No matter what Chuichi Nagumo's motives were, he finally grasped the gist of the naval battle in the Timor Sea. The battle between aircraft carrier fleets, of course, has the first goal of sinking the opponent's aircraft carrier. Once the aircraft carrier sinks, it means that the aircraft carrier The fighters on board will lose the possibility of being recovered. What's more, the party that owns the aircraft carrier will have the ability to launch long-range pursuit and strikes, and can provoke a battle without threatening its own fleet. The aircraft carrier side can only be passively beaten, and if it does not receive reinforcements from the aviation force, its destruction will only be a matter of time. In this regard, Chen Shichang's strategy actually has problems. Of course, because of Nanyun Zhong There was no mobile fighter group or mobile fleet group in hand. Even if he realized it, it was already too late. The last series of orders he issued actually became the Yamato aircraft carrier fleet's final struggle to escape the fate of failure.
The frigates of the Xuebing Army are currently in one category, the "Hengshan class". This type of ship is divided into three types according to displacement. Among them, the one with a displacement of 2108 tons is the first model produced, and the one with a displacement of 2686 tons is the latest model. The displacement is The 2,213-ton frigates are transformed from some old destroyers from the French Far East Fleet. The three categories of frigates have different displacements but similar armaments. They are all equipped with 12 Poseidon missiles, plus three more Rocket turrets and several machine guns or anti-aircraft machine guns. The Hengshan-class frigate does not have a main battery. This is the biggest difference between this type of ship and ships of the same class in other countries. This is related to the positioning given by Ouyang Yun. Using Ouyang Yun at the time To refute the words of Chen Ce and others: The key to frigates is to provide anti-submarine and air defense cover for main warships, and does not require long-range artillery.
At first glance, Nan Yunzhong thought that the Hengshan-class frigate of the Pacific Fleet was still a type of destroyer, but in the eyes of Abe Hongyi, he did not take this small ship of about two thousand tons into his eyes at all. Abe Hongyi despised the Hengshan-class frigate. It's not because of his aloof personality, but compared to the heavy cruiser he commands, the Hengshan-class frigate is really inconspicuous.
Abe Koki's flagship is the Nachi heavy cruiser. This type of ship is not the best among all the heavy cruisers. Its ability to become a flagship depends on the ship's historical honor, because it participated in the battle in December of the third year of Showa. The Grand Ship Viewing Ceremony held in Yokohama during the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Showa was often valued by Japanese naval officers, and was therefore repeatedly designated as the flagship of a certain fleet.
The performance parameters of the Nachi heavy cruiser are not outstanding among the many heavy cruisers of the Japanese army, but compared with the Hengshan-class frigates, it is also overwhelming. The displacement is 13,000 tons; the main gun has a caliber of 203 mm. Ten guns, these alone are far beyond the reach of the Hengshan-class frigate. This is why Abe ignored the Hengshan-class frigate.
However, the first thing that inflicted heavy damage to Abe was the Hengshan-class frigate that he ignored.
If you take a bird's eye view from the air, you will see that the fleets of both warring parties are showing such a change. The fleets of both sides are gradually divided into two clusters. Some giant battleships begin to slow down, while some large battleships and small battleships accelerate towards each other. , the distance between the giant ship cluster and the mixed cluster composed of large warships and small warships is getting farther and farther. When the mixed clusters of both sides collide, the sea is actually divided into three new clusters, and the ships of both sides collide. In the fierce fighting in the sea, there are groups of tumbling and entangled fighter planes in the sky. The roar of gunfire on the sea, the fireworks and huge waves caused by the explosion of large artillery shells, plus the smoke from the battleship chimney and the fighter engine, and the explosion of the fighter planes. Fire balls, smoke balls, and lines of fire formed by tracer bullets intertwined among them. The scene in this area was like hell.
Following the Pacific Fleet's three frigate groups, the five frigates under the command of Li Zhuoqi were the first to enter the attack state. The two heavy cruisers located 35 kilometers southeast of them became the first attack target.
Under unified command, he gave the order: "Fight." The frigate he was on opened fire first, with a muffled "bang" sound, and then with a "pop" sound, a Poseidon missile trailed an orange tail flame.
Flying out, although the Hengshan-class frigate is small in tonnage, it has high technological content. The most outstanding feature is that this type of ship is equipped with a new sea defense radar and supporting fire control system. Through this set of equipment, it is responsible for controlling missiles and rocket launchers.
The student can easily obtain the coordinates of the target object, and then add the weather and other factors into the calculation to obtain a more accurate launch angle.
The flight trajectory of the missile was too obvious, so when the missile was still about fifteen kilometers away from the target enemy ship, it was discovered by the Japanese soldiers. The missile was still a strange object to the Japanese soldiers, so they naturally thought it was
The shells, shells of such a caliber, scared the Japanese on the target enemy ship. The missile was still about ten kilometers away from them, so they screamed in unison. However, this missile seemed to be deliberately playing tricks on them.
Three thousand meters away from them, they lost power and fell into the sea.
Both Li Zhuoqi and Abe Hongyi used telescopes to monitor the missile. When Li Zhuoqi saw this, he cursed angrily: "Damn it." And Abe Hongyi breathed softly: "Eight grids."
"Can a destroyer fire shells of such a caliber?" behind Abe, the captain of the Nachi, Shibuya Shiro, said,
"It should have been launched by the Chinese heavy patrol." Abe replied,
Not far behind Li Zhuoqi's command, there were several heavy patrol ships.
Shibuya Shirou frowned slightly and thought: Am I being blinded? He shook his head thinking,
After Li Zhuoqi cursed bitterly, he issued another order: "One shot per ship, fire."
"Yes." "Received." "Launched."......
The five frigates launched at the same time, and the five Poseidon missiles took off one after another, drawing a beautiful arc in the air and rushing past the two heavy cruisers running at the front.
This time, Abe Koki also saw clearly where the "cannonball" came from. He couldn't help but be startled.
Shibuya Shiro put down the telescope and said loudly: "Sir, it was those destroyers that launched it."
Abe said in a deep voice: "Order the first heavy patrol to attack them."
The first heavy patrol team was composed of the two heavy cruisers targeted by Li Zhuoqi and the others. The two Japanese captains received Abe's order and were conveying it to the artillery. A Poseidon roared in and hit the fleet.
A violent explosion occurred on the heavy cruiser's island on the left wing. A huge mushroom cloud rose up. In the thunderous explosion, the ship's island, including the Japanese inside, was torn into pieces, followed by
Later, two more Poseidons hit the target, one of which hit the main gun mount of another heavy cruiser, directly causing the shells and propellant in the main gun chamber to explode, causing a rumbling explosion.
In the sound, the main gun and the gun mount were overturned directly into the sea. The heavy cruiser also burned violently.