The battlefield off the coast of Fukuoka was filled with gunsmoke, and Yamamoto finally received a report from the returning fighters. They were confronted by Wehrmacht fighters and intercepted by word reached Isoroku Yamamoto and Mineichi Koga.

"Order the fleet, turn on the radio and go full speed!" The fleet command exploded, and the captains were buzzing about what to do with the matter.

And Yamamoto Isoroku was silent for a long time, and then directly gave the order: "Target - Fukuoka!" ”

"Your Excellency! Now that Fukuoka is clearly a trap, do we still want to drill into it?! This will probably lead to the destruction of our army!! Koga Mine roared, "Please think twice!" ”

"We have no way back now, the Empire's fuel has been fully refueled for us. As for the Air Force, their fuel is also the last reserve of the Empire......"

Yamamoto Fifty-six smiled bitterly and said to Koga Mine: "What if we avoid it this time?!" Do we still have the fuel to keep the battleship on the ocean?! ”

Koga Feng stopped talking, he sensitively sensed that this was a trap. But he didn't notice that even a trap was now only a collision between the Combined Fleet.

If they had come out of Kagoshima, they would have been able to detect that this was a trap and might have been able to undo it. But now that the fleet has left Kagoshima, the last fuel for the entire rì Ben is all allocated to them and the air force.

This battle, even if they managed to break away from the Wehrmacht's offensive. But they were no longer able to fight. This is the Wehrmacht forcing them to fight a decisive battle! At the same time, it was the whole rì that was forcing them to fight a decisive battle.

"Indeed, the Wehrmacht has woven a net waiting for us to fall......" A fierce gaze flashed in Yamamoto Fifty-six's eyes, and he said in a low voice: "But they forgot, our Imperial Navy is not a soft persimmon!" ”

"If they want to catch us all, it depends on whether their nets are strong enough!" Yamamoto's fifty-six words made all the admirals suddenly feel angry.

Oh, yes! The navy used to be a large fleet that crisscrossed the Pacific Ocean, and even the U.S. military was afraid of three points. How could we have been afraid?!

It's just a decisive battle, so what if we fight this time?! Since this is the last battle, then either we will tear their nets or they will be wiped out. There is no third option other than this one.

"That's it! Glory to the samurai of the empire for thousands of generations! Ladies and gentlemen! Please!! Yamamoto Fifty-six bowed deeply to these captains.

"For the Empire! For His Majesty the Emperor! Onboard!! ”

The radio was turned on, and the Combined Fleet immediately received telegrams from the base camp, from Fukuoka, and from Yusaku Ariga, commander of the 4th Destroyer Group.

The telegrams were full of the current state of the war and the ambush of the Wehrmacht, and there was not a single good news in them. Yusaku Ariga took the Yamato with the 4th Destroyer Fleet in an attempt to distract the Wehrmacht Air Force.

But the Wehrmacht didn't seem to care about Yuga at all, and the warplanes were still fighting the fighters that had taken to the skies. Only a dozen fighters were separated, tracking down Yuki Ariga's battleship.

"Your Excellency, Commander! His Excellency General Yamamoto is calling! Ariga Yuki looked at the Wehrmacht fighter planes that were constantly tracking them, and grabbed the telegram with one hand and looked at it.

The telegram was short, no more than two or three lines. But it's just these two or three lines, but I can see that He Xingzuo is flustered. Seeing this, Sayaka Asami on the side took the telegram directly.

And after reading the telegram, he was silent. Yamamoto's order was simple, what they had to do now was not to divert the Wehrmacht Air Force units.

Instead, he reflexively pounced on where the Wehrmacht fleet was located! To die, to open a way for the combined fleet behind. At the same time, force those Wehrmacht fighters to attack them.

Undoubtedly, this would have left the Fourth Cruiser in a dead end. They turned back and fought back, and they were indeed able to attract most of the Wehrmacht's firepower. But it also means that they are likely to be wiped out.

"Is Lord Yamamoto going crazy?! How could he give such an order?! Sayaka Asami's voice couldn't help but tremble a little, he couldn't accept this fact.

He could not accept the fact that the Navy would let them be cannon fodder, to be targets that attracted firepower.

"Your Excellency Yamamoto is also helpless...... but Yukisaku Ariga was calmer, but when he saw him, he said softly to Asami Sayaka: "We are now closest to the position of the Wehrmacht, and the Yamato is a heavy battleship. The caliber of our naval guns will be an incomparably great threat to the warships of the Wehrmacht......"

"If we desperately move towards the Wehrmacht's fleet, they will have to send warplanes and warships to meet them. Unless they want to expose their aircraft carriers to the threat of our naval guns! ”

Yukasaku Ariga looked at the sea outside the ship, and he suddenly felt that this familiar ocean was so beautiful.

"There is no way back for the empire now, and all the oil is handed over to us in Kagoshima. And the Army Air Force has squeezed out the last trace of blood of the Empire......"

"Even if we succeed in withdrawing from the fleet this time, it will be as Admiral Yamamoto said: our warships will either be reduced to trophies or scrap metal ......"

Yuga Kosaku lowered his head in pain and said in a trembling voice: "I don't want the navy I have worked so hard to work on, and the fleet I have piloted that once crisscrossed the seas to become someone else's trophy!" ”

"I'd rather these warships disappear into the waves than become someone else's capital to show off!" Yukisaku's words made Asami Sayaka silent.

"Order the fleet, turn the rudder! Burn the wind!! At Ariga's hissing order, the entire Fourth Cruiser Fleet suddenly turned around under the puzzled gaze of the Wehrmacht eagles and rushed madly towards the waters off the coast of Fukuoka!

At this time, the dark shadows of the warships of the Combined Fleet could be roughly seen in the distance, and the Wehrmacht Warhawks who were tracking the Fourth Cruiser Fleet quickly reported the situation to the approaching Wehrmacht Combined Fleet.

At the same time, the General Headquarters of the Defense Forces in Seoul had already received a telegram. However, Tu Mengben did not give any combat orders, and all the fighters of the Air Force had already taken off.

On the naval side, Chen Shaokuan is in charge of the Wehrmacht's combined fleet on the battlefield. Tu Mengben only sent a telegram to Chen Shaokuan, commander-in-chief of the Navy's Combined Fleet, and Chen Haihua, commander-in-chief of the Air Force.

"I'm in Seoul, waiting for my soldiers to return from killing thieves! Give it a go!! ”

Decisive battle! For a time, this word spread throughout the Navy and Air Force. The Army, on the other hand, knew the meaning of the word much earlier. They have already waged a life-and-death struggle with the Rì Army in Fukuoka.

A large number of Rì divisions poured into Fukuoka, and the two sides fought frantically in the city that had been bombed to ruins. Relying on the remnants of the eaves that had been blown into ruins, the Rì Army constantly organized fire points and frantically counterattacked the Wehrmacht's attack.

And the Wehrmacht marines have already completed their tasks, correcting on the beach. At this time, the main force attacking Fukuoka was the main force of the Wehrmacht in the Korean theater.

"There is a gap in the eastern block, and the Wehrmacht tank units have broken through the defenses and are heading towards the bomb shelter area......"

"Block them. with explosives. Hideki Tojo coldly ordered: "Send one more brigade over, and we will have reinforcements soon." There are already two divisions that are only twelve kilometers away from us, and within an hour they will reach Fukuoka......"

"Yes......"

With such an order, Hideki Tojo has forgotten how much he has given. He now understands the helplessness and fear of Shouichi in the temple back then.

The Wehrmacht's offensive crushed like a sea of mountains. That's right, it's crushing! Everything that stands in their way will be torn apart.

Hideki Tojo did not dare to look at the battlefield, because the corpses of the soldiers of the Rì Army could hardly be found there. The Wehrmacht used a large number of explosive assault weapons to tear apart the front lines of the Rì Army.

And their armored units, by virtue of their maneuvers, broke into the battle line. If it weren't for the fact that the Rì military used suicide bombs, they might not have been able to stop the Wehrmacht's crushing attack.

The battle had broken out in no more than five hours, and more than 4,000 troops had already lost their positions. The second-line positions were directly destroyed by artillery fire, and thousands of remnants of the army withdrew into the city.

The divisions that arrived later again sent men to take over the positions, blocking the pace of the Wehrmacht's offensive in an attempt to slow down the Wehrmacht's attack. They completed part of their strategy, but the losses were staggering.

Kenichi Miyashita of the 157th Division, the combat units sent to the front-line positions lost a third. Forced to evacuate the position for repair. The remaining troops also retreated step by step under the onslaught of the Wehrmacht.

The sound of explosions continued to sound throughout Fukuoka Castle, and most of the Fukuoka citizens who were hiding in bomb shelters were accustomed to the sound of these explosions. No one told them anything.

They don't know if they'll make it to the end. The only thing they can do now is wait. Waiting for the end of the war. That's when they know if they'll survive......

"Bandages! Bandage!! I need to stop the bleeding! Fast! ...... "There was no peace in the bomb shelter, death and blood were everywhere. The soldiers of the Rì Army who were carried in either screamed or could not even scream.

The blood sprayed stained the entire bomb shelter like hell. All Fukuoka citizens who are able to continue to move are assigned to work as nurses or field health workers in a fixed area.

They needed to carry the wounded soldiers down and take them to bomb shelters.

"Mom...... Mom...... I don't want to die......" The soldier looked no more than twenty years old, his immature and pale face full of fear of death.

The sergeant beside him kept pressing his abdomen with a blue face, and there was a constant spurt of black sè blood. The screams grew quieter as the sergeant looked at the soldier.

The soldier's pupils had lost their luster and began to spread......

"He's dead, let's take it down......" There was no sadness, and after a simple sentence, the sergeant asked the body of the soldier to be carried down. Then, another wounded soldier was brought over......

Explosions continued to sound throughout Fukuoka Castle, and the soldiers of the Rì Army, who had been set up as death squads, were quietly lurking behind the ruins with explosives strapped to their bodies.

At the slightest opportunity, they would rush out and pounce on the Wehrmacht soldiers to detonate the explosives. They were trying to stop the Wehrmacht's offensive in this way.

Thus buying time for their own reinforcements. Trapped, their approach has a certain utility. At least in order to avoid losses, the Wehrmacht units slowed down the offensive.

But at the same time, the losses of the Rì army were even greater. As soon as they saw a suspicious pile of ruins, the Wehrmacht soldiers would use weapons such as tiger roars and fire ravens to greet them first.

Often, the soldiers of the Rì Army who were ambushed in these areas were beaten into pieces without even having a chance to attack.

At the same time, the battle in the sky is becoming more and more intense. This time, the 1st and 6th Air Armies of the main combat force launched an all-out attack on Fukuoka.

The fifth, tenth, twelfth, and sixteenth flight regiments under the jurisdiction of the First Air Force attacked with all their might. At the same time, the 6th, 7th, 21st, 27th, and 100th Flying Regiments under the jurisdiction of the Sixth Air Force also went all out.

Major General Hideji of the 12th Flying Division received an order to be on standby at any time, and as long as the command headquarters ordered him to lead the 12th Flying Division to take off directly to participate in the battle.

The fierceness and madness of the battle exceeded everyone's imagination. The explosion on the ground left not only dust but also mutilated corpses. It was not only the fighters that fell in the sky, but also the pilots of both sides......

Wehrmacht tanks destroyed by the Rì Army burned on the position, while destroyed Rì Army mortars and heavy machine guns were scattered all over the ground.

During the battle, the 344th and 351st divisions of the Rì Army had also arrived in Fukuoka. After arriving, the two divisions did not have any repairs and directly engaged in a fierce positional battle.

"How many people have we transported?!" Tu Mengben knocked on the table and asked Su Zongzhe. The latter did not need to look through the documents, and replied directly: "Not counting the marines, less than 120,000." ”

"If you count the Marine Corps, we have about 200,000 people in the Fukuoka area." After a pause, Su Zongzhen said: "I don't know when the battle of the navy will end, and once there is a problem on the navy, our transportation will have to be terminated......"

"Where's the supplies?! How many have arrived?! Tu Mengben then asked, and Su Zongzhe replied simply and directly: "The materials carried by the soldiers can support them to fight for about a week." ”

"And most of our fleet is now transporting combat personnel, and the material side is not keeping up......"

"Send supplies first!" Tu Mengben directly ordered: "We must ensure that at least 200,000 people fight for a month, and there is still no problem." The rest is the airdrop thing. ”

After a pause, Tu Mengben said in a deep voice: "What about the navy?!" Is there any news from Chen Shaokuan?! ”

"So far, there has been no news ......" Su Zongzhen frowned and said, "But it is certain that the navy side should have made some progress." ”

"According to the Air Force report, the Navy's fighters have already begun to fight with the fighters of the Rì Army. And the 4th Cruiser of the Combined Fleet, led by the flagship Yamato, is heading towards our fleet......"

Tu Mengben was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then laughed. Rì's own abacus, of course he knows. The Yamato is currently the largest and strongest battleship in Asia.

If he had approached the Wehrmacht fleet, the threat would have been terrifying. Just one shell hit him, and any battleship will be torn apart.

Three Type 94 45 caliber 46 cm 3 turrets are enough for the Yamato to easily tear any battleship apart. The crazy Rì himself, used a lot of steel to forge this era monster.

Unfortunately, it was born at the wrong time. At this time, aircraft carriers were already rampant, and battleships could only become targets for bombers in the distance. Even if its deck is 200~230 mm thick, it still cannot withstand the bombardment of Wehrmacht heavy rocket-booster bombs.

"Boom!!" The Yamato was trying to realize its construction value, but a heavy rocket-booster bomb interrupted its path.

The fighters in the sky came to a sad end under the sweep of the Wehrmacht aircraft carriers, carrier-based aircraft and the air force.

The Wehrmacht bombers were immediately dispatched, and the bombers carrying the heavy rocket-booster bombs smashed a blow directly on the Yamato at the very beginning.

The Yamato was so large that the sheer size of the ship was the reason why it was extremely vulnerable to hitting. Yukisaku Ariga looked sadly at the clouds of smoke rising from the deck of the battleship, and he couldn't help himself with grief and indignation.

This is the pride of the Navy, but it is a pity that it suffered such a fate without even a chance to fire a shell......

"Boom!!" The second bomb hit, but this one was not a Mace heavy rocket-booster bomb. It was just an ordinary aerial bomb, and the bomb hit the ship zhōngyāng department. And then, 3 medium bombs were directly hit here......

"Report! The port zhōngyāng part was hit by 3 bombs, and the co-rudder rudder has failed! Ask for instructions! I would like instructions!! A desperate shout resounded inside the battleship.

Stop-loss is shouted everywhere, flames are extinguished everywhere. The mechanics were running frantically, trying to repair the ship......

"Command! Stop loss on the port side! The auxiliary rudder is restored and fixed in zhōngyāng, and the emergency rudder ** rudder is used! Yuki Ariga roared hoarsely, "Forward! Keep moving! Towards Fukuoka!! ”

"Chirp...... Boom, boom, boom......, boom" The explosions continued, and the Wehrmacht sea eagles began to bite around the Yamato. Without the protection of fighter planes, the Yamato is like a fat antelope that is large but powerless to fight back.

He could only helplessly use his horns to try to dodge the attack from the sky, but he still couldn't avoid the sharp claws of the sea eagle.

"Report! One bomb in the middle and one in the rear on the port side! The mechanical starboard motor can only provide a speed of 12 knots. At this time, the port side is tilted 6 degrees......"

"Report! Hit by a bomb in the middle of the port side, tilted and added ......" (To be continued.) )