Chapter 935 Battle of Tokyo Bay (1/2)

Chapter 935 Battle of Tokyo Bay

After successfully attracting the attention of the main force of the Australasian Pacific Fleet, the island fleet finally turned on the communication system and radar.

This was done not only to facilitate communication between warships, but also to provide the Australasian warships in the rear with their own movements.

Since it was going to be fishing, it must be transferred to be considered successful. The Air Force was not considered to have completed the mission, which was why Kondo Nitta had been paying attention to the movements of the Australasian Fleet on the radar.

Due to the difference in radar technology, the island's radar could not clearly display the number of the Australasian Fleet. But the radar could indeed detect that a large fleet was slowly approaching its direction dozens of miles behind.

"Calculate the enemy's sailing speed and try to ensure our safety as much as possible." Looking at the slowly moving green dot on the radar signal, Kondo Nitta ordered.

About ten minutes later, the calculation of the sailing speed of both sides finally came out. According to the radar, the sailing speed of the Australasian Fleet was about 23 knots, which was obviously lower than the 25 knots of the island fleet.

This also means that Kondo Nitta's fleet is very safe at present.

After confirming his safety, Kondo Nitta quickly sent a telegram to Yamamoto Isoroku, who was far away in Tokyo Bay, reminding the Combined Fleet to make emergency preparations.

In order to win this naval battle, Yamamoto Isoroku divided the Combined Fleet into three parts. The first part is the squadron led by Kondo Nitta, whose mission is to attract the main force of the Australasian Navy to Tokyo Bay.

The second part is part of the main force of the navy in Tokyo Bay. Their mission is to contain the Australasian Navy that has arrived in Tokyo Bay in Tokyo Bay and ensure that the coastal defense artillery on the coast can exert its power.

The third part is the main force of the Combined Fleet led by Yamamoto Isoroku himself. They will go around to the southeast of Tokyo Bay. After confirming that the Australasian Navy has entered Tokyo Bay, they will quietly drive to their rear and complete the encirclement of the Australasian Navy with the other two fleets.

As long as the sea area leading to the Pacific Ocean in the south of Tokyo Bay can be blocked, Tokyo Bay will become a completely closed offshore, which is also the guillotine of the Australasian Navy designed in advance by Yamamoto Isoroku.

While the island nation's combined fleet was hastily preparing, dozens of miles behind Kondo Nitta's fleet, the main force of the Australasian Pacific Fleet was also marching towards Tokyo Bay.

Although it was unknown what the islanders were doing, for safety reasons, under the instructions of Chief of Staff Malone, an aircraft carrier and a battleship were transferred from the Indian Ocean Fleet to the Pacific Fleet to strengthen the number of main warships in the Pacific Fleet.

At the same time, Australasian expanded the deployment of the air force in the Ryukyu Islands and Iwo Jima. At present, there are at least 2,000 aircraft available in the two places, plus the navy's carrier-based aircraft, the number of aircraft that can be mobilized in a naval battle has exceeded 3,000.

With an absolute advantage in the number of main warships and aircraft, Jon Odell, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, was full of confidence.

Even though he knew that the actions of the islanders were wrong, Jon Odell still chose to act according to the plan of the islanders.

After all, behind him was the main force of the Pacific Fleet, with more than 2,000 aircraft that could arrive within three hours.

The two sides chased each other, and after more than ten hours of sailing, they finally approached the waters of Tokyo Bay.

Kondo Nitta understood that it was obviously impossible to lure the Australasian Navy into Tokyo Bay by just fleeing. In order to achieve the combat objectives, certain sacrifices were inevitable.

When they were about to arrive at Tokyo Bay, the two light cruisers of the fleet gradually slowed down, waiting for the approach of the Australasian fleet.

They would serve as bait to lure the Australasian Navy into Tokyo Bay to ensure the success of this operation.

In the pursuit of both sides, the Australasian Navy and the island country's warships were getting closer and closer. Half an hour later, Jon Odell naturally saw the two light cruisers at the rear of the island country's fleet.

"Fire! Sink them!" Without much hesitation, Jon Odell gave the order.

Upon hearing the order, the warships of the Australasian fleet quickly turned around, and the naval guns fired together, with an extremely fierce formation.

Boom! Boom!

Facing the bombardment of a large number of main warships, the two light cruisers had no power to fight back at all. However, the islanders obviously did not intend to be just a target. While fighting back, they slowly retreated to Tokyo Bay.

Seeing the movement of the islanders' warships, Jon Odell understood that the islanders must have prepared something in Tokyo Bay. Otherwise, they would not have been so straightforward to introduce the Australasian Navy into Tokyo Bay.

"The enemy may have laid mines in Tokyo Bay and sent some submarines to lead the charge. I want to see what other means the islanders have." Jon Odell ordered.

If the islanders laid mines, it would definitely be a means of hurting the enemy and hurting themselves.

You know, this is Tokyo Bay, the sea area where the capital of the island country is located. If mines are used to block this area of ​​water, it will not only affect the Australasian warships, but also many civilian ships of the islanders.

The good news is that no warships have come into contact with mines along the way. This also means that the islanders are at least not so crazy, and this naval battle should still be mainly a fight between warships.

After chasing for more than ten kilometers, the two light cruisers soon sank because their hulls were blown up.

At this time, the Australasian Navy had already completely entered the waters of Tokyo Bay. Jon Odell did not rush forward, but ordered his men to use radar to detect the enemy's traces.

On the radar screen, several light spots were slowly moving towards the north. These light spots should be the squadron led by Kondo Nitta.

"Didn't you find the enemy's main naval force?" Jon Odell was a little surprised. Logically speaking, the enemy should show up after successfully leading the Australasian Navy into Tokyo Bay.

After all, their purpose is not just to lead the Australasian Navy into Tokyo Bay, but their greater purpose is definitely to defeat the Australasian Navy and win this naval battle.

"Since the enemy is unwilling to show up, we will force them to show up." Jon Odell smiled and ordered the messenger: "Let the planes start. If we can't find the enemy in Tokyo Bay, then bomb the government buildings, the Imperial Palace and other important facilities in Tokyo.

I don't believe it. Is the purpose of the islanders to lure us here from afar just to get us closer to Tokyo?"

With Jon Odell's order, a large number of planes took off from the deck of the aircraft carrier and then dispersed to the entire Tokyo Bay. The speed of the jet plane is very fast. Because it is currently located in Tokyo Bay, as long as they want, they can reach Tokyo in half an hour at any time.

If the island navy really can't be found, then they can only vent their anger by bombing Tokyo. Anyway, all this is the islanders' own fault. In the end, Vice Admiral Jon Odell also saw the practice of leading the enemy to their core area for the first time.

After about ten minutes, the plane in the sky finally found something.

In the waters about 40 kilometers north of the Australasian Navy, a medium-sized naval formation was coming.

However, it seems that it is not the main force of the island nation's navy. After all, the number of battleships does not match the size of the fleet.

"What are the islanders doing?" Jon Odell was a little surprised, but the best way to deal with it at this time is to defeat all enemies approaching.

Without thinking too much, Jon Odell immediately ordered all aircraft to concentrate on attacking this fleet, and ordered all submarines to dive and disperse around the fleet to prevent the attack of the main force of the island nation's navy.

After receiving the order to attack, hundreds of aircraft went to the island nation's fleet. At this time, the fleet led by Kondo Nitta had already joined another fleet, and they successfully became a larger fleet.

However, such a scale is not too dangerous for hundreds of aircraft. After all, it is only part of the island nation's combined fleet, and the number of aircraft carriers it has is very small.

More importantly, the history of the development of the island nation's aircraft carriers is more tortuous than that of other countries, and their aircraft carrier types are also simpler.

It was mentioned before that Britain gave up its support for the island nation long before World War I. Since the demise of the United States, the island nation has no longer had support from the great powers, and most of its military weapons can only rely on its own research and development and imitation.

In the development of aircraft carriers, the islanders' progress is relatively slow. In order to have aircraft carriers, they can only adopt a method similar to the British at the beginning, that is, to modify large destroyers and cruisers to turn them into simple aircraft carriers.

But such modification has great flaws. First of all, the modified destroyers and cruisers have lost some of their main functions, and more of their functions have become platforms for aircraft takeoff, landing and parking.

The island nation also applied such modifications to battleships. At present, half of the island nation's aircraft carriers have been modified in this way. Compared with the world's mainstream aircraft carriers, they are more backward and naturally have worse combat effectiveness.

Moreover, the way of converting destroyers and cruisers into aircraft carriers is destined to make it impossible for such aircraft carriers to carry many aircraft.

Each aircraft carrier of the island nation carries about 12 to 32 aircraft, and only those truly new aircraft carriers can carry more than 40 aircraft.

The impact on this naval battle is that even if the Australasian aircraft in the sky has been discovered, the aircraft on the island nation's aircraft carrier cannot all take off in a short time, and they can only use the air defense weapons on the warships to deal with it.

But as mentioned before, the current air defense weapon technology is relatively simple and can only defend against those low-flying and slow-speed aircraft.

The truly effective defense weapon is still the aircraft itself. Only by defeating the enemy's air force head-on can we ensure that the air will not be threatened by the enemy.

But now, because of the possession of many old aircraft carriers, the aircraft on the island nation's aircraft carrier cannot take off quickly.

This is already at a disadvantage in air and naval battles. When Australasian is already visible to the naked eye, more than half of the island nation's aircraft are still on the deck of the aircraft carrier.

The Australasian aircraft will not care about the islanders' ideas. After determining the target, fighters and bombers launched a fierce bombing and attack on the island nation's warships.

First, a large number of missiles were fired at the enemy's warships. These missiles were all new types of missiles. Not only could their hit rates be guaranteed, but their power was also considerable.

Although not as many as the main warships' guns, with more guns, they can also sink battleships. Moreover, because there are hundreds of aircraft, hundreds of missiles were fired in one round of missile salvos.

According to the missile hit rate, nearly 60% of the missiles can hit the target.

The result is that the first round of missile salvos alone caused huge damage to the two battleships of the island country, and several small warships were directly sunk.

"Baga! What kind of weapon is this?" Kondo Nitta, who was on the flank of the island fleet, was dumbfounded. He did not participate in the Hawaiian attack, so he naturally did not know that Australasia had such a powerful weapon.

Of course, it was also because the islanders chose a good time when they attacked. At two or three in the morning, it was impossible to see things clearly. Many island soldiers could only see the general outline of the weapons, and most of the soldiers died tragically in that air raid.

In the subsequent battle report, someone mentioned this very powerful weapon. But the conclusion given by the island country's defense department is that some soldiers were scared and came up with an excuse to get rid of the blame for the failed sneak attack.

There is nothing we can do about it. If it is really confirmed that Australasia has a powerful weapon that can easily destroy the navy, is there any need to fight this war?

After all, the island country now relies on the navy to survive. If the navy cannot win, it is completely impossible to rely on the army alone.

Moreover, millions of army troops will become a burden to the island government. If you want to feed these millions of troops, you must continue to squeeze tens of millions of island people.

"Major General, our flagship seems to have been hit!" Before Kondo Nitta was surprised for a long time, the adjutant behind him hurriedly reminded him.

Kondo Nitta looked up and saw that, as expected, the flagship of their feudal team, a new battleship, had been hit.

What's more terrible is that the unknown weapon just hit a turret and detonated the turret inside the turret.

This caused a small explosion on the battleship's deck, killing and injuring at least a dozen island navy personnel.

Moreover, due to this small explosion, the deck and side armor fell off directly, and the deck was severely deformed, and it looked like it was seriously damaged.