the world is at stake

It would be a great loss if you hit the enemy's big ship with a desperate blow and nothing happened.

At this moment, Colonel Yoshioka was standing on the platform outside the bridge, looking back at his collapsed communication and lookout mast, with a wry smile.The watchman on the mast has long since disappeared, and it must have fallen into the sea to feed the fish.

The first officer walked out of the bridge and comforted Colonel Yoshioka, saying, "Don't worry, Your Excellency, the flying artillery shells of the 'Riot' are not very powerful, only killing the anti-aircraft guns, and the damage to the hull is slight. The Naha base has guaranteed that it will be repaired in two days. "

"I'm not worried about maintenance." Colonel Yoshioka shook his head, "I'm worried..."

Before the Colonel could say what he was worried about, he suddenly saw three bubble tracks in the harbor area breaking through the dissipating white mist and heading straight for the King Kong.

There is no navy that does not recognize this track.The first mate who spoke to comfort him immediately died, and he screamed at the terrible track, "Baga, it's a torpedo. Why are there torpedoes in the port?!"

Chapter 19 Guided Bombs

'Pioneer-7' is the first generation offshore combat submarine developed by China and Germany. Its underwater displacement is less than [-] tons and its surface endurance is as high as [-] nautical miles. It was designed to attack the ports of Japan's main island from the coast of China.

However, in actual use, it was discovered that the first-generation submarines were too small in tonnage, limited in performance, and without the protection of an escort formation, it was extremely difficult to avoid Japan's maritime patrols on the first island chain.

However, the "Pioneer" submarine has small tonnage, low technical requirements, and low price. The Chinese Navy has built more than 50 ships to attack Japanese ships operating in Taiwan, Okinawa, and Nagasaki.

Both Chinese and Japanese submarines like to squat toward each other’s ports, either attacking merchant ships, or looking for loopholes in the anti-submarine network, entering the port for a desperate attack.

However, important ports such as Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Tianjin go deep inland.Even Shanghai Port is within the Yangtze River.The entry of Japanese submarines is tantamount to courting death.Chinese submarines will not easily go to the Seto Inland Sea.

But Okinawa is different, its port area faces the sea directly.The submarine turns off the diesel engine, and with the cover of night or fog, it is still possible to slip in and out of the ship by following the lead-acid battery.

After five years of war consumption, Japan's manpower and material resources were greatly consumed, and its morale was far worse than at the beginning of the war.Its army is lacking in backbone and showing signs of lax management.

'Pioneer-7' relied on long-term defense, trying to find opportunities for opponents to make mistakes.At the moment when the torpedo tubes were filled with water, the 21 officers and men on the boat were ready to serve the country with loyalty.

In the long war, more than 30 submarines of the 'Pioneer' series have been lost.Some were sunk after being discovered by Japanese destroyers, some were attacked by Japanese patrol planes and failed to dive quickly, and some tried to break through the island chain and never returned.

As the first batch of submarines built by the Navy, the 'Pioneer-7' is no longer advanced.Every time they return from a long voyage, the crew can always hear that a brother ship has lost contact.

From 'Pioneer-1', to '-2', '-3', '-4'...

'Pioneer-7' is already the highest serial number meritorious boat.The three torpedoes at the bow of the boat left the launch tube by their own power, gradually accelerated to forty knots, and headed directly towards the majestic 'King Kong' hundreds of meters away.

The first three shots were fired, and the captain immediately shouted: "Turn the rudder, turn around, and prepare to launch the stern torpedo."

The port area was quiet, and all Japanese soldiers went their own way.Occasionally, a porter on the pier saw the torpedo track protruding from the water, and dropped the box he was holding in his hand with a bang.

The anti-aircraft shells in the box scattered all over the ground.Sergeant Sergeant, who was acting as the supervisor, ran over cursingly, and was about to slap the dumbfounded subordinate severely.But when he saw the straight eyes of the porter, he followed his eyes to look at the water.

Baga, how could it be a torpedo?

Forty-knot torpedoes run 700 meters in just thirty seconds.

The strange appearance of the porter and the sergeant made more people look at the water surface, and at the three tracks stirring the waves underwater.Everyone's heartbeat seemed to stop, and everyone was dumbfounded.

Can't stop, can only watch.

The 'Fish-1' thermodynamic torpedo is an improved product of the original German World War I G7a torpedo.It has a total weight of 320 tons, a warhead of [-] kg, and uses the simplest collision fuze.

Three 'Yu-1' hit the 'King Kong' from a depth of eight meters and exploded in the engine room and ammunition compartment—the fuzes functioned normally.

The violent bombardment caused the nearly [-]-ton giant ship to shake violently.The left string exploded into a jet of water, as if a model airplane toy had been pushed hard.

Colonel Yoshioka flew off the bridge on the spot, and even the sailors who were disembarking were thrown into the air.If I was lucky, I fell seven or eight meters away, broke my arms and legs, but survived.Those who were unlucky fell directly to death.

The loud noise of the explosion caused the entire naval base to go into chaos, and the Japanese troops guarding the place rushed over like crazy.

This huge ship built by the British Vickers Shipyard is the pride of the Japanese Navy. After serving, it will be the emperor's "calling ship".

Now that the 'King Kong' has been in service for less than five years and was attacked in the port, it undoubtedly slapped the entire Japanese navy in the face. The 203 mm waterline armor did not withstand the bombardment of three torpedoes.

Water gushed into the breach torn apart by the explosion, and the 'emergency death squad' acting as damage control in the ship tried their best to seal the damaged cabin to prevent the seawater from pouring in.

At the same time, water was injected into the ammunition compartment to avoid explosion.

The internal structure of a large warship is complicated, and the escape route is only psychological comfort.Under normal circumstances, it takes more than ten minutes for the crew to go from the bottom cabin to the deck.After the attack, we can only emphasize 'coexist with the ship'.

More than 300 crew members were in a mess under the violent impact.Many crew members were enclosed in damaged cabins, watching helplessly as the seawater poured into them drowned themselves.

At this moment, the Japanese army in the port finally found the 'Pioneer-7' with the periscope sticking out of the water, and also saw that the submarine was turning underwater.

Several small patrol boats moved the fastest, mobilizing their machine guns to shoot underwater.Immediately afterwards, a destroyer used its own 76mm naval gun to splash the water surface.

But these failed to prevent the 'Pioneer-7' from turning 180 degrees and aiming the stern at the target—whether to send two more shots to the 'King Kong' or shoot other targets.

There are also the quasi-dreadnought ship 'Tsukuba' and the armored cruiser 'Ibuki' in the port, and the others are all worthless miscellaneous fish. The captain of the 'Pioneer-7' still decided to give the two torpedoes at the stern to the 'King Kong'.

Because three 533 mm caliber torpedoes can't kill a giant ship like the 'King Kong'.It is in port not at sea and damage control rescue is easily accessible.

But the enemy's counterattack caused the 'Pioneer-7' to shake violently underwater, and the hull of more than 400 tons could not keep its balance.The periscope was shaking, and the captain and crew could not stand still, let alone aim and launch.

Seeing that the 'Pioneer-7' was about to be destroyed, teams of red-painted monoplane fighters appeared in the sky of Naha Port.They swooped down obliquely from the clouds, and fired a wave of rockets in unison when they were several hundred meters above the ground.

Near the port is the Japanese aviation airport in Okinawa, and the runway of more than 2000 meters was immediately bombarded.The hangar, oil depot and even the control tower were the focus of the attack, and the ground immediately burst into flames, and the flames shot into the sky.

Ports that are several kilometers away cannot escape.

The red fighter planes give priority to attacking warships with powerful anti-aircraft firepower—even if it is a destroyer with hundreds of tons, the threat of its rapid-fire guns cannot be underestimated.

In the air at an altitude of about 4000 meters, several modified single-wing four-engine 'H-1' fighters were slowly circling.The captain of the pilot assigns tasks on the radio, and the bombardier overlooks the situation in the port in the cabin with transparent glass.

"The King Kong seems to have been torpedoed."

"The 'Tsukuba' is trying to leave the pier."

"Several Japanese destroyers are bombarding the water at the entrance of the port area."

"Could it be that some brother troops attacked Naha Port in advance?"

The bomber of the pilot bomber lay on his bomb sight and clearly saw several red attack planes quickly passing the Japanese destroyer by the pier, bombarding the opponent's hull with rockets.

90mm rockets are very effective against lightly protected targets, enough to penetrate the semi-protected turret of a 76mm naval gun.

More than a dozen American-made fighter jets of the Japanese army were in charge of guarding the airport, and they were fighting endlessly with the incoming red fighter planes.The 'H-1' flying at medium and high altitudes tried to stabilize the fuselage. After the bombardier aimed at the target in the port area, he immediately pulled the bombing trigger.

For this long-distance air strike, the body magazine of the 'H-1' has been modified to add fuel to the maximum.The original maximum bomb load of two tons was reduced to [-] kilograms.

A bomber carried only one bomb in its belly—a guided bomb with cross fins, five indicating tracer tubes, and radio reception and control gear.

During World War II, both the United States and Germany developed guided bombs.

The way the United States is taking is active radar and TV guidance.This difficulty is too high, 'Holy Light' can't handle it at present.

Germany is using radio remote control, Fritz X guided bombs, the technical route is very simple, similar to model airplanes, no transistors are needed, and electron tubes will do.

Its disadvantage is that visual bombing is necessary, and the bomber must hover over the target after dropping the bomb.Tactically, if you don't get air supremacy, you will die.

This kind of bomb must also be used in good weather. The bombardier visually observes the tracer tube at the tail of the bomb, and adjusts the tail to improve the hit accuracy.

Although there are many shortcomings.But with it, what kind of dive bomber is needed?

Compared with the crude 'Fritz X', the Chinese Air Force's 'Thunderstone' guided bomb is more aerodynamic.The high-resistance warhead allows it to fall quickly and straightly after being dropped, and the stability is very high.

The cross tail is smaller and more flexible, which can greatly improve the handling. The bomb is dropped at a height of 4000 meters, and the landing time is half a minute.During training, experienced bombardiers can achieve a hit rate of 50.00% against sea targets.

At this moment, the Japanese fighter jets were fighting with the red fighter planes at low altitude, and they had no time to deal with the high-altitude 'H-1' at all.Six 'Thunderstones' were thrown down immediately, roaring down towards the port and airport.

The Japanese army in Okinawa is also too used to it, consciously outside the combat radius of the Chinese fighter planes, the air defense arrangement can only be said to be sloppy.After the air raid, the internal command was in disarray.

In the port, the 'Pioneer-7' submarine didn't know the actions of its own air force at all, let alone why the air force fighter planes with short legs could launch an attack on Okinawa.

A Japanese destroyer was about to leave the port for patrol, but immediately went mad after the King Kong was struck by lightning.It shelled several times and failed to hit the 'Pioneer-7', so it simply accelerated and rammed over.

The 'Pioneer-7' was attacked at a depth of five or six meters underwater, and was swayed by close-range shells.

The exploding grenade caused violent shock.The thin hull made creaking and twisting sounds, and many pipelines had leaked and might capsize at any time.

Steady but not steady, running but unable to run away, the 'Pioneer-7' was about to be cut off by the enemy's bow.A [-]kg aerial bomb volleyed down and pierced through the rushing Japanese destroyer.

The semi-armor-piercing warhead was like an empowerment move, causing serious through-penetration damage, and it shocked the destroyer of about 600 tons, drilling from the island to the hull and penetrating the bottom of the ship.

A five hundred kilogram bomb exploded on the bottom of the destroyer.Two to three hundred kilograms of explosives cut off the tens of meters long hull and exploded it into two pieces.

Inside the boat 'Pioneer-7', the periscope controlled by the captain saw the Japanese destroyer rushing from the stern, and 21 officers and soldiers were gritting their teeth and waiting for the last moment to come.

As a result... the destroyer on the opposite side suddenly exploded only 40 meters away.Its hull shattered, its bow sank, and its internal structure was exposed as if it had been disembowelled.

"Damn it, it ascended to heaven. The enemy dies faster than us."

Chapter 20

In the ocean to the east of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier 'Fengxiang' was sailing against the wind.

On the deck, the air crew assisted the pilots to board the plane and released several fighter jets serving as air security missions.

On the ship island, Rear Admiral Toyoshima Jiro, commander of the Japanese Navy's assault fleet, lowered his head, reading a long telegram from the Tokyo base camp - the Chinese navy launched a landing operation on Taiwan last night.

yesterday? !

During the day yesterday, Colonel Yoshioka Fance of the 'King Kong' led a team to attack the coast of China, only to be besieged by a large number of land-based fighter planes.

Had it not been for the desperate rescue of the 'Feng Xiang', the Emperor's 'Yu Zhao Ship' would have sunk into the sea yesterday.

Less than 24 hours later, the battle situation in Northeast Asia has undergone new changes—the Japanese troops stationed in Taiwan were bombed by thousands of fighter planes, and hundreds of Chinese military and civilian ships launched a forced landing operation.

It was not only the Japanese troops stationed in Taiwan who suffered together, but also Miyako Island, which was controlled by Japan.

This is a small island between Taiwan and Okinawa, and the distance between both is more than 200 kilometers.There are thousands of Japanese troops on the island.While the Chinese navy attacked Taiwan, it also sent a small fleet to launch a surprise attack with the cooperation of the air force.

Within an hour of the battle, the defenders of Miyakojima were defeated.

Before losing contact, the Japanese army on the island said it was bombed by extremely precise aerial bombs.Hundreds of permanent coastal defense fortifications were all destroyed within half an hour, making it impossible to organize defense at all.

The intensity of the blow shocked the Tokyo base camp.

After seizing Miyako, the Chinese army drove a wedge between Taiwan and Okinawa.Its landing force quickly repaired the island's airport and used it to attack the Naha military base in Okinawa and provide aviation early warning for troops landing in Taiwan.

This move pushed the mainland's air defense circle more than 500 kilometers out to sea, and the strategic situation suddenly became clear.

After reading only half of the message, Major General Toyoshima's hands were shaking.He expected that China would make major moves in the near future, and he also expected that the war in Northeast Asia would be somewhat troublesome after the damage to the King Kong.

I didn't expect trouble to come so quickly.This is by no means a temporary harassment, but has been prepared for a long time, and when the opportunity arises, it is decisive to launch a decisive sea and air battle.

Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Terauchi Masaki and other Japanese military leaders mobilized the aircraft carrier "Tianxiang" and "Wufeng", two battle cruisers "Bi" and "Haruna", plus aircraft carrier support ships and water, oil and ammunition ships to form a task force to go south for rescue.

The "Fengxiang" aircraft carrier was ordered to immediately support Okinawa, and was preparing to join the new fleet to prevent the Chinese Navy's landing operations and destroy the landing sites in Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung and other places.

But Rear Admiral Toyoshima looked at his aircraft carrier, and then at the few remaining ships of the attacking fleet, knowing that he could not support Okinawa at all at present.

Next to the major general, Captain Saburo Fukuhei, the captain of the aircraft carrier "Fengxiang", said bitterly: "Your Excellency, please ask the base camp for tactical guidance. Our ship is currently unable to fight, let alone support Okinawa."

The 'King Kong' was attacked by air yesterday, and the base camp ordered the 'Fengxiang', which was in a state of radio silence, to send fighter planes to rescue it.

Rear Admiral Toyoshima knew that this was a pit, but he had to bite the bullet and save the Emperor's "Imperial Summoner"—no way, this battle cruiser is much more important than the "Fuso" Iron King Eight, and it cannot be saved.

As a result, the 36 fighter jets of the two squadrons of the 'Fengxiang' were exhausted by China's shore-based air power, including the pilots.

Now there are only [-] torpedo planes left on this aircraft carrier, and [-] spare fighter jets.With this strength to save Okinawa?It's not even enough to plug the teeth of the Chinese Air Force.Who will save whom?

As for Taiwan, it's even worse.

The Chinese navy does not have enough capital ships, but the air force is definitely enough. Five years ago, it began to carry out cross-strait air strikes. The Japanese troops stationed in Taiwan are no better than the Japanese troops stationed in North Korea.

Taiwan is only more than 200 kilometers away from Fujian. In addition to air raids on Japanese ports and barracks, the Chinese Air Force also often dropped guerrillas and weapons to the mountainous areas of Taiwan. Over the past few years, it mobilized the rural areas of Taiwan.

Now Taiwan's underground party has infiltrated the puppet army and the puppet government. They are either sniping to destroy the Japanese military infrastructure every day, or sending Japanese military intelligence to the mainland.

In the future, I will shoot 'Mine Warfare' and 'Tunnel Warfare', and the battle will take place in Taiwan.

The Japanese troops stationed in Taiwan currently have four divisions with [-] to [-] troops.You don't need to fight to know that it is only a matter of time before they are finished.Now Miyako Island has been captured by China, Okinawa has been bombed, and the entire island chain blockade is about to collapse.

But the Tokyo base camp obviously does not admit defeat.

"We can't go to Okinawa now, if we go, we will die."

Rear Admiral Toyoshima glanced at the map and stared at Miyako Island, which had just been occupied by the Chinese Navy. "China's air strikes on Okinawa are to prevent us from interfering with our landing in Taiwan. We must retake Miyako Island if we want to turn the tables."

Colonel Fuping was dumbfounded after reading the telegram.He just wanted to complain to the base camp, but he didn't expect that the base camp would transfer more than half of the Japanese Navy's elite—this is really a gamble on the country's luck.

Even though Japan still has a bunch of battleships, most of the rest are obsolete and obsolete.If the three aircraft carriers and the three battle cruisers are finished, Japan will only be slaughtered.

At the moment on Miyako Island, the National Defense Forces rushing to land on the beach are rapidly building an emergency airport on the island.

More than [-] temporary piers were opened on the island, and more than a dozen high-speed transport ships came from the mainland overnight and were loading and unloading.Thousands of trucks and engineering vehicles drove down the fast trestle constructed of I-beams.

The landing troops are in a hurry and must have strong attack and defense capabilities before the little devil's counterattack forces arrive.

Gendarmes held red flags to direct traffic on the beach.More than a dozen bulldozers lined up, rumbling to open the road.A heavy road roller followed behind to compact the sand.

The cargo ship with its own crane hoisted the military supplies to the trucks waiting at the dock.The engineers who went ashore first laid an emergency runway on the island with honeycomb steel plates.

The airport runway has just been repaired, and the First Army Air Corps, code-named 'Lightning', flew and landed from Fujian.Hundreds of fighter jets and bombers landed as if they never stopped.

The communications corps set up high short-wave antennas, the pipeline of the oil tanker went directly to the airport oil depot, and the standardized containers were quickly transported to various positions on the island by transport trucks.