69novels Chapter 728
Chapter 728
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: 0.076s Scan: 0.025sThe bombing caused great losses to the Japanese Combined Fleet. In addition to the battleship Nagato being hit by a bomb at the beginning, several other battleships were also injured.
The quality of the Gauls’ bombers was not good, and the number of bombs mounted was limited. As a result, more than 50 fighters only damaged 3 battleships and sank a destroyer. These results were not as great as the results achieved by 2 torpedo attack planes. The torpedoes fired by these two torpedo attack planes hit a heavy cruiser, and the Japanese heavy cruiser Furutaka was sunk on the spot.
This heavy cruiser of more than 10,000 tons was larger than any battleship of the Celestial Empire. Its sinking was the biggest result achieved by the Celestial Empire at sea since the war began.
The sinking of the heavy cruiser Gu Ying immediately stunned the Combined Fleet of Jiaoben. Seeing their companions so vulnerable under the attack of torpedoes, they could no longer care about anything else and immediately turned around and retreated at full speed.
If the bombers of the Celestial Empire had not lost all their bombs, the battleship Nagato, which was left behind, would have been hit by a few more bombs!
The news of the tragic bombing of the Combined Fleet shocked Jiaoben.
For Jiaoben, they could not care about the casualties of the army soldiers.
After all, the casualties were all the lower-class people, who were the kind of cannon fodder that could be sacrificed.
As long as they needed it, they could be replenished at any time.
However, the battleships of the Combined Fleet were completely different.
These battleships were basically built by Tianhuang who took the lead in donating money and materials and saving money.
The cost of building these battleships was very expensive, and they were of great significance to Jiaoben.
Like the Never-Setting Sun, the Foot Basin is an island nation that prioritizes the development of its navy. The tragic ending of the Never-Setting Sun also tells the Foot Basin people that if their navy is gone, what a tragic ending awaits them!
Therefore, for the Foot Basin, any warship in the combined fleet cannot be lost, especially those large battleships. Each of these battleships embodies the hard work of countless people and carries the hopes of their entire nation. If they are sunk in the war with the Celestial Empire before they begin to play a role, it would be a big loss for the Foot Basin! Therefore, the Foot Basin
Navy does not need to give orders, Zhaohe Tianhuang himself can’t help it!
On the evening of the day when the navy was attacked, Zhaohe Tianhuang was furious after learning the news. He not only ordered the navy to keep a safe distance and withdraw from the coast of the Celestial Empire to avoid being attacked by the Celestial Empire Air Force again.
In addition, he also called the Minister of the Army over and scolded him, blaming the Army for not discovering the Celestial Empire’s Air Force in advance, causing the Navy to suffer such heavy losses!
Three battleships were damaged, a heavy cruiser was sunk, and several other warships in the fleet were damaged!
If it weren’t for the poor skills of the Celestial Empire’s pilots, their losses would be even more severe if they were bombed from the air!
Zhaohe Tianhuang believed that if the army’s attack had not been effective, and if they could completely capture the Songhu area and drive away the Celestial Empire’s army, their navy would not be in such danger.
So he issued a death order to the Minister of the Army, requiring the army to capture the positions of the Celestial Empire’s army within a week and capture Song, the largest city of the Celestial Empire!
The Minister of the Army was scolded for no reason, and he felt so wronged!
The navy was bombed, what does this have to do with their army? It must be the guys in the navy who complained in advance, so His Majesty Tianhuang scolded them like this, and the bastards in the navy did not mention their own faults at all, and did not mention that they were careless and careless, and only realized that the enemy was coming when the enemy flew over their heads.
If they had discovered the German air force earlier, would their losses have been so severe?
This bunch of idiots in the navy can really blame the army for everything!
The battle between the land and sea in the foot basin has been going on for many years. As early as during the Russo-Japanese War, Nogi Maresuke’s army was unable to capture the port of Tadashi, which resulted in the Combined Fleet’s failure to eat up the remaining fleet of the bear in the Pacific. This made Togo Heihachiro once pointed at Nogi Maresuke’s face and scolded him for being incompetent, saying that he was a good-for-nothing and should commit suicide to thank the world!
Nogi Maresuke’s face turned red after being scolded, but he couldn’t say a word. He held his breath. When attacking Tadashi, in order to take this place, he came up with the famous human bomb impact tactics, using the human wave tactics to attack the fortress guarded by the bear army. As a result, the Japanese army suffered very heavy losses and almost couldn’t get off the stage in the end. It was Kodama Gentaro who came to take over his command and took down Tadashi for him.
That sea-land dispute had already laid the groundwork for the conflict between the army and navy of the foot basin.
After all, although Nogi Maresuke was incompetent, he was at least a meritorious general of the army.
You, Togo Heihachiro, were very awesome, but you couldn’t point at Nogi Maresuke’s nose and scold him in front of everyone.
This was not only a humiliation to Nogi Maresuke himself, but also a humiliation to the entire foot basin army.
The army was naturally quite dissatisfied!
In
1924, the foot basin plotted against the Celestial Empire’s Vladivostok and took the initiative to attack here. As a result, it encountered a mine attack at sea, and a troop transport ship, the Saikyo Maru, and a battleship, the Mikasa, were sunk.
Since the formation of the Combined Fleet, it has never suffered the loss of a battleship being sunk, so after seeing the Mikasa sink, the Combined Fleet immediately retreated, and as a result, more than 2,000 soldiers on the Saikyo Maru were ignored, and most of them fell into the water and drowned!
This accident made the contradiction between the navy and the army more prominent and the confrontation more serious.
The navy called the army”red deer”, thinking that their lives were worthless, just like livestock, not as good as their own battleships, so they would definitely rather protect the battleships than the soldiers.
The army was completely enraged by the navy’s behavior, and the contradiction between the two reached an irreconcilable point.
This time, in the war of invading the Celestial Empire, the navy and the army of Jiaoben were finally able to unite because they had a common enemy. Although this unity was more like superficial unity, in fact, the internal contradictions were still prominent, but brothers on the surface were still brothers, so the face project still had to be maintained!
Moreover, at this time, His Majesty Tianhuang had already given the order personally. If they did nothing, it would be a violation of Tianhuang’s order, and they could not afford such consequences!