landing beachhead.

The island army has built three airfields on Saipan, the south side of the Aslilo airport was built in the thirties, is the masterpiece of the Mi army, after the expansion of the island army, now can take off and land any type of aircraft, including the current new jet fighters, is the main airport on the island.

The nearby Chalancanoa airport is an airstrip and can only take off and land small aircraft. To the north, the Mapi airfield, with a short runway, serves as an alternate airfield for fighter jets to land in an emergency.

The airport facilities are good, but unfortunately the strength of the island's air force is really worrisome, and there are less than 200 planes of various types on Saipan, which is not even a fraction of the Allied forces.

This time, the Chinese army dispatched 10 main aircraft carriers and 12 escort aircraft carriers, and the number of carrier-based aircraft reached more than 1,000, and there was also the support of powerful land aviation aircraft on the Marshall Islands in the rear.

Of course, the island army also has four aircraft carriers urgently transferred from the Philippines to support, and the number of carrier-based aircraft can also be close to 300, but it is still a drop in the bucket.

What's more, the number of 20 aircraft carriers of the Mi Army faced by the four aircraft carriers is not at the same level at all, and the aircraft carriers of the island army cannot appear in the field of vision of the Mi Army Air Force.

The disposition of forces on both sides is also not at the same level.

The 31st Army of the Island Army has a total of six divisions and regiments, with a strength of more than 140,000 troops, mainly deployed in three divisions on Saipan, one division on Tinian, and two divisions on Guam.

The strength of the Mi-Australian coalition is seven divisions of the Mi-Australian army and 25 divisions of the Australian army, with a total strength of more than 600,000 troops, half of which are ready to be invested in Tinian and Guam, and the remaining half are all invested in Saipan, because the gains and losses of Saipan are the key to the entire campaign.