"Boom!" There was another loud bang, and the skyrocketing fire and violent explosion made the already restless fleet even more panicked. A large number of warships fled towards the Keirama waterway in unison www.biquge.info and the whole scene was chaotic.

"What are the destroyers doing?!" Vice Admiral Lin Luo, commander of the 12th Task Force, slammed his fist on the sailing table and shouted angrily.

It was the night of August 3, 1940, and the Daming naval berth between Tokashiki Island, Zamami Island, and Amuro Island was overturned by Japanese submarines and Huitian suicide torpedoes.

Task Force 12 and a large number of transport ships were crowded in the area, and there had been several collisions with Japanese submarines hiding in the rainy night.

Since yesterday, a large area of rain clouds has shrouded the entire Ryukyu Islands in the sphere of influence. The large-scale air battle, which had been going on for several days, was temporarily suspended due to heavy rain. The Japanese troops, who had been tortured by air strikes, were finally able to breathe a sigh of relief for a while.

The Japanese seized the opportunity and soon launched a counterattack. A group of man-operated torpedoes with a short voyage and mechanical failures, which were completely disposable, quietly approached the Ming fleet anchored in the Kerama waterway under the leadership of several submarine mother ships, and immediately launched an attack operation.

The so-called Huitian torpedo is actually nothing more than a large torpedo with a control system. The only difference is that ordinary torpedoes are fired by ships, and this kind of torpedoes are fired by the pilot. By design, the driver of this torpedo can dive away before launching.

However, in order to ensure that the expensive torpedo could accurately hit the target, the Japanese chose to let the pilot drive the torpedo directly to the enemy ship, thus dying with the enemy ship. This cruelty is nothing short of dehumanizing. I watched as I sat on a huge torpedo and crashed into the battleship, and then was shattered by the violent explosion. Ordinary people can't do this kind of thing.

At first, the Japanese army chose to recruit soldiers who were not afraid of death to do this. However, after the escape incident occurred during training, the Japanese army issued an order, and when it was used, the cockpit was directly locked with a huge iron lock. If the driver is not loyal to the Imperial Kingdom, he will sink to the bottom of the sea when he runs out of fuel.

There is no difficulty in the technology of this torpedo, and the Japanese developed this torpedo because of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, which made them despair, and had to resort to such drastic means to try to save the tide of the war. This can be seen from the fact that the Japanese named this suicide weapon the Huitian torpedo. The intention is to go back to heaven. It's a pity that the more likely thing is that there is no way to return to heaven.

Dragged by the submarine mother ship, twelve Huitian torpedoes quietly dived into the Kerama waterway with the help of the rainy night and the slight relaxation of the Ming navy.

Not long after entering the waterway, the two torpedoes suffered a mechanical failure and quietly bubbled to the bottom of the sea. The remaining ten torpedoes were scattered in search of their own targets.

Shinichiro Takeda was a native of Kagoshima in the Satsuma Domain, and when he was a child, he heard his father say that his family ancestor was a famous Takeda family during the Warring States period. Later, after falling into the middle of the road, he drifted around, and finally came to Kagoshima to take root and live. From then on, he was no longer a mighty samurai, but turned into a farmer.

Hundreds of years later, only one katana enshrined in the family has been told from generation to generation that their ancestors were from a samurai family.

Shinichiro Takeda was a fisherman before joining the army, and his family had a dilapidated fishing boat to earn a living. His parents, brothers and sisters all depend on the catch from the fishing boat to survive. As for the family's land, I don't know how many years ago it was annexed by the landlords, where will it be handed down?

The muddy Takeda Shinichiro lived until he was twenty-four years old, spending his days fishing and destitute at home, with nothing but a rusty katana. There was no capital to marry a daughter-in-law until that year.

Shinichiro Takeda doesn't remember how many years ago, maybe ten years ago? He, his father and two younger brothers were fishing hard at sea in their family's battered fishing boat. (Japan Politics. The provincial tax revenue is very heavy. In order to gather funds for the development of industry, the Japanese government. The government is a purely predatory collection of taxes. For example, at least 70% of the fishermen's catch in each boat will be collected into various taxes, which is the root of poverty. A Ming destroyer passed by their ship.

The dilapidated fishing boat of Shinichiro Takeda's family was squeezed by the current because it was too close to the warship, and it leaked and sank. Although he and his two younger brothers were rescued by a nearby fishing boat, his father disappeared into the sea. And the vital fishing boats are gone.

With the barrenness of the Takeda family, they could not have the money to buy a new ship. At that time, looking at the Ming destroyer flying the golden dragon flag of the sun and moon and the golden dragon that was flying away, Takeda Shinichiro's eyes were full of despair.

The Takeda family, which had lost their source of livelihood, was finished. His mother died of illness because he had no money for treatment, one of his younger brothers was beaten to death because he was too hungry to steal food, and another brother died of malnutrition. In the end, when Takeda Shinichiro was also dying of starvation, his sister chose to sell herself to Nanyang on her own initiative, in exchange for a sum of life-saving money.

Caught in a state of extreme anger, Shinichiro Takeda watched his sister, dressed in a beautiful kimono, step by step turn back and board the ship bound for the South Seas, and the anger in his heart could no longer be suppressed. He attributed all that happened to him to the Ming Navy and the Ming destroyer that sank his fishing boat.

Shinichiro Takeda later joined the Navy, and with great tenacity, he gradually rose through the ranks of the Navy and became a military officer. For someone like him, who has no higher education, in the navy is already the end. But he was not reconciled.

When the Navy began to recruit volunteers to fly the Huitian torpedo, Takeda Shinichiro himself volunteered to participate, and he was the first to sign up. At that time, his superiors had warned him that there was no need for him to participate in such a mortal action, but Takeda Shinichiro chose to insist. He has his own beliefs and persistence in his heart.

On the night of August 3, Shinichiro Takeda drove a Huitenten-torpedo into the Kerama waterway, which was full of boats and the distant shore was brightly lit and full of people. He didn't choose those large warships with greater value, but directly manipulated the giant bomb under him to crash into a Ming destroyer!

"Finally home." Looking at the huge battleship that was getting closer and closer in front of him, the corners of Takeda's mouth curled slightly, and he softly left the last voice in the world, "Sakura, are you okay?" ”

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After several battleships were hit in a row, the panicked Ming Navy finally realized that this was not a night air raid, but an attack by a submarine!

"How did they get in?!" Lin Luo felt like he was going crazy, "What are the patrolling destroyers doing?" Are they sleeping?! ”

Lin Luo actually blamed the patrol fleet guarding the entrance and exit of the waterway. The warships were equipped with towed sonars, depth charges and other anti-submarine weapons. But this time the submarine came in with torpedoes by people who were not even miniature submarines.

The technology of this era could never detect even the tiniest targets on a rainy night, unless they were observed with the naked eye. It's just that it's not only night, but it's still raining. In this case, the viewing distance with the naked eye is very short, and it is very difficult to confirm the target.

"Order all the ships not to panic!" Looking at the chaotic fleet outside through the portholes that were constantly being slapped by raindrops, Lin Luo frowned and shouted, "What the hell are you panicking about!" Order the destroyer fleet to wipe out all the Japanese submarines at once! ”

The fact that people operate torpedoes is not very operable, after all, it is something that is rushed out by work. In addition to mechanical failures, there was a torpedo that crashed into the warship but did not explode. When the Ming Navy recovered from the sudden attack, the searchlights on many warships were turned on and shone on the sea, and countless lights rose into the air, reflecting the sea under the rain curtain brightly.

Not surprisingly, the remaining man-operated torpedoes were soon revealed. In an instant, countless guns and cannons spewed fierce tongues of fire at them, and the entire sea was stirred into boiling water by a large number of falling ammunition. A huge column of water rose into the sky. With a loud bang, the detonated torpedo was reduced to pieces along with the pilots, who were either willing or forced.

"Huh~~~" After more than ten minutes, seeing that there was no alarm on the sea where the patrol boat was patrolling back and forth, Lin Luo breathed a sigh of relief.

During the day, a convoy of transport ships drove from the Zhoushan Islands, carrying hundreds of cannons, numerous tanks and armored vehicles, as well as a large amount of fuel and ammunition and other supplies. What's more, there are several troop carriers with thousands of Marines on board!

During the day, due to a misdeployment error, the cargo ship first occupied the temporary dock, and the troop carrier has been waiting outside, and the soldiers have not been released from the ship until now.

Later, because it was getting late and it was still raining, the commander of the Marine Corps asked to spend the night on the ship tonight and wait until daylight tomorrow to get off the ship. Lin Luo felt that there was nothing at the time, so he agreed. Now that I think about it, if the Japanese submarine had sunk the troop carrier, the casualties would have been terrible.

Fortunately, the submarine threat of the Japanese has been eradicated, and Lin Luo's heart has been temporarily relaxed.

Yesterday, the Admiralty sent information that the Japanese Navy's air fleet had departed from the Kyushu region and was heading for the Ryukyu waters to prepare for a decisive battle with the Ming Navy.

The 11th and 13th Task Forces had already made an early sortie north to meet the Japanese Naval Air Fleet. At this time, only the 11th Task Force and the battleship formation, as well as the transport fleet and the escort fleet, remained in the Kerama Channel.

And Lin Luo was a little restless all day, always feeling as if something was going to happen. Now it seems that these Japanese submarines are the ones who made the trouble.

What Lin Luo didn't know was that the Japanese naval air fleet was just a bait to lure the Ming Navy north to leave. The real attack force is the formation of Japanese naval battleships that have been killed in the Pacific Ocean to the east!

The Japanese have been waiting for this rainy night for a long time. (To be continued.) )