Relying on many years of experience in antisubmarine warfare and advanced antisubmarine equipment, the Imperial Chinese Navy dealt heavy losses to the submarine force that had no actual combat experience and sank 143 submarines of the Benyi 1 to Iraq 6 types, basically eliminating the threat posed by the submarine fleet to the ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy in the West China Sea.

At the same time, the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy blockaded the entire Yueben Islands, sinking and damaging more than 100 warships of the Yueben Navy's coastal defenses.

At dawn on 18 October, more than 400 H1N1 bombers assembled by the Imperial Chinese Air Force in Ulsan, Busan, and Gimhae, the southernmost tip of the Korean Peninsula, formed a huge bomber group to carry out saturation bombing of Sasebo Naval Base, the largest naval base in the West Sea, in Nagasaki.

Hundreds of tons of white phosphorus bombs, gasoline bombs, and aerial bombs fell, destroying military ships moored at the wharf of the Sasebo Naval Base, destroying military barracks, batteries, granaries, ammunition depots, armories, fuel depots, coal depots, shipyards, and other key military facilities and targets on the shore, causing a sea of fire in the base, and killing more than 30,000 military combatants and service personnel in the first round of bombing.

During the bombing, the Samoto shipyards in Sasebo and Nagasaki were bombed, the Nagato-class battleships No. 1 and No. 2 were blown up, and the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard was completely destroyed.

In the following days, the Chinese Imperial Air Force, the Army Air Force assembled in Pusan and Ulsan, and the Navy's aircraft carrier battle group flew 30,000 bomber sorties one after another, completely destroying the Sasebo Naval Base.

On the morning of 21 October, due to foggy weather in the Nagasaki and Sasebo areas, the Vladivostok Air Wing, which was carrying out bombing missions, dropped 200 tons of white phosphorus bombs, gasoline bombs, and aerial bombs into Nagasaki City, causing the destruction of one-third of the houses in Nagasaki City, more than 100,000 civilian casualties, and more than 500,000 homelessness.

This move was strongly protested by the political axe, and the Chinese Imperial Air Force sued the International Court of Justice in The Hague and asked for the solidarity of the international community. However, the representatives of the Hague International did not have time to deal with the story, and hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed and wounded every day in the European theater, and the Entente and Central Powers accused each other of slaughtering innocent civilians, and they had no time to care about their own lives or deaths. Even the United States has only condemned it in two sentences and continues to pursue a policy of appeasement, hoping that the Chinese Empire will focus its energies on the foundation and not at the United States. However, most of the American people are concerned about the European battlefield with their origins, and their attention to the book has also been deliberately suppressed by the American political axe for political purposes.

The international representative of the Chinese Empire in The Hague held a press conference for international journalists, saying that the incident was purely an accident and that the people of the People's Republic of China should have the consciousness of sacrificing their lives in the war, and that if they had surrendered one day earlier, there would have been no such casualties.

The unexpected bombing of the city of Nagasaki achieved results that satisfied the Supreme High Command of the Chinese Empire. The international community's indifference to the book has made the whole country miserable. The powerful air power of the Chinese Empire made the military helpless, and the high-level officials, the military, and even the civilians in the country fell into a great panic.

In order to gain the superiority of psychological warfare against the Chinese Empire, the General Staff Headquarters in its subsequent operational instructions often had "accidents" with the bomber groups of the navy, army, and air force, and dropped a large number of aerial bombs on the urban areas of Nagasaki, Hirado, Tangchi, Fukuoka, and Kumamoto, causing huge economic losses of hundreds of millions of yuan in these cities, and the bombing of thousands of residential houses, factories, schools, hospitals, and political axe organs, and hundreds of thousands of casualties. Millions of people have been left homeless.

Coupled with the blockade of the islands by the Imperial Chinese Navy, the war has made it impossible for the company to receive supplies from abroad, and domestic prices have risen wildly.

A week later, the sea forces around the West Sea were completely removed. Without the threat from the sea, the aircraft carrier battle group of the Imperial Chinese Navy could also be completely active. The Imperial Army Expeditionary Force also began to prepare for a landing operation on the island of Kyushu, and all troop carriers and landing ships sailed out of Ulsan, Pusan, and Kim Hae Harbor one after another.

Although the combined fleet of the Chinese Navy was completely destroyed and the sea control was lost, there was no way to deal with the landing fleet of the Chinese Empire. However, the army was still stubborn and would not easily let the Imperial Chinese Army complete the landing, so a large number of coastal fortifications were deployed around Kyushu Island in an attempt to prevent the landing of the Chinese Emperor.

In order to land in Kyushu, it is necessary to occupy the Fukue Islands and Tsushima Islands, the gateways to the west coast of Kyushu.

As early as 1884, when he intended to occupy the Korean Peninsula, he built advance bases and material supply bases on the Fukue Islands and Tsushima Islands as a springboard from the mainland to the Korean Peninsula.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, the Korean Peninsula was ceded to Russia, but as a defense against Russia, the army built fortifications on the Fukue Islands and Tsushima Islands.

At first, the army did not attach much importance to the Fukue Islands, and there were not many garrison troops. After the Sino-Russian War, the strength of the Chinese Empire aroused the vigilance of the army, and immediately began to mobilize personnel and materials to the islands and vigorously build fortifications.

After the Sino-British War, he further sensed the great threat of the Chinese Empire and further strengthened the defense of the islands. In July 1912, Rear Admiral Keiji Shibasaki, commander of the 3rd Patrol District of the 4th Fleet, was appointed to the island to take unified command of the defense of the islands. Shibasaki built fortifications and organized defense with the main mountain range of Tsushima Island and Koshika Island in the Fukue Islands as the main mountain range, and the garrison was able to significantly improve its ability to resist landing.

At Lost Mountain, the garrison includes about 4,600 engineering troops, of which the main force is the elite unit of the Marine Corps, which has a very strong combat effectiveness. Armed with 203 mm, 140 mm, 80 mm guns. Shibasaki adopted a beachhead defense, placing barriers, barbed wire, and fences on the beach, and the fortifications were covered with trees and coral sand, and some were reinforced with concrete and steel plates. All artillery bunkers were covered with steel plates and thick coral sandstone, which could only be destroyed by a direct hit of a time-delay fuse shell fired from a 406-mm heavy gun.

After fifteen months of construction, the fortifications on the whole island formed a complete defense system, so Shibasaki boasted that "even a million people would not be able to conquer Mt. Lost in 100 years."

Ojikajima's defenses were relatively weak, including engineering units and base service personnel, totaling about 690 people, of whom very few had received formal combat training, only about 240. At the beginning of the fortification of the Ukushima army, when the Chinese Empire launched a war, there was only a naval Guantong station, and the garrison strength was only 25 people.

Although the ground fortifications of the army were complete, the naval and air forces were almost non-existent. There is not a single warship in the entire archipelago, and the aviation has only four seaplanes.

The Chinese Emperor [***] The unit that participated in the landing operation on Kyushu Island was the First Task Force under the command of Vice Admiral Yang Yonglin, and about 230 ships of various kinds were put into operation, including 27 air carriers, 22 battleships, 44 cruisers, 98 destroyers, 57 large landing ships, and 7 naval hospital ships. There are about 1,300 combat aircraft, including 920 carrier-based aircraft such as Cat Demon, Flying Eagle and Pterodactyl, and about 700 H1N1 "avian flu" bombers among shore-based aircraft. The 2nd Marine Division and the 27th Infantry Division of the Army were transferred to Task Force 1 and were prepared for the Fukue Islands landing operation. Two Marine Corps garrison battalions and one Army garrison battalion were also transferred to Task Force 1 to prepare for garrison duty after the capture of the islands. The above-mentioned ground combat forces were organized into the 5th Amphibious Army, which was formed by Horan? Major General Ren Yongqing served as the commander of the army, and they were assembled in Ulsan, Busan, Gimhae and other places to prepare for war.

The units participating in the battle were under the unified command of Yang Yonglin, commander of the First Task Force, and the aircraft carrier battle group was responsible for suppressing the reconnaissance planes of the Syrian army on the islands near the Fujiang Islands, so as to ensure the smooth implementation of the landing on the Fujiang Islands and not be discovered by the reconnaissance planes, and to be ready to cover the landing force at any time to bomb and suppress the fortifications of the Japanese army. The 27th Infantry Division, the ground combat unit responsible for the landing on Ojika Island, and the 2nd Marine Division, the ground combat unit responsible for the landing on Mt. Setright, will be supported by carrier-based aircraft from the carrier battle group.

In addition, the shore-based air force formed an air wing to provide air cover for the landing force's sea crossing, and was also responsible for striking and blocking the troops on Kyushu Island that might support the Fukue Islands.

Considering that hundreds of ships will continue to fight for several weeks at sea far from the home base, the Imperial Chinese Navy has set up a service fleet to serve the combat fleet, as a floating supply base, also commanded by Vice Admiral Yang Yonglin, this fleet has more than 20 auxiliary vessels including oil tankers, supply ships, repair ships, tugboats, floating docks, etc., so that all kinds of combat ships can get urgently needed supplies and repair and maintenance in areas close to the combat sea area.

From the beginning of 1913, the Chinese Emperor [***] had already begun intense pre-war preparations. First, through the Koreans who lived in the Fugang Islands, you can learn about the hydrology, tides, and topography. The submarine departing from the Ulsan Naval Base used a periscope-mounted camera to conduct a photographic reconnaissance of Mt. Tsushima, Ojika Island, and Ukushima Island, and photographed the coastline of the three main islands in its entirety. Through aerial reconnaissance, it was discovered that the focus of the defense of the Lost Hill was on the outside of the barrier reef, and it was decided that the fleet would sail directly into the lagoon and land on the inside of the barrier reef. But the greatest difficulty was the irregular tides and corals everywhere in Lost Mountain, because the landing craft could only land at high tide, and until the summer, when the tide was at night or dusk, the night landing could not be supported by naval guns and aircraft, and the dusk landing did not have enough time to consolidate the beachhead before nightfall. If we wait until next spring, the defense of the army will be stronger, so the Chinese Emperor [***] finally decided to make a landing on October 19, and then postponed it to the morning of the 20th, when the small tide was fixed, and because the Chinese Emperor [***] did not know the exact time of the peak of the small tide, he set the landing time at 8:30.

From the bombing of Sasebo and the anti-submarine warfare in the West Sea, the Emperor of China [***] began to prepare for the upcoming landing operation. The 1st Group of Ye Zugui's Aircraft Carrier Battle Group Task Force, with the coordination of H1N1 bombers of the shore-based air force, carried out air raids on Mt. Lost and Ojika Island on 18 and 19 October, forcing the Japanese army to leave only four seaplanes on Ojika Island and withdraw all the rest of the reconnaissance planes. In addition, in the course of resisting the air raids of the Chinese Emperor, many small-caliber artillery pieces were changed to rapid-fire guns, which posed a certain threat to the Chinese Imperial Air Force, but the Chinese Imperial Air Force did not have training in this air defense system, and the large amount of ammunition consumed could not be replenished due to the lack of supply, and in the end it failed to pose a substantial threat to the Chinese Imperial Air Force, and only one plane was damaged.

After learning of the actions of the Chinese Emperor, Rear Admiral Koga, the commander of the fleet, personally led the fleet to Nagato to prepare for the attack, but because the Chinese Imperial Navy was too powerful, he had no chance at all, so he returned to the Seto Inland Sea to cover the supply and transportation of Honshu and Shikoku to Kyushu.

As early as the 1912 military exercise of the Chinese Empire, although the Chinese Empire excluded the observers of the United States and the United States, the military strength of the Chinese Empire was still known to the Chinese Empire. Since then, the United States has adopted a policy of appeasement toward China, and the United States has actively begun to study the subject.

By June 1913, the Army Aviation Factory/Nakajima Flying Aircraft Co., Ltd. had successfully developed the Army A-3 fight/detector aircraft (the Chinese Imperial J-1A1 model of the J-1A1 model of the copycat version (illegal imitation version) of the aircraft with a crew of 1, an empty weight of 354 kg, a total weight of 544 kg, because it could not import the original BT10 aero engine from the Chinese Empire, it had to settle for the next best thing, and imported rotary star 4-cylinder air-cooled 30 horsepower from the United States, with a maximum speed of 88 kilometers per hour. Practical ceiling 1550. As the first copycat fighter in Japan, the fuselage of the aircraft is equipped with a Vickers 7.7mm machine gun with 200 rounds of ammunition.

Although it is a copycat product, it basically copies the Jian-1 fighter of the Chinese Empire in terms of technical characteristics, with typical fixed landing gear, biplanes, open cockpits, fabric-skinned aircraft, and a ratio of 5:4 to the length of the upper and lower wings.

From June to October, the Army Aviation Corps feared that they would be sanctioned by the Imperial Chinese Air Force Aviation Committee if they appeared, so they kept production secret. After China officially declared war, the army air force was no longer afraid and immediately took out this batch of fighters, and a total of 50 of them were produced, all of which were used in the anti-landing operation on the Fujiang Islands.

However, the total annihilation of the Chinese Navy could not prevent the Imperial Chinese Aircraft Carrier Battle Group from approaching the mainland, so in the face of a large number of aircraft carrier commander fighters of the Imperial Chinese Empire, the Army Aviation of the Imperial Republic of China was very careful to use these Type 3 fighters, and was generally not allowed to fight. At the same time, it is said that the aircraft factories in China are working overtime on a large scale to produce fighter planes, hoping to regain air supremacy over the country as soon as possible.

At the end of October, the 27th Infantry Division and the 2nd Marine Division of the Ground Forces, in which the Chinese Emperor [***] participated in the battle, conducted pre-battle landing exercises in Ulsan and Pusan, respectively.

From 10 to 13 November, the landing formation set off for the Fujiang Islands. The aircraft carrier battle group task force set out for assembly one after another. At the same time, the Imperial Chinese Air Force dispatched 500 H1N1 bombers to carry out air raids on the airfields of the Japanese army on the Fujiang Islands and Tsushima Islands for seven consecutive days in order to suppress the air force of the Japanese army and ensure the safety of the landing formation.

On 18 November, the Second Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, composed of the 15 th Squadron of the Sixth Fleet, including the Jinggangshan, Jiulianshan, Laoshan, Ligangshan, Lianhuashan, Lipanshan, and Longmenshan, as well as a large number of escort warships, arrived in the waters east of the Fujiang Islands one after another, and was responsible for intercepting the support of the army air force taking off from Kyushu Island and seizing air supremacy in the area near Kojiga Island. In addition, the 13th, 14th, and 16th Squadrons of the Sixth Fleet sailed to the Tsushima Strait east of Tsushima Island to intercept the aircraft of the Komoto Army Air Force taking off from Kitakyushu and cover the Army's attack on Tsushima Island.

On 19 November, carrier-based aircraft of the Sixth Squadron of the Chinese Empire aircraft carrier battle group were dispatched in a big way to carry out an all-round aviation fire attack on the Fujiang Islands.

Located at the northernmost tip of the Fukue Islands, Ojika Island consists of ten reefs, the largest of which is Ukushima. It is the main area where the military fortifications are concentrated. The army has built a seaplane base on the island.

The three battalions of the 165th Regiment and the 105th Regiment of the 27th Infantry Division of the Chinese Imperial Infantry Division were responsible for the landing operation, with a total of about 6,400 men, and compared with the defenders, they had a strength advantage of 9:1.

At 6:20 a.m. on the early morning of November 20, the carrier-based aircraft of the 15th Squadron flew to prepare for direct aviation fire. Twenty minutes later, the 1st Task Force dispatched eight Song-class battleships to begin preparations for naval gun firepower with the powerful naval gun fire support of the Song-class battleships.

"Knock knock!"

Eight Song-class battleships concentrated 96 406-mm main guns, 128 152-mm rapid-fire guns, and 256 88-mm 55-fold high-speed rapid-fire guns to carry out heavy shelling on Ojika Island.

The heavy shelling continued until 8:24, and Ojika Island was completely surrounded by gunsmoke and flames, and the Japanese army could not return fire at all, because as soon as they left the underground bunker, they were either killed or blown up by the shock wave generated by the explosion of the giant cannon, making a free fall movement.

Beginning at 8:13, shortly after the start of the shelling, the first wave of landing troops sailed to the beach. At the same time, carrier-based planes fired fiercely at low altitudes at the positions of the Japanese troops on the beach to cover the landing force to seize the beach.

At 8:32 a.m., the first wave of the landing force arrived at the landing beachhead codenamed "Red Beach" on the west coast of Ojika Island, and the carrier-based aircraft turned to attack the deep fortifications of the Japanese army. Soon, the second and third waves of the Chinese Emperor [***] arrived one after another and landed in turn. Divisional artillery of the 27th Division also landed in O-Nagasaki, south of the west coast, and immediately began to provide artillery support to the troops.

The defense of the army on the west coast was very weak, and by 10 o'clock the Chinese Emperor [***] had taken full control of the landing ground. In fact, this was a feint attack by the Emperor of China, with the aim of attracting the Yue army from the main defensive areas.

The Chinese Emperor [***] landing force transport ship sailed into the lagoon and prepared to land on the north side of Ukushima, that is, on the inner side of the lagoon. The Emperor of China [***] completed the transfer in the waters of the lagoon and, with the support of naval guns and carrier-based aircraft, rushed towards the beach one after another.

As the landing force approached the beach, it was immediately subjected to intense fire from the Japanese army's small arms.

"Call the command center, the landing beachhead on the 17th was blocked by intensive fire from the Chinese army, and our department could not advance, so we requested artillery support from the fleet."

"This is the command center, your unit is too close to the enemy's position, and the naval artillery fire cannot guarantee your safety, so you can't provide a request for the time being."

"Then give me air support!"

"Okay, the 139th squad of the 17th wing is online, and the 17th beachhead will be attacked in 3 minutes, please be ready to respond."

After receiving the order, the 6 Cat Demon ships of the 139th squad quickly turned to the No. 17 beachhead. At this time, the 3rd Company, which was responsible for the attack on the No. 17 beachhead, immediately fired a yellow smoke bomb at the position of the Japanese army to provide target guidance for the air force's low-altitude dive firing.

In the rapid roar of Weng, the six cat demon ships swooped down at an ultra-low altitude, swept over the heads of the officers and soldiers of the third company, and rushed towards the position of the army with a roar.

"Da Da Da!"

A dense burst of bullets poured on the position of the Yue army, and the soldiers of the Yue army who were caught off guard were instantly beaten into a meat sieve, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.

After three rounds of diving back and forth and strafing back and forth of the six Cat Demon ships, the firepower of the No. 17 beachhead of the Yue Army suddenly stopped, and more than 80 of the more than 80 Yue troops defending the position were killed and wounded, and more than 70 were wounded.

"Rush!"

The plane left, and the commander of the third company suddenly gave the order to charge. More than 100 soldiers of the Chinese Empire rushed to the position of the Chinese army with a roar, and easily eliminated the last few remaining soldiers.

"Fortify!"

After occupying the No. 17 position, the commander of the third company immediately ordered the fortification, and the officers and men of the whole company quickly modified the position of the Yue army to a beachhead position to cover the subsequent landing of the Chinese Emperor [***].

At 10:45 a.m., the first wave successfully rushed to the beach, but the second and third waves were unable to pass through the shallow water covered with corals, so the troops had to disembark at a distance of 270 meters from the beach and wade ashore in waist-high water. Although the landing was resisted by the Yue army, the Chinese Emperor [***] had strong air and sea fire cover, and the casualties were not large.

Emperor Zhonghua [***] originally expected that once the feint on the west coast began, the Yue army would mobilize the main force to meet the attack, so that it could form a flanking attack with the main attacking force that would land on the north coast and destroy the main force of the Yue army that had left the fortifications.

Unexpectedly, the army was unmoved, and basically did not attack, resulting in the wishful thinking of the Chinese Emperor [***] in vain. However, the landing of the Chinese Emperor [***] in both directions was successful, and he could quickly advance in depth and occupy the whole island as soon as possible.

The army units participating in the war were accustomed to advancing under the cover of artillery fire, and as soon as they encountered a blockade from the Japanese army, sometimes even just a few snipers of the Japanese army, they would stop and wait for the artillery fire to eliminate the blocking Japanese army before advancing.

The army built a large number of machine-gun fire points and permanent firing points on the island, and the advance of the Chinese Emperor [***] was met with stubborn resistance, due to the low accuracy of the naval artillery fire, it was impossible to effectively destroy the underground bunkers of the Japanese army, and the only way was to use combat vehicles and aircraft. However, the tanks did not arrive, and the War Department dragged their feet, disagreeing on whether to let the tanks go into battle.

Aircraft support was called, but fighting in the dense forest, the planes of the Chinese Empire were useless for the first time. The bombers did not dare to compliment their bomb dropping accuracy, and it didn't matter if they couldn't bomb the fortifications, and they would even injure their own people by mistake. In the entire landing battle, only more than 40 soldiers were killed or wounded, but a heavy bomb was oolong, causing dozens of casualties on its own side.

At night, the Chinese Emperor [***] on the island was constantly harassed by the infiltration and attack of the Yue army, and he was terrified and restless, and he could not be at peace all night.

On November 21, the battle of the Chinese Emperor [***] still did not improve, the air support was difficult to effectively carry out due to the mixed battle lines of the enemy and us, and the naval aviation was afraid of accidentally injuring its own people again, so many attack operations were canceled, so that the advance of the Chinese Emperor [***] was even slower. Although the commander of the 5th Amphibious Army, Major General Ren Yongqing, came to the headquarters of the 27th Division and personally supervised the battle, it was to no avail.

On November 22, the Chinese Emperor [***] advanced step by step, and the area occupied gradually expanded. After nightfall, the Yue army launched the last large-scale suicide charge, they first lit firecrackers to attract the attention of the Chinese Emperor [***], and then drove some horses, cattle and sheep to act as "shields" in front of them, rushing to the front line of the Chinese Emperor [***].

In the melee, more than 250 people were killed by the Yue army, 13 people were killed and 25 people were wounded by the Chinese Emperor [***], and the Chinese Emperor [***] finally smashed the counterattack of the Yue army. This was the last organized counterattack by the Japanese army.

At 13 o'clock on November 23, the commander of the 27th Division, Major General Ren Yongqing, announced the occupation of Kojika Island.

In the landing battle on Kojika Island, the ground forces of the Chinese Emperor [***] suffered 164 casualties and 152 wounded, and fought for three days without encountering fierce resistance from the Japanese army. The defenders of Ojika Island lost 885 men killed and 105 were captured, four of whom were American engineers.

The Chinese Emperor's [***] team has no experience in land warfare for more than 10 years, and the main reason for this clumsy performance this time is that the command is ineffective, the tactics are improper, and the whole operation drags on and falls. The 27th Division that participated in the war was on the garrison for a long time, and the middle and lower-level officers and soldiers had not experienced a real war, and the improvement of the living standards of the people of the Chinese Empire led to the fact that the soldiers were all pampered young masters, and there was no longer the end of the soldiers who were not afraid of death, tiredness, and hardship when the Chinese Empire was founded.

Therefore, although the Chinese Emperor [***] had an absolute advantage, he did not wipe out the Yue army in one fell swoop, but spent three days to occupy the island of Xiaozhihe, where the Yue army was weakly defended. Despite the victory, the army was very dissatisfied.

After this battle, Duan Qirui, Minister of War of the Chinese Empire, and Yang Yonglin, commander of the First Task Force on the front, scolded Ren Yongqing, and at the same time realized that the army of the Chinese Empire had degraded. This incident aroused great concern from the General Staff of the Chinese Empire and even His Majesty the Emperor Wang Chenhao, and the top leaders of the three armed forces immediately issued a guiding document, urging middle and high-ranking officers with actual combat experience to pay close attention to the situation of the officers and men at the grassroots level, and to be sure to preserve and carry forward the fine traditions of the Chinese Imperial Army.

(To be continued)