Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 575
However, what Yamamoto didn't expect was that the heavy fog would also play a concealing role, especially for submarines, who could quietly sneak into the surroundings of the United Fleet.

"Tell the engine room to slow down and keep a distance from the opponent's warship. We are now in a semi-submersible state. It is not a good thing to collide with the opponent's warship. Also, have you contacted other submarine teams?" Major Zhang Chengzhi, who was in charge of commanding this time, asked the first officer standing next to him in a low voice.

"The whale hunting team and the shark hunting team have been contacted. They have all rushed over. In addition, the fish hunting team is also close to the target."

"That's good. Let's continue to follow the opponent here, let them continue to approach, and we will launch an attack when the fog clears!" At this point, he suddenly ordered loudly: "Prepare to dive and enter the periscope state."

Each submarine immediately shook the handle, filled the water tanks on both sides of the submarine with water, and made the submarine dive rapidly. After 5 minutes, all submarines dived.

The submarine brigade kept silent and waited for about 3 hours before the white mist slowly dissipated.

"Don't wait any longer, it's time for us to act." Zhang Chengzhi gave an order, and all the submarines slowly rushed towards the United Fleet. After half an hour, they finally arrived at the scheduled attack position.

Through the periscope, Zhang Chengzhi began to select hunting targets from the huge fleet, and he found a large gray shadow, which was a heavy cruiser, and the bow was setting off layers of huge waves.Zhang Chengzhi let it go. After all, among so many warships, the tonnage was much larger than it, so it was not wise to track his own whereabouts for a cruiser.

A larger black shadow appeared in the periscope. The ship was moving steadily and fast to the south, and the huge bow splitting the white waves looked very spectacular.Zhang Chengzhi was about to find the best attack angle, but the warship turned to the southwest by itself, and it was about to form a 70-degree angle with the submarine, which was an extremely ideal attack angle.

"Quick, get ready for a torpedo attack!"

When everything was ready, Zhang Chengzhi raised the periscope again, and fixed the crosshair firmly on the bow of the opponent's warship.

"Shark Hunter 4, get ready!"

"Pay attention to the direction. Pay attention to the distance!"

"Lower the periscope. Don't let us target. Angle, port 20, aim at the target." Having said that, Zhang Chengzhi glanced at his watch: "Launch 1, launch 2, launch 3, launch 4."

"Quick dive, don't want our hull."

During the rapid dive of Shark 4, Zhang Chengzhi heard four explosions in a row. There is no doubt that the four torpedoes hit the target accurately.

At this time, on the sea surface, on the Yamashiro, a battleship command ship of the United Fleet, accompanied by a huge explosion, a huge wall of water rose up on the sea surface, raising the giant ship with a standard displacement of 30600 tons. He lifted it up, and then fell heavily on the sea, and the sailors on the ship didn't know what happened.

At this time, the left side of the ship had been pierced with four big holes, one of which hit the boiler room on the left side, which immediately caused the entire power system of the warship to be interrupted. on the sea.Although the damage control team tried their best to rescue them, they still couldn't stop the seawater from rushing in from the breach, and the warship began to tilt to the left. Due to the loss of the power system, the generator could not supply power, which caused the entire warship to tilt intensified.The captain gave the order to abandon ship.The destroyer in charge of escorting nearby moved towards the Asagiri.After about an hour of busy work, more than 1 people boarded the destroyer, and at this time the hull of the Yamashiro suddenly had a big rollover, and a few minutes later, the entire warship disappeared into the endless sea.

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Taking advantage of the chaos, the second attacking force entered an excellent attacking position under the guidance of radar and periscope.Zhang Chengzhi immediately ordered: "The front torpedo tubes 9, 1, 2, and 3 of Shark Hunter 4 are 130 degrees to the right, and the distance is 690 meters. Launch!"

4 electric torpedoes came out of the tube, and the short 5 minutes seemed as long as a century. The sonar soldier in charge of monitoring suddenly shouted: "Attention!", and soon everyone on the ship heard that the enemy ship was hit. The first explosion sounded, and more than 9 seconds later, there was a second sound. After another 8 seconds, the third and fourth sounds also sounded.

"Hit the enemy ship! Hit the enemy ship!" The sonar soldier shouted loudly.

The battleship Hyuga had turned into a hell on earth at this time, raging fires were constantly spraying out from the cracks in the blasted warship, the bridge was full of fire, the elevator platform fell off the slide rails, and a few unlucky people The worker was killed on the spot.What is even more exaggerated is the starboard hull. The torpedo cut four huge openings on the starboard side of the hull. The surging sea water poured in uncontrollably from various places, engulfing the hull on this side, and the entire warship immediately began to attack. Lean right.Obviously, Hinata has been sentenced to death.

"Order the destroyer to rescue, damn it, what's going on?" Yamamoto screamed angrily.

The destroyers around the Hyuga quickly approached here.

At this moment, Zhang Chengzhi issued a surprising order: "Order the teams to dive, turn left, and prepare to continue the attack."

This is a tactic that is tantamount to suicide, because their heads are already covered with their own "natural enemy" destroyers, and doing this by themselves is like a mouse walking around in front of a cat's nose.But for Zhang Chengzhi, only big adventures can lead to big success. After 30 minutes, based on the calculations of the sea chart and sonar, the whale hunting team should have arrived at the expected launch position. "Float up and take out the periscope, and launch the torpedo immediately after confirming the target position." At this time, everyone knows that as long as his submarine goes up and sticks out the periscope, it may be spotted by the Japanese destroyer. Order.

"emission!"

Three groups of 12 torpedoes were launched into the water without intervals, and they made waves in the water and went straight to Jidong Maru, Shen Guo Maru, and Dongbang Maru. This time they aimed at the enemy's supply fleet, as long as they killed each other Without supply ships, the United Fleet will be dead in the sea.

Three of the torpedoes quickly approached the port side of the Jidong Maru, and penetrated a large hole with a diameter of one meter there. Two torpedoes hit the oil storage tank of Shen Guomaru, causing a huge explosion. The ship 2 minutes later Slowly sinking.Three torpedoes directly hit Dongbangmaru's ammunition reserve, and a series of explosions tore Dongbangmaru into pieces in an instant.

The two consecutive successes of the Chinese Seawolves did not make people understand.First of all, due to the influence of heavy fog.The distance between the fleet and the fleet is too wide.Therefore, after a ship was hit by a torpedo, it took a long time for the news to be known to another warship.In addition, the flagship Yamato was the first to be sunk, causing the entire army to lose its soul, which further exacerbated the chaos of the fleet.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Chinese sea wolves launched continuous attacks on the chaotic United Fleet.

It was already 4 o'clock in the morning of the next day, and five submarines of the whale hunting team sneaked up behind the five heavy cruisers. At a distance of 4000 meters, they fired 20 torpedoes consecutively from the bow and tail launch tubes.The United Fleet in the chaos still did not discover such a dense torpedo track, and did not make a Z-shaped anti-submarine route, but continued to move forward according to the original route.

A huge fireball rose from the bow of the heavy cruiser Alto, but this was only the beginning of the disaster.The bow of the Aituo was not designed with a watertight cabin, so the front of the warship began to flood with water and gradually sank.The entire warship slowly left the water surface and became a vertical state. The keel suddenly broke from the middle because it couldn't bear the huge pressure.The broken rear part of the hull hit the water heavily.The front part slowly sank into the water, while the back part slowly sank into the sea after floating on the sea surface for about 10 minutes. 730 sailors sank with the ship because they were not rescued in time.

Two explosions came from the water again, this time the unlucky one was the Tone behind the Alto.Two torpedoes directly hit his middle ammunition bay, with an explosive equivalent of 870 tons, causing this two-year-old warship to immediately fall apart and become parts. Only 3 of the [-] officers and soldiers survived.

At this time, no matter how stupid a person is, he will understand what is going on.They immediately began to organize a counterattack. With the help of the underwater acoustic detection system, one destroyer after another drove over, aggressively rushing forward to attack the floating submarine.

The destroyer Bailu appeared to be extremely patient, holding on to Hunting Fish 2 for a long time, and dropped a large number of depth charges along the estimated track, drawing two barrages of cross bombing above the submarine. An explosion about 50 meters above the hull would almost cause a fatal blow to the submarine.

During the pursuit of the Bailu, the stern elevator indicator of the hunting fish 2 was damaged by shock. The helmsman mistakenly thought that the stern rudder electric had failed, so he switched hands, but because of panic, he turned on the submersible rudder by mistake, causing the submarine to slam. fell below the limit depth.In the cabin, the rattle of the pressure hull can be heard being pressed by the huge pressure of the water.The helmsman finally adjusted the submarine to a safe depth, but the destroyer was still patrolling on it, and everyone had to wait patiently.

Finally, the sonar soldiers heard the signal that the sound of high-speed propellers faded away from the listener.Only then did Hunting Fish 2 float up carefully.

In the eastern waters, other sea wolves are expanding their achievements.Shark Hunter 4 successfully damaged the heavy cruiser Chikuma of the fourth formation after releasing four torpedoes, although it did not sink the opponent.But at least let it lie in the dock for about half a year.The light cruiser Nagara was also damaged.The destroyers Nosan, Arashi, Hagikaze, and Wukaze were also sunk by Chinese sea wolves. In addition, four oil tankers, three supply ships and several other ships were also torpedoed into the seabed.

(End of this chapter)