Reborn as a police officer in South Africa

After the evacuation order was issued, it quickly evolved into an irreversible defeat.

The air fleet led by Chuichi Nagumo consisted of 4 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, 2 heavy cruisers, 1 light cruiser, 12 destroyers, and 5 supply ships.

In the previous battle, three of the four aircraft carriers had been sunk, the cruisers had been wiped out, and only 8 of the 12 destroyers were left. The two battleships were intact. Unfortunately, they have not played any role since the battle broke out.

At least it did not play the role that the Japanese army expected.

It was getting late at this time, night was falling, and the combined fleet hoped to use the darkness to escape.

Allied pilots continued to attack the Combined Fleet in a relay manner, and the Indian Ocean Fleet's reconnaissance aircraft were always monitoring the Combined Fleet.

In order to reduce losses, Nagumo Chuichi ordered the fleet to disperse, which gave the Allied pilots more opportunities.

At 8:20, the battleship "Haruna", which was fleeing frantically, was besieged by US fighter planes...

So far in the war, the U.S. military has sunk only one aircraft carrier, the Shokaku, and the other losses to the Japanese Combined Fleet were caused by the Southern African Air Force.

This result was a bit poor. Halsey and the US military pilots were very angry, and the "Haruna" became the target of the US military's anger.

The "Haruna" battleship is the third ship of Japan's "Kongo" class battleship. It is also Japan's first batch of so-called super-dreadnought battleships. The No. 1 "Kongo" of this class was built in the United Kingdom, followed by "Hiei" and "Haruna".

"" and "Kirishima" were both built in Japan. The Kawasaki Shipyard that built "Haruna" had an extreme incident where the person in charge committed suicide because of falling behind schedule.

The construction of the "Haruna" started in 1912, exactly 30 years ago.

In the past 30 years, naval technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the role of battleships has been continuously weakened. Japan carried out two large-scale modernization modifications on the "Haruna" in 1920 and 1933, mainly to strengthen the armor and power respectively, but the anti-aircraft weapons did not

How much to increase.

This is normal. In East Asia, there is no country that can pose a threat to "Haruna", so naturally there is no need to add too many anti-aircraft artillery.

Now fighting the United States and Southern Africa, this has become "Haruna's" Achilles' heel.

It was still Captain Best who led the team to launch the first wave of attacks on the "Haruna".

After a bomb sank the Shokaku, Captain Best has become the idol of U.S. military pilots, and his achievements are worthy of a U.S. Congressional Medal.

Captain Best had bad luck this time. The torpedo plane formation he led fired a total of four torpedoes, but failed to hit the "Haruna". The "Haruna" was still running away crazily at a top speed of 30 knots.

The second wave of attacks was still launched by the US military.

The "Haruna"'s luck was all exhausted in the previous wave of attacks. This time, the "Haruna" was hit by two torpedoes, and its speed quickly dropped to less than 15 knots.

Immediately afterwards, the "Haruna" was attacked for the third time. This wave of attacks came from the air. The "Haruna" was hit by at least 6 aerial bombs. The fire began to spread to the interior of the ship. The "Haruna" was like a huge

The torch floats on the sea.

This was not over yet. The torpedo planes that took off from the "Enterprise" launched a fourth wave of attacks on the "Haruna". After being hit by three torpedoes again, the "Haruna" finally sank to the bottom of the sea.

When the US military besieged the "Haruna", pilots in southern Africa were hunting the "Kaga".

(I'm sorry, the fish head code is confused. I made a mistake in the last chapter. Soryu has been sunk in Manila. The last aircraft carrier left in the combined fleet is Kaga.)

The "Kaga" aircraft carrier was modified from a battleship. Its three-layer flight deck is its biggest feature. When it was built, the "Kaga" carried only a pitiful 60 aircraft. In 1934, Japan upgraded and modified the "Kaga"

, the number of carrier-based aircraft increased to 90.

When Nagumo Chuichi ordered the fleet to evacuate, "Kaga" had lost all its fighters and attack aircraft, leaving only 27 99 carrier-based bombers. This type of bomber is often referred to as the 99 carrier bomber.

Before 1936, Japan's carrier-based bombers were still old-fashioned biplanes with extremely backward performance.

In 1936, the Japanese Navy put forward the development requirement for a "metal monoplane dive bomber", so the 99th Ship Explosion was born.

For the Japanese Navy, the 99 Ship Bomb is a bomber with excellent performance, with a maximum speed of 430, a maximum altitude of 10,500, and a cruising range of 1,350 kilometers. Compared with the old biplane bombers, its performance is a qualitative leap forward.

However, compared with the Southern African "Sea Harrier", there is still a big gap between the 99 ship bombs, mainly reflected in the bomb load.

The engines used by the "Sea Harrier" in southern Africa and the 99-ship bomb are both 1,200 horsepower, but the "Sea Harrier" can carry 1,200 kilograms of bombs, and the maximum bomb load of the 99-ship bomb does not exceed 500 kilograms.

This raises a question. The engine horsepower is almost the same, so why is there such a big difference in bomb load?

I have to ask Mitsubishi this question.

The "Kaga" with a fully loaded displacement of 43,600 tons has a maximum speed of only 28 knots.

In the previous stage of the battle, "Kaga" was also frantically attacked by Allied pilots. The hull was hit many times and the speed dropped to less than 20 knots.

At least 40 "Sea Harriers" participated in the siege of the "Kaga". The "Kaga" sank quickly after being hit by 13 aerial bombs and six torpedoes. 1,750 people including Fleet Commander-in-Chief Nagumo Chuichi

Of the crew, only four survived the battle.

At this point, all four aircraft carriers of the Japanese Air Fleet have been sunk.

All the luck of the air fleet went to the battleship "Kirishima".

The captain of the "Kirishima" was very smart. After Chuichi Nagumo issued the retreat order, the "Kirishima" did not return directly to Kure Port. Instead, he used the night to escape from the battlefield southward, and then turned back to the Japanese mainland.

This decision was wise. The Southern African Navy and the US Navy did not let go of the "Kirishima". They continued to search for the "Kirishima" after nightfall and were not forced to stop until 11 o'clock in the night.

Like the air fleet led by Nagumo Chuichi, the main fleet led by Yamamoto Isoroku was also frantically attacked by the Southern African Air Force.

Strictly speaking, Japanese aircraft carriers do not pose a great threat to the Southern African Navy. After all, the performance gap between carrier-based aircraft and the gap between pilots is there. It is difficult for Japanese aircraft carriers to pose a real threat to the Southern African Navy.

The main fleet is different.

Don't forget that the Japanese main fleet has super battleships like the "Yamato". For the Southern African navy, the "Yamato" is not only a threat, but also an honor.

Captain Best deserves a Congressional Medal for sinking the Shokaku.

Gusa/span> If any lucky person from the Southern African Navy can sink the "Yamato", then the Southern African Federal Government will cast a one-ton trophy for him alone.

There is no doubt that it must be pure gold.

After the capsizing of the "Mutsu", the Southern African Air Force targeted the "Yamato" as the main target of its attack.

However, the "Yamato" with a full load displacement of 70,000 tons is not that easy to deal with, and there are other Japanese warships nearby to provide protection for the "Yamato". The first two waves of attacks launched against the "Yamato" all failed. Not only did they not attack the "Yamato" Damage was caused and 11 torpedo planes and bombers were lost.

This loss was unacceptable to Tang Li. Japan could use well-trained pilots to fly kamikaze fighters as cannon fodder. Southern Africa did not have that luxury. Every pilot was precious.

At this time, the main fleet led by Yamamoto Isoroku still had more than 40 warships, including five battleships, including the most powerful Japanese "Yamato" and "Nagato".

"That's enough fighting for now. We have won the victory. The Japanese have lost the ability to attack Guam. Now we can go back and have a good sleep." Halsey was satisfied. The U.S. Navy led by him sank a Japanese ship. The aircraft carrier and a battleship let out a fierce breath.

"It would be great if we could sink the 'Yamato'" Tang Lile slightly regretted. The Southern African Navy also gained a lot, including 3 aircraft carriers, 3 battleships, 2 seaplane carriers, and more than 20 other large and small warships. , the United Fleet's vitality was severely damaged after this battle, and it is still unknown whether it can regain its peak strength.

It's probably impossible.

Japan has spent nearly 40 years building its current combined fleet, from the establishment of the combined fleet in 1903 to the present.

In the past 40 years, Japan's annual military expenditures have been heavily tilted towards the navy, and it was only before the outbreak of World War II that it accumulated to the current scale. Reconstruction is completely impossible, and Japan has lost its opportunity.

When the Japanese Combined Fleet was established, it had support from the United Kingdom. After the last world war, Japan received assistance from the United States. If it were not for the scrap steel from the United States, Japan would not have been able to build ten battleships.

Now Japan and the United States are in a state of war, and trade between the two countries has been completely cut off. Japan relies entirely on war and plunder to obtain resources, and it cannot seize much.

If the Far Eastern countries have developed industries, where will the Japanese take their turn?

Iron ore is available in Australia, but it is beyond the reach of the Japanese.

There is oil in East India, but the Japanese can only look back and sigh.

What the Japanese military has to consider now is not how to land in Borneo, but how to prepare for the Allied counterattack against the Philippines.

Well, the counterattack on the Philippines will have to wait. The focus of the world's attention now is still on the Russian battlefield.

The victory in the Battle of Moscow did not bring fundamental changes to Russia, and the damage caused by the "Great Purge" was not fully compensated, as the failure of the Battle of Kharkov proved.

The Battle of Kharkov was the Russians' initiative to launch a counterattack against the Germans.

The Germans were not idle after the spring blossoms, and this time the battle broke out on the Crimean Peninsula.

The Crimean Peninsula is the Crimean Peninsula. There is a tsarist-era resort on the island. This resort was built on a huge fortress complex.

Compared with the famous Liege Fortress and the Maginot Line, the fortress groups on the Crimean Peninsula are not inferior. Its main defensive position stretches for 360 kilometers and has 12 fortress groups. The largest one is the "Maxim-

The "Gorky I" fortress has a twin-mounted 305 mm caliber fortress gun with a range of 44 kilometers.

The turret of the fortress gun resembles the main gun of a battleship. It is completely wrapped by an armor plate of 200 to 300 mm thick. There are three layers of permanent fortifications under the turret, and the thickness of each layer of permanent concrete is about 4 meters.

The underground of the fortress group is connected by railways. All the fortress turrets are sunken and have an absolute advantage in shooting range. In theory, it is impossible to conduct a ground attack on the defense zone. The ammunition depot of the fortress is located 30 meters underground, which is foolproof.

The Russian troops stationed on the Crimean Peninsula can land around the Black Sea at any time, posing a serious threat to the German southern front.

The Germans launched an attack on the Crimean Peninsula last winter, which ended in a total defeat for the German army.

Now that Mustache was determined to remove the threat from the Crimean Peninsula, General Manstein led the German 11th Army and Romanian mountain troops to launch a second attack on the Crimean Peninsula in April.

With the experience of the last disastrous defeat, Manstein came prepared this time. Not only did he have the support of the German aviation, he also mobilized a powerful artillery force.

In order to break through the "Maxim Gorky I", Manstein mobilized three huge guns, namely the fixed mortar "Gangma Equipment" with a caliber of 420 mm and the self-propelled mortar "Gangma Equipment" with a caliber of 610 mm.

Karl Equipment", and the train cannon "Gustav Cannon" with a caliber of 800 mm.

420mm and 610mm are still understandable, but 800mm is beyond the scope of ordinary people's understanding of artillery.

The "Gustav Cannon" weighs more than 1,344 tons. It took 25 train cars of equipment and 2,000 laborers to install it. It took 42 days to install it.

This cannon is really unprecedented. The entire cannon is 4 stories high, 20 feet wide, and 140 feet long. The length of the cannon reaches 4.6 meters, and the range is 48 kilometers. It requires the close cooperation of 500 people to operate it.

The weight of the "Gustav Cannon" shells reached 7100 kilograms, and the weight of the "Karl" shells also reached 2200 kilograms. In addition, there were more than 200 German artillery batteries to assist in the operation, and the Germans dispatched more than 1,300 artillery pieces.

The fighting broke out on April 6, and the German army launched the largest artillery campaign since World War II.

The "Gustav" was so powerful that it destroyed the fortresses carefully laid out by the Russians one by one. The armor-piercing projectile weighing 7,100 kilograms directly penetrated the 8,000 mm protective layer and hit the ammunition depot located 30 meters underground, causing a panic that shocked the entire island.

There was a big explosion, thus cutting off the ammunition supply to the northern fortress group.

The German aviation force mobilized frantically, bombing Russian positions indiscriminately with a frequency of 1,000 sorties per day.

The Russian living quarters were devastated and the troops had to retreat to the central position.

The firing frequency of the "Gustav" is 15 minutes, and even then it can only fire 14 shells per day.

The faster-firing 420mm "Gangma Cannon" carried out carpet bombardment around the fortress, and the 1,000-kilogram shells completely destroyed all roads and railway networks around the fortress. The "Maxim-Gorky I" position was completely isolated.

On the 15th, the German army launched a general attack on the "Maxim Gorky I". In this battle, the German army used a 280 mm rocket launcher to fire the twin 305 mm fortress guns on the "Maxim Gorky I" position.

Completely destroyed.

At the beginning of the war, rocket launchers were still top secret to the German army, and the Germans did not have any technology related to rocket launchers.

The industrial capabilities of the Germans are not comparable to those of the Japanese. Japan has spent more than ten years researching radar and has made almost no progress. However, Germany has technical reserves in rockets. Von Braun and his team are still very capable. For

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