kvmb Chapter 180: Joint Statement from John and Fuso, Fuso's Main Fleet Deployed
Chapter 180: Joint Statement from John and Fuso, Fuso's Main Fleet Deployed
Driven by revenge, the Fuso Navy acted very efficiently.
The two fleets for the expedition were selected in just three days, and they set sail on the fourth day, heading towards Canghai in the north and Qionghai in the south of the ancient country respectively.
The scale of the fleet dispatched by the Fuso Combined Fleet this time is also unprecedentedly powerful.
Although these are not all of their main battleships, this naval force is not weak in the world.
Moreover, this time the Fuso Navy had no intention of keeping it secret or covering up the truth. They set off directly and openly without avoiding the waterway.
They are also sending a signal to the Renaissance Army.
But they don’t know that the current Fuxing Navy is no longer what it used to be.
In just one or two months, earth-shaking changes have taken place.
After the fleet set off, the Fuso Navy held a press conference directly in the country.
The goal of this press conference is very clear, which is a declaration of revenge.
"The Imperial Fuso Navy has deployed its full forces. This time, we will surely return victorious and crush those bugs that can only attack our merchant ships one by one!"
At the press conference, Vice Admiral Shigemi Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet, spoke in a tone full of contempt for the Restoration Army Navy and was full of gunpowder.
Of course, the Combined Fleet suffered a lot of losses in the face of the endless new weapons of the Restoration Army.
As the commander of the Combined Fleet, Vice Admiral Shigemi Yamamoto actually attached great importance to this operation.
It's not as he appeared, that he didn't take the Restoration Army Navy seriously at all.
If you hold this kind of attitude when dealing with the powerful opponent, the Renaissance Army, you will die without knowing how.
After the Fuso Imperial Navy held a press conference, Sir Fulton, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, also spoke at a public occasion.
“As the guardians of the Singapore-Malaysia Strait, we have the responsibility to safeguard the security of this sea area.
Some forces intend to provoke us and send out submarine forces like thieves, trying to destroy the peace of the Singapore-Malaysia Strait and cause panic in the entire waterway. This is something our John Empire cannot agree to.
After obtaining permission from Her Majesty the Queen and the Cabinet, we will dispatch a powerful anti-submarine fleet to find and sink all the submarines hidden beneath the sea.
This is also a warning from the Empire to certain forces."
Fuso and John Straits Settlements made speeches one after another. Although they did not mention the Restoration Army in any sentence, every sentence was directly pointing to the Restoration Army.
This has also attracted widespread attention internationally.
As the empire on which the sun never sets, the John Empire is also recognized as the world's most powerful country.
Their strength mainly comes from their navy.
The world's largest navy is also the foundation of the British Empire.
The Fuso Empire Navy ranks among the top three in the world in terms of tonnage and the number of battleships.
Moreover, the Fuso Navy was taught by John Navy.
Now that the teacher and the apprentice have joined forces to deal with the Renaissance Army, how can this not attract attention?
After Sir Fulton finished his speech, the Far East Fleet also sent an anti-submarine fleet consisting of a battlecruiser, three cruisers and six destroyers, which set sail from the Temasek Port in the Singapore-Malaysia Strait.
When leaving the port, the warships sounded their whistles almost simultaneously, and the sound resounded throughout the sky above Temasek City.
This also announced that the Far East Fleet had begun to take action.
This anti-submarine operation was also the first joint operation between the Far East Fleet and the Fuso Navy.
The action plan was very simple: John's Far East Fleet would move from south to north, and the Fuso anti-submarine fleet would move from north to south, forming a pincer attack.
They conducted a dragnet search along the way, forcing the Fuxing Army's submarines to a certain sea area in Qionghai, and then found them and sank them all.
It dealt a heavy blow to the Restoration Army Navy.
“I didn’t expect that this time they would actually blow up the John Empire’s Far East Fleet.”
Jiang Hua was also a little surprised when he received the news from John that the Far East Fleet was dispatching a fleet to deal with the First Nuclear Submarine Squadron.
I didn't expect that John would actually plan to meddle in other people's business.
"Chairman, what should we do next? Should we avoid the Far East Fleet and only attack the Fuso Navy, or should we attack both at once?"
Song Yang, commander of the Fuxing Army's naval headquarters, looked at Jiang Hua and asked in a deep voice.
Jiang Hua said without hesitation: "Of course we fight together. The enemy has come to our door, can we just hide?
Tell the First Nuclear Submarine Squadron to fight with all their might.
As long as any force participates in this battle, they will all be attacked.
Only by hurting them will they know how powerful the Restoration Army Navy is.
This battle is a battle for our navy to establish its prestige."
The targets of this operation are the world's number one navy and the world's number three navy.
Since this is a battle to show off the power of the Restoration Army Navy, then we should step on the world's number one and number three.
"According to the high-altitude reconnaissance photos taken by the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, the Fuso Navy has dispatched its main fleet, which is heading towards Canghai.
These are the photos that were taken and the intelligence that we compiled.”
After asking Jiang Hua about John's attitude towards the Far East Fleet, Song Yang took out a thick file of intelligence from his briefcase.
The General Military Intelligence Bureau has already reported the relevant information, but Jiang Hua is still not sure about the scale of the Fuso Navy's deployment this time.
He immediately opened the information Song Yang handed over and started reading it.
When Jiang Hua saw the photos taken by the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft at an altitude of meters, he also saw the full picture of the Fuso Navy fleet.
In response to the blockade of Canghai this time, the Fuso Navy dispatched two aircraft carriers, three battleships, more than 10 cruisers and destroyers, as well as more than large and small supply ships.
Based on the comparison of photos taken by the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, the Navy also determined the specific models of the Fuso Navy's five main warships.
The two aircraft carriers are the Akagi, the largest aircraft carrier in the Fuso Navy, and the Kaga.
The Akagi aircraft carrier was converted from a battlecruiser and has a tonnage of many tons. It is also a veritable heavy aircraft carrier in this era.
The Kaga aircraft carrier was converted from a battleship. With a tonnage of tons, it is currently the largest aircraft carrier.
It can be seen from the deployment of these two aircraft carriers that the Fuso Navy has indeed deployed all its main forces this time, and its desire for revenge is very strong.
However, for the Fuso Navy, aircraft carriers are not as important as battleships.
Even though they suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Renaissance Army Air Force, some people still believed this.
The three battleships they dispatched this time were the Hyuga, Kongo and Haruna.
The Hyuga was the second ship of the Ise-class battleship.
During the bombing of Wu Port, the battleship Ise was sunk by dense bombs dropped by B-29 strategic bombers. Even its keel was cracked and there was no possibility of repair.
So the only Ise-class battleship left is the Hyuga.
As for the Kongo and Haruna, they are both Kongo-class battleships.
The previous four Kongo-class battleships were converted and upgraded from battlecruisers.
Among them, the battleship Hiei was sunk by the Restoration Army Air Force.
Therefore, whether it is the Hyuga, Kongo, or Haruna, their desire for revenge is extremely strong, and this is also the opportunity they have fought for.
This time, their blockade of the sea was just one of their purposes.
The ultimate goal is to force the navy of the Fuxing Army out of the ports of Qidong Province.
The air force of the Restoration Army is already very strong. If their navy rises again, it will be the end of the Fuso Empire.
So they not only want revenge, but also want to interrupt the rise of the Restoration Army Navy.
The entire East Continent can only have one invincible maritime fleet, the Fuso Combined Fleet, and there is no room for a second one.
With the deployment of the Fuso Navy and John's Far East Fleet, the entire ocean of Dongzhou seemed to be shrouded in the dark clouds of war.
On these two battlefields, the first to fight was from the Fuso Navy.
The Fuso Navy's anti-submarine formation consists of one heavy cruiser, four light cruisers, and eight destroyers.
It is a large anti-submarine fleet.
The main anti-submarine fleet consists of four Nagara-class light cruisers equipped with a new sonar system and eight Mutsuki-class destroyers equipped with a large number of depth charges.
The flagship is the Myoko heavy cruiser.
The Myoko heavy cruiser was also the lead ship of the Myoko class of heavy cruisers, of which there were four.
However, the heavy cruisers Ashigara and Nachi were sunk by the aircraft of the Restoration Army's shore-based aviation force.
Now only Myoko and Haguro remain of the four Myoko-class heavy cruisers.
This time, the Haguro joined the assault formation.
Therefore, the Myoko heavy cruiser served as the flagship of the anti-submarine formation.
The anti-submarine formation was very cautious along the way.
The surface ship force of the Renaissance Army’s navy is not to be feared, but the submarine force of the Renaissance Army is very powerful.
So far, they have had several contacts with the Renaissance Army's submarine force, but have not sunk a single ship, and have not even found any specific trace of the other side.
That is why, even though they are equipped with advanced sonar systems from John's country, they still dare not be careless.
All ships took turns operating their active sonar systems along the way, searching for any suspicious signals.
This also caused them to move forward very slowly.
But they didn't know that there were a pair of eyes in the sky staring at them closely.
At an altitude of 2 meters, a U-200 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft used its reconnaissance equipment to continuously take photos, and at the same time used radio to transmit the coordinates to an EC-121 airborne early warning aircraft more than kilometers away.
The EC-121 airborne early warning aircraft took off from a military airport in Qidong Province.
In order to find the trace of this anti-submarine formation, the shore-based aviation force dispatched a total of 8 EC-121 airborne early warning aircraft to search the sea and the Western Pacific region.
Finally, traces of this fleet were found in the sea just a few dozen kilometers west of the Ryukyu Islands.
A total of 8 early warning aircraft made more than 40 sorties and spent nearly five days to finally wait for them.
When their traces are discovered, it means that their doom is approaching.
The shore-based aviation force immediately reported the whereabouts of this anti-submarine formation to the second and third nuclear submarine squadrons of the first submarine detachment.
The third nuclear submarine squadron was also commissioned just a few days ago.
This time, in order to deal with the anti-submarine formation heading south from Fuso, the Restoration Army Navy dispatched six Hurricane-class attack nuclear submarines.
A battle between submarines and anti-submarine fleets is about to begin.