Perhaps it was precisely because of the tremendous pressure at home that the Japanese Admiralty sternly rejected the request of the captain of the battleship Kirishima Masao Kanazawa to withdraw troops, and at the same time did not allow the warships that were not seriously injured to return to China for repairs. But complaining is complaining, even if Kanazawa Masao is conceited and smart, he can't think of any good way for a while, if he leads the fleet to retreat without authorization, he will definitely be unable to escape death after returning home, and this fleet now has only one battleship left, or the Kirishima that is converted from a self-battle cruiser and has thinner armor than traditional battleships, let alone attacking Qingdao, and even self-protection is not sure

Cleverness became a disadvantage at this time, and Masao Kanazawa actually came up with a way to kill the enemy Kirishima in his cranky thinking, which made him further lose confidence, "The Chinese have a strong aviation force in this area, although they may not be able to blow up and sink our ship, but with the number of bombers, if they attack the rudder part, it is easy to incapacitate our ship, and the rest of the ships cannot resist their air attacks." At that time, there will be only this one warship left, and it will not be able to start, even if it is a battleship, it can only wait to be sunk by their torpedoes"

However, he did not know that the enemy had used up many torpedoes in training before, and that they had been exhausted after the First World War last night, and now the Third Fleet of the Chinese Navy did not even have a single torpedo. However, Kanazawa Masao's idea cannot be said to be completely unreliable, at least Hu Weidong has now made up his mind to destroy this fleet. Although the approach is somewhat different from what Masao Kanazawa had in mind

On the same day, Hu Weidong concentrated all the large-caliber (122 and 150) vehicle-mounted artillery guns under his command, a total of no less than 150 guns, and after advancing to the effective firing range, under the guidance of reconnaissance planes, he suddenly launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the warships in the harbor, staring at those thin-skinned guns, and many Japanese ships were sunk and damaged immediately, and because the vehicle-mounted guns could be transferred immediately after the fire, they were far more flexible than the usual towed artillery. The Japanese ships were not equipped with a fast-responding gun-aiming radar, and the return fire was relatively slow, and the result was naturally all in vain.

The Japanese officers and soldiers gradually found out. After returning fire again and again, the enemy's artillery fire barely felt any weakening, and their morale could not help but become more and more low. After the remaining less than 10 Japanese ships had no choice but to stay away from the coast to avoid the shelling on the shore, the Chinese Air Force in Qingdao had already poured out of the nest, and more than 500 planes came to cover the sky and the sun, which had an unprecedented impact on the Japanese mentality, and after sinking or blowing up all the remaining Japanese ships by dive bombing (marked by the loss of air defense capability), 12 Type 97 heavy bombers of the North China Air Corps carried armor-piercing bombs weighing 2 tons and flew over the battleship Kirishima. This is also some heavy armor-piercing bombs captured by the Japanese at the beginning, after all, the Japanese army has very few permanent fortifications to face in China, let alone large armored warships

Unless these 12 bombshells are unlucky, they will be able to hit up to 12. Although one can damage the Kirishima, it is not easy to sink it, but as long as the hull structure is damaged, the 600 kg bombs mounted by seventy or eighty SB3 bombers are enough to make the Kirishima even more damaged, even if it can be blown up like the Bismarck, it has neither combat effectiveness nor mobility, but it is still unsinkable. Hu Weidong can also send the Dingyuan to make up the knife, although the caliber of the 356 main gun is slightly smaller, but if you fire at close range, it is enough to destroy the Kirishima, although the hole in the bow of the Dingyuan is barely blocked for the time being, but if it is not a naval battle, it is just a beating of the water dogs. But it's enough.

For the first time in the history of the People's Army, the possibility of a coordinated army, navy, and air force greatly increased everyone's confidence, but in the end, everyone did not get the opportunity to put it into practice, because Kanazawa Justice actually made people surrender under the white flag. Because there was no similar precedent before, everyone was stunned for a while, until Jin Ze Masayoshi really used a small boat to put down some unarmed personnel as required, Liu Yalou, the commander of the North China Air Corps who was responsible for commanding the battle, reacted, and took the risk of sending some soldiers on board, and it turned out that the other party really wanted to surrender, after the news was transmitted back to Qingdao, Hu Weidong couldn't believe his ears, but no matter what the inside situation was, who would be unhappy to be able to accidentally capture a complete battleship?

In addition to this complete battleship, the only sister ship of the Zhiyuan, the Chikumo, ran aground when evading the bombardment and was also managed to be towed back by the Third Fleet, as for the other ships, it was either due to being too damaged (in addition to the damage in the previous battle, the Japanese army aviation in Korea also had many air raids after the war, although they were all repelled by the North China Air Corps, but the wreckage of many ships was further damaged. Or soaked in seawater for too long and the rust is serious, basically failed to pull back, which is a pity for everyone, but the nearby fishermen have a new way to make money - scrap steel, which is a good raw material for electric furnace or open-hearth smelting high-quality steel, the reason why Japan imports a large number of scrap steel, in addition to the lack of iron ore factors, this is also an important reason. Even in the current Central Plains border area, although the converter steelmaking efficiency is extremely high, but if you want to smelt alloy steel with excellent performance, you still have to use an electric furnace, and the main raw material has to be scrap steel, such as warship armor, which originally contains some alloying elements, is a rare good raw material, and the purchase price is naturally higher than that of ordinary scrap steel. Stimulated by interests, and I don't know what the fishermen came up with, they actually recovered almost all the wreckage of the scattered warships sunk in the harbor in less than a year, which made Hu Weidong sigh at the ingenuity and wisdom of the Chinese working people

It is worth mentioning that some of the advice provided by Masao Kanazawa contributed to the towing of the Chikuma back to Qingdao, and he also persuaded the few surviving Japanese troops on the Chikuma to stop destroying the ship's equipment. After Hu Weidong heard about these deeds, he couldn't help but be a little interested in Masao Kanazawa, "Could this guy be Tomohisa Shiraishi in the Japanese Navy?" ”

So, Masao Kanazawa met for the first time this demon who was feared in Japan and called the "Eight Miscellaneous Snakes", although he had been mentally prepared, but after seeing Hu Weidong so young, Masao Kanazawa couldn't help but feel a little out of shape......)

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