Because it is a tropical sea, there are many kinds of fish living here, including great white sharks and killer whales, which Yang Jing has seen several times. However, these large carnivorous fish are well fed and have no interest in "large fish" like Yang Jing, so they did not bother Yang Jing. Yang Jing even approached a killer whale and played with it for a while.
Yang Jing possesses the restricted time-space travel skill. Even if the great white sharks or killer whales want to eat him, he is not afraid. At worst, he can just use his skill to travel away. No fish can catch Yang Jing.
When diving in the waters near Lorengau, you can often see large sunken ships. These ships are Japanese warships or Allied warships that sank during World War II. In comparison, the number of sunken Japanese warships is greater.
During World War II, the Japanese established many military bases in the southwest Pacific. Lorengau, located on Manus Island, was naturally not spared by the Japanese because of its important geographical location. During World War II, the Japanese built a large number of military bases and military airports near Lorengau to provide cover for the Rabaul base from the side.
Later, the US-Australia coalition forces, led by MacArthur, began to fight back against the Japanese. However, they suffered a setback in Rabaul, which eventually forced MacArthur to adopt the "leapfrog tactics" to skip Rabaul and instead attack other Japanese bases that could threaten the retreat of the US-Australia coalition forces.
Lorengau was the first Japanese base attacked by the US-Australian coalition forces after skipping Rabaul.
Because the US-Australian coalition had absolute air superiority, although they suffered a setback when attacking Rabaul, they successfully expelled all the Japanese naval forces originally stationed in the Rabaul waters from the Solomon Sea. The Japanese Navy's cruisers, destroyers and light aircraft carriers had to be transferred from Rabaul to Lorengau.
However, the US-Australian coalition's "leapfrog tactics" attacked very quickly. Not long after the Japanese Navy's ships arrived at Lorengau, they suffered air attacks from the US-Australian coalition. After abandoning several destroyers and even cruisers, the Japanese Navy fled again and retreated towards the Philippines.
Without the support of warship firepower, Lorengau was immediately exposed to the firepower of the US-Australia coalition. Compared with Rabaul, Lorengau was inferior in every aspect, so the US-Australia coalition took a short time to easily eliminate Lorengau.
The loss of Lorengau also completely isolated Rabaul. Even though there were still 150,000 Japanese soldiers there, it had become completely useless until Japan was defeated in World War II, when the Japanese leader in Rabaul, General Imamura Hitoshi, surrendered.
So, even though the waters near Lorengau are very beautiful, the warships that sank below the sea level are all testimony to the cruelty of the war that year.
Just like Yang Jing once found a light cruiser over 150 meters long in a shallow water area less than 5 kilometers away from the port of Lorengau. However, the deck of the cruiser had been blown up beyond recognition, and there were several shocking holes on the side. Even the hull number and name were blown away, so Yang Jin couldn't figure out whether this light cruiser belonged to Japan or the US-Australia coalition.
Anyway, this light cruiser was the worst bombed warship Yang Jing had ever seen. Judging from the miserable state of the warship, it was obviously first subjected to the "deck washing" bombing by the Air Force, and then hit by at least four heavy torpedoes, which eventually led to it being beaten into this terrible state and sinking.
Although he didn't know the name of this light cruiser, Yang Jing estimated that it was very likely a Japanese warship. After all, the deck of the ship was almost completely "cleaned", and even more than half of the sturdy bridge was gone. At that time, it was estimated that only the US-Australia coalition had such a powerful air force.
Although the light cruiser sank in the sea less than 50 meters below the sea level, Yang Jing had no intention of going down to take a look.
What is there to search for in a warship? There are only bodies and ammunition inside.
But today, after Yang Jing dived again, he found a different shipwreck on a raised sea ridge...
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