Chapter 642: Xiangrui Destroyer
Destroyer Yukikaze......
For this famous destroyer in history, Hu Yi really didn't know whether to describe it as auspicious, or more appropriately as the embodiment of calamity. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
When people comment on the achievements of a warship, the level of science and technology is often not the main plus point, but more about how many battles she has experienced, how many enemies she has destroyed, and what kind of glory she has brought to the country.
It can be said that the most eye-catching battleship during World War II was the USS Enterprise, which survived several times in her life and was damaged and unsinkable several times throughout the entire war era, and the number of enemy ships damaged and destroyed was terrifying.
I have to say that it is an unprecedented, even unparalleled super achievement.
There is one such destroyer among the battleships that are almost the opposite of the Enterprise, and that is the Yukikaze!
Yukikaze is famous for its fantasy luck.
She participated in almost all the vicious battles of the Pacific War, including the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Barnyard Bismarck, the Night Battle of Cologne-Bangara, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the Battle of Sibuyan, the Battle of Samar Island, and the Kikusui Attack.
And each time he was able to get out of the way, until the end of World War II, during which less than 10 people were killed on board the Yukikaze.
Can you imagine that at that time, the number of dead and missing people who sank a ship was in the thousands, and the Yukikaze participated in almost all naval battles, and only less than 10 people died!
Because of Yukikaze's legendary achievements, she is known as a "miracle destroyer" in her books.
After the end of the war, the island nation, as a defeated country, compensated the Chinese government for the destroyer Yukikaze, and Xuefeng was renamed the "Danyang" with the designation DD-12, and for a time served as the flagship of the navy.
You don't believe it, but with the combat operations in which the destroyer Yukikaze participates, the enemy obviously has all kinds of opportunities to sink this fragile destroyer, and there is also a clear opportunity to prioritize her as the first opportunity to attack.
But every time, either by accident or for other reasons, the legendary destroyer was always safe and sound.
Let's take a look at how the destroyer, known as "Shorui" and "Shin Death's Schoolboy", has experienced wars that you can't imagine.
On March 24, 1939, a seemingly ordinary Yangyan-class destroyer gradually entered the water along the slipway, and she was named "Snow Wind".
On the 27th of 1941, Davao in Mindanao underwent repairs to the workship Akashi, and during the construction work, the heavy cruiser Myoko was damaged by an air raid by B-17 bombers, and Yukikaze managed to evade the bombing.
On June 4, 1942, he participated in the Battle of Midway, but as the main force, he lost all four of his main aircraft carriers "Akagi", "Kaga", "Soryu", and "Flying Dragon", and "Yukikaze" was lucky to escape.
On October 26, it participated in the naval battle in the South Pacific as a frigate of the flagship aircraft carrier "Xianghe", but "Xianghe" was shot, and later changed to a frigate of the aircraft carrier "Zuihe" and engaged US military aircraft.
The Combined Fleet lost 148 pilots in this battle, and 49% of Japanese torpedo bombers, 39% of dive bombers, and 20% of fighter pilots were killed.
On November 12, in the 3rd Battle of the Solomon, Yukikaze and 13 other destroyers and the light cruiser Nagara escorted the battleships Hiei and Kirishima.
In this battle, 2 destroyers were sunk (Xiao and Yutachi), 1 cruiser and 3 destroyers were damaged, and as the main escort object of "Yukikaze", the "Hiei" also suffered heavy damage, and the next day it was attacked by US planes in towing and was shot again, and finally received a lightning strike from Yukikaze and was scuttled.
"Snow Wind" was not hit by the enemy in this very chaotic naval battle, but was mistakenly shot by his teammates a few times.
Because the commander of the 11th Sentai on the "Hiei" took the "Yukikaze" and became the fleet's temporary command ship, the huge "lieutenant general's flag" on the Yukikaze, which was extremely disproportionate to its size, caused the Yukikaze to be hit by a cluster of aircraft.
The scene of the snow wind shuttling through the countless explosions frightened the senior officers on the board to the point that their expressions were distorted, and they safely survived the bombing.
On March 1, 1943, the "Yukikaze" entered the Bismarck Sea as an escort ship for the transport of troops from New Guinea, but as a result, it attracted an air raid by the US army, losing the destroyers "Shirayuki", "Asahio", "Shizukaze", "Ashioshio" and 7 transport ships, and suffered huge casualties.
But the "Snow Wind" and the 1 infantry brigade she carried did not suffer any losses, and also salvaged a bunch of teammates who had fallen into the water.
On July 12, during the night battle on Bangala Island in Colom, Xuefeng belonged to the second mine squadron with the light cruiser "Shentong" as the flagship, and the flagship Shentong was sunk, and only 21 people survived on the ship.
The "Snow Wind" remained unharmed, and successfully transported 1,200 army soldiers to land after the war.
On June 19, 1944, in the Battle of Mariana (the largest carrier-based aviation duel in World War II), three aircraft carriers, Xianghe, Dafeng, and Feiying, and two oil tankers were sunk and more than 600 aircraft were lost, and the other four aircraft carriers Hayabusa, Ryuho, Chiyoda, and Zuizuru, as well as the heavy patrol Kaohsiung and Maya, were also damaged to varying degrees.
The "Snow Wind" was originally going to go to the front line, but due to an accident that caused a ship failure, the speed was halved, and it was reassigned to join the second supply force to escort two returning oil tankers, successfully avoiding the crisis.
And on the way to the escort, there was an air attack, and two oil tankers were sunk!
On October 20~26, the Battle of Leyte Gulf (the largest naval battle in human history) involved about 35 aircraft carriers, 21 battleships (capital ships), 170 destroyers and nearly 2,000 military aircraft in six days.
The Yukikaze participated in the escort fleet, and the battleships Musashi, Yamashiro, and Fuso, the aircraft carriers Mizuzuru, Zuiho, Chitose, and Chiyoda, and the heavy cruisers Atago, Maya, Chokai, Suzuya, Chikuma, and Mogami were all sunk!
Unfortunately for them were the light cruiser Noshiro and a number of destroyers, while Yukikaze was the only ship in the Central Fleet that was undamaged.
In this battle, Yukikaze was sent to rescue "Chikuma", but temporarily sent "Nobu" to the rescue, and then "Nobu" encountered the U.S. ship battle group...... Sunk.
On 21 November, the "Kongo" battleship escorted by Xuefeng was sunk by the US submarine "Sea Lion," along with the "Pufeng," and the "Xuefeng" continued to be unharmed.
On 29 November, Yukikaze escorted the maiden voyage of the "Shinano," which claimed to be the largest aircraft carrier and was converted from the hull of the No. 3 Yamato-class ship, but was killed by the US submarine "Shooting Fish" before the voyage was completed.
So Yukikaze took the crew of the "Shinano" on the deck and returned safely.
After this incident, the "Xuefeng" anchored in Wu and encountered a particularly heavy air raid by the US military, and Xuefeng fired nearly 15,000 antiaircraft shells in the previous air raids, but did not suffer any damage from the air raid.
On April 7, 1945, Yukikaze was incorporated into the fleet during the "Kikusui Operation" as a frigate of the battleship "Yamato", the flagship of the fleet.
The Kikusui operation wiped out almost all of the combined fleet, and the cruiser "Yasu" and the destroyers Hamakaze, Isokaze, Asushuang, and Kasumi were all sunk or heavily damaged and sunk themselves.
The heavy blows from the air did not hit Yukikaze correctly, and only minor injuries were taken during the whole battle, 3 people were killed and 15 were wounded.
After the Kikusui operation, a soldier found that there was an unexploded US bomb in Xuefeng's granary, and once this bomb exploded, it might blow through the bottom of Xuefeng's ship and sink directly, but it was a dud!
After that, Yukikaze successively transferred to Maizuru, Miyazu Bay, and Kure Port, and experienced dozens of large-scale air raids by a total of 15,000 enemy aircraft, but only one was hit, and it was a dud!
During an air raid, Xue Feng accidentally hit a mine laid by his house in order to avoid a bomb, but Xue Feng's curse was fulfilled again, and the mine fuse failed!
And the destroyer next to it, Chushuang, also hit a mine and broke the bottom.
On August 18, when Yukikaze escorted the diving carrier Nagawhale back to Maizuru Port, it accidentally triggered a mine, but the mine exploded after the ship had completely passed, so it was spared again.
After the end of World War II, the Snow Wind was drawn by the United States as post-war reparations and then transferred to the Kuomintang government.
On July 6, 1947, Xuefeng was officially handed over and renamed Danyang.
On December 8, 1971, the Danyang was dismantled, and on the same day, Comrade Jiang suffered a mysterious car accident and became ill.
In December 1971, Yukikaze's anchor and steering wheel were returned to Japan and are now housed at the Maritime Self-Defense Force Technical School and Educational Reference Center on Etajima, where they are ...... The Japanese financial crisis broke out in '72.
Above!
It is the wonderful and magical life of the legendary destroyer Yukikaze of World War II!
This is not an exaggeration, but the real history is so mysterious and unbelievable.
It was so amazing that even Hu Yi couldn't help but be shocked when he heard that the Snow Wind was assigned to escort the Nakasuhime war mothership, and subconsciously remembered all kinds of rumors about that little Lori in his mind.
It is true that from a scientific point of view, you can't really use words like "fantasy" or "luck" to explain the destroyer, but there is a correct analysis behind her various legends.
At that time, the destroyer Yukikaze was advanced in equipment, the quality of the crew was super high, the captain commanded well, and the overall strength was several levels higher than that of other warships of the same period.
So that from the beginning of the war, the Snow Wind can still survive again and again, even if it has been active at the forefront of the battlefield.
Of course, being hit by an aerial bomb is dumb, hitting a mine is also dumb, and finally not being dumb and delaying the explosion without hurting anyone at all, these can indeed be attributed to her luck.
But that doesn't take away from the efforts made by the Yukikaze during World War II.
And in later generations, with false rumors, no one can say exactly when, Xuefeng was gradually rumored to be the same as a certain anime little guy "Death Schoolboy", where he went, where he died.
On the phone, Hu Yi frowned slightly and thought a lot.
On the one hand, whether it is rumored or not, Xuefeng's "murderous reputation" is a fact, and Hu Yi, who has gradually become accustomed to his naval career, is somewhat jealous.
On the other hand, Avalon is now in the stage of full development, and it is also a fact that there is a shortage of manpower.
In the end, after weighing a few things in his heart, Hu Yi determined the establishment of the ocean-going fleet to take over the war mothership Nakasuki.
"Hope...... In reality, it won't be so mysterious! ā
ps:,Because it's basically copied information.,Not to mention purple pit money.,And I believe that many people still don't know the history of a certain auspicious.ć (To be continued.) )