429 sea battle seven, one sword pierces three hearts

In the hazy night, a dark shadow streaked under the warm water, and the tail wave was particularly noticeable on the sea, but when the black shadow gradually disappeared below the water, the wake stopped abruptly like a song that was stuck in the neck. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

Torpedo soldier Ke found a bamboo stick, and while forking the pineapple in the can, he carefully checked the pressure value in the torpedo tube, and the milky yellow light above his head told him that it should be night.

To be honest, it is indeed not a good job to carry in this stuffy tank, compared with those partners on the sea, this kind of day is indeed difficult, sometimes even day and night are not clear, but it is also strange, except for a few people, most of the partners choose to stay.

In the words of the captain, everyone probably has an assassin dream in their hearts.

The man's husband, crisscrossing thousands of miles, hiding in the sea, staying in this stuffy tank with grievances, isn't it just waiting for the feeling of a sword in the firelight

Fortunately, his Thresher Shark had already tasted this taste, as the fifth ship of the Gray Spine Shark class, participated in the mission to blockade the British Far East Fleet in Hong Kong, sent a large British armored cruiser to the bottom of the sea with two torpedoes, and later received the Navy's Gold Medal, which can be regarded as a meritorious boat.

To this day, when I think of the scene I saw in the periscope that day, the captain chatters endlessly, like a verbose woman.

According to the captain, he was not going to send a submarine force in this Armageddon, but only sent his own assassins to Malacca for a ride, because the Armageddon submarines of dozens of capital ships could not help at all, and the vortex brought by the shell belt and explosion alone could overturn this small guy of several hundred tons.

But later, the hydrographic ship came back and said that there were many islands and reefs in the Mingdawei Strait, and if the war dragged on until the night, even destroyers would have to be cautious, so the Admiralty decided to let six Gray Spine Sharks now set up an ambush here, and if the main force broke up the enemy and forced it here, the submarine force would take over and carry out night sniping.

Sniping.

Ke likes this word, it's like an arrow through the heart.

As an ordinary sailor, he didn't know how the plan was discussed, but judging from the fact that he had sent some boats a few months ago, this was definitely a big deal, and just before setting sail, he heard that there were more than sixty ships, which made people soar into the stars.

What is the concept of more than sixty ships? What's more, there are at least 30 or more big guys with more than 10,000 tons, what a big deal this is, and pulling it back to sell iron is enough for several generations to chew grain.

Ke snorted, stuffed the latter piece of sugar-soaked pineapple into his mouth, and secretly begged the Bodhisattva in his heart, don't run out of the heavy ships with those bastards above, and the six leftovers are not worth the torpedo money.

The same thought also lingered in the heart of the captain Jin Hai, although he got the news that fourteen big guys had come in, but the problem was that the capital ship was still chasing all the way, in case he went to sea for half a month after arriving, he would not even drink soup .......

"Phew" Jin Hai secretly spat, and quickly dispersed the bad thought in his heart.

In the periscope, there was still chaos, the stars in the sky were as bright as silver, and the heavy island shadow in the distance seemed to blend into the darkness, making it impossible to see him exactly.

It is said that in order to solve this problem, the Admiralty is going to install a kind of equipment for submarines to distinguish things by ear, but that thing will have to wait a few years, and it still depends on this "one-eyed" for now. ”

"Tanks 1 and 2 began to drain, the left rudder was five degrees, and we went up."

Probably because of this blurred vision, Jin Hai decided to go up to take a look, but at this moment, he didn't know that a fleet full of gunpowder was slowly approaching along the small island next to him.

In the bridge of the Victory, the officers were full of despair, in just seven hours, the huge Russian fleet, which was considered invincible, had only eleven warships left, and all of them were carried, the serious Petropavlovsk, which was blown off several secondary guns on the starboard side by a Chinese Imperial battleship that caught up shortly after drilling out of the islands, not to mention the right tilt of the deck, and the speed dropped to 10 knots, and then only relied on the dense islands to evade the pursuit.

The atmosphere was oppressive and sad, the depressing thing was that they had not yet escaped from each other's pursuit, perhaps the next second the shells would fall again, and the sad thing was that tens of thousands of companions were buried at the bottom of the sea, this feeling was beyond ordinary people's experience, they sailed 15,000 nautical miles, survived a difficult and torturous six months, but were blown up at the moment when they were about to reach their destination. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

What made these officers understand was that they had not been able to pose a real threat to the other side from beginning to end, although there were close misses at the beginning, but they were always out of breath, and the other side was almost incomparable, destroying and sweeping everything like a volley, which was terrifying to think about.

"Can you go back?"

This question haunted everyone's minds, and they looked at Acting Commander Fawksum, who had been sitting there for hours, like a mourner, and had not given a single order, and the gloom in their hearts grew.

To tell the truth, except for the commander who relied on nepotism as a major general of the navy, no one wanted to enter the reef-ridden Mingtawei Strait, and everyone would rather go to a decisive battle with the opponent than wait for an unknown fate here, although the sound of artillery in three hours was indeed far away, but this is really not a good place, especially the Badu Islands that blocked the exit of the strait in front, crowded and narrow, and it was no different from looking for death for a fleet with an unfamiliar environment.

But what's the solution? The commander insisted on leading everyone inside, because he thought that he could reach the neutral port of Banda Aceh along the strait, but the question was, does Banda Aceh still dare to take in his own people at this moment?

Several of the officers were a little overwhelmed by the dreary atmosphere, and took out their cigars and walked out to the outside deck, where the sailors sat on the deck made them feel uncomfortable, but fortunately the gentle sea breeze and strong Spanish cigars relieved some of the pressure.

But they didn't know what it was like when the cigar was lit and shimmered in the wind.

Jin Hai turned the periscope, and after surfacing the surface, his vision widened a lot, and when the periscope turned left and right a few times, a little spark in the afterglow suddenly pierced into his eyes like a cold star.

Jin Hai suddenly re-aimed the periscope at the place where Mars appeared, and after a moment when Mars flashed again, the whole person froze

Capital ship

is a capital ship

"Ten o'clock, right hand five degrees."

"1, 2 water tanks are filled with water to maintain the periscope depth."

"Send a telegram, twelve nautical miles southeast of Badu Island, a ......, not three ......, seven, God, all here" Looking at one black shadow after another appearing in the periscope, Jin Hai's eyes were bloodshot, and when the radio waves were sent out quickly, the Thresher Shark had already disappeared on the sea, and even the communication buoy was taken back.

The lone periscope made a small track, which might have been noticeable during the day, but now it was night, and if it weren't for the idiots smoking on the warship five thousand meters away, it might have been missed by the back of the island

"Maintain depth, speed 10 knots."

"Torpedo compartment ready."

"Combat readiness."

Jin Hai suppressed his excitement and issued one order after another, but in fact, there was no need for orders, and even Ke and the other torpedo soldiers had already pulled out the starvation safety bolt on the torpedo and started to inspect it.

After handing over the periscope to the first mate, Jin Hai did the chart, and kept thinking about what to do in his mind, after all, these are fourteen capital ships, even if they are one by one, they can't be finished with the eight torpedoes of the Thresher Shark.

Jin Hai took out a cigarette and took a bite hard, the close partners are more than ten nautical miles away, and it will take an hour to arrive, the speed of the destroyer detachment, but it will take at least half an hour, so "they must be delayed"

"Four thousand eight hundred meters."

"Four thousand five hundred meters."

"Four thousand meters."

“……”

The voice of the first mate made the atmosphere inside the Thresher Shark more and more tense, and the already sultry air seemed to be scorched, and drops of sweat dripped down everyone's foreheads and cheeks, mixing with the seawater seeping into the deck.

Everyone looked at the captain, according to the improved range of the spear torpedo, it was completely ready to fire, but Jin Hai seemed to hear the first mate's report, until after entering the three thousand meters, Jin Hai suddenly ordered to slow down.

When he took the periscope from the first mate again, the huge Russian ** ship was almost attached to the periscope, Jin Hai took a deep breath, looked around and suddenly asked with a smile: "Damn, it's a guy bigger than last time, are you ready?" ”

When everyone's eyes lit up, Jin Hai immediately lowered his voice and shouted: "The No. 1 and No. 3 torpedoes are ready, set at a depth of three meters, and No. 2 and No. 4 are on standby and start pressurizing." ”

Ke flipped the switch hard, and the compressed air in the pipe made a slight whistling sound and quickly injected into the torpedo tube, and when the pointer crossed the yellow and reached the red zone, he closed the valve, and at the same time, his comrades had already informed the command cabin behind by phone that it was ready.

"The target is 2,800 meters, and the No. 1 and No. 3 torpedoes are launched, so as to prepare for the impact"

There were two soft bangs, and the thresher shark's body shook, giving people a light feeling as if they had thrown off a big burden, and two straight tracks appeared in the periscope at the same time.

In order to ensure the hit, the submarine must use at least two torpedoes when attacking, and even all four of them will be shot out in extreme cases, because the torpedoes cannot be turned, and the target is moving, even at the speed of the spear 40 knots, the distance of three thousand meters takes almost three minutes, so the advance must be calculated.

The thresher shark was silent, everyone was waiting anxiously, time seemed to freeze at that moment, every second was as slow as a snail, everyone clenched their fists, drop after drop of water seeping from the periscope, as if a sledgehammer was hitting everyone's heart.

The first mate held the watch in his left hand and the armrest next to him with his right hand, and when the hands had been twisted two and a half times, he jerked his head up.

Boom......

Two huge fireballs suddenly burst out of the darkness, only to see the huge warship that was targeted, like rag dolls being rolled up in flames, and then slammed down on the sea, stirring up a wall of water more than ten meters high.

Before the excitement passed, Jin Hai pulled down the periscope suddenly, and then hugged the armrest with both hands.

Thresher didn't know who it had hit, and in fact the Russian fleet was equally stunned by these two explosions, and in fact the 13,000-ton second flagship Victory was not much better than the aging Nicholas I when faced with a perverted torpedo like a spear, and had no resistance at all except for a few thousand tons more splashes.

But it was this extra few thousand tons of splash that made Jin Hai and the Thresher Shark suffer a lot, and the violent waves violently loaded the small submarine, pushing it sideways for a hundred meters, and even almost rolled dangerously.

After the shock wave passed, before everyone could pat their clothes, there was already a rumbling sound of shelling on the sea, and a violent explosion sounded around the Thresher Shark, making the submarine seem to be a small sampan on the top of the vicious waves.

"Boom"

A huge explosion suddenly exploded from the port side, and the shaking of the distance made the submarine suddenly a mess, and the two water pipes burst open, and the water column immediately rushed out of the fracture.

Seeing this, the first mate was the first to act, took off his sour shirt and pounced, and the other sailors immediately took off their clothes and pounced, and at the same time quickly cut off the valve of the water pipe.

The increasingly violent explosions made the atmosphere more and more tense, and the excitement had completely subsided, and Jin Hai could even see the soldiers' iron-blue faces and frightened eyes.

It has to change

Jin Hai pulled the handrail, walked to the chart, carefully calculated the position of the formation of the Russian fleet in his mind, and suddenly made a bold decision

"Right hand rudder 5 degrees, dive, 35 meters, speed 10 knots"

Many people are surprised by Jin Hai's decision, and don't understand why he is still leading the other party away, but in fact this is a very correct decision, as early as more than three years ago, after the blockade of Hong Kong, it is no secret that Hua has submarines, and the Russians also know this, so when they saw the sudden explosion of the Victory, they immediately thought of these underwater devils.

But the problem is that the Russian fleet thought that the enemy would definitely leave immediately after a sneak attack, but he didn't expect Jin Hai to be so bold and plunge headlong into the belly of the fleet.

As the depth scale on the compass became larger and larger, the steel began to make a tooth-squeaking sound, and the sailors who had just blocked the water pipe became nervous again, although the gray spine shark could dive to a depth of forty meters in the test, but everyone knew that as the depth increased, the pressure around it began to increase suddenly, and the danger became greater and greater.

Thankfully, the thresher shark withstood the pressure, and when it reached a depth of 36 meters, the explosions around it began to fade and then fade under the nervous beating heart.

Twenty minutes later, Jin Hai ordered to float again, when the periscope popped out of the sea again, his eyes were bloodshot again, he didn't expect that his speed of 10 knots was already like a snail, the Russian fleet was actually slow, and their artillery fire was constantly extending into the distance, and the whole fleet was like a honeycomb that exploded.

"Torpedo tubes No. 1 and No. 3 are loaded." Red-eyed, he immediately began to order.

"Preparation for No. 2 and No. 4"

When Ke led everyone to stuff the two heavy spears into the launch tube again, Jin Hai had already chosen the target, which was a big guy with a sloping deck.

"Fifteen degrees on the left side, 1,800 meters."

"Prepare ......."

"Launch 2 and 4"

This time, Jin Haixue was obedient, and he didn't see if he hit the target, so he immediately ordered to turn right and dive, and when the explosion sounded again on the sea two minutes later, the thresher shark had already slipped to the side.

The violent waves deflected the Thresher Shark nearly a hundred meters again, and even Jin Hai himself didn't know where it was, only to hear the rumbling sound of the steam engine constantly sounding overhead, and licked his lips again.

And the sailors on the side were also driven crazy by this crazy captain, and even forgot the situation under the enemy's belly at this moment, one by one clenched their fists and their faces were flushed, and they all nodded vigorously at Jin Hai.

Kill again

"Go up and get the periscope ready."

"Torpedo tubes No. 1, No. 3 ready."

"Two, four start loading."

"Beware of impact protection"

When the Thresher Shark fell into madness, the remnants of the Russian fleet were already at a loss, losing two capital ships in just ten minutes, so that the remaining Russian sailors didn't even care about the phantom of 3721 fighting, and the heavy panting mixed with the sound of violent shelling made everyone fall into despair.

Sometimes, the soldier is not afraid of the enemy coming from the front, and is even willing to be torn apart by a single shell of the capital ship, but this sight lurking around him, like a ghost of the deep sea, constantly pulling his partner down the sea, is enough to send chills down everyone's spine.

The Warrior was like a mad dog, and all the guns on the 6,600-ton cruiser, which Russia had built itself and even called a great improvement by the British, had already fired, and the frightened soldiers had long forgotten the order, they only knew that all the shells had to be sent out to relieve the tension in their hearts.

The captain shouted for a ceasefire, but no one could hear those sounds, and the fiery red cannon sound rained down on the virtual opponent in the distance, and the soldiers, who had never experienced submarine warfare, did not know how to deal with it.

When several sailors in the stern of the cruiser, which was following the formation behind, shouted in horror, it was all over.

The 6,600-ton body was thrown up fiercely, hundreds of sailors were directly shaken away, and the corpses, gun barrels and parts were smashed on the sea like hail falling from a hurricane.

Countless searchlights were aimed at the Thresher Shark, which was making an emergency dive, and when the muzzle of the cannon was about to rotate, the roar of the cannon was finally heard in the distance.

At eleven o'clock, the arrival of the Dandong finally saved the life of the Thresher Shark, and the remnants of the Russian fleet immediately turned their guns, perhaps for the sailors, it is always better to face the visible target than the invisible devil.

When Jin Hai retreated with the Thresher Shark in the rumbling cannons, he himself didn't realize that confusion, ignorance, not knowing how to deal with submarines, the Russian fleet shrouded in fear, and so on helped him complete the feat of submarines hunting three capital ships at once in history

So much so that later the statue in front of the building of the Chinese Navy Department was engraved with such a sentence.

"They pierce three hearts with a sword"