Chapter 60: Disputes
"Eight squares! Could it be an armor-piercing projectile? On the deck below the bridge of the "Soryu", Tsukahara muttered to himself.
In the air, in the wheelhouse of the Flying Fortress numbered 0008, Xue Changkong exclaimed: "What a great power!" ”
And in the cab of the unnumbered white-sided dolphin, Gao Jian shook his head and said, "The accuracy is too poor!" He had intended to control the missile to hit the starboard waterline, but it ended up hitting the battery above the hull, hence the argument.
The warhead of this missile is an armor-piercing warhead, and if it hits the waterline, with its power, it can definitely tear an irreparable gap, in which case, the fate of the ship will only be sunk.
The missile that came out of nowhere once attracted everyone's attention. The reaction of the students was amazed and surprised, while the little devil was sincerely afraid.
About ten minutes after the air raid, the Japanese base camp in Tokyo was in chaos. Seishiro Sakagaki and the others were stunned by the telegram sent back by Muto Akira - Ouyang Yun's hand was really weird, and the timing of the attack was so precise that it hit the only weakness of the Guards Division with one blow. "There are moles, there are definitely moles!" Seishiro Sakagaki brandished the telegram and roared like thunder.
"There is definitely a problem with the combined fleet! We should challenge Yamamoto Isoroku! "Someone in the War Department suggested.
The deputy chief of the Admiralty, Inoue Narumi, was furious when he heard this, and he shouted: "Eight grids, only your army has a problem." During the Hainan Campaign, if it weren't for the Osaka Division's inability to do its work, how could our Combined Fleet return in vain? ”
Because Admiralty Isoroku Yamamoto was stationed in Nagasaki, the representative of the Japanese Admiralty in Tokyo was actually Narumi Inoue. His opinion was equivalent to representing the Admiralty, and Seishiro Sakagaki laughed angrily when he heard this, and he asked rhetorically: "Inoue-kun, it's better that you don't mention the Battle of Hainan." You said that the Osaka Division did not contribute to the work, so let me ask you, who captured the southwest of Qiongnan? Is it your combined fleet? Now it is the Osaka Division that is withstanding the heavy pressure of the student army and sticking to the southwest of Qiong! The Guards Division has entered Taiwan, and there are a few people here who know the news of Tokyo Zhiludao, do you think there are spies among us? ”
"We people are loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, so naturally there can't be a spy of the Zhina, but what about the Guards Division? Can you guarantee that no one in the Guards Division has been bribed by the China? Inoue asked rhetorically.
Seishiro Sakagaki became angrier, and he yelled, "Good question. In the Guards Division, except for a few generals, the others were told that they would come to the aid of Taiwan before they set off. ”
Inoue Narumi was speechless. Those who can serve as brigade commanders and division commanders in the Guards Division are all behind the generals, or the descendants of the old and immortal army of the army.
Seeing that he stopped talking, Seishiro Sakagaki's arrogance became more and more arrogant, and he waited for Inoue to continue yelling: "Our army has always been the most loyal subject of His Majesty the Emperor, but it is your Admiralty, hum, I really doubt it." It's called Koizumi or something, and the Battle of Hainan was what he proposed, right? Yamamoto was confused, he didn't even know the origin of this person, and he dared to take it for his own use - this is extremely irresponsible to the empire......"
"Sakagaki-kun, that's enough!" At this time, military senator Sugiyama Mototo.
Sugiyama Moto, the old man of the War Department, drafted the "Declaration of War on China" and the culprit of Japan's all-out invasion of China. He glanced at everyone and said, "It's too late to say anything now, let's think about how to deal with the aftermath." If the Guards Division returns with a feather, how should the Taiwan incident be resolved? Do you really want to let the student army sit there to grow up? Cadet Army! Ouyang Yun! Hachige, a small warlord in China, has repeatedly challenged the military might of the Great Japanese Empire, and it is time to completely eradicate it. ”
Sugiyama Moto's qualifications are too old, and although his current position is still under Sakagaki, as soon as he speaks, others will not dare to openly refute it.
While an earthquake struck the Japanese military headquarters in Tokyo and the Japanese military was struggling over the attack on the reinforcement fleet, the air raid on the northeastern waters of the Diaoyu Islands was nearing its end.
Judging from the number of ship losses alone, this air raid was much less than that of the "sunk bar", but if the number of casualties is taken into account, the heavy damage inflicted on the Japanese army by this "capsizing" operation is definitely no less than that of the "sunk bar."
Of all the troop carriers in the fleet, only three were not severely damaged, and the rest of the superstructure was almost razed to the ground. Among them, the three largest troop carriers led by the "Jinjiang Maru" were sunk, including the "Jinjiang Maru", and two were sunk, which directly caused nearly 10,000 devils and a large amount of ordnance and materials to fall into the sea. Then, under the strafing of dozens of white-sided dolphins, many devils lost even the chance to be rescued, and were directly killed on the spot.
At the beginning of the formulation of the "capsizing" operation, Xue Changkong and the others did not understand why the commander-in-chief was so kind this time that he did not care about sinking a few more enemy ships. Because according to the scale of this air attack, as long as they carry more armor-piercing shells, they can completely sink more enemy ships, in that case, even if the number of enemy kills is limited, the damage caused to the Japanese army is definitely only greater.
This question, when the operation was over and the air raid was almost red with the blood of the little devils, they finally figured it out.
The specific casualty figures of the Japanese army are not known to the Cadet Army. After all, there have been too many such examples before, such as the Tianjin victory, the 108th Division was obviously wiped out, but the result was not covered up by the Tokyo base camp, and a fiasco was actually turned into a great victory.
Xue Changkong and the others just deduced an approximate figure by taking pictures and observing, and then evacuated contentedly.
In this battle, the Cadet Army lost a total of nine white-sided dolphins, and thirteen people were killed and missing, which is not a small loss, but compared to the casualties of the Japanese army, it is almost negligible.
The two large troop carriers that were sunk were the work of torpedo attack aircraft. The "Yangtze Alligator" made a great show of power when it first entered the battlefield, and except for one of the three heavy torpedoes, which failed to make a contribution to the dud project, the other two hit the target, and one of them almost killed two lieutenant generals, Akira Muto and Shotaro Toyoshima.
What made Tsukahara extremely depressed and angry was that they first used machine gun fire to blow up several lifeboats that had gone to capture the pilots of the Cadet Corps, and then rescued several pilots who had fallen into the water with nets. "Eight grids, the people of Zhina are really prepared to come without leaking!" He watched the white-sided dolphins drag away with the nets containing the students, and his thoughts were complicated, and he had thoughts of suicide for a while.