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However, Ye Fei directly rejected this temptation, and at the same time rejected the proposal of some former Kuomintang navy officers and soldiers to "force" the Japanese to abandon the ship and then send people up to collect some loot. Anyway, this is also an international battle in the war.
"Routine." suggestion, because "We can be Avengers, but we cannot be robbers." And once the crew members are allowed to actually engage in pirate activities, it is difficult to guarantee that their minds will not be corrupted by money. This is also
"Novel" that Ye Fei never wants to see. More importantly, if this behavior of boarding ships to collect loot becomes a routine, it is likely to be used by the enemy in the future to set traps with disguised armed merchant ships. Not long ago
The German naval officer who gave the lecture mentioned this. During World War I, many German submarines were deceived by British camouflage ships using this method. Ye Fei did not want his fleet to seek death because of greed.
In addition, after Ye Fei fired the gun to ask the other side to stop the ship, he was initially prepared to give the Japanese fleet three minutes to disembark and escape. As an old party member, he was deeply opposed to the war that targeted civilians.
The method is still a bit disgusting. Although the situation has forced me to adopt this method of fighting, I will still try my best to avoid so-called killing.
Three minutes was not enough time to clean up the mess, but if the organization was good, there would be no problem at least lowering the lifeboat to save the lives of the crew. However, the Japanese ship owner let the three ships disperse and escape in order to reduce his losses.
Regardless of the lives of the crew members, this immediately angered Ye Fei. He immediately ordered the two ships to open fire.
Although the original torpedo launch tubes on the two heavy cruisers have long been removed, the two sides are extremely close at this time, and they are bombarding such big ships. The naval guns are also powerful, and the hit rate of direct aim is almost 100%.
It is said that the power is quite impressive. For civilian ships with no armor protection, let alone the 203mm caliber main gun, or even the 127mm high and flat two
Cannons can cause huge damage to their hulls, especially when the gunners on the two heavy cruisers deliberately aimed at the waterline and fired. This caused fatal damage to them. And what's even more fatal is that the three bulk cargo ships
The maximum speed of the ship is not as fast as the cruising speed of the two heavy cruisers. When one of them is sunk first, the remaining two have no chance to escape the pursuit.[
The desperate Japanese shipowner decided to abandon the ship, but it was too late. It was difficult to lower the lifeboat smoothly amid the huge earthquakes that continued to explode on the ship. The more impatient the sailors were, the more likely they were to make mistakes. As a result, these three Japanese bulk cargo ships
When the ship was completely sunk, only two lifeboats were able to escape the disaster, and even counting the number of people they rescued, only a few dozen people survived.
After all three bulk carriers were sunk, the aircraft from Taiwan's Kaohsiung Air Force arrived belatedly. At this time, the two Chinese warships had already disappeared from the sea. The unwilling Japanese pilots flew around to search for them.
, but because the carrier-based radars on the two heavy cruisers have a detection distance of more than 80 kilometers for high-altitude flying targets (mainly for high-altitude targets, the earth’s curved surface no longer affects the field of view of short-wave radar.),
The Japanese planes are looking for targets and naturally cannot fly too low. Therefore, the task force can detect the enemy planes in advance and avoid their direction to avoid detection. What's more, even the Japanese reconnaissance planes now have a cruising speed of
It was only three to four hundred kilometers away, and they didn't pay much attention to this attack at the beginning. They didn't dispatch enough planes. How could they find the target so easily?
The next day the task force found their second prey. Although there was only one ship, it was more valuable because this large oil tanker with a displacement of over 10,000 tons was loaded with high-quality crude oil purchased by Japan from the Minas Oil Field.
It is worth mentioning that the crude oil produced by Minas Oilfield (and other oilfields in Indonesia) is of the highest quality in the world (before the North Sea oil field was discovered), and can even directly replace heavy oil for use by large warships (Note 1
), although because of its high volatility, the escaping steam mixed with air is in danger of exploding once it encounters an open flame. However, at this time, less than five points of the heavy oil reserves carried by the two ships were used up.
First, there is no need to worry about the Indonesian crude oil mixed with this proportion (this is very different from the history of the Japanese warships burning all Indonesian crude oil), so Ye Fei made an exception and agreed to send people to board the ship and seize the time to replenish some oil.
However, precisely because the fuel reserves of the two ships were not consumed much before, most of the crude oil on the tanker had to be given up. Although most of it was burned clean in the fire, some of it still flowed into the tanker.
into the sea, coupled with the billowing black smoke when crude oil burns
, all of which have caused huge pollution to the environment. Ye Fei, who has long known the concept of pollution from Hu Weidong, naturally understands this, but he has to do this, "War itself is the biggest source of pollution, and we want to reduce it.
To destroy it, we can only find ways to end it as soon as possible.”
The plume of smoke produced after the oil tanker caught fire was like an ancient beacon. It pointed out the target for the Japanese army in Taiwan, and the sinking of the 10,000-ton oil tanker was enough to attract their full attention. In Taiwan, the Japanese army had almost all the more than 300 aircraft in their hands.
Planes were dispatched one after another to conduct dragnet operations
After the search, the whereabouts of the task force were finally discovered by a reconnaissance aircraft of the Japanese Kaohsiung Air Force. However, it was obvious that the Japanese Japanese pilots in Taiwan still lacked the concept of the powerful air defense capabilities of the Chinese warships. In order to gain credit, the Kaohsiung Air Force did not
He waited for friendly forces to arrive and launched the attack alone.
Before the "July 7th Incident", the total number of Japanese aircraft was not large, so the Kaohsiung Air Force at that time had less than 20 aircraft. After the full-scale war of aggression against China broke out, Japan's aircraft production capacity increased rapidly, but because Taiwan was far away from the war
Due to the front line, the expansion of the army aviation and naval aviation forces here is very limited. Take the Kaohsiung Air Force, for example, the total number of aircraft
However, there are only 36 aircraft, and "although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs." Various types of aircraft such as fighter jets, bombers, and reconnaissance aircraft are all available. Therefore, the number of bombers among them is naturally limited, and the total number is only 12. Kaohsiung Airlines
The little devils of the team actually launched an attack on the task force with regional air defense capabilities with just 12 bombers.
Note 1: Historically, the Japanese warships in the middle and late stages of the Pacific War basically burned Indonesian crude oil directly. As for the statement that it can be used by aircraft without refining, it is completely a rumor. The quality requirements of heavy oil are low, and its own characteristics are relatively different from crude oil.
It is close, so it can be replaced. At that time, airplanes burned gasoline, and the octane number could not be low, let alone the specific gravity. The viscous crude oil could not be replaced. Even if the refining level was a little lower, it would be difficult to produce. To be completed