Chapter 124: Is This Papier-mâché?

Naniwa, the ancient name of Osaka. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info The Japanese Navy protection cruiser that sails in the northwest waters of the Liaodong Peninsula is named after a city in ancient times. The current captain of this warship is Heihachiro Togo.

The Naniwa is now heading to Yuyindong, North Korea's Taedong River, where it is going to replenish coal and fresh water. It was already the end of December 1894, and nearly two months had passed since the Japanese Army landed at Huayuankou on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Hmph, those army red deer have been tossing around the Liaodong Peninsula for nearly two months, and they have not even occupied a wharf or a trestle, and now our navy has to go to Korea to replenish coal and fresh water, and Togo Heihachiro is very dissatisfied with the Japanese army's inactive military operations during this time.

portraying the marines of the Great Song Empire who wanted to fish in troubled waters as an army with combat strength comparable to that of the Prussian Army was just trying to excuse their incompetence. Oyama-kun's command of the generals and soldiers under his command needs to be improved, as a fellow villager friend of Oyama Yan, Togo Heihachiro did not forget to wash his friend's floor when he complained about the army red deer.

Isn't it a shame to call a unit called the Marine Corps a Prussian Army whose combat power is comparable to that of the largest army in Europe? That's the Marine Corps, you can't do the Marine Corps on land, do you still have the face to say that you are the Army? Togo Dasa has an incomparable resentment about going to North Korea to refuel coal, and he is not willing to stay longer in that barren and cold peninsula.

Crossing the crowd and lying down again, this Marine is not the other Marine Corps, don't compare the security guards on your ship who suppressed the sailors' riots with us, okay?

However, the traversers will soon have a chance to correct their name, and the Super Hind Mi-24's search radar has already discovered the whereabouts of the "Naniwa", and is swaggering towards it with the crew of the bombing operation.

The reason why the "Naniwa" acted as a single ship was that the Beiyang Naval Division, which had been crippled by the Japanese Combined Fleet, had not yet recovered its strength and was still hiding in Weihaiwei to lick its wounds, and the Japanese warships were almost as arrogant as visiting their own backyards in the Bohai Sea. Second, because the Combined Fleet is responsible for guarding the Huayuankou landing site, it can only let the warships take turns to return to the Datong River to replenish coal and supplies.

Heihachiro Togo, who was sitting on the bridge, seemed to hear some strange sound, but before he could send someone to check the source of the sound, he heard a huge explosion on the port side of the "Naniwa", accompanied by a slight shaking of the hull.

"Your Excellency Dasa, our port side was shelled, the waterline was broken through, and the losses are being counted." The first mate hurriedly ran into the bridge to report to Higashi Koheihachiro.

Shelled? It's almost fifteen nautical miles from the coast, is there a shore defense gun with such a long range? No way! If they were attacked by an enemy ship, would the observing sailors be dozing? Was it approached by an enemy ship and within range of the artillery without noticing? Heihachiro Togo, who heard the first mate's report, felt incredible.

That's when he discovered the source of the strange sound, a big steel dragonfly! It made a detour from the port side of the "Naniwa" to the stern of the warship.

This big steel dragonfly is the Super Hind Mi-24 carrying the action team, and the explosion on the port side of the "Naniwa" just now was not caused by an artillery attack, but the Mi-24 fired a 9M120F anti-tank missile at it.

"I'll wipe it, dig such a big hole, how thin is the armor here?" The smoke from the explosion cleared, and the helicopter pilot saw the hole that the anti-tank missile had blown up on the port side of the "Naniwa".

The armor-piercing thickness of this series of Russian-made anti-tank missiles is generally more than 900 millimeters. The thickest part of the armor of the "Naniwa" is the outer armor of the engine room, which is only 76 millimeters, which is far from reaching the thickness of the armor of the Zhenyuan ship, which is about 200 millimeters.

This port side armor, which is as thin as a dumpling skin, is like a hot knife cutting butter when it encounters an anti-tank missile that is diving at high speed. This Russian-made 9M120F anti-tank missile pierced directly into it, paying attention to piercing it rather than blowing it up.

The warhead of this type of Russian-made anti-tank missile is in the middle of the missile body, and after the dumpling skin armor on the port side of the "Naniwa" was hit, it failed to touch the missile's warhead, and when the missile body did not enter the ship's hull, it caused an explosion.

Exploding on the outside of the armor and exploding through the ship's interior are two completely different effects. The missile exploded outside the ship, and only the high-temperature jet could penetrate the ship's interior. But it was a different story for the missile to pour into the hull and explode, in the small space, the huge shock wave caused by the explosion opened a huge horn-shaped hole on this side of the ship, which was much larger than the crossing crowd expected.

As originally planned, the Super Hind made it to the aft of the Naniwa, where it was to sweep the aft deck and the people in the semi-open turret, as well as the stern cables that held the masts in place. Wait until you have fully pressed the boarding area before lowering the boarding crew.

From the high-definition photos brought back from the previous aerial reconnaissance, it was found that the gun emplacements at the bow and stern of the "Naniwa" were semi-open, so the Super Hind's 23mm cannon was loaded with high-explosive grenades this time, which had achieved the effect of killing the living forces as much as possible.

The half-haired man who operated the cannon was estimated to have activated the combat race gene in his blood, and the fingers of the button did not hold the door, and after a pour, there was no living person standing in the stern, but this round of strafing detonated the ammunition of the 260mm Krupp gun in the stern. At this time, the entire stern of the ship was a sea of fire, thick smoke billowed out, and seeing that the rope rappelling was no fun here, the Mi-24 had to turn to the bow of the ship again.

In the middle of the "Naniwa" is a huge chimney, plus there are cables connecting the two main masts, which is not at all suitable for helicopter rappelling fighters. After the excited half-haired cannon operator made the stern of the ship look smoky, the pilot made a detour to the bow of the ship without waiting for a backup plan.

Theoretically, the bow of the ship was closer to the bridge, where the defenses would have been stricter than the stern. With this in mind, the Super Hind fired another cannon at the bow of the ship. This time, the cannon operator controlled his unicorn arm and didn't make the unmanageable scene at the stern, otherwise the bombing team would have to go home.

The bridge, which had been classified as the most heavily defended by the crossers, had now been bombarded by 23mm artillery into an open balcony.

"I'll wipe it, are the Japanese using paper to paste the warship?" Kong Heng, who was about to slide down the rope to board the ship, saw that the bridge was in a mess and complained.