Tang Hai ascended to the command tower, came to the chart table, carefully looked at the positions of the enemy and us on the chart, and suddenly seemed to understand something, he looked at the watch on his wrist, and then turned his head to look out the window.

It's 4:22 p.m.

"Notify the attack aircraft swarm! Full speed back! ”

"Destroyers on increased alert! Watch out for enemy battleship and submarine raids! ”

"After recovering the group, immediately move closer to the main fleet!"

"Inform the total flagship! The enemy may launch a night attack! ”

After receiving the wireless telegram from Tang Haisheng, Chu Yangwei shook his head a little disappreciatively.

"The main fleet of the Japanese is now stronger than ours, and if you want to fight a decisive battle with us, there is no need to be so sneaky." Chu Yangwei said, "However, it is possible that they want to separate us and eat us in one bite. ”

"That's not necessarily, when the Japanese attacked Hawaii, they also used surprise tactics, although their strength far exceeded that of the U.S. Pacific Fleet." Zhang Enming said, "The Japanese are accustomed to playing tricks and tricks, and we must guard against it. When they dispatched planes from aircraft carriers to bomb Beijing, didn't they just do it right under our noses? ”

"That's right......" Chu Yangwei nodded thoughtfully.

Zhang Enming heard the annoyance in Chu Yangwei's words, and couldn't help but smile slightly.

Although the actual damage caused by the Japanese navy's last "cross-ocean bombardment" against Beijing was not large, it set off an unprecedented storm throughout China, and the people blamed the government and the army for poor defense, and the Chinese navy and the Chinese air force in particular became the targets of public opinion. This time, Chu Yangwei led a fleet to attack the Japanese mainland, risking the double attack of the Japanese navy and army aviation, and insisted on razing Nagasaki to the ground, on the one hand, in retaliation for the Japanese bombing of Beijing. On the other hand, it is also to salvage the reputation of the Chinese Navy.

"The Japanese have destroyed all the oil depots and shipyards in Nagasaki, so it's time for us to withdraw our troops, right?" Zhang Enming handed Chu Yangwei a stack of photos of the results taken by the observation plane. Again, it was suggested.

"There are still bases of the Japanese army aviation that have not been destroyed." Chu Yangwei looked at the wreckage of the bomber of the Japanese Army Air Corps floating on the sea. Shaking his head, he sneered, "If you don't cut the grass and don't remove the roots, the spring breeze blows and grows again." I'm going to have to uproot this place this time! ”

"If you fight for another night, you will run the risk of fighting the enemy at night!" Zhang Enming said with a worried face. "The Japanese are accustomed to night battles, and if there is any mistake in the giant ship, we will win. I didn't have a dull face when I went back. ”

"A night fight is unlikely." Chu Yang raised the photo in his hand. He handed over the photos of the sunken Japanese light ships inside to Zhang Enming, "Most of the Japanese ships in Nagasaki Port were blown up and sunk by our planes, and they couldn't make big waves. The main Japanese fleet is still far away from us, and besides, they are more expensive than their own big ships, so they will not use them to fight night battles. We just have to be careful about the planes and submarines of the Japanese. ”

"Alright then!" Zhang Enming thought about it and said. "However, I propose to have cruiser and destroyer battle groups block the fairway. Be sure to sink all enemy ships in Nagasaki Port with naval artillery. ”

"Not bad! That's it! ”

That night, the sea was stormy, and the mighty Chinese fleet lined up outside the port of Nagasaki, while most of the Japanese ships hiding in the port had been sunk. But the Japanese did not intend to stop resisting.

In the twilight, two Japanese torpedo boats disguised as tugboats quietly sailed out of the harbor, and the white waves at the tail of the torpedo boats quickly disappeared into the blurred view of the river. …,

These two torpedo boats were the Japanese Navy "101" and "102", and at this time the two boats were ordered to make a covert attack and attack the medium ** ship moored in the sea.

Japan can be regarded as one of the countries with the most experience in the application of small attack ships in the world, from Weihaiwei to Lushun, torpedo boats played an important role in the growth of the Japanese Navy, once used as a decisive weapon, and achieved great results, but now in the Imperial Japanese Navy, which is known as "800 ships and 3,000 sea doves", there is almost no place for these elves.

The Japanese Navy's torpedo boats in the modern sense can be traced back to 1917, when the Yokosuka shipyard was ordered to build eight "large high-speed internal fireboats suitable for torpedo surveillance on warships", which were scheduled to be carried on the "Fuso" class battleships under construction, with a speed of 33 knots. However, the "Fuso" was destroyed in the Battle of Busan, and these boats were still not on board, but remained in the factory as torpedo test auxiliary boats, some of which were designed by the official shipyards and gasoline-powered, and some were designed and manufactured by private companies, with a speed of 30 knots, slightly faster than the official ones. At that time, there was no name for torpedo boats, but rather "high-speed internal fireboats" (internal combustion engine boats) or "coastal fireboats". Later, the Japanese Navy introduced torpedo boats from British and German companies, began to experiment with domestic production, and conducted comparative experiments at the Yokosuka plant. The test results showed that the performance of both imported speedboats surpassed that of domestic boats, but they also did not meet the needs, so these boats were used for testing, and the development of torpedo boats by the Japanese Navy came to a standstill until 1934. During this period, the Japanese Army imported a torpedo boat from a British company, which was produced in small quantities and used as a command for landing operations.

In 1934, the Japanese Navy commissioned the Yokohama Shipyard to build a 13-meter boat, number 906, all three completed between 1935 and 1936, the main engine used two 300 hp diesel engines, designed for a speed of 29 knots. In 1937, the Army (?!) was commissioned again. A 16-meter boat, numbered 1000, was equipped with an aviation gasoline engine, and set a speed record of 43.05 knots in the public test, but the seaworthiness was still insufficient (a common problem for small ships), so although several boats of the same type were later built by the Yokohama shipyard, they were all used as torpedo test auxiliary boats, and contributed a lot to the training of the lightning fleet. Until this time, the Japanese Navy still did not pay enough attention to small attack ships, which believed that small ships had a small endurance and poor habitability, and were slower than combat aircraft, and the only advantage was that they had a longer time to operate than an aircraft. However, this merit was not worth mentioning in the Japanese Navy, which pursued an offensive mentality at that time.

In 1939, the Chinese and American navies began the construction of new torpedo boats. The Japanese Navy, which regards the Chinese and American navies as imaginary enemies, will naturally make corresponding moves. So the Japanese built a torpedo boat 19 meters long and with a displacement of 18 tons, which was a great failure. In 1940, Japan imported another Italian MAS451 torpedo boat. The boat can run up to 49 knots. In 1941, 6 ships were built, designated the "T-1" type. In December of the same year. These six boats were completed, becoming the only mass-produced torpedo boat of the Japanese Navy before the war, and at the same time. The "torpedo boat" type of ship finally has an official name. It was classified as a spy ship.

The "T-1" torpedo boat is a wooden hull, with a displacement of 20.1 tons, a total length of 18.3 meters, a width of 4.3 meters, a draft of 0.65 meters, a maximum speed of 38 knots, two 900-horsepower "94" water-cooled engines, two 450-mm torpedoes, a 7.7-mm machine gun, and a crew of 7.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese Navy was proud for a while and chased the dead to the north. The Allied ships fled and sank. On the contrary, the torpedo boats of the Dutch Navy were frequently dispatched, and although they did not cause actual losses to the Japanese, they also caused a lot of trouble, and MacArthur escaped in torpedo boats. In the Philippine Campaign, the US Navy's torpedo boats were extremely active, and they took advantage of the many islands in Southeast Asia, the complicated shipping lanes, their small size, and their strong passability, and constantly attacked, successively sinking the Japanese Navy's "Terutsuki", "Ugetsuki" destroyers, and the "I-16" submarine, and then sinking a number of transport ships and severely damaging the cruiser "Abuto", on the other hand, the Japanese Navy, which had only built a small number of torpedo boats before, and captured more than 10 Dutch torpedo boats during the Southeast Asian Campaign. But they were scattered all over the place, and the first thing that came to mind when there was a task was the big ship, and the speedboat was reduced to a cargo boat and a transport boat. Although the 1942 Showa 18th Provisional Expansion Budget for the Wartime Ship Replenishment Plan planned to build 18 80-ton Type A torpedo boats, the Japanese Navy still failed to understand the huge role of small ships in small waters, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which was responsible for the production of the "7i" Type 6 engine, was unable to complete the project due to the lack of special steel materials, poor processing accuracy, and the lack of experience in building large torpedo boats. …,

Beginning in 1943, the Japanese army mobilized its own and the units of the occupying country to mass-produce small torpedo boats based on the "T-1" boat, in order to cope with the increasingly active Chinese Navy, and attempted to use torpedo boats to perform some tasks performed by destroyers in peacetime. The engines used in these boats are very complex, mainly aero engines, and most of them are old engines in stock, these boats are generally equipped with a 20 mm cannon or 13 mm machine gun, two 450 mm torpedoes, according to the construction order issued on May 4, 1943, the "B" type boats will be built as many as 300 in total!

From the outbreak of the war to the present, the Japanese Navy's torpedo boats have almost no commendable achievements, and the reason is that due to the priority of aluminum alloy materials for aircraft, most of the torpedo boats of the Japanese Navy are made of wooden hulls and steel bones, and in order to enhance seaworthiness, most of them use round boats, resulting in excessive weight and low speed, coupled with Japan's lack of excellent small high-speed marine internal combustion engines, and the stock of old aero engines for emergency replacement, so many problems have occurred, and the Japanese torpedo boat force is too late. There is a lack of adequate tactical research and education and training, so it is not surprising that there is such a situation of "zero record".

But tonight, the Japanese torpedo boat unit was determined to break this humiliating record with real action.

Although these two torpedo boats were too weak compared to the Chinese fleet outside Nagasaki Port, the weakness of the warships did not mean that they were mentally weak, and it should be said that the Japanese sailors took the initiative to attack the powerful Chinese fleet with the determination to fight to the death.

The night breeze was blowing, and there were gusts of light rain in the sky, and such bad weather just covered the whereabouts of the Japanese torpedo boats. The Japanese torpedo boats sailed into the canal, the channel narrowed, and the lights of the villages and towns on both sides of the river were all extinguished, and only the faint barking of dogs could be heard clearly. According to the pre-drawn battle plan, the two torpedo boats were to enter the battle positions through the canal before dawn and then launch an attack on the target.

The armament of the Japanese torpedo boats to defeat the enemy was two to four high-efficiency trigger torpedoes with a diameter of 450 mm. Torpedoes are by far the most powerful underwater weapon in naval warfare, and even large ships can easily send a cruiser or destroyer to the bottom of the sea if they are hit. The key to the success or failure of a surprise attack lies in how to conceal the close enemy without revealing itself too early, and the officers of the Navy Staff racked their brains for this. In the end, this secret route that no one knew was drawn up.

And what was unexpected was this battle. There is also the participation of the Japanese people.

Night falls. Captain Ichiro Noda piloted his filthy little steamer covered in soot as he abruptly drove the bridge along the familiar river. When the boat reached the river beach, the collapsed ruins and burning houses could be seen everywhere on both sides, which were the result of the frenzied fire of the Nagasaki residential area by the medium-** ship anchored at sea. Noda's lean face twitched for a while. He took out the cigar cigarette that the big Zuo had given him just now and took a big puff.

Ichiro Noda is the illegitimate son of an Izu dancer who was abandoned in the wilderness at birth. After a good Samaritan found out, because he was found in a field, he was a boy again. That's why the family named him "Ichiro Noda".

The boat sailed out of the sea. And the sea breeze became stronger. The sky was covered with thick clouds, the sea was dark, and an ominous, salty smell from the depths of the ocean crept into the air, a harbinger of an approaching gale. Noda extinguished the remaining half of his cigar butt, carefully put it in his pocket, and then angrily shouted to the two strangers crouching on the bow of the boat, "Get out of the cabin." The plane of the people of China will see you! ”

One morning two days ago, the day after the gunfire of the medium ** ship became dense. An officer surnamed Makino came to his ship and told him to rent his ship to complete a mission. The officer squatted on the bow of the boat and smoked with him, and told many truths about "loyalty to the monarch and patriotism." Later, a few more soldiers came and saluted the officer respectfully, and he learned that the officer turned out to be a young officer. In fact, there was no need for Makino Shaosa to tell him those impassioned truths, because in the eyes of ordinary Japanese, the emperor was a god-like existence, and the emperor's loyal and brave officers looked up to him as the creation of his Noda Ichiro, so when he figured out what Makino Shaosa was going to send him for, he was flattered and hurriedly agreed. …,

What's more, Shao Zuo also personally promised that he would compensate him for a new ship after the mission was completed. He had already figured out that he didn't want the kind of slow-moving old steamers that his country had built in the army, he wanted a new machine ship. That kind of boat runs fast and steady.

The sea breeze was stronger, and the tide was rattling. Captain Noda held the rudder steadily, his eyes watchful of the front.

Noda Ichiro and two strange soldiers were tasked with quietly approaching the Chinese's large warship under the cover of the rising tide of the night, and then blowing it up. Early tomorrow morning, the news of this amazing victory and the name of the hero Ichiro Noda will be spread throughout Nagasaki and even throughout Japan.

According to Makino Shaosa's plan, they set fire to ** after approaching the enemy ship, and then abandoned the ship and jumped into the water to swim back to the shore. The two soldiers were sailors on navy patrol boats, and Noda Ichiro was even more familiar with the waters in the area, and his boats used to travel around the area to transport smuggled goods, so they agreed that there was little difficulty in swimming back to shore after igniting **.

So just when the little-known captain Noda Ichiro, with a small heroic impulse, carried a ship full of powerful and fierce ** to the sea where the enemy ships were gathered without hesitation, trying to create a sensational victory news that shocked the whole country and even the world, there was a snowy pillar of light paddled by searchlights on the river in the distance. The Chinese fleet has a full control of lights to protect against air raids, so the attackers can only use searchlights to determine the location of the enemy's flagship. Noda Ichiro quickly maneuvered the tiller, and the small steamer made a large arc in the darkness, then turned off the machine and slid silently towards the observation corner of the enemy ship.

2000 meters, 1000 meters, 800 meters...... The dark hull of the Chinese ** ship is getting closer and closer like a huge high wall, and Noda Ichiro can even faintly hear the music playing on the enemy ship and the sound of Chinese talking. If there are another ten or so minutes, the small steamer can smoothly drill under the enemy's nose, and at that time, even if the ** ship has the technique of returning to the sky, it will not be able to escape the catastrophe.

But an unexpected circumstance suddenly happened in the dark.

The port side of the boat that was gliding quietly seemed to have a reef on the side, and the boat almost overturned in a shock. Ichiro Noda turned the steering wheel desperately, and then he saw clearly that there was a reef there, and it was clearly a Chinese submarine that had just surfaced! The bow of the small steamer actually hit the watchtower of the Chinese submarine, and then grazed against the starboard deck of the submarine.

The Chinese were alarmed, and in an instant, searchlights lit up everywhere on the sea, and alarms sounded on some warships. Captain Noda's face turned white, and he yelled viciously at the cabin: "Engine engine...... Fight with the Chinese pig! ”

The little steamer finally stopped sneaking around, but held its head high, and the motor slammed straight into the behemoth nearby ** ship. It is not difficult to imagine what kind of shock all the Japanese who witnessed this magnificent scene must have felt when this giant man-operated bomb was fired at the enemy ship and determined to die with it......