Chapter 48: Revenge

(I was so careless that I missed a chapter, apologize)

The battery capacity of the Pixiu is large enough, but after almost a night of consumption, it must be recharged in time. If the Pixiu is at a speed of six knots, it can sail 300 nautical miles. However, if you use the maximum speed of 16.5 knots, you can only sail 100 nautical miles.

Look at the clock, it's already three o'clock in the morning. Li Guang decided to take advantage of the two or three hours before the morning to hurry up and recharge.

Until seven o'clock in the morning, the Pixiu was at periscope depth, and the diesel engine was running through the snorkel to generate electricity.

In the past few hours, Li Guang, Ren Tianyang, and Ji Keliang have been reviewing. It's like playing Go, and the whole battle process is reviewed.

In the end, the three people came to the conclusion that the devil was definitely a premeditated design. It should be said that when it is discovered that the destroyer of the devil is far away from the merchant formation, it is necessary to be vigilant. The second mistake was that the training of the fighters on the submarine was not sufficiently skilled, and the speed of dealing with problems in the event of a crisis was not enough. For example, after the submarine was shot, the water volume of the water tank at the tail of the submarine could not be adjusted in time. This kind of problem can be big or small, and slow handling can cause the submarine to slide directly into the deep sea and all the people will die. This time fortunately, it was a water tank problem, if there were three or four problems, the consequences would be unimaginable. In the end, everyone came to a conclusion that we must train more and train strictly.

The third mistake was that Li Guang did not slow down in time when the Pixiu was two nautical miles away from the three destroyers for the first time and switched to a silent state. That's why there is the threat of depth charges.

However, although the little devil is cunning and tactically skillful enough, an inaccurate adjustment of the fuse of a depth charge caused the previous achievements to be wasted.

It is difficult for both sides in the war to fully grasp the facts. Even one side in the middle of a war cannot grasp the full picture of the battle. These guesses and summaries are relatively accurate about themselves, but it is difficult to be completely accurate about their opponents.

Li Guang guessed that the devil had adjusted the wrong fuse depth. In fact, no, the devil's active sonar is not accurate at all, and the level of mastery of the earpiece is far inferior to that of Ji Keliang, and they don't know the depth of the Pixiu at all. Because the devil's current submarines have a maximum depth of 75 meters, the depth is set at 75 meters.

As for the devils, there were also a lot of mistakes in the judgment of the Pixiu, and they still think that the Pixiu was lucky and was not hit by depth charges. Instead, it exploded inside and sank. However, there were still many experienced naval officers among the little devils, and after analyzing the traces on the sea after dawn, they judged that the Pixiu was likely to have escaped.

Although the Pixiu did not achieve satisfactory results in this battle, it also sank a merchant ship and damaged two, and the little devil was busy with the aftermath at this time.

This night was really thrilling enough for all the officers and soldiers on the Pixiu, and they fought a few back and forth in the Ghost Gate. Although there were no casualties on the Pixiu, there were many tactics that were wounded. Three people were unconscious, five were fractured, and more than a dozen were slightly injured.

After just a few hours of charging, the power of the Pixiu was not sufficient, so Li Guang decided to dive to fifty meters underwater, except for a few on duty, all of them rested.

Since the little devil doesn't give up, let the devil's plane continue to wander in the sky, and Li Guang will not accompany him if he wants to sleep.

After more than ten hours of continuous tension, Li Guang's spirit was relaxed, and fatigue immediately surged all over his body, and he fell asleep at the end.

By the time Li Guang woke up, it was already evening, and Li Guang slept for twelve hours.

Li Guang, who is in high spirits, is now fighting again. Li Guang went back and forth in the submarine several times, and the soldiers at each post were inspired, and the wounded were also condoled. After Li Guang escaped the death threat, the atmosphere in the entire submarine was high driven by this high-spirited mentality.

There is an old saying in the army that a soldier is the might of a general and the courage of a soldier. Li Guang's fighting spirit was high, and the soldiers also asked for battle, and last night's embarrassment was quickly swept away.

This is not entirely Li Guang's personal charm, the two clerks have not rested for a day, and have already talked to all the fighters in the submarine to guide them. Although these two texts do not understand any psychology, at this time, conversation itself is the best comfort.

Li Guang, who thought that he had suffered a loss, is now preparing to get it back. The Naval Resistance Army has attacked several times, and each time it has been successful, and it is a beautiful scenery. I don't know where Li Guang's feeling of suffering comes from, it is said that sinking one merchant ship and damaging two can be regarded as very good results.

However, Li Guang's explanation is a different reason: he took a submarine worth $2 million to sea, not to mention the capture of a $1.8 million merchant ship and cargo, at least he had to sink a $1.8 million merchant ship and cargo. Moreover, the cautious Li Guang was also quite distressed about the consumption of six torpedoes last night, which was worth 30,000 US dollars.

What can you do with $30,000? It is enough for two months of training and living expenses for more than 600 people of the entire Naval Resistance Army. Enough for the cost of Pixiu's two sorties. That's not a small amount of money.

Li Guang is very short of money, and there are nearly two million dollars in loans in the bank.

Li Guang and several officers discussed for a long time, and decided that the Pixiu would go to the waters of Midway Island again to ambush. Obviously, the pursuit of merchant ships is probably not rushed, and as long as the fleet is separated, there is no way to find it in the vast ocean.

There was only Midway, which must have been the staging point of the Navy. And there is another important reason for choosing Midway, there is a continental shelf there.

Ji Keliang is a person who is good at summarizing, and in last night's battle, Ji Keliang judged that the devil only had active sonar on one destroyer. According to Ji Kelian's experience, active sonar is not that accurate at all. After thinking about it for a day, Ji Kelian came to the conclusion that the sea area of last night's battle was the deep sea. There is no interference there, as long as there is a slight abnormality in the active sonar's oscilloscope, you can determine where the opponent is.

In the shallow sea area, the continental shelf is only a few tens of meters or one or two hundred meters, which is extremely powerful for active sonar interference, and it is difficult to distinguish between the continental shelf and submarines. In last night's battle, Ji Keliang played well and made no mistakes, but the little devil's sonar performance was obviously extraordinary, and Ji Keliang felt that he had lost a move, and now he and Li Guang had the most similar thoughts, to find a way back.

For this reason, the Pixiu chose Midway Island as the location of the attack.

In the following day and night, the Pixiu slowly sailed while charging, and quietly dived into the waters of Midway.

This time, Li Guang was more careful, and did not use the diesel engine at all during the day, and the submarine was driven by electricity under the surface of the sea as a whole. Only at night was the diesel engine used to run through the snorkel.

It can be said that these two days of sailing really made it a submarine. Obviously, the search of the little devils has not stopped, and in two days the submarine has discovered three reconnaissance planes of the Japanese army.

When summing up the last night battle, there was a problem that caught Li Guang's attention, that is, he originally wanted to take advantage of the bad weather, but who knew that when the Pixiu was about to attack, the weather would be clear. God doesn't help, otherwise the results of the Pixiu will definitely not be so bad, and it will not be so embarrassing.

Li Guang, who had learned his lesson, also began to pay real attention to the right time, place, and people in the battle. War is the most tempering thing, and even Li Guang, a man who has been a fool in the 21 st century, is now maturing at a rapid pace and is moving toward becoming a qualified commander.

The current hidden waters of the Pixiu help to avoid active sonar searches. This is kind of occupying geography. As for the time, Li Guang decided to wait patiently.

All the officers and men on the Pixiu understood the importance of patience, and no one was irritable, and they waited patiently for six days at Midway.

During these six days, I watched from afar as the four warships of the navy cruised on the sea. Li Guang really understood at this time what was going on with the little devil's escort, and his feelings were just a ride on a dangerous voyage.

This situation once again reminded Li Guang that there was no need to risk a sneak attack, and after discovering this secret, the brothers on the Pixiu became excited again.

Sure enough, on the sixth day, more than a dozen merchant ships reappeared on the surface of Midway. As usual, two destroyers escorted the escort, and the Pixiu showed extreme patience this time, tracking for four days. The journey is nearly 800 nautical miles, but in fact, this location is only 5 or 600 nautical miles away from the mainland.

After four days of extremely patient escort of the escort, the two destroyers of the Navy turned around and returned home. Li Guang has been waiting for this day long enough.

That night, it happened to be cloudy, and the sneak attack of the Pixiu was extremely easy. Twelve torpedoes, sinking eight merchant ships. Since the merchant ships of the little devils seem to have grown a lot, they began to scatter and flee as soon as they were attacked, which caused a lot of difficulties for the pursuit of the Pixiu.

After more than three hours of fighting, the Pixiu achieved brilliant results, although it was not completely annihilated, Li Guang was already quite satisfied, but there was a little regret, if there were two submarines, the merchant ship of the little devil would not want to run away from one. There was apparently a ro-ro ship in the middle of the eight merchant ships, which cost the Pixiu four torpedoes. The structure of the ro-ro ship is relatively complex, and there are many watertight cabins, and if the keel cannot be blown up, it is still very resistant to explosion.

After the big victory, Pixiu did not stop at all. Sail out of the combat sea area with full force at periscope depth. Li Guang was refreshed, the Fifth Fleet was uncomfortable, and was once again scolded by the dog's blood spray in his own country.

Originally, only six of the warships of the early spring class were equipped with active sonar, but because the sonar was not very accurate, the navy did not attach much importance to it. In the past, the navy had always paid attention to night combat training, and the quality of its observers was extremely high, which means that the navy had always been superstitious about people's observations.

However, in this battle, although there was no result, Yamaguchi Tashi found the reason for the defeat, and believed that it was mainly caused by the failure of the other two destroyers to be equipped with active sonar.

Yamaguchi Tawen also had some influence in the Yamaguchi Navy, and under his promotion, he even installed the 93 active sonar on all the destroyers of the Yamaguchi Army in the next two or three years. Historically, it was only in four or three years that the Navy discovered that the destroyers' anti-submarine capability was insufficient, and only then did it install sonar on most of the destroyers. Li Guang didn't know the changes in the navy caused by the flapping of his butterfly wings, and if he knew, he didn't know how to regret his recklessness.

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