And at the moment, for the Japanese Navy, which was blown up and turned its head around, the loss of these large ships is not the most fatal loss. {We don't write novels, we're just web text porters - the most fatal loss was the sinking of the battleship Yamashiro, which served as the flagship of the entire escort fleet, and the loss was not as simple as a battleship.

There was also the Japanese Navy, almost the entire chain of command, as well as all the senior officers and operational staff officers in this war. The rapid sinking of the battleship took away the brains of the Japanese Navy, which commanded this combat operation. From the commander of the fleet to the senior operational staff officer, not a single one escaped.

The biggest reason for this result is not how accurate Du Kaishan's calculations are. However, this time, the Japanese Navy covered the land forces to carry out the landing operation in the Bohai Bay, and in the face of the resistance to the alliance, which did not have any naval vessels, not even the most powerful airborne anti-ship torpedoes, which were the most powerful of the air-to-ship weapons, it was really too careless and taken for granted.

When it had previously carried out two artillery bombardments on the front line of Tianjin and Qikou, the huge fleet dispatched by the Japanese Navy did not encounter any air threat or minefields. In addition to the consumption of some fuel and the waste of a large number of shells, the ships participating in the battle did not even touch a single piece of paint.

The result of the action was too smooth, so that the Japanese Navy from top to bottom thought. The biggest threat to this operation is the current US Navy, which is almost ubiquitous with submarines. As well as those planes of the Anti-Japanese Union that lack experience in ship-to-ship combat and also lack ship-to-ship attack weapons, of course, there are also some shore defense guns to a greater or lesser extent.

Therefore, this time, the Japanese Navy dispatched the battleship Yamashiro, which was equipped with six twin-mounted 356-mm naval guns, and two battleships equipped with four twin-mounted 356-mm air battleships, to specifically support the army's operations at the artillery positions that had already been reconnoitred by reconnaissance planes and deployed by the Anti-Japanese Union in the direction of Qikou.

It would be enough to add to this the Yakumo armored cruiser armed with two twin 203-mm guns, the Maya heavy cruiser with four twin 203-mm guns, plus two light cruisers with four 140-mm guns each, and a significant number of destroyers and coastal defense ships with a large amount of anti-aircraft fire.

The Japanese navy, which participated in the war this time, believed that the greatest task of the navy was to suppress the anti-coalition fortifications that appeared along the coast of Qikou after the last shelling and were scattered within a depth of more than 10 kilometers with naval artillery firepower, and to support the land force in carrying out landing operations. and the implementation of anti-submarine and anti-aircraft escort for the army transport fleet.

At the time of formulating this battle plan, almost no one in the entire Japanese Navy, from top to bottom, would think that the pure army of the Anti-United Nations would lay mines in the Bohai Bay, and they did not even consider the possibility of the Anti-United Nations possessing mines. Because laying mines is also a technical job. Without the Navy's resistance to the United Nations, how could mines be laid? What kind of joke is this?

Otherwise, the Japanese Navy would not have agreed to the army and dispatched so many ships in one go. Even the newly equipped electric probe, which is the Japanese name for radar, was taken out. However, the auxiliary ships are mainly anti-aircraft and anti-submarine ships, and not even a single sea-sweeping boat has been dispatched.

The two shelling operations, which were unusually smooth and did not even stir up a single wave, made the Japanese Navy very optimistic about this mission. Even the sailors, including the sailors, considered the operation to be nothing more than a mere shooting exercise, at most to deal with the enemy's planes.

As long as the submarines of the Americans do not appear, then the likelihood of the emergence of other threats, can almost be said to be minimal. Not even a single torpedo enemy, just a simple army, on the sea they were not capable of threatening the Imperial Navy.

Perhaps on land, these enemy forces can indeed be considered to be able to fight. But at sea, it is still the Japanese Empire that has the final say. You can make the army suffer repeated losses, and there is basically no way to fight back. But on the sea, right off the coast of your China, it is still the Imperial Navy that has the final say.

No matter how much artillery they had, they could not match the firepower of a battleship. No matter how large the caliber of the guns and their long range were, they could not compare to the more than 20 356-mm naval guns of the three battleships combined. No matter how strong their fortifications were, they could not withstand a single 356-mm shell. There is no navy, and there is not even a single opponent that can sampan, which makes the Japanese navy very ostentatious.

You must know that when it attacked Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands in the past two years, the navy did not exert such great strength. Sending two battleships to carry out fire support would also be very face-saving for the opponent. You must know that in the face of the world's first and second naval powers, to deal with the anti-alliance without a navy, it is already very important to dispatch one battleship and two aviation battleships.

Although in the final stage of preparation before the landing operation, the navy also sent minesweepers to carry out minesweeping operations along the line from Tianjin in the north to Laizhou Bay in the south. But after wasting a lot of time and precious fuel, the Japanese Navy, which had nothing to gain, completely relaxed the last trace of vigilance in its mind.

Before the implementation of this landing, all the minesweepers in Bohai Bay will be transferred back to Lushun and the mainland. And even to deal with the US Navy submarines, which in their opinion pose the greatest threat to the entire landing operation. Even several coastal defense ships and sea-sweepers that had been patrolling in Bohai Bay were transferred to the Laotieshan Waterway and other sea areas to take over the escort ships dispatched by the mainland to escort the fleet.

As a result, it was not expected that it was the night before their landing that Du Kaishan laid a considerable number of mines in the sea area where his battleships had carried out shelling last time. Moreover, instead of floating mines that are exposed to the surface of the water and are easy to detect, anchor mines and magnetic mines that are fixed under the surface of the water are used.

At the same time, Du Kaishan's choice of mine-laying targets was not the channels leading to the beachhead that could be used for the Japanese army to land on the beach, but the berthing area for the large ships of the Japanese Navy last time. Du Kaishan, who used the thinking of land warfare to fight naval battles, his idea was actually very simple. Who said that when a minefield is laid, it has to be deployed several days in advance? Who said that you need a special minelayer to lay mines?

Who says that you can't lay mines with wooden boats and some improvised lifting equipment? For an opponent like Du Kaishan, who is more than a difficult situation and more excited, there are only unthinkable ways in this world, and there are no problems that cannot be solved. Dozens of small wooden boats, the same can solve the problem.

And I have been dealing with devils for so many years, when did I deploy the minefield in advance when I was fighting? Isn't that waiting for the devils to figure out their minefield deployment in advance? After so many years of fighting, the devils have hit under their noses, and the temporary laying of mines is not more powerful.

Du Kaishan, who knew that he would not be able to understand naval operations in a short period of time, would not be able to understand naval operations in the end, and in the end he simply did not go to the script, rote and rote surprise study of how to conduct anti-landing operations. The means of ambushing on land were simply used in this anti-landing operation.

In his opinion, it is better to play to his strengths by temporarily clinging to the script. It was not a battle against the Japanese on the sea, and this anti-landing operation was not only because the Japanese army's support firepower was too strong, but also because it was super mobile. In his eyes Du Kaishan, there is not much difference from the blocking and counterattacking battles that he usually fights.

It is precisely this idea that made Du Kaishan not use these precious mines to block the waterway when he set up the minefield, nor did he lay all the mines into the Bohai Bay, completely sealing the Bohai Bay. The reason why he didn't do it was simple: these mines blocked the shipping lanes and could only blow up a few small ships.

Large ships have a deep draft and a long range of naval guns, so they cannot get too close to the shore. And according to the order of the infantry march, no one would put artillery at the front of the marching column. No matter how the Japanese army's tactics are used, it must be those small miscellaneous fish who will take the lead in the front. Laying mines on the waterway was not only not interesting, but it also did not make the Japanese army break their muscles and bones and completely abandon the attempt of landing operations.

Even if a few small ships were bombed, the Japanese landing operation could only be slightly delayed. On the contrary, it was easy to startle the snakes, so that the Japanese army would be alert in advance and find a way to clean up these mines. Either you don't do it, or you want to make it big. There is no point in engaging in those destroyers and coastal defense ships, and if you want to bomb them, you can bomb their large ships.

As for the fact that these 3,000 mines were not used, the reason for completely sealing the Bohai Bay is simpler. This Bohai Bay is the territory of the Chinese, and it is the place where the people around the Bohai Bay make food and eat. If this place is full of mines, does it know you are a Chinese merchant ship, a fishing boat, or a Japanese warship?

The Anti-Japanese Federation itself does not have warships, let alone the means to clear mines, and even these mines that have just been made, there are not many people who can use them. It's easy to get this thunder down, but it's troublesome to clean up. It is not easy to lay these mines, which are much larger than mines, and it is estimated that they will be even more troublesome to sweep.

The Anti-Japanese Union is fighting on land, and it is still required to draw up a detailed map of minefields when laying mines. After the end of the war, all the mines laid were cleared, because we were worried about inadvertently injuring innocent people, let alone in the Bohai Bay, which is related to the lives of the surrounding fishermen.

Minefields on the ground do not run or move, and as long as a detailed map of the minelaying area is drawn up, it is not difficult to clear them. But this mine is laid on this sea, and the ghost knows if it will drift somewhere. If the area is too large, it will injure innocents if it is not cleaned in time.

As for whether the remaining mines can be cleaned up as quickly as possible after the war, Du Kaishan has never thought about it. What are you kidding, it is a mine-laying job, which was finally completed by transferring dozens of workers from the arsenal, cooperating with a regiment of the Bohai Naval Region, plus an engineer battalion of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and wandering all night at sea.

And when laying mines, they mainly relied on those dozens of workers. In order to lay mines in the predetermined area before dawn, they almost didn't exhaust the dozens of workers to death. Set the depth, and push those anchor mines, magnetic mines, into the sea to exhaust people. In the absence of professionals and ships, minesweeping is not to be thought about.

If this mine is deployed too much, in case it is not used up by the day. Then the remaining mines, with no technology and no equipment, will not be able to turn the entire Bohai Bay into a dead sea, but they will smash the jobs of the people in the surrounding areas. If he smashed the people's rice bowls, No. 1 would not hesitate to smash his own rice pot.

Since arriving in Qikou, Du Kaishan, who is very fond of shrimp and yellow croaker in Bohai Bay, does not want to never be able to eat these things in the future. If the fishing boat can't get into the sea, where can you go to eat these delicacies? Even for his own deliciousness, Du Kaishan didn't want to turn the entire Bohai Bay into a minefield.

What's more, he doesn't have so many mines in his hands, which is enough to completely block the Bohai Bay. Besides, even if there were enough mines, he wouldn't do it. If the Japanese landing fleet is blocked and unable to carry out landing operations, won't it be impossible for us to fight the war? I've been busy for so long, isn't I empty-handed again, so I'm still playing a fart?