Chapter 440 The Last Moment
After a moment of silence, Naoto Ohara turned around and shouted to his subordinates, "Hurry up! Find out the location of the enemy ship group immediately!"
"Yes!" The staff officer responded and immediately passed the order.
It is not difficult to do this, because the Japanese army still has more than 20 seaplanes... With Naoto Ohara's order, these seaplanes scattered everywhere to find the Chinese fleet. Some of the more courageous Japanese pilots followed the Chinese fighter jets returning to the aircraft carrier from afar, and then quickly found the location of the Chinese fleet.
Naoto Ohara found the location of the Chinese fleet on the map, then gritted his teeth, and ordered: "Switch immediately and approach the enemy fleet at full speed!"
"Major General!" The staff officer was shocked when he heard this. It was too late to escape in this situation, and he was even approaching the enemy fleet?
"Execute now!" Naoto Ohara didn't have much explanation.
"Yes!" The staff officer responded? Turned around and shouted and gave the order.
The movements of the Japanese fleet were soon reported to Zhang Chi by the radar soldiers. Zhang Chi couldn't help but smile... He knew what the Japanese commander wanted to do. He could not fight but could not run away, so he just fought. Moreover, the distance between the two fleets was only fifty kilometers, and the speed of the warships was more than thirty knots. If the Chinese fleet sailed to Iwo Jima and the Japanese fleet sailed to the Chinese fleet, it would only take more than ten minutes to enter each other's gun range.
Simply put, the Japanese army hopes to use naval wars in the traditional sense.
But why would Zhang Chi fight against the Japanese naval guns against the naval guns... Especially the Japanese army has battleships that are good at naval combat!
"Keep a distance from the enemy ship!" Zhang Chi ordered without thinking: "In addition... knock down the Japanese small planes first!"
"yes!"
As soon as the Chinese fleet moved, Naoto Ohara became weak like a ball that was deflated... The speed of the Japanese warship was more than 30 knots, but the speed of the Mid-A-Ship ship was also more than 30 knots. Even the "Ise"-class battleship had a speed of only 25 knots due to its thick armor, equipment and fighter jets. This means that as long as the Chinese fleet was willing, the Japanese fleet would never catch up with the Chinese fleet.
Just now, Naoto Ohara hoped that the enemy could carry forward a little "Bushido spirit" and was willing to fight him head-on, but now, the enemy obviously ignored his own tricks.
So Naoto Ohara could only order: "Disper and retreat in all directions!"
"yes!"
So more than ten warships of the Japanese reinforcement fleet fell and drove north into several parts. Needless to say, what was the intention of this move, just hoped to break it into pieces on the vast ocean and finally escape back to several warships.
But to be honest, this is also difficult... because the Chinese fleet has radar and fighter jets, which can easily track every battleship of the Japanese Navy.
In fact, Naoto Ohara's decision should be said to be wrong.
The reason why it is wrong is that the performance of the Japanese anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns is not satisfactory... The Japanese army does not have the anti-aircraft guns with near-burning fuse shells like the Americans.
Therefore, if these dozen warships gather together, their air defense firepower can pose some threat to the bombing agency of the China Team, and the China Team has only more than 30 bombers. If you want to sank all these Japanese ships, you will inevitably suffer some losses.
But now...
After the Japanese warships were dispersed, Zhang Chi immediately sent a bomber formation to name them one by one, and the first one was the battleship "Ise".
However, the target of "Ise" is not to sank it... The battleship is made of rough skin and hard to sank. The "Ise" in history was only sunk after being hit by sixteen aviation bombs.
If this is the US military, it will definitely target it, because although the battleship has withdrawn from the important role of naval warfare, it can be regarded as a costly thing at all. The battleship created by the bombing and sinking is calculated by the cost of the battleship, which is of course stronger than the bombing and sinking destroyer.
But Zhang Chi didn't think so...
Battleships are indeed useful in ship-to-ship naval battles, but after the era of "cannon giant ships" passed, this thing was destined to be a commodity that was worth money but could not play a role.
Moreover, judging from the current situation, the time it takes to sank a battleship can sank two destroyers or even cruisers.
On the other hand, for the Japanese army, an injured battleship is definitely more harmful than a sunken battleship... If it is sunk, it will be gone, and the Japanese army will no longer have to worry about it. But if it is only injured, will the Japanese army repair or not?
If you don't repair it, just let a expensive thing rust on the sea, which is not much different from being blown up and sunk.
If you repair it... then the maintenance resources and costs can be built, I'm afraid that another destroyer can be built!
Therefore, Zhang Chi's order to Zhang Junhua was that the bombing of the "Ise" was limited to injuring it, especially the flight deck, hangar and so on at the rear, which could at least make the "Ise" lose its ability to take off the seaplane.
For other Japanese warships, bombers frequently dispatched one after another to send them to the seabed... The final result was to sink five Japanese destroyers, one cruiser, and one transport ship, and injured two destroyers and one battleship.
Even Halsey was surprised by this result, because in the Philippine waters, the US military and even several aircraft carrier battle groups could not achieve such results.
On the other hand, there is the battle on Iwo Jima.
At this time, Zhang Chi finally sent the 50th Division to Iwo Jima... This is a new force. The soldiers of the 50th Division were already full of energy and wanted to show off to the friendly forces of the New First Division, so they screamed vigorously as soon as they landed on the island.
On the other hand, the Japanese army became unhealthy due to the reversal of the overall situation, especially the Japanese army's attack on several high grounds, which consumed a lot of vitality and ammunition. Even if there were tunnel defense, there was frequent situations. In just two days, the 50th Division was allowed to divide the occupation and siege and only survived.
The war ended on the third day, and as the last high ground, the 362c highland, fell under the control of the 50th Division, the Battle of Iwo Jima was finally declared over, and all that was left was to search for the remaining Japanese enemies.
However, in the end, the Chinese team did not capture Tadao Rilin and did not find his body. According to the Japanese prisoners' answer, Tadao Rilin and walked into the darkness with two guards at the last moment... The two guards were not carrying guns, but shovels, which were obviously used to dig a hole for Tadao Rilin.
But no one knows where Li Lin Zhongdao was buried. (To be continued.)
Chapter 440 The last moment:
Chapter completed!