The Tang Navy has always regarded the only aircraft carrier battle group of the Japanese Navy as the biggest threat, and it is difficult to sleep or eat for a day.

However, this Japanese naval aircraft carrier battle group has been under the command of Onodera Gonomi to avoid direct encounters with the Tang Dynasty Navy and has been playing hide-and-seek games.

When the Tang army attacked Taiwan, the Japanese Navy hid in the East China Sea and strategically restrained the Tang Navy. After the Tang army occupied Taiwan Island, the Japanese Navy retreated to the Yellow Sea, relying on the land-based aviation forces of the Liaodong Peninsula, the Korean Peninsula, and the Japanese archipelago to cover it, maintaining a deterrent force against the Tang army.

The Japanese were very smart and knew that the only naval force could not compete with the Tang Navy at all. The decisive battle would be wiped out. However, if they remained there, they would put strategic pressure on the Tang army and delay the Tang army's offensive pace.

This is very similar to Li Hongzhang's use of the Beiyang Navy during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. In a sense, if the Qing army was more tough, the Beiyang Navy would be enough to restrain the Japanese Navy even if it did not leave the port to fight, which would have put strategic pressure on it. The Japanese Army is very powerful today, at least it has absolute certainty for the National Revolutionary Army, allowing the Japanese Navy to swim safely between the Yellow Sea and the Korean Sea.

Zhang Meng has decided to send a navy to expedition Europe, so the Asian maritime war must end, Onodera Wudi's aircraft carrier battle group must be eliminated, and the Tang Dynasty Royal Navy has urgent tasks and great pressure.

Soon, the General Staff formulated a plan to carry out landing operations on the Korean Peninsula and cut off the ties between Japan's mainland and Northeast China. The Japanese Kwantung Army and the Japanese Expeditionary Force were trapped in China.

At this time, a strategic encirclement was used by only one person from ancient times to the present, which was the strategy used by Genghis Khan when he destroyed the Song Dynasty. Once the Tang army successfully landed on the Korean Peninsula, it could cut off the channels for the Japanese to transport weapons, equipment and ammunition supplies to the Japanese army in Northeast China, and more than one million Japanese troops in the northeast would collapse without fighting.

However, the urgent purpose of the Tang army was to lead the Japanese Navy to come and prevent the Tang army from landing in North Korea, forcing the Japanese Navy to engage in a decisive battle with the Tang Navy, and determine the outcome in one battle.

This plan was quickly approved by Zhang Meng and started to be implemented immediately.

On September 13, 1938, the First Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Datang Navy and the Second Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Datang Marine Corps gathered in the East China Sea. At the same time, the First, Second, Third and Fourth Divisions of the Datang Marine Corps in Taiwan have completed rest and are fully armed. They have also arrived at the East China Sea assembly area on more than 600 landing ships, troop transport ships, transport ships, and supply ships.

The Tang Empire transferred the plan to land in Incheon, North Korea to the National Government. For the National Government, the Tang army's move would be a huge shock to the Japanese army and was favorable to the National Revolutionary Army's recovery of the Northeast. It would inevitably cause panic in the Japanese army.

However, what the National Government never expected was that the Tang army revealed the plan to them just to use the Japanese spies within the National Government to reveal the news to the Japanese army. After all, the Tang Empire was ironclad, and the anti-espionage operation of the Homeland Security Bureau had already uprooted all the Japanese spies lurking inside the Tang Dynasty. If the Tang Dynasty leaked the intelligence to the Japanese army, it would inevitably make the Japanese army doubt the intentions of the Tang army. However, if the National Government leaked the intelligence, the Japanese army would definitely believe it.

Sure enough, the Tang army's plan was discovered by the Japanese army soon, causing great panic among the Japanese headquarters and the Kwantung Army Headquarters. Once the Tang army successfully landed, it would completely cut off the supply channels for the Northeast Kwantung Army's weapons and equipment and supplies, which would be equivalent to strangling more than one million Japanese troops and slaughtering them.

However, the Japanese Navy still refused to allow Onodera Wudi Fleet to assist in the defense and asked the Japanese Army to defend Incheon by itself. At first, the Japanese Army also believed that Incheon had been operated by them for decades, and its defense was like an iron barrel. Now that it has obtained information in advance to defend heavily, it is difficult for the Tang army to realize its wish to land. Due to the army's face, the Japanese Army decided to defend itself first, and if it really doesn't work, it will force the navy to help.

Therefore, the Japanese Army quickly mobilized a large number of heavy artillery, anti-aircraft artillery and land aviation troops from the local area to enter North Korea, and deployed defenses to the Incheon line, preparing to prevent the Tang army from landing.

However, when the Japanese army mobilized a large amount of military resources to Incheon, the main force of the Tang army's aircraft carrier battle group advanced towards the Liaodong Peninsula, and the focus of the attack was transferred from Incheon to Lushun, the number one fortress in Asia.

During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Qing Empire built the No. 1 fortress in Asia, but was eventually captured by the Japanese army. After Tsarist Russia sent troops to Lushun, it also built Lushun into the No. 1 fortress in Asia at that time, and was captured by the Japanese army after the Russo-Japanese War. From then on, the Japanese army occupied Lushun, and the Japanese army had a special liking for this fortress, and even rebuilt this fortress into the No. 1 fortress built by Britain in Singapore. They were provoking China and Russia, proving that only the Japanese army could defend this No. 1 fortress.

Now, the Tang Empire has also targeted Lushun, not just to defeat the arrogance of the Japanese army, but to the important strategic position of Lushun. Once Lushun is taken down and controls the Liaodong Peninsula, it will not only block the Bohai Bay from blocking the Japanese sea supply and retreat passages, but directly cut off the Japanese army's connection with the Korean Peninsula along the Yalu River on land, which is much greater than the Tang army's landing in Incheon.

The Japanese army occupied and operated the Lushun Fortress for decades. Out of the need to attack China, the Japanese army strengthened the defensive power of the Lushun Fortress and deployed more than 1,000 artillery types. However, because China was too weak, the Japanese army had almost no air defense artillery deployment in the Lushun Fortress. It was not until the outbreak of the Tang-Japanese War that an anti-aircraft artillery regiment was deployed in Lushun.

In the early morning of September 15, two aircraft carrier battle groups of the Tang army arrived 120 kilometers outside the sea of ​​Lushun. At dawn, more than 400 Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers took off with bombs. Under the escort of more than 200 Raptor heavy carrier-based fighters, they headed to bomb Lushun fortress.

The sky fighter jets roared, the Japanese air defense alarm sounded, and the well-trained anti-aircraft artillery regiment quickly entered the combat position and launched air combat.

However, the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery regiment was limited and the firepower was limited. The Tang army formed a dive formation to dive and launch an attack with extremely fast speed. After paying the price of five or six fighter jets being shot down, it was approaching the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery position.

Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da!

More than a hundred Raptors opened fire quickly, sweeping the Japanese artillery on the air defense positions, and instantly flying flesh and blood, causing their anti-aircraft artillery to be extinguished.

Immediately afterwards, the Tang army's Hell Fireship, which was diving, threw air bombs on the Japanese air defense positions, and destroyed one Japanese air defense cannon, completely paralyzing the Japanese air defense capabilities.

In just a few minutes, the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery regiment guarding the Lushun Fortress had been destroyed. The Tang army paid less than ten aircraft and seized air supremacy with lightning speed.

The Japanese army entering the various fortress positions were stunned. Their thousand cannons could only bombard the sea and land, and could not hit the enemy planes in the sky at all. Occasionally, some Japanese army held machine guns and opened fire in the air with machine guns. However, the Tang army planes were too fast and the machine guns were difficult to lock. Occasionally, it was difficult to hit by luck, and it was difficult to pose a fatal threat to the thick-armored Tang army fighter jets.

Watching the Tang army's bombers repeat the dive again and again, one thousand-kilogram-level aviation bombs specifically targeting the solid fortifications of the Lushun Fortress fell down. With a terrifying explosion sound, they instantly destroyed the reinforced concrete fortifications of several meters thick. The fire flew and smoke rolled. The Japanese soldiers inside were killed and injured, with heavy corpses and blood flowed into a river.

The entire Lushun was trembling violently, like a magnitude earthquake. The huge explosion shock wave caused the trees on the Golden Mountain to break and fall to the ground, huge rocks rolled down, and dust flew.

The first wave of bombings of the Tang army ended within half an hour. Most of the Lushun Fortress was blown up, hundreds of large-caliber giant cannons were destroyed, and tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers died.

Soon, the Japanese army in the Jinzhou direction received a report that more than 50 Japanese fighter jets from Jinzhou Airport took off urgently for Lushun. Japanese air fleets in the Fengtian direction also rushed to Lushun for reinforcements. It was obvious that the Japanese army attached great importance to the safety of Lushun Fortress.

However, it took at least two hours for the Japanese aircraft in the Fengtian direction to arrive at Lushun. The Tang army gathered a series of aircraft carrier battle groups outside the Lushun sea, seven large aircraft carriers, more than 30 escort aircraft carriers, and more than 20 aircraft carriers, a total of more than 1,500 combat aircraft aircraft aircraft carriers, and almost half of the 1,500 combat aircraft aircraft carriers. They could take off a wave of attack aircraft groups to Lushun in almost half an hour. By the time the Japanese aviation team of Fengtian arrived, the entire Lushun Fortress had been in a sea of ​​fire, and most of the artillery was destroyed. More than half of the more than 50,000 Japanese troops stationed in Lushun were killed or injured, and the rest were all injured and survived in a 100-meter-deep underground tunnel. The Tang army aircraft carrier battle group had completed the first phase of the bombing mission. It did not fight head-on with the Japanese aviation team, but used the distance and time difference to drag down the Japanese pilots who died, making them exhausted and finally wiped them out in one fell swoop.

After the Tang army bomber group ended the bombing of the Lushun Fortress, they avoided the interception of Japanese aviation fleet aircraft and successively bombed the surrounding Japanese coastal positions in Dalian and Japanese river defense positions at the mouth of the Yalu River, causing the Japanese aviation fleet to run back and forth and run tired.

The Japanese Army Aircraft's range was limited. After arriving in the surrounding areas of Lushun Fortress, it was forced to return after less than half an hour of air stagnation. This period was not enough to expand the search range, so it was impossible to find the location of the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group.

Of course, even if it was discovered by the Japanese army, the powerful escort fighter group and air defense firepower of the Tang army aircraft carrier battle group were enough to keep the Japanese planes from going and going.

The Japanese Fenz Air Force was forced to return after being tossed back and forth by the Tang army bomber group until dark. The Japanese aviation team was very tired and almost fell asleep when they returned to the dormitory.

That night, the Tang army took off more than 100 medium-range heavy bombers of the Xiaolong Xiaolong medium-range heavy bombers at several airports in Shandong with the National Government. In order to ensure the air supremacy of the Lushun Fortress, the Japanese army mobilized a large number of planes from the surrounding area to Fengtian Airport, which were densely arranged on the airport runway. As a result, they were bombed intensively by the Tang army, losing more than 500 aircraft, which made the Japanese army heartbroken.
Chapter completed!