It was quickly past two o'clock in the afternoon, and Yamamoto Isoroku, who was concentrating on playing chess in the Kasumigaseki Admiralty, heard the bell and came back to his senses. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn 15 minutes, there will be an intelligence meeting dedicated to the China Navy -- after the Kunming Air Battle, no one will dare to underestimate the China Navy anymore, and the Sixth Section of the Third Department of the Military Command Department will also increase the number of personnel to collect all the intelligence of the China Navy.

"Your Excellency," Rear Admiral Keisan Oka pushed the door in, bowed and said, "The army called, and they said that there was no intelligence on the Shina Navy. ”

"No?" Yamamoto Fifty-six was a little surprised, it is normal for sea and land intelligence to be exchanged, not to mention that this is enemy naval intelligence. "Then Li Hansheng's information is also missing? What about their people? ”

"Your Excellency," Gang Jingchun's voice became low, "the army said that there was no information about Li Hansheng either, and they didn't send anyone over. ”

"Oh. That's right. Yamamoto put down the chess pieces, he already realized what the problem was. It's not that the army doesn't have intelligence, it's that the army is unwilling to hand over the relevant information to the navy. If he really wanted it, he could only ask the Minister of the Navy to come forward and request, but at this time, the Minister of the Navy was no longer Mitsumasa Yonechi on the same front as him, but Yoshida Zengo who he hated very much. It's not that he can't ask Yoshida to make a request to the Army, but what if the Army asks him to approve of Japan's entry into the Axis Alliance?

Yamamoto Fifty-six stood up and went to the conference room, but his heart turned a few times. He was really unwilling to compromise with the Army on joining the Axis Alliance because of the Naval Intelligence of China, so that the Naval Intelligence of China could only rely on himself.

"Your Excellency, I am Major Zoichi Yoshioka of the Haikou Air Force." There were not many people in the conference room, except for Kuroshima Kameotosa, chief staff officer of the Combined Fleet, Major General Keijun Okaoka, director of the Third Division of the Military Command Department, Chiaki Matsuda, chief of the Fifth Section's Rice Intelligence Section, Fujiwara Kiyoma Nakasa, head of the Sixth Section's Counterpart Intelligence Section, Hideo Kojima, chief of the Ru'u Intelligence Division in the Seventh Section, Horiuchi Shigetada, and Horuchi Shigetada, chief of the Anglo-European Intelligence Division in the Eighth Section, and then Yoshioka Tadaichi, the former chief staff officer of the Haikou Air Force who resigned from Hainan. He had previously submitted a detailed report on the Kunming operation to the Military Command Department, and this time Yamamoto Isoroku asked him to attend the meeting, so he wanted to hear his statement of the operation in person -- there was always something that was not in the report.

"Yoshioka Shaosa, I have read the report you delivered, what is your evaluation of the Naval Air Force in China?" Yamamoto Isoroku began with this question, and after Suio Obayashi took matters into his own hands, Tadaichi Yoshioka was in charge of the rest of the matter, and he had the most comprehensive impression of the Shina Naval Air Force.

"Brave." Without hesitation, Tadaichi Yoshioka, who had spoken to almost every returning pilot, could think of this word.

"Brave?" Yamamoto looked at him, repeating his words, expecting him to give a reason.

"The Shina Navy does not have any skills in this operation, they line up in a well-organized array to face the head-on impact bomber formation......" Yoshioka Tadaichi sighed when he said this, "For bombers, if you lose the formation, you will lose protection, and the brave shock bomber formation of the Shina Navy is to make our pilots afraid, and once they are afraid, they will leave the formation." Unfortunately, the pilots of China were braver than ours, and the formation was scattered when they stormed the second time. ”

Tadashi Yoshioka talked about things, which he did not and could not write on the report, but it was his first impression. Yamamoto Isoroku looked at him, and Kuroshima Kameto, Oka Keijun, Matsuda Chiaki, Fujiwara Nishiyoma and others also looked at him. The pilots of the land-based bombers of the Imperial Navy were not as brave as the pilots of the Shina Navy, and Oka Keijun and the others wanted to reprimand them loudly, but Yamamoto's solemnity made them swallow their words again - if they wanted to reprimand, it was also Commander Yamamoto's reprimand.

"Don't they have weaknesses?" After a moment of silence, Yamamoto asked.

"There is a weakness, and the weakness is that the number of people is very small. At first, there were only fifty-two planes, and then fifteen more planes. The pilots of the assault group believed that the planes had been transferred from the airfield to the north. "I suspect that these planes flew from Lanzhou Airport, because only Kunming and Wuyuan had seen Shina naval planes on the battlefield of China. ”

"Lanzhou Airport?" The Black Island Turtle Man was even more surprised than before, "Lanzhou is 670 nautical miles away from Kunming, plus half an hour of combat time, the range of the Zhina fighter is at least more than 800 nautical miles, and it is likely to be close to 1,000 nautical miles." ”

"Yes." Yoshioka nodded, "My judgment on the range of the Shina Navy aircraft is the same, its range is estimated to be more than nine hundred nautical miles, and its speed is also very fast, but what surprises me the most is that it is not a fighter." ”

"Not a fighter?" This is also not written in the report, because no one can be sure of this, let alone accept it. Yamamoto Isoroku was fortunate to have Tadaichi Yoshioka personally interviewed him, but he was worried about the discovery of the talks: If this is not a fighter of the Shina Navy, then what does their fighter look like?

"Your Excellency, ...... look," Tadaichi Yoshioka took out a notebook with a sketch of the saboteur attack aircraft, "I have asked aviation experts before coming to the Admiralty, and they believe that this design cannot be a fighter. This is a straight wing, which is simple to manufacture and has good efficiency in generating lift, but has a high drag, and aircraft with this type of wing generally pursue a smooth flight rather than speed and agility. The United States is a big aircraft manufacturing country, and it is impossible to put such wings on fighter jets.

I also learned that during the Wuyuan operation, this plane accurately blew up the bridge after our army crossed the river, and I specifically asked about the width and height of the bridge on the Uga River, although there were no witnesses, but I can be sure that the bridge was blown up by the dive of this plane......"

"Could it be that this is a crit fighter of the China Navy?!" With Yoshioka Tadaichi's introduction, the answer seemed to become clearer and clearer, and Kuroshima Kameto was greatly surprised by this -- it was not the fighter planes of the Shina Navy that shot down more than 100 of our land attack planes, but the crit planes of the Shina Navy that shot down more than 100 of our land attack planes. How is this possible? Even if the Navy's newly commissioned Type 99 ship explosion is unlikely to achieve such a result.

"It may not be a crit fighter of the Shina Navy," the fifth lesson said to Chiaki Matsuda, the head of the rice section, "The Shina Navy has only tendered two types of aircraft in the United States, not three, and this may be a new model that combines crit and lightning strike functions." ”

"The headquarters of the armed forces stationed in Mongolia has such corroboration." Tadaichi Yoshioka immediately chimed in, "I know people from the General Staff of the Army stationed in Mongolia, and they say that the description of the Chinese Navy aircraft by the front-line soldiers is that there are countless bombs hanging under the belly, and every attack is like a hell of fire. ”

"That's ...... like this," Yamamoto Fifty-six listened so intoxicated that he didn't come back to his senses until everyone looked at him.

"Your Excellency, if the ship's attack and the ship's explosion can be mixed, the difficulty of the ship's operations will be greatly reduced, and the number of lightning strike teams and crit teams can also be changed at will according to the enemy's situation." The Black Island Turtle Man, an immortal staff officer, immediately thought of the benefits of combining the two planes into one. "We should immediately notify the Aviation Headquarters to start the integration."

"I'll inform the Aviation Headquarters to work in this direction." Yamamoto Fifty-six kept nodding his head, it was indeed a good idea. However, he still felt that it was a problem that the Chinese naval fighters did not appear, and he asked: "Why did the Chinese naval fighters not appear?" ”

Yamamoto Fifty-six asked everyone, and everyone could only look at Chiaki Matsuda, who was in charge of Mi information. Chiaki Matsuda said: "The intelligence division did not receive any information about the fighter planes of the China Navy, but the intelligence officers near Chicago took some photos of the training of the China Navy air carriers......

The topic of this meeting was the Shina Navy, so Chiaki Matsuda brought the photos that he had just received. In fact, this was not filmed by the Japanese, it was filmed by the American Marine Police at the expense of the United States, and only when they were close to the China Navy to train air carriers would it not arouse the alarm of the people in China.

In the photo, an air carrier about the size of the Fengxiang is driving on a calm lake, with an all-access deck, a chimney and a bridge on the right side integrated together, and an aircraft is taking off on the deck. Yamamoto fifty-six saw that this was the one on Yoshioka Tadashi's book, with straight and wide wings, giving people a sense of solidity. This photo is a picture of the plane landing, because the angle of the shot has not changed, the landing plane is obviously very different from the take-off plane, the size is smaller, and the wing roots are still a little upturned after a short stretch.

All of the people present had graduated from the Naval Academy, but only Tadaichi Yoshioka had practiced flying, and Yamamoto Isoroku handed him these two photos, pointed to the one that landed, and said, "Is this a fighter?" ”

It was all made by the Grumman blacksmith shop, and the shape of the F5F was no different from the original historical F6F, and Tadashi Yoshioka nodded vigorously when he saw the photo. "Yes, Your Excellency, this is the fighter. It has a smaller fuselage and wings that are not completely straight. Although the planes of the United States are very large, you can know which one is a fighter and which one is a ship-burst attack plane. ”

"Why didn't the fighters of the people of China appear in China?" The situation was already clear, and Yamamoto Fifty-six whispered the question, "Is it because we are worried that we will understand the performance of the aircraft?" ”

"I'm afraid there is no other reason than that." "We also need to understand the performance of this fighter, and hopefully it is inferior to ...... Our fighters are outstanding. ”

The Black Island Turtle Man had seen the Zero Fighter and knew its performance, but not all the people sitting there were qualifications to understand the Zero Fighter, so he paused before he could say anything, and turned his words around very neatly.

"We also need to know the information of the empty mother of China." Oka Jingchun has been listening, but as the head of the third department in charge of intelligence, he always has to speak at this time. "When will that carrier be launched?"

"That" is a special reference, after all, it is a very shameful thing that the cruise ship that he was going to build an empty carrier was captured by the Chinese Navy and converted into a Chinese empty carrier. Chiaki Matsuda is certainly aware of this taboo, and he said: "According to the intelligence, the launch time may be this year, maybe at the end of the year." The people in the shipyard are hard to buy, they ...... Completely on the side of the Chinese people. ”

More and more Americans stood on the side of Shina to condemn the Empire for a war of aggression, and those present deliberately ignored Matsuda Chiaki's words, and Kuroshima Kameto looked at Yamamoto Isoroku: "Your Excellency, no matter how much it costs this empty carrier, we will sink it." ”

"If she shows up in the Pacific Ocean, she has to be sunk, but it's always in the Atlantic, it's impossible." Yamamoto is still the point of view before, far from one aspect, and there is another aspect that he does not want to invade the back garden of the US Navy,

"Your Excellency, you can't break through each of the Air Carrier Units of the China Navy before they become an army, and it will be difficult to clean up in the future." What the Black Island Turtle Man said was a little heartbroken, after the Kunming air battle, he could feel the real threat of the China Navy. "If it's too far, we can use the ports of Argentina and Brazil to replenish it."

"If the China Carrier never leaves the port, or if she does not deliver to the China Navy for the time being, and the ownership still belongs to the United States Shipyard, what should we do?" Yamamoto Isoroku asked rhetorically, "Has the fleet been stopped at Nanmi all the time?" If the fleet has been stationed in Nanmi, isn't this provoking the United States and urging them to help China with all their might? Military affairs must involve politics and diplomacy, and if the military is only military, what is the difference between us and the army?

A real navy is not something that can be cobbled together by modifying a few cruise ships. When the China Navy purchased the Ninghai, gunnery was still at the level before the last world war. Now they are building air carriers and ice battleships, and as long as the British and American navies do not personally guide and train them without reservation, they will not be able to form an air carrier force. ”

Yamamoto Fifty-six stated the reason why he did not need to worry too much about the China Navy, and when he said it, he suddenly thought of the Kunming air battle, and he could not help but admit that it was a very good lightning strike air force, but did they understand the gist of lightning strikes and critical strikes? Do you understand the actual operation of the nullus? What the Imperial Navy spent nearly twenty years figuring out, why could the Shina Navy learn it in a few years?

In the Kasumigaseki Naval Headquarters in Tokyo, Yamamoto 56 secretly persuaded himself that he did not need to worry too much about the Shina Navy, and in front of the soon-to-be-completed Navy Department building in Eagle Rock, Jiangbei, Chongqing, two helicopters were slowly landing.

After the air battle in Kunming, the helicopter that rescued the wounded at that time was rumored to be amazing, and the newspapers proudly said that it was an aircraft invented by the Chinese, which could not only hover in the air, but also fly backwards backwards. Everyone has seen an airplane flying forward, but everyone has never seen an airplane that flies backwards and can be parked in mid-air, and this kind of aircraft is unique to our navy.

After Kunming's victory, they also sent a plaque to Eagle Rock Zhujie, hoping that Chongqing would no longer be bombed by the Japanese like Kunming, but in fact there was no one in the navy. Yes, it was just a few small poor gunboats, but today, the planes that could fly backwards really appeared at the entrance of the naval headquarters, and there were two of them, which was really eye-opening, and even the guards at the entrance of the headquarters stood more straight, and he knew that it was his brothers and comrades who came.