598 The five generals of the war of aggression against Japan are calculated?

March 15, 1 p.m.

"Bang Dang"

There was an alarm, and in the Zhanjiang Military Port, an officer from the communications office of the Nanyang Fleet Headquarters had just translated a secret telegram when he jumped up and brought down the chair he was sitting on. He hurriedly grabbed the phone on his desk, and after shaking it a few times, the bell rang in the war room of the headquarters of the South Ocean Fleet.

At this time, Admiral Zhao Zheng, commander of the Nanyang Fleet, was sitting next to the chart in the war room, with his head on his hand and his eyes looking at the island of Taiwan on the chart. Due to operational needs, the Nanyang Fleet has now been divided into three.

The lend-leased battle cruiser "Selim Sultan" and three cruisers, five destroyers, six torpedo boats formed the Second Fleet of the Navy, commanded by Rear Admiral Chen Si, and was now preparing to shell Japanese positions near the port of Kaohsiung.

Kaohsiung was the first important target of the Kuomintang army to attack Taiwan this time, and the Japanese defense there was ridiculously empty. There were neither battery fortresses nor many garrisons.

According to intelligence, the current Japanese Taiwan Army has a total of three infantry wings, one in Taipei, one in Taichung, and one in Tainan; two heavy artillery brigades, one at Keelung Fortress near Taipei and one at Magong Fortress in Penghu; There is also a Taiwanese Mountain Artillery Brigade, stationed in Taipei.

Kaohsiung is now stationed in the second brigade of Taiwan's Second Infantry Wing, with about 800 people, in addition to some miscellaneous armed forces such as township soldiers and volunteers. The artillery is estimated to be only 150 mm howitzers at most, and it is not known whether these Japanese soldiers will survive to the moment when the marines land under the bombardment of the ten 280-mm guns of the "Selim Sultan"?

The 32 submarines attached to the Nanyang Fleet formed the Third Fleet, with Vice Admiral Zhang Yiming as its commander. The main tasks of the Third Fleet are blockade, vigilance, and luck. Well, if the "Nagato" comes out and wanders around just in time for a team of submarines to bump into it, it will just sink it. However, in the vast sea area around Taiwan, relying on the poor "sexual" ability of the Type 2 submarine at present, the probability of encountering such a good thing is basically negligible.

Finally, there is another protagonist who doesn't know whether to appear or not - the First Air Fleet has the same name as the Japanese First Air Fleet led by "Akagi" and "Kaga", and it is also equipped with two aircraft carriers, "Zhongshan" and "Guangdong", as well as three "Guangzhou"-class air defense cruisers and four destroyers, six torpedo boats, and one supply ship. The commander of the First Air Fleet was Zhao Zheng himself, and the Nanyang Fleet followed the path of aircraft carriers from the very beginning, and the main force of the fleet was aircraft carriers.

And this First Air Fleet and its commander Zhao Zheng have been waiting in Zhanjiang Port for the past few days for the news of the departure of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

At this moment, finally waiting for the exact information sent from Wu Jungang, Zhao Zheng not only did not feel nervous, but felt a sense of relief.

Now, the prey is finally out of the hole

"Immediately convene a military meeting and inform Wang Shuming, commander of the First Naval Aviation Division, Meng Hailong, chief of staff of the Nanyang Fleet, Zhang Yiming, commander of the Second Fleet, Luo Youjun, captain of the 'Zhongshan' ship, Li Zhi, captain of the 'Guangzhou' ship, and Advisor Lu Shiyan to the conference room for a meeting, it seems that we have work to do." Zhao Zheng got up calmly and walked slowly in the direction of the conference room, which was in sharp contrast to the tension and anxiety of the previous few days.

Twenty minutes later, in the oval conference room of the headquarters of the South Ocean Fleet, the senior generals of the South Ocean Fleet and the Naval Division had almost arrived.

"The Japanese are dispatching" Zhao Zheng glanced at the generals in the conference room, and immediately went straight to the topic: "This morning, the Military Intelligence Bureau arranged the eyeline in Wujun Port and found that the Japanese fleet in the port had disappeared, and it was estimated that it set off last night. ”

"Hehe, the Japanese are going to fight hard, right?" After listening to Zhao Zheng's report, Wang Shuming, a Shandong Han with a dignified appearance, laughed. He graduated from the first phase of Huangpu, and was also the first generation of pilots of the National Army, and together with Li Wenhua and Liu Yongyao, he studied flight from Soviet consultants, and participated in the formation of the Army Aviation of the National Army. Later, he was transferred to the Navy to be responsible for the formation and training of naval aviation, and now he is the commander of the first division of naval aviation, under the command of more than 300 aircraft. In the early stage of the Bohai Bay Naval Battle, the First Division of the HNA was also regarded as a great achievement, so this Wang Division Commander was naturally a little fluttering.

"Well, it's going to be desperate, the entire Combined Fleet fleet has been dispatched, it looks like it's going to fight to the death with our Nanyang Fleet" Zhao Zheng shook his head at Wang Shuming.

His words made everyone's faces sink, is there any way for little Japan to reverse the defeat? With their outdated battleships, can they still break through the blockade line formed by submarines and planes and rescue the precarious island of Taiwan?

Lysteyan was holding a pipe, he thought that he had found a way to destroy the main fleet of the British Imperial Navy from the Battle of Bohai Bay, so he was in a good mood and joked: "Probably the Japanese have realized that their battleships are a bunch of tragedies made of steel, so they broke the tank and smashed it into the Taiwan Strait to sink themselves, right?" ”

As soon as the joke came out, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly relaxed a lot.

"Well, that would save us a lot of trouble." Zhao Zheng replied with a smile.

"Could it be to the South China Sea to enforce the blockade route? There is the main channel for us to import materials," Zhang Yiming twisted his sword eyebrows, and his face was still a little dignified. He pointed to the Bass Strait on the chart above the conference table and said: "The Japanese fleet can go to the Pacific Ocean to bypass Taiwan, and then take advantage of the darkness to break through the submarine cordon we have deployed in the Bass Strait and break into the South China Sea.

"Taiwan doesn't want it?" Meng Hailong shook his head: "As long as we occupy Taiwan, we can deploy planes on it, the Bass Strait can be controlled, and then send submarines and aircraft carriers to the South China Sea, and their blockade, which can always drive them out, does not seem to last for a few days." ”

"Aircraft carrier" Zhao Zheng's eyes lit up, his fingers lightly tapped the map on the table, and said with a smile: "Little Japan probably wants to learn from us to use naval aviation to fight, right?" ”

Zhao Zheng looked at everyone with a smile, stood up and picked up his baton and pointed to the depths of the South China Sea and said: "The Japanese also have three aircraft carriers, although their planes are not very good, but they can fight anyway." It is possible that they will use the battleship as bait to attract our two aircraft carriers out of Zhanjiang Port, and then attack our aircraft carriers with carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carriers" He gritted his teeth: "The Japanese learn really fast, but they want to play naval aviation with us, hehe, they are still a little tender, so we will give them a plan"

Saying that, Zhao Zheng picked up the baton and drew a circle in the center of the South China Sea, and the ruthlessness in his eyes was clear at a glance: "The Japanese aircraft carriers will definitely set up an ambush in the depths of the South China Sea, and we will also go, hiding in the south of them The three aircraft carriers that set up ambushes in Japan should have nearly two hundred carrier-based aircraft pilots, they are all elites, and they are the hope and spark of the Japanese Air Force, as long as they are extinguished, the gap between the Japanese and ours in aviation will be expanded for at least five years, and the Japanese battleships have nothing, they are all outdated guys." As long as we destroy their aircraft carriers and destroy their last aviation combat power, we will win this battle. So in this battle, our target is the Japanese aircraft carrier."

"However, the aircraft carriers 'Zhongshan' and 'Guangdong' only carry 150 planes on board, can they deal with the Japanese aircraft carrier formation?" Wang Shuming asked.

"The plane is a little less." Zhao Zheng nodded: "But we still have a trump card?" -- it's a submarine" He turned his head and glanced at Zhang Yiming: "Brother Youshi, transfer sixteen submarines into the South China Sea and deploy them to the southeast of Dongsha Islands to stand by." ”

"No problem." A hint of fierceness flashed in Zhang Yiming's eyes, and he lowered his head heavily.

"We have an airfield on Hainan Island, and there is a regiment-level airfield near Yalong Bay, and our naval aviation division can transfer two groups of F2A fighters there, so that as long as the distance between the aircraft carrier formation and Hainan Island does not exceed 300 kilometers, our F2A can provide air cover for the aircraft carrier." Wang Shuming also made a suggestion. At present, in addition to the 1st Division of the Navy, the 1st Aviation Division of the Air Force also has more than 600 combat aircraft. Among them, there are two aviation combat regiments, a total of 250 F2A fighters, and the Japanese troops on the opposite island of Taiwan have no planes at all, so these fighters have nothing to do except carry some small bombs to use as bombers. Therefore, the transfer of two groups to cover aircraft carriers will not have any adverse impact on air supremacy in the Taiwan Strait.

It pointed to the sea area north of the Xisha Islands: "The First Air Fleet is ambushing here, north of the Xisha Islands and no more than 180 nautical miles southeast of Yalong Bay, our reconnaissance planes will cover 500 kilometers to the east from here, and Shanwei Airport will also send reconnaissance planes to cover 500 kilometers to the south, so that most of the sea areas in the northern part of the South China Sea will be covered by our reconnaissance planes." The rest of the waters near the Philippines will be guarded by submarines, and as long as we can spot the Japanese aircraft carriers, we will be able to win a big victory with a preemptive strike."

"And what about the Japanese battleships? If the submarine finds a Japanese battleship, should it take the initiative to attack? Zhang Yiming asked.

"Japanese battleships are not the primary target, our primary target is the Japanese aircraft carrier, and if the submarine forces find that the Japanese fleet must not attack, they just need to send the information back." Zhao Zheng thought for a while and said: "After the First Air Fleet sets sail, radio silence will be implemented, and the command of the entire Nanyang Fleet will be represented by General Zhang Youshi. ”

Saying that, he looked at Zhang Yiming solemnly: "Friend, everything is handed over to you, I estimate that the Japanese may send battleships as bait to 'press' the Second Fleet, and when the time comes, you must keep the Second Fleet away from the threat of Japanese warships, and we are not the opponents of little devils in battleship artillery battles." In this battle, we only need to kill the Japanese aircraft carriers and everything will be fine, and those rough-skinned battleships may as well let them return to Japan. ”

"And when will the First Air Fleet be dispatched?" Zhang Yiming asked again.

"It is 1,200 nautical miles in a straight line from Wujun Port to the South China Sea, and I estimate that the Japanese will have to walk around it, at least more than 1,800 nautical miles, and it will take more than four days for the entire fleet to reach the speed of 18 knots, and it should be impossible to go faster." Chief of Staff Meng Hailong counted his fingers and said, "We have only reached the designated sea area for more than 200 nautical miles at most, and we have arrived in a day." So our departure time should be two days after tomorrow, and I recommend leaving tomorrow early morning or the early morning after tomorrow. ”

"I will leave in the early morning of tomorrow, and I will report to the theater of operations and the Admiralty, and from the early morning of tomorrow, the commander of the Nanyang Fleet will be represented by Zhang Youshi until the radio silence of the First Air Fleet is lifted." Zhao Zheng gently patted the table and set a time to leave.

"It's better to let the battlecruiser 'Selim Sultan' join the First Air Fleet as well." Zhang Yiming squinted his eyes and thought: "Its shelling mission can be completed by tonight at the latest, and then let it go directly to the waters north of the Dongsha Islands to meet you." The Selim Sultan has three seaplanes on board to enhance the reconnaissance capabilities of the First Air Fleet, and its ten 280mm naval guns are just in case. ”

"Alright, let's let the Selim Sultan join." Zhao Zheng put down the baton and smiled: "The Japanese set a trap for us, let's also set a trap for them, let's see who falls into the trap in the end." ”

"Of course they fell in"

"The revenge of the First Sino-Japanese War has finally been doubled back this time."

"And 200 million taels of silver."

"In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, our assistant commander was deceived back from the hands of the Japanese chaebol." Speaking of this, Zhao Zheng made a gesture of counting the money: "But the compensation is not too small." ”

"Hahaha......"

……

A seaplane belonging to the battlecruiser Selim Sultan, the flagship of the Second Fleet, was shot into the sky against the golden afternoon sun, and its mission was to correct the bombing point for the shelling of Japanese positions near Kaohsiung Harbor.

Rear Admiral Chen Si, commander of the Second Fleet, was standing proudly on the bridge at the moment, looking at Kaohsiung Harbor in the distance, the corners of his mouth were full of mocking sneers, although the Japanese had arranged more than a dozen artillery pieces there, and there was also a brigade of infantry and about 2,000 soldiers and volunteers in the countryside, but in front of their own fleet, those were just targets.

Looking at the battleships that had been neatly lined up in an artillery formation behind him, Chen Si looked at his watch again, it was now 1:30 p.m., the scheduled landing would start at 4 p.m., and the half-hour between 1:30 and 2 p.m. was reserved for the ten main guns of the battlecruiser "Selim Sultan".

"Taiwan that was lost thirty-six years ago should now come back," Chen Si muttered in a low voice, then paused, and coldly spat out two words from between his teeth: "Fire"

Ten 280-mm naval guns roared at the same time, thick black smoke rushed out of the muzzles, pushed 300-kilogram shells out of the barrels, and roared towards the artillery positions that had already been reconnoitred several times 13,000 yards away.

A few seconds later, rising balls of fire rose from a distance, and in the light of the fire, you could even see the human body being lifted high into the air.

The lookouts on the mast looked nervously at the Japanese positions on the shore, and their palms were sweating, for fear that there would be a few hidden Type 90 240mm shore defense guns on the shore. According to intelligence, this kind of artillery is the standard configuration of the Japanese coastal defense fortress, and the Magong fortress in Penghu and the Keelung fortress on Taiwan Island are equipped with several such giant guns, and there are also batteries in Kaohsiung, Tainan and Taichung that are under construction recently, and it is not known whether this kind of artillery has been transported to Kaohsiung.

The naval guns launched shells at a rate of one per minute, and the sailors in the turret were in full swing, while more sailors were watching, because the distance was too far for the secondary guns to have a chance to join the first round of shelling.

On several troop carriers farther away, the hedgehogs of the Kuomintang marines gathered together, and they all stretched out their ears to listen to the roar of the ship's guns, and when they heard the roar of the artillery fire from the landslide, these young Chinese soldiers all showed confident smiles on their faces. Because they knew that the more intense the artillery fire was now, the fewer Japanese devils would shoot at them on the shore later.

Half an hour later, the whistling naval guns finally stopped, Chen Si was quite satisfied with the performance of the gunners today, although their training time was still a little shorter, but they barely smashed most of the shells on the hastily built Japanese artillery positions, and the Japanese did not fire a single shell from beginning to end, it seems that they did not have enough coastal defense heavy artillery to threaten the battle cruisers.

As several torpedo boats lowered from the freighter dragged their fishing nets to the channel to clear mines, the battlecruiser "Selim Sultan" and other ships began to close the distance, and the main and secondary guns began to extend their "firing" fire. At the same time, the marines also transferred from the freighter to the small assault boat, and the first beach-grabbing landing battle of the national ** army finally began.

Seeing the exciting scene in front of him, Major General Chen Si sighed lightly, put down the binoculars in his hand, turned around and found that his adjutant was already waiting beside him, and reported in a low and respectful voice: "Commander, there is an urgent telegram from the headquarters of the Nanyang Fleet. As he spoke, the adjutant handed over a thin dossier with both hands. Chen Si took it suspiciously and opened it to see that it was only a yellow "colored" copy of the newspaper: "What's wrong?" ”

"This is a secret telegram sent by Commander Zhao, designate the commander to read it yourself, ......"

"Cipher?" Chen Si exclaimed in surprise in a low voice, and hurriedly picked up the newspaper and read it carefully.

Zhao Zheng's order was clear. The battlecruiser "Selim Sultan" was officially assigned to the First Air Fleet at 8 o'clock tonight and must arrive at the designated sea area northeast of the Paracel Islands by 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. It was also informed that radio silence would be observed by the First Air Fleet, and that the battle cruiser Selim Sultan would be observed in the same way. In addition, after the departure of the First Air Fleet and before the radio silence is lifted, the commander of the Nanyang Fleet will be represented by Vice Admiral Zhang Yiming.

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