Chapter 137: The Battle of the Bohai Sea (6)
The four escort warships barely bought the convoy any time, and when the Yueyang and Sanya warships caught up with the convoy from both sides of the outer perimeter of the convoy, only two convoys had completed the turn.
At this time, the loudspeakers on the Yueyang and Sanya ships shouted to the transport fleet in German, demanding that the transport ships immediately turn off their ignitions, anchor underground, and surrender to their own side, otherwise they would sink all the transport ships.
However, all the transport fleets ignored the shouting and threats of the Yueyang and Sanya ships, and the two transport ships that had turned their heads had turned their heads at full speed and desperately fled the scene, while the other transport ships were also doing their own thing, some of the transport ships continued to turn, and some of the transport ships had not completely turned, so they rushed with full horsepower. Because they all saw that there were only two warships that intercepted the convoy, which also made all the transport ships have a fluke mentality, thinking that these two warships could not stop all the transport ships, and each transport ship had a great chance of escaping.
Seeing that all the transport ships did not obey the order to moor, Wang Hailong, the captain of the Yueyang ship, slammed the operating console in the wheelhouse and said: "Damn, the German who is shameless in his face, since he wants to find death, then I will fulfill you, fire at me, sink a ship first, I don't believe it, the Germans are really not afraid of death." ”
After the captain gave the order, the main guns of the Yueyang ship were immediately aimed at the fastest transport ship, the name of this ship was the Springs, it was a transport ship with a full load displacement of 4,300 tons, a maximum load capacity of 1,800 tons, and a maximum speed of 15 knots, one of the fastest among all transport ships. However, this time, the Springs was loaded with 1,500 soldiers and equipment, as well as 1,700 tons of supplies, the actual load was nearly 2,000 tons, and the speed was reduced to 12 knots. At this time, he was running forward desperately at the maximum speed he could reach.
However, even under normal circumstances, the Springs is much slower than the Yueyang ship, not to mention the unceremonious fire bombardment of the guns on the Yueyang ship, with a rate of fire of 3 seconds per round, for a shelling that lasts for 1 minute.
Since the transport ships were not equipped with weapons, the Yueyang ship was also quite close to the transport fleet, and when the guns were fired, they were only 5.2 kilometers away from the Springs, which was the closest to the fire in previous naval battles. At this distance, the hit rate of the Yueyang ship's main guns reached almost one hundred percent.
Of course, in actual combat, due to the influence of ocean currents, wind speed and other factors, the hit rate of the general naval guns will be dismantled, so the 20 shells, directly hit the Springs reached 15 rounds, another 3 missed, only two misses, and the hit rate also reached more than ninety, which is also quite a high hit rate.
Although the 76 mm caliber guns equipped with the Yueyang ship were limited in power and did not have much lethality against the warships of this era, the defense of the transport ship could not be compared with that of the warship, and it was subjected to nearly 20 shells in a row, and in just one minute, the entire ship was almost covered by an explosion, which also made the crew and soldiers on the ship feel as if they were experiencing hell.
At the end of a round of shelling, six or seven large holes were punched in the left side of the ship, and a raging fire was also ignited on the deck, and the sea water was like a rising tide, frantically pouring into the inner compartment of the Springs. The crew and soldiers on the ship jumped off ship one after another to flee for their lives, just like dumplings. In less than fifteen minutes, the Springs turned to the left and sank into the sea, and at least half of the crew and soldiers failed to escape from the cabin in time.
On the other side, Zhang Wei, the captain of the Sanya ship, saw the Yueyang ship firing, and also ordered the ship to open fire and bombard another fleeing transport ship, and it also took just over a minute to sink the transport ship. Of course, while the shelling was being carried out, the shouting continued, but with the addition of "if you run away again, this will be the end".
In just a few minutes, two transport ships were sunk in succession, and many transport ships were indeed shocked. Only then did I know that although the other side only had these two warships, their guns had a fast rate of fire, fierce firepower, and high accuracy, and it was really not easy to escape. Immediately, three or four transport ships began to slow down and shut down, preparing to anchor at the original underground according to the shouts of the two warships. Although these transport ships are also ships of the German Navy, the people who drive these ships are not the front-line soldiers who drive the warships after all, not to mention that European soldiers are not ashamed to surrender, and at this time, it is important to save their lives first.
However, the stopped transports were part of it, and there were some transports that did not listen to the evil spirits, and still drove at full speed, desperately trying to escape from the battlefield, and they did not flee in one direction, but scattered in all directions. The crews of two of the transport ships wanted to stop the ship, but they were held hostage by the German soldiers on board and fled from the battlefield, and the German soldiers also moved several small-caliber guns to the deck of the ship and fired at the Yueyang and Sanya ships.
Of course, the army guns fired on the deck of the ship, and naturally they were not accurate at all, and even fired a few shots far away, but it angered Wang Hailong, the captain of the Yueyang ship, and Shang Jinfeng originally ordered to let go of the German warship and go all out to destroy the German transport fleet, which made Wang Hailong hold back the fire, after all, it takes a lot of effort to fight a warship, and to let the warship go to fight the transport ship, isn't this bullying other people's transport ships? Even if you sink a hundred transport ships, there is no glory.
But Shang Jinfeng's military rank and position are above Wang Hailong, and at the Tianjin Conference, he officially served as the Minister of the Navy and the commander of the fleet, Wang Hailong naturally could only obey his orders, but there must be some emotions in his heart, and now seeing that the transport ship not only did not surrender, but actually fought back, Wang Hailong immediately became angry, and immediately ordered to sink the transport ship that opened fire.
As a result, the Yueyang ship was again bombarded by a heavy shelling, sinking one transport ship that had returned fire in succession, while the other transport ship had already run away, Wang Hailong ordered a torpedo to be fired at the transport ship, and a few minutes later, the torpedo hit the transport ship and sank it.
On the other side, the Sanya ship also fired at a transport ship that was about to flee, but Zhang Wei was not as impulsive as Wang Hailong, much calmer, and did not fire a fierce blow, but only hit the transport ship three times, and then stopped the shelling, and shouted to it, sure enough, the transport ship suddenly slowed down, and in order to prevent the Sanya ship from firing again, a white flag was also hoisted. When the other transport ships saw it, they didn't dare to regain the idea of escaping, and they all stopped honestly.
By this time, the combat mission of annihilating the German transport fleet had also been completed, and all four warships escorting the transport fleet had been sunk, while four of the eleven transport ships had been sunk and one had been damaged, and the remaining six had all dropped anchor and surrendered to the Yueyang and Sanya ships.
After all, the four sunken warships and four transport ships have a lot of German soldiers jumping into the sea to escape, although the ship sank, but the escaped soldiers are still struggling in the sea, many German soldiers have swam to the seven transport ships that have been stopped and moored, and the crew and soldiers on board have thrown down the lifebuoys to rescue their comrades who fell into the water.
After all, after the end of the war, it was still possible to talk about humanity, and the two warships also participated in the rescue, but the rescued German soldiers were concentrated on the helicopter platform at the stern of the ship.
And this move of the two ships also won the favor of some crew members and soldiers on the transport ship, because although the seven transport ships were rescuing the German soldiers who had fallen into the water, now these seven ships have turned off the fire and lowered the anchor and are stationed on the spot, so they can only rescue the German soldiers near the ship, and they can do nothing about the German soldiers in the distance, so they can only swim over by themselves, and after the Yueyang ship and the Sanya ship join the rescue, it will naturally be greatly improved.
Originally, on the transport ship, some people were still thinking of finding a chance to escape, but now they have dispelled this idea. Although I don't know who my enemies are until now, judging from their behavior, it is obvious that they are all civilized people, not extremely evil people, because only civilized people can rescue the enemy army, and since this is the case, why should they escape? After all, under the surveillance of these two warships, the chances of escaping are indeed not high, and the first four transports that were sunk will be the end.
At this moment, four small boats arrived on the spot, it turned out that two 318 boats and two torpedo gunboats, the Sea Dragon and the Sea Rhino, rushed to the battlefield to help the battle, although the battle was over at this time, but these four small boats arrived, it can still play a big role, first of all, to rescue the German soldiers in the sea, more these four boats, the efficiency will naturally be much greater.
Although they did not participate in the war, nor did they see the warp of this battle with their own eyes, they saw the remnants in the sea water along the way, as well as the seven German transport ships that surrendered, and the embarrassment of the German soldiers struggling in the sea water.
All these circumstances show that the fleet of this group of overseas Chinese has easily won a complete victory. Although in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Beiyang Naval Division was finally wiped out, but the quality of the German-made warships was unanimously recognized by China and foreign countries, because it was in the battle of Dadonggou, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, two ironclad ships under the siege of Japanese ships, each ship was hit by more than 300 shots, the hull was scarred, but it was still strong and unsinkable, so that the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Ito Yuhiro, sighed that "these two ships could not be sunk".
Therefore, in the minds of the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division, the German warships were absolutely the world's first-class level, but the German fleet was defeated by the fleet of overseas Chinese, which shows how powerful this fleet of overseas Chinese is.
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