Chapter 244: The "Yoshino" that could not escape
Although it is already early spring, the cold snap from the south has caused light snow on the Liaodong Peninsula. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 On this small hill near the mouth of the info Lushun, under two black-and-white Russian-made digital camouflage sheds, Chopper and his men are busy.
The hill was covered with a thin layer of snow, and a lot of mud was still exposed, and the surrounding area was basically a black and white hue. From a distance, it is completely impossible to see the existence of two huge camouflage canopies on this hill. But just because others can't see Chopper doesn't mean they can't perceive the situation in the nearby seas.
The search radar vehicle that is equipped with the "Beech" missile launcher has been working for nearly two hours, and Oyama Iwa is waiting for the appearance of the Japanese Navy, and Chopper and the others are also waiting for the appearance of the Japanese Navy.
The Provisional Executive Committee gave Chopper the task of attacking the ships of the Japanese Navy close to the Port of Arthur with "Beech" missiles, giving priority to troop carriers and supply ships. After all, the Beiyang Fleet has not yet braided, and the footbasin chicken navy is also that little bit of family bottom, in case Chopper doesn't control his unicorn arm, and his fingers are dotted on the launch button, the foot basin chicken navy is enough to choke. This kind of result is what the traversal crowd doesn't want to see, how can you ask the old fox to enjoy the service without spending money.
This "Beech" missile is not a professional anti-ship missile, but because it is a part-time job, it is enough to kill a thin-skinned ironclad ship like a foot basin chicken. Its kind of empowerment attack method similar to Dongfeng Express, catching one is probably the rhythm of killing one. It is completely impossible to meet the embarrassment of the bent "Xiongsan" who wears through the past when he encounters thin skin.
"It is reported that two large ships have reflected signals in the northeast sea, and the ships are heading towards Arthur." The radar crew reported to Chopper the results of the detection of the search radar.
"Inform the observation team over there to confirm the situation of the ship, don't make the mistake of someone else's ship, although we are not afraid of others looking for trouble, but our missiles are expensive." Chopper said that he has a history of mistakenly hitting the black, and he is now cautious.
The two "large" ships that appeared in the waters northeast of Arthur were the Japanese Navy's fast cruiser Yoshino, escorting a merchant ship recruited by the Japanese Navy, which was heading to the Port of Arthur to deliver supplies. After receiving the news from the radar here, the battlefield poisoned milk went around from a distance, and found that it was a Japanese ship flying the Rising Sun Flag and left.
The notoriety of the battlefield poisoned milk in the Footbasin Chicken Navy is at the level of the Great Demon King, and it glanced at the "Yoshino" from a distance, which made the captain of the ship, He Yuan, break out in a cold sweat. The bell sounded loudly on the "Yoshino", and the sailors rushed out of the cabin and quickly entered their respective combat positions.
After the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the battered fast cruiser Yoshino was refurbished. Drawing on the experience of the sinking of the Naniwa and Fuso, the Footbasin Chicken equipped the refurbished Yoshino with a number of newly purchased Makqin machine guns from Europe, in order to defend against possible air attacks.
The idiots in the base camp actually let the Navy risk being sunk by the ships to support those army red deer! This battle plan of sticking to Lushun on both sides was put forward by the army general, so let them make trouble on their own, why should they catch the Imperial Japanese Navy? Heyuan Yaoichi has a lot of words about this support mission.
However, His Majesty the Emperor was also deceived by those radical red deer, and even tried to coerce the Great Song Empire to revise the treaty! The Great Song Dynasty is a country at the level of a European power, we are just shouting that we want to "break away from Asia and join Europe", and others will sink the two capital ships of the Navy when they raise their hands, how many ships does the Imperial Navy have to give them such a toss!? A military conflict with the Great Song Dynasty was completely unhelpful for this Sino-Qing war, and those fools who were eager for quick success had never seen what powerful firepower was, which had to pay the price of blood, and Heyuan had to think that he belonged to the sober-minded faction. However, he still had to bite the bullet and head towards the mouth of Lushun.
The battlefield poison milk turned to leave, and Heyuan was a little relieved. Perhaps the ten Maxim machine guns on the ship have deterred it, and the advanced European weapons that the navy has spent a lot of money on are not useful.
Chopper, who was dozens of kilometers away, didn't know about Heyuan's naïve idea, and he was worried about which ship to build first. The task of poisoning milk in the battlefield was heavy, and he glanced at it from a distance to confirm that the ships were Japanese ships and left, and did not explain the specific information of the two ships at all. The tonnage of the Japanese merchant ship escorted by the "Yoshino" this time is not large, about 5,000 tons, and the reflection area of both of them on the radar screen is about the same.
Rub, I can't care so much, just pick one and fight first, whoever is unlucky will die first, anyway, the ship with the sun flag and the menstrual flag will sink sooner or later, Chopper found an excuse for himself.
Chopper locked onto a ship with his eyes closed and pressed the launch button. It's been three months, and I'm finally able to shoot something that isn't my teammate, and after pressing the launch button, Chopper still doesn't forget to hack himself.
Flying a distance of several tens of kilometers is a matter of a short time for a missile whose main business is to intercept low-flying targets. The sailors on the Yoshino, who had just relaxed their nerves after leaving due to the poisonous milk of the battlefield, saw an object with a long tail of flame falling from the sky. Before the sailors could react, the thing plunged straight into the hull.
The charge of the warhead of the "Beech" missile is not very large, but this attack method of penetrating the superstructure and penetrating into the bilge and detonating is fatal for a ship of less than 5,000 tons like the "Yoshino."
Ships of this era did not yet have the concept of armored boxes, and there was no armor in the horizontal direction. The "Beech" missile, which hit the "Yoshino", went straight into the bilge and got stuck on the keel of the ship before stopping. Its warhead was then detonated, and even though it was not in the engine room, the enclosed environment in the bilge allowed it to maximize the damage of its modest charge. The shock wave caused by the explosion could not release energy to the surrounding area, except for some air waves that erupted along the hole that the "beech" had pierced when it came, and a large part of the energy hit the keel of the ship. This time, without waiting for the incoming sea water to put pressure on the keel, it jumped into two sections on its own.
The source of the river on the bridge felt a violent tremor, and there was a loud, piercing sound of steel breaking in the bilge.
"Abandon the ship!" Heyuan resolutely issued an order to the crew, the ship with a broken keel could not be saved, and the people on board would be swallowed up by the whirlpool rolled up by the sinking of the hull if it was too late to escape.
The Yoshino sank very quickly, and many sailors did not have time to escape. The merchant ship escorted by the Yoshino didn't even have time to lower its lifeboat before it cocked its tail and began to sink. The Japanese fast cruiser, which left the last grievances of the national hero Deng Guandai, finally sank in the waters near Arthur nine years ahead of schedule. At least the chrysanthemum badge on the bow of the ship was sunk to the bottom of the sea, and Kawagen had such an idea in his heart when he saw the "Yoshino" completely sunk to the surface.
At the same time that Yoshino sank to the bottom of the sea, Nogi Noshinori led his carefully selected soldiers through the densely vegetated mountains. He had a plan to carry out even more arrogantly than Yama County Youpeng, and he felt that his action would be the key to turning the tide of the Japanese war in Liaodong.