Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1652 Tactics
It can also be seen from this that Toshihei Inoguchi has a considerable tactical level.

In fact, Toshihei Inoguchi was a tactical expert before he became the captain of the "Musashi" ship. He was even a well-known authority figure in the empire in terms of cannons. The main reason for the captain of the battleship "Musashi".

(Note: Devil's two battleships "Yamato" and "Musashi" are regarded as the glory of the empire, and to some extent they are placed with high hopes for the key to victory in the final decisive battle. Therefore, no one who can serve as the captain of these two battleships ordinary people)
In addition, Inoguchi Toshihei has a younger brother named Inoguchi Lipei, who is the creator of the infamous "Kamikaze".

When Inoguchi Toshihei gave the order, the staff officer asked a question.

"Your Excellency, Major General!" the staff officer said, "The enemy's anti-ship missiles have the advantage of range. Shouldn't we plan to engage in close combat with the enemy? Why did the major general..."

The words of the staff officer expressed the confusion in many people's hearts, so the surrounding commanders more or less focused their attention on Toshihei Inoguchi.

This should be said to be a common sense. When the range is not as good as the enemy, you should try to eliminate this unfavorable factor and fight the enemy in melee.

However, Toshihei Inoguchi did the opposite. In his plan, he still planned to use the guns of battleships to fight long-distance battles with the Eighth Route Army.

Toshihei Inoguchi didn't explain, he just asked back: "Will the enemy be stupid enough to fight me in close combat?"

Toshihei Inoguchi's words are enough to explain all the problems clearly.

The top speed of the battleship is only 27 knots, while the enemy's light cruiser is 34 knots and the destroyer is 37 knots, which is much faster than the battleship.

Therefore, the decision whether to fight close combat or far combat is not in the hands of the imperial army at all.

Therefore, wanting to engage in melee combat with the enemy can only be imagined. The enemy will always take advantage of its speed to keep a distance from the imperial army, which means that they will always be out of range of the imperial fleet.

In other words, under normal circumstances, the imperial fleet never hits the target, except for the battleship.

The reason why the battleship is excluded is that its range has exceeded the visual distance.

Just like before, the Eighth Route Army fleet broke into the range of the battleship and was in danger, not because they were stupid or stupid, but because they didn't even realize that the battleship of the Empire was ahead.

This is undoubtedly the weakness of the Eighth Route Army fleet, and Toshihei Inoguchi intends to continue to exploit this weakness of the Eighth Route Army:

If the Eighth Route Army couldn't see the Imperial Fleet [-] kilometers away, did that mean they didn't notice when the battleship approached them?

By the time they realize it, the distance between the enemy and ourselves will be about [-] kilometers, right?
Therefore, the scene of the battleship chasing and killing the enemy ship before will appear again!
But this time, Toshihei Inoguchi will not give the enemy any chance to escape.

Inoguchi Toshihei no longer explained too much with the staff, he believed that these principles should be thought by themselves, so as to truly improve their thinking ability and command ability.

What Toshihei Inoguchi did was to direct the crew to make every effort to control the fire and minimize losses.

After more than half an hour, the fire was finally extinguished... The fuel actually burned out within ten minutes, but the battleships of this period, to be precise, the warships of this period would habitually install a wooden deck on the upper deck.

Many people say that this is the habit of the navy since the Middle Ages, and the navy is unwilling to change it, so this tradition is born, but the actual situation is not the case.

There are many practical advantages to covering the deck with a wooden floor.

For example, the heat insulation of warships can be increased: if the sun shines directly on the steel deck, the internal cabins that are originally airtight will be very stuffy, which may threaten the lives of the crew in the hot summer.

Therefore, sometimes not only a wooden floor is installed on the deck, but also other insulation materials are filled between the floor and the steel deck.

For another example, people walking on steel plates are likely to generate static electricity, and these static electricity may detonate shells on warships.

This problem does not exist with a wooden deck.

But everything has advantages and disadvantages. For example, at this time, the wooden floors were ignited and burned into a mess. It not only increased the loss of the "Musashi", but also made the deck full of potholes and coke from the burning of the wooden floors, which brought great harm to the crew. It's a lot of inconvenience.

But Toshihei Inoguchi couldn't care less about these things at this time. He ordered the logistics staff to count the available equipment. If it was burned or malfunctioned, replace what can be replaced with what can be repaired.

The final result is that there are still more than 30 25MM anti-aircraft guns that can be used normally.

More than 130 anti-aircraft guns are left with only a fraction, and the loss cannot be said to be insignificant.

Fortunately, these are only the anti-aircraft guns installed outside the battleship. In the future, those who return to the factory only need to replace them. The battleship itself is not injured, which is also a comfort to Toshihei Inoguchi.

After a short rest, Toshihei Inoguchi ordered the fleet to disperse to surround the "Musashi" in the center, and then sailed towards the position of the Eighth Route Army fleet.

What Zhuguchi Minping didn't know was that while he was making preparations, Xu Huandong was also racking his brains for the upcoming battle.

Xu Huandong and Toshihei Inoguchi were thinking about the same thing. He also knew that in the face of the Devil battleships, although the Eighth Route Army had the range advantage of anti-ship missiles and the tactics of "fighting backwards", it was unable to play a role due to lack of reconnaissance capabilities.

The result of being unable to play a role is that when the enemy battleship slows down, the coastal defense regiment is likely to be in danger of being hunted down again.

Xu Huandong thought of many methods, among which he even thought of using anti-ship missiles for reconnaissance.

This method is theoretically feasible, because the anti-ship missile has a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour and a range of more than 200 kilometers, which means that it can fly in the air for more than half an hour.

At the same time, the anti-ship missile is also equipped with a camera that can transmit image signals back to the warship, so that as long as one anti-ship missile is launched, the position of the enemy fleet can be reconnaissance in the air for at least half an hour.

However, after asking the missile technicians, I realized that this method is completely unworkable.

Because the signal returned by the TV is too poor, it is difficult to see the target at a distance of two or three kilometers, and only a vague shadow can be seen, and if it is farther away, it can only fly blindly in the predetermined direction... Based on the enemy's position, the radar-assisted control missile is used to fly in that direction, and it can only be aimed at close range.

This is why several missiles failed to hit before.

The 96-type 25MM anti-aircraft gun on the Devil's warship has a range of 7.5 kilometers, far exceeding the visible distance of anti-ship missiles.

What's more, anti-ship missiles can't afford such waste.

In the end, Xu Huandong thought of the only seaplane on the "Zhenhai" ship...

(End of this chapter)