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Osaka Bay is the sea area surrounded by the Osaka Plain and Awaji Island on the Pacific coast of southern Honshu Island, Japan. It is bounded by the Kii Peninsula to the east, Awaji Island to the west, connected to the Seto Inland Sea via the Akashi Strait to the northwest, and Okinoshima and Jinoshima Brokers to the south.
Isuido is connected to the Pacific Ocean and is a relatively closed bay. It runs roughly from northeast to southwest, about 60 kilometers long and 20 kilometers wide. The water depth in the eastern half is nearly 20 meters, and the water depth near the north shore of Awaji Island in the west is 60 meters.
Kobe is an important shipbuilding base that emerged in Japan after the Meiji Restoration. It is an advanced shipyard run by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and has been able to produce all the warships Japan needs. In four years, the Japanese government-run Kure Navy Yard, Yokosuka Navy Yard and Sasebo Naval Yard
After being destroyed by the Chinese navy, the Japanese government began to support private shipyards on a large scale due to financial reasons. Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Hitachi Shipyard are among the private shipyards that have benefited.
In order to protect the Kobe Shipyard, the Japanese Navy specially built 12 fully enclosed reinforced concrete forts around the Kobe Shipyard. These forts are more than two meters thick and can defend against the bombardment of large-caliber naval guns. The equipment includes
With more than two hundred naval guns of various sizes, including 280 mm caliber, the defense strength here is second only to Tokyo Bay.
"His Royal Highness Prince Arisugawa Norihito, the fleet is in pieces!" A somewhat thin, dark-skinned, middle-aged Japanese naval admiral reported to Prince Arisugawa Norihito, the current supreme commander of the Japanese Navy.
"Your Excellency Kawamura Junyoshi, order the troops to prepare for battle! The Chinese attack will begin soon!" Prince Arisugawa Palace Ehito said. He did not take the destruction of the remaining Japanese fleet seriously. Once Japan is finished,
The navy has no meaning of existence. As loyal warriors of the emperor, death is the best destination for these people.
"Yes, Your Highness the Prince! The Army's heavy artillery brigade from both countries has also entered the battlefield!" Kawamura Junyoshi said.
"The Army's bunch of horse dung and their heavy howitzers have a range of less than ten kilometers and pose no threat to the China Navy at all. It is better to let them withdraw from the battle and prepare to resist the Chinese landing in the future!" Arisukawa Miyabihito
The prince said disdainfully.
"Your Highness, the Army's heavy artillery brigade is participating in the battle. This is what His Excellency Katsura Taro requested!" Kawamura Junyoshi said.
"Then let them go!" Prince Arisugawa Palace Ehito said helplessly. The fleet was wiped out, and his status also dropped sharply. Even though he was the prince of Japan, he no longer had much status in the cabinet.
"Every ship, please pay attention. Prioritize attacking the small Japanese forts and replace them with armor-piercing shells. Finally, destroy the Japanese shipyard. As for the two battleships that have been launched, be careful not to blow them up. After the war is over, this will be ours.
Come on!" Lieutenant General Li Haitao ordered.
Two 'Sichuan-class' battleships and three 'Chengdu-class' heavy cruisers lined up in two battle lines and started bombarding them at a distance of 10,000 meters from Kobe Port. These five battleships were the main force to destroy Japan.
Japan is obviously well-defended, and there is no need to risk its light cruisers and destroyers to avoid unnecessary losses.
"Boom! Boom!" Artillery shells weighing more than 300 kilograms, carrying huge kinetic energy, slammed hard at the Japanese Navy's coastal defense batteries. Although these batteries were rough and thick, it was difficult to withstand them.
It can withstand the bombardment of armor-piercing projectiles of this caliber.
If a fort is hit, even if it is not destroyed, the shock wave generated by the huge explosion is enough to kill the Japanese artillery inside. Not to mention that often two or three cannons can easily destroy the Japanese navy's shore.
Anti-fort.
When the Chinese naval fleet launched an attack, the Japanese naval coastal defense fleet also launched a counterattack. More than 200 cannons of various calibers from 12 forts all began bombarding. For a while, rain fell on the sea, and explosions
A series of water pillars soaring into the sky.
However, compared with naval battleships, coastal defense turrets have inherent disadvantages. Coastal defense turrets are fixed, and it is very troublesome to adjust the design direction, which is far less easy than naval guns. At the same time, fixed turrets are always
Easier to be hit than a battleship.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The artillery battle was very fierce. The Chinese and Japanese sides were going back and forth. The shells made sharp whistles in the sky, and people shouted and hit them hard, bursting out with huge power.
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The warships of the Chinese Navy are constantly moving on the sea, as if they are walking through a hail of bullets. Although the only ones firing are the 12 305mm naval guns on the two 'Sichuan-class' battleships and the three 'Chengdu-class' heavy cruisers
280mm on 12 doors
The power of naval guns is far greater than the more than two hundred coastal defense guns of the Japanese Navy's coastal defense forces. The Japanese Navy's coastal defense guns are difficult to pose a threat to fast-moving targets, while the Chinese Navy's warships
Let’s take a look at the Japanese navy’s coastal defense batteries one by one.
"Your Highness, the No. 2 fort has been destroyed!" Less than twenty minutes after the battle began, Kawamura Junyoshi reported to Prince Arisugawa Palace Ehito.
Prince Arisugawa Palace Ehihito's face was expressionless. He just used the telescope in his hand to quietly pay attention to the Chinese navy's warships showing off their power on the sea. However, if you look closely, you can see his hands holding the telescope tightly and pointing.
The knot has turned white due to excessive exertion. From this, we can see the anger in his heart.
The fierce battle was still going on. By eleven o'clock, three of the Japanese naval coastal defense force's forts had been destroyed. As for the Chinese navy, only the battleship 'Xikang' was hit by a 155mm shell and was
No substantial damage was caused. The battleship's hard armor provided very good protection for the battleship.
As more and more forts were destroyed, the firepower of the Japanese Navy's coastal defense forces gradually became sparse, which posed an even smaller threat to the Chinese Navy. In order to strike targets more accurately, at 12 noon, the Japanese Navy's
When there were only five coastal defense batteries left, the Chinese Navy shortened the distance to eight thousand meters.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Suddenly, a series of dense bombardments erupted from the city of Kobe, and a large number of shells flew from the sky and smashed into the sea. When the Chinese Navy was unable to defend itself, several warships were
Got hit. Fortunately, these shells were only high-explosive bombs. Although they caused some casualties to the Chinese Navy, they did not cause any damage to the thickly armored warships.
"Back off! Go back to 10,000 meters away!" Lieutenant General Li Haitao ordered quickly. He thought this was a Japanese trap.
"Chief of Staff! It's a high-explosive bomb, a 155mm heavy howitzer from the Japanese Army!" Brigadier General Zhao Hongcai, the captain of the Sichuan, said.
"Back off first, and then teach these little Japanese a lesson!" Li Haitao ordered.
Soon, after retreating to 10,000 meters, the Japanese army's heavy artillery had no way to defeat the Chinese navy, and the Chinese navy also began to take revenge.
The three heavy cruisers turned their guns and aimed at the urban area of Kobe where they had just fired. As for whether there were civilians there, they were no longer considered.
"Boom! Boom!" The 280mm main guns of the three heavy cruisers opened fire one after another, and high-explosive bombs of nearly 300 kilograms flew quickly towards the city of Kobe. Ten seconds later, a series of violent explosions
The sound rang out in downtown Kobe. Every explosion of a 280mm artillery shell can create a large crater with a diameter of tens of meters, and everything within a hundred meters around it will be destroyed.
Because the Japanese Army hid its heavy artillery brigade in the urban area, during the Chinese Navy's shelling, not only the Japanese Army's heavy artillery brigade paid a heavy price, but also the houses in Kobe's urban area were destroyed. High Explosive
The fire caused by the bomb explosion quickly spread to the surrounding areas. Japanese wooden houses are always very easy to cause large-scale losses during wars.
"Your Highness, the Chinese launched an artillery bombardment on Kobe!" Kawamura Junyoshi said with a look of horror.
"How many civilians are there in Kobe?" Prince Arisugawa Palace Ehihito asked.
"Most of them have been evacuated, but there are still about 100,000 people left in the city. These damn Chinese people, they actually attack civilians, they are worse than animals!" Kawamura Junyoshi cursed bitterly.
"Those damn guys in the Army, they want to use civilians as human shields!" A trace of anger flashed on the face of Prince Arisugawa Palace Ehito.
It was the plan of the Japanese Army Ministry to use civilians in Kobe as human shields. However, I did not expect that the Chinese Navy did not talk about benevolence and morality at all. After discovering the position of the Japanese Army's heavy artillery brigade, it immediately launched a counterattack. As for accidental injuries,
When it comes to the civilians, they can only be considered unlucky. Anyway, there are not many good people among the Japanese.
The battle was very fierce. Two heavy artillery brigades of the Japanese Army suffered heavy losses under the bombardment of three heavy cruisers of the Chinese Navy. In the end, they had to withdraw from the battle. At that time, hundreds of their 155mm heavy-duty
There are less than twenty howitzers left. As for the entire city of Kobe, there are
It became a sea of fire, and countless Japanese civilians were killed in this shelling. According to statistics from the Japanese government afterwards, during this shelling, 100,000 people died in the fire in Kobe, and hundreds of thousands more were left homeless.
.Of course, this is entirely because the Japanese government deliberately exaggerated and wanted to win sympathy from the international community.
The attack on Kobe lasted until two o'clock in the afternoon. All the Japanese Navy's coastal defense batteries were destroyed. Finally, the Chinese Navy launched an artillery bombardment on the Kobe Shipyard and did not leave until the Kobe Shipyard was blown into ruins.
After that, the Chinese navy did not leave Osaka Bay immediately, but launched attacks on other Japanese cities in Osaka Bay. It was not until nightfall that all the coastal industrial zones of Japanese cities along Osaka Bay were destroyed, and the fleet did not leave from Kii Suido.
to Osaka Bay.
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