The soldiers on the Pixiu could not suppress the excitement in their hearts, their faces were full of excitement, and a low cheer was heard. Li Guang also suppressed the excitement in his heart, the Fengfeng-class destroyer, even if it had so many shortcomings, was at least worth several million yuan, but Li Guang only used two torpedoes.

The result of the battle is not only the destroyer Lost Wind, but also one hundred and fifty-four Saimoto Navy on board, and it depends on whether Aunt Asumasu can survive before the arrival of the Samoto rescue ship.

Although the winter in the central Pacific Ocean is not cold, it is not warm after all, and the temperature is around ten degrees, and there is little hope that these little devils can carry it overnight.

Li Guang lightly high-fived the first mate Ren Tianyang to celebrate. Attention turned again to the battlefield.

Li Guang did not hesitate, and the Pixiu immediately floated. It was clear from the periscope that the destroyer Lost Wind was hit by two torpedoes, which not only blew through the hull of the warship, but also broke the keel. At this time, the hundred-meter-long hull had been broken in two and stood on the surface of the sea, like two blazing torches. There was a crackling sound and it was sinking.

By this time, the eight merchant ships were purely targets. They can only flee in panic or fire aimlessly.

The Pixiu submarine has a total of eight torpedo launchers, two of which have been used, and six torpedoes remain. Torpedo loading is not easy, and in the face of eight pieces of fat, you have to choose well.

At periscope depth, the Pixiu is fully capable of sailing at speeds of more than twenty knots thanks to the intake pipes. In the process of pursuing merchant ships, the speed advantage was brought into full play. How could a bulky merchant ship escape at a speed of twelve or thirteen knots, so how could it escape the clutches of the Pixiu.

It is said that the merchant ship was in a panic, and the aimless opening of the cannon could not pose a threat to the Pixiu in the slightest. In the next half hour, the torpedo was almost a one-hit hit.

The Pixiu was too addicted this time, all six torpedoes were fired within 500 meters, and even one was only launched from a distance of less than 200 meters.

The power of more than 200 kilograms of explosives of the 533mm torpedo is extremely huge, and one of them can blow a large hole several meters in diameter in the waterline of a merchant ship. This kind of damage is absolutely fatal for a merchant ship with a simple structure and very few watertight compartments, and the sea water is surging in, and it will not take long for the merchant ship to tilt and subvert.

Only half an hour after the start of the war, there were only two 10,000-ton merchant ships left on the sea, and they were fleeing in panic.

Li Guang was not willing to kill these two ships. It has long been seen as something in his pocket.

At this time, the Pixiu was loaded with torpedoes and followed two merchant ships.

The devils on the merchant ship are no longer panicked at this moment, but their souls are scattered. They simply did not find out where the shells (torpedoes) came from and where the opponents were.

The Pixiu followed unhurriedly behind the two huge ships, like a hungry wolf staring at the flock.

On the merchant ship, the little devils cried for a while, and by this time both the crew and the captain were already frightened. This feeling of the unknown is terrifying, even more terrifying than shooting at an opponent's warship. In just half an hour, six merchant ships plus one warship were blown into a pile of broken iron and were sinking or had sunk.

Twenty nautical miles away, the pickup got the news less than three minutes after the Pixiu took out the destroyer, and now it was cleaving the waves and approaching the battlefield at full speed.

Without the Pickup, there was no way to capture the merchant ship, and although there were artillery on the Pixiu, there were too few personnel to control the personnel on the freighter. Moreover, the Pixiu is still relatively squeamish, and is reluctant to start an artillery battle with the merchant ship.

And for the merchant ships, Li Guang is actually very reluctant to sink, Li Guang is always in a situation of lack of money, and he can capture one by one.

After three hours of pursuit, it was too late for the devils to see the pickup number and escape separately.

After escaping for a few hours, the devil didn't think of running away separately. But on the vast sea, the opponent doesn't know where he is, and there is a magic horse to divide up? Running together can also pretend to be a guts for each other. In fact, Xiao Yueben did not flee separately, at least saving the surname of the seaman on a boat.

As long as the little devils start to flee separately, the Pixiu will definitely sink one without hesitation. After all, there is only one submarine, and there is no doppelganger.

When the pickup appeared, the devils on both ships began to despair. The light signal is clear - surrender immediately, or sink it.

On the dark night sea, the waves are rough, and it is winter. No matter how good the surname Shui is, he can't get through it. Now those sunken merchant ships and warships are probably more than half dead. Even if you are alive, I am afraid that you will not be able to support the dawn.

He said that there were many diehards in himself, but there were also many smart people, and the two 10,000-ton giant ships surrendered. And Li Guang also made a fortune again, two ships of scrap steel. Looking at the manifest, it was 16,000 tons.

16,000 tons of scrap steel is estimated to be only 7.8 million US dollars if it is in the United States, but if it is pulled to the cost, it is worth at least 2 million yuan, and if it can be sent to China, it will definitely be worth more than 3 million oceans. In the face of such huge wealth, Li Guang did not dare to slack off, and ordered Zheng Xuechang to escort the fleet to Guangxi.

From Li Guang's limited historical knowledge, he coincidentally knew that the Yue army occupied Hainan Island at the beginning of the 39th year and at the same time blockaded the Beibu Gulf.

Now, if we hurry up, maybe we can send these two ships of steel to Guangxi. It doesn't matter if you can't send it, the things you grabbed are not very distressing, and they are blown up.

Just told Zheng Xuechang to be careful, the pickup number should still try to ensure safety, Zheng Xuechang's task on this trip is complicated, not only to apply to the government for the number of the Naval Resistance Army, but also to make a detour to the Baltic Sea and go to the Soviet Union to do some business.

After this battle, the company lost more than 50,000 tons of merchant ships again, and so far the naval resistance army has killed the total of 100,000 tons of merchant ships.

When the news reached Yuben, public opinion was immediately in an uproar. This time the movement of the Naval Resistance Army was too great, not only merchant ships were killed, but also a destroyer.

You must know that in 38 years, it is said that the total number of merchant ships (ocean-going and offshore) was only 5.88 million tons. One in sixty of these attacks was killed. Moreover, the losses are all ocean-going merchant ships, which is a serious matter for Yueben.

At the end of '38, the navy had not yet reached its heyday, and there were only a few dozen destroyers of more than 1,000 tons. It was easy to kill a relatively good Fengfeng class by the Naval Resistance Army, and it was also very painful.

Now there is a new sign of public opinion in the shipping industry, and it has begun to refuse to take risks on this route.

The attack of the Maritime Resistance Army made these merchants frightened, and they said that the merchants wanted money but even more so for their lives. In the few attacks that have occurred so far, only the seafarers on the American merchant ship have escaped, and all others have survived.

But this route is too important for Yueben, and seventy percent of scrap steel is this route. Once this route is cut off, the economy of the country will be hit, there will be no raw materials for the production of guns and ammunition, and it will be difficult to continue the military campaign of aggression against China.

As soon as the attack on a merchant ship was launched, Prime Minister Yu Ben paid attention to it. In the end, not only did the political axe start to criticize the navy, but Emperor Momoto also said that the navy was too irresponsible.

Naturally, scapegoats were found, and the captains of the two destroyers who had spent a lot of time in Panama were dismissed and court-martialed.

The Fifth Fleet was unlucky, and the New Year was over, and this time the two special cruisers of the 22nd Fleet were all dispatched, and eight destroyers were mobilized to begin to tightly protect the central Pacific route.

Amid the scolding of the Fifth Fleet, the fleet had just set out, and news came again. On the 10th of January, half a month later, four merchant ships departing from San Francisco were sunk on the North Pacific route.

The tonnage of these four merchant ships is not large, and the total tonnage is only 10,000 tons. The value of the cargo is not high, and one of the oil tankers has the largest tonnage, accounting for 5,000 tons.

However, this news directly paralyzed the shipping in the direction of the United States.

Panama now has more than 20 ships in its place, which still refuse to enter the Pacific Ocean under the escort of two destroyers, and the captains unanimously ask for additional warships to protect them.

On the North Pacific route, even the merchant ships that sailed out of American ports all shrank back.

In both cases, neither of these attacks nor the news of the return of the merchant ship stated whether it was a submarine or not. Because the destroyer was sunk at the first opportunity, there was no time to send a single word of the message. And the merchant ship was sunk without even seeing the submarine.

The two captured boats were known, but the submarines were only seen after they were controlled. Therefore, the present side did not know about the existence of the Pixiu submarine at all.

There was no way, the 21st Squadron of the Fifth Fleet, two water carriers, with a few destroyers, began to escort the North Pacific route. Except for a few submarines and fighters of the Seventh Left-behind Combat Fleet, the Fifth Fleet has been poured out of the nest so far.

The attack on the North Pacific route, which one else will it be besides Li Guang?

Li Guang was extremely addicted to the sneak attack of the Pixiu, and after replenishing the diesel fuel from the pickup, he continued to drive north alone.

There are two main routes for transporting supplies from the United States. One is to set sail from the eastern part of the United States, go south, cross the Panama Canal into the Pacific Ocean, and then arrive at Yuben. Mainly transports scrap steel.

The other route is much shorter, located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, and runs directly from San Francisco on the west coast of the United States to the Pacific Ocean. The materials transported by this route are more miscellaneous, crude oil, machinery, steel, everything.

Li Guang's goal is the northern route. Li Guang's idea is very simple, aren't you a little devil navy? Then you send a fleet to escort the two routes, how many warships do the little devils have to escort, and how much military spending does they have to throw into the Pacific Ocean.

What's more, with the threat of the Pixiu, one destroyer at a time is definitely not enough to play.

If you want to escort merchant ships tightly, you need twenty destroyers on one route. In this way, it will be possible to contain 40 ships of the Navy.

Li Guang calculated like this, and in fact he did the same, but the poor B only dispatched a Fifth Fleet, and the escort strength was not as great as Li Guang estimated.

It's not that he doesn't want to escort the convoy closely, but the key is that it is impossible for the main fleet to be used to escort the main fleet. And the other fleets shy away from such thankless tasks. With a voyage of tens of thousands of nautical miles, if you really want to escort the ship, let alone a Fifth Fleet, even if you add two fleets, it will be difficult to cover it thoroughly. Not to mention the two routes.

The Fifth Fleet, on the other hand, has dozens of destroyers, as well as sea sweepers. But the problem is that it is better to count on hundreds of tons of sea sweepers and old small destroyers to wander around the unpredictable Pacific Ocean than to commit suicide. Therefore, even if the Fifth Fleet dispatched its main force, it would only be two warbands, four special cruisers (water carriers), and sixteen destroyers of the 1,000-ton class.