"It's Haruna, definitely! Look, front and rear knapsack, four turrets. ”

Then the artillery fire continued, and the navigator and the officers shouted one after another, but no matter how they sounded, they were sullen. Single-mindedly trying to make a great contribution, but without thinking about going out, he was "struck by lightning", not to mention that all the electronic devices were finished, and he ran the wrong way, what the is this! To say that this is all to blame on the designer, at the beginning of the design did not reserve the radar position, the result is to install the radar, can only the radar and communication antenna all gathered on the front mast. Coupled with the unreasonable design of the automatic short-circuit and circuit protection, it is really eight lifetimes of mold.

Yang Tiancheng was angry! To make matters worse, the position of the Umeng Hill is now on the right side of the enemy ship, close to parallel. That is to say, if you run into a heartless captain like the Tianmu Mountain again, if a wave of torpedoes is avoided by the other party, it is likely to come towards you.

"Left rudder."

"Captain, look!"

Yang Tiancheng was rushing back to the battlefield at full speed, but the navigator shouted again. On his port side, a spectacular scene appeared in front of everyone. I saw that in the afterglow area between the combat zone and myself, dozens of small black dots were desperately turning towards my side. "Play with me! Get ready for battle! "Such a large black spot, not to mention Yang Tiancheng, even the combat-ready sailors on the deck have numb scalps. If this is a warship, I don't know how the Wumeng Mountain will die.

Just as everyone was stunned, the electronic officer rushed into the bridge with a wet body: "Captain, the radar has been repaired and the communication has been restored." ”

"Great, power on! Ready to liaise. The key good news at the critical moment made Yang Tiancheng breathe a sigh of relief. After the radar is restored, at least it can distinguish the target and find a way to avoid it. But as soon as the radar was turned on, a terrifying electric current rushed from everyone's backs to the back of their heads. I only saw the radar screen, densely packed with flashing bright spots! "Captain, evade it immediately." The captain was one of the few experienced officers on the ship, and immediately reacted and shouted, "Zuo Man." ”

"Wait!" But before he could finish. A bold idea suddenly entered Yang Tiancheng's mind, and he asked loudly, "Can you tell the target type?" ”

"Radar can't distinguish types, it can't be seen visually, it's too far away, it's not visible at all!" Everyone didn't understand what Yang Tiancheng wanted to do, but he strode to the communication, grabbed the phone and asked the radar cabin below: "Can you calculate their speed?" ”

"Calculating, it takes two minutes." Destroyers are not like capital ships, they have less space, so they lack mainframe computers. Radar elements are calculated by hand and take a certain amount of time to process.

Maritime avoidance needs to be measured in advance, and everyone is a little anxious when they see the black spots that appear from time to time turn to themselves. The captain turned his head anxiously and frequently: "Captain! "Wait." Yang Tiancheng looked at his watch, tore off his raincoat, and didn't know if it was sweat or the rain just now, and his sideburns were full of water droplets.

"It's the Huijishan, the Huijishan has been hit!" "The Songshan let everyone continue to attack and delay time, General Xu, they can arrive within 40 minutes!" Minutes and seconds passed. The radio also sounded all sorts of commands and signals. As the fierce battle in the distance began to escalate, explosions lit up from behind the Haruna, which showed that our warship had been hit many times!

The comrades-in-arms fought to the death, but the Wumeng Mountain maintained a strange posture and watched the battle from afar. This made the sailors on the battle position puzzled, and seeing that everyone's patience was about to be exhausted, the electronic cabin finally transmitted data: "The speed of the Haruna formation is 23 knots, and it is heading to the northwest." The speed of the unknown formation is 12 knots. Heading due south. ”

12 knots! No warship would be so slow, even if it was very windy and rough now, it would be at least 16 knots. So the black dot on the opposite side is "It's a merchant ship!" The Navigator and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Left full rudder, course 227! Slow down to 25 knots! Guns, let the torpedo prepare! As soon as he heard the data, Yang Tiancheng immediately gave an order, but this string of orders made everyone even more incomprehensible. Because if the left full rudder is heading for 227, it is equivalent to passing through the opponent's merchant ship head-on! God, although it is windy and rainy now, and the other side is a merchant ship, there may be destroyers or converted armed ships in the fleet.

So the captain and the gunner looked at each other and immediately walked to the chart: "Captain, you." ”

Yang Tiancheng smiled, raised his hand to interrupt them, and asked rhetorically, "Let me ask you, what is the visibility now." ”

"The rain is too heavy, and if there is no fire, the visibility will be up to 3,500 meters."

"That's pretty much it! You see, we're in the backlight, which means that from the opposite side, we're only 4,500 meters above the sky. If we use a detour pursuit, it will take at least 30 minutes to catch up, which is enough time for the Haruna to expel the Songshan and them, and even if we arrive at that time, it will be a battleship and three heavy cruisers! So I thought, since we can't see them clearly, they can't see us either. So, take advantage of this opportunity and just do it. With a shake of his hand, he drew a straight line on the chart. The direction of the straight line turned out to be passing straight past the Japanese merchant ship head-on! The officers gasped, this is too bold! There must have been Japanese destroyers and armed ships among the merchant ships, and if they were discovered, they would not be caught in the flank. While nervous, everyone also saw an opportunity. Because if you can sneak past the merchant ship, you can get into torpedo range in 15 minutes at most, and face the battleship formation of Haruna, and at this time their attention should be on the other side.

On my own ship, there are 10 550 mm Yu-5 thermodynamic heavy torpedoes. At full speed of 50 knots, the range can reach 7,000 meters, and if one hits, the Haruna will also stall. You must know that the two Anhai-class battleships and two Xi'an-class heavy cruisers led by Xu Zengtang came behind him. "Either get caught in the flanking of the four capital ships, or give them a taste of our lightning strike tactics." Yang Tiancheng raised his head, his eyes shining. "It's done!" They were all young people who were not afraid of the ground, and the gun commander shouted out almost as soon as he saw his eyes. Only the older navigator is more worried, because the Japanese Navy has a group of perverted "cat's eyes", will they find the Umeng Mountain? And the flash of shelling in the distance is always a trouble.

Although Yang Tiancheng is the captain of the ship, he cannot act alone, because a destroyer involves the lives of hundreds of soldiers. The navigator stared at the chart for a long time, then opened the hatch himself and used the telescope to confirm the visibility. After going back and forth a few times, he turned his head and nodded.

"Get ready to fight! Turn off the lights in the cabin and everyone is forbidden to make a sound! Increase deck lookouts. engine room, to ensure boiler pressure. Electron! Radar readings are reported every 30 seconds, the navigation group calculates the angle of the main target, and after six minutes enters the torpedo coordinates! With the support of the Navigator, Yang Tiancheng immediately turned off all internal lights that might have been exposed.

The captain's order was soon reached to the deck combat post, and the sailors swallowed wildly when they saw their battleship rushing towards the afterglow of the gunfire. In the three-meter-high waves, the Wumeng Mountain is like a cradle, rising and falling in the waves. The bow of the ship was constantly hit by the waves and sent out layers of white foam. "Won't be discovered?" An officer clung to the handrail and stared around with wide eyes. But in fact, at this time, not to mention them, even the lookouts on the deck began to become blind, and even the frequency of the distant fires began to slow down, and it seemed that both sides entered the pursuit and gradually faded away.

"The fleet is 13,000 yards long and is staggering, and it is expected to pass in six minutes."

"Starboard. 5700 yards! ”

"There's one more on the port side, 7,300 yards away!"

The voice of the radar electronics officer echoed in the bridge, and the "blind voyage" of relying entirely on radar navigation made all hearts raise their throats. Although the Navigator personally steered the steer. Carefully control the ship at a visual distance of 5,000 meters, but such a close distance still makes people tremble with nervousness. God knows if there is a famous "cat's eye" of the Japanese Navy in the merchant ships! Even the slightest hint of a lighter at this moment can cause disaster. As the Japanese merchant ships swept through the darkness on both sides, everyone was in a cold sweat. Breathing lightly for fear of alarming the other side, Yang Tiancheng also swallowed his saliva vigorously and grabbed the railing with both hands. The phalanges are whitish.

It should be said that he and the Umon Mountain were lucky, there were indeed two special cruisers in the Japanese fleet, but before sailing, Kimura gave up the destroyer due to distance and other problems, so there was no "cat's eye" in the fleet. Moreover, the attention of the four Japanese capital ships was to the north, and as the 239 formation pulled away, there was no longer any residual light of artillery fire, and the dark clouds of black pressure made it impossible to reach out on the sea. "Crossed over, we crossed them." Heavy rain and wind and waves were dangerous, but perfectly made the Umon Mountain "invisible", and everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the radar crew excitedly shouted over the Japanese fleet.

"Torpedo unlocked! Full! Contact the Songshan and tell us where it is and let them hold out for another five minutes! In Yang Tiancheng's shout, the pressure valve instantly grew to the maximum, and the surging high-pressure steam drove two steam turbines to push the propellers to rotate sharply at high speed. The speed of the Umeng Mountain soared from 25 knots to 35 knots at once, and it quickly approached the battleship Haruna, which was being tracked by radar.

"Dazuo, the destroyer of China is here again!"

At this time, the attention of the Haruna was still to the north, and the Umeng Mountain was not approaching quickly. Kimura Shin in the commander tower was also on the port side, and when he found that the destroyer he had just forced away had been spared back, his heart gradually became anxious, and he looked up at the navigation clock.

"How far has the fleet gone?"

"According to calculations, it should have been 12 nautical miles away." 12 nautical miles, on a rainy night with visibility of less than 4,000 meters, is enough for the fleet to evacuate to a safe distance. But the problem is that the Chinese Navy has radar. So it is necessary to hold out to more than 25 nautical miles. That is, intercept for at least 30 minutes. But Kimura didn't want to stay here any longer, because he had been delayed for 15 minutes to cover the fleet from the beginning of the engagement, and he believed that the opponent's capital ship was definitely coming at full speed, so he had to leave as soon as possible.

"Turn to the west, please continue to intercept the Furutaka and Kako, and leave Kumano with us first." Kimura is right, if you have a pair of see-through eyes, you can find that the two Anhai-class battleships and two Xi'an-class heavy cruisers led by Xu Zengtang have appeared 22 nautical miles to the north. Turning west in the direction he said would turn into a pursuit battle, and the speed of the Anhai class was not superior. But the problem was that neither he nor all the Japanese officers expected that the Umeng Mountain would appear from the south where the flotilla had left.

Therefore, this turn turned from the stern facing the enemy to the starboard facing the enemy. The huge two-hundred-meter-long side "Do you want to say hello to him?" When the navigator learned from the electronic officer that the Haruna had turned, he was dumbfounded, and the gunners clenched his fists and joked excitedly.

"Okay, but we have to wait until the torpedo is finished." Yang Tiancheng didn't care about jokes, pinched the stopwatch, and took the initiative to reduce the launch angle: "Reduce the reflection angle and set it to dense launch." Start countdown begins. ”

"9200 yards, 8500 yards, 8000 yards, 7700 yards."

"Starboard, enemy ship!"

When the distance approached 6,500 yards, the "cat's eye" on the Haruna finally spotted the undulating Umeng Mountain in the waves. Hearing the scream, a chill rose from Kimura Jin's feet in an instant: "Left full rudder!" Circumvent the torpedo! ”

"Right full rudder, launch!"

"Full rudder right, torpedo fire!"

At the moment when the destroyer made a sharp turn, two five-pack 550-mm heavy torpedo launchers between the chimneys quickly fired all 10 torpedoes at a rate of one shot per second. Someone will ask. Why make a sharp turn when a torpedo is fired? In fact, this is not to increase the speed of the torpedo into the water, but because the current torpedo does not have the ability to self-guide, so when launching, it is necessary to turn as quickly as possible, and use the ship's own steering to ensure that the torpedo forms a fan after entering the water and increases the striking area.

Ten 550-mm Yu-5 thermodynamic heavy torpedoes, like arrows off the string, burst out of the launch tube and plunged headlong into the warm waves. If it's daytime. You can see a clear "white line", but it's night, and the rain is heavy and the waves are heavy, so the track is not obvious. "Watch out for shelling!" The torpedo just fired. The Hazuna on the opposite side also opened fire. Eight 356mm guns in the bow spewed a string of fireballs, and the shells landed around the Umeng Mountain, setting off a terrifying column of water. Thankfully, because it's taking a sharp turn. Therefore, its 14 152-mm secondary guns were not put into battle, which gave the Wumeng Mountain a glimmer of life.

"Leave! Leave! Full speed boom! "Shells after shells, chasing the Wumeng Mountain, kept exploding. Stimulates adrenaline. Yang Tiancheng pinched the stopwatch and almost stuck himself on the porthole, looking forward to it with everyone. "10, 9, 8, 7, 6 boom!" Before the gunner could count to zero, two dull explosions came from behind.

A violent explosion first came from the starboard side of the bow of the battleship Haruna, and after the explosion of 350 kilograms of explosives under water, a huge cavity effect was formed, tearing and crushing the steel plates here, and finally forming a large gap seven meters long. The 30,000-ton battleship was also violently hit by the water mass, and all the officers, including Kimura Shin, staggered. Before the damage could be confirmed, the second torpedo exploded in the amidships, and the 100-meter-high column of water not only made the battleship tremble again, but also dragged several Japanese sailors into the sea.

"Report 3, water column observed, location being confirmed!"

"Aftermast 4 report, hit! We hit, hit! ”

"The target ship is on the port side of the bow, and there is a fire."

"Slow down, slow down!"

Soon, observers all over the ship reported what they saw, and the radar calculated two minutes later that the battleship Haruna had slowed down significantly. "Hit! Haha, we hit! "There was also jubilation in the bridge, but everyone didn't dare to be careless, because there were more and more water columns around them." It's a 203-mm naval gun! Damn, we're being targeted by the Heavy Patrol! As soon as he heard the whistling of the shells, the gunner's face immediately changed. Sure enough, at the same time as the Haruna exploded, the Japanese heavy cruiser Kumano escorting the ship had locked onto the destroyer Mt. Umeng.

"Boom, boom." In the eyes of the destroyer, the 10 203-mm naval guns were more terrifying than the 8 356-mm guns of the Haruna, because the heavy patrol guns were faster, often firing three to four rounds a minute, which was very dense. On the sea, the Wumeng Mountain is constantly maneuvering, like an assassin who has been chased and killed by the streets after he has succeeded.

"The right rudder is full, sail to the northeast! Contact. ”

"Captain, be careful! Rumble. ”

Yang Tiancheng held the handrail, and as soon as he gave the order to maneuver in the direction of his main force, he felt a sinking on his back, and then he heard a bang. But he waited left and right, only to find that there was no imaginary explosion. Looking around again, the navigator and others, who were also pressed on the deck by the guards, also looked at each other with incomprehensible expressions.

"Hit there? Debriefing. ”

"It's the foremast! No one, no one was hurt! It's radar! Bastard, Lao Tzu's radar and communication antenna are finished again! ”

“。”

In the shouting of the second officer, everyone learned that a 203-mm armor-piercing bullet had hit the foremast by accident. Because there was no armor here, the armor-piercing projectile swept the mast and fell into the sea on the other side. "Haha, I know that we can't die." No one was hurt after eating the shells, and the officers all burst out laughing. But before he could be happy, a series of fierce sounds, but different from the sound of breaking the air just now, suddenly came.

"It's over, it's over! Captain, we're caught in the middle! The gunner, who had a pair of sensitive ears, changed his face when he heard the sound. Because he found out that it was the sound of the 210-mm shells on the Xi'an-class heavy cruiser. That is to say, after continuous maneuvering and turning, the Umengshan happened to be in front of the Japanese heavy cruiser Kumano at the moment, and was under the fire of its own heavy cruiser.

's own communication antenna, it seems to be finished just now.

"Signal the lights! Hurry up! I thought about it, the first thing Lao Tzu did when he escaped was to dismantle this broken radar and blow it up! Thinking of the throwing ability of the two Xi'an-class heavy patrol perverts with 144 shells per minute, Yang Tiancheng's face turned green, and he scolded this radar that brought him "bad luck...... (To be continued......)