One of the biggest differences between sneak attacks on Sandu Australia and sneak attacks on Pearl Harbor is that the intelligence infiltration work between China and Japan is very good. If Japan wants to carry out such a large sneak attack plan, China will not be completely unaware of it. The Japanese military headquarters will

A large-scale cover-up plan was formulated, deliberately instigating the fight between the military and local indigenous people in the Elysia Island colony, and then a large-scale military exercise plan was formulated. On the surface, it wanted to use the exercise plan to intimidate local indigenous people, but in fact it was the

The main fleet sent its homeland in advance and then quietly returned to the East China Sea to carry out sneak attacks.

If China formulates a large-scale combat plan to take the opportunity to counterattack, Japan will not be completely unaware of it. Therefore, the Central Military Department has formulated a simple and effective counterattack plan as much as possible, and only the generals and officers from each base are clear.

July 15 is the anniversary of the revival of China when the emperor ascended the throne, and August 1 is the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. These two days are national festivals. Although the army will not have holidays, there will be large-scale cultural and artistic performances.

There are also many officers and soldiers applying for vacations or going out on holidays or going home to visit relatives.

Sanduao Naval Base is China's largest naval base. With local Marine Corps and Naval Air Forces, the base has about 87,300 permanent officers and soldiers. The base's art performance on the founding anniversary was always by the Central Navy.

The art troupe is directly responsible, and the scale is even more difficult.

Yan Houhua, commander of the Southern Fleet of the Base Navy, is from Hunan and a few naval officers in the navy. His brother Yan Houyang is a group of graduates of the Far East Mainland Army. At this time, he served as deputy chief of staff of the Army Department in the General Staff of the Central Committee.

, while he himself graduated from the Far East Coast Guard School, and then went to the U.S. Navy's Non-commissioned Officer School to study and served in the U.S. Navy for a long time. He participated in World War I shortly after returning home, and was a third-class cruiser at the time.

deputy captain.

Now, he is already a lieutenant general. Among the more than 20 lieutenant generals in the navy, his status is second only to Chen Houfu and Chen Jiliang.

The Imperial Navy is not an Air Force or an Army. It does not have as many generals as the Army, but there are also ten admirals including Cheng Biguang, Sa Zhenbing, Song Wenhui, and Lin Baoduo, but they have all retired.

At this point, the Empire and Japan have completely different traditions. Senior generals of the National Defense Forces are not allowed to participate in politics after retirement. They can receive a very generous pension. The imperial court will also send one from within the Xinhua company.

More impressive dividends as subsidies.

After the word "Xinhua" was banned from spreading, Xinhua Company merged with its subsidiary German Zen Company to move its headquarters back to Hong Kong and set up branches in the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia and the United States, making this Zen Company

Become the world's largest private military equipment sales company and also a top trust investment company.

In short, this company is very interesting. Today's ownership belongs to the inner court, but about 10 million yuan of funds are withdrawn every year to subsidize senior retired officers.

It is precisely because there are no senior generals in the political arena that the policy of separation of military and political affairs has been implemented for a long time. This is a very big difference between China and Japan. Although the Central Military Department does not like the cabinet to interfere in national defense work, it is also not interested.

Interfere in politics.

Yan Hau Wah is one of the few senior generals who knew that the Japanese army might attack the base in the near future. He was also responsible for formulating the counterattack plan code-named "Shouzhai" but he still abides by this plan and the instructions of the Central Military Department, which is as good as in previous years.

The normal ones did not have any special changes, and the base allowed to approve short-term leave and family visit plans for more than 200 officers.

In order to confuse the Japanese army, the Southern Fleet Naval Base's cultural performances were arranged in a very grand manner. At that time, the most famous movie star and singer Zhou Xuan were also invited. Zhou Xuan was very special because the emperor and

The queen likes her movies and songs very much, and invited her to the palace several times. Far East Film Company also invested heavily in the shooting of singing and dancing films for her twice.

There are rumors in China that Zhou Xuan and the emperor have a special relationship, and the queen has no opinions on this matter.

The Japanese intelligence department also knows this news. So, Zhou Xuan was invited by the Navy to perform at Sanduao Naval Base this year, and the performance venue is still the first emperor-class high-speed battleship to serve. This proves that this year's Southern Fleet is very happy.

Unprepared.

Because all plans cannot be changed, Yan Hau Wah is also very troubled now. He doesn't know when the Japanese army will launch a raid. If it happened to be on the day of Zhou Xuan's performance, that would be bad.

What's more, the emperor-level high-speed battleship was the focus of Japan's sneak attacks.

By April 1938, the two emperor-class high-speed battleships of the empire had already been put into service, and Japan also frantically invested all the manpower and material resources of the entire country, trying its best to build the two Yamato-class high-speed battleships before May 1939, but Japan

After all, the industrial level of ship hosts is still a big gap compared to China, Britain, the United States and Germany. In fact, the maximum speed of Yamato-class battleships is only 27 knots, which is quite different from the maximum speed of the Emperor-class and Iowa-class 31 knots, which is already very

It is hard to call it a high-speed battleship.

In contrast, after the completion of two Emperor-class high-speed battleships, the Ministry of National Defense suspended the construction of the remaining two Emperor-class ships on the grounds that they learned that the tonnage of the new battleships built by Japan was larger, and instead built higher tonnage than the Japanese Yamato-class battleships.

The 75,000-ton Emperor Class II high-speed battleship.

Of course it's nonsense. From 1937 to 1939, the Imperial Navy had no plans for Emperor II high-speed battleships. All work was a perfect scam, forcing Japanese militant generals to build the two Yamato-class battleships behind them.

In the past two years, the Imperial Navy has instead invested the funds for the pre-research of new battleships on the surface, and has been used to modernize the old battleships, and will be used as soon as possible to transform the Zhendan-level, Qingzhou-level, and Yuzhou-level battleships.

The radar and fire control radar systems have been updated.

From battleships to cruisers, and even destroyers, the Empire had first completed modern radar and program control improvements before 1939. The new generation of program-controlled ballistic computers were fully in service. Although this generation of crystal computers even need a bookcase to calculate ballistics, even if they are just calculating ballistics, they still need a bookcase.

The large size and weight are close to one ton, but it can indeed greatly improve the shooting accuracy.

The promotion of ship computers has enabled the Empire to use a series of new designs such as automatic fire extinguishing, smoke elimination, drainage, and compartment in warships, greatly reducing the demand for ship-based personnel.

The total number of officers and soldiers of the Yamato-class battleship is 2,415, while the total number of officers and soldiers of the emperor-class high-speed battleships that can barely belong to the same level is 48,500 British-ton, and the total number of officers and soldiers of the US Iowa-class high-speed battleships is 1,450.

The ship's chief officer is 1,851 people.

Yan Hau Wah was very clear that the focus of the Japanese Navy was on the battleships, and the focus of this raid was to give priority to the elimination of emperor-class high-speed battleships serving in the Sanduao Port Area.

The military headquarters' requirement is to rather rank battleships outside than do everything possible to ensure the safety of the aircraft carrier, which makes Yan Hau Wah very upset, because the emperor-level is the imperial central naval flagship representing the emperor. If the Emperor's high-speed battleship is sunk,

He really had no face to see the emperor.

What's worse is that at this time, he could hardly make any adjustments and could only notify the captains of each ship to a limit, requiring them to be mentally prepared to bear the temporary combat mission that was raided.

In the past few days, because we are going to welcome the arrival of the Golden Voice and the Central Navy Song and Dance Troupe, the fleet is full of high-pitched and enthusiastic joy. All ships are hung with colorful flags and the ships are washed, and Yan Hau-wah is nervous and nervous.

I wish I could burn all the colorful flags with a fire.

It is really hard to explain when Japan will launch a sneak attack. According to the analysis of intelligence data, it may be August 1 or July 31, which is roughly the past two days.

During this period, Japan did not really clarify which is better or worse, the aviation faction or the artillery faction. Moreover, until the end of the war, Japan did not understand clearly that the naval officer Izuru Yamamoto was one of the aviation faction and the artillery faction.

Transitional figure, he clearly supports the aviation faction, but does not oppose the cannon faction.

It's also complicated to say that the Prime Minister at this time actually changed from Fumikoto Konomi to Minumasa, a person who opposed the war. The reason why he chose Minumasa was the result of fierce fighting within the Japanese warlords was that he chose a right

There will be no threatening candidates for each party, and the other party is a navy general after all, so it will not completely lose control of the navy.

In this case, Minai Mitsumasa became the prime minister. It is conceivable that his support ratings among the nobles, bureaucrats and military departments in Japan were very low. He could not hold on for just half a year after he came to power, because he really couldn't stop it.

With Prince Zai Ren and the Army's layers of oppression, Mine Hiromasa could only let the Navy decide on this war.

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And the allowed tour itinerary, China's strong national strength has a great influence on Tadichi Nagamoto, and Iroku Yamamoto also doesn't think this war can be won, while Ozawa Jisaburo's view is because of China's aircraft carriers and ship-borne

The machine is better.

Since 1937, Iroku Yamamoto has been responsible for secretly formulating a sneak attack plan. According to the requirements of the military headquarters, he must eliminate the main force of the Chinese Navy's southern fleet in the first battle, and then use Japan later.

The battleship advantage is to defeat the remaining main force of the Chinese Navy in Jeju Island or Taiwan.

To this end, Japan has conducted several simulation exercises in the past two years, and under the leadership of Rear Admiral Ozawa Shisaburo, it sank two old battleship target ships with aviation and improved low-altitude torpedoes in one fell swoop.

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Just to achieve the plan of secret combat, Yamamoto Iroji decided to activate Tadaichi Nakumo. Tadaichi Nakumo is not only an expert in torpedo warfare, but also the most famous navigator in the Japanese Navy, because most of the navigation needs to be at night,

The secret and silent arrival of the designated sea area was the key to this battle, so Minumasato and Yamamoto Iroku decided to choose Tadaichi Natsumoto after discussing.

Although the Japanese Navy at that time had a dispute between the aviation faction and the cannon faction, it still regarded the aircraft carrier as a sharp Qimen weapon, more like a dispute between torpedoes and cannons. Many of its generals were torpedo warfare experts, and

Not from the naval aviation force.

At this point, the Chinese Navy is completely different, because more than 30,000 pilots were trained during World War I and the Sino-Soviet War. Many of these pilots later transferred to the Naval Academy for further studies and were re-entered to the Navy after graduation.

After the aviation team was established in 1928, a large number of veterans of the Shanghai Army retired, and this group of young and strong naval aviation officers stood out.

Although Yan Hau Wah was not from the Naval Aviation, the four aircraft carrier captains under him were all officers from the Naval Aviation Sect, and all had air force combat experience in World War I. Among them, Li Shuyuan and Guo Zuocheng were both prominent in the Sino-Soviet War.

Air Force ace.

It is under this background that the third Sino-Japanese War will break out again. Like the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the core of this war is also a naval battle.

Because the command of the military headquarters is as usual, even if the navy suffers major losses, it will be necessary to yin the main force of the Japanese Navy to the combat area. The performance of the Jinxun and the Central Navy Song and Dance Troupe must continue to maintain the original arrangement, which makes the Emperor's battleship necessary

Arranged on the inside of the port, the performance stage above is also newly decorated.

The naval aviation force has a very good rule, that is, during the port shutdown period, the aircraft carrier must also maintain 10-20 carrier-based fighter jets on the deck, and can only maintain 1/3 of fuel and 1/2 of ammunition.

The configuration is because it is completely impossible for the carrier to take off at full load when the aircraft carrier cannot travel at high speed.

It is already very difficult for the aircraft carrier to keep half of the fuel from taking off. Bombers certainly do not have the ability to take off. During the period when all aircraft carriers are stopped, bombers and light patrol aircraft cannot park on the deck to occupy space.

Can be parked inside the hangar.

Such regulations are to prevent sudden attacks. In fact, during the period when the Imperial Navy aircraft carrier was stopped, they usually only retain about 12 carrier-based aircraft on the deck and remain on the alert state of taking off at any time. The rest of the aircraft were in the hangar.

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This regulation is not temporary, nor has it been found in this year, and has been maintained since 1928.

During this period, if no adjustments are made, the advantage is that even if the Japanese army attacked, the Navy can take off about 40 fighter jets on the three aircraft carriers docked in the port. Japan is very clear about this rule and will also

Including the 40 fighter jets, the first wave of attack aircraft must be mainly fighter jets.

The disadvantage is that a large number of carrier-based aircraft of the Navy cannot play an effective role, and basically can only rely on the protection of the Air Force. Even if this battle is won, the credit will definitely belong to the Air Force.

Even with Luo Yuanwan and Sandu Ao Naval Air Force, Yan Hau Wahman could only send 140 fighter jets to fight, and the rest were determined by the Air Force's expression.

The naval aviation regiments generally focus on patrol aircraft and bombers, and the number of land-based fighter aircraft is not large. These 140 fighters are the limits that Yan Hau Wah, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Fleet, can draw at the surrounding naval aviation bases.

The performance stage on the Emperor's high-speed battleship has been decorated. This is also Yan Hau Wah's office. He reported that the ship is there and the loyalty of the ship is dead. He has long decided not to leave the battleship. Even if he is sunk by the Japanese army, he will

Never leave.

While the officers and soldiers of the naval base were excitedly waiting for tomorrow's singing and dancing performance, Yan Hau Wah couldn't sleep at night, because she was considering that the emperor would take the flagship of the Imperial Navy to visit various countries, and
To be continued...