Rise of Australia

Chapter 935: Battle of Tokyo Bay

After successfully attracting the attention of the main force of the Australasian Pacific Fleet, the island nation fleet finally turned on its communication system and radar.

This is done not only to facilitate communication between warships, but also to provide their movements to the Australasian warships in the rear.

Since we are going to fish, we must be able to adjust it to be considered successful. The Air Force cannot be considered to have completed the mission, which is why Kondo Nitta has been paying attention to the movements of the Australasian Fleet on the radar.

Due to differences in radar technology, the island nation's radar could not clearly display the number of the Australasian fleet. But the radar could indeed detect that a large fleet was slowly approaching them dozens of miles behind.

"Calculate the enemy's sailing speed and ensure our safety as much as possible." Looking at the slowly moving green dot on the radar signal, Kondo Nitta gave the order.

About ten minutes later, the speed of both sides was finally calculated. According to the radar, the speed of the Australasian fleet was about 23 knots, which was obviously lower than the 25 knots of the island fleet.

This also means that Kondo Nitta’s fleet is currently very safe.

After making sure he was safe, Kondo Nitta quickly sent a telegram to Yamamoto Isoroku who was far away in Tokyo Bay, reminding the Combined Fleet to make emergency preparations.

In order to win this naval battle, Yamamoto Isoroku divided the Combined Fleet into three parts. The first part was the squadron led by Kondo Nitta, whose mission was to attract the main force of the Australasian Navy to Tokyo Bay.

The second part is part of the main naval force in Tokyo Bay. Their mission is to contain Australasia that has arrived in Tokyo Bay and ensure that the coastal defense artillery on the coast can exert its power.

The third part is the main force of the Combined Fleet led by Isoroku Yamamoto himself. They will go around to the southeast of Tokyo Bay. After making sure that the Australasian Navy has all entered Tokyo Bay, they will quietly sail to their rear and complete the encirclement of the Australasian Navy with the other two fleets.

As long as the sea area leading to the Pacific Ocean to the south of Tokyo Bay can be blocked, Tokyo Bay will become a completely closed offshore area. This was also designed in advance by Isoroku Yamamoto, the guillotine of the Australasian Navy.

While the island nation's combined fleet was hastily preparing, dozens of nautical miles behind Kondo Nitta's fleet, the main force of the Australasian Pacific Fleet was also marching towards Tokyo Bay in a mighty manner.

Although no one knew what tricks the islanders were playing, for safety reasons, under the instructions of Chief of Staff Malong, an aircraft carrier and a battleship were transferred from the Indian Ocean Fleet to the Pacific Fleet to strengthen the number of main warships of the Pacific Fleet.

At the same time, Australasia has expanded its air force deployment in the Ryukyu Islands and Iwo Jima. Currently, there are at least 2000 aircraft available in the two places, and with the addition of the navy's carrier-based aircraft, the number of aircraft that can be mobilized in a naval battle has exceeded 3000.

With an absolute advantage in the number of main warships and aircraft, Pacific Fleet Commander-in-Chief Jon Odell is full of confidence.

Even though he knew that the islanders' actions were wrong, Jon Odell still chose to act according to the islanders' plan.

After all, behind them is the main force of the Pacific Fleet, with more than 2000 aircraft that can arrive within three hours.

The two sides chased each other, and after more than ten hours of sailing, they finally approached the waters of Tokyo Bay.

Kondo Nitta understood that it was impossible to lure the Australasian Navy into Tokyo Bay by just fleeing. In order to achieve the combat objectives, certain sacrifices were inevitable.

As they were about to reach Tokyo Bay, the fleet's two light cruisers gradually slowed down, waiting for the Australasian fleet to approach.

They would serve as bait to lure the Australasian Navy into the Gulf of Tonkin, ensuring the success of the operation.

As the two sides chased each other, the Australasian Navy and the island nation's warships were getting closer and closer. Half an hour later, Jon Odell naturally saw the two light cruisers at the rear of the island nation's fleet.

"Open fire! Sink them!" Jon Odell gave the order without much hesitation.

Upon hearing the order, the warships of the Australasian fleet quickly changed direction and opened fire with all their guns in an extremely fierce attack.

boom! boom!
Faced with the bombing of a large number of main warships, the two light cruisers had no power to fight back. However, the Japanese obviously did not intend to just be a target. While fighting back, they slowly retreated to Tokyo Bay.

Seeing the movements of the island nation's warships, Jon Ode understood that the island nation must have prepared something in Tokyo Bay. Otherwise, they would not have been so straightforward in introducing the Australasian Navy into Tokyo Bay.

"The enemy may have laid mines in Tokyo Bay and sent some submarines to lead the way. I want to see what other tricks these islanders have." Jon Odell ordered.

If the islanders laid mines, it would definitely be a means of hurting the enemy by a thousand and hurting their own people by eight hundred.

You know, this is Tokyo Bay, the waters where the island nation's capital is located. If mines are used to block this area of ​​water, it will not only affect Australasian warships, but also many civilian ships of the island nation.

The good news is that no warships came into contact with mines along the way. This also means that the islanders are at least not that crazy, and this naval battle should still be mainly a fight between warships.

After chasing for more than ten kilometers, the two light cruisers soon sank because their hulls were blown up.

At this time, the Australasian Navy had already completely entered the waters of Tokyo Bay. Jon Odell did not rush forward, but ordered his men to use radar to detect the enemy's traces.

On the radar screen, several light spots were slowly moving toward the north. These light spots should be the squadron led by Kondo Nitta.

"Didn't you find the enemy's main naval force?" Jon Odell was a little surprised. Logically speaking, the enemy should have shown up after successfully luring the Australasian Navy into Tokyo Bay.

After all, their purpose is not just to lure the Australasian Navy into Tokyo Bay, their bigger goal is definitely to defeat the Australasian Navy and win this naval battle.

"Since the enemy is unwilling to show up, we will force them to show up." Jon Odell smiled and ordered the messenger: "Let the planes start moving. If we can't find the enemy in Tokyo Bay, we will bomb the government buildings, the Imperial Palace and other important facilities in Tokyo.

I just don't believe it. Did the Japanese people bring us here from afar just to get us closer to Tokyo?"

Following Jon Odell's order, a large number of planes took off from the deck of the aircraft carrier and then dispersed to the entire Tokyo Bay. The speed of the jet planes was very fast, and because they were currently located in Tokyo Bay, they could reach Tokyo in half an hour at any time if they wanted.

If they really couldn't find the island nation's navy, they would have to vent their anger by bombing Tokyo. Anyway, the island nation had brought all this upon themselves, and it was the first time that Vice Admiral Jon Odell had seen such a method of leading the enemy to their core area.

After about ten minutes, the plane in the sky finally made a discovery.

A medium-sized naval formation was approaching in the waters about 40 kilometers north of the Australasian Navy.

However, it seems that it is not the main force of the island nation's navy. After all, the number of battleships does not match the size of the fleet.

"What are the Japanese doing?" Jon Odell was a little surprised, but the best way to deal with it at this time was to defeat any approaching enemies.

Without thinking too much, Jon Odell immediately ordered all planes to concentrate on attacking the fleet, and ordered all submarines to dive and disperse around the fleet to prevent attacks from the main force of the island nation's navy.

After receiving the order to attack, hundreds of planes headed towards the island nation's fleet. At this time, the fleet led by Kondo Nitta had already joined another fleet, and they successfully became a larger fleet.

However, such a scale is not too dangerous for hundreds of aircraft. After all, it is only a part of the island nation's combined fleet, and the number of aircraft carriers it has is very small.

More importantly, the island nation's aircraft carrier research and development history is more tortuous than that of other countries, and their aircraft carrier types are also simpler.

As mentioned before, Britain had given up its support for the island nation long before World War I. Since the demise of the United States, the island nation no longer has support from the great powers, and most of its military weapons can only be developed and imitated by itself.

In the development of aircraft carriers, the progress of the islanders was relatively slow. In order to have aircraft carriers, they could only adopt a method similar to that of the British at the beginning, that is, to modify large destroyers and cruisers to turn them into simple aircraft carriers.

But such a modification has great flaws. First of all, the modified destroyers and cruisers lost some of their main functions and became more of a platform for aircraft takeoff and landing and parking.

The island nation has also applied such modifications to its battleships. Currently, half of the island nation's aircraft carriers have been modified in this way. Compared with the world's mainstream aircraft carriers, they are more backward and their combat effectiveness is naturally worse.

Moreover, the way destroyers and cruisers are converted into aircraft carriers means that such aircraft carriers cannot carry many aircraft.

Each aircraft carrier of the island country carries approximately 12 to 32 aircraft, and only those truly new aircraft carriers can carry more than 40 aircraft.

The impact on this naval battle is that even though the Australasian aircraft have been discovered in the sky, the aircraft on the island nation's aircraft carriers cannot all take off in a short period of time, and they can only use the air defense weapons on the warships to respond.

But as mentioned before, current air defense weapon technology is relatively crude and can only defend against low-flying and slow-moving aircraft.

The truly effective defense weapon is still the aircraft itself. Only by defeating the enemy's air force head-on can we ensure that the air will not be threatened by the enemy.

But now, because the island nation has many old aircraft carriers, the aircraft on its aircraft carriers cannot take off quickly.

This put them at a disadvantage in air and naval battles. By the time Australasia became visible to the naked eye, more than half of the island nation's aircraft were still on the decks of aircraft carriers.

The Australasian planes didn't care what the islanders thought. After determining the target, the fighters and bombers launched a fierce bombing and attack on the islanders' warships.

First, a large number of missiles were fired at the enemy's warships. These missiles were all new types of missiles. Not only could their hit rates be guaranteed, but their power was also considerable.

Although not as powerful as the main battleships' guns, they were more numerous and could also sink battleships. Moreover, because they had hundreds of aircraft, hundreds of missiles were fired in one salvo.

In terms of the missile's hit rate, nearly 60% of the missiles can hit the target.

The result was that the first round of missile salvos alone caused huge damage to the island country's two battleships, and several small warships were directly sunk.

"Baga! What kind of weapon is this?" Kondo Nitta, who was on the flank of the island nation's fleet, was stunned. He did not participate in the Hawaiian attack, so he naturally did not know that Australasia had such a powerful weapon.

Of course, this was also because the Japanese chose a good time for the attack. It was hard to see clearly at two or three in the morning, and many Japanese soldiers could only see the outline of the weapons. Most of the soldiers died tragically in the air raid.

In the subsequent battle report, someone mentioned this very powerful weapon. However, the island nation's defense department concluded that some soldiers were frightened and came up with an excuse to shirk responsibility for the failed sneak attack.

There is nothing that can be done about it. If it is really confirmed that Australasia possesses a powerful weapon that can easily destroy the navy, is there any need to fight this war?

After all, the island nation now relies on the navy for its survival. If the navy cannot win, relying solely on the army will be completely unsuccessful.

Moreover, millions of ground forces will become a burden to the island government. In order to feed these millions of troops, it is necessary to continue to exploit tens of millions of islanders.

"Your Excellency Major General, our flagship seems to have been hit!" Before Kondo Nitta could be surprised for long, the adjutant behind him hurriedly reminded him.

Kondo Nitta looked up and saw that, as expected, the flagship of their feudal team, a latest-model battleship, had been hit.

What was even more terrible was that the weapon, which was of some unknown origin, happened to hit a turret, detonating the guns inside the turret.

This resulted in a small explosion on the battleship's deck, killing and injuring at least a dozen members of the island nation's navy.

Moreover, because of this small explosion, the armor on the deck and the side fell off directly, and the deck was seriously deformed, and it looked obviously seriously damaged.

(End of this chapter)