"Sure enough, it was hit!"

With a loud bang, the Akagi battlecruiser, with a full load displacement of nearly 50,000 tons, seemed to have been kicked by something, and moved three or four meters to the right, and the amidships and stern of the ship were even more scorched.

However, no one in the Akagi Command Tower fell to the ground because of the shock of the torpedo explosion just now, because being hit was expected for a long time, and everyone had already grabbed the handrail.

Seeing that the captain of the Akagi Takeji Ono contacted the captain of the damage management team by phone, Vice Takeshi Toyoda asked anxiously, "Ohno-kun, how is the situation?" ”

"It's fine." Takeji Ohno put down the telephone receiver and said with a sigh of relief: "The ship's amidship and stern were torpedoed and opened two wounds more than two meters wide, pouring into hundreds of tons of seawater, and now the waterproof compartment has been closed, and the power system and rudder have not been affected." ”

"Roar." Vice Takeshi Toyoda also showed a relieved expression. The battle cruiser Akagi was not a Kaohsiung-class heavy cruiser after all, and two torpedoes could not help this giant ship at all.

However, there is not only one Chinese submarine under the water now, but the P-031, and at the same time that Vice Takeshi Toyoda was proud of the sturdy hull of the Akagi, three fireballs rose along with the giant Amagi battle cruiser behind the Akagi!

"Commander, the Amagi was hit by three torpedoes, one of which pierced the bow oil depot, and several hundred tons of fuel leaked."

"Oh." Deputy Toyoda nodded and said in his heart: "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter...... It doesn't matter if you leak a little oil, you won't be able to drive far anyway, and you won't need fuel when the time comes. ”

This was followed by two loud bangs. This time, the Fuji-class battlecruiser was recruited, which was a new ship that had just been in service for less than a year.

"Commander, the Fuji-class starboard ship has been hit by two torpedoes in the stern! One of them hit the rudder, and the rudder seemed to be stuck......"

"Baga!" Hearing that the rudder of the Fuji was stuck, Vice Takeshi Toyoda scolded fiercely, he was really afraid of something! The Akagi-class battlecruisers had broadside waterline armor belts up to 254mm thick, plus 78mm thick torpedo walls. Although it will be leaked by the Chinese Type 28 Type 533mm torpedoes. But the breach is not too big, and the waterproof compartment under the hull is enough to support it for a while, and even if it hits seven or eight shots, it will not necessarily sink. However, the rudder is a weak link, and if it gets stuck or broken, it means that the warship will not be able to turn, and it will drive all the way to the Korean Peninsula at the current angle.

"Sue sù Fuji. Continue to sail in the current direction for 20,000 meters. To contain the Chinese battle cruiser formation. Deputy Takeshi of Toyoda thought about it and waved his hand in order.

"Commander, with the strength of a Fuji, I'm afraid ...... There is no way to defeat 5 Cantonese-class battle cruisers. Arima Masamun reminded after thinking about it.

"I know, but we don't have any other way right now, we need to go to Iwaya Beach and run aground, and we can't accompany the Fuji." Vice Takeshi Toyoda frowned: "Also, let the light cruisers and destroyers gather around the capital ship...... Arima-kun, hurry up and deliver the order! ”

Arima Masato still wants to argue a few words. I wanted to propose a construction that would allow 5 capital ships to attack north at the same time, but when I heard the decisive tone of Vice Takeshi Toyoda, I knew that no matter how much persuasion worked.

……

Report. A Japanese battlecruiser broke out of formation and rushed towards us! ”

Although the two sides were separated by more than 20 kilometers and it was a night with extremely poor visibility, with the help of radar and constantly dropped flares from the planes, the Guangdong Ship, the flagship of the Japanese task force, was the first to discover the movement of the Japanese ship Fuji.

"Desperate?"

"Why one?"

The Fuji was rushing at full speed, and suddenly everyone in the Canton Commander Tower felt that blood rushed to their brains, although everyone didn't understand why the commander of the Japanese fleet only let one battle cruiser rush over and fight hard, but one thing was very clear, if this Akagi-class battle cruiser with 10 410mm caliber guns approached, then the 5 Cantonese-class battle cruisers on their side would probably have to eat and go around!

"That ship should be a Akagi-class battlecruiser." Lin Zun glanced at the battleship that was rushing towards him at full speed, roughly estimated the speed of the other party, and knew that it must be the Akagi-class, he lowered his voice and said: "Commander, this Akagi-class is very likely to break through the blockade of the submarine, should we avoid the edge for a while?" ”

Bo Fuping waved his hand, he knew how powerful the Akagi-class was, and in the Battle of Okinawa more than three years ago, he commanded six Guangdong-class ships to fight against Japan's Akagi-class and Kaga-class. If the five Akagi-class Kaga-class ships, which are now Japanese, rushed towards him together, then he would leave immediately without saying a word. But now only one Chicheng-class has been killed, and five Guangdong-class ships can't beat one Chicheng-class?

If his five battle cruisers are driven out of the battlefield by a Akagi-class, then the two destroyer formations that are still fighting with the Japanese cruiser destroyers can only escape, and then the other four capital ships of the Japanese will be able to break through the obstruction of their own submarines and rush into the Tsushima Strait under the cover of light cruisers and destroyers.

Although these Japanese capital ships will definitely be blown to pieces by the more than 2,000 planes deployed on the airfield in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula after dawn, it is enough for five Japanese capital ships to move freely in the Tsushima Strait for one night.

So he had to fight with this Japanese battle patrol, but when he thought of the opponent's nearly 50,000-ton size and the 10 410mm cannons of 45 times the caliber, Bo Fuping couldn't help but complain in his heart about the Ministry of Defense, uh, that is, Premier Changda's naval development ideas. Now, even if there is another battleship like the Kaga-class equipped with a 410mm caliber cannon in his hands, the Japanese fleet will definitely not be able to break through the Kanmon Strait.

But at this time, Bo Fuping could only grit his teeth and use five Guangdong-class battle cruisers to block the muzzle of a Akagi-class gun. Thinking of this, he tugged at his collar fiercely and looked at the Japanese battlecruiser that was desperately rushing towards him. A sneer crossed his lips.

Isn't it a battle cruiser armed with a 410mm cannon! Although it is a little bigger, it is a battle patrol after all, if the number sent by the intelligence department is not a big mistake. The level of armor protection of the Akagi-class is slightly inferior to that of the Guangdong class, and the speed is also three knots slower than that of the Guangdong-class. If you fight alone, the Guangdong level is certainly not the opponent of the Akagi level, but if you want to fight five at a time, hum, go dream!

"Right full rudder! Grab the T-shaped position! ”

"Guns, concentrated fire, start a salvo at a distance of 20,000 meters!"

"Comply. Inform the 3rd Drive Patrol Detachment to prepare for lightning strike! ”

After issuing a series of orders in a row, Bo Fuping raised his eyes and looked at the Fuji that was rushing at full speed, and then snorted violently: "Raise the Z-shaped flag." Today we are going to use the naval guns to completely subdue and frighten the Japanese! ”

"24,000 meters! 22,000 meters! 20,000 m......"

At the same time that the navigator reported the figure of 20,000 meters, the ships of the battlecruiser Canton, with a full load displacement of up to 36,000 tons, were shocked, and nine L50/280 mm heavy guns roared at the same time, and clusters of shining cannon sparks continued to explode on the starboard side of the hull. The other four Guangdong-class battle cruisers also broke out at the same time, and 330 kilograms of armor-piercing shells sprayed by 45 280 heavy guns flew towards the Fuji like raindrops.

Only the fourth volley. Let the fast-approaching Fuji learn the taste of the 280 heavy gun. A 330-kilogram armor-piercing projectile managed to burrow into its bow. The thin 98 mm bow armor deck could not stop the armor-piercing shells falling from the sky, and the shells not only broke through the main deck armor, but also broke through the two compartments one after another, and finally crashed into the bow oil depot.

10 kilograms of TNT explosives exploded from the center of the shell, creating a high temperature that immediately ignited hundreds of tons of heavy fuel oil stored in the bow oil depot of the Zài. In the blink of an eye, a huge flame burst out of the bow of the Fuji, revealing the thinly armored landing point, and the fire at the oil depot not only turned the bow of the Fuji into a hell of fire, but also blocked the view of most of the observation posts on the Fuji, causing the two twin 410mm turrets in the bow of the Fuji to be unable to fire back.

To make matters worse, the blazing fire became the most conspicuous target in the night. Soon it attracted wave after wave of shells. As the distance between the two sides continued to draw, the shells began to hit more and more accurately. After another three rounds of salvo fire, the Chinese Navy's 330 kg armor-piercing shell was once again murderous, at a distance of 17,000 meters, an armor-piercing projectile directly hit the front of the Akagi command tower, the 350mm thick command tower armor is of course not so easy to penetrate, but the huge shock wave generated by the explosion of the shell still stunned most of the officers in the command tower, and the captain of the Fuji Arima Xin fell into a concussion on the spot, and after waking up, he had entered the prisoner of war camp of the Chinese Defense Forces.

At 9:10 p.m., just five minutes after the fierce battle between the six battlecruisers of the two sides, three Nanjing-class air defense cruisers and six Nanhui-class destroyers of the Third Wing Patrol Group of the Chinese Japanese task force had begun to charge at full speed, ready to release torpedoes. Because the Fuji was a single-ship assault and there were no cruisers or destroyers around it, it was not possible to detect the approach of the Chinese army in advance, and it was not until the six Nanhui-class destroyers approached the 6,000-meter distance to the left of the Fuji at a maximum speed of 38.5 knots.

"Destroyer, fire quickly! Don't let them get close! "All the secondary guns on the port side of the Fuji began to fire at the same time, and the sailors went crazy and desperately loaded the shells and opened fire, but the shells from the port side of the Fuji were still sparse, and it turned out that this huge ship with a full load displacement of nearly 50,000 tons did not have a sufficient number of secondary guns! Probably, the Japanese naval engineers who designed the Akagi-class battlecruisers never thought that a battleship of the Akagi-class class would actually have a single ship to die, right? Therefore, while designing the Akagi-class as the most powerful battle patrol in the world's main gun firepower, they only installed 16 140mm/50 times caliber secondary guns for the Akagi-class, that is, there are only 8 140mm guns on one side!

It is certainly not enough to use 8 140mm guns against 9 Chinese light cruisers and destroyers, and the armor of the Chinese Nanjing-class light cruisers and Nanhui-class destroyers is relatively strong. The former is not at all afraid of the bombardment of 140mm guns, and the latter can also carry a few rounds.

"Gun officer. Bombard enemy cruisers and destroyers with the main guns, quickly and with the main guns! ”

The Fuji First Mate Nishi Shinzo, who had just woken up from his coma, now assumed the duties of captain, and saw nine Chinese Nanjing-class cruisers and Nanhui-class destroyers rushing towards him. You know it's not good. Most of the 280mm armor-piercing shells fired by the Chinese war patrol are heavy damage to the Fuji, but the Chinese's 533mm torpedoes can sink the Fuji!

So while he ordered the main gun fire to block the Chinese cruiser destroyer, he stumbled to the empty steering wheel and prepared to operate the ship to avoid torpedoes.

"Comrade First Mate, the rudder has been damaged, and the Fuji cannot turn!" The navigator of the Fuji, who had already regained consciousness, reminded him loudly.

"Damn it!" Nishi Shinzo slapped the steering wheel hard, and a feeling of powerlessness felt in his heart.

At this time, the six Nanjing-class destroyers had soared to a distance of less than 4,500 meters from the Fuji. And 24 Type 533 torpedoes of 35mm caliber were quickly fired. Of course, the performance of this torpedo cannot be compared with the Japanese Type 93 spear torpedo, with a maximum speed of only 45.5 knots and a range of only 4572 meters at the maximum speed. The warhead is also no more than 340 kg. Therefore, the Fuji still did not show the slightest sign of sinking after being hit by two Type 35 torpedoes fired by the submarine before. However, being able to carry 2 Type 35 torpedoes is not the same as being able to carry 24! Under the light of Fuji's own searchlights, I saw more than 20 looming "white lines" rushing straight over!

If the rudder of the Fuji had remained intact, it might have been able to dodge most of the torpedoes, but now nothing could be done but a straight and stubborn resistance.

"Shock-resistant. Get ready! ”

"Boom. Boom, boom ......"

There were at least ten Type 35 torpedoes dragging white bubbles. The burly body of the Fuji crashed into the blue waves, and the huge waves rushed onto the port deck, and the nearly 50,000-ton hull trembled violently while moving to the right again and again.

"Report Loss ......"

As soon as he stood firm, Nishi Shinzo dared to see that the hull of the Fuji had been tilted significantly, and he hurriedly grabbed the phone in the ship and shouted.

"The port side was hit by four torpedoes, and the engine room was broken. There was a massive influx of seawater into ......"

"Water is coming into the boiler room and emergency drainage is needed!"

"Three torpedoes were hit in the port side stern. The cabin is flooded with a lot of water! ”

"The port side bow was hit by at least three torpedoes, and seawater was pouring into the oil tank......"

No matter how strong the battlecruiser Fuji was, the result of being hit by 10 torpedoes at the same time was still fatal, although the explosion power of these 10 torpedoes was not enough to destroy the Fuji in any case, but they tore 10 large holes of more than two meters on the port side of the Fuji, and hundreds of tons of sea water poured in, even if all the pumping engines on the Fuji were running at full strength. And what's even more deadly is that all the sea water is pouring in from one side! As a result, the Fuji's hull quickly tilted to the left, and if it wasn't dealt with quickly, the 50,000-ton battlecruiser would soon capsize!

"Fill the water to keep it balanced! Fill the starboard side with water! ”

Onishi Shinzo already knew by this time that the Fuji would not be able to be saved - no, this statement was not true, he knew that the Fuji was finished as early as the rudder of the Fuji was hit. But even if you know that you are going to be finished, the final struggle is still necessary, and pouring water on the starboard side is a dying struggle. Although balancing the water injection is the most common way to deal with a torpedo attack on a capital ship, the Fuji has already hit 12 Type 35 torpedoes! The portside waterline was almost torpedoed into a sieve, and the sea would soon flood most of the port side cabins, and the starboard side would have to be pumped with just as much seawater to keep it balanced! In this way, even if the Fuji did not sink due to too much water, it would have been greatly reduced due to the weight of the water that poured into it.

"First mate, there is too much water in the boiler room and engine room, and there is no time to discharge it, and it will soon be flooded!" On the other end of the line, the trembling cry of the captain of the Fuji damage management team was heard. "The Fuji is over, it's really going to be over......"

The power system of the Akagi-class battlecruisers is mainly divided into two parts, one part is 12 heavy oil boilers, and the other part is four steam turbines with a total power of 131,200 horsepower. Now the boiler room and engine room are about to be flooded by the sea, and these heavy oil boilers and steam turbines will not be able to work underwater, which means that the Fuji will soon lose power! And a battle cruiser that lost power and flooded a lot of water probably only sank.

"Torpedo! 2000 meters to the port side, another torpedo is coming! ”

I don't know who exclaimed in the command tower again, Onishi Shinzo looked in the direction of port side, and saw more than a dozen faint "white lines" appearing on the black sea - it was a torpedo shot by three Nanjing-class light cruisers!

At the same time, more than 10,000 meters away, the five Guangdong-class battle cruisers were still throwing 280mm armor-piercing shells at the Fuji, which had slowed down to less than 10 knots, and huge fireballs continued to rise from all parts of the Fuji hull, constantly bringing new blows to the damaged battle cruiser. However, the Fuji's suffering was soon over, and with a violent concussion, at least 10 more 533mm Type 28 torpedoes crashed into the damaged port side armor belt of the Fuji......

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