"The Asahi boiler is faulty, and I request to stop it for maintenance." The chief of staff of the Third Fleet, Jiro Kaga, got this battle report, which made his brows frown, it is said that these thirty-year-old ships should be sent to the shipbreaking yard, but the Eighth Eighth Fleet has not been followed, Prime Minister Yuan Jing is a disarmament faction, and the first and third combined fleets in the Far East and the world have to make up for their lives. After this dispatch, it is time for these glorious old guys to retire. "Approve Inoue's request. Please contact Chief Shunsuke Miyauchi and inform me that the Third Fleet is returning to the ship, and the other ships are attacking as planned. ”

Vice Admiral Kaga's intentions were quickly relayed by radio to the Combined Fleet Commander, Admiral Tochiuchi Sojiro, but this also allowed the Third Fleet to appear on the screens of the Wehrmacht Navy's radio monitoring vessels. Major Canaris, led by two 30,000-ton converted submarine carriers, was carried 130 nautical miles east of Shijiu, and after releasing six submarines, the merchant ships changed the French flag and turned south. The 2nd Submarine Detachment, based on the results of radio direction finding of the opposing side, advanced at full speed towards the target sea area. At the same time, four B3 bombers of the HNA were spread out in a fan, and began to search the east for the whereabouts of the Japanese Third Fleet. It wasn't until the Night Harvest 03 discovered the Third Fleet that it was finally confirmed that the target of the Third Fleet should be Arthur or Yantai Port.

Soon after, Vice Admiral Tochiuchi Sojiro, who was in charge of the First Fleet, telegraphed back, agreeing to Vice Admiral Kagajiro's arrangement, and assigned the armored ship "Shubo" to remain on duty in Kure Port to protect the Asahi return. At 10:28 a.m., the Third Fleet appeared in the ambush circle of the Second Submarine Detachment, and six submarines fired a salvo at the armored ships of Mikasa and Fuji from four directions, at a distance of less than 1,000 meters, at a depth of 2.5 meters. With loud bangs one after another, the right side of the middle part of Mikasa's hull was hit by three 533mm torpedoes, two exploded, and one failed. Just a few seconds later, Mikasa's stern was hit by a torpedo* on the left side of its stern, blowing up the propulsion and rudder surface, and Mikasa became a dead fish. Then the four torpedoes that hit its port side made the entire hull no longer able to bear it (the same fate would have been for other battleships, unless it was a super monster like Bismarck and Yamato that could be supported by buoyancy, and the Mikasa, which had obviously reached the end of its life, did not have this power), and directly broke into three pieces, and sank to the bottom of the sea without hesitation, and the whirlpool immigrated to Haiti with 239 members of the ship, and the commander of the Third Fleet, Vice Admiral Jiro Kaga, was injured and sank with the ship.

The reason why China's torpedo hit rate is so high is because Wu Chenxuan's standard precision instrument mounts a gyroscope on the torpedo and uses it to control the directional direct navigation of the torpedo, making the world's most advanced direct torpedo and greatly improving the accuracy of the torpedo. Later, the American E61W61 Bliss invented the first thermodynamic torpedo (also known as steam gas torpedo * mine) to replace the compressed air engine, which increased the speed of the torpedo to about 65 km / h, making the torpedo fast and effective, and the battleship could not rely on the observation post to find and avoid the torpedo in time.

Mikasa, the former flagship of the Combined Fleet, was filled with fireworks and sank into the sea in three parts. And the Fuji that followed closely behind was not easy, the left and right flanking of the two submarines, so that the Fuji that dodged left and right still failed to avoid all the kisses of the eight torpedoes, and finally hit five mines, and the Fuji, which was blown up with four large holes, struggled in the fireworks for an hour or sank because of the rupture of the front part of the hull. The Yakumo armored cruiser tried to escape, but it collided with Boat 11 commanded by Canaris, and was hit head-on with four torpedoes, and the entire bow was cut off by Qi Brush, and it struggled tenaciously on the water for more than 30 minutes before it was safe to reunite with the two old brothers. The two remaining destroyers of the Third Fleet ran as far as they could like frightened rabbits, and it was not until it was almost dark that they returned from the south in a big circle, rescuing less than 100 survivors. At this moment, the second detachment of submarines had left this sea area, and they were going to the rendezvous point 150 nautical miles southeast and the mothership would meet and then replenish fuel and torpedo to give the Japanese Combined Fleet an unexpected surprise again.

If the Third Fleet, which is a partial division, is old, weak, sick and disabled, the First Fleet concentrates the essence of the Japanese Navy. 2 Fuso-class Super Dreadnoughts, Fuso, Yamashiro, 2 Ise-class Super Dreadnoughts, Ise, Hyuga. There were also 2 cruisers, Tenryu and Tatsuda, and 6 destroyers, and the capital ships of this huge fleet were all new ships launched after the start of World War I. The loss of contact with Vice Admiral Kaga of the Third Fleet did not make Admiral Tochiuchi Sojiro have anything to worry about, you must know that the communication equipment in this era is still the world of transistors, and the reliability is only known to God, so it is not a big deal to not be able to get in touch, and the most important thing is that even if the Chinese fleet is dispatched, it may not be able to leave the three old guys of the Third Fleet.

"Report to Your Excellency, our First Fleet is currently 150 nautical miles east of Shanghai as planned, and if all goes well we can shell the Shanghai shipyard in Chongming tomorrow morning, and if the Chinese do not want to give up their super dreadnought, they will have a decisive battle with our fleet." Nautical staff officer Shigeta reports.

Admiral Tochiuchi Sojiro bowed slightly, he felt that he was lucky, when he was about to leave office, he didn't know what to do with the people of Shina dared to provoke the Imperial Navy, so that he had the opportunity to lead the team on this expedition, although it was impossible to have a passionate naval battle line duel, and the other party's few former Qing broken ships could not run on the sea. Only the two cruisers compensated by the Germans were somewhat threatening, but relying on the Hokkien Yankees who had just taken refuge and only knew how to sell opium and be pirates, even if they were given a combined fleet, they would not be the match of their own First Fleet. Now, in addition to the Anglo-Mi Navy, it is the best in the Imperial Navy. Could it be that the ruler of China, Wu Sang, was also a fool like the old lady Cixi, otherwise how could he dare to challenge the imperial navy? In any case, there is definitely no problem in getting a first-class meritorious medal on this trip, and maybe he can get the title of the emperor himself like the predecessors of Togo or the predecessors of Huashan, and rank among the Chinese. Sojiro Tochiuchi, who was contemplating lewdness, was awakened by a rush of sirens.

"Nani?"

"Your Excellency, there is an enemy." Intelligence staff officer Kameyama ran in, and it seemed that there was indeed an enemy approaching. However, General Tochiuchi Sojiro was more of a snicker, if it was just a burst of indiscriminate bombardment of the enemy's city, how could it show the bravery of the samurai? Although the enemy is very weak, but it can be regarded as a naval battle, it would be better if one or two more old ships could be slightly injured, on the one hand, they can apply for a new warship, on the other hand, it can also show that the battle is fierce, showing the combined fleet's martial arts in fighting bravely to punish the tyrannical.

"Kameyama-kun, mark the number and model of enemy ships." General Tochiuchi Sojiro, who was standing in front of the chart, had his hands behind his back, his face was as usual, his tone was calm, and he had a high-ranking face with a pearl of wisdom in his hand. The surrounding staff officers and sailors all looked up to His Excellency the Commander with admiration, worthy of being the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, who needed to be calm in battle, and had the demeanor of an ancient famous general, perhaps comparable to Dongxiang's predecessors. The Japanese officers and soldiers who consciously followed such a great commander and were very glorious all straightened their backs, their steps were vigorous, and they were also very energetic in their work, and even the guards who were responsible for opening the door closed the hatch loudly, oh, this is not right, the hatch is also the property of the fleet, and it should be cherished, but this spirit is worthy of praise.

"That, Your Excellency, I..." Kameyama's constipated appearance made Admiral Tochiuchi Sojiro who was holding the shelf a moment of discouragement, really no eyesight, you said that you generously and neatly marked the enemy ships, wouldn't it be considered to cooperate with His Excellency the Commander to establish a glorious group image of a general commanding and the three armies without needing to die? Hey, dog meat can't be served.

"Don't spit on, just say it. Even if it was the High Seas Fleet, we Japanese soldiers were confident that we would send them to the bottom of the sea. "General Tochiuchi Sojiro is very displeased, but the morale is not to be discharged, and this is not the time to beat this dog day.

"Your Excellency, Commander, the enemy has no warships to meet you." Kameyama's first sentence almost didn't make everyone in the command tower happy, what kind of alarm do you pull without enemy ships. Play us?

"It's enemy planes, oh, a large group of enemy planes are coming, and the various air defense units have already begun to defend themselves. Do you want to ask the commander to evacuate in formation? ”

The sound of the engine outside the "buzzing" window is already clearly discernible. The crowd strode out of the command tower, looking up at the western sky from the platform, and the dense black spots that made people a little dense and frightened had become clearly visible, which were hordes of bombers and fighters, which seemed to be hundreds of them. Every four or five planes are lined up in a triangular formation or a wedge-shaped formation, and several small formations form a large triangular formation, and the dense large triangular formation is continuously formed into two batches. High in the sky, they swooped down on the First Fleet.

The firing of the 20-millimeter Erley anti-aircraft cannon of the "Ping Pong" is a bit of psychological comfort, otherwise there are more than a dozen 356-millimeter cannons and hundreds of more than 200-millimeter heavy artillery in the air, and there is no power to fight back against these roaring fighters. Thanks to the guy from Yamamoto Shosa of the Naval University, who insisted on writing a book to remind the fleet to pay attention to air defense, he purchased 50 20-mm Erly anti-aircraft guns from Switzerland, and before this voyage, only the two cutting-edge warships Hyuga and Ise installed 28 anti-aircraft guns, and the other warships were still using Hatch Cash's flat-altitude dual-purpose machine guns.

"The little devils are numb, they don't have large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, everyone should pay attention to spreading out the formation and not entering the three-thousand-meter effective firing range. The escort planes cover the torpedo planes, and the F4 is going to wash the deck with me! With the greeting of Captain Song Shiyu, the leader of the pilot team, the F4 navy "Sea Hawk" fighter jets rushed out of the formation with increased horsepower, and the six 12.7 mm large-caliber machine guns on the plane swept over the deck like grates, leaving behind a place of severed limbs and a little plum blossom, and the sparse anti-aircraft fire was instantly reduced to the point that it was almost impossible to find. The torpedo planes, dive bombers, and escorting F3 fighters were like sharks smelling blood, sharpening their knives and forks, and swooping down towards the flock of sheep on the sea. Let the Combined Fleet tremble in the roar of the Chinese warhawks!