Chapter 41: Sinking the "Arrow Wind"

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Li Guang actually didn't know much about the navy in later generations. This cannot but be said to be a helplessness of the Chinese in the war of resistance -- the Chinese navy is really weak and completely disproportionate to the strength of the navy. This is also one of the reasons why the mainland's history textbooks rarely publicize naval battles in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. So much so that the impression of a college graduate like Li Guang on the Yuben Navy is only a simple impression that it is very powerful and the third in the world.

By this era, Li Guangcai had a basic concept of the strength of the navy. He now has six fleets and two air fleets, as well as numerous garrison fleets.

The reader, perhaps, is not very clear about the level of the fleet. For example, the fleet of the Yue Army is equivalent to the permanent first-class field division of the Yu Army. The town guard fleet is equivalent to the garrison division of the army in the late invasion of China.

From this, it may be seen that the navy is strong, and six fleets plus two air fleets are actually equivalent to eight permanent first-class divisions. The Chinese Navy does not look at the fact that it has four fleets in name, but in essence, it is not as good as one fleet when added together.

The Fifth Fleet of the Navy. This fleet is the Northern Fleet according to the plan of the Admiralty. But really, what is there in the north? USSR. The Soviet Army still dared to grin in front of the Soviet Army, while the Soviet Far East Navy had only a few broken warships at this time, nested in Vladivostok, and did not dare to confront the Navy at all.

However, for the time being, he did not want to provoke the Soviet Union, and the strength of the Fifth Fleet was not strengthened, so the Fifth Fleet of the Navy was at the bottom of the combined fleet. It even fell to the point of not having a capital ship.

In addition, it has always been the southward faction that prevails within the navy. At present, on the battlefield in China, it is said that the army is attacking the city, and there are already young and strong officers of the navy clamoring to go south, and all fleets are preparing to go south to do a big job. As a result, bullshit things like escorting fell on the head of the Fifth Fleet.

At the beginning of the year, Vice Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi was the commander of the Third Fleet and withdrew the escort fleet, but the merchant ships were attacked, and they were scolded by the business community. However, Nan Yunzhong is hard, and his qualifications are sufficient, and as soon as he operates a little, this drudgery falls on the head of the Fifth Fleet. And Nagumo Tadaichi has now been promoted to commander of the 1st Air Fleet.

For good reason, the Fifth Fleet's base is in the Ogasawara Islands, which are more than 1,000 kilometers southeast of Tokyo, and are the closest to Panama. In fact, no matter how close it is, it is separated by a vast Pacific Ocean, and the distance is about 10,000 kilometers. Blocked by the vast sea, what is the essential difference between 10,000 kilometers and 11,000 kilometers?

Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondo, commander of the Fifth Fleet, is now about to cry, the Pacific Ocean is full of water. This kind of task is purely thankless, and it is extremely difficult to escort such a long route. This is also fortunate to face the weak Chinese Navy, otherwise Kondo Shintake may have to pick a child. You must know that Kondo Nobutake is more qualified than Nagumo Tadaichi. However, the 55-year-old Kondo Nobutake behaves like an elder and does not show much resistance to this kind of chicken rib task. To a greater extent, Nobutake Kondo regarded his position as commander of the Fifth Fleet as a step that had to be taken through in the process of promotion. Don't look at Kondo Nobutake's qualifications are sufficient, he has already been a lieutenant general. However, there are also unwritten rules in the navy, and it is difficult to go further without serving as a fleet commander (division commander level).

When the Fifth Fleet was expanded, it was originally planned to have five fleets, which were also the main fleets in the Navy, but after being diverted as escorts, they were reduced to three fleets. It is at the bottom of several fleets. Even so, Kondo Nobutake did not show more dissatisfaction, after all, although the navy is strong, the fleet is still limited, and there are many wolves and little meat, so it is not easy to get the position of a real fleet commander.

Unlike the Army, the Navy has expanded to 40 divisions in more than a year after the full-scale war broke out in the Chinese theater. The expansion of the navy is relatively not so easy, and the production of warships cannot be as fast as the army's weapons, so the position of fleet commander is far more sought-after than the position of army division commander.

The equipment of the Fifth Fleet sounds very bullish on the surface, but in reality, it is the worst. Not even as good as the Sixth Fleet. (The Sixth Fleet is a diving fleet) The Fifth Fleet has two main teams and one auxiliary team.

Among them, the 21st Sentai (a brigade equivalent to the army) has three aircraft carriers, which is powerful enough, right?

But all are water carriers, that is, aircraft carriers that transport water reconnaissance aircraft. A mothership could transport six or seven planes, and all of them were old biplanes.

The twenty-second fleet, two main battleships, and both cruisers. To say that the cruiser is also very good, although it is not as good as the battleship, but against the destroyer, it is no problem to fight three of them.

But the cruiser of the Fifth Fleet added two words "ad hoc" in front of it, and with these two words, it was immediately sad.

"Ad hoc cruisers" are similar to merchant attack ships or camouflage cruisers in Western navies, and are types of ships that requisition civilian merchant ships to install weapons and carry out the task of sabotaging communication lines.

Li Guang didn't know the configuration of its firepower, and if he did, he would even dare to fight to the death with this kind of special cruiser with the Baxia that was being built. Its main gun consisted of only four 140mm cannons.

However, this special cruiser has a great advantage of being able to load cargo. It can easily pull 8,000 tons. And it can also carry several water reconnaissance aircraft.

To put it simply, the combat effectiveness of this kind of cruiser is actually far inferior to that of the latest destroyer of about 2,000 tons in the Navy.

Before you know it, several broken engagements of the Naval Resistance Army have changed history. Historically, the Fifth Fleet was sent to the Chinese battlefield after its establishment in February 38. Support its land landing operations and transport supplies. The air force has participated in the bombing of major Chinese cities on many occasions, and has established strongholds in Xiamen and Hong Kong to blockade China's coastal areas. Now this navy is used to escort ships in the Pacific Ocean.

Today, Li Guang encountered an escort fleet with one of these special cruisers as the main force and six destroyers as the auxiliary. This is a guerrilla fleet of the 22nd Brigade of the Fifth Fleet of the Navy (equivalent to the infantry wing of the Army. )

However, Li Guang only had to face one of the destroyers.

Since the Fifth Fleet is so bad, then his destroyers are naturally not very good. But in reality, only destroyers in the Fifth Fleet can make do with it.

This is a Fengfeng-class destroyer. This battleship was built by me in the early 20s, and I was very proud of myself at that time.

Not to mention anything else, the displacement of 1,350 tons turned out to be equipped with four 127mm single-mounted cannons. There were also other machine guns, small cannons, as well as torpedoes and other weapons. And its power is even more powerful, more than the world's destroyers of the same class and period - 38,500 horsepower. And the speed reached an astonishing thirty-nine knots. It is said that a single destroyer of this class once ran at a speed of more than 40 knots, which is simply arrogant to Britain and the United States.

This speed was not only proud of Europe and the United States in the twenties, but even in the latter part of World War II, it was no worse than the destroyers of Europe and the United States.

This battleship shows the characteristics of his emphasis on firepower and speed. However, the shortcomings of this battleship are also common to both naval and army equipment, and the structural strength is not enough.

The displacement of 1,350 tons, while the steam turbine accounted for 550 tons, plus the weight of the gun and the weight of the superstructure, it accounted for more than half of the displacement. And it also has to carry more than 300 tons of fuel. The hull is only about 300 tons, how can such a hull be strong, and how can it be stable? Not to mention poor protection, the airworthiness surname is even worse mess.

said that I have a bit of a problem with my brain, blindly pursuing firepower and speed. As a result, an incident occurred in three or four years, which is known as the Yuhe Incident. To put it bluntly, it is the extreme state of this small boat with large guns, a small destroyer with a displacement of 533 tons, and three 137mm naval guns are installed. As a result, the center of gravity was too high, and when he encountered a little storm during the exercise, he met the Sea Dragon King.

Since then, the navy has been a little more restrained, and it has not dared to install weapons on warships so frantically.

Therefore, I said that I am now renovating this Fengfeng-class destroyer, of course, the Fifth Fleet is estimated to be born by the emperor's stepmother, and it is still not ranked, and the current state of this Lost Wind is still not transformed.

In comparison, the Baxia that Li Guang is building can also know the shortcomings of the Fengfeng-class destroyer. The Baxia was only equipped with a 152mm main gun, which was larger in caliber and equivalent to two 127mm guns on the peak wind level. But the engine is diesel, and it weighs less than a tenth of its engine. In this way, the displacement of the Baxia was used in the hull structure and armor. In terms of protection, it undoubtedly has great advantages.

Of course, the shortcomings are also obvious, the tonnage is small, the firepower is insufficient, and I am afraid that one-on-one will not be able to do the peak wind level. But if two ships fight one, it will definitely win. And if you are lucky, the 152mm caliber cannon, if it hits the vital point, can sink the almost unarmored Fengfeng class with one shot, but the 127mm gun of the Fengfeng class is difficult to sink the Baxia with one shot anyway.

Due to the strength of the engine, the peak wind class turned out to be very fuel-guzzling, and it could only sail 3,600 nautical miles. This is also the reason why it is necessary to deploy special cruisers, Panama is tens of thousands of kilometers away, and the Fengfeng-class destroyers have to refuel twice to run a one-way trip. However, the endurance of the Baxia advocated by Li Guang now is even smaller, only more than 2,000 nautical miles. However, Li Guang made the Baxia to protect Robinson Island and Easter Island. As a last resort, a sneak attack on the Saiben Navy or a desperate attempt against the Saimoto Navy did not expect the Baxia to really confront the cruiser battleship.

He always wanted a destroyer to give full play to the combat effectiveness of a cruiser or destroyer, but he forgot the duty of a destroyer.

The destroyer escorting today is the destroyer "Yakaze", and since it is an escort, the speed is about 10 knots like that of a merchant ship. When the Yakaze lost its speed advantage, it was destined to be Yakaze tonight.

There were still seven or eight nautical miles away, and the destroyer Yakaze had already been detected on the Pixiu. The sound of its huge engine, like fireflies in the dark night, is too loud. At the end of World War I, the level of steam turbine manufacturing was not mature at all, and in fact, it was not mature until World War II. It's very noisy.

The Pixiu immediately stopped the engine, completely changed to the motor drive, and still drove past the fleet facing the devil at periscope depth.

In the queue of eight merchant ships, this destroyer was too easy to distinguish. When it was two or three nautical miles away, Li Guang listened to it, and even he, a non-professional player, could hear the sound of the destroyer from the many spiral pulp sounds.

At this time, according to the training requirements, the cabin was quiet. The swarthy body of this deep-sea beast was silently approaching its target.

Don't look at the first operation of the Pixiu, all the fighters understand that the submarine can only deal with the destroyer with a sneak attack. Once discovered by the destroyer, even if it is not sunk, it will definitely not hit the destroyer. After all, the little devil's destroyer has many shortcomings, but the advantages are also obvious - it is indeed fast enough, and even the electric thunder in Li Guang's hand can't catch up.

In the periscope, the destroyer is inconspicuous among a group of merchant ships, and its size cannot be compared with that of merchant ships at all.

But this is the only warship that poses a threat to the Pixiu, and the Pixiu's first target is undoubtedly the Yakaze.

Harada, the captain of the Ship Yakaze, is a veteran naval officer who has served on the destroyer for more than a decade and is familiar with this warship. Harada Nakasa has been very dissatisfied recently, he is a captain of Nakasa, and he was actually squeezed by a captain of a young captain to escort before Christmas. And the bad weather made the merchant ships slower, and Harada Nakasa was even more depressed. This is also the reason why the merchant ships are late today, and the previous times they were basically able to reach this sea area in the evening.

There are now two destroyers in Panama resting there, and the officers and men on board are having fun in the bars and celebrating Christmas.

Harada Nakasa was familiar with his own warships and knew something about the ships that had attacked merchant ships in the first two times.

The little devil still put a lot of effort into it, and learned a lot of news from the American crew on the PlayJP who returned to the United States. For example, the pickup has a speed of about twenty knots, has four guns, and is armed with torpedoes. Judging from the situation described, this ship is absolutely vulnerable if it is against the Yakaze.

Harada was confident in his warship, and given that the two merchant ships were attacked here, Harada showed the qualities of an officer, and he was still careful. The lookout posts were ordered to keep an eye on them, and even to turn on all the searchlights.

But I didn't expect Harada to dream that this time it was not the pickup that took the lead, but the Pixiu submarine. Under the habitual thinking, his subordinates did not pay attention, but they were looking from afar, and did not pay attention to the near distance at all.

At 11 o'clock on the night of the 24th, the Pixiu was less than a nautical mile away from the Yakaze. And at this time, Li Guang still did not give the order to open fire.

Just order the torpedo to prepare, open the front cover, fill with water.

Must be hit with one hit.

At this time, Li Guang behaved like a seasoned commander. Now all departments are ready to fight. The officer in charge of the calculation reported the data every two minutes, and the submarine immediately made fine-tuning.

Fifteen hundred meters.

One kilometer.

Eight hundred meters.

Six hundred meters.

Five hundred meters, the Yakaze is now in front of the Pixiu.

As soon as Li Guang gave the order, the No. 3 and No. 4 torpedo tubes, which had been waiting for a long time, were immediately pressurized, and the powerful water pressure immediately pushed the 533mm torpedo out. Then, like two off-string arrows under the sea, they rushed straight towards the cruiser Yakaze.

At a distance of 500 meters, it only takes thirty or forty seconds for electric lightning.

The torpedo had been fired, and the Pixiu immediately dived rapidly and maneuvered to the flanks in accordance with the training requirements.

In fact, even if you don't dive, it doesn't matter. The main purpose of the rapid dive is to prevent the opponent from counterattacking when the shot misses.

As for submarine warfare, even Zheng Xuechang, a naval officer who studied in Britain, had little experience, and this tactic was purely devised by Li Guang and a few officers behind closed doors. A seemingly simple procedure that takes a lot of effort. To accomplish such a simple combat maneuver, it requires the close cooperation of half of the people on the submarine.

Pixiu has only been training for less than a month, and it is already very good to be able to complete these movements in two minutes. Although there was a little panic in the process, it was generally orderly.

At a distance of 500 meters, if you can't shoot a big 100-meter-long ship, the brothers in the torpedo squad will probably hit the wall by themselves.

Just after diving, there were two loud noises in the sea. Even at a distance of hundreds of meters, the Pixiu could feel a buzzing vibration.

Definitely hit. This was the first time that the Naval Resistance Army really sank a warship. There was no rain of bullets, no cannon roar, like an assassin striking a fatal blow in the dark, and a flash of sword light was done.

The Pixiu opened the record, and it was extremely easy to kill the first warship of the Yue Army, and it was simply easy to capture.

(It's easy to adjust the state.,It took forty chapters of foreshadowing to the plot.,Now it's starting to enter the normal rhythm.,Please recommend)