【106】Victory

The Taiwan Air Force on the Zhoushan Islands received an order from Shi Jue, commander of the Zhoushan Defense Command, to conduct a search of the sea surface.

For a period of time, all kinds of rumors have been flying in the Taiwan Air Force, and they are basically all generated around the previous air battle in Puhai. Some say that the PLA has equipped dozens of powerful jet fighters in Puhai; There are also doubts that Wang Jingyuan will lead the entire brigade to the enemy; There are even suspicions that the Soviet Air Force entered Puhai. In the face of this kind of speculation and fear, today they actually received another order to attack, but fortunately, this order asked them to search the sea surface instead of bombing the inland again, which can be regarded as reassuring these Taiwan Air Force pilots, and they feel that such a task is not too terrible.

In this way, the Taiwan Air Force, which had some wavering military morale on the Zhoushan Islands, dispatched eight fighters, two of which were L-5 communication planes and the remaining six were P51 fighters, to search the northern waters in a radial fan-shaped arrangement.

The 608 and 610 assaulted the Kuomintang gunboat formation after handing over the captured ships to the No. 802 6605 minesweeper, and for the 608 and 610, which were equipped with reliable surface search radars, it was really easy to find their position, and they found each other's traces in less than half an hour.

After the two 037 approached at high speed, the 610 boat first fired the first shot impatiently, and the sudden 57mm rapid-fire gun fired a burst of fire, and the shell fell on the water surface and exploded, blowing the blue sea to pieces, which made the small gunboats led by Cannon Seven stunned. This thing looks like a cannon with a rate of fire and firepower like a naval gun, so you don't have that to play, right?

Hu Daguan, the captain of the seventh gunboat, commanded desperately, and the standard-bearer sweated profusely and ordered the other gunboats to fire back, this time the appearance of 608 and 610 was not sudden, and the cannon 12 in the nine small gunboat formations was the first to discover these two rampage and rapidly approaching "sea jeeps", and the lights and flags were all used, and finally the gunboat formation all knew about the two high-speed monsters that broke through.

The ensuing naval battle was miserable for the Kuomintang Navy, as the two 037 classes continued to close the distance, driving at high speed around the gunboats, 608 plus 610's four 57mm twin rapid-fire guns and four 25mm twin rapid-fire guns were fired at full strength, and the small gunboats were lit one by one like candles.

There is no need for armor-piercing shells to hit such a small gunboat, and a high-explosive incendiary bomb containing white phosphorus explodes violently around the small gunboat, as long as it is hit by one shot, this kind of small boat of less than 100 tons, some or even less than 50 tons, is like being set on fire, and the fire is in the hole that is torn open on the boat, and flames are erupted from the blown hole, and the small gunboat after being shot has completely lost the will and ability to resist.

In an instant, two of the nine gunboats were blown out, and four were seriously wounded and paralyzed at sea. The surviving crews of the blasted Cannon 14 and Cannon 19 jumped into the sea to flee for their lives. Gun 14 suffered a lot of life, and the concentrated fire of the 610 directly detonated the ammunition piled up on his deck, the entire bow of the ship was blown up, and the small boat command room was also blown up in half, and the captain and first mate in the command room were all killed, and the fire was soaring, and the corpses were burned with black smoke caused by the fire caused by white phosphorus bombs.

The Gun 19 was not much better, and the 608 high-explosive shells hit the ship's command room directly, and the result was terrible, and all the people in the command room were killed. The white phosphorus ghost fire that could not be extinguished burned the iron sheet in the command room......

The surviving crews on both boats cried and howled all day long. Unable to withstand the flames rolling on the ship, the hull of the ship continued to sink. Everyone threw themselves into the sea like dumplings, counting on other gunboats to come and save them.

Hu Daguan's face was like ashes, he now knew where the Xianning and the Cannon Six had gone, and eighty percent had been sent to the Dragon King of the East China Sea by these two firepower monsters of the People's Liberation Army. These two high-speed monsters have strong firepower, they are still running fast, the firepower of the gunboats is completely empty, Hu Daguan saw with his own eyes that a 25MM cannonball hit the hull of the opponent, but to his disappointment, in addition to blowing up a black mark, the other party was unharmed, obviously, the other party's gunboat, which seemed to be only three or four hundred tons, was made of haode ship steel plates.

This is still a hair, Hu Daguan is completely desperate.

Next, Hu Daguan very wittily ordered the boat to hang a white flag and surrender, since he surrendered, he had to send a letter of surrender, Hu Daguan used the name of the temporary flagship of the seventh gunboat, and constantly beckoned other gunboats to surrender with flags and light signals.

The naval artillery battle, which lasted less than half an hour from the first shot, ended magically with a great victory over 608 and 610, and the blasted guns 14 and 19 had completely sunk into the sea with black smoke and fire at this moment, and the bubbles that kept rising proved that they had existed.

Captain Han Tingfeng of the 608 ship saw that the four heavily damaged gunboats were already miserable, and it was estimated that they could not be repaired, and forcibly taking them away would inevitably affect the sailing speed. So he ordered all the other sides to abandon ship and climb into the other gunboats. 608 slowly sailed away with the three gunboats full of rescued seamen.

610 approached the four battered gunboats, bombarded their waterline one by one, sending them to the bottom of the sea.

Like Lin Baoke, the captain of the Xianning, Hu Daguan did not choose to send a report to the Zhoushan Defense Command, the reason is very simple, Lao Jiang was greatly annoyed after the Kuomintang Navy continued to surrender to the People's Liberation Army one by one, and gave instructions, who will surrender and kill the whole family! He would rather let Lao Jiang think that they were all killed, than let his family be brutally killed by Lao Jiang because of his surrender.

After 608 took the telegram out amid the cheers of the whole ship, the Qingdao Base Command was simply crazy, and Commander Xiao Jingguang hurriedly ordered them to leave quickly and quickly escorted the captive ship to the Yancheng wharf in Jiangshu Province.

In the Central Military Command Headquarters of the Northern Capital, the faces of the military leaders were also happy.

The chairman raised his head and said with a smile: "Well fought and played with prestige, I want to give credit to all the officers and men of the 608 and 610 boats." ”

Commander-in-Chief Zhu happily picked up the teacup in front of him and said while drinking: "Xiaoqiang, this sea jeep you purchased is very useful, I think 10 is too little, and another 10 is enough." ”

For Xiaoqiang, it is no surprise that 037 can completely suppress the gunboat, after the 037 was put into service in history, it was a tough battle, and that time it was not a bayonet fight with a battleship several times his displacement. But the price of fighting bayonets is cruel, and the heroic soldiers defend the sea frontier of the motherland with their flesh and blood, which makes people feel distressed to think about it.

"I think that in addition to expanding its combat strength, the current construction of the navy should also strengthen the introduction of diversification, such as logistics supply ships and survey ships, hospital boats and floating docks. In the construction of the base, it is necessary to carry out comprehensive repair and maintenance of the ships as soon as possible, because after all, the combat effectiveness of warships can only be guaranteed by logistics. Xiaoqiang said his opinion.

Xu Xiang, the former chief of the General Staff, said: "Xiaoqiang, you can consider it so comprehensively, this is very good, the next introduction of the navy can not be relaxed, but it is even more necessary to strengthen the construction of its own strength, just buy ships, we must be able to build ships, which can fundamentally strengthen the strength of the navy." Mr. Zhu said that 10 more is enough, in my opinion, our country has such a long coastline, I'm afraid it will take another 100. ”

Nie Rongzhen, deputy chief of the general staff, said: "If we can liberate the island of Taiwan as soon as possible, we will be able to get a group of powerful shipbuilding personnel. ”

Everyone in the headquarters was constantly discussing the construction of the new Chinese navy and waiting for further reports on the battle situation.