Chapter 1181 The shock brought by three hundred airships
Judging from the name Sato Tokawa’s Chinese, unlike Kato Hiroji, who looked down on China extremely, Sato Tokawa, as a Japanese naval think tank, attaches great importance to the oldest country on land.
The officers looked at him, and the thin old man slowly said: "The intelligence class of the Navy learned from China that because the Chinese had lagged behind our country in the development of the navy, they chose another development path, namely, developing the aviation combat mode. The Chinese planes were even divided into six models, namely bombers, fighter jets, transport aircraft, fighter bombers, reconnaissance aircraft, and practice aircraft. Chinese President Wang Maoru started his career as the captain of the Aviation Guard Brigade, and he supported the construction of China's earliest reconnaissance aircraft, fighter jets and bombers, which attracted Yuan Shikai's attention. Moreover, Wang Maoru has been committed to developing the range and combat effectiveness of aircraft since the fourth year of the Republic of China. The naval staff believed that Wang Maoru tried to replace ships with aircraft and realize alternative national defense."
"Is the Army Intelligence Department's intelligence accurate?" someone complained, "Those gangsters are never reliable."
Sato Tetsutaro immediately furiously said, "Shut up, they sacrificed at least a dozen excellent spy personnel from the empire for this information. This is enough to show the transfer and focus of the Chinese strategy. Do you have any countermeasures?"
Everyone was silent for a while, but his student Kato Hiroji said, "Teacher, do you think the plane may replace the ship? I know that our seaplanes are also relatively successful. At least everyone knows the power of offshore seaplanes, but in terms of oceans, seaplanes cannot take off and sail on oceans at least 1.5 meters high."
Sato Tetsutaro nodded and said, "I don't think the plane can be the protagonist of the war for the time being, but this gives us a very big warning. And when we block the Chinese sea and occupy the coastal areas of China, our army will suffer unprecedented losses if it rashly enters mainland China. Because the navy cannot go ashore, the army without the naval protection will only be defeated."
"Hi, what you said makes sense." Kato Hiroji said, and others nodded in agreement. Indeed, without the protection of the navy, the Japanese army is just a group of idiots - from this we can see how deeply the Japanese army and navy look down on each other.
"Look!" Suddenly, Keisuke Okada exclaimed at a "dark cloud" in the distance. The other generals also looked at the telescope with their telescopes, and were surprised and getting closer. It was not a dark cloud. It was the Chinese airship unit.
The three hundred and eighteen airships seemed to have enveloped the sky between 500 and 1,200 meters away from the sponge.
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A huge roar came from afar. Gradually, not only the Japanese naval officers on the command tower saw that even the Japanese naval soldiers who looked down on the Chinese opened their mouths and saw airships covering the sky and the sun flying slowly.
The size of an airship is almost equal to a cruiser, and the huge black airbags show their strength majestic. The airship is like this kind of flower stand. It looks scary, but in fact it does not have combat ability. But despite not having any combat ability, more than 300 airships almost filled the entire sky, which really scared the Japanese.
"One! Two! Three... One Hundred and twenty... Oh my god, I can't count it." A Japanese sailor shouted.
"Little Island. Are these really Chinese people?"
"It's not British, right?"
Several sailors immediately looked at the cannon leader and waited for the cannon leader to speak. The cannon leader also said with an embarrassed look on his face: "Probably, maybe, it's almost... it should be."
Kato Hiroji opened his mouth and asked, "Can we fire the gun... or can we fight-?" This is a person with such a arrogant personality, which can tell the Japanese are confused at this time. This is a strategic breakthrough. If it were not seen with your own eyes, you would never be shocked by it. Japan has built three airships on its own, and the navy has also equipped the observation balloon early, but the Japanese airship exploded during the manufacturing process, causing the Japanese Navy to complain. Because the observation balloon can be placed in the storage room when it is not used, but the airship cannot be put in. The navy needs to travel far, and the airship is slower than the warship, so the development of the Japanese airship has completely given up.
However, seeing the huge fleet of Chinese airships still shocked the Japanese. They opened their mouths and couldn't speak, and they didn't even need to release the balloons to observe. When they saw the huge fleet, they knew that the Chinese warships were not far away.
"Kato." Sato Tetsutaro said, "We had already received news before they set off that the Chinese would send airships to Japan, but unexpectedly, more than 300 airships would be like this - terrible." After he finished speaking, he suddenly laughed, as if he was summarizing and comforting others, saying, "But what combat effectiveness do these airships have? They are just transporting airships."
Indeed, all Japanese need comfort, because the scene of more than 300 airships pounced on them was too terrifying. For many Japanese sailors, this was a terrifying scene of the matchup they saw in their lives. As for whether the airships would hurt themselves, many sailors did not know the answer, they were just simple fear and fear.
Suddenly, a sailor accidentally fired a shot, and his firing immediately detonated the panic of all the soldiers of the First Fleet. Because of fear, they collectively attacked the airships that were originally more than ten kilometers away. Not to mention that the machine gun was not hit, even the main gun could not reach it.
"Bang bang bang..."
“Tututu…”
The commander of the first fleet on the Nagato battleship command tower, Suzuki Kantaro, was shocked and asked angrily: "Who fires the gun?"
"Report to the commander, some soldiers fired fire because of fear, which triggered more soldiers to shoot. I think everyone is just relieving the fear." The captain of the Domen, Colonel Sakakoto, said after a little understanding.
"Bastard!" Suzuki Kanaro complained, "Let them stop shooting, the bullets from Japan are not used to feed the sea."
"Yes." said the third colonel Zuojin Simasatsu.
Soon, the soldiers of the Japanese First Fleet stopped shooting at the air, and many sailors vented this time, and their fear became much smaller.
Commander Suzuki Kantaro knew the soldiers' hearts at this time, so he did not blame them. Indeed, even he, who had always been knowledgeable, was stunned by this new combat mode, let alone the soldiers?
As the think tank of the Japanese Navy, Chief of Staff, Tetsutaro Sato, said firmly: "The future sea control power will probably be added to air control." On the side, the president of the Japanese Naval School, Iroku Yamamoto, flashed with a flash of eyes, and he looked at the airship in the sky with all his thoughts.
"Report." The staff officer came, "Cabinet Emergency Telegram."
"Say." Suzuki Kantaro said.
"Our Navy shall not have armed conflicts with the Chinese rescue team. We will immediately withdraw the Yokosuka Military Port and order the commander of Yokosuka Military Port, Kato Hiroji, to deduct his salary for three months to show punishment." After reading the staff officer, he carefully handed the telegram to Kantaro Suzuki.
"This is the second telegram." Suzuki Kantaro murmured to himself.
"Yes." Sato Tetsutaro said, "I guess the third telegram will be sent in less than ten minutes. Do you want to make a bet?"
"Haha, don't pay attention." Suzuki Kantaro said, "We need to look at the Chinese fleet. If it is worth eliminating, then don't hesitate. If it is not worth mentioning, just teach a lesson."
"Lesson?" Sato Tetsutaro asked with a smile.
"Enter them." Suzuki Kantaro laughed.
"Mr. Commander." Kato Hiroji heard that the two of them meant that they no longer wanted to fight, so they were anxious. As the main war team, he naturally wanted to fight. This time he came to the First Fleet as an observer to clamor for Suzuki Kantaro to fight against the Chinese Navy. So Kato Hiroji immediately said anxiously: "This is a rare and good opportunity, and we must not let it go. As for the Prime Minister, I think he was born as a politician and could not understand what the right to decide the battlefield was."
Suzuki Kantaro touched his white beard, not knowing what he was thinking.
Kato Hiroji said again: "Isn't this attack on the Chinese rescue team the purpose of our departure? Are we going to give up? Commander, please don't hesitate. Victory is right in front of you. The opportunity to destroy the last navy in China is close."
"Woooooooo..." The motor of the airship in the sky became louder, and the Chinese airship vanguard troops gathered in the Japanese First Fleet for only a few kilometers away.
"Report! The third telegram from the Prime Minister has arrived." The staff officer hurriedly said, "The content is exactly the same as the previous one, just adding a sentence that His Highness the Regent is preparing to visit the Chinese refugee camp. In addition, the ambassadors of Britain, the United States and France hope that the sea in Asia will be calmed and urged our government to destroy the warships as soon as possible in the Washington Naval Treaty."
"Bastard! Damn white man." Kato Hiroji said anxiously. The naval officers were furious after hearing the Washington Naval Treaty, but they dared not say anything, because one of the Japanese representatives of the Washington Naval Treaty, Suzuki Kantaro was their commander.
Sato Tetsutaro looked at Suzuki and said, "It seems that our Prime Minister Kiyogu is scared."
Suzuki Kantaro shook his head and said, "Prime Minister Qingpu is now in a mess because he is constantly attacked by the Political Association. If there is a Sino-Japanese conflict now, I think Qingpu will be even more messy. Well, although I don't like this guy who is an adviser, he is a representative of the royal family."
"It's hard to fight or not." Sato Tetrataro sighed.
"For us, isn't it the case for Chinese people? I think they are writing suicide notes now, right?" said Suzuki Kantaro.
"What are you going to do?" asked Sato Tetsutaro.
Chapter completed!