After the 8.0-magnitude earthquake occurred in the Japanese archipelago at noon on December 7, 1944, the human body could feel strong shaking from all areas of Kinki, Chubu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Kanto to parts of Tohoku and Asahikawa, Hokkaido. Ten to twenty
Minutes later, the seismic wave set off a strong tsunami, with waves as high as eight or nine meters along the coasts of the Kii Peninsula and Shima Peninsula.
Not long after Japan was bombed by the Anjia Army, a large number of refugees gathered at the beach and struggled to survive by fishing for seafood. As a result, huge waves hit, and many people who could not escape were swallowed by the sea water in an instant. There were as many as 10,000 people killed directly and indirectly by the earthquake and tsunami.
More than 200,000 people were injured, and more than 800,000 people were injured.
Eighty percent of aircraft production in the entire Japanese archipelago was paralyzed by the earthquake. Half of the commercial center of Osaka was originally destroyed by the bombing, and now the tsunami has wiped the other half off the ground. There are more than 2,000 factories and companies around Nagoya Castle.
suffered due to factory building collapse
Damage. The most important National Railway Tokaido main line runs between Washizu and Shinshohara. Due to the damage to the bridge and the distortion of the roadbed, it is estimated that it will be difficult to reopen to traffic within a month. As a result, the aircraft parts factories scattered in various places will not be able to transport parts to Kanto.
The final assembly plant in the area assembles the complete machine.
However, despite the extremely serious losses of personnel and property, the Japanese remained stubborn and continued to harass our southeastern coast. At the same time, they also launched "special bombs" against the Chinese Self-Defense Forces on the Southeast Asian archipelago and the Chinese Expeditionary Force soldiers in southeastern Australia.
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Under this situation, An Yi mobilized two aviation divisions to go south and stationed at military airports in Nanchang, Jinhua, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and other places to attack Japanese fighter planes that dared to infringe on China's southeastern coastal airspace at any time. At the same time, under the guidance of satellites and high-altitude radars,
Intensive bombing of Japanese military airports on Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands completely undermined the arrogance of the Japanese army, navy and air force.
At the same time, An Yi ordered the navy fleets to break the ban and attack across the board to block the Japanese maritime supply lines. Then he personally called Gu Changfeng and asked the troops of the Southeast Asian theater who had recovered all of Mentra Island to launch a sea-crossing campaign as soon as possible.
Open up battlefields in Java and Borneo.
On this basis, An Yi instructed the Second Artillery Force to make all emergency preparations and launch nuclear bomb attacks on important Japanese military facilities and naval and ground troop assembly areas at any time.
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December 9, in the waters of the Sakishima Islands in the southern part of the Ryukyu Islands.
After ten o'clock in the morning, the sky was blue and white with white clouds, and the sea was calm. On the route from the Luzon Islands to the Japanese Islands, a huge fleet composed of two escort aircraft carriers, eight destroyers and 92 transport ships were sailing smoothly.
Sailing northeastward along the Ryukyu Trench, the target is Osaka, the area hardest hit by the earthquake.
Since this route is protected by land-based fighter aircraft from Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, and the Anjiajun Navy has always been relatively restrained and rarely takes the initiative to attack. It has always been very safe, so the Japanese sailors on the ship looked relaxed, and some sailors even
As they were leisurely basking in the sun on the deck, they had no idea that a fleet was crossing the strait in the northern part of the Miyako Islands and approaching them at high speed.
Due to the influence of the earth's curve, the air and sea search radars installed on the escort aircraft carriers and destroyers of the Japanese escort fleet did not detect any danger.
The fleet chasing from the side and rear is mainly composed of four main aircraft carriers, one battlecruiser, one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers and sixteen destroyers. The radars installed on the main aircraft carriers and battlecruisers are powerful.
.With advanced performance and satellites and high-altitude airships in the sky to guide the direction, every move of the Japanese fleet was locked.
"Report, we are less than 150 nautical miles away from the Japanese transport and escort fleet, which fully meets the requirements for attack distance and voyage!"
A naval staff officer walked into the command room of the fleet flagship "Yunlong" aircraft carrier and reported to Rear Admiral Zhou Jun, commander of the Anjiajun North Sea Fleet.
Zhou Jun, who was looking at the navigation chart in front of the electronic display screen with the Chief of Staff, Colonel Liu Haijing, perked up, raised his head, and issued an order loudly: "The fleet immediately turned around and sailed into the wind. Release the first wave of carrier-based aircraft! Convey this!
My order: Fight hard and sink all the little devil’s supplies to the bottom of the sea!”
"yes!"
It didn't take long for the officers and soldiers on the aircraft carriers "Unryu", "Katsugi", "Omi" and "Toyama" to get busy. The maximum speed of these captured aircraft carriers from the Japanese Navy was generally more than 33 knots, and the wind was very strong when sailing into the wind.
Large, carrier-based aircraft took off from the deck and completed the assembly over the fleet.
Twenty minutes later, the aircraft group began to fly northeast. About half an hour later, the air search radar on the escort ship of the Japanese transport fleet finally detected the incoming aircraft group, and the alarm sounded shrilly.
The Japanese army was in chaos. Last month, the commander of the escort fleet, Admiral Shinji, hurriedly ordered the dispatch of carrier-based fighter jets to intercept, and at the same time asked for reinforcements from the land-based aviation forces at nearby Ryukyu and Taiwan airports.
The Japanese escort aircraft carriers converted from merchant ships only have a carrier-based aircraft capacity of 25 to 30 aircraft. The two escort aircraft carriers have less than 60 aircraft in total, and the escort fighters they are equipped with are old-fashioned "Zero" aircraft, which are useless against the sea.
The fighting 97th Ship Attack and 99th Ship Explosion were helpless in the air battle.
This kind of air power is naturally capable of dealing with harassment by submarines and surface ships, but it is extremely difficult to deal with the main aircraft carrier formations, which have at least 65 carrier-based aircraft capacity.
The Japanese escort carrier-based fighter jets scrambled to take off and immediately sent out 25 "Zeros". At this time, there were a total of 130 aircraft attacking the Japanese fleet, accounting for about half of the total number of aircraft in the fleet, including 50
The S1-C dive bomber is an upgraded version of the S1-B dive bomber. With the improvement of aero-engine power, the weight of the external heavy bomb on the A-shaped pylon on the belly of this model has exceeded 1,500 kilograms. At the same time, the armor
The thickness has been strengthened again, which can resist the attack of small-caliber machine guns, but the protection against 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns and larger-caliber anti-aircraft guns is still weak.
Carrier-based fighter jets from both sides encountered each other in the air, and a fierce battle quickly began.
The T1 torpedo bombers and S1-C dive bombers took advantage of the "Haitong Qing" opportunity to encircle and suppress the Japanese "Zero" fighters and pounced fiercely on the Japanese transport fleet.
The anti-aircraft firepower of the two Japanese escort aircraft carriers was seriously insufficient, and the destroyers tasked with the escort mission were not the kind of anti-aircraft destroyers that integrated many anti-aircraft guns, so the situation of the Japanese fleet suddenly became extremely bad.
The S1-C bombers swooping down from high altitude first attacked the destroyers of the Japanese Navy escort formation. As the screams were heard frequently, the S1-C bombers in the air flexibly avoided the anti-aircraft guns fired from the battleships.
Intercepted by anti-aircraft machine guns, aerial bombs continued to fall towards the Japanese escorting destroyers.
The sky above the Japanese transport fleet was filled with black smoke from anti-aircraft artillery shells. On the sea, the Japanese ships tried their best to make snake-like maneuvers to avoid the roaring aerial bombs. From time to time, columns of water rose up from the sea.
Only five minutes later, a destroyer in the Japanese escort formation was hit by a 1,500-kilogram giant aerial bomb. With a loud "bang", the 1,500-ton destroyer was broken into two pieces on the spot.
It sank into the sea in three or four minutes.
Before the Japanese escort fleet could react, the "Xiangmei" aircraft carrier, the flagship of the escort fleet, was also hit by a 500-kg aircraft bomb. The deck of the 10,500-ton escort carrier was quickly blasted with a big hole.
Come
More than a dozen carrier-based bombers and torpedo planes that had time to take off were reduced to pieces in the violent explosion. Fortunately, the Japanese fighter planes rushed to respond and would not have time to mount torpedoes and aerial bombs. Otherwise, the violent explosion would be enough to destroy this converted merchant ship.
The resulting aircraft carrier was destroyed.
When the S1-C dive bomber that dropped its aerial bombs was trying to escape, it was unable to change its course and was hit by anti-aircraft guns from two nearby destroyers. The pilot immediately passed out and the fighter plane dragged billowing smoke.
, plunged into the sea, and there was a violent explosion immediately.
Just as the Japanese army was cheering for joy, a T1 torpedo plane broke into the defensive circle of the Japanese fleet that was shooting in the air from the sea level. A torpedo shot out at a short distance, before the Japanese army could make evasive actions.
The 1,288 kilogram aviation torpedo had already hit the rising aircraft carrier, and a column of water shot up into the sky. The "Xiangmei" aircraft carrier stopped moving amidst the continuous explosions and began to slowly sink.
The Japanese sailors were so frightened that they fled the aircraft carrier "Xiangmei" one after another. Another escort aircraft carrier "Kochi" saw that the situation was not good and prepared to withdraw from the battlefield, but was attacked by six S1-C dive bombers and four T1 torpedo planes.
At the cost of a torpedo plane and a bomber being hit by Japanese anti-aircraft guns, the "Kochi" escort carrier company was hit by two 1,000-kilogram-class aerial bombs and a torpedo.
The thin-skinned aircraft carrier was broken in the middle. It sank quickly before it could struggle, and actually sank to the bottom of the sea before the carrier.
The Japanese escort fleet with extremely weak escort force was no match for the wolf-like Anjiajun naval aviation force. In just half an hour, the remaining seven destroyers sank into the sea together with the two aircraft carriers. In this way
, the remaining ships of the Japanese transport fleet were preying on each other. Although they tried their best to escape, how could they escape the pursuit of carrier-based aircraft with a minimum speed of 400 kilometers per hour?
At this time, the second wave of 70 fighter planes arrived. This time, even the escorting twenty-five F2-B "Golden Eyed Eagle" carrier-based fighter jets were equipped with 1,000 kilograms of aerial bombs and joined the attack on the sea. They were densely packed.
Aerial bombs continued to fall, and under the frenzied attack by Anjiajun naval carrier-based aircraft, not a single ship in this Japanese transport fleet escaped misfortune, and even the more than 300,000 tons of supplies on board sank into the sea.
In the southern waters of Ryukyu Island, more than fifty nautical miles away from the battlefield, North Sea Fleet Commander Rear Admiral Zhou Jun was very satisfied with the frontline battle report. At this time, the intelligence staff came to report that fighter planes flying from the direction of Yilan and Hualien in Taiwan were approaching the battlefield.
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In order to cooperate with this attack, the Anjiajun Air Force carried out suppressive attacks on Taiwan and Ryukyu military airports. The Japanese Army and Navy land-based fighters did not dare to move easily. It is estimated that now that the Anjiajun Air Force has left, the Japanese dared to use the hidden land-based fighters
Sent out to provide emergency rescue to the fleet in trouble.
Major General Zhou Jun smiled proudly and issued an order: "Retreat... We have successfully completed the mission. There is no need to stay and fight with the Japs. We will now go deep into the Pacific and play a hide-and-seek game with the Japs. Those land-based fighters will hand over
Let the Air Force handle it!"
"yes!"
After Chief of Staff Colonel Liu Haijing issued a retreat order, the fleet turned towards the Izu Trench. The attack fleet had satellite and radar navigation and would automatically return to the fleet without fear of getting lost. Japan was in dire straits. They had no satellite support and had to
It is really not an easy task to find traces of a fleet on the vast sea.
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