Chapter 223: The Japanese Army Practicing Swimming
"The first torpedo hits!" The lookout carefully observed the situation ahead through the periscope of the submarine, and when he saw the first torpedo hit the warship headlong and exploded violently, he quickly reported the situation to Lei Zhenhao.
"Keep watching!" Lei Zhenhao forcibly suppressed the joy in his heart and said rigorously.
"Yes!" The soldier responded, and then lay down intently on the periscope, staring at every move ahead.
At this moment, the depression in Lei Zhenhao's heart has gradually begun to dissipate, and all the previous unhappiness has also been thrown by Lei Zhenhao to Java, feeling the taste of this sneak attack in secret, Lei Zhenhao can't help but flatten his mouth, this seems to be another kind of coolness, two feelings that are completely different from battleships.
Lei Zhenhao even thinks that he likes this feeling? But soon he continued to shake his head, although this feeling was very cool, but it was not what he wanted, his ideal was to fight the enemy openly, to let all the enemies fall under his silver power, no, under the power of artillery.
Although sneak attacks are also a means, Lei Zhenhao still thinks that staying underwater all the time to engage in sneak attacks is a bit too inauthentic? And most importantly, he doesn't like this potential underwater feeling, Lei Zhenhao, who graduated from the Royal Naval College in the United Kingdom, has positioned himself on the cannon of a giant ship from the beginning of his contact with the navy, and it has to be said that it is a very difficult decision to change his ideals.
Fortunately, Su Dao had already given him an accurate reply, and when the submarine force under his command matured and could read and fight, he would be transferred to a surface ship to serve as the captain, as for what kind of ship it was, Lei Zhenhao felt that it didn't matter, even if it was a small ship, he had absolute certainty that he would be proficient in those jobs in the shortest possible time, and then change to a larger warship as soon as possible to command the operation.
Of course, this is also the difference between Lei Zhenhao's education in England, he knows that he has to take one step at a time, slowly climb up from the bottom, only in this way, can he read to support a large-scale battle, to know those famous admirals, which one did not start from the sailors? Although this time is a bit long, it may not be possible here in Huaxia.
He is a novice who has just graduated and has not even experienced internships, so Su Dao dares to directly hand over a submarine force to him, so maybe when he is transferred to a surface ship and is proficient in those jobs, Su Dao will dare to directly hand him over a larger fleet. Although this is not conducive to his long-term development, it seems that only cultivating Lei Zhenhao is in the best interests of Su Dao at the moment.
After all, the family environment is there, so Lei Zhenhao also understands these things more thoroughly, don't look at the people brought by Yang Shuming are now showing off their power one by one, controlling the giant ship cannons, Su Dao will definitely not rest assured that those powers will be handed over to them in the short term, and Yang Shuming is also destined to not be able to stay on the warship for a long time, physical disability is one aspect, and the most important thing is that Yang Shuming also needs to be in charge on the ground.
Thinking about it this way, Lei Zhenhao's chances are much greater, and with Su Dao's promise, it seems that all this is only a matter of time.
"The second torpedo doesn't seem to hit." Soon after, the lookout came again.
In fact, Lei Zhenhao also knew that the chance of the second torpedo hitting was not great, it had been so long, and he had not heard the report, and it was normal to cross through the enemy formation, so Lei Zhenhao was not too surprised, nodded lightly, and immediately planned to order the launch of the third torpedo.
"Wait, the second torpedo hit the target, it's a cargo ship." Immediately afterward, the watchman heard the voice of excitement again.
Originally, the chance of this torpedo hitting was already small, but the cargo ship actually stupidly increased its speed, and if it went at the original speed, then the torpedo would pass directly in front of it, although it was dangerous, but the torpedo would not hit.
With the acceleration of the cargo ship, the torpedo directly collided with the front of the cargo ship, and the cargo ship was carrying more than 10,000 soldiers, and the huge explosion directly lifted the bow of the ship into the air, and if it was daytime, you could even see the huge gap that was blown up.
'Boom! ’
The bow of the cargo ship directly smashed heavily on the water, and the seawater poured directly into the cargo ship from the bow of the ship, because the gap was too large, it was impossible to plug the gap, with the huge amount of seawater poured in, it didn't take long for the stern of the ship to gradually turn upward, and the soldiers inside were even more called the sky should not be, and the earth was not spiritual.
The narrow hatch was blocked by the soldiers, coupled with the inclination of the hull, which seriously affected their chances of escape, and the stampede in the cabin also began to occur, many soldiers were directly trampled under the soles of their feet by more than n people before they had time to react, directly trampled to death, trampled on the wounded, and stamped on countless faints, tens of thousands of people trampled in the small cabin for time, plus they were all carrying rifles, and the cabin instantly became particularly terrifying.
Some of the soldiers who fled outside took advantage of the fact that the hull of the ship had not completely entered the water, and fled frantically, trying to find a lifebuoy or something, but after running for a while, they found that the lifebuoy had long been missing, and there were hundreds of people in the water at this time with lifebuoys swimming desperately.
Unable to find a lifebuoy, but not wanting to sink to the bottom of the sea with the ship, many landlubbers gritted their teeth and decided to jump into the water to try to swim to the side of those who had a lifebuoy, although a lifebuoy could not get two people into it together, but it was still no problem to keep the two people from sinking, all they needed to do now was to grab the last straw.
However, the soldiers obviously overestimated their level, and some of them were better swimmers, and they swam to the side of those who had lifebuoys, and they were all comrades-in-arms, and those people saw that only one person swam over, so they didn't stop him, let him put one hand on the edge of the lifebuoy, and the two swam out together.
But soon they found out that there was a big problem, there were more and more soldiers swimming towards them, a lifebuoy had gradually appeared around a number of people, and a lifebuoy could not bear the weight of so many people, and even some had begun to sink slowly, and looking at the soldiers who were still swimming towards them, this group of people just ran forward desperately, as much as possible not to let the people behind catch up with them.
Of course, this is only a part of the people who can swim, those who can't swim quickly find their mistakes, jump into the water and learn those who can swim forward, helplessly they find that no matter how hard they try, their bodies are always sinking, and what is more tragic is that once they sink, it is difficult to float up, and more people are choked on two mouthfuls of sea water and lose power, allowing their bodies to sink down.
And those who are struggling desperately also find that the harder they struggle, the faster they will sink, but they are not willing to die like this, so they can only continue to struggle, and for a while, there are particularly spectacular scenes on the sea. (The ranger is a typical landlubber, and when he goes to swim in the sea, he can only hold on to the rope and flutter like this, and as soon as he releases it, he immediately sinks, and he can't float no matter how hard he tries.) )
The speed at which a ship sinks is terrifying, the huge gap and the heavy hull cause the speed of the cargo ship to sink infinitely faster, and people who know the water surname are desperately swimming to the place where there is no ship, because they all know how dangerous it is to stay near the wreck.
When the ship is sunk, it will create a whirlpool around the hull while descending, and if you can't leave in time before the whirlpool expands, it will be difficult for you to survive even if you have a lifebuoy on you, and the huge whirlpool will directly sweep you to the bottom of the sea, even a smaller ship, let alone a lifebuoy.
So those people just swim and swim desperately, just hoping to get out of here as soon as possible, those who can't swim don't have so much to worry about, they can't find anyone if they go down and pounce twice, they can definitely enter the bottom of the sea before the whirlpool is generated, so there is no need to worry about anything at all.
The sound of explosions continued, every few moments there would be a torpedo explosion, and then more ships would be sunk, and the night naval battle was terrifying, especially in the face of submarine attacks, they were powerless, even if they focused on observing the torpedo's trajectory, it was difficult to dodge. Unless the torpedo misses at the start, and the war has turned their previous experience upside down.
The reason is that they did not see any ships on the sea, and it stands to reason that the submarine should be the first to surface when attacking, of course, there are also underwater attacks, but there are not many, obviously, they do not think that the Chinese have such advanced submarines.
With the cover of night and the technical advantage of being able to shoot submarinely, the five 209 submarines adjusted their positions from time to time, always keeping themselves at a certain distance from the Yue army, and the Yue army could only determine their general position at most, but they were not sure of the specific location, and the naval guns that had not yet been hit could only aimlessly, firing shells one after another towards the area they suspected.
Looking at the water columns on the sea, the soldiers of the Yue army were not happy at all, this battle was too damn to be a shit, they had sunk several ships, and they had not found the shadow of the enemy until now, where did they put their faces?
It's just that when they all paid attention to the area where the 209 submarine was located, they suddenly didn't know that behind them, a submarine that had been lurking for a long time slowly surfaced, and when the army did not react, they quickly launched the three torpedoes in the three torpedo tubes in the bow of their ship, and then quickly sank, regardless of whether the torpedo hit the target.
And the army obviously did not expect that just when they were going all out, an enemy would suddenly come to them from behind, and in a sudden situation, two torpedoes hit the bow and stern of a cargo ship respectively, and the power of the explosion of the two torpedoes caused the cargo ship to completely sink to the bottom of the sea in just a few minutes, and less than 100 people escaped from the ship, and they were later swept into part of the whirlpool.
As for the other torpedo, I don't know where it went, anyway, it just didn't hit.
"Your Excellency Dazuo, an unknown ship was found ahead, it looks like it should be a warship of more than 30,000 tons, two warships of more than 10,000 tons, and two warships of small tonnage." The soldiers on the warship hurriedly reported.
The naval battle has begun for more than an hour, but they still haven't found any enemy troops, obviously, these five warships are here to support these damn submarines, but think about the three 10,000-ton warships, this Dazuo has a headache, there are only six escort ships on his side, and two have been sunk, and now there are only four warships left, one 10,000-ton one, two 7,000-ton and one 5,000-ton battleship, how the hell can you fight? (To be continued.) )