Of course Kenya Sato couldn't convince Sanada Hoichiro and Tojo Hideki.?

The reason is not only because Kenya Sato's idea sounds ridiculous, but more importantly, it is just Kenya Sato's guess. There is no evidence to prove that the Chinese team is capable or intends to attack Manchukuo. Even the Qingdao fleet that operates in the Yellow Sea and even annihilates the Japanese army can be explained as preparations for attacking Okinawa... As Sanada Satoichiro said, this is actually preventing the Japanese army from transferring their troops to Okinawa and isolating Okinawa!

So Kenya Sato had to give up. In fact, although he had concerns about this, he was not sure.

The reason why he thought so was that he knew that the combat intention of the Chinese team could not be so simple.

Kenya Sato didn't expect that he guessed correctly again, but unfortunately he did not insist on this and did not do much preparation... This is not something he could decide. Tojo Hideki still believed that the next step for the Sino-US coalition forces would be Okinawa, so he was still trying hard to strengthen Okinawa's defense.

And just that night, the Chinese fleet covered a large number of transport ships in the dark night and crossed the Miyako Strait to the East China Sea again.

Miyako Strait is a strait between Miyako Island and Okinawa Island, which is more than 300 kilometers wide. It can almost be said to be a strait that most of China's coastline ships must pass through when entering the Pacific Ocean... This strait was regarded by Americans as an important blockade area for the first island chain in modern times.

This is feasible in modern times. The strait is more than 300 kilometers wide. As long as anti-ships and air defense missiles are deployed on Miyako Island and Okinawa Island on both sides of the strait, it can be strategically easy to block the sea and airspace of the strait.

But in this era, Japan cannot do this.

To be precise, Japan could have done this, that is, to deploy six-based fighter jets on both sides of the strait to block the strait with fighter jets.

The problem is that at this time, Japan's air force was not even sufficient for self-protection, and the Japanese fighter jets were generally weaker than the Sino-US coalition forces in terms of advancedness and pilot quality, so the Japanese army gave up the idea of ​​blocking the Miyako Strait... If the Japanese army did this, the fighter jets they used to block the Miyako Strait would undoubtedly become the target of the US "Hellcat" fighter jets.

In this case, the Chinese fleet covered a large number of transport ships through the Miyako Strait.

It is worth mentioning that in order to achieve better transportation and combat, the United States also equipped the Chinese fleet with a "Victory Wheel" that had been shipped out of the factory.

43 years ago, the United States used for transportation as "freedom wheels"... Although this thing looks ugly, it almost represents the industrial capacity of the United States, because from 1941 to 1945, the US military built 2,751 free wheels and put them on the battlefield or allies around the world for transportation.

This construction level, especially in 1943, can even be described as "crazy"... Sometimes five ships can be launched in a day, three of which are "freedom wheels". The fastest record is that it only took 28 hours from laying the keel to launching the water.

The words Americans use to describe this degree are simple: "It's in the water, and the paint hasn't dried yet!"

Because of this terrible productivity, "free wheels" are everywhere on the Pacific battlefield... Its productivity is more than three times that of sinking, and most of these sunk are in the Atlantic Ocean, that is, the British, because as we all know, Japanese submarines generally disdain to hit merchant ships.

In fact, it is still quite dangerous to use submarines to hit these "freedom wheels", because these transport ships are not without the power to fight back... They are all armed for the needs of war.

For example, the "Free Wheel" has one main gun in front and behind, two anti-aircraft guns plus six or eight machine guns.

Moreover, these main guns, anti-aircraft guns, etc. are operated by trained professional soldiers. If there is any submarine that thinks the merchant ship is easy to bully and sends water to attack it... then the submarine will be miserable, and it will likely be sunk by the transport ship instead.

"Victory Wheel" is an upgraded version of "Freedom".

This upgrade is mainly in terms of firepower and degree.

In terms of degree, it has changed from "free wheel" to 11-chair flights to 17-chair flights.

Eight anti-aircraft guns were installed in the firepower, because as the Japanese front's maritime defense line continued to compress to 17 knots, it was easier to get rid of the pursuit and attack of submarines, so the greater threat to the transport ships still came from the air.

This time, the Chinese fleet brought fifteen "Victory Wheels" in one go. These "Victory Wheels" carried a large number of tanks, guns, ammunition, personnel, and fuel supplies... These also included 100,000 "Springfield"-style rifles. (Note: A "Victory Wheel" can carry about 100,000 rifles or 44o tanks)

A very convenient point among them is that the Chinese team does not need to transport bullets separately for these "Springfield" rifles, because the "Springfield" rifles and the "M1" rifles use m19o6 rifles, but the "Springfield" rifles are single and the "M1" rifles are just magazines.

The marching was slower this time, which was to take care of the 17th day of the "Victory Wheel", so the Chinese fleet was still sailing on the East China Sea during the day.

However, the Chinese fleet was not worried about being exposed by the Japanese army.

On the one hand, Mariana and Iwo Jima continued to bomb and airspace and blockade on Okinawa in order to cooperate with the actions of the Chinese fleet, which made it impossible for the Japanese troops on Okinawa to conduct reconnaissance on the surrounding waters.

On the other hand, the Chinese fleet's fighter jets also frequently take off and pull out a warning area under the command of radar. Any enemy planes entering this warning area will be shot down mercilessly.

Of course, there is still a danger, that is, it is possible to be detected by Japanese submersible ships.

In this regard, the Chinese fleet cannot guarantee that although destroyers are constantly patrolling around the fleet, submersible ships are often not so easy to be discovered, so to a certain extent, it depends on luck.

Afterwards, Zhang Chi found out that he was actually unnecessary about the concerns about the Japanese submarine ships, because most of the Japanese submarine ships fought with the US military in the Philippine waters... That is the main battlefield of the Japanese joint fleet. The Japanese army hoped to use the submarine ships to hold the US fleet as much as possible and extend the time when the US military turned its attention to Japan.

At this time, Japan still did not jump out of the wrong thinking of submersible ships hitting aircraft carriers.

Or, at this time, they have already realized this, but it is too late. (To be continued.)8
Chapter completed!