Chapter 218: The Ise capsizes
The five torpedo boats launched an attack on the battleship "Ise" with an indomitable momentum, and the "Ise" and more than a dozen gunboats of various types that came to help them frantically fired shells at them." In front of the Ise, on the left and right sides of the ocean, explosions were heard one after another, and one giant lang after another rose up, and five swordfish flew through it as if they had become real fish. 024 was unfortunately shot first, and then dragged the billowing smoke towards the "Ise".
In the cockpit of 024, only Zhang Yuxi was left alive among the four bloody men, and next to the torpedo launcher in the back, several cadets who were sticking to their posts were on fire. "Leave me alone, launch!" Wang Qiang, the squad leader of the combat squad, is such a burning man. He endured the pain in his heart and shouted to his brothers, but after shouting these words, he could no longer hold on, and as soon as his hand was loosened, he fell from the boat and fell on the undulating sea, and was immediately swallowed up by the raging waves.
From a bird's-eye view, 024 has turned into a fireball dragging smoke at breakneck speed. "Bang bang-" Two heavy objects fell into the water, and the two torpedoes plunged into the water, and then almost ran towards the "Ise" that was close at hand with 024.
At a distance of less than a hundred meters, the "cobblestones" can be completed in six or seven seconds. In the midst of the exclamations of the devils, there were three loud "booms", and an earth-shattering explosion occurred in the boiler room on the port side of the "Ise". The trainees of the 024 combat group were tenacious, and when the 024 had almost hit the "Ise", they completed the launch of the other two torpedoes. As a result, four torpedoes plus 024 hit the same direction one after another, and the last two torpedoes went directly into the large hole blown up by the first two torpedoes and exploded directly in the boiler room.
Violent explosions sounded one after another, and Rao, a sea overlord like the "Ise", was still shaken violently by the explosion.
There were a total of five Swordfish aimed at the Ise, and both 016 and 018 fired two torpedoes before 024 hit the Ise head-on. Sentaro Omori was personally directing the helmsman to avoid the two torpedoes fired by 016, and the port side was hit, and the little devil was taken aback and shouted: "Not good, boiler room!" ”
Omori knew the structure of the Ise well, and when he heard the explosion, he knew that the hull of the ship, where the boiler room was located, had been attacked. He ran out of the captain's room, grabbed the railing and looked down, at this time, there was a violent explosion from the starboard side and the bow of the ship, and in the monstrous giant Lang, I don't know how many devils were knocked out of the ocean, and then the hull shook even more violently.
"Go back, hold on!" Arima Masafumi shouted to Omori Sen.
Omori Sen's instinctive "Hai" responded, and then let go and prepared to go back to the captain's room. At this moment, a dull explosion sounded, and then the entire battleship shook violently, and his complexion changed greatly, and he said: "It's not good, it's the boiler room!" He exclaimed, his body lost control, and he fell headlong from the bridge - after the boiler room of the "Ise" was hit, the boiler exploded, and this unusually violent explosion not only directly tore the "Ise" in two, but also destroyed the balance of the ship's hull. Omori Xiancui was caught off guard and fell down, wailing and smashing his head on the bottom deck, his brain burst and he fell directly to his death.
Arima Masamune's encounter startled Arima Masamune, and he couldn't help but clutch to the railing, his face was pale, and his chest rose and fell violently. The boiler exploded, the hull was broken in two, and the fate of the "Ise" was already sealed. Haruyoshida rushed out with a few officers who didn't know where to go, they grabbed Arima Masafumi and ran down, Haruyoshida shouted: "Your Excellency, please leave the ship immediately, the boiler room has exploded!" ”
At the time of the explosion in the boiler room of the "Ise", the attack of the torpedo boat units of the Higashiyama Fleet was also launched on all fronts. More than 30 swordfish formed a team of threes and twos, and although the enemy ships targeted by them tried their best to resist, they could not escape the fatal kiss of the "pebbles".
In a series of violent explosions, Arima Masafumi was dragged by his men to board a small boat and run to another heavy cruiser "Nachi", and behind them, the "Ise" was hit by four torpedoes one after another, and the behemoth turned into a sick lion that fell in the midst of wolves. And the thousands of devil soldiers on it wailed and screamed, and in the violent shaking of the ship's hull, many of them plunged into the water without putting on a lifebuoy.
The "Ise" was so huge that if it weren't for the fact that 024 just happened to blow up its boiler room and cause a martyrdom, it would have been difficult to sink its momentum with the "Cobblestone" medium torpedo. And even if it was broken in two, the "Ise" was the last battleship to sink in the landing fleet.
The "Ise" broke in two, and the stern of the ship was swallowed by the sea in just 10 minutes, but after the bow was cocked, the sinking process was relatively slow, and it struggled at sea for nearly five hours before finally being buried at the bottom of the sea in Fuzhou. The "Ise" was killed, which greatly damaged the morale of the landing fleet. Those frigates and gunboats are okay, after all, they still have the ability to defend themselves, and they can counteract the fear in their hearts with crazy counterattacks. And for the devils on troop carriers and landing ships, what happened to them was too miserable. Those small troop carriers are okay, their targets are relatively small, and they can't attract enough attention from Qi Minghao, but those three large troop carriers are at least like the "Gagu", which naturally became the focus of the trainees.
More than a dozen swordfish hungry wolves rushed towards the three troop carriers, and the devil soldiers on the troop carriers screamed again and again. Then, a jaw-dropping scene appeared, thousands of devils rushed out of the cabin, picked up machine guns and rifles to shoot at the incoming swordfish, persistently and vainly trying to resist the attack of the swordfish with the 38 big cover and crooked handles.
In this regard, Qi Minghao is naturally not afraid. He commanded the boats to fire torpedoes at a distance of four or five hundred meters, bullied the large hulls and slow speed of the troop carriers, and used this offensive method that was enough to make the devils vomit blood and sank two large troop carriers and a landing ship.
Two large troop carriers and a landing ship were sunk, and more than 3,000 devils were buried with them, swept into the bottom of the sea by whirlpools, or directly suffocated in the cabin. In addition, five or six thousand devils began to struggle to the death in the ocean, and for this alone, Qi Minghao's troops of torpedo boats annihilated several thousand enemies, and also completely ended Yamamoto 56's idea of opening a front along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong with the help of the Marine Corps.
The "Kako" and "Ise" were destroyed one after another, and after Arima Masafumi boarded the "Nachi" for a heavy tour, he learned to be obedient. He ordered all the battleships to move closer to the area where the heavy cruiser and troop carriers and landing ships of the "Nachi" were assembled, and then at the cost of two frigates and several small and medium-sized gunboats, he finally consumed all the torpedoes of the Swordfish. It's just that because two large troop carriers and a landing ship have already been sunk before this, his awakening came too late.
Qi Minghao, deputy commander of the Dongshan Fleet, led 53 "Swordfish" high-speed torpedo boats to attack, and at the cost of 34 Swordfish, finally sank one battleship, one heavy cruiser, one landing ship, four frigates, three troop carriers, and 17 gunboats of various types of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the number of Japanese people killed, drowned, and missing was as high as 11,000.
As a result of this battle, the strength of the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy was greatly damaged, and the strength of the Marine Corps was almost completely lost, and it was no longer able to open up a front along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong. The pressure on the land defense along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong has been greatly reduced, and Ouyang Yun has been able to continue to increase troops along the Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi lines.
The landing fleet suffered a surprise attack by the Navy of the Cadet Army and suffered heavy losses, and Arima Masafumi felt shameless in the face of Yamamoto Isoroku, and after signing and sending a battle report, he wiped his neck clean and prepared to cut himself in thanks.
At this time, a scene that made the Japanese naval officers and men feel quite warm appeared, Yamamoto Isoroku seemed to have the ability to predict the future, and the first thing he did after receiving the telegram was to hold back his anger and send a telegram asking Arima Masafumi not to do stupid things, and taught earnestly in the telegram: "Failure is not terrible, what is terrible is not knowing where you are defeated." I am also responsible for the heavy damage suffered by the landing fleet, and if I had asked Yamabegawa Sankey not to support the 6th Division and escort Erbe, this should not have happened......"
Receiving this humane telegram from the old devil, Arima Zhengwen was so moved that he couldn't help himself, and lay on the carpet prepared for suicide and cried. After weeping bitterly for five minutes, the little devil suddenly raised his head, then bowed down heavily in the southeast direction, raised his head and said to himself, "Your Excellency Yamamoto! Thank you for your teachings, Arima swears here that he will follow Your Excellency in this life, and if he does not achieve his goal, he is willing to break his bones into the eighteenth layer of hell to make up for reincarnation! After saying that, he picked up the command knife and cut off the little finger of his left hand to show his will.
Arima Masafumi didn't know what to say, when he was in the captain's office of the heavy cruiser "Nachi", Yamamoto was in the captain's room of the "Fengxiang" aircraft carrier with a thunderous fury. I don't know if Lu Dao was influenced by Koizumi Tonichiro, and the old devil's acting skills have become more and more profound. The fact that he can send a message to dispel Arima's will to die and make him feel sorry doesn't mean that he will give up pursuing the matter.
"Our intelligence-gathering capabilities are simply too weak! When did the Cadet Army develop a large-scale torpedo boat force? Why has no one ever reported to me? Tsuwahara, you're in charge of intelligence gathering, right? Building a ship is not about making guns and cannons, it requires a fairly large factory. What do you have to say about this? ”
What can Tsukahara 243 say? The intelligence department of the Combined Fleet was established only two months ago at the suggestion of Toshiichiro Koizumi, and it has only been a month and a half since he was the head of the intelligence section. Ouyang Yun and his gang of people are cunning and cunning, not to mention themselves, even His Excellency the Minister will personally grasp this matter, presumably there will be no good way, right? Thinking like this in his heart, he didn't dare to say that. Since the attack on the Nagasaki military port, Yamamoto's personality has changed greatly, and when he is furious, except for a limited number of people such as Koizumi Tonichiro and Mitsumasa Yonechi, who dares to face it!
Tsukahara bowed his head heavily and didn't say a word, and at this time, Sanada walked in and brought another good news.