The battleship Yamashiro belongs to the Japanese Fuso class, and it has just undergone a series of modernization and modifications three years ago and has become one of the more advanced warships among Japanese battleships. With a full load displacement of more than 40,000 tons, this battleship is one of the largest battleships in the world in terms of weight.

Moreover, under the influence of Japan's theory of "single ship superiority", the Fuso-class battleships adopted a full 6 twin-mounted 356 mm caliber guns, and according to the number of cannons, the number of single ship guns of this bell battleship reached an astonishing 12. At least in terms of the number of cannons, it overwhelmed all the battleships of the great powers at that time, and it can be said that it was a battleship with a rather strange number.

If you look at the number of games jù, the number jù of this battleship looks very good, and it can even be said to be the top super weapon in the battleship. After all, the German Bismarck-class battleships, which were later in service than this type of battleship, only had 8 guns, and the last British avant-garde-class battleship had only 8 guns.

However, the shortcomings of the Japanese Fuso-class battleships are as prominent as their advantages, and the pitiful practical level behind them is really not flattering. Because of the arrangement of a full 6 main gun turrets on the hull, a strange layout has been formed inside the hull: ammunition depot, boiler room, ammunition depot, boiler room, ammunition depot......

As long as you are not stupid, you can see that this layout is simply no different from looking for death in battleship battles that emphasize artillery battles. Once the hull of the ship is hit by the enemy, the battleship will immediately become a giant firecracker, bursting with the most brilliant firelight.

And the entire 6 turrets, ammunition depots and boilers had to be kept safe with a long armor belt, so the armor of the entire battleship had to be taken into account was greatly extended. Therefore, on average, the thickness of the armor of this battleship is not enough in every place where protective armor should be set up, which explains the embarrassing situation of this battleship from another angle: there are more places that need to be protected than others, and the possibility of being hit when beaten is greater, and as a result, the armor is too scattered and thinner, and the probability of being penetrated is higher.

However, these shortcomings are trivial things in the face of the crazy bushido spirit of the Japanese Navy, after all, God bless the emperor everyone is convinced, since God blesses his emperor, he will naturally not be defeated by the enemy in the Quartet for the emperor. Therefore, the so-called insufficient armor protection and the issue of ammunition depots have always been considered by the Japanese top brass to be nothing particularly important.

Odan Nagazaemon (this eldest brother is the captain of the 41-year-old Yamashiro, don't be surprised to use it here) stood in his command room with his hands behind his back, and not far from him, the helmsman was holding the steering wheel motionlessly. Saemon received news of Yamamoto's retreat from Pearl Harbor, and at the same time, he received an operational order from the Second Battlefleet to lead a detachment south to support the Japanese offensive in the east.

The battleship Yamashiro was followed by two heavy cruisers, the Takao and the Maya, a fleet that had been ordered to support the Japanese soldiers along the coast as they made their way south to the densely populated eastern part of Australia, with the simple task of covering the Japanese coastal forces and shelling the lines of the resisters.

Of course, in addition to these three main battleships, there were several destroyers traveling with them, and these battleships formed a complete Japanese detachment, and sailed mightily to their operational areas.

"How could Marshal Yamamoto retreat in the Battle of Oahu? This was extremely irresponsible to the Great Japanese Empire! The samurai of the Great Japanese Empire did not have the habit of stealing their lives, and would rather die on the battlefield than choose to retreat despicably!" Saemon was a very extreme Japanese militarist, this guy once commanded a battleship to shell the Chinese defenders during the Battle of Songhu, and he was nicknamed a wolf of the ocean in the navy because of his belligerence.

At this time, he still didn't understand why Yamamoto chose to withdraw from Oahu in such a seemingly humiliating way, and in his opinion, even if he fought there to the last man, he should not choose to retreat despicably. It was precisely because this Saemon did not agree with Mimoto's philosophy that Yamamoto secretly instructed General Kurita to transfer this Saemon to the Second Battle Fleet and assign him an inconsequential task from afar, so as not to spoil the overall situation at a critical time.

As the commander of a ship, as the supreme commander of the entire detachment fleet, when he complained about Marshal Yamamoto, most of his subordinates could only pretend not to hear. Everyone remained silent, allowing the Saemon shogun to greet his supreme commander with expletives. They had to stand not just standing, but also standing on the swinging bridge, which in itself was a technical job.

Truth be told, the tall central building of the Japanese battleship affected the appearance of the battleship, and even destroyed the comfort. But the stubborn Japanese naval designers and users came to the conclusion of the ancient Russo-Japanese naval battle that the higher the command tower of the battleship was built, the better.

World War II was a great era of scientific and technological development, and before the advent of this era, everyone was in the embryonic period of their own exploration and no experience. At this time, all countries have their own unique opinions summed up in the war, such as the bizarre tank destroyer theory of the United States, such as the strange high-speed bomber theory of Germany, and the stubborn biplane of the British Navy.

Don't think that the Americans are so awesome and powerful, in fact, the detours they have taken will definitely blind those who admire the power of the United States. The theory of the American armored forces in World War II is as follows: tanks are used to support infantry, and tank destroyers are used to destroy tanks.

So the standard process of combat for the U.S. armored forces is as follows: the M4 tank accompanies the infantry to move forward, and if the enemy tank unit encounters, the commander of the M4 tank calls the nearby M10 tank destroyer to destroy the enemy tank. In actual combat, the Americans encountered such a situation - the M4 tank was beaten all over the ground by the German tanks, and when the M10 tank destroyers arrived, the Germans had already cleaned up the battlefield and had eaten a meal before withdrawing.

The experience of the Japanese Navy is that the higher the aiming equipment of the naval warship, the better, so that it can detect its enemy more quickly and provide more accurate firing parameters for artillery battles. How does this theory sound correct, of course, if there is no such invention as radar.

Don't look at the infinite scenery of electronic manufacturers such as Panasonic and Sony in Japan today, it seems that Japan has dabbled in advanced electronic technology all over the world, but in 1938, the Japanese really did not have a few advanced technologies in their hands, so they seemed to be able to keep up with the world trend when they engaged in conceptual items such as aircraft carriers, but when it came to details such as radar, the gap immediately appeared.

In 1934, that is, before the war, Germany purchased and applied for a series of technical patents, and began to produce and improve the latest plane position display equipment in China, which finally allowed Germany to use its radar in early 1937 to use plane scanning imaging, which is known as using circular scanning to visually represent targets within a 360-degree range.

The current radar system in the United States is still the most primitive oscilloscope, and only a very experienced radar master can find the desired target echo from those chaotic waveforms. Of course, even with this radar, the U.S. Navy was able to preserve its fleet in the waters off Oahu, forcing Yamamoto to eventually return to nothing.

From a series of information provided by the Germans, the Japanese military knew that the US military was leading in radar, but the current Japanese military could not imitate it at all, because of the bad relations with the Germans and the secrecy of the latest technology, Japan was not able to learn the world's latest technology from the German side. Therefore, until now, the Japanese Navy can only use the ancient method of standing high and seeing far away to improve the aiming distance of its warships.

Of course, because Britain has its own unique technology in magnetrons, with the help of Britain, the American radar, which uses an unknown oscilloscope, has narrowed the gap with Germany in terms of detection accuracy and distance.

However, this does not mean that the gap between Germany and the United States in radar technology has been narrowed, and the reason for this is that weapons and equipment are used, not simply a competition. Because of technical reasons, US radar itself is unreliable, and it is not stable in its work, and it is almost impossible to debug it today, but when it is turned on tomorrow, we don't know what state it will become.

The Japanese fleet advanced on the sea, and the huge bow cut through the sea, leaving huge waves on the surface. The huge round chrysanthemum in the bow of the ship sparkles golden against the background of the sea and the sun, of course, according to today's standards, installing a chrysanthemum on the face as a decoration is really a bit of a low-level fun pervasive feeling.

Saemon was still venting his frustration with Yamamoto's withdrawal, unaware that right on the course of his fleet, a German U-boat that had never appeared in the Pacific Ocean was staring at his battleship with a periscope. Of course, if he knew, he wouldn't care about such a as Yamamoto's withdrawal from the waters off Oahu.

"It's the same as that Soviet battleship! I don't have any common sense about anti-submarine warfare!" Prian leaned on the periscope, stared intently at his prey, and muttered quietly: "Wait for it to get close! Wait for it to get close! Don't worry! This is a battleship! Sink him, let's all go back to Germany, and let the marshal open champagne for us!"