After dawn, the battleship Mikasa and several other small warships began to clear the mines, these mines were blocked there, and they could not enter the port of Okinawa at all, and now they could not evacuate for a while, and the situation on the army side was not good, they needed to clear the channel as soon as possible, and then let these army soldiers go ashore. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In fact, not only the army, but also the officers and men of the navy were not in a very good state at this time, and a depressing atmosphere hung over the entire fleet.

One by one, the shells keep attacking the mines in front of them, but the hit rate is not high, and it often takes three or four, or even more shells, to burst a mine.

This is not because the quality of the Japanese Navy is not good, but there is no good way to deal with mines in the world at present, and the only way is to use shipborne artillery to blow them up, but the conditions for mine detonation are not violent collisions, but rely on the hedgehog-shaped needles to detonate, and only when the needles are hit into it, the explosion will occur.

When the shells hit the mines, most of them bounced off directly, and if they wanted to explode directly, then they had almost harsh requirements for the angle of impact. According to the data compiled by various countries, the cost of removing a mine is at least 100 times the cost of the mine itself, or even more.

Of course, there is also a very simple and effective way to detonate it, which is to drive the ship directly into it, but this method will directly damage the ship, and the cost is greater than attacking with shells.

It is a universally recognized fact that mines are difficult to clear, but fortunately, the number of mines outside the port of Okinawa is not very large, and although the difficulty of clearing mines is not small, if you are lucky, you can clear these mines in less than half a day, and then these ships will be able to enter the port of Okinawa for rest.

On the other hand, the Japanese troops in the port of Okinawa also urgently collected a large number of civilian fishing boats to bring the army soldiers who were still on board back to the shore.

In fact, this is not to blame the army soldiers, it is estimated that anyone who sees tens of thousands of corpses floating on the sea like this, will not feel like a nobody in their hearts, and many of them even know each other, and the feeling of depression is simply breathless.

And those fishing boats that return to the shore will also take away the army corpses near the channel, these fishing boats are not large, so they are almost unaffected by the channel, as long as they do not deliberately hit those obvious reefs, basically there is a water depth of about one meter to pass safely.

Therefore, another beautiful scenery has been formed on the sea, with fishing boats carrying Japanese army soldiers, and a long group of floating corpses behind them, which are connected by ropes, and just move behind the fishing boats.

Once on the shore, the Army disembarked and pulled the bodies to the shore bit by bit, while the fishing boat continued to pick up the troop carriers. At this moment, the people of Ryukyu became completely free labor, and at this moment, they could only keep shaking the oars, and they did not even have time to drink a sip of water, and they did not have the heart to drink water.

Even sometimes, in order to be able to squeeze a few more people onto the boat, the Japanese army directly pushed the fishermen off the boat, and then they themselves controlled the fishing boat to return to the shore, as for what to do after arriving at the shore, it was not up to them, anyway, they had to go ashore, and no one could stop them.

In order to get to the shore as soon as possible, some Japanese soldiers even jumped directly into the water, and then grabbed the fishing boat with both hands to keep themselves from sinking to the bottom, so they returned to the shore with the fishing boat.

All kinds of scenes emerge here in endlessly, and the navy doesn't have the heart to care about these rotten things in the army at this time, and the generals of the army are even more mindless, at this time they don't even know what happened to their troops, how many people died, and how many people survived? What ship are they all on? They didn't know any of this, and the commanders of the three divisions also died and one was missing, and the entire army could be described as a mess, even if it could go ashore safely, it would not be able to exert its combat effectiveness in a short time.

The chaos was rampant, and after a whole morning of busy work, the warships used up almost half of their ammunition, and only then did they finally empty the dozens of mines blocking the waterway, so the fleet, which had been staying outside for more than ten hours, entered the port of Okinawa one after another.

The port of Okinawa is not large, and although they have lost more than half of their ships, it will be difficult for all the warships outside to enter the port of Okinawa if these troop carriers enter the port.

The original plan was to let the ships go in one by one, and all the soldiers disembarked before driving the ships away and moored in other places, and the warships had to take on the responsibility of protecting the troop carriers, so they could only stay outside at this time and quietly watch the troop carriers enter the dock.

At this time, on the west side of Okinawa Port, bursts of black smoke rose in the sky again, because it was daytime, so the Japanese troops on the shore quickly discovered the traces of the other party, and hurriedly sounded the alarm.

As soon as the sirens sounded, those troop carriers that had not yet entered the port became even more anxious, and they no longer cared about the problem of safety or insecurity, anyway, they were just swarming into it, and it didn't matter what they collided with, no matter how they collided, it was better than being hit by shells. And those ships that landed at the dock also dropped anchor directly, and then everyone ran directly to the shore, running as far as they could, for fear that the battle would affect them again.

The black smoke is getting closer and closer, and the only four warships are also starting to get nervous, looking at the density and scope of the smoke, everyone knows very well that they are not opponents of the other side at all, and there is no suspense in this war.

At this time, many naval officers and men had a trace of doubt in their hearts, it seems that what appeared should be the main fleet of the Chinese Navy, since they appeared here, what about the main force of the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy? Where did they go?

Although he knew that he was not an opponent, Teragaki Inozo still stubbornly ordered the fleet to go up, no matter what, they had to go up until all the ships entered the harbor before leaving, once the enemy fleet caught the opportunity again, and bombed the harbor indiscriminately, the consequences would be unimaginable.

There was no extra time for him to imagine, and no more time to prepare for them, even if they didn't have much ammunition left.

At 3:10 p.m., the main fleet of the Chinese Navy arrived outside the port of Ryukyu, where the only four Japanese naval warships were already in full formation, and under the leadership of the battleship Mikasa, they were scattered all around.

The Mikasa battleship was located at the outermost part of the fairway, and the other smaller ships were hidden near the reef, hoping to lure the Chinese fleet there if possible, and keep them as long as possible.

The shore defense artillery is also ready, but at this distance, there is no need to expect them to hit accurately, in fact, there are not many shore defense guns.

Without occupying any advantage, in order to create time for the troop carrier, Teragaki Zhuzo could only be forced to give up the joint defense with the shore artillery, and his own force was forced to be separated.

At 3:33, the two sides once again launched a naval battle, but the result of this naval battle did not have the slightest suspense, first four battleships bombarded the Mikasa battleship, and in less than half an hour, the Mikasa battleship was declared finished, and there was almost no intact part of the hull, even if it was salvaged in the future, it could only be disassembled and rebuilt, and there was no repair value at all.

The other three small-tonnage battleships did not survive the attack of the main Chinese fleet for long, and then two battleships of the Chinese Navy, which were familiar with the channel of the port of Ryukyus, began to enter the channel, one bombarded the shore artillery positions continuously, and the other bombarded the battleship Asahi as if it were a fixed target.

After the Asahi battleship was also declared finished, the two battleships continued to work together, one continued to bomb the shore artillery positions, while the previous attack on the Asahi battleship began to aim at the harbor. It wasn't until 5:40 a.m. that the two battleships withdrew unhurriedly.

But this was not the end of the story, the battleships withdrew, and the frigates that had been replenished drilled into it again, and once again swaggered and deployed nearly 100 mines on the channel of the Ryukyu Port.

The Japanese Army on the shore who watched this scene was stunned for a moment, and instantly had an urge to cry, do you want to be so shameless? We've all been beaten like bears, and you're going to lay out mines, which is going to completely block me in Okinawa.

Of course, this time because there is enough time, there are four battleships on the periphery to suppress the fire of the shore guns, so the nine frigates that arrange the torpedoes are also sufficient in terms of time, and this time the mines are also arranged with two kinds, one is floating on the water, the other is sunk in the water, the second kind of mine is more difficult to eliminate, although it can be seen on the ship, but under normal circumstances, when you see it, if the speed is not slow, then basically bye-bye.

Underwater mines are also very simple, the two kinds of mines are the same, but the underwater mines have an iron chain with a thick thumb, with a huge iron block below, just enough to make the mine float at a fixed height, and the iron chain is also very flexible, a section of two meters, after measuring the depth of the water, and then want to arrange the mine in which position, just connect the long iron chain.

After doing this, the sky was almost getting dark, and the satisfied Chinese Navy swaggered away in the despair of countless Japanese troops. (To be continued.) )