April 6, Republic 254 (1913), 7 p.m.

At this time, the sky was almost dark, but more than a dozen military airports in Fuzhou, Putian, Fuqing, Quanzhou, Xiamen, Ningde, Longyan, and Nanping were brightly lit, and the ground crews were busy. Rows of high-powered searchlights pierced the sky, columns of light formed a wide "channel" in the air, and various colors of lights lit up on both sides of the airport and runway on the ground.

Groups of military planes returned from the direction of Taiwan one after another and flew to the predetermined airports. This was the last group of planes to attack Taiwan today, and when the last rays of the sun disappeared into the sea antenna, the last planes also flew over the coastline.

Although the visibility at this time was very low, under the guidance of dozens of radar stations and hundreds of navigation stations, coupled with the "light column channel", the aircraft group still landed in an orderly manner. For these early aircraft, which lacked night flight equipment, the guidance of the "light column channel" was much more effective than radar, and it was the most direct and effective. However, this kind of thing can only be played after you have fully mastered air supremacy, otherwise it is a good target.

If China dares to play like this, it is clearly bullying Japan's weak air power. In a daytime air battle today, Japanese military aircraft and airships suffered heavy losses, and more than 3o planes were destroyed on airfields or shot down like turkeys in the sky. At present, the Japanese air power in Taiwan, Korea, Kwantung Prefecture, and other places has almost been wiped out, and they have rushed to the end of the streets, so naturally there is no need to worry about the counterattack of Japanese planes. What's more, with Japan's current aviation technology, even if they don't lose, they don't have the technology and guts to run and play night bombing.

The Changle base in Fuzhou is currently the largest military airport in Fujian, and the Changle base is composed of two parts, half of which are the air force and half of the air force. In the sequence of China's air forces, which are now landing, there are two more new aircraft.

This is the H-1 "Tern" light bomber and the H-2 "Egret" heavy bomber.

The former was a light bomber that flew in October 1911. The blueprint is the Hawker "Buck" A day bomber (said to be the most beautiful bomber ever equipped by the British Royal Air Force in the 3s) that came out in 192 of the original time and space. The aircraft has a two-wing layout with n-shaped interwing brackets and a streamlined closed fairing in the nose. A tandem two-seater cab with a pilot and an observer and machine gunner.

The H-1 "Tern" light bomber has a length of 9 meters, a wingspan of 14 meters, a height of 32 meters, an empty weight of 11oo kilograms, and a maximum take-off weight of 246 kilograms. The powertrain is a "HHY A" piston liquid-cooled motor with a power of 4oo kW (3 hp). The maximum is -1o km, the cruising range is 2o km, the endurance is o km, and the practical ceiling is 756 meters.

The aircraft was armed with two 7-mm machine guns, one in the nose and operated by the driver; One mounted on a movable gun carriage behind the fuselage, operated by a rear-seat machine gunner. The aircraft is equipped with a professional bombing sight, with 7 hardpoints under the fuselage and wings, which can carry bombs with a total weight of no more than 6o kg.

The H-2 "Egret" heavy bomber was a product of the Xi'an Aircraft Factory and flew in July 1911. "Egret" is China, and at the same time the world's first twin aircraft. This unprecedented heavy bomber was born after referring to the American B6 bomber that came out in 1934 and was optimized for design

"Egret" heavy bomber captain 14. 6 meters, wingspan 2. 6 meters, 47 meters high, empty weight 36 kg, maximum take-off weight 66 kg. The power system is two "hhQo4" piston air-cooled motors, each with a power of 4oo kW (3 hp). The maximum is 2o kilometers, the cruising range is 2o kilometers, the endurance is 66 kilometers, and the practical ceiling is 756 meters.

The aircraft is also the first military aircraft to adopt a closed cockpit, with a crew member and a captain, a pilot, a bombardier, and a machine gunner. The armament was three 7-mm machine guns, one directly above the nose, one under the nose, and one in the rear turret of the fuselage. The aircraft is equipped with a professional bombing sight, with two hardpoints under the fuselage and wings, which can carry bombs with a total weight of no more than 26 kg.

If it is placed in the future, a 26-kilogram bomb is nothing at all, and without a ten-ton or eight-ton load, you are embarrassed to say that this is a bomber. However, in this period, it was indeed an out-and-out heavy bomber that could hold 26 kg of bombs.

Moreover, this is also the only aircraft in China and even in the world that can carry aviation torpedoes and carry out torpedo attacks on enemy ships. However, after all, the "Egret" is not a demobilized torpedo machine, and the efficiency of lightning strikes is somewhat worse than that of a demobilized torpedo machine.

Wen Dehei, who came from later generations, of course, knew the benefits of modularization and standardization, and now all China's self-made weapons and equipment, its main components are designed according to modularization and standardization, so that they can be upgraded in the future. So of course, not only the bombers used new motives, but the previous J-I J-2 Water Reconnaissance 1 and other aircraft were also replaced with new motives with higher power in the 6 pre-war periods.

After changing to a 4oo kilowatt motor, the maximum time of the J-I J-2 has passed 3o kilometers, and the J-2 even reaches 3o kilometers. And the latest batch of J-2AO has also been replaced with a closed cockpit.

It can be said that China's air power is now much more powerful than it was in 191o, both in quantity and quality.

Night was not a good time for combat, at this time the Chinese aircraft group returned to the nest to rest, the Chinese fleet also stopped shelling, and both China and Japan had a tacit understanding of a temporary ceasefire.

Late at night, in the waters of Kyushu.

On this day, it was the twenty-ninth day of the lunar calendar, and there was only a faint waning moon in the sky, and a huge fleet was sailing southward in the dim moonlight. The roar of the motive shattered the silence of the night, and a large field of navigation lights pulled up a river of lights more than twenty kilometers long on the dark sea.

This is the Japanese Combined Fleet that departs from Kure Harbor today, the first maritime power in Asia and the fifth in the world at this time. This time, Japan dispatched almost all of its combat ships, including 6 battleships, 13 armored cruisers, 18 protective cruisers, 59 destroyers, and 46 auxiliary vessels.

Coming out of the nest like this is gambling on the fortune of the country again

Because Japan won the bet in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, they thought they were invincible, so this time they were ready to gamble again. Hey, if you don't gamble, you can't do it, if it continues according to the current situation, it won't take a few years for the strength of the Chinese and Japanese navies to be reversed. Therefore, this time Japan is also driven into a corner by China's strong rise, if they don't want to give up their ambitions for expansion, don't want to give up the big 6 policy, then they will gamble on national fortune again. Otherwise, after a few years, the gap between China and Japan in national strength will become wider and wider, and then there will be no qualifications to gamble.

At present, Japan still has a far advantage in the strength of the navies of the two countries, at least on paper. For example, in terms of battleships, Japan now has 6 battleships, 13 armored cruisers (Kongo and Hiei have not yet been officially put into service, not counted), a total of 2 capital ships, with a total tonnage of more than 30,000 tons. And China has only one battleship, one large cruiser, one heavy cruiser, a total of 18 ships, with a total tonnage of 20,000 tons.

In the eyes of the Japanese, this is completely war-ready. Well, although the 3o mm naval guns of the Chinese Navy are larger, the number of main guns of other calibers is more advantageous to Japan. Besides, I think that during the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, Japan did not have an advantage in terms of tonnage, and it was not the same as if it were won. Now that we have the upper hand, it's no wonder that we can't win.

What gives the Japanese navy the most confidence is that the navy of New China has only been formed for three years, and it is simply too immature to say. The "100-year-old navy", everyone knows, in the face of the experienced Japanese navy, this baby-like Chinese navy is not worth mentioning at all

A baby navy can be combat-ready, even if it has the strongest dreadnoughts in the world. Can a baby take down a strong man with a knife? No kidding

What is the opinion of the Japanese Navy up and down. Of course, they also know that this "baby" is a little stronger, and it will be difficult to deal with it if he grows up, so it is the best way to take advantage of this war to strangle it in the cradle.

Well, I have to say that although the two navies have different ideas this time, their goals are the same - to destroy each other

On the bridge of the flagship Hanoi, the Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet, Tetsutaro Sato, reported to Shigetaro Yoshimatsu: "Your Excellency, Commander, at present our fleet is advancing at a degree of 1o knots, and it will take about 8 hours to rush to the waters of Taiwan 156 kilometers away at this degree. If you resupply at Naha Port in Okinawa as planned, it will take at least 2 hours. If we follow this degree, the time when we reach the sea off Taipei is about the morning of April 1o. Will this be too late? Just now, the Military Command Department forwarded another telegram from the Taiwan garrison, and they asked for support. ”

Yoshimatsu Shigetaro said expressionlessly: "Don't worry, those fools of the 6th Army like to exaggerate the enemy's situation, and this time it is a sea-crossing attack, how can it be so easy...... Let them hold out for a few more days, and when we defeat the main force of the Shina navy, the crisis will be naturally resolved......"

"Okay, then let's go according to the original plan......" Seeing the attitude of his superiors, Sato Tetsutaro naturally would not fight for the 6th Army. What are you kidding, can the horse manure of the 6th Army be as valuable as the warships of the Empire? At most, a few more will die, anyway, it is the 6th Army that dies, and these horse manure are very cheap, and they are worth a postcard

After waiting for a while, another staff officer came over with a telegram. "Your Excellency Commander, there is the latest intelligence ...... of the Navy"

Shigetaro Yoshimatsu took it and immediately raised his eyebrows.

"The two newly launched dreadnoughts in China have been confirmed and are being outfitted at the Jiangnan factory in Shanghai...... China has concentrated six old battleships and six old armored cruisers in Shanghai, and at present, the Pacific task force in China is still in the vicinity of the Taiwan Strait, supporting the 6th Army to board 6 ......"

"Has the branch been divided?" the Japanese generals looked at each other.

Tetsutaro Sato thought about it for a while, and then said: "The Shina Navy wants to use old ships to protect the dreadnoughts that are being outfitted, and these two ships are completely ineffective...... Moreover, their arrangement is somewhat familiar...... Hey, it's very similar to the layout of our army during the First Sino-Japanese War. Taiwan's cutting-edge fleet is a guerrilla force, and the Shanghai side is its own team, so that no matter whether our army moves south or west, they will flank us, and this is probably what they plan to do......"

"Hahahaha, this is really funny, this is according to the word of the branch, it is not an anti-dog...... "Yoshimatsu Shigetaro laughed. The whole bridge burst into laughter, and the Japanese generals thought it was really funny.

"Hahaha, since the people of China are playing this trick, let's teach them what a navy is" Yoshimatsu Shigetaro stopped laughing and ordered: "Tomorrow in Naha to replenish, let the Third Fleet come first, and after they resupply, they will turn to Shanghai and contain the enemy ships on the Shanghai side." If you have the chance, give me those two outfitted dreadnoughts. The 1st and 2nd fleets continued in the direction of Taiwan. ”

With the command transmitted by the radio waves, the Japanese army ranks changed. The ships of the Third Fleet moved closer to the left, preparing for the position of the advanced port for replenishment tomorrow.

At this time, in the sky over this sea area, there are several Chinese early warning airships circling at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, and these airships are equipped with radar, high-power telescopes, night vision devices and other equipment, which are specially used to monitor the situation on the sea surface. As soon as the Japanese Combined Fleet left the port, it was bitten by them. Because of the high altitude, they basically fly on the clouds, and it is difficult for warships on the sea to see them. Moreover, the airship is low-sailing, and the motive noise is also very small, and the background noise on the warship is even greater, and it is extremely difficult to appear by hearing. So now the Japanese Combined Fleet does not notice that there are still two unpleasant guests on its head.

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