Chapter 731: Air Raid on Yokohama Port Battery

Emperor Meiji couldn't help but shake his body when he heard the report of Japanese Prime Minister Saionji Gongwang about the loss of the Japanese Navy in the port of Yokohama by the Chinese Imperial fighter planes, and Saionji Gongwang immediately stepped forward, supported Emperor Meiji with his hand, and said with concern: "Your Majesty, you have nothing to do, right?" ”

Emperor Meiji pushed away the hand of the Saionji Gongwang, shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Don't worry, I'm fine, it's just that the losses of our Imperial Japanese Navy are also too great, and we have already lost 18 capital battleships before we have faced off with the fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy. ”

Xiyuan Temple Gongwang said helplessly: "There is no way, the performance of those fighters of the Chinese Empire is too powerful, that is, the warships of our Imperial Japanese Navy, including the warships of the Pacific Fleet of the captured United States Navy, are equipped with new air defense weapons, and they cannot avoid being continuously sunk by the fighters of the Chinese Empire, and the second joint expeditionary fleet formed by the Entente, the Allies and the United States was bombed by the Chinese Imperial fighters in this way, and was finally completely defeated by the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy. ”

Emperor Meiji said worriedly, "Then what about the remaining naval fleet of our Imperial Japanese Empire in Yokohama?" Although the air raids of the Chinese Imperial fighters were temporarily stopped after three waves, the Chinese Imperial Navy fleet that entered Tokyo Bay was about to arrive in Yokohama, right? ”

Saionji Gongwang said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty the Emperor, the telegram sent by Togo-kun says that the naval fleet of the Chinese Empire that entered Tokyo Bay has appeared on the sea outside the port of Yokohama, and His Majesty the Emperor is relieved. Togo-kun ordered the remaining warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy to return to the port of Yokohama. The rest of our warships will be joined by many shore defense guns in the port of Yokohama. Resist the attack of the Imperial Chinese Navy fleet. ”

Emperor Meiji muttered to himself: "God Amaterasu bless, the development of our Imperial Japanese Navy, but it is very, very difficult, I hope that the fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the port of Yokohama, with the shore defense artillery in the port of Yokohama, can repel the fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and the warships of our Imperial Japan can be more preserved under the attack of the Imperial Chinese Navy fleet." ”

Just when Emperor Meiji prayed. In the waters outside the port of Yokohama, the Fourth Fleet, the Fifth Fleet, the Sixth Fleet, the Hakodate Port Garrison Fleet, and the submarine fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy have arrived here in a big way, and the remnants of the Japanese Navy have all withdrawn to the port of Yokohama.

When the remnants of the Japanese navy withdrew into the port of Yokohama, they did not directly turn off the boilers of the warships, but maintained a certain speed and cruised on the sea several hundred meters away from the port pier, so that they could not only get the fire support of the port shore defense guns. It will not become a target for the warships of the Chinese Empire because it is docked on the pier.

At this time, the Japanese Navy warships that were able to retreat to the port of Yokohama were left with 1 Hyuga-class dreadnought, 1 Kako-class dreadnought, 3 Kawachi-class dreadnought battleships, 5 large fast armored cruisers, 8 fast protection cruisers, 9 destroyers, and 20 torpedo boats.

In addition, the Japanese Navy captured the warships of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, as well as 2 New York-class super dreadnought battleships, 4 Delaware-class dreadnought battleships, 1 Wyoming-class dreadnought, 2 Virginia-class all-steel battleships, 3 Connecticut-class all-steel battleships, 6 large fast armored cruisers, 10 fast protection cruisers, 19 destroyers, 30 torpedo boats, and 8 submarines. It also retreated into the port of Yokohama.

In the bridge of the Zhao Yun, the flagship of the Fourth Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, Chen Ming, the commander of the Fourth Fleet, put down his binoculars and said to Li Ran, the captain of the Zhao Yun beside him: "The Japanese warships have all retreated to the port of Yokohama. It is only 2 or 300 meters from the wharf of Yokohama Port, so that's it. When we launched an artillery bombardment on the remnants of the Japanese warships, we had to get close to the port of Yokohama. The shore defense guns in the port of Yokohama will also be able to help the remnants of the Japanese warships to fight against the warships of our Royal Navy. ”

Li Ran put down the telescope he raised, frowned and said: "The remnants of the Japanese Navy's warships, including the remnants of the Americans, only have 2 super dreadnought battleships, 10 dreadnought battleships and 5 all-steel battleships left in terms of the main battleships, and our 3 main fleets plus the Hakodate Port garrison fleet have 4 super dreadnought battleships, 16 dreadnought battleships and 24 all-steel battleships. According to the intelligence agency, there are more than 200 coastal defense guns in the port of Yokohama, and there are 60 coastal defense guns with a caliber of more than 150 millimeters. ”

In order to protect the remaining three large islands, the Japanese have built a large number of forts in various ports in Japan, equipped with a large number of coastal defense guns, Yokohama Port is one of the ports with the most coastal defense guns, and other ports with more shore defense guns are Tokyo, Sasebo, and Yokosuka, and the port of Tokyo is equipped with the most coastal defense guns in the entire Japanese port.

In the port of Yokohama, the Japanese built a total of 18 forts, with 12 40x caliber 305 mm coastal defense guns, 10 40x caliber 280 mm coastal defense guns, 14 40x caliber 210 mm coastal defense guns, 24 40x caliber 150 mm coastal defense guns, 64 45x caliber 102 mm coastal defense guns, and 92 45x caliber 75 mm coastal defense guns.

Compared with the naval guns on warships, the elevation angle of the coastal defense gun is larger, and the firing range is longer, and even the shore defense gun with a caliber of 40 times that of 150 mm has an effective firing range of 12,000 meters.

After listening to Li Ran's words, Chen Ming waved his hand and said categorically: "Don't talk about the more than 200 shore defense guns in Yokohama Port today, even if the number of shore defense guns in Yokohama Port is several times more, don't want to stop our attack on the remnants of the Japanese Navy's fleet, and order the carrier-based aircraft group of the four myth-class aircraft carriers to take off again." Targeting the Japanese batteries in the port of Yokohama, order all the battleships of the Royal Navy's Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Fleets and the Hakodate Port Garrison Fleet to form a battle line. While the carrier-based aircraft group was bombarding the batteries in the port of Yokohama, they bombarded the Japanese Navy battleships and batteries in the harbor. ”

Immediately the Imperial Navy of the Chinese Empire came to the battleships in the waters off the port of Yokohama. At the beginning, several battle lines were formed, and the 4 Admiral-class super dreadnought battleships formed a single battle line, and the 16 dreadnought battleships also formed a long battle line.

The other 24 all-steel battleships and 4 ironclad battleships also formed a longer battle line, and the 4 ironclad battleships of the Royal Navy Hakodate Port Garrison Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy have been renovated and replaced with new 40 times caliber 305 mm main guns, and their combat effectiveness is no worse than that of all-steel battleships.

In an underground bunker in the port of Yokohama, Heihachiro Togo, Minister of the Japanese Navy and commander of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy, saw the Imperial Chinese Navy fleet outside the port of Yokohama through a periscope. I couldn't help but gasp, took out a handkerchief from my trouser pocket, and wiped the sweat from my forehead.

If there were no more than 200 shore defense guns in the port of Yokohama, Heihachiro Togo would definitely order all the warships of the Japanese Navy to break through immediately, after all, the fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy was too large, didn't it mean that the main force of the Imperial Chinese Navy was still returning from the Arabian Sea? Where did the navy of the Chinese Empire come up with such a huge fleet?

Heihachiro Togo said to one of the Japanese Navy's Osa beside him: "Order all the warships of our Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet not to stay away from the port. We had to rely on the shore defense artillery in the port of Yokohama to resist the huge fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy. ”

The Imperial Chinese Navy's huge fleet that arrived in the waters off the port of Yokohama did not come here, and immediately launched an attack on the Japanese navy in the port of Yokohama. Instead, the battleships were lined up in three battle lines of varying lengths, cruising on the sea 35,000 meters away from the port of Yokohama until nearly 3 o'clock in the afternoon of March 10. In the sky of the port of Yokohama, a dense group of carrier-based aircraft of the Imperial Chinese Navy appeared. The three battle lines of the Imperial Chinese Navy approached the port of Yokohama.

Then came to the carrier-based aircraft group of the Imperial Chinese Navy in the port of Yokohama. This time, instead of focusing on the warships of the Japanese Navy, the main target was 18 batteries in the port of Yokohama.

Li Zheng piloted his Sea Eagle dive bomber and participated in this wave of air raids on the Yokohama port battery. Bombed and sank a dreadnought battleship, so that Li Zheng is still in the excitement, just flew over the port of Yokohama, Li Zheng controlled the sea eagle dive bomber and dived straight towards a battery.

However, it is not so easy to bomb the batteries in the port of Yokohama, the Japanese have arranged a lot of anti-aircraft weapons in the port of Yokohama, although only a small part is a new type of anti-aircraft guns and new anti-aircraft machine guns, but it still poses a great threat to the carrier-based aircraft of dive bombing, and the other Sea Eagle bomber that dived with Li Zheng's Sea Eagle dive bomber was hit by anti-aircraft fire on the ground when it dived to an altitude of about 4,000 meters. Suddenly it turned into a huge and dazzling fireball in the sky.

Li Zheng was not affected, continued to control the fighter plane to dive downward, and dropped a 500-kilogram aerial bomb at an altitude of about 2,500 meters above the ground, and then Li Zheng immediately controlled the sea eagle dive bomber to climb to the sky.

This 500-kilogram aerial bomb landed on the top of a fort in the port of Yokohama, but unfortunately this 500-kilogram aerial bomb did not penetrate the 90-centimeter-thick cement steel bar, so that Li Zheng, who was driving the Sea Eagle dive bomber back to an altitude of 6,000 meters, couldn't help but pat his thigh angrily, if it was an 800-kilogram armor-piercing aerial bomb, it would definitely be able to completely blow up this fort.

Li Zheng's Sea Eagle dive bomber still had two 100-kilogram aerial bombs left on it, and there was no need to think about dealing with any of the batteries in Yokohama Port, but Li Zheng was not ready to return like this, he targeted the anti-aircraft weapons in Yokohama Port, and dived directly into a Japanese air defense position.

Soon Li Zheng controlled the Sea Eagle dive bomber at a distance of only 2,300 meters from the ground altitude, and then Li Zheng pressed the button, and two 100-kilogram aerial bombs broke away from the Sea Eagle dive bomber and fell towards the Japanese air defense position on the ground.

"Boom-boom-" After the two explosions, the Japanese air defense position continued to hear continuous explosions, this is the air defense position ammunition was detonated by aerial bombs, and finally this air defense position with 4 anti-aircraft guns and 6 anti-aircraft machine guns was completely blown up by 2 100 kg aerial bombs, at this time Li Zheng's young face showed a satisfied smile, although the sea eagle dive bomber also has 2 automatic machine guns on it, but Li Zheng is not ready to dive down again, Otherwise, he can only use 2 automatic machine guns to strafe, in that case, he must control the Sea Eagle dive bomber, dive to a height of less than 1000 meters from the ground to play the role of strafing, such a dense anti-aircraft fire, or don't be a hero, if you don't get it right, you will be killed.

In this wave of air raids on the Yokohama port battery, 4 myth-class aircraft carriers dispatched 176 carrier-based aircraft, which is already the largest carrier-based aircraft group that 4 myth-class aircraft carriers can use, in addition to the carrier-based aircraft that crashed in the first 3 waves of air raids, there are dozens of carrier-based aircraft on the 4 mythical-class aircraft carriers because they were injured and could not immediately take to the air for combat.

In addition, among the 176 carrier-based aircraft, 18 puffin torpedo bombers did not attack the port battery, but directly attacked the Japanese Navy warships in the port, after all, there was no way to attack the battery with torpedoes.

The air raid on the port of Yokohama lasted only about 10 minutes, but the results were very good, and 8 of the 18 batteries in the port of Yokohama were hit by 800 kg of armor-piercing aerial bombs and were blown into a pile of rubble.

Basically, as long as 800 kilograms of armor-piercing aerial bombs penetrate the reinforced concrete on the top of the fort, they can detonate the shells of the shore defense guns in the fort, turning a large area of the fort into a pile of ruins.

In addition, one Connecticut-class all-steel battleship and one large fast armored cruiser of the original US Navy's Pacific Fleet, as well as the original fast protection cruiser of the Japanese Navy, were all sunk by torpedoes dropped by Puffin torpedo bombers. (To be continued.) )

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