"What?" Wang Yizhe and Zhao Zhenfan were shocked when they heard this. The latter even hurriedly warned: "Chief Commander, you must not do this. You are the commander-in-chief of our Northeast Frontier Defense Army and the backbone of millions of soldiers.

Where your soul is, you must not put your body in danger."

Wang Yizhe also advised: "Yes, Guoping is right, and naval battles are not as good as land battles. Once something goes wrong, there is no chance of saving it!"

Zhang Xinghan waved his hands firmly and said, "Don't try to persuade me anymore, I've made up my mind."

After saying that, Zhang Xinghan ordered Guo Zhong on the side: "Commander Guo, give me an order. Except for the battleship Yue Fei and twelve cruisers, all the other destroyers, battleships, and cruisers will immediately go into battle.

Warn all the navy officers that I fight side by side with them, advance and retreat together, survive and die together! All the officers and soldiers in the army march forward bravely under themselves and will not retreat to the death! There are only two outcomes of this battle. One is that our entire army is annihilated, and the other is that the Japanese are defeated.

Kou, there is no other third party."

Infected by the determination in Zhang Xinghan's words, Guo Zhong stood up and saluted with a solemn expression: "Yes!"

After Guo Zhong took the order and left, Wang Yizhe persuaded him earnestly: "Xinghan, let's do this. You stay on the Yue Fei to command the overall situation, and I will take command on your behalf."

"Commander Wang, military orders are like mountains, how can we allow them to be changed every day? Execute the orders!" Zhang Xinghan said solemnly.

"Yes!" Wang Yizhe and Zhao Zhenfan looked at each other helplessly and responded in unison.

Soon, Zhang Xinghan's order to personally lead the naval fleet to fight against the Japanese fleet spread throughout the entire Northeastern Naval Fleet. Upon hearing the news, all the officers and soldiers were greatly boosted in morale and excited.

The commander-in-chief personally went to the front line and fought bloody battles with them, which was enough to make these soldiers who usually respected Zhang Xinghan as the God of War excited and crazy. Their blood boiled and they wished they could fight to the death with the Japanese invaders immediately.

The cool sea breeze blew by, and Zhang Xinghan, who had already boarded a fort, suddenly felt extremely cold. The long-lost blood in his body boiled again, and his strong fighting spirit revived like a blowout.

It seems like I have returned to the days four years ago when I led a lone army to defend Shenyang, turned the tide, and killed the Japanese in rivers of blood.

The artillerymen who stood firm on the fort were very excited because of Zhang Xinghan's arrival, and their eyes were full of fanatical fighting spirit.

"Chief, you'd better go back to the command room." Guo Zhong, the commander of the guard battalion standing by, said.

Zhang Xinghan raised his head and looked at the vast sea for a while, listening to the rumble of cannons and explosions as his own ships continued to move closer and closer.

He turned around and walked down the fort and towards the command room.

Guo Zhong and two guards followed closely, following him like a shadow.

After returning to the command room, there has been a battle already underway, and the communications staff will compile reports on the latest battle situation.

"The Chief. I just received the latest situation. Two Zero fighter jets of our Air Force were accidentally hit and damaged by the enemy fleet's air defense fire network during a fight with Japanese aircraft. All the crew members died heroically." A combat staff officer said with a heavy expression.

said.

Since the Zero fighter entered service, there has been no battle damage. When Zhang Xinghan heard the news, he couldn't help but frown slightly. After thinking about it, he was relieved. The Zero fighter sacrificed protection for its long range and high-speed performance.

It's no surprise that it was destroyed in the melee.

After a pause, Zhang Xinghan said: "Immediately send electricity to Gao Zhihang and order them to immediately increase their altitude and fight. First, they will deal with the Japanese planes, and then attack the enemy fleet!"

"Yes." A communications staff officer quickly took the order and left.

On the battlefield thirty nautical miles away from Zhang Xinghan and the others, thick smoke was billowing everywhere on the blue sea. From time to time, violent explosions suddenly erupted from the water, causing huge waves of water.

Many Japanese warships were hit and lost the ability to move. Smoke billowed from above and flames were raging. It was vaguely visible that frightened Japanese sailors were hurriedly carrying out final rescue operations on the deck.

Before the Japanese air force arrived, once the Japanese ship was hit, it would soon be swooped and strafed by Northeastern fighter planes from the air, killing all the Japanese on the deck.

Fortunately, their air force arrived in time, forcing the Northeast Border Guard Air Force to give up its air strikes against them.

As for the underwater dragons that injured these Japanese ships, they hit them again and severely damaged them. After losing their combat effectiveness, they immediately fled to find new targets.

This gave a large number of damaged Japanese ships a precious chance to breathe.

Even if a Japanese ship was seriously damaged and could not be saved, most of the Japanese sailors on the ship would still have time to transfer to other ships.

On the distant battlefield, the wolf pack tactics and the battle to drive away wolves continued. Since they were not equipped with underwater sonar radar detection equipment, the Japanese ships had no way of detecting the submarines of the Northeast Frontier Defense Force that had dived underwater.

Therefore, in order to prevent submarines from tirelessly attacking our own fleet, dozens of Japanese destroyers were arrayed for defense outside the fleet. Depth bombs were continuously dropped into the sea like dumplings, and a series of violent explosions occurred one after another, bringing out

A water column tens of meters high.

The anti-aircraft weapons on the Japanese cruisers, battleships and the remaining four aircraft carriers were firing at full strength to deal with the air force threat from the Northeast Frontier Force.

Hundreds of anti-aircraft weapons of various calibers fired in salvo, and the rain of anti-aircraft bullets emitted was like beams of light shooting all over the sky, which was very spectacular.

The deafening rumble of artillery can be heard clearly for dozens of miles away.

Behind the destroyer were hundreds of Japanese submarines of various types and sizes.

Unlike the submarines of the Northeast Frontier Defense Force, the Japanese submarines at this time were not purely shooting submarines for underwater combat.

Instead, it is a lagging submarine that uses submarines to approach the target and then surfaces to launch an attack.

Since they did not have the capability of underwater combat, the Japanese submarines retreated decisively after losing more than 20 submarines in the initial battle, and their own destroyers formed an anti-submarine defense circle to deal with the Northeast Navy's Jiaolong Task Force.

He retreated to the rear of the destroyer to form a second line of defense. However, both the Japanese submarine force and the destroyer commander knew that such a response could only solve an immediate emergency and was by no means a long-term solution.

Because the anti-submarine bombs carried by the destroyer group will eventually be used up, and the anti-submarine methods at this time are almost at their limit. What will be used to stop the attack of the cunning Chinese wolf pack submarines?

This is also the helplessness of the Japanese army. Everyone knows the result, but there is nothing they can do about it. The huge difference in equipment performance between the two sides cannot be made up for in any case.

Not only could the exploding sea surface be fully visible, but the Japanese soldiers had no idea what the outcome of their battle was. It was possible that Chinese submarines had been sunk, but it was also very possible that they had already fled far away, avoiding that area.

Deadly depth charges.

In fact, the submarines of the Northeast Frontier Defense Force did withdraw from the water to safe waters when the Japanese quickly reacted and established a defense with destroyers as the main force.

The Japanese depth charges did not cause them any losses at all.

At the same time, a large-scale aerial decisive battle of unprecedented scale was also taking place thousands of meters high in the sky not far from the battlefield.

In order to win this naval and air decisive battle, the Japanese army dispatched more than 500 land-based and sea-based aviation forces. This was almost all the air force mobility that Japan could dispatch after the wars in Manchuria and Korea, excluding the defense of important areas such as Tokyo.

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As for the Northeastern Border Defense Force, in addition to guarding the four northeastern provinces, the five northwest provinces and Pingjin and other places, they mainly cover the border areas between Jilin and Heilongjiang Provinces and the Korean Peninsula and the Soviet Union.

It was also used to air raid Kyushu Island and Honshu Island, blockade Japanese reinforcements and support Kyushu Island, and support the first batch of landing troops in the battle of North Kyushu Island and Kanmon Strait.

Three hundred Zero fighter jets, one hundred and fifty BF109 fighter jets) and one hundred B-17 Flying Fortress bombers were also dispatched.

Judging from the number of aircraft, the two sides are almost equal. Most of the aircraft dispatched by the Japanese army are fighter jets, and the number is much larger than that of the Northeast Frontier Defense Force.

But when it comes to the performance of both sides' fighter planes, they are comparable in the sky and on the ground.

Whether it is the BF109 with powerful firepower and high speed or the Zero fighter with small turning radius, fast speed and long range, they are not comparable to the fighters equipped by the Japanese army's active sea and land-based aviation forces.

The most advanced fighter aircraft of the Japanese army is the Type 94, but this is a new type of fighter that was officially put into service last year. The total number so far is only 300. Moreover, this fighter is seven years older than the Zero fighter. In terms of aircraft performance comparison,

It's been quite an era.

Since the Japanese lost Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula and suffered heavy losses, Japan has been in a state of rest and recuperation in the past two years in an attempt to restore its national strength and combat power as soon as possible.

When Kyushu Island was suddenly attacked, the whole country in Japan was in an uproar and began to launch war machines. Time was already too tight. It was less than ten days before and after. No matter how awesome Japan's industrial production capacity was, how many fighter planes could it produce?

However, Japan's war potential is still not small at present. Once the war machine is fully operational, the production quantity of various weapons and equipment will increase exponentially.

After all, the industrial foundation is there, but by that time, the war on Kyushu Island should be over, and as long as the Northeast Border Guards win this battle and kill the main force of the Japanese navy and air force.

Furthermore, with Kyushu Island as the forward base of the Air Force, they can carry out non-stop bombing and air raids across Japan to destroy and consume Japan's war potential. Under this situation, the Japanese will no longer be able to stand up.

After Zhang Xinghan's Northeastern Border Guards had been trained for three to five years, they could mobilize a million troops to conquer Honshu Island and capture Emperor Hirohito, an old Japanese, alive.
Chapter completed!