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Although the battleship "Nelson" increased its speed to the maximum and made various maneuvers to evade it in order to reduce the probability of being hit by aerial bombs as much as possible, it was still hit by three bombs one after another. The first bomb roared into the front main gun turret, and with a muffled thunderous sound, the entire front main gun turret weighing more than 1,000 tons was blown away; The second bomb pierced through the armor plate in the upper part of a boiler compartment, blasting a large hole with a diameter of 10 meters, continuously piercing the main deck, deck, torpedo bulkhead, and even the keel, causing an unprecedented explosion, and the hull of the battleship "Nelson" quickly tilted to the left; The third bomb hit the port side of the battleship "Nelson" again, and soon a large amount of sea water poured in through the breach. The sinking speed was so fast that the new commander of the British Far East Fleet did not even have time to transfer, and together with this huge battleship, he gave his life for the stupidity and arrogance of the British government

After the sinking of the flagship, although the officers and men of the British Royal Navy were well trained, the fleet without unified command inevitably fell into a certain amount of confusion, and a group of Stuka seized the opportunity to severely beat the British warships that were fighting separately. While the attention of the British was completely attracted by the air threat, more than 100 torpedo boats secretly drove out of several hidden places in the Zhoushan Islands and, according to the guidance of the reconnaissance planes, quickly approached the British fleet. In order to avoid alarming the enemy too early, they fired torpedoes in the direction of the British fleet from a distance of 18 kilometers, and there was no need to worry about the range, because these torpedoes were all Japanese Type 93 oxygen torpedoes with a long range, and if it were not for the sake of accuracy, this torpedo could even be fired at a distance of 50 kilometers from the target.

It is worth mentioning that because the production of this torpedo is extremely dangerous, Hu Weidong chose to purchase it directly from the Japanese side, and the Japanese government was originally unwilling to sell this "secret weapon" in their eyes, but Hu Weidong showed the Japanese the special liquid oxygen kerosene engine for the torpedo, which had just been developed. The Japanese side only understood that the Chinese were already capable of creating more reliable oxygen torpedoes. The reason why I bought it from them was just that it was urgently needed now, and it was too late to wait for this new oxygen torpedo to be put into mass production.

In addition, the Japanese government actually hoped that the fighting between China and Britain would be as fierce as possible, so it finally agreed to urgently (deliver to the door within 10 days) 2,000 Type 93 oxygen torpedoes to China. At the same time, a large number of torpedo boats that have been decommissioned but not yet dismantled, as well as those that are in service but are relatively old and even relatively new, will also be sold to China. Anyway, this kind of boat is built very quickly. Combined, the two are worth more than $150 million, but the Chinese side paid only $30 million in cash (although $30 million is a lot of money for the impoverished Japanese government). The rest was deducted in advance from the war reparations payable by Japan, and in addition, Japan's request was met by transferring Goddard's improved liquid oxygen combustion, kerosene-based torpedo engine jishu to Japan, anyway, there are few large ships in the Chinese Navy, and it doesn't really make a difference to us whether Japanese torpedoes are powerful or not, but the threat to the United States and Britain is much greater

It is precisely because of this that China miraculously possessed more than 100 torpedo boats at once, and if it was a frontal battle, these small boats could not withstand the heavy bombardment of British naval guns, but if it was a sneak attack, it would be a different matter. Hu Weidong hesitated about the danger of the Type 93 oxygen torpedo, but he soon realized that he had no more choice, that China was still weak compared to the British, and that if he was unwilling to take risks, then victory would require greater sacrifices. And compared to the devil to install oxygen torpedoes on destroyers or even cruisers, if you use torpedo boats to launch, even if there is an accident, the damage is relatively small, which is already the best choice

In the case of a direct-sailing torpedo, no matter how good the quality of the guided gyroscope, the accuracy of the launch at a distance of nearly 20 kilometers cannot be guaranteed, and if the target is a single ship, the hit rate is only about one percent. However, this time the torpedo boats were attacking a large fleet, and even if the torpedoes passed by the enemy ships, they could still hit the enemy ships behind, and there were still other warships behind

Therefore, the actual hit rate of the Type 93 oxygen torpedo in this attack was greatly improved, and what made the British even more defenseless was that the track of the oxygen torpedo was very inconspicuous, even if Shili was more haode, it would have to wait until it was quite close to their own ship to find out, and its speed was as high as an astonishing 50 knots, which was a short distance, and the attention of the British officers and men had already been firmly attracted by the enemy planes in the sky, so it was inevitable that they would be a little negligent about the movement on the sea surface. This made the torpedo attack a surprising effect, and it was the battlecruiser "Prestige" that suffered first, the largest surviving warship of the British Far East Fleet

Although only one torpedo was hit, the power of the Type 93 oxygen torpedo really deserved to be the first in Shijie, and it directly sent the giant ship "Prestige" with a full load displacement of more than 30,000 tons to the bottom of the sea; Another battlecruiser, the "Counterattack", soon followed in its footsteps, sinking to the bottom of the reef because of a large amount of water ingress from the wounded area; And the sinking of these two giant ships is just the beginning

According to rough statistics after the war, the Chinese Navy's torpedo boat attack sank a total of 27 British ships, including 18 combat ships, including 2 battle cruisers, 3 heavy cruisers, 7 light cruisers and 6 destroyers

Although the torpedo boat unit was not attacked, because of the safety accident caused by the self-explosion of the oxygen torpedo, nine torpedo boats were sunk, and all the naval officers and men on the boats also died heroically, but Hu Weidong could not blame them for being careless in their operation, because in this attack, the torpedo boat unit launched a total of more than 500 oxygen torpedoes, and only nine torpedo boats were blown up because of the extreme danger of oxygen torpedoes, which can already be rated as a model of safe operation. However, as the leader of China's military industry, Hu Weidong still felt a sense of guilt, so he specifically asked the Torpedo Research Institute to finalize the domestic high-reliability oxygen torpedoes as soon as possible and mass-produce and equip the troops, he really did not want to see that in the next naval battle, the Chinese Navy still needs to rely on extremely dangerous Japanese goods (to be continued......