Chapter 432 Moon Sinking Qiantang
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The soldiers here saw the flames on the other side, and their eyes were all blood-red. They all knew that the hundreds of brothers there had no chance of surviving.
None of them roared, they all gritted their teeth, pushed the skidding truck with all their might, carried the cannon on their shoulders where it could focus, let the steel sink deep into the flesh, squeeze through the skin, and let the heavy cannon press the mud on the simple paved road, step by step towards the position.
On the river, the remaining three battleships bombarded the target range before the river bank again at the moment when the battleship in the head ran aground, and then slowly approached the battleship that was already a little crooked and could tip at any time, and in a panic, began to drag.
This delay on the river caused the shelling to stop. They would be proud if the sacrificed soldiers could see it, and they let the shelling pause, buying time for the cannons to be erected.
After Zhao Liqiang called the 75 guns on the riverside and there was no response, the Zhilu Dao position may no longer exist. He was distressed, although he had already seen the result when he gave the order, he was still like a knife. After all, he is not yet 20 years old, and he can't see the sacrifice so freely.
He continued to take deep breaths, suppressed the anger in his heart, turned his head and shouted: "Generate electricity for the heavy artillery position on the river bank, I will hear the sound of artillery in twenty minutes, not one of the enemy ships on the river must be let go, run one and let the regiment commander Li Delin come to see him!" ”
Liu Delin was covered in mud at this time, and the six cannons were already in place, and he was nervously pushing the rest, not all of them were in place, he couldn't open the cannons, as long as the cannons were fired, they had to achieve absolute results, so that the enemy ships had no chance to counterattack.
He was pushing the cannon forward with a deep foot and a shallow foot and went up to the solid rubble position. The message arrived.
He rubbed a handful of mud on his pants, took a look, turned around and yelled, "Move fast!" Fifteen minutes to be in place!! We avenge our brothers on the other side!! ”
None of the soldiers felt tired at this time, and in the roar of Li Delin, they pushed and pulled hard, pushing the cannon up the rubble paved position inch by inch.
On the river. Ishii Maru commanded with gauze wrapped all over his head, letting one battleship pull the hull on the side to avoid tilting, and one let the small gunboat drag the steel cable, ready to hand over another steel cable from the back to drag the stranded battleship out. He knew that if he did not get out of danger as soon as possible, if there was another shelling, he would be overturned.
Li Delin led thousands of soldiers to work hard. The truck drivers also jumped out of the car, rushed into the crowd, pushed the backs of their comrades, and put the cannons into place.
As they were in place one by one, the roar of Zhu Yuan's setting came, and the thirty 150-caliber cannons were all in place twelve minutes after Zhao Liqiang's death order was issued.
Li Delin didn't care about resting, and shouted: "The first group of ten doors." Bombarded the battleship at the back of the closest, the second group of ten. Bombarded the penultimate towed battleship, the third group of five, bombarded the battleships with steel cables tied to the sides, and the other five aimed at four gunboats each to knock them to the bottom!! ”
In the roar, the observer on the bank of the river roared to transmit the coordinates back, and Zhu Yuan quickly set them. A shout of readiness came.
Li Delin stood on a truck a few hundred meters in front of the cannon, and when he heard the voices in the walkie-talkie one by one, he shouted: "Release!" ”
With his roar, thirty cannons roared in unison, boom. The earthquake trembled, the mud rolled up, and the cannonballs shot out angrily, and with boundless rage, they roared towards the enemy ships thousands of kilometers away.
"There are still artillery positions there!!"
"Take off the tightrope!!"
The busy Japanese could not see the fire, but they heard the sound of the artillery, and they also heard the rumbling and screeching of the shells that followed. In the midst of the panicked shouts, all the guns began to turn and aim in the direction from which the guns came.
Ishii Maru heard the sound of cannonballs flying, and his first reaction was that it was over. This sound caliber is at least 120, and it is easy for such a powerful cannonball to tear apart the deck, besides, his battleship does not need to be sunk, as long as a shell falls on the side, it may capsize.
But these thoughts were only a flash, and the cannonballs whistled in the flash of their thoughts, and with a loud bang, the three warships suddenly lifted several meters high in the firelight.
The last escort battleship was already reversing at full speed at the moment when the cannonball fell, and the water was rolling, and before it left its original position, it was violently lifted by the waves in the loud noise, and then in the sound of steel twisting and breaking, the hull of the ship was torn.
Four shells hit the center of the battleship, so that the destroyer, which was more than 300 meters long, broke under the huge tearing force, and under the action of the hull falling back and the tension of the water, it creaked and made a terrible cracking sound, and then, a large amount of river water poured into the ship along the larger and larger cracks, which accelerated the process of breaking the battleship.
"Put the lifeboat!!"
"Abandon the ship!!"
The battleship continued to roar in panic, and the crew members who were not killed were scattered everywhere like headless flies, and the whole battleship was in chaos.
The captain of the ship, under the support of a rear admiral, stood up, looked at the battleship that was about to sink, looked at the soldiers struggling on the water, howled, pushed the rear admiral away, pulled out his pistol, and resolutely stuffed it into his mouth, without waiting for the major general to pounce, bang, and committed suicide by drinking bullets.
The battleship he relied on to climb was gone, he had been with him for many years, and his beloved battleship, which was more precious than his own son, was destroyed like this, and there was no possibility of repairing it, he had no intention of living, and resolutely followed his battleship.
At the moment when the battleship was hit and was about to sink, the battleship in front of it also tilted in the huge waves, lost power, and let the river rush, slowly hitting the river.
Two shells hit the waterline on the side of the ship, and a huge hole allowed the river to rush in, and in the cracked hatch, it rumbled into the engine room, dousing the engine block.
The Japanese troops on the battleship had already been thrown off the river during the violent shock, and in the cabin, all the Japanese soldiers who felt that the ship had tilted rushed out of the cabin and ran to the deck.
It's just time to sink it.
The one that pulled the stranded battleship on the side, in the turbulent river, fortunately did not hit the vital point and weak point by the shells, and in the agitation, the bow of the ship was blown a big hole by the shells, and the remaining four shells fell into the river, setting off a monstrous wave.
"Take off the tightrope !!"
The captain roared in a violent shake.
Without removing the tightropes, they don't even have a chance to escape.
Unfortunately, it was too late at this time, the river rolled violently, and the battleship stranded dozens of meters away slowly tilted under the impetus of the huge waves, and gradually tightened the steel cables.
The tightened steel cable dragged the battleship sideways for thirty or forty meters, giving the battleship no chance to escape.
At the same time, four gunboats were also devastated, two gunboats were directly hit by cannonballs, and in the loud noise, bright flames appeared, and the hull of the ship was torn apart, and it disappeared under the river in an instant.
The other two gunboats, more than 40 meters long, swept away all objects on the deck, including personnel, swaying, and were in danger of capsizing at any time.
"Yaga!!"
Here, seeing that the steel cable was tightened, the captain shouted: "Blow up the steel cable!" ”
In the shouting, the soldiers ran in a panic, and in the midst of the cries for help everywhere on the river, they went to get explosives and wanted to blow up the steel cable.
But where do they still have a chance?
Li Delin saw on the roof of the car in front of him that there was still a battleship on the river, and the two gunboats were fine, so he shouted: "Hurry up and open the cannon!" Blow them up!! ”
The observer quickly reported the coordinates again, and with the shout of taking position, the thirty cannons roared again two minutes later.
On the river, the two small gunboats could not hold the direction at all in the violent bumps and shaking, and the power output was also in a weak state, so that they did not even sail out of a distance of 100 meters. Without waiting for the swaying to be gentle, the terrified howl of their hearts was heard again.
Finished......
Everyone at this moment gave up their efforts and ran to the lifeboats, trying to get out of the gunboat.
But this time the flying shells were ten, and the two gunboats were also taken care of by this. Another ten shells flew towards the battleship, which was firmly held by the steel cables.
Rumble!
With a loud bang, the battleship was thrown up suddenly, and in the firelight, two large holes appeared on the side of the ship, and then, the hull of the ship slowly tilted in the surging river, and was dragged by the steel cable, floating towards the capsized ship.
The other two gunboats were overturned directly at the moment when the shells fell, with the bottom facing up. One ship was hit by two shells, and in the flickering fire, it exploded in an instant, and disappeared without a trace in an instant. The spilled oil caused a large area of fire to ignite the surface of the river, illuminating everything around.
"Quick!! Increase the horsepower!! ”
"Hurry up!!"
On the river in the distance, in the midst of a loud noise, two small steamers rode the wind and waves and galloped towards this side. Behind, followed by fifteen or sixteen sampans, they also galloped towards this side like arrows.
Zhao Liqiang, who had been preparing for a long time, heard the sound of cannons, and immediately ordered the ships to be dispatched without waiting for the results to appear. He would not leave a single Japanese and give them a chance to escape ashore. If the prediction is good, the bombardment will give the Japanese ships no chance to send a report, and as long as the Japanese army is completely annihilated, those so-called mine-striking ships in Hangzhou Bay will not dare to enter, and Hangzhou will be spared the trouble of being bombarded.
At the moment when the last battleship tilted, the first battleship had already sunk to the bottom, leaving the mast alone, standing alone on the rough river.
Another battleship, which had lost power and was transverse, abandoned the ship without hesitation in the second round of shelling, put down the lifeboat, and prepared to escape down the river back to Hangzhou Bay. As long as they get there, the aircraft carrier group can save them.
But the lifeboat was still playing, and the rumbling cannon came again, and then, with a loud bang, the bow of the boat was raised suddenly, and it fell down with a bang, and the crowd on the boat was thrown like a ball into the river.
"Stop shelling!!"
Li Delin roared loudly. He saw the small steamer coming in the distance, and saw the flames spewing out of the firelight.
On the river, a real massacre began...... (To be continued......)