Chapter 364: The Bloody Battle of Hangzhou Bay
Sun Qiang, nicknamed Monkey, is strong and flexible, born in a scholarly family, and later fell into the middle of the family. At that time, Sun Qiang was one of the 100,000 rickshaw drivers in Shanghai.
And the reason why Sun Qiang has the nickname of a monkey is entirely because he can climb a tree dozens of meters high with his bare hands like a monkey.
Five years ago, he passed the exam to join the Huaxing Guard, and because of his hard training and proficient military skills, he entered the Huaxing Special Combat Team a year later.
Just as Wang Yaqiao was rushing away from Hainan, Li Tie set up a naval base in Hainan, because the Marine Corps was to be added, and the first batch of Huaxing special combat personnel were collectively transferred to the Marine Corps because of their solid military foundation.
Since then, Sun Qiang and his 3,000 Huaxing special combat members have begun the arduous training of the naval special combat team. By chance, when he had the privilege of going to sea with a submarine for frogman training, he was shocked by the huge submarine in front of him that could swim in the deep sea.
Since then, Sun Qiang, who has fallen in love with jumping up and down, has fallen in love with submarines, and has taken the initiative to ask to be transferred to become the lowest-level submariner.
I don't know if Sun Qiang really has a relationship with submarines, maybe he belongs to the sea in his bones, and in just three years, he was promoted from a submariner to a first mate.
Because Sun Qiang was born in a special combat team, he had extremely strict requirements for all the sailors on the submarine, and in just one year, because he had been among the best in various competitions and training, Sun Qiang's submarine became a star submarine in the submarine force of the Hainan Escort Navy.
At the beginning of the 37th year, he was finally promoted again to become the captain of the No. 001 submarine of the First Submarine Brigade of the Hainan Escort Navy.
At the same time, their 1st Submarine Group received a special task, that is, to simulate how to destroy as many troop carriers as possible under the escort of dozens of warships in the Hangzhou Bay area of Shanghai.
During the six-month simulation training, their 1st Submarine Group came up with various methods, and found that no matter how they attacked, there were only a pitiful number of troop carriers that could be destroyed in the end.
Because Hangzhou Bay is not large, and at the same time in a sea area, the range of activity of submarines is also very small, taking Hangzhou Bay as an example, it can only withstand a maximum of eight submarines attacking at the same time.
If there are too many submarines staying here, it will affect the effect of the attack, and at the same time, once the enemy uses the islands around Hangzhou Bay to blockade, too many submarines will definitely be closed by the enemy and beat the dogs and die miserably.
Even if the full potential of the 1st Submarine Group was brought into full play and a surprise attack was launched against the enemy in Hangzhou Bay, and under the protection of dozens of frigates and hundreds of aircraft of the enemy, the final outcome of these eight submarines would definitely be the total annihilation.
Unless the number of submarines is increased several times, the number of which is much larger than that of the enemy's warships, and the attack is launched simultaneously from the interior and outside of Hangzhou Bay, their results can be expanded.
But even then they would lose both sides at best, but the number of troop carriers would not exceed single digits.
Seeing such a low attack efficiency, the four submarine groups of the Hainan Escort Navy brainstormed, and finally, under Sun Qiang's proposal, everyone came up with a way to win in chaos and survive to death.
That is, instead of lying in ambush on the route of the enemy's fleet as usual, as is usually trained, but going directly into the interior of Hangzhou Bay and secretly lurking in the place where the enemy is most likely to land.
If it happens to be anchored in the same sea area as the enemy's troop carriers, it is the best attack plan. And Li Tie directly gave the landing location of the Japanese army, that is, Jinshanwei Town in the north of Hangzhou Bay and the south of downtown Shanghai.
Seeing that the location given by Li Tie was so clear, the people of the submarine force still wondered how good it would be to directly lay mines in Hangzhou Bay in this way. You don't have to take that much risk.
Li Tie's explanation to everyone was that they had obtained the news that the Japanese army was going to land in Hangzhou Bay through secret channels, and if this news was leaked out, or if they cast mines in the Jinshanwei sea area, they would be startled.
When the time comes, the Japanese fleet at sea will be able to land in a different place. And how did they use the information they knew to inflict maximum losses on the Japanese army?
Moreover, China and Japan have started a national war, and at the time of the rise and fall of this country, how can our soldiers be greedy for life and afraid of death?
The submarine forces, which had been provoked by Li Tie, immediately rushed for the task of attacking the Japanese troop carriers without a life.
In the end, it was Sun Qiang's 1st Submarine Brigade that grabbed this task. Then, after some hard training, the officers and men of the 1st Submarine Brigade were finally able to carry out various attacks in a very tacit manner.
At that time, as long as the Japanese army dares to enter Hangzhou Bay, the eight submarines of the 1st Submarine Group will launch an attack two hours after the enemy enters the sea area.
As a first wave, eight submarines will fire two torpedoes at the same time to attack their most valuable targets.
Then, boats seven and eight will be the first to surface, attracting the fire of enemy frigates, buying enough time for a second wave of torpedo attacks by six more submarines under the surface.
Sun Qiang and the others believed that as long as any Japanese warship found a submarine floating on the surface of the sea, it would be the first to attack the submarine on the surface of the sea, and then attack the submarine below the surface.
In fact, at this time, if you want to deal with submarines on the sea surface, you have no other weapons than cannons and machine guns. Because depth charges, which pose the greatest threat to submarines, simply do not work at this time.
So this seemingly suicidal act, under such specific conditions, is the only way that can effectively delay the efficiency of the enemy's attack.
The most important thing is that the submarine can exert its fastest speed on the sea surface, and in the sea area where the troop carriers are so dense, the enemy's heavy artillery will not dare to attack.
Only the smaller caliber secondary guns on both sides of the ship can be used to attack the submarine at high speed, which is a disguised attack on the enemy's shortness, so as to win enough time for other submarines under the surface of the sea to attack again.
And just before the second wave of torpedo attacks, two submarines will immediately break away from the ranks of the attacking troop carriers, which will secretly dive towards the enemy aircraft carriers on the periphery of the troop carriers.
And when the enemy frigates began to move closer to the troop carriers, mines were laid around the troop carriers.
According to the plan, four submarines, which are still in the sea near the troop carrier, will launch a second wave of eight torpedoes to continue the offensive.
At the same time, after the successful launch of the second wave of torpedoes, submarines No. 5 and No. 6 will still rush out of the sea in a suicidal form, continuing to attract the fire of enemy ships.
When submarines No. 5 and No. 6 burst out of the sea again, submarines No. 3 and No. 4 will no longer fire torpedoes after firing the third wave of four torpedoes, and will no longer float.
Instead, they continued to lurk beneath the sea, and began to release mines in a frenzied manner.
So when a dozen warships rushed to the lurking waters of No. 3 and No. 4 and began to throw depth charges into the sea one by one, and finally killed submarines No. 3 and No. 4, their nightmare also came.
At this time, the No. 1 and No. 2 submarines took advantage of the chaos on the sea surface and had already come to the outside of the Japanese fleet, and they also laid mines all the way.
After each of them dropped dozens of mines along the way, their two submarines also came to the vicinity of the aircraft carrier Eagle Xiang and occupied the best attack position.
Sun Qiang endured the grief in his heart, and gave the order to launch torpedoes, and the two torpedoes angrily pounced on the unsuspecting Eagle Xiang aircraft carrier.
At the same time, submarine No. 2 fired two torpedoes at almost the same time, which were fired at the aircraft carrier Eagle Soar. The poor aircraft carrier Eagle Xiang was hit by four torpedoes in this way.
Rear Admiral Matsuyama, commander of the aircraft carrier Eagle Soar, saw that the aircraft carrier was attacked by an unknown underwater submarine and immediately called for help.
At this time, the Japanese warships that were celebrating near the troop carrier immediately headed for the periphery of the troop carrier after receiving a distress signal from Rear Admiral Matsuyama.
It was at this time that the nightmare of the Japanese fleet began, and with a boom, several destroyers almost moved in unison, triggering the mines laid before the sacrifice of submarines No. 3 and No. 4.
Then, when these warships were in a panic, whether it was a troop carrier fleeing in all directions, or a variety of warships rescuing sailors who had fallen into the water, they were hit by mines one after another.
The commander of the Japanese fleet ordered all warships to follow a course and log in immediately, and let them be blessed with the troop carriers and warships that had been attacked by torpedoes and mines.
At this time, more than a dozen planes flying with depth charges had already flown on another aircraft carrier, and they began to drop depth charges near the Eagle Soaring aircraft carrier.
At the same time, several destroyers with self-defense capabilities on the periphery have also begun to slowly search for the whereabouts of submarines on the periphery.
At this time, in order to cover Sun Qiang's No. 1 submarine to successfully escape the enemy's pursuit, the No. 2 submarine took the initiative to lead several Japanese destroyers to the mine array that they and the No. 1 submarine had just completed.
When the sailors of the No. 2 submarine heard a burst of explosions behind them, they knew that at least two more destroyers had been hit by mines behind them.
While the officers and men of the No. 2 submarine were celebrating their victory in this ambush, a depth charge exploded very close to the No. 2 submarine.
The huge shock wave after the explosion of the depth charge shook several pipes of the submarine, and their submarine was flooded, if it did not float immediately, they would definitely sink to the bottom of the sea forever, the captain of the second submarine looked at the young and resolute faces in front of him, and he gave the last order: "Float up and ram the nearest Japanese warship." ”
Soon the No. 2 submarine surfaced, and just a few hundred meters in front of it was a troop carrier that had been slightly injured and was slowly approaching the shore.
Submarine No. 2 rushed towards the troop carrier like crazy, and in the stunned eyes of the Japanese soldiers, submarine No. 2 slammed into the huge troop carrier.
Then there was a huge explosion of the submarine, and even the huge troop transport ship was also hit by the wave, and soon the two warships embedded in each other slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.
Sun Qiang took the No. 1 submarine to sneak slowly on the bottom of the sea, and when he just left the attack position, he received a farewell telegram from the No. 2 boat, and Sun Qiang's two lines of tears couldn't help but flow.
The first mate and the crew around him were furious, and suggested that the submarine should be turned around immediately to fight with the Japanese army, and Sun Qiang suppressed the excitement of all the crew.
"The war has just begun, and our mission has been successfully completed. Our 1st Submarine Brigade will still be rebuilt, and you will be the backbone of the 1st Submarine Brigade in the future.
We can't let the No. 2 boat die for us in vain, and we can't let our No. 1 Submarine Group lose its number from now on.
If we are there, we will have the First Submarine Group, and if we are there, we will have countless submarine forces. If you go back now, you will undoubtedly kill yourself, and it is worthless to die. Rest assured, we will be back. ”
Sun Qiang wiped away his tears and gave the order again: "Target, Hainan base, go at full speed." ”