And it is not yet known that his opponent, the Japanese Navy, who has secretly prepared several tables of feasts for them. {We don't write novels, we're just web word porters-??.?? In order to support the 6th Army's 6th Army's 6th Landing Operation, although aircraft carriers and all battleships deployed on the mainland were not dispatched in accordance with the requirements of the 6th Army, it can be said that the local destroyers and various 6th ships on the 6th Army did their best to provide support.

The Japanese Navy has invested in the capital, and the Japanese Sixth Army has not reserved the mobilization of resources that can be mobilized, and has taken out the little capital of ships in its hands. Not only all the transport ships and 6 ships that can be transferred from the mainland, but also the 6 ships that can be withdrawn. Even the Shenzhou Maru and the Akitsu Maru, these two non-donkeys and non-horses, the world's only 6-Army aircraft carrier transport ships, were also dispatched.

That's right, these two warships belonging to the 6th Army, although the current name is C-type transport ships. However, the original design of these two warships is to be aircraft carriers with transport capabilities, that is, transport ships that can carry combat aircraft. In particular, the Akitsu Maru not only carries naval guns, 6 boarding boats, but also an all-through deck, and can also carry eight carrier-based aircraft for combat.

This warship does look a bit nondescript now, but in fact, the design theory is still very advanced. Put it in the future, plus helicopters and vertical take-off and landing fighters, and that's an authentic amphibious assault ship. But if you put it now, some things that are not donkeys and horses are too advanced. Moreover, because ships without professional take-off and landing equipment can only carry eight unarmed aircraft, they can play a limited role in actual combat.

If it is assigned to the navy, after certain improvements, it can still be used as an escort aircraft carrier. However, it was designed, manufactured, and equipped for the 6th Army's ship engineering units. It was used like an eyeball by the 6th Army, and if it was handed over to the Navy, it would be something that should not be thought of.

However, the Sixth Army did not have a special carrier-based fighter, so it could only use 6-base aircraft to fill the number. Coupled with the lack of experience and equipment in the use of carrier-based aircraft, this aircraft carrier, which was built at great cost by the 6th Army, played more of an amphibious role in actual combat.

In other countries, no matter what the main purpose of the warship is, as long as it is counted as a warship, it is all organized and equipped by the navy???.? The 6th Army also had some ships, but they were all small short-haul ships. Equipping the 6th Army with amphibious assault ships, no, it should be called an aircraft carrier, and there is only one Japanese 6th Army in the world.

The losses of the navy here are getting bigger and bigger, and they are waiting for the shipyard to build new ships, and even do not hesitate to pull out those that have been converted into training ships to make up the numbers. However, the two warships of the Sixth Army with a certain combat and air combat capability are not used by the navy. After the completion of these two aircraft carriers of the 6th Army, the Navy also resolutely refused to give carrier-based aircraft technology and experience in taking off and landing. As a result, these two warships, after the construction was completed, did not play the role that the 6th Army wanted them to play.

These two Akitsu Maru and Shenzhou Maru are the treasures of the Japanese 6th Army, and they were used by the Japanese 6th Army as eyeballs, and they were simply taken out all at once this time. As for the sister ship of Akitsu Maru in the shipyard, because it has just started, it is not possible to count on it now.

But in any case, this time the 6th Army sent these two warships together, which can be regarded as giving up its old capital in front of the navy. The Qikou Deng-6 operation was also the last large-scale Deng-6 operation carried out by the Japanese army, which was already showing the end of the road, in World War II.

In fact, in Yang Zhen's view, although this approach of the Japanese Sixth Army is a bit too strange, it is still very much in line with its own characteristics in terms of the entire military system of the Japanese army and the characteristics of the operations it faces. As a resource-poor island country, but with strong expansionist ambitions, if Japan expands outward, the Deng-6 operation will definitely be a conventional mode of operation.

Although Japan has a strong navy, there is a powerful fleet waiting for them on the other side of the Pacific. In the fight against a weak country like China, which has no sea defenses, the Japanese navy can fully support it. But once it fights a naval power like the United States and Britain, the navy is likely to be too busy to take care of itself.

When the time comes, who will transport and protect the resources needed by the 6 Army? Will the Navy be able to fully meet the ships required for the 6 operations on board? Overly relying on the navy, which also has few auxiliary ships, is prone to missteps in many cases. Coupled with the contradictions between the Japanese 6 Navy, which is almost difficult to reconcile, who can guarantee that the Navy will provide enough ships for each operation?

In any case, Yang Zhen seems that the Japanese Sixth Army chose to build such a ship, and it has a Deng6 ship in its own hands that can carry out limited air support, which is still in line with the operational characteristics of the Japanese Sixth Army??.??. It's just that at this point, the design concept is somewhat overdone.

Moreover, the contradictions and estrangements between the 6 navies made the navy refuse to provide the required equipment and experience in construction and use. Coupled with the fact that the overly advanced ideas are limited by the current technical capabilities, and the lack of equipment for the real amphibious assault ships of later generations, these ships eventually become half-stretched projects.

But it must not be said that these two warships are really useless. In particular, if the Akitsu Maru is really equipped with carrier-based aircraft and equipped with carrier-based aircraft take-off and landing equipment, this kind of warship will still be quite a threat when carrying out the 6 Boarding operation. At least in terms of solving part of the Deng-6 combat air support, there is still no big problem. Although mosquitoes are small, it is quite uncomfortable to be bitten.

Of course, when these two World War II amphibious assault ships appeared off the coast of Qikou, they were bare on the deck except for the Japanese 6th Army, and there was not a single aircraft. However, this kind of warship with a huge hangar is quite capable of carrying various Japanese ships to board 6 ships, and it is far superior to ordinary 6 ships, at least the Americans are not comparable to the 6 ships.

However, it was not only the 6th Army that dispatched strange warships this time, but also two strange warships among the three battleships dispatched by the Navy. Among the three battleships dispatched by the Japanese army this time, in addition to the battleship Yamashiro that was dispatched last time, there were also two aircraft carriers converted from old battleships.

With the defeat of several naval battles in the South Pacific in 1943, the losses of the Japanese navy were not large. But the sinking of every warship, especially the sinking of large ships, was an irreparable loss for the Japanese Navy. In particular, the slow and unusual time of construction, and the loss of aircraft carriers in the main mode of naval warfare at the moment, were replenished far less quickly for the Japanese Navy than their enemies.

In order to make up for the battle damage of aircraft carriers, the Japanese Navy not only tried its best to speed up the construction of new ships, but also used its brains for old warships. After several selections, the two Ise-class battleships, which were old-fashioned, could not keep up with the modern fleet in terms of aviation and armor, and had repeated heavy accidents since their commissioning, were retrofitted with flight decks and take-off and landing equipment to become aircraft carriers.

It stands to reason that a battleship with a huge hull is not too out of the ordinary to be converted into an aircraft carrier. The first aircraft carrier of the US, Japan, and British navies, which have aircraft carriers in the world, was converted from large ships. And at present, the shipyards of the Japanese Navy are working overtime to transform aircraft carriers with large civilian ships.

Although there is no retrofit with an old battleship, it is barely a means and method. Except for the removal of the two turrets at the stern of the ship, as well as most of the secondary guns, almost all frontal firepower was retained. Only at the stern turret, with the addition of a modification of the flight deck, it looks special.

Although these two battleships can carry 22 carrier-based aircraft after the modification, while retaining a total of eight 356 mm main guns on the front, the firepower of these two aviation battleships at least looks extremely powerful. It has two means of warfare at the same time, and it also appears to be very comprehensive.

However, these two nondescript air battleships, because of their original design, are completely different from what the Japanese Navy originally imagined. When taking off and landing an aircraft, the artillery cannot fire at all, and once the main gun fires, the aircraft cannot take off and land, which is equivalent to abolishing the martial arts of half-pulling the body.

And the bridge like the high-rise buildings that Japanese warships on the front deck are accustomed to makes it easy for carrier-based aircraft to kiss the bridge fiercely when they take off and land. This kiss may not matter to the battleship, but the carrier-based aircraft is certainly not blessed. The most critical thing is that these two warships can only take off carrier-based aircraft and cannot recover carrier-based aircraft.

After takeoff, carrier-based aircraft either land on the surface of the water or land somewhere else. In short, these two aircraft carriers, like the two aircraft carriers of the 6th Army, are masters who can only fly and cannot be recovered. And unlike the chimneys of other aircraft carriers, which were on the other side, the chimneys of these two air battleships were directly opposite the flight deck. The black smoke from the chimney of a warship makes the pilot feel as if he is in a black fog.

What is even worse is that these two warships, except for a few water reconnaissance planes that can be hoisted on the surface of the water to take off, there are currently no suitable carrier-based combat aircraft. The Comet carrier-based aircraft scheduled to take off and land on a normal aircraft carrier are still full of accidents. During such a so-called aircraft carrier, I am afraid it will be even more difficult to take off and land.

Therefore, after the two aviation battleships were refitted at the end of 43, they have been training, retraining, running-in, and running-in. No matter how tense the war situation in the south is, it will be going around at home, and it will not be useful at all. The air corps that was scheduled to carry it was also trained and retrained, and it was never able to form combat effectiveness.

Such two large warships, which have both aviation support capabilities and powerful firepower, just stay on the mainland and go around in circles. It is very much that the fleet below that is exhausted by running around to support the operation is full of complaints about the navy leaving these two strange ships and those few national treasures at home.

It should be said that the Japanese Navy, which has always used the British as its division, is more democratic than the Sixth Army. Under the protest below, the Navy simply took advantage of this opportunity and sent out these two aviation battleships, which were always poorly refitted. The first is to use the several seaplanes on board to fire the naval guns for calibration, so as not to waste the navy's precious large-caliber shells, and then to calm the dissatisfaction below.

What's more, these two air battleships, although they did not carry any carrier-based aircraft except for a few seaplanes. However, the large and modified hangar can just be loaded with more materials and soldiers for the 6 Deng. And the eight 356-mm guns that were retained could also meet the fire support required by the 6 th Army. Therefore, sending these two warships out can be regarded as killing four birds with one stone for the navy.

In the end, it is a family, no matter how they fight in the nest, but after all, they still break bones and tendons. Japan's Sixth Army had to build warships, and this was not their job. The navy tossed around over there, forcibly converting two battleships into two aviation battleships that were neither donkeys nor horses. Speaking of strangeness, the Navy is no worse than the 6th Army.

However, at the moment, fortunately, there is not a single warship of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and it is fighting in an environment where there are many Japanese naval bases in the vicinity. There is no need for naval carrier-based aircraft support, only naval artillery fire support. The Japanese Navy, which served as the escort, sent these two strange ships, which is logically more suitable.