From the moment they saw the Chinese navy's sudden turn, Togo Heihachiro realized that their plan had failed, and the Chinese navy had already realized the Japanese plan before they made specific moves, so they relied on their high-speed maneuverability to quickly move towards an open space, and at the same time used the ship's guns to attack the torpedo boat formation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The torpedo boats, which were originally very difficult to face the destroyer's firepower, suddenly needed to face several times the previous firepower, and for a time they were also complaining, and the Japanese torpedo boat formation obviously did not expect the Chinese Navy to suddenly turn around, and what was even more infuriating was that before the turn, the ship's front side main gun and right side secondary gun were already ready, and before those torpedo boats could react, countless shells were poured into the torpedo boat formation.

'......Boom'

What happens when a three-hundred-ton torpedo boat hits a 305 mm armor-piercing projectile? The facts tell everyone that if this is a high-explosive bomb, then the torpedo boat will definitely disintegrate.

This is definitely not alarmist, the range of shrapnel after the explosion of a 305-mm shell, if it explodes in mid-air, then his shrapnel will cover the area where a battleship is located, and if it is a direct hit, then I'm sorry, this torpedo boat can go directly back to the womb, and the soldiers on it don't even have a chance to escape.

Using a 305mm gun to fight a torpedo boat is similar to an anti-aircraft gun fighting mosquitoes, and it's really wasteful to use.

Four battleships, eight front guns, one round of fire killed three torpedo boats, and the officers and men on these three torpedo boats were all dead, there was no other choice. Although the hit rate was not bad, after this round, all the main guns of the ship subconsciously stopped firing.

It was a big deal for them to attack those torpedo boats, and after the battle just now, they had consumed a lot of ammunition, although it was only a third of the ship's warehouse, but there was a whole fleet behind them. With one-third of the ammunition, only five of the main warships of the Japanese army were sunk, two were seriously wounded, and more than a dozen were lightly damaged, and only seven of them really lost their combat effectiveness, and there were still more than 30 main warships on the Japanese side waiting for them to attack.

As a result, after the main gun stopped attacking, the secondary guns that did not have much power in the previous battle began to attack frantically, because there was no need for decentralized ammunition loading, and then equipped with an artificial ammunition delivery system, so the rate of fire of these secondary guns was also terrifying.

For a moment, smoke clouds and cannon rumbling on the right side of the fleet, and from time to time there were bursts of violent fireworks in the distance, accompanied by deafening explosions.

Through the binoculars, Heihachiro Togo seemed to be able to faintly see the shadow of the battleship firing in front of him, but in fact he couldn't see anything, only the faint sound of cannons and explosions kept coming from his ears. Heihachiro Togo's heart is dripping blood, that's the navy of the Great Japanese Empire, that's the hope of the Great Japanese Empire......

It's so hateful, Togo Heihachiro even regrets it a little, why did he launch this last wave of attacks? Knowing that the Chinese Navy was no longer what it used to be, Heihachiro Togo still hoped that the Japanese Navy would be able to defeat its opponents in experience and use its experience to gain an advantage on the battlefield.

But the current result is not the same as Togo Heihachiro imagined, the imaginary picture of the torpedo hitting the main ship of the Chinese Navy did not appear, but one after another Japanese torpedo boats were sunk, although it could not be seen, but Togo Heihachiro was able to feel similar in his heart.

The Combined Fleet has lost more than a dozen warships of all sizes so far, while the Chinese Empire has not lost a single battleship, although each of them was wounded, but it did not affect the battle, at this time, how much did Togo Heihachiro hope that the Japanese Navy could have a few real dreadnoughts?

Poor Admiralty, hateful War Department, hateful War Department, if they could have anticipated the strength of dreadnoughts, and could have predicted the passive situation of the Japanese Navy today, who would have dared to stop them from building dreadnoughts in the first place?

Historically, Japan's greatest worship was the cannon of giant ships, but historically, Japan, a naval power, did not have a single dreadnought of its own, yes, not a single one, until after the defeat in World War II.

And several dreadnoughts that were originally planned to be built were also shelved for various reasons, two of which were historically transformed into two aircraft carriers, Tiancheng and Chicheng, and the other two were directly dismantled, so the dreadnoughts that little Japan dreamed of disappeared like this.

Of course, these are all later words, and now Heihachiro Togo regrets why they didn't build a dreadnought. Although the Japanese Navy Headquarters has spared no effort in building new warships in recent years, why can't the warships built be dreadnoughts?

The speed of the Chinese Navy began to slowly stabilize, and the speed was not increased to the fastest, but it was still not something that the main fleet of the Japanese Navy could catch up, and Heihachiro Togo could not see the situation ahead, but the lookout hand on the mast could see it, after all, it was dozens of meters higher, and the line of sight had more than doubled accordingly.

From the very beginning, you can still see about twenty or thirty torpedo boats evading the fire of the Chinese Navy, but in the back, you can only see a dozen torpedo boats struggling to dodge.

If you want to ask the torpedo boats, why didn't they run away when they knew they were invincible? This question will have to be asked to Heihachiro Togo, because his order is to hold back the Chinese Navy and give the main fleet a chance to get close to the battle. Therefore, these torpedo boat formations could not escape, they could only keep up, but the result of keeping up was already obvious, the Chinese Navy, which did not have the combat mission with the Japanese main fleet, threw half of the firepower of the entire fleet on them, and these more than 30 petite ships were their opponents?

In just half an hour, more than half of the torpedo boat formation had been lost, and the rest were wounded, and even wanting to drive to the maximum speed had become a dream.

In the end, the torpedo boat formation, which was in despair, began to give full play to the spirit of bushido, and one by one the officers and men of the Japanese Navy's torpedo boats, who regarded death as home, took off their shirts, wore a little red cable tie on their heads, and cheered themselves and their comrades loudly, and then drove the torpedo boats from all directions towards the main fleet of the Chinese Navy.

Anyway, with the attitude of seeing death as home, and I didn't plan to go back alive anyway, so what does it matter with the ammunition on the torpedo boat? Therefore, when it was decided to fight to the death, the remaining dozen torpedo boats seized the opportunity to release the torpedoes, regardless of whether the distance was enough or not, in case they were lucky enough to collide?

Anyway, the idea was to release more torpedoes before they were sunk, and if not to sink one of their ships, at least delay them and buy time for the main force of the Combined Fleet to pursue.

Because of the relative distance and the limited means of communication, the soldiers of these torpedo boat formations did not know what was really going on between the two sides? In addition, they received a signal from the fleet to block the retreat of the Chinese Navy, and the main fleet was to launch a charge, so the torpedo boat formation mistakenly believed that the main force of the combined fleet had defeated the Chinese Navy, or rather, the Chinese Navy had begun to lose the upper hand and wanted to escape.

Well, don't ask why the torpedo boat formations misunderstood the signal, why they only got the order to block around the rear, to attack, and not to prepare for retreat.

Because the Japanese Combined Fleet did not have the means of radio communication, because the main fleet and the torpedo boat fleet were separated by a distance of at least a dozen nautical miles, the flag could not be seen, and in the face of this situation, their means of communication were flare guns, three red and one black, and four signal flares. Then there was a separate yellow signal flare, which originally represented the meaning of retreat, but it was issued at this time, so that the torpedo boat formation would mistakenly retreat immediately after succeeding, and not fight to the death.

So, this scene appeared.

And those who see death as if they are at home are often able to perform miracles, this is the result that no one can deny, and when the last torpedo boat was sunk, there was a violent cheer from the Chinese naval fleet.

Although they only eliminated a torpedo boat formation, at least they solved the danger lurking around, and then they could devote themselves to fighting the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the destroyers, who were originally responsible for guarding the surrounding area, could also use their own speed to swim around and release torpedoes to attack the Japanese Combined Fleet.

But just when everyone was cheering, no one noticed that a torpedo was rapidly diving towards a destroyer, and this torpedo did not bring white spray when it was flying, but slowly advanced at a depth of about two or three meters underwater, it may be said that this torpedo is a failed torpedo for the Japanese military industry, and it is a defective product, because at this depth, no one dares to guarantee whether it can run to the location of the target. The air inside the torpedo will not be consumed quickly and will not be able to generate power.

But it was such a defective torpedo, but it hit the destroyer Yang Yonglin ship numbered 505 headlong, the Japanese 450 mm torpedo exploded directly in the front half of the Yang Yonglin ship, and only less than a centimeter away, the explosion of this torpedo can affect the ammunition compartment, although the ammunition compartment did not explode in the end, but the right front of Yang Yonglin's ship was blown out of a large hole with a diameter of about two meters, and the seawater continued to pour into the cabin, quickly flooding the bottom compartment below, And some officers and soldiers who did not have time to evacuate were also blocked in the bilge.

Seeing that the torpedo boat formation, which had lost all of its strength, had only hit a destroyer in the end, Heihachiro Togo suddenly burst out laughing, yes, just laughing. (To be continued.) )