Hu Weidong was very disgusted by the behavior of the Soviet Red Navy for "borrowing land for the winter" and actually probably relying on it not to leave, although he did not want to build a strong enemy before the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan and did not have a hard top, but obviously he would not cooperate with the Soviets much, and the anti-aircraft shells left to the Soviet Union were all fixed-height fuse shells that were captured from the devil at the beginning, not to mention, the radar was only given to the early Shiyan model, and if it were not for the fact that the target of the radar was too big to hide, Hu Weidong did not even want to give this kind of

And this kind of rag is really miserable, not to mention that it cannot be used around the clock, and the detection distance is also hard, even if the sky is clear, it can only detect ships twenty or thirty kilometers away and planes within ten kilometers, and what is even more chilling is that it can only tell you that there is an unknown target in a certain direction, as for what the target is and how many, you can only understand it when the target enters the line of sight

In addition, the Soviet government did not want to overstimulate Japan, so it ordered the Soviet planes in Weihaiwei not to enter the territorial waters of Japan (Korea) when patrolling, but the problem was that Weihaiwei was less than 100 kilometers away from the closest distance to the Korean Peninsula, which was tantamount to actively compressing the warning range to a very dangerous level. As a result, when the Soviets discovered that the devil plane group was coming, the Soviet-style planes on the Weihaiwei airport had no time to take off to meet the battle, and in a short time, dozens of Soviet planes parked at the airport were all blown up, and although the underground hangar survived, it could not fly out because the runway was seriously damaged, and they could only sit back and watch the Japanese bomber formation launch round after round of air raids on more than 20 Soviet naval ships anchored in Weihaiwei Port. However, the Soviet warships and the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns arranged on the shore did not achieve much success because of the backward fuses of the shells, but were quickly solved by the Japanese dive bombers because their positions were exposed

It must be admitted that a battleship is a battleship after all, and even if it is only a thin-skinned battleship converted from a battlecruiser, it is not something that can be sunk by a Japanese Type 98 shipboard bomber (i.e., the historical 99 ship bomber) with a bomb load of only 490 kg (Note 1), although it is the latest model of the Japanese Navy. Not to mention the other relatively old models, the two battleships were accurately hit by thousands of bombs (including 60kg of small aerial bombs mounted under the wings), but they still stubbornly floated on the water

But. After the frenzied bombing of the Japanese aircraft group again and again, the superstructure of the two battleships has been completely blown up beyond recognition, and the anti-aircraft weapons on the ships have been destroyed long ago. And the Japanese Navy had been preparing for this raid for several months, and naturally it was impossible not to take into account the shortcomings of the dive bombers. Historically, they used torpedo bombers to match them, and after the anti-aircraft weapons on the enemy's huge ships, especially the close defense weapons, were attracted by the dive bombers, the torpedo planes approached the enemy ships. Sink it with a powerful torpedo; However, in this time and space, due to the heavy losses under the powerful anti-aircraft fire of the Chinese Navy, the torpedo bombers were almost all shot down, but basically did not achieve any meaningful results, so the Japanese Navy hastily abandoned the torpedo bomber formation, so now they can solve the battleship in their hands only the battleship itself, and the Japanese Combined Fleet has indeed made up its mind this time. They sent their only two battleships so far.

Although the Jishu was not directly transferred, the Americans helped the Japanese Navy buy the Swedish Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun and the Swiss Erlikon 20mm anti-aircraft gun, which had been unable to buy before, two of the most outstanding small-caliber anti-aircraft guns in history during World War II. As a result, the air defense capability of the Japanese warships has been greatly improved, and this is precisely the prerequisite for the Japanese Navy to agree to start a war against the Soviet Union without authorization, otherwise even if only the Soviet Air Force is present, it may pose a fatal threat to the only two battleships of the Japanese army and the high-speed battleships that can still cooperate with aircraft carrier operations, and this loss is difficult for the Japanese Navy to bear

It is also worth mentioning that it took only a few months for the Japanese to imitate and start mass production of counterfeit goods that were almost inferior in performance to imported products, which even the Americans did not expect, and they underestimated the rigor and ingenuity of the Japanese (the former is common to all single nation-states, the latter is the characteristic of the peoples of Northeast Asia, and it must be admitted that Japan is indeed a great nation in terms of merit alone), and thus will reap the consequences in the near future, of course, these are all for another time

In addition to the substantial enhancement of the air defense capability of warships, the main force of the North China Air Corps is far away on both sides of the Huai River, and most of the planes of the Soviet Air Force are deployed near Qingdao, and there are not many enemy planes that can rush to the rescue of Weihaiwei in a short period of time.

As expected by the Japanese Navy's Command Department, although several adjacent field airfields quickly sent planes to help, because of the lack of numbers, they were easily defeated by a huge group of planes that had an absolute advantage in the number of devils. It is undeniable that the Soviet pilots were very brave, but their recklessness also made the Soviet side continue to be outnumbered, and the difference in numbers was often more than 10 times, and the result was quickly broken by the enemy, the Soviet Union lost hundreds of planes, but only shot down more than 20 Japanese planes, which can be called the biggest fiasco after the Soviet aid air force came to China.

Note 1: And it is not a 490kg aerial bomb, but a 250kg bomb on the belly and four 60kg bombs on the wings, so the destructive power on the warship is even less. Such a small bomb load, not to mention compared with the German Stuka dive bomber, even the American dive bomber is a lot stronger than the devil, the key to which is that Japan was backward in structural science at that time, although theoretical science is not as direct to the service of production and life as applied science and technology, but if the foundation of theoretical science is too poor, the development of applied science and technology will also be difficult, but for backward industrial countries, even if they know this, they often have to make trade-offs because of the consideration of the cost-effectiveness ratio. (To be continued.) )