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Five o'clock in the afternoon.

One hundred and fifty kilometers southwest of the Naval Resistance Army's fleet, a huge fleet was rushing towards the Naval Resistance Army.

Rear Admiral Keno Kurita, Commander of the Japanese Naval Fleet.

This was a Japanese naval commander that Li Guang had never heard of in later generations. Li Guang is not a military fan, he knows very little about the Japanese navy in World War II, and the only generals he knows are Yamamoto Isoroku, Nagumo Tadaichi, Yamaguchi Tarumon, Ozawa Jizaburo and so on.

So Li Guang hasn't heard of it, does it mean that this guy is a nobody? Definitely not.

This 51-year-old Japanese naval commander is a graduate of the Japanese Naval Academy (38th term). After graduating from military school, he was the longest-serving commander of the Japanese Navy, serving as the captain of 11 destroyers, 3 commanders of the destroyer fleet, 3 commanders of the mine warfare team, and the chief teacher of the mine school. He had a lot of experience in torpedo warfare, served at sea all the year round, didn't have time to go to the Naval University to gild, never stayed on land except for illness, and was an authentic "fleet faction" old oilman who had no experience in working in the government.

Don't look at it now, he is only a rear admiral, but his qualifications are deeper than those of the "rising stars" in the Japanese Navy, Yamaguchi Tabun and Ozawa Jizaburo. At this time, Kurita Keno was only the commander of the 7th Sentai of the 2nd Fleet of the Japanese Navy, and also served as the captain of the Mogami heavy cruiser. It is equivalent to the brigade commander level of the Japanese Army.

The Japanese Navy dispatched not a small number of sorties, not only one heavy cruiser squadron (equivalent to the brigade level of the Japanese Army) - four heavy cruisers, but also one aircraft carrier and two battleships, as well as three destroyer squadrons (mine squadrons). Equivalent to the wing level of the Japanese Army) a supply fleet consisting of twelve destroyers and six supply ships.

If you know the composition of this fleet, you will have a question, how did such a large mobile fleet send a rear admiral?

This matter should start with the former staff officer of the Combined Fleet, Kuroshima Kameto, who formulated a battle plan for Yamamoto Isoroku.

The plan made by the Kuroshima Kameto for the first time was unceremoniously rejected by Yamamoto Isoroku. There is only one reason - the fleet is too large. The Black Island Turtle Man actually sent a battleship squadron and an aircraft carrier squadron, plus a miscellaneous escort destroyer, which amounted to more than thirty warships and twenty supply ships.

If it really follows the plan of the Black Island Turtle People, it will be difficult for the Maritime Resistance Army to resist no matter what. I'm afraid that even the main forces of the British Far East Fleet in Singapore are no match for them. However, Yamamoto Isoroku, out of a certain "pride" mentality, was only allowed to send twelve warships.

The reason is very simple, the Naval Resistance Force has one battleship, two pickup destroyers, one each for Baxia and Jair, plus a seaplane carrier PC for a total of six. In Yamamoto's opinion, sending twice as many troops would be enough, and if twice the number of troops could not destroy the Naval Resistance Army, then Japan would no longer want to challenge the powerful U.S. Navy.

However, this is not so easy to do. It's not that the battle plan is not easy to formulate, but the Kuroshima Kameto has just changed from a smelly dung character to a fragrant dumpling--- and many officers in the Japanese Navy are looking for him to go through the back door to drink flower wine or something, and they have asked to go to war.

Kuroshima Kameto was worthy of being a "genius" valued by Yamamoto Isoroku, and after negotiation and concessions, he quickly formulated a battle plan for the fleet with twelve warships as the mainstay.

However, this plan was inserted by Ryunosuke Kusaka. Rear Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka is also highly regarded by Yamamoto Isoroku, but he is not a staff officer of the Combined Fleet, but the chief of staff of the First Air Fleet, and his voice is not as important as the former staff officer of Kuroshima Kameto. But recently, Kusaka Ryunosuke has been in the limelight, and the right to speak is going crazy.

The reason for this is that in order to launch an attack on the naval forces, the Japanese navy is trying to solve the problem of supplying the naval fleet for long-distance attacks. And Kusaka Ryunosuke solved the problem of refueling at sea, which the Japanese Navy had been a headache for.

In the Japanese Navy, refueling at sea was generally carried out by oil tankers in front and battleships in the rear. The two ships were connected using steel cables and then refueled by an oil pipeline. Refueling in this way, let alone refueling in the wind and waves, even refueling on the calm sea is a very difficult thing, and if you are not careful, the ship will be destroyed and people will die.

Kusaka Ryunosuke has a lot of reverse thinking, and he came up with an idea, "It's all mothers who hold their children to breastfeed, can the children hold their mothers to breastfeed?"

To put it bluntly, it's very simple, it's the battleship dragging the oil tanker for refueling. But this small change was a great success, and it worked well after testing. (Historically, Japan solved this problem in October of '41 in order to attack Pearl Harbor, but this is brought forward.) ）

In the plan of the Black Island Turtle Man, it was supposed to be two battleships and four heavy cruisers as the main combat power. Ryunosuke Kusaka's voice is going crazy, he is from the air fleet, so he naturally wants to speak for the air force, so he added an aircraft carrier. However, due to the internal struggle for power and profit, the aircraft carrier used was not the main aircraft carrier of the First Air Force, but the Fengxiang, the self-owned aircraft carrier of the First Fleet.

According to intelligence, although the Maritime Resistance Force has one seaplane carrier, it has only twelve seaplanes. According to the battle plan of the Black Island Turtle People, this item is not weaker than the Maritime Resistance Army. After all, both battleships and heavy cruisers were equipped with at least three seaplanes.

Kusaka Ryunosuke was in the limelight, and Yamamoto Fifty-six didn't want to hit the confidence of Aisho, so he approved Kusaka Ryunosuke's idea.

As a result, the total number of twelve battleships will change. As a result, the First Fleet of the Japanese Navy dispatched one aircraft carrier, the Hosho, and two battleships, Hiei and Kirishima. The Second Fleet dispatched four heavy cruisers and six destroyers. A total of thirteen battleships.

Such a change undoubtedly increased the combat capability of the fleet. However, since the battleships belonged to the First Fleet, the aircraft carrier Fengxiang also belonged to the First Fleet. Although Yamamoto Isoroku himself was also the commander of the First Fleet, he was able to suppress everyone's dissenting opinions. But there is always an opinion from the people below -- the battleships of our First Fleet escort destroyers should be sent out of the First Fleet. The implication is that the Second Fleet escorts them and they are not at ease.

Come on, Kuroshima Kameto is not General Yamamoto, and he can't afford to mess with the bigwigs, so he has to change it again.

As a result, the First Fleet:

One aircraft carrier, two battleships, one 27th destroyer group (Ariake, Sunset, Shiyu, Hakuro) - four destroyers. (Note: There is a famous ship here, Shi Yu.) ）

Second Fleet:

The 7th Sentai (Mogami, Mikuma, Suzuya, Kumano) four heavy cruisers,

The 16th Destroyer Group (Chufeng, Xuefeng, Shijinfeng, Tianjinfeng) four destroyers. (Note that there is also a famous ship here - Yukikaze.) ）

This was already beyond the size of the twelve battleships set by Yamamoto Isoroku, but there was no way, the Second Fleet said that it would send four destroyers. In any respect, four heavy cruisers with four destroyers were not enough, it was already compressed to the point that it could not be compressed any longer.

In this way, the fleet is fifteen battleships. And that's not even counting, the Black Island Turtle Man also added a submarine team - four submarines. No one has an opinion on this, because the status of submarines in the Japanese Navy is not high, and there are fleet factions and aviation factions in the Japanese fleet, but there are no submarine factions. It can be seen that the status of submarines in the Japanese Navy is simply put, no one in the Japanese Navy regards submarines as warships.

A problem can be seen from a series of changes in the combat plan of the Japanese Navy. That is, the officers of the Japanese Navy did not avoid the war but demanded an active war, and each unit was desperately trying to stuff its own people into this mobile force. This shows how strong the atmosphere of war-seeking is in the Japanese Navy. The Japanese Navy, especially the middle and lower ranks, had gone mad, and these were the signs of Japan's demise.

However, at this time, it was difficult to maximize the combat effectiveness of this fleet, and only eight destroyers escorted the seven capital ships. How strange is this structural proportions.

In fact, the fleet already had nineteen warships, six supply ships. The scale is so large that it is still beyond Yamamoto Fifty-six's original intention, but Yamamoto belongs to the kind of official who is good at uniting all forces, so he pushed the boat with the flow. The general arranged by Yamamoto Isoroku is also suitable - Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondo, commander of the Second Fleet.

However, when the Japanese fleet assembled in Sanya, Hainan Island, the commander of the Fifth Fleet, Takasu Shiro, in order to repay Kondo Nobutake's support, in order to ask Kondo Nobutake to avenge the Fifth Fleet, the hospitality was really good.

In this way, Kondo Nobutake was really unable to participate in the war, and after consulting Yamamoto Isoroku, Kondo appointed his close subordinate Keno Kurita as the commander of the fleet. That's why Keno Kurita served as the commander of this fleet with a rear admiral.

In his first contact with the Navy, Kurita was satisfied with the process.

First, the Japanese submarine was discovered by the seaplanes of the Naval Resistance Army. However, accurate information was sent back. After the water reconnaissance aircraft of the Maritime Resistance Army opened fire, they were not able to sink the submarine.

Kurita Keno was not satisfied with this, he was more satisfied: at that time, he did not hesitate to send the fighters on the Fengxiang aircraft carrier. Immediately, the Japanese fighters not only shot down a maritime reconnaissance plane of the Maritime Resistance Army, but also discovered two destroyers of the Maritime Resistance Army on the sea surface (Baxia and Jairus. ）

However, Kurita Keno was very dissatisfied with the results of the Japanese fighters, and although he shot down a water fighter, he also lost a fighter. And not a single destroyer was sunk yet. This result can hardly be satisfied with Kurita Keno of the giant ship artillery faction.

At this moment, the water reconnaissance plane came with news that it was discovered that the main fleet of the Naval Resistance Army had one battleship and two destroyers. The fleet (no PC was found) is fleeing to the northwest.

Kurita was overjoyed, and after the two armies came into contact, almost every step was in a direction favorable to the Japanese army.

"Hee-hee, the people of China are going to run, hahaha." Kurita burst out laughing.

Immediately order the main fleet to adjust its course and intercept the main force of the naval resistance army.

The Great Japanese Navy has an aircraft carrier, and although Kurita Keno himself is a fanatic of giant ship artillery, he will not ignore his combat effectiveness.

Regarding the Japanese army's Fengxiang aircraft carrier arrangement, Kurita Keno did not omit it. He was ready to send all the fighters on the aircraft carrier to deal with the two destroyers of the Maritime Resistance Army that had been discovered. Although Kurita Keno is extremely skeptical about the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier, he must have no problem dealing with the two destroyers with all his might.

Soon Kurita ordered the aircraft carrier fighter of the Fengxiang to take off and launch an attack on the two destroyers of the Navy, and continued to reconnoiter the main fleet of the Navy and Air Force. Note that Kurita's order was reconnaissance.

Kurita Keno's idea was that the aircraft carrier Fengxiang only needed to kill two destroyers, and it would be better if it could be accompanied by the main fleet that could reconnoiter the other side. He did not expect the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier to really sink the battleships of the sea resistance army.

The battle plan of the Black Island Turtle People is quite tight. His original idea was to flank the Naval Resistance Army from the south and west on the route of the Naval Resistance Army's return.

To the south, the Japanese deployed one aircraft carrier, as well as two destroyers.

The main fleet was preparing for a decisive battle on the sea to the west after the fighters weakened the strength of the naval resistance army.

The most ideal, of course, is for the Naval Resistance Army to collide headlong, and the Japanese aircraft carriers and warships will work together to encircle and annihilate the Naval Resistance Fleet.

There was nothing wrong with this battle plan. However, Li Guang had his own considerations, and immediately retreated after discovering that his opponent was very strong.

As for the voluntary withdrawal of the naval resistance fleet to the north, Kurita Keno, as a Japanese naval officer who has lived at sea for decades, is not unexpected.

If you run, I will chase, the Great Japanese Navy destroyed the Beiyang of the Qing Dynasty in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, the Russo-Japanese War destroyed the Russian Tsar, and the war of aggression against China easily destroyed the Chinese Navy. At present, such a small overseas fleet is like a thief constantly provoking and harassing the Imperial Japanese Army, which is simply too insulting to the powerful Imperial Japanese Navy.

Kurita Keno, or the Black Island Kameto, never thought that the Maritime Resistance Army had fighter jets. In the previous intelligence collection of the Japanese army, the Naval Resistance Army had seaplanes and transport planes, but it was never found that there were fighters, and of course there were no aircraft carriers. (Fighters have been in Yemen since they arrived in the Indian Ocean and did not appear at all in the port of Don.) ）

As for the retreat of the Navy and Air Force, Kurita Keno understood that the opponent wanted to escape into the Gulf of Aden and count on the British Navy to come and encircle and annihilate the Japanese Navy.

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