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Chapter 902 Encounter

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    Faced with the cynicism of the Kuomintang leader, Japan rarely lost its mind.  Yes, China has a population of 480 million, while Japan only has 60 million. Using manpower is the last resort anyway.

    But we can¡¯t just let it go!  Japan was first driven out of China and then defeated in Korea. All the processes in between were clearly seen by the European and American field inspection teams who came to watch the battle.  The disastrous defeat was second to none. The tall image that Japan had finally established in the minds of white people could not be lost!

    You won¡¯t have to ¡°leave Asia and join Europe¡± first and then be beaten back to your original shape, right?

    Although the Japanese government did not respond directly to the truce proposed by China, their fighting in the East and West Korea Bay has significantly weakened.  Naturally, Zhang Hanqing had no intention of driving them into the sea, so he would just waste them like this, as long as they were not attacked at home.

    But inside the Japanese Navy Command, there was a tense atmosphere. The solemnity before the war was written on the faces of everyone entering and exiting.

    The Naval Military Command is the Naval Command, and the Army Command is called the Staff Headquarters. Is this the name that the Japanese Army insists on in order to highlight its traditional superiority over the Navy?  It is a strange scar all over the world: the "original" department belongs to the army, and the "military order" department only manages the navy.

    A decisive battle on land is untimely and there is no confidence in victory. After all, China is a large country with a vast territory, and the previous fierce battle has proved her strength.  In order to open up the situation as soon as possible, the Japanese navy, ranked third in the world, was ordered to set out to fight a few victorious battles along the coast of China to regain face, and then negotiate with China decently.

    The sea and land have been fighting wits and courage for decades, and now it¡¯s our navy¡¯s turn to show off its skills.

    As long as the situation can be broken, in the future competition for military expenditures and the policy formulation of "go south or go north", the "go south policy" with the navy as the mainstay will unsurprisingly be regarded as a national policy. This is a great benefit to the navy, so as the joint fleet  It is not surprising that Admiral Naoma Taniguchi, the commander and commander-in-chief of the First Fleet, ambitiously dispatched his huge main fleet to the Yellow Sea.

    Before World War II, the commander of the Combined Fleet had been concurrently serving as the commander-in-chief of the First Fleet.

    As the first fleet in Asia with the "King Kong" class heavy battleships and the "Fengxiang" aircraft carrier built in 1922, which is considered the world's first standard aircraft carrier, and hundreds of warships of various types, it crushes the young China  The navy was not a problem at all. Although the Chinese navy had made great achievements not long ago, everyone believed that this was a coincidence and that the commander of the squadron, Rear Admiral Zhi Shang, underestimated the enemy.

    The loss of one light cruiser and four small-tonnage destroyers is a drop in the bucket for the huge Japanese fleet. This also shows the gap between the Chinese navy and maritime powers.

    To be honest, although Zhang Hanqing has been preaching to the top brass of the Navy that the era of "giant ships and artillery" will be replaced by sea-air integration, but because the performance of aircraft and precision-guided bombs in this era are far from being born, whether the Chinese Navy, which is taking a unique path, will  It is still unknown whether it can suddenly emerge and complete the path that other countries have taken for decades or even centuries.

    The young marshal who was far away in Beijing could not feel the pressure of the Japanese navy on China. Chen Jiliang, who served as the temporary commander-in-chief of the 1st Destroyer Fleet, who was the protagonist of the Yellow Sea Breakthrough War, was really shocked. When he saw the huge force breaking through the waves,  "Hiei" armored cruiser.

    The two sides calmly deployed their formations after patrol aircraft and warships discovered each other.  Although Japan had a huge advantage and had the experience of going straight to the 17th Squadron, it still cautiously and slowly pushed towards the Chinese naval fleet.  As long as they don't play any tricks, the Japanese army can defeat any, one, or all Chinese naval ships or fleets on the frontal battlefield.

    "Hiei" jumped in front and acted as a fleet assault.

    This is a big ship with a standard displacement of 27,500 tons, which is nearly 10,000 tons more than the total tonnage of the entire 1st Destroyer Fleet.  The First Destroyer Fleet is the best and strongest among China's current six destroyer fleets!

    Because except for the two "Jiujiang" class destroyers that serve as the flagships of the 5th and 6th destroyer fleets, and the 6-class destroyers that make up the not-full 4th destroyer fleet, all the destroyers are in it, and the flagships are also China's current tonnage  The largest cruiser "Haichen", and also added a seaplane aircraft carrier "Zhenhai".

    "Haichen" and "Zhenhai" are both former Qing Dynasty ships, but they have no choice but to use them first.  The only ones that can be considered in line with the world are these 10 "Jiujiang" class destroyers, with a displacement of only 1,200 tons!

    Facing the menacing Japanese fleet, Chen Jiliang frowned.

    It¡¯s not that he is afraid. It is the ambition of every Chinese naval officer to lead the navy in a life-and-death struggle with the enemy. This is why he, as the director of the Naval Political Department, took the initiative to ¡°decentralize¡± to the grassroots fleet.  However, courage cannot replace the gap in equipment. Only the guns of the "Jiujiang" class destroyer can? inch, with a caliber of a little over 100 mm, hitting the "Hiei" just scratched it.

    But the opponent is different. As long as it hits, that thin little body will sink with one shot next to the opponent's 356 mm caliber, without any hesitation.

    So even though China dispatched the main force of the Bohai Fleet, they still had to hide and seek in the face of the Japanese single-ship advantage.  Fortunately, the new type of destroyer "Jiujiang Class" is relatively fast and can escape as soon as it encounters them.

    Fleet decisive battles are not the strength of the People's Army Navy. The training syllabus also requires that we try to avoid fighting with superior enemies, but to develop the potential of "air, submarine, and speed" to deliver a comprehensive strike to the enemy.  Now the "fast" characteristic has been brought into play, but it is not a "fast" attack, but a quick escape.

    The maximum speed of the "Hiei" is 27.5 knots. It cannot catch up with the "Jiujiang" class, but it can catch up with the "Haichen".

    As for the "Zhenhai", because of its speed, it has been used as a reconnaissance aircraft base for the fleet. It does not follow the fleet closely, but always lags far behind.  Anyway, it uses a carrier-based seaplane to work. It is useless to rush ahead. If there is a sound of retreat in front, it will leave early. The stupid bird will fly first.

    By comparison, the "Haichen"'s speed of 19.5 knots is not enough.  Fortunately, the distance between the two sides was still quite far, and the Chinese warships had enough time to run to a safe zone - the Changdao Islands controlled by the shore artillery regiment.

    It was really a "swift" effort. Seeing the Chinese warships fleeing as soon as they encountered each other (in fact, they had not yet encountered each other), the Japanese soldiers on the "Hiei" laughed proudly.  Those guys on the mainland made the Chinese people so mysterious and heroic, but they didn't even have the courage to fight, so how could they have morale?

    As a "King Kong"-class armored cruiser, it mainly serves as the core leader of the torpedo fleet that attacks and weakens the opponent's strength before the main battle of the fleet. When necessary, it can be incorporated into the battleships for coordinated operations.  In a word, it is just the flagship of the non-main fleet. There are four ships of the same level.

    For such a warship to "break without contact", when facing the more powerful battleships "Ise" and "Fuso", are the Chinese warships going to escape to the sky?  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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