The sea breeze over the Southeast Asian waters was warm and humid with the salty tang of the ocean.
The Second and Third Fleets of the Fusang Navy were concentrated on the surface of the sea.
Four Takao-class heavy cruisers, thirteen cruisers of various types, and sixty-three destroyers.
Vice Admiral Kondo had led the Second and Third Fleets in the Battle of Shanghai against Longguo. Back then, the Second and Third Fleets had even boasted superiority in the Battle of Shanghai, with the flagship's ten 203mm caliber guns bombarding the undefended Longguo soldiers.
Vice Admiral Kondo had won every battle in the Asian region, and he firmly believed in the strength of the Fusang Navy!
"Vice Admiral! The fleet is assembled!"
Vice Admiral Kondo surveyed the vast fleet from the ship's deck, his heart filled with bold ambition.
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Vice Admiral Kondo Nobuyuki felt a slight tremor, a vibration carried through the air.
Rumble… Rumble…
"Vice Admiral! Bombers spotted overhead!"
"Vice Admiral! General Kimura Jun's 140,000 Indonesian troops were wiped out by air bombardment!"
Vice Admiral Kondo's face grew serious, his ears filled with the urgent shouts of his aide, Kimura Mitsu.
Vice Admiral Kondo's pupils narrowed as he watched the massive formation of Black Hawk aircraft in the sky.
"Order the soldiers to fire the anti-aircraft guns!"
The Fusang ships Takao, Atago, Maya, Chokai, and Izumo, each equipped with four 120mm Type 10 anti-aircraft guns, eight 127mm Type 89 dual-purpose guns, and 25mm guns, immediately opened fire, engaging in high-altitude anti-aircraft defense!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! –
The Fusang fleet's anti-aircraft fire weaved a dense network in the sky.
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Two hundred Black Hawk fighters, each carrying heavy torpedoes on their twelve hardpoints.
The sonic booms of the two hundred Black Hawks echoed like the deadly screams of Stuka dive bombers!
"! FIRE!"
"Release torpedoes!"
1000KG heavy torpedoes pierced towards the Fusang fleet formation!
1500KG super-heavy torpedoes churned white foam in the water as they collided with the Fusang ships!
The Takao, Atago, Maya, and Chokai heavy cruisers, each displacing thirteen thousand tons and measuring 203 meters in length, presented obvious targets. Heavy torpedoes struck their flanks and detonated, triggering explosions in their ammunition magazines. A larger secondary explosion followed, and the four heavy cruisers began to list to starboard, sinking beneath the waves!
A large number of light cruisers and destroyers were also hit by torpedoes and sunk as time passed!
The cold ocean water churned with the wreckage of countless ships!
The Black Hawk formation circled and maneuvered in the sky, unleashing machine gun fire upon the sea. The blood of thousands of Fusang sailors stained the water red, and Vice Admiral Kondo Nobuyuki was torn to pieces by the machine gun fire.
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Two hours later.
The Fusang Navy aircraft carrier Chiyoda, displacing 15,300 tons and carrying 29 seaplanes.
The Fusang Navy aircraft carrier Suzuya, displacing 10,929 tons and carrying 24 seaplanes.
These two light carriers belonged to the Eleventh Air Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Tsukahara Ni-shi-san. Tsukahara was considered a more skilled commander at sea than Nan'yo Chu-ichi. As he surveyed the scene of carnage,
"Nani? The Second and Third Fleets were attacked by air? The entire fleet destroyed!!!"
Vice Admiral Tsukahara was utterly distraught. The Fusang Navy had a tumultuous history, with the Fusang people and the Fusang Emperor making sacrifices to save money and gradually build up the navy. Now, the Second and Third Fleets, worth 3.5 billion yen, lay at the bottom of the sea.
Vice Admiral Tsukahara rescued an officer from the water. The man suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and was unable to speak clearly, but he managed to describe the air attack.
As Vice Admiral Tsukahara listened, his face grew increasingly agitated. "The Red Alert aircraft flew at low altitude and made a loud sonic boom? The Red Alert aircraft had no visible propellers and instead relied on an unknown technology for propulsion?"
"Estimated length twenty-five meters, width twenty meters, estimated weight twenty to thirty tons?"
Vice Admiral Tsukahara vaguely recalled the American B-17 Flying Fortress and the un-commissioned B-24 Liberator, but neither could match this weight. The Fusang's own 96-type bomber was certainly out of the question!
Vice Admiral Tsukahara felt the immense gulf in technological and industrial capabilities, and immediately sent a report about the destruction of the Second and Third Fleets to Tokyo!
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Fusang mainland
Cabinet meeting. The Fusang Cabinet Ministers stared in disbelief.
Some Cabinet Ministers wore expressions of grief.
The Cabinet Ministers grieved in their hearts for the loss of the Second and Third Fleets.
Yamamoto Isoroku looked dejected. "During my time studying in the United States, I saw the industrial capacity of the US. Shipyards were launching navy warships like dumplings."
"I suspect that Lin Zheng's Red Alert Industries has industrial capacity and technological level comparable to the US. It is the only explanation for the annihilation of the Fusang Second and Third Fleets!"
"We know about the resources in Australia. Australian mineral resources can support an industrial nation. We cannot afford to fight a war against an industrial nation!!!"
Yamamoto Isoroku felt a deep sense of pain. He knew the strength of the United States and other industrial nations, but he was also a gambler of war, and he would take a gamble on war!
"The best way to deal with an industrial nation is to strike them suddenly! Let the Eleventh Air Fleet launch a probing attack! Use the two light carriers for a surprise strike!"
Emperor Hirohito, with his characteristic gloomy and depraved nature, said, "Deploy the two light carriers for a surprise strike! The fate of the Empire hangs in the balance!!"
At the Fusang Cabinet meeting, a cabinet staff officer, a Red Alert spy, pushed up his spectacles. The Red Alert spy carried a miniature telegraph machine, transmitting information about the Fusang Navy's battle plans.
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