Although Hu Weidong was very distressed about the previous losses of the Air Force, after receiving the telegram from Sa Shijun, he immediately ordered a fighter group of the Soviet Air Force to be sent to support, asking them to kill all the enemy's water reconnaissance aircraft.
But you are not allowed to engage in unnecessary fights with enemy ships. But having said that, none of the fighter jets dispatched this time carried aerial rockets, let alone small aerial bombs. If those pilots really used cannons to attack warships, they would be unavoidable.
Too much
Without the burden of rocket launchers, the fighters of the Soviet Air Force are obviously much more agile, and they do not need to attack ships and do not have to actively attack the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower. In addition, the Japanese ships at this time
Eager to pursue the Zhiyuan, they unknowingly widened the distance. As a result, the efficiency of the Japanese fleet's air defense operations this time was unprecedentedly low. The officers and soldiers of each ship watched helplessly as the enemy planes destroyed the few of their own surface aircraft.
All the planes were shot down, but only one enemy plane was shot down on our side. They were all filled with resentment. Therefore, many Japanese soldiers wanted to brutally kill the parachuting enemy pilots to vent their hatred, but due to the previous
During the battle, a total of no less than a hundred "Imperial Army" pilots were captured by the enemy. In order to exchange these elites from the empire, these enemy pilots not only could not be killed, but also had to be fed and fed well.
After the water reconnaissance plane was killed, the Japanese naval guns immediately lost their guidance. The heavy cruiser Zhiyuan, under the calm command of Captain Sa Shijun, continued to retreat while aiming its four rear main guns at those rushing towards it.
The Japanese ships in front continued to shell, and Sa Shijun deliberately moved the distance closer to about 25 kilometers. The hit rate of the Zhiyuan's four rear main guns suddenly increased greatly, and the
The last two heavy cruisers of the Japanese were all damaged, but the Japanese had no choice but to be beaten in vain. However, they still did not retreat, and they all increased their speed to the fastest. They tried to close the distance and kill the Zhiyuan, but the maximum speed of the Zhiyuan was
Up to 35 knots, the fastest among Japanese warships is about the same. How can it catch up when it is focused on "flying a kite"?
But at this moment, a group of planes suddenly appeared in the eastern sky. When the Japanese on each Japanese ship saw it, they all shouted "onboard". It turned out that after the last few water reconnaissance planes were shot down, they were turned over to the old Japanese.
Zengo Yoshida reminded him. In order to break the current dilemma of being beaten but unable to fight back, he had no choice but to shamelessly request support from the Japanese Army Air Force in Incheon. Out of concern that the Army would not save him, Zengo Yoshida
Still hard
He bravely reported the matter to the headquarters headquarters. As a result, the new commander of the Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet, Yamaguchi Tamon, received the bad news that all four aircraft carriers were bombed and sunk just before he took office (the biggest beneficiary of the internal coup in the Japanese Navy).
One of them) strongly advocated sending out all the aircraft that can participate in the battle. Cooperate with the fleet to destroy the enemy ships and take advantage of the situation to go straight to Qingdao, solving in one fell swoop the source of the disaster that has caused heavy losses to the empire so far.
Combined Fleet Commander Yamamoto Isoroku (another main beneficiary) appreciates this plan very much. According to the intelligence he currently has, the number of enemy fighter jets is less than 200 (actually a misjudgment caused by the Japanese Air Force's false reporting of records).
, and the Japanese military at the two major airports in Incheon and Seoul
However, the number of Army and Aviation fighter jets exceeds 300. Coupled with the anti-aircraft firepower equipped by those warships, even if enemy planes come out in full force, the Japanese side has a slight upper hand. Under this premise, the Japanese military has aircraft to help provide observation data.
The fleet can easily destroy the provocative heavy cruiser.
At the same time, if the enemy fighter jets come to rescue, it will be a great opportunity to annihilate them in one fell swoop. Yamamoto Isoroku also added a piece of information to Yamaguchi's plan. If the number of enemy fighter jets coming to rescue is less than 100,
Then resolutely destroy them. If the enemy planes come out in full force, then the local deployment will be
More than a hundred Mitsubishi Type 96 land-based medium attack aircraft in Nagasaki and other places (with a range of 4,000 kilometers, far exceeding the Japanese fighter jets at the time) will take advantage of the enemy's main force of fighter jets to fall into fierce battles without fighter escort.
In this situation, we will go straight to Qingdao to solve all the problems once and for all.
It is said to be a plan, but it is just a brief discussion. With Yamamoto Isoroku's current status, a military operation of this scale can be decided by himself. In addition, the aircraft are fast, especially the Japanese army aviation unit at Incheon Airport.
They had already prepared for the battle, and were less than a hundred nautical miles away from the battle site, so they quickly arrived on the battlefield first, and their arrival immediately reversed the situation on the battlefield.
Although the Japanese first arrived on the battlefield with only a dozen reconnaissance planes, and none of them carried bombs or other anti-ship weapons, with the observation data provided by them, the Japanese naval guns could finally target enemy ships 20 kilometers away for bombardment.
Suddenly, tall water columns continued to rise near the Zhiyuan. However, while Sa Shijun was nervous, he discovered that there were no large-caliber artillery shells that could pose a fatal threat to his ship.
"Great, the enemy's two heavy cruisers must have been unable to keep up. It seems that the previous bombardment may have damaged their power systems." Sa Shijun couldn't help but be overjoyed. He even asked his men to slow down and sail
The distance was closer in order to increase the hit rate of his naval guns and sink a few more enemy ships. But he did not ignore the oxygen on the Japanese light warships.
Due to the threat of gas torpedoes, he ordered his men not to get closer than 20 kilometers away from the enemy ship. But as soon as the words came out, Sa Shijun suddenly felt something in his heart, "No, although oxygen torpedoes are dangerous, if our ship adopts the current tactics, it will always be
Far away from the enemy ship, if the Japanese launch torpedoes at the maximum range, they will actually not be able to reach our ship at all."