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The astonishing results of the oxygen torpedo completely destroyed the British fighting spirit, and they drove their ships out of the battlefield, but as a result, they dispersed their air defenses, and were attacked by Stuka bombers and even Chinese fighters with more ferocity. By the time the raid was over, the huge British Far East Fleet had less than 15 warships left, the largest of which were light cruisers. And just when the British were glad to have escaped, several high-speed warships of the Chinese Navy, led by the heavy cruiser Jingyuan, suddenly appeared in front of them and demanded their immediate surrender over the radio

The pride of the British Royal Navy made these British people refuse to surrender without hesitation, but with the remaining wrecked ships, it is impossible to win, so the British wisely chose to disperse and break through, but the Chinese warships are more than one, and the speed is faster, plus the uninterrupted tracking of airborne radar reconnaissance aircraft, and some of the bombers who returned to their respective airfields after the previous air raids were replenished with fuel and ammunition and attacked again, chasing and destroying the remaining British ships, and finally the British did not escape a single warship, And because they refused to surrender, the Chinese Navy had to use almost all of Liliang to pursue and destroy, and there was no spare strength to rescue the British officers and sailors who fell into the water, resulting in the death of most of the British troops, and the total number of survivors of such a huge fleet was less than 1,000 after the war

The Battle of Zhoushan was the biggest defeat in the history of the Royal Navy, with more than 60 ships lost. The total number of officers and men killed and captured also exceeded 40,000 (including a marine brigade that accompanied them, who died directly at sea before they could go ashore; It also includes non-combatants such as military doctors who travel with them). Although the Chinese side lost less than 1,000 casualties, the losses still made Hu Weidong's heart ache

A total of 147 Chinese planes were shot down and 75 planes were damaged, most of them bombers, and because the sea was vast and difficult to rescue, most of the pilots who parachuted were killed, and as many as 108 bomber pilots sacrificed their young lives for the motherland. And if you count the machine gunners and fighter pilots of the bombers. The total number of casualties in the Air Force reached 247. Furthermore. The Navy lost 9 torpedo boats and all the crews on them, while several large and medium-sized ships also suffered varying degrees of damage in the pursuit of the remnants of the enemy, adding up to a total of 121 casualties, and for China. The navy is also a scarce jishu branch. Therefore, the size of the loss cannot be measured simply by the number of people.

But anyway. This joint operation of the Chinese Navy and Air Force was a great success, and the "Battle of Zhoushan," as the first "three-dimensional strike" in the history of Shijie, has been forever recorded in history. However, this battle cannot be said to be without flaws. For example, some people have pointed out that it may be more effective to replace the torpedo boats in this battle with submarines, but because the speed of submarines is generally too slow at this time, it is very difficult to operate if submarines are used to perform similar tasks, and it is relatively easy to use only in battles such as attacking fixed targets such as ports. In an engagement at sea, it was not until the advent of a drop-shaped submarine that could catch up with the cruising speed of surface ships that the submarine could more easily cooperate with surface ships and aircraft groups

Naval and air battles are different from land battles, and it is generally difficult to get any capture, which makes the Red Party and the PLA high-level who are accustomed to strengthening themselves through capture somewhat unhappy, but Hu Weidong soon gave everyone a surprise again, he actually used a new method to salvage a number of sunken British ships, this method is the liquid air method that is very common in later generations.

The conventional method of salvaging the wreck is to press the high-pressure gas into it, so that the water in the ship is discharged, and the wreck gets buoyancy and exposes the water surface, which takes a long time and often takes more than a day, and because of this, the deeper and larger wrecks are basically impossible to salvage (because of the need for long-term drainage, the salvage ship cannot provide high power output for many days in a row, and it will also be a big loss economically.) ）。 In the case of the liquid air method, as long as liquid nitrogen is poured into the cabin, the low-temperature liquid nitrogen will expand explosively, and the high-pressure gas pump frame makes the water in the cabin quickly discharged, and the efficiency is far comparable to that of unconventional methods, and it takes tens of seconds for a medium-sized wreck to surface at a depth of less than 10 meters (which is almost the limit of conventional methods).

This not only saves a lot of time, but also greatly reduces costs, and because of the fast afloat speed and the small size of the equipment required (under the premise of the same salvage capacity), the liquid air method can recover wrecks whose depth and tonnage are far beyond the limits of conventional salvage methods. And it is particularly worth mentioning that the requirements of this method are not high, even in China at the beginning of 1940, it is easy to do, the difficulty lies in balance, especially when salvaging large ships, if there is a tumbling due to the change of center of gravity, with the weight of tens of thousands of tons of large warships, the weight of the structure can crush itself

In this regard, Hu Weidong's method is to first fish out the worthless accumulation of experience, and then make it bigger, so that the efficiency and cost ratio are relatively higher, if there is still a failure in salvage after gaining experience, then it can only be admitted, after all, it is impossible to salvage all these ships with a depth of more than 30 meters 100 percent, but it is better to maintain the mentality of "fishing up one and earning one".

In the end, the special salvage team successfully salvaged 17 British ships, including 15 combat ships, including 2 aircraft carriers, 1 battleship, 1 battle cruiser, and 3 heavy cruisers.

But fortunately, the "Ark Royal" aircraft carrier, which Hu Weidong values the most, is generally intact and can be reused as long as it is repaired, which means that China has its own aircraft carrier! But the question is, what should China do if the large docks that China is now able to repair the aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" are occupied by warships under construction? (To be continued......)