Imperial Overlord

With the end of the First World War, the United States and Japan fought openly and secretly over the colonial interests of the Pacific Ocean, Southeast Asia and China, and the contradictions became increasingly acute.

At that time, aircraft carriers had not been tested in actual combat, and the strategic value of naval aviation had not yet been proven and exerted. Therefore, the Jutland-style battleship confrontation became the only form of strategic decisive battle at sea.

Before the war could not prove the value of naval aviation, everything went back to the same place. The technical researchers of the Japanese Navy could only pin their hopes on torpedoes.

The Japanese hoped to play the role of destroyers, light cruisers and submarines as they did during the Japan-Russia Battle of Tsushima, to sink the escorts of the U.S. battle fleet as much as possible before the expected decisive battle, and even directly reduce the number of enemy battleships.

When the decisive battle comes, the forces of both sides can be evenly matched - this is the famous "nine-segment dwindling invitation to attack", and the Type 93 oxygen torpedo was developed under this background.

In 1926, Japan purchased several types of high-speed torpedoes from the United Kingdom, and then began to study new types of power torpedoes with the United Kingdom as a teacher. Since then, Japan has continuously sent researchers to the United Kingdom to study and learn the design theory of torpedoes.

A little digression here, pay attention to the time of introduction and the country of introduction: yes, you read that right, it is the UK! UK again!

It is such a traditional European empire of **** sticks, it is such an empire that can always make the most abnormal actions at the most critical time, and it is such a country where the sun never sets, which has been a professional teammate for 20 years...

If a country can take **** sticking as its profession and implement it to the smallest detail, then this country can be regarded as a wonderful flower in international relations.

Britain happened to be one such country: it lent money to Japan when Sino-Japanese relations were at their worst and helped Japan win the Qing Dynasty.

The advanced technology of the oxygen torpedo, which it sold to Japan in 1926, gave Japan the technological foundation to develop a perverted weapon such as the spear torpedo.

Then, in 1946, the second year after the end of World War II, it provoked Soviet-American relations and issued the Iron Curtain speech, which opened the prelude to the Cold War.

Almost at the same time, the United Kingdom sold the most advanced Nien jet engine to the Soviet Union while scolding the Soviet Union as a country under the Iron Curtain...

This sent a wrong signal to Stalin, which made the Soviet executives have the illusion that Europe and the United States are not monolithic, and then resolutely stood on the opposite side of NATO.

Who knew that after Britain sold the engine to the Soviet Union, it turned to support the United States unconditionally, sided with the United States once again, and began to obey its words for decades.

The United States was not happy for too long. On the Korean battlefield in 1950, Chinese and Soviet air force pilots, driving MiG-15s with Nien engines, made the U.S. Army Air Forces feel the pressure for the first time...

As for why the British always sell weapons to the enemy or hostile forces at a critical time, that is a mysterious knowledge - let's get back to business and talk about torpedoes.

Japan introduced British torpedo technology in 26 years, and began to learn British torpedo design technology, which has been digested and absorbed. By 1935, it finally came up with an oxygen torpedo in actual combat state.

This oxygen torpedo, also known as the spear torpedo, was a Japanese killer that surpassed traditional torpedoes in both range and speed.

Spear torpedoes have huge advantages over traditional torpedoes in terms of range, speed, and power.

The range of spear torpedoes is generally more than 10 kilometers, while the torpedoes used by the German Navy, which are also big users of torpedoes, have a range of only about 7 kilometers.

If you give up the speed of torpedoes and increase the range, this Japanese torpedo can reach a terrifying range of more than 20 kilometers, which is basically the same as the range of naval guns!

In terms of power, the spear torpedo type 1 can carry a warhead of nearly 500 kilograms, and the type 3 can even hold 780 kilograms of explosives, while the similar torpedoes of the Allies have only a warhead of 375 kilograms.

Of course, these are not the biggest advantages of the spear torpedo, the biggest advantage of the spear torpedo is its terrible speed.

Generally, the speed of ordinary torpedoes is not fast, which leads to the fact that after torpedoes are discovered, warships can often do evasive actions, which also greatly reduces the hit rate of torpedoes.

But Japan's spear torpedo is different, this torpedo limit can reach 49 knots, even in the 21st century, this indicator is very strong.

With this kind of torpedo, the Japanese navy believes that it can use destroyers and light cruisers to compete against large American warships.

As long as the corresponding tactics are arranged around this kind of torpedo, before the decisive battle of the fleet, the Japanese army can sink some of the enemy's main battleships at a long distance and help their fleet establish an advantage.

It is precisely around such tactics that the Japanese navy practiced its artillery battles and night battles hard, in an attempt to once again stage a good show of defeating the strong by the weak in the Pacific Ocean, reproducing the glory of the Tsushima naval battle.

It is a pity that this tactic fell into disrepair after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The sudden rise of naval aviation became the new favorite of the empire, and the torpedo assault tactic became a foil.

However, the generals of the surface ships are obviously unwilling to admit that they are foils, so they are still thinking about proving their existence with torpedoes and artillery battles.

It is also this complex that allowed the Japanese Navy to perform a wonderful scene of using aircraft carriers as bait and using battleships to surround and destroy the American fleet in real historical time and space.

With well-trained gunners~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and the huge technical advantage of torpedoes, the Japanese Navy's squadron is really hard to lose at this moment.

After a minute or so of non-stop artillery fire from the U.S. Navy, the Japanese navy finally fired back.

"Fire! Otherwise the Americans may think they won!" The commander of the Japanese Navy said with a arrogant smile, pressing his command knife.

Even if the boss told a joke, it was a matter of course to cheer him up, and the Japanese officers on the bridge all laughed along with him.

After another minute, the 203mm guns on the heavy cruiser Mogami began to roar, attacking the American fleet in the distance.

A moment later, the huge water column aroused in the formation of the American destroyers suppressed the captains of the American fleet.

The morale built up through several rounds of artillery bombardment also dissipated without a trace with the huge water column that was stirred up - the difference in caliber between the 127mm and 203mm artillery, reflected in the horizontal attack, it is really bad do not……