Wang Xuexin was right. Eagle Sauce's victory at Midway Island indeed forced the Japanese to shift their strategic focus back to China.
Historically, the victory of Yingjiang at Midway Island has not given the Japanese such a big shock, because Yingjiang's proximity fuze has not yet been developed at that time. Although the Japanese suffered heavy losses in the battle at Midway, they still managed to sink Yingjiang.
An aircraft carrier.
But now, Yingjiang only exchanged one destroyer for minor damage in exchange for four Japanese aircraft carriers and one heavy cruiser... Such a battle-loss ratio was difficult for the Japanese to accept.
What is even more unacceptable is that their "zero battle" was actually vulnerable to the enemy's warships.
This is unimaginable and even goes against common sense.
After all, warships are slow. Thirty knots is considered fast. When converted into kilometers, the speed is more than 50 per hour, while the speed of a warship is more than 500 when it is stationary.
Having a fast speed versus a slow one has an inherent advantage. You can hit and run away so that warships can't hit you.
What's more important is that the fighter plane is very flexible in rolling and maneuvering in the air. Even if the enemy warship has anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, it is impossible to prevent it.
However, the Japanese did not understand why this happened. In this battle, Yingjiang's anti-aircraft guns were as accurate as if they had eyes. The fighter planes attacking the Yingjiang aircraft carrier disintegrated in the air and fell into the sea.
It cannot pose a threat to the target at all.
At the beginning, the Japanese were still kept in the dark. Tokyo made a comprehensive analysis of the outcome of this battle from several aspects:
1. Eagle sauce increases the density of warship anti-aircraft firepower.
But this is unlikely, because even if the density of anti-aircraft firepower is increased, it is impossible to achieve such terrifying results on the battlefield... In actual combat, whether it is ship attack, ship explosion or ship battle, the empire cannot get close to Eagle Sauce
Destroyers, without exception, were smashed to pieces as soon as they got close.
exclude!
Second, Yingjiang has strengthened the training of anti-aircraft gun shooters.
This possibility is unlikely. The Imperial Navy's anti-aircraft artillery shooters are also well-trained in many battles, but in the face of the incoming aviation force, they can only watch helplessly as the fighter planes blow up the aircraft carriers one by one.
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exclude!
If it is not these two items, then there is only one possibility, and that is that Yingjiang possesses an advanced equipment that the empire does not know about. This advanced equipment can improve the hit rate of anti-aircraft guns!
So Tokyo immediately used its intelligence personnel deployed inside Hawk Sauce. After a while, they got some news: it was a problem with the artillery shells... Hawk Sauce used a new type of shells, which did not require a delay fuse and could be used at close range.
A new type of artillery shell that automatically explodes when hitting a target, and it is said that the technology of this artillery shell comes from China.
This caused a sensation in the empire from top to bottom.
Then, many people immediately thought of China's special bomb...
Doesn't China's special bomb automatically explode when an imperial fighter plane approaches?
The empire had never been able to figure out why this "special bomb" could do this before, but now it finally understood that it was this new technology!
Bastard, that Chinese battalion commander gave his skills to Yingjiang after all!
In this, Yingjiang actually used a little trick.
Historically, the "proximity fuse" was kept strictly confidential. Except for the naval artillery, all other unrelated personnel, including pilots and sailors, did not know the existence of the proximity fuse... Anyway, what they saw
They are all anti-aircraft guns fired at enemy targets. Who knows what the fuze is capable of?
The Navy even stipulates that "proximity fuse" artillery shells must not be used if it cannot be guaranteed that the enemy cannot obtain unexploded artillery shells.
This rule sounds a bit confusing, and I still don’t understand what it means at first glance.
In fact, it is very simple. Yingjiang is worried that if the shell fails to detonate due to fuze problems, the shell with the proximity fuze will fall into the hands of the Japanese. As a result, the secret of this new equipment will be leaked and it may even be copied by the Japanese.
Therefore, the battlefield where proximity-fuzed artillery shells are fired must ensure that the enemy cannot obtain the artillery shells.
For example, in the ocean.
If it is an island attack or landing operation, even if the air is full of Japanese fighter planes, the Yingjiang warship can only use ordinary anti-aircraft artillery shells.
Under such a strict confidentiality system, how could the Japanese intelligence personnel obtain information about the proximity fuze?
Is it true that the Japanese intelligence agents are all-pervasive?
This is not the case.
At this time, this information was intentionally leaked by Yingjiang.
Because the situation at this time is different from that in history.
Historically, the Japanese had full confidence in the Pacific battlefield because they had a "zero war" and fought with a favorable wind for a long time.
Under such circumstances, the Japanese would not give up the Pacific battlefield easily, so the less the Japanese knew, the better.
But now...
The Japanese suffered successive setbacks on the Pacific battlefield.
First of all, because the "Zero War" had its weaknesses discovered by Eagle Sauce, it did not have much advantage over the "Wildcat" fighters.
Secondly, there were successive naval battles, in which the Japanese failed to take advantage but were still defeated miserably.
Therefore, is it advisable for the Navy to continue to expand its sphere of influence in the Pacific battlefield?
The Japanese will definitely have doubts about their strategic direction, or they may be hesitating about it.
Yingjiang's think tank evaluated this point and foresaw that if a little weight was added to this scale, even just a little bit, it would probably cause the Japanese to shift their strategic focus to China.
And this is what Yingjiang is happy to see... This is in line with Yingjiang's interests. Why not reduce his own pressure and transfer the main battlefield to other countries?
Therefore, Yingjiang deliberately revealed some information about the "proximity fuse".
It's just a very obscure point. For example, there is no need to adjust the delay fuze, it can automatically explode after approaching the target, but it is not said that it relies on micro radar.
This makes it impossible for the Japanese to imitate it, because micro radar is the key.
By the way, Yingjiang also brought the trouble to China... This technology comes from China.
When the Japanese heard this, they exploded.
China only gave Eagle Sauce such a small technology to cause such a big chain reaction...China's relevant technology does not pose a great threat to the empire, because China's industrial base is poor and it is difficult to achieve mass and large-scale production.
But Eagle Sauce is different. Eagle Sauce is a big country and it can easily achieve mass production.
For example, if all anti-aircraft guns are equipped with proximity fuze technology, will the Empire's fighter planes still be included?
What's more, this is just one of China's many technologies.
Doesn’t China still have the X1 that can be launched from fighter planes with a range of several hundred meters?
Would it be possible if this technology were passed to Yingjiang for mass production?
How can the Imperial Air Force survive?
Just surrender!
Thinking of this, the Japanese naturally turned their attention to China.