Chapter 264: The Great Führer, a New Event

In and Adolf. Before Chancellor Hitler's meeting, Song Biao first met with Crown Prince Wilhelm and Victoria at the Berlin Imperial Palace. Princess Louise and his wife, and had dinner together.

After sending Crown Prince William and Princess Louise away, Song Biao returned to the living room of the Berlin Imperial Palace to rest for a while. Chancellor Hitler has arrived.

Song Biao was silent for a moment, his mood was very complicated, it was a very meaningful thing to be able to see Hitler with his own eyes after all, but what would happen after seeing it, he really couldn't tell.

After a little thought, Song Biao stood up and asked Chen Jiayou to take Adolf. Chancellor Hitler led in, there was already a sonorous footsteps in the living room, shoe spikes hit the ground hard and neatly, Major General Chen Jiayou hurriedly walked out, leading the chamberlains in the inner court and the guards of the Secret Service to greet Adolf. Chancellor Hitler.

Song Biao looked up at the frescoes of the dome of the Virgin Mary and Saint Peter's preaching of the Gospel, in the Prussian palace of the resplendent Hohenzollern family, he will welcome the most famous ** person in human history, Adolf. Hitler.

Soon, accompanied by the chamberlain, the door of the parlor opened, and the scarlet carpet was laid all the way to the end of the corridor, where on both sides stood the Nazi stormtrooper, Adolf. In this majestic momentum, Chancellor Hitler was accompanied by Major General Chen Jiayou and walked steadily and heavily into the meeting room.

Adolph. Chancellor Hitler was still dressed in a gray suit at this time, without a military uniform or a Nazi armband, which was a few years later.

Step forward, Adolf. Hitler and Hermann. Like Goering, he respectfully bowed to Song Biao in accordance with imperial etiquette.

After Hitler was calmed down, Song Biao stretched out his hand and shook hands with the Nazi Führer, who continued to walk forward, and China and Germany still maintained a very special friendship, even in the stage of World War I, the cooperation between the two sides was not completely terminated.

Both China and Germany know this very well.

If there was no Reich selling rubber to Germany through the Netherlands, it would be difficult for Germany to prepare enough sealing materials for the submarine force at that time, and this is precisely the core problem of submarines, in addition to rubber, nickel, copper, and manganese are all part of the secret deal between the two sides, after the end of World War I, Germany also secretly kept weapons open with the support of the Reich, such as in the development of general-purpose machine guns, tanks, submarines, and battleships, and the process of the two sides was almost identical.

After the two shook hands, Song Biao invited the Nazi prime minister to sit down.

Adolph. Hitler was a very special politician who was strict with himself, he did not drink alcohol or coffee, and the only drink was tea. Hitler provided the royal offering of six types of premium teas, one each of which was black tea, green tea, rock tea, oolong tea, pu'er tea, and white tea.

Of course, the empire has always had the practice of offering tea to the high-level European aristocracy, royal family, and state leaders, as a special public relations, to maintain the noble image of the empire as the most tea kingdom in the world.

The empire also consciously promotes the consumption of the highest grade tea, the price of one or two tea leaves and one or two gold is not unusual, the empire uses five stars to represent the highest special grade tea, awarded by the royal family, on behalf of the royal standard, and this standard is basically the most expensive tea in the world.

This time, Song Biao brought Wuyi Mountain rock tea from China.

Major General Chen Jiayou personally sent two cups of rock tea on behalf of the inner court, and Chen Jiayou also stayed as a translator.

The gift of the empire is the proof of the existence of the empire.

From the respect of the surrounding guards and accompanying officials to the Song Emperor, Adolf. Hitler could also roughly see what the Song Emperor meant in China.

After a short break, Song Biao put the tea cup on the coffee table next to him. Hitler sighed and said: "I just met with Crown Prince Wilhelm, and now I really have too many feelings, thinking back to the past, how brilliant and prosperous the Second German Empire was, but now it ended up like this, what is the guilt of the Hohenzollern royal family?" Thinking about the past now, I have asked Germany more than once to give up the lend-lease zone in our country, and it is precisely because Germany insists on not being willing to give up these small, even negligible etiquette, and does not hesitate to push our country completely to the Entente, otherwise where history would have gone, I think it is difficult to say clearly today, if China and Germany had formed an alliance in those years, gave priority to the defeat of the Tsarist Russian Empire in the middle, and then advanced to Europe according to the heart of Tsarist Russia, there would be no reason for defeat. ”

Adolph. Hitler was silent for a moment, and then suddenly replied very exaggerated and fiercely: "Holwig is the most stupid person in the history of the German Empire, there is absolutely no one, and now is the time for us to correct this mistake, Your Majesty the Emperor, Germany has been reborn from the ashes, we will correct the mistakes of history, if Germany and China conclude an alliance, we will change the history of mankind, and the whole world will be at the highest point." ”

Song Biao snorted, but said: "Politics is complicated, China is a traditional and moral country, and it is impossible for our alliance with France to be abandoned, because China can never be a perfidious country, but we believe that the relationship between the Sino-French alliance and Germany can be gradually restored." At present, China and Germany, including France, can pursue permanent peace coexistence, ensure the development space of their citizens and enterprises through trade, and pursue a higher level of cooperation in humanities, spirituality and science and technology. ”

Adolph. Hitler lowered his voice again and proposed with great sincerity: "Under my leadership, Germany will never be an enemy of China." China is a great Asian empire, and the German people have never given up the friendship between China and Germany in the most difficult moments, and have made a lot of efforts for us, and the German people will always be grateful to China. We recognize Germany's debt to France, and we keep our promise to repay the reparations to France, no matter how many years it takes, but in the last ten years, due to the economic crisis, we must temporarily suspend the reparations in order to ensure the survival and development of the Germans, and in the future, we will certainly make reparations. ”

Song Biao laughed, he didn't care much about this problem, anyway, there is no compensation problem between China and Germany, one is that the amount is relatively small, and the other is that the remaining tens of millions of pounds of compensation have all become the Sino-German Study Abroad Foundation, sponsoring Chinese students to study in Germany, and also encouraging German students to learn Chinese and Chinese history, so as to enhance understanding between the two sides, after all, after World War II, China and Germany will continue to have long-term exchanges.

He said: "I and my country have always not supported the demand that Germany pay such a huge amount of reparations, and that we can reduce and ban Germany's reparations against China. Actions speak louder than voices, and we express our attitude with actions, and as for how we should try to protect Germany's own interests in the future, I think this can only be a question of you and the German political axe, and the work that our country can do is very limited, and it can only be limited to this. ”

Adolph. Hitler replied in a very low voice, but also very sincerely and cordially: "We are extremely grateful for everything that the Chinese Empire has done, please believe me, Your Majesty the Emperor of China, we will repay the Empire, we Germans will always be loyal to our friends, and we will always be vigilant against our enemies." ”

Song Biao was noncommittal in his heart, and he was still very convinced on the surface.

Adolph. Hitler took the initiative to raise the issue of Ben, saying: "I have heard about the challenge of the Chinese navy in Indonesian waters, and in the long run, this country will inevitably threaten China's peace and development, and I warmly suggest that China and Germany should continue to cooperate more navies and develop new battleships to contain our opponents and warn them." ”

Song Biao, of course, knew what Germany wanted.

As far as the present stage is concerned, the overall scientific and technological level of the Reich's warship industry has slightly surpassed that of Germany, especially in the field of alloy steel and armor forging and cold treatment, which Germany is best at, as well as in the field of main guns and radars, the Reich has absorbed and integrated on the basis of German and American technology, completed the development and production of new models of 16-inch guns, and further promoted the development of 17.5-inch guns.

Germany has not yet started the development of the 16-inch (406mm) main gun because of the technical stagnation and the limitations of the research and development work in the past ten years, which is why the Bismarck battleship was later forced to use the 52 times the caliber 380mm/SKC34 main gun, the German [***] industrial and manufacturing industry, especially the warship manufacturing industry, has basically stagnated in the past fifteen years, lacks suitable industrial technology accumulation and skilled workers, and needs to be retrained, which is also the Bismarck battleship manufacturing cycle of four years, This was preceded by a 10-year preparatory cycle.

Song Biao said yes, "It is necessary for China and Germany to continue to maintain close technical cooperation, which is beneficial to the people and enterprises of the two countries, as well as to the world economy and peace. Because in this world, few countries can interfere with China and Germany, which is determined by our strength and international status. ”

Adolph. Hitler could not wait to praise: "The Chinese Empire is the greatest and just country in the world, and we in Germany are the same, we are two great empires." ”

Song Biao bowed his head again, but did not continue to echo.

He has been in the emperor's chair for twenty-three years, and most of the political leaders of his time have returned to dust, and he is the only remaining head of state during the First World War, as if he were an antique in this nascent political world.

His status, China's status, allows him not to be attached to anyone.

Nor did he have to talk to Adolf. Hitler was alone in his own hands.

For the specific technical cooperation between China and Germany, Song Biao does not need to say too much and be too detailed, these technical topics with professional surnames need professionals to determine, which areas can be carried out in new cooperation, which fields can not be carried out, and what is the way of cooperation, these should be decided by professionals, not by him, the emperor.

Society is like this, so is the state, there is a clear division of labor in every society, this is one of the manifestations of social progress, the emperor has the duties of the emperor, and the technician has the duties of the technician.

Under the premise that the development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles is smooth, there is also a lot of room for technical cooperation between the Reich and the Soviet Union and Germany, and cooperation in certain areas is acceptable, as long as it can be exchanged for more benefits.

Song Biao did not explicitly commit to and discuss specific technical projects for cooperation, and instead went with Adolf. Hitler cut into the most critical issue of this visit to Germany, he said: "The exchange of technology, economy and personnel between China and Germany is very important, in addition to the free exchange and cooperation in the fields of technology, economy and education, China also hopes to strengthen the normal cooperation in the field of immigration between the two countries, on the one hand, immigration, more or the normal exchange of scientific and technological and business personnel between the two countries, as of last year's demographic statistics, There are 137,300 Germans in China and about 14,000 Chinese in Germany. In the next few years, China will increase the approval of foreign technology, education and investment immigration, and grant more and more relaxed free residency rights, in Weihai, this area that was forcibly occupied by the British, we have decided to establish a new and larger international new area, allowing foreigners to move to live here. The German New Area in Qingdao will also be expanded, and more cooperation between China and Germany will take place in Qingdao, which will be a new basis for more cooperation. ”

Adolph. Hitler, who had not yet realized that China was going to step up its absorption of Jews from Europe, agreed: "This is obviously a very good thing, and we should also establish a free Chinese zone in Germany, considering that most of the Chinese in Germany live in Hamburg, we should set up this Chinese zone in Hamburg." ”

The Jews' tradition of focusing on education and trade made them more literate than the average European population, and it seems that the empire did not lack a large number of high-quality labor and skilled personnel as in the past, but it was not abundant, and it was undoubtedly a good practice to absorb the influx of high-quality people.

In the cooperation with the Soviet Union and Germany, on the one hand, it is necessary to continuously gain a deep understanding of the technological level of the Soviet Union and Germany through technical and economic and trade exchanges, and not to fight a war that is ignorant of understanding, and on the other hand, it is also to take advantage of the Great Purge and the anti-Semitic crisis within the Soviet Union and Germany to absorb high-quality personnel from the two countries.

In fact, in the process of anti-Orthodoxy and systematic destruction of Orthodox Christianity in the Soviet Union, the empire has absorbed a large number of excellent people from the Soviet Union, adding more bases for the country's technological, educational and economic development.

In the future, Song Biao has already considered arranging for the addition of one or two foreign cabinet ministers to institutions such as the Imperial Central Immigration Bureau, to increase the empire's international character in terms of multi-ethnic and multi-caste tolerance, and to further increase China's attractiveness to foreign elites.

That night, Song Biao and Adolf. Hitler exchanged views on many issues, and based on the basic stance of anti-British, anti-Soviet, and financial reading policies, the two men were able to agree on almost all issues except for ethnosocial Darwinism, including the recent sudden Indonesian incident, and Germany's unconditional support for China's actions to maintain peace and stability in Asia.

In the Song Emperor and Adolf. After Hitler's meeting, the Chinese delegation had extensive meetings and exchanges with a number of important core figures of the Nazi Party, the German Ministry of Defense, and important German capitalists, and the two sides also reached an agreement on the Chinese delegation's participation in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.

If possible, Emperor Song agreed to attend the opening ceremony of the Berlin Olympics in person, and Germany promised to receive and treat the Emperor and the Chinese delegation with a higher standard.

During his visit to Germany, Song Biao found time to have brief talks with diplomats from Britain, the Netherlands, the United States, and other countries, while Foreign Minister Gu Weijun also temporarily interrupted his preparatory visit to the Asian League and returned to China to preside over the diplomatic work of the empire.

…… On the third day of Song Biao's visit to Germany.

In the skies above the Moluccas, an S-10ZC large patrol aircraft from the Sioux City Naval Base patrols the area at the junction of the Seran Sea and the Banda Sea, in addition to the Sioux City Naval Base, the Imperial Navy also has a supply port area and a transit airfield in the Amahaí seaport on the island of Seland, but even so, only the S-10ZC can patrol this long 1,000-kilometer wide sea area.

The captain of the S-10ZC large patrol aircraft, numbered SNY40315, is Guo Haiqing, a native of Cangzhou, Hebei Province, with the rank of Navy Major, who previously belonged to the Air Force during World War I, and is also one of the few high-ranking front-line officers who participated in World War I, but is still serving as a front-line pilot at this stage.

If it weren't for the urgency of the task, Guo Haiqing, who was the deputy instructor, would not have to go into battle directly, this reconnaissance route was not a commonly used route, the situation was relatively unfamiliar, and only a few pilots such as Guo Haiqing had experience.

At this stage, large patrol planes do not have radar devices on them, and their advantages over ordinary water reconnaissance planes are that they have a large range and a high load, can carry more radio devices in the engine room, have the ability to command surrounding ships and aircraft, and can also get in touch with the naval base at the first time.

In particular, in the ability to command ships and submarines, large patrol planes can quickly summon their own ships and planes to concentrate in the surrounding waters as long as they discover the opposing ship, and with a strong range of up to 2,500 km, they are the most advanced reconnaissance and command units in the entire sky.

The S-10ZC large patrol aircraft is usually equipped with four sets of radio sets and three sets of surveillance and photographic devices, and needs to fly at low speed in the air, generally including the captain, crew and pilot, there will be 12-14 people, and five people are responsible for taking turns to observe the sea surface, reconnoiter ships and submarines sailing on the surface, because the current submarines usually do not have the ability to dive for a long time, this large patrol aircraft is almost an invincible submarine killer.

The time gradually came to the afternoon, because of the long voyage, the crew was already very tired, and no abnormalities were found, and everyone did not think that the navy would go south on a large scale in such a short time.

Guo Haiqing carefully checked all the sea area maps in the engine room, and felt that the sea area where the navy could go south was already very narrow, but it could only take the road of the Selan Sea.

If the Navy wants to attack the Dutch Navy further south, whether it is really to attack the other side or threaten, it always has to be close to the waters of Jakarta, and there are only five ways for the Navy to enter this area, the first way is to go directly south from the Strait of Malacca, which may not be a big surname, because China, the United States and Britain will not condone the passage of the Navy; The second way is the Strait of Makassar, which is even more unlikely, the reason why the empire wanted to control Kalimantan and Sulawesi in the first place was to control the Strait of Makassar; The third road is to the western part of the Selan Sea, which is close to the Imperial Sioux City naval base, and may have a lower surname; The fourth route is to bypass the Moluccasas in the eastern part of the Seran Sea and cut into the waters of the southern Banda Sea to bypass the aerial reconnaissance range of the Chinese Navy; The fifth route is to bypass the whole of New Guinea directly and detour from the Timor Sea into Indonesia.

On the whole, Guo Haiqing believed that the navy was more likely to take the fourth way, which was also the only more reasonable way, and on this sea route, the imperial navy could only detect the opponent by submarines and large patrol planes, and a large number of seaplanes could not sail so far.

There is still a big difference between the large patrol aircraft at this stage and the later electronic reconnaissance aircraft, a large number of calculations need to be carried out by the commander himself on the front line, every captain needs extremely rich experience, and the patrol aircraft is not equipped with radar, although the empire already has the first generation of shipborne and road-based large radars, because the radar technology at this stage is mainly based on vacuum tubes and electronic tubes, the volume and operating power are huge, and the development of miniaturized airborne radars is carried out simultaneously with the S-15, and it has just entered service in the Air Force at the beginning of the year. The Navy is not yet in the Navy.

The surveillance system of the S-10ZC large patrol aircraft is an optical instrument with a focus capacity of 2.5 to 10 times, which can observe the sea area in a large area, but can only work normally during the day.

At 2.34 p.m., the patrol aircraft SNY 40315 arrived at the designated area of Cassivi Island and continued south to the Tanimbal Islands, shortly after leaving the waters of Cassivi Island, at 2.41 minutes, in the sea area of 132 degrees east longitude and 5.5 degrees south latitude, observers spotted two suspicious ships.

After the observer's debriefing, all the crew members of the plane were nervous and seemed to be excited.

Guo Haiqing personally went to the telescope to observe, and adjusted the focus distance, and with his understanding of the ships of the Yumoto Navy, he could basically confirm that these were two heavy cruisers of the Nagano-class class, which were built by Yumoto in the course of the competition with the Fushun-class heavy armored cruisers, and they were also the most powerful of the cruisers of the Yumoto Navy.

The Nagano-class heavy cruisers, like the Fushun class, are basically pocket dreadnought battleships with small-caliber main guns, with a standard displacement of 9,730 tons, and there is also intelligence to prove that the design displacement of this class of cruisers exceeds 10,500 tons, but in order to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty, it is claimed that it only has a standard displacement of 9,730 tons, and the four Nagano, Nagaoka, Maebashi, and Kashiwazaki are in service, and the four Fushun-class heavy armored cruisers of the Chinese Navy are facing off.

According to the estimation of the two cruisers heading southwest at a speed of about 20 knots, Guo Haiqing believed that the two heavy cruisers of the Yue Army were trying to break through the warning network of China's naval aviation units, make a detour into the defense line of the Dutch Navy in the coastal waters, warn the Dutch Navy, and provoke a larger-scale conflict.

Guo Haiqing quickly reported the situation to the Sioux City Naval Base and asked the naval base to send a patrol aircraft to replace the SNY 40315.

Although the large transport plane was flying at an altitude of 1,200 meters in the sky, the roaring sound was still shocking, and it was not difficult to find that two ships of the Navy's navy also discovered the CNY 40315 patrol plane.

Ten minutes later, the naval base sent a designation to the patrol plane of SNY 40315, and the SNY 40315 organized interception and warning nearby, and the navy could not be allowed to pass through the Banda Sea and directly face the Dutch navy.

In the face of such an inevitably somewhat brutal order, Guo Haiqing could only choose to accept it, and after making radio contact in the surrounding area, it was soon determined that there were two submarines and a destroyer in the surrounding waters, and they would be able to reach this sea area in about two hours, and at the Sioux City Naval Base, a spare S-10ZC large patrol plane was taking off, and another light cruiser that was closest to it would also arrive.

Guo Haiqing ordered the crew pilot to lower the flight altitude and make a warning through a low-altitude flight in the 800-meter altitude area, asking the opposing fleet to stop sailing or return.

At this moment, the two heavy cruisers of the Yuben Navy increased their speed at the same time and galloped southwest at maximum speed, and in order to stop the Yuben Navy, Guo Haiqing was forced to continue to reduce the flight altitude and interfere with the other side with a more dangerous low-altitude voyage.

The plane gradually lowered its altitude, only 600 meters above the sea surface, such an altitude is very dangerous for a large transport plane, Guo Haiqing temporarily decided to personally serve as the co-pilot, and cooperate with the pilot to continue to reduce the altitude, trying to use this dangerous flight to force the opponent to return the same way.

Guo Haiqing himself is also a very good pilot, born in the air force, he once won the first-class gold medal in the Sino-Soviet air battle, after reducing the power of the propeller as much as possible, he kept the plane at a low speed and low altitude, but this is only relative to its own speed, compared to the two cruisers of the Navy, the speed of the reconnaissance plane is still very amazing.

When the S-10ZC large patrol aircraft of the Imperial Naval Aviation Regiment roared past the front for the first time, the roaring sound made the soldiers of the Yamamoto Navy extremely frightened, and for a while, the crews of the two heavy cruisers did not make any reaction, but the Yamamoto Navy did not continue to stop moving forward, and the two sides fell into a stalemate confrontation.

Seeing that the warning was ineffective, Guo Haiqing, as the captain, also didn't know how to choose for a while, he had two choices, one was to continue to keep track until the second patrol plane, the destroyer in the nearby sea area and the Xilin Gol-class cruiser arrived; Another option is to go for a higher level of warning again.

After thinking for a short time, Guo Haiqing chose to continue to warn once, this time, he would still fly past the front of the two cruisers, and the minimum altitude would stop at about 400 meters.

Guo Haiqing's plan was very good, and he believed that this distance was not enough for the navy to misjudge and lose control, but at the moment when he ordered the pilot to turn around, the fuselage suddenly shook violently, and a number of anti-aircraft shells continued to hit the cabin.

Such an unexpected situation shocked the entire crew of the plane, and everyone really did not expect that the Navy would use anti-aircraft guns regardless of the risk of being wiped out because of such a trivial matter.

A large hole was punched through the left wing of the ship, and the plane was unbalanced.

The patrol plane was violently bumped in the air, and from Guo Haiqing's point of view, the tail of the left wing had been significantly deformed and upturned, and the pressure of the wing load was likely to tear the wing apart, and he immediately asked the pilot to reduce his speed, but the fuel tank in the wing was also broken, and the aviation kerosene was ignited during the leakage, and the fire quickly spread to the entire wing.

As the co-pilot, Guo Haiqing quickly took firefighting measures and threw all the fuel out of the mailbox on the left flank to stop the spread of the fire, but as the anti-aircraft guns of the ship continued to attack, they also had to quickly turn and accelerate to avoid these attacks.

This kind of patrol plane in the early days was far from being comparable to the later electronic reconnaissance planes in terms of safety, and a series of measures were taken in succession, but the plane still could not avoid the doom of falling, and Guo Haiqing could only order the crew to parachute urgently, while he himself and the pilot turned around in the air together.

At this moment, he knew that it was impossible for the plane to land safely, and there was no suitable place for a forced landing in the nearby seas, and in his hatred, he decided to pilot the plane directly into the warship.

The experience of air combat during the Sino-Soviet War made him very different from the patrol commander of an ordinary naval aviation regiment, and he knew very well that his task was to prevent the Navy from advancing to the southwest, delaying the pace of the Navy until the arrival of new patrol planes, and at this moment, there was only one way to complete the mission, that is, to directly hit and damage the warship, although such a probability was basically equivalent to hitting a tree ten kilometers away with a shell.

The first-class military literacy and the calmness cultivated in the war led Guo Haiqing to choose the most likely method, and he had the Nagagaton control plane turn to the left, detour the rear of the two Nagano-class heavy cruisers, and attack from the stern.

The ship is sailing forward at high speed, and the probability of the plane chasing the rear from behind is the greatest, if it is hit from the side or from the front, the high speed of the two is extremely likely to make the plane pass by, or even a distance of hundreds of meters.

After turning back to the rear of the warship, Guo Haiqing lowered the speed limit of the plane, and used four aviation cannons to strafe the ship at the same time to suppress the anti-aircraft fire of the ship as much as possible, and he chose the best plan in an instant, because the anti-aircraft guns of the Nagano-class heavy cruisers were almost all concentrated in the middle and front, and the anti-aircraft escort capability in the rear direction was almost zero.

This was actually a very fast moment, a distance of more than 100 meters per second, and the one at the back of the two heavy cruiser formations of the Navy, which was said to be at the back of the navy's formation, quickly realized the intention of the Chinese patrol plane, and hurriedly tried to turn the rudder and intercept the patrol plane with the anti-aircraft guns on the flanks, but the patrol plane was not an ordinary aircraft, and it was impossible to be destroyed by a few anti-aircraft shells.

This is a military transport aircraft carrying more than 10 tons, not even the general large bomber in the late stage of World War I, and the surname of the Navy's 37mm Hatch Kaith anti-aircraft gun is not very good, a significant disadvantage is that the rate of fire is too slow, the first two rounds hit the SNY40315 patrol aircraft belong to a relatively low probability.

The point is that the time is too short.

It's just an instant.

The patrol aircraft of the SNY40315 was lucky enough to hit the chimney and boiler bore of the heavy cruiser Nagaoka, and the fuel tank on the right side exploded with nearly 1,000 kilograms of fuel oil, shattering the chimney and the upper deck of the boiler room, causing the entire boiler to suffer heavy damage, the steam pipes cracked, the hot gas boomed and sprayed inside the cabin, and the fire was burning on the deck.

The heavy cruiser Nagaoka itself did not suffer the blow of destruction, but the power system was accidentally washed away, and the warship slowly stopped on the sea, and the billowing smoke spread out on the surface of the sea, and went away with the wind, like the best wolf smoke signal.

(To be continued)