Chapter 30 Orders
In the rainstorm, Sanya could only vaguely see a coconut grove, and the captain of the Canglong aircraft carrier, who had just been in office for less than a month, was standing on the bridge with great ambition. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 After graduating from the 26th class of the university, he spent a lot of time in the military command department, and it was a rare opportunity to be promoted to be appointed as the captain of the Soryu by Vice Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the newly appointed commander of the Combined Fleet. It is a pity that the China Navy has long ceased to exist, and there is only a stolen German submarine and a torpedo boat that escaped from the net, and the Soryu can only fight the remnants of the China Air Force and the Chilu Air Force, which can hardly achieve a record that can be boasted of. He hoped that the Shina Navy would be able to serve as soon as possible by converting a cruise ship into an aircraft carrier, and at that time, the Nijubashi medal would not always be sent to Miyakesaka.
"Fifteen degrees to the rudder." Seeing that he was about to enter the port, Yamada Definition Osa calmly gave the rudder order, and at this time the aircraft carrier was gradually slowing down and preparing to enter the port.
"Face—fifteen degrees of rudder." The command was repeated by the lower bridge, and the helmsman elongated the command in a unique tone, as if singing. As the rudder turned to the right, the 19,000-ton Canglong slowly turned, preparing to enter the outer harbor of Yulin Port.
"Turned to ......" U-38 submarine, Li Kongrong wanted to stuff his eyes into the periscope, and as the distance closed, he recognized that this was the Soryu and not the Kaga - the Kaga was a three-story hangar with a higher flight deck, while the Canglong only had two hangars, a big difference in height; The heavy patrol next to it also played the role of a reference, the total width of the Soryu is only twenty-one meters, Kaga is thirty-one meters, and the full width of the heavy patrol is generally about twenty meters, since the width of the aircraft carrier and the heavy patrol is not much deviation, then this can only be the Soryu.
Li Kongrong had no time to think about whether the sinking of the Canglong would affect Pearl Harbor, and at the same time as the Canglong turned around, he issued a series of orders to the control cabin below: "Open the torpedo tube......s from No. 1 to No. 4, the enemy ship will have a speed of five knots, the left side of the bow, the angle of the bow is ...... north, the distance is 3,400 meters, the depth is seven, and the torpedo speed is 45 knots......"
"The speed of the enemy ship is five knots...... The bow angle is due north, the distance is 3,400 meters, the depth is seven, and the torpedo speed is 45 knots. Everyone held their breath and sweated, only the order was clearly conveyed in the suffocating cabin.
"One, three, launch!" Although the view was blocked by the destroyer, Li Kongrong still tightened the handle of the periscope and gave the order without hesitation. At this moment, he could feel the stimulation of adrenal hormones, and his whole body was on fire.
"One, three, launch!" Gao Guangyou in the control compartment below was more nervous than him, and when he gave the order to launch, he actually waved his hand vigorously, as if he was firing a torpedo in the torpedo compartment.
"One, three, launch!" Lieutenant Chang Xiangqi in the bow torpedo compartment was also sweating, and as soon as he shouted the order, the handle was pulled down, and the two torpedoes quickly rushed out of the torpedo tubes and rushed to the unknown front. "The first and third launches are complete!" He replied loudly.
"Two, four, launch!" When the order came again, strands of sweat soaked into Lieutenant Chang Xiangqi's eyes, and he endured the discomfort and gave the order again, and two more torpedoes rushed out. "The second and fourth have been launched."
"Chief engineer, the left one moves forward, the right one goes back; Left full rudder, turn one hundred and eighty degrees! At this time, Li Kongrong's heartbeat almost stopped - he had to turn the submarine around and shoot the two torpedoes in the tail before the four torpedoes in front hit the Canglong.
"Left full rudder, turn one hundred and eighty degrees!" The attack plan had already been formulated for the stern attack, and when he heard Chang Xiangqi's report that the torpedo had been launched, Su Jinghu grabbed the horizontal rudder, and even pressed it on the helmsman's hand, and the two of them pulled the rudder and turned together.
The 76-meter-long body of the U-38 made a difficult turn under the sea surface, and navigation officer Liu Yongren was counting the seconds -- at a distance of 3,400 meters, the torpedo speed was 45 knots, and it was advancing 23.15 meters per second, and it only took 2 minutes and 26 seconds for the torpedo to hit the target.
The motor hums loudly, and the whole crew can feel that the submarine is rotating vigorously, and the steering is simple, but it takes enough steering experience to accurately maintain the position and balance after the steering. Li Kongrong, who was born in an engineer, naturally could not ensure that he was foolproof, but the first mate who was born in the pilot, Major Gao Guangyou, was competent. The premonition angle had arrived, and the order was issued from Gao Guangyou's side, and he shouted in a long tone: "Back - rudder." Double-stop. ”
"Return-rudder, double stop." The bell jingled, the hum of the motor suddenly disappeared, and the speed of the submarine's rotation slowly decreased, and then, as if a gentle feather fell, the submarine completed a 180-degree turn.
"Torpedo tubes No. 5 and No. 6, launch!" Sensing that the turn was just right, Li Kongrong shouted the final firing order in joy, and by this time the destroyer blocking his view had already left, and in the rain, he saw the lookout post on the mast of the heavy cruiser pointing at the sea and shouting wildly—they had found the four torpedoes that had just been fired.
"Dive now! The left is full of rudders, and the two are moving forward at full speed. There was no time to take a closer look, Li Kongrong immediately put away the periscope and ordered to flee the scene.
"Dive immediately, and the bow is discharged two hundred liters. Horizontal rudder front five rear zero. Su Jinghu sensed the eagerness in Li Kongrong's tone, and he immediately ordered loudly.
Although the U-38 was tense but everyone was looking forward to it, the Myoko heavy patrol on the sea was chaotic, and the sea was already difficult to see in the torrential rain, and the four torpedoes traveled to a distance of 1,000 yards before they were discovered by the lookout post. At this time, it was too late to make any evasive moves, and the captain of the ship, Takashi Abe, changed color in vain and did not forget the captain's duties, he grabbed the microphone and shouted: "Departments: The port side has found a torpedo and is ready to ram!" A torpedo was spotted on the port side, ready to ram! ”
"What's going on?" The Myoko suddenly waved the flag, and Yamada Definition on the left side of the Myoko naturally observed, but before anyone else could answer, a quick shout from the lookout post came from the microphone: "A torpedo has been found on the port side!" Left-handed discovery of torpedoes!! ”
The first four torpedoes were fired at a depth greater than the Myoko's draft, and they all passed through the bottom of the Myoko and headed for the real target: the aircraft carrier Soryu. Because of the entry into port, the distance between the two ships was reduced to a thousand yards, which was only a matter of more than thirty seconds for a torpedo of forty-five knots. Yamada's face was instantly congested and black, and he quickly ordered: "Face rudder full rudder, hurry!" ”
"Face—rudder full rudder." The lower bridge didn't know that the destruction of the Canglong was imminent, and it still stretched out the tone and began to fill the rudder. However, at this time, the speed of the Soryu had dropped to four knots in order to enter the port, and although the captain Yamada gave the correct order, the dull sound of explosions still came from the cabin.
"Good! Hit. "The first explosion was heard by everyone on the U-38, and at this time the submarine was leaving the port of Yulin at full speed.
"The second one!" The second explosion came, and Captain Liu Yongren's hand couldn't help but tremble, and he could barely hold the stopwatch for the timer.
"It's going to be finished." Li Kongrong threw his fist into the air, and he was not sure. When he had finished speaking, he took off his white German captain's hat, and the hair on his forehead was completely wet.
'Boom! A third explosion came, and he and Gao Guangyou looked at each other and jumped to their feet, shouting, "It's finished, it's definitely finished!" ”
The maximum underwater speed of the submarine was only 7.4 knots, and at this time, the U-38 was passing under the Japanese fleet. "Sir, we're directly below the fleet."
"Don't worry." Li Kongrong wiped his sweat vigorously, and then said to Su Jinghu: "How about electricity?" ”
'Boom! Another dull explosion, this was the fourth hit, Su Jinghu was overjoyed and stretched out his hand and made a figure eight.
"Twin slow down, follow the propeller." Hit four torpedoes, the Soryu was dead. Li Kongrong thought back to the situation on the sea just now, there was a large fleet behind the Canglong, that is, east of Yulin Port, which should be a ship regiment transporting the army. The destroyers would surely have lost their lives, but their depth charges could not have fallen from the transport.
"Left rudder fifteen, course zero ninety." Gao Guangyou supplemented his helm order, and the submarine immediately turned to the east.
"It's a pity." The excitement of sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier gradually subsided, and Li Kongrong pulled out a piece of American chocolate and bit it vigorously - after the attack, he felt hungry to death. "It's a pity that I can't witness the sinking of Canglong."
"Listen, the sound of the keel breaking." Gao Guangyou pointed to the top of his head, and a series of tooth-aching steel grinding sounds mixed with the thud of hammering came clearly.
"The keel is broken?" Li Kongrong only felt that these sounds were extremely noisy, and he didn't know that this was the sound of a broken keel.
"Yes." Gao Guangyou's expression suddenly became complicated, "My father heard it when he was in the Yellow Sea. ”
"Rest assured, this is just the beginning for them." Li Kongrong threw the chocolate aside and patted Gao Guangyou on the shoulder naturally.
"Sir......" Lu Ruping lowered his voice, and only after Li Kongrong passed over did he say, "It seems that the propellers above are all going north." ”
"To the north?" Li Kongrong sighed in his heart, it seemed that the Japanese destroyer was coming. "How fast?"
"Not very quickly." Lu Ruping said. The sonar of the U-38 is also modified, equipped with a radar position display, which can show the distance between the opponent and the submarine. "But faster than we do."
"Anyway, follow them." The torpedoes were fired from the north, and in the north was the bay, and the Japanese would soon know where the U-38 had fired the torpedoes, and they could roughly guess the speed of the submarine underwater, so draw a circle and rain of depth charges overhead. "How deep?" Li Kongrong asked again.
"Less than forty." Su Jinghu shook his head with great regret. The U-38 has a depth of 200 meters, but it is not needed in this shallow sea. "Hansheng, the water will be shallower if you go north." He reminded.
"Then continue east." Li Kongrong patted his head in annoyance, "The two are moving forward at full speed." At this moment, he heard the explosion of depth charges.
The storm was still washing over the sea, and the neat fleet just now became disorganized, and the transport ship regiment was ordered to immediately anchor to the north shore, and the destroyers were prepared to rescue the officers and men of the Canglong who were about to abandon ship, and the other few were divided into four directions to search for the submarine in China. In the bridge of the Soryu, which was leaning to the left sharply, Captain Yamada Osa grabbed the handrail tightly, and his knuckles turned white from the exertion.
Four torpedoes hit the Canglong, one in the bow and three in the amidships, and the draft of the Canglong was only eight meters when fully loaded, and the fixed depth of seven meters was equivalent to saying that all four torpedoes exploded near the keel. As soon as the mine was hit, the engine room reported that the boiler room was flooded, and after he forced the engine to block it with all his might, the boiler room soon did not respond, and then there was the sound of the keel breaking, and at this moment he understood that the Canglong was going to be finished, and he, the new captain who had just been in office for less than a month, was also going to be finished. Tons and tons of seawater poured into the bilge, and the entire warship could not be saved, but Yamada's definition was that he didn't want to give the order to abandon the ship, he was unwilling!
"Your Excellency......" A cadre of officers stood beside Yamada's definition, and Deputy Commander Ohara Naonakasa tried his best to stand firm and bow to him. There is no way to save ......"
"We ......" Yamada still didn't want to abandon the ship, but at the same time as he spoke, there was an unpleasant rattling sound from the hull, and the hull of the ship leaned further to the left, and all the officers who had just stood up narrowly fell to the ground - the hole in the bottom of the ship on the left side was too large, and although the water was poured in the opposite direction, the capsizing of the hull was irreversible.
"Your Excellency!" In this slow but helpless inclination, Ohara asked to abandon the ship again.
"Abandon the ship!" Yamada's originally blackened face was bloodless at this moment, and after giving the order to abandon the ship, he fell to the floor. Outside the bridge, many officers and men in the cabin had already run onto the deck, and as the order was delivered, more and more officers and men rushed out of the cabin and jumped to the surface. However, the Canglong sank faster than expected, and within ten minutes of the order, the entire ship completely capsized, the dark red bottom of the ship flipped up from under the sea, and the four huge copper propellers still rotated themselves, revealing the wind and rain in the South China Sea.
The Soryu is only here to assist the army in the fight against the Chilu Volunteer Air Force, and it does not want to arrive in the South China Sea for the first time in this life, and it will stay here forever. Because most of the watertight compartments were not closed, the capsized Canglong did not struggle for long, like a dying whale spitting out countless bubbles on the surface of the sea, and then slowly sinking; It seems that it wants more funeral goods, and the whirlpool caused by the sinking sucks back the officers and soldiers who have swam away, but fortunately, the water outside Yulin Port is not deep, and it only sucks up the nearest dozens of officers and soldiers, and it sinks to the bottom of the sea.
"Ahh......h
He was supposed to meet Yamada's definition, but he didn't expect to see such a tragic scene. The Imperial Navy only has four heavy aircraft carriers at this time, and the Sorryu and the Wyvern, which has just entered service, were originally a pair of sister ships, but now that the Sorryu has sunk, what should the Wyvern do? All evil Shina people!
"Find the Shina submarine!" In the wind and rain, Takasu Shiro turned around and ordered everyone. (To be continued.) )