Age of Rebirth

The Japanese fighter jets escorted by the two squadrons attempted to attack Huludao and Jinzhou, but they crashed into Le Yiqin's pocket. The air force had already known the whereabouts of the Japanese fighter jets at various radar stations in the Liaoxi Corridor area. Chest, Le Yiqin's tactic is to attack more and attack less, encircle with superior forces, and annihilate them as quickly as possible. Six fighter regiments are deployed in each of the two places, which is almost a seven-on-one situation.

As expected, the air combat process was as planned by Le Yiqin, without much effort, the two Japanese fighter wings, more than 100 fighters, disappeared into the fighter group of the independent division, like a drop of water falling into the sea, even a little The waves didn't stir up, and then, Le Yiqin issued an order, "The fleet immediately transfers to the sea area where the Japanese escort fleet is located!"

Almost at the same time as the air battle in the airspace of the Liaoxi Corridor started, fighting broke out in the airspace of the Jeju Island Strait, the North Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea. The attack and encirclement of the aviation fighter group, cutting off the head and the tail and cutting the middle, caught the Japanese escort fleet by surprise.

Major General Heimiya, the commander of the Japanese escort fleet, was thinking about the safety of Major General Nakatani, the commander of the escort fighter formation who went to make extraordinary contributions. A heavy shadow was always lingering in his heart. From the perspective of Major General Heimiya, it was surprisingly slow, and time seemed to have stopped.

Looking up at the blue sky of Liaodong Bay, the sky is as clear as a cloud and cloudless, but in this calm sky, it seems that there is an unknown danger lurking. A fleet communications officer, with a pale face, ran to Rear Admiral Ping Gong, With a trembling voice, he reported: "Your Excellency, Commander, I have received reports from the commanders of the various wings of the escort fighter group. Starting from the Jeju Island Strait, my escort fighter formation was besieged by the superior independent division aviation fighter group. The situation Very dangerous!"

"I'm afraid. Our escort fighter group will be completely smashed. The independent division aviation unit has dispatched at least [-] fighter jets. They will besiege our escort aircraft group in sections. In addition, after receiving reports, the wing commanded by Commander Zhonggu, in In the airspace south of Jinzhou, they encountered a large formation of fighter jets from the Independent Division and fell into a siege. Commander Zhonggu fought bravely and finally died for the country!"

"It's over!" Major General Heimiya gave a "boom!".The first reaction in my heart was this idea. Without the air escort force, the escort fleet that went deep into the hinterland of Liaodong Bay was a bunch of live targets.The land-based aviation of the Independent Division can sink the entire fleet to the bottom of Liaodong Bay without any effort, and the independent division fleet that has never shown up, he never believes, the commander of the Independent Division.Don't use your own fleet!

"Commander, what should we do now?" the communications officer asked with a pale face.

"What should I do?" Rear Admiral Heimiya had no idea at all. Now it was no longer a question of the fleet responding to the retreat of the Kwantung Army, but a question of whether his own fleet and troop carrier formation could survive, let alone.Even the soldiers of the Kwantung Army boarded the ship. From Liaodong Bay to the mainland, the voyage of more than a thousand kilometers, without the escort of fighter jets, was a bunch of living targets moving at sea.It is more conducive to the aviation and fleet of the independent division, and it will be eliminated in a concentrated manner!

The air escort fighter formation was attacked, but before they could figure it out, the door of the command cabin was pushed open again, and an officer in charge of the operation crashed in, "Report to the commander, our escort fleet has found that there are a large number of The warships of the Independent Division are approaching our fleet from the direction of Lushunkou!"

"The turtle in the urn!" An idiom suddenly popped up in the mind of Rear Admiral Ping Gong. Starting from the mainland, he sailed for more than a thousand kilometers and went deep into the Liaodong Bay in the hinterland of the Independent Division. Along the way, he was not intercepted by the naval fleet of the Independent Division. And attack, it's not that the independent division doesn't have this ability, but that it wants to put its own fleet in to fight. Now, Rear Admiral Heimiya fully understands what's going on!

"Convey my order, the troop carrier formation will stop docking immediately, prepare to return, escort the fleet, and immediately form an formation to face the battle, even if all the jade is broken in the end, we will fight to the end!" Major General Heimiya issued an order, with desperate eyes , flashing fierce flames, even though he knew that the resistance of the escort fleet would be of no avail at all, not only the entire escort fleet would be destroyed, but these thousands of merchant ships would also become piles of scrap copper and rotten iron on the bottom of the Liaodong Bay , but he still decided to fight on!

A roar of engines came from a distance, and a fleet of aircraft appeared in the southern sky. It got closer and flew over the head of the flagship of the escort fleet of Rear Admiral Heimiya. Shining brightly, "Commander, those are the carrier-based planes of the Independent Division, and they are coming to attack us!" The fleet combat officer exclaimed.

What is strange is that the carrier-based aircraft of the independent division fleet did not attack the warship, but immediately, Major General Heimiya knew why. The bombing and strafing, the rumbling sound of the explosion, blasted the temporary trestle bridge, and sawdust flew across.

Just at this time, Lieutenant General Kashii, the supreme commander of the Kwantung Army's Liaoxi battlefield, sent a telegram, angrily asking Major General Heimiya, "Why did the troop carrier stop docking? Is it Commander Heimiya who wants to defy the general staff of the base camp?" order to put more than [-] Kwantung Army soldiers to death?"

Rear Admiral Heimiya didn't have the mind or energy to talk to this idiot. The carrier planes of the Independent Navy Fleet had already started bombing the trestle on the beach. Didn't Kashii see it and send such a stupid telegram?

"Boom, boom, boom!" A series of explosions sounded around Major Admiral Heimiya's flagship, blasting a column of water into the sky, and several warships of the independent division appeared in the field of vision, "Fleet strike back!" Major Admiral Heimiya gave an order.

The warships of the two sides began to fight at sea. In terms of tonnage, speed, and firepower, the escort fleet of Rear Admiral Heimiya was not in the same weight class as the naval fleet of the Independent Division. The exchange of fire took less than 10 minutes. The flagship was beaten into fireworks, as for the other Japanese warships, they were all smoked, and they were almost powerless to fight back!

Colonel Tang Yunfei, the commander of the carrier-based aircraft unit of the Independent Division Fleet, personally piloted the fighter plane and directed the devastating attack on the Kwantung Army's seaside trestle. After the trestle was blown up into a pile of rotten wood, Tang Yunfei swallowed his saliva and gave an order, "Attention the fleet, immediately turn to attack the Japanese escort fleet!"

The fighter jets and bombers in the carrier-based aircraft formation turned around and rushed towards the Japanese warships that were covered in smoke and flames. The combined sea and air strikes doomed the fate of the Japanese fleet that broke into Liaodong Bay. The Japanese warship exploded and caught fire, and soon sank to the bottom of the sea.

Rear Admiral Heimiya drafted a telegram to the Ministry of the Navy on the already tilted flagship, "The Ministry commanded the fleet and the formation of troop carriers, and went deep into the waters of Liaodong Bay. They were suddenly attacked by a powerful combined force of the independent division, navy and air force. Escort The fighter jet formation was also attacked in the same way, and the fighting was fierce, and now, the escort fighter jet formation suffered heavy losses, and the formation commander, Major General Nakatani, was crushed!"

"Most of the warships in our escort fleet have already been sunk by warships of the Independent Division. The Ministry of Staff knows that this operation to evacuate the besieged Kwantung Army troops in the western Liaoning area will be difficult and impossible to complete. The escort fleet and troop carrier formation , It is also difficult to return to the mainland, and the Ministry knows that it is invincible, so it can only fight to the death to live up to the honor of the Imperial Navy!"

Originally, Major General Heimiya wanted to vent his inner anger in the telegram, but he just didn't understand that such a self-inflicted action would send thousands of merchant ships, a fleet, and a dozen fighter jets to It was the bastard who made the decision to enter the mouth of the Independent Division. He knew that he was here to die, but he had to resolutely implement it. A typical idiot and bastard's approach!

However, in the end, Major General Heimiya did not add these words in the telegram. He knew that once he wrote these words in the telegram, he would bring death to his relatives and family in the mainland. He issued such an order. Only the big bosses of the Navy Department have this power. He doesn't know that this is the result of Emperor Hirohito's will.

In the smoking warship, the radio operator sent the last telegram. Ten minutes later, with several huge explosions, three carrier-based bombers of the independent division fleet dropped three heavy aerial bombs on the On Rear Admiral Heimiya's flagship "Naniwa", huge flames soared into the sky, and the warships of the independent division in the distance also splashed strings of large-caliber naval artillery shells over.

After the explosion, Major General Heimiya sank into the dark seabed of Liaodong Bay together with his flagship. More than an hour later, the last Japanese warship was beaten into a pile of burning fires and sank to the bottom of the sea. , The entire Japanese escort fleet was wiped out, and the remaining thousands of merchant ships became lambs to be slaughtered!

Rear Admiral Xin Xiguo, Chief of Staff of the Fleet at Incheon, Korean Peninsula, the Joint Command of the Independent Division, Navy and Air Force, came in excitedly, and said to Tang Qiuquan and Liu Cuigang: "Commander, Commander Liu, good news! I received the battle report from Commander Le. , the Japanese escort fleet, under the attack of our aviation fighter group, almost the entire army was wiped out, and the Japanese fighter jets that fled back to Japan's Kyushu Island were only a dozen or so!"

"The Fleet Frontline Command reported that after more than two hours of fighting, our fleet sank all 58 Japanese escort fleet warships, and surrounded the Japanese troop carrier formation and thousands of merchant ships in the waters of Liaodong Bay. The Fleet Command asked for instructions. , how to deal with these Japanese merchant ships?"

Tang Qiuquan didn't seem too happy. It was the expected result. I don't know if the Japanese were kicked in the head by a donkey, and sent such a fleet and troop transport fleet to come all the way to die!

(To be continued)