Chapter 205: The Battle of the Diaoyu Islands (7)

E: I can't stop writing this chapter, 66 words.

In addition, at the request of some friends, I made a picture of the shape of the book, and posted it at the top of the post bar in "The Great Reversal 19uu", and interested friends can take a look. It was so hard to draw a map, it took me hours.

n-n)oi haha

April 9 o'clock 2 o'clock.

"Boom, boom, boom...... Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

2 shells whizzed across the sky and flew towards the Japanese fleet at a rate of nearly 3o meters per second.

Because the effect of the sixth round of salvo is too good, and the Chinese Navy has not scrapped two in one round, so the seventh round is still aimed at Ibuki and An Yun, which is of course already whipping the corpse.

The Ibuki was hit by three more shells, and the tilt was further intensified. Moreover, the officers and men who jumped into the water were unlucky, and four shells fell near it, killing most of the officers and men floating in the sea.

The Anyun also hit two, because its ship was now lifted off the water. One of the 3o-mm shells hit the bottom of the ship in an extremely rare way. After penetrating the bottom of the ship, the shell continuously penetrated multiple decks and exploded in the ammunition magazine of the auxiliary gun on the starboard side, causing a large explosion of the ammunition magazine of the auxiliary gun. This caused the Anyun to ignite a raging fire, and the sinking speed doubled. What is even more serious is that the officers and men on the Anyun were already preparing to abandon ship and flee, and almost all of the officers and men who were concentrated on the starboard side and were unloading the lifeboats were killed in the explosion of the ammunition depot. The shell killed at least 500 crew members.

"It can't go on like this," Yoshimatsu Shigetaro said in a deep voice: "If we continue to keep the queue, it will be equivalent to sending them to death one by one, only by disbanding the formation, scattering all of them, charging all, rushing up to fight with them, our numbers have an absolute advantage, only in this way can we have the possibility of winning in the chaos."

Tetsutaro Sato also said: "That's right, Commander, all the light ships are also charging together, and we are numerous, so we can βŠ₯ them can't take care of ......"

They had planned to go to the Fuji alone as preparations, but now it seems that they have also failed. Because now the Hanoi does not dare to stop and put the dinghy, can it swim over

After all, the Japanese Navy is a modern army, and its organizational structure is very complete, even if the Hanoi hangs up in an accident, other Japanese generals will replace them in turn according to their positions, ranks, seniority, and hammock numbers, so there is no need to worry about no one in command. However, in order to prevent accidents, Shigetaro Yoshimatsu still gave each warship above the cruiser a list of commanders' substitutes, and asked them to do the same in the event of an accident at the flagship. As for the destroyers, forget it, if it all comes to the point where there are only destroyers left, then there is no need to fight, and each of them will flee for their lives.

Fuxi bridge.

"Commander, the Japanese ships are scattered in formation, and they are adding. The light ships, which had been scattered in the rear, also rushed over...... "Captain Leon reported

"Well, it seems that they are planning to disperse the charge, ready to use the numerical advantage to fight with us" Gao Yujie thought about it for a while, and then understood the other party's intentions.

"Commander, I intercepted the Japanese secret telegram just now......" The telegraph officer took a copy of the Japanese secret telegram that had just been deciphered and handed it to Gao Yujie.

With computers and later generations of professional-grade decipherment software, the primary codes used by the Japanese army at this time were almost useless, and even the time for deciphering and printing on the Chinese side was more than ten or even dozens of times faster than the Japanese army's own decoding of the codebook. A telegram that the Japanese Navy itself needs to decrypt takes only a dozen seconds to decode, and it only takes more than ten seconds for the Chinese side to receive it and decode and typeset it. It takes about a minute to print out the manuscript. No way, now there are only dot matrix printers.

For China, the telegraph that Japan now uses has no difference between a clear code and a cipher.

Gao Yujie took a look at it and said with a smile: "Oh, the list of substitutes for the commander of the combined fleet...... Hehe, it seems that this Jisong dude is really ready to fight hard...

"But the Japanese are still so idealistic, what obligation do we have to accompany them in the melee?" said political commissar Liu Haifeng.

Chief of Staff Wang Zhi said: "We still follow the plan just now, and fly kites at a distance. We're fast, and they can't catch up...... In doing so, they are delaying their demise. Commander, we'd better retreat in the direction of the Big 6, if we grind until dawn, our planes will be ready to sortie."

"That's right, they beat theirs, we beat ours. Gao Yujie nodded, and ordered unhurriedly: "Order all ships on the battle line, after the next round of volleys, immediately turn right, turn into a horizontal team and retreat to the west at 2 knots, and distance from the enemy." At the same time, all light ships burst forward with torpedo attacks, covering the main forces to retreat ......"

At 2:00, the Chinese fleet fired an eighth salvo, this time targeting the Tsukuba and Kawachi, which were in third place in the Japanese battle line.

The Hanoi was only hit by one shell due to the timely turn. The 2o mm shell hit its ship, blowing up the anchor chain chamber and lifting the ship's deck seven or eight meters high, directly blocking the forward firing range of the No. 1 main turret.

The armored cruiser Tsukuba was not as lucky as the Kawachi, and its luck was only slightly better than that of the Ibuki in front.

The Tsukuba-class armored cruisers, like the Kurama-class, are also typical of Japanese design, with a ridiculously large number of guns. Moreover, the density of the guns of this cargo is more exaggerated than that of the Kurama class, and the hull with a displacement of 1375o tons is actually equipped with two twin 36mm guns, twelve 152mm guns, twelve single-mounted 2o mm guns, and u1δΈ¨76mm guns (Ikoma is R1, and there are two 45o mm underwater torpedo tubes.

The Kurama-class had a turret-type 2-mm secondary gun, while the Tsukuba-class secondary gun and archery cannon were all gunned or exposed turrets, except for the front and rear main guns, a turret was wooden. In order to place this large pile of secondary guns, the Tsukuba-class opened two gun decks on the hull, and the two sides were densely packed with guns, so you can imagine how fragile its structure is.

This structure looks really majestic, and the whole body is densely covered with black holes and barrels, which is quite frightening at first glance. But it's not just about looking imposing. In actual combat, this structure is very fragile, once the side is next to each other, it is basically a big explosion, just like a lighter. It seems that the Japanese are very fond of shooting their weapons as "lighters", which is probably their tradition.

So the Tsukuba has paid a heavy price for its "lighter" design today, and it is a tragedy.

A shell from the Taihang hit the hangar, sending all the staff and pilots inside to the western sky. A shell from the Emei hit the rear superstructure, penetrating the kitchen and exploding. The most fatal thing was the two-millimeter shells fired by the Seijo, and the two turrets penetrated the two secondary guns of the Tsukuba, one end and one tail, and both of them penetrated and exploded. The extra-large "lighter" was completely ignited, first the auxiliary gun ammunition depot was destroyed, and then the powerful explosion destroyed the weak partition and detonated the adjacent gun ammunition depot together.

As soon as the hull of the Tsukuba shook, a series of explosions crackled, countless fireballs continued to rise, and the detonated ammunition exploded one after another, like fireworks. These explosions not only destroyed the underwater structure, caused the hull to break into the water, but also blew up the nearby cabins and passages, causing a large number of casualties and severely affecting the damage management work.

What's worse is that the power compartment was also damaged, the main steam pipe was blown off more than ten meters, and countless high-temperature steam leaked everywhere along all the places that were blown through, turning the entire lower cabin into a high-temperature hell. The Tsukuba, which had lost all its power, suddenly collapsed on the surface of the sea and slowly sank.

", what a big fireworks...... the officers and soldiers on the Qingcheng were dumbfounded. They didn't expect it to be a big hit.

At 2:00, the Chinese fleet fired a ninth salvo, this time with the targets adjusted to Ikoma and Hanoi.

The Ikoma, like its sisters, once again staged a "big explosion" plot. This time it was the Taihang, whose 2o-mm shell fell vertically from a high altitude and hit the ammunition depot of a 2o-mm gun on the starboard side. The ammunition depots of the guns were connected together, presumably to lower the center of gravity, and these Japanese-style ammunition depots had only 2 mm thick partitions, which could not stop the detonation of ammunition at all

So the Ikoma also collapsed there to set off "fireworks".

The Hanoi was also hit this time, and a shell from the Fuxi hit its No. 3 turret, which penetrated under the seat and exploded, killing all the people in the turret and destroying the entire turret. The captain hurriedly ordered the ammunition depot to be filled with water, but it did not cause a martyrdom.

The two shells of the Taihang and Nuwa formed an underwater shell, piercing its underwater hull like a torpedo, as well as several layers of watertight compartments behind it, sweeping away the cabins along the way, destroying the structure and causing a large amount of water, and hundreds of tons of seawater poured into it in less than 2 minutes.

After paying so much price, the Japanese fleet finally scattered in formation and did not line up in columns to die one by one.

At this time, the main ships of the Japanese fleet that still had combat effectiveness were as follows: seven battleships in Settsu, Katori, Kashima, Shikishima, Asahi, Mikasa, and Fuji were intact, and six armored cruisers Kasuga, Nisshin, Izumo, Iwate, Azuma, and Yakumo. In addition, although the Hanoi was wounded, it still retained considerable combat effectiveness.

At present, Japan still has a 14-6 advantage in numbers, but of course this is only the number.

After this round, China's six capital ships turned around ninety degrees in unison and retreated to the west at 2 knots. At the same time, the light ships that were originally in the rear and on both flanks also rushed forward at the same time, preparing to cover the capital ship with torpedoes.

Ten light cruisers, thirteen destroyers, and four frigates rushed forward at an altitude of 3 knots, fired a massive torpedo salvo at a distance of 15 kilometers from the enemy ships, and then, regardless of the results, turned around and ran.

A total of 6 torpedoes were fired from these 27 light ships. The first round that the forward fleet released when it broke away was all deviated because the distance was too far and the wind and waves were too strong. And now the weather has improved, the clouds have dissipated, the wind and waves have basically subsided, and the distance is only 15 kilometers, enough for the Japanese to drink a pot.

"Bastard, how did the battleship of the China people run so fast?

At the beginning, the Chinese fleet did not feel it when it was lined up in the battle line to bombard, and when it turned around, it did not feel it, but now I see those 10,000-ton giant ships running faster and faster, and finally they actually run at a speed of 2 knots, which really thundered the Japanese combined fleet up and down.

"What is this? Our King Kong and Hiei can run 2. 6 ......," said a staff officer, unconvinced.

"But we don't have Kongo and Hiei now, and they won't be able to return to China until June......," Shigetaro Yoshimatsu said with a blushing face, "Stupid military command department, they got the wrong information again, and the maximum degree of Fuxi level is 2 knots, not 2 knots"

The maximum degree of the Hanoi class is also a knot, if the information about the Fuxi level at that time is true, then in the case of the same degree, the Fuxi level will not be able to grab the horizontal position, if the degree is only 1 to 2 knots faster, the impact is not great. But if the degree is about to go to the festival, it will be very fatal. (The original Hanoi class of time and space has only 2 sections, and the new Hanoi class is a British design, which is modified from the Orion Demon, and all the performance has been greatly improved)

However, he didn't have time to care about the degree of China's capital ships immediately, and he was already on the issue of the ability of the Second Department of the Military Command Department. The torpedoes fired by Chinese light ships have arrived......

Among the various capital ships of Japan at present, the latest Hanoi class is the fastest, faster than those armored cruisers. Because the Hanoi suffered a few shots, the water entered the water strictly, and the degree dropped to 14 knots, and it was soon passed by the Setzu behind, and their position was in the forefront, so the Setzu rushed to the front first, so it was also the first to be unlucky.

I saw the Settsu running in the front, the hull of the ship shook suddenly, and suddenly five huge water columns suddenly rushed up around it, and the water column was more than 4o meters high, which had already passed the mast of the warship. Then, everyone heard five thunderous loud noises of "boom, boom, boom, boom......".

"Damn it, it's a torpedo from Shina," Tetsutaro Sato couldn't help but exclaim.

"Were they released by those light ships just now? They are more than ten kilometers long, why do torpedoes have such a long range?" Yoshimatsu Shigetaro was very shocked, he had also seen the actions of the Chinese light ships just now, but because it was still far away, he didn't care. In addition, it was night, and there was no huge fire and sound when firing torpedoes, and the lookouts did not notice it. As a result, it was unlucky.

The Settsu was hit by five torpedoes on both sides and the ship at the same time, and the ship was blown away in its entirety, and the entire hull was blown out of five large holes, the largest one was under the port bridge, with a large hole with a diameter of 4 meters. After these few blows, the Settsu was completely irretrievable, and it sank like a duck made of lead.

This is not over, just listen to a series of muffled sounds of "boom boom ......".

The three battleships Katori, Kashima, and Shikishima, which ran ahead, and the two cruisers Kasuga and Nisshin, were also hit by mines. Katori and Kashima each suffered two torpedoes, and Shikishima and Kasuga each suffered three. The Nisshin was the most unlucky, the Garibaldi-class armored cruiser bought from Italy was less than 86 tons, but it swallowed six heavy anti-ship torpedoes in a row, and it was directly blown to pieces, and even the rescue was saved.

These are old warships with extremely low underwater defense. Not to mention that it can't withstand China's "Yu-1", a powerful and frenzied perverted torpedo, even those mainstream torpedoes in the world can't stand both. All warships that have been torpedoed are sinking at this time, and the only difference is in speed and slowness.

"Mixed ...... Bastard" Looking at the seven capital ships that were sinking and had sunk, Shigetaro Yoshimatsu only felt that his eyes were dark, and he couldn't hold back a mouthful of old blood anymore

"Poof......" Shigetaro Yoshimatsu spurted out a mouthful of black blood, tilted his head and fell backwards. Fortunately, a staff officer next to him was quick and hurriedly supported him, so that the back of his head did not have a close contact with the floor.

"Your Excellency Commander"

"Call the doctor"

There was a panic in the bridge, and everyone rushed to the rescue.

"Boom ......"

At this time, everyone suddenly felt a violent earthquake under their feet, and the entire hull shook violently, and everyone in the bridge suddenly stood unstable and fell into a ball. At the same time, a loud thunderous sound came from the stern of the ship.

"Oh no, it's a torpedo, we've hit a mine," a young staff officer cried out hoarsely.

"Hurry up and contact the rear bridge" Tetsutaro Sato hurriedly ordered.

After a while, he got a lucky or unfortunate news. A torpedo ghost ignored the warship in front of him, but he took a fancy to the Kawachi, probably because the propeller was noisy, and it also turned a corner and gave the Kawachi a chrysanthemum.

Fortunately, only one torpedo hit the Hanoi, and this torpedo did not cause much damage to the hull, and the damage was said to be salvageable. But unfortunately, the servos and propellers were all blown out. The Hanoi was completely demobilized and lay across the sea like a dead fish.

And that's not all, because this time the battle line for the torpedo salvo was relatively open, so some of the torpedoes were not aimed at the capital ship in the middle, but were attracted by the light ships on both wings.

Three protective cruisers and two destroyers, Kasaki, Chitose and Soya, were also torpedoed and are sinking.

Not only the Japanese could not stand the astonishing results of this lightning strike, but even the Chinese side could not believe it.

"This ...... This one...... Is this caused by our lightning strike just now?" Commander Gao Yujie's mouth opened wide, and he was also scorched by the results in front of him. Not to mention the others, there was silence on the bridge of the Fuxi for a while, and they were all stunned.

"It should be, our heavy anti-ship torpedoes are very powerful......" Chief of Staff Wang Zhi's voice was a little astringent.

"Commander, since our torpedoes are amazing, we don't have to retreat as originally planned" Captain Li Ang seemed to be the fastest to react, and he hurriedly reminded: "Commander, there are not many light cruisers left in the Japanese army, and they are all running to the front. We can order the submarine attack that follows them......"

"You're right, Xiao Li" Gao Yujie patted the door of her head and stood up suddenly: "Order all ships, change the previous order, and the whole team will turn around to meet the enemy...... At the same time, the submarine forces were ordered to attack "

"Kill these little devils," the crowd cheered.

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