Chapter 61: After the Air Raid
After the air raid, it is not an exaggeration to describe the sea area where the reinforcement fleet is located.
Wave after wave of sea Lang chased by, and the corpses of many devils were held up and swallowed by Lang, and this place suddenly became like a ghost domain.
Human beings are the strangest and most complex creatures in the world, and sometimes, when they are immersed in the scene, they don't feel anything, but afterwards they will have serious sequelae.
Ouyang Yun's insistence on sinking fewer enemy ships and killing more devils was based on this perspective. Although Taiwan was once Chinese land, it was occupied by the Japanese for many years. Since the Japanese regard Taiwan as their homeland, it is naturally impossible for the Cadet Army to maintain its existence for a long time. Although the Cadet Army has grown to a considerable scale, it is still a glow of fireflies compared to the Japanese army. Ouyang Yun had no doubt that if the Japanese were really determined to annihilate the Scholar Army, the Scholar Army would still be able to withstand the enemy. Min Yueqiong is so big, there are so many troops in the student army, even though the ordnance is more advanced than the Japanese army, but once the whole country comes to attack, then there is only one end for the student army, that is, it will appear abruptly like the original appearance, and suddenly disappear in the long river of history.
Even if this time it can thwart the plan of the Guards Division to enter the reinforcements, what about the next time? And next time? Sinking more ships would have inflicted greater losses on the Japanese, but it would not have been enough to plant the seeds of terror in their hearts. Ouyang Yun's idea of doing this was very simple, that is, to make the devils who survived after the air raid fearful, and make them tremble when they heard the name of the Xuebing Army. Only in this way can the superiority of the Japanese forces be neutralized, the time for which the Taiwan Corps is entrenched in Taiwan can be prolonged as much as possible, and it will be possible to continue to maintain a military presence in Taiwan in the Pacific War in the near future, and this will affect many of his plans in the future.
I have to admit that the Japanese are ruthless enough. Not only is it ruthless enough for the enemy, but it is also ruthless enough for itself - when the air raid is at its most intense, even if there is a bomb overhead, many little devils can still grit their teeth and persevere, and even dare to shoot in vain with the 38 big cover that has no effect on the white-sided dolphin.
Just because they're heroic in battle doesn't mean they're true warriors. Militarism and the so-called spirit of bushido are like a deformed cancer that can temporarily make them insane, but it cannot completely erase their innate fear of death. No, when the air raid ended, in the sea of corpses and blood, he suddenly found that he was only one step away from death, and then heard the heart-rending cries of those injured colleagues, and the spirit of many devils immediately collapsed completely.
Dozens of troop carriers, 90 percent of which were still burning with fire, and the billowing smoke obscured the sky, mixed with the strong smell of barbecue, which made people feel sick - many devils were incinerated in this fire that covered the sky, and when the surviving devils endured fear and nausea and began to put out the fire, some of them had already burned off some of their limbs.
In this air raid, more than five or six thousand devils were directly killed by the Guards Division, and the decks of some ships were densely packed with corpses, and their blood almost merged into a stream on the deck. Five or six thousand were killed by the explosion, about this number were shot and drowned by falling into the sea, and countless were wounded. Of the nine generals, two were killed, one was missing, three were seriously wounded, and one was slightly injured, and only Tsukahara 243 and Muto Akira and Toyoshima Botaro were not injured.
At the critical moment, Akira Muto and Fangtaro Toyoshima were stuffed into a lifeboat by their subordinates to survive death. After that, they went with the flow and witnessed the brutality of the Cadet Army.
Yes, brutal! Dozens of white-sided dolphins ignored the anti-aircraft fire of the escort fleet, swooping back and forth, and a large number of devils floating on the sea died, and the devils who were forced out of the cabin by the fireworks were more like live targets, and they fell into a group.
The sea was soon dyed red, just like the Songhua River at the time of the 918 Incident and the Yangtze River at the end of the Nanjing Campaign. If it were the officers who participated in the Battle of Nanjing with Matsui Ishine and others here, I don't know if they would have such thoughts: Retribution!
Skynet is magnificent but not leaky, and today, this ancient Chinese saying has been proven.
The vast majority of the devils of the Guards Division don't know water, and in this ocean that is almost as wide as the sky and has waves of one or two meters, even if they know how to water? As long as they are choked on two mouthfuls of water, then there is only one fate waiting for them.
Seeing many soldiers swallowed up by the waves, they struggled, however, at first, only waving arms remained, and then completely disappeared from view, Muto and Toyoshima were pale, their lips trembled, and for the first time, both of them tasted that life was worse than death.
Compared to the Guards Division, the escort fleet personnel sent by the Combined Fleet only suffered a few hundred casualties, which is really a loss of heart. However, their feelings are by no means much better than those of the devils of the Guards Division. Many devils in the escort fleet have experienced "sinking", they have always thought that it is the most tragic experience in their lives, and what they will never forget is to take revenge and shame, however, after witnessing the hellish feast given to the Guards Division by the Cadet Army Air Force, they realized how lucky they were.
"Aid to Taiwan, okay, now it's a joke!" In the captain's room of the "Soryu" aircraft carrier, Tsukahara said.
As the flagship of the escort fleet, the "Canglong" was the most seriously damaged of the many warships in the escort fleet. However, compared to those troop carriers, the damage to the hull and the loss of fighters were almost negligible. After the incoming enemy planes left the battlefield, all the ships of the convoy were actively rescuing the drowning man, or approaching a burning ship and helping it extinguish the fire with the high-pressure taps they carried.
Yamamoto was a very strong man, but after witnessing the nearby troop carriers and the terrible scene on the sea, this little devil actually shed a lot of tears. Tsukahara's cold-bloodedness made him very unhappy, but he couldn't refute it because he was his boss. Sighing heavily, he asked Tsukahara: "Your Excellency, now you can only wait for news from the military department, right?" ”
"What are you waiting for, it must be a retreat. After this battle, the 1st and 2nd Guards Divisions could not have recovered for a year. It seems that in the end, the only way to completely resolve the Taiwan incident is to rely on our combined fleet. Did Commander Yamamoto call back? ”
"Not yet."
In Nagasaki, in the medical room of the aircraft carrier "Kaga", Yamamoto Isoroku was surrounded by a group of military doctors.
The old devil has not been able to fully recover after being physically and mentally injured in the Hainan Campaign, well, a telegram from Tsukahara was patted, thinking that the air raid of the Xuebing Army was aimed at his own aircraft carrier, and the old devil fainted directly without taking a breath.
Yamamoto was the backbone of the Combined Fleet, and when he fainted, he alarmed all the high-ranking officials of the Combined Fleet, and everyone was worried about his safety, and they couldn't help but forget to return to Tsukahara.