At 7:50 p.m. on February 12, after battling death for more than an hour, the Japanese heavy cruiser Furutaka finally failed to escape the doom of sinking!

"Sunk! Toyota, the big fool, sank an expensive heavy cruiser like this! How could there be such a stupid guy in the Imperial Japanese Navy? By the way, did that idiot sink with the Austracy or did he commit suicide by seppuku? On the battleship Fuso, Rear Admiral Yoshida Zengo saw the battle report just sent by the staff officer, and his eyes immediately turned red with anger, and he shouted almost hysterically.

"Yoshida-kun, if there is a war, there will be casualties, and if you are a soldier, don't you even understand this truth?" Shiozawa Yukichi held the command knife with both hands, although his face was gloomy, but he was still calm, he glanced at some of the officers in the command tower who were demoralized, and smiled deeply: "Gentlemen, this is actually a victory, the Imperial Navy is the victor!" ”

Yoshida Zengo was stunned for a moment, and just wanted to ask, but Shiozawa let out a long breath, stood up, walked to the chart platform, stretched out his hand and pointed to the entrance of Bohai Bay on the chart, and said with a smile: "Gentlemen, have you seen it?" This is the Port of Arthur, and there are only more than 20 nautical miles from the Port of Arthur to the Changshan Islands, and all of them are within the scope of activity of the Naval Aviation of China! They have laid a large number of mines here to prevent us from entering. Therefore, it is normal for our minesweeping forces to be attacked by the cruisers of the China Navy, and it would be abnormal if they did not come, but these two China cruisers forgot what their most important mission was? Their task is to interfere with the minesweeping of the advance detachment, and not to naval battles! But they were only concerned with naval battles. Then he turned to look at Yoshida Zengo: "Yoshida-kun, send a telegram to Toyoda-kun to ask if the advance detachment has cleared the channel, and when will the main force of the fleet be able to pass?" ”

"Hay!" Yoshida Zengo listened to Shiozawa's words, cheered up a little, and hurriedly went to send a telegram to the advance detachment with grief and anger.

8:05 p.m.

Qingdao, Prince Henry Hotel Beiyang Fleet Headquarters.

Gunther Lysteyan looked out the window at the gunboat Yongfeng quietly moored in the bay, and the commander of the second largest fleet of the world's fourth largest naval power was now hanging listlessly on this eight-hundred-ton gunboat! Seeing this flag, Lu Shiyan, chief adviser to the Navy of the National Revolutionary Army and president of the Naval University, could only smile bitterly.

This Zhao Zheng is a scheming Jew who opposes any unnecessary support.

In his words, since it was decided to command this naval battle from the shore, it didn't matter what ship was used as the flagship, so let's use the Yongfeng.

Lysteyan shook his head, and turned his gaze back to the already busy fleet command center, where almost the entire elite of the Chinese Navy was concentrated, and all the staff officers were top students of the Naval Academy and the Naval University... The Kuomintang Navy, like the Kuomintang Army, laid a very solid foundation, and there was hardly a shadow of the old navy, and the whole was a copy of the German Imperial Navy! And his opponent was the Japanese Navy, a student of the British Imperial Navy. Two hostile teachers, the students they teach are actually a pair of old enemies, and the arrangement of fate is sometimes really magical!

Just as he was feeling emotional, he saw a staff officer hurriedly walking in, full of joy on his face. Seeing that Zhao Zheng and Lysteyan were here, he raised the telegram in his hand and said loudly in German: "Your Excellency, Commander! Your Excellency, Advisor! Commander Chen is in a hurry, and the mine team is victorious! Sink one Japanese heavy cruiser and hit one light cruiser! The losses from the nose were slight, only the Chongqing was damaged, and the No. 3 turret lost its combat effectiveness. ”

Hearing this news, the atmosphere in the headquarters immediately relaxed, Zhao Zai next to the map table smiled slightly, looked at the chart and sighed: "Very good, the first battle was won, such a result is just right...... I think it's okay to be angry with those Japan, right? He shook his head again: "I hope they won't withdraw their anger to the army, Hailong, is there any news from the army?" ”

"Nope." Meng Hailong shook his head: "It seems that the Japanese army is more cautious than the navy, and now it does not dare to hit the impregnable Huludao fortress." But it's going to be hard tomorrow..............."

"Then it depends on the performance of Zhang Youshi, a madman, he patted his chest and promised to kill a battleship!" Zhao Zheng's fingers lightly swiped on the chart, and his tone gradually became solemn: "Crazy Zhang has always been a bit of shit luck, and he was famous when he was in Haida" The God of Gambling can always get a good deck of cards, so before we handed over the task of laying mines to the submarine force, now it depends on the luck of Zhang Madman and Shiozawa Yuichi, whoever has better luck will win this war! ”

"That's right." Lv Shiyan nodded and smiled bitterly: "Naval battles sometimes depend on luck, our German Empire just lacks a little luck, and it seems that we will have to try our luck when recruiting students from the Naval Military Academy and the Naval University in the future." This may sound like a joke to the uninitiated, but in the eyes of the naval elite, it still makes sense, and sometimes it depends on luck in naval warfare. For example, the Japanese Navy had good luck in the Russo-Japanese War, while the Russians could only use the unlucky ones. And on the night of February 12, 1931 in this time and space, luck is definitely not on the side of the Japanese, because their opponent is Luo Yaoguo, a guy who can be reborn after death......

"Boom ......"

Another bang! This is already the third loud bang that Koichi Shiozawa heard tonight, and I don't know, who was so unlucky this time that the mine for the Chinese was blown up? The first two times were a minesweeper and a Sea-Breeze-class destroyer blown to pieces......

"Your Excellency Commander, it's the light cruiser Tama, the bow of the ship hit a mine, and a big hole was broken, and now a large amount of water has entered and it looks like it is sinking." Yoshida put down the phone, sighed softly, and reported the damage to Koichi Shiozawa in the tone of a eulogy recited at the funeral.

"What bad luck! Abandon the ship. Shiozawa Koichi lamented that the Tama was indeed unlucky. At the moment, the entire 1st Foreign Detachment is in anti-mine formation. That is, the ship is in front, the big ship is in the back, the light cruiser is not considered a ship, and there are minesweepers and destroyers in front, and this mine was actually missed by the warships in front and blew up the Tama.

"Your Excellency, you can't go on like this, why don't you slow down and turn on the searchlight?"

"Don't." Shiozawa interrupted Chief of Staff Yoshida and said coldly: "In addition to mines, our danger is also submarines, submarines are more dangerous than mines, they can look for important targets to attack. ”

"Tell Sajiro Toyoda that after the main force of the fleet successfully breaks through to the Bohai Bay, he will command the advance detachment to control the entrance and not let the Shina people come to lay mines again. Let the armored cruiser Iwate also join the advance detachment, so that it should be able to deal with the two cruisers of the Shina. ”

After the staff officer left with the order of Koichi Shiozawa, Yoshida Zengo leaned forward, propped his hands on the chart table, stared for a while, and shook his head slightly: "Your Excellency, two armored cruisers, one light cruiser, and three destroyers are enough to deal with the Shina fleet, but will the planes of Shina ......?"

"Are you worried that the Shina will use planes to blow up and sink the Izumo and Iwate, and then use surface ships to mine and block our retreat?" Shiozawa nodded his head and asked himself: "The people of China should be playing this idea, but the army has already transferred an aviation wing to Lushunkou, and Baron De 11 is personally in charge, which should be able to provide sufficient air cover for the Toyota detachment."

And we won't stay in the Bohai Bay for too long, we can complete the mission and leave in two days at most. With more than a hundred fighters in one air wing, it's always no problem to support two days, right? ”

"Can those stupid people in the army be trusted? If ......"

"No ifs!"

Before Yoshida's words were over, Shiozawa Koichi had already broken him with a wave, gritting his teeth: "This battle is a combination of land and sea, we must believe in the army, and the army must also believe that only in this way can we defeat the Shina people." So please be absolutely assured of Baron de 11. And I also have a hunch that if we don't defeat China and get Manchuria this time, then the next war will be for the China people to attack Taiwan and regain what they have lost! ”

Yoshida Zengo's eyes involuntarily glanced at the island located in the lower belly of China on the nautical chart, and his heart was terrified, when the four "Karl Marx" of the Shina people were launched, it would be time to retake their lost Taiwan, right? How could the world have become like this!

Koichi Shiozawa and Yoshida Zengo, who were still immersed in their own thoughts, did not expect that about fifty nautical miles to the north of them, there were six sea submarines floating quietly on the sea, waiting for their prey to come.

This is the No. 1 Submarine Detachment, which was personally commanded by Rear Admiral Zhang Yiming, commander of the submarine force, and his task was to wait for the Japanese fleet to pass north on the road to Huludao, and to deliver a fatal blow when the Japanese fleet passed!

The atmosphere in the command cabin of submarine No. 018 is very dull, and there is no one to talk about, this submarine is the so-called "command boat". I don't know what went wrong, in the secret method of submarine warfare taught by the Germans, it is a bit strange that the commander of the submarine force is not comfortably staying on land to command, but like the commander of a surface ship, he has to go to the front line and command in a submarine!

"Sir, can the devil come?" At this time, the captain of boat 018, Navy Captain Song Da, approached Zhang Yiming's side and asked quietly.

"How do I know?" Zhang Yiming said angrily: "Theoretically, the fleet should go 2."

If you are unlucky, you will be hit by depth charges, so just wait honestly! ”

Song Da was stunned for a while before complaining in a low voice: "Aren't I just anxious to find someone to ask, why did you take a depth charge out and curse me?" I'm on this boat too. ”

"Humph!" Zhang Yiming snorted coldly, and his sharp eyes stabbed at Song Da like a sharp blade.

Frightened, Song Da quickly lowered his neck, slipped to the side and pretended to look at the telegram he had just received.

"Sir, the mine team and the Japanese army fought more than a little time ago! A "Guying, class was sunk by mines, and a "Skyryu" class was hit hard by artillery! Hey, hey, you've won the first battle! Our navy is really going to have a long face now......"

Hearing Song Da's laughter, Zhang Yiming on the side showed a bloodthirsty look in his eyes, slowly stood up, walked to the front of the chart, stared at him for a while, and ordered: "Order all submarines to lurk around this channel, we have work to do!"

The huge Japanese 1st Foreign Fleet had already passed through the "dense cloth" at this time

At the entrance to Bohai Bay, the mine is slowly moving north. As two more Sea-Breeze-class destroyers and one minesweeper were damaged and sunk while passing through the minefield, the fleet lost four destroyers, two light cruisers (one of which was heavily damaged and sailed to the Port of Arthur), two minesweepers and one heavy cruiser. As a result, the number of ships of the main force of the 1st Foreign Fleet remained twenty-five, of which destroyers, light cruisers,

There were only eighteen minesweepers left.

At this time, the entire fleet had adjusted its formation to an anti-submarine formation, with four battleships, battlecruisers, and three heavy cruisers in the center, and eighteen light cruisers, destroyers, and minesweepers surrounding the capital ships, and three of them walked in the front of the formation with their searchlights turned on. The entire formation slowly advanced northward at a speed of about eleven knots.

"Your Excellency, do we still have to divide our troops into two ways now?" The chief of staff of the fleet, Yoshida Zengo, said to Shiozawa Koichi worriedly: "Now there are only nine destroyers and six light cruisers left that can be used for anti-submarine warfare, and if they are divided into two, it will not be enough to form a tight anti-submarine warning circle" "But" Shiozawa Koichi hesitated before nodding: "Okay, then there will be no division of troops."

The anti-submarine technology of the Japanese Navy in this era was quite bad, and their destroyers did not even have a sonar! Anti-submarine warfare can only rely on the "see-through eyes" of the lookout soldiers to see the splash of submarines or torpedoes lurking under the surface. If you can't see it, anti-submarine warfare relies on blind cats to kill rats and indiscriminately drop depth charges to scare enemy submarines! Of course, the performance of the submarines in the hands of the Kuomintang at the moment is also not very good, with slow speed, tonnage, low bomb load, and the only means to detect warships is the periscope, which is basically half a catty to eight taels. If it weren't for the mines that posed so much threat to Koichi Shiozawa that he had to order the minesweepers to turn on their searchlights, Zhang Yiming's six submarines might not have been able to spot the Japanese fleet.

"There is a situation ahead! Discover the Japanese fleet! Discover the Japanese fleet! The number is unknown! "The sentry watching from the hatch opening of the hatch shouted a loud alarm." Woo! Woo!

Woo ..............." sirens sounded.

"Dive! Dive! Urgent dive! ”

Suddenly, submarine 018 sounded the voice of Captain Song Da's hurried order. With the order to dive urgently, the deck, which was still floating on the surface of the water just now, began to rush straight into the water. The sailors at the watch post jumped into the boat, followed by the officer on duty who fell through the elevator hatch, and the last to come down was the non-commissioned officer of the airline, who closed the sealed hatch and tightened the sealing wrench.

At this time, there was a sizzling sound and the sound of motors turning in the boat, and the submarine of 1 seemed to have turned into a terrifying deep-sea killer and plunged headlong into the water. The long-term rigorous training saw the effect at this time, and the entire submarine instantly entered a state of imminent combat, and all the crew members were in place, waiting for the captain to give an order, and they could start attacking.

"Finding the main fleet of the Japanese army, the Hua men are heading towards us, immediately inform the rest of the submarine detachment to rush this way, and now dive to a depth of five meters and maintain horizontal navigation." Although it was the first time to participate in actual combat, Song Da still gave orders one after another in a hurry.

"Yes!"

"It's the captain." The crew replied calmly.

At this time, the horizontal helmsman held the big steering wheel, calmly staring at the depth gauge, and the whole boat was filled with the tense atmosphere of the approaching big war.

"Raise the periscope!" The periscope slowly rose, and Song Da pulled his hat diagonally behind him, and his eyes were attached to the periscope.

At this time, the torpedo chief in the torpedo compartment and his subordinates were nervously following the torpedo heads, these torpedoes are powered by compressed air, and after launching, a large number of bubbles will be generated by the air flow leaking from the tail and the wake will burst, so that the enemy's observation post can find the general direction of the submarine, which is also the only way for Japanese destroyers to find submarines.

Although there have been countless simulated installations and many live ammunition shots on weekdays, the torpedo chief still carefully checks whether the torpedo is ready according to the training manual. Submarines of this type can only be loaded with five torpedoes, and after the battle, they have to return to the base to replenish them, so each torpedo is a valuable opportunity to obtain results, and it is not tolerated to lose the opportunity to destroy the enemy due to operational errors. After all the inspection procedures were completed and the depth was determined, the three torpedoes were sent into the torpedo tubes.

After hearing the torpedo chief's report, Song Da nodded and ordered in a calm voice: "Speed five knots, move slowly!" Be careful not to speak loudly! ”

This set of combat procedures was completely taught by the German naval advisers, and they were all imaginary enemies of advanced countries such as Britain, the United States, and France, and the Kuomintang Navy never thought of its own opponent, and the powerful Japanese Navy would actually have no sonar! At this time, the crew on the 018 should not speak loudly, even if they are holding a concert underwater, those Japanese soldiers will definitely not be able to hear it!

At this time, under the hazy moonlight, a huge fleet slowly fell into the eyes of Song Da, who was using a periscope to observe the enemy's situation!!