Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1645 Sea and Air Coordination
Although Yoshijiro Umezu was very dissatisfied with Toshihei Inoguchi's performance, he had no choice but to prepare a fighter according to Tohei Inoguchi's wishes.

After all, this battle is likely to be related to the life and death of the Kwantung Army, especially if it is deeply painful to the Kwantung Army, it has little to do with the United Fleet.

The reason why we say "probably" here is that Umezu Yoshijiro believed that even if Lushun Port was occupied by the Eighth Route Army, the Kwantung Army would not be surrounded to the point of desperation.

The reason is that the Kwantung Army still has a transportation channel leading to Bangzi, and no matter how bad it is, it can withdraw to the territory of Bangzi and try to make a comeback.

But the latter is almost impossible!

How could the imperial army be defeated by the mere Eighth Route Army?
The current Kwantung Army just didn't recover for a while because of "internal and external troubles"!

What Toshihei Inoguchi didn't know was that in principle it was his ego or one could say that he looked down on the army that missed an opportunity...

At this time, the Dalian Coastal Defense Regiment of the Eighth Route Army was not prepared. To be precise, it was due to the lack of naval combat experience and preparation time, which caused the lack of early warning and intelligence.

Wang Xuexin himself did not command in Dalian, and Wang Xuexin himself had no experience in naval warfare, so he could only hand over the full power of the coastal defense regiment to Xu Huandong's command.

After the establishment of the coastal defense regiment, according to common sense, it should establish contact with the aviation unit as soon as possible and do a good job in coordination and intelligence sharing.

This has reached a consensus during World War II, because the most important thing in naval warfare is air supremacy, and fighter jets have many benefits.

For example, a fighter plane is fast and has a wide field of view.

Because warships are limited by the curvature of the earth, even with the most advanced radar or high-powered telescopes, they cannot see sea targets [-] kilometers away... Warships [-] kilometers away will be blocked by the sea level, so they cannot be seen by radar or eyesight of.

But the plane is different. It flies into the air, as the saying goes, stand tall and see far. No matter how backward the plane is, even a seaplane can play a reconnaissance role and intelligence gathering ability much faster and farther than a warship. many.

This is also the main reason for the popularity of aircraft carriers during this period. Even if there is no aircraft carrier, cruisers and battleships will bring their own seaplanes for reconnaissance.

And Xu Huandong belonged to the Northeast Fleet during the Republic of China. At that time, the Northeast Fleet had neither seaplanes nor the concept of aerial reconnaissance... Huaxia did not have carrier-based seaplanes or catapult technology.

In fact, let alone these, the Northeast Fleet does not even have a basic awareness of sea and air coordination.

At this time, Xu Huandong was busy refitting the warship, so he didn't consider the fleet's reconnaissance and intelligence issues.

However, this is not accurate. Xu Huandong actually arranged personnel for reconnaissance, but he still dispatched fishing boats with radio reconnaissance according to the previous thinking of combat, but the range of this reconnaissance is very short, but only tens of kilometers. Into the range of the enemy naval guns.

This is obviously very dangerous.

The first to bear the brunt is the Dalian Coastal Defense Regiment... Five warships are refitting and improving at the shipyard day and night. If the devil warship suddenly appears in front of it and bombards it, the missiles on these five warships will not only fail to function, but may even explode Become a dynamite to blow up warships and shipyards.

Then there are the materials in the port, and the devil warship will then attack these things.

Then, or while bombing the port, the Devil warship would launch a fierce shelling attack on the defense line of the Independent Regiment stationed in Jinzhou from the rear.

If the devils have enough information, they will bomb the airport in Zhoushuizi as soon as possible...

At that time, the entire Dalian will fall into chaos, and even if the Eighth Route Army has anti-ship missiles, it will not be able to go into battle due to lack of preparation and lack of fighter guidance.

It's all very possible.

Because the Eighth Route Army, including the headquarters, knew nothing about the intelligence of the Devil Fleet.

This is mainly because the Devils Fleet departed from the local Wugang. The Eighth Route Army had very few intelligence personnel in the Devils' homeland, and they were targeting Wugang, which is heavily guarded by the Devils. Therefore, the headquarters also had their eyes darkened, and they didn't know the Devils Fleet at all. When did you leave.

However, because Toshihei Inoguchi did not take the Eighth Route Army seriously, he did not bring an aircraft carrier, and he did not contact Umezu Yoshijiro in advance, which resulted in Umezu Yoshijiro having less than a day to prepare.

So a large number of fighters flew towards Bangzi like mosquitoes.

Wang Xuexin received the news immediately.

The information was reported by Zhang Zongping, who excitedly handed over the telegram and said, "Commander, the devils seem to be showing signs of escaping! They sent fighter planes in the direction of Bangzi! There are at least sixty of them!"

"Sent in the direction of Bangzi?" Wang Xuexin couldn't help wondering, what did the devil do?
Looking at the map, Wang Xuexin was shocked... The Bangzi coastline is only more than 300 kilometers away from the Dalian coastline, which is completely within the combat radius of the Devil fighter.

On the other hand, the Devil's Kwantung Army must have concerns about the transportation of fuel and parts because the port was blocked by the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, it would not be cost-effective for them to set up the airport for combat in China, because all the fuel, parts, and ammunition had to be shipped from Bangzi.

But if the fighter planes are transferred to Bangzi and take off from Bangzi's airport to launch an attack, won't it save a lot of work and don't need to worry about supply issues?
However, the devil's fighter planes cannot compete with "La 5" for air supremacy, what are they going to do?

Could it be... the devils know how to use radios to interfere with the air-to-air missiles of the Eighth Route Army?

Not too possible!

If the devils knew this, they would take off all their fighter planes and head straight for the Eighth Route Army airport immediately, because this would catch the Eighth Route Army by surprise and kill and injure the Eighth Route Army's aviation force in large numbers.

That is……

Then Wang Xuexin quickly thought of the reason: the navy, the combined fleet of devils!
"It's not that the devils are retreating!" Wang Xuexin said: "The devil's fleet is coming, and these fighter planes are ready to cooperate with the devil's warships!"

"Warship?" Zhang Zongping couldn't help but change his face, and said, "But we don't have any information..."

"This is the problem!" Wang Xuexin ordered: "Give power to the coastal defense regiment immediately and get them ready for battle!"

"Yes!"

Just as Zhang Zongping was about to turn around and send an order, he was stopped by Wang Xuexin. He added: "Order Zhoushuizi Airport to increase the number of patrols and the patrol distance. At the same time, the missile troops are ready to fight!"

"Yes!"

This is the weakness of the Eighth Route Army's "La 5" fighter.

Because the "La 5" has the problem of short range, its patrol distance cannot be far... The patrol radius will be much shorter than the combat radius of the fighter plane, because the patrol is to fly in circles in the air to detect a sector or even a circle. Its hang time is very long.

If you want to increase the patrol distance, you can only reduce the patrol fan and fly directly in a certain direction for tentative reconnaissance like luck.

(End of this chapter)