Chapter 58: The combined fleet attacks! (Chinese)
While the U.S. officers and soldiers in the positions on the shore of Tosa Bay were battered and howling by countless giant shells, the Japanese sailors on the fourteen Yamato-class battleships opposite were also in the midst of smoke, loud noises, tremors, and heat waves. Suffering in agony.
"...the distance is 5,200 meters, the bearing is 15 degrees west of north, the target is the enemy's barracks, zero-type incendiary bombs, ready-"
"...Zero incendiary bomb! Zero incendiary bomb! Timed fuse! Reload as quickly as possible! Hurry up! You red deer are so slow!"
Listening to the unceremonious scolding of the gunnery commander of the main turret at the rear of the battleship Yamato, Ms. Misaki Minomiya, a married woman who had just been on the ship for two months and still had a gunnery manual hanging around her neck, hurriedly started the electric automatic ammunition feeding Machine, pull out the required shells, manually adjust the fuse, and then send the shells into the breech of the main gun with a diameter of 460 mm. Until the gun bolt clicks shut, what she is supposed to do is over. .
Although most of the cabins in the ship have air conditioning and ventilation equipment, after the battle started, the turret of the Yamato battleship was still unbearably hot, and the smell of engine oil, gun smoke and sweat mixed together, which made me have a history of mysophobia. Ms. Sannomiya Shiho almost felt sick - as an ordinary housewife, Sannomiya Shiho never thought that one day she would be in such an environment. But what can be done? My husband had been drafted into the army and died in Nanyang. The family had lost its backbone, and the pension had been spent long ago. The house was also bombed into ruins by American planes. In order for herself and her daughter to be able to eat the rich delicacies of the navy and have a place to stay, Sannomiya Shiho had no choice but to fight.
I have to admit that the food, clothing, housing and transportation on the Yamato are indeed very luxurious. Even the soldiers' cabins are completely electrified, with electric lights, air conditioning and running water. There is also music and radio dramas to listen to in the evening. As for the food, it was even more luxurious. Sannomiya Shiho felt that she had eaten more fish, meat and cakes on the warship in the past two months than she had eaten in the past two years combined! But the work is also very hard. Several instructors keep a straight face all day long and require the rookie female soldiers to train continuously: carrying shells, installing fuzes, measuring range, firing... and repeating the words of Admiral Togo Heihachiro over and over again: "... ...A hundred cannons that hit one hundred shots are not as good as one cannon that hits one hundred shots, because they waste 9,900 shells and require a hundred times more soldiers to operate them.”
For this reason, Sannomiya Shiho had to work hard to recite all kinds of boring shooting numbers like a family account book. Her energy was really harder than when she was in school - not to mention being a senior in the navy. Food, after taking so much military rationing materials, I had to have the consciousness to contribute to it. Moreover, my daughter, who had just turned three years old, was still in the nursery on the ship. If she didn't train it well, she would be given away by the American and British ghosts. What to do if it sinks?
Fortunately, the automatic ammunition feeder on the Yamato is quite reliable, so she does not have to manually load the shells into the barrel, then take them out, and then load them back...
Then, she heard the female captain Minami Rika shouting on the loudspeaker: "Fire the gun!" Almost at the same second, the gunnery commander shouted: "Fire the gun! Fire the gun!"
The next moment, as the order to fire was given, the 72,000-ton battleship "Yamato" shook its huge body. In a series of deafening roars, nine huge 18-inch cannons fired one after another. Long blinding flames. The heavy projectile opened red trajectories in the air, spanning a long distance of five kilometers, and finally landed on the beach of Tosa Bay, instantly igniting a bright sea of fire.
At the beginning of this artillery battle, the Americans, not to be outdone, launched their M1 howitzers, M59 "Long Tom" howitzers, and eight-inch Vickers artillery obtained from the British, using the terrain to compete with the Japanese. The fleet shoots at each other. Water columns continued to rise around the Yamato-class battleships closest to the shore. Some shells exploded in the air, sending shrapnel flying and hitting the steel plate, making a harsh whistle.
However, even if these army artillery can barely reach the range, in terms of power, they are still inferior to the heavy armor of the Yamato class. The U.S. military does not have shore defense torpedoes like the Germans (that is, torpedo tubes fixed on coastal turrets), so it cannot pose a fatal threat to the Yamato-class battleships. Therefore, not long after the two sides bombarded each other, a small number of U.S. shore guns were destroyed. They were destroyed one after another, and then the battle turned into a one-sided ravage.
Suddenly, there was a strong flash of a big explosion on the shore, which probably hit the US military's ammunition depot. The rookie female sailors on the bridge and by the portholes cheered until the captain's urging came from the loudspeaker, " ...No correction, rapid fire of twenty rounds for each gun!”
As a result, the Yamato battleship continued to fire non-stop, and the sound of cannons echoed on the sea surface of Tosa Bay. At the end of the arc-shaped trajectory, fires burst out one after another, and the flames merged into one piece. The bright light of shell explosions flashed in the flames, fully reflecting the cruel beauty of war and destruction...
Next, a dozen other majestic ships also opened fire and joined the chorus one after another. Countless steel projectiles streaked across the sea, landed on the muddy beaches and rice fields, and raised up scarlet flames and clouds of smoke. In this one-sided bombardment from the other side, the fourteen Yamato-class battleships and Japan The only remaining battlecruiser of the mainland fleet, the USS King Kong, was very confident in anchoring the ship sideways and forming a fixed battle line. The turrets were spitting smoke and fire and firing alternately. The huge sound of cannons rumbled on the sea. . In that hazy place filled with gunpowder smoke and flying sand and rocks, countless brilliant light groups suddenly lit up, as if dozens of suns suddenly rose! Soon, huge smoke clouds covered this section of the coast. Only occasionally, the flash of exploding shells could be seen through the gaps in the smoke. The scene was really spectacular.
After a while, the Japanese battle fleet's bombardment gradually stopped, and the smoke covering the sea and shore gradually dissipated. As the field of vision recovered, the Japanese artillery observation posts set up on the hills above began to report battle status data to the fleet by radio to help Sailors corrected the trajectory.
The female cooks on the Yamato also took the opportunity to shuttle between various cabins and delivered hot meals to the rookie female soldiers who had been fighting for a long time. Although it was the simplest navy curry rice and hot tea, Ms. Minomiya Shiho still wolfed it down happily because the morning's artillery battle had consumed a lot of her physical strength and energy. In addition, from the cook's mouth, she also learned that her daughter and a group of friends were in the "classroom" on the ship, watching their mothers or sisters fire cannons on the shore. Just work harder...
Next, after adjusting the shooting parameters, the bombardment of the battleship formation began again. Thousands of artillery shells of various calibers and types roared and roared in such a warm and gentle early summer season, playing an endless song. How to coordinate, but a murderous symphony of war.
At the same time, the purple-haired and brown-skinned Captain Minarika, wearing a snow-white military uniform and holding a gorgeous saber, stood proudly on the bridge of the Yamato battleship, overlooking the steel behemoth under his feet heading towards the shore. Downpour of shells.
——Minami Rika, who was just a policewoman and military fan before time travel, had never imagined that one day she would be able to board the Yamato, a super famous ship from the old empire era, the ultimate dream of the era of big ships and huge guns... He even became the captain of the Yamato.
It's so pitiful that she had only played with a few sniper rifles before time travel, but now she could play with a 460 mm thick pipe!
Therefore, at this moment, looking at the gorgeous scene of fourteen Yamato-class battleships and a Kongo battle cruiser firing guns, Minami Rika was really filled with excitement. As early as the flag-raising ceremony and when the anchor was weighing and setting sail, I took numerous selfies in uniform. Now I am waving the selfie stick and taking pictures non-stop.
Okay, this is really amateurish.
On the other hand, Lieutenant General Takahashi Imo, the commander of this coastal artillery fleet, expressed very dissatisfaction with the current performance.
——Lieutenant General Takahashi Imo, this name is actually the transliteration of Takahashi Ivan. This gentleman is a rare Orthodox Christian in Japan. It is said that his ancestors have foreign ancestry. He was born in the artillery department and his grades are considered excellent. Although he lacks imagination and creativity in tactics, his supervisory and execution capabilities have always been strong. He is a rigid bureaucrat who takes "make no mistakes" as his life creed. In other words, the disciplinary committee member in anime always has a serious face.
When the nuclear explosion in Tokyo destroyed the empire, Lieutenant General Imo Takahashi, who was already very old at that time and basically had to wait for retirement, was serving as the governor of the Sasebo garrison on Kyushu Island. Faced with the sudden chaos, he successfully suppressed the various rebel parties with the very few troops at hand, basically stabilized the situation on half of Kyushu Island, and successfully persisted until the establishment of the Hiroshima wartime base camp and the deployment of the main force of the combined fleet. Return.
At present, Japan relies on the crazy overprinting of Japanese yen banknotes and the [era vending machine] in the Doraemon plane, which can buy everything including arms by printing Japanese yen. The number of ships in the Navy expanded rapidly like a balloon, and ammunition and fuel no longer had to be worried about. So much so that sailors were far from enough, and they were even forced to recruit women to serve on warships.
Therefore, Lieutenant General Takahashi Imo, who had already retreated to the second line, was respectfully invited to take charge of leading this embarrassing and mentally broken "Japanese Women's Fleet"... After rigorous training for about Two months later, the four Yamato-class battleships piloted by women were finally able to go to sea reluctantly. However, even with the guidance of the ship's ladies, and when they were anchored and anchored to hit fixed targets on the shore, their accuracy was still disappointing. People scratch their heads.
As for the old sailors on the Yamato, Musashi, Shinano, and Mino ships, they all performed quite poorly after being transferred to the Yamato-class battleships purchased through the [chronological vending machines]. Not only did the level of gunnery plummet, but accidents, large and small, occurred one after another.
——The Yamato-class battleship bought from the [chronological vending machine] is naturally completely different from the four Yamato, Musashi, Shinano, and Mino battleships that the battleship girl Sophie used many times to use the power of faith to magically modify. All equipment All have completely recovered to historical levels.
There are no more black-tech nuclear fusion reactors and all-electric propulsion systems, no more carefully modified long-range reconnaissance radars and fire control radars, and no more fully automatic 155mm high-level dual-purpose cannons and 100mm turret-type cannons that can be called aircraft killers. The anti-aircraft guns and turret-mounted quadruple 40mm cannons no longer have additional reinforced engines and mine protection belts, and even the armor material has been changed to ordinary Webster hardened steel armor. Even the automatic ammunition feeder of the main gun often failed, and the sailors had to sweat and reload manually.
Moreover, the anti-aircraft guns on the ship have all been restored to old models with weak firepower, poor protection, and slow rate of fire. They can be knocked out one by one when they are shooting against fighter jets. Fortunately, the Japanese Navy dispatched its entire force this time. Dozens of aircraft carriers all launched a full-deck attack, firmly controlling the air superiority on the Shikoku battlefield. The Army Flying Team was also ordered to cooperate to destroy the nearby US military airport. So far, there has not been a single attack. An American plane could reach the head of the bombardment fleet. Otherwise, these seemingly majestic Yamato-class battleships will make God knows what embarrassing fools they will make!
But even though the war has been simplified into a one-sided pouring of artillery shells, and it is still shooting at fixed targets, which is almost as difficult as shooting a prisoner, the final hit rate is still terrible. More than one-third of the artillery shells were actually hit into the water, which made Lieutenant General Takahashi Imo was so angry that he crossed himself and shook his head... Fortunately, the Van Fleet ammunition was invented during the Korean War with the later generations of American imperialists, which brought psychological shadow and psychological shadow to the People's Liberation Army. It’s the same as artillery. The lack of accuracy can be compensated by indiscriminate bombing. After all, each Yamato-class battleship carries 3,000 tons of ammunition, and fourteen ships are 42,000 tons. Plus the Kongo battleship. On average, each American soldier on the shore can probably lay out five tons of ammunition for cruisers, destroyers, heavy cruisers and light cruisers, as well as naval aviation bombs. Even if they hit them with their eyes closed, they should be able to flatten them.
In short, after a fierce bombardment that lasted for a day and night and fired more than 100,000 artillery shells, the U.S. troops trapped in several coastal positions surrendered one after another. When the Japanese Army and Marine Corps held a surrender ceremony and took in U.S. prisoners of war, According to statistics, it is found that there are less than 2,000 people...
Next, this large-scale Japanese fleet with amazing firepower, but extremely low proficiency, circled the Shikoku Island in a counterclockwise direction and entered the Seto Inland Sea again. Cooperating with the Japanese Army's ground offensive, it attacked the U.S. Army's entrenched territory. Wakayama, Osaka, Kobe and other ports carried out devastating attacks one by one... Although in the eyes of the Japanese navy's senior officials, this was just a practical training with a fixed target, the American troops on the opposite side who were hit by artillery fire were all frightened. Out of spirit. The U.S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters near the front line and the Pentagon at the rear were also shaken into confusion.
——Oh God! Fourteen Yamato-class battleships! Where did they come from? ! !
※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※PS: Dead people have never seen populists making trouble, but a damn dog is making such a fuss. Taiwan’s defense minister laid a wreath to the dead dog, and the chief of naval staff wrote a memorial message to the little white dog. Well, this is a ghost island. Perhaps it will be after liberation that they will forget the horror of being dominated by dogs and dog fans. Don’t lie about the number of words in the memorial text.