299 Captured flagship
Lin Fei looked at the smoke of gunpowder on the sea, at the Itsukushima ship and Hashidate ship that fled far away in the smoke of gunpowder, at the parts of the battleship floating on the sea and the corpses of Japanese sailors, picked up the microphone of the Jade Bird machine, and said loudly: "I declare that we have won this battle..."
On the four battleships, all the crew members used all their strength to let out the highest cheers, they all knew that the naval battle determined the fortunes of the country, and the victory of this battle meant the take-off of the Chinese Empire...
Lin Fei only smiled slightly when he listened to the cheers of his subordinates, because he knew that winning the Japanese fleet was just a small step on the road to global hegemony.
The cheers of Lin Fei and the other subordinates weakened a little, and then he said: "Each ship quickly reported the remaining ammunition, casualties, and hull damage. ”
Soon the situation of each ship was summarized in front of Lin Fei, Lin Fei knew that he had paid a lot of price in this battle, the four battleships killed a total of 113 sailors, another 138 people were injured, and the four battleships were shot a total of 35, of which the Tianlong ship was the most bulleted among the four warships, because it was the first to hang out the flagship flag, 10 were shot, and the hull was damaged in many places.
Lin Fei was reading the report, when Liu Daming suddenly patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Good news..."
Lin Fei was stunned for a moment, looked up at Liu Daming, and smiled helplessly: "Isn't it just to defeat the Japanese fleet?" Isn't the excitement over? ”
Liu Daming laughed, pointed to the sea in the distance with his hand, and said with a smile: "Look, a big gift is on the sea." ”
Lin Fei raised his head and looked in the direction pointed by Liu Daming, only to see that the Songdao ship was floating on the sea, the sea water was no longer on the main deck of the ship, but the sinking trend had stopped, Lin Fei said in surprise: "Why hasn't the Songdao ship sunk?" ”
Liu Daming said with a smile: "It may be that the people are gone, and the hull has become lighter, so it has not sunk." ”
Lin Fei laughed helplessly and said, "It's nonsense, how much weight does the people on the warship have, how can the warship not sink as soon as the people leave?" ”
Liu Daming shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "I don't want to care about this, I'm going to personally operate the cannon now and sink the Songdao ship." ”
After Liu Daming finished speaking, he turned around and left, Lin Fei grabbed him and said with a smile: "Don't sink it." ”
Liu Daming smiled: "Why don't you sink it?" Is there any use in keeping it? ”
Lin Fei laughed out loud and said, "Think about it, what a feat it would be if we could get the Japanese flagship back and treat it as a trophy..."
The defeat of a country's fleet is already a great shame, and the capture of the flagship is simply a great shame, and if this thing is true, the descendants of that country will not have the courage to turn over this period of history at all.
Liu Daming's eyes lit up suddenly, and he said: "That's right, if we win the Japanese fleet and capture the flagship, the little devil must be mad, and the Japanese emperor may be so angry that he will bleed and swallow his breath directly..."
Lin Fei nodded with a smile and said, "The first thing we need to do now is to figure out the reason why the Songdao ship is unsinkable, send a small boat out, take the frogman commando, and see why it doesn't sink." ”
After the frogman commando was formed, it was deployed by Lin Fei on various warships, and its status and role were similar to those of the marines who accompanied the ships in Lin Fei's era.
Tang Yinchun reconnoitred for a while, and after a short time, he returned to the Tianlong ship and reported to Lin Fei: "Your Majesty, the reason why the Songdao ship is not sinking has been figured out. ”
Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "Hurry up and tell me, why didn't it sink?" ”
Tang Yinchun replied, "That's right, about ten meters underwater, there is a raised underwater peak, and the bottom of the Matsushima ship is just about to sit on the peak. ”
The draft of the Songdao ship is six meters, counting the height of the ship's hull, sitting on the underwater peak, just forming an unsinkable phenomenon, Lin Fei laughed and said: "This is really a godsend, we have to decide on this Songdao ship." ”
Liu Daming said on the side: "We will now send someone to take a small boat to the Songdao ship, and then tie the rope to the Songdao ship, and then tow the Songdao ship back, what do you think?" ”
Lin Fei shook his head lightly and said: "This method will definitely not work, the Songdao ship did not sink because it was sitting on the underwater peak, and its own buoyancy was less than gravity, and it would definitely sink as soon as it left the peak." ”
Liu Daming asked suspiciously, "Then what should we do?" ”
Lin Fei said: "First of all, we have to plug the gap of the Songdao ship, and then drain the water out so that the Songdao ship can barely float on the surface of the sea, so that we can drag it." ”
Liu Daming said disappointedly: "I have to plug the gap and drain it, it's so troublesome..."
Lin Fei shrugged his shoulders, smiled, and said, "We won't do this matter personally, and hand it over to the Pangu Ship and the Nuwa Ship." We've been fighting since the morning, and we're tired now, so let's go back to Budaikou first. ”
Lin Fei then gave the order to the whole fleet to return to port, and although after several hours of high-intensity fighting, there was no fatigue on the faces of the crew, because people would not feel tired under the great joy.
During the return voyage, Lin Fei couldn't help but think of Ling Xue, and really wanted to press her on the bed to "ravage" her, it is not surprising to have this thought, the scientific research of Lin Fei's era has proved that the most important thing a man wants to do after achieving great success is to find a woman.
Lin Fei thought of this and smiled, but at this time, he suddenly found that Liu Daming was sitting in the corner, looking out of the porthole with his eyes blankly red, and his eyes were slightly red, and he looked like he was about to cry.
For a person like Liu Daming, no one can associate him with words like "sad and sad", Lin Fei was of course very surprised, he gently patted Liu Daming on the shoulder, and asked carefully, "What's wrong with you?" ”
Liu Daming sighed lightly and said: "I miss my wife and children, I have been out for more than a year, and I haven't even brought a letter back......" Liu Daming raised his hand to wipe his tears after speaking, Lin Fei comforted: "Now that the Japanese fleet is finished and the sea is safe, I will send someone out and bring them back secretly." ”
Liu Daming's face was a little slower, but his interest was still not high, Lin Fei didn't persuade much, late at night, the battleship returned to Budaikou, before getting off the ship, Lin Fei solemnly ordered: "Everyone, rest immediately after getting off the ship, and repair the battleship tomorrow, without my order, no celebrations of any kind are allowed, and violators will be severely punished." "There are no special battleship maintenance personnel in Budaikou, and the maintenance of battleships can only be done by sailors.
As soon as this order came out, the crew didn't understand it, and several captains also advised Lin Fei: "I just won a big battle, why don't you celebrate it well, doesn't it chill the hearts of the soldiers?" ”
Lin Fei frowned, and said majestically: "Obey the order, there will be celebrations later." ”
Everyone had doubts, but they didn't dare to disobey, they dispersed, Lin Fei gave such an order with good intentions, for the navy, keeping the battleship in the best condition is the most important, and the damage to the battleship must be repaired immediately, whether it is after victory or defeat.
In the Pacific Theater of World War II, after the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy fought, the Japanese Navy often celebrated, but the U.S. Navy rushed to repair the battleship as soon as possible, which was obviously one of the reasons for Japan's defeat.
When Lin Fei returned to his residence, he gave the order to capture the Songdao ship to the Pangu ship and the Nuwa ship, and then the two battleships began to prepare and set off early the next morning, while the crews of the other battleships began to repair the battleships after a night's rest.
The maintenance of the battleship is actually relatively simple, mainly to replace the parts that were damaged by the explosion, repair the holes in the hull, plug the holes on the hull with iron plates, and then fix the iron plates with rivets or gluing, and the holes are blocked.
In the evening, almost half of the battleship repair work was completed, and in the evening, the Nuwa ship used the blue bird machine to contact Lin Fei directly, and the captain Gu Pengsong personally said to Lin Fei: "Your Majesty, we entered the Songdao ship today for emergency repairs, and it turned out that there were six holes in the waterline of the Songdao ship, and we have repaired three of them." ”
Lin Fei was very happy, and the other three holes were also repaired, but in the process of repairing the generator and water pump, he encountered difficulties, the generator and water pump were completely soaked in water, and there was no possibility of repairing them, so the Nuwa ship could only connect the water pipe to the Songdao ship and use its own water pump to pump water for the Songdao ship.
After a day and a night of draining, the Matsushima finally floated, and although most of the ship was still in the water, it would not sink.
At 11 o'clock in the morning of October 5, the Nuwa ship towed the dying Matsushima back to Budaikou, and the former flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet was captured by Lin Fei.
Since then, the naval battle that took place on October 2 has ended, and this naval battle took place in the waters around Penghu Island, so it is called the "Penghu Sea Battle".
This battle was another naval battle in the history of the world after the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the two warring sides of this naval battle were the Chinese Empire and the Japanese Empire, of which the Chinese Empire dispatched four Dragon-class cruisers, the Tenryu, Yunlong, Tenglong and Hidden Dragons, and the Japanese Empire dispatched six capital warships, Matsushima, Itsukushima, Hashidate, Akitsuzu, Takachiho and Naniwa, as well as six torpedo boats.
The tonnage of the war, the total tonnage of the Chinese Imperial Fleet is 12,000 tons, the total tonnage of the Japanese Imperial Fleet is 25,000 tons, and the firepower of the war, the Chinese Empire has 32 rapid-fire guns, and the Japanese Imperial warships have 65 rapid-fire guns.
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