Chapter 242 Battle of Ryukyu Island 2

Wang Linqing was particularly worried. After all, he, the director of the logistics and fortification department, was not prepared, otherwise he would not suffer such a huge loss.

However, who would have thought that he would suddenly bypass Amami Oshima and many islands and directly attack the Ryukyu Oshima in the rear?

After retreating to Yushanling, he finally got a period of respite and calmed down and thought about the follow-up.

He always feels that it is very small to defend Wuwo Island. The room for manoeuvre of the Ryukyu Islands is still very large, especially in Enna Mountain, Yae Mountain, Mingshan Mountain, Naha Mountain, and the whole Jinwu Bay area. With a large number of hidden fortifications, the 7,000 troops in his hand can still be reasonably used. It produces a good defense effect.

He estimated that it would not be a problem to delay for half a month.

The problem is that the garrison fleet has not been completely sunk, and there are still two destroyers, two defense ships, two torpedo ships and multiple gunboats to fight. If you give up Wuwo Island, these warships can only wait to be captured.

He suddenly had a bold idea that if the headquarters did not have time to carry out a large-scale counter-offensive rescue in a short time, it would concentrate all the remaining fleets on the Tianhai Road to prevent the Japanese fleet from using the Tianhai Port.

At that time, the Japanese army could not use Yuntian Harbor, so it could only station the fleet at the more open Jinwu Bay Port at the mouth of the bay. In that case, even if the Pacific Fleet wanted to counterattack, it would be very easy.

In addition, the whole army withdrew to the Eightfold Mountains, stationed between the Eightfold Mountains and the famous mountains, and used scattered small mountain fortifications to carry out continuous blocking, which could be delayed for a month.

After thinking about these problems clearly, he found several other battalion commanders to discuss. Zhang Zongfu and others had no objection. The troops in everyone's hands were seriously insufficient, and there was no way out for him to stay on Wuwo Island.

Zhang Xiluan is dead, and the whereabouts of the top commander of the navy is unknown. Wang Linqing can only be the local supreme commander to ask for instructions from Ye Boqi, the commander of the garrison of the Taiwan garrison.

Ye Boqi knew the actual situation better. Because the main fleet had been secretly concentrated in the Beiyang Fleet Defense Area before, he could not stop the large-scale counterattack for the time being. He immediately ordered the navy to sink the warships and auxiliary ships, block the port on the spot, withdraw all troops to the Ryukyu Islands, and organize defensive operations.

Before the Japanese navy completely blockaded the Ryukyu island, Ye Boqi urgently sent a naval army battalion to the Ryukyu island to stop the new defensive battle on the spot. It is necessary to fight for a month.

...Yanjing, Yingtai.

Hu Chuyuan has known the news of the Japanese army's large-scale use of chemical weapons in Ryukyu County. He was angry, but he did not show it. He was still so calm and almost ruthless.

He knows his own characteristics better than anyone else.

These people, especially in this era, can't be called "people" at all.

He just didn't expect that the Japanese army would suddenly attack the Ryukyu Island under such a sudden situation.

The Beiyang Joint Fleet has been reorganized, and the 14 existing 12,000-ton battleships in China are concentrated in Weihai Port and ready to attack at any time.

Now it is a little difficult to counterattack the Japanese army's offensive in Ryukyu.

For the first time in his life, Hu Chuyuan ordered a cigarette in the conference room, drank a cup of strong tea, and thought bitterly about the solution in his mind.

Considering the issue of gun stock, the three divisions of the Fujian and Zhejiang Corps have not expanded to prepare for the war, and the total strength is still maintained at 47,000. The Pacific Fleet has seven naval divisions and land battalions, that is, the marines of seven regiments, with a large number of people but scattered.

There is no doubt that the Japanese army is also accurate, that is, it intends to use the lethality of chemical weapons to weaken the strength of the Fujian and Zhejiang Corps on a large scale, and then invade Taiwan and threaten the hinterland of China's coastal economy.

Even if the Japanese army can't do this, they can fully disperse China's small army and concentrate their superior forces to join hands with the Russian army in the northeast and China.

If China maintains a balance on both sides, sooner or later they can catch a loophole.

To be precise, this is a double fist strategy of the Japanese army. If one fist attacks, the other fist is in defense. One fist is used to attract the enemy, and the other fist is used to give a real heavy blow at any time.

Therefore, at least at present, it is not possible to see which line Japan intends to take as the main attack direction.

If you take the south line, you will not have enough strength for the navy... However, you are likely to do the opposite and take risks.

Thinking about all this in his mind, Hu Chuyuan finally understood... War is a Pandora's box. When you don't open it, you can never think of what will be in it.

Even if he thinks well in advance and thinks how cautious he is, if he really fights, it will still appear to be full of flaws after all, and the new situation is far beyond his prediction.

He smoked in pain, allowing the timulating smoke to wrap around his throat, leaving a bitter taste in his mouth, and thinking closely in his heart.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister!"

Lu Guang Quan's voice rang at the door of the conference room.

Hu Chuyuan glanced at him, nodded, and motioned him to come in first.

Lu Guangquan quickly walked in and submitted a new pile of statistical data to Hu Chuyuan, saying, "Your Excellency, the fleet sent to the Ryukyu Islands this time is the second detachment of the joint fleet, with four second-class battleships and six cruisers, as well as more than 20 defense ships and destroyers, as an unknown number of guns. Boat patrol ship. According to the number of auxiliary landing ships and transport ships they sent, it is estimated that about 40,000 troops participated in the first round of landing operations. The current intelligence proves that they are the 14th Division and the 16th Division. According to the deployment of the Japanese joint fleet and the emergency reconnaissance of Yokohama Port, it can be confirmed that the headquarters fleet of the Japanese joint fleet has left the port and is currently unknown.

Hu Chuyuan frowned slightly and turned over the new information and information to confirm one by one.

At present, there are 214 warships in the navy, with a total drainage tonnage between 255.7 and 270,000 tons. There are eleven second-class battleships. The largest tonnage is four autumn-class second-class battleships made by France, with a designed drainage tonnage of 8,580 tons. Japan has built seven Ako-class second-class battleships by itself, designed platoons. The water tonnage is 7,500 tons.

In addition, the Japanese navy is mainly composed of a large number of destroyers and defense ships between 1200 tons and 2,000 tons, especially the number of defense ships, with a total of more than 75.

The Japanese navy also has about 3,000 tons of dome-clad cruisers and light steel-clad cruisers, with a number of about 12.

After 1890, the Japanese navy organized all the remaining warships into the Japanese combined fleet. By 1895, with the autumn water class built by Japanese Japanese in France and the service of many defense ships, the Japanese navy divided the Japanese combined fleet into the headquarters fleet and the guard fleet, which was stationed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The former It is stationed in Tokyo Bay and Yokohama.

Among China's three major naval forces, the main battleships of the Pacific Fleet have been transferred north to Beiyang to reorganize the Beiyang United Fleet, trying to make peace with the Russian navy.

Now it seems that Japan and Russia are not going to do this.

Looking at these data and new information, Hu Chuyuan thought quietly in his heart.

After a while, he said to Lu Guangzheng, who was sitting beside him, "Although I haven't seen any new signs, I always feel that I have a variety of preparations this time. If we rashly send the Pacific Fleet to attack, once there is a large-scale naval battle in the Ryukyu waters, we are very likely to be hit hard if we are not well prepared."

Lu Guang Quan thought for a moment and said, "I personally feel that the navy is still well prepared. The main fleet of the headquarters fleet has not yet appeared. I suspect that it is hidden near Dadong Island... There is another problem. At present, it mainly uses mustard gas as the preferred chemical weapon for attack, but it doesn't matter. It is the Army Secret Service, the Naval Communications Bureau, or the State Intelligence Agency that has not found the local mustard gas production base. It may be imported from France, but it is more likely that the confidentiality of Japan is also very careful. Then we have to doubt whether there are other weapon systems that are extremely confidential from R&D to production. For example, Japan has purchased French submarine technology since 1893, and it is still unknown whether there is large-scale production at present.

Hu Chuyuan nodded and recognized Lu Guangqian's words.

Japan must have produced no less than 15 submarines, with a specific tonnage of about 400 tons, which is easy to confirm, because Japan has not been able to develop its own underwater torpedo launcher and an electric motor power engine system for submarines so far.

This part must be imported from France. It is said that all information could have been protected through a top-secret bill, but France can't do it. Through the information collection work of the Legal Branch of the General Administration of National Intelligence, the size of the Japanese submarine force can be inferred.

The problem is that these submarines have not appeared. The base may be in Fukuyama Port in Japan, Ise Bay and Kumamoto Port. There are too many natural ports along the coast, and many places are restricted areas, which cannot be seen by surface reconnaissance work alone.

As for the level of these submarines, it is hard to say, but with the French Gustav-class submarine technology as a reference, these submarines should belong to the single bulkhead structure, using a dual power system of gasoline internal combustion generators and batteries.

After careful thinking for a period of time, Hu Chuyuan decided not to rush to counterattack the Japanese joint fleet, which also meant that the garrison on the Ryukyu Oshima must persist for a period of time and wait for the Pacific Fleet Command to formulate a more detailed and detailed combat plan.

To this end, Hu Chuyuan gave Ye Zukui full responsibility for the southeast war zone, and the Fujian-Zhejiang Corps was attached to the Pacific Fleet. At the same time, he mobilized the Chinese troops of the Philippines and the Republic of Sumansia to launch a long-term tug-of-war around the Ryukyu Islands.

Since then, the naval battle of Yuntiangang on the Ryukyu Islands has come to an end. The garrison has fully withdrawn from Wuwo Island, retreated to the Ryukyu Islands, and used natural barriers and mountain fortifications to carry out new defensive battles.

After the Yuntianhai Road was blocked, the Japanese version quickly took a standby plan. The fleet entered Jinwuwan Port and stationed troops around it, preparing to launch a general attack on the famous mountains and eight-fold mountains from Jinwuwan Port.

Due to the tight blockade of the Japanese navy, Lin Baoyi, the commander of the Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet, could not lead troops to reinforce the Ryukyu Islands, so he could only temporarily appoint Wang Linqing as the commander-in-chief of Ryukyu, responsible for leading the remaining troops to resist.

Japan's strategic intention has been completely exposed, which is to strive to threaten the economic center of China's southeast and cut off the channel of China's foreign import and export trade.

Two days later, at 12 o'clock at noon on November 26, 1900, Russia officially declared war on China. The Second Army of the Far East Group Army stationed in Kamemsk launched an attack on Manchuria. The Chinese garrison was only one regiment and was forced to withdraw into the Daxing'an Mountains.

China and its major dependent countries were forced to declare war on Russia.

On November 30, more than 20,000 troops of the Second Army of the Russian Far East Army began to besiege Hulunbuir, and officially declared that the periphery of the Greater Khingan Mountains was the inherent territory of Tsarist Russia.

On January 1, 1901, France officially declared a military embargo on China and imposed war sanctions on the trade between the two countries, while retaining the right to declare war.

This New Year's Day is extremely difficult for Hu Chuyuan.

It is undeniable that China is indeed very difficult at this stage. The offensive points chosen by Russia and Japan in the early stage are areas that cannot be taken into account in China.

The Greater Khingan Mountains is a natural barrier. In the construction of the Northeast Railway Network in China, there is no railway that can connect Hulunbuir and Qiqihar across the Greater Khingan Mountains.

Because the domestic military strength is limited and mainly concentrated in Xinjiang, Hu Chuyuan and China can only choose a strategic contraction policy and do not compete with Russia for Hulunbuir.

On this day, the atmosphere in the Prime Minister's Office was extremely solemn, and at the same time, the anger spread.

In Yingtai, Hu Chuyuan established a new National Defense War Commission. He personally served as the chairman, concentrated on the naval staff headquarters and the army staff headquarters to work together, and coordinated the joint operations of the two armies and domestic resources.

Early in the morning, the National Defense Commission held a joint meeting to determine the new strategic deployment.

Because the size of the Japanese submarine force could not be determined, the Pacific Fleet decided to organize a small-scale attack to regain the control of the sea in the Ryukyu Islands as much as possible, and strive to maintain the stability of the southeast economy.

In the middle of the meeting, the final battle plan had not been determined. Chen Shanyuan suddenly entered the conference room in a hurry and handed over a new military intelligence to Hu Chuyuan.

Japanese submarines were dispatched to attack the transport fleet of the Pacific Fleet. A transport ship and nearly 1,240 officers and soldiers were killed, and a Japanese submarine was also sunk.

After reading the general's report carefully, Hu Chuyuan roughly knew it in his heart.

At present, the Chinese navy has fully adopted destroyers to replace small and medium-sized ships. The active destroyers are Chunyu II class and shower class. The latter has installed two sonar systems in several ships built in Fuzhou. One is a relatively simple passive sonar system, and the other is It is a drag-and-drop active sonar system.

The principle of

sonar system is very simple, and the key is accuracy.

China has carried out relatively long-term experiments and research and development in Shanghai Laboratory and Fuzhou Shipbuilding Factory. At present, a certain technical foundation has indeed been accumulated.

After a submarine of the Japanese navy patrolling in the Ryukyu Islands area attacked China's naval transport ship, it was immediately ready to use a deep diving strategy to escape, but it was very unlucky. One of the destroyers serving as a guard happened to be an experimental shower class.

Through the speed advantage and active sonar system, the shower-class expulsion has been steadily locked in the Japanese submarine, and cooperated with two other destroyers and patrol ships to narrow the swimming range of the Japanese submarine through deep-water bombs and remote-controlled submarines, and finally sink the opponent when it was forced to float.

This proves that the submarine's diving time to the bottom of the sea is very limited.

General Hu Chuyuan's report was forwarded to Lv Han. After waiting for a while, he and Lv Han ordered, "Do everything possible to drag the sunken Japanese submarine back to study to determine the level of their submarine technology."

Lv Han felt a little difficult, but this was indeed a task that had to be completed. He could only nod silently, and then summon Li Dingxin, Chen Bohan and other naval staff officers to the next door to discuss specific methods.

Hu Chuyuan called Lan Jianshu over to study the military report provided by the gust-class destroyer gust.

Lan Jianshu carefully read the military newspaper, thought about it for a while, and said to Hu Chuyuan, "It seems that we hope to attack our supply lines and merchant ships through submarine tactics, forcing the domestic economy to have a crisis. At present, Japanese submarines have several characteristics. First of all, they have two means of attack, one is a lifting rapid-fire gun on the platform, and the other is a torpedo. According to some visual data presented by the Military Daily, I think the drainage tonnage of the Japanese submarine may be 600 tons, but its cruising mileage will be relatively far, which may reach 800 kilometers. Well, that's why Japan first attacked the Ryukyu Islands.

"Hmm!"

Hu Chuyuan's judgment is roughly the same.

As long as it captures the Ryukyu Island and starts from the Jinwu Bay seaport, its submarine troops can ravage on China's southeast coast and attack those merchant ships crazily, causing the collapse and crisis of China's foreign import and export trade.

Because the Japanese sea power cannot compete with the Chinese navy at all, the only way to firmly occupy the Ryukyu island is to block the sea with submarine troops.

Lan Jianshu said again: "It's really risky this time. Our underwater sound wave detection system just hit them. Since this system is really effective, we should immediately install it on the shower-class and spring rain II-class destroyers. In fact, we can also develop small submarines specially used to monitor submarines to achieve multi-angle positioning through radio communication and make up for the accuracy defects of the detection system.

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly and told him: "You are personally responsible for this matter and let the General Administration of Naval Ships speed up the deployment. Fuzhou should try its best to carry out new improvement research and development according to the military newspaper and actual combat conclusions, and the deployment of controlled torpedoes should also be accelerated. Generally speaking, the submarine technology of Japan is not very smart, which is roughly comparable to that of France, and it is not particularly difficult to restrain them.

Lan Jianshu nodded his head and immediately got up to the navy conference room to discuss the follow-up with Lv Han.

At this time, Hu Chuyuan was much more relieved.

These days, he is not afraid of having submarines. What he is afraid is that domestic destroyers lack truly effective anti-submarine means. In 1893, France's first modern submarine "Gustav" class was put into service, characterized by the use of generator technology and the propeller rotated by an AC motor.

Under normal circumstances, Gustav submarines cruise on the water and charge the battery with the remaining power all the time. During the battle, they dive underwater and drive it with the battery.

So far, this is still the most advanced submarine in the world.

After the Gustav-class submarine was put into service, Japan quickly purchased two submarines and carried out imitation production in China. At the same time, Fuzhou Shipyard also carried out research on the underwater sound wave detection system.

At present, it seems that Japan has made some new improvements to the Gustav-class submarine, increasing the drainage tonnage, the caliber of the boat-borne artillery, and the cruise mileage, so that it has the ability to attack larger tonnage merchant ships at oceans.

In terms of the power system, Japan has not made more improvements, so the biggest problem of Japan's submarine is that the diving time is too short. According to the report, its battery system can only hold on to 35 minutes of diving, which is 15 minutes more than Gustav, which should be an increase in tonnage as well as an increase in the number of batteries.

The drainage tonnage has increased by nearly 300 tons compared with the Gustav class, and the diving time has increased by only 15 minutes... This shows that Japan did not intend to increase too much diving time from the beginning, but persistently increased the cruise mileage, number of bombs and attack power, mainly based on long-range ambush attacks.

Very good and powerful.

Hu Chuyuan was completely relieved.

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