Chapter 560 Target Launch

"Bang la la"

The waves crashed against the hull of the ship, causing the destroyers, which were less than 4,000 tonnage, to shake slightly. Several powerful searchlights on the harbor were also powerless to sweep back and forth on the sea, and the speed of the light of the searchlights gradually slowed down, and finally they were simply fixed on the middle of the sea and did not move.

In an inconspicuous sea not far from the searchlight, a swarthy tube quietly poked its head out of the seabed, only to see that after it turned its direction slightly, the mirrored end began to turn around, like a curious elf.

Ten meters above the surface of the sea lurked six long and narrow steel monsters, as if they had been lurking here since ancient times, as if they were quietly waiting for something.

Long Yu, who was wearing a crooked hat, was lying in front of the periscope and observing the situation on the sea surface intently, and there was no sound in the submarine, only the low roar of the diesel engine coming from the tail of the submarine, which was charging through the ventilation pipe.

At this time, Long Yu's shoulders were no longer the original colonel captain, but the commander of the Huaxia submarine force who carried a gold star. By the end of November 1940, the size of the submarine force of the Huaxia Navy had reached the scale of six brigades and more than 200 submarines. The footprints of the submarine force have spread all over the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and even as far as the Bering Strait.

Today's operation originally did not require Long Yu, the commander of the submarine force, to go out in person, but for Long Yu, who had been sitting in the office for half a year, such a big operation was really unbearable without his share. So, in Mu Yu's somewhat depressed eyes, Long Yu deprived Mu Yu of the rights that originally belonged to Mu Yu and made a cameo appearance as a captain.

"For the record, the enemy ships are 037 and 126, three destroyers, and two other small-tonnage cargo ships."

"Order the torpedo chiefs of each submarine to start checking the torpedoes, locate them at a depth of five meters in advance, and distribute them in a fan-shaped manner with us as the center, and launch an attack on time at 6:30 in the morning."

"Mu Yu measured the retreat route, and once the torpedo was fired, the boats must not stop and retreat immediately."

After a series of orders were issued, the steel monsters that had been quietly lurking at the bottom of the sea began to move slowly, like desolate monsters with their mouths open, quietly lurking beside their prey, ready to tear the prey in front of them apart

This is Sakhalin Island, which was once the territory of China, and Tsarist Russia forced the Qing government to cede the island through the Sino-Russian Treaty of Beiping in 1860. In 1918, the Japanese occupied the entire territory of Sakhalin by military means.

Sakhalin Island covers an area of 76,400 square kilometers and is located in the eastern part of the Heilongjiang (Amur River) estuary, facing the Sea of Okhotsk to the east and north, and the Khabarovsk Krai of Russia across the Tatar Strait and the Nevelskoy Strait to the west. To the south, it is separated from the Soya Strait (known as La Perouse in Russian) and the Soya Cape in Hokkaido, Japan.

It is said that since Jeju Island was attacked by Japanese planes, Su Tong has hit the idea of Sakhalin Island, which was originally the territory of China, and in Su Tong's opinion, his 76,200 square kilometers of land ensures that this is an excellent place for troops to be stationed. Although it is located in the Pacific Rim Seismic Zone, where earthquakes are frequent, and the extremely cold climate is not suitable for large-scale habitation, it is an excellent naval base.

As can be seen from the world map, once the Huaxia government occupied Sakhalin, the entire west, south, and north of Japan would be surrounded by Huaxia on three sides.

Although Su Tong shouted the slogan of asking Japan to compensate 30 million US dollars after the air raid on Jeju Island, Su Tong knew that according to the Japanese virtue of deducting ** and licking his fingers, he would not pay this money anyway. Therefore, on the one hand, he ordered the East China Sea Fleet to sail to Jeju Island to confront the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet, posing for a decisive battle, and on the other hand, he ordered the Pacific Fleet to prepare to recover Sakhalin Island.

The staff officers of the Pacific Fleet learned from prior reconnaissance that since Sakhalin is not a very suitable island for habitation, there are only about 300,000 inhabitants on the 76,400 square kilometers of land, and the troops placed here by the Japanese are only the size of a brigade of more than 6,000 people, and their heavy weapons are also very few, and with the strength of the Pacific Fleet, they can completely take the entire island.

Therefore, Chen Shaokuan specially mobilized a marine brigade and an armored division to carry out this campaign.

As the sky grew brighter, Private Kokishijiro climbed down from his cold bed, took up his position on the side of the ship on deck, and began to fertilize the fish in the sea. Koyoshijiro was an ammunition man on the destroyer Tokuyama Maru, and it was a very quiet post. Well, yes, at least it's a very idle post when there's no fighting, but that doesn't mean Koyoshijiro is easy on weekdays. Kojijiro Kogishijiro, who came from a poor background, also helped his companions clean the deck every morning in exchange for one yen a month, yes, this is Kojijiro's part-time job. Koyoshijiro was able to grab the job because most of the sailors on the destroyer went ashore to have fun, including the sailor who was supposed to clean the deck. Yes, in this season when it starts to get cold, the devil is willing to sleep in a damp and cold four-story "pigeon cage"? Wouldn't it be faster to go ashore and find a flower girl with them in her arms and drink and sing?

After putting away the inventory that had been held all night, and shaking the little guy exposed to the early morning air, Miss Jiro took out half of the rice balls she had saved last night from her pocket and began to eat them in the cold wind. Although breakfast will be served on the ship in a while, the flavor-enhancing soup and rice balls that are not as big as a fist can not cope with the high-intensity physical work in the morning. As for not having enough to eat, it is the right of the officers who eat in the dining room, and these big-headed soldiers can only squat on the deck to eat.

Koyoshijiro, who was born as a fisherman in Hokkaido, has been accustomed to hardships since he was a child, so he is not dissatisfied with the life of the army, and his monthly allowance of three yen is sent back to his hometown to save for his old mother, and last month his mother wrote that when Koyoshijiro retires and returns home in March next year, he can save enough 100 yen, and then he can propose to the father of Miss Mitsuko in the village, Mitsuko is the most diligent girl in the village. And the eighteen-year-old Mitsuko's temper is also notoriously good in the village, the only bad thing is that her father is too greedy for money, he has long been in the village to say that no one wants to marry his daughter without a bride price of 100 yen.

"Mitsuko, I'm going to retire in less than four months before you wait, and then I'll go to your house with a hundred yen to marry you." Thinking of this, Kojijiro's heart began to burn, he swallowed the last bite of rice balls vigorously, took out a rag and a mop and a poke of water from the small storage room on the side, and prepared to start a new day's work.

On the bottom of the sea more than 1,000 meters away, a clear password was being issued: "Aim at the predetermined target, fill the torpedo tube with water, launch No. 1, launch No. 2, and launch No. 3." With the sound of the password, the submarine shook slightly, and white waves rushed out of the submarine.

"Sakura, Sakura," said Kogishijiro, who bent down and sang a song, and was about to start work, when he suddenly noticed that four hundred meters away, there seemed to be several white trails rushing in his direction.

Kogishijiro, who had thought he was a firework, reached out and rubbed his eyes, and then opened his eyes wide again and stared ahead, yes, there were a few white trails, and there were bursts of white foam rolling up behind them, which was legendary

A terrible cry of "torpedo attack" echoed in the quiet morning.

Stumbling Kokishijiro ran to the wheelhouse of the bridge and sounded the alarm despite the stunned gaze of the first mate in the wheelhouse.

The sirens of "woo woo woo" had just drifted over the whole ship, and the three fast wave wakes had been fiercely loaded onto the old destroyer.

Koyoshijiro only felt as if he had been punched hard, his body flew up, and his head hit the hull of the ship on the side hard, only to feel that he didn't know anything when it was dark in front of him

The destroyer "Tokuyama Maru" was like a toy kicked by a naughty boy on its back, and in an instant, it was shaken into mid-air by a strong blast wave at a height of more than 10 meters, and it was simply broken into three sections in mid-air before falling heavily on the sea. Under the simultaneous hit of three 533-mm heavy torpedoes, the destroyer "Tokuyama Maru," which weighed more than 3,000 tons, was so fragile that it seemed to be made of paper paste, and in less than three minutes before and after it was hit and sunk into the sea, a destroyer disappeared from the surface of the sea. The only evidence of its existence is the oil and garbage on the sea.

At this time, the two destroyers also stepped into the footsteps of the "Tokuyama Maru" at the same time, and the sound of "rumbling" explosions on the sea surface came and went, and when the three destroyers in the harbor sank to the bottom of the sea one after another, the terrible sirens in the harbor sounded belatedly.

The whole harbor boiled like a boiling pot, and groups of Japanese soldiers who had been awakened from their sleep by the loud explosion ran out of the various houses in the harbor in disheveled clothes, and they could only watch the trickery of the last destroyer on the sea not far away turn around the sea a few times, and finally were mercilessly pulled into the cold bottom of the sea by the huge whirlpool. Only the soldiers on the shore with their mouths as wide open as yawning hippos were left.