Fuso Naval Headquarters, Office.
Yamamoto Isoroku's sharp eyes gleamed brightly.
Yamamoto Isoroku was a gambler, and the Fuso Prime Minister Tojo, Emperor Hirohito, and other high-ranking officials were also gamblers of national fortune.
The biggest chip, the main force of the Combined Fleet, was still in their hands.
"The main force of the Combined Fleet is still in our hands."
"The main force of the Combined Fleet must not be deployed!"
"Let the cumbersome Yamato-class battleship be deployed!"
After analyzing several naval battles with Lin Zheng, Yamamoto Isoroku carefully analyzed and concluded that large battleships were being phased out of history.
So, the Yamato-class battleship, which the Fuso Empire had built with all its national power!
The Yamato battleship was being phased out of history!
The Yamato-class battleship had become a burden!
The battleship had a crew of 2,500, with extremely luxurious living conditions on board. The crew enjoyed a high standard of food, were equipped with ice cream machines and air conditioning, and the cabins were more luxurious than American ocean liners, earning it the title of a mobile restaurant and a super hotel.
The Fuso Empire invested enormous manpower and resources into this national battleship.
The huge cost outlay was becoming unsustainable.
Now, the time had come for the Yamato-class battleship to fulfill its mission!
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The Yamato-class battleship, the largest battleship in human history, with a full-load displacement of 72,808 tons, was equipped with nine 460-millimeter giant cannons and armor so thick it could withstand bombardment from 406-millimeter cannons.
The ship was 262 meters long and 28 meters wide, and it cost 150 billion yen to build.
The crew of over 2,000 sailors were now buzzing with discussion.
"Where are we going for patrol duty this time?"
"Hey! We're not going on vacation this time, we're going to fight!"
"Fight! Finally, the Yamato-class battleship is going into battle!"
"Tenno Heika Banzai!"
"Tenno Heika Banzai! Tenno Heika Banzai!"
The Japanese sailors, a black mass of them, gathered on the deck of the Yamato.
The captain, Admiral Yōga Kōsaku, on the other hand, had a very bad look on his face.
As the captain, he knew very well that the Yamato's sailors were going to their deaths!
But he couldn't tell them the truth.
The Yamato-class battleship didn't even have a single escorting destroyer, so it was clear that this was a death mission!
Boom, boom, boom -
The Yamato-class battleship arrived at the Yellow Sea, 40 kilometers from land, and raised its elevation to 45 degrees.
The maximum range of its cannons was 40 kilometers!
One after another, 406-millimeter shells landed on land.
There were some advance bases of the Red Alert Legion on land.
However, the advance bases were now deserted, as the Red Alert soldiers had already evacuated beforehand.
Over 2,000 sailors on the Yamato were excited, many gathered on the deck, watching the effects of the 406-millimeter cannon bombardment.
At this time, under the captain's anxious gaze, several small black dots appeared in the sky!
A swarm of Red Alert Blackhawk fighters came swooping in!
The Yamato's hull went into full air defense mode, its 24 127-millimeter high-and-low-angle dual-purpose cannons and 156 25-millimeter anti-aircraft cannons fired into the sky!
The nine main cannons fired high-explosive shells at 45 degrees elevation towards the sky!
A continuous curtain of steel shells formed.
Blackhawk fighters were 4th generation aircraft, and besides conventional torpedoes and conventional bombs, they could also carry air-to-ship missiles.
The advantage of air-to-ship missiles was that they could lock onto the distant Yamato-class battleship from dozens of kilometers away!
Boom! Boom! Boom -
Dozens of missiles landed on the battleship, and the Japanese sailors operating the anti-aircraft guns on the deck were heavily killed and injured.
The deck was almost completely cleared of Japanese sailors.
But waves of Japanese sailors from below deck replenished the ranks.
After half an hour, the anti-aircraft fire on the deck was completely destroyed.
After an hour, the Blackhawk fighters dropped silent electric torpedoes from a long distance!
Silent torpedoes were difficult to detect on the surface of the sea!
Whoosh -
Damn it!
Damn it!
The Yamato-class battleship didn't know what the Blackhawk fighters had dropped, but they guessed it was torpedoes. They didn't know the torpedo's trail, so the battleship could only turn sharply to the right.
Boom -
The Yamato, despite its 410-millimeter thick side armor and 1,147 watertight compartments, despite the fact that the hull design took into account torpedo impacts, the hull design was not scientifically sound.
Four torpedoes hit the Yamato in succession!
The Yamato's left side was paralyzed on the surface, motionless. The engine room was also damaged and turned into a stationary target.
The Blackhawk fighters' torpedoes were even more accurate, on that day, over 30 torpedoes hit the Yamato! The Yamato didn't experience pressure-induced detonation as it sank, a mushroom cloud rose, and thousands of Japanese sailors fell into the sea!
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On a nearby island
A Japanese observer used binoculars to watch the sea.
He didn't realize it, but his back had been drenched, scared by the sight of the Yamato's destruction.
Naval Commander Yamamoto Isoroku ordered him to record every detail of the Yamato's demise.
This 70,000-ton battleship, with its 460-millimeter main guns, was sunk so miserably by torpedoes!
It defied the laws of heaven!!
How terrifying!
The sight of the Yamato's deck, the anti-aircraft gun positions destroyed, the deck washed clean, the torpedoes hitting in a dense cluster, the thousands of sailors slaughtered on the sea.
The Japanese observer's hand began to shake as he recorded.
The Yamato, the battleship of the Empire's national fortune, had just sunk???
The Empire's national fortune had been destroyed???
The Japanese observer sent a telegram to the Navy's Yamamoto Isoroku.
Yamamoto Isoroku received the report and sat in silence for half an hour.
The Yamato-class battleship was gone!
The Yamato-class battleship was just a gift!
The idea of big guns on giant ships had been eliminated, wouldn't the same happen to the Iowa-class battleships of the Americans... wouldn't the North Carolina-class battleships, the 50,000-ton Iowa-class battleships with their 406-millimeter main guns, also be eliminated?