New Warlords 1909

The eight torpedo boats in the slower second destroyer echelon had 24 rounds of 8-inch torpedoes.Since the destroyers and cruisers of the Japanese fleet were busy chasing and intercepting the high-speed torpedo boats of the first echelon, their precautions were obviously negligent, allowing these slower torpedo boats to take advantage of them.

When covering the first echelon, the destroyers and torpedo boats of the second echelon searched for opportunities to launch torpedoes at those destroyers and cruisers who were paying attention elsewhere. A torpedo was fired, either sunk or scrapped.

A cruiser Kasuga, which was urgently bought from Argentina during the Russo-Japanese naval battle, and a battleship Fuji, which is almost 20 years old and has been converted into a training ship.It may be that the Chinese navy is not a threat, and it was also transferred as a mobile turret to strengthen the artillery coverage of Shanghai.

There are also three destroyers, five torpedo ships, and a total of ten warships, all of which were recruited by these little guys whose speed is much lower than that of the first echelon torpedo ships.The explosion and fire that soared into the sky seemed to increase the temperature of the entire sea surface multiple times. Before the nearby snowflakes approached, they turned into rainwater, and then transpired into water vapor.

Kato Yusaburo, who was standing in the open air at this time, was stunned.If he hadn't experienced it himself, he wouldn't be able to understand the feeling of the commander of the Second Squadron during the September [-] naval battle.That is extreme shock, extreme disbelief!

How can it be!The Chinese only sent: a few mosquito-like torpedo ships, and in less than an hour, they sank our two cruisers, four destroyers, and five torpedo ships!This is not counting those warships that have been hit by torpedoes or bombs and have been seriously damaged!

How can this be!It completely violates the experience and rules of naval warfare. Even if Miracle is related to you Chinese people, I won’t take you to cheat like this.While Kato was shocked, he couldn't help sighing. If he had known this before, why was he so negligent? Why did he transfer those destroyers to escort the merchant ship?

Despite this drastic change, Kato did not completely lose his mind.When most of the main warships were in formation, he immediately commanded a counterattack.The loss of ten warships by the Imperial Navy is only a drop in the bucket, and it is completely bearable.But if all this torpedo ship formation in the China Sea is wiped out, they will never have such a counterattack force in the future!This is the gap in strength, not one or two victories can completely reverse the outcome of all strategies.

As soon as the ten main battleships were ready, the powerful artillery coverage instantly put the entire battlefield in the hands of the Japanese navy.Just when Lei Guangjiong's first echelon had just begun to withdraw, the torpedo ship Jiankang, which had slowed down, was hit by several shells one after another, ignited a raging fire, and began to sink slowly.

The first echelon of torpedoes took advantage of their speed. Although they were quickly counterattacked by the United Fleet, Lei Guangjiong and the others retreated early. When the United Fleet's artillery fire was raging, they were about to evacuate from the combat area.

But the second echelon is not so lucky. Whether it is the Feiying-class destroyer, the Chenzi-class or the Hupeng-class torpedo boat, its speed does not have an advantage in front of the ships of the United Fleet.Especially the opponent's destroyers and torpedo boats are much faster than them.

The subsequent battle situation was completely one-sided. The four old-fashioned torpedo boats Chen, Su, Lie, and Zhang were hit one after another, either igniting a fire, or sinking quickly.As for the Flying Eagle, the first destroyer to take refuge in Hua Fei, it was blown to pieces under the concentrated attack of multiple main guns from the United Fleet.

At this time, Lei Guangjiong, completely ignoring the danger of shell explosions, stood on the open-air bridge, looking at the sunken torpedo boats and destroyer Flying Eagle behind him, with a heavy heart and tears in his eyes.

From the moment they attacked, they knew that this was an extremely tragic battle.Everyone knew in their hearts that in this decisive battle where the forces were fundamentally asymmetrical, many people might never return.But the whole navy officers and soldiers, no one flinched, no one gave up their mission.

They have been blocked in the port by the Japanese for too long. As a navy, they cannot hold their heads high and fight the Japanese to the death at sea. What an unbearable shame!They would rather fight to the death with the Japanese and be buried in the vast sea than to hide in the port in such a useless way, maybe they were blown to death inexplicably by the shells they didn't know!

Lei Guangjiong understood that Commander Hua also knew that if he agreed to their actions, these precious warships might be lost.But Commander Hua did not refuse his request. He said that a real soldier should indeed die on the battlefield, and should not shrink back because of fear or worry.

Although there is no life, my righteousness has no turning back!

Commander Hua's words are still ringing in his ears, but Lei Guangjiong's heart aches.He hated why he wasn't the one who stayed behind, how he faced Commander Hua after he went back, and how he told Commander Hua how his mosquito tactics failed!How did he live up to Commander Hua's expectations!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The entire ocean and air seemed to vibrate, and a cloud of mushrooms shot up into the sky, seeming to disperse the clouds in the sky.From the eyes of the people around, the heat wave generated by the explosion hit the face directly.The surrounding snowflakes seemed to dissipate, and the snowfall seemed to stop in an instant.

"Submarine, our submarine, it must be our submarine!" The sailors on the Tong'an shouted frantically after being stunned for a while.Their reaction speed was a bit faster than that of Lei Guangjiong.

submarine?Lei Guangjiong's brain seems to have paused a little. Isn't the submarine force in the Taiwan Strait?Came here so soon?I saw the Ibuki, a battleship in the Japanese combined fleet, completely shrouded in flames.As for the few small flames around the Ibuki battleship, they seemed so insignificant in comparison.

Not only Lei Guangjiong and the others were dumbfounded, but also the Japanese navy that was chasing the assault fleet.At that time, the Chinese army had clearly left the theater, and all the planes in the sky had also flown away.

In the battle just now, the Yifeng Horn was barely damaged, so why did it suddenly explode so violently!

Soon, they guessed from the several cruisers near the Ibuki, which kept firing shells towards the sea around the Ibuki, that the submarine must be a submarine!

189 Sea Grave

Yes, indeed a submarine.Hua Fei finally decided to fight the Japanese in the waters off Snake Mountain Island, although his naval strength was not proportional to the Japanese at all.But this may be the last chance for a decisive battle before the armistice negotiations. Hua Fei believes that it is necessary to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese Navy at any cost.

Because envoys including the United States and the United Kingdom have more frequent contacts with Hua Fei these days, the American envoy Jia Leheng, accompanied by Smith and other acquaintances, officially promised that the U.S. government will put pressure on Japan to deal with the Japanese government’s unprovoked provocation in the Far East. War-end behavior, expressing extreme dissatisfaction.

The concessions of Britain, France and other countries in Shanghai will inevitably be affected by some out-of-target shells, which will lead to widespread protests in the two countries. Due to the stalemate between public opinion and the European War, the two countries do not want Japan, the only ally in the Far East, because of the interests of one family. Harm the entire form of the European war.

The United States did this because, since Huafei took power in Jiangsu and Shanghai, it has a close relationship with the United States, and various business cooperations are close, and it has also opened the door for American businessmen to invest and do business.Although it cannot be compared with the rights and interests of the Qing Dynasty, at least American commercial capital has expanded rapidly in the three places.The American Chamber of Commerce in China even submitted a bill to the Congress, suggesting to strengthen the cooperative relationship with the autonomous region, taking advantage of the reality of the European war, to aggressively enter this huge market in the Far East.

The second reason is that the relationship between the United States and Japan has always been at odds. Since Japan defeated Russia, Japan and the United States have frequently conflicted in many areas of interest.Japan's naval construction is even more outspoken, and the imaginary enemy directly targets the United States.In the original history, after the First World War, the alliance between Japan and the United Kingdom not only broke down, but also the stolen Shandong and other places were forced to return.In this, there is no lack of the huge manipulation power of the United States.

Britain and France opposed the continuation of the war, on the one hand because they could obtain a large amount of relatively cheap war materials from places such as Suzhou and Shanghai, and on the other hand, they wanted to prevent this force that could not be ignored in the Far East from falling to the German side.We must know that since the beginning of Hua Fei's rise, he has cooperated very closely with the Germans.Now the commander of the First Army of his direct lineage is also a German.

After the outbreak of World War I, although Hua Fei declared to the outside world that he was neutral.But whether it was the Japanese army declaring war on the German army in Shandong, he quickly and decisively sent troops, or issued a series of regulations on the management of foreign nationals and even declared Shanghai as an open city without passports.For the Germans in China, the Austro-Hungarians' property and life security rights have been given priority protection.Even during the war, all kinds of cooperation with the Germans remained uninterrupted, and the tendency to fall to the German alliance camp was very obvious.

Although Hua Fei cannot compare with the allies of the United Kingdom in terms of political influence, economic strength, or military armed forces.But since the start of the war, the most powerful country in Asia has hardly taken advantage of the seemingly weak Chinese in many battles.The Imperial Japanese Navy, known as the third in the world, has suffered Waterloo many times in front of the autonomous regional navy whose military strength is completely negligible.

No matter what the reasons and root causes are, all this has to make the British make a slight change.Because once this Chinese soldier falls to the German camp, it will not only seriously damage the rights and interests of the British in China, but the Germans will obviously benefit greatly from the support of this Chinese soldier in many ways.In the simplest example, after the outbreak of World War I, because the trench barbed wire restricted the rapid advancement of the legion, positional warfare began to consume a large amount of various types of grenades.

But in the British arsenal, there are not many grenades at all.But what the British military and the government did not expect was that in Far East China, during the Second Revolution that broke out not long ago, offensive and defensive grenades began to be widely used in infantry tactics.

After the war, I don't know what stimulated the nerves of the Chinese Communist, and frantically produced and stored a huge amount of grenades.It was later learned that the Germans imported a large number of hand grenades from the East and caused a large number of casualties to the British and French allied forces on the Western Front.

The British military immediately contacted the military of the autonomous region, but they were not stingy about selling the grenades they had stored.Although the price is a bit high, the soldiers on the French front responded that this kind of grenade works so well in battle that it makes people want to dance happily.

As a result, a large number of follow-up orders were sent to Asia. The British and French also turned their attention from grenades to guns, bullets, gunpowder, shells, mines, and even aircraft and other types of arms.Later, it even provided drawing technology, allowing the military factories in the autonomous region to process and produce a large number of them.Not only can the production be increased, but the country's resources and manpower can also be utilized locally.

However, all these trades declined rapidly after the sea route was interrupted following the war between Japan and Huafei.In this way, the only ally of Britain in Asia not only failed to give them any help, but was suspected of dragging their legs. What is the way of alliance!

With the sworn guarantees of several countries, and Hua Fei's idea of ​​a truce, it seems that the truce is inevitable.At this time, Japan's national power was far from as strong as it was before the outbreak of World War II, and it still owed foreign debts of more than one billion yen.Even though the ally, the United Kingdom, is limited to the European war and cannot exert more forceful pressure on him, the emerging country, the United States, has enough strength.

After receiving Hua Fei's secret message of decisive battle, the submarines hunting in the East China Sea replenished their fuel and ammunition one after another, and returned quickly. W-202 captain Pan Hong and his friendly boat W-106, who had been cruising in the East China Sea, quickly rushed to the waters of Sheshan Island.But even so, they were still a step late, and when they arrived near the battlefield, the entire battle had completely turned to the Japanese navy.

Watching his family's torpedo boats and destroyers sink under the gunfire of the Japanese warships, Pan Hong's excitement that he could finally participate in the war suddenly turned into a flame of anger.However, Pan Hong did not lose his mind, and used submarines to contend with the opponent's battleships.After communicating with the flag of the friendly boat, Pan Hong's submarine quickly dived, and quietly approached the Japanese Navy's main fleet with a periscope depth.

Since the Japanese fleet had just adjusted its formation at this time, a large number of destroyers and cruisers lined up to launch a counterattack against the torpedo boat commando of the First Fleet.The other battleships and battlecruisers lined up behind them, supporting them with artillery fire.A few gadgets with a displacement of hundreds of tons don't need the main guns to show off their power.

A series of objective reasons, coupled with the concealment of submarines and the lack of effective detection methods so far, made the submarine force of the First Navy seize the opportunity again.Pan Hong was unceremonious, approaching the distance to the limit, and extravagantly fired all four torpedoes at once.All four shots hit the target, and the last torpedo exploded along the big hole made by the torpedo in front of the warship, detonating the ammunition depot on the warship, so that the entire battlecruiser Ibuki was instantly submerged in the explosion. in the sea of ​​fire.

Compared with the huge eyeball effect created by Pan Hong, the movements of the W-106 submarine are very low-key and economical.You must know the price of torpedoes, they are very expensive. W-106 boat

Yang looked at the target, a cruiser with a displacement of several thousand tons, whoosh thundered.

The torpedo hit the target accurately, and Cai Dongyang was about to sink quickly, but looking through the attack periscope, under the huge explosion flames of the Ibuki, it seemed that no warship noticed at all. A poor cruiser here was also shot and injured.

Cai Dongyang reckoned that the torpedo just now seemed to have hit the rear section of the cruiser, possibly damaging its boiler room, and the flooding was severe. Even if it did not sink, it would lose power or self-propelled capability.After such a simple balance, Cai Dongyang was still reluctant to launch the second torpedo and sneaked to the next target.

At this time, the W-2 had been hit by several shells because of its slow dive speed. Not only did it start to flood, but a set of batteries seemed to be damaged. Pan Hong had to turn off all irrelevant lights on the boat, and immediately let the The entire submarine was plunged into darkness.

"Captain, the water ingress... the water ingress has been controlled, but...but we must float up as soon as possible...otherwise...we may never be able to float up again."

The mechanic wiped the water from his face, kicked his breath and shouted at Pan Hong.Pan Hong's face was also covered with seawater, and his clothes were already wet like raincloths.

Stepping on the accumulated water over his ankles, and listening to the crazy Japanese shelling and bombing on the sea, Pan Hong actually smiled.

"Can the existing electricity support us to return to Hong Kong?"

"As long as there is no new leakage, although the speed is very slow, it can still barely sail back to the Huangpu River. But the steel of this submarine cannot be compared with the new WIII submarine. To be on the safe side, we should float to the surface and return to the Huangpu River." Port!" The mechanic suggested again.

Floating?At this time, the eyes of the Japanese army above were all red. Even if they went up to surrender, the Japanese army would probably shoot him to pieces without saying a word, so this was not in Pan Hong's consideration at all.

"Turn off all unused power supplies, turn on the water pump to drain the water, and return slowly!"

Kato never dreamed that the powerful Imperial Navy fleet would suffer such a humiliating defeat again in front of the insignificant Chinese.The submarine that hatefully sank the Ibuki has long since disappeared.Countless sailors were floating in the sea calling for help, and various wood chips and debris left by the sinking of the Ibuki filled the entire sea area.

"Report, the main force of the Chinese navy has appeared!"

Kato Yusaburo quickly picked up the long binoculars. Under the increasingly gloomy sky, several thick and substantial soot smoke columns were clearly visible. They were indeed the main cruisers of the First Fleet of the Chinese Navy.

It turned out that when the torpedo ship echelon was being chased by the Japanese navy, Hua Fei finally couldn't bear it, and ordered all the warships of the First Fleet in Hong Kong to make a full-scale attack to support and cover the torpedo ship echelon to return.