Lieutenant General Matsuda Chiaki believed that as long as the anti-aircraft firepower was still there, the high-explosive bombs dropped by the inexperienced dive bombers of the Anti-Japanese Alliance did not necessarily pose much of a threat. But the rockets and cluster bombs launched by the Anti-Union bomber groups, although they were
Ships are deadly, but the key is that they are really deadly to anti-aircraft firepower and other observation and sighting equipment on the ship.
Most positions on the warship are more or less protected by armor. However, due to the characteristics of combat operations, the anti-aircraft fire positions are all exposed to the outside. How can the personnel and equipment withstand such a dense attack of small bombs?
If one of the anti-aircraft artillery pieces at that position were hit, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Even though the battleship Ise he was on was rough and thick-skinned, most of the anti-aircraft gun emplacements were a mess of blood and flesh. Not to mention those light ships with worse protection facilities, and those transport ships that basically had no armor or firepower?
This thing is not big, but its destructive power is quite astonishing.
Judging from the few small bombs that fell on his flagship, Lieutenant General Chiaki Matsuda keenly discovered that although these bombs were not large, they had good armor-piercing capabilities. If the small bomb had penetrated into the ship without opening its eyes,
, some places such as ammunition depots and fuel warehouses are no less powerful than heavy bombs.
What's more, not only those warships have a large amount of ammunition and oil, but the surrounding transport fleet as the second echelon is itself full of ammunition and oil for the subsequent echelons. Especially the needle tail number and Kenzaki in the fleet.
The oil tanker is filled with fuel.
At present, several transport ships and light ships have been bombed and paralyzed on the sea. The ammunition carried by a transport ship has been detonated and is exploding violently on the sea. If these two ships filled with oil are followed in the same footsteps,
If it was detonated, the consequences would be even more unimaginable. Moreover, the warship's anti-aircraft firepower was silenced, so the entire warship would be a target for their follow-up bombers.
Even if all their aircraft are shot down, those aircraft are worthless compared with these precious warships here. How to retain as many warships as possible during the enemy's attack has become Matsuda Chiaki
Lieutenant General, this is the most crucial issue right now.
Although there was a risk of hitting a mine when breaking out, in the face of the counterattack's cunning tactics, Lieutenant General Matsuda Chiaki ordered the ships not to form formations and to retreat to the open sea at maximum speed, at least out of the combat radius of the enemy bomber group, and this
A fucking minefield.
He didn't believe that the enemy could have the strength to deploy mines on the entire Bohai Bay. Even if only a few ships were rushed out, it would be much better than being passively beaten here. Being able to escape with one ship would also be an extra reserve for the Imperial Navy.
If Yuan Qi is delayed any longer, it will be sunk one by one like a target by the enemy.
As for the two light cruisers, as well as a dozen destroyers and coastal defense ships that were cooperating with the landing force, they were now caught in a fire net formed by the enemy's sudden opening of shore guns and intensive crossfire. It was not enough to take care of themselves at the moment.
Where else can I find the energy to support myself?
It's just that the Ise battleship he was on did not suffer too serious losses from the attacks of cluster bombs and rockets due to its strong skin and thick flesh. It still had a few anti-aircraft guns, which could barely keep firing.
.But the radio communication system on the ship was destroyed by the rain of damn small aerial bombs dropped by the bombers who gave priority to his resistance.
The determination was there, but it was in vain if it could not be conveyed. In desperation, Lieutenant General Matsuda Chiaki could only send out signal troops, braving the attack aircraft group that turned back after the Anti-Alliance completed bombing, and the airborne machine guns fired a hail of bullets.
, climbed up high on the bridge and used semaphores and white light signals to convey the order.
At the same time, all the ships that could be contacted sent signals to the group of ships in front. They ordered the ships in front that were frantically engaging in artillery battles with the anti-coastal artillery to return to the mainland immediately after completing unloading and not to make any stop in the Bohai Bay.
When returning, all ships do not need to form a formation and return at full speed along the channel they entered.
Although it is not possible to see the signal soldiers who are desperately waving the signal flags in the Anti-Japanese Alliance attack fleet, but as the ship's sighting and communication system, the main concentrated part of the bridge is definitely a key attack target. Especially the high-rise buildings of large and medium-sized Japanese ships
The bridge is like a building, and because the target is obvious, it has become the main target of strafing.
According to Lieutenant General Matsuda Chiaki's order, the signal soldiers who risked their lives to climb up to the heights almost died one by one. But after all, the number of signal soldiers on the large battleship and the Ise aviation battleship as the flagship of the Fourth Air Force.
There are still quite a few.
Although one by one died on the way up, the order was finally transmitted intermittently through semaphores before the signal soldiers were injured or burned. After being busy for a long time, I found that the only remaining battleship I was on had become an Anti-Alliance dive bomber.
After focusing on taking care of your goals.
Lieutenant General Matsuda Chiaki didn't care about the other warships in panic. He could see his orders and took the lead and sailed out of the Bohai Bay at the maximum speed. Fortunately, the Japanese Navy is a strictly trained force after all.
Most of the ships did not see the semaphore sent by the battleship Ise, and the light signals could only be seen by the ships on both sides of it.
But the actions of the Ise and several ships around it were clearly understood by almost all the captains. Following behind the Ise, they rushed outwards despite the constant falling bombs. As for the remaining mines
, no one can take care of it at this time. Anyway, instead of waiting for death here, it is better to take a risk, which can be regarded as risking death and surviving, and maybe you can escape.
But by this time, the anti-alliance aviation forces had sunk two Japanese destroyers, a coastal defense ship, three submarine destroyers, and five transport ships filled with supplies at the cost of nine aircraft being shot down.
The three Type II landing ships, one destroyer and one coastal defense ship each lost their mobility and could only float on the water.
Other ships, large and small, also suffered more or less injuries. The Japanese ships, which no longer dared to delay in this area, did not care about their usual practice of sinking and incapacitating themselves.
Even the sailors who fell into the water had no time to salvage them, and they all retreated behind the Ise.
Because of her conspicuous figure, she was targeted by the Anti-Alliance Air Force. Although she was not sunk immediately, all the anti-aircraft artillery was destroyed, and the entire superstructure of the ship was bombed into a mess. Not only were all the anti-aircraft artillery bombs muted, but other
Of the four twin-mounted 203mm naval gun turrets, only the No. 1 turret on the bow can still fire.
The high-rise building-like bridge was riddled with holes. The power compartment was flooded in large areas, and the speed of the Maya heavy cruiser dropped to the point of limping. Although it could only travel at a slow speed,
But it was also struggling desperately, trying to retreat behind other ships.
But the tragedy of this heavy cruiser did not end there. Just when the warship, whose hull had collapsed slightly, had just completed its turn and was preparing to retreat at full speed eastward, the good luck ended here.
This heavy cruiser with a fully loaded displacement of more than 15,000 tons triggered several anchor mines one after another.
The warship, which was already seriously injured, could no longer withstand being hit hard by several powerful mines. In just a few minutes, it quickly followed in the footsteps of its big brother and sank into the Bohai Bay. And this
It was not just the heavy cruiser that was unlucky. The transport ship without the escort of warships suffered even greater losses.
Either they were bombed and sunk by the pursuing Anti-Japanese Air Force in the sea off Qikou, or they were hit by mines and sunk directly during the retreat. By the time the navy ships struggled desperately and got out of the combat range of the Anti-Union bombers and the minefields, the once huge
Only one-third of the Japanese second-echelon ships were left.
On the contrary, it was the Ise battleship that took the lead and was the first to withdraw from the battlefield. Although it was unlucky to be damaged by a mine before, its retreat this time was like a miracle. During the retreat, not a single mine was hit. Although it was retreating
While there, it was hit by three more aerial bombs.
The remaining main turrets were basically all blown up. The flight deck in the rear half of the ship was also completely destroyed. The entire warship was covered in smoke. But relying on its huge body and the basic armor of the battleship,
Protection, but still tenaciously holding on and not being sunk.
Although part of the engine room was damaged and some boilers stalled, and the No. 2 and No. 3 turrets were hit and completely blown up, causing the speed to drop a lot. But relying on the high quality of the crew who still have the old foundation and high quality in damage control,
No matter what, I finally rolled out and crawled out.
The bombed Ise aviation battleship became the only survivor among the three battleships invested by the Japanese navy this time. But can this relatively lucky warship escape?
Du Kaishan has set up another minefield behind it. It depends on its own luck. Anyway, at least it has roughly escaped now.
Du Kaishan didn't know much about the use of naval tactics. He even had a rough understanding of how to fight a landing battle through studying hard in the past. Facing new tactics and new tactics that were almost unfamiliar to him, Du Kaishan struggled at all costs.
After gathering my brains, I came up with tactics to deal with tank group assaults and mobile ambushes during land battles to deal with the Japanese naval fleet. It was a half-measure.
After painstaking calculations, through close tactical cooperation between mines and aviation, most of the large ships of the Japanese Navy deployed in this battle were directly sent to the bottom of the Bohai Bay. In conjunction with the army's landing operation, the Japanese Navy
It can be said to be a huge loss.
After losing almost all the threats from Japanese naval guns with a caliber of more than 200 mm, which far exceeded the range and power of the land-based artillery in his hands, his ground artillery group also lost the biggest threat. With the cannon group in his hands
, there will no longer be any problems in dealing with the remaining Japanese ships below light cruisers.
Compared with the second echelon, which still had half its strength, the ships in the first echelon did not encounter the threat of mines. However, in addition to the air strikes of the Anti-Alliance aviation force, they also faced intensive firepower attacks from the Anti-Alliance shore artillery. Although they encountered
The aviation force was not as numerous as the large ship cluster behind them, and they did not encounter any mines.
However, in the face of the sudden and intensive firepower of the Anti-Alliance coastal artillery, as well as the sneak attacks by the aviation force from time to time, the encounter was not much better than that of the main force of their own team. The tactics used by the Anti-Alliance aviation forces to deal with large Japanese ship groups were also the same.
Those who didn't pull it were used on them.
Just as the first wave of Japanese landing troops had landed, and even under the cover of more than a dozen tanks, they had completed the establishment of a beachhead to cover the landing of the second wave of landing troops who were rushing to the beach. Behind the Japanese landing fleet, its large ship cluster
As soon as it entered the minefield, the battleship Yamashiro hit the mine first, which immediately stopped the Japanese large-caliber naval gunfire. The anti-Union shore artillery group, which had been silent, suddenly opened fire across the board.