The greatest power of the submarine is that it can easily approach the enemy's warship, and it can be launched suddenly, and it is a continuous launch, and the speed is very fast. A kilometer away, a torpedo suddenly appeared, according to the speed of 40 knots, a maximum of 40 seconds of reaction time, these warships in an unsuspecting situation, after more than 20 seconds to find the torpedo traces, first panicked, and then panicked to find the close fire force, when these close fire force uneven fire, hoping to hit the torpedo, but that is almost impossible. Even a well-trained army would find it difficult to attack a fast-moving torpedo, let alone in a panic situation, with only a few tens of seconds to react.

These battleships, even the speed was not completely raised, the result was inevitable, the first to be shot was a destroyer, he was also the largest escort troop carrier, but the large-caliber torpedo, the huge charge, so that even if the torpedo encountered the capital ship, there was a great threat, not to mention a destroyer of less than 2000 tons, it was directly hit by a torpedo, the torpedo pierced a big hole in his underwater armor, and countless seawater poured into the battleship, and it began to sink slowly.

An 800-ton mine-striking ship was the second to be shot, this one was a little unlucky, the torpedo hit the middle directly, and the huge explosion directly broke him into two sections, which sank faster than the previous destroyer, and the personnel on it, almost all ran away, all with the explosion and rapid silence, into the water.

The distance of one kilometer, the reflection time of tens of seconds, there are some deviations. But there was a very short time apart, a minute later. The torpedoes hit the target, respectively, 8 ships. 6 ships were hit, 4 of them sank directly and quickly, 2 lost their combat effectiveness, and the two ships that survived, at this time, where could they still take care of the escort troop carriers, they quickly escaped, the small battleships themselves were moving rapidly, and the speed immediately increased, and the speed of 30 knots rose in a short time.

It's a pity that the submarine forces will not let them go. Before they could run out for a long time, torpedoes appeared again in front of them, and in front of each one, there were at least 18 torpedoes, that is, a ship was stared at by 3 submarines, and 6 ships attacked them together, but it was 5 minutes longer than the previous battleship, facing a fan of torpedo attacks. After struggling for a few minutes, they were sunk one by one, so that all the escort ships were killed and annihilated.

The battleships escorting the escort were taken out. The troop carrier also knows that this moment is the most critical moment. If you stay here, it's going to be miserable. More than 50 ships with almost no hesitation. Divided into several directions, rushed to the shore, I have to say, these little devils are really smart, rushing to the shore at high speed, as long as they can run aground on the shore, then the threat of torpedoes will no longer exist, and they will be able to escape.

18 ships, 14 of which have completed a launch, the twin launch tubes, to complete the loading, it takes almost 10 minutes, the only thing that can deal with them, there are only 4 left, even if the front and back are added together, it is only 40 torpedoes, even if it is 100% hit, it is impossible to kill all the more than 50 ships, there must be a trade-off, choose the largest, or the most valuable.

At this moment, their position is already quite close to the shore, even if it is a cargo ship, under the condition of full speed acceleration, it can exceed 15 knots, which is already faster than the maximum speed of the submarine, unless it is up to the water, it is a little difficult to pursue them.

Fang Wenshan quickly commanded, most of the submarines had not yet been launched, so they turned around, went around and waited for the rabbits, and the few submarines that had not been launched continued to pursue, and chose the troop carriers that were relatively large and had relatively obvious targets to attack, cargo ships and warships, these are completely different things, as long as they are aimed at and calculated, it is impossible to miss, just like the fixed point is clear, and they launched a torpedo attack on these troop carriers.

This is a massacre, all those who have seen this battle will find that the troop carriers that have lost their escorts and have no self-defense weapons, in the case of fish attacks by submarines, they can not do much, and later statistics, 55 troop carriers, a total of 23 were sunk, and the rest of the lucky ones washed to the shore, in fact, it cannot be said that it is the shore, as long as the water depth is less than 30 meters, the submarine is impossible to go, and the effect of torpedo attack is not very good, after all, many reefs, it is easy to deviate or explode.

Rao is so, because the submarine forces choose larger troop carriers, a torpedo that can make the capital ship suffer heavy damage, on the simple structure, or even just shoddy cargo ships, it is simply a big killer, as long as a large-caliber torpedo, hit the key parts, waiting for these cargo ships is a catastrophe, many times, it is a sudden break into two sections, thousands of tons of steel, after losing buoyancy, it will sink quickly, the vortex generated by the rapid sinking will make it impossible for everyone to escape, This is almost the main way of death for Japanese troops on troop carriers, but there are not many direct deaths.

Later, after the end of the battle, there was a calculation of this submarine raid, on this wave of submarine attacks, the number of Japanese soldiers who were directly killed exceeded 20,000, only one-tenth of them were killed after direct hits, and most of the remaining ships were sunk and swept into the sea by whirlpools and died, and almost one-third were drowned in the process of swimming to the shore, which is about two or three kilometers away from the coast, some of them knew how to water, or they were lucky, and barely relied on swimming skills, entered the shore, and the rest died in this part of the sea.

Even if the soldiers who are lucky enough to escape, less than 10% of them can carry good equipment, after all, this is the army, not the navy, and they have not undergone professional training.

Only those who frantically rushed to the shallow water, or even ran aground on the shore, could be considered complete, but if they were damaged during the collision, plus some other necessary losses, the three divisions and one brigade had to lose more than half of their heavy weapons and about seventy percent of their supplies, and they were basically half-crippled.

The commanders of the three divisions and a brigade commander were relatively lucky, and they rushed to the shore without any major problems, but their faces could not be darker anymore, and they had not yet landed on the shore, so they were reimbursed for a division and regiment, plus half of the overall combat effectiveness was weakened, how to fight this battle, fortunately, several people were veterans of the army, and quickly adjusted their mentality, and sorted out on the spot. If you attack a fortress more than a dozen kilometers away, it is better to attack them from the side and take that fortress.

The excitement here also made the United Fleet notice, but under the dense firepower, they had no time to take care of it, at this time they could only escape, in the escape, all their minds were attracted by how to dodge the constantly flying shells, fortunately, the closer to the periphery, the 15-inch naval gun's range limit, the hit rate of the naval guns was also greatly reduced, from about three percent to one percent, and it was getting lower and lower.

In this case, the Japanese Combined Fleet saw hope, at least escaped from the most dangerous area, then the proportion of possible attacks next was much smaller, although the losses were heavy, but they could escape, but unfortunately the disaster came at the moment when they thought that they might have to escape from the ascension, and they had been waiting here for a long time, and even according to the route of their escape, they formed an encirclement one after another submarine forces, and at the moment they relaxed, they began to attack, The most daring submarines dared to attack less than 600 meters from the battleship, and the high-speed torpedoes only gave them less than 25 seconds to react, plus the concealment brought by the artillery and the high-speed battleship, and 12 ships were sunk by the submarine under surprise.

In just an hour, it was a nightmare for the Japanese Combined Fleet, 4 of the 5 capital ships were hit by different Cheng dù, the only intact was the King Kong class, he also relied on his speed, dodged many shellings, and the others, Hizen was directly hit by 17 large-caliber naval guns, and it had lost power, and it became a live target where it stopped, and the rest were not injured by Cheng Dù, and the speed was also reduced from the original high speed of about 20 knots to about 10 knots, The slowest even reached 6 knots.

And finally ran here, unscathed, the most important battleship in the entire combined fleet, the King Kong, was attacked by 3 submarines, the nearest is 600 meters, the farthest is 1100 meters, different directions, three-dimensional attack, in an instant, 18 torpedoes were issued, even if the King Kong struggled to dodge, under the dodge left and right, it still did not escape the torpedo attack, there were 4 hits on the target, exactly the middle and both sides of the King Kong, the thin skin of the British battle cruiser, at this time, the harvest of evil results, Without a defense below the waterline, the Kongo's wounded scarcity, with 3 large holes and a skewed hull, actually became the second battleship to sink completely, and even lined up in front of the other capital ships.

The ships that fled in a hurry, were hit more, plus they were sunk by submarines, in an hour, the combined fleet was silent for a total of 140,000 tons, which almost accounted for most of the combined fleet, and among the more than 50 ships, only 7 ships escaped intact from the Qingdao control range, which can be said to have been completely defeated. It's no less than adding insult to injury. (To be continued......)