Chapter Eighty-Eight: Sinking

At 13:38 p.m. on 28 June, the two warships arrived at the entrance of Ningde Harbor and plunged headlong into the ambush area of the submarine force.

"The enemy ship was traveling at 9 knots and in the direction of 53 degrees." Zhou Xiulong observed in the periscope and said to the adjutant beside him, who hurriedly raised his head and repeated to the personnel above the stairs: "The enemy ship is traveling at a speed of 9 knots per hour and a direction of 53 degrees. ”

"Aim for it."

"Depth alignment."

"Aim for it."

"Depth alignment."

"600 meters away."

"Depth 13 meters."

"The torpedo is adjusted to 40 miles per hour......"

"The torpedo is adjusted to 40 miles per hour......"

"No. 1 to No. 2 fish ** ready for fan launch."

"No. 1 to No. 2 fish ** ready for fan launch."

"Number 1 is ready."

"No. 2 ready ......"

The sailors inside the submarine began to get busy, and quickly completed the general's orders.

"Ready...... Launch! "Zhou Xiulong is a little nervous, this is the first time to fight!

"Launch~!!"

"Whew...... Goo ......"

The torpedo flew out, bringing up the sound of water, and fired at the Hashidate, which was approaching the harbor.

At the same time, five other submarines also fired torpedoes one after another, and the six submarines were divided into two groups, one group to attack the Hashidate and one group to attack the Itsukushima.

The trajectory of the torpedoes was visible on the surface of the sea, but the trajectory of these electric torpedoes was not very obvious, and the two warships were unsuspecting it.

"Empty ......"

"Empty ......"

Two torpedoes successfully hit the bottom of the Hashidate, and the violent explosion produced a huge impact on the bottom of the water, and after a muffled sound, the Hashidate directly became a ball of fire, and the hull of the ship ignited a raging fire.

Another torpedo grazed the side of the Hashidate and missed!

The Hashidate sank rapidly in the fire......

The situation of the Itsukushima was much better, only one of the three torpedoes hit, but this was a medium-sized torpedo, and the explosion was so powerful that a large hole was blown out of the stern of the Itsukushima in an instant, and the rudder was directly blown up.

"Sir, what's the situation?"

"Hit." Zhou Xiulong smiled and stepped aside, and the adjutant hurriedly approached the periscope, only to see that the Hashidate had begun to sink rapidly, and the sailors above were jumping into the sea like dumplings.

"Sir, there's one more."

"You command." Zhou Xiulong wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to the adjutant.

"Yes."

The remaining one had no chance of escaping, after all, it was surrounded by six submarines.

"Submarines, submarines." On board the Itsukushima, the sailors pointed to the sea in horror and shouted, "Ah! Torpedoes, torpedoes are coming again......"

"Circumvent, quickly circumvent me."

"Captain, rudder damaged, unable to turn ......"

"Yaga."

A muffled sound of "empty ......" suddenly came from the bottom of the ship, and it was hit again, and the Itsukushima instantly trembled and shook violently, and before the devils above could stabilize it, they immediately heard a muffled sound from the bottom of the ship one after another.

"It's going to sink, ah~! Mother ......" a sailor jumped into the sea with a frenzied scream.

After Itsukushima was hit by one torpedo, four more torpedoes hit Itsukushima, and the Itsukushima was blown in two, the hull broke in the middle, and then two warped and sank to the bottom of the sea in two sections.

The two warships sank one after another within five minutes, and the sea was full of sailors who jumped into the water, and some were swept away by the spiral nests formed when the hull sank.

"Correspondent."

"Yes."

"Tell the torpedo boats to put away the mines and come to clean up the battlefield." Zhou Xiulong ordered.

"Yes."

Ten torpedo boats received the order, and quickly salvaged the mines, and then sailed to the area of battle, when they reached the area of battle, they saw a large number of fragments floating on the surface of the sea, and some sailors who had escaped death.

"Beat the water dogs, aim for me."

"Dada......"

The machine guns on the torpedo boat began to fire at the sailors in the water, and the sailors who were swimming in the torpedo boat were brutally slaughtered.

The massacre lasted nearly an hour, and the 10 torpedo boats searched the surrounding 10 nautical miles of water, and found no living sailors before returning to the port.

……

Just as the submarine force sank two warships in Sansha'ao, Xia Jun was busy preparing for the summer harvest.

In the coastal plains, large agricultural machinery can be used, and there are four types of large harvesters.

Crawler full-feed large grain combine harvester: It can be adapted to paddy field operations, and can carry out short and medium-distance flow operations, and long-distance flow needs to be transported by vehicles. The harvesting width is 5.5 meters, and it is said to harvest 350~500 acres of grain, which can harvest rice, wheat, corn, soybeans and pasture. Exchange price: 1000.

Wheeled full-feed large grain combine harvester: suitable for dryland operations, can carry out long-distance mobile operations, harvesting width of 5.5 meters, harvesting 500~600 acres of grain, can harvest rice, wheat, corn, soybeans, pasture. Exchange price: 1000.

Crawler semi-feed large grain combine harvester: It can be adapted to paddy field operations, and can carry out short and medium-distance flow operations, and long-distance flow needs to be transported by vehicles. The harvesting width is 5.5 meters, and it is said that 350~500 acres of grain can be harvested, and rice, wheat, soybeans and corn can be harvested. Exchange price 1000.

Wheeled semi-feeding large grain combine harvester: suitable for dryland operations, long-distance mobile operations, harvesting width of 5.5 meters, harvesting 500~600 acres of grain, harvesting wheat, soybeans, corn. Exchange price 1000.

These four harvesters are used in different ways, and the wheeled type is used in dry land and can be used for long-distance operations. The crawler type is used in paddy fields and cannot be used for long-distance operations.

The full-feed type is to swallow all the crops in the field like a shaved head, mainly for harvesting feed, and the full-feed harvester must be used for private corn. Half-feeding means swallowing only the part of the grain that grows, leaving the lower half in the field.

The 3 million acres of corn land planned by the Ministry of Agriculture must be harvested with agricultural machinery to reduce the cost of feed, and the corn is grown mainly in the coastal plains, so these harvesters can operate there.

Xia Jun has already redeemed 600 wheeled full-feed combine harvesters and 300 wheeled half-feed combine harvesters, and Xia Jun has already trained the working personnel.

While transferring these harvesters to the coastal plain, Xia Jun also mobilized a large number of tractors to cooperate with the operation.

With these tractors, the corn in the field can be harvested in ten days.

Just as Xia Jun was arranging the summer harvest, the points in the exchange platform suddenly skyrocketed, Xia Jun checked the message records, and the records showed that the offshore fleet sank a Sanjing ship (Matsushima, Hashidate, Itsukushima) at 13:25 and 13:30 respectively, with a total tonnage of more than 9,000 tons and more than 450 points.

Xia Jun calculated, it seems that the warship that beats this is very profitable, sinking 1 tonnage is equal to 500 points, but what makes Xia Jun a little depressed is that the little devil's sailors are not counted in the points, and the navy is only counted in tonnage, which makes him never get how many points he can get by shooting a devil to death.

It doesn't matter if you think about it, the little devil's navy is targeted by Xia Jun, and this will be a good channel for open source in the future! It's best to play slowly, and let Xiao Ben build more warships for him to fight.

However, the navy must expand its scale as soon as possible, once the Xinhai Revolution breaks out, Xia Jun is not such a simple matter as defending a Ningde, but Ningde's defense must be strengthened, and at least one fort must be built, otherwise it will really not be able to stop it.

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