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Chapter 492: Air Force Counterattack

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    Hearing Li Guoyao¡¯s words, Chen Shaokuan¡¯s face was dull, and it took him a long time to react!

    "Chief Li, do you want to seize the warship from the Japanese?"

    "That's what it means!"

    "How is this possible? You must know that the warships of the little devils are often operated by one battle team. There are not only cruisers, destroyers, frigates and gunboats, but also a large number of naval soldiers and even marines. How can we snatch it?  ?" Chen Shaokuan said with a frown.

    "There is really no chance in normal times, but now that the Battle of Wuhan is imminent, the Japanese army will definitely order the troops to march westward along the Yangtze River Channel and attack Wuhan City. Then our opportunity will come!"

    Li Guoyao then continued: "There is nothing we can do in the vast sea, but when it comes to inland rivers hundreds of kilometers wide, we have plenty of opportunities!"

    Although Chen Shaokuan still couldn't believe that Li Guoyao could really snatch the warship from the Japanese, seeing how serious he was and knowing that Li Guoyao was a man who was good at creating miracles, he immediately said: "Brother solemnly, you are really capable."  This idea?"

    ¡°Well, it¡¯s true!¡±

    "Then what can our navy do for you?"

    "There is no need to do anything for now. I think the Japanese army will advance westward in a few days. Once the war situation on the western front changes, our troops will probably be sent to the front line. By then, I hope that Commander Chen's navy will be ready at all times.  Pretend to be on standby, and as soon as you have the opportunity, please rush to the front line to receive the warship!"

    "Okay! If such a day comes, I, Chen Shaokuan, will thank you forever!"

    ¡°I don¡¯t need this, I just hope that when I need Commander Chen¡¯s help in the future, I hope you won¡¯t refuse!¡± Li Guoyao said.

    "This is natural!"

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    After coming out of the Air Defense Command, sitting in the jeep, Chen Shaokuan felt a little dazed, giving him a sense of illusion.

    He has always been a very pure person, and he firmly believes that everything in the world must be relied on by oneself. This is true for people, and the same is true for the military, just like their navy.

    At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the naval guns of the Western powers awakened the Qing Empire, and the navy finally had its own yamen.

    Before the Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1894, insightful people in both the government and the public finally saw clearly the major danger in resisting China - Japan, and the navy would bear the brunt.  By building shipyards and spending a lot of money to buy warships from the West, the Qing Empire's naval dream finally gradually became a reality.

    But a great battle of Sino-Japanese War not only wiped out the entire Beiyang Navy, but also shattered the nascent naval dream.  Since then, the Chinese Navy has been in decline and has gradually declined.

    By the time the war broke out in 1937, the tonnage of Chinese naval ships was less than 60,000 tons, the largest was only 3,000 tons, and the smallest was only three to five hundred tons, and the ships were outdated.  The equipment of the Chinese Navy has improved compared with that of the Beiyang Navy 40 years ago.

    What¡¯s even worse is that the pitiful navy is still fragmented and doing its own thing.  With such a weak navy fighting against the Japanese navy, which is more than 20 times larger than itself, the victory or defeat is already predestined.

    But regardless of victory or defeat, Chen Shaokuan wanted the navy to maximize its effectiveness in this war of nations.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know what happened today, but I actually listened to the deception of a young man and placed my hope of increasing the strength of the navy on him, an army officer.

    "The specific method is even more ridiculous. It turned out to be to seize warships from the Japanese Navy. How is this possible?

    The navy and the army are different. When the army is fighting, it is often possible to see captured military weapons and equipment to enrich itself, but the navy is different. It is really difficult to capture a warship.

    Everyone in the navy knows that battleships are heavy equipment. Once the situation of the war cannot be reversed, naval officers and soldiers usually choose to sink themselves to prevent the battleship from falling into the enemy's hands, such as Germany's Operation Rainbow.

    On the eve of World War I, in order to compete with Britain for ocean control, Germany spent huge sums of money to build an ocean-going fleet, known in history as the High Seas Fleet.

    You can tell how big this fleet is just by looking at the list. Before the war broke out, it had a total of 31 battleships, 13 battlecruisers, and a large number of cruisers and destroyers, with a total tonnage of millions of tons.

    However, such a powerful fleet rarely accomplished anything in World War I. The only war it experienced was the famous Battle of Jutland. After that battle, the entire fleet huddled in the port until the end of the war.

    After the war, the Allies began to carve up these giant ships and artillery. They required the Germans to hand over the more advanced 10 battleships, 6 battlecruisers, 8 cruisers, 50The destroyers and the entire submarine force were immediately transferred to Scapa Flow in the UK.

    It was obviously unacceptable for the German sailors to hand over a warship that cost a lot of money to build to an enemy country. But at this point, they had no choice, so they chose to sink themselves.

    On June 21, 1919, Rear Admiral Reuter of the German Navy issued a shipwreck signal, each ship raised its flag, and then opened the valve.

    The first ship to sink to the bottom of the sea was the battleship Frederick the Great, followed by other ships one after another. The British who were responsible for tracking in the harbor did nothing. In the end, only 1 of the 16 main battleships ran aground.  , and the rest all sank to the bottom of the sea.  In addition, 5 cruisers and 30 destroyers were sunk.

    Just like that, the commander gave an order, and trillions of dollars were wasted.

    Of course, the Chinese Navy has done something like this once, and it was personally commanded by Chen Shaokuan himself, and that was the Battle of Jiangyin.  It's just that the Jiangyin naval battle cannot be compared with Germany's Operation Rainbow in terms of scale and brutality.

    But because he knew this, Chen Shaokuan did not think that Li Guoyao's battle plan could succeed. This was completely an unrealistic fantasy and had no feasibility at all.

    "However, Chen Shaokuan didn't know what was wrong with him at the time. He didn't refute Li Guoyao, but promised to help him if necessary. He was really in a hurry and sought medical treatment.

    But thinking about it, Li Guoyao only said that he would wait until they captured the warship and let them take it over. He didn't seem to say anything else. He didn't seem to have suffered much loss in this matter.

    Let¡¯s not talk about the secret agreement between Chen Shaokuan and Li Guoyao, let¡¯s talk about the shock between China and Japan again after this big air battle.

    China was naturally overjoyed. The entire city of Wuhan instantly turned into a sea of ??singing and dancing. A large number of citizens poured into the streets to celebrate the victory.

    On the Japanese side, it was a different scene. Seventy or eighty fighter planes were lost again. The direct consequence was that the aviation force of the Central China Front suffered extremely heavy losses. At this time, the total number of fighter planes in the entire Central China region was less than a hundred. For a time, they were even incomparable.  Join the Chinese Air Force.

    Such a disastrous defeat directly shocked the Japanese government and the public, especially the death of Nango Shigeaki, the leader of the Four Heavenly Kings, which saddened many domestic leaders, including the Emperor of Japan himself.

    More importantly, due to this disastrous defeat, the Central China Front Army¡¯s previous plan to bomb Wuhan and undermine the determination and confidence of the Chinese military and civilians in the war of resistance must be shelved.

    The few remaining fighter planes dare not leave big cities such as Shanghai and Nanjing at will. In the past, the Chinese Air Force could only attack with tactics such as sneak attacks, but now the strength of both sides has reversed. It is impossible to guarantee that the daring Chinese Air Force will not come back to bomb Nanjing or  It's Shanghai.

    You must know that the pilots of the Chinese Air Force are extremely courageous. They even sent planes to Japan two months ago for bombing. Although what they dropped at that time was not aerial bombs, but thousands of anti-war propaganda  It was a single incident, but it also shocked Japan.

    Now that the Army and Navy Air Force of the Imperial Japanese Army have lost more than two hundred fighters and a large number of pilots, the Chinese Air Force will definitely not miss such a good opportunity.

    "This is indeed the case. While the big guys in the Military Commission were busy discussing how to reward the officers and soldiers in this war, the Air Force had already formulated a plan to take the initiative and received approval from the Aviation Commission.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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