Episode 98 Tune the tiger south

For the next two days, the front pages of major newspapers in China were covered by them. The two broadcasters also reported on their brilliant achievements. The high-power radio station set up on Dachangshan Island in eastern Liaoning Province also constantly broadcast to Japan in Japanese to publicize the victory and strength of the Ming army, the terrible defeat of the Japanese navy, the difficulties of the Japanese army, and the morale of the Japanese army and the people. The radio station on Dachangshan Island was originally used for broadcasting to the Qing Dynasty, but now it is used for broadcasting to Japan.

Due to the sinking of the Japanese battleship, the limelight of the Tianshu detachment has now far overshadowed the 66th Division of the Army, which is holding Anton. Although the 66th Division fought much harder, it paid much more than the Tianshu detachment. But the results were not as beautiful and eye-catching as those of the Tianshu detachment.

On the 10th and 11th, the Tianshu detachment plunged headlong into the western Pacific Ocean and drilled straight into the depths of the ocean, avoiding the search of reconnaissance planes flying from the direction of the Japanese mainland. It was going to drive east for another two days or so, then make a U-turn and head north, as stealthy as possible along the way. Then, all night, taking advantage of the darkness to quickly approach Tokyo, at dawn, let the bombers fly over Tokyo. Of course, when they returned, they would definitely be chased by Japanese land-based fighters. But the Tianshu detachment was prepared to pay a certain price for casualties in order to accomplish this feat.

On the day of the 10th, the attack received by Anton's army weakened. Both the 4th Division in the north and the 10th Division in the south weakened the intensity of the offensive. According to the report of the Ming army's reconnaissance planes transferred from the Mukden battlefield in the west, the Japanese army seemed to be changing its defenses. The 4th and 10th Divisions were rowing across the Yalu River on both sides of Anton's army. It seems that the 4th Division will be transferred to the south bank of the Yalu River, and the 10th Division will be transferred to the north bank to take up the main attack.

Anton received this information and knew that an even more severe test was coming. The Fourth Division was transferred to the back, although it was equivalent to not being able to care about the back, but the 10th Division was the main attack head-on, which was the real "main attack".

The high command also sent a report to Anton, encouraging them to hold out for a few more days anyway. Within a few days, reinforcements would be available to relieve them.

Now the Jinzhou battlefield is being fought fiercely, although the density of firepower of the Japanese army is not as high as that of the Ming army, but the desperate end of the troops, the tenacious fighting spirit that is not afraid of death, but to a large extent make up for the lack of weapons. In addition, until the 10th, the Mukden battlefield was still dominated by the Japanese army. Jinzhou held the throat inside and outside the Guan, and the Ming army did not completely win the Jinzhou Campaign, so it did not dare to let go and transfer troops to the hinterland of Fengtian.

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However, on the 11th, the 4th Division of the People's Guard Corps passed through Shanhaiguan and Huludao, and the front drove to the south of Jinzhou, and it was soon ready for battle. With the arrival of this armored division, the Ming army should have defeated the Japanese army on the Jinzhou side within a few days. In addition, at sea, after the Tianshu detachment sank two Japanese heavy cruisers and one battleship one after another, the top echelon of the Japanese military headquarters in Tokyo became angry and angry, and had already drawn naval forces from all sides to form a fleet to encircle and suppress the Tianshu detachment.

The Japanese army originally had a battleship in the Yellow Sea to control the sea supremacy in the Yellow Sea and prevent the Ming army from reinforcing the Liaodong Peninsula and the Yalu River estuary by sea. There were four battleships in the East China Sea, which controlled the sea control in the East China Sea, and also kept an eye on the main force of the Ming East China Sea Fleet, preventing the Ming battleships in Zhoushan from going north to seize the sea control in the Yellow Sea. There was a battleship at the base in Okinawa, which served as a "weight" in the center of the Ryukyu island chain, guarding the passes of the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The remaining four battleships were on the Japanese mainland, guarding the territorial waters and also acting as a mobile force. One of them was the Fuso, which was badly damaged in the naval battle of the Sea of Japan and is now undergoing major repairs.

Not now, an aircraft carrier formation sneaked out of the East China Sea Fleet, disrupting all this arrangement. Relying on carrier-based aircraft and high speed, the Ming aircraft carrier formation "burned, killed, and smashed" the southern part of the East China Sea, not only smashing open the gate of the Pacific Ocean, but also killing the Hiei, which was "watching the gate." This can no longer be left untouched.

The four battleships in the East China Sea were against the remaining four battleships on the Ming mainland, which was just right, and they couldn't be moved anyway. The three remaining battleships on the mainland were guarded by the family, and now one is in Yokosuka, defending Tokyo Bay; One is in Sasebo, defending the Tsushima Strait, and the other is in Kure Port in the Seto Inland Sea. The first two are vital points, and those two will definitely not be able to move. Then at most, you can only transfer the one in Kure Harbor. After painful weighing, the Japanese Navy's command department reluctantly transferred one of the two battleships in the Yellow Sea and one of the three battleships on the mainland. In addition, of the four aircraft carriers on the mainland, the military command department has happily transferred the two largest ones.

In this way, one battleship from the Yellow Sea, one battleship from the mainland, and two large aircraft carriers from the mainland are a total of four. Two battleships plus two aircraft carriers against three aircraft carriers of the Ming Army, four against three, the Tokyo Naval Command Department thought it was about the same. Only then did it officially order the formal transfer, rendezvous to form a new fleet, and move south to the direction of the Ryukyu island chain in the Pacific Ocean to search for the Ming aircraft carrier formation.

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The Ming aircraft carrier formation sank the Hiei on the evening of the 9th, and then the Tokyo Naval Command Department went south the next day, that is, on the morning of the 10th, after a night of quarrels and trade-offs. At noon on the 10th, the General Staff of the Ming Army found that a Japanese battleship was missing from the Yellow Sea. After further aerial reconnaissance, the Japanese battleship was spotted in the southern part of the Shandong Peninsula, and it was sailing south at a rapid pace, accompanied by two cruisers and six destroyers. After receiving the report, the General Staff of the Navy analyzed it and believed that the role of the Tianshu detachment had been played. The Japanese army should have been transferred from the south of the Yellow Sea.

The land-based planes on the Shandong Peninsula immediately took off after receiving the order and flew to the sea to take advantage of the attack. But this is the Yellow Sea, not far from the land of both sides, and the Japanese fleet to the south is constantly escorted by fighter jets flying from North Korea. Moreover, the Japanese army was a whole fleet with strong anti-aircraft firepower. There were two air battles in the Yellow Sea between the two armies, and neither side took advantage of anything. In the afternoon, the course of the Japanese fleet was changed to the southeast, and it gradually became farther and farther away from the land of Shandong, and closer and closer to the land of Korea, and the air protection of the Japanese army became stronger and stronger, and the Ming planes had little chance to attack.

But anyway. The strategic purpose of the Ming army was achieved. The Japanese army's maritime power in the Yellow Sea was suddenly weakened by 50%, and although the sea control did not fall into the hands of the Ming army, at least the two sides were evenly matched.

The Dongjiang Fleet of the Ming Army immediately lit up the warships and left the port in a vigorous manner to escort the fleet in Shandong. The operation of the Ming army to reinforce the Liaodong Peninsula from the sea began.

This also indicates that the Japanese army's battle situation in Mukden will become more and more unfavorable.

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On the evening of the 11th, a White Russian, who lived in Nanjing, approached the People's Guard. He claimed to be a Soviet intelligence officer, and was secretly instructed by Moscow to have some "communication" with the Ming.