readx; "Labor pains are something that a nation always needs to learn to bear. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info But the empire will never let everyone go hungry to work, as long as everyone works harder, even if it is an hour more, they will make a huge contribution to the whole country. The hard work now will be greatly rewarded. When the war passes, we will be bathed in light like never before. ”

"As long as everyone works hard and puts all their passion into their work. We can win the war 100 percent, and if you ask me how much faith I have, I say 200 percent, or even more. ”

Xia Jun's speech brought great confidence to the 600 million people.

……

December 23, 1937, 12 noon.

This naval battle of unprecedented scale has lasted for nearly two hours, and the United States and Britain said that the combined fleet suffered heavy losses under the air raids of the Imperial Chinese Air Force.

The three fierce general-class battleships completely destroyed the morale of the US-British Combined Fleet, and in the face of the Imperial Chinese Navy 20 kilometers away, all the commanders of the US-British Combined Fleet had a sense of foreboding.

I saw more than 800 dive torpedo planes taking off one after another from the deck of the aircraft carrier formation 20 kilometers away, and more than 200 high-altitude bombers.

These torpedo planes were much smaller than the bombers that had been attacked by the Imperial Chinese Air Force, but they were much faster.

Because these torpedo machines have a shorter range, a combat radius of only 200 kilometers, but the warhead reaches 1000 kg, the speed is also extremely fast, and the size is smaller, so it is more difficult to be hit by anti-aircraft guns, but the torpedoes are not so deadly.

These torpedo planes and bombers did not immediately start bombing, but circled in the air.

The United States and Britain said that the combined fleet was in complete chaos at this time, nine of the 16 Sea Power-class battleships were sunk, three were paralyzed, three were severely damaged by air raids and lost their combat effectiveness, and only one was left with combat effectiveness.

Of the thirty ultra-dreadnought battleships, eight were sunk and six lost their combat effectiveness.

Ten aircraft carriers, the bombers who were attacked by the air were focused on the light, these aircraft carriers were thin and big, and the bombs of the bombers could make them lose their combat effectiveness as long as they blew off the deck, and in the bombing of the huge bomber group, six of the ten aircraft carriers were sunk, and the remaining four were completely incapacitated.

At this time, the main ships of the United States and Britain said that the combined fleet was only one sea power-class battleship and 16 super-dreadnought battleships, while the East China Fleet of the Chinese Empire, which went around to the southeast, had three fierce general-class battleships, eight East China-class super-dreadnought battleships, and 20 aircraft carriers.

Just those three Admiral-class battleships made the entire US-British Combined Fleet anxious.

"We must retreat immediately, otherwise when the second wave of air strikes by the Chinese Air Force arrives, we will all fall into the sea to feed the fish." A British commander shouted.

"Can we run? Once you run, you will be broken one by one. The commander of the Navy immediately retorted.

"But do you have a way to deal with those three big guys? Do you have a way to deal with a steady stream of air raids? ”

"Even if we can't deal with it, we have to bury more enemies for us."

"I'm crazy."

……

The Busan battle bombed the airfield, and groups of bombers and torpedo planes returned to the airfield one after another, and many planes flew back with thick smoke all the way.

Some even fell from the sky when they were about to fly to the airport.

Of the 500 bombers that took off from the Busan strategic bombing airfield, only 300 were left when they flew back, and less than half of the 200 torpedo planes flew back.

The United States and Britain said that the battleships of the combined fleet were Cheeduo, and the intensity of the anti-aircraft fire made the air attack extremely tragic, and some torpedo planes directly collided with those battleships in order to reduce the density of the anti-aircraft artillery fire, covering the bombers at high altitude, otherwise the losses would have been even heavier.

The airport personnel quickly extinguished the fire and rescued the wounded of the landing plane, and at the same time directed the plane to dock to the side, and the airport personnel began to inspect the plane, and quickly refueled and hung up bombs.

Soon the first planes returning to the airport took off again.

……

After fierce debates, the differences between the United States and Britain in the United States and Britain in the joint navy have not been eliminated; the customs and customs of the three countries are different, and there is no clear authority figure in command; Britain and the United States are better off and can compromise with each other, while the United States and Britain and the United States are completely out of tune.

This kind of internal contradiction will not be exposed when it is easy to fight, but at this time, the United States and Britain said that the combined fleet was already at an absolute disadvantage, and the contradiction suddenly became apparent.

The British Far East Fleet, the U.S. Western Pacific Fleet, and the Combined Fleet, a huge three-nation combined fleet, actually did not have a unified command.

However, among this combined fleet, the US Western Pacific Fleet is the strongest, and the United States obviously has the intention of preserving its strength at this time.

The losses are too heavy!

The strength of the US Western Pacific Fleet was knocked out by almost half.

Facts have proved that it is still a very mentally weak act to conduct a naval battle within the strike range of the Chinese Air Force, because the Air Force is still unable to compete with the Chinese Air Force despite the strong support of the United States, and the entire fleet is directly exposed to the Air Force of the Chinese Empire.

Facts have also proved that even with powerful anti-aircraft firepower, it will not be able to stop such a powerful air attack.

That's almost four thousand planes!

And this is only the Chinese Empire in the Northeast Sea, there are also other places, if not more, especially the Nanyang Republic.

Now the only way out is to retreat.

If you don't retreat, you will have to be buried here.

Britain and the United States fell out on the spot, and the supreme commanders of the British and American naval fleets began to give orders to retreat to the east, so as to be away from the attack of the Chinese air force.

At the same time, the supreme commanders of the fleets of Britain and the United States ordered the warships that had been paralyzed in place and could not move to sink themselves immediately, so as to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Chinese Empire.

The navy strictly carried out this order, scuttling the warship and jumping into the icy water.

The British and American navies obviously had difficulty accepting this order, and the sailors mutinied directly after receiving the order, refusing to carry out the order.

"Damn, let's jump into the sea, we'll freeze to death."

"The Chinese have never saved people who have sunk themselves, and we will die if we scuttle a warship." A sailor who had seen the movie "The Rebirth of a Nation" shouted.

"Captain, raise the white flag! Otherwise we will be sunk. ”

“ok，ok。” An American captain readily agreed to the sailors' request.

On a British Sea Power-class super battleship, the sailors also asked the captain to raise the white flag, but the captain was undecided, and finally said: "You guys lock me up!" ”

The other sailors understood and locked the captain in the cabin, apparently not wanting to bear the reputation of surrender, and when he returned home he could explain: "It was the sailors who wanted to surrender, and they put me in the cabin......"

The four Haipower-class battleships raised the white flag one after another, one Haipower-class battleship sank by itself, and one of the heavily damaged Haipower-class battleships felt that they could still run quite fast and retreated eastward with the fleet.

The three Admiral-class battleships advanced side by side with the entire fleet, and at the same time constantly opened fire on the US-British combined fleet in the distance, and every salvo fired, a warship was bound to be shot, and if it was a smaller warship, it would be disintegrated directly by a single shot.

The three fierce general-class battleships were concentrated together, and their firepower was incomparably strong, and the distance between them and the US-British combined fleet was shortened to the extent of 9,000 meters, and the US-British combined fleet saw that these three general-class battleships were chasing after each other, so they had to send some small fast warships to entangle the three steel giants in order to create an opportunity for retreat.

However, more than a dozen white marks suddenly appeared in front of the retreating US-British Combined Fleet, and I saw one mine after another suddenly appear.

"Submarines, submarines." The sailors shouted in terror.

The entire fleet has sailed into the ambush circle of the submarine forces of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and the speed of these submarines is not comparable to that of battleships, so they must stealth and ambush.

The submarines of the United States and Britain said that the joint fleet had always wanted to trouble the three Admiral-class battleships, but the speed of these three Admiral-class battleships was too fast, and their actions were unpredictable, so they did not give those submarines a chance at all.

The three Admiral-class battleships were very experienced and aware of the defense against submarines, although the bottom armor was very thick, and there were watertight compartments against torpedoes, and even then they did not want to try to be hit by a torpedo.

Although the three Admiral-class battleships are equipped with very powerful sonars, the problem is that there are so many warships around now, the noise is too loud, and they are not sure that they will find all the submarines, so the only way is to maintain a certain speed and keep moving.

The moment more than a dozen torpedoes were fired, dozens of torpedoes appeared around the US-British Combined Fleet.

The submarine forces of the Imperial Chinese Navy set up ambushes in the southeast and east, and the main forces of the Imperial Navy were located in the south.

Sure enough, as expected, he chose the east side and was caught by the submarine force.

More than 50 Reaper-class ocean-going submarines and more than 80 medium-range submarines suddenly broke out, and the torpedoes were shot out like no money.

From a bird's-eye view, you can see that these torpedoes are woven into a dense net. Reaper-class submarines fired four large-caliber torpedoes at once, and medium-range submarines fired two at once.

In total, almost four hundred torpedoes occurred.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ......

The sound of explosions was incessant, and the entire US-British combined fleet seemed to have been gnawed around, and at least nearly 50 or 60 warships were torpedoed.

Moreover, the torpedoes are too dense, and after some warships are hit by one torpedo, the second torpedo bombards them, and what is even worse is that these are all torpedoes with magnetic surnames, and there is no phenomenon of 'rubbing the ball'.

At this time, the formation of dive torpedo planes and bombers that had taken off from the aircraft carrier also rushed to the skies over the US-British Combined Fleet, and a thorough 'encirclement and suppression' began.

The dive torpedo machine rushed to the target with a terrifying whistling sound and delivered a precise strike at close range.

At this time, the anti-aircraft firepower of Britain and the United States was greatly weakened, and the huge bomber group before it blew up the decks of many warships to a mess, and many machine guns were destroyed.

The danger of these torpedo planes diving down was greatly reduced, and the more than 800 fish diving planes were like the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The role of those bombers in the sky was not very good at this time, because the aircraft carriers of the United States and Britain said that the combined fleet had been blown up, and now they could only bomb the battleships.

The decks of battleships were blown up, at most only affecting anti-aircraft fire, but it was not easy to sink these battleships.

As for the two remaining Sea Power-class battleships, the decks were blown to pieces at this time. Dozens of dive fish planes aimed at the two big guys and tried to drop the torpedoes, but found that nothing worked.

These small-caliber torpedoes could not gnaw at the armor of the Sea Power-class battleships at all, unless they persistently pursued them.

However, apparently these torpedo planes gave up this idea and turned to deal with other warships, as for these two Sea Power class battleships, leave it to the three fierce Admiral-class battleships to deal with!

The smoke from the torpedo explosion enveloped many warships, and at the same time, many warships of the US-British Combined Fleet were still burning with raging fires, smoking into the sky like chimneys.

The sight of sunken and burning warships everywhere from the sky was captured by the war correspondents on the plane.

The battered Sea Power-class battleship barely fled east with the fleet, but a large-caliber torpedo hit the tail rudder, and seawater began to pour into the hull.

"Captain, the tail rudder has been shot, we can't run, surrender!"

"Yes! If we don't raise the white flag, we'll be sunk. ”

"Plug the gap and raise the white flag." The captain gave the order without any hesitation, and was immediately embraced by the sailors.

The main reason why the British and American warships surrendered so readily was that their confidence in winning the war had been completely crushed by the strength of the Chinese Empire.

Since victory in the war is no longer possible, it is important to save a small life.

At this time, there was a terrifying roar in the sky again, and the massive land and air forces attacked again like black clouds, and the main forces of the Imperial Chinese Navy also caught up, and those battle cruisers rushed to the forefront.

Those East China-class battleships are obviously lagging behind, and the speed is only so fast, and there is no way to keep up in this kind of pursuit battle.

This was a three-in-one maritime war, and the naval war had entered an unprecedentedly complicated stage, and the British and American combined fleets were not prepared for this at all.

When the black-pressed bomber formation appeared, all the personnel of the United States and Britain said that the combined fleet, even the most sluggish, knew that the general trend had turned.

The speedboats broke away from the fleet and fled.

Those slow battleships were at a loss, and many of them began to fight desperately, doing the last madness.

The three Admiral-class battleships began to rampage, and began to chase down the fleeing heavy cruisers, which were not even as fast as the three Admiral-class battleships.

As for those battleships, clean up for the Air Force.

Many British and American battleships saw that the general trend had turned, and they also hoisted white flags one after another.

The main force of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which had caught up behind, began to receive those surrendered warships while entering the battle, and at the same time sent ships to search and rescue those who fell into the sea.

In particular, those air force pilots who fell into the sea, but unfortunately, those air force pilots fell into the icy sea water after parachuting, and nearly half of the search and rescue pilots have been killed.

At the same time, the East China Fleet also successively surrendered four Haipower-class battleships behind it, and three of these four Haipower-class battleships were paralyzed in place, and one was seriously damaged and almost sank to the bottom of the sea.

At this time, the naval battle in the distance had really turned into a chase and escape, and those decisive warships of the Yuben Navy were successively sunk by submarines on the bottom of the sea, torpedo planes in the sky, and the East China-class battleships that followed.

The navies of the United States and Britain rushed out of the submarine area, after all, the speed of battleships is also faster than that of submarines, but those battleships that have been beaten to a reduced speed cannot outrun those submarines.

In addition, the second wave of air raids has arrived, and the United States and Britain say that the end of the combined fleet has come.

Every conspicuous warship was targeted by a group of bombers and torpedo planes, and only those small fast warships such as frigates were running in the distance, and the hope of these naval units escaping was still very great, after all, the small ships were easy to dodge torpedoes and bombs, and it was impossible for those big warships to chase them.

On those large warships of the United States and Britain said that the United States and Britain were in despair.

This was the largest naval battle in history, but it was the most shocking naval battle in history, and the United States and Britain said that the combined fleet, with a displacement of nearly 3 million tons, suffered a crushing defeat in the face of the relatively weak Chinese navy, and the main force had no hope of escaping.

In desperation, many captains ordered the white flag to be raised.

The East China Fleet of the Chinese Empire pursued and killed all the way, taking over the warships that surrendered, while the Chinese Imperial Air Force pursued and attacked those warships that did not fly the white flag.

The three general-class battleships even raised their speed to the maximum, fiercely chasing down those fleeing warships.

Qi Jiguang directly hit a frigate with speed, and the frigate was directly crushed in two, but Qi Jiguang didn't have a.

The naval battle lasted until the end of the evening, and many small warships ran away, but these small warships were not the main force, and after losing the main force of the fleet, these small warships did nothing, so they did not care.

After a day's naval battle, the United States and Britain said that the entire main force of the combined fleet was completely annihilated.

The United States and Britain said that 8 of the 10 aircraft carriers of the combined fleet were sunk, and the remaining 2 were blown up beyond recognition and then surrendered under the white flag, but the fate of these two aircraft carriers is estimated to be towed back to the shipyard to dismantle and make steel, or to be equipped for the navy to use as target ships.

16 sea power-class battleships, 10 were sunk, 6 were captured, one of which was seriously damaged, and could only be towed to dismantle steelmaking or as a target ship, 5 under the body can still be repaired, although the era of battleships has passed, but battleships are still very useful in landing battles, although the naval guns of these sea power-class battleships are not as terrifying as the general-class battleships, but they have also reached a caliber of 400mm, and the anti-aircraft fire is fierce, and the integration into the fleet can improve the air defense capability, can be a good escort for the aircraft carrier group.

Of the 30 super senseless ships, 19 were inherited, 11 were captured, 3 were irreparable, and 8 could be repaired.

The losses were heaviest from 18 heavy battle cruisers, which were too thinly armored, 16 were sunk and 2 were captured.

If these captured warships were repaired, the Imperial Chinese Navy would have 8 super-battleships, 16 super-dreadnoughts, and 11 heavy battlecruisers.

(To be continued)