Chapter 114: Brigade Battle

Weihaiwei Port, the Tang Army's 1st Aircraft Carrier Battle Group temporarily requisitioned port and dock facilities to repair warships damaged in the Battle of the Yellow Sea.

Originally, the Tang destroyer was ready to launch a torpedo to sink the aircraft carrier Zhiguo Tianwang, but it was unexpectedly found that the first-generation aircraft carrier of the Tang Army had stopped sinking.

Until the end of the Battle in the Yellow Sea, the aircraft carrier, which had been repeatedly rammed by Japanese kamikaze fighters, still did not sink, but was just floating alone on the sea.

The Tang army immediately transferred tugboats to tow the aircraft carrier Zhiguo Tianwang to the nearest seaport, Weihaiwei.

When the aircraft carrier Tianwang was staggered into the Weihai Weigang wharf, the officers and men of the Datang Navy breathed a sigh of relief, this aircraft carrier has a special significance to the Datang Empire Navy, that is, it is the first aircraft carrier of the Datang Empire, and it has also won numerous honors for the fleet flagship of the Datang Navy for many years, and it will be very sad if it is sunk by the Japanese army.

Battle sinking and heavy damage are two concepts, and for the Datang Navy, the fact that the capital ship was not sunk by the Japanese is a victory in itself. And vice versa, for the Japanese Navy, the sinking of the aircraft carrier Tenno would make the entire Japanese Navy happy, even though their main fleet had been wiped out.

Naturally, the Tang Army did not want the Japanese Navy to be any happy, so they made every effort to rush to repair the aircraft carrier Guotenwang.

Thankfully, the USS Tenno was built from the very beginning with a focus on defense and anti-sinking capabilities, which ultimately allowed her to survive.

In addition to the Datang naval engineers, who are responsible for emergency repairs. There were also many naval workers of the Nationalist Government in Weihaiwei who participated, and when these people saw that the huge hull of the aircraft carrier Tianwang, which was more than 20,000 tons, had been severely damaged, and the huge black holes on it were shocking.

Then look out over the harbour. More than a dozen light cruisers, destroyers, and escort aircraft carriers of the Tang Army have also suffered heavy losses, and countless workers are rushing to repair them, and they can imagine how fierce and cruel this naval battle was.

Fortunately, the Datang Navy won, as if the Navy of the Nationalist Government had won, and people cheered and celebrated.

It's just that Weihaiwei's maintenance equipment is not enough to completely repair the aircraft carrier Zhiguo Tianwang, and can only barely plug some of the gaps that have been blown up, so that it can sail back to the local dockyard of the Tang Empire for thorough repairs.

Until this time. The officers and sailors of the Nationalist Government in Weihaiwei saw the huge gap between the two navies, but they quickly disagreed, and Tang and China were allies. The stronger the Tang Empire, the more it will help them.

The news of the battle in the Yellow Sea between the Tang and Japan quickly spread throughout Shijie, and although all countries knew that the Tang army would win, they were still in an uproar after the news was confirmed. The Tang Empire twice annihilated the Japanese Combined Fleet. If the first time was a fluke, then this time it was a head-on contest between the two sides, the Tang Imperial Navy won the victory with its strong strength, and also won the affirmation and recognition of the strength of the Tang Navy by the great powers of various countries.

After eight years, the navy of the Tang Empire was truly recognized by the great powers as a powerful navy.

The people of Tang and China hailed and celebrated the victory, and the allied countries Germany and Italy also sent congratulatory messages for the first time, celebrating the Tang Empire's seizure of sea and air supremacy in the Pacific. And it is hoped that the navy of the Tang Empire can be transferred to Europe to participate in the war as soon as possible, and Hitler is ready to attack the British sea lion Jihua. It is urgent for the Tang Empire Navy to participate in the war, so that it will be perfect.

Zhang Meng said in a return call to Hitler. The Tang Imperial Navy will go to the North Atlantic to participate in the war within three months, when the Tang and Germany will jointly attack Britain, and the Tang Imperial Navy will be responsible for containing the British Imperial Navy, so that the Luftwaffe can let go of the decisive battle with the British Air Force.

A few families are happy and a few are sad. The laughter of the three countries of Tang, Germany and Italy was based on the pain of Britain, France and Japan, especially Japan, which finally lost the main force of the combined fleet, and the Yamato-class super battleships they were proud of were blown up by the Tang Army before they were put into service, and the only remaining aircraft carrier battle group was finally wiped out in the Yellow Sea. Three light cruisers and seven destroyers, while the Japanese Navy paid a heavy price for its total naval annihilation.

Britain and France were also very distressed, not to mention France, the homeland had already fallen, and it was numb to hear the news of defeat. Britain was saddened, and originally hoped that Japan could continue to contain the Tang Dynasty and China in the Pacific Ocean, but as a result, the Japanese navy was completely wiped out, and it was only a matter of time before Japan failed in the Chinese battlefield.

The most critical thing is that the Tang Imperial Navy has no enemies in the Pacific Ocean, and its main force will be transferred to the North Atlantic, which will cause huge military pressure on the British Navy.

Britain will fight alone in Europe, and at the same time face a military siege from Tang, Germany and Italy, which is very critical.

The Chamberlain government tried to persuade the United States to enter the war, but unfortunately the isolationism in the United States was very strong, the United States and Tang had a non-aggression pact, and Zhang Meng had a very good relationship with Hoover, and it was even more unlikely that the United States would enter the war when the Tang, Germany, and Italy countries achieved great military victories.

However, based on the traditional relationship between the United States and Britain, the United States still exported military supplies and various war resources to Britain, and the Americans still wanted to make war money, and Hoover hoped to get rid of the economic crisis. Although Hitler was not very happy, he did not want to involve the United States, nor did he want to make the Tang Empire, the biggest ally, unhappy, so the submarines of the Tang and German navies never touched the American merchant ships, let alone gave the United States an excuse to enter the war.

After the victory in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the Second Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Tang Imperial Navy was immediately transferred to the North Atlantic Ocean to prepare to participate in Hitler's Sea Lion operation.

At the same time, except for the warships that returned to the mainland for repair, the other warships of the 1st Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Tang Army stayed in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Bay to participate in brigade battles.

At this time, the Tang Army Marines had already assembled four divisions of troops in the Luda area, and under the bombardment of dozens of warships on the sea, under the air cover of hundreds of Tang Army fighters, the ground armored units of the Tang Army swept away the Japanese troops in the brigade fortress with a devastating momentum, and in just three days, the brigade fortress fell in one fell swoop, destroying more than 30,000 Japanese defenders and reinforcements, and winning a great victory.

However, the Japanese Kwantung Army would not sit idly by and watch the loss of the brigade fortress, and soon the strength of the Japanese army's ten divisions and regiments, carrying 500 artillery pieces, 120 tanks, and 200 aircraft, launched a comprehensive counterattack on the brigade fortress controlled by the Tang Army, trying to recapture the brigade fortress.

Hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides fought fiercely on the small Luda Peninsula, and the Tang Army was not in a hurry to attack, but relied on the remnants of the fortifications of the Luda Fortress for defense, built a powerful artillery fortress and a machine-gun fire fortress, interspersed with various combat vehicles in a roundabout way, and confronted the Japanese army with the support of naval artillery and air fire provided by the Tang Army's First Aircraft Carrier Battle Group in the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea.

The Tang Army hoped to control Lushun at the lowest cost, because the Tang Army had limited strength and did not want to be the main attacker, but to contain the Japanese army, so that the National Revolutionary Army in North China could act as the main attacking force and form a flanking attack on the Japanese army.

The Tang army did not want to fight with the Japanese army, but hoped that the National Revolutionary Army would eventually drive the Japanese army out of the northeast and into the Korean Peninsula, and the Tang army would blockade the surrounding areas of Korea and trap more than one million Japanese troops alive. (To be continued......)