The Pixiu lurked on Weizhou Island for a total of six days, and finally waited for the Xiangjiu Maru to come out of the nest.

At this moment, all the fighters began to get excited. Six days of waiting, just waiting for this moment. In the past few days, the Pixiu had many opportunities to sink the destroyers or gunboats, but Li Guang has been patient, not only Li Guang, but everyone has been staring at the Kakumaru water carrier.

Similar to Li Guang's guess, the Kahisamaru is now running out of fuel and needs to be resupplied again. The devil's navy, under the absolute superiority, still did not forget to escort the ship, and the Kakumaru was accompanied by two destroyers.

These two destroyers, these words have been dangling in front of the Pixiu many times recently, like two pieces of fat have been tempting the Pixiu. The two destroyers are not particularly good goods, they are all Fengfeng-class destroyers, and they are of the same class as the destroyer Lost Wind that was sunk by the Pixiu.

The only difference between these two destroyers and the Lost Wind is the addition of active sonar, but for the Navy, sonar is also a new thing, and there are very few skilled crews. The sonar crews on these two destroyers are just new recruits who are new to this stuff. Because it is almost useless in ordinary times, coupled with the extremely poor ability of the active sonar surname, after a few false alarms, it was sprayed with dog blood by the captain, so it has a low status in the entire fleet, and even reduced to the role of serving tea and pouring water.

Now the sonar soldiers on these two destroyers are just wearing headphones to make a appearance, and the use of the listening devices is quite proficient, if you observe carefully, you will find that the active sonar is not turned on at all, of course, even if it is turned on in the shallow sea, it is almost the same as not being turned on.

The Pixiu has been well prepared these days, and the sea area where the Pixiu is suspended now will not be 500 meters away from the warship's channel. If it is an error, it is also a devil's error, after all, there is no road on the sea, and it is impossible for a devil to sail perfectly.

After the devil's warship left the port, Quan Yonghai began to get busy. Each part on the torpedo launcher was checked several times. In this attack, all eight torpedoes were fired in one wave. Be sure to sink three warships at once.

In the last Battle of Midway, the Pixiu came to the conclusion that the submarine had only one chance to attack the destroyer. If it doesn't work the first time, then you will be hunted down. He had already been chased by a destroyer once, and this time Li Guang didn't want to taste that taste again. Once I experienced it, I was already unforgettable with that feeling, which was terrifying enough.

The devils on the Kakumaru are now very relaxed, and several devil pilots are sighing at the sea, Hainan's rice is really sweeter than the rice in their hometown.

Suddenly, a devil exclaimed, "What's that?" ”

At a distance of 500 meters, it is almost impossible for the naked eye to see the periscope. But the sea water is too good to pass through, and the huge black body of the Pixiu is not difficult to see. From the perspective of the pilot, it looks like a huge whale lurking under the surface of the sea.

The Pixiu has trained several vertical ascents over the course of several days. The level of operation of the balance rudder has been quite proficient. It took less than a minute to ascend from a depth of 50 meters to periscope depth.

It is not easy for a submarine to float vertically without the speed of movement, which requires the coordination of the helmsman and fighters in several posts. This can ensure that the submarine does not spin or tilt during the floating process. This ascent was also the most successful training in the past few days.

Every movement of the Pixiu, every movement of everyone on the submarine is extremely accurate. In the past few days, the Pixiu has repeatedly deduced the battle situation. The battle plan was almost tight to every second.

The army is too arrogant and has no sense of defense. The Kakumaru was escorted by destroyers, which was the rule of the Navy. However, the existence of regulations does not mean that the military has a sense of preparedness, and the three battleships actually sailed on the ocean in a long snake formation, with a destroyer in front and a destroyer in the rear, and the seaplane carrier Kakumaru in the middle. The distance between the three ships was only one kilometer, and the distance was too close, and in fact, it was impossible for the destroyer to provide any early warning to Kakumaru.

Since it was less than five nautical miles from the port, the plane on the Kakumaru did not fly. In fact, the fleet commander on the Kakumaru had no intention of flying planes for reconnaissance at all.

This formation is simply too suitable for Pixiu. A series of countermeasures were studied before the war, and the position that the devil has in front of him today is the most suitable for a submarine attack. It is equivalent to lining up the battleships in a line and using the Pixiu as a target, for the torpedo commander Quan Yonghai, this formation is simply to send him food.

The destroyer in front is only 1,500 meters away, the destroyer in the back is also 1,500 meters away, and the Kakumaru aircraft carrier in the middle is only 500 meters away.

There is a term for the firing tactics of submarines called fan shooting, which is mostly aimed at one target. And this time the shot was three fans in a row into one large fan. For Quan Yonghai, this is no longer a fan-shaped shot, but a series of arrows. The Pixiu needs to aim three times in a row in a very short period of time.

At the moment when the devil pilot screamed, Quan Yonghai had already fired two torpedoes. The torpedo went straight to the Fengfeng-class destroyer in front of it like an arrow from a string.

The speed of the Fengfeng-class destroyer is indeed fast enough, but the Kakumaru in the middle of the fleet is extremely slow, the maximum speed is less than nineteen knots, and the current cruising speed is only about eleven knots. The dragged destroyer is also slowly and leisurely.

The speed of the destroyer is not measured in seconds, and if you want to increase the speed from the current ten knots to thirty-five knots, it will not take fifteen minutes to think about it.

At this slow speed, the soldiers on the destroyer did not want to dodge even if they found a torpedo. Originally, the sonar could hear the sound of the torpedo tubes opening and filling the water, but now the sonar crews on the two destroyers are not at their posts at all. And the electric thunder has no sound and no track, so there is no way to find it.

By the time the ship's soldiers discovered it with the naked eye, the torpedo was less than 100 meters away from the destroyer.

The first to explode on the surface of the sea was not the destroyer that opened the way in front, but the aircraft carrier Kakumaru in the middle.

The aiming action of Quan Yonghai reached the maximum speed, and the aiming of the submarine was not easy, the torpedo launcher could not move, and the aiming could only rely on the huge body of the submarine to adjust the angle. The process is quite complicated, and without rigorous training, it is simply not playable.

Moreover, the refueling action of the torpedo tube is not a solenoid valve, but a manual air valve, which requires close cooperation between the commander and the soldier, and there must be a tacit understanding between the command exit and the fighter. The launch of a torpedo requires the cooperation of the torpedo squad to achieve the best results.

It took less than thirty seconds to aim at Kakumaru, and the three torpedoes were the first to arrive due to their closest range.

On the destroyer located at the tail of the fleet, the commander in the bridge, Onishi Kojiro Shaosa, saw the pilot of the Kakumaru Ueshushu Army pointing fingers. The distance is less than a kilometer, and it is still clear in the telescope. Even the expression is clear.

The strange thing is that these military pilots don't know whether their brains were kicked by a donkey or whether the rice was eaten into a pulp, and they were so excited that they thought that the big guy they saw was a whale.

The pilot who was fussing about two sentences in the stomach of Onishi Shaoza began to turn his head, also wanting to see what was strange on the sea. His belly was only for a short time, but when he saw the periscope in the distance, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

In April, it was very hot here on Hainan Island, but Onishi Shaozo was frightened by the periscope at this time, and he was almost incontinent.

"Submarine, accelerate."

Onishi Shaozo just called out, it didn't feel right, it should be a sharp turn. Immediately ordered again: "Left full rudder." ”

At the moment of the exit of the order, three violent explosions were heard one after another, and when Onishi Shaoza turned his eyes, there was still some luck in his heart - he did not see the trajectory of the torpedo on the sea.

At this time, the Kakumaru was already in flames, explosions were heard one after another, and the deck was full of burning people running around.

Onishi Shaosa's luck did not last, and again an explosion was heard - the destroyer that was opening the way in front of the fleet had also been torpedoed.

And Onishi Shaosa, at this time, he wished that his eyes could go deep into the sea, and he was searching the sea with all his might, but he didn't see the torpedo at all. Several observers on board the warship did not see the torpedo.

When the swarthy torpedo entered Onishi Shaosa's gaze, the distance was not even a hundred meters. Not one, but three.

At such a distance, it is simply impossible for the destroyer to dodge. The distance between the three torpedoes is only twenty or thirty meters, and the destroyer's nearly 100-meter-long body can dodge from the front but not from the back, not to mention that the destroyer at this time has not raised the speed at all.

Onishi watched almost as the torpedo crashed into his own battleship. It was then thrown into the air by a violent explosion.

All the soldiers in the Pixiu could no longer suppress their surprise, and all the hard work in the past few days was richly rewarded in this one. Almost as soon as the last destroyer was shot, everyone erupted in cheers. Even Yang Weiwu, who had been slandering Li Guang for not taking the initiative enough in his tactics of waiting for the rabbit, was smiling at this time, and he knew a lot about the tactics of the Pixiu submarine in the past few days.

When the Pixiu surfaced again, the periscope was exposed. The sea was crowded with people, and the devils were shouting and racing for their lives. Three warships, except for the destroyer in front, suffered only one torpedo, although wounded, but not sunk. The Kahisamaru in the middle was hit by three torpedoes and had disintegrated by this time. And the destroyer in the stern of the group, one torpedo in the tail and one in the middle, has already begun to sink.

The three warships were all in flames, and the flames were so brilliant and colorful on the early morning sea. At a distance of several hundred meters, the sound of burning on the warship was clearly audible.

From time to time, the broken warship exploded into a cloud of fire, throwing debris into the air, and sometimes this explosion even threw a living person into the air, and the explosion of the battleship was quite shocking.

As soon as the Pixiu hit, according to the regulations, it should be, without stopping at all, and immediately slipping away. However, the results were too rich. Li Guang was excited to play a little trick, and he murdered a few rolls of film.

This was a real victory, and the results could even exceed the total results of all the victories of the Chinese Navy combined. Li Guang pondered that if he talked about his military exploits, he was afraid that he should be worthy of a colonel, or even a major general? So take a commemorative photo.

The attack happened too quickly, and by the time the devils on Weizhou Island reacted, the sea was already a hellish scene. By the time the military fighters on Weizhou Island took off, the Pixiu had disappeared into the vast sea.

This sneak attack cost the Fifth Fleet almost a group. When the news reached the heavy cruiser "Myoko", Nobutake Kondo could hardly believe it. Today is 18 April, and it is on this day that the army completely occupied Hainan Island. Nobutake Kondo, who was in a happy mood, changed his face surprisingly quickly, and his expression immediately stiffened.

Don't look at the military strength under his command now, and even there are two official aircraft carriers, but the power that really belongs to the Fifth Fleet is not very good. These three warships are all real Fifth Fleet, although the loss of three warships is not a pain in the bones for the Fifth Fleet. However, a Fifth Fleet is only seven or eight squadrons, which means that there is one less brigade, and the injuries really cannot be regarded as light.

Nobutake Kondo really believes this time that submarines are not easy to deal with. Kondo may not have the surname thinking, but it is very easy to plagiarize the thinking of his subordinates. Yamaguchi Tawen no longer relies on destroyers as the main escort, but ingeniously uses submarines and destroyers to escort the escort. As a result, Kondo also began to pay attention to the role of submarines in the war.

Although the Fifth Fleet suffered heavy losses, Nobutake Kondo made great contributions to the occupation of Hainan Island, and his promotion path was not disturbed much under the cover.

Not only that, Kondo Nobutake gained a lot in the Hainan Campaign, and he even won a good reputation in the army, and he was a rare and outstanding general who could command the navy and army.

As a matter of fact, in the battle on Hainan Island, the army alone had nearly 10,000 infantry, and with the addition of the navy and air force, compared with the more than 3,000 local troops of the Chinese army, the advantage was not small, but the big one was like smashing an egg with a hammer. In any case, Nobutake Kondo was promoted to deputy chief of the Naval Command Department in October of the 39th year. His position in the navy soared, and he followed Yamamoto fifty-six in the rankings.

Onishi Shosa, the only junior officer who survived the battle, was not severely punished. Instead, he was promoted to the captain of the Nakasa Brigade, but this brigade only had two pitiful small gunboats of three or four hundred tons.

Onishi Shaosa, the promotion is a promotion, maybe the boss really can't look at it, and he didn't replenish the warships, but only replenished two submarines (in fact, Kondo Shintake wanted to test the role of submarines in the war). It continues to shoulder the task of blockading the Gulf of Tonkin.

It was impossible for this brigade to recuperate, and Kondo Nobutake would not let the news of such a disappointment spread to the country. Onishi Kojiro can be promoted, which is the condition for Kondo Nobutake to seal his mouth. Kojiro Onishi and his subordinates will never be able to return to their homeland.