Chapter 130: Let's Face the Steel

Before the sinking of the Naniwa, Heihachiro Togo, who was wounded by a grenade fragment from a 23-mm cannon on the bridge, was dragged onto a lifeboat by his men. In fact www.biquge.info there was no scene of scrambling to get into the lifeboat like before the sinking of the Titanic, because the sailors kept trying to storm the foredeck, and many people were killed by the crossers guarding the two side aisles and super hinds.

If they were to replace them with what they called "red deer" army compatriots, they would not be stupid enough to do such a stupid thing as retaking the foredeck with a single-shot rifle in their hand. But the sailors have always looked down on the army red deer, and have not taken their description of automatic firearms to heart at all, only as an excuse for the army red deer to be bad for their own war.

This discrimination resulted in heavy casualties in close proximity, so much so that by the time the order was given to abandon ship, there were far more seats in the lifeboats than there were still sailors alive.

The "Naniwa" was originally carrying out reconnaissance and blockade missions in the waters near Dalian Bay, but because the coal and supplies on board were running out, it withdrew from the fleet formation and went to the Taedong River in North Korea alone to replenish fuel and supplies. When it was damaged and sunk, it was located nearly 100 kilometers in a straight line from the Japanese landing site at Huayuankou. The sailors on the lifeboats, who lacked food and clothing, really didn't have much strength to row towards the garden mouth, so they could only float along the ocean current in the general direction of the garden mouth, hoping that a passing ship would find them.

By the time Oji Yasumi returned to the state city, the Japanese ships had already spotted the crew of the "Naniwa" who was in the lifeboat. A comparison of the information provided by the two sides quickly confirmed the news that the cruiser "Naniwa" was sunk by the 1st Volunteer Brigade.

At this time, the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Sukehiro Ito, was worried about how to bring back the ships that had been sent out to patrol, and it was already too dangerous to carry out such a backyard-style blockade patrol now, and the captains of the ships had to be informed of the news of the sinking of the "Naniwa."

Fearing a quick surprise attack by the 1st Volunteer Brigade on land, the Japanese Army officers who transferred their headquarters to naval vessels found that they were not necessarily safe even if they stayed on board.

Heihachiro Togo, who had been treated with wound bandaging, was telling Yuhiro Ito and Oyama Iwa about the attack on the Naniwa, and the news that the Imperial Chrysanthemum Emblem on the bow of the Naniwa had fallen into the hands of the enemy had not yet been transmitted, and Heihachiro Togo still had the idea of fighting again at another date.

When the chrysanthemum insignia on the bow of the cruiser under his command was thrown like garbage on the ground in the negotiation hall, Higashiko Heihachiro almost didn't spurt out a mouthful of old blood. He coughed violently, the sharp pain from the wound he had been involved made his face hideous. The sinking of the ship is not the end of the world, and we can hope to fight again at another date to make a comeback. However, the imperial chrysanthemum insignia on the ship was copied by the enemy, and Togo Heihachiro's career in the navy was over, and the only thing waiting for him was to retire with honor.

After listening to Heihachiro Togo's report, the commander of the Combined Fleet, Yuhiro Ito, did not have time to pay attention to his psychological changes, and he was worried that the First Volunteer Brigade would no longer attack the other ships of the fleet.

"Commander Ito. Please stay calm. Since the First Volunteer Brigade leaked this information to our representatives who participated in the negotiations, it was to threaten and blackmail us, and for this reason they even made a shameless demand that we redeem the imperial chrysanthemum emblem. I think the fleet is safe for the time being, and their purpose is to force the cabinet to make a decision, not to fight us. Seeing Ito Yuhiro as irritable as an ant on a hot pot, Oyama said.

Obviously, the Japanese have been tricked again, and this is the judgment that Zhao Yi wants them to make. Dashan Yan saw through the big goal of the Crossing Crowd - forcing the Japanese cabinet to make the decision to cede the Liaodong Peninsula, but what they didn't know was that the Crossing Crowd had a small goal to complete first.

Li Hongzhang's task on the hunting order was only half completed, and the combined fleet was not safe. Of course, very few people know about this secret agreement, not because the secrecy system of the Qing court has suddenly changed qualitatively, but because the lord of this secret agreement does not dare to show it. Those who dare to call themselves the Great Song Dynasty are first-class anti-thieves for the Qing court, and how can this kind of secret agreement of fornication and anti-thieves be known to outsiders?

"Lao Zhao, the negotiations are about to enter the final rupture stage according to our plan, and the plan to attack the next Japanese ship has not yet been implemented." Lu Xiangyang reminded one of the Zhao who had been looking at the map again.

"Well, I know. However, all our reconnaissance teams on the coast have never found any more traces of lone Japanese ships. It would be too risky to attack the Japanese ships in formation in the previous way, and if those devils with a single brain attribute opened fire on their own ships when we boarded the ship, we would suffer great losses. Zhao Yi said worriedly.

"Let's take a look at the combat report of the operation team." Lu Xiangyang handed the sorted battle report to Zhao Yi.

"I don't think there's any need to take such a risk to get on board again. If you look at the reports of the combatants on board, the armor of the Japanese ships was not as thick as we estimated, and it was not at all 60% of the armor of the Zhenyuan ship, and in many places it was less than 40mm thick, so thin that it could not immediately detonate the warhead of an anti-tank missile. Lu Xiangyang said.

"Oh? That's an exaggeration. The devil has been doing this kind of frantic act of reducing armor since the stage of his fortune? Zhao Yi took the battle report and said.

"Yes, for the sake of speed, for the sake of firepower, these Japanese warships are simply running naked. My opinion is that we will directly face the steel, and if one wave cannot be taken away, there will be another wave. Anyway, there is a search radar on the Super Hind, and it can't run away with the speed of the Japanese ship. There is no need to deliberately look for any lone Japanese warships. Lu Xiangyang said his thoughts.

"How many more of the kind of 9M120F anti-tank missiles launched by the Super Hind do we have?" Zhao Yi asked Lu Xiangyang.

"There are twelve left, and four were used to attack the Naniwa. The director team gave sixteen 9M120F missiles hanging on the Super Hind pylons, which were not found in the ammunition supply of the hangar. We do have a lot of Hellfire missiles in stock, but the observation and sighting guidance systems of American-made missiles and Russian-made missiles are not compatible, and Super Hind cannot launch Hellfire anti-tank missiles. Lu Xiangyang said.

"Although the Japanese warships are brittle, the armor under the waterline is afraid that they don't dare to cheat, right? Wouldn't it be a bit of a big deal to take twelve anti-tank missiles to sink a warship? "Zhao Yi has always been in line with the idea of leniency for the enemy.

"Lao Zhao, the equipment is dead, but the tactics can be flexible. When I say frontal steel, I don't mean you should honestly just use these twelve missiles to attack Japanese ships. Lu Xiangyang said with a smile.

Zhao Yi couldn't understand the meaning of his partner for a while, and scratched his head in embarrassment.