It’s just that no matter what kind of weird warships the Japanese army and navy dispatched, in the face of the Anti-Japanese Alliance without a single warship, the navy dispatched one battleship, one heavy cruiser, one old-fashioned armored cruiser, two light cruisers, and fifteen destroyers.
, plus two aviation battleships that are positioned as aircraft carriers by the Japanese Navy, but in fact can only do the work of the original battleships, they are still quite powerful.
Under the cover of the powerful artillery fire of these warships, the huge army and navy fleets each transported a division of troops, and a special marine unit of the navy plus an amphibious tank regiment carried out a forced landing in the direction of Qikou. In order to cooperate with the battlefield in southeastern Shanxi
The Japanese army encircled hundreds of thousands of anti-alliance troops fighting throughout southern Hebei.
In the face of the large-scale landing operation that the Japanese army was about to launch, Du Kaishan, who was ordered to sit on the Jinpu line to command the anti-landing operation, was quite calm. Although the cannon group in his hand had a long range and powerful power, it was among all the artillery pieces in his hand.
The most powerful among them, but after all, it is an ordinary army support artillery on the ground. The caliber and range are different.
Use 150 or 170 mm cannons, not to mention against 356 mm or even larger caliber naval guns, but against the four 203 mm naval guns of that old armored cruiser
You can't even fight. If someone is beyond your maximum range, you can suppress yourself.
If you really do that, in addition to saying that you are brave, I am afraid that more people will think that you are a huge fool. What's more, if these cannon groups are used up, the Japanese landing division will go deep into the interior to cut off Jinpu.
On the railway, if you are the first one on the 1st, you will not be able to spare yourself.
You must know that it is impossible for the aviation force to deploy a large number of aircraft for a long time and focus on one combat direction. Although these long-range cannon shells are not many, they are the most important means of fire support in anti-landing operations. If they are all used up, a single
How could those howitzers deal with the large number of Japanese ships?
When fortifying Qikou, Du Kaishan did not have that much capital to build layers of reinforced concrete fortifications along the Qikou coastline, let alone build an extremely strong defense system. When the fighting on the southern front was intensifying, he did not even have
Sufficient troops to implement ladder-shaped defense in depth.
The only thing that can be done is to set up a group of field fortifications and deploy as few troops as possible, except for a small number of security troops in the front, so as not to be consumed little by little by the Japanese naval gunfire. Give up fighting for the beachhead with the enemy and fight with the enemy.
The Japanese landing force fought hard within the range of its naval gun fire.
The plan was to lure them out of the range of the naval guns, and concentrate the armored groups in their hands to fight the enemy. And set up as many false targets and false fortification groups as possible on the entire front of Qikou to distract the Japanese army from the first wave of landing pressure.
In addition, it is to make use of painstaking tactical arrangements as much as possible to make up for the absolute disadvantage in firepower.
Therefore, he targeted the landing ships and the destroyers that rushed in to shoot without scruples. He was not afraid of being landed by the Japanese infantry. His rocket launcher group had already covered the entire Qikou coastline to a depth of more than ten kilometers.
Inside, the scales have been calibrated. As soon as the Japanese troops land and gather, the rocket launcher group will first entertain them well.
And just behind him on the Jinpu line, the two armored divisions and two infantry divisions that were ready to attack would also give the landing Japanese troops a good drink. So he was not worried that the Japanese landing troops would give them a good drink.
How much threat does it bring? Although those light destroyers and coastal defense ships can approach and shoot, they still pose a considerable threat to his defense system.
He still has two regiments of cannons in his hands. Du Kaishan really doesn't care much about the threat these medium-sized ships with only medium-caliber naval guns and little armor protection will pose to him. He thinks that the range in his hands is sufficient.
A cannon group of more than 20 kilometers can completely deal with these destroyers.
But for the battleships of the Japanese Navy that had shown great power last time, they were like hills in his telescope, and the large-caliber guns equipped on these ships could shake the earth and flatten a hill in an instant.
He is quite taboo about naval guns.
These large-caliber naval guns that fire outside the range of the cannon in his hand are not comparable to the cannon in his hand that has a longest range of only more than 20 kilometers. So he has to be steady and wait until his mine array takes effect.
At least the large Japanese ships should not be able to fire without restraint. If the first wave of Japanese landing troops lands first and has a tendency to develop in depth, then use a hit-and-run rocket launcher group to deal with them.
As for whether the Japanese ships will enter his mine array, Du Kaishan, who has already made a certain plan, still knows it. If they don't go, then he will find a way to drive them in. In order to resist the Japanese landing operation, Du Kaishan can be considered as racking his brains.
He has thought of every imaginable and unimaginable method.
Just as the large and medium-sized Japanese warships anchored off Qikou, they continued to unleash artillery fire on the false targets set by the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the beachhead and the poor defense forces, destroying the fake tanks made of mud and wood.
The fortifications were blown up one by one, razing the communication trenches and firepower points to the ground. The first wave of landing troops had already started a fierce battle with a regiment on the front line of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
The Dafa, Zhongfa, and Xiaofa landing craft carrying the second wave of infantry in the landing operation are busy transporting the loaded infantry ashore. The second-type transport ship, which can directly seize the beach, is opening the springboard of the bow and sending the army's artillery.
Tanks and organic Japanese infantry squadrons were sent ashore one by one.
The Navy's Special Type 2 and Special Type 3 internal fire boats, that is, after the amphibious tanks were unloaded from the Type 1 transport ship, they turned on their horsepower and headed towards the coast at full speed. The Special Type 4 internal fire boats that had just entered service were carrying the Navy's special marines.
They are also trying their best to land on the beach.
The third wave of landing troops was switching between transport ships, landing ships, and landing craft. The transport ships behind were also constantly transferring supplies to the second-type landing ships, preparing to provide supplies to the Japanese troops who had landed. A sudden accident
A small incident occurred, but it disrupted the entire formation of the Japanese Navy.
Under the cover of eight P-40 fighter jets, they used low-altitude raid tactics to tear apart the Japanese naval aviation blockade. The sudden appearance of more than ten anti-Union Blenheim bombers and SBD bombers made the Japanese Navy, which had been showing off its power before, suddenly appear.
The fleet formation immediately fell into chaos. All the large-caliber naval guns that were still showing off their power stopped firing.
There was no way that during the naval and air battle on Crute Island that broke out on February 17 this year, the Japanese Navy encountered a large-scale air attack by the US military at an important base in the central Pacific and the location of the Combined Fleet Headquarters. As of February 22
Until the Japanese and American troops occupied the entire Marshall Islands, a fierce naval and air battle ensued, resulting in extremely heavy losses for the Japanese troops.
The Japanese Navy sunk 200,000 tons of ships and shot down more than 200 aircraft in Truk. Its sea and air power in the Central Pacific was almost lost. Even the Combined Fleet Command was destroyed.
Driven out of Crute Island, known as Japan's Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese Navy was afraid of being bombed and had already regarded air defense as its top priority. Therefore, although not many aircraft were dispatched by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Japanese Navy ships, which were frightened by being bombed in the Pacific, immediately launched their anti-aircraft guns in strict accordance with the air defense instructions.
While continuously firing into the air, almost all large ships, as well as the escorting anti-submarine ships and anti-aircraft destroyers, were constantly performing air defense maneuvers.
What surprised the Japanese Navy was that the dozen or so bombers of the Anti-Japanese Alliance just hurriedly dropped a dozen aerial bombs on the formation, only damaging one Type 1 transport ship and hitting the Yakumo.
A fifty kilogram bomb flew away in a hurry.
These dozen or so bombers came and went in a hurry. They did not sink a single Japanese warship. They seemed to specifically warn the Japanese navy that although I don’t have a navy, I still have an air force. You bastards, don’t be too aggressive.
You're too public, I don't have any ways to deal with you.
Although the enemy in the sky did not cause any major losses to the Japanese navy, the Japanese naval fleet on the sea caused trouble on its own. The battleship Yamashiro, which served as fire support, was performing air defense maneuvers to avoid anti-union sneak attack bombers.
At that time, suddenly there were continuous violent explosions in the waist of the ship.
With several loud noises, this huge ship, which was launched in 1915 and had a full load displacement of 39,000 tons after several modifications, was almost blown to pieces. It did not even say hello, nor did it provide any rescue to other Japanese warships.
time, sinking into the Bohai Bay at an extremely fast speed.
Before the other naval ships could react, the Hyuga, one of the two aviation battleships that was also maneuvering, also hit the target at almost the same time. The two anchor mines triggered by the bow of the ship in succession completely blew up the entire bow.
.After the modification, this monster appeared to be a little top-heavy. After the entire bow of the ship was blown off, it could no longer maintain its balance and plunged headfirst into the sea.
This Soviet-made M26 anchor mine imitated by the Anti-Japanese Alliance adheres to the consistent style of Soviet-made weapons, and the amount of charge far exceeds the mines of other countries. Although one mine cannot blow up a battleship, it can trigger several mines in succession.
, that is not something that ordinary ships can afford.
The two Japanese battleships were hit by several anchor mines one after another, leaving no time for the Japanese navy to react. Even with the hundreds of crew members on the two battleships combined, not many could escape. Most of them could escape.
The ship that followed them sank into the Bohai Bay.
As for the Hyuga aviation battleship that sank head-down into the sea, because the water depth in this area was only twenty or thirty meters, its huge hull, more than 200 meters long, caused the tail of the ship to stand upright on the sea. Yamashiro
The bridge of the battleship is like a high-rise building, and part of it is exposed on the sea to tell you that you have been here before.
Another aviation battleship, the Ise, was also hit by a magnetic mine during the turn. Fortunately, compared with the two colleagues who were bombed and sunk, this guy was hit by a mine under the hangar farther back.
Although he was seriously injured and his speed was greatly reduced, fortunately, he did not lose his navigation ability and was not sunk.
It was not just these three battleships that were unlucky. The Yakumo armored cruiser that served as air defense cover for them, as well as three destroyers, a coastal defense ship, and a submarine were also sunk by mines in their wake. Even that
The small and weak submarine was blasted several meters high out of the water by the huge power of an imitation Soviet M26 anchor mine.
The loss of so many warships in just a few minutes stunned all the Japanese navy captains participating in the war. The sea was full of wreckage of sunk warships, as well as sailors floating on the sea. The ship sank head-first.
After going down, the aircraft battleship Hyuga had not completely sunk into the sea. Its high and raised stern, like the tall bridge of the Yamashiro exposed on the water, became an obvious mark on the sea within a radius of several kilometers.