Boom, boom, boom......!

Three didn't know if it was four huge fireballs, and suddenly they burst out of the darkness, followed by a deafening roar, and even when it reached the battle cruiser Canton 23,000 meters away, there was still a feeling that the ground was shaking.

In fact, this scene stunned the fleet commanders on both sides of China and Japan, and no one knew what was going on at first. Looking from the bridge of the battlecruiser Akagi, there was no sign of the Chinese fleet firing guns, as if the heavy cruiser with a full load displacement of 15,781 tons blew up by itself! For a moment, there was a dead silence in the bridge of the Akagi, and everyone didn't know what to say or what to ask.

On the other side, Bo Fuping, Chen Shukang and Lin Zun on the Guangdong battlecruiser were also stunned for a while.

Was that an explosion of a Japanese heavy cruiser? Who did the good thing? It seems that the five battlecruisers on his side have not fired their guns yet!

"Sir, a Japanese warship has disappeared from above the radar screen, probably ...... Sunk! The voice of the staff officer's report rang out.

"Could it have been done by the submarine that was ambushed at the exit of the Guanmen Strait?" Lin Zun suddenly reminded.

"Submarines?" Bo Fuping showed a crying and laughing expression. These guys who play submarines are too eager to show their faces, right? Why don't you have any patience at all?

"Commander, what shall we do?" Lin Zun asked, "Do you want to use a flare?" ”

Bo Fuping thought for a while, and just as he wanted to speak, another loud noise came from the exit of the Guanmen Strait in the distance, and he turned his head to look over. I saw a fireboat suddenly appear on the dark sea, illuminating the surrounding sea for two or three thousand meters. It looks like those submariners who can't wait are doing their work again!

"It must have been a submarine!" Chen Shukang on the side was very sure of the authenticity. "Commander, since this is already the case. It's better to let the planes shoot flares, guide the submarine to the target, and kill all six heavy cruisers of Little Japan first. ”

"We also want the destroyer patrol formation to counterattack and force the Japanese destroyers that were scattered just now back to the Guanmen Strait!" Lin Zun also hurriedly said, "Otherwise, they may attack our submarine with depth charges." ”

"Okay, that's it!" Bo Fuping said loudly: "How far are we from the Japanese heavy cruiser formation now?" ”

"About 23,000 meters!" The staff officer replied.

"Good! Concentrate your fire and sink them all! Bo Fuping almost roared and gave the order to attack, as if he wanted to vent the depression in his heart. That's right, he's really a little depressed. Tonight's closed-door night battle can be regarded as well-planned, I wanted to sink a few Japanese battleships/battlecruisers in one fell swoop, who knew that those submariners were so uncontrollable. I couldn't help but shoot when I saw 6 heavy cruisers!

Thundered...... The 45 280mm guns of the five battle cruisers roared almost simultaneously, and ten seconds later, the heavy cruiser that was burning in the distance suddenly exploded again.

It was actually a first-round hit! The luck of the Chinese Navy tonight is not bad.

"The Riot Battlecruiser has fired!" Dozens of orange-red lines of fire were seen flying towards them from the darkness in the distance at breakneck speed. Fell around the heavy cruiser Torikai, which had already been hit by a bullet and caught fire. Masafumi Arima on the Akagi shouted.

"What's the distance?" Toyoda asked immediately.

"About 30,000 meters, already occupying a T-shaped formation!" The bridge of the battlecruiser Akagi was very tall, so he could vaguely see the muzzle flame of the Chinese battlecruiser, and Arima Masafumi immediately estimated the distance between the two sides. "Commander, light the flare!"

30,000 meters, can you hit it? Vice Takeshi Toyoda is also a "fleet faction", and he is also an expert in gunnery, so he is quite confident in the gunnery of the Japanese Navy. However, 30,000 meters is still a little far. If you can still hit it in the daytime with good visibility, it's strange that you can hit it now with a black light. And the other side's five don't know if it's six, and the battle cruisers have already seized the T-shaped position. At least 45 280mm guns could fire at the same time. And he was blocked in the strait and couldn't open at all, so he could only use the bow and main guns to fight the enemy, and what was even more troublesome was that the Guanmen Strait was too narrow, but two or three thousand meters, and he couldn't move, and he became a dead target. That's not how the fleet artillery battles are fought, unless they can stand out......

Just as Toyoda was thinking about whether to risk rushing out of the strait, a huge fireball rose on the sea not far away.

"Myoko...... Myoko is over! It must have been done by a violent submarine! Someone else exclaimed.

Vice Takeshi Toyoda's face was ugly to death. I don't know how many Chinese submarines are lying in ambush outside the strait! What else to rush? Can't you rush out and die?

"Commander, give the order for a assault!" Seeing the face of Deputy Takeshi Toyoda, Arima Zhengwen knew that this person had already retreated in his heart.

"There's a submarine ambush outside!" Deputy Toyoda said in a deep voice.

"Then let the destroyer rush first and destroy the Storm submarine with depth charges!"

"That's to send the destroyers to death, and there are battlecruisers and cruisers outside with a violent branch!"

"Then rush together! Rush out no matter what! Arima Masamun was about to cry. What time is it? The 100,000 or 200,000 troops of the Tyrannical Branch have already landed in Kitakyushu, and the army's counteroffensive has probably begun, right? If there is no cooperation of the Second Fleet, relying on twelve army divisions will definitely not be an opponent of the violent branch, if the Battle of Kitakyushu is defeated, Japan will be destroyed, and even if the capital ships are kept at that time, what is the use? But as soon as Arima's opinion came out, the inside of the bridge of the Akagi exploded.

"It's crazy, there are at least dozens of violent submarines outside the strait, how can we rush?"

"yes, what if you rush out? Tomorrow at dawn, the planes will blow us all up! ”

"Even if you rush to the beach of Kitakyushu and run aground, it is useless, a few steel batteries that do not move are just targets for the Chinese dive bombers, I heard that their Ju.87 Stuka dive bombers can carry more than a ton of bombs, even the top armor of the turret of the Kaga can't stop it."

"Even if you can rush out. At most, some Chinese infantry were killed, and it was impossible to annihilate the main force of the Chinese army that landed in Kitakyushu, so it was impossible to reverse the defeat in the Battle of Kitakyushu. ”

It was seen that most of the staff officers in the command of the Second Fleet did not support their own opinions. Arima Zhengwen was a little anxious, and hurriedly shouted: "Everyone knows the current situation of the combined fleet, we can no longer fight with the China and the United States fleet, let alone gain sea supremacy. If the Combined Fleet continues to have warships after the defeat of the war, it will be the greatest shame for the Japanese naval personnel! ”

That's it. The officers inside the bridge had nothing to say, and all eyes were on Toyoda, who just sighed heavily. Waving his hand, he said, "Just do what Arima-kun said!" ”

Arima Masamun just breathed a sigh of relief, and wanted to say a few beautiful words such as sacrificing one's life to become benevolent and sacrificing one's life for righteousness, but Toyota's deputy takeshi added another sentence: "Ah, but there is no way to carry out the shelling of Isaki Island." Who knows how many more submarines will be on the way? Why don't you just find a place to run aground near Iwaya Beach? In this way, naval guns could also be used to support the battlefield west of the Enga River. ”

"Iwaya Beach?!" Arima Zhengwen said in his heart: "Isn't this just rushing out to make a bend?" Why don't you say that you are looking for a place to run aground in the Guanmen Strait? It's not much better than Iwaya Beach...... but thinking so in my heart, I could only say "Hai" and agree, who let this commander be Toyota's deputy takeshi and not Arima Masafumi?

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"Sir, another Japanese ship has rushed out of the Guanmen Strait, looking at the size of a light cruiser and a destroyer!"

At 8:55 p.m., the communications officer of the battlecruiser Canton put down the telephone receiver and reported loudly.

"Are you going to fight hard?" Bo Fuping gritted his teeth and raised his binoculars to take a look at the sea in the distance, illuminated by flares and the firelight of the damaged Japanese ship. There were 6 burning Japanese ships on the sea, four of which were heavy cruisers. Two more are destroyers. In addition, at least two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and two destroyers have been sunk. In addition, six Japanese destroyers were fighting with six Nanjing-class air defense cruisers and twelve Nanhui-class destroyers. From time to time, a few depth charges were thrown indiscriminately - the sonar of the Japanese was simply not good, and now the scene was so chaotic that those destroyers simply had no way to reassure themselves about anti-submarine warfare.

"Stop these light cruisers and destroyers!"

Bo Fuping gave the order without thinking about it, these light cruisers and destroyers were not only a threat to the submarines outside the Guanmen Strait, but most of them also carried Type 93 spear torpedoes and human suicide torpedoes, which should not be taken lightly.

"Sir, the capital ship of the Japanese has also moved! They're going to break out of the Guanmen Strait! The communications officer roared again.

"Leave them alone, concentrate fire on enemy light cruisers and destroyers!" Bo Fuping once again reiterated the order.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Columns of water and firelight erupted at the northern exit of the Guanmen Strait tonight, and the situation on the sea was in chaos. The five Chinese battle cruisers fired long-range shots with 280mm cannons nearly 25,000 meters from the exit of the strait, and because there were reconnaissance planes in the air to help drop flares and correct the landing points of the shells, they actually hit quite accurately. After a while, there were a lot of Japanese ships. At the same time, the Chinese destroyer squadron, consisting of six Nanjing-class air defense cruisers and 12 Nanhui-class destroyers, made a surprise attack on the sea northwest of the exit of the Guanmen Strait and formed two nine-ship formations.

And the Japanese Hikoshima Fort and the Guanmen Fort also joined the artillery chorus at sea at this time, they could not reach the 5 Chinese battle cruisers, so they aimed their guns at the two Chinese patrol formations, but these two batteries are the old forts in the Meiji period, although the caliber of the cannons on them is not small, but the rate of fire is too slow, and the fire density is not enough, so the threat to the Chinese patrol formations is not great.

The five capital ships of the Japanese were the last to join the melee, and these five warships, led by the flagship Akagi, followed by the Amagi, Fuji, Kaga, and Tosa, all of them were big guys with a full load displacement of 40,000 or 50,000 tons, and they rushed out of the Kanmon Strait like five hills. At this time, the Japanese observation posts on several islands outside the Guanmen Strait had already discovered the five Guangdong-class ships that were firing, and under their guidance, the five Japanese capital ships were finally able to hit the 410mm giant shells into the sea near the Guangdong-class formation, and the balance of victory in the night battle seemed to be tilted in favor of the Japanese side. However, the more than 30 Chinese submarines under the water are not idle.

Major Liu Guangkai, the captain of the P-031 submarine, who had just killed the Maya heavy cruiser with 6 torpedoes, was looking around with a periscope at this moment, trying to find the next valuable target, but suddenly saw the figure of the battlecruiser Akagi, and the whole person was stunned!

This is...... A floating city!?

I'm afraid the Guangdong-class battle cruiser is not half the size of it, right?

"Big fish! There's a big fish coming up...... And more than one! It's two, not three...... It's five! 5 cutting-edge capital ships of the Japanese are here! Looking at the huge black shadows appearing in the periscope one after another, Liu Guangkai's mind was a little cloudy all of a sudden, and it took a while to react, jumping to his feet and shouting: "At 11 o'clock, the left rudder is 5 degrees." ”

"Water tanks No. 3 and No. 4 are filled with water, maintaining the periscope depth and sailing at a speed of 10 knots."

"Torpedo compartment ready, combat ready! Set the depth of 3 meters, start pressurization ......"

After another order, the entire P-031 boat seemed to be trembling with excitement, and the torpedo crews in the torpedo compartment pushed the six Type 28 torpedoes with the safety latch removed into the launch tubes as fast as they could.

"The torpedo compartment is ready and ready for launch!" First mate Feng Qicong put down the phone and shouted.

"The target is 3,500 meters, and the No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 are launched!"

"Yes, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd launches are complete!"

"Torpedo launches four, five, and six!"

"Torpedoes No. 4, No. 5, and No. 6 have been fired!"

This time, Liu Guangkai did not continue to observe his results with a periscope, because there were many Japanese destroyers on the sea that were dropping depth charges!

"Put away the periscopes, dive now, let's get out of here!"

Boom......

Just as the P-031 boat was diving, two dull roars suddenly came, and the command cabin of the ship was suddenly full of jubilation.

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