The Americans suffered such a big loss, and they were all dumb and silent and stopped retaliating. The British and French navies, who had also suffered a big loss, had no confidence. Under Yang Zhen's suggestion, the central government launched a campaign against the captured British and French navies.
The ship and crew still adopted a fairly lenient policy.
Although the ship cannot be returned to the two countries, it has paid part of the cost and is considered to be bought by the People's Liberation Army. All captured crew members will be released unconditionally. The losses caused by the two countries to the People's Liberation Army and Nanjing during the battle will be taken.
A method of non-responsibility has been adopted.
After this battle, the Western media not only lamented that China had a powerful navy and a powerful air force overnight. They also lamented that the days of setting up a few cannons on China's coastline and forcing China to bow were gone forever.
The Chinese people have truly stood up.
The fierce battle between the People's Liberation Army Navy and the U.S. Army outside Wusongkou, which was unprecedented in the history of the Chinese navy, also led to another result. This naval battle not only completely dispelled the Americans' intention to intervene in the Chinese Civil War, but also allowed the people trapped in Shanghai to
The Kuomintang troops were stunned and completely lost their confidence to continue fighting.
In their eyes, the People's Liberation Army even dares to fight so hard against the Americans who are already so powerful that they can't defeat them, and they have achieved such fruitful results. So what else in the world do they not dare to do? They are already trapped in Shanghai, and they are all counting on it.
When necessary, the 120,000 Kuomintang defenders, who retreated by sea with the cover of the U.S. Navy, eventually surrendered.
As for except for a small number of ships that retreated south to Xiamen and Guangzhou, and the Kuomintang Navy's largest cruiser Chongqing and the destroyer Lingfu, which uprising on the sea surface in Zhoushan before the cross-river campaign was launched, they were all destroyed as early as the launch of the cross-river campaign.
The main force of the Kuomintang Navy and Air Force, which went south and was trapped in Shanghai, completely lost its determination to break out. On the day the Army surrendered, the white flag was also hoisted.
The huge U.S. Navy has been beaten so miserably. Looking at the two most powerful warships in its hands, they are only the US-made escort destroyers Taikang and Taiping with a full load displacement of more than a thousand tons. The largest warships
They are made in the United States and are the largest warships used by the United States to aid the Kuomintang regime. They are four American-made county-class tank landing ships.
Although this kind of warship is equipped with two twin-mounted 40mm anti-aircraft guns and four single-barreled 20mm machine guns, its firepower is not weak and its tonnage is large enough. But if you let this kind of landing ship transport tanks land, it will have to deal with the equipment.
Aren't you making an international joke when you engage in naval battles with fully equipped destroyers and frigates? You're not professional enough.
The remaining several mechanized landing ships, US, and Lian, which are also landing ships. Among the remaining warships, the slightly larger warships were originally affiliated with the Japanese fleet stationed in China, because after the surrender, they were stationed in
In Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai, there was no time to evacuate the country. Therefore, they escaped during Yang Zhen's clean-up operation and were received by the Kuomintang Navy on the spot. A former Japanese Navy river gunboat and two coastal defense ships.
The largest number is the U.S. military aid Yongzi gunboat, which is the original U.S. military's Admirable-class minesweeper. Although there are more than ten ships, their firepower is far inferior. The rest are even scuttled or destroyed by the Kuomintang navy in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.
Old ships that were sunk by the Japanese and then re-raised by the Japanese. The rest are American-made infantry landing craft, gunboats and other ships that either have extremely weak combat effectiveness or have no combat effectiveness at all.
Under such circumstances, faced with the PLA Navy, which was seizing the opportunity to seize the opportunity after a great victory. Although the Kuomintang Navy in Shanghai gathered their best, they were timid before the battle. After receiving the PLA Navy's surrender,
After the announcement, the Kuomintang navy, feeling that it could no longer fight and had no hope of breaking through, obeyed the order and surrendered.
In fact, the strength of the Kuomintang navy is not much weaker than that of the People's Liberation Army Navy, which has mothballed a large number of ships. The number of ships assisted by the United States is greater, and the number assisted by the United Kingdom is larger. Although the number of large ships is only one British-made light cruiser. And the arrival time was
It was very late, and the time to form combat effectiveness was even later.
By the time this batch of U.S. aid warships was actually put into use, the Kuomintang had already lost its momentum on the battlefield. However, there were a lot of small and medium-sized ships. However, facing the People's Liberation Army Navy, which had at least a partial advantage, these warships finally
Most of the time, I was stuck at the port.
In fact, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, with the assistance of the United States and Britain, the strength of the Kuomintang Navy was still not weak. If it weren't for Yang Zhen's trick, a large number of them were obtained through deception and robbery from the Soviet Union and Japan.
There are even a few cruisers. With the assistance of the Americans, the Kuomintang navy is currently strong enough to rank first in Asia.
In order to retaliate against Yang Zhen for transferring two former Japanese battleships and aircraft carriers to the Soviets, the Americans gave them eight 1,200-ton escort destroyers and twenty-seven 600-ton minesweepers.
Twenty-eight hunting submarines that were later converted into gunboats by the Kuomintang Navy, as well as one hundred and twenty-eight landing ships and landing craft of various sizes.
Later, it acquiesced to the Kuomintang Navy, which was eager to expand its fleet to compete with the People's Liberation Army Navy. It used foreign currency cash from the Americans to purchase two more light frigates, four minesweepers, and more than a dozen mechanized ships at low prices in the name of scrapping ships.
and an infantry landing ship and a number of other ships.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang Navy received a number of warships from the Chinese fleet of the Japanese invaders. Although most of the ships were inland river gunboats, minesweepers, transport boats and other small ships that the Japanese army hastily produced during the war, most of them could not be launched.
In the distant sea, activities can only occur within the Yangtze River.
However, one inland river gunboat, three coastal defense ships, and four gunboats can be considered very combat-effective ships. Although most of these ships have been dilapidated due to long-term use, the Kuomintang Navy still selected some of them that can still be used.
, replenished his own navy.
Among this batch of ships, the largest inland river gunboat has a full load displacement of more than 1,300 tons. It is equipped with a double-mounted and single-mounted 120mm high-level and flat dual-purpose guns, 25mm anti-aircraft guns and
Each has a 13mm anti-aircraft machine gun. The combat effectiveness is still very strong, almost as good as the light destroyer Yang Zhen obtained from Japan.
Moreover, the Americans, who were quite dissatisfied with the Kuomintang Navy because of insufficient number and tonnage of ships and weaker firepower than the People's Liberation Army Navy. Since these warships returned to China, they have been stuck in the port for most of the time, doing nothing. They also passed the bill.
, prepared to hand over a light cruiser and six fleet destroyers to the Kuomintang Navy to strengthen the strength of the Kuomintang Navy in the confrontation with the People's Liberation Army Navy. It was only because it was implemented too late that the Kuomintang had lost its momentum.
These ships of the Kuomintang Navy, in addition to some of the ships currently deployed in Xiamen and Guangzhou, and in addition to the ships that have been scrapped one after another due to the inability to repair, and the ships that have been lost in accidents, plus the three Taipei ships that have rebelled one after another.
Zeng destroyer and six Yongzi frigates. Although the ships currently staying in Shanghai are the main force of the Kuomintang Navy and there are many in number, there are not many with real combat effectiveness.
You can't expect a force of various landing ships, infantry landing craft, small gunboats, and auxiliary ships that have no naval combat capabilities, accounting for the majority of the navy, to compete with a force equipped with a large number of destroyers and frigates, with air cover above and submarines below.
fleet combat. Especially this fleet had just defeated the strong and the weak, defeating the U.S. Navy fleet that was invincible in the eyes of the Kuomintang Navy.
It was reasonable for the Kuomintang navy, which was frightened by the battle outside Wusongkou, did not dare to fight, and could not run away, to raise the white flag. And the surrender of the Kuomintang navy in Shanghai meant that the Kuomintang was fighting in the war of resistance.
After the end, the main force of the navy, which had worked so hard, was completely destroyed. The huge capital invested by the Americans in the Kuomintang was all in vain.
In fact, as early as after the full-scale civil war broke out, although the People's Liberation Army's navy also went south to fight. In fact, this naval fleet belonged to the Northeast Military Region. Under Yang Zhen's instructions, it took advantage of its large tonnage and large number of combat ships.
Blockade the Kuomintang navy within the port as much as possible.
As long as it does not force its way out of the port and interfere with the People's Liberation Army's liberation operations of coastal islands, do not sink it. Otherwise, these Kuomintang navies could survive until the People's Liberation Army's full-scale crossing of the river and the start of the Battle of Shanghai, only to be completely destroyed because of their surrender. It would have been early
The People's Liberation Army Navy, which had repeatedly called for war, was wiped out.
In order to cut off the Kuomintang's escape routes to the outer islands and completely annihilate them in mainland China, as well as to protect the security of the strategic supply line from Northeast China to North China, the central government even decided to use one-third of the existing navy's strength to completely annihilate the Kuomintang navy.
to eliminate them, and captured the major islands along the south coast of the Yangtze River to prevent future troubles. Only under Yang Zhen's persuasion did they instead adopt the strategy of sieging the major Kuomintang naval ports such as Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, and Guangzhou.
Such a decision was made because the number of ships in the hands of the Kuomintang Navy by Prime Minister Yang Zhen is not small, especially the large number of various American-made landing ships and landing craft. Of course, there are also a large number of various types of ships trained by the American and British navies.
Professional and technical personnel will be provided to retain more vitality for the development of the New China Navy.
Moreover, the Kuomintang Navy adopts the tactics of staying in retreat most of the time, avoiding battles and protecting ships. Once it is solved by force, it is easy to destroy the infrastructure of these ports, which is also not conducive to the future development of the Chinese Navy.
.It will also cause considerable waste of funds and affect the overall progress of the navy's deployment south of the Yangtze River.
Now that the Shanghai fleet, which has gathered the main force of the Kuomintang navy, has surrendered, people have been worried that a navy that should play a huge role in the future national defense construction of New China will be ruined in the flames of the civil war because the Chinese are killing each other. Especially
It was one of the talents, and the worries in Yang Zhen's heart that were wasted in vain finally let go.
The Kuomintang navy in Shanghai surrendered, and the remaining Kuomintang navy forces were cut off in Chongqing on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, as well as in Xiamen and Guangzhou in the south. Basically, they no longer have much strength. All ports along the coast south of the Yangtze River have been
Under the PLA Navy's blockade, there is no need to worry too much about the future outcome of these warships.
Even if the remaining 20 warships are also trapped in Xiamen and Guangzhou, as well as the seven Yongzi gunboats and 22 gunboats that are divided in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, they will not affect the overall situation. Even if they are all sunk
, and it won’t have much impact.
Especially the less than thirty ships that are trapped in Chongqing and are also in danger. They have no way to go to the sky. Even if they want to run, they can't break through the PLA's shore artillery, warships, and aircraft in the blockade of the Yangtze River. Apart from surrendering, there is no other option.