It can also be seen from this that Toshihei Inoguchi has considerable tactical skills.
In fact, Inoguchi Minpei was a tactical expert before he became the captain of the "Musashi" ship. He was even a well-known authoritative figure in the empire in terms of cannons. This is why Inoguchi Minpei became an unsinkable weapon that was regarded as the pride of the empire.
The main reason for the captain of the battleship "Musashi".
(Note: The two Japanese battleships "Yamato" and "Musashi" are regarded as the glory of the empire, and to some extent they are even placed on high hopes as the key to victory in the final decisive battle. Therefore, those who can serve as captains of these two battleships are extremely
ordinary people)
In addition, Toshihei Inoguchi also has a younger brother named Rihei Inoguchi, who was the inventor of the infamous "Kamikaze".
When Toshihei Inoguchi gave the order, the staff officer raised a question.
"Your Excellency, Major General!" the staff officer said: "The enemy's anti-ship missiles have the advantage of range. Shouldn't we plan to engage in close combat with the enemy? Why did the Major General..."
The staff officer's words revealed the confusion in many people's hearts, so the surrounding commanders more or less focused their attention on Inoguchi Toshipei.
This should be said to be common sense. When the range is not as good as the enemy, you should try to eliminate this disadvantage and engage in close combat with the enemy.
However, Toshihei Inoguchi did the opposite and still planned to use the battleship's guns to fight a long-distance battle with the Eighth Route Army.
Inoguchi Toshipei didn't explain, he just asked: "Will the enemy be stupid enough to fight us in close combat?"
Inoguchi Toshihei's words are enough to explain all the problems clearly.
The battleship's top speed is only 27 knots, while the enemy's light cruiser has 34 knots and the destroyer has 37 knots, both of which are much faster than the battleship.
Therefore, the decision whether to fight a close battle or a distant battle does not lie in the hands of the imperial army at all.
Therefore, if you want to engage in close combat with the enemy, you can only stay in your imagination. The enemy will use its speed advantage to always keep a distance from the imperial army, which means that they will always be outside the range of the imperial fleet.
In other words, under normal circumstances, the imperial fleet can never hit the target, except for battleships.
The reason why battleships are excluded is because their range has exceeded the visual distance.
Just like before, the Eighth Route Army fleet broke into the battleship range and was in danger, not because they were stupid or stupid, but because they simply did not realize that the imperial battleship was ahead.
This is undoubtedly the weakness of the Eighth Route Army fleet, and Inoguchi Minpei plans to continue to exploit this weakness of the Eighth Route Army:
If the Eighth Route Army couldn't see the Imperial fleet 40 kilometers away, does that mean they didn't notice the battleship approaching them?
By the time they discovered it, the distance between us and the enemy would have been about thirty kilometers, right?
Therefore, the previous scene of battleships chasing enemy ships will appear again!
But this time, Inoguchi Toshihei would not give the enemy any chance to escape.
Inoguchi Toshipei no longer explained too much to his staff. He believed that they should think about these principles themselves, so that they can truly improve their thinking and commanding abilities.
What Toshihei Inoguchi did was to direct the crew to make every effort to control the fire and minimize the damage.
The fire was finally put out after more than half an hour... The fuel actually burned out in ten minutes, but battleships of this period, to be precise, warships of this period would habitually install a wooden deck on the upper deck.
Many people say that this has been a habit of the navy since the Middle Ages, and that the navy was unwilling to change so it came to this tradition. However, this is not the actual situation.
Covering the deck with a layer of wooden flooring has many practical benefits.
For example, the heat insulation of warships can be increased: direct sunlight on the steel deck will make the originally airtight internal cabins very stuffy, which may threaten the lives of the crew in hot summers.
Therefore, sometimes not only wooden floors are installed on the deck, but other insulation materials are also filled between the floor and the steel deck.
For another example, people walking on steel plates are likely to generate static electricity, and these static electricity may detonate artillery shells on warships.
If you switch to a wooden deck, this problem will not exist.
But everything has advantages and disadvantages. For example, at this time, these wooden floors were ignited and burned to a mess. It not only increased the losses of the "Musashi", but also made the deck full of pits and chars from the burned wooden floors, which brought great harm to the crew.
A lot of inconvenience.
But Toshihei Inoguchi no longer cared about this much at this time. He ordered the logistics staff to count the available equipment. If it was burned or malfunctioned, replace it with the one that can be repaired.
The final result is that there are still more than thirty 25mm anti-aircraft guns that can be used normally.
Only a fraction of the more than 130 anti-aircraft guns were left, and the losses cannot be said to be insignificant.
Fortunately, these are only anti-aircraft guns installed outside the battleship. Those that return to the factory in the future will only need to be replaced. The battleship itself has not been damaged, which is also a comfort to Inoguchi Toshipei.
After taking a short rest, Inoguchi Toshihei ordered the fleet to spread out and surround the "Musashi" in the center, and then sailed towards the position of the Eighth Route Army fleet.
What Inoguchi Minpei didn't know was that while he was making preparations, Xu Huandong was also racking his brains for the upcoming war.
Xu Huandong and Inoguchi Toshihei were thinking about the same thing. He also knew that in the face of Japanese battleships, although the Eighth Route Army had the advantage of the range of anti-ship missiles and the tactics of "fighting backwards", it was unable to play its role due to its lack of reconnaissance capabilities.
The result of the failure is that when the enemy battleships slow down, the coastal defense regiment will most likely be in danger of being chased again.
Xu Huandong thought of many methods, including using anti-ship missiles for reconnaissance.
This method is theoretically feasible because the anti-ship missile has a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour and a range of more than 200 kilometers, which means it can fly in the air for more than half an hour.
At the same time, the anti-ship missile is also equipped with a camera that can transmit image signals back to the warship. In this way, just launching an anti-ship missile can detect the position of the enemy fleet in the air for at least half an hour.
However, after asking the missile technicians, I realized that this method was totally unworkable.
Because the signal returned by the TV is so poor, it is difficult to see the target clearly at a distance of two or three kilometers. You can only see a vague shadow. If it is farther away, you can only fly blindly in the predetermined direction... that is, when you know
Based on the enemy's position, radar is used to assist in controlling the missile to fly in that direction, and it can only aim at close range.
This is the reason why several missiles failed to hit before.
The range of the Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft gun on the Japanese warship is 7.5 kilometers, which is far beyond the visual range of anti-ship missiles.
What's more, anti-ship missiles cannot afford such waste.
Finally, Xu Huandong thought of the only seaplane on the "Zhenhai" ship...