The Japanese fleet retreated, but Heino von Schebar vice admiral, commander of the flagship German escort fleet of "Auguste", didn’t think that the next voyage would be smooth. The Japanese fleet retreated rather than evaded the strong attack of German ships during the day, because the loss of an aircraft carrier was not enough for the Japanese commander to willingly lead the fleet back to Tushball. General Schebar felt that the Japanese regarded night close-range naval warfare as a major subject in daily training and regarded this tactic as the "killer weapon" of the Japanese navy.
The meaning of night naval battle depends on taking the lead in showing the enemy and attacking quickly and accurately, and torpedoes become a major uncertain factor outside the strength of both sides. A torpedo boat with hundreds of tons may sink a large ship with thousands of tons and tens of thousands of tons. In addition, there are also accidental strikes and collisions of square ships. As far as the warring sides are concerned, the strong side usually chooses to avoid the night battle, while the weak side hopes to turn the tide through the night battle.
According to the evaluation of the German intelligence department, the Japanese navy does have a little more training in night warfare than the German navy, but the German navy is not prepared at all. Besides the usual night drills, the radar equipment of the German navy has also greatly improved its night combat capability. At present, more than half of the ships in Shibar’s fleet are equipped with eagle-eye radar, including the main ships Auguste, Caesar Frederick III, Bavaria, Hindenburg and Hesse.
Even if you really want to block the midnight oil in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the German fleet is not afraid.
After reporting to the attack fleet that has arrived in Duckville, Hawaiian Islands, Shi Ba your legend turned to the southwest and changed to another route. At the same time, he ordered a fish destroyer, six bayonet destroyers and 36 submarine chaser destroyers to disperse with two submarine chaser combinations to the area around the fleet for vigilance.
A quarter of an hour later, General Fondahl Vic came to report that he had sent a fleet of fast cruisers consisting of two light and heavy cruisers from battle cruiser, namely, Wools, Count Spee and Luzon, to strengthen the escort fleet. Although this deployment reduced the attacking fleet by nearly one third, the Japanese fleet was less threatened since it had appeared in Darwich. At present, the distribution of Japanese naval forces is that more than half of the ships are in the Japanese sea area, and sasebo and Niigata maintain absolute control over the German hippel Fleet and Spee Fleet. The remaining half for Japanese navy ships are deployed of the Southeast Asia direction and the Pacific defense line in the way for bisection. The Singapore base for the Southeast Asia dispatch fleet is against the German-Turkish joint fleet that is active of the Indian Ocean. In this direction; the disadvantage for Japanese troops is very obvious. The main force for the Pacific dispatch fleet Hawaii and Tachi base is to prevent the Germans from landing in Hawaii. The attack fleet consisting for fast cruisers and auxiliary cruisers is stationed of Tachi. The German route of the Pacific Ocean and the military base on the west coast for America are all their targets. In addition, the Japanese army has retained a fleet dispatched from Oceania, but after balancing the importance of the colonies, the Japanese Admiralty has reduced the strength of this fleet to a minimum, and now they must face the allied fleet.
For these reasons, in this Pacific Ocean, it can threaten the German attack fleet and the boarding 6 fleet, so it will send a fleet to the Pacific Ocean under the command of Inomiya.
During the rest of the day, General Schbarr’s reconnaissance plane and airship tried their best to track the movement of the well fleet. However, by the middle of the day, a large hateful rain cloud obscured the sight of the reconnaissance troops in Germany, and the well fleet disappeared more than 5 nautical miles from the German boarding fleet 6.
More than 5oo nautical miles is not too short, but for a high-sailing fleet, it is 20 hours’ journey. On the other hand, there are many kinds of warships, transport ships, mail ships and all kinds of boarding ships here in Germany. Take care of these ships with different sailing speeds, and a ship suitable for warning formation will have to move forward. That is to say, the whole fleet will have to sail slowly at 10 o’clock, that is to say, there will be less than 40 hours to Hawaii. Even General Schebar himself can’t tell how many accidents will occur in these 40 hours.
A fairly calm day passed in such a calm atmosphere. Darwich attacked the fleet. In the past ten hours, the artillery thoroughly plowed the Japanese targets on the big island of Hawaii. The fleet was accompanied by more than 1ooo, and more than 6 naval team soldiers boarded the beach in the south of the big island and consolidated the beachhead position before dark. As the German high command speculated, the Japanese army was not sparsely populated. Lack of strategic objectives: the big island of Hawaii was heavily stationed in the German large-caliber naval gun to deter the remnants of the island. The Japanese army made a very limited counterattack at midnight, but the German Navy Team 6 and the German destroyers waiting offshore did not give the Japanese army a chance. The Japanese army eventually lost hundreds of bodies and fled to the mountains in the middle of the big island and the northern port in panic.
On this day, the air force of the German attack fleet was not idle, and the navy Hawk took off from the aircraft carrier near the sea again and again. After gradually losing resistance, the Japanese army threw bombs and incendiary bombs at the top of its head, which soon completely destroyed the Japanese fire prevention power in the south of Oahu. Several other islands in Oahu were also attacked to varying degrees.
After dark, a rain cloud quietly came to the German No.6 fleet and scattered some rain beads. It was already very cool and the air became a little cold, but for the German officers and men in the cabin, it was no more comfortable to sleep in this weather. Most of them slept until dawn.
The 1o5o officers and men belonging to the 1st Battalion, 4th Regiment, 6th Battalion, 2nd German Navy were surprised that their stern officer didn’t urge them to run laps on the deck in batches today. Nevertheless, some soldiers got up at 6 o’clock on time and came to the west deck of the cool breeze mat. They quickly found Captain Adolf sitting in a wooden box on the front deck of the cruise ship.
"Don’t you run laps today?" A senior lieutenant officer is very strange to ask
Adolf eyes still staring at the front of the sea tone calmly said, "well, no, let’s have a good rest today! The order has been reached. The fleet is expected to arrive in the Hawaiian Islands next morning. After sunrise, our first Borden 6 troops will attack! "
"oh? We were incorporated into the first Borden 6 unit? Great! " The second lieutenant excitedly clenched his fists and made a "yes" gesture. You know, there are two naval 6th Division participating in the Hawaiian campaign. These two divisions are old-fashioned troops that have experienced many battles, among which the grenadier corps and battalion-level troops (which are modeled after the old Greek practice, that is, the name of the Prussian arms) can stand out from these troops and be incorporated into the first Borden 6th Army. No wonder the second lieutenant is so excited.
Adolf didn’t turn his face and didn’t let the excited second lieutenant see his slightly melancholy expression. Because the Pacific Raiders Force of the German High Command made the war decision slightly, the fire preparation before boarding the 6 th in Oahu was three days of attack and two days of shelling. It is undeniable that the fire preparation of the attack fleet is very strong, but the resistance faced by the 6 th troops rushing to the beach will still be very strong. This situation is inevitable.
Adolf is not afraid of death, but when others are proudly attacking in glory, he has seen the hard battle and bloody battlefield ahead, and saw that his comrades who get along with each other will leave themselves one by one or leave them by themselves …
After the sun rises, it is another seemingly calm but hidden undercurrent day.
The reconnaissance airship and long-range reconnaissance plane sent by Germany’s Boarding 6 fleet are still searching hard in the vast sea surface. However, the Japanese fleet that hid in the rain clouds yesterday afternoon seemed to be steamed and generally disappeared. In this case, General Schebar sent a medal-class destroyer in his hand to a place 40 nautical miles away from the surrounding area of Boarding 6 fleet, so that these destroyers’ eagle-eye iie radar would expand the alert range of the fleet as much as possible.
At 10 o’clock in the afternoon, the fast cruisers came from the attack fleet and finally appeared in front of the board 6 fleet. Their participation greatly increased the strength of the escort fleet, but the Japanese fleet knew nothing about it. Their knowledge of the German escort fleet still relied on those few desperate opportunities to break into the German fleet.
At 3 o’clock in the afternoon, a German reconnaissance plane appeared on the sea about 400 nautical miles northeast of Hawaii, and the battleship "Yi Shi", escorted by two destroyers, was originally the flagship of Japan-Pacific dispatch fleet, but it was bombed by a German bomber in the attempt to sneak attack the German 6 fleet the day before. Judging from its course, it was planning to go to Midway Island currently occupied by Japanese troops-obviously, it was unrealistic for it to return directly to Pearl Harbor or Tahiti due to serious injuries.
After dinner, the officers and men of the German Landing 6 Fleet went to the deck, the bridge and the ship’s side passage, where the sea breeze could be blown. After continuous sailing, they had reached a place only 15 nautical miles away from Hawaii. When the German attack fleet fighters appeared in teams above their heads, most people let their guard down. Almost no one would have expected that some ships in the "missing" day fleet had circled to their southeast!
Night gradually fell on battle cruiser’s "Aidang" and "King Kong", the leader of the Japanese fleet, and flew to’s 6 th fleet 2oo nautical miles away. Japan is the world’s strongest tiancheng-class battle cruiser’s "Aidang" has a full displacement of 470,000 tons and a powerful firepower of 10-door 41-mm cannon. At this time, its mast is flying the flag of the commander of the fleet to Lieutenant General Miyagi, who once occupied the world’s strongest patrol throne for a long time, followed by the "King Kong", a warship that has served in the Japanese
Behind the two high warships, the 10,000-ton heavy cruisers Yili, Miaogao light cruisers Yoshiko Yura, Nami and Muzeng together form a powerful cruiser team. In front of and on both sides of these cruisers, four snow-blowing class destroyers, three Muyue class destroyers and three Kamikaze class destroyers occupy the alert position.
It’s a good heart to attack Miyaichi in this direction. He knows that the daytime attack will expose his fleet to the powerful German air force. Increase the night attack on the German fleet. Grasp him. Let the fleet sail slowly. Battleships Sunward, Satsuma and Shejin approach the German boarding fleet from the north. To put it bluntly, let them act as "bait". After the main force of the German escort fleet pounces on the "bait", his cruisers can rush into the aircraft carrier and the.
A computer calculation to Inomi is full of underestimation of the wisdom and strength of the German fleet commander. When the warning destroyer boarded the 6 th Fleet and three Japanese battleships formed the Japanese fleet, General Shibar divided the three battleships and four battleships into two parts, the flagship "August" led the other two battleships and patrolled the "Hindenburg". The "Luzov" formed a fleet to meet, and the remaining two patrol mobile units remained near the fleet. Among them, Count Speer was in front of the Deng 6 fleet, and Wools was in the back of the Deng 6 fleet. Half of the light cruisers and destroyers attacked and half stayed behind to choose the assault direction for the well cruisers, which happened to be the best German battle cruiser-Wools guarding the battle position.
Destroy the day Chapter sixty-one Gunther Lute banquet.
On the night of February 26, 1992, while the moonlight was shining, the black vulture cross navy flag fluttered in the wind.
In their inspiration, more than 100 ships and tens of thousands of good soldier are full of ambitions and ready to wait for more than ten hours, which is decisive for the situation in the Pacific Ocean.
Before the war, the night was quiet and serene. The officers took special care of the soldiers who were incorporated into the 6 th Army. Everyone arrived at a small bottle of brandy at dinner. Before 11 pm, they could chat or play cards while drinking a little wine, but after 11 pm, everyone had to sleep honestly.
Except for a few conservative officers, most officers and men expressed their understanding and welcome to this arrangement. Relaxing is one of the factors, and for some of them, this will be the last night in their lives.
Since the main escort fleet left the big fleet to pounce on the Japanese fleet that suddenly appeared, battle cruiser’s "Wools" became the temporary flagship of the left-behind fleet. This patrol belongs to the latest Brandenburg-class warship of the German Navy. There are three ships, namely "Brandenburg". In 1925, the battleship Brandenburg was put into active service at the end of 1927. The battleship Wiesenberg was two months later than it. It was not until February 1992 that it was officially included in the German naval battle sequence at the latest, which also happened to catch the scene of the German-Russian war. This cabin also smelled of paint, and it was quickly incorporated into the German soil fleet and joined the German navy in the Baltic Sea.
Like the other two Brandenburg-class warships, the standard displacement of the Wools is 310,000 tons, and the full displacement in wartime can reach 360,000 tons. As far as displacement is concerned, the Brandenburg-class battle cruiser-Devlinger class, another class of the German navy, was the same 15 years ago. This is a quite remarkable "big ship", but since 1914, the battleships of various countries and battle cruiser have become bigger and bigger. In the nine-year-long era of "Three Kingdoms at Sea", the United States and Japan successively built South Dakota-class battleships. A list of capital ships with displacement close to or 2040,000 tons, such as Lexington-class battleships, Jiyi-class battleships and Tiancheng-class battleships, has also built the Graff-class battleships and the MacKenson-class battle cruiser naval competition, which seems to be moving towards a bigger, faster and stronger direction.
Against this background, the German Navy has built four new Kaiser Fittel III class battleships and three Brandenburg class battleships, which are the products of "going against the current". Not only foreign experts, but also many generals of the German Admiralty have expressed doubts about the construction of these two kinds of warships, especially when they learned that the cost of a single ship is not inferior to that of the Graf class. The conservative opinion is that they would rather build three more Graf class battleships than spend a lot of money to build these so-called new warships, which are not outstanding in size, firepower and navigation.
In all kinds of doubts, the German navy supported the completion and smooth entry into active service of these warships one by one by the supreme ruler of Germany. At that time, although it was not particularly optimistic about these new warships, many captains who had served in the navy for 40 years still volunteered to take on the command of these warships. However, the final decision of the Admiralty disappointed them. A group of brigadier general and major general were appointed as commanders of these new warships. What is even more surprising is that these people are all over 50 years old, which caused no less shock in the Admiralty than the original decision to build these warships!
At the moment, Brigadier General Gunther Lutyens is such a "lucky man" in the command room of the "Wools". Before he was personally signed by the Kaiser, he didn’t dare to expect that he could be the captain of such a capital ship at the age of 40, and he was still the official captain!
In the spring of 1927, Lutyens was still in command of the heavy cruiser Bremen belonging to the German land fleet, and Wools was still lying on the slipway of the Danzig shipyard. At this time, Lutyens was called to the Royal Naval Academy to take a strange exam.
Then came the six-month-long specialized training course, in which he took part, and 20 other naval officers. In the end, seven of these 21 people became commanders of seven new warships. Because the "Wools" was completed at the latest, Lutyens became the last of these seven people to receive orders.
