Chapter 687: The Torpedo That Came

Woowoo...... Today's Sasebo morning was unusually bright. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The fog that used to appear on these mornings is also quietly gone.

The whistle of the Hongzhang battleship was transmitted to the sky over the entire Beiyang Naval Division battleship moored in the seawater, and the originally calm Beiyang Naval Division began to get busy as if it had suddenly received some order.

On the bridge, Li He quietly watched the sailors at the gun position, picking up boxes of shells and running into the battery.

He knew that what these soldiers were holding was training bullets, and if they were live ammunition, it was estimated that there would be no two or three people who would not be able to hold these big guys.

"Commander, so the live ammunition has been replaced, and now the ships are loaded with practice ammunition." Yan Fu, who raised the telescope and looked around, put down the telescope in his hand and said quietly.

Eun ..... Li He nodded slightly, and raised his wrist, the current time is seven forty-five.

"Order, at eight o'clock sharp, launch an artillery bombardment on the port of Sasebo."

"Understood." Yan Fu replied loudly, turned around and began to convey the order.

It's up to you, and if you succeed, I'm going to give you all a step. Seeing the background of Yan Fu's departure, Li Heyi grabbed the white railing next to him and thought fiercely in his heart.

Bang...... Bang bang...... To the northeast, faintly, there was already the sound of artillery bombardment, and Li He estimated that the current German fleet had begun to attack.

It's time to do it, otherwise, there will really be no way to explain it then. After taking a look at the northeast, Li He raised the telescope in his hand and transferred the telescope to the Sasebo Military Port.

In the Sasebo Military Port, the Mikasa was quietly moored at the No. 1 pier, and on its right, the battleships Fuso, Kongo, and Hiei, four battleships, side by side, were moored side by side, and in the distance, there were 11 armored cruisers moored such as Yaeyama, Chisei, Izumo, Saikyo Maru, Naniwa Maru, Hihisho, and Tosho, and as for the rest, they were some torpedo cruisers with a displacement of less than 3,000 tons.

At 7:55 a.m., this time was the time for the officers and men of the Combined Fleet to have dinner, and many officers and men of the fleet had prepared their meals and came to the deck to listen to the distant sound of artillery bombardment to stimulate their appetites.

In the Mikasa Good Command Tower, Yuhiro Ito, who had moved from the headquarters to the bridge of the Mikasa, thanked Ono for bringing him the lunch box, and then took out his chopsticks and opened the box to taste.

Rumble....... Before he could put the food to his mouth, an earth-shattering explosion was heard in the harbor.

The Liaodong Navy attacked. Hearing this voice, Ito Yuheng dropped the chopsticks in his hand, picked up the telescope and ran out of the Jianling Tower to the bridge, and sure enough, Ito Yuheng, who raised the telescope, found that the Liaodong fleet in the distance was overwhelmingly shooting cannonballs into the port.

Rumble...... A cannonball hit the Mikasa's foredeck crookedly, and several of the sailors who couldn't dodge screamed miserably, and were swept over by the air wave, and then slammed into the ground. And a few of them fell directly into the sea, and it is estimated that their lives are not guaranteed.

How come there were no scars, and Ito, who was wide-eyed, found that after the huge explosion, the deck of the Mikasa was nothing to do, but there was a large circle of black out of thin air.

Coach bombs, is there a shortage of ammunition in Liaodong, what is played out is a coach bomb, as an old navy Ito Yuheng immediately understood, the reason for this, there is only one, the Beiyang Naval Division uses training bullets, not live ammunition, if it is live ammunition, I am afraid that now there is a big hole on the deck of Mikasa.

How could it be. Ito, who opened his mouth wide, was puzzled, just now, he looked around, and the shells that almost landed in the sea and on the warship were all drill shells.

What the hell is going on, Ito Yuhiro is confused.

To the northwest of the battleship Mikasa, one hundred and fifty meters away, the whale's heading loomed on the surface of the sea, quietly looking at the Mikasa in the distance.

With a bang, the black periscope disappeared into the sea like a water snake.

Smack, the submarine USS Whale. Cai Ting closed the periscope with a dry snap, grabbed a handrail next to him, took a deep breath, and glanced at the officers and soldiers of the submarine who were also pulling the handrail, and then issued the first submarine combat order in history: "Order, order, No. 1 and No. 2 torpedoes are ready, and they will be launched in thirty seconds." ”

"Torpedoes No. 1 and No. 2 are ready, and they will be launched in thirty seconds." The herald quickly pointed the microphone and conveyed the order.

Click....... Time jumped little by little, every time he jumped, Cai Tinggan felt a little more sweat in his palms, this is the first submarine actual combat, can you get off to a good start, then look at the No. 1 and No. 2 torpedoes.

Thirty seconds of time, it won't take long.

Seeing that the time had come, the torpedo launcher, who had been stuck in seconds, waved his hand fiercely and spit out a clear command: "Fire." “

Poof....... The sailors who received the order pressed the launch button at once. The torpedo, which had already been loaded, suddenly broke through the submarine and headed for the Mikasa in the distance.

On the port side, a torpedo was found. On the Mikasa lookout, the lookout's eyes widened and he let out a heart-rending cry, just now, he saw two white lines rushing towards the Mikasa, and after a closer look, the black pressure was actually two torpedoes. At that time, he was so frightened that he threw away the binoculars in his hand and sweated profusely below.

What, torpedoes, how could there be torpedoes. The bridge is the closest to the mast, Ito Yuhiro heard this report, and snorted coldly in his heart, he didn't believe that he would find a torpedo on his port side, you know, this is Sasebo, the Liaodong Navy has not yet entered, how can there be a torpedo.

However, as the commander, Ito Yuhiro still habitually raised the telescope in his hand to look to his left. One glance at him made him tremble with fright and his limbs weak.

Because, the report issued by the lookout post was their real one, just a hundred meters in front of their warship, there were at least three torpedoes, and they were marching towards the bow of the Mikasa. The ship pounced.

"Intercept them." The Great Khan of Ito Yuhiro who reacted.

Boom...... The side-chord rapid-fire guns, which were originally aimed at the Liaodong Navy in the distance, began to turn their muzzles and aimed at the torpedoes on the sea, however, it was too late, and the rapid-fire guns could not descend at all.

How could there be a torpedo. Can anyone tell me that seeing the torpedo getting closer and closer, Ito let out a scream like a wounded lone wolf.