It's just that no matter what kind of strange warships the Japanese army and navy sent, but in the face of the resistance without a single warship, the navy dispatched one battleship, one heavy cruiser, one old armored cruiser, two light cruisers, fifteen destroyers, plus two aviation battleships that were positioned as aircraft carriers by the Japanese Navy, but in fact they could only do the work of the old battleships, were still quite powerful.

Under the cover of the powerful artillery fire of these warships, the huge army and navy fleets each transported the strength of one division and one regiment of the navy, and one navy special marine unit plus an amphibious tank wing carried out a forced landing in the direction of Qikou. In order to cooperate with the Japanese army in the southeast battlefield of Shanxi, the hundreds of thousands of anti-Japanese troops fighting in the southern part of Hebei were encircled.

However, in the face of the Japanese army's imminent large-scale landing operation, Du Kaishan, who was ordered to sit on the Jinpu line to command the anti-landing operation, was quite calm. The cannon group in his hand, although it has a long range and great power, is the most powerful of all the equipped artillery in his hands, but after all, it is an ordinary army support artillery on the ground, and the caliber and range are there.

With 150 or 170 mm cannons, let alone against 356 mm or even larger caliber naval guns, it is impossible to compete with the four 203 mm naval guns of the old armored cruiser. Outside of their maximum range, they can suppress themselves to the death.

If he really did that, in addition to changing his courage, I am afraid that more people will think that he is a big fool. What's more, if these cannon groups are exhausted and the Japanese landing division is allowed to go deep into the interior to cut off the Tianjin-Pudong railway, the first one will not be able to spare himself.

It is important to know that in a situation where it is impossible for the aviation to draw a large number of aircraft for a long time and concentrate on one operational direction. Although these long-range cannon shells are not many, they are the most important means of fire support in anti-landing operations. If it runs out, how can those howitzers alone deal with a large number of Japanese ships?

When Qikou was fortified, Du Kaishan did not have so much capital, and it was impossible to build layers of reinforced concrete fortifications along the coastline of Qikou, let alone build an unusually strong defense system. When the fighting on the Southern Front was raging, he didn't even have enough troops to implement a trapezoidal defense in depth.

The only thing that can be done is to set up a number of field fortification groups, and to take as few troops as possible except for a small number of alert troops in the front, so as not to be consumed by the Japanese naval artillery fire little by little. Give up fighting for the beachhead with the enemy, and fight to the death with the Japanese landing force within the range of its naval guns.

Instead, lure it out of range of the ship's guns and engage the enemy in a decisive battle with the armored cluster in concentrated hands. In addition, as many false targets and false fortifications as possible were set up in the entire Qikou front to disperse the first wave of Japanese landing pressure. It is to make use of the painstaking tactical arrangements as much as possible to make up for the absolute disadvantage in firepower.

So he aimed his fire at those landing ships, as well as destroyers that were unscrupulous in their shooting. He was not afraid of being landed by the Japanese infantry, and his rocket artillery group had already calibrated the entire Qikou coastline to a depth of more than 10 kilometers. As long as the Japanese army lands and assembles, the rocket artillery group will first entertain them.

And just behind him, on the Jinpu line, the two armored divisions that were ready to attack, plus two infantry divisions, would also give the landed Japanese troops a good drink. So he was not worried about how much threat the Japanese landing force would bring to him. Similarly, those light destroyers and coastal defense ships, although they can withstand the fire, still pose a considerable threat to his defense system.

He still has two regimental cannon groups in his hands, and Du Kaishan really doesn't care much about the threat that these medium-sized ships with only medium-caliber naval guns and little armor protection will pose to him. He believed that the cannon group with a range of more than 20 kilometers in his hands could completely deal with these destroyers.

However, he was quite taboo about the battleships of the Japanese Navy, which were like hills in his telescope, and the large-caliber naval guns equipped with which a hill could be leveled in an instant.

These large-caliber naval guns, which fired outside the range of the cannon in his hand, were not comparable to the cannon in his hand with a range of only more than 20 kilometers. Therefore, he had to be steady, and when his mine array was in effect, at least the large ships of the Japanese army could not fire without impunity. If the first wave of the Japanese landing force landed first and had a tendency to develop in depth, then use a hit-and-run rocket artillery group against them.

As for whether the Japanese ships will enter his mine array, Du Kaishan, who already has a certain plan, still has a plan in his heart. If they don't go, find a way to drive them in. In order to resist the landing operation of the Japanese army, Du Kaishan can be regarded as hollowing out. He thought of all kinds of ways that could be imagined and couldn't be imagined.

Just as the Japanese large and medium-sized ship groups anchored in the sea off Qikou, they continued to attack the false targets set up by the beachhead and the poor defense troops to vent their artillery fire, blowing up those fake tanks and fake fortifications made of mud and wood into the sky one by one, and leveling the communication trenches and fire points. The first wave of landing troops has already started a fierce battle with a regiment on the front line of the Anti-Japanese Union.

The large, medium, and small landing craft carrying the second wave of infantry in the landing operation were busy transporting the loaded infantry ashore. The Type 2 transport ship, which could directly seize the beach, was opening the springboard in the bow of the ship and sending the army's artillery, tanks, and formed Japanese infantry squadrons ashore one by one.

After the navy's special type 2 and type 3 internal fireboats, that is, amphibious tanks, completed their unloading from the type 1 transport ship, they started to move forward at full speed toward the coast. The special four-type internal fireboat, which has just been put into service, is carrying a special Marine Corps and is also rushing to land on the beach.

The third wave of landing forces is switching between transport ships, landing ships, and landing craft. The transport ships in the back also continued to transfer supplies to the Type 2 landing ships, preparing to provide supplies for the Japanese troops who had landed. A small episode that suddenly appeared unexpectedly disrupted the entire formation of the Japanese Navy.

Under the cover of eight P-40 fighters, the Japanese naval aviation blockade line was torn apart by low-altitude surprise attacks, and more than a dozen anti-Union Blenheim bombers and SBD bombers suddenly appeared, which immediately plunged the Japanese naval ship formation, which had been flaunting its military might before, into chaos. The large-caliber naval guns, which were still showing off their might, all stopped firing.

In the naval and air battle that broke out on Klute Island on 17 February this year, the Japanese Navy encountered a large-scale air attack by the US military at an important base in the central Pacific Ocean and the location of the Combined Fleet Command. By the time the U.S. forces occupied all of the Marshall Islands on 22 February, a fierce naval and air battle had resulted in extremely heavy losses for the Japanese army.

The number of ships sunk by the Japanese Navy at Truk reached 200,000 tons, and the number of downed planes reached more than 200. Its naval and air forces in the Central Pacific Ocean have almost lost embers. Even the Combined Fleet Command was driven out of Klute Island, known as Japan's Pearl Harbor.

The Japanese Navy, which was afraid of being bombed, has made air defense the first priority. Therefore, although there were not many planes dispatched by the Anti-Japanese Union, the Japanese naval vessels, which were worried about being bombed in the Pacific Ocean, immediately and quickly carried out their operations in strict accordance with the air defense tutorial. While all the ships were firing into the air with anti-aircraft guns, almost all large ships, as well as the anti-submarine ships and air defense destroyers escorting the ships, were constantly doing anti-aircraft maneuvers.

However, to the surprise of the Japanese Navy, the dozen or so bombers of the Anti-United Nations only hurriedly dropped more than a dozen aerial bombs on the head of the formation, only damaging one type transport ship, and hitting a 50-kilogram bomb of the Yakumo before flying away in a hurry.

These dozen or so bombers who came and went in a hurry, and did not sink a single Japanese ship, seemed to warn the Japanese Navy that Lao Tzu did not say that although there was no navy, Lao Tzu still had an air force. You bastards, don't be too public, it's not like I don't have a way to deal with you.

Despite the heavenly enemy, none of the Japanese Navy inflicted any great losses. But the Japanese naval fleet on the sea did something on its own. The battleship Yamashiro, which was serving as fire support, was performing an anti-aircraft maneuver to avoid the anti-coalition sneak attack bombers, when suddenly a continuous and violent explosion occurred in the waist of the ship.

With a few loud bangs, the huge ship, which was launched in 1915 and had a full load displacement of 39,000 tons after several modifications, was almost blown up by the waist. Without even saying hello, let alone giving other Japanese ships any time to rescue, they sank into the Bohai Bay at a very fast speed.

Before the other naval ships could react, the Hyuga, one of the two air battleships that was also maneuvering, also won the bid almost at the same time. Two anchor mines triggered in succession at the bow of the ship completely blew up the entire bow. After the modification, the monster, which looked a little top-heavy, could no longer maintain its balance after the bow was blown off, and plunged headfirst into the sea.

This Soviet-made six-anchor mine imitated by the Anti-United Nations adheres to the consistent style of Soviet-made weapons, and the amount of charge is far greater than that of ordinary countries' mines. Although one can't blow up a battleship, but if you trigger several in a row, it's not something that ordinary ships can afford.

These two Japanese battleships were hit several anchor mines one after another, and they did not even leave time for the Japanese Navy to react. Even the two battleships combined with a crew of several hundred were not able to escape. Most of them followed their ships and sank into the Bohai Bay together.

And the Hyuga air battleship, which was sinking into the sea with its big head down, because the water depth in this area was only twenty or thirty meters, and its huge hull, which was more than 200 meters long, made the stern erect on the sea surface. The bridge, which looks like a high-rise building on the battleship Yamashiro, is also partially exposed on the sea to tell sù that he has been there.

Another air battleship, the Ise, was also hit by a magnetic mine during the turn. Fortunately, compared with the two colleagues who were sunk by the bombing, the part of the mine in this dude was under the hangar a little behind. Although he was seriously injured and his speed was greatly reduced, he fortunately did not lose his ability to sail, let alone be sunk.

And it was not only these three battleships that were unlucky, but also the Yakumo armored cruiser that served as air defense cover for them, as well as three destroyers, a coastal defense ship, and a submarine that were also sunk by mines. Even the small and weak submarine was blown up several meters above the water by the huge power of a six-anchor mine imitating the Soviet Union.

The loss of so many warships in just a few minutes stunned all the captains of the Japanese Navy who participated in the battle. The sea is littered with the wreckage of sunken warships and sailors floating on the surface. The Hyuga air battleship, which had sunk headfirst and had not yet completely sunk into the sea, had a high raised stern like the tall bridge of the Yamashiro exposed to the water, and it became a self-evident sign on the sea within a radius of several kilometers.