Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 309: The Rampage of the Combined Fleet

The Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, like a behemoth, was rampaging in various sea areas of the Southwest Pacific battlefield and was arrogant. On various islands and land, the commanders of divisions and corps holding hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers were so angry that they gritted their teeth, but there was nothing they could do.

Major General Le Yiqin, the commander of the Southern Flying Group, was even more unhappy. His fighter force had been roaming the Indo-China Peninsula and the Southwest Pacific for many years. In every air battle, he didn't eat a lot of meat. If you count them in detail, they would be destroyed in his own hands.

There are more than a dozen of the Japanese Army, Navy and Air Forces, right?

Is the combined fleet of Yamamoto, an old devil, invulnerable? So Le Yiqin and a group of staff stayed up all night and made a combat plan. Basically, they asked the division commander for approval, and the Southern Flying Group concentrated all its combat power on

In the airspace of the Banda Sea, a decisive battle with Yamamoto's combined fleet will not only kill the Japanese carrier-based aircraft, but also turn hundreds of warships and dozens of aircraft carriers into piles on the bottom of the Banda Sea.

Scrap iron.

As a result, Tang Qiuli responded to the telegram with a heated lecture, asking him if he had been fighting smoothly in the past few years and felt that he could go sideways and that I was the best in the world?

Then, he warned Le Yiqin that unless the Japanese navy's carrier-based aircraft group took the initiative to attack the troops on various islands, the Southern Flying Group was not allowed to take the initiative to engage in air combat with the Japanese aircraft group. Finally, he ordered him that the only task at present is to seize the opportunity to build various

Island field airport, improve the deployment of ground radar stations, don't clamor for war all day long!

After receiving a violent training, Le Yiqin suddenly withered, but he was not convinced. All the combat aircraft of the Southern Flying Group were gathered together, and their number exceeded the Little Japanese's carrier-based aircraft. Why couldn't they fight? Of course, he also

I could only complain to Chief of Staff He Zhijun and refute what the division commander said. He didn't even dare to say it even if he had the guts to do so.

Without the interception at sea by division warships, batches of Japanese soldiers gradually withdrew to Australia. By mid-July, except for the Japanese troops in Luzon and Mindanao, all Japanese troops on other islands had withdrawn to Australia.

On the Australian mainland, however, after counting, the chief of general staff of the base camp in Tokyo, General Mitsuichi Yoneuchi, was also bleeding from his heart.

In just over twenty days since the Southwest Pacific Campaign began, the more than 800,000 Imperial Army troops originally stationed on various islands have finally safely evacuated to the Australian mainland, with only a little more than 350,000 troops having withdrawn.

More than 400,000 Imperial Army soldiers disappeared into the hands of that Chinese devil Tang Qiuli's troops in more than 20 days, with an average loss of more than 20,000 soldiers per day, not counting the fact that the Empire spent a lot of money.

and manpower. Hundreds of thousands of Imperial Army troops who were carefully trained also disappeared in this war, and the plan to withdraw to Australia was a very costly retreat.

For this reason, General Mitsuichi Yoneuchi, the chief of general staff of the base camp who is responsible for commanding this strategic general retreat, has been criticized by the leaders of various factions in the base camp. Their criticisms are endless. It is said that His Majesty the Emperor is also quite dissatisfied, which makes him very anxious.

The asthenic fire increased. The fever was over 30 degrees, and he fell ill immediately. He was admitted to the Tokyo Army General Hospital.

On the hospital bed, with a diaphragm hanging on his arm, and still supporting his sick body, Koichi Minai drafted a report asking for merit for Commander of the Combined Navy Fleet Yamamoto. Only now did he understand that Navy Minister Nagano Osamuyama,

Why did the Navy readily agree without any conditions and join the Southwest Pacific battlefield?

Damn it, Yamamoto Isoroku has now become the savior of hundreds of thousands of army soldiers, but he, the person who worked hard and painstakingly planned and directed the evacuation, has become the target of thousands of people. Yamamoto Isoroku is just a warship.

When it arrived on the Southwest Pacific battlefield, it effortlessly reaped huge benefits.

Look at yourself again. You are working so hard, but everyone calls for beatings, and you even ask Yamamoto for merit against His Majesty the Emperor. When you think of this, the condition of General Miuchi Minai becomes even more serious. He has a high fever and talks all day long.

Nonsense, of course, the person in the nonsense was Admiral Nagano Shuzan, the Minister of the Navy.

Admiral Yamamoto, who is commanding the combined fleet and searching for traces of the division fleet all over the world, does not know the inner thoughts of Koichi Minai and his current condition. Otherwise, the willful Admiral Yamamoto will definitely be on his flagship "Nagato".

Hold a grand cocktail party to celebrate this old bastard Koichi Mineuchi and go see Amaterasu as soon as possible!

Several air battles with the division's land-based aviation did not arouse General Yamamoto's alarm. In his opinion, the main thing was that if he wanted to, he could engage in air combat with the China Air Force's land-based fleet in various airspaces in the Southwest Pacific battlefield and still gain the upper hand.

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Similarly, as long as they don't want to, the land-based aircraft fleet of the China Division Aviation Force can only stare at the combined fleet chopping waves on the sea, and there is nothing they can do. The problem of short legs is the biggest flaw of the land-based aircraft fleet, and they are ignored by the army's losers.

, Tang Qiuli, the Chinese devil who was as fearful as a tiger, could not change all this.

The combined fleet dispatched a large number of reconnaissance planes every day to conduct searches in various areas, but found nothing. The China Division fleet seemed to disappear on the sea without a trace. Admiral Yamamoto had a hunch that the China Division fleet must be avoiding it now.

and fled, which made him very regretful.

For several days, the reconnaissance planes of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet took off frequently, searching almost all the waters of the Southwest Pacific theater, but still could not find any trace of the division fleet. By this time, all the retreating Japanese troops had arrived in Australia.

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In fact, the escort mission of the Combined Fleet has ended, but Admiral Yamamoto refused to issue an order for the Combined Fleet to move to northern Australia. As a result, the huge Combined Fleet wandered in several sea areas.

None of the staff members of the combined fleet could guess what Commander Yamamoto was thinking. The fleet chief of staff, Lieutenant General Matsuda, had also asked vaguely, but most of what he got was an enigmatic smile or a refusal.

Accept.

His staff officers did not understand, and Admiral Yamamoto did not bother to explain. He had his own considerations. The joint fleet was operating in the Banda Sea and Java Sea. On the one hand, it was to ensure the safety of northern Australia. With the loss of various islands in the southwest Pacific,

The China Division has the conditions to move south to attack Australia. The presence of the combined fleet is undoubtedly a huge deterrent to the China Division, making it afraid to act rashly.

Furthermore, General Yamamoto hoped from the bottom of his heart that the China Division troops would use Java Island and Irian Island as the starting point to attack Australia. If so, it would be very satisfying to him. The combined fleet would come out from behind.

The sea voyage to Australia will become an endless tomb for the burial of Chinese soldiers. The scene of Imperial Army soldiers blood-staining the Banda Sea and other sea areas will be repeated for the Chinese soldiers.

Of course, based on Admiral Yamamoto's understanding of the Chinese people, they would not be that stupid, but it is not impossible. Another point is Admiral Yamamoto's hidden inner thoughts. The combined fleet will sail westward from the Andaman Sea and then control the East Indian Ocean.

, completely cutting off the China Division's troops and logistical supply lines on the Australian battlefield, and creating convenient conditions for him to take over as the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army in Australia in the future.

However, this idea was a plan that could not be put into action until several months later. Now Admiral Yamamoto is single-mindedly focused on seizing the China Fleet and completely eliminating this weak opponent.

But what Admiral Yamamoto didn't know was that while the combined fleet was roaming the waters of the war zone as if no one was around, the division-affiliated corps that had ended the Sumatra campaign, with nearly 260,000 troops in 12 brigades, had all begun to head to the Australian battlefield.

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The huge fleet was consumed in the sea area where there was no fighting, which worried Lieutenant General Matsuda, the chief of staff of the Combined Fleet. He made suggestions to Admiral Yamamoto, "Your Excellency, Commander, now except for Luzon and Mindanao, the Imperial Army Army

We are still gradually evacuating to other areas outside of Australia. There is no fighting in other areas. Can the fleet be transferred to northern Australia for supplies?"

"In addition, in the Sulu Sea, there are only some of the main battleships of Vice Admiral Shiro Takasu's First Fleet, and in the Sulu Sea, close to the Hainan Island base of the China Navy, they are also tasked with escorting the five-shift army unit, so the strength of the troops is unavoidable.

It is a bit weaker. Should we order the other warships of the First Fleet to return to the First Fleet's organization? It would be safer to maintain the intact organization of the First Fleet in the Sulu Sea!"

"No need, the current strength is enough!" Admiral Yamamoto smiled but rejected Chief of Staff Matsuda's suggestion without hesitation, "Matsuda-kun, I do hope that the China fleet will focus on Takasu Shiro.

Do you understand?"

Of course Chief of Staff Matsuda understood, and immediately shuddered, "Bait, Commander is using half of Takasu Shiro's First Fleet as bait!" That is half a fleet with two aircraft carriers and more than 20 warships of various types.

Ah, this bet was too big, but he could only remain silent and nodded to show that he understood what the commander meant.

In Trusan, Sumatra, where the division commander was located, Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe hurriedly walked into Tang Qiuli's room and said, "Division Commander, I received a report from the reconnaissance aircraft brigade of the Southern Aviation Group's Aurora Field Airport in Mindanao.

In the sea area, a small fleet of the Japanese army was discovered, with two aircraft carriers as the core, and more than 20 warships, escorting the retreating Japanese army!"

"The Sulu Sea?" Tang Qiuli repeated in surprise, "Isn't Yamamoto Isoroku's combined fleet in the Java Sea and Banda Sea? Why did a small fleet appear in the Sulu Sea?

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"According to the judgment of the staff department, it is very likely that it was a small fleet sent by the Japanese Navy after the joint fleet was divided, with the purpose of escorting the Japanese troops in Luzon and Mindanao!" Zhao Yuhe replied immediately.

"Oh! Then don't worry about him, just let Le Yiqin monitor him closely!" Tang Qiuli said nonchalantly.

Zhao Yuhe agreed, turned around and left, "Wait for Yuhe!" Suddenly, Tang Qiuli stopped him again.

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