The Rise Of Australasia-Chapter 1267 - 932 The Navys Grand Battle Plan

Chapter 1267: Chapter 932: The Navy’s Grand Battle Plan

Chapter 1267 -932: The Navy’s Grand Battle Plan

As time progressed to August 1937, the atmosphere within the Island Nation’s Government and Military grew increasingly tense.

The plan to support Kyushu Island had failed, with only one-third of the originally planned support troops making it across the strait. The rest of the Military was either blocked on Honshu Island or had already found their graves at the bottom of the strait.

Of course, such minor problems were of no concern to the Island Nation’s Government anymore. If they couldn’t avoid the continuous large-scale bombings of Tokyo Bay by the Australasian Navy and Air Force, the Island Nation would suffer countless casualties and property losses every day.

Even with tens of millions in population, even with an economy on a great power level, they still couldn’t guarantee how long they could hold out under such bombings.

Therefore, the Island Nation’s Government and Military had to strike back and resolve the bombing threat facing the Native Land as soon as possible.

Compared to the Army and the yet-to-form Air Force, the only force the Island Nation’s Government could rely on was perhaps the Royal Navy, which, despite suffering losses, still remained substantially strong.

The current Royal Navy still possessed 7 battleships, 7 aircraft carriers, and 3 battlecruisers, 12 heavy cruisers, 11 light cruisers, 53 destroyers, and 68 submarines, a naval strength that could definitely be considered powerful on a global scale.

The good news was, ever since the failed surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Royal Navy had been keeping a low profile in the harbors of Hiroshima and Tokyo. Although this move allowed the Australasian Navy to successfully blockade the Island Nation’s waters, most of the naval power was preserved.

Even though another 3 battleships and 2 aircraft carriers were lost in the bombing of Hiroshima, the losses were not critical to the overall strength of the Royal Navy.

However, the overall size of the Royal Navy was definitely at a greater disadvantage compared to the Australasian Pacific Squadron. But naval combat isn’t determined by the number of warships, but by the combat capability of each warship and a certain amount of luck.

Under immense pressure from within the upper echelons of the Island Nation’s Government, the Royal Navy quickly devised a plan for a large-scale naval battle, with Yamamoto Isoroku, who at the time was Deputy Minister of the Navy and Minister of the Air Force Department, taking charge of this plan as the Commander.

During the previous surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Island Nation’s Navy had already recognized the threat posed by the Air Force to the Navy. The subsequent bombing of Hiroshima by Australasia further reinforced the Royal Navy’s awareness that aircraft carriers could sometimes have a restrictive effect on battleships.

In order to better engage in a large-scale naval battle with the Australasian Pacific Squadron, Yamamoto Isoroku gathered a significant number of the Royal Navy’s elite troops to form the newly assembled United Fleet.

To increase the chances of victory in the naval battle, Yamamoto Isoroku not only pulled coastal defense ships from the various colonies but also gathered a large number of small and medium-sized warships, which restored the total tonnage of the Royal Navy to around 1.07 million tons.

In the command arrangement for the United Fleet, Commander-in-Chief Yamamoto Isoroku held the position of Lieutenant General Rank.

He also pulled the commander of the original Island Nation fleet to serve as Chief of General Staff, managing the considerably large fleet together with Yamamoto Isoroku.

However, there was a major problem at the moment, namely that the navy in Hiroshima would find it difficult to gather in Tokyo. With a multitude of Australasian airplanes constantly circling the skies above Hiroshima, moving the navy could easily attract the attention of the Australasian Air Force, potentially exposing the entire movement of the United Fleet to Australasian eyes.

To draw attention away, Yamamoto Isoroku decided to sacrifice parts of the Army Air Force units on Kyushu Island, western Honshu Island, and Shikoku Island.

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Only airplanes could attract the attention of other airplanes. To accomplish the United Fleet’s mission, the sacrifice of the Army’s air squadrons was inevitable.

Whether Yamamoto Isoroku was acting out of personal vendetta or not was perhaps known only to him, but faced with such a significant issue, even if the Army Air Force was reluctant, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and endure everything silently.

However, this further intensified the rivalry between the Army and Navy. If previously there were merely instances of sabotage between them, the relationship became even more intriguing after Yamamoto Isoroku proposed sacrificing the Army Air Force.

But Yamamoto Isoroku could not be concerned with that now. If this naval battle failed, not only would the conflict between the Island’s Army and Navy be irrelevant, but the government itself might no longer exist.

And as the proposer of this grand naval battle plan, Yamamoto Isoroku would become a criminal before the war’s failure, taking the blame for some of the government officials in the upper echelons.

This grand naval battle wouldn’t just determine the fate of the Island Nation’s Navy, it would also decide the destiny of the Royal Navy’s elites, including Yamamoto Isoroku himself.

Beginning on August 4, 1937, under the organization of Yamamoto Isoroku, the United Fleet conducted several large-scale military exercises to simulate the deployment of all fleets in the grand naval battle, in order to identify and solve problems as early as possible.

On August 6, 1937, approximately 400 airplanes belonging to the Island Nation Army’s Air Force launched a massive attack on the Australasian occupied zones in Kyushu Island.

This unusual activity was quickly reported to the Australasian Air Force Department and ultimately to the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff.

At that time, Australasia’s Chief of General Staff, Malong, and Minister of Defence, Thomas, were sitting together, discussing how to prevent a desperate counterattack by the Royal Navy.