Chapter 199: The Battle of the Diaoyu Islands (1)
E: I'm sorry, but 196197 made a low-level mistake by confusing the generals of the Third Fleet with the combined forces of the Combined Fleet, the generals of the Third Fleet are: Commander Rear Admiral Gentaro Yamashita and Chief of Staff Saburo Horiuchi Osa. Solid ...... It's been changed.
At B o'clock in the evening of April 9, off the coast of Taipei, the battleship Fuxi.
"Report to the commander, the Yu Chao urgently report, now the main force of the combined fleet ......" A communications non-commissioned officer suddenly stood up, took off his headset and hurriedly reported.
Gao Yujie hurriedly ran over and picked up the headset, and said loudly: "Yue Youyuan, I'm Gao Yujie......
Yue Youyuan's voice immediately sounded in the earphones: "Report to Commander Gao, we have the main force of the Japanese army, the time is B point 33, and now the coordinates are xxx degrees east longitude xx minutes xx seconds, north latitude xxx degrees xx minutes xx seconds ......"
"Can you be sure that it's the main force?" Although Gao Yujie was excited, she didn't believe it right away. If it was a detachment, wouldn't it be a rejoicing in vain.
"Chairman Wen assured that the main force of the Japanese army had been determined, including a battleship, a heavy cruiser, a light cruiser, and a ship-by-ship ...... If you don't believe it, listen to this cannon......" Yue You shouted angrily.
"Woo woo woo woo" Sure enough, the sound of a train whistling through the air sounded in the headphones, this kind of sound Gao Yujie is very familiar with, only large-caliber guns above the level of 25umm can produce this kind of sound. There were also a lot of smaller caliber shells bursting through the air.
"Well, sure enough, it's the battleship's main gun, at least R1o5mm guns are firing, and at least U1o3 guns, it's really the main ......" Suddenly, he didn't react right, this Yu Chao is an aircraft carrier, how did it enter the distance of the opponent's artillery battle?
Immediately scolded: "Bastard, who told you to run into the range of the opponent's main gun? Do you think the Yu Chao is what? Quickly retreat......
Yue Youyuan shouted: "Commander, our radar is broken, and it was in the thunderstorm area just now, and the visibility is too low." By the time the enemy fleet arrived, it was already less than ten kilometers, and now our ships are retreating......"
"You immediately retreat in the direction of the Diaoyu Islands, where there is the 4th Submarine Detachment of our Army and the 11th Torpedo Boat Brigade, and I immediately order them to come and meet them. β
More than ten seconds later, Yu Chao's cipher telegram also came. This is also the rule of the Navy, all important information, after the radio call, must also be sent again by coded telegram.
Gao Yujie put down the headset and immediately came to the sand table, looked at the enemy mark on it and gave a series of orders.
"Order the 4th Submarine Detachment and the 11th Torpedo Boat Brigade in the direction of Diaoyu Dao to rush to the area of xxx degrees xx minutes east longitude and xxx degrees xx minutes north latitude to meet the Yu Chao detachment...... Order the third submarine detachment in the direction of Chiwei Yu and the second submarine detachment in the direction of Ishigaki Island to rush to the waters of Diaoyu Island and stand by in the area of xxx degrees xx minutes east longitude and xxx degrees xx minutes north latitude ......"
"The submarine gunboat I, B, 41st, 6th, 7th, and B groups were ordered to continue to provide fire support to the 6th unit of Deng, and the submarine teaching group, the 41st, 6th, 7th, and 9th groups of torpedo boats were ordered to stand guard near the 6th field in Taipei. β
Finally, he said what all the officers and men were expecting: "Attention of all the officers and men of the Pacific Task Force, tonight we will go north to meet the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and now I order all ships of this fleet to follow the formation of No. 1, all of them will set out of the target in accordance with the No. 1 formation, xxx degrees and xx minutes east longitude, xxx degrees and xx minutes north latitude, and sail 2 knots ......."
Gong Yu, the captain of the Fuxi, immediately stood upright, gave a military salute, and replied solemnly: "It's Comrade Commander." The order has been received, the Pacific task force, all out"
The communications non-commissioned officers also hurriedly sent orders to the various ships by radio and telegram.
As soon as Commander Gao gave the order, dozens of ships of China's Pacific Task Force, which had been waiting off the coast of Taipei, immediately turned around and headed north, and the chimneys of each ship soon emitted thicker smoke, and the advantages of oil-fired boilers were once again fully apparent, and they increased their power in a short period of time and sailed towards the Diaoyu Islands at a height of two knots.
At this time, the lineup of the Pacific task force was as follows: Fuxi-class dreadnought ships (Fuxi, Nuwa), Qinling-class large cruisers (Qinling, Taihang), Qingcheng-class heavy cruisers (Qingcheng, Emei), Minjiang-class light cruisers (Minjiang, Tuojiang, Hanjiang, Huangpujiang), [Fuchunjiang-class] light cruisers (Fuchunjiang, Minjiang, Jinjiang, Liuyanghe, Luohe, Tuotuohe), [Zhuhai-class] destroyers 13, Wuchang-class frigates and Xuguo seaplane carriers.
A total of 3 combat ships. In addition, there are 47 auxiliary vessels such as high-oil tankers, integrated supply ships, and hospital ships.
At this time, the unlucky Yu Dynasty was running for his life.
"Boom...... I saw that the sea surface had been cracked, and shells of various calibers from 2umm to 3m rained down, stirring up countless water columns on the sea surface. The Yu Dynasty made a sharp turn in the water column blown up by these shells, almost all of them drifted, and then flew away in a three-knot polar direction, like an elephant running in the jungle.
"These damn little devils bullied Lao Tzu's plane and couldn't take off" Yue Youyuan scolded a few words, then turned back to the navigator and yelled: "Quick...... Fast...... The maximum power target is the Diaoyu Islands, and when we get there, someone will pick us up ......"
The chief sailor immediately began to adjust the course, and the herald immediately told the engine room to increase the power to the maximum. Under the orders of the captain and the political commissar, Gong Xuetu, assistant to the captain, immediately ran to a bulkhead, opened an operating cabinet with a key, and pulled down a red handle inside.
This handle is to manage the strong pressure ventilation valve and boiler pressure valve, if it is not opened, the strong pressure ventilation and boiler pressure cannot be carried out. However, strong pressure ventilation and boiler pressure are very damaging to the turbine system, and they are not allowed to be used in an emergency. Of course, this is an emergency now, and it is important to escape, even if the engine system is damaged.
After using strong pressure ventilation and boiler pressure, it immediately produced an immediate effect, only to hear the louder noise from the engine room, the hull of the Yu Chao suddenly trembled, and it had been raised to 3. The maximum degree of 6 knots has been raised a step upwards to an astonishing 34 knots
It has to be said that although this bad weather caused the Yu Dynasty to lose its most important combat effectiveness, it also greatly reduced the effectiveness of the Japanese fleet's shelling. Of course, this is also related to the fact that this unexpected encounter caught them off guard, and after they determined that "there is only one medium ** ship in the Yu Dynasty nearby, and it is not a trap", the sharp turn of the Yu Dynasty has been completed for more than half of it. And now the Japanese fleet is in an advance queue, and only the front main gun and part of the secondary guns can shoot.
The most important thing is that the Yu Dynasty sailed far beyond their imagination, and this series of factors caused most of the Japanese fleet's shelling to fail.
"How could this Baga run so fast?" Vice Admiral Yoshimatsu Shigetaro, the commander of the Combined Fleet on the Hanoi, was dumbfounded. Not only him, but the officers and men of the entire Japanese fleet were scorched by the astonishing degree of the Yu Dynasty.
"This is at least 3 knots...... No, v.33...... No, it's more than 33 knots......" The Chief of Staff, Major General Tetsutaro Sato, had straight eyes.
The Japanese generals said one after another, you are an empty mother, okay, this Nima is faster than the destroyer. Is there still a heavenly principle in this? Is there still a royal law in this?
The capital ships of the Japanese army definitely couldn't catch up, but they didn't plan to chase them with the capital ships, but they just ordered three Tsukuma-class protective cruisers Tsukuma, Yasu, and Hirado to pursue with a few destroyers. It's just an empty carrier, is it worth using capital ships to chase it? Well, in fact, it can't catch up.
However, Japan really did not attach importance to aircraft carriers at this time, and although the Chinese Air Force had become prestigious, it was only a great threat to air and ground targets, and it was not a threat to warships. Although Chinese airships have attacked the French Far East Fleet, it is because the French Navy is too stupid to park the fleet in the harbor, so that it is unreasonable not to be bombed. But the airship has a very low hit rate, and it is not much of a threat to the warship under sail.
And not to mention the plane, the bomb load is much lower than that of the airship, and the kind of small bombs of several tens of kilograms are not a threat at all. Moreover, after the Sino-French naval battle, the first ships have now strengthened their air defense weapons and equipped with many larger and more anti-aircraft guns and machine guns, so they are fully sure to cope with the air raids of "flying toys".
However, the Japanese Navy is still very catchy of the trend, after the Chinese Yu Dynasty entered service. The Japanese Navy also built an aircraft carrier last year, converted from a large merchant ship, which is still not finished.
About twenty minutes later, the protective cruiser Chikuma telegraphed, claiming to have been ambushed by two Chinese cruisers, which fired a torpedo salvo at the pursuing fleet, then turned and ran. The destroyer Baiyun was hit by two torpedoes and sank on the spot.
After about twenty minutes, the Tsukumo sent another telegram claiming that the KhΓΌna was too fast to catch up, and that it was now gone.
"Forget it, let them come back......" Yoshimatsu Shigetaro thought about it and decided to withdraw his troops.
The results of the naval battle of Zhoushan, he had already received an hour earlier. Now he still refuses to believe that the Shina fleet actually won, and according to the telegram sent back by Rear Admiral Gentaro Yamashita before his death, the losses of the Shina Navy are not too great. Moreover, according to the telegrams that were resent by the ships 6 later, they all claimed that the torpedoes of the China submarine were too powerful, and reminded the main force to be careful of the China submarine and torpedoes.
Of course, the rudeness of the Third Fleet did not affect Yoshimatsu Shigetaro's confidence in victory, after all, the Third Fleet is all old ships, most of the capital ships are trophies captured from the Russo-Japanese War, many of these warships are salvaged and repaired, and Russia's shipbuilding technology before the Russo-Japanese War is not as good as Japan's, and it is normal for those ships to not be able to defeat the British ghost animals.
However, the reminder of the Third Fleet should still be taken seriously. So he ordered the troops to be collected, and now every battleship is precious, and if it is because of the pursuit of the empty carrier that hits the ambush of China, it will be too unstoppable.
So, he sent a telegram back to the country: Now there is a ship of the empty mother of China, and after the battle with me, the flight of the empty mother of China is like the wind, and our imperial army cannot catch up
At this time, the Yu Dynasty, who had escaped from the pursuit, was also relieved.
"Lao Yue, we are really fateful, we actually ran away from a whole combined fleet......" The political commissar wiped a cold sweat and said with palpitations. An aircraft carrier and a group of battleships in an artillery battle, that's not called bravery, that's called brain-dead.
Yue Youyuan let go of a few mouths, drank a glass of water, and then said with a sigh: "......, these damn little devils have been chasing us for more than half an hour." By the way, have the Wenzhou and Ningbo caught up?"
The Wenzhou and Ningbo were the two destroyers that followed the Yu Dynasty, and when they were covering the retreat of the Yu Dynasty, they entangled with the Japanese pursuit fleet for a while, and after a while of torpedoes, they also retreated.
Gong Xuetu reported: "The Wenzhou and Ningbo have followed, and they are currently about 6 kilometers away from our ship. They reported that they had just sunk a Japanese destroyer, which seemed to be a Baiyun-class ......"
"Damn, these guys are really lucky...... Yue Youyuan said very depressedly: "It's all to blame for this damn weather, or our plane will teach them a profound lesson....By the way, Xiao Gong, how is the loss of our ship?"
"Captain, the losses have been counted. Our ship was hit by 22 shells, 28mm shells, 657mm shells. The flight deck was slightly damaged, the port side No. 7 4omm anti-aircraft gun position was damaged to a certain extent, and the hull of the ship was broken through in the stern, which is currently being repaired...... The ship was killed and 19 ......people were wounded," Gong Xuetu reported, holding a clip.
Although the Yu Chao was fine, it still suffered a lot of small-caliber shells, but fortunately it did not hit the vital point.
At this time, the communications non-commissioned officer reported: "Report to the captain, the 4th submarine detachment and the 11th group of torpedo boats have contacted our ship, and they are now 2 kilometers in front of our ship. β
"Okay, tell them to come over, let's minus, wait for Wenzhou and Ningbo to come and meet......"
Yue Youyuan paused and said, "Immediately inform the main force, our detachment has now escaped smoothly." At present, it is about to enter the waters of the Diaoyu Islands and join the 4th submarine detachment and the 11th torpedo boat group. β
As a result, the aircraft carrier Yu Chao sent out the telegram that was quite famous in the naval battle of the Diaoyu Islands: "Behind our ship, there are no pursuers"
After Gao Yujie received this telegram, her face looked very good.
"This Yue Youyuan, does he want to say that he is fast?" Gao Yujie twitched the corner of her mouth, and put this matter aside.
"Xiao Li, how long do we have to get to Diaoyu Island?"
Major Li Ang, the captain of the Fuxi and assistant to the captain, replied: "Commander, according to the current degree, there are still 4o minutes in Ij...... Submarine No. 9 just came to report that they had the traces of the Japanese fleet, and the location was here......"
Li Ang pointed to the sand table and said: "Their course is also towards the waters of the Diaoyu Islands, if we go over now, they will encounter it in about 2 minutes......
"Well, it's 2 minutes, it seems that this time it's a night battle......" Gao Yujie nodded,
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