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    The Yellow Sea is named after the yellow water at the mouth of the Yellow River.  This shallow sea, which is closely related to the birthplace of Chinese civilization, has now become a barrier to the continuation of Chinese civilization.  As long as the Chinese navy is not eliminated, the Japanese army will not be able to march toward the Bohai Sea, the heart of China.

    Because the other entrance and exit channel is the Miaodao Islands, which is too close to the Shandong mainland and is a paradise for land artillery.  The current People's Army Army is not the same as before. Even if it is as powerful as the Japanese Navy, it does not dare to carry out landing operations.

    Seeing that the Chinese fleet had avoided the triangular sea area behind Haiyang Island and Zhangzi Island, Admiral Naozhen Taniguchi ordered the two ships "King Kong" and "Hiei" to challenge the enemy. If no one responded, he would use powerful naval guns to attack Haiyang Island.  Untargeted shooting.

    It is said that there is no target, because the Ocean Island is composed of more than 20 peaks with an altitude of more than 200 meters, surrounding them to form a 12-kilometer horseshoe-shaped harbor.  It blocks the wind from all sides and blocks the view of ships outside the island.

    With a few provocative cannon blasts, the ocean island was as silent as dust.  The Japanese ships wanted to advance, but were afraid of running aground. Who made them bigger?  Isn¡¯t it okay to bombard rocks all the time?  The barrels of cannons have a lifespan. Every time a shell is wasted, the service life is reduced. This is not allowed by the Japanese family.

    With no choice, the "King Kong" and the "Hiei" began to patrol clockwise and counterclockwise around the ocean island, not only to observe the enemy's situation, but also to find possible landing sites for their own marines.  Think about how stupid the Kwantung Army was. They stayed in such an important place for more than 20 years and didn't even explore it?  Even building a stronghold here would be great!

    It¡¯s not that the Kwantung Army is stupid, it¡¯s that they are too proud and confident.  Old China basically had no navy, and the army had a larger territory to conquer. Who cares about such a small island?  What's more, Dalian and Port Arthur, which are more important than it, are ready-made military ports, so there is no need to worry about this small island that cannot station large warships.

    This also led to the Japanese navy basically being blind to this area.  Fortunately, the ocean island is not big, so the Japanese warship had a rough idea of ??the situation here after quickly circling around.  Now that the Chinese military has given up control of this important area, it is up to the Imperial Japanese Navy to conquer the Bohai Sea.

    The transport ship "Nihon Maru" carried 300 Marine Corps officers and soldiers to the west of Ocean Island.  After investigation, it was found that the port faces west and is about 5 meters wide. There is only one waterway on the island.  Despite the rough waves, the harbor is still as level as a mirror, so the fishermen here call it "Taiping Bay", intending to use a good name to seek good omens.

    But only God knows whether you can achieve good results by relying on good words.

    "The Nippon Maru" weighs two thousand tons. Although it is much smaller than most other warships in the Japanese fleet, it is still much larger than Chinese destroyers. Why can it go into shallow water?  Because it is a transport ship.

    Unlike combat warships, transport ships generally have very wide bases in order to increase transport capacity. Unlike far-water naval vessels, which are relatively slender and have deep drafts in order to withstand wind and waves and increase speed.  It was originally a civilian ship that was temporarily requisitioned and refitted, but it still has a bloated shape with a big face and a thick neck.

    On the ocean, transport ships and landing ships are similar to infantry on land, responsible for seizing the fruits of victory (landing) under the cover of artillery fire (mainly naval guns), especially when traveling from sea to land.  While the Chinese Navy has not yet achieved full coverage of its shallow-water navy, the Japanese Navy has already achieved ocean-going attack capabilities and is a completely blue-water navy.

    In the ocean, face to face, the weak Chinese navy is not its only enemy.  But in this complicated sea area, in front of the navy with its convenient location, the strength of the ship and the power of artillery are not indestructible.

    The fact that its armored cruisers cannot be shaken and cannot be reached does not mean that the Chinese navy has no place to use it.  No, the arrival of the "Nihon Maru" has given the Chinese shore artillery unit another opportunity to shine.

    Although generally speaking, naval guns and shore guns are at a disadvantage when fighting against each other, but because the Japanese navy is too powerful to withstand it, the firepower of one "King Kong" class is enough to match a fully equipped heavy artillery battalion. There is no way, it  The firepower is too fierce.

    And the shore artillery also has a major shortcoming: difficulty in movement.  Especially on ocean islands, the roads are rugged, and the towing vehicle leaves after finally putting the cannons in place to avoid damaging the fish. Therefore, these cannons will not be able to leave for a while and the Japanese ships can completely avoid this firepower  Bunker, just stay out of its artillery attack radius.

    Relying on their long range, they can carry out bullying strikes beyond the range of China's shore artillery.

    But this is also what the Chinese Navy envisions.  The shore artillery has already taken preliminary defensive measures. It is hidden in the mountains and at the mouth of valleys. It can sustain several rounds of shelling and can continue to attack.In the case of naval aircraft, it is impossible for the Japanese to have such important information without their own eyes and ears.  Although they believed that using cheap aircraft to counter heavy armored cannons was an ideal, it also stimulated the Japanese navy and made them take another step in the right direction.

    This step was given by Zhang Hanqing. If the Chinese method turns out to be correct, Japan will undoubtedly learn something from it.

    At this time, Japan¡¯s aircraft carrier combat theory still focused on using carrier-based aircraft to bomb land targets. As for using the opponent¡¯s warships as imaginary enemies?  No, Chinese warships are too weak, while Britain and the United States are undoubtedly strong.

    Therefore, the "Chicheng" just continuously took off several reconnaissance planes to patrol the vast Yellow Sea, and also firmly grasped the direction of the First Destroyer Fleet. The reconnaissance of the ocean island was just an accident.  But it was this accident that opened a new chapter in naval warfare.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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