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The US military mobilized destroyers to prepare for bombardment.
The Japanese army sent dozens of small speedboats towards the Kerama Islands which had just been abandoned by US soldiers.
The four islands were littered with various weapons, ammunition and supplies that the US soldiers had no time to take away, which was a windfall for the Okinawa defenders.
Seeing the opportunity and rushing to the island to take away a few tons is a big gain.
Even if an ordinary small speedboat is bombarded by US naval guns, it will not be considered a loss. If the US military really uses cannons to attack small boats, the Japanese army will have the opportunity to use the Type 90 240mm heavy cannon to directly bombard the warships.
The Japanese small speedboat rushed to the deserted foreign island first. Nearly a hundred Japanese soldiers jumped off the speedboat and ran towards the chaotic beach.
There are boxes of ammunition or supplies everywhere within sight, so there is no need to sort through them.
When you see the complete packaging box, you immediately carry it to the speedboat and speed away. Each small speedboat can carry about two to three tons of supplies. Taking away the ammunition of the US military now is equivalent to reducing the ammunition that will be dropped on Okinawa in the future.
"There's a landing craft here! I can drive it away!"
"Take it with you! You have done a good job! It is full of supplies!"
The Japanese soldiers shouted one after another, and excited expressions appeared on their faces. It was obviously a very happy thing to snatch military supplies from the US military.
There were waves on the sea. The Japanese speedboats were laden with various supplies and left the foreign islands to speed back. The US warships had already retreated 20 kilometers away. Even if they fired artillery shells, they did not have a good hit rate.
The Japanese soldiers drove the speedboat back to Okinawa for half an hour.
The two "Fletcher" class destroyers of the US military are slowly sailing towards the Kerama Islands, preparing to launch precise shooting at Okinawa from a distance of about fifteen kilometers.
There are a total of ten mk12 twin-mounted 127mm high-level dual-purpose naval guns on the two destroyers, which have the ability to fire at least 150 shells in one minute.
Use high-power telescopes to search for cave-like artillery positions that must exist on the mountain, and then hit them with firepower.
Regardless of whether the artillery position's firing port has additional protection, it will be blown to pieces by the grenades fired in a row. Nearly two hundred medium-caliber artillery shells are bombarded in a minute, and even a cave made of steel will be directly destroyed.
The US destroyer slowly approached, and Japanese observers immediately sounded the alarm.
Fang Tianlang in the Supreme Command Center received the war report and immediately ordered the battleship "Yamato" to use the front main gun to conduct long-distance interception and shooting. The cave-type artillery position did not worry about vertical attacks from aerial bombs, but if it was bombarded frontally by more than a dozen naval guns, As long as one or two cannonballs hit the cave, it will immediately create a bloody scene.
The battle order was passed to the battleship "Yamato". Hundreds of sailors removed the camouflage nets on the main and secondary guns while turning the turret to aim the deep muzzle at the advancing US destroyer.
The battleship "Yamato" has not experienced a single actual combat test since it joined the navy's battleship sequence. The interception and shooting in front of it will be permanently recorded in history as the first actual combat attack.
"Boom!"
A huge shooting sound was heard, and almost the entire Okinawa Island heard the sound.
Three Type 91 460mm armor-piercing projectiles were fired out of the muzzle one after another and arced in the air towards the unsuspecting US destroyer. Naturally, the first attack had to win a good start to be worthy of the huge cost paid by the Japanese Navy to build the "Yamato". .
"Boom!"
Huge water columns rose from the sea, and the roar came from far away.
The three shells fired by the "Yamato" in the first wave hit the water surface and the left side of the two destroyers respectively.
The dd-474 "Fullam", which was directly hit by an armor-piercing bomb, was violently exploded before it even had time to make any judgment. One third of the hull was blown away and turned into floating scrap metal.
"Japanese battleship! It's a battleship! Retreat!"
The US military commander screamed in horror in the control room.
The size of the smoke emitted from a distance can determine the caliber of the naval gun and then the type of battleship. Unexpectedly, the Japanese army hid the battleship in the harbor and was not afraid of air fire strikes at any time.
The US destroyer turned around and prepared to speed away.
Three Type 91 460mm armor-piercing projectiles fired from the Yamato's second main gun followed one after another.
After the huge explosion, only some oil stains and a small amount of floating objects were left on the entire sea surface. The warship with a full load displacement of only 3,000 tons was directly hit by an armor-piercing bomb weighing nearly 1.5 tons in the middle of the hull, and it disintegrated on the spot.The only ending.
Even if the fired shell is not loaded with any explosives, it can almost sink a warship if it is hit accurately by an iron lump at more than twice the speed of sound.
"Long live! Long live!"
"Victory in the first battle! Sunk two US destroyers!"
There were bursts of cheers in the control room of the "Yamato" battleship. The soldiers in the turrets reloaded ammunition urgently, while various fire control systems began to lock on the US warships further away.
According to the order from the command center, at least thirty artillery shells must be fired within five minutes to attack the US warships hiding in the distance and the retreating landing ships.
The more cannonballs fired, the higher the chance of getting a higher hit rate.
"Such a huge target as the "Yamato" battleship will be destroyed by U.S. air firepower sooner or later. If we use full firepower early, we can hope to destroy more U.S. warships."
One after another, super-large-caliber artillery shells were fired into the distant sea.
Although the first few shells that exploded did not hit the target, the huge waves caused by the explosion directly overturned more than a dozen small landing craft, causing dozens of casualties to US soldiers.
Densely packed targets are within the attack range, and with a little bit of luck, a few more large warships can be sunk.
"Boom!"
A U.S. cruiser was hit by an armor-piercing projectile inside the warship. The terrifying explosion blew away the entire deck one second later. Half of the crew members were killed on the spot and the entire warship lost power and was spinning back and forth on the water.
"Boom!"
Another warship was instantly dismembered by the violent explosion, and the bursting steel fragments shot towards the surrounding landing craft like sharp blades.
The U.S. soldiers hiding in the landing craft suddenly found bleeding wounds on their bodies, followed by howls of pain.
"Speed ??up the evacuation! It should be the Yamato!"
"Take off the fighter planes! Bomb the Yamato!"
"Yamato" battleship suddenly showed its power, and the US fleet immediately accelerated further away. Fifty kilometers away from Okinawa, it can basically avoid the threat of being directly bombarded by terrifying naval guns.
In the past three minutes, a total of one cruiser, one battleship, three destroyers and more than ten landing craft were blasted by huge 460mm armor-piercing bombs, turning the hulls into steel fragments under the water.
I really didn¡¯t expect that the Japanese army could come up with such weird attack tactics.
A huge battleship hides in an offshore bay and then suddenly launches a cannonball attack. No matter what battleship is within the strike range, it will inevitably become a dead soul under the huge cannon. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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