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Part One Russo-Japanese War Chapter 294 Jeju Naval Battle (2)

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    7:00 am on December 10, 1939.

    As soon as Jeju Island ushered in the dawn and dawn, the air defense siren on the island was sounded, and the piercing sirens resounded throughout the island. In the past thirty years, the empire has achieved military reclamation of this most important island.  , the local North Korean residents were gradually transferred to the Northeast, northern North Korea and the Far East. The island was placed under the jurisdiction of the Jeju Military Reclamation Bureau, and the Central Military Reclamation Bureau was directly responsible for investment and construction. 14,000 militia troops were able to be mobilized from the 23,000 local residents, of which almost 14,000 were mobilized.  Most of them are families of retired officers and soldiers of the Central Defense Forces.

    The good geographical location has made the local area one of the largest fishing islands in Asia in the past thirty years. The deep processing of fish products and port business are the main industries. The industrial, commercial and fishing population accounts for 77% of the local residents. Huayuan, a subsidiary of the Central Military Reclamation Administration  The fishing company has more than 40 medium and large fishing boats here, and the fishing operation range can reach the East Ryukyu Islands area of ??Japan.

    The peaceful and prosperous days were finally completely broken on this day.

    The Japanese Type 97 Army fighter jets crossed the strait in hundreds, skimmed the sea at low altitude, and covered the Type 96 land attack aircraft in bombing the northwest coast of Jeju Island.

    In the development of fighter aircraft, Japan has not specifically designed attack aircraft similar to China's G series. Its attack aircraft are actually bombers. Even fighter-bombers such as the J-5 Tiger Shark lack combat performance and protection. This is also because Japan  Due to deficiencies in aircraft design, materials, metallurgy, aviation power and other fields, Japan has not even been able to establish an effective and comprehensive cavity system.

    Due to various basic deficiencies, the 96 land attack aircraft did not have good ground dive and low-altitude attack capabilities. Therefore, after passing over the sea, the Japanese aircraft group began to increase the distance, trying to avoid the anti-aircraft cannons on the front line.  Go deep into the air force airport in Jeju, use the preemptive advantage to attack the airport, and eliminate the Chinese air force before it takes off.

    This plan will definitely fail.

    Among the two radar base stations deployed on Jeju Island, one is a new large-scale Doppler ground-based radar that was updated after the war started. It has a reconnaissance range of more than 160 kilometers. In the Jeju defense zone, three J-5  The Tiger Shark fighter jet formation also patrols the surrounding area 24 hours a day.

    The Japanese army took off in the darkness of the early morning. They simply believed that the radar of the Chinese Air Force had a reconnaissance range of only 20 kilometers at most, so they rashly adopted this one-sided and self-righteous combat plan. However, before the arrival of the Japanese Air Force fleet, more than 270 aircraft  J-3 and 150 J-4 fighters had already taken off, but in different directions.

    The J-4 Lightning Fighter is a combat aircraft with high-altitude superiority. Its combat performance at medium and low altitudes is not as good as that of the J-3 and the Japanese 97 Marine Fighter. After six months of repeated operations and experiments with the Japanese Air Force, the frontline commanders and pilots of the Imperial Air Force  Gradually, a set of tactics and strategies corresponding to the 97 Land War were explored. Because the J-3's combat performance was roughly the same as that of the 97 Land War, its climb rate was better than that of the 97 Land War, and its plane turning performance was lower than its opponent, so the J-3  It took off head-on before the arrival of the enemy plane, and was entangled with the 97 Marines at mid- to low-altitudes, while the J-4 took off from the side, made a big circle, accelerated to a high altitude, and then dived to attack.

    Usually before each battle, the pilots of the two fleets of the fighter group will discuss specific tactics. In the case of Jeju Island, the J-4 fighters usually fly westward, then turn at high altitude and dive towards the Jiuqi over the Jeju Strait.  In land battles, the J-3 is usually responsible for arranging the opponent to a suitable position, and then using acceleration and climbing advantages to get rid of the opponent, leaving the opponent's 97 land battle in a completely ambush situation.

    Over Jeju, nearly a thousand fighter planes were fighting in the air. Four formations of J-4 aircraft suddenly dropped from the high school and swooped down to shoot at the 97 Marines who were in the air. Another formation of J-4 aircraft used  The high-speed advantage tore apart the Japanese 96 bomber formation.

    The two sides were constantly engaged in a crazy fight in the sky, with the J-4 Lightning fighter's ups and downs dive attack, the J-3 Viper fighter's wave-like tumbling, climbing, and escape, and the 97th land battle's horizontal circling attack.  A large air combat offensive that surpassed the Incheon air battle was formed over the narrow island. After six months of continuous familiarization, the pilots of both sides have extremely high combat characteristics and constantly use the advantages of their own aircraft to capture the opponent. Everyone does their best.  Want to shoot down the opponent as much as possible.

    On the strait, the Japanese army's large-scale landing force has arrived on the sea. The fleet is roaring with artillery fire in front. The Japanese army's main fleet has also arrived in the northwest waters of Jeju Island. More than a hundred heavy artillery targets the port and tidal flats for large-scale shelling.  , the power of these naval heavy artillery is huge. Each artillery shot over 14 inches is an absolutely fatal threat to the land-based fortress. These huge cannons that can sink super battleships bombard the cement fortress, no matter how thick it is.  The City of Steel was also shattered.

    People who have not experienced the battleship era will never understand how terrifying this is, even in a land-based fortress.Cannons larger than 14 inches and with a caliber of 355mm or more are also very rare, but battleships can have 8 to 10 such cannons.

    On the northwest coastline of Jeju Island, which is only 15 kilometers long, the indiscriminate bombardment of more than a hundred heavy artillery pieces and hundreds of conventional naval guns made the fortresses on the entire defense line tremble. The power of this kind of bombardment was very powerful.  The entire Jeju Island experienced a shallow earthquake-like shaking during the bombardment. The constant huge roars and mushroom-like bright lights in the air were always frightening.

    In just ten minutes, three rounds of shelling by the Japanese army caused the heavy defense fortress on the defense line to nearly collapse and collapse. However, there were still two layers of stronger defensive bunkers that could withstand such a huge shelling.

    On the beach, the MG34\37 general machine gun jointly developed by China and Germany, the Browning twin 12.7mm heavy machine gun, and the CM22 Cross light machine gun continued to fire wildly on the position. The craziest thing was the Imperial CM1930 rotating heavy machine gun.  Machine gun, this heavy machine gun has a universal caliber of 14.5mm, and its six-round firing rate can reach 1,200 rounds per minute. It is almost the fastest heavy machine gun in the world.

    Because of its heavy weight, this heavy machine gun can almost only be installed on warships and fortresses. However, its crazy rate of fire and versatility against air and land make it easily the most extreme massacre among defensive weapons. Because of the Japanese  The defensive armor effectiveness of armored vehicles is low and cannot even reach the Browning heavy machine gun. It is even more powerless against this more crazy CM1930 heavy machine gun.

    As the main landing force, the Type 95 amphibious light combatants of the Japanese army were almost helpless in the face of this heavy machine gun. They were easily beaten into sieves, and they were unable to withstand the 20\45 mm caliber machine guns in the fortress.

    Before Zhang Hongkui designed the defense line for Jeju Island in 1929, he had presided over many landing operations exercises in the Zhoushan Islands. He had very rich experience and theoretical research on landing operations and anti-landing. He had two very important views.  One is the theory of active air defense, and the other is the theory of fire power balance and rapidity.

    The theory of firepower balance and rapidity is a very simple and practical military theory, that is, whether it is a landing operation or a defensive operation, the firepower must be balanced, the large and small calibers must be complete, and the rate of fire must be fast. The faster, the better.

    Because the combat area of ????the landing operation is relatively narrow, the operation has a strong short-term effect. Success or failure is basically determined only in the first half hour. Within this half hour, the more ammunition is launched, the more intensive the firepower.  , the greater the advantage for the defense and offense.

    Jeju Island's coastal defense is not very strong on the surface, but its system is very complex, its hidden firepower is extremely fierce, and its artillery and machine gun coverage is very complete. However, the more than two hundred Type 95 amphibious vehicles that the Japanese army relies on are basically missing.  Playing any role, the small number of modified amphibious tanks of the 1997 Land War were useless. They were destroyed by individual rocket launchers and 25\45mm cannons shortly after landing. In addition, the Japanese aviation force failed to occupy any first-mover advantage.  The first wave of Japanese landing attacks can be said to have suffered extremely heavy casualties.

    A division of more than 20,000 people was quickly wiped out on the 7.5-kilometer coastline. There was not much left. Because it was high tide, the waves hit upwards. A large number of corpses were pushed to the beach by the waves, and the blood covered the whole body.  The beach was dyed red, like a shocking bloody red tide.

    The Japanese base camp did not expect that the offensive would be so brutal. At this time, carrier-based aircraft from the four aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet arrived on the battlefield. The Japanese Navy's confidence was still very strong, although it suffered a setback in the Battle of Sanduao.  Almost all of its aircraft carriers were lost, but in the past six months, Japan still worked very hard to convert the Chitose and Chiyoda seaplane carriers into aircraft carriers, and converted another cruise ship into the Condor aircraft carrier, plus the only remaining  The Soryu aircraft carrier gathered four aircraft carriers to follow the battleship group and arrived in the Jeju waters to fight.

    According to the original plan, these four aircraft carriers were supposed to dispatch carrier-based attack aircraft to bomb the coastal fortresses. As a result, the Japanese Army Air Force had no advantage at all and could only temporarily replace the new Zero carrier-based aircraft and continue to participate in the air battle.  .

    During the aircraft replacement process, the deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier was also in a mess, but more than 40 Zero fighters still successfully took off and rushed to the battlefield. This was also the second time Zero Fighter officially participated in the war.

    During the Sanduao War, the sudden appearance of the Zero War gained a huge record advantage. This caused the Japanese base camp and the navy to have high expectations for the Zero War. Mitsubishi built more than a hundred aircraft with all its strength in an attempt to  An unprecedented air battle victory was achieved in the Jeju Naval Battle.

    Amid the roaring waves in the sky, there was also a roar over the southeastern waters of Jeju Island. About 340 J-303 Sea Snake fighter jets and 72 J-402 Lightning carrier-based aircraft flew to the battlefield. These carrier-based aircraft were  Departing from the Second Air Combined Fleet.

    After the Battle of Sanduao, the Japanese army has always maintained extremely high vigilance against the Chinese navy.It is common knowledge that before the Jeju landing battle began, the Japanese army modernized the two Kongo-class battleships Kongo and Kirishima and installed a radar each. These two battleships did not directly participate in the Jeju landing battle, but  They entered the East China Sea in parallel, patrolled between Jeju Island and Shandong Peninsula, and tried to use radar to detect the Central Combined Fleet at night.

    In fact, the patrol aircraft of the Second Combined Fleet and Jeju Island have been guarding and searching the surrounding waters to prevent Japan from sending naval ships to search for the Second Combined Fleet. However, in this vast and boundless sea area, it is actually very narrow.  The two battleships actually passed by China's carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft and air force patrol aircraft many times.

    "A lot of this is due to luck and accidental factors between the two armies, but it generally shows that China's radar level is not particularly high and still needs to be improved, while Japan's first-generation radar is simply dispensable.

    It was a pity that both parties did not discover the other party, and they were also very lucky that they were not discovered by the other party.

    After the J-402 Lightning carrier-based aircraft was officially put into service in October, it also joined the air combat for the first time. This means that the Navy has also formed a situation of two-aircraft cooperative operations. The combination of high-altitude and high-speed and medium-low-altitude combat of the J3\4 series fighters,  It is a very unsolvable problem for the Japanese army, which only has light combat. Whether it is the 97th land battle, the 95th and 96th carrier-based aircraft, or the Zero carrier-based aircraft, the Japanese military's fighter aircraft are all light combat, focusing on  Horizontal slalom fighting performance at medium and low altitudes.

    On the one hand, the Japanese army is extremely rigid and conservative in the field of air combat. It focuses too much on technical turning combat and ignores simple high-speed and high-altitude combat, which it regards as stupid and cowardly combat technology. On the other hand, Japan does lack the development of high-altitude and high-speed combat.  Engine technology needed for fighter jets.

    When the Second Combined Fleet arrived in the southeastern waters of Jeju Island, the outcome of the Jeju Naval Battle was already doomed. Even if the Japanese Navy wanted to withdraw from the battlefield now, the distance between the two sides was enough to ensure that the Second Combined Fleet could launch three waves against the Japanese Navy fleet.  The above offense.

    The J-303\402 series carrier-based aircraft fleet of the Second Fleet of the Central Aviation Combined Fleet joined the battle, making the entire air battle situation suddenly clear. The Japanese pure light fighter fleet could not stop the dive attack of the J-4 fleet, and during the fight  , except for zero combat, the others were unable to compete with the J-303's mid- and low-altitude performance. The Japanese fighter planes were caught off guard and suffered heavy damage in a short period of time.

    After seizing air supremacy, the carrier-based fighter group of the aviation fleet did not return to the aircraft carrier, but continued to cover the G-2\3 series torpedo dive bombers that flew later to attack the Japanese main fleet group in the Northeast Sea.

    Because of the loss of air supremacy, the second wave of landing operations planned by the Japanese base camp could not be organized at all. After discovering the opponent's aircraft carrier's carrier-based aircraft group, around 8:40 a.m., the main fleet of the Japanese Navy immediately chose to evacuate the theater, while Jeju  The aircraft groups of the island and the Second Combined Fleet chased away and carried out indiscriminate bombing of the main fleet of the Japanese Navy.

    The first wave of Zero Battle achieved certain results, but was soon overwhelmed by more than seventy J-402 Lightning carrier-based aircraft swooping down from high altitude. The fleet scattered and was constantly entangled by J-3 Viper fighter jets in the air.  Live, the fierce fighting between the two sides caused serious damage to Zero War.

    The two sides were fighting fiercely in the air, and the entire air battle would last for a long time. But at this time, it was not that Zero Fighter and the remaining dozens of 97 Land Fighters did not want to retreat, but that they were no longer able to retreat.  It is impossible to be an opponent of the Lightning fighter. Once it returns, it will only be shot down more.

    With the air supremacy basically lost, the narrow Jeju Strait became the best area for carrier-based aircraft to wildly attack the main fleet of the Japanese Navy. The Japanese Navy relied on intensive defense with anti-aircraft artillery, and aircraft continued to be shot down, but more  The arrival of the J-402 Lightning carrier-based aircraft and G-3 torpedo dive bombers put the Japanese Navy in an extremely passive situation, and the subsequent arrival of the J-5 Tiger Shark fighter-bomber group from Sinchuan Air Base  , and pushed this unprecedented large-scale naval battle into a climax.

    The arrival of the Tiger Shark has a very strong symbolic meaning of the winner, which means that the Chinese Air Force and Navy have firmly occupied air supremacy. There are as many as 400 Tiger Shark fighter-bombers coming from many surrounding airports.  , using low-altitude dives to suppress the Japanese navy, strafing and dropping bombs.

    Ozawa Jisaburo's mood at this moment was extremely tragic, perhaps as tragic and painful as when Deng Shichang drove the cruiser Zhiyuan towards the Yoshino. He witnessed a Tiger Shark fighter jet being hit by a 40-fold twin-mounted 127mm anti-aircraft gun.  Hit, it exploded into pieces and billowing smoke over the battleship Nagato in the distance, but more and more Tiger Shark fighter jets were falling like meteor showers from the vast sky, and aerial bombs poured down like rain.  After discarding the four bombs it carried, the Tiger Shark fighter-bomber continued to transform into a heavily armored attack aircraft, frantically scanning the bridge deck at low altitude.?, the rain of bullets from the four 20mm Browning belly cannons made people feel desperate and depressing.

    Tiger shark.

    The Tiger Shark represents an empire¡¯s powerful aviation manufacturing industry and a country¡¯s aviation technology strength.

    How much Ozawa Jisaburo hopes that the Empire of Japan, which he loves infinitely, also has such a powerful fighter plane. If so, the Empire of Japan will definitely be able to conquer the entire Asia, trample China under its feet, conquer everything, and expand the future of the Empire of Japan infinitely.  vast territory.

    In the eyes of the Japanese army, the performance of the Tiger Shark fighter-bomber is unimaginably powerful. It can not only serve as a bomber and fighter jet at high altitudes, but also dive bomb at medium and low altitudes. This requires powerful performance and strong and thick armor support.  Due to the tiger shark's super vitality, if it had not been directly hit by a 127mm anti-aircraft gun, it would have been hit almost four or five times before it crashed.

    Its long range and high speed are achievements that people can look up to.

    In front of Japan, the Tiger Shark is an unprecedented invincible fighter plane. It frightens and confuses Japanese officers and soldiers, but they also hope that Japan will one day have such a fighter plane.

    The Japanese army, which had no heavy-duty high-altitude fighters at all, had no effective means of dealing with the Tiger Shark except anti-aircraft guns.

    On the smoke-filled bay, the Japanese Navy fleet group is evacuating at high speed. Two aircraft carriers converted from cruise ships have been destroyed and are slowly sinking. There are many small boats at sea, and sailors are constantly jumping from the ships that are about to be sunk.  Jumping into the sea, hundreds of fighter planes in the sky strafed and attacked at a speed like whizzing meteors. The anti-aircraft cannons of all the ships were constantly bursting out, and the roar of bangs and bangs reverberated across the entire sea surface.

    The once arrogant Imperial Japanese Navy, the third largest in the world, is facing the day of collapse. Many battleships were hit by heavy bombs dropped by Tiger Shark fighter-bombers from dives. The decks of the ships were blazing with fire, and black smoke billowed in the vast sea.  , covering half of the sky.

    The Soryu aircraft carrier, which had lost more than half of its carrier-based aircraft, was once again lucky. Until this time, it had not suffered a serious attack, and it quickly tried to escape from the battlefield. The nearest military port here is Busan Port.  But that's still a distance of 110 nautical miles, and it takes three hours of full speed.

    The Mutsu high-speed battleship not far from the Soryu aircraft carrier was suddenly hit, making a shocking explosion. The huge battleship shook continuously in the waves as if it was about to be torn apart, and began to tip to the port side. It was obvious that  It was hit by a torpedo.

    The commander-in-chief Jisaburo Ozawa, who was riding on the Soryu aircraft carrier, had long realized that China's submarine force was ambushing in the Jeju Strait. The number was still unknown. The crew was frantically throwing depth charges downwards, seemingly forcing those submarines to attack.  Come out, but in this noisy battlefield, everything seems so futile.

    In the eyes of Ozawa Jisaburo, it seemed that the sky was filled with China's Tiger Shark fighter-bombers. The huge black fuselage roared past with a roar, constantly dropping heavy bombs, hiding in the offensive of the Tiger Shark swarm.  G-3B torpedo dive bombers force the sea surface to pass, and four or five in a formation launch low-altitude torpedoes towards the fleet. They only need to approach a distance of 50 to 80 meters around the ship. Basically, each formation's attack can hit once.  No matter how anti-aircraft guns and ship's secondary guns fire, there are always ships being hit by torpedoes, and the J3\4\5 series of fighters and fighter-bombers are covering the G-2\3 series of attack aircraft and dive bombers.  .

    A G-2 attack plane was hit by multiple anti-aircraft guns of the Mutsu high-speed battleship that was about to sink during low-altitude strafing. It directly hit the bridge before exploding and burst into pieces. The impact caused the entire ship to shine.  There was a bright light and flames burning, and some crew members jumped from the deck of the Mutsu into the sea in embarrassment, giving up on saving this giant ship.

    The Japanese navy is evacuating at high speed, but the speed of the navy is always like a still sculpture in front of the air force.

    After the aircraft carrier-based air group released all bombs and torpedoes, more than forty G-3A torpedo dive bombers taking off from Jeju Island also joined the battle, divided into twelve formations, and continued to carry out strong attacks on the Japanese army under the cover of other fighter planes.  The carrier-based aircraft group successfully evacuated the battlefield and returned to the aircraft carrier group for replenishment.

    It¡¯s all over.

    As the commander-in-chief of the main fleet, Lieutenant General Ozawa Jisaburo, he has completely lost all confidence in the empire and navy, as well as in himself. He has no way to deal with the crazy situation in front of him, and what he can do is  What they did was keep sending telegrams to the base camp asking for support.

    If the Army Air Force cannot come to the rescue, at least half of the main fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy will be sunk, or even all of it will be sunk here.

    The Japanese Army¡¯s rescue seems to be out of reach,However, the offensive of the Chinese Navy's Combined Aviation Fleet and the offensive of the Air Force's Jeju Base are still pouring down like rain. The two sides take turns attacking, cooperating and covering each other. Since joining the battle, the total number of Tiger Shark fighter-bomber groups has been continuously increasing.  The initial number of more than a hundred aircraft increased to 700, even though more than a hundred were destroyed one after another during this period.

    For Ozawa Jisaburo, he was lucky after all.

    After three consecutive waves of attacks, at 10:40 a.m. on December 10, 1939, Vice Admiral Jiang Yu, commander of the Second Fleet of the Central Navy's aircraft carrier combined fleet, issued an order to stop the attack.

    Under the sunshine at noon, the Imperial Japanese First Battle Fleet, which originally consisted of 7 battleships, 4 aircraft carriers and 11 cruisers, ended up with only 3 battleships, 1 aircraft carrier and 4 cruisers left.  As a result, the battlefield was withdrawn, and only one of the four destroyers accompanying the army remained.

    Suffered heavy losses.

    What is worse than this is that the naval aviation force has been completely lost. 92 of the 133 new Zero carrier-based aircraft that were used as secret weapons before the war were shot down.

    In this changing era, the Imperial Japanese Navy has been completely eliminated. The self-righteous heroism and might of the world's third naval power that was unparalleled in Asia will forever become a memory.

    The main naval force that Japan has built up over the past thirty years by accumulating national strength has been lost and withered in two naval battles, and there is not much left.

    Some people may say that if the Japanese battleship Yamato is also involved in this naval battle, the outcome will be rewritten. Some may say that if there are more zero battles, the outcome will be rewritten. Some may say,  If the Japanese Army had chosen Mitsubishi's heavy-duty fighter aircraft, the ending would have been rewritten.

    That is just the fantasy of the Japanese. Just like the myth of Zero War that they are so proud of, and the five black minutes of Midway that they take as a warning, they actually do not exist. How can the performance parameters of Zero War qualify as Zero War?  War myth, as long as the United States starts to strengthen the development of fighter aircraft, Zero War will not even be qualified to clear the streets for the United States.

    After thirty years of careful preparation, Zero War could only suffer a beating in the face of the mixed fleet of J-3\4\5 aircraft. Even in a one-on-one battle, Zero War could not face the J-303 Sea Snake carrier-based fighter jets.  There is no advantage at all. With its 1,350-horsepower liquid-cooled engine and excellent aerodynamic design, the latter weighs 40% more than the Zero War, has better defense and safety performance, and is almost the same in terms of mid- and low-altitude combat performance.  At high altitudes, the latter, which has a turbocharger device, can directly overwhelm the Zero Fighter, which only has one stage of supercharger.

    If we only look at the cost of the fighter and the technological and industrial level it represents, the J-5D Tiger Shark fighter-bomber is definitely the pinnacle of propeller-engine fighters. This level of fighter is equipped with the first-generation transistor Doppler radar.  The SELM-2800-14 twin-row 18-cylinder air-cooled radial engine of Dawn Company, coupled with unique aerodynamic and fuselage designs, and high-strength duralumin alloy, ultimately made the Tiger Shark fighter-bomber the most popular fighter-bomber in the entire Pacific.  Overlord, they completely represent the strongest fighters of this era.

    Perhaps in air combat, the J-5D Tiger Shark fighter-bomber is far from the opponent of the J-4 Lightning fighter, but the Tiger Shark's number and versatile uses, as well as its powerful sea and land attacks, determine that it is the best fighter of this era.  The undisputed king of the sky.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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