Chapter 115: Air Raid on Penghu

The battle is not limited to Zuoying Military Port and Kaohsiung, an important town in the north of Taiwan Island, the Penghu Islands are located in the southern part of the Taiwan Strait, and the 64 islands together have 126 square kilometers.

The Penghu Islands are the natural boundary between the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and from here, you can reach the Matsu Islands, Dachen Island and Zhoushan Islands in the north, the Dongsha Islands and Nansha Islands in the south, and the Philippines and Southeast Asia. The Penghu Islands are located in the center of the Taiwan Strait, choking the shipping key points in eastern Asia, and are known as the "key to the southeast." How could such a strategic point be controlled by the Japanese? What's more, the Fifth Fleet stationed at the Magong base is still full of evil deeds.

The carrier-based planes on the Boyan did not join the group, but formed a separate formation, and their target was the Magong Naval Base on the main island of the Penghu Islands.

Vice Admiral Hososuki Sukoro, commander of the Japanese Navy's Fifth Fleet, has just returned to Magong Military Port with a fleet from Haikou. In the Battle of Hainan Island, the Fifth Fleet assisted the 21st Army's Taiwan Mixed Brigade to land in Chengmai and Sanya, and under the threat of naval artillery, the defenders of Hainan Island were quickly routed, and Wang Yi, commander of the Ninth District (Hainan Island) Division of Guangdong Province, led the remnants of the army to retreat into Wuzhishan and persist in guerrilla warfare. The Taiwan Mixed Brigade and the Marine Corps captured Haikou and Yulin respectively, and smoothly controlled the entire island of Hainan.

The Japanese army's battle to occupy Hainan Island was called the "September 18 Incident" in the Pacific Ocean by Chairman Chiang, which meant that Japan wanted to use Hainan as a platform to plot against the South China Sea and important islands in the Pacific Ocean. He called on Britain, the United States, and Han countries, which had important interests in the Pacific, to intervene in the Japanese aggression.

In this regard, the US government reaffirmed its neutrality policy, and Chamberlain, who was anxious about being tossed by a mustache, issued a statement without pain, saying that it would resolutely protect the interests of the British Empire in Asia, and that Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaya were not encroached upon by the British Commonwealth.

Only the Han Empire did not respond - Zhong Yi was busy preparing "sheep!" Sheep! Sheep! "Plan, how can you have the kung fu to play with Jiang bald's teeth.

When the 12 J37-C Sea Dragon fighters roared over the Penghu Islands, the ship-converted Saikawa Maru seaplane carrier had just hoisted the aircraft into the water. The propeller had just turned, and the seaplanes that were taking off with their strength became the best prey of the sea dragons, and the fighters who did not carry aerial bombs had no way to deal with the battleships, but the 20mm machine guns were quite easy to hit these seaplanes with wooden shells. Ten minutes, before the mixed formation of poisonous dragons and pterosaurs arrived, the sea dragons took out the only eight seaplanes in the Fifth Fleet. Five of them were sunk on the water, two were turned into a ball of fireworks at the moment when they were about to take off on the water, and the only one that managed to take off was hit by a series of shells from the sea dragon that had been staring at it before they could press the machine gun switch, and they were tragically exploded.

In comparison, the carrier-based planes of the air raid on the Magong base had a much easier task than the Zuoying Military Port, and they were accustomed to the slow speed of seaplanes, and the first time they encountered the high-speed penetration of jet planes, the sailors of the Fifth Fleet suddenly felt that their eyes were not enough, and the revolversaries of the anti-aircraft machine guns were not as fast as other planes, so they couldn't aim at all. Moreover, the Fifth Fleet's air defense capability was weak, and even the flagship Tama light cruiser had only four quick guns and six anti-aircraft machine guns, and special cruisers such as the Awata Maru and Asaka Maru, which had been converted from freighters, had only two anti-aircraft machine guns. Air defence? People start dropping bombs at an altitude of 3,000 meters, and they can't even hit a bird with a machine gun at a height of 3,000 meters, let alone an airplane with a metal shell.

The sparse anti-aircraft artillery was more like a signal flare for the pterosaurs to indicate the target, and without the threat of the ground, the bomber pilots drove the plane steadily, so that the bombardier could aim at the prey more accurately. In the eyes of carrier-based pilots, the two light cruisers of the Kishu and Tama were enough, and the other large ships were converted from a freighter to a second line of cargo at first glance, and the predecessor of the seaplane carrier Saikawa Maru was actually an oil tanker. There is only a perverted country like Japan, which is obviously poor, and it can't afford to build warships, so it has to load a large amount of money and make a bunch of civilian ships to fill the number.

At 7:40 a.m., when the red sun on the sea east of the Penghu Islands had just completely jumped out, the Boyan carrier-based aircraft formation had already begun to clean up the battlefield. The light cruiser Mu Shu exploded and sank; The Tama is turning on its side in the sea with a raging fire and is sinking; The Saikawa Maru sat at the bottom, and all the buildings above the deck were blown flat; The Awata Maru and Asakamaru were reduced to debris floating in Magong Harbor after several violent explosions. The so-called cleaning of the battlefield is nothing more than chasing the sailors in the water after diving to shoot a few shots, or finding those small boats that have no resistance to practice the accuracy of bomb throwing.

As for the shore facilities at Magong Port, the pilots of the carrier-based aircraft did not deliberately sabotage them, and before the operation, His Majesty had issued an urgent order: The port and airport facilities on Taiwan Island should be avoided as much as possible. Everyone understands that His Majesty means: In the future, it will be our own, and it should be well protected.

However, it was very troublesome to carry the bomb back to the carrier ship to land, and although there were no particularly valuable bombing targets in Magong Harbor, the Pterodactyl pilots still invariably opened the bomb bay again. There is no need to aim, and wherever there is movement on the water, whether it is a ship or a person, this has caused a large number of casualties among the personnel of the Fifth Fleet. According to the Japanese side's post-mortem statistics, "Five? In the "Five Tribulation Days", the number of casualties in the Magong base even exceeded that of the Zuoying Military Port, and the Han Navy shamelessly slaughtered the naval soldiers who had jumped off the ship and fell into the water! This was a grave violation of the Geneva Conventions in ******, and all the citizens of the Japanese Empire would swear to fight the evil Han Empire to the end.

Dahan Foreign Minister Wilson responded to this: The Geneva Convention? When was it signed? Why isn't anyone looking for us? The Han Empire expressed serious protest against the actions of other countries that privately signed agreements without informing us. Another explanation: our carrier-based aircraft did not deliberately slaughter prisoners of war, and those Japanese navies floating on the sea did not raise white flags or electrify to surrender. We regret that Japan recruited sailors who could not swim and caused them to drown in large numbers.

Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita called Wilson the most impolite foreign minister in history, which is nonsense. This time, it was Wang Chonghui, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government of China, who published a signed article in Xinmin Daily, "The Lowest Nation, the Most Shameless Foreign Minister", detailing the narrow-minded and selfish nature of the Japanese nation trapped on the island. Jealousy and extremism on the water side......

Tens of thousands of words are sprinkled and serialized in three installments. As soon as this article came out, Chongqing paper was expensive, and "Xinmin Daily" sold out of stock. Zou Taofen, the editor-in-chief who has always been in contact with his colleagues in China, also reprinted the article in the South China Daily.

His Majesty in the Jinhua Hall of Weiyang Palace leaned on Leng Meiren and enjoyed a neck massage, and the goblin on the side was in a straight and round ...... Reading the newspaper in the Northeast dialect, the content is Minister Wang's masterpiece, Zhong Yi listened to it with relish, and from time to time he praised Minister Wang as a master and a gentleman! But the last paragraph of that article made the Chinese people the most uplifting, but His Majesty the Han Emperor was unhappy, "Nima, who told him that we must ally with China?" Lao Jiang wants to step on two boats, give us a flying eye, and then go to the other side of the ocean at the same time to do some lady route, what? Bullying us without a daughter-in-law...... Yes~! Cher, you tap! ”