In an inconspicuous corner of the battlefield, two Jairus-class torpedo boats of the Naval Resistance Army quietly approached the injured heavy cruiser Kumano, and immediately fired six torpedoes. The devil discovered the anomaly, but the seriously injured Kumano heavy cruiser was already slow to move, and there was no time to dodge, and three torpedoes hit, and an earth-shattering explosion broke out, and the already crippled Kumano heavy cruiser immediately tilted its hull and crumbled.

This was the only result of the four torpedo boats involved in the battle of the Naval Resistance Army. Torpedo boats were originally a sharp weapon for a weak country to deal with a strong country. But what made Li Guang more depressed was that he couldn't build a high-speed torpedo boat. And the only reliance of the torpedo boat was not protection, nor artillery fire, only a little - speed.

It seems that this is not entirely true, according to the conditions of the Naval Resistance Army, there are 2,500 horsepower diesel engines, and the construction of torpedo boats of 1 or 200 tons can also reach a speed of 378 knots. However, the problem is that torpedo boats that are too small can only fight in coastal waters, and are not very suitable for the combat occasions of the naval resistance army.

Fu Qi Okawauchi, who had a bright eye, didn't even react to the sinking of the heavy cruiser Kumano, and he was now staring at the distance.

There was the foreshadowing he had laid since the beginning of the war, and it was his killer weapon - the lightning strike cruiser Oi. In fact, in this environment, he couldn't see the location of the Big Well minestrike ship at all.

The Japanese mine-striking cruiser Oi has not fired a single shot since the beginning of the war. At this moment, a warship with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons quietly entered the inner circle like an assassin.

This lightning cruiser, from the beginning of the battle, began to detour into the distance, dodging the flares that burst like fireworks, and entered the battlefield at such a critical moment. The timing is accurate, and the opponent can't help but admire it.

At this time, the Japanese heavy cruiser Kumano had just been torpedoed. The explosions continued.

One of the destroyers on which the Japanese released their torpedoes was still ravaged by endless anti-aircraft shells.

The battleship Atlantic dodged the torpedo and had just adjusted its course.

All of this is a situation painstakingly created by Lieutenant General Fu Qi of Okawauchi.

Since the start of the war, Lieutenant General Fu Qi of Okawauchi has pressed all the bets. What Zheng Xuechang saw was a smoke screen released by Fu Qi in Dachuan. And his real killer move is the mine-strike cruiser Oi.

Okawauchi Fu Qi has now lost almost all of his strength, which can be described as poor, and the cold light of the dagger is already flickering.

The infiltration of the Japanese mine-striking ships was just right. However, the timing of the torpedo boats of the Maritime Resistance Army was also just right, just to eliminate the threat of Japanese naval guns. The artillery fire weakened and the smoke thinned, which also made the observation post of the Maritime Resistance Army spot the approaching mine-strike cruiser Ojing.

Seven kilometers.

For the mine-strike cruiser Oi, this is already a death distance. A battleship with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons is not small, and this distance only takes one or two minutes for the battleship Atlantic. The main cannon will be able to start a murderous shelling.

You know, the design of this lightning cruiser is very special, the whole ship is equipped with forty torpedo launchers, and each side of the ship can fire twenty torpedoes at the same time. The power is terrifying. But the self-defense firepower of this battleship is not even comparable to that of a destroyer. Originally in the Straits of Malacca. The mines laid by Jeon Yonghai hit such a mine-striking ship. It is also the sister ship of the Oi minefielder. As a result of a strong explosion detonated the ship's torpedo. Almost instantly, the mine-striking ship was torn to pieces by the torpedoes it carried, and none of the more than 400 people on the ship survived.

In this naval battle, the Japanese released a lot of torpedoes, but the farthest was only 10 kilometers. The order given by Fu Qi Okawauchi to the captain of the lightning cruiser, Shiba Katsuo, was to release torpedoes at four kilometers.

At the beginning of the Pacific War. The Japanese general Takagi Takeo once played an ultra-long-range torpedo battle, torpedoing each other with Allied warships at a distance of 20 kilometers. Although the battle was won, the ultra-low hit rate of torpedoes and artillery became almost a joke in the Japanese Navy.

As a master of night warfare, he is an expert in mine (torpedo in Japanese). Fushichi Okawauchi will definitely not make the mistake of releasing a torpedo over a long distance.

Okawauchi Fu Qi will not make such a mistake, it does not mean that others will not. In the Japanese army, there were officers who dared to fight to the death, and there were also guys who sacrificed their lives. The captain of the Oi minestrike ship, Chai Shengnan, is such a guy. In fact, it is not only Chai Shengnan Shaozuo, but even the officers and soldiers under him. In the Strait of Malacca, the tragic situation of the sister ship of the Oi mine-striking ship was hit by a mine, which frightened everyone and destroyed it in an instant. Chai Shengnan Shaozo has always wanted to find an opportunity to transfer out of the Ojing mine-strike ship.

No one would have thought that a mine laid by Quan Yonghai more than ten days ago not only blew up a lightning cruiser, but also scared Chai Shengnan's courage, so that at such a critical moment, the chain was dropped.

Vice Admiral Fu Qi of Okawauchi ordered four kilometers to fire, but Chai Shengnan Shaozuo was careful that his liver couldn't withstand that kind of pressure at all, let alone four kilometers, it was seven kilometers, as long as it was discovered by the battleship Atlantic, it would immediately be the end of evaporation in the world. The mine-strike ship is domineering and sharp enough, but at the same time it is also an ammunition depot that explodes at the slightest point.

Chai Shengnan Shaozo was timid at this moment, and released a torpedo at seven kilometers, which was already his psychological limit. The Oi mine-strike cruiser quickly released all the torpedoes on one side of the hull.

Later generations have analyzed this moment and have not come to any conclusions. Since the Japanese heavy cruiser could no longer support the delay, the naval resistance forces had already discovered the cruiser. It's just that Zheng Xuechang didn't know that the devil's killing move was a saturated torpedo attack. If Chai Shengnan had the guts, he might have succeeded, but it was more likely that he was destroyed by naval artillery in a short period of time four kilometers close to the Atlantic. However, there was no assumption on the battlefield, and Chai Shengnan had already fired twenty torpedoes at once.

The Big Well released the torpedo, the muzzle of the naval resistance army has also been turned, and the giant cannon has fired.

Twenty oxygen torpedoes. Twenty powerful weapons of great destruction went straight to the battleship Atlantic.

This is really a saturation torpedo attack, which should be considered the first time in the history of naval warfare, at a distance of seven kilometers, twenty torpedoes in a salvo, it is really terrifying to the extreme.

There are so many torpedoes, and the noisy propeller sound is so terrifying. The sonar soldiers of the Naval Resistance Army were so frightened that their voices straightened. Faced with this situation, it is like a razor close to the throat, and no one can remain calm.

Fortunately, accurate reporting of orientation has become a habit for sonar soldiers to penetrate deep into the bone marrow. Major Xu Zeol, the chief navigator, immediately adjusted the course.

In the face of so many torpedoes. No one dared to say that they could avoid the blow.

But turning the battleship away from the direction of the torpedo attack was the only and helpless option.

Fortunately, the battleship Atlantic was already at its top speed at this time, and it did not need to be fully rudder to steer, but only to adjust its course of about thirty degrees. But after the battleship turned, the navigator Xu Zeol discovered:

The crisis comes not only from the torpedoes behind you, but also from the front.

At this time, the Atlantic was traveling at thirty knots, and less than five kilometers in front of it was the heavy cruiser Suzuya, which had lost power.

The speed of the spear-torpedo was forty-two knots, after the battleship Atlantic adjusted its course. The torpedo was only about three kilometers from the battleship.

The difference in speed is ten knots, and the difference in distance is less than three kilometers.

If you calculate, it would take just over five minutes for a torpedo to catch up with the battleship Atlantic.

How far can the battleship Atlantic sail in five minutes? About five kilometers.

That is, about the same time that the battleship Atlantic was caught up by torpedoes. Also to ram the Japanese heavy cruiser Linggu.

Fu Qi Okawauchi saw the battleship Atlantic turn around in such a panic, he knew. His dagger has already struck. The expression that had been indifferent changed all along. With a cruel smile, he urged again and again: "Open the cannon, open the cannon." ”

Although the heavy cruiser Suzuya suffered heavy damage, the turret did not lose all its combat effectiveness. On the verge of death, the little devil returned to the light and showed amazing combat effectiveness. TWO USABLE 203MM GUNS PLUS NUMEROUS ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIREPOWER. Even machine-gun rifles were firing at the battleship Atlantic.

The tip of the needle is against the wheat mang, and the shell is against the shell. The heavy cruiser Suzuya was unable to maneuver to evade because of a loss of power, while the battleship Atlantic was pursued by a swarm of torpedoes. It is not possible to redirect.

These five minutes are the five minutes of death.

Both battleships erupted dozens of shells each, and both had an astonishingly high hit rate. The Atlantik was hit by at least 10 bullets and suffered more than 100 casualties. The heavy cruiser Suzuya was hit six times, and the side of the bridge turret was almost blown into a garbage heap, and the grinning steel plates were like window paper torn by the cold wind.

Zheng Xuechang had no time to check the battleship's injuries, and saw that the bow of the ship was about to crash into the heavy cruiser Suzuya. Once it hits, tens of thousands of tons of steel collide, and immediately it is a meteor hitting Mars, the end of the world.

Left or right?

Zheng Xuechang knew very well that no matter how many torpedoes he hit, he could not choose to collide with the ship. But to the left or to the right, to be able to dodge torpedoes, or less torpedoes, he is not clear at all. The sonar soldier is even more unclear, considering that now the stern is facing the torpedo, and the sonar can hardly judge accurately, only the sound of a frenzied group of propellers can be heard.

Captain Xu Zeol nervously controlled the rudder, and beads of sweat on his forehead were pouring out.

Zheng Xuechang was not in a cold sweat, but his face was pale.

This choice is too difficult, and if you choose the wrong one, you may sink on the spot. Of course, it is also possible that both left and right are mid-mines.

The distance is five hundred meters, and it will be too late if you don't turn around. Captain Xu Zeol glanced at Zheng Xuechang.

Maybe it's providence, maybe it's some indescribable reason. Zheng Xuechang was injured in the Battle of Songhu in Shanghai as early as 37 years, and his left arm function was damaged, but he was not in pain at ordinary times. At this moment, his left arm hurt a little.

"Left." Zheng Xuechang ordered.

There are things that can't be explained and you can't find a reason, just as you don't care if you step on your left foot or your right foot when you go out. Zheng Xuechang turned to the left because his left arm hurt.

It was a tough thirty seconds.

The massive hull of the battleship Atlantic streaked less than two meters from the stern of the Japanese heavy cruiser Suzuya.

This moment was played countless times in later naval battle movies. It shows the commanders of the two warships making eye contact face to face. In one movie, this shot was rendered into a classic.

But the party did not have this kind of leisure at this time, Okawauchi Fu Qi had actually died under the shelling, and Zheng Xuechang had no time to look at the opponent's bridge, he was staring at the stern of the heavy cruiser Suzuya.

The battleship's more than 200-meter-long body had not completely missed the stern of the Suzuya, and Zheng Xuechang felt a violent tremor. It was as if the hammer was hitting his heel at a very high frequency, so high that he felt not pain, but a heart-piercing discomfort, and the vibration was transmitted from the heel down the bone to the head. Blurred eyes, hearing loss.

The massive hull of the ship was trembling, and almost all of its ears were shocked and lost their hearing. The manic shock wave swept across the hull of the ship, and the steel structures on the bridge and stern made a tooth-sour noise, and some steel plates were blown out for dozens of meters like leaves.

And that's not all, there were three powerful explosions in a row, which stunned almost everyone, and there were more than 100 unconscious officers and soldiers.

The first explosion was a mine on the right side of the battleship Atlantic, and the violent explosion penetrated three layers of protection, two layers of watertight compartments. The battleship immediately tilted to the right.

At the same time as the battleship tilted, the navigation was also affected by the tilt of the hull, and it coincidentally deviated to the right, that is, it hid behind the Japanese heavy cruiser Suzuya. As a result, unknowable torpedo strikes were avoided.

There were three explosions in the back, all of which were the power of the torpedo hitting the heavy cruiser Suzuya.

Originally, the heavy cruiser Suzuya had already suffered seven or eight shots, and it was difficult to escape the end of annihilation, coupled with these three powerful oxygen torpedoes, it immediately staged a disintegration performance like building blocks.

The battleship Atlantic had been hit by more than a dozen bullets, but the damage it suffered was not as great as that caused by a single torpedo.

The design of this French-made battleship is quite advanced, with a double bottom and three layers of mine protection next door, which greatly cushions the damage caused by torpedo explosions to the hull. However, although the relief has been relieved, the damage has still been formed. The huge hole in the side of the ship has been filled with seawater, and in only five or six minutes, a large amount of seawater has been poured into the hull, and it has been tilted to the right side to eighteen degrees.

Zheng Xuechang, who was awake from a semi-coma, ordered again and again, and only after the left hull was filled with water could he barely maintain the balance of the battleship. Later, after more than two hours of hard fighting, the well-trained damage management personnel brought the fire on board under control.

After this blow, the battleship Atlantic could no longer continue the battle and had to withdraw from the battlefield.

(The Atlantic said: There are too few monthly passes, and he refuses to appear.) Asked for a ticket. (To be continued......)