Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Combined Fleet Strikes! (Medium)

When the American officers and men in the positions on the shore of Tosa Bay were burned out by countless huge shells and howled wolves, the Japanese sailors on the 14 Yamato-class battleships on the opposite side were also suffering in the smoke of gunpowder, loud noises, tremors, and heat waves. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

“…… Five thousand two hundred meters away, fifteen degrees west-north in azimuth, target, enemy barracks, zero incendiary bombs, ready-"

“…… Zero incendiary bombs! Zero incendiary bombs! Timed fuse! Fastest reloading! Hurry up! You red deer are so slow! ”

Listening to the unceremonious scolding of the gun commander of the main turret behind the battleship Yamato, Private Private Minomiya Shiho, a wife who had just been on the ship for two months and still had a book of gunnery drills around her neck, hurriedly started the electric automatic ammunition loser, brought out the required shells, manually adjusted the fuse, and then sent the shells into the barrel of the main gun with a diameter of 460 millimeters at once, until the bolt clicked and closed, and the work was over.

Although most of the cabins of the ship were equipped with air conditioning and ventilation equipment, after the battle began, the turret of the battleship Yamato was still unbearably hot, and the smell of engine oil, gunsmoke and sweat was mixed together, and the smoke made the always clean lady Shiho Sannomiya almost nauseous - as an ordinary housewife, Shiho Sannomiya never thought that she would one day be in such an environment. But what's the solution? My husband has been conscripted into the army and died in Nanyang, the family has no pillars, the little pension has long been spent, and his house has been bombed into ruins by the plane of the American ghost animal. In order to allow himself and his daughter to eat the sumptuous food of the Navy and have a place to live, Sangong Zisui had to fight.

I have to admit that the food, clothing, housing and transportation on the Yamato are indeed very luxurious, and even the soldiers' cabins are fully electrified, with electric lights, air conditioning and running water, and there are music and radio dramas to listen to in the evening. As for the diet, it is even more luxurious, and Sannomiya Ziho feels that the fish and pastries she has eaten on the warship in the past two months are more than the sum of the past two years! But the work is also very hard, several instructors keep a straight face all day long, and ask the rookie female soldiers to train non-stop: carrying shells, loading fuses, measuring ranges, firing ...... And repeat over and over again the words of Admiral Heihachiro Togo: "...... A cannon with 100 rounds is not as good as a cannon with 100 shots. Because they waste nine thousand nine hundred shells and require a hundred times more soldiers to maneuver. ”

For this reason, Sannomiya Zisui had to memorize all kinds of boring shooting numbers like a family book, and the strength was really harder than when he was in school - not to mention eating the navy's first-class food and taking so many military rations, he had to have the consciousness of dedication to it, and his daughter, who had just turned three, was still in the nursery on the ship, if he didn't train well, what if he was sunk by the American and British ghost animals?

Luckily, the automatic ammunition loser on the Yamato was quite reliable, so she didn't have to manually load the shells into the breech, then take them out and put them back in......

Then, she heard the female captain Minami Rika shouting over the loudspeaker: "Open the gun!" Almost at the same second, the gun commander shouted: "Fire!" Open fire!"

The next moment, with the order to fire the cannons, the huge body of the battleship "Yamato" of 72,000 tons trembled, and in a series of deafening roars, nine huge guns of 18-inch caliber spewed out long dazzling flames one after another. The heavy projectile cut through the air in a series of red ballistic paths, spanned a long distance of five kilometers, and finally landed on the beachhead of Tosa Bay, instantly igniting a bright sea of fire.

At the beginning of this artillery battle, the Americans were not to be outdone, and launched their M1 howitzers, M59 "Long Tom" howitzers, and eight-inch Vickers guns obtained from the British, using the terrain to fire at the Japanese fleet. Columns of water were constantly rising around several Yamato-class battleships closest to the shore. Some shells exploded in the air, and shrapnel flew and hit the steel plates, making a piercing whistle.

However, even if the range of these army artillery is barely enough, it is still not as powerful as the heavy armor of the Yamato-class. However, the U.S. military did not have shore defense torpedoes (that is, torpedo tubes fixed on coastal batteries) like the Germans, so they could not pose a mortal threat to the Yamato-class battleships at all, so not long after the two sides bombarded each other, a small number of U.S. shore guns were destroyed one after another, and then the battle became a one-sided ravage.

Suddenly, a strong flash of a large explosion lit up on the shore, presumably hitting the ammunition depot of the American army, which made the rookie female sailors on the bridge and by the porthole cheer for a while, until the captain's urging came from the megaphone, "...... No corrections, 20 rounds of rapid fire each. Keep firing!"

As a result, the battleship Yamato continued to shoot non-stop, and the sound of cannon echoed in the sea of Tosa Bay. At the end of the arc trajectory, flames burst out one after another, and the flames flickered in the flames, and the strong light of the explosion of shells flashed in the flames, fully reflecting the cruel beauty of war and destruction......

Next, more than a dozen other majestic giant ships also opened fire and joined the chorus one after another. Countless steel projectiles streaked across the sea, fell on muddy beaches and rice fields, and raised scarlet fires and smoke - in the midst of this one-sided bombardment of the opposite shore, the 14 Yamato-class battleships and the only remaining battlecruiser of the Japanese home fleet were very relieved to anchor sideways and line up in a fixed battle line, and the turrets spewed smoke and fire alternately, and the huge sound of cannon roared and shook on the sea. In the haze of gunsmoke and flying sand and rocks, countless brilliant light clusters suddenly lit up, as if dozens of suns had risen suddenly! It didn't take long for a huge cloud of smoke to cover this stretch of coast, and only occasionally the flash of shell explosions could be seen through the cracks in the smoke, and the sight was truly spectacular.

After a while, the shelling of the Japanese battlefleet gradually stopped, and the smoke of gunpowder covering the sea and shore gradually dissipated, and as the field of vision was restored, the Japanese artillery observation post set up on the hill on the ground began to report the battle data to the fleet by radio to help the sailors correct their ballistics.

And the female cooks on the Yamato also took the opportunity to shuttle between the various cabins and brought hot meals to the rookie female soldiers who had been fighting for a long time. Despite being the simplest navy curry rice and hot tea, Ms. Shiho Sannomiya devoured it happily because the morning's artillery battle had taken a lot of her physical strength and energy. In addition, from the mouth of the cook, she also learned that her daughter and a group of friends were in the "classroom" on the ship, watching their mothers or sisters firing guns on the shore, and she couldn't help but feel more excited, and decided to work harder in the afternoon......

Then, after adjusting the firing parameters, the shelling of the battleship formation began again, and thousands of shells of various calibers and types roared and roared in such a warm early summer, playing an uncoordinated, but murderous war symphony.

At the same time, the purple-haired and brown-skinned Captain Minami Satoka, dressed in a snow-white military uniform and carrying a gorgeous saber, stood triumphantly on the bridge of the battleship Yamato, overlooking the steel behemoth at his feet pouring cannonballs on the shore.

- Minami Satoka, who was just a policewoman and a fan of military martial arts before the crossing, never imagined that she would one day be able to board the Yamato, a super famous ship in the old imperial era, the ultimate dream of the era of big ships and cannons...... You can even become the captain of the Yamato.

Shamefully, she had only played with a few sniper rifles before the crossing, but now she could play with a thick pipe of 460 millimeters!

Therefore, at this time, looking at the gorgeous scene of fourteen Yamato-class battleships and one Kongo battle patrol gun, Nan Sato Xiang was really full of excitement. As early as the flag-raising ceremony and the time of anchoring, I took n selfies in military uniforms, and at this moment, I was waving a selfie stick, clicking and shooting.

Well, it's really amateurish.

On the other hand, the commander of the inshore artillery fleet, Vice Admiral Takahashi Imo, was very dissatisfied with the current results.

- Lieutenant General Takahashi Iwang, the name is actually Takahashi. Ivan's transliteration, this gentleman is a rare Orthodox Christian in Japan, it is said that his ancestors also have foreign blood, he was born in the artillery department, and his grades are also excellent. Although he lacks imagination and creativity in tactics, he has always had a strong ability to supervise and execute, and belongs to the kind of rigid bureaucrats who take "no mistakes" as their creed in life - or the discipline inspectors who are always full of seriousness in the anime.

At the time of the Tokyo nuclear bombing and the collapse of the empire, Lieutenant General Takahashi Imo, who was already very old and could only wait for retirement, was serving as the governor of the Sasebo Town Guard Mansion on Kyushu Island. In the face of the sudden chaos, with a very small number of troops at hand, he successfully suppressed the chaotic parties from all walks of life, basically stabilized the situation on half of Kyushu Island, and successfully persevered until the establishment of the wartime base camp in Hiroshima and the return of the main force of the combined fleet.

At present, relying on the crazy indiscriminate printing of yen banknotes, as well as the Doraemon plane's [era vending machine], this black technology prop that can buy everything including munitions by printing self-printed yen, the number of ships of the Japanese Navy is expanding rapidly like blowing up balloons, and ammunition and fuel are no longer worried, so that sailors are far from enough, and they are even forced to the point of conscripting women on warships.

As a result, Vice Admiral Takahashi Ibo, who had already retreated to the second line, was respectfully asked to go out of the mountain again and take charge of leading this very embarrassing and mentally collapsed "Great Japanese Women's Fleet...... After about two months of rigorous training, the four Yamato-class battleships piloted by women were finally able to barely go to sea, but even with the guidance of the ship's mother, and with the anchor and anchor, the accuracy of the target on the shore was still scratching people's heads.

As for the old sailors on the four ships of Yamato, Musashi, Shinano, and Mino, they also behaved quite poorly after being transferred to the Yamato-class battleships that they bought through [period vending machines]. Not only did the level of artillery plummet, but there were also large and small accidents one after another.

——The Yamato-class battleship bought from the [Chronological Vending Machine] is naturally completely different from the four ships of Yamato, Musashi, Shinano, and Mino, which were modified by the ship's mother, Miss Sophie, who used the power of faith many times, and all the equipment has completely restored to the historical level.

Without the nuclear fusion reactor and all-electric propulsion system, the long-range reconnaissance radar and shooting control radar that have been carefully modified, and the fully automatic 155 mm high-level dual-purpose gun, the turret-type 100-mm anti-aircraft gun and the turret-type quadruple 40-mm machine gun, and the additionally strengthened engine and mine protection belt, even the armor material has become ordinary Wechsler hardened steel armor. Even the automatic ammunition losers for the main guns often failed, and the sailors had to sweat and reload manually.

Moreover, the anti-aircraft guns on the ship have been restored to the old models with weak firepower, poor protection, and slow rate of fire, and they can be blown up one by one when firing at the fighters. Thanks to the fact that the Japanese Navy was dispatched in its entirety this time, dozens of aircraft carriers all flew out on all decks, firmly holding air supremacy on the Shikoku Island battlefield, and the army air corps was also ordered to cooperate in destroying the nearby US airfield. Otherwise, these seemingly majestic Yamato-class battleships, God knows what kind of shameful appearance they will make!

But even though the war has been reduced to a one-sided pouring of shells, and it is still a fixed target, the difficulty is similar to that of shooting a prisoner, but the final hit rate is still miserable, more than a third of the shells were actually hit into the water, making Lieutenant General Takahashi Ibo angrily draw crosses and shake his head...... Fortunately, just like the invention of Van Vliet ammunition by the US imperialists in the Korean War, which blew up the PLA to life and artillery, the lack of accuracy can be compensated for by indiscriminate bombardment, after all, each Yamato-class battleship carries 3,000 tons of ammunition, and 14 ships are 42,000 tons, plus the bombs of the USS Kongo battlecruiser and those destroyers, heavy cruisers and light cruisers, and naval aviation, the average American GI on the shore is estimated to have five tons of ammunition, that is, he fights indiscriminately with his eyes closed. It should be able to be flattened too.

In short, after a day and a night of heavy shelling, firing more than 100,000 shells, the US troops trapped in several coastal positions surrendered one after another, and by the time the Japanese Army and Marine Corps held a surrender ceremony to take in US prisoners of war, it was found that there were less than 2,000 people......

Next, this Japanese fleet, which was large in scale and had amazing firepower, but with ultra-low proficiency, circled the island of Shikoku in a counterclockwise direction, entered the Seto Inland Sea again, and cooperated with the ground offensive of the Japanese army, and dealt devastating blows one by one at the ports of Wakayama, Osaka, and Kobe, where the US forces were entrenched...... Although in the eyes of the Japanese Navy's top brass, this was nothing more than a real combat training exercise to hit a fixed target, the US troops on the opposite side who were pouring artillery fire were so frightened that they were unable to possess their bodies. And the command of the US Pacific Fleet and the Pentagon in the rear, which were close to the front line, were also shocked and delirious.

- Oh God! Fourteen Yamato-class battleships! Where did they come from?!!

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ps: Dead people don't see populist trouble, dead dogs make such a fuss. Taiwan's Minister of Defense laid a wreath at the dead dog, and the Chief of Staff of the Navy wrote a memorial to the little white dog, well, this is a ghost island. Perhaps it will be until they are restored that they will forget the horror that was once dominated by dogs and dog fans. The sacrificial text does not deceive the number of words.