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Chapter 171 lures the enemy deeper

"What should I do?"

In the face of the absolute superiority of the Anjia Air Force, as well as the dense mines, almost everyone in the Japanese fleet had such a question on their minds. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Before his departure, the commander of the Japanese army, General Tsukahara 243, received a secret order from the head of the military command, Nagano Shusei, to "act on the opportunistic basis and save the fleet," and immediately ordered the fleet to maintain an air defense formation, and then summoned the army and navy generals to convene an emergency meeting.

"Gentlemen, everything that is happening in front of us is enough to prove that the people of China have been prepared for our landing for a long time, and in the current situation, if we continue to entangle here, it is likely that the gains outweigh the losses, I suggest that we return immediately!"

Tsukahara 243 will clarify his state from the beginning.

The army commander in charge of the landing operation was General Kato Hajiro, who was a loyal follower of Hideki Tojo, and immediately after Hideki Tojo became chief of staff, he appointed the former commander of the Northern Branch of the military police of the Fu Xian family as the commander of the Seventh Army, and led his troops to take charge of the landing operation.

The meritorious Kato Hajiro spoke out against it:

"If we retreat at the slightest difficulty, how will the people of our country view us, and how will His Majesty the Emperor, who has high hopes for this trip, view us? Since the mines are troublesome, then we will clear the mines, let the fighters cover the mines, and then properly send air defense destroyers to protect them, I don't believe it, the people of China have three arms, as long as we are steady and steady, step by step, even the shell of a turtle will be broken for him. ”

Tsukahara 243 asked unwillingly: "If you cause the loss of the empire's precious warships because of your willful actions, can you take responsibility?" ”

Kato Hajiro scoffed: "How can you do things without risk?" The base camp is very resolute in this battle, that is, to capture the camp at all costs and make a good start for the next stage of the war. It's rare for the Germans to ask for us, and if they are anticlimactic, won't they make an international joke? ”

Tsukahara two-four-three thought about it carefully, and finally compromised: "Okay, as you wish, but if the situation is critical, I have the right to bring my fleet back safely!" ”

Witnessing that under the cover of dozens of Japanese minesweepers, dozens of fighters, and four air defense destroyers, they once again sailed to the minefield and began to clear mines, the Anjia Air Force immediately dispatched more than one fighter plane, covering the same number of dive bombers and attack planes, and rushed towards the Japanese minesweepers.

Soon, A28, A29 and I fighters were entangled with the Japanese army's Zero and Gale fighters, judging from the scene, the Anjia Army fighters with an absolute advantage in numbers steadily gained the upper hand, and from time to time the Japanese fighters caught fire and fell into the sea, of course, the sacrifice was two-sided, and many fighters crashed in the Anjia Air Force, but because the Anjia Army Air Force model showed its characteristics from the beginning, the probability of survival on the battlefield was much greater than that of the opponent, some smoke-emitting fighters, Flying back to the airport in a staggering way, after emergency fire fighting, repairs, and soon be able to fly into the blue sky again.

Taking advantage of the success of the fighters in suppressing the Japanese fighter group, the dive bomber group had already arrived over the Japanese minesweepers and air defense destroyers.

"Attention, all be prepared for dive bombing!"

Listening to the captain's voice in the headphones, Second Lieutenant Zhang Xiaoou, a female pilot from Dali, Yunnan, raised her head, and there were only a few clouds in the blue sky, which was a good time for dive bombers to kill and set fire!

Before the dive bomber group entered the attack position, the Japanese air defense destroyers below had already opened fire fiercely, and the sound of "bang bang bang" when the 100-mm twin anti-aircraft guns fired resounded in the sky.

"That's it! That's it! The four destroyers of the 'Autumn Moon' class cannot completely block the airspace, so I will arrange tasks below, the first team is responsible for attracting anti-aircraft fire, the second and third teams are each responsible for two enemy ships, and the fourth team serves as a reserve! ”

Hearing the captain's order, Zhang Xiaoou was slightly disappointed, because she happened to belong to the fourth team as a reserve, and now she had to watch the game first.

When Zhang Xiaoou looked down through the window again, the anti-aircraft firepower of the Japanese destroyers was mainly concentrated at a height of 2,000 to 4,000 meters, and the enemy ships were constantly adjusting their positions so that they could wield their anti-aircraft firepower to the limit.

The first group of fifteen B2 bombers, which was responsible for attracting the opponent's anti-aircraft fire, quietly disappeared in front of Zhang Xiaoou, and about a minute later, the Japanese anti-aircraft fire really shifted from directly above to other directions, and a B2 bomber could not dodge, and was hit by artillery fire, and the aerial bombs it carried, together with the planes, turned into a burst of fireball.

Zhang Xiaoou lamented for her comrades-in-arms in her heart, but she also knew that although the Japanese army had achieved results in doing so, it was just right, because the power of the B2 bomber could only be truly reflected through the precise bombing of the dive from the height, and the Japanese army gave up the blockade of the high altitude, which was undoubtedly a big mistake.

When the time came, the two teams of thirty B2 bombers responsible for attacking the enemy ship disappeared from Zhang Xiaoou's eyes, and only Zhang Xiaoou's team and the two attack aircraft teams that followed closely behind him were left in the air.

Soon, Zhang Xiaoou saw that the dive bombers of the two teams were like waterfowl on the spot, rushing straight to the surface of the sea, with a dive angle of nearly seventy-five with huge potential energy, and a terrible whistling sound came from the air.

When the four Japanese air defense destroyers and the shooters on the surrounding minesweepers hurriedly turned their fire back to the top when the situation was not right, the whizzing dive bombers had already lowered to a height of nearly a kilometer, and before the Japanese artillery could fire on them, each fighter dropped the bombs they were carrying one after another, and in just a few seconds, all 30 dive bombers dropped their bombs in unison.

The moment they smashed the deck of the destroyer, everyone on the ship held their breath, and half a second later, a loud bang came from below the deck, and then, explosions rang out one after another, and the sound was so dense that the sound of anti-aircraft artillery was completely muffled.

Although more than half of the bombs fell around the four destroyers and became near-misses, the armor-piercing bombs that killed the other destroyers gave the four destroyers a burst of belly, and billowing smoke and flames desperately poured out from the breaches in all parts of the ship.

As the air defense destroyers fell silent, the remaining minesweepers were again attacked by rockets from the attack planes trailing behind the dive bomber group, and the minesweepers sank one after another with the terrible cries of Japanese sailors.

The Japanese army was silent, and even the hard-mouthed Kato Hajiro had to admit that the fleet was in big trouble, and it seemed that it was not so easy to get close to Yingkou Port under such tight air protection.

At this time, it was already three poles in the morning, and it was obviously unwise for the opponent's superior air force to attack under their noses, and Tsukahara 243 issued an order in desperation, the fighters returned home, hid in the protection of their own air defense fire network, and the fleet deployed in an air defense formation, withdrew from the Yingkou sea area, waited for night to fall, and then cleared mines under the cover of night, and carried out artillery bombardment close to the battery.

Witnessing the Japanese Navy slowly retreating, Colonel Zhang Junbao, head of the Navy's shore-to-ship missile regiment, drove to the headquarters, and as soon as he saw Yang Guan's face, he said: "Commander, we are ready, why let the enemy go?" ”

Yang Guan smiled slightly and said, "Xiao Zhang, I understand your feelings, but do you think it's better to leave all the enemies behind, or do you cleanly kill a few ships, startle the snakes, and scare the enemies away?" You are our trump card, and if you take out two or three enemy ships, the enemy will flee in terror. On the other hand, if we put the enemy in, and then use bombers and torpedo planes to lay mines behind the enemy, the enemy will not be able to advance or retreat, won't we be able to catch turtles in an urn? Think about it, isn't that? ”

Zhang Junbao looked puzzled: "Then why didn't you let the enemy clear mines from the beginning, and send fighters to do so much useless work?" ”

Yang Guan said: "If the enemy advances too smoothly, there will definitely be suspicions, and now it is just right, although the enemy has lost four destroyers, more than ten minesweepers and more than one warplane, but his vitality is not injured, and he will definitely try his best to break in and complete the task assigned by the Japanese base camp." ”

Zhang Junbao suddenly realized, happily saluted Yang Guan, and turned to leave.

Ten hours later, the Japanese Third Aircraft Carrier Task Force, Hideki Tojo, who had made contact with the base camp, was forced by the Emperor's decree to return to the waters of Yingkou and was equipped with minesweepers to clear mines.

This time, the Japanese ships were not hindered, a narrow passage was opened in the minefield, the huge fleet was divided into two, the aircraft carriers and escort destroyers were all left in the open sea, and the battleships, cruisers, and landing fleets quickly passed through this passage and rushed in the direction of Yingkou Port.

However, mines are not very easy to clean, and the fluctuations of the waves and the rise and fall of the tides can bring mines from other areas at any time.

Just as the Japanese fleet was slowly passing through the minefield, suddenly a loud noise sounded on the sea, and a Japanese ship hit a mine that had not been cleared.

This was a magnetic mine that blew a large hole in the bottom of the 4,350-ton light cruiser "Tenryu", which was extremely important to the fleet, and the "Tenryu" soon began to enter the water and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea. When the deck of the "Tenryu" was submerged into the water, the steam boiler collided with cold water and exploded violently, and the huge explosion detonated the ammunition in the ship, and the "Tenryu" sank to the bottom of the sea in several pieces.

The wreckage of the light cruiser "Tenryu" quickly disappeared from the sea, leaving only a large whirlpool more than 20 meters deep, which sucked all the Japanese sailors who had no time to escape into the whirlpool, and there were no corpses to be found.

After about half an hour, a 4,000-ton transport ship full of devil soldiers hit a mine, the ship was crowded with more than 3,000 ghost soldiers, after the lightning was struck, the thin hull was broken into two on the spot, the lights on the ship were extinguished for the first time, and the Japanese soldiers in the cabin from officers to soldiers all screamed bitterly, but everything was to no avail, and soon both hulls sank into the sea, and disappeared from the sea within two minutes.

More than 3,000 Japanese officers and men, except for more than seven, were rescued, and all the rest sank to the bottom of the sea along with the hull.

Finally, the Japanese fleet was terrified and passed through the minefield and came within range of the battleships and heavy cruisers, and a major battle was imminent.

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