Chapter 294 Jeju Naval Battle (2)(1/2)
December 10, 1939 at 7:00 am.
Jeju Island just welcomed the morning light and Chaoxi at dawn. The air defense alarm on the island was already sounded, and the harsh sirens sounded throughout the island. In the past thirty years, the empire has achieved militarization of this most important island.
, gradually transfer local North Korean residents to the Northeast, northern North Korea and Far East, the island is included in the jurisdiction of the Jeju Military Reclamation Bureau, and the Central Military Reclamation Bureau is directly responsible for investment and construction. 14,000 militia troops can be drawn from the 23,000 local residents, of which 14,000 are
Most of them are retired soldiers from the Central Defense Forces.
The good geographical location makes the local area one of the largest fishing islands in Asia in the past 30 years. The main industries are deep processing of fishery products and port business, and the industrial, commercial and fishery population accounts for 77 of the local residents. Huayuan, a subsidiary of the Central Military Reclamation Administration.
The fishing company has more than 40 medium and large fishing boats here, and its fishing operation range can reach the East Ryukyu Islands area of Japan.
The peaceful and prosperous days were finally completely broken on this day.
The Japanese Type 97 Army fighter jets crossed the strait on a scale of hundreds, swept the sea at low altitude, and covered the 96 land attack aircraft to bomb the northwest coast of Jeju Island.
Japan has not specially designed attack aircraft similar to China's G series in the development of fighter jets. Its attack aircraft is actually bombers. Even fighter bombers like J-5 Tiger Shark still lack combat performance and protection, which is also because Japan
There are reasons for defects in aircraft design, materials, metallurgy, aerodynamics and other fields, and Japan has not even been able to establish an effective and comprehensive hollow system.
Due to various basic shortcomings, the Jiuliu land attack aircraft does not have good ground diving and low-altitude attack capabilities. Therefore, after passing through the sea, the Japanese army fleet began to raise the distance and try to avoid the anti-aircraft cannons on the front line.
Go deep into Jeju’s Air Force Airport, use the lead to attack the airport, and eliminate the Chinese Air Force before taking off.
This plan will definitely fail.
Among the two radar base stations deployed on Jeju Island, one is a new large Doppler ground-based radar that was updated after the war started. It has a reconnaissance range of more than 160 kilometers. In the Jeju defense zone, three J-5s are available.
The Tiger Shark Fighter Formation also patrolls the surrounding areas 24 hours a day.
The Japanese army took off in the darkness in the early morning, and simply believed that the Chinese Air Force's radar was only 20 kilometers at most, so they rashly adopted this one-sided and self-righteous combat plan. However, before the Japanese Air Force fleet arrived, more than 270 aircraft were
The J-3 and 150 J-4 fighter jets have taken off, but the directions are different.
The J-4 Lightning Fighter is a combat aircraft with high altitude advantage. Its combat performance at medium and low altitudes is not as good as that of the J-3 and the Japanese 97 Land War. After repeated combat and experiments with the Japanese Air Force in the past six months, the frontline commanders and pilots of the Imperial Air Force
Gradually explored a complete set of tactical strategies corresponding to the 97 Land Warfare, because the fighting performance of J-3 is roughly comparable to that of the 97 Land Warfare, and the climb rate is better than that of the 97 Land Warfare, and the plane rotation performance is lower than that of the opponent, so J-3
Before the enemy plane arrived, it took off from the front and was entangled with the 97 Land Battle at mid-low altitude, while the J-4 took off from the side, took a big circle, accelerated to a high altitude and dived to attack.
Usually before each battle, pilots of the two fleets of the fighter fleet will discuss specific tactics. In the case of Jeju Island, J-4 fighters usually fly west and then turn at high altitude to dive the 97th above the Jeju Strait.
Land Warfare, and J-3 is usually responsible for bringing the opponent yin to the appropriate position, and then using the advantages of acceleration and climbing to get rid of the opponent, so that the opponent's 97 Land Warfare is completely ambushed.
Over Jeju, nearly a thousand fighter jets were fighting in the air. Four formations of the J-4 aircraft fleet suddenly inserted from high school and dived and strafed the 97 land battle in the air. Another formation of the J-4 aircraft fleet used the
The high-speed advantage tear apart the formation of the Japanese 96 bombers.
The two sides are constantly fighting wildly in the sky, the J-4 lightning fighter's ups and downs divestor attack, the J-3 Viper fighter's rolling and climbing and getting rid of like waves, and the horizontal spiral and wrap-around attack of the 97 Land War,
A large air combat offensive beyond Incheon Air Battle was formed above the narrow island. After six months of continuous familiarity, the pilots of both sides had extremely high fighting characteristics, and constantly captured opponents by leveraging the advantages of this aircraft. Everyone did it.
Want to shoot down your opponent as much as possible.
Above the strait, the Japanese army's large-scale landing troops had arrived on the sea, and the fleet roared artillery fire in the front, and the Japanese army's main fleet also arrived in the northwest waters of Jeju Island. More than 100 heavy artillery targeted the ports and mudflats to carry out large-scale artillery bombardment
, These naval heavy artillery are powerful, and each artillery of more than 14 inches is an absolutely fatal threat to land-based fortresses. These giant cannons that can sink super battleships bombard the cement fortress, even if they are thicker.
The city of steel was also shattered.
People who have not experienced the era of battleships will never understand how terrifying this is. Even in a land-based fortress, giant cannons with a caliber of more than 14 inches and above 355mm are very rare, while battleships can have 8 to 10
A giant cannon like this.
On the northwest coastline of Jeju Island, which is only 15 kilometers long, the bombardment of more than 100 heavy artillery and hundreds of conventional naval guns made the fortresses on the entire defense line tremble. The power of this kind of shelling is very great.
The entire Jeju Island experienced a shallow earthquake-like shaking in the shelling, and the huge roar and mushroom-like shining lights that kept coming from the air were always terrifying.
In just ten minutes, the Japanese army's three rounds of artillery attacks caused the heavy defense fortress on the defense line to collapse and collapse, but there were still two more solid defense bunkers that could withstand such huge shelling.
Above the tidal flat, the MG34\37 general machine gun and Browning double-mounted 12.7mm heavy machine gun developed by Sino-Germany, and the CM22 Cross light machine gun kept firing wildly on the position. The craziest one was the Imperial CM1930 rotor heavy wheel heavy
Machine gun, this heavy machine gun has a universal caliber of 14.5mm, and the six-wheeled shooting rate can reach 1,200 rounds per minute, which is almost the fastest-fired heavy machine gun in the world.
Because of its large weight, this heavy machine gun can only be installed on warships and fortresses. However, its crazy rate of fire and its versatility to air and land make it easy to become the most extreme massacre among defensive weapons, because the Japanese army
Armored vehicles have low defensive armor efficiency and cannot even reach the Browning heavy machine gun, which is even less powerful than this crazier CM1930 heavy machine gun.
The Japanese army, as the main landing force, had almost no power to fight back in front of this heavy machine gun. It was easily knocked into a sieve and could not resist the 20\45mm caliber machine guns in the fortress.
Before designing the defense line for Jeju Island in 1929, Zhang Hongkui presided over landing combat exercises in the Zhoushan Islands many times. He had rich experience and theoretical research on landing combat and anti-landing. He had two very important views.
One is the theory of active air defense, and the other is the theory of firepower balance and rapidity.
The theory of firepower balance and fast speed is a very simple and practical military theory, that is, whether it is landing operations or defense operations, the firepower must be balanced, the large and large caliber must be complete, the fire speed must be fast, the faster the better.
Because the combat area of landing operations is relatively narrow, the combat has a strong short-term effect, and success or failure is basically determined only in the first half hour. In this half hour, the more ammunition is fired, the more concentrated the firepower is, the more energy it is.
, the greater the advantage of the defense and offensive side.
The coastal defense of Jeju Island is not very strong on the surface, but its system is very complex, the hidden firepower is extremely fierce, and the coverage of artillery and machine guns is very complete. The more than 200 Japanese troops rely on the heavyweight of the 95 Type 95 water and land light battles are basically not available.
As a result, a small number of modified water and land tanks in the 97 Land War were useless. They were destroyed by individual rocket launchers and 25\45mm cannons shortly after they got ashore. In addition, the Japanese aviation forces failed to occupy any first-mover raid advantage.
The first wave of landing attacks of the Japanese army can be said to be extremely tragic casualties.
A division of more than 20,000 people was quickly lost on the 7.5-kilometer coastline, with very few remaining. Because it was a high tide period, the waves were driven upwards, and a large number of corpses were pushed to the beach by the waves, and the blood flowed the whole thing.
The beach was dyed red, like a shocking bloody tide.
The Japanese base camp did not expect the offensive to be so tragic. At this time, the carrier-based aircraft on four aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet arrived at the battlefield. The Japanese Navy was still very confident, although it was defeated in the Sandu-Ao Naval Battle.
Almost all aircraft carriers have been damaged, but in the past six months, Japan has worked very hard to convert Chitose and Chiyoda seaplane aircraft carriers into aircraft carriers, and converted another cruise ship into Condor aircraft carriers, plus the only remaining ones
The Canglong aircraft carrier gathered four aircraft carriers and followed the battleship group to the Jeju waters to fight.
According to the original plan, these four aircraft carriers should have dispatched carrier-based attack aircraft to bomb the coastal fortress. As a result, because the Japanese Army Air Force did not have any advantage at all, they could only temporarily replace the new Zero carrier-based aircraft to go to the field and continue to participate in air combat.
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During the process of replacing the aircraft, the deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier was also messy, but more than 40 Zero fighters still took off and rushed to the battlefield, which was also the second official participation in the Zero War.
During the war in Sanduo Ao, the sudden appearance of Zero War gained a great record advantage, which gave the Japanese base camp and the navy extremely high expectations for Zero War. Mitsubishi made more than 100 aircraft, trying to make the first attempt to
An unprecedented victory in the naval battle of Jeju.
The sky whistled past the tide, and there was a roar above the southeastern waters of Jeju Island. About 340 J-303 Sea Snake fighters and 72 J-402 lightning carrier-based aircraft flew to the battlefield. These carrier-based aircraft were
Departing from the Second Air Combined Fleet.
After the Battle of Sanduao, the Japanese army maintained a high sense of defense against the Chinese navy. Before the Jeju landing war started, the Japanese army modernized the two King Kong-class King Kong and Kirishima battleships, each of which was equipped with the
A radar, these two battleships did not directly participate in the Jeju landing war, but entered the East China Sea side by side, patrolling between Jeju Island and Shandong Peninsula, trying to use radar to cruise at night to discover the Central Combined Fleet.
In fact, the Second Joint Fleet and Jeju Island patrol aircraft have been preventing the surrounding waters to prevent Japan from sending naval ships to search for the Second Joint Fleet, but in this vast and boundless... but in fact, it is very narrow.
The two battleships actually passed by China's carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft and air force patrol aircraft many times.
There are many luck and accidental factors in this, but it can generally show that China's radar level is not very high and still needs to be improved. Japan's first-generation radar is simply dispensable.
Both sides were very sorry that they did not find each other, and were lucky that they were not discovered by the other party.
It was the first time that the J-402 lightning carrier-based aircraft joined the air combat after it was officially put into service in October, which means that the Navy has also formed a situation of dual-air combat cooperation. The combination of high-altitude and medium-low-altitude combat of the J3\4 series fighter jets is a combination of high-altitude and medium-low-altitude combat.
For the Japanese army with only light battles, it is a very unsolvable problem. Whether it is the 97 Land War, the 95, 96 carrier-based aircraft, or the Zero carrier-based aircraft, the Japanese fighter aircraft are all light battles, focusing on
Horizontal spiral fighting performance at medium and low altitude.
On the one hand, the Japanese army is extremely rigid and conservative in the field of air combat, focusing too much on technical gyro fighting, and neglecting simple high-speed and high-altitude combat, and regarding it as stupid and timid combat technology. On the other hand, Japan does lack the development of high-altitude high-speed
Engine technology required for fighter jets.
When the Second Joint Fleet arrives in the southeastern waters of Jeju Island, the end of this Jeju naval battle is destined. Even if the Japanese Navy wants to withdraw from the battlefield now, the distance between the two sides is enough to ensure that the Second Joint Fleet can launch three waves against the Japanese Navy fleet.
The above attacks.
The J-303\402 series carrier-based aircraft group of the Second Fleet of the Central Air Fleet joined the operation, making the entire air combat situation clear. The Japanese pure light fighter fleet could not stop the dive attack of the J-4 aircraft group, and in the fight
Except for zero war, the rest were unable to confront the J-303's medium and low altitude performance. The Japanese fighter jets were caught off guard and suffered a huge blow in a short moment.
After seizing air supremacy, the carrier-based fighter fleet of the aviation fleet did not return to the aircraft carrier, but continued to cover the subsequent to the G-2\3 series torpedo dive bombers to attack the Japanese main fleet in the Northeastern waters.
Because of the loss of air supremacy, the second wave of landing operations planned by the Japanese base camp was completely unable to be organized. After discovering the carrier-based aircraft group of the opponent's aircraft carrier, at around 8:40 am, the main fleet of the Japanese navy immediately chose to evacuate the war zone, and Jizhou
The fleets of the island and the Second Joint Fleet chased each other and bombed the main fleet of the Japanese Navy.
The first wave of Zero attacks achieved certain results, but they were soon destroyed by more than 70 J-402 lightning carrier-based aircraft that dived from high altitude. The aircraft group scattered and was constantly entangled in the air by the J-3 Viper fighter.
Stay, the fierce fighting between the two sides caused serious damage to zero war.
The two sides fought fiercely in the air, and the entire air battle would last for a long time, but at this time it was not that Zero War and the only dozens of Nine Seven Land Wars that remained did not want to retreat, but that they could no longer retreat. In terms of speed, they were basically
It is impossible to be the opponent of the Lightning Fighter, and once it returns, it will only be shot down more.
With the fact that air supremacy is basically lost, the narrow Jeju Strait has become the best area for carrier-based aircraft to attack the main fleet of the Japanese Navy. The Japanese Navy relied on the intensive defense of anti-aircraft artillery, and the aircraft were constantly shot down, but more
The arrival of J-402 lightning carrier-based aircraft and G-3 torpedo dive bombers has put the Japanese Navy in an extremely passive situation, and the subsequent addition of the J-5 tiger shark fighter bomber group rushed from the Nobukawa Air Force Base.
, which even pushed this unprecedented sea battle to **.
The arrival of tiger sharks has a very strong symbolic meaning as a winner, which means that the Chinese Air Force and Navy have firmly occupied air supremacy, and there are more than 400 tiger shark fighter bombers coming from many surrounding airports.
, low-altitude dive was used to suppress and fire bombs and throw bombs on the Japanese Navy.
Jisaburo Ozawa was incredibly tragic at this moment. Perhaps it was as tragic and painful as Deng Shichang drove the Zhiyuan cruiser towards Yoshino. He witnessed a tiger shark fighter being hit by a 40-diameter dual-mounted 127mm anti-aircraft gun
To be continued...