Chapter 796: The Whole Army Is Annihilated
There is only a distance of 3 kilometers between each other, and the Kasuga, which is running at high speed, seems to rush straight towards the Haiqi, but it is beyond Cheng Biguang's expectations, and it was hit a few times, but it has little impact, and the speed has not weakened in the slightest. But its good luck ended here, Cheng Biguang didn't see it before, he had the same intention of ending up, now he can see it, then it is not seen or not, it is completely different from not seeing, Haiqi under Cheng Biguang's order, quickly turned, from before the battle began, there was no afterburner Haiqi, suddenly a large amount of black smoke came out, all the engines were running to the extreme, and the speed increased to more than 28 knots in an instant.
28 knots, for a warship of more than 4,000 tons, is not the extreme, but the collision of the escaped Kasuga is enough, the speed of the Haiqi accelerated, slightly adjusted the direction, missed the Kasuga, the closest place between the Kasuga and the Haiqi is less than 1 km, but this is already the closest distance, and then it was thrown away by the high speed of 28 knots.
Seeing that the Haiqi was getting farther and farther away, the others in the mountain house sighed with admiration, and were about to use the artillery to make one last fight and call out the personnel located in the power compartment, because of the idea of letting others escape for their lives, there were only the most basic personnel on the Kasuga, and they had to make a trade-off.
It's a pity that the last chance for the others in Yamaya is gone, and when the Haiqi retreats at high speed, he has already contacted the two destroyers behind him with electric waves, and the two destroyers that exceeded the speed of 35 knots suddenly arrived, announcing a happy ending for spring.
The best option to end the Kasuga is not the power of the Kaiji, the 203 gun. It may take dozens of hits to sink the Kasuga completely. A light cruiser, even if refitted, could not have the huge main guns of a capital ship. For a larger level of patrol, a head-on confrontation is no problem, and it can even be undamaged, but to completely sink the opponent, the possibility is a little small, after all, this is not a level, if the opponent is bent on death and does not want to waste this time, torpedoes are the best choice.
A destroyer following the Kaiji. It was not in the navy of the Qing government before, but it was a new ship, which was re-produced after it was delivered to Germany, and it was not possible for every ship to be built at the same time, and some small docks were used to speed up. The Northwest decided to open several new ships.
These ships are all destroyers, they are redesigned, new destroyers, a total of 4. On average, it took a month or two to complete the basic sea trials by the time the Japanese arrived. It came out with the Haiqi, all for speed and the destroyer under the design of the air. The speed is extremely impressive, exceeding 35 knots. In front of the Kasuga, after a nice turn, a torpedo was fired at the Kasuga.
The new destroyer, has greatly weakened the artillery, only a few 150 mm guns and a number of prevention and control machine guns and machine guns and the like, mainly not to the sea, but to the air, almost all of the attacks on the ship are turned into torpedoes, on the battleship, large and small arrangements are all torpedoes, the unique design of the 4 torpedo tubes has a total of 7, in the largest situation on the front, can fire 5 in a row, double loading, can launch 20 torpedoes at a time, 15 seconds later, Another 20, which can be said to have increased the firepower to the extreme.
Kasuga can't slow down, it's been moving forward, 2 destroyers, using speed, seized the most advantageous position, after firing 2 rounds of 80 torpedoes in a row, it has lost the ability to turn, and the power has been increased to the extreme, Kasuga, can't dodge at all, 20 show a fan, the distance between each is about 70 meters, 2 fans of about 2800 meters, not at all Kasuga can dodge.
If the Kasuga is still in the era of total victory and still has all the crew, he can use the powerful guns on the Kasuga to block in advance and kill the two destroyers, but unfortunately, now, the Kasuga has no chance, facing the sea of death composed of 80 fish, he struggles and escapes as much as possible.
After more than a minute of futile escape, in the end, the dust settled, the first wave of 2, the second wave of 4, hit the Kasuga in a row, even if the Kasuga has a weight of more than 7,000 tons, even if it is an armored cruiser, 6 large-caliber torpedoes are enough to completely destroy it, 6 torpedoes, on the Kasuga, dig out six big holes, countless seawater, frantically surging towards the Kasuga, just like the Zhiyuan ship 18 years ago, helplessly sank to the bottom of the sea.
In the thick smoke of the fire, the Kasuga was slowly silent, the mountain house with blood on his head, separated by thousands of meters, staring at the Haiqi that had turned back, unwilling, humiliated, desperate, this is his mentality at this moment, a day apart, to be exact, there is still an hour or two of war, but it is a world of difference, the combined fleet is over, I am afraid that none of them will be able to escape, only one Haiqi is enough to deal with the Kasuga, and the remaining two seas, against the other two warships, are simply easy and abnormal, Northwest, It is destined to bury all the combined fleets at the bottom of the sea.
From being hit by a torpedo to sinking into the water, it took less than 5 minutes, looking at the calm water, Cheng Biguang sighed, the general will inevitably die in battle, the navy must always have the belief that the ship is sinking, in order to move forward bravely in the naval battle, of course, this is only the foundation, the real consideration of the naval battle is the weapon, only a strong warship, can occupy the real upper hand, the sea is compared with the Kasuga, the future fantasy class and Orion change is the same, the northwest has been in science and technology and shipbuilding, caught up with the world-class, next, it's up to them, the manipulators, to look back at the distant Qingdao shipyard, where the builders of China's future warships, once they are put into service, the time for the Chinese to cross the ocean is not far away.
The sinking of the Kasuga, set off the clarion call for the destruction of the combined fleet, and the other two seas of the three seas also assumed a dominant position, killing the capital ships of the other side one by one, and the rest were sunk one by one under the joint strangulation of destroyers and thunder boats.
This is after the Battle of Qingdao, the only two ships captured, looking at the unconditional surrender of the Japanese officers and ships, Cheng Biguang's heart was stirred, 18 years, from a young soldier, growing into a captain, Cheng Biguang can not forget that battle anyway, that is the Beiyang completely dusty, tearing the veil of the first war, I don't know how many families have been hit, how many children have lost their fathers, and now, this qiē by them completely returned.
The naval battle is over, except for the two captured battleships and the battleships in the northwest itself, there is no ship on the vast sea, those Japanese navy who were pursued and jumped into the sea, are constantly struggling in the waves, even if there is life-saving equipment, it is only for them to float on the sea, Cheng Biguang is not in the mood to rescue them, just like Dadonggou back then, their robes are struggling in the sea water, and there is no one in ten thousand who finally come back.
Adjust the situation, continue to contact the airship, almost all the Japanese warships that escaped from Qingdao were stared at by an airship, at the speed of more than 60 kilometers of the airship, they could not escape, the outermost, by the battleships that might escape to the Sea of Japan have been sunk one by one, and the rest of the escapees to the Bohai Bay are also fast, and they cannot be allowed to escape to the shore.
The radio waves contacted the airship, and after having the next target, Cheng Biguang ordered the team to turn immediately, and the three seas continued to track, and on the empty sea, at least hundreds of Japanese sailors, floating in the sea, some people in later generations investigated, and finally able to return to the shore, and finally escaped, only two, they are also the only two sailors who have not been captured, have not been killed in battle, and survived.
On the battlefield by the sea, the battle is still not over, the capital ships that have lost power and cannot escape, there are 2 more, they do not seem to have lost their fighting spirit, there is a pair of them to attack, although for the northwest, the benefits of capturing them are a little greater, these warships, if the keel is not destroyed, pull it out for tinkering, refit it, you can use it directly, or simply as a target ship, at the worst of all, you can also dismantle it and turn it into steel, these are good money.
It's a pity that the Japanese are all dead-brained, and they still refuse to raise the white flag, so they have to fight to death, especially when the submarines returned one by one because they couldn't catch up with the ships that escaped, they announced their doomsday, and two or three torpedoes sank them directly on the coast of Qingdao Port.
In the following period, Sankai took destroyers to search for the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea on a large scale, and under the guidance of airships, they sank the Japanese Combined Fleet one by one, and finally captured 4 destroyers, so far, the sea power of the Japanese Combined Fleet was completely annihilated.
This is probably the largest casualty since the establishment of the Japanese Navy, more than 50 ships of different sizes, all sunk, a total loss of more than 13,500 sailors, these are elite naval soldiers, is the elite of the entire Japanese Combined Fleet, this is Japan spent 20 years, cultivated the essence, most of them were buried at sea, the rest, were captured by the northwest, and it is impossible to be released back for the time being.
The war is still going on, the two sides have declared war, and it is impossible to exchange prisoners before either side falls, which is clear to the northwest, and Japan is equally clear that attacking Qingdao will be hit head-on, and this day is also called the death of the Japanese navy. (To be continued......)