Volume 1 Tiger in the South Seas 001 Rescue the Zhiyuan Ship
[Chapter Word Count:3082 Last Updated:2014-12-0121:10:13.0]
When Lin Fei opened his eyes, he was completely different, his ears were full of roaring cannonballs, and the smoke was filled with gunpowder!
Lin Fei was born in a military family, and he worked in the special forces base since he was a child, and later was admitted to the Naval Aviation Academy to learn fighter piloting. At this time, Lin Fei was supposed to be training at the Lushun Naval Training Base, but now, his mind was at a loss, and he didn't know where he was.
Lin Fei saw that in front of him was the tail of a twin cannon, the vertical wedge bolt was open, the wiping cloth was thrown aside, it was full of unburned black powder, the outside of the bolt was a half-moon-shaped guard, and there were several strong men squatting behind the guard, each with a big braid coiled on the top of his head, wearing a coarse cloth cardigan coat, and an armband on his arm, the pattern on it was very peculiar - the red tassel gun and the Fang Tian painting halberd crossed.
Lin Fei looked at himself, and saw that he was wearing a blue satin cardigan horse coat, the cuffs of the horse coat were tattooed with the "longevity" pattern, and the armband on his right arm was also a red tassel gun and a Fang Tian painting halberd, Lin Fei was immediately stunned, this dress was clearly the military uniform of the Beiyang Fleet, and he was wearing an officer's uniform, and the pattern on the armband represented the 'gun chief'. He actually returned to the Beiyang Fleet and became a gunnery commander! Just now, the soldier said that the Japanese ship Yoshino is ahead, and it seems that this is the battlefield of the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle! Don't know which warship of the Beiyang Fleet you are on?
Lin Fei knew that the necklines of the sailors of the Beiyang Fleet were embroidered with the name of the battleship in gold thread, so he looked at the neckline of the sailors, and saw the word "Zhiyuan" embroidered with gold thread on it.
At this time, Lin Fei heard a strong man say anxiously: "Gun chief? Gun Commander? The cartridge belt has been filed for almost a minute, and it still can't fit into the gun chamber, and the Japanese ship Yoshino is in front of you, what should I do? ”
Lin Fei looked down and saw a strong man with his sleeves rolled up, revealing his dark and well-defined arms, holding a file in his hand, under the file was a copper-yellow cannonball, and the bullet belt was full of deep and shallow file marks.
The battlefield is changing rapidly, and Lin Fei can't be allowed to think too much, at this time he squatted down, touched the shell with his hand, and frowned into the word "Chuan", Lin Fei has accumulated a lot of military knowledge during his study at the military academy, and he is naturally no stranger to the shell, he shook his head and said: "It can't be filed anymore, otherwise the shell may not be able to withstand the pressure of the chamber." ”
The sailor raised his head and stared viciously at a Japanese-flagged battleship in the distance, and threw his file heavily on the deck, splashing the fine sand on the deck to prevent slippage.
At this moment, I heard a sudden roar behind me: "Brothers! ”
Lin Fei looked back and saw a big man with a majestic face standing on the flying bridge, holding a command knife in his hand, Lin Fei recognized it in the dress of the big man, this person should be Deng Shichang, the pipe belt of the Zhiyuan ship.
The gunners near the flybridge and the officers and soldiers on the deck heard Deng Shichang's roar and gathered towards the flybridge.
I only heard Deng Shichang shouting loudly: "My generation served the country in the army, and I put life and death out of the way, and today the Beiyang Fleet is in danger, and there is only one death to serve the country. ”
Deng Shichang's words were loud, and everyone around them let out a deafening roar, Deng Shichang raised his command knife, pointed to the battleship that broke the waves in the distance, and said loudly: "The battleship in front is the Japanese ship 'Yoshino', this ship is fast and fierce, and it is the monopoly of the Japanese people, I order, go at full speed, sink Yoshino, and raise the prestige of our army!" ”
Everyone shouted: "Sink Yoshino!" Raise the prestige of our army! "Sink Yoshino! Raise the prestige of our army! ”
In a high-pitched roar, Lin Fei felt a panic in his heart, because he knew very well what was going on, the Zhiyuan ship was sunk by the Japanese ship, and all the officers and men on the ship were martyred except for seven who escaped by chance!
Lin Fei thought: "If I watch the Zhiyuan ship crash into the Yoshino ship, then the Zhiyuan ship will definitely be sunk by the Yoshino ship, and I will also be buried in the sea, I must not let the Zhiyuan ship sink!" ”
Lin Fei shouted when he thought of this: "Wait a minute! ”
Everyone turned their heads to look at Lin Fei, and Lin Fei said loudly: "The Yoshino ship is equipped with twelve rapid-fire guns of various types, and it is very likely that we will be sunk before we collide with it!" We should take advantage of the fact that the Zhiyuan ship has not completely lost power, turn the rudder as much as possible, and withdraw from the battlefield! ”
As soon as the words fell, Lin Fei saw a strong man who was a head taller than himself jumping in front of him, shouting and scolding: "Lin Fei, I didn't expect you to be a greedy thing for life and afraid of death, I, Liu Daming, don't recognize you as a brother, I'll cut you first!" ”
After the strong man named Liu Daming finished speaking, he drew his saber and slashed at Lin Fei, Lin Fei turned around lightly and dodged the knife, the big man waved the knife and wanted to cut again, only to hear Deng Shichang roar loudly on the flying bridge: "Liu Daming!" Put the knife away! ”
Liu Daming put away the knife stupidly, Deng Shichang pointed to the distance with his hand, and said: "The Japanese ships are dedicated to Yoshino, if our army sinks Yoshino in one fell swoop, we will not be invincible, but we only have small-caliber machine gun shells left, and there are no large-caliber shells, you know this better than me, the only weapons we can kill and damage Yoshino's ships are torpedoes and ramming angles!" The hit rate of the torpedo is too low to hit the enemy ship, so we can only use the ramming angle to sink the Yoshino! ”
Lin Fei had to persuade again, but he only heard Deng Shichang say loudly: "You don't need to say much, everyone belongs to you, sink Yoshino, and raise the prestige of our army!" ”
Everyone no longer paid attention to Lin Fei and ran towards their position, Liu Daming glared at Lin Fei fiercely, and ran away, Lin Fei sighed in his heart, Deng Shichang is notoriously stubborn, at this time, he can't move him at all, and now he can only take one step at a time.
The reasons for the sinking of the Zhiyuan have always been controversial in academic circles, among which there are two most popular theories: first: the torpedo launched by the Yoshino hit the Zhiyuan; Second: The shell of the Yoshino hit the torpedo on the port side of the Zhiyuan, and the torpedo explosion led to the sinking of the Zhiyuan.
Thinking of this, Lin Fei's heart moved, looked up at the Yoshino ship, and found that it was still far from the Zhiyuan ship, the torpedo range of this era was only five hundred meters at most, so the Yoshino ship would not launch torpedoes now, what should be done now is to throw the torpedo on the port side of the Zhiyuan ship, if it is the second statement, then the Zhiyuan ship still has a chance of life, and now Lin Fei can only gamble, if it is the first statement, then it can only be resigned to fate!
Lin Fei thought of this and immediately turned his head to look at the port side, he knew that on modern cruisers and destroyers, most of the torpedo tubes were deployed on the deck in three to five combinations, so he thought that the torpedoes of the Zhiyuan ship were also installed in this position, but on the port side of the Zhiyuan ship, Lin Fei didn't see anything like torpedo tubes at all, Lin Fei suddenly felt anxious, if there was no one on the deck, then it must be below!
Lin Fei found the nearest deck entrance, jumped down the gangway, and shouted at a sailor with a wet quilt to put out the flames: "Where is the torpedo compartment?" ”
The sailor didn't care about saluting, pointed to the back with his hand, and said "there", Lin Fei pushed the sailor away and ran back, slamming open the door of the cabin, only to see a thick cylinder in the middle of the cabin, aimed at the opening on the side of the ship, the cylinder also carried a small cylinder, Lin Fei knew that the thick cylinder was the torpedo tube, and the cylinder on the back was the high-pressure gas cylinder, and the torpedo was pushed out by the high-pressure gas in the high-pressure gas cylinder.
There is a track on each side of the launch tube, and on each track is a small car, on which there is a thing with two sharp ends and a thick round middle, and the tail of that thing has a propeller and a fuse as sharp as a knife on the head, which is the original German black-headed torpedo equipped on the Zhiyuan ship!
The world's earliest torpedo was designed by the British Whitehead in 1866, Whitehead's name literally translates to "white head", so the Chinese called this type of torpedo "white head torpedo", this type of torpedo was imitated by various countries as soon as it came out, and the Chinese called the German imitation product "blackhead torpedo".
Next to the torpedo tube, stood an old sailor with long braids and gray hair, who looked intently outboard and shouted into a microphone: "Eight hundred meters and fifty meters from the Yoshino!" Eight hundred meters ......" Behind the old sailor, two young sailors held the torpedo tube, and one of the sailors grabbed a wrench behind the torpedo tube, and they all looked intently at the outboard, not realizing Lin Fei's arrival at all.
Lin Fei walked to the torpedo tube in a few steps, glanced at the English mark on the tube, and knew that the wrench that the sailor grabbed was the torpedo launcher, and the sailor was the launcher, and he glanced at the barometer behind the launcher, and the pointer on it stopped at the scale of "10 megapascals", knowing that the torpedo launcher had been inflated, and the triggerer could be launched!
At this time, the launcher saw Lin Fei and said to Lin Fei: "Gun Commander, why are you here?" ”
Lin Fei knew that the shells of the Japanese warships would hit the torpedo compartment at any time, so he didn't say much to the sailors, and said directly in a commanding tone: "Pull the wrench, fire the torpedo, quickly!" ”
The sailor was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "Gun commander, what did you say?" ”
Lin Fei said loudly: "Once the shells of the Japanese ship hit here, the torpedo will sink the Zhiyuan ship, so hurry up and launch the torpedo." ”
The sailor frowned and said, "Without the order of First Officer Liu, I can't launch a torpedo!" ”
Liu Daming is the big man named Liu Daming, and there is an official position on the Zhiyuan ship that is the first mate of torpedoes, who is responsible for the maintenance, maintenance, and launch of torpedoes and the driving of torpedo boats, and Liu Daming is that official position.
Lin Fei said eagerly and loudly: "What about Deputy Liu? Where did it go? ”
The sailor said: "Go to the starboard torpedo compartment......"
Lin Fei was just about to turn around and go to the starboard torpedo compartment, when he suddenly heard a loud "boom" from the stern of the ship, the hull of the ship shook suddenly, and everyone in the torpedo compartment staggered.