Chapter 734: The Collapse of the Japanese Navy
The Japanese Navy, which was struggling to support in the port of Yokohama, received an order from the Japanese Minister of the Navy and Commander of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy, Heihachiro Togo, to break through the siege, and the remaining 2 New York-class super dreadnought battleships, 1 Hyuga-class dreadnought-class battleship, 1 Kagu-class dreadnought-class battleship, 3 Hanoi-class dreadnought battleships, 4 Delaware-class dreadnought battleships, 2 Virginia-class all-steel battleships, 2 Connecticut-class all-steel battleships, 5 large fast armored cruisers, 8 fast protection cruisers and 9 destroyers began to break through directly to the sea northeast outside the port of Yokohama, as ordered.
Although the sea area outside the port of Yokohama is almost surrounded by the fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, the sea area of the port of Yokohama is very wide, and it is impossible for the fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire to enclose the entire sea area outside the port of Yokohama.
Moreover, Togo Heihachiro also left a considerable number of warships of the Japanese Navy to continue to entangle the fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy and ensure that more of the main battleships could escape from Ascension, so the Japanese Navy had 5 large fast armored cruisers, 10 fast protection cruisers, 19 destroyers, 50 torpedo boats and 8 submarines.
Inside the bridge of the Super Dreadnought battleship Zhao Yun, the flagship of the Fourth Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the commander of the Fourth Fleet and the commander-in-chief of this attack on the port of Yokohama, Chen Ming, saw the movements of the Japanese Navy in the port of Yokohama. Putting down the binoculars in his hand, a smile immediately appeared on his face and said to Li Ran, the captain of the Zhao Yun beside him: "I didn't expect the Japanese to be unable to stand up so soon." This is the rhythm to break through! ”
Li Ran put down the binoculars and said with a smile: "Of the 18 forts that the Japanese spent a lot of money to build in the port of Yokohama, only 4 are now left......"
Li Ran's words were not finished. One of the batteries in the port of Yokohama was hit by a 343-mm armor-piercing shell, and the reinforced concrete on the top of the battery, which was 1 meter thick, did not block the 343-mm armor-piercing shells, and then a large number of shells inside the battery were detonated by the explosion of the 343-mm armor-piercing shells, and turned into a pile of ruins in a large cloud of dust and smoke.
Li Ran smiled and continued: "Now there are only 3 left, plus several waves of air raids launched by our 4 aircraft carrier carrier-based air groups on the Japanese Navy in the port of Yokohama, the Japanese have suffered a lot of losses on their warships, and in the face of such a huge fleet of our Imperial Chinese Navy, the Japanese will not break through. All that awaited them was the fate of total annihilation. ”
Chen Ming looked at the direction of the port of Yokohama and said: "It is not so easy for the Japanese to run, order 3 battle lines to block the sea area in the northeast outside the port of Yokohama, and the Japanese break through now, it does not mean that they can escape the fate of the total annihilation." ”
The Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, consisting of four super dreadnought battleships, 16 dreadnought battleships, and 24 all-steel battleships, began to advance to the northeast sea outside the port of Yokohama when they were about 20,000 meters away, preparing to intercept the Japanese Navy's warships that were about to escape.
Soon the remnants of the Japanese Navy's main battleships and other types of warships that followed the breakthrough were due to break through to the northeast. The direction of the bow of the ship is facing northeast, which allows dozens of main battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy to seize the T-shaped head in the northeast sea area outside the port of Yokohama and occupy a favorable position. So that dozens of capital battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy can face the warships that the Japanese want to break through with their sides, and give full play to the strongest main gun firepower of the main battleships.
And the main battleship of the Japanese Navy broke through, because the position of the bow of the ship was facing the 3 battle lines of the Imperial Chinese Navy. As a result, these main battleships of the Japanese Navy were unable to fire all their main guns on the battle lines of the Imperial Chinese Navy. This made the Japanese Navy, which was already at a numerical disadvantage in terms of capital battleships, even more passive, as the distance between the two sides increased. The Japanese Navy, preparing for a breakthrough, suffered more and more losses.
As for the Japanese Navy's warships that were ready to entangle the Imperial Chinese Navy, they bravely took the initiative to rush towards the three battle lines of the Imperial Chinese Navy, in a vain attempt to launch a decisive attack on the three battle lines of the Imperial Chinese Navy, but the effect was not very good, the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire also had a large number of warships of other types this time, and these other types of warships passed through the middle of their own three battle lines, facing the Japanese Navy warships that were decided, and stopped the warships of the Japanese Navy that attacked to the death.
Even the submarine fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy launched a merciless hunt for the Japanese Navy's dead warships from under the sea and in cooperation with its own warships on the sea, including the eight submarines that the Japanese had obtained from the Americans, one after another, which were torpedoed and sunk by the Chinese Imperial submarines.
When the warships of the Japanese Navy broke through were about 10,000 meters away from the three battle lines of the Imperial Chinese Navy, in the bridge of the Kennedy Super Dreadnought, the temporary first mate of the Kennedy said to the captain of the Kennedy, Juno Sakai, with a painful face: "Captain, the speed of our super dreadnought battleship has been reduced to 16 knots, which is already the highest speed we can run at present, and the main gun of one of our super dreadnought battleships with a double series of 356 mm has a mechanical failure, It was impossible to adjust the angle of the muzzle, and in a short time our super dreadnought battleship was left with only four-fifths of its main gun fire. ”
Captain Juno Sakai said with a wry smile: "It doesn't matter if you damage a double-mounted 356 mm main gun, the other super dreadnought battleship that broke through together seems to have only two-fifths of the main gun firepower left, but the speed of our super dreadnought battleship has dropped too much, and it is impossible to escape the pursuit of the main battleship of the Imperial Chinese Navy." ”
The Kennedy's first mate flickered his eyes and said, "Captain, since we can't escape, we might as well choose to surrender to the navy of the Chinese Empire!" And so on. Not only does our super-dreadnought battleship have no hope of breaking out, it will most likely be like other Imperial warships. Sunk by the main guns of those battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and our super dreadnought battleship was captured by the Americans in our Imperial Navy. Hundreds of our officers and men of the Imperial Navy could not afford to lose their lives for the sake of an American warship. ”
At this time, many of the officers and men of the Japanese Navy, like the first mate of the Kennedy, had lost their fighting spirit, fought without any hope of victory, and continued to sink their own warships, which continued to torment the officers and men of the Japanese Navy.
Through the observation window inside the bridge, Juno Sakai looked at the remnants of the Japanese Navy around the current Kennedy Super Dreadnought. He let out a long sigh of helplessness, but a hint of joy suddenly appeared in his eyes.
After the breakout order was issued, the main battleships of the Japanese Navy in a short period of time had 1 Hyuga-class dreadnought battleship, 1 Kagu-class dreadnought battleship, 1 Virginia-class all-steel battleship and 1 Connecticut-class all-steel battleship, a total of 4 capital battleships were sunk by the battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and the remaining main battleships were also wounded, and many other types of warships of the Japanese Navy were also sunk after the breakout order was issued, especially the Japanese warships that rushed to the 3 battle lines of the Imperial Chinese Navy, The losses are even greater.
What makes Juno Sakai even more desperate. The three battle lines of the Imperial Chinese Navy have been rigidly blocking the channel of the Japanese Navy's breakthrough to the northeast, and the broken warships of the Japanese Navy that are ready to entangle the main force of the Imperial Chinese Navy have so far had no effect at all. With the remnants of the current Japanese Navy, can they break through the interception of these 3 battle lines of the Imperial Chinese Navy? Juno Sakai has no confidence at all!
In Japan, under the deliberate guidance of Emperor Meiji, the whole country is obsessed with the spirit of bushido. Moreover, this bushido spirit has permeated the Japanese army, and the Japanese army is particularly enthusiastic about bushido. However, in the Japanese Navy, the influence of the bushido spirit was weaker. Many highly educated Japanese naval officers are simply dismissive of the spirit of bushido, and Juno Sakai is one of those Japanese naval officers who is not interested in the spirit of bushido.
In Sakai Junxiong's heart, he actually had the intention of surrendering for a long time, there are too many good things in the world, Sakai Junxiong has not enjoyed enough, that is, he has become a prisoner of the Chinese Empire, he will also have the opportunity to return to Japan in the future, and he can continue to enjoy life, Sakai Junxiong is not willing to end his life on this super dreadnought battleship.
However, Juno Sakai was worried that he would be opposed by his subordinates if he proposed to surrender, and when he heard the first mate's suggestion to surrender, he sighed and immediately got off the donkey and said: "With the current situation of our super dreadnought battleship, there is no possibility of breaking through, for the lives of hundreds of our Imperial Navy officers and soldiers, I, Juno Sakai, have no choice but to endure humiliation!" The main guns were ordered to stop firing, all the naval guns raised their muzzles to the maximum angle, the white flag was raised, the boilers were immediately extinguished, and our war was over. ”
The first mate of the Kennedy hesitated and asked, "Do you need to send a telegram to Commander Togo?" Is there any need to ask about other warships? ”
Juno Sakai shook his head and said: "No need, I believe that Your Excellency Togo will understand our distress, and other warships will understand what to do when they see our choice!" ”
Then something happened that made the Japanese completely desperate and made the officers and men of the Imperial Chinese Navy cheer, the absolute main battleship of the Japanese Navy, the captured super dreadnought battleship of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, suddenly raised the white flag, slowly reduced its speed, and finally stopped in the sea outside the port of Yokohama, choosing to surrender to the Royal Chinese Navy.
The surrender of the USS Kennedy super dreadnought battleship almost pressed the last straw of the Japanese Navy, after the Kennedy super dreadnought battleship had just raised the white flag, the captain of the other 1 seriously injured USS Adams super dreadnought battleship Yokoichi Hashimoto was relieved to see that someone took the lead, Hashimoto Yokoichi did not want to fight it for a long time, the Adams super dreadnought battleship was hit by multiple shells from the main guns of the super dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and the entire warship was scarred, It's already a miracle that it can hold on to the sea, and who knows how long the miracle will last, maybe one large-caliber shell can bring the Adams Super Dreadnought to death.
Someone took the lead in surrendering, and the USS Adams Super Dreadnought Battleship still held on, and Yokoichi Hashimoto immediately let the USS Adams Super Dreadnought Battleship raise the white flag and surrender to the Imperial Chinese Navy.
Under the influence of the two super dreadnoughts with the strongest combat effectiveness, a large number of warships of the Japanese Navy, including dreadnoughts and all-steel battleships, followed by the raising of the white flag, and the Japanese Navy completely collapsed.
The remnants of the Japanese Navy's 3 Hanoi-class dreadnought battleships, 4 Delaware-class dreadnought battleships, 1 Virginia-class all-steel battleship and 1 Connecticut-class all-steel battleship, under the leadership of each captain, all raised the white flag one after another, so that all the remnants of the Japanese Navy's main battleships surrendered to the Imperial Chinese Navy.
However, not all Japanese naval warships chose to surrender, and some Japanese naval captains who had been influenced by the spirit of bushido still ordered their warships to continue to shell the warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, vowing to fight to the death.
It is a pity that the warships of these heroic captains are all small and medium-sized warships, and it is impossible to stir up any waves in this naval battle in which the victory or defeat has been divided, and in a short period of time, the Japanese warships that have stubbornly resisted on the sea have all been subjected to devastating shelling, and one after another has disappeared on the sea.
Subsequently, some of the warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy began to move closer to the surrendered Japanese naval warships, receiving these trophies, and at the same time warning the Japanese naval officers and men on these surrendered warships that they were not allowed to carry out any damage to their warships, otherwise the Imperial Chinese Imperial Navy could not guarantee that they would enjoy the treatment that prisoners of war should have, and would not even accept their surrender.
In addition, some warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, led by four general-class super dreadnought battleships, continued to bombard the port of Yokohama, because they wanted to intercept the Japanese warships that broke through, and the remaining three batteries in the port of Yokohama had not yet been destroyed, and this time some of the port equipment was also within the bombardment range of the warships of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire. (To be continued.) )
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