In the Yangtze River outside the Wusong Fortress, the destroyers of the Japanese Third Fleet arrived late, according to the soldiers who fell into the water, they saw with their own eyes that there was a submarine floating up from under the water and captured Admiral Shirakawa, many people felt that it was too unbelievable, too ridiculous, when did the people of China have submarines, the imperial state crisscrossed the spy network in China, from the civil to the government of China, from the Beiyang period to the period of the national government, and even high-level news They have channels to obtain important information, but they have never heard of submarines in China. Moreover, what kind of submarine was able to sink the battleship Nagato, which had just been commissioned by the Imperial State, which was really difficult for several Japanese military generals in Shanghai to accept.

One of these generals held a completely opposite view, he was the commander of the Third Fleet, Nomura Kichizaburo, who was lucky not to die in that catastrophe, and after the battleship was irretrievable, he chose to jump ship like Shirakawa Yoshinori to survive, fortunately he entered the water safely, and was rescued in time by the rescue ships that arrived later, only to be frightened.

At this time, Nomura Kichizaburo was still in shock, but judging from his many years of naval experience, the Third Fleet and the Nagato were 100 percent attacked by submarine torpedoes.

This point was confirmed by the mouths of several sailors who appeared on the sea for the first time, and the torpedoes that appeared on the river without warning are proof, but submarines are extremely unvalued in the navies of various countries, and have always been regarded as a supplementary force in the navy. What broke him the most was that the sneak attack was successful.

The Imperial Navy suffered heavy losses, except for the battleship Nagato, which was completely sunk and scrapped, almost all of the main cruisers of the Third Fleet were severely damaged, and most of them sank to the bottom of the river because they could not save them, but the most unbearable loss for these generals stationed in Shanghai was the disappearance of the Minister of the 6th Army, Shirakawa Yoshinori.

There are many versions of the disappearance of Admiral Shirakawa among the officers and sailors who were rescued from the water, some people say that they saw Admiral Shirakawa fall into the fire with their own eyes, and they are already broken, and some people say that Admiral Shirakawa jumped into the water to escape, but was captured by the submarine that suddenly rushed out of the submarine, and the sailors who came out of the submarine have a high degree of similarity to the 6th Army of China, and they are all yellow-skinned and black-headed Asians, which has also become evidence that Admiral Shirakawa was captured by the Shina.

But Nomura Kichizaburo would rather believe that Shirakawa Yoshinori was buried in the sea of fire to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, if he was really captured by the Shina people...... He closed his eyes, not daring to think about the consequences of this possibility.

If this were the case, it would be an unprecedented disgrace since the Meiji Revolution of the Imperial Kingdom.

These people involved should be disemboweled for this to thank His Majesty the Emperor.

At present, the navy with the largest rank and rank is he Nomura Kichizaburo, and the 6th Army is Ueda Kenkichi.

Ueda Kenkichi's attitude was very clear, "I never believe that General Shirakawa has been captured by the Shina people, and His Excellency the General must have been martyred in the sea of fire, and I will immediately report the reasons for the fiasco and losses of this naval battle to the domestic staff headquarters,"

The meaning of Ueda Kenkichi's words is obvious, the responsibility for the fiasco is mainly on your navy, don't pull the 6th Army to accompany the funeral, Admiral Shirakawa, as the minister of the 6th Army, whether he dies in battle or is captured by the Chinese people, you Nomura Kichizaburo and the navy have to bear the main responsibility, don't think of pulling the 6th Army to accompany you to the funeral.

Nomura Kichizaburo heard the hidden knife in Ueda Kenkichi's words, but at this time, he didn't care about competing with the 6th Army, and the aftermath and revenge were the current tasks.

"Ueda-kun, I, Nomura Kichizaburo, know that I am deeply responsible, and I have no face to return to China to see His Majesty the Emperor, and I will definitely disemboweled General Shirakawa after this incident, I have ordered the 13th and 16th destroyer squadrons to block the mouth of the Yangtze River and the entrance to the Huangpu River, and if the people of China really attack with a submarine attack, they will be trapped alive under the water."

Ueda Kenkichi sneered and stopped talking......

At the confluence of the Huangpu River and the Yangtze River, a destroyer formed several squads in a three-ship formation, blocking the passage of the Yangtze River to the sea and the Huangpu River and the upper reaches respectively, these destroyers are equipped with the latest British anti-submarine device asdIc because of his insistence, which is an active sound detection device, originally equipped with these things was opposed by the naval boss, but in the end he could not oppose it at his insistence, of course, there is another reason that regardless of the asdIc detection device, or the depth charges used to combat and destroy submarines are extremely cheap, so in view of the cost-effectiveness ratio of such equipment, the naval bosses finally chose to turn a blind eye.

In their opinion, submarines are nothing more than clown-like roles, and it is not at all worth a large-scale modification of existing destroyers for them.

To Nomura's surprise, his persistence was not in vain, and today could be put to great use, less than half an hour after the destroyer blocked the entire river, the first result was produced, a destroyer of the 13th destroyer squadron dropped a depth charge to blow up a target, and a large amount of debris and the corpses of Shina sailors poured out of the water.

When Nomura Kichizaburo received the report of the results of the battle from his attendants, he did not know whether he should laugh or cry, he preferred that he would not have the results and that General Shirakawa would have been burned or drowned.

Once it is confirmed that the submarine really exists, then the possibility that Shirakawa will be captured by the people of Shina will also be greatly increased, and the humiliation of the imperial kingdom is inevitable, even at this moment, he still has a fluke in his heart.

Just when Nomura Kichizaburo was worried and entangled on the cruiser, under the Yangtze River, which was only a few hundred meters away, a slender submarine sat quietly on the riverbed, and on the surface of the river ten meters above was a number of destroyers that were cruising in an S-shape and searching for them.

After all, the destroyer sailors rarely conduct actual combat training in anti-submarine warfare, so they are a little overwhelmed by this complicated situation, and can only blindly search the water over and over again.

A sailor complained, "Could it be that guy Watanabe, there is a problem with his ears......"

And just below this destroyer, all the officers and soldiers in the submarine did not dare to come out of the atmosphere, and even spoke softly, for fear of making a little noise, and a rear admiral stood in front of the command room, holding the handle welded to the hull, only to see him frowning, pursing his lips, and tilting his head sideways to try to listen to the faint sound of the motor overhead.

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