The Republic of Heroes

The "Kirishima" is doomed. Although he doesn't want to admit it, Kanji Kato knows that no one can save this battlecruiser that the Imperial Navy is proud of.Sure enough, explosions sounded one after another, and bursts of flames rose around the huge hull of the "Kirishima" one after another.

Suddenly, the entire night sky flashed, and the sound of explosions louder than previous explosions exploded in the air. Everyone in the bridge of the "Mutsu" shivered, and the corner of Kanji Kato's mouth twitched. It was so violent without thinking. The explosion must be the explosion of the ammunition compartment caused by the fire or the torpedo explosion.The warship that was killed by the explosion was like a deadly demon. Once it opened its bloody mouth, it would be swallowed like a warship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, and there would be no bones left.

Kanji Kato closed his eyes and couldn't bear to look at the tragedy on the sea, and couldn't bear to witness the tragedy of his own fleet. He could accept the sinking of several cruisers, but a battlecruiser was sunk without firing a single shot. , which he cannot accept anyway.

This was a naval battle with extremely asymmetric forces between the two sides. What surprised people was that the outcome of the battle was the opposite of the balance of power. The crude submarine was helpless to fight back.

This naval battle, which attracted national attention, could no longer escape the eyes of the people of the country. Once such absurd defeat was reported back to the country, Kanji Kato would not be able to cover up his guilt even if he apologized ten times through caesarean section.Although Kanji Kato was on the battlefield, his thoughts had already flown to the aftermath of the war. If it was the sea battle that determined the fate of the imperial kingdom decades ago, under the leadership of Togo Heihachiro, he was in a state of desperation. Fang Gang’s only thought in his heart is to die for the country with his own body. Now that the situation has changed and his status is different, the entanglements in his heart have become more and more. After all, the bottom line of morality cannot resist the temptation of power and status. Guilty, how to safely bring the remaining power of the fleet back to Yokosuka.

At this very moment, when he was just young, he never thought that his life was less than three hours away, and his fate was already doomed the moment he set sail from Yokosuka, and he was destined not to see him in this nightmare night. The rising sun tomorrow.

Of course, Admiral Kato Hirotomo gave the most appropriate order he could think of, and the ships quickly left the battlefield.But the battlefield at this time is no longer within his control.Whether it is the fighting of Chinese submarines or the opposition of the commanders of the various ships.

The first person who jumped out to oppose him was none other than Rear Admiral Yamamoto 56, the captain of the battleship "Mutsu" standing beside him.

Yamamoto 56 sneered again and again:

"Your Excellency, please forgive me for not being able to carry out your order. From this moment on, I, Yamamoto, and the entire battleship will fight for the Empire and His Majesty the Emperor until the last moment until victory comes."

In this way, Kato Hirotomo lost control of the entire fleet. A commander who has lost his fighting spirit is always easily abandoned by his own generals, especially the task force with a cloud of fierce generals.Yamamoto 56 leapfrogged to take over the control of Hirotomo Kato over the task force, and ordered all ships to immediately enter combat mode, turn on all searchlights, search for possible targets on the sea surface, and fire repeatedly with secondary artillery, anti-aircraft guns, and anti-aircraft machine guns if any abnormalities are found.

As long as the Chinese submarine is in shallow water, it will inevitably be injured by anti-aircraft shells. Yamamoto 56 deliberately studied this kind of underwater ship called a submarine after the Songhu War. The fatal weakness of this kind of ship is that it has almost no defense capabilities and a fragile hull. It is easy to be torn by small-caliber naval guns, and once the hull is damaged, it will be fatal to the submarine.So, what he has to do is to do everything possible to kill these submarines.

However, Yamamoto 56 took it for granted, and this tactic would soon prove to be ineffective in the first actual combat.The Suidong Army's submarines did not seem to stay below the surface of the sea, and no matter whether they were bombarded by anti-aircraft guns or naval guns, they had no effect.On the contrary, the submarine force achieved another victory, and a heavy cruiser was hit in the engine room and lost power.

Yamamoto 56 frowned, and watched the battle situation on the sea through the telescope intently. Since many ships were on fire, the whole picture was photographed like daytime, and he could clearly see several fishes across the picture. The white lines, watching them row towards the huge battleship helplessly.

A small number of destroyers with a displacement of only a few hundred tons searched in vain between the gaps among the warships. The few destroyers carrying depth charges had already dropped all their bombs. Even if the sonar found the target, only Resignedly, he circled in circles in the target area in vain.

Of course, what panicked the destroyer captains who towed the sonar was not that their own depth charges had been exhausted, but that according to the sonar detection, there were too many sleeping targets, at least a hundred or so.

The destroyer commanders even wondered if the sonar equipment was damaged and caused false alarms, but as such enemy reports were gathered in the bridge command cabin of the fleet flagship "Mutsu", Yamamoto 56 frowned even tighter. It seems that he wants to squeeze out the entire skin between the eyebrows, or petrification is more appropriate.

This is clearly a premeditated attack by the Chinese. Could it be that they fell into a trap?How is this possible? How could those Chinese who have always been cowardly and cowardly have the courage to use these beggar-like submarines to attack the imperial task force?

But the fact is that China not only dared to think, but also dared to do it. Hundreds of submarines beat this mighty task force to the ground in less than an hour of battle.Faced with the helpless facts, Yamamoto 56 finally understood Kato Hirotomo's mood, but this must not be a reason to escape.

The Royal Navy cannot be the one that flees, as long as they persist in fighting, he believes that victory will favor them.

Kato Hirotomo's unhurried voice of advice came from behind: "Yamamoto-kun, don't make unnecessary sacrifices. At this point, you still don't know the battle situation? With no professional ships to deal with the Shina submarine, quickly withdraw from the battlefield It is the wisest choice, only by sacrificing your reputation can we exchange for the safety of the Royal Navy warships!"

After Kato Hirotomo was usurped by Yamamoto 56, he finally figured out the priorities of the matter, but can Yamamoto 56 calm down as quickly as him?In the end, the wise decision is to run away. Can he bear the shame of running away?