The few ships the Navy had stationed in Port Arthur were exhausted and could not evacuate many people. Under the threat of Yamada Otsuzo, the Navy had no choice but to bite the bullet and transfer the ship originally planned to return to the mainland.
, an old-fashioned cargo ship that was forty years old and with a speed of only ten knots was dispatched. A number of barges and motor-driven sailing ships were also mobilized from the coast of North Korea to ensure that the ship could transport 10,000 people at a time.
Not only is the Takasaki transport ship with the largest transportation volume, its age of more than 40 years is purely grandfather-level. No other ship, whether it is a barge or a few thousand-ton cargo ships, is less than 30 years old.
.There is no way that the new ship will either sink in the South Pacific or be trapped in Southeast Asia and unable to return.
These grandpa-class transport ships have become the only ships that the Japanese Navy can currently deploy. These ships of different styles, large and small, are a groundbreaking move for the Japanese military's maritime transport operations, which have always been proud of their navy.
Once.
Of course, it is not true that new transport ships cannot be mobilized, but after the Battle of Qikou, neither the navy nor the army was willing to transfer Type 1 and Type 2 landing ships, as well as younger transport ships to the Bohai Sea. This is because
For an inland sea like the Bohai Sea, and an opponent like the Anti-League who does not play cards according to common sense.
As long as the enemy lays mines in the Laotieshan waterway, those transport ships can only be trapped in the Bohai Sea, waiting for enemy aircraft from all directions to be sunk like targets. The last battle of Qikou, how could there be any hope?
How did the Anti-Japanese League lay mines? Dozens of mines could be concentrated in one square kilometer of sea area.
These are mines, and even the mines are not so dense. The lessons learned from the past have made the Japanese Navy unwilling to deploy new transport ships to transport the Fourth Army trapped in Huludao. Not only is the Japanese Navy reluctant, but the transport fleet in its hands
In terms of quantity, the remaining army has very little strength. At the same time, it is also reluctant to part with the few remaining transport ships.
The loss of the single-wheel transport fleet in the Battle of Qikou was greater for the Army than for the Navy. The lessons of the Battle of Qikou were almost too painful for the Army. The lessons learned from the past are not far away, and the Army was reluctant to part with the remaining fleet.
Therefore, these old guys who were evacuated from Lushun and were still wandering around the sea outside Lushun could only live in temporary poverty.
Anyway, for the Japanese army, it is not that far from Lianshan Bay to Port Arthur. Although these ships are a bit older, their transport volume is not as much as that of the new transport ships. The speed is slower, but at such a close distance
The distance is not unacceptable. As long as the movement is concealed, there shouldn't be any big problem.
As for the army's small transport fleet, it has been almost used up for a long time. Moreover, it is too late to transfer ships from the mainland and Shanghai to the northeast. Therefore, this transportation can only be carried out after the Battle of Qikou.
He swore to kill the navy who would never enter the Bohai Sea and take the main responsibility.
However, this time the Navy learned a lesson and secretly conducted a reconnaissance of Lianshan Bay and the entire waterway by sending minesweeper ships before setting off. No mines were found, so they agreed to send ships to capture the Fourth Army trapped in Huludao.
They were transported out. However, the Navy also clearly told the Army that this was the last time the Navy cooperated with the Army in Manchuria.
In the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the navy, which had lost most of its capital, wanted to transfer most of the ships on the Chinese battlefield and the Manchurian battlefield, except for those gunboats that could not go to sea, back to the mainland to prepare for homeland defense.
There is no more power left to cooperate with the army in battlefield operations in China and Manchuria.
As if they were thieves, this fleet docked at the port in the middle of the night and immediately loaded up the first batch of land troops scheduled to retreat. They immediately pulled anchor and set sail, refusing to stay in Lianshan Bay for a minute longer. They watched the sky turn over.
It was about to light up, so he immediately retreated to the sea outside Lianshan Bay.
It’s just that the transport ship Takasaki, the largest tonnage, is really too slow. The original speed of ten knots has been further reduced after forty years of use. In addition to the large and small old ships in the fleet,
The speed was generally not very fast. When the sky started to light up, the Japanese fleet had just sailed out of Lianshan Bay.
As a result, this miscellaneous ship slowly sailed through Lianshan Bay, and what greeted them was a large number of attack aircraft groups from the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Although there was only a coastal defense ship, an old-fashioned gunboat, a few minesweepers, and submarine-driven
, activated all the artillery and fired desperately into the sky. However, facing the resistance attack aircraft group, its firepower was still too weak.
And those large and small, slow-moving, master-class transport ships, as well as motor-driven sailing ships with no protection capabilities, have also become the best targets. The battle off the coast of Qikou was repeated again off the coast of Huludao.
High-explosive aerial bombs, napalm bombs, rockets, plus an overwhelming amount of machine gun bullets and artillery shells.
The unscrupulous Anti-Alliance aviation force dropped airborne bombs at a height that just missed the mast of the Japanese ship. The Takasaki, which was traveling slowly but became the most obvious target because of its size, was the first to be hit.
Two napalm bombs directly ignited a raging fire in this fully loaded transport ship with a displacement of 6,000 tons.
Napalm bombs may not necessarily be effective against those warships, but since the First World War in Qikou, the Anti-Alliance Forces have liked to use this kind of incendiary bombs to deal with Japanese transport ships. Especially those unarmored troop transport ships, as long as they hit
One napalm bomb turned the entire ship into a living hell in an instant.
And this large transport ship, which had more than 3,000 Japanese troops crammed into it, was dropped by an anti-Japanese attack aircraft at the height of the mast with two napalm bombs that directly hit the deck.
A raging fire was ignited on the ship, and the Japanese soldiers on the burned ship were crying and howling. The black smoke rising from the burning steel could be seen clearly from more than ten kilometers away.
In addition to the Takasaki, the rest were also filled with at least several hundred Japanese barges, as well as the five thousand-ton cargo ships with people even on the masts, as well as a large number of motor boats, tugboats, and the old-fashioned
The gunboats and several minesweepers also struggled to survive under the firepower of high-explosive aerial bombs and rockets. The first escort ship to be sunk was the old gunboat.
Facing the firepower of the Anti-Japanese Alliance aviation force, the Japanese naval officer leading the fleet reacted extremely quickly. He immediately ordered the fleet to sail to the nearest port of Yingkou, and dispersed with all his strength to break out, one by one if he could get out. Otherwise,
The tens of thousands of troops were all lost outside Lianshan Bay.
But before the Japanese fleet could carry out this order, another drastic change occurred on the sea. A small fleet flying a red flag, some of which looked very familiar to the Japanese naval officer in charge, appeared behind them and
Not only did it cut off the route back to Huludao, it was also responsible for intercepting the Japanese motorboats.
Although these ships do not have large artillery, there is only one coastal defense ship that can be regarded as a thousand-ton ship. The rest are some salvaged and repaired inland river gunboats, as well as large gunboats of more than 100 tons manufactured in the Harbin Songhua River cabin, or only a few
Ten-ton gunboats. Here are two 300-ton gunboats, one transport gunboat, and three gunboats from the uprising of the Puppet Manchukuo Maritime Police Force.
Such a small number of light ships would not have been enough for the Japanese Navy in its heyday, even before the Battle of Leyte Gulf. But now, these light ships that came all the way from Fuzhou Bay have become Japanese transport ships.
The team's nightmare. Especially those unarmed motorboats temporarily recruited from the Korean Peninsula have become the first choice targets.
No matter how slow these ships are, they are much faster than those slow motor sailing ships. The large number of small-caliber artillery and machine guns, no matter how small they are, are powerful against these unarmored motor sailing ships. When you see your own fleet
As soon as they arrived, the sadistic planes in the sky concentrated on dealing with those large transport ships, and the remaining small ships were handed over to their own fleet.
This small fleet that suddenly appeared in front of the Japanese transport fleet was the combat ship used by the Anti-Japanese Alliance to cover Tao Jingfei's landing in Fuzhou Bay, plus the rebellious Puppet Manchukuo Maritime Police Force. This fleet was concentrated in
After receiving Yang Zhen's order, the small fleet in Fuzhou Bay immediately pulled anchor and sailed towards Lianshan Bay at full speed under the guidance of the ships of the Puppet Manchukuo Maritime Police Force.
After hurriedly and slowly hurriedly, a few ships were scattered due to lack of proficiency in sea formation combat, but they finally arrived on the battlefield when the Japanese transport fleet left Lianshan Bay. There was no way to find out that these ship soldiers had always been
After training on the inland Songhua River, I was far from proficient in maritime operations, so it was not surprising that some accidents occurred.
As the battle progressed, the almost naked and unguarded Japanese transport fleet was sunk one by one as if they were being targeted. The first ship that could not withstand it was the one that was given priority because of its huge size.
The Miyazaki transport ship. When this large cargo ship was ignited by a raging fire and turned into a purgatory, it was half-floating on the water full of the smell of barbecue.
It wasn't until two anti-alliance SBD dive bombers rushed over and fired three high-explosive bombs that they completely ended the ship's suffering. At this time, the more than 3,000 Japanese troops on board had basically been roasted in the cabin.
.Only a small number of Japanese soldiers on the deck who jumped into the sea in time were lucky enough to escape.
Of the remaining five thousand-ton cargo ships plus a few barges, only two were still floating on the water. They were still struggling desperately to turn to Yingkou. As a result, they were chased by several bombers.
, directly sunk on the sea. When the bomber group left, the Japanese fleet outside Lianshan Bay at this time was considered a huge fleet, with only a group of motors and sailboats still scattered and trying to escape.
In addition to a Japanese coastal defense ship and two gunboats, the only force in the Anti-Japanese Alliance was a small navy mainly composed of gunboats. In addition to rifles and light and heavy machine guns, these only had a few 92 infantry cannons.
The group of motorboats happened to be the best targets for combat. The flat-firing anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber artillery made these motorboats riddled with holes.
Among the Japanese warships that were sunk in the Haihe River, they were salvaged and repaired, and some personnel transferred from the Northeast Military Region's Border Defense Ship Brigade took over. The original Suma shallow-water heavy artillery ship was also sunk in the Haihe River.
Among them, a coastal defense ship that had been repaired by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Chidori mine boat, also joined the massacre.
These ships were all sunk in the Haihe River during the capture of Tianjin in the spring of this year. Except for those ships that were completely blown up and could not be repaired, the rest of the ships have been fully repaired and are basically ready for use.
There are only a few shallow-water river gunboats, but they cannot go out to the open sea and can only stay in Tianjin.
But basically all the ships that could go to sea were mobilized to participate in the anti-union landing operation. After completing the landing operation, Yang Zhen, who was aware that the Fourth Army was about to retreat, was all transferred to the sea off Huludao. These Japanese
The built ships, together with the rebellious ships of the Puppet Manchukuo Maritime Police Force, hit the Japanese's own artillery shells accurately and hard back at the Japanese.