The Rise Of Australasia-Chapter 1272 - 934 The Battle of Tokyo Bay_2

Chapter 1272: Chapter 934: The Battle of Tokyo Bay_2

Chapter 1272 -934: The Battle of Tokyo Bay_2

They had pursued for about ten kilometers when the two light cruisers quickly sank due to their hulls being bombed.

By this time, the Australasian Navy had fully entered the waters of Tokyo Bay. Jon Odell did not rush forward but ordered his subordinates to use radar to detect the enemy’s trail.

On the radar screen, several dots were moving slowly toward the north. These dots were likely the squadron led by Kondo Niita.

“Haven’t we detected the main force of the enemy navy?” Jon Odell wondered. Logically, once the enemy had successfully lured the Australasian Navy into Tokyo Bay, they should have shown themselves.

After all, their goal wasn’t merely to draw the Australasian Navy into Tokyo Bay; their primary aim was certainly to defeat the Australasian Navy and win this naval battle.

“Since the enemy does not wish to show themselves, let us force them to do so.” Jon Odell said with a smile, instructing the messenger, “Get all the airplanes ready. If we can’t locate the enemy in Tokyo Bay, then bomb the Government Building, Imperial Palace, and other important facilities in Tokyo.

“I can’t believe that the Islanders drew us thousands of miles just to get us closer to Tokyo.”

Following Jon Odell’s orders, numerous airplanes took off from the aircraft carrier’s deck and dispersed throughout the entirety of Tokyo Bay.

The speed of jet airplanes is very fast, and given their current location in Tokyo Bay, they could reach the skies over Tokyo within half an hour if they so desired.

If they really couldn’t find the Island Royal Navy, then they might as well vent their frustration by bombing Tokyo. After all, this was all provoked by the Islanders, and Brigadier Jon Odell had never seen anyone lure the enemy into their core area like this before.

About ten minutes later, the planes in the sky finally made a discovery.

Approximately 40 kilometers north of the Australasian Navy, a medium-sized naval squadron was approaching.

However, it did not appear to be the main force of the Island Royal Navy, as the number of main battleships and the size of the fleet did not match.

“What are the Islanders doing?” Jon Odell found it strange, but the best response at this time was to crush any approaching enemy.

Without further thought, Jon Odell immediately ordered all the airplanes to concentrate their attacks on this squadron and directed all the submarines to submerge, spreading around the fleet to prevent an attack from the main force of the Island Royal Navy.

Once the order to attack was given, hundreds of airplanes majestically headed toward the Islander squadron. By this time, the squadron led by Kondo Niita had already joined with another squadron, successfully forming a larger squadron.

However, such a scale posed no significant danger to the hundreds of airplanes. After all, it was only part of the Islander United Fleet, and the number of aircraft carriers they possessed was very limited.

Moreover, the development history of Islander aircraft carriers was more convoluted than that in other countries, and their types of aircraft carriers were much simpler.

As mentioned before, Britain had withdrawn its support for the Island Nation before World War I. Since the fall of the United States, the Island Nation had not received great power-level support, and most military weapons had to be developed and replicated on their own.

In the development of aircraft carriers, the pace of the Islanders was relatively slow. To acquire aircraft carriers, they had adopted a method similar to the initial approach taken by the British, which was to retrofit large destroyers and cruisers into rudimentary aircraft carriers.

But such retrofitting came with significant flaws. Firstly, the retrofitted destroyers and cruisers lost some of their primary functionalities, serving more as platforms for airplanes to take off and land.

The Islanders also applied this retrofitting to battleships, and currently, half of the Island’s aircraft carriers were retrofitted in this way, which was more backward compared to mainstream aircraft carriers in the world, and naturally, their combat effectiveness was also worse.

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Moreover, transforming destroyers and cruisers into aircraft carriers meant that these aircraft carriers could not carry many airplanes.

The Island Nation’s aircraft carriers could carry about 12 to 32 airplanes, and only those truly modern carriers could load over 40 aircraft.

For the impact on this naval battle, even after having spotted Australasian airplanes in the sky, the planes on the Island Nation’s carriers could not all take off quickly; they had to rely on the anti-aircraft weapons aboard the warships instead.

But as mentioned before, the technology of anti-aircraft weapons was fairly primitive at the time, only effective against low-flying, slow-moving aircraft.

The truly effective defense weapons were airplanes themselves; only by defeating the enemy’s air force head-on could they ensure there was no threat from the air.

However, now, because they had several outdated aircraft carriers, the planes on the Island Royal Navy carriers could not take off quickly.

This already put them at a disadvantage in air and sea battles. By the time Australasian forces were visible to the naked eye, more than half of the Island Nation’s planes were still on the decks of the aircraft carriers.

Australasian planes did not care about the Islanders’ thoughts. After identifying their targets, the fighter aircraft and bombers launched fierce bombings and attacks on the Island Nation’s warships.

The first things to fly toward the enemy’s warships were a large number of missiles, all modern types, ensuring not only a high hit rate but also considerable destructive power.

Although not as powerful as the main battleships’ ship guns, the sheer number of them could still sink battleships. Moreover, due to having hundreds of aircraft, a single volley launched hundreds of missiles.

Based on the hit rate of the missiles, about 60% of them hit their targets.

The result was that just the first round of simultaneous missile launches directly caused extensive damage to two of the Island Nation’s battleships, with several small warships being outright sunk.

“Damn it! What kind of weapon is this?” Kondo Niita, positioned on the flank of the Island fleet, was dumbfounded. He hadn’t participated in the attack on Hawaii and was thus unaware that Australasia possessed such powerful weapons.

Of course, it was also the fault of the Islanders choosing such a good time for their surprise attack. At two or three in the morning, it was virtually impossible to see clearly. Many Island soldiers could only discern the vague outlines of the weapons, and most of them perished in that air raid.

In subsequent reports of the battle results, some mentioned this extremely powerful weapon. But the conclusion given by the Island Nation’s Ministry of Defence was that some soldiers were frightened out of their wits, inventing excuses to deflect blame for the failed sneak attack.

This was a dilemma; if it became confirmed that Australasia possessed a powerful weapon that could easily destroy the navy, then was there any need to continue the war?

After all, the Island Nation was barely keeping afloat by relying on its navy. If the navy could not achieve victory, relying solely on the army was completely unfeasible.

Moreover, millions of soldiers would become a burden for the Island Nation’s Government, requiring the relentless exploitation of tens of millions of Islander people to support such an army.

“Brigadier, it looks like our flagship has been hit!” Before Kondo Niita could marvel for long, his deputy officer quickly informed him from behind.

Kondo Niita looked up and indeed, their feudal team’s flagship, the latest model battleship, had been hit.

What was more fatal was that the unidentified weapon had struck a turret, detonating the weapons within.

This caused a small-scale explosion on the battleship’s deck, with at least ten of the Island Royal Navy personnel either killed or wounded.

The small explosion also led to the direct detachment of armor from the deck and sides, severely deforming the deck, which clearly appeared heavily damaged.