Ye Zhao's headquarters is located in Shaoxing. After talking to Wang Hai on the phone, he sat on a chair with relief and said to Zhang Gongming, the chief of staff on the side: "Finally here."
Zhang Gongming nodded: "Okay, let's let Lao Zhuang and Xiao Wang fire the first shot of the counterattack."
After the Battle of Green Island, the top brass of the Xuebing Army, who had long been familiar with the nature of the Japanese, realized that the Japanese would definitely launch retaliatory actions, so both the Second Army Corps in Southern Zhejiang and the First Army Corps in Guangzhou restrained their counterattacks. , the purpose is to give the aviation force some time to rest and teach the little devil a painful lesson.
In Guangzhou, it was Li Tieshu who answered the phone. After hanging up, he immediately called Tielin Fei and told him: Brother, your opportunity has come.
In the Battle of Green Island, the Air Force actually contributed a lot, but in the end when it came to judging the merits and rewards, they had little to do with it. Although Tielin Fei and other Air Force senior officials were able to deal with this indifferently, the pilots below had considerable opinions and thought that It was so unfair that all the credit and limelight had been snatched away by the Navy. Tie Linfei took care of the emotions of the people below him and protested to Li Tieshu and Ji Xingwen in private more than once in a half-joking and half-serious manner, saying that since After the establishment of the Pacific Fleet, their air force became a stepmother. It went from being loved by everyone to being hated by everyone. This gap is really too big and is not conducive to the construction of the army.
At that time, Li Tieshu and Ji Xingwen comforted him and told him not to be anxious. Sooner or later, there would be a chance for them to regain their position. But now, this opportunity has indeed come. The Battle of Green Island was the air force providing cover for the navy. This time, because the Japanese army came The combined fleet, Haikou Fleet and Dongshan Fleet are not enough to squeeze people's teeth, so we can only have the Air Force as the main force and the Navy as the supplement.
Tielin Fei had been prepared for a long time. After hanging up the phone with Li Tieshu, he first asked someone to call Xue Changkong to ask the Taiwan Strait Aviation Corps to prepare for an attack. Then he personally arranged the attack sequence of the Air Force General Headquarters to let Meizhou The airport and the three fighter divisions from Baiyunshan Airport were all dispatched and immediately headed to Nanping Airport and Wuyishan Airport.
Li Tieshu called Chen Ce and Chen Yuanyang again and asked them to order the swordfish force and submarine force to advance to the East China Sea immediately and prepare to fish in troubled waters.
While the Air Force and Navy of the Academy were actively preparing for war, on the blue waters of the East China Sea, in the command room of the Yamato aircraft carrier, Yamamoto Isoroku and the commanders of the various squadrons of the Combined Fleet were also perfecting the "empty nest" technique. "The battle plan. The reason why Yamamoto named this operation "Empty Nest" is because his primary goal for this battle was to completely destroy the airports in the coastal areas of the Gakuin Army, so that the Gakuin Army Air Force would no longer be able to do so. Launching a surprise attack on Japanese ships sailing in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. If this goal can be achieved, then he can confidently and boldly advance along the coast of the Xuebing Army's inland jurisdiction, thereby clearing the Xuebing Army's shipyards one by one. He believes that as long as these two purposes can be achieved, the submarines and torpedo boats of the Xuebing Army will no longer pose a threat to the Japanese transport fleet escorted by warships. At that time, the joint fleet will attack the Philippine Islands, Taiwan and Hainan island opportunity,
In a conversation with Mitsumasa Yoneuchi and Narumi Inoue, Yamamoto explained the motivation for this action this way: "Get up from where you fell. The Gakehei Air Force began its rise by sinking the 'Akagi' and the 'Hiryu' road, then I will use the aircraft carrier to fight them back to their original shape."
After Yamamoto firmly established the "aircraft carrier route" under the influence of Koizumi Minichiro, all domestic shipyards began to stop building battleships and specialize in the production of aircraft carriers. As of now, three more aircraft carriers have been launched, so the number of aircraft carriers under the Combined Fleet has returned to the Assault Pearl. The size of the port, and because the three newly launched Shokaku-class aircraft carriers all have the same aircraft capacity as the Soryu, far exceeding the aircraft carriers Ryujo and Okyo that were sunk in the Battle of Green Island, their total aircraft capacity The amount of the attack on Pearl Harbor exceeded that of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It is no wonder that Yamamoto showed confidence.
After Tsukahara 243 experienced the failure of the attack on Hainan, he was transferred back to China by Yamamoto to take charge of the training of HNA aviation troops. Because more than one-third of the HNA aviation troops who participated in the battle this time were his students, Yamamoto transferred him He was promoted to serve as the commander-in-chief of all aviation teams. When Tsukahara was in charge of aviation training, he did not forget to summarize the gains and losses of the Hainan Campaign and gained many "valuable experiences." At this time, he held a small book to preach It is these "valuable experiences" that he considers to be more important: "... In view of the huge lethality of the Chinese rockets fired collectively, it is necessary to avoid too dense formations. This is one of the reasons; secondly, the Chinese are good at Ground air defense forces are used to set up air defense traps, so pre-war reconnaissance is very important... To sum up, I think the air attack on Ningbo Airport can be carried out in three steps. First, dispatch reconnaissance aircraft to obtain detailed terrain information, and then use naval guns to bombard. Make it impossible for the Chinese ground air defense forces to hide..."
After Tsukahara finished speaking, Yamamoto looked around everyone and asked, "Do you have any other suggestions? If not, I will follow Tsukahara-kun's instructions."
Yamabekawa Sankey raised his hand,
Yamamoto looked at him and said, "Yamabe-kun, please speak."
Yamabe was specially sent back by Koizumi to ensure the success of this operation. Yamabe, who has the title of "Eagle of Southeast Asia" and "The First Ace Pilot of Hainan Airlines", achieved extraordinary results when he led the Kisarazu Air Force to fight the British army. , has become a banner figure in the Hainan Airlines Air Force, and all the Japs immediately turned their attention to him, with expectant looks on their faces.
Yamabe bowed deeply to Yamamoto, then raised his head and said: "This humble position is not a suggestion, it is just a little experience gained from fighting with the aviation force of the Cadet Army. The tactics are to make the dead alive. Our first priority in this battle is Since the purpose is to destroy the coastal front-line airfield of the Xuebing Army, I think that everyone, whether it is a bomber or a bomber, should always keep this in mind. If the situation goes bad, we must have the consciousness to sacrifice for His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. , that is, when the fighter plane is damaged, it can fly towards the enemy airport. In this way, even if the student army can gain the upper hand in the fight, then we will definitely achieve the strategic goal. In order to ensure the effect, I suggest that each aircraft should be critically attacked Bring bombs with you on the plane.”
Yamamoto: "Special attack tactics?"
Yamabe nodded and said: "Yes, the premise is that it is a last resort."
Yamamoto let out a heavy breath and asked with a hint of bitterness: "Has the quality of the airmen of the Academy Army reached this level?"
Yamabe nodded heavily,
"What do you think?" Yamamoto glanced at the others,
"Is it too hasty?" Nagumo Chuichi said: "With nearly seven hundred fighter planes, the Xuebing Army can mobilize up to two hundred to reach the sky. We have an absolute numerical advantage..."
"Your Excellency, the Xuebing Army is fighting locally, and with all due respect, even the Zero's performance is worse than their Baiji Dolphin."
Nan Yun stopped talking,
The Japanese are not afraid of special attack tactics. Influenced by the spirit of Bushido, they are even proud of being able to implement this tactic. However, if they still implement this tactic when they have an advantage, not only Nagumo cannot accept it, but Yamamoto also feels that the gain is not worth the loss. However, he obviously
He trusted Yamabe very much. He hesitated for a moment and then said decisively: "Then let's make preparations for the war according to Yamabe's suggestion."
When the commander-in-chief spoke, the Japs no longer had any objections and bowed in unison: "Hai."