The outstanding performance of Qi Minghao's missile speedboat can be regarded as an unexpected surprise so far in the decisive battle. The senior officials of the headquarters will not talk about it. They may not even know what missiles are, so naturally they will not favor the unit. That is Chen Shichang There are also professionals like De Gu. Because of the previous test-firing results of the missile speedboat unit, they did not have much expectations for it. The more so, the performance of the missile speedboat unit will be more surprising and eye-catching. It feels like each Swordfish missile speedboat has a base of six Poseidon ship-to-ship missiles, two 37-mm caliber rapid-fire cannons, and several machine guns. Such armaments are not suitable for a naval battle of this level. , which means that once all the Poseidon ship-to-ship missiles are launched, they will have nothing to do with them. Fortunately, there are many missiles in the supply fleet, so Chen Shichang, who had not decided to reuse the missile boat force, saw the ministry’s After becoming sharp, he immediately ordered the supply fleet to send several ships to supply Qi Minghao's troops. Naval battles involve too many related factors. Of course, giant ships, artillery and naval forces are the top priority. In addition, the supply technology of warships is also indispensable. In this regard, although the Pacific Fleet is a rising star, it relies on technological progress to firmly defeat other navies of the same era. Take the supply of Qi Minghao's command as an example, because on the supply ship They are all equipped with high-power cranes, and are supplemented by guide rails and oil transfer platforms specially used for filling missiles. Therefore, Qi Minghao's department only took one and a half hours to complete the replenishment of the Poseidon ship-to-ship missile missile boat force. Immediately, they turned into a pack of wolves on the sea. When Chen Shichang came to give an order, Qi Minghao and Xu Kai generously agreed and immediately led their ships to gallop towards the main battlefield.
In this decisive battle, because the main battleships of both sides were equipped with sea defense and air defense radars, and reconnaissance aircraft were invested at all costs, neither Chen Shichang nor Nagumo Chuichi had many tactical options. Chen Shichang, for example, tried his best to In the end, they only came up with the idea of ambushing submarines and missile boats near Deyanna Island; another example is Nagumo Chuichi. Originally, his unit was divided into several teams according to functions: alert, mobile, main force, etc. The battle line was spread out over a wide area, but after discovering After imitating the main force of the Pacific Fleet, they immediately assembled all the ships, and in the end only one raiding fleet was allowed to leave the main fleet. The special geography of the decisive battle sea area, as well as the importance of the battle, made both sides dare not take it lightly. From the beginning, Concentrating all the forces, this is what is meant by completing the battle in one battle. As far as Nagumo Chuichi is concerned, because in addition to the Yamato aircraft carrier fleet, there are also Wuwei and Takejiu aircraft carrier fleets, then even if the battle is defeated, as long as it can be consumed If Xu Pacific Fleet has certain strength, then he will have no regrets even if he commits seppuku.
All naval forces of both sides took to the air, and the air battle situation that had become increasingly clear suddenly fell into chaos again. When Kinoshita Keygi replied to Chuichi Nagumo, he only said that as a last resort, dive bombing and torpedo planes could be carried out by the squadron and the torpedo plane squadron. In fact, when he ordered all dive bombing and torpedo plane battles to take off, he gave strict orders to the flight captains, requiring them to curb the Chinese air superiority at all costs. Yamamoto Isoroku in Hangzhou The special attack tactics used over the bay defeated the raid of the Gakuin Army's air fortress cluster against the combined fleet. When Kinoshita Keygi heard the news at first, he actually disagreed. As a senior officer of the naval aviation force, he thought that the value of pilots was far greater than As for the value of fighter planes, special attack tactics are not worth the gain. With Japan's current military aircraft industry, three or four fighter planes can be taken off every day. However, the training of pilots cannot be accomplished in a short time. So, let those with rich combat experience It was too wasteful for pilots to implement suicide tactics. However, now, after seeing the sharpness of the naval aviation force of the Xuebing Army, he had to resort to this magic weapon. For him, this itself is a great irony. , as he said after issuing the order: "Gentlemen, I actually don't want to do this, but as you can see, the performance of our fighter planes is far inferior to that of the Chinese, and our fifty special attack planes, which are most capable of penetrating defenses, are now He failed to arrive at the battlefield again (Nagumo Chuichi took morale into account and did not disclose the news that the raiding fleet had been severely damaged, so now only Kinoshita knows the news among the middle and lower-level officers of the Yamato aircraft carrier fleet. So), gentlemen, there is no need for me to elaborate on the significance of this battle. We, Imperial soldiers, have received the grace of His Majesty the Emperor in this life, and now is the time for us to dedicate ourselves to His Majesty the Emperor, even if we risk our lives."
Both sides had specialized reconnaissance forces patrolling around the air battle. Soon, both sides received reports that the other side had dispatched bombers and torpedo planes. At this time, another performance advantage of the Tiger Shark and the Chinese Sturgeon was highlighted. , the various self-defense weapons of the Japanese army are all aircraft machine guns, but a considerable number of the Tiger Sharks and Chinese Sturgeons of the Xuebing Army are equipped with 20 mm caliber machine guns. One of them, and another, The tiger shark and the Chinese sturgeon, which were born out of the white-tip dolphin, have armor protection capabilities that are only slightly inferior to that of the white-tip dolphin. In other words, their anti-strike capabilities are much stronger than those of the Japanese army's various ship bombardments. If the two items are added together, even though both sides are almost at the same time. Bombers and torpedo planes were dispatched, but in fact they failed to change the pattern of air combat.
When Kinoshita Keygi gave the orders to the dive bombing and torpedo plane teams to implement special attack tactics, he still had some hesitation in his heart. After all, using bombers and torpedo planes for suicide attacks was the best way to achieve the best outcome of perishing together with enemy fighter planes. But it means that the threat of the naval aviation force to enemy ships has been greatly weakened. It is tantamount to using one's own shortcomings to attack the other's strong points, which is a relatively stupid tactic. However, after the bombers and torpedo planes from both sides entered the battlefield, he instead suppressed the enemy's strength. Well, fortunately, fortunately, he issued the order to implement special attack tactics, otherwise, our bombers and torpedo planes would have died waiting for them to take off.
Bombers from both sides intersected in Kinoshita's field of vision. Kinoshita clearly saw that his bomber hit the opponent's Tiger Shark first. However, the opponent's Tiger Shark only had a string of flames emitting from the hit area, and then continued flying as if nothing had happened. He fired back, but the enemy bombers immediately caught fire. He realized that not only were the Chinese fighter planes rough-skinned but also the bombers and torpedo planes were also thick-skinned. Then factoring in the advance speed factor, the bombers and torpedo planes of both sides were not at the same level at all. ,
If your firepower is not as good as others, your protection ability is not as good as others, and your speed is not as good as others, you can only be beaten passively. Fortunately, there are special attack tactics. The officers and soldiers of the naval aviation force who learned from the Pacific Fleet obviously did not expect that the Japanese bombers and torpedo planes would implement them as soon as they arrived. This tactic, so I couldn't adapt to it at all at first. In the rush, several of them were hit by surprise, and then both of them were broken, somersaulted and fell from the sky.