Chapter 252: Don't want to sit still
More than a dozen cruisers and battleships emitted black smoke, with a tragic momentum, struggling to sail to the open sea, followed by more than 20 small destroyers, I have to say that the combat discipline of the Japanese fleet is still very high, in such a short period of ten minutes, it reacted, and on the premise that there was no means of communication, spontaneously followed the flagship, ready to fight to the death with an unknown and powerful enemy, no one chose to retreat, they did what a soldier should do.
Guo Yu looked at the radar display, thinking about the dozens of large and small warships coming in his direction, and was a little surprised that the Japanese fleet could have such a good response speed.
Admiration is admiration, but this has deepened Guo Yu's determination to prepare to destroy this fleet. Japan is an island country, so the focus of their development is the military power at sea, and the warships have become the cornerstone of their ambitions, as long as their warships are sunk, Japan will directly become a turtle that has been overturned, and if they don't focus everywhere, they will do nothing, as for the future development, will they give them the opportunity to come again, absolutely not.
In the Yokosuka harbor behind him, many warships have sunk, and many more are struggling, but the fate of the sunken ships has been difficult to change, the soldiers on the sea floated a piece, and the lucky ones can only grab a lifebuoy with a few people, and the unlucky ones can only keep fluttering where they are, but in the icy seawater, if they are not rescued in time, the average person will not be able to hold on for more than ten minutes, and the hands and feet will begin to be numb in an extreme time, the blood flow will be slow, and even cramps, difficulty breathing, In a trance, you will drink a few mouthfuls of seawater, and then unconsciously forget about the sea and sink, at this time swimming skills will not save you.
The dense overboard soldiers on the sea make the patrol boat too busy, and it can only be seen who is lucky and can be rescued by the patrol boat, and now it is really time to fight for character.
However, this is just a trivial matter for the current Japanese fleet, the enemy is still hidden in the dark, and it is not known whether he can be discovered by the enemy, if the enemy really has the ability to fight in the night, it will be terrible, then the fleet behind him will be completely exposed to the enemy's artillery, I hope this is not true.
But is it possible that the prayer of the captain of the Hiei, Kanji Kato, will come true, and how could Guo Yu give them a chance to turn the tables. At this time, the submarine formation was hiding in the path of the Japanese fleet, and the Japanese fleet plunged headlong into this pocket without knowing it.
"Pay attention to the submarine formation, expand the encirclement, wait for the enemy to enter the range and attack freely, so that the enemy can see the strength of our submarine force." Ma Chunming, the captain of the No. 1 submarine ship, shouted happily into the communicator, as if he was marrying a daughter-in-law during the New Year.
The submarine force has its own formation, and the No. 1 ship is equivalent to the flagship of the submarine force, and Ma Chunming is also the captain of the flagship, so he has the right to command other submarines of the submarine force.
"Submarine No. 5 receives it, you can see it, at least half of him will be eliminated."
"Received on the 12th, expected to arrive at the designated location in 5 minutes."
Ten minutes later, a large encirclement was formed on the way of the Japanese fleet's advance, a U-shaped pocket array, showing a semi-encirclement mode, which would allow the Japanese fleet to accept all-round care, leaving no dead corners and not cutting corners, and absolutely and firmly entertaining these guests.
Cannons can injure the enemy, so that the enemy loses the ability to fight back, the role of missiles is about the same, but the real greatest threat to the battleship, but also the torpedo, after all, in the waterline explosion, the damage to the battleship is huge, directly in the abdomen to blow up a huge hole, the rush to repair can not be repaired, can only watch the battleship sink, not to mention those smaller battleships, those under 5000 tons of battleships have worse protection capabilities, sometimes a torpedo down, will make the battleship directly blow up to both ends, there is no respite, It sank to the bottom of the sea.
The Guandu-class submarine has a six-tube 533 mm torpedo launcher and three R-13 ballistic missile launchers, the R-13 missile is the sea-based version of the Scud missile, and the strike capability is very strong, and it will definitely make the Japanese fleet crash into an iron wall. However, there is no need for missiles to be used here, so let the battleship units do the work, otherwise they will be jealous if they grab too much.
When the Japanese fleet sailed out of the harbor, the fleet-class was formed, and the flagships began to play lights, so that the ships had a chance to make contact.
According to preliminary statistics and contacts, the ships that Hiei commanded as the flagship and followed were the Kongo, Kurama, Tsukuba, Settsu, Kawachi, Kashima, Hizen, Fukushima, Izumo, Hirado, and Mikasa. Attack 12 battleships, cruisers.
Of course, there are 22 destroyers, including early spring, kohi, first frost, Wakaba, Ariake, sunset, Shiyu, white dew, blowing snow, first snow, white snow, white clouds, clump clouds, thin clouds, isoba, uraba, Shikinami, ayana, sky fog, morning fog, evening fog, and white clouds.
The names of the destroyers of the Japanese fleet are very good, and they are very interesting, aren't they, but they are all small guys, and the gap is very large, ranging from five or six hundred tons to fifteen or six hundred tons.
Now that telegraph communication was ineffective and communication with the command of the Combined Fleet could not be obtained, Kanji Kato, as the captain of the flagship Hiei, had to assume his own responsibility, so he took over temporary command, and this decision was unanimously agreed by the other warships.
There is no joy and excitement at all, only endless pressure, but at this time he must stand up, even if he is going to die in the next second, he must stand up, he knows that he must do something, even if it is to lead the fleet to death.
"Your Excellency Captain, the losses of all ships have been preliminarily reported, although they are all damaged, they still have combat effectiveness and can persist in fighting." The deputy captain said with the paper from the liaison officer's report.
Kato Kanji did not receive the report, damage is inevitable, as long as you can fight, you must persevere, because the enemy is hidden in this darkness, and may pounce on him at any time to bite himself, Kato Kanji's nerves are tense, but fortunately, the battleships that are keeping up now are the main battleships of the United Fleet, King Kong and Hiei are 30,000-ton battleships, and the other battleships are also more than 15,000 tons, and the combat effectiveness has been preserved at least more than half, and there is still the power to fight.
What Kato Kanji wants to do most now is to find the enemy as much as possible, even if it is just a shadow of the enemy, he will order the fleet to fire, even if it misses, as long as the enemy shows up, there is a possibility of defeating the enemy, now this situation of not knowing any bit of information about the enemy is the most unbearable, the unknown is the most terrifying, who knows where the enemy is hiding, when he suddenly appears to give himself a ruthless blow, Kato Kanji's heart is now entangled, making his face a little pale.
"Inform all the warships that they can find the enemy ships as much as possible, as long as there is an enemy trace, they can fire directly without asking for instructions, and we will follow his cannon sound and participate in the battle." Kanji Kato gave the first order.
"Yes, Captain." A staff officer was about to turn and leave, but Kanji Kato stopped him.
"Inform the destroyer fleet to let them all sail to the periphery of the main battleship to escort the main fleet, and at the same time disperse to look for traces of the enemy." Kanji Kato continued.
The fleet's usual escort mission is mainly to protect the cruisers, but now Kato Kanji has asked the destroyers to do this job, not necessarily without suspicion of sacrificing them, but now they can only do this, even if they become bait, as long as they can attract the enemy and let the enemy show their traces, it is their glory.
As far as the current shape shì is concerned, Kato Kanji's decision is very correct, sacrificing small battleships, buying time and fighting the enemy for the large fleet, and giving full play to the advantages of small destroyers is definitely the best way that can be thought of now.
Originally, the submarine force was not far from the Yokosuka military port, about 5 nautical miles away, which was much higher than the fleet, but now that the Japanese fleet has plunged headlong into the encirclement, the submarine force will naturally not let go of this good opportunity.
Ma Chunming looked at the Japanese fleet displayed on the radar, felt that the time had come, picked up the microphone next to him and said: "Brothers, the little Japanese warships have entered the circle, it's time for us to close the net, let's start attacking." ”
"Roger, prepare to attack."
"**them."
In the deep darkness of the seabed, the submarine is like a monster that chooses people to devour, opening its big mouth full of fangs, the gate of the torpedo tube opens, a few bubbles bubble up, and suddenly a thick guy sprang out of the launch tube of the black hole, and spun its small tail hard, and pierced forward.
How could such a good opportunity not be put to good use, the second and third torpedoes were fired one after another, and they all went straight according to the target locked by the radar.
"Boom", first of all, a small destroyer was directly blown to pieces, plunged into the sea and disappeared without a trace, "Boom, boom, boom." Then began the continuous sound of explosions, the first unlucky ones were the small destroyers on the periphery, these little guys did not have much protection ability, as long as they were concentrated by a torpedo, they would be directly blown to pieces, without any respite.
Kanji Kato saw that the destroyers on the periphery of the fleet were under attack, and hurriedly gave a loud order, "Signal the fleet, let the fleet disperse, and launch an artillery bombardment in the direction from which the torpedoes were fired, and adopt an unrestricted attack mode." ”
Whether it is effective or not, action must be taken, even if it is a completely useless action, something must be done, and we cannot sit idly by. R1152