"Boom!" There was a burst of artillery, and the "Musashi"'s nine 460mm main guns and six 155mm secondary guns opened fire first. The shells came out amidst the violent vibrations of the ship's hull, and headed straight for the port with a sharp whistle.
Go and blow up several merchant ships anchored in the port to pieces in an instant.
Those merchant ships were captured when the Eighth Route Army occupied the port before the Empire had time to sail away. Because the outside was an area controlled by the Imperial Navy, the merchant ships could not be used and could only be parked in the port. At this time, they became the target of Inoguchi Toshihei's vent.
Inoguchi Toshihei looked at the fire at the port with satisfaction through the telescope, and the "Zero" fighter planes immediately swooped down and strafed the targets below.
However, at this moment, the water reconnaissance pilots performing reconnaissance missions in the surrounding area reported in vain: "Your Excellency, Major General, we have discovered the Eighth Route Army fleet, and they are approaching from behind our army!"
"Eighth Route Army fleet?" Inoguchi Toshihei's expression changed, and he hurriedly ran to the other side of the ship's side and raised his binoculars to take a look. Sure enough, he saw vague shadows of several warships behind him. They were indeed Eighth Route Army warships.
Inoguchi Toshihei instantly felt that something was wrong.
It was not that Toshihei Inoguchi was afraid of the Eighth Route Army fleet, but that he realized one thing right away:
If the Eighth Route Army fleet was not deceived and was not taken to Dalian Bay, does that mean the Eighth Route Army was not deceived from the beginning?
If the Eighth Route Army was not fooled, would it be him who was fooled?
As if responding to Toshihei Inoguchi, the battlefield situation suddenly changed. Anti-aircraft missiles flew out in the direction of the port, abruptly creating a gap in the Japanese "zero war" defense circle.
Then the shadow of the Eighth Route Army's "La-5" fighter plane appeared in the distant sky.
So Toshihei Inoguchi knew that he was right to worry. The strategic focus of the Eighth Route Army had not shifted to Dalian Bay at all. He had been fooled!
Inoguchi Toshihei's guess was correct, he was indeed fooled.
Wang Xuexin never moved the missiles from the beginning.
Wang Xuexin believed that because Dalian was full of Japanese spies at that time, no matter how the anti-ship missiles were deployed, it would be a useless effort: the Eighth Route Army would move the missiles here so that the Japanese could hit them there, and move the missiles there so that the Japanese could hit this place.
The choice is always in the hands of the Japanese. The Eighth Route Army will always make one move.
Therefore, simply adjusting anti-ship missiles is useless. If you want to win, you can only work on the root cause, which is intelligence.
It's easy to think about it this way. Chen Songyong continues to do what he should do, such as transporting anti-ship missiles to Dalian Bay in disguise, and conducting strict blockades and intelligence searches along the way.
The difference is that none of the anti-ship missiles from the port have been shipped out, they are all sitting there intact.
Not only did Wang Xuexin not transfer out, he also urgently transferred a batch of missiles from the rear to strengthen the defense of the port, especially anti-aircraft missiles.
Because Wang Xuexin understood one thing: the speed of anti-ship missiles is only more than 300 kilometers, and it is easy for Japanese fighter jets to intercept them.
In order for anti-ship missiles to break through the Japanese air defense circle and hit Japanese warships, they must first compete with the Japanese for air supremacy.
The most effective way to fight for air supremacy is anti-aircraft missiles.
To be precise, the best thing to use in the current situation is anti-aircraft missiles.
Under normal circumstances, the best equipment for fighting for air supremacy should be fighter planes, and only fighter planes.
Because aircraft fly at high speeds, if anti-aircraft missiles are placed here, enemy fighter planes can attack another position.
The battle at the port was different. In this battle, it was certain that the Japanese would attack the port, so anti-aircraft missiles were easier to use than fighter planes... Anti-aircraft missiles were cheap and had a high hit rate. On average, three anti-aircraft missiles could destroy and injure one target.
This is not to say that the anti-aircraft missiles of this era are more advanced than modern ones, but that the fighter aircraft of this era are lagging behind modern fighter aircraft: they are slow, have no airborne radar to know that they are locked, and do not have induced missiles.
Therefore, the Japanese fighter planes have almost no power to fight back in the face of anti-aircraft missiles. At most, they can only perform some meaningless maneuvers.
Wang Xuexin also specially placed anti-aircraft missiles at the front of the port.
Wang Xuexin has calculated that the gun range of Japanese cruisers and destroyers is about 20 to 30 kilometers. If a Japanese fighter jet wants to intercept missiles, its flight area will be about 20 kilometers in the front, and the remaining 10 kilometers in the rear are reserved for the anti-aircraft firepower of the warship.
(The Japanese anti-aircraft gun has a range of more than seven kilometers).
These two air defense areas cannot overlap. Once they overlap, they will fall into chaos. That is, the air defense gunners are likely to accidentally damage their own fighters when intercepting missiles, which will reduce the combat efficiency of the air defense guns and fighters at the same time.
However, the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft missiles have a range of 20 kilometers. If they are placed in front of the port, they will cover the entire Japanese fighter aircraft defense circle.
In addition, a batch of "La 5" fighter planes will be used to ensure the safety of the air defense missiles in case the Japanese fighter planes make a desperate move... The air defense network at the port will be complete.
Therefore, in Toshihei Inoguchi's eyes, it was the Eighth Route Army that wanted to break through the air defense network of the Imperial Fleet, but in fact this was not the case.
Once the battle started, it was just the opposite. It was the Japanese fighter planes that wanted to break through the Eighth Route Army's air defense network.
Because under the threat of the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft missiles, the Japanese fighter planes had only two choices: either stay in place and be shot down one by one by the anti-aircraft missiles, or rush forward and blow up those anti-aircraft missiles.
The other option is to admit defeat and withdraw from the battlefield.
Of course, the Japanese fighter planes will not withdraw from the battlefield easily. They will fly towards the anti-aircraft missiles deployed on the port like a conditioned reflex.
The Japanese's "Zero War" battles with the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft missiles were no longer just two. They knew that anti-aircraft missiles were directed by the air defense system. As long as they could destroy the air defense system, all anti-aircraft missiles would be paralyzed.
But the Japanese obviously thought too much.
Wang Xuexin was well prepared for this. He deployed a total of four air defense systems at the port, and they were deployed in depth: one set at the front, two sets at the rear, and one set as a backup.
When the Japanese fighter planes swarmed up and tried to knock out the forward air defense system, they did not realize that they had been locked by more anti-aircraft missiles on the second line.
This is the trap within the trap: the port is a big trap, and the port front is a small trap for Japanese fighter planes!
Needless to say, the result was that amid a burst of smoke and whistle from anti-aircraft missiles, the Japanese fighter plane was beaten to pieces in the air. The wreckage of the plane fell down like flowers from the sky. The sky was filled with fire and explosions.
Black smoke from the engine.
Some Japanese fighter jets discovered that they had been tricked and tried to escape from the trap, but were quickly shot down one by one by the "La 5" fighter jets that arrived.
In just ten minutes, out of the Japanese's sixty "zero battles", only five survived with injuries.
However, they did not dare to stay. They turned around and evacuated this daunting battlefield without any hesitation.
Only the four warships led by Toshihei Inoguchi were left, and they were floating alone on the sea like abandoned wild dogs!