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Yongtian Tieshan frowned slightly, lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and finally shook his head with difficulty: "Your Excellency, the Chinese Civil War may indeed break out because of this. However, it is impossible for the Communist Party of China to join forces with the Imperial Army to wipe out the Kuomintang Army. They may take It is most likely that the Zhili Plain will be allowed to allow the Kuomintang and the Empire to fight decisively in the east of Hebei and the west of Liaoning, but he himself will fight in Shanxi." At this point, he suddenly looked around, and then lowered his voice: "Your Excellency, Shouldn't it be time to consider the empire's retreat?"

"Retreat?" Ugaki Kazunari frowned, subconsciously about to speak up to object.Nagata did not give him a chance to speak, and went on to say: "Because most of the land in Manchuria is still in the hands of the empire, hurry up and negotiate peace with the Chinese. If we now propose to extend the lease period of Kanto Prefecture and jointly develop the coal and iron mines in Manchuria The Chinese should accept the conditions. This is better than giving away the battleships for nothing, and the empire will still need these battleships when it goes south.”

Ugaki Kasunari understands Nagata Tieshan's thoughts. The Japanese army suffered a lot from the Kuomintang army in the first battle of Western Liaoning before. Powerful, and the Japanese army is almost standing still.According to the internal evaluation of the Japanese army, an ordinary Kuomintang infantry division can defeat a Japanese division without air superiority, and the "armored division" can defeat two Japanese divisions without air superiority. If you take into account the overwhelming air superiority of the opponent... Once the logistics problem of the Kuomintang army is solved, the Japanese army will definitely lose the war.

"Now is not the time!" Ugaki Kazunari thought for a long time, then shook his head helplessly: "If the peace is negotiated now, the cabinet will not approve it, and His Majesty the Emperor will definitely not agree, even the people will not agree."

"Then what if the second Liaoxi battle fails?" Yongtian Tieshan gritted his teeth, almost spit out every single word: "Could it be that the imperial army will launch a third or fourth Liaoxi battle again? Send precious battleships one by one into the cold seabed of Bohai Bay? Will you send the entire empire to hell in the end?"

Ugaki was startled when he heard the words, and a terrified expression crossed his face, as if he really saw that the Japanese archipelago was slipping step by step into the abyss of hell.After a long while, he murmured: "If...you lose the battle again, we will negotiate a peace...just...will the Chinese Nationalist Party agree to the conditions you proposed?"

"No!" Yongtian Tieshan shook his head without hesitation, and then smiled coldly: "But someone will agree."

"Who?" Ugaki Kazushige asked, "Is it the Communist Party in Beijing? You want to negotiate peace with them, and then 'hand over' Manchuria to the Soviet Union! So many imperial warriors shed blood and died for such an ending?"

Nagata Tieshan did not answer Yuyuan's question, but said indifferently: "The Soviet Union will not let go of such a golden opportunity, neither will the CCP, and the Kuomintang is equally impossible to give up...so China, the Soviet Union, the Kuomintang, and the Communist Party will In a bloody fight for Manchuria, the empire can win a respite and a good opportunity to develop."

"And then? Go south or go north?"

Nagata snorted coldly: "Whether it is going south or going north, the empire cannot make China unified and strong. Only China is trapped on the mainland, and the ocean is the battlefield for the empire to gallop!"

Chapter 0556 Sea Battle ([-])

On the surface of the Yellow Sea, the night had gradually receded, and the sky soon turned light blue.A fleet of dozens of ships of various styles is plowing white waves on the sea.In this fleet, there are cruise ships full of soldiers and cargo ships full of cargo.On their outskirts, there are several old Haifeng-class destroyers cruising protection around this slow fleet.

Every ship in the fleet flies the flag of the sun.On the escorting destroyer, the flag of the Rising Sun Navy of the Imperial Japanese Navy was even waving.

Now the entire surface of the Yellow Sea is dominated by the Japanese Navy, and the combined fleet seems to completely control the sea power.The Kuomintang's Beiyang Fleet is only huddled in the Bohai Bay, relying on the heavy protection of submarines, mines, and aircraft, and is acting as a "transport ship".

On the flagship "Sea Breeze" of the escort fleet, Rear Admiral Yamamoto 56 took a leisurely walk on the stern veranda, doing a few stretching exercises from time to time.But he is not the commander of this small destroyer unit. Most of the destroyers in the Japanese Navy are "poor students" with no future. Like Yamamoto 56, the No. 32 top student in the 7nd period of Etajima Marine School is I won't be here on this errand.At present, this famous Japanese naval general in history is the head of the technical section of the Japanese Navy Aviation Headquarters.

This time Yamamoto did not stay in the comfortable Tokyo, but went to Lushun on a destroyer, just to see the legendary new Chinese dive bomber with his own eyes.This aircraft has been the hottest topic in the Naval Aviation Headquarters in the past two days. Everyone is patting their heads and guessing how good or bad its performance is.However, Yamamoto 56 believes that he should see the battle of this aircraft with his own eyes before he can finally confirm whether it will pose a threat to the Japanese navy that is about to break into the Bohai Bay.In fact, he is now looking forward to the planes of the Chinese to blow up this hapless transport fleet!

The Chinese didn't keep Yamamoto waiting for too long. Just after seven o'clock in the morning, Daisaku Yamashita, the watchman of the destroyer Kaize, saw dozens of small black spots coming from the southwest through the binoculars, so he hurriedly pressed the alarm button. electric bell.Immediately, a huge air defense siren sounded on the Sea Breeze.All the sailors immediately took their positions, and they skillfully operated the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns. The muzzles and muzzles of the black holes were all facing the sky to the southwest of themselves.

Yamamoto 56 took the binoculars from the adjutant beside him and began to look at the southwest sky. Soon the Chinese plane flew to a distance that Yamamoto could clearly identify.He saw the number and appearance of the opponent's plane through the binoculars.The types of Chinese combat aircraft are very single, that is, a fighter plane based on the Me-1, a dive bomber and a reconnaissance plane.Yamamoto 56 has long been familiar with the shape of this aircraft, but what he sees now is not the famous Me-1 series.Like the previous Me-1 series, this is also a biplane with a stubby radial engine. It is larger than the Me-1 and more slender. It seems to be an all-metal fuselage and cannot be retracted. The main landing gear is fitted with a streamlined fairing, and the pilot is protected by a three-piece plexiglass windshield.In addition, there are about [-] planes with a large-looking bomb hanging on their belly...it should be a bomber type, and the other [-] planes without bombs are fighter jets, right?

The plane of the Chinese people is really simple and practical!It is much better than the garbage produced by Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, Nakajima and Kawasaki.Yamamoto 56 cursed secretly in his heart, and began to pray silently to make these good-looking planes fly slower, so that the destroyer lacking anti-aircraft firepower could easily shoot them down.

While Yamamoto 56 was praying to Auntie Amaterasu, as the battlefield commander of the bombing, Major Long Yuhui, who graduated from the first phase of Changzhou Island Naval Academy, seemed confident.Because today's weather is so good, it is very easy for dive bombers to bomb.In addition, the sky now completely belongs to China. He has never seen the legendary Japanese fighter jets at all, but only heard about them from the air force brothers.During the Battle of Liaoxi, the Air Force's F-1B fighter jets easily cleaned up all the little devil's planes. It seemed that the F-2A fighter jets escorting him had nothing to do.Thinking of this, he looked down at the Japanese transport fleet that was getting bigger and bigger on the sea.It seems that there are twenty or thirty ships. There are so many Japanese ships!The bombing can't be finished. The naval aviation has sunk more than a dozen ships in the past two days, and there are still so many... Seeing his plane getting closer, Long Yuhui's heart began to become nervous, even though he had already It's not the first time I've done this kind of job of throwing bombs on other people's boats.But for some reason, at this moment, his heart was still beating wildly.

As an anti-aircraft shell exploded under his plane, Long Yuhui immediately recovered his mood.Now it is only about three kilometers away from the target, and the outline of the warship of the Japanese Third Fleet is already clearly visible.Countless bullets and fragments of artillery shells were flying below him. He picked up the radio communicator and issued the following command to his formation: "Attention all units, attention all flying units, attack according to the original plan, follow the previously designated Target attack. Attack according to the previously designated target. The first attack group follows me, target the enemy transport ship!" After saying this, he pulled the joystick to the right.Because he found that his plane had reached the sky above the target.Accompanied by his movement, the plane began to tilt to the left and made a left lateral turn, and then slowly left the formation. Soon the optical sight on the plane locked on the largest transport ship in the entire Japanese transport fleet. Large cargo ships over [-] tons.Then he adjusted the speed of the plane slightly, aimed between the first and second smokes of the freighter, and then jerked the control stick down a pile.He has practiced this action countless times.Accompanied by violent vibrations.The plane was like a swooping goshawk rushing towards its prey. At the same time, the air-driven sounding device installed on the air intake of the plane began to operate at high speed, and a shrill and terrifying sound came out from there.

rumbling...

A huge explosion sounded, and the 200-kilogram bomb directly hit the [-]-ton ship. A huge red mushroom cloud rose in the center of the ship, soon covering half of the ship.

"Bage!" Shan Ben, who had witnessed Long Yuhui's wonderful performance, cursed in a low voice, and quickly lay down on the deck.He knew that it was a freighter full of weapons and ammunition that was bombed!Immediately afterwards, a loud noise like shaking the earth and mountains rang in Yamamoto's ears. It was because the ammunition on the unlucky giant ship had been exploded!Just in an instant, this [-]-ton giant ship that was so majestic just now, riding the wind and waves on the ocean, disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed.

However, Yamamoto 56 had no time to grieve for the heavy losses suffered by the Great Japanese Empire, but stared at the Chinese planes in the sky with wide-eyed eyes.Unlike the current bombing of the Japanese naval aviation, which is still chaotic, the attacks of these Chinese pilots are more sophisticated and more disciplined.A total of 21 dive bombers were divided into seven groups, with three aircraft in each group attacking in turn by dive bombing.Because in this way, at least three planes dived at the same time above each warship.Thereby greatly dispersing the opponent's anti-aircraft firepower.Each attack lasts about 1 minute, and the interval between attacks is about half a minute.For a while, the entire ocean surface was shrouded in huge water jets and fireballs, and in the eyes of Yamamoto 56, who was watching the battle on his stomach, those planes that screamed when they dived were the future of the Imperial Japanese Navy... No!That should be the future of the entire Great Japanese Empire!Since the China Navy, which does not even have a battleship, can rely on its powerful aviation to severely humiliate Japan, an old naval power, then of course Japan can also develop a powerful naval aviation to surpass Britain and the United States in a short period of time, thus becoming the leader of the Pacific Ocean. Overlord!

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Jinan, Wanzhu Garden.

Luo Yaoguo stood in front of the huge map in his study, holding the battle report he had just received in his hand.This is the good news personally delivered by Rear Admiral Zhao Zheng, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet.At seven o'clock this morning, 21 of the latest A-2A dive bombers bombed a Japanese transport convoy on the Yellow Sea about 100 kilometers southeast of Lushunkou. According to the report of the Naval Air Force, six transport ships were killed sunk, the largest of which was the estimated 1-ton Asahi Maru.The loss was only one dive bomber was shot down.

If the Navy's report is true, that's a remarkable achievement.

Luo Yaoguo flicked his finger across the map, muttering to himself: "Lushunkou, Changshan Islands, Penglai...the narrow strait is full of mines, like a huge iron gate, shutting down all intruders." Block out."

"It can also be used to close doors and beat dogs!" Zhao Zheng, who was standing behind Luo Yaoguo, grinned and interjected in a low voice.

"Exchange the lives of the army for the glorious achievements of the navy?" Luo Yaoguo asked in a calm voice, "Hanyu, are you sure that you can completely annihilate the invading enemy?"

"No." Zhao Zheng shook his head bluntly: "But the navy can definitely achieve very impressive results, just like today... six ships, about [-] tons, full of cargo and people." There was a cold smile on the corner of his mouth: "Actually, I can kill all of them today... There are four submarines following them, and only a small part of the air force is dispatched."

"Why not kill them all?" Luo Yaoguo asked himself and answered, "If they are killed, no one will come behind them, and those Japanese battleships will not come."

Zhao Zheng smiled lightly: "I don't know how many will come? It would be great if the entire Japanese combined fleet could come. Maybe we can change the ranking of the world's naval power in a few days." He shook his head again. : "If it was still the era of the Russo-Japanese War, maybe they would gamble everything and push the whole country up to win or lose. This is the essence of Japanese military science. They don't like to reserve it like we Chinese do. The way out, they hope to gamble on the fate of the country. But these years, Little Japan seems to be so big that they are not willing to gamble their wealth. But it’s not that they don’t gamble at all, but they are not very willing to gamble... I think they will suffer from it. This is not very willing to go up."

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Japan, Wugang.

This Japanese military port is heavily guarded today, and there are sailors with white leggings everywhere, carrying Type 30 rifles and pulling the cordon.It is said that His Majesty the Emperor is going to inspect the navy to ensure His Majesty's safety.

In the military port, warships and warships are lined up neatly. Nagato, Mutsu, Hyuga, Fuso, Yamashiro, Kongo, Haruna, Kirishima, Akagi, Kaga, Kako, Aoba, Kinugasa, Myoko, and Nachi "Ashigara", "Haguro", "Tenryu", "Tatsuda", "Tama", "Kuma", "Kitagami", "Oi", "Kiso", "Nara", "Isuzu", "Natori", "Yura", "Kinu", "Abukuma" Kawauchi"...

The essence of the world's third largest Imperial Japanese Navy is here.Some of these warships are battlecruisers purchased from the United Kingdom, some are self-made battleships, and there are also the "Nagato" and "Mutsu" equipped with the world's largest caliber 410mm cannon...

The sailors stood on the side slope, their military uniforms were straight and motionless, only the shawls and ribbons of the sailor uniforms moved with the wind.

On the battleship "Fuso", a group of people gathered at the stern of the ship, with the military band at the side, tick-tock playing the Japanese navy military song, and a rising sun flag slowly rising.

On February 26, [-], the Japanese Navy's First Expeditionary Fleet was expanded, with the battleship "Fuso", the battleship "Hyuga", the battlecruiser "King Kong", and the battlecruiser "Kirishima". Cruisers "Kako", "Aoba", "Kinagasa", light cruisers "Tenryu", "Tatsuta", "Tama", "Kuma", destroyers "Minekaze", "Yakaze", "Namikaze", "Numakaze"...etc. [-] Fourteen warships, large and small, combined with the fourteen warships that had arrived in Lushun, formed a huge naval fleet.

Then the flag of the commander-in-chief of the First Expeditionary Fleet was raised.Vice Admiral Koichi Shiozawa, commander of the First Expeditionary Fleet, stood in the queue.

The brief ceremony was completed very quickly, General Shiozawa Koichi never smiled, just sullenly.Congratulations and encouragement to others seem to have not been heard.It wasn't until Hidesuke Yamamoto, Commander of the Joint Fleet who came from Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, walked up to him that he stiffly stood at attention and saluted.

"Shiozawa-kun, the fate of the empire and the navy for the next 100 years is in your hands. My lord and the entire combined fleet of the navy stand behind you. Do it well."

Shiozawa Koichi didn't answer, just looked at the giant steel ship floating around, and said softly: "Got it..."

Chapter 0557 Sea Battle ([-])

AD [-], February [-]th.

On the surface of the Yellow Sea, a huge fleet is rapidly heading north along the coastline of the Korean Peninsula.

One Fuso-class battleship, one Ise-class battleship, two Kongo-class battleships, two Furutaka-class heavy cruisers, two Aoba-class heavy cruisers, two Tenryu-class light cruisers, four Kuma-class light cruisers, Two Izumo-class first-class coastal defense ships, eight Mine-kaze-class destroyers, eight Sea-kaze-class destroyers...

There were forty large and small warships, billowing thick smoke that almost covered the sky, such a spectacular scene made the sailors on the deck very excited.In addition, the target of the battle this time is only the defeated general of the Japanese Imperial Navy more than 30 years ago. Up to now, there is not even a battleship, and the China Navy does not even have a decent heavy cruiser!Although those idiots in the army have suffered a lot in the hands of the Chinese people in recent years, the navy should have no problem... No matter how powerful those Chinese people are, they will never reach the point where they can use 150mm naval guns to deal with battleships, right?There are a total of forty 356mm cannons on four battleships!It should be enough to destroy the entire China Navy.

However, in the command tower of the flagship battleship Fuso, Lieutenant General Shiozawa Koichi was not as optimistic as ordinary officers and sailors. Standing in front of the chart, Shiozawa even felt a little restless.

Yes, just a little restless.

To tell the truth, he is not optimistic about the mission of breaking into Bohai Bay this time, not because he is worried that he will be defeated by the weak Chinese navy, but because he is worried that the loss will be too large.Although he had long been mentally prepared to lose the battleship, but when the real thing came to an end, he couldn't help but feel a little bit reluctant.

But those guys in the army are so stupid, they launched such a war in Manchuria, and even called the powerful Kuomintang army from the southern branch to western Liaoning!Now that a fortress has been built in Huludao, and Shanhaiguan and Qinhuangdao have been captured, there will be another impregnable fortress there soon... How long will this Manchurian incident last?Apart from taking action by the navy, is there any other way to fish the empire out of the muddy pit of Manchuria?

To make matters worse, according to accurate information, the China Naval Air Force already has a new type of dive bomber that can carry 200 kilograms of bombs. They have attacked continuously in the past two days and have sunk nearly more than 20 ships of various types.If it is just these dive bombers, the problem is not big, but the Chinese Navy should have deployed a huge submarine force in Bohai Bay. In the past few months, these submarines have planted an unknown number of mines at the entrance of Bohai Bay. Maybe there are mines in the Bohai Bay!

Airplanes, submarines, and mines, if these three threats come one by one, Yanze is confident to deal with them, but if they come together, this is no joke.Because if you want to deal with the aircraft, you can only choose to attack at night, and if you want to avoid being discovered by the submarine lurking under the water surface and attack, you cannot turn on the searchlight... If you break into the mine-filled bay at night without turning on the searchlight, what will happen? God knows.If you are unlucky, maybe all four battleships will be hit by mines and sank in the same night, and he Yanze is the biggest joke in the history of the world navy, the eternal sinner of the Great Japanese Empire!Of course, it is also possible that by luck, all the warships rushed into the bay intact and blasted the Huludao Fortress of the Chinese Army into pieces.

But now, he has no way out, even if he doesn't want to fight, he has to bite the bullet and fight.