The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

Chapter 257

Sound Torpedo Attack

The dreadful day finally passed. Without the threat of high-speed fighters and bombers, the fleet can travel with peace of mind. There is nothing more ideal than this. .

Rear Admiral Yoshida Zengo did not relax like other captains. As a commander, he knew many things that others did not understand. At the same time, as the commander who fought against Zhu Bin's troops for the second time, there were more things that others could not understand. feel.

At the beginning, the two second-hand warships that dared to return to China only relying on the protection of the U.S. fleet were stopped in the Pacific Ocean, but Zhu Bin dared to let the powerful Imperial Navy in the fleet confront him, and fired guns without timidity to demonstrate, which made a crazy ship The fighter plane rushed into the sky above the imperial fleet alone, and successfully blinded an imperial fighter plane.

There are all kinds of generals as there are soldiers. At that time, Zhu Bin was a small lieutenant commander in the navy—a staff officer who was promoted temporarily, but now he leads a fleet alone—even though it is not yet a prototype, But it has already stamped his unique brand and has a strong style.

An army with its own style and spirit is extremely rare in China in this era, and even more dangerous!An enemy who hates the empire is not terrible. What is terrible is that he has affected tens of thousands of people, and has organized tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of millions of people to back him up. Then he may grow rapidly As a towering tree, no one can stop it standing upright on the ground, a giant that is unshakable despite the storm!

Many people in the General Staff Headquarters of the base camp came to this conclusion after careful thinking and summarization.For such an opponent, it is necessary to use the power of thunder to kill it in the cradle without hesitation, and even now it seems a bit late!That guy already owns the navy, army, and air force, and has a systematic equipment research and production organization. He has a high reputation and social influence. His degree of danger is no less than that of Chairman Jiang who used a million troops to launch the first The so-called red bandits who have been encircled and suppressed five times!

"For such an enemy, don't take it lightly! Gentlemen, don't forget that they can take off and land planes at night. The incident in Osaka has only been a few months away!"

Yoshida Zengo earnestly told a group of officers who were obviously relaxed that the other party had mastered the technology of night flight, which would become extremely dangerous.If you don't deal with it carefully, in case a large number of bombers suddenly approach the bombing at night, it will be too late to cry at that time.

"Hi! Your Excellency, Commander, is wise!" The discipline of the navy majors was much better than that of the army bastards, and they listened to his euphemistic criticism very seriously.

As a result, the fleet that had already set up a mighty formation across the ocean and advanced like a war behemoth had to cheer up. Even though it was exhausted after a day of tossing, it still squeezed out manpower to fight. The searchlights were turned on towards the sky, and the headlights on the sea surface illuminated several kilometers away, not letting go of even the slightest suspicious movements and shadows.

This kind of strict security cannot escape the prying eyes of the high-altitude night reconnaissance plane. Looking down, bunches of bright lights tore the silent night sky to pieces. At the same time, it is inevitable to sigh.

"What a good target! You don't need to bother aiming, just follow the light to find it. It's a pity that night bombing is not allowed from above."

The pilot sighed regretfully.But if you think about it, you know that this idea will not come true in a short time.

The current air force has indeed begun to popularize infrared equipment used for night navigation, and has also begun to study airborne radars, but it is still a little far away from real night operations.Not to mention anything else, the beams of light swept by the fleet below are quite disturbing, and it will be troublesome to be dazzled if one is not careful, but once they are targeted, countless anti-aircraft shells will bombard them, which is extremely dangerous.

In addition, the combat mission this time is to annihilate, not scare away the Japanese fleet, and the bomber fleet cannot be allowed to act rashly.The last important reason is that the entire task force has given enough surprises to the outside world. If you continue to expose your own strength, it will become a fright, and it will not be very pleasant to make people attack in groups!

The movement of the Japanese army was reported to the fleet, and Wang Wenda, who was less than [-] nautical miles away from the Japanese army, couldn't help muttering: "He's a little devil, he's really vigilant! It's hard to hit him hard in the dark. "

The entire fleet with weak combat capabilities was indeed fleeing at the maximum speed at this moment, but it was not that there was no back-up left, and there were two light torpedo boats lurking on the left sea not far from the fleet.

In the area extending nearly [-] nautical miles from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the north, there are a large number of dangerous areas under the sea surface with a width of [-] to [-] nautical miles. From Wunansha at the southernmost point to Langjiasha, Puzisha, Changsha, Sand and sea conditions are relatively complicated, so small ships don't matter, and large ships are not suitable for walking close to the side. For example, the heavy patrols and aircraft carriers dispatched by the Japanese army this time carefully avoided these areas.

But for a torpedo boat that runs almost close to the surface, it doesn't matter.After the main force of the fleet went north, two little guys with a speed of nearly 40 knots were quietly released from the big ship, waiting quietly on the sea east of the mouth of the Xinhuai River.

Let the opponent pursue in a straight line, and you will never be able to run away at less than half the speed of your own. The best way is to prevent the opponent from getting up too fast, so you need to try to block it. In this regard, there is nothing more beneficial than creating a crisis up.

The southern formation of the Japanese army, which was advancing at full speed, was running at a speed of more than 34 knots, and the distance between them was rapidly shortened within a few hours. At one o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army fleet sailed to the east of Lianyungang. Prey, less than an hour's flight away!

Yoshida Zengo, who didn't dare to take a rest while carrying his hands, was inexplicably joyful, and sent an order to the entire fleet: "Masters, the enemy ships are right ahead, let us surround them and wipe them out completely!"

"Annihilate them!" The captains of the ships who had been mad for a day shouted vigorously. Eight destroyers and frigates with a speed of up to 37 knots first passed from the two wings, drawing an arc with a diameter of forty nautical miles like two Rush towards the distant target like a huge pincer, at such a speed, it only takes half an hour to pull the enemy into the maximum distance of the naval gun bombardment. At that time, it is the time to kill happily!

At the same time, the two torpedo boats, which had been waiting for half the night, suddenly woke up from the silence, their engines roaring, they rushed out of their hiding places, and slashed towards the destroyer that was rushing ahead. , when it was about twelve kilometers away, it suddenly released two slender torpedoes, and at the same time the sound of the engine was greatly reduced, only relying on the battery pack to maintain a slower and slower speed to turn around the corner and escape!

Two boats and four torpedoes plunged straight into the water with a "plop plop". Under the action of the engine mechanism with hydrogen peroxide as the oxidant inside, the propeller driven by a piston kerosene engine rotated at a very low volume at high speed. With the power of rushing out of the torpedo tube, the standard body with a diameter of 533mm, which is nearly six meters long, ran faster and faster, and accelerated to nearly 40 knots in a short time. The destroyer plunged headfirst without hesitation!

This is why the two speedboats were converted to battery pack propulsion.These new torpedoes are all fresh gadgets that use the sound guidance system, and they don't count on aiming and anticipation when launching, but their high speed of nearly 40 knots and high range of nearly 20 nautical miles are all in this era. Chilling killer traits!

The four torpedoes were already in a tilted and hedged posture. From entering the water to charging at a high speed, before reaching the highest speed, the three destroyers appeared ahead with a tilt distance of less than 5 nautical miles!The first two sharks that seemed to smell the smell of blood, their slender bodies deftly turned around against the water surface, and slanted straight into the target!

The destroyers responsible for the attack were already very careful. Not only did they search the sky, but they also kept scanning the sea surface on both sides with their searchlights. The six-meter-long monster charged at high speed like a shark, although there were not many people left behind. There are obvious bubble trails, but the weird shape and the rushing appearance are too distinct. The sharp-eyed Japanese sailors had already seen it clearly at a glance, and immediately screamed: "Torpedo attack!"

500 meters!This is the distance found under the searchlight, and at the speed of the two sides facing each other, 500 meters is only a matter of more than ten seconds. The heart-piercing exclamation has just been transmitted to overtime. Hesitatingly pulling the trigger in the direction the searchlight was pointing at, the steady sound of "Teng Teng Teng" for the first time made the soldiers feel so slow and so "meat". They couldn't keep up with the torpedoes approaching at high speed on a curved course. At the same time as the alarm sounded, the two torpedoes rushed to the side of the destroyer one by one at a distance of about a hundred meters!

"The torpedo is going to be empty...!"

With his heart raised to his throat, his eyes were almost out of the frame, and the sailor, who was staring at the movement of the torpedo, found that one of the two torpedoes passed ahead of time, and the other lagged behind. The battleship passed by, and couldn't help but shouted in surprise.

But before the cry came out, the two torpedoes suddenly turned around like living things, and they seemed to have lost their power in an instant, and they turned sideways. The one on the head exploded suddenly when it was about to pass by. !The one behind made a sudden turn to catch up, plunged into the wildly spinning propeller, and exploded as well!

"Boom! Boom!"

The difference between the two loud noises was less than three seconds and they sounded one after another!The front first explosion was less than ten meters away from the bow of the ship, and the sudden explosion of more than [-] kilograms of high explosives produced unmatched destructive power, and the water waves pushed by it instantly collapsed the sharp bow!The power that erupted in the air swept across the bow of the ship, blowing away all the sailors observed above and the protruding structure. Hundreds of tons of sea water were blasted up more than a hundred meters into the sky, and the huge waves directly smashed the slender The head of the battleship lifted off the water and flew into the air!

Immediately afterwards, an explosion occurred, and the slender stern of the ship was blown up several meters on the spot like steel dough. The propulsion system and the stern rudder were torn off from the ship in an instant, and the huge explosive force slammed the battleship toward Pushing forward, coupled with squeezing from the front, it was like the two big hands of a skyscraper giant closing together, abruptly lifting half of the entire destroyer out of the water, and then twisting and breaking in the middle of the rear keel, and the riveted steel plates continued to crack. The broken rivet bounced away vigorously, "boom boom bouncing" like bullets and shell fragments flying towards both sides!

The worst thing was the people on the destroyer. Under the double squeeze of the shock waves generated by the two super-large explosions, their internal organs first burst and shattered, and then the whole person was squeezed into the steel and squeezed out of sight as the ship twisted and deformed. In just a few seconds, no one survived except the innermost boiler room!

The disaster is not over yet. The severe deformation of the hull caused the boiler to burst and explode, the oil leaked, and the ammunition was also triggered. The battleship was lifted seven or eight meters from the sea like a toy and then fell heavily. The battleship continued to disintegrate from both ends, and finally "boomed" A big explosion directly blasted back to the state of the parts. Countless pieces of metal, wood, and glass scattered like flowers forming an eruption group with a diameter of hundreds of meters. The tall ones rushed into the air, and the low ones fell into the abyss. After the eruption, the third flipped and rose, illuminating the sea surface for miles around in an instant!

The tragedy is not over yet!The second big bang erupted suddenly 1 minute later!The second destroyer four nautical miles away did not escape bad luck either. The two audio-guided torpedoes rushed past a little behind. This time it was much more straightforward. They plunged side by side into the thin steel plate below the waterline. It was designed by Zhu Bin himself. The second explosion mechanism, the front metal flow mechanism specially designed for the lightning protection net, erupted at the moment of contact, and a circle of ultra-high temperature flames with a width of one meter was emitted from the head, directly burning through the steel plate of the battleship, and then The whole torpedo slammed into it under inertia, and paused for less than half a second in the compartment, before it exploded with a "boom"!

The 200-meter-long destroyer was blown into three pieces on the spot in two huge explosions!The middle part jumped more than ten meters upwards, and all of them collapsed with a bang. The two parts, the front and the rear, rolled and separated. Complement each other!

"What happened?!" Yoshida Zengo's flagship was in the middle, jumped up by the sudden eruption of fireballs, beams of light and the earth-shattering explosion that came later, and swooped to the window sill with rounded eyes. , I suddenly felt a bad feeling in my heart!

Such a huge explosion is either a mine or a torpedo!Nothing else, and most likely, two destroyers suffered!

"The entire fleet is on alert! Be careful to defend against torpedo attacks!" Roaring fiercely, Yoshida Zengo's eyes were bloodshot, and he roared through gritted teeth, "Search immediately, no matter what, catch the mouse hiding in the dark, immediately!"

Chapter 257 The Acoustic Torpedo Attack

Chapter 257 The Attack of the Acoustic Torpedo