In the case of the few ships of the Navy stationed in Lushun, even if they are exhausted, they can't evacuate many people. www.biquge.info Under the threat of Yamada Otozo, the navy had no choice but to send out this old-fashioned cargo ship, which was originally going to be transferred back to the mainland, was forty years old and had a speed of only ten knots. A number of barges and sailboats have also been transferred from the coast of the DPRK to ensure that ships capable of transporting 10,000 people at a time.

Not only is this Takasaki transport ship, the largest transport volume, but the age of more than 40 years is purely grandfather's class. It is that other barges or those thousand-ton cargo ships are not less than 30 years old. There is no way that the new ship will either sink in the South Pacific or be trapped in Southeast Asia and will not be able to return.

These grandfather-class transport ships have become the only ships that the Japanese Navy can draw out now. These ships, of all sizes, and styles, were the first of their kind for the Japanese army's maritime transportation operations, which had always been proud of the navy.

Of course, it is not true that new transport ships cannot be deployed, but after the Battle of Qikou, neither the navy nor the army will be willing to transfer Type 1 and Type 2 landing ships, as well as shorter transport ships, to the Bohai Sea. Because for an inland sea like the Bohai Sea, plus an opponent like the Anti-Union who does not play cards according to common sense.

As long as the enemy troops laid mines in the old Tieshan waterway, those transport ships could only be trapped in the Bohai Sea, waiting for the enemy planes in all directions to sink them like targets. In the previous battle of Qikou, how could there be such a layup of mines to the Anti-Japanese Union? A square kilometer of sea area can concentrate dozens of mines.

That's a bray, and even the soles aren't so dense. The Japanese Navy was reluctant to transfer new transport ships to transport the Fourth Army stranded in Huludao. Not only was the Japanese Navy reluctant, but the Army, which had a small number of transport fleets in its hands, had little strength at the moment, and at the same time was reluctant to have the few transport ships left.

In the battle of Qikou, the losses of the army were even greater than those of the navy. The lessons of the Battle of Qikou were almost painful for the army. The lessons of the past are not far away, and the army is reluctant to give up the little fleet that is left in its hands. So these old guys who withdrew from Lushun and were still wandering in the sea off Lushun could only temporarily stay in ambush.

Anyway, for the Japanese army, it was not far from Lianshan Bay to Port Arthur. Although these ships are a little older, they are not as small as the new ones in terms of traffic. The speed is a little slower, but at such a close distance, it is not unacceptable. As long as you act in a more subtle way, there shouldn't be much of a problem.

As for the army's already small transport fleet, it has already been almost consumed. Moreover, it is too late to transfer ships from the mainland and Shanghai to the northeast. Therefore, this transportation can only be mainly borne by the navy that swore after the Battle of Qikou to kill and no longer enter the Bohai Sea.

However, this time the navy was able to learn well, and before setting off, it sent minesweepers to secretly conduct a reconnaissance on Lianshan Bay and the entire waterway. No mines were found, so he agreed to send ships to transport the Fourth Army trapped in Huludao. However, the Navy also made it clear to the Army that this was the last time the Navy would cooperate with the Army in Manchuria.

In the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the navy, which had lost most of its capital, had to transfer most of the ships on the Chinese battlefield and the Manchurian battlefield, except for those gunboats that could not go to the sea, back to the mainland to prepare for the defense of the homeland. There is no longer any surplus force to cooperate with the army's operations in China and Manchuria.

When this fleet was like a thief, after docking at the port in the second half of the night, it immediately loaded the first batch of troops who were scheduled to retreat, and immediately pulled anchor, and refused to stay in Lianshan Bay for a minute. Seeing that the sky was about to brighten, he immediately retreated to the sea off Lianshan Bay.

It's just that the Takasaki transport ship, the largest tonnage, is too slow. The original speed of ten knots, after forty years of service, was further reduced. In addition to the large and small old ships in the fleet, the speed is generally not fast. The sky had begun to brighten one after another, and the Japanese fleet had just sailed out of Lianshan Bay.

As a result, this miscellaneous group of ships drove slowly through Lianshan Bay, but they were greeted by a large number of attack aircraft of the Anti-United Nations. Although there was only one coastal defense ship, an old gunboat, plus a few minesweepers and submarines, all the guns were fired desperately into the sky. However, in the face of the attack aircraft group of the Anti-United Nations, its firepower is still too weak.

And those large and small, slow-moving old-class transport ships, plus completely unprotected sailboats, have also become the best targets. The battle off the coast of Qikou was re-staged off Huludao. High-explosive aerial bombs, napalm, rockets, plus an overwhelming load of machine gun bullets and artillery shells.

The anti-coalition air forces, which had no scruples, dropped airborne bombs at a height that grazed the masts of Japanese ships. The Takasaki, which was slow but was the most obvious target because of its size, was the first to be shot. Two napalm directly ignited a raging fire on this transport ship with a full load displacement of 6,000 tons.

Napalm is not necessarily easy to use against those warships, but since the First World War in Qikou, the anti-union forces have liked to use this kind of incendiary bomb to deal with Japanese transport ships. Especially those completely unarmored troop carriers, as long as they hit a napalm, the whole ship instantly becomes a purgatory on earth,

This large transport ship of more than 3,000 Japanese troops was forced to be crammed into it, and after an anti-United Nations attack plane dropped two napalm bombs that hit directly on the deck at the height of the mast, the ship was ignited with a raging fire, and the Japanese soldiers on board cried wolf. The black smoke rising from the burning steel can be seen clearly from more than a dozen kilometers away.

In addition to the Takasaki, the rest were at least stuffed with barges of hundreds of Japanese troops, as well as the five thousand-ton cargo ships with people on their masts, as well as a large number of sailboats and tugboats, as well as the old gunboat and a few minesweepers, which were also suffering under the fire of high-explosive bombs and rockets. The first escort ship to be sunk was the old gunboat.

In the face of the firepower attack of the anti-coalition air force, the Japanese naval officers who led the command of the team reacted very quickly. Immediately ordered the fleet to sail to the nearest Yingkou port, and dispersed with all their strength to break through, and they could run out one by one. Otherwise, these tens of thousands of troops would have to lose all of them in the sea off this Lianshan Bay.

However, before the Japanese fleet could carry out this order, the sea surface changed dramatically. A small fleet of ships with red flags, some of them, unusually familiar to the Japanese naval officers in charge, appeared behind and in front of them. Not only did it cut off the route back to Huludao, but it was also specifically responsible for intercepting the Japanese sailing ships.

Although these ships do not have large artillery, only one coastal defense ship is still a thousand-ton ship, and the rest are some salvaged and repaired inland river gunboats, as well as more than 100-ton large gunboats made in the cabin of the Songhua River in Harbin, or only a few dozen tons of gunboats. Isn't it the two 300-ton gunboats of the Puppet Manchurian Maritime Police Force, one transport gunboat and three gunboats.

Such a small light ship, in the heyday of the Japanese Navy, even before the Battle of Leyte Gulf, would not be enough for the Japanese Navy to plug its teeth. But now, these light ships, which have come from Fuzhou Bay, have become a nightmare for the Japanese transport fleet. In particular, those unarmed sailing ships temporarily recruited from the Korean Peninsula have become the preferred targets.

No matter how slow these ships are, they are much faster than those slow sailing ships. The large number of small-caliber guns and machine guns is very powerful against these unarmored sailing ships. When they saw their fleet coming, the sadistic planes in the sky concentrated on dealing with the large transport ships, and the remaining small ships were handed over to their own fleet.

This small fleet, which suddenly appeared in front of the Japanese transport fleet, was the combat ships used by the Anti-Japanese Federation to cover Tao Jingfei's landing in Fuzhou Bay and escort the battleships and the puppet Manchurian maritime police team that revolted. After receiving Yang Zhen's order, this small fleet, which was concentrating in Fuzhou Bay, immediately pulled anchor and headed for Lianshan Bay at full speed under the guidance of the ships of the Puppet Manchurian Maritime Police Force.

After hurrying and hurrying, several ships were scattered because they were not skilled in the battle of sea formations, but finally arrived on the battlefield when the Japanese transport fleet left Lianshan Bay. There is no way to turn out that these ships have been training on the inland rivers of the Songhua River, and they are far from being proficient in sea operations, so it is not surprising that there have been some accidents.

As the battle progressed, it could almost be said that the naked and unguarded Japanese transport fleet was sunk one by one as if it had been targeted. The first thing that couldn't be carried was the Miyazaki transport ship that was prioritized because of its huge size. When this large cargo ship, which was ignited into purgatory by the raging fire, half floated on the surface of the water with the smell of barbecue meat on its body.

It wasn't until two anti-United Nations SBD dive bombers rushed over with three high-explosive bombs that the ship's suffering was completely ended. At this time, the more than 3,000 Japanese troops on the ship were basically roasted in the cabin. Only a small number of Japanese soldiers on the deck who jumped into the sea in time escaped by luck.

The remaining five thousand-ton cargo ships plus a few barges, only two of them were still able to float on the water at this time, and they were still desperately struggling to turn to Yingkou. As a result, they were chased by several bombers and sunk directly on the sea. When the bomber group left, the Japanese army off the coast of Lianshan Bay at this time was a huge fleet, and only a group of sailing ships were still scattered and desperately fleeing.

The only force of the Anti-Japanese Union was one Japanese coastal defense ship and two gunboats. A small navy dominated by gunboats. In addition to rifles and light and heavy machine guns, the group of sailing ships, which had only a few 92 infantry guns, happened to be the best targets for combat. Flat-firing anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber artillery struck these sailing ships to the ground.

The former Suma heavy gunboat was taken over by some personnel from the Northeast Military Region's Frontier Ship Brigade after being salvaged and repaired from the Japanese warship group that had been sunk in Haihe. and a coastal defense ship and the Chidori, a mine boat that was also bombed and sunk in the Haihe River and repaired by the Anti-Japanese Federation, also joined the massacre.

These ships were all sunk in the Haihe River in the spring of this year, when they captured Tianjin. Except for those ships that were completely blown up and could not be repaired. The rest of the ships have been repaired with all their might, and they are basically ready for use. It's just that there are a few shallow river gunboats, and they really can't go out to the far sea, so they can only stay in Tianjin.

However, all the ships that were able to go to sea were basically mobilized to participate in the anti-United Nations landing operation. After completing the landing operation, Yang Zhen, who was aware that the Fourth Army was about to retreat, was all transferred to the sea off Huludao. These Japanese-built ships, together with the rebellious ships of the puppet Manchurian Maritime Police Force, accurately and ruthlessly hit the shells made by the Japanese themselves.