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Chapter 179 It was us who sank Yamato (Third update, please subscribe)

When the "Shark" fired torpedoes at the battleship "Yamato", it was in the middle of the formation composed of the battleship "Yamato".

Well, that's where you die.

The cruiser "Yagi" and the destroyers "Fuyutsuki", "Ryogetsu", "Yukikaze", "Isokaze", "Hamakaze", "Kasumi", "Hatsusho" and "Asashiro" are around it.

Didn't they find the "Shark"?
  In the following decades, many naval history experts discussed this surprise attack and this great miracle.

Many people attribute all this to chance - bad weather caused too much noise in the water, the Japanese Navy's inferior sonar listening equipment failed to detect the "Shark" in the noisy background sound, and of course there were so many A little bit of luck. If the "Yamato" hadn't burst into the sight of the "Shark", it would not have been an easy task to penetrate the escort circle.

Of course, there is another reason. The torpedo used by the Shark is the German-made G7e torpedo. It is an electric torpedo. Unlike ordinary torpedoes, it sails with almost no wake. This directly led to the fact that there was no one in the special attack fleet until the torpedo was launched. Notice its presence.

However, only the officers and soldiers on the Shark knew that they had the belief that they would die when they launched the attack.

Even if it meant death, he would be willing to do so, as long as he launched the torpedo.

So what if it doesn't hit?

At least they had tried, they had worked hard, they had used their lives to launch torpedoes at the Yamato.

Just like in the past eight years, the Chinese on land have used their lives and blood to fight the invaders...

At 4:7 a.m. on April [-], Morita, who was standing on the observation tower, was staring intently at the U.S. military aircraft that might appear in the sky when he was startled by a deep and violent explosion. At the same time, he looked at A huge water column rose up on the port side, hundreds of meters high. Then the mountain-like Yamato shook violently,

"There's a mine!"

Almost subconsciously, everyone thought they had hit a mine.

Before Morita could try to figure out what was going on, a second explosion followed, and the water column from the sky even splashed into the observation tower. Some sailors on the deck fell to the deck in violent shock.

"Mine! It must be a mine!"

The panicked sailors almost instinctively shouted that the US military had laid a large number of mines in the Bungo Channel area.

The sailors on the deck shouted loudly, and the damage control team was dispatched immediately.

Yi Teng asked with a tense expression.

"Are you sure it's a mine?"

"should be……"

As soon as the staff officer finished speaking, the third explosion sounded.

After the first round of attacks hit, the Shark launched a second round of attacks. Two torpedoes were fired, one of which hit.

The explosions of heavy torpedoes blew open the waterline bulkheads of the Yamato one after another. Thousands of tons of seawater poured into the bottom cabin in an instant. Although the damage control team tried to rescue, it was too late by this time.

After the turbulent water poured into the cabin from three huge holes on the port side, it quickly caused the hull of the "Yamato" to tilt.

The officer in charge of drainage called the bridge:
  "The water intrusion has reached the maximum limit. In order to prevent the ship from continuing to tilt, the starboard engine room must be filled with water."

Captain Yukisaku Ariga ordered symmetrical water injection into the starboard compartment to restore the balance of the ship, and the speed was reduced to 18 knots.

"Submarine! It must be an American submarine!"

It has to be said that sometimes people are always limited by fixed thinking. Because warships were often sunk by mines deployed by the US military in the Bungo Channel area, they stubbornly believed that what they encountered was mines.

After the third torpedo came, I remembered that the US military still had submarines.

At this time, the middle and rear part of the port side of the "Yamato" had been accurately hit by three torpedoes, and the hull tilted up to 16-18 degrees. Since the starboard injection and drainage area is already filled with water, water can only be continued to be injected into the machinery room, lounge and boiler room.

"Where are the Kuo submarines?"

After the "Yamato" was attacked by a submarine, the entire escort formation immediately fell into chaos.

Just as they were using sonar to explore the location of the submarine, at 9:15, the "Shark", which had launched all four torpedoes on the bow of the boat, had already changed its course in the deep sea and aimed the stern of the boat at the "Yamato" On the port side, they made another almost perfect surfacing, attacked, and then launched two torpedoes in the launch tubes of the aft cabin.

After launching the torpedo, Zou Tongjie shouted.

"Dive to 110 meters!"

The maximum dive of the Shark is only 100m and 110 meters, which have already reached the limit of the Shark, but now we can no longer care about that much.

As they dived at full speed, the listener heard two loud bangs in succession - hit!

This time they were lucky. Two torpedoes hit the port side of the "Yamato" one after another, which was the most fatal blow. After being hit by five torpedoes in succession, the speed of the "Yamato" gradually decreased to 7 knots, and a large amount of water entered, making the Yamato destined to be unable to escape the fate of sinking.

Soon an emergency call came from the emergency wheel room:
  "There's too much water here. We can't steer anymore."

Then the wheel commander's voice was cut off.

"Your Excellency Commander..."

Captain Ariga Kosaku looked at Lieutenant General Iteng Zhengyi with a sad expression, his face was solemn and his eyes were distracted.

Perhaps, they imagined that the "Yamato" was destined to sink into the sea, but in everyone's imagination, this would definitely go through a bloody battle. They would use 460mm cannons to bombard the American warships. Use your will to prove to the world the courage of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

But who would have thought that it would just... sink!
  Just like the "Shinano", it was sunk by a submarine just after it went to sea!

This is simply a disgrace to the Navy!

They didn't even have enough time to open fire or enter the battlefield in a hurry, and then they were solved...

The world's number one battleship!

It just sank like that... and it was the kind that didn't even fire a single shot!

Faced with this result, Lieutenant General Iteng Zhengyi, as the commander of the fleet, closed his eyes in pain. Now they have no way to save the day.

"The bow of the ship is pointing north,"

Colonel General Yukisaku Ariga shouted. According to tradition, the dead should face north; Ariga also asked the dying "Yamato" to do this. However, the sailors in the emergency wheelhouse had drowned at their posts, and the warship began to slowly turn to port. The temporary first aid shelter at the bow of the ship has been destroyed. The hull of the ship was hit by five torpedoes, and its tilt exceeded [-] degrees.

Soon when the "Yamato" tilted to [-] degrees, the deputy captain Nomura called Ariga Kosaku.

"It's almost over," he said.

"It's time for all crews to assemble on deck."

Then, Ariga used a speaking tube to inform Ito that there was no hope of correcting the tilt. "Fleet Commander, sir, your health is very important. Please leave the ship with the crew, I will stay alone,"

Ariga then ordered all crew members to gather on the deck, and then called Nomura, who was still on the second bridge.

"Vice Captain,"

Ariga Yuki said in a hoarse voice,
  "Please leave the ship immediately and report the battle to the combined fleet."

Nomura protested repeatedly and asked to stay on the ship, but Ariga ignored him.

"I'll stay on the ship. You must come back alive."

"Captain," Nomura insisted, "I'm staying with you."

"Vice Captain, this is an order!"

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

He then asked a sailor to tie him to a compass. Some sailors had begun tying themselves to each other to the compass boxes on the bridge.

"What are you doing?" Yuga shouted angrily.

"You young people, jump down and swim to escape! The Empire of Japan still needs your continued service."

Ito also refused to leave the ship. He shook hands with Chief of Staff Morishita. His staff watched with mixed emotions as Ito walked away balancing his body on the sloping deck. Ito opened the door of the spiral escalator and disappeared. His adjutant moved and was about to follow him when Morishita shouted:
  "Eight! Young people must live and serve the emperor!"

At [-]:[-] a.m., the inclination rapidly increased, and the giant battleship, known as the most powerful in human history, finally fell sideways. The sound of water rushing in drowned the sailors and drowned out their "Hail!"

Soon "Yamato" was lying on his side, like a whale that couldn't move.

Corpses slid inexorably into the sea, and the lights went out. The sailors struggled to climb up the almost vertical deck. From time to time they were slid down the deck, fell to death or fell into the sea water. After reaching the top, they climbed over the starboard railing and squeezed against the side wall of the warship.

Vice-captain Nomura felt his body being sucked into the sea by a huge force. He saw sailors "dancing" in the whirlpool in the clear water. Underfoot is a dark blue bottomless pit. The light above his head gradually disappeared. Seeing that he was about to die, he suddenly felt inexplicably lucid. He sank deeper and deeper in pain, and bright red flashes penetrated the sea water. A series of shock waves hammered him like a battering ram. This was really like "the sky fell apart" - the ammunition exploded underwater and Nomura was pushed to the surface. Fireballs rolled on the waves. He rolled over and lay on the water. He thought, "Yamato" is over, the Imperial Navy is over.

On the destroyer "Yukikaze", the captain, Lieutenant Colonel Masamichi Terauchi, looked desperately at "Yamato" - Yamato means "Japan" - Japan, and just turned over and disappeared into the sea.

He sent a signal to the fleet's new most senior officer, Colonel Masayoshi Yoshida, on the destroyer "Fuyutsuki": It was recommended to continue to perform the mission.

The other party replied:
  "Decide on the direction of action after rescuing the survivors."

The Yukikaze's torpedo commander wanted to lower his boat to rescue the survivors, but Terauchi stopped him.

"This mission is unusual," he shouted.

"This is a special attack operation. The Yamato sank, and we have to move on."

He sent another signal to Yoshida, asking for reconsideration, and then ordered the sailors to rescue the survivors—but only those who were still useful in the battle.

"Leave the wounded alone!".

It was at this time that a large number of planes appeared in the sky, which were US military planes... They got up early and rushed to a late gathering. When they arrived, the Yamato had already sunk!

The US military pilot looked at the Yamato like a dead whale on the sea and immediately reported to the rear through the radio.

"Damn it, who got there before us!"

Mark Mitchell almost roared like thunder. A few hours ago, after receiving the information about the "Yamato" attack, General Spruance, commanding the Fifth Fleet, told him to let the enemy ships Continue south and use the battleship's cannons to deal with them. However, Mitchell wanted to use this opportunity to prove forever that his pilots could sink the most powerful surface ship - although the naval aviation had claimed that they sank the "Musashi" in the Philippines, it was entirely possible The submarine sunk it. The sudden appearance of the Musashi's sister ship Yamato, in Mitchell's view, "provides a great opportunity to prove the superiority of the aircraft - if any proof is needed."

But just when Mitchell finally got the right to "attack the Yamato", he never thought that such a thing would happen.

The ripe peach was snatched by someone else!
  Who took the lead?
  It's the "Shark"!
  However, the timing of the U.S. Air Force's appearance was just right, because at this time Japanese warships were continuously launching depth bombs. Although the "Yamato" sank, the U.S. Air Force still launched attacks on Japanese warships, and this also helped the "Yamato" on the seabed. Shark".

After all, when the US aviation arrived, the Shark was teetering under the constant bombardment of depth charges.

Any further down is an abyss, and above is a dead end.

All we can say is that sometimes friendly forces are friendly forces, and friendly forces can also provide some help themselves.

It’s not help, it’s life-saving!

Even if they are on the Shark, the officers and soldiers are ready to die generously, but wouldn't it be better to survive.

Due to the attack by US aircraft in the air, the Japanese warships no longer cared about the Shark on the bottom of the sea and devoted all their efforts to air defense operations.

During the successive attacks by hundreds of US military aircraft, Japanese warships were continuously hit one after another.

The Shark did not take the opportunity to leave. Instead, it took advantage of the Japanese warship's inattention to seize the time to load the torpedoes. It took almost an hour to complete the loading process again. At this time, the air attack on the sea had also come to an end.

The cruiser "Yagi", which had been hit in multiple places, was sinking rapidly, and its deck was soaked with water. After an hour-long sea and air battle, the Japanese warships escaped and sank. Only the "Yagi" was still holding on stubbornly.

Suddenly, a huge water column exploded on the starboard side of the "Yagi". The "Yagi", which was still struggling, quickly sank into the sea like an iron lump. The American airmen in the air all looked at it in amazement. This scene.

There is one question in everyone's mind - who sank the "Yagi"?
  Similarly, people are still asking with doubts - who sank the "Yamato".

"Where did the torpedoes come from?"

For a while, the radio waves were filled with questions from people.

At this moment, a submarine suddenly emerged from the bottom of the sea and rushed out of the sea almost violently. Amidst the waves and gunfire, the submarine rushed out of the sea desperately.

Where did this come from?

Almost as people were looking at the submarine that had appeared out of nowhere, they saw a crew member rushing out of the control tower, holding a flag in his hand.

Just like the legendary Italian submarine that emerged from the sea waving the Italian tricolor flag every time it sank an American warship, that flag was flying on the control tower.

"Little Japanese devil, did you see that it was us, it was us Chinese... who sank Yamato! It was us who sank you..."

The sailors unfurled the flag towards the Japanese sailors who sank into the sea. He looked at them with tired eyes and roared loudly:
  "Look! This is what you said - the guy who will never be your opponent! It's us who sank your Yamato here!"

At this moment, the sea is boiling, and so are the people. Airplanes roar over the submarine, and the pilots shake their wings as if to pay tribute to these undersea warriors... At this moment, the honor belongs to them. .

It was also at this moment that the soldiers of Dadonggou closed their eyes, and it was also at this moment that the naval officers who sacrificed their lives on the Yangtze River closed their eyes.

Yes, it is also at this moment that all the navy soldiers from Dadonggou until now are relieved.

At this moment, the officers and soldiers on the Shark cried, they laughed, and burst into tears...

(End of this chapter)