Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 2272 Japan's National Disaster Day
If you want to install radar, you have to have some equipment. The southern African navy has installed radar on warships 20 years ago. Now radar has evolved from meter wave to decimeter wave level. Fire control radars have already begun to appear. Without computer assistance, it is not a complete fire control radar.

The Japanese also have radar, but it will take time to apply the radar to actual combat. The "Seagull" can always detect the Japanese fleet in advance. The secret lies in the use of the search radar.

If you fall behind, you will be beaten. This is an eternal truth. Yamamoto 56 has no idea what kind of battle he is about to face.

Since the southern African torpedo planes and bombers do not need to face the interception of the Japanese carrier-based fighter jets, the torpedo planes and bombers can attack from the most comfortable position.

The maximum range of the torpedo is [-] meters. In fact, the firing effect is not good at a distance of [-] meters. The higher the hit rate of the torpedo launched from the Japanese warship.

The Japanese Combined Fleet is now like a tiger whose teeth have been pulled out, and can only be beaten passively.

The torpedo planes in southern Africa launched torpedoes outside the Japanese anti-aircraft firepower network. It doesn’t matter whether they can hit the target. Anyway, there are a lot of torpedoes. It is a matter of probability that a torpedo can hit the target.

Bombers do not need to dive in the face of dense anti-aircraft firepower. No matter how high the bombs are dropped from, the warships below have to zigzag to avoid them.

Don't worry about whether the 100kg aerial bomb can penetrate the thick deck of the battleship. The 50kg aerial bomb may be a little bit worse. The 100kg aerial bomb can at least deal with weak armor or even anti-aircraft weapons without armor protection.

The unprotected anti-aircraft machine gun shooters of the Japanese army were unlucky, and near-missing bullets could also cause damage to them. If a bomb could not fall on the warship, then what awaited them was a metal storm.

Like the US military, the first wave of torpedo attacks by the Southern African Navy had no effect.

The difference is that all the first torpedo planes of the U.S. military were shot down, while none of the first torpedo planes of the Southern African Navy were damaged.

Compared with the torpedo plane commander of the US military, the commander of the torpedo plane in southern Africa was very cautious and did not approach the Japanese fleet at all. Naturally, the Japanese army's anti-aircraft firepower could not be used. .

For this result, Captain Ge Zhiyong, the commander of the carrier-based fighter squadron from Los Angeles, was not satisfied.

"Lopez, don't you dare to fly in a little more? This kind of attack has no effect other than wasting torpedoes." Ge Zhiyong directly laughed at the torpedo squadron commander Lopez in the intercom.

Lopez and Ge Zhiyong are both from Los Angeles. They are neighbors. The two of them wear open crotch pants. After graduating from high school, they entered the Air Force Academy at the same time. Five years ago, they also entered the Southern African Navy at the same time.

The Southern African army is organized in a similar way to that of the United Kingdom. Most of the members of an army come from the same region, and many are even relatives. In this way, the army will never leave in combat, and no one will abandon their family members.

"Don't talk nonsense, if you dive and shoot to help me divert the firepower, I will attack the Japanese at the closest distance." Lopez retorted, watching the excitement and making sarcastic remarks, who can't, it's a mule or a horse Pull it out and yo.

The laughter of several other squadron leaders came from the earphones. The pilots are not afraid of death, but it is meaningless to be afraid of death.

On this point, the Japanese made the same mistakes as the Germans in their estimation of the United States and southern Africa.

Southern Africans and Americans are really not afraid of death when they have money.

The torpedo plane was hit and the pilot who was unable to fly back to the base crashed into the Japanese aircraft carrier.

Without the protection of fighter jets, the pilots of the U.S. torpedo planes knew that it was difficult to pass through the interception of the "Zero" and the Japanese fleet's air defense firepower net, but they still rushed to the Japanese fleet.

The first two torpedo formations of the U.S. Army, a total of 24 aircraft, were all shot down after completing the attack on the Japanese fleet.

Earlier, the Southern African Army fought brutal hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese in the tropical jungles of the Malay Peninsula, forcing the Japanese to the point where they turned into human bombs.

The U.S.-Philippine coalition forces on the Bataan Peninsula were forced to surrender at the last moment when they ran out of ammunition and food.

All this proves that the southern Africans and Americans are definitely not lacking in courage. On the contrary, the Japanese army appeared to be lacking in courage when fighting the southern African army.

The courage of the Japanese is usually displayed to the fullest when facing weak enemies, especially when facing women and children.

Yamamoto 56 was shocked and angry at this time. The main fleet he led had lost its air protection. The bombers in southern Africa were bombing horizontally above the fleet, and the warship had to maneuver around to avoid the aerial bombs falling from the sky.

For battleships with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, aerial bombs have little effect, and even torpedoes cannot cause fatal damage to battleships.

However, for light cruisers and destroyers that lack protection, no matter whether aerial bombs or torpedoes, they may be sunk directly.

It is inevitable that a hundred secrets will be neglected. A Japanese destroyer was accidentally hit by a red-headed torpedo while avoiding aerial bombs.

The explosive part weighing [-] kilograms directly tore the destroyer from the middle and rear. The tail of the destroyer flew about five meters high and hit the water heavily. The sailors had no chance to escape and were dragged by the vortex formed by the sinking of the destroyer. into the sea.

Immediately afterwards, another light cruiser was hit, and the anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese fleet was torn a huge gap.

A Southern African "Sea Harrier" bomber broke through the Japanese air defense firepower network, and accurately hit a 90 kg aerial bomb on the front deck of the Japanese battleship "Mutsu" at a vertical angle of nearly 500 degrees.

The violent explosion wiped out all the anti-aircraft weapons on the front deck of "Mutsu". The No. 2 turret was severely damaged, and the steering rudder of the No. [-] turret failed. In just [-] minutes, the fire caused by the explosion began to spread to the belly of the hull. Matsushita Yota, who was directing the firefighting on the front deck, accidentally slipped and fell into the sea.

At this time, the "Mutsu" was surrounded by violent smoke, and more torpedo planes and bombers swarmed in.

The heavy cruiser "Mogami" approached the "Mutsu" to help the "Mutsu" put out the fire.

At this time, the wind was high and the waves were rough. The "Mogami" accidentally collided with the "Mutsu".

At 12:25, ten "Sea Harriers" divided into two teams to attack the "Mutsu". "Harrier" is close to the sea and approaching "Mutsu".

The "Mutsu" went all out and avoided most of the bombs from the air, but was hit by two 200kg aerial bombs one after another.

One of the bombs hit the bridge of the "Mutsu". Kogure Junji, who was commanding the battle in the bridge, was killed along with all the officers in the bridge. The "Mutsu" lost its command system and its communication system was also blown up. , lost contact with other warships.

The "Mutsu" who lost its command is like a headless bear, losing the ability to avoid aerial bombs and torpedoes.

Soon "Mutsu" was hit by two 533 torpedoes and lost its ability to move and turn. About 10 minutes later, Yamamoto 56 ordered to abandon the ship.

"Mutsu" is the second ship of the "Nagato" class battleship, the famous BIG7, which has always been listed as one of the priority targets that must be sunk by the Southern African Navy.

Now the Southern African Navy has finally fulfilled its wish, but the "Mutsu" did not sink immediately, and there will be "Nagato" and the more powerful "Yamato" waiting for the Southern African Navy to harvest.

At the same time that "Mutsu" was hit, the battleship "Yamashiro" was also hit by bombs.

Fortunately, the bomb did not cause fatal damage to the "Yamashiro", and the "Yamashiro" was still able to fight.

Yamamoto 56 ordered "Yamashiro" to leave the formation and return, because at this time the speed of "Yamashiro" could not keep up with the speed of the formation. Yamamoto 56 had not given up attacking Guam at this time. His order brought disaster to "Yamashiro" .

If it is in the joint fleet formation, the "Yamashiro" may survive. Compared with "Yamashiro", "Yamato" and "Nagato" are more tempting to the southern African naval aviation.

The "Shanshiro" broke away from the formation and headed west. Not long after leaving the battlefield, it was spotted by the "ghost" submarine wandering outside the battlefield looking for opportunities.

Although the performance of the "ghost" submarine is powerful, in this level of naval battle, the "ghost" is basically useless.

The role of submarines is extremely limited, and the economic speed of the fleet formation is 15 knots, which already exceeds the fastest speed of ordinary submarines.

The first to discover the "Shancheng" was the East India 031 submarine.

The captain of the 031 submarine was not in a hurry to start, but called other submarines for help. Next to the "Yamashiro" was the destroyer "Suzukaze", which was the tenth ship of the Japanese Bailu-class destroyer.

The "mountain city" that had escaped from the battle was seriously flooded inside and could only sail at a speed of about 13 knots, which the "ghost" submarine could keep up with.

The first to attack the "Mountain City" was the No. 017 submarine that came later.

The timing of the 017 submarine's torpedo launch was very ingenious. It happened to be on the same line as "Cool Breeze", and "Mountain City" was between 017 and "Cool Breeze".

The battleship "Yamashiro" has a length of 215 meters, and the length of "Suzukaze" is only 111 meters. The huge body of "Yamashiro" completely cuts off the field of vision of "Suzukaze", so that "Suzukaze" has no torpedo attack. any preparation.

The 017 submarine fired three torpedoes in a row. When the torpedo dragged the white water line across the sea, it was immediately spotted by the observers of the "Shancheng".

The "Yamashiro" moved forward at full speed, and had an obvious turn, and successfully avoided the torpedo.

The unprepared "Cool Breeze" was unlucky, and a torpedo narrowly passed through the tail of "Mountain City", just hitting the "Cool Breeze".

The violent explosion of the torpedo directly blew up the "Suzukaze" in two, and sank in less than a minute, and the "Yamashiro" lost its only protection.

The next three "Ghost" submarines fired a total of 16 torpedoes at the "Yamashiro", and the "Yamashiro" was hit by 9 of them.

At 3:12, after an earth-shattering explosion, the "Yamashiro" with a full load displacement of 33800 tons sank, becoming the first battleship sunk in the Guam Naval Battle.

"Yamashiro" was the first battleship sunk, but not the first large battleship. Before "Yamashiro" sank, the aircraft carrier "Flying Dragon" had been sunk, and it was sunk by the Japanese destroyers themselves.

After being hit by a torpedo plane, the "Flying Dragon" was unable to take off and land the fighter plane, and the "Flying Dragon" had lost its combat capability in a short period of time.

"Hiryu" is a medium-sized fleet aircraft carrier, an improved version of the Soryu-class aircraft carrier.

Like the "Canglong" class aircraft carrier, the "Flying Dragon" also has serious problems such as over-armament, unstable center of gravity, and insufficient structural strength.

During the construction process, the drawings of the "Flying Dragon" were revised several times, the armor protection was enhanced, the displacement was increased by 2000 tons, and the ship island was changed from the right side to the left side. This is not a good design. According to the research of the Southern African Navy, Once the pilot encounters trouble during the landing process, he often turns left due to habitual reasons, and the number of landing accidents caused by the island superstructure on the port side is twice that of the starboard side.

This conclusion is normal, just as a car driver will subconsciously turn the steering wheel to the left when a frontal collision is about to occur, avoiding the driving position to accept the impact, so the co-pilot position is the most dangerous.

For the performance of the flight deck, the Japanese aircraft carrier installed a wooden floor on the steel deck. This has many advantages, but it also makes it difficult to control the fire once it catches fire, and the fire will spread rapidly.

When the torpedo plane hit the deck of the "Flying Dragon", there were still more than 20 torpedo planes and bombers parked on the deck of the "Flying Dragon". The position of the coalition fleet was not found, and the captain of the "Flying Dragon" did not dare to retract the torpedo plane and bomber to the belly position. In that case, it would take at least half an hour to raise the torpedo plane and bomber up with the elevator.

Not to mention half an hour of aircraft carrier combat, five minutes is already fatal. In another time and space, after the Japanese lost the Battle of Midway Island, they attributed the main reason for their defeat to "five minutes of fate."

This is actually an excuse the Japanese are looking for to cover up their defeat and save face. There is no such thing as "5 minutes of fate". The Japanese will not be able to win for another five years. To restore its strength, as long as Japan loses once, it will keep losing.

After the fire broke out on the deck, the sailors of the "Flying Dragon" tried their best to put out the fire, and a Japanese cruiser and a destroyer nearby also came to help.

In order not to cause greater losses, the captain of the "Flying Dragon" ordered all six torpedo planes that were relatively close to the fire scene to be pushed into the sea, which did not save the fate of the "Flying Dragon".

At this time, the "Feilong" was billowing with thick smoke, which could be seen from more than ten miles away.

More bombers and torpedo planes swarmed in, and a 500-kilogram bomb dropped by a "Sea Harrier" directly smashed through the deck of the "Flying Dragon" and exploded inside the "Flying Dragon". People were killed and high-quality aviation fuel stored in fuel depots was ignited.

At 12:40, the fire on the "Hyryu" was completely out of control. Nagumo Chuichi ordered the ship to be abandoned and the destroyer to launch torpedoes to sink the "Hyryu".

(End of this chapter)