Chapter 606: The Sunken Yamato
In a small building not far from the port of Ryukyu, a young man had just returned from outside, and it was raining lightly, and his clothes were already soaked, but he seemed to be unconcerned, and his face was full of lightness.
After coming to the window of the small building, he sat down, where he could see the situation in the port of Ryukyu, and when the weather was good, he could clearly see the aircraft carriers docked in the port, the silver-gray paint shining in the sun, these huge warships were a symbol of China's majesty. Every time he saw these warships, the young man's heart swelled, he hated this powerful navy.
Whenever he remembered that it was this army that had wiped out almost all of the Japanese Combined Fleet, he was furious, how could these filthy and humble Shina people deserve to have such a powerful army, how dare they destroy the cause of the Great Japanese Empire!
Greater East Asia can only find a way out under the leadership of Japan, coexistence and co-prosperity is the best choice, and whoever obstructs this magnificent cause will be his enemy.
The young man's eyes fell on the outside of the port, and he thought to himself, as long as this evening passed, this place would be in ruins, those aircraft carriers would be sunk, and the Japanese Empire would still reign in East Asia.
There seemed to be a sky-high fire in front of his eyes, and in the light of the fire, the despicable Shina cried and struggled, and then was mercilessly swallowed up. A hint of joy appeared in his eyes at the thought of this, but then he noticed something unusual.
Today is the Qixi Festival of the official Chinese lunar calendar, which is the Qiqiao Festival. According to the Chinese custom, this day will be a group holiday, and in the evening, most young naval officers will call their girlfriends and stroll on the beach.
This year, due to the rain, this practice was naturally canceled, but there are still a large number of dance halls and clubs in the Ryukyus. There will be a lot of people there. It's very lively. It's normal for energetic soldiers to make an all-nighter. But today there was no movement.
Thinking of this, the young man immediately felt as if a basin of cold water had been poured over his head, and there was only one explanation for this abnormal situation, that is, the Chinese navy was not in the port. Or they have entered a state of combat readiness, either way, it means that the Chinese seem to have sensed something.
The plan has leaked!
The young man jerked up from his seat and rushed to the door in desperation. But when he just opened the door, he saw that the muzzles of several black holes were already aim.
"Mr. Wang Wenbin, or Mr. Hidemi Hashimota, come with us!"
On this night, a large number of Japanese spies were arrested, and all the intelligence systems that Japan had painstakingly managed were destroyed.
Both the capitals of Beijing and Tokyo have some sleepless people. Time passed minute by minute, and finally it was dawn. A bright light appeared on the gloomy sea, and Isoroku Yamamoto commanded the Japanese Combined Fleet to the sea area of about 200 kilometers from the Ryukyus.
His fleet also ended the radio silence and officially gave the order to attack, and the Zero fighters took off quickly on the wide deck, and the first wave of Japanese fighters took off more than 200 fighters, which was larger and more violent than the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Yamamoto Isoroku watched with hope as the Japanese carrier-based aircraft rushed towards the Ryukyus, and he wanted to become the greatest admiral in Japan's history, defeating the strong with the weak, and defeating the two great powers, what a glory.
Just when Yamamoto was looking forward to a bright future, more than 130 nautical miles away from the Japanese aircraft carrier formation, Chinese carrier-based aircraft were also taking off on an equal scale, and the target was the Japanese fleet.
The two huge aircraft groups were quickly skimming the sea, and the Japanese carrier-based planes made their way all the way to the Ryukyus unimpeded, and at this time, the Chinese air force units were already in full array, and the antiaircraft artillery units on the ground had long been ready for battle, and the Japanese carrier-based planes had collided head-on with China's first blocking net.
These Japanese pilots were also taken aback, many of them had participated in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and the paranoia of the islanders made them take it for granted that China would be like the United States, and they were negligent in taking precautions, and they did not expect that China would make early preparations for battle.
However, the Japanese did not take these shore-based aircraft seriously, and with their skillful flying skills, they quickly shot down several Chinese planes, and this line of defense was easily breached, and until this time the Japanese did not realize that their sneak attack had leaked.
Commander Mitsuo Fuchida only thought that these planes were normal patrols, and he was full of hope for the miracle of Pearl Harbor, where the Japanese fleet passed through Ryukyu Island, and the port of Naha was in front of him.
Contrary to Mitsuo Fuchida's expectations, there was no huge Chinese fleet in front of him, all the large ships were lost, and they were greeted only by a large amount of anti-aircraft firepower, and all the firepower networks were carefully calculated, and when the Japanese planes just appeared, several of them were hit and caught fire and turned into air lighters.
At this time, a large number of shore-based planes also poured over, and Mitsuo Fuchida only now knew that he had been fooled, and the Chinese fleet had already left the port, thinking of this, Mitsuo Fuchida was cold.
Since the Chinese fleet is not here, where is it likely to be?
The Combined Fleet is in danger!
Mitsuo Fuchida almost fell straight out of the air. His fears were not wrong at all, and just when the Japanese carrier-based aircraft felt that the port of Naha, the Chinese planes also found the Japanese Combined Fleet.
The core of the huge Japanese combined fleet is five aircraft carriers, in addition to escort cruisers and destroyers, there are more than 30 warships, densely displayed on the sea, in the center of the Japanese fleet, there is the huge Yamato, on the left and right are Shinano and Taiho, the three super giant ships are like three mountains, in the waves are extremely majestic.
However, no matter how powerful the warship was, in the eyes of the air force, it was a bunch of lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and the pilot chose the angle of attack very tacitly and quickly rushed towards the Japanese aircraft carrier.
At this time, the Japanese fleet had already noticed that Yamamoto Isoroku, who had been waiting for the news of the victory, did not wait for the news of the successful sneak attack, but waited for the attack of the Chinese planes. In an instant, Yamamoto knew that Japan's sneak attack had gone bankrupt, and judging by the current situation, it was likely that China had already grasped the intelligence in advance, and it had also put on a posture of planning and planning.
At this moment, Yamamoto seemed to have fallen into an ice cave, his whole body was chilling, and he had lost his former self-confidence, and he hurriedly ordered the alert aircraft in the air to block it as soon as possible, while the rest of the carrier-based aircraft quickly took off to block it.
The carrier-based planes of the two sides were once again coming and going on the sea, killing each other, and the planes on the deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier were taking off rapidly, preparing to intercept the attack of the Chinese carrier-based planes.
But here's the problem, a Japanese carrier-based plane crashed headlong into the island building while taking off from the aircraft carrier Yamato. The plane, which was filled with fuel, burst like a huge bomb in an instant, knocking out a large hole in the island.
To the horror of the Japanese, the fuel was running out, and there were already fires in many places on the warship, and several carrier-based aircraft parked nearby were also facing threats, which made the Japanese panic immediately.
As a matter of fact, there were serious problems in Japan's super-large aircraft carriers from the very beginning of construction, and the Japanese were not good at grasping the overall situation as a whole, and they liked to divide things into different aspects, and then conduct separate studies, and then integrate the results of the research together.
This method does not sound like there is anything wrong with it, but due to the lack of a sense of the overall situation, when synthesizing, there is often a problem of going in the opposite direction, and the Japanese believe that the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers is carrier-based aircraft, so the more carrier-based aircraft are numbered and the more advanced their performance, the more they can give full play to their combat effectiveness.
Therefore, they created the Yamato and Shinano, monsters with more than 100 aircraft, but they ignored a fatal problem, that is, with the increase in the number of carrier-based aircraft, the difficulty of command and operation has also increased exponentially, and the chaos and humidity on the warship seriously affects the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier.
Throughout World War II and even later generations of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, most of the mature aircraft carriers with strong combat effectiveness have about 70 or 80 carrier-based aircraft, and there will be no more than 100 at most, the reason is that after increasing the number of carrier-based aircraft in a one-sided manner, it will bring many unexpected problems, for example, the Midway-class aircraft carrier built by the United States in history has brought a series of problems because of too many carrier-based aircraft.
The Yamato is now having this problem, a large number of carrier-based aircraft are very difficult to command, it is very normal for a plane to crash on the bridge, just when the Japanese were preparing to rescue, the two surrounding planes also exploded, and the fire rose in an instant, and the thick black smoke shrouded the deck of the Yamato, and it was impossible to take off and land the planes at all.
When the Chinese pilots saw the Yamato on fire, they wondered which fighter had successfully attacked the Yamato, and they could not imagine that it was the Yamato itself that had gone wrong.
However, the Chinese pilots were not polite, they quickly broke through the Japanese plane's blockade and rushed towards the Yamato, at this time the overly large Yamato exposed another fatal shortcoming, that is, the target was too large, and it could easily become a target for attack.
The Japanese were so focused on extinguishing the fire that they could not afford to take care of the Chinese planes, and the six slowest torpedo planes easily approached the Yamato and dropped deadly torpedoes.
Six torpedoes attacked the Yamato like a fan, and in an instant several large holes appeared on the side of the Yamato, and the black holes frantically swallowed the seawater, and the huge hull of the Yamato tilted rapidly, and the planes parked on the deck slipped into the sea.
All the personnel of the Japanese Navy felt a chill to the bone, and the warship they were so proud of was mortally attacked, and everyone was terrified, for the fate of this aircraft carrier, but also for their own fate. (To be continued.) )