Chapter Seventy-Nine: Confrontation
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On November 13, 1938, the German escort fleet and the combined fleet of small Japan met in the sea off Hainan Island, near Thitu Island, Hainan Island is more than 650 kilometers away from Thitu Island, and the range of the JU87 is just enough, this situation soon reached Catherine, after all, Catherine has been the commander of the Air Force for many years, and hurriedly ordered fifty B-29 strategic bombers to take off urgently to support, and at the same time ordered the JU87 bombers on Hainan Island to urgently remove machine guns and ammunition, carrying auxiliary fuel tanks and two 500 kg bombs, so that the range of the Ju87 has increased by 360 km, and it is fully capable of supporting its own fleet.
Little Japan has only two airfields in Taiwan, one in Taipei, one in Taichung, and one in Taichung, and the straight-line distance from Taichung to Thitu Island is more than 1,300 kilometers, which means that it is very difficult for little Japan's shore-based planes to support their own fleet near Thitu Island.
And the range of Germany's BF109 is also tragic, and the combat radius is more than 500 kilometers, so Germany has no air superiority, but there is no disadvantage, Germany has one aircraft carrier, as well as a hundred strategic bombers and hundreds of ju87 dive bombers, while small Japan has six aircraft carriers, which can only be said to have advantages and disadvantages on both sides.
The command room of the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, the combat command room on this aircraft carrier is quite huge, a full 200 square meters, but not an inch is redundant, the entire command room is divided into several blocks, there are telecommunications offices, logistics offices, staff offices, and so on more than 10 departments are working in more than 200 square meters, there can be no superfluous space, even the sand table is placed in an inconspicuous corner, several main commanders are gathered in front of the sand table, and the commander-in-chief of the exercise, Raeder, holds the baton, Pointing to the sand table, he quickly explained his tactical arrangement.
"Generals, the advantages and disadvantages of both the enemy and the enemy should be very clear, now that the Japanese Combined Fleet is a hundred nautical miles away from us, and our vigilance submarines have discovered their exact location, I intend to arrange it this way.
First, our convoy immediately moved to the left, sticking to the coast of Vietnam, so as to minimize the chances of our convoy being attacked by the enemy.
The second sent an advance fleet to meet it, including two battle cruisers, four destroyers, and twenty-four submarines.
Third, after sending 12 submarines to outflank them, the remaining submarines, destroyers, and aircraft carriers constitute the main body of escort.
This is the arrangement of our navy, now let's talk about the arrangement of the air force, our air force in China has a total of more than 800 aircraft in two air divisions, plus 100 B-29 strategic bombers, our current location is near Thitu Island in the South China Sea, more than 650 kilometers away from our Hainan airport in a straight line, so our fighter BF109 has no way to support us, only B-29 and JU87 two aircraft can support us, but both aircraft are bombers, Flying over us is of little use.
So I have named Marshal Kesselring to send a large number of B-29s and JU87s to fly directly to the vicinity of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the Japanese Combined Fleet is more than 500 kilometers away from the airfield on Hainan Island, if we let the BF109 add an auxiliary fuel tank and reduce the base ammunition by half, it can completely fly over the Japanese Combined Fleet and stay in flight for 20 minutes, and these stranded BF109s will provide cover for our bombers.
The B-29 flew at high altitude and high speed, and as long as the enemy dared to fire the first shot, it would immediately carry out carpet bombing on the Japanese Combined Fleet, and this kind of carpet bombing would be very powerful, and countless bombs would fall from the sky, and there would be no way for your Japanese fleet to evade it, as long as it was within the B-29 bombing group, it was basically impossible to escape. There is also the precision dive bombing of the ju87, and those who are wounded and dropped out of their singles are the same fate as those who died at the bottom of the sea.
Even if little Japan had six aircraft carriers and more than 300 planes, excluding torpedo planes, there would not be more than 150 fighters, while a German air division in Hainan had more than 400 planes and more than 200 fighters.
The other is that the navy cannot reveal the position of its own fleet, and the combined fleet of small Japan has long been exposed to the eyelids of German aircraft, and German planes can attack their fleet and aircraft carriers at any time.
The Japanese combined fleet continued to move closer, while the German fleet moved closer to Hainan Island at full speed, and three hours later the two sides appeared in their respective telescopes, and both sides could see each other with their telescopes, indicating that the distance was already within 10 kilometers, and all the fighters of both sides took off and cruised around their own fleetsThe Japanese Navy withdrew from the stage of history.
Will such a battle be fought in three books, five or six? Of course it will not fight, the little resources and military spending of small Japan dare to gamble on the navy, which is related to the national fortunes of the entire Japan, and it is absolutely unlikely, and it is even more impossible for the shrewd Yamamoto Fifty-six to do such a stupid thing.
Zhang Jun and several generals of the general headquarters all went out of the command room, came to the observation deck, picked up the telescope in their hands to observe the situation and scale of the Japanese navy, and Yamamoto 56 was also observing the German fleet in the same way, Germany was lamenting the huge Japanese navy, and Yamamoto 56 was lamenting Germany's advanced shipbuilding technology.
The fleets of the two sides are gradually moving away, Yamamoto Fifty-six this time with a huge combined fleet to demonstrate in front of the Germans, intuitively in front of the German Navy to show the strength of the Japanese Navy, which made Zhang Jun feel powerful, in fact, Zhang Jun very much hopes that Little Japan will recklessly come to the German Navy a few times, so that Germany and Little Japan become complete enemies, in addition to the First World War, Little Japan snatched the hatred of Qingdao Port from Germany, if that is the case, Germany and Japan have no hope of forming an alliance. It's a pity that little Japan didn't fight at all, and completely regarded the German fleet as transparent, lined up in columns, hung with colorful flags, and sounded a greeting whistle signal, and Zhang Junjian couldn't do anything about it.
In fact, Yamamoto Fifty-six has more insidious intentions, originally the Germans have always looked down on small Japan, but now the Germans have intuitively seen Japan's powerful naval power, six aircraft carriers plus 100 large warships, this strength can be said to be the second in the world, and what is Germany lacking? - Navy. In the future, once Germany goes to war, it will certainly face a blockade by various powers, and it will be difficult to break this blockade with the strength of the German navy alone, and in order to solve this dilemma, it can only form alliances.
"The Japanese Combined Fleet is very strong, and it would be nice if we had such strength."
"We don't have the strength, but we can form an alliance with Japan!"
Zhang Jun's worst fear still happened, Zhang Jun did not refute it out loud, but used the peripheral vision of his eyes to observe the person he was talking to, first of all, he had to hide himself well, so that he could know what others were thinking. The person who said this was the former director of the Military Intelligence Bureau: William Canaris (Admiral), whose current position is the commander-in-chief of the German High Seas Fleet, this high seas fleet is basically the soul of the German Navy, concentrating the vast majority of the capital ships of the German Navy, and now this person who will betray the great Führer in later generations has begun to come out to block himself, how could Zhang Jun let him go, last time Zhang Jun just let him lose the position of director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, but he didn't expect this bastard to be mixed with the position of commander of the High Seas Fleet.
"General William Canaris, of course your suggestion is good, but let the Führer deal with these diplomatic matters, and we, the generals, can just fight a good war."
Marshal Raeder spoke very tactfully of his opinion, knowing that William Canaris was not amused, but continued;
"No, no, marshal, we can give the Führer advice! Let the Führer not make strategic mistakes, and if it doesn't work, let's join forces to give advice to the Führer, wouldn't that be more successful? ”
It seems that this bastard is deliberately trying to find an alliance with the Japanese, and he is also planning to pull in the naval marshal Raeder, but Zhang Jun is still quiet and continues to use his telescope to watch the distant Japanese Combined Fleet. But Zhang Jun's heart was surging, "You wait, Lao Tzu doesn't believe in killing you, bastard......"
"Hehe, honorable General William Canaris, now that the crisis has passed, why don't we go have a drink and everyone celebrate."
Zhang Jun smiled and proposed to William Canaris kindly:
"Oh, does General Zhang want a drink too? Then let's go and celebrate with a drink, why don't we all go together, generals. ”
Zhang Jun's proposal to go for a drink was of course just to interrupt the rhetoric of William Canaris, a later traitor, and to prevent more senior German generals from having the same ideas as him, if that would be really unfavorable to Zhang Jun's strategic layout, small Japan will definitely go south for its own interests and resources, and when little Japan goes south, it is when the United States enters the war, and the United States can still have Germany's good once it enters the war, so it is necessary to avoid the idea of an alliance with small Japan at the top of Germany, which is harmful to an alliance with small Japan, Zhang Jun planned to write a detailed report to the Führer as soon as he returned to Germany, and at the same time distribute the report to all the senior generals, so that they could more widely understand the great crisis of Germany's alliance with Little Japan.
This report must not be delayed, it must comprehensively and profoundly reveal the essence of small Japan's foreign strength and middle cadres, Zhang Jun has already made a good draft in his heart, and can point out the essence of small Japan's congenital disabilities from the aspects of small Japan's land area, population resources, domestic resources, and so on.
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