However, even so, there were still 11 Mitsubishi Type 96 land medium attack aircraft that were shot down by the anti-aircraft guns of enemy ships before they could drop their torpedoes, and even more before they could pull up after dropping their torpedoes. Come on,.! In addition to the weakness of the torpedo planes themselves, the pilots generally lacked experience in throwing mines; on the one hand, they got closer to each other in order to ensure the hit rate, resulting in a marked increase in the hit rate of the enemy's anti-aircraft fire; on the other hand, they were not skilled enough in the flight maneuvers of flying the planes to drop mines, and the danger period became longer. For the same reason, the torpedoes dropped by these 20 torpedo bombers had a very disappointing hit rate: nearly 20 torpedoes were fired, but only two hits, and one of them did not explode

Hearing only a "boom", Vice Admiral Yoshida Zengo suddenly felt a shaking under his feet, and immediately raised his heart to his throat, and only then relieved his heart after learning that the Nagato was fine. However, he was relieved when he thought about it, the power of aviation torpedoes is smaller than that of shipborne torpedoes, and for a top battleship like Nagato, even if it can blow up the waterline armor, as long as the ship's damage management is correct and timely, it will not pose much of a threat, and the reason why he reacted so fiercely was because his confidence was shaken after being sunk by four battleships in a row. After realizing this, Vice Admiral Yoshida Zengo regained a little confidence in the battleship, "Maybe it's not that the battleship is outdated, but it's just that the four old battleships are outdated, as long as the armor and anti-aircraft firepower are strengthened, the battleship is still the hegemon of the sea!" ”

None of the torpedoes could hit the Nagato, and the dive bombers were even more helpless against it. Although more than 100 officers and men on board were killed and injured under successive waves of bombing, the battleship Nagato itself did not suffer any substantial damage, only a slight drop in speed, and the North China Air Corps, which had run out of bombs, had no choice but to return home

Although he regretted that he could not destroy the two giant ships, Hu Weidong was quite satisfied with the result of being able to sink all the other 4 battleships, not to mention that the young men also sank 7 medium-sized ships and damaged 14. Such a result is enough to shock Shijie

Inspired by this battle, many people of insight on Shijie began to realize the great value of aircraft carriers, but the two Nagato-class giant ships were undamaged under the siege of countless enemy aircraft, but the "giant ship artilleryists" in power in various countries picked up a life-saving straw. They generally stubbornly believed that the battleships were not obsolete, and that the four were sunk only because they were too old and backward, especially because Britain and Germany accelerated the construction of super-battleships. However, considering that the economically developed European airports are everywhere, there may not be anything wrong with their choice, and the massive land-based aircraft with the main fleet actually have a higher efficiency ratio than the aircraft carrier battle group

The United States has always been one of the countries that attach the most importance to aircraft carriers, and the Pacific Ocean is so vast that aircraft carriers are particularly important. But there are also many diehards in the top echelons of the US Navy, and with America's core interests in Europe, battleships are clearly more useful (although the United States has no foothold in Europe, this country will certainly pull in several allies no matter who it is at war with). So airports are not a problem. Therefore, there are also many who advocate focusing the development of the Navy on super-battleships.

However, due to the devastation of the Japanese Navy, most members of the U.S. legislature believe that the U.S. has no rival in the Pacific (Note 1) and wants to get out of the economic crisis as soon as possible. The federal government should save unnecessary spending and use the most needed departments. Therefore, not to mention the new ship-building Jihua, even the original ship-building Jihua has been cut somewhat, and since Japan is no longer afraid, the role of the Pacific Fleet has been relatively reduced, and the Atlantic Fleet needs super battleships more. As a result, the construction of an improved version of the Yorktown-class aircraft carrier "Hornet" was directly vetoed. Although the four South Dakota-class battleships in the original ship Jihua were also cancelled, the reason was not to save money, but the Americans put forward higher requirements for the performance of the new battleships, because the Americans attached great importance to armor and air defense capabilities, the construction of the Iowa-class battleships began more than a year ahead of schedule, which directly changed the history of the Pacific War and even the entire World War II

The Germans were even more shocked, not only because their thinking on naval development was affected, but also because their attitude towards Japan changed abruptly. It must be known that whether in history or in this time and space, the reason why Germany has formed a good alliance with Japan and even wants to form an alliance with it is, on the one hand, that it wants Japan to insert a knife in the back of the Soviet Union in the future when the Soviet Union and Germany go to war, so as to share the pressure on Germany; The main purpose was to use Japan's powerful navy to make up for its own shortcomings in this regard. However, to the surprise of the Germans, although Japan occupied a lot of land after its full-scale invasion of China, it also suffered a lot of defeats, among which China's ace 15th Army had annihilated more than 200,000 Japanese troops, and it was getting stronger and stronger, and it saw that it would not take a few years to drive the Japanese out of China. The Japanese Army can't even beat the Chinese, can they be expected to deal with the more powerful Soviets? Now even the navy, which the Japanese are most proud of, has been dampened by several surprise attacks by the Chinese, and the number of capital ships is only half, and the aircraft carriers are completely gone, which is really a disappointment to the Germans

Note 1: Japan lacks resources in its own territory, and even grain needs to be imported in large quantities, and as long as it does not pose or may pose a threat to itself, no country is willing to spend a lot of money to invade Japan, especially the United States, a commercial empire that pursues profit in everything. In fact, the reason why Japan was able to have the opportunity for the Meiji Restoration was also due to the fact that, without national hatred, the Western powers would not fight a war that was politically unnecessary and economically untenable. At this time, all the Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk and only half of the battleships were left, and it was natural for the Americans to ignore the Japanese threat, but the Americans did not know at this time that the Japanese had scooped up all the sunken aircraft carriers and were secretly building more new aircraft carriers. But it is no wonder that due to the birth of the 15th Army in this time and space, Japan's intelligence agencies and the intelligence department of the Red Party have long been in contact with the bayonets, but on the contrary, they have been tempered, and all kinds of loopholes that existed before have been plugged one by one in advance......)

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