With a loud bang, the Japanese troop carrier "Yushengmaru" sprayed magnificently in the central waters of the Korean Strait, countless fragments and stumps flew in the air, and then the Japanese army soldiers who fell into the water had to struggle in the rough waters, more than 300 souls finally went to the Dragon King Hall to report, and more than 500 people were rescued by the accompanying ships......

Since the start of the Second Battle of the Haraha River, this is the 99th ship that Japan has lost in East Asian waters, nearly half of which is due to the Soviet and Russian submarines that have disappeared without a trace, and more than 6,000 people have been killed, including crew and passengers, and the drowning Japanese army soldiers are enough to cobble together a reinforced wing, and nearly 110,000 tons of military supplies have sunk to the bottom of the sea with the ship, and hundreds of guns and tens of thousands of ammunition have failed to play a role on the battlefield where they are most urgently needed. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Such a loss is really disappointing for the Japanese navy that swept the Asia-Pacific waters in 1934......

In the spring of 1937, the armistice between the United States and Japan, and in the autumn of the same year, the armistice between China and Japan allowed Japan to occupy a vast and populous overseas territory in an internationally recognized manner. Unlike the Japanese Army, which continued to grow in strength, the Japanese Navy, which lost a large number of ships in the middle and late stages of the Pacific War, was far from returning to its pre-war state. When a large-scale conflict broke out between the Soviet Union and Northeast Asia again, many of the Japanese Navy's active ships were modernized and refitted in the docks, and the only capital ships that could be dispatched immediately were three battleships, two battle cruisers, and six aircraft carriers, and 14 light and heavy cruisers, 137 destroyers, and 83 submarines in service. At the strong request of the Japanese Army, the Japanese Navy sent a fleet to the Great Peter Bay on the fourth day after the start of the war to reconnoiter the Soviet and Russian bases in Vladivostok and the surrounding areas, and the results of the aviation showed that the Soviet and Russian sides had greatly strengthened the strength of the Pacific Fleet, with at least 10 light and heavy cruisers, 30 destroyers, and nearly 100 submarines deployed here!

At that time, the two sides had not yet formally declared war, and although the intention of the Japanese base camp was to monopolize Northeast Asia and expel Soviet and Russian forces from the Far East and Mongolia, because the Kwantung Army was not yet fully prepared, it only planned to fight against Russia in the Harakha River area at the beginning, so it rejected the Japanese Navy's plan to attack Vladivostok by surprise, which made the naval bosses very dissatisfied. As the fighting dragged on, the Japanese military hierarchy soon discovered that the Russians were not just trying to save face at the Haraha River, but were more ambitious. As a result, the Japanese base camp quickly mobilized the Kwantung Army and the Korean Army to advance across the border to Vladivostok, and asked the Navy to send marines to help. After the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, the angry Japanese high-level finally remembered the plan of the navy to attack Vladivostok, but the best opportunity had been lost, and the Japanese Combined Fleet, which entered the Great Peter Bay for the second time, was met with fierce resistance from the Soviet and Russian naval and air forces, and the well-trained and well-prepared Soviet and Russian air forces not only completely defeated the Japanese carrier-based aircraft force, but also sank and damaged more than 20 Japanese ships, forcing the Japanese Combined Fleet to adjust its combat strategy to a long-range blockade, resulting in a situation full of loopholes in the back......

"Attention all! Urgent dive! ”

In a pitch-black Russian submarine with a longitudinal silhouette like a sharp blade, the captain with a beard turned his head and shouted to his crew. No sooner had the periscope been put away than a deafening explosion could be heard overhead, and the proximity of the scope made their submarine shake violently. Despite the suddenness of the incident, the crew did not panic, and they did their part, increasing the speed of the submarine to the maximum speed so that they could get out of their previous position in the shortest possible time, and filling the auxiliary tank with water to increase the depth of the submarine and prepare for the next depth charge. The crew worked in an intense and orderly manner, and there was no room for a little mistake to happen, and the belief in survival was paramount at this moment, and everyone hoped that they would finally return to their homeland alive and see their loved ones alive.

Although it has only been more than half a month since they left the harbor, this group of Soviet and Russian sailors has been in distress many times, but even the most timid among them has not lost their fighting spirit because of this. They knew that sinking only one enemy ship would reduce the casualties of the army comrades and thus gain a favorable weight for the final victory of Soviet Russia. Either actively expand the space outward and construct a safe buffer zone, or wait for the opponent to encroach step by step, and eventually become a loser in history.

After the submarine had passed the initial dive period, the captain calmly ordered through the microphone: "Turn right at 10 degrees, go full speed instead!" ”

There was a momentary silence on the surface of the sea for a few minutes, but it was only the calm before the storm. When a knock sounded like a knock overhead, the Russian crews who had encountered Japanese ships several times before knew what it meant, and they quickly found a safe place to fix it, and some even took cotton balls out of their pockets and plugged their ears.

Rumble...... Rumble......

The submarine began to shake more violently, and all unnecessary lights on the boat had been extinguished, and most of the crew were left with the only action left to breathe. Some people are praying silently, and some people are resigned to fate, but by this time it is difficult for them to control their own destiny.

At this moment, the bearded captain commanded in a calm and powerful voice: "The rudder is back in place!" Stop moving forward! ”

Ten years ago, Japanese destroyers equipped with passive sonar could have done nothing against submarines suspended in the water. During the Pacific War, the U.S. submarine force sank more than 1,300 Japanese ships and lost only 40 submarines itself, a statistic that strongly proves how weak the Japanese Navy's anti-submarine capabilities were. After the end of the war, the Japanese Navy actively improved its anti-submarine level through the purchase of equipment and internal research technology, and by 1942, all destroyers were equipped with reliable listening phones and detectors, and these technical equipment had basically reached the international advanced level, which was quite unfavorable to the relatively weak Soviet and Russian Navy. After the First Battle of the Haraha River, the Russians received a large amount of emergency assistance from the Western Allies, including 55 old German submarines in mothball, and all but 10 of the less seaworthy ones were used for training crews, and the remaining 45 were transferred to the Pacific Fleet.

The Soviet Russian submarine in front of me is a U-441 attack submarine built in the late 10s, from the perspective of that year, this is a product that has found the best fit in the main performance of firepower, speed, range and seaworthiness, and is an all-round submarine capable of multiple purposes, but in the early 40s, this unmodified submarine has fallen far behind the times.

On the surface of the sea, with a dull thunderous roar, thick white columns of water jumped up. At the stern of two destroyers flying the Rising Sun flag, sailors in white uniforms are preparing to drop more depth charges into the water.

"40 meters deep, 1 minute later, 1 shot every 30 seconds, a total of 6 rounds ......"

A phone call from the bridge gave the anti-diving men new instructions, and rows of barrel-shaped depth charges were placed on the stern drop containers, and all they needed to do was adjust the depth knobs on the last three containers and drop them into the water at the specified time. Because they contain hundreds of kilograms of high explosives, these barrels are usually extremely bulky and can only be dropped through the slipway at the stern of the ship, and the time it takes for them to reach a predetermined depth from the surface may have already slipped away the target.

As soon as the scheduled time arrived, the sailors pulled the lever and rolled the barrels of explosives equipped with the depth fixing equipment into the water one by one along the skateboard. Since the warship was always in sailing condition, the sailors did not have to worry about being injured by the powerful bombs, and they waited silently for a dull sound to come from the bottom of the sea, and a white column of water shaped like mushrooms finally burst out of the sea.

On one of the Japanese destroyers, a soldier with more than ten years of service taught his young companions: "If you see a lot of oil and broken floating debris on the surface of the sea, then there is a good chance that the submarine you are attacking has already been sunk by you!" Look! That's what I'm talking about! ”

Following the prestige, a large area of oil stains appeared in the rolling waves on the sea surface in the direction of the stern of the ship, and if it was not a deliberate "smoke bomb" by the enemy submarine, then it must have been injured by depth charges.

Seeing this, the Japanese sailors on the two Japanese destroyers all thought that the culprit who sank the "Yushengmaru" had been duly punished, and there was jubilation on the deck, but within a few minutes, a pitch-black submarine suddenly appeared under the sea, and as soon as it came up, it desperately turned its rudder, but instead of escaping, it pointed its bow at the nearest Japanese destroyer. At the same time, the Russian crews emerged from the hatches of the bow and fore decks and operated the deck guns and anti-aircraft guns on the boats to fire at the enemy ships.

The Japanese sailors on the destroyer were caught off guard by their opponents, and it was not until several of the crew members were shot that they hurriedly maneuvered the ship's guns to open fire and return fire. The ensuing battle turned into an artillery battle between two Japanese destroyers built at the end of the Pacific War and an ancient, wounded Russian submarine that could not dive, and the outcome of the battle was unassuming, the Russian submarine only lasted less than ten minutes before sinking to the bottom with bullet holes, and only a third of the more than 70 crew members survived.

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