Not far behind the Akune beachhead, the headquarters of the landing force is temporarily located here, and the plan that had been made before has been changed again, this time for human reasons, which can also be seen as passive reasons. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Originally, after taking Kagoshima, a large amount of supplies and personnel and equipment could be landed directly through the Kagoshima Military Port, which made the supply faster. However, because Yu Botai agreed to the 51st Division's use of mustard gas on Kagoshima, even if Kagoshima was captured now, they would have to be forced to abandon the port and continue to passively use the inefficient method of beachhead transportation.

But the good news is that the size of the landing craft is not large, and the Haicheng shipyard is also going all out to manufacture it, and an average of six landing craft can be built every day, six per day, which seems to be not much, but what about a month? That's one hundred and eighty ships.

Of course, six ships a day does not mean that six ships can be built directly from scratch in one day, but after preliminary preparations, an average of six landing craft can be delivered every day.

Because it is the working mode of the assembly line, coupled with the 24-hour non-stop rush of hundreds of work groups, and the structure of the landing craft is relatively simple, the speed will naturally be slightly faster, for the time being, more than 300 landing craft are still temporarily enough, at most it is the speed of material supply, the speed of personnel landing is a little slower, and the rest is nothing.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the second landing ship is also about to be delivered, after the completion of the perching last month, the landing ship conducted more than half a month of sea trials, and ran to Japan twice, on the whole it is still very good, so many parties asked to end the sea trials ahead of schedule and deliver them ahead of schedule.

The third landing ship will be delivered in a month's time, Haicheng Shipyard has concentrated all kinds of talents from all over the country to support and support ships, and has absorbed a large number of experience in the manufacture of warships, with nearly 100,000 workers, and with the assistance of a large number of modern machinery, the shipyard is being built faster and faster day by day.

However, in the face of so much good news, You Botai still has his own worries at the moment.

For example, at this moment, one of the questions he is most concerned about is, where did the other five warships of the Japanese Navy go? According to the report of the 51st Division, they saw only four battleships on the dock, Zhikasa, Tsushima, Zhenyuan and Maya, which could not be moved, and according to the information given by the air force, there should be no doubt that there should be nine battleships.

Could it be that the five battleships of the Japanese Navy that were still able to move left Kagoshima ahead of schedule? This seems unlikely, the Japanese Navy knows that they are definitely going to take Kagoshima, so it is not of much use to leave only four damaged warships there, and the Japanese Combined Fleet has concentrated the main warships and has not been able to see any trace of the Chinese Navy, let alone these five warships.

Could it be that they want to rely on the cover of night to quietly kill the Chinese Navy? This seems unlikely, marching near the coast at night is a very dangerous move, even if this is the mainland of Japan, they will never dare to act so boldly, and if they move during the day, they will inevitably not be able to escape the reconnaissance of the air force.

In the next two replenishments, the aviation also conducted a lot of reconnaissance in the vicinity, and did not find any Japanese ships on the sea.

So where did these five warships go?

"Send a telegram to the aircraft carrier and ask them to send a reconnaissance plane to the vicinity of Kagoshima to reconnoiter and see if they can find any trace of the other five Japanese warships." After a long time, You Botai still put his hope on the air force.

If the aviation goes to reconnoiter a small group of troops on the ground, then it is very possible that it cannot find the target, but the warship is so large that even if it is parked there and not started, it still cannot escape the reconnaissance of the aviation.

As for the 51st Division, it should be abolished for the time being, as long as the Japanese army does not go to their trouble, the current 51st Division has no combat capability at all, and even its own weapons and equipment have been thrown away.

You Botai is most worried about the safety of the 51st Division now. Therefore, in the middle of last night, You Botai had already urgently dispatched a brigade of troops to the vicinity of Kagoshima to protect the 51st Division that had lost its equipment.

The battle in Kagoshima City was actually not within the scope of Yu Botai's plan at the beginning, and Yu Botai also wanted to leave a loophole for the Japanese army, so that they could realize that Kagoshima could give them a chance to sneak attack by continuously sending troops behind the Chinese army.

In this way, they would be able to attract more Japanese troops in the coastal area, and avoid going deep into the interior to fight the Japanese army far from the sea.

Although the distance of one or two hundred kilometers is not too far, but this is in the enemy territory, and no one dares to guarantee how many pairs of eyes are staring at it in the dark, if the Japanese make up their minds to sabotage logistics and supplies, even if they can't defeat the baggage team and destroy those supplies, as long as they can delay it.

If each batch of supplies is delayed for a day and a half, then in the end it will have a huge impact on the entire battle.

Therefore, according to Yu Botai's prediction, it was necessary to advance the troops to a distance of one or twenty kilometers, and then pile up a large amount of supplies near the rear beachhead to lure the Japanese troops to land from Kagoshima to attack their supplies, so as to catch turtles in the urn and annihilate the incoming Japanese troops in one fell swoop.

However, the navy hopes that the army can take Kagoshima as soon as possible, and to put it bluntly, it hopes that the army can help the navy capture the nine warships docked in Kagoshima, and once the nine warships are taken, the strength of the navy will be raised to a higher level, which is still very helpful for the development of the navy.

But You Botai doesn't see it that way, the Navy's idea is not wrong, but letting the Army capture the warship is really too much, and it simply doesn't take the Army's life seriously.

However, in the matter of capturing Japanese warships, You Botai's idea coincided with that of the navy, but the original intentions of the two parties were different.

The Navy is viewed at a tactical level, and they want to increase the strength of the Navy. However, You Botai looks at this problem from a strategic perspective, or in other words, You Botai looks at this problem from a political standpoint.

Therefore, when the telegram of the 51st Division requesting the use of mustard gas was sent, You Botai only thought about it for a moment and agreed to the 51st Division's application.

For him, it doesn't matter whether the captured warships can be put into use immediately, the navy can't find an opponent in the Asian region at present, plus the service of the aircraft carrier, this will inevitably change the mode of future naval warfare, so these old Japanese warships are actually not of much use for the navy.

On the contrary, from a political standpoint, the role of these warships is particularly large.

Think about the Japanese capturing the Zhenyuan ironclad ship back then, how much did this incident inspire Japan? And how big was the blow to the Qing Empire?

If now they can in turn capture nine Japanese battleships in one go, and there are also battleships, then how big a blow will this be to Japan?

You Botai is the commander-in-chief of operations in charge of the Jiuzhou region, and this position is also destined for him to have a certain political vision, of course, he also believes that the top brass of the Admiralty will understand his views, because from the position of a politician, the significance of capturing these nine warships is far greater than strengthening the navy.

During World War II, why did the Japanese go so desperately to attack the capital of China? From a political point of view, the Japanese did not do anything wrong, and they hoped to break the enemy's resistance in this way, so as to end the war more quickly and make Japan the victor.

Later, they attacked Wuhan and Chongqing, and the Japanese had the same goal, and they all formulated these combat plans from a political point of view.

But again, the Japanese lacked strategic vision, so their plan did not succeed, because they did not foresee that the resistance of the Chinese was irrepressible, and the Japanese did not realize that the more the Japanese suppressed, the stronger the Chinese's will to resist.

On the other hand, the current Chinese Empire is different, they have never pinned their hopes on a certain war, and they have never hoped to use a campaign to end the war, and even if they did, it was only for strategic purposes.

For example, the Battle of the East China Sea was a decisive battle, but it was also a decisive battle that served the strategic plan, and after this battle, the Japanese Navy lost its strong dominance and fell from the first-class in Asia to the third-rate in Asia in one fell swoop, which is the strategic vision.

Including the previous Second Sino-Japanese Korean War, China had asked Japan to mortgage the machinery and equipment to pay compensation to China, although the price of those old machinery mortgaged far exceeded their value, on the surface China seems to be at a loss, but in fact? The Chinese just took less money, but they weakened Japan's industrial capacity.

In other words, the lack of equipment in the hands of the Japanese army now comes largely from the reparations made a few years ago.

Therefore, You Botai doesn't care if those warships can be used or not, whether they can be used immediately, what he cares about is whether he can get those warships, even if they are completely incapable of combat, even if they are full of poison gas.

And now there are five ships, which makes You Botai a little disappointed, but he has no choice but to hope that the aviation can find them as soon as possible and find out the reason.

Thinking about this problem clearly, You Botai set his sights on a map, which was captured from the Japanese army, not very detailed, but also marked the location of each area, which is still very good for pointing directions or something, and the current surveying and mapping team is based on this map to supplement.

And the Japanese troops in front of them seemed to have a very familiar feeling, as if they wanted to lead themselves somewhere......