Chapter 463 Assets in China
The kamikaze is essentially to turn the aircraft into a manually operated precision-guided bomb, which is used to exert a huge lethality against the target, and the pilot is equivalent to the guidance system of later generations, and this attack method looks very cruel, not only to the enemy, but also to oneself.
Of course, there are contradictions on the battlefield, and no weapon can really dominate the battlefield, so the kamikaze attack will be ineffective after being used more times, so the first attack is very important, and the Chinese side has repeatedly cared for these North Korean pilots to put the first round of strikes on the aircraft carrier.
As long as the Akagi and Fengxiang were sunk, Japan lost the last naval aviation, and the remaining battleships that looked incomparably large were no match for China, and these pilots did act according to Chinese orders, and after flying over Kure Harbor, they tried their best to find Japanese aircraft carriers.
However, the Japanese garrison on the ground has already discovered them, and the Japanese are still very vigilant at this time, and they have been guarding against China's attack, after all, these Japanese have already suffered enough on the planes, so as soon as they saw the group of planes appearing over Kure Harbor, the Japanese immediately took action, and the anti-aircraft fire was opened one after another, and the anti-aircraft artillery formed a dense firepower.
In addition, Japanese planes have also taken to the air to intercept, in fact, the Japanese also feel very strange about these planes, these 20 planes are monoplanes, extremely fast, and there are no bombs, this makes everyone a little surprised, it stands to reason that bombers must be used to attack the military port, otherwise how to attack the warship, is it just to demonstrate!
But these planes are not carrying bombs, and their speed is very amazing, so they can dodge dense anti-aircraft fire, so what are they going to do?
Just when question marks were constantly being drawn in the hearts of the Japanese, a plane ran out of fuel, and the distance from North Korea to Kure Port was nearly a thousand kilometers. has already surpassed the range of most aircraft of this era. If it weren't for the special modifications, these planes would not have been able to fly to Kure Harbor at all, and in order to load more explosives, the planes had limited fuel arrangements.
A plane, which had run out of fuel, could no longer look for the aircraft carrier, so it could only ram into the nearest warship, and the plane stumbled towards the heavy cruiser Myoko, and the Japanese guards in the harbor did not have time to react. The plane crashed into the Myoko.
The plane was loaded with more than 200 kilograms of high explosives, and at this time, it exploded violently, with a power comparable to a 500-kilogram bomb, and the superstructure of the Myoko was blown away in an instant, and then the fire rose into the air, and the entire warship was soon enveloped in flames. The sound of explosions was endless.
Soon the warship capsized and sank, and most of the hundreds of Japanese soldiers on board were killed, and at the first moment when the plane hit the Myoko, all the Japanese understood what the other side was fighting about, this was a suicide attack!
The Japanese are no strangers to suicide attacks, which are the most familiar methods of attack, as was the case with the so-called meat bullet offensive in the Japanese war. It's just that we haven't really seen a large-scale aerial suicide attack yet. However, these Japanese soldiers were also well-trained.
They quickly regained their composure and manipulated the franti-aircraft fire. After the first plane launched the impact, the other pilots were also stimulated by the violent explosion, their blood was boiling, and they seemed to have forgotten their life and death, and they drove the plane towards the warship.
It was like dumplings, constantly attacking the Japanese, these pilots were not very good at their skills, and they were still a little insane at this time, but fortunately, the speed of the planes was fast enough, and the general anti-aircraft fire could not keep up at all, so Japanese warships were loaded one after another.
Suddenly, the sound of explosions in the entire Kure Harbor was endless, billowing black smoke filled the sea and the sky, and the Japanese officers in charge of guarding the Kure Harbor had gone crazy, and they deduced countless possible ways of attack, but they just did not expect such a suicide attack.
They shouted and cursed, desperately ordering the Japanese soldiers to open fire, whatever it was, as long as they could shoot into the sky, and planes were constantly rising from the nearby airfield to intercept the suicide planes.
In the blink of an eye, there have been twelve planes attacking, only three of them were successful, and the remaining nine were all blown up by volleys, these suicide planes are typical thin-skinned and large, with almost zero defense capabilities, and they are loaded with a large amount of explosives, once hit, most of them will catch fire and explode, and the end is extremely miserable.
However, these planes did disrupt the entire Japanese air defense system, and the last eight remaining planes had already found the Akagi and Fengxiang, which crashed into the two aircraft carriers at an extraordinary speed.
At this time, the Japanese were already crazy, the aircraft carrier was their last reliance, if there was no aircraft carrier to help, how could they fight with the Chinese, so they did their best to protect the aircraft carrier, so all the firepower was aimed at these aircraft, and soon two planes were blown up in the air.
However, the range of anti-aircraft fire is limited after all, in fact, the best way to deal with suicide planes is to use aircraft to intercept them, but Japan's air power is insufficient, and China did not guess that this method would be adopted.
According to common sense, there are only two ways for the Chinese Air Force to attack Japan, one is to use aircraft carriers, and the other is to occupy the southern part of Korea, and now the aircraft carrier is still in Okinawa, and the southern part of Korea is also in the hands of the Japanese, so Japan would never have thought that Chinese planes would attack them.
It was this negligence that made the Japanese pay a heavy price, among the remaining Liu family suicide planes, two went to attack the Fengxiang light aircraft carrier, and the other four planes focused their attention on the large aircraft carrier Akagi, the Japanese have regarded this aircraft carrier as the lifeblood, and they will never give up easily, so all the artillery on the aircraft carrier also fired, hoping to shoot down these planes.
However, the distance was too close to be almost irretrievable, and two more planes were shot down as they approached the Akagi, one of which hit the bow of the Akagi, blowing up a hole several meters in size, but this was not the most fatal injury, and the other plane crashed directly into the aircraft carrier's elevator.
This is terrible, there are many differences between aircraft carriers in this era and aircraft carriers in later generations, among which the elevator is a major aspect, almost all aircraft carriers put the elevator in the middle of the deck, which has the advantage of being able to avoid the impact of wind and waves, and it is easier to load ammunition and fuel.
But there is also a fatal flaw. That is, the risk factor is greatly increased. The interior of the aircraft carrier can be reached directly through the elevator, and the bottom of the elevator is usually a hangar, and for easy reloading, there will be fuel oil and bomb torpedoes nearby, if a bomb is dropped from here, it will produce an astonishing detonation and destroy the entire aircraft carrier.
In the midst of the Battle of Midway. The Japanese aircraft carrier was sunk by the Americans for this reason, and now a suicide plane crashed directly into the elevator and instantly fell to the bottom of the Akagi, and the planes in the hangar, fuel and bombs exploded together.
The middle of the huge Akagi suddenly erupted with fireballs of hundreds of meters, and the entire warship quickly broke apart. At this time, the Fengxiang light aircraft carrier was also hit by a plane on the deck, most of the parked planes were destroyed, and soon there was a fire.
Twenty suicide planes had completed all their missions, but the losses inflicted on the Japanese were far from over, the Akagi was completely destroyed, the Fengxiang was seriously damaged, and the only two Japanese aircraft carriers were completely incapacitated.
The Fengxiang may still be usable after repairs, but the Kaga is completely useless. And that's not even the worst. The most fatal thing is the loss of talent, maneuvering aircraft carriers. Flying planes requires rigorous training, these are high-tech arms, and the Japanese have now suffered heavy losses, with the sinking of the Akagi, more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers have lost their lives.
This is already the last group of elites at sea in Japan, they are all dead, Japan is trying to develop aircraft carriers, and it will not be able to get it up at all without three or five years, this is completely like starting from scratch.
China has arranged a large number of intelligence officers, after learning that the attack was successful, the news was sent to Beijing, Qiao Yu saw the news, and immediately showed a heartfelt smile on his face, this time Japan even if it has the ability of Sun Monkey, it will not be able to turn the sky, China's victory has been decided.
However, the Chinese side will not admit to launching a suicide attack, and Kim Koo will take on this glorious mission, and Kim Koo, in his capacity as the president of the Republic of Korea, immediately announced to the world that the heroic South Korean Air Force warriors had severely damaged the Japanese Kure Harbor base and sunk two Japanese aircraft carriers, and the Republic of Korea would launch a series of fierce attacks until Japan was completely wiped out from the world!
The stick has not been able to change the problem of opening the river, but Qiao Yu has no time to deal with him, the Chinese side needs to start planning for the post-war, a very important aspect is how much land will be obtained, and how much compensation will be paid.
At this time, Zhang Taiyan, who was in charge of condolences in Shanghai, hurriedly returned to Beijing, and Wei Ruolan, the governor of the central bank, also came with him to meet Qiao Yu.
After the meeting, Zhang Taiyan's face was very unpleasant, "President, after I arrived in Shanghai, I began to count the losses, but I found that many losses are not counted on the heads of the Chinese, even if we want the compensation back, we have to hand it over to the Western powers, you tell me what to do!" ”
Zhang Taiyan's anger is justified, now most of the city of Shanghai has been destroyed, the loss of wealth is amazing, this is Japan must compensate, but after Zhang Taiyan understands, he was suddenly surprised, it turns out that the owner of a lot of wealth lost in Shanghai is not Chinese, but Western powers!
At the beginning, with the help of various unequal treaties, they invested in building houses and buying land in China, most of the famous Shili foreign market in Shanghai were built by foreigners, these are their private property, and the ownership rights are in the hands of these foreigners, most of the Chinese merchants and people are rented, and the situation of factories is similar, many machinery and equipment, and factories are owned by foreign powers
Although China has abolished all unequal treaties and recovered the official property of many great powers on the surface, more private wealth is still in the hands of the great powers, of course, these wealth are not controlled by the government, most of them are Western consortium forces, they rely on the privileges of the past, with a seemingly fair way of buying and selling, the core wealth of Chinese society is in their own hands, that is, even if China now proposes compensation to Japan, most of the private compensation funds obtained will fall into the hands of these Western consortiums! (To be continued.) )