Chapter 1116: Defeated

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Lin's "round-headed torpedo" has three major advantages over "black-headed torpedoes": first, the wake is not obvious, and second, there is no weight reduction during navigation (the gas-fired torpedo will form a clear bubble wake in the water. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info At the same time, the weight of the torpedo decreases after the gas is discharged. Author's note), so the depth is stable, and the track is straight.

It was with this new type of torpedo that Betty was confident in lightning strike tactics.

After the "Jianjing" fired two torpedoes in one go, it reversed course, and the "Jianyi" that followed it also fired two torpedoes, but just as the torpedo entered the water, the flying bridge of the "Jianyi" ship was hit by the rain of Japanese bombs, and a machine gunner fell and died, and then a mast was broken again, and then another shell actually hit the torpedo chamber of the "Jianyi" ship, destroying the torpedo tube, but fortunately, the torpedo had already been fired at this time. Shortly thereafter, a flowering shell exploded on the main deck, killing and wounding more than 20 officers and men, and the helmsman was killed in the battle. In the face of the onslaught of "Jianjing" and "Jianyi," the six Japanese warships fired a total of 145 152-mm rapid-fire artillery shells, 460 120-mm rapid-fire artillery shells, and 548 small-caliber rapid-fire artillery shells.

After turning to a situation parallel to the Japanese fleet, the Japanese were amazed to see that on the middle deck of the two torpedo cruisers "Jianjing" and "Jianyi," two torpedo launchers each fired two more torpedoes at the Japanese fleet!

After the torpedo entered the water, the "Jianjing" and "Jianyi" continued to turn, and when the stern of the ship was facing the Japanese fleet, the torpedo tube at the tail fired another torpedo.

In the face of such a dense torpedo attack, the Japanese fleet could no longer maintain a uniform single-column formation, and the ships turned to dodge one after another, and saw a torpedo pass by a very close distance in front of the bow, and Tsuboi's heart almost jumped out of his cavity.

And at this moment, a loud bang suddenly came from the rear of the fleet.

Tsuboi's heart sank, he turned his head and ran to the observation window, looked out, and saw a huge cloud of smoke rising up.

"It's the Tsukushi!" Tsukushi' was torpedoed! One of the officers shouted.

Just as he said, the "Tsukushi" was sturdy and suffered a dry torpedo.

Unlike the cutting-edge "Yoshino", "Takachiho", "Akitsusu", and "Naniwa" four ships, the capital ship "Tsukushi" is now in an old state, although the machinery and equipment were updated to a certain extent before the war, so that it can barely maintain the maximum speed when designed, but the low freeboard has brought many obstacles to the seaworthiness of the warship, which has greatly reduced the already unoptimistic maneuverability, and even the normal formation conversion needs to be reluctantly completed.

The Yoshino four ships were able to effectively evade torpedo attacks with their high speed and maneuverability, but they had to rely on luck for the "Tsukushi", which had difficulty even changing formations.

It is clear that today's "Tsukushi" is very unlucky. A "round-headed torpedo" fired by the "Jianyi" hit the middle of the hull of the "Tsukushi", and with a loud bang, the "Tsukushi" was broken in two!

With the influx of seawater, in less than 5 minutes, the broken hull of the "Tsukushi" disappeared into the sea.

Seeing the destruction of the "Tsukushi," the Japanese naval officers and men on the cruiser "Kaohsiung," which was closely following the "Tsukushi," were stunned for a while.

The captain of the "Kaohsiung", Ito Junkishi, scolded his fleet commander in his heart for being an idiot, and even let the two old ships "Tsukushi" and "Takohsiung" follow to participate in the interception operation.

It is no wonder that Ito Junyoshi retreated, the "Kaohsiung" cruiser under his command is an old cruiser launched in the 22nd year of the Meiji era (9089 in the Western calendar), built by the Yokosuka Shipyard, with a displacement of 1770 tons, a length of 70 meters, a width of 10.4 meters, and a draft of 4 meters. The two "Kaohsiung" ships are likely to delay their retreat in the face of the Qianguo fleet, because they plan to withdraw from the battlefield once the war is unfavorable, so as not to get in the way.

The "Takao" quickly completed its turn with the smoke from the explosion of the "Tsukushi" and headed for Toshima, but it did not go far before the stern of the ship suddenly exploded.

"Kaohsiung" was also torpedoed.

It turned out that after the two torpedo cruisers "Jianjing" and "Jianyi" completed their torpedo attacks, they returned to their own units under the cover of gunsmoke, and the two minehunters "Hailong" and "Haihua" began to attack.

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