Chapter 232 can be thought of a little else

Private Ishihara Saburo had very good luck, or rather, the lookout post on the hill where he was located was not at all in the eyes of the Air Force and Navy heavy artillery, and it was not worth wasting bombs for such a small structure.

During the bombing, Saburo Ishihara was frightened, a private who had never been on the battlefield, on night duty alone, was frightened and hid behind the door with his head in his arms, fortunately his brain was not completely frightened, and he found that hiding in the outpost might die faster, so he immediately rushed out and hid behind the stone that he had just peed on. The view of this place is very good, and Ishihara Saburo has witnessed with his own eyes how the entire Naha military port has been reduced to ruins.

The first to be attacked was the airfield, which on Naha Island was not far from the military port, and it was visible to the naked eye that the buildings on the airfield had been set on fire in a short period of time, with smoke billowing and explosions constantly sounding. Saburo Ishihara has been cheering up the air force, hoping that they will take off in the Zero, which is known as an all-purpose fighter, and fight valiantly against the dastardly sneak attackers and destroy them. Well, in the Japanese propaganda, the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War were all wars provoked by the other side first. Japan has never engaged in such a sneak attack.

Ishihara Saburo was soon disappointed, because not a single Zero or any other plane took off, and the entire airport quickly turned into a huge fire, and the pillars of fire condensed by the raging flames rose very high, and could be seen dozens of miles away.

The airfield was bombed, and several anti-aircraft artillery positions guarding the military port became critical, and Ishihara Saburo looked at the artillery positions again, and this time he quickly heard the sound of anti-aircraft fire. The excited Ishihara Saburo hurriedly went back to get the binoculars to take a clear look, and when he saw clearly, he found that many soldiers were fighting bravely with a piece of cloth under their buttocks. I guess I didn't have time to get dressed, which is really admirable.

Ishihara Saburo's admiration soon turned into grief and indignation, the Chinese fighters actually did not stay in the sky well, dived into the anti-aircraft artillery positions to drop bombs, the few dozen guns, soon more than half of the bombs were killed, and the firepower became thin and thin. The Chinese planes did not relent, constantly diving repeatedly, and the machine guns swept around like plows. The tragic anti-aircraft fire did not shoot down a single plane. When Ishihara Saburo didn't expect it, the anti-aircraft artillery position was also one of the targets of the first wave of strikes, and there were originally more than 40 guns, but more than half of them were destroyed when they came up.

Finally, there was no movement in the artillery positions. The Chinese's plane finally flew away. But an even bigger crisis is coming. The battleship like the Chinese mountain appeared on the sea, and the sound of the giant cannon made Ishihara Saburo crack his heart, the power of this thing as a navy can be too known, how can this have more than 300 calibers, right? There are no 300-mm guns, and you are embarrassed to call them battleships? As a member of the Japanese Navy, Sisi was silently thinking about the navy that sank the Chinese battleship, how could he not see that the main guns of the battleship were firing at sea?

Saburo Ishihara immediately found a ditch to hide, and the plane did not bomb his lookout post. It does not mean that the naval guns do not hit him. The dense naval artillery fire left the whole world with only the sound of explosions, and the whole mountain trembled in the sound of explosions. Ishihara Saburo's body was also shaking desperately, praying that the cannonballs would not fall beside him.

The main target of the artillery attack was the port, and after a period of adaptation, Ishihara Saburo saw that the surrounding area still did not mean to be patronized, and mustered up the courage to climb out of the ditch, and saw that the military port under the hill was already full of smoke. The facilities on the docks were bombed in a mess, and none of the buildings were intact. Saburo Ishihara observed with a telescope and saw with his own eyes that a destroyer was unlucky enough to be hit by a shell during the shelling, and the entire battleship was directly blown up and jumped, breaking in two sections in the air. A destroyer with a displacement of less than a thousand tons, eating a shell from a 380-mm gun, this result is quite normal.

How long did the fierce shelling last, Ishihara Saburo didn't even think about it, just watched the cannons on the battery fighting back, Ishihara knew very well that there were two 155 cannons on that battery, this kind of artillery was okay with light patrols, and it was enough to fight heavy patrols. These were the only two guns that fired back during the entire shelling, and because of their relatively hidden positions, they were not detected by the aircraft attacking them.

But it was this shell that was subjected to concentrated fire from large-caliber naval guns in the process of returning fire, and in less than half an hour, thick smoke rose from the battery, and not a single shell could be fired.

The worst thing was that the ships in the harbor did not sink under the shelling, but they did not escape the last wave of air raids, and it was not too easy to bomb these small boats left in the harbor with 500 kilograms of bombs from dive bombers.

Finally, when the Chinese fleet disappeared, Ishihara Saburo, whose skin was not scratched, staggered and wanted to go down to help put out a fire or something, but found that the crotch of his pants was cold, and he was scared to pee before he didn't realize it.

The rickety Ishihara Saburo didn't care about that, and ran all the way, and when he passed a private house along the way, he saw a woman at the door, crying with the child in her arms, who had been killed in the air raid, lying in her mother's arms with a look of fear on her face.

This is not bad, but when I went inside, I saw some of the more tragic situations, the incendiary bombs that turned Tokyo into ruins were said to have turned large neighborhoods into flames, and everywhere was busy fighting fires, Ishihara Saburo saw that his commander Matsui Guncao was directing the firefighting, and hurriedly ran over and said, "Sir, it's great that you're okay." ”

Matsui was a little excited when he saw him, and then sighed sadly and said, "God is really blessed to be able to leave a life." Don't talk about this, hurry up and save people from the fire, save one and count one. ”

The memory of Matsui Juncao was a confident officer, and after the bombing first, he no longer had the optimistic confidence in the war between words and deeds, which made Ishihara Saburo deeply puzzled. Thinking about it carefully, Naha was blocked at the door and beaten up, the prospect of this war is really not optimistic.

The Combined Fleet was resting off the coast of Miyako Prefecture, and when he learned that Naha had discovered the Chinese fleet, Yamamoto Isoroku was worried that he had not slept all night. Yesterday's battle made him deeply feel that the direction of the war was not good, and after the sinking of the two aircraft carriers, Japan's ability to control the sea surface was greatly weakened. In the future, we will have to rely on shore-based aircraft from bases such as Naha and Miyako to limit China's East China Sea.

When the telegram was received, Yamamoto Isoroku had been struck by lightning, and Naha had been attacked by the Chinese fleet! Heavy losses! This news finally gave an answer to the whereabouts of the Third Fleet, which Yamamoto had been puzzled about. Relieved, his distressed brows furrowed, and a hint of bright red overflowed from the corners of his mouth. Yamamoto Fifty-six walked to the washstand with a blank face, spit out the blood in his mouth, and seemed to feel a little lighter. But with that came even more intense mental anguish!

"Since the Meiji Restoration, the empire has struggled to survive under the watchful eyes of the great powers, and finally built a navy that the great powers have never tasted defeat. Battle of Tsushima. The empire established itself as a great power, and who would have thought that the port of Naha would be attacked by the enemy. I am ashamed of the trust in the emperor! Yamamoto muttered to himself. With an anxious look on his face, the Black Island Turtle Man persuaded: "Your Excellency, the Imperial Navy cannot do without your command. ”

Yamamoto nodded: "I know, it's a difficult time for the Empire. The Navy's strategy must be adjusted. "If we talk about the sea and air war in the East China Sea. Let Yamamoto 56 understand that the superiority of the Japanese Navy is no longer there, then the attack on the Naha Military Port made Yamamoto completely sober up, the Japanese Navy can no longer continue his strategic offensive intentions, and the next thing to do is to defend. How to use the small islands in the East China Sea for defense, adopt delaying tactics and wait for the opportunity to counterattack, if luck is good, Germany wins the war in Europe first, and Japan has a chance to turn over. Or the Soviet Union knocked China down, and Japan also had a chance to turn over. Otherwise. Japan's defeat was a matter of time.

Compared with Yamamoto's vomiting blood, Fang Jianxiong had an ecstatic expression in Shanghai, and Naha's concealed and ferocious blow completely exposed the weakness of the Japanese Navy to the sight of the Chinese Navy. The navy is an offensive arm, and how much more variable can the Japanese navy, which has lost its offensive capability, bring to this war? Compared with the Japanese Navy's inability to fight again, the Chinese Navy still has seven aircraft carriers, and the next step is for the Chinese Navy to gather into a powerful fleet and move from strategic confrontation to strategic offensive.

To be honest, Fang Jianxiong couldn't believe that the defeat of the Japanese Navy came so quickly, and China is not the United States, the distance between China and Japan is too close, the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea are too small, and the Japanese Navy does not have much room for strategic detours. On the other hand, Japan's entire strategic resources depend on the import of maritime transportation, and without the protection of the navy, isn't Japan's maritime transportation line just to fight as much as it wants?

There was laughter in the war room, and the excited young staff officers jumped up, and it took a while to calm down. Chen Shaokuan's mouth couldn't be closed, and Tang Qianming pretended to be reserved and brushed his beard.

"Guys, I don't think anyone can believe that we won the war so easily." Fang Jianxiong opened his mouth like this, and everyone smiled again. "Next, let's have a meeting, right here, to discuss the strategy for the future."

In the first quarter of 1941, the European theater of the Allies was locked in bitter battles. At sea, the Bismarck, which rushed into the Atlantic, cunningly evaded the pursuit again and again, and at the same time inflicted continuous heavy damage on the entire Atlantic route. Coupled with the murderous accomplice of German submarines, the entire Atlantic route could only be temporarily interrupted in March. In Africa, the British and American armies were at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the German troops, Rommel's attacks became more urgent and fiercer each time, and the British and American troops in the Egyptian battlefield were forced to retreat 150 kilometers. In Europe, British troops were forced to withdraw from the Greek battlefield and, by extension, from the entire Mediterranean. The British and American navies pursued Bismarck with all their might, giving way to Africa in the Mediterranean.

It can be said that Britain and the United States have been deflated again and again, and the United States has been cleaned up by Japan first, and then by Germany. At this time, the US imperialists had not yet become a military power in the true sense of the word, and the combat effectiveness of its army was really not enough compared to the German veterans of a hundred battles. Even Japan is inferior, and it is conceivable that the United States is now just a rich tyrant.

When Britain and the United States were gloomy, a brilliant glow floated over China, and the Chinese and Japanese navies fought a naval and air decisive battle in the East China Sea, and in the end the two sides barely reached a draw, but the Chinese navy sent a detachment of ships to successfully carry out a devastating blow to the Naha military port.

If you open the map, it's not hard to see what the Naha Naval Port means for the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. The Japanese navy anchored there was like a knife in front of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, ready to stab at any moment. Now the knife was smashed by the Chinese and thrown into the garbage heap. With the intensity of the destruction of the Chinese navy, the Naha military port could not be restored to its original state for not a year. Not to mention that the maritime situation between China and Japan has been completely reversed, and the Chinese navy is based in Taiwan and Hainan, and if it wants to use submarines to attack Japan's transportation lines, it will use submarines, and if it wants to send its main fleet to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese navy, it can swagger and kill the Japanese navy.

At the behest of the government, the Western press reported on the results of the Sino-Japanese naval battle. According to an analysis by Wall Street and Japan, with China's industrial capacity, the Chinese Navy will add three to four 40,000-ton aircraft carriers in a maximum of 16 months, and the Japanese Navy will be in a state of no return. At the same time that the sea transportation lines are greatly restricted, the Chinese Air Force is also constantly using strategic bombing methods to attack Japan's industrial capacity. It is foreseeable that the Sino-Japanese war will eventually end in China's victory. The only concern was China's war against the Soviet Union, at a time when the Allies desperately hoped for an armistice. Once an armistice is reached, millions of Chinese elites will be able to move to the European battlefield and completely defeat the German fascists.

Such reports can be said to be the mainstream of Europe and the United States, and the weak American ** team in the early stage did disappoint the Americans to some extent.

Others don't know, but Fang Jianxiong knows very well in his heart that once the United States exerts its strength, how amazing the war potential of this country is. The first mobilization of the United States was 6 million people, and these 6 million recruits are still being trained in the barracks, and after six months at most, these recruits will be pulled into the battlefield and fight two battles, and the United States will add a lot of veterans of less than 5 million. On the battlefield, there is a world of difference between recruits and veterans, and supplemented by the strong industrial production capacity of the United States, the United States is bound to become the world's number one military power.

At this time, it is a question of how to position oneself, and we must establish a sphere of influence belonging to China before the United States exerts its strength. Before, the Japanese navy was strong, Fang Jianxiong didn't dare to think about this problem, and now it can be determined that the strength of the Japanese navy has been hit hard, and China seems to be able to think about something else. (To be continued......)