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On January 5, 41, the Pixiu No. 1 submarine, which was scouting Kwajalein Atoll, the main island of the Marshall Islands, discovered a large fleet --- a fleet led by Kono Wancheng, who had fought a battle in the Arabian Sea and the Maritime Resistance Army.

The temperature in the central Pacific Ocean under the moonlight is about 256 degrees, which is beautiful and warm. The officers and men on the Pixiu No. 1 submarine were enjoying a short period of relaxation. (The special squad was tasked with conducting field reconnaissance of Kwajalein Atoll, while the Pixiu submarine waited in the distance.) ）

It was at this time that the officers and men spotted a large fleet slowly approaching from afar.

Seeing this fleet, Ji Kelian, who has always been calm, is not calm anymore.

It's just too big.

In the darkness of the night, traces of war on the warships could be clearly seen through the telescope, and Tikran immediately understood that it was this fleet that launched a fierce attack on the naval resistance forces in the Arabian Sea.

Tikrian knew that there were two battleships. What is the concept of a battleship, any one, which is higher than the total value of his attack on the Japanese merchant fleet in Panama.

The submarine unit of the Naval Resistance Army was strictly ordered by Li Guang not to attack near the Japanese mainland. In the Pacific, it is difficult to find a Japanese fleet, and battleships are not to be thought of. This is a pie-in-the-sky good thing for Ji Kelian, who is bent on cleaning up the devil.

Ji Kelian did not expect that the return destination of the Japanese fleet would be the Marshall Islands. The Marshall Islands is the home of the Japanese Fourth Fleet, but there are not many Japanese naval warships here in normal times. This kind of super-valuable target was actually encountered by Ji Keliang here, and Ji Keliang's excitement can be imagined. In the naval resistance forces, aircraft carriers and battleships are both the first value targets, and Ji Kelian will not give up such an opportunity no matter what.

Dead - and will not give up.

Being able to sink a battleship is the highest ideal of a submarine commander. It is not an exaggeration to say this, Ji Keliang, who has always been calm, rubbed his hands excitedly at this time, clenched his fists and waved them in the air a few times.

The sudden encounter made Ji Kelian a little unprepared.

But after all, Ji Kelian has been scouting here for more than a month. He was well aware of the routes of the Japanese fleet. Kwajalein Atoll, which is the main island of the Marshall Islands. But it's not an island, it's a necklace of small islands. In the lagoon inside the atoll, the water depth can reach hundreds of meters, and thanks to the protection of this necklace, the interior is calm, which is ideal as an anchorage for the fleet. This is why the Japanese army chose this place as an anchorage.

In this atoll, there is a main access channel, with a depth of tens of meters, through which any large ship can pass smoothly.

It's a pity that Ji Kelian didn't know in advance that the devil's fleet would rest here halfway, and the staff of the Naval Resistance Army did not expect that the Japanese fleet would make a detour of thousands of kilometers and run here to rest and recuperate. Tikrian did not prepare for battle at all. At this time, the resting place of Pixiu No. 1 was a little far away from the shipping channel, about five or six kilometers, and it was not suitable for launching an attack.

Visually judging the speed of the devil's fleet at about twenty knots, Ji Kelian knew very well that at this distance, even eight torpedoes fired at a time would not necessarily hit one.

Although the Pixiu submarine was floating on the water just now, Ji Keliang was not worried about being discovered, after all, the swarthy figure of the Pixiu in the night was not very conspicuous. The devil's fleet is a tall warship, and the Pixiu No. 1 can easily spot it.

Submarines are not really a good reconnaissance ship, after all, the lookout is too low, and by the time the Japanese battleship is spotted, the lead of the fleet is less than eight kilometers away from the Pixiu. In fact, at this distance, sonar soldiers can also be gained.

It can be seen that the Japanese devils are very cautious, even if they are about to return to their own naval base, they are also very cautious. The entire huge fleet was under wartime control in the night, and the lights were not turned on at all, and there was not much light to be seen from the outside of the ship.

Kono's requirements are very strict, in fact, the vigilance of the devils is indeed extremely high, and there are two hundred cat-eye observation posts in the sailing fleet watching the ocean closely. Twenty-five cat's eye observation posts were at work on one battleship alone. But in fact, it is difficult to say whether these cat's eye observation posts are really conscientious. Perhaps it was the black livery of the Pixiu No. 1 submarine that helped a lot, but the Japanese were unaware of it.

The action of Pixiu No. 1 is not unpleasant, and the diving action has been completed in more than a minute.

"Prepare for battle." Ji Keliang lowered his voice and began to give orders to all the officers and soldiers.

"Three sections of silent progress."

Tikrian did not think about danger at all, and there was no reason to avoid war for such a worthy target. In order to ensure the results of the battle, the Jikerian Pixiu No. 1 had to get closer to the fairway.

The first mate worked out the necessary parameters at breakneck speed. If you speed up to three knots, you will definitely not be able to catch up with the enemy. In order to meet the head of the Japanese fleet, it is difficult for submarines to run even at the highest speed.

Ji Keliang groaned slightly, and ordered the speed to ten knots approaching the fairway. After fifteen minutes of sailing, the speed of the ship drops to seven knots, and another five minutes, the speed of the ship drops to three knots.

As long as you can get within one kilometer of the Japanese battleship without alarming the Japanese destroyers, it will be 100 percent sunk, don't look at the large number of recruits on your submarine, but under such conditions, Ji Kelian has full certainty.

The marching formation of the Japanese fleet was not in a circle, but in a column of capital ships and supply ships, flanked by more than a dozen destroyers, escorted by light cruisers (why so many?). ）。

The huge Japanese fleet stretched for more than ten kilometers, and there was a battleship in the rear of the center. Ji Kelian could see that there seemed to be a problem with the battleship's movement, and the posture of the battleship was obviously a little crooked, and it was estimated that it had been injured in the battle.

Take advantage of your illness to kill you. The more wounded the battleship, the easier it is to sink. It didn't take long for Tikrian to choose this optimal target.

Ji Keliang is not Ren Tianyang, and he is not interested in Ren Tianyang's strategy of shooting eight torpedoes at eight targets. He would rather take out a battleship with eight torpedoes.

At this time, you must not be greedy. This kind of fighter is an opportunity that cannot be lost and will not come again, Ji Keliang suppressed his excitement and made up his mind to fight for two.

That is, it was necessary to ensure the sinking of one battleship and the fight for two.

Pixiu-1 continued to approach the channel from the underwater silent speed.

It should be said that after the Pixiu is equipped with a new type of active sonar, it is quite certain and safer to launch torpedoes underwater. Ji Kelian pondered for a moment, but finally gave up on the idea.

One of those shots doesn't have a high hit rate. Second, the torpedo soldiers on the Pixiu No. 1 have too many novices, and the fan-shaped shooting tactics require the cooperation of many parties, and the cooperation of these fighters is difficult to call proficient. Third, the value of the goal this time is too high, and there is absolutely no room for error.

When the submarine approached about two kilometers to the Japanese fleet, an accident occurred.

Pixiu No. 1 sonar soldier heard the sound of active sonar scanning several times in succession.

Kono Manjo was one of the few officers in the Japanese Navy who attached importance to submarine warfare, and this time in a battle with the Naval Resistance Army, although the Naval Resistance Army was almost completely annihilated, the Japanese army also suffered heavy losses.

Kono didn't know how to calculate the outcome of the battle, although newspapers in Japan had begun to boast of the Imperial Army's victory. He knew very well how difficult this "victory" was.

In this battle, the previous commander of the fleet, Keno Kurita, had been killed. The responsibility for the loss of the battleship in the battle can be placed on Kurita Keno, but it is difficult to shirk the loss of the battleship before returning to his own port. Kono's new commander of a fleet of this size has an easy opportunity to raise the commodore flag, (the Japanese Navy has the Commodore Flag, the Vice Admiral Flag, and the Rear Admiral Flag, and the Commodore Flag can be raised when Osa is the fleet commander.) This is a very different life from his previous career as a captain, how many Japanese naval officers are dreaming of raising their flags, and Kono Castle does not want to hang the flag for a few days, so he has been very careful during the return voyage. Under the strict orders of Kono Manjo, the destroyer's sonar did not dare to be as careless as before, and asked the cruisers and destroyers of the Fourth Fleet to escort them.

Ji Kelian can be regarded as a submarine veteran, and he does not dare to base the lives of all officers and soldiers on the carelessness of devils. He was well aware of the sea conditions, which were hundreds of meters deep, with very little background noise, and even the poorer active sonar had a good resolution.

"Periscope."

The elevator immediately lifted the submarine, and the periscope was revealed.

As Ji Keliang issued a series of orders, Pixiu No. 1 immediately stabilized the posture of the hull and prepared for battle.

At this moment, a Japanese destroyer had already reacted and began to intervene in a vain attempt to block the passage between the submarine and the battleship Kirishima.

The fighter plane was fleeting, and Tikryan decisively ordered, "One, two, three, and four torpedo salvos." ”

Submarines will not have an advantage over destroyers even if they increase speed, Tikerian is well aware. He quickly weighed the pros and cons and didn't hesitate to attack from a distance of two kilometres.

According to the experience of the training of the Naval Resistance Forces, the helmsman of the Japanese destroyer can react quickly, but the preparation of gunners and anti-submarine weapons takes at least two minutes.

That's all it takes. The calculations of the operational staff officers could no longer keep up, and according to experience, Ji Kelian calculated nervously in his heart, and he estimated that it was really possible for the Japanese destroyers to block the first wave of torpedoes.

This is not the time to be stingy with torpedoes, no matter how valuable the torpedoes are, not a single battleship is valuable. He abandoned his plan to try to sink the two main Japanese battleships and immediately ordered the submarine to fire another torpedo - the target was still the battleship Kirishima. Two minutes later, Pixiu-1 had already fired four more torpedoes.

Thanks to Gao Laozhuang for the reward.

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