s: I can’t stop writing this chapter, it’s a 5,000-word chapter.
In addition, at the request of some friends, I made a situation map of this book, which is pinned to the top of the Great Reversal 1906 post forum.
Friends who are interested can check it out.
Drawing the map was so difficult, it took me several hours. oohaha April 9, 0:20.
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom" 72 shells roared across the sky, flying towards the Japanese fleet at a speed of nearly 900 meters per second.
Because the effect of the sixth salvo was so good, the Chinese Navy was able to destroy two of them in just one round, so the seventh round still targeted Ibuki and An Yun, which of course was already killing the corpses.
The Ibuki was hit by three more shells and its tilt further intensified.
And those officers and soldiers who were diving were unlucky.
Four artillery shells fell near it, killing most of the officers and soldiers floating in the sea.
The Anyun was also hit by two rounds, because its bow was now lifted out of the water.
One of the 360mm shells hit the bow and bottom of the ship in an extremely rare event.
After penetrating the bottom of the ship, the shell penetrated multiple decks and exploded in the starboard secondary battery magazine, causing a large explosion in the secondary battery magazine.
This caused the Anyun to burst into flames, doubling the speed of its sinking.
What's even more serious is that the officers and soldiers on the Anyun were already preparing to abandon the ship and escape.
Almost all of the officers and soldiers who were unloading the lifeboats on the starboard side were killed in the explosion of the ammunition depot.
This shell killed at least 500 sailors.
"This can't go on like this."
Shigetaro Yoshimatsu said in a deep voice: "If we continue to maintain the formation, it will be equivalent to dying one by one.
The only solution is to disband the formation, spread out, charge at full speed, and rush up to fight with them.
Our number Occupying an absolute advantage, only in this way can we have the possibility of winning in chaos.”
Sato Tetsutaro also said: "That's right, Commander, all the light ships are also charging together.
Our large number can make them unable to take care of both."
They originally planned to send one person to the Fuji as preparation, but now it seems that it has been ruined.
Because the Hanoi doesn't dare to stop and launch the boat now.
How about swimming over?
After all, the Japanese Navy is a modern army with a very complete organizational structure.
Even if the Hanoi is killed in an accident, other Japanese generals will take their place in order based on their position, rank, seniority and the Hammock.
There is no need to worry about no one to command.
However, in order to prevent accidents, Shigetaro Yoshimatsu still issued a list of substitute commanders to each warship above cruiser level, asking them to follow this if an accident occurred to the flagship.
As for the destroyers, forget about them.
If they reach the point where only the destroyers are left, then there is no need to fight and just run for their lives.
The bridge of the Fuxi.
"Commander, the Japanese ships have dispersed and are accelerating.
The light ships originally scattered in the rear are also speeding up," Navigator Li Ang reported.
"Well, it seems that they are planning to disperse the charge and prepare to use their numerical advantage to engage in a melee with us."
Gao Yujie thought for a moment and understood the other party's intention.
"Commander, we just intercepted the Japanese military secret message."
The telecommunications officer handed Gao Yujie a copy of the Japanese military secret message that had just been deciphered.
With computers and later generations of professional-level deciphering software, the basic codes used by the Japanese army at this time were almost useless.
Even the time it took for China to decipher and print was more than ten times faster than the Japanese army's own decoding of the code book.
Dozens of times.
A telegram that the Japanese Navy took more than ten minutes to decrypt, but the Chinese side only needs more than ten seconds from receiving to decoding and formatting.
It just takes about a minute to print out the manuscript.
No way, now we only have dot matrix printers.
For China, there is no difference between plain code and password in the telegram currently used in Japan.
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Gao Yujie took it and looked at it, then smiled and said: "Oh, the list of replacements for the commander of the combined fleet haha, it seems that this brother Jisong is really ready to fight for his life."
"But the Japanese are still so idealistic in their thinking.
What obligation do we have to accompany them in the melee?"
Political Commissar Liu Haifeng said with a smile.
Chief of Staff Wang Zhi said: "We should follow the plan just now and fly the kite at a distance.
We are fast and they can't catch up.
If they do this, they will just delay their defeat.
Commander, we'd better head towards the mainland.
Retreat, if we wait until dawn, our planes can be dispatched."
"That's right, they will fight theirs, and we will fight ours."
Gao Yujie nodded and calmly ordered: "Order all ships in the battle line to turn right immediately after firing the next round of salvos.
The horizontal force retreated to the west at a speed of 23 knots to distance itself from the enemy.
At the same time, all the light ships moved forward to attack with torpedoes to cover the retreat of the main force."
At 0:22, the Chinese fleet fired its eighth salvo, this time targeting the Tsukuba and Hanoi, which were third in the Japanese battle line.
Due to its timely turn, the Hanoi only received one shell.
The 280mm shell hit the bow of the ship, blowing up the anchor chain room and lifting the bow deck seven to eight meters high, directly blocking the forward firing range of the No. 1 main turret.
The armored cruiser Tsukuba was not as lucky as the Kawachi.
Its luck was only slightly better than that of the Ibuki in front of it.
The Tsukuba-class armored cruiser, like the Kurama-class, is also a typical Japanese design with an outrageous number of artillery guns.
Moreover, the artillery density of this product is even more exaggerated than that of the Kurama class.
The 13,750-ton displacement hull is actually equipped with two twin 305mm main guns, twelve 152mm profile guns, and twelve single 120mm profile guns. , there are 6 76mm rapid-fire cannons, 8 Ikoma guns, and 3 450mm underwater torpedo tubes.
After all, the Kurama-class has a 203mm secondary gun made into a turret, while the Tsukuba-class secondary guns and rapid-fire guns are all profile guns or exposed turrets.
Except for the front and rear main guns, there is no turret.
In order to place this large number of secondary guns, the Tsukuba class opened two artillery decks on the hull.
The two sides were densely packed with artillery.
One can imagine how fragile its structure is.
This structure looks really majestic.
The whole body is densely covered with black gun barrels, which is quite intimidating at first glance.
But it's only limited to looking majestic.
In actual combat, this structure is very fragile.
Once the side is hit by a shot, it will basically explode, just like a lighter.
It seems that the Japanese like to shoot weapons into "lighters".
This is probably their tradition.
So the Tsukuba paid a heavy price for its "lighter" design today, which is a tragedy.
A shell from the Taihang hit the hangar, sending all the staff and pilots inside to the west.
A shell from the Emei hit the rear superstructure, penetrated the galley and exploded.
The most deadly thing was the two 240mm artillery shells fired by the Qingcheng.
These two turrets penetrated the two secondary guns at the head and tail of the Tsukuba, and they both penetrated and exploded.
This extra-large "lighter" was completely ignited.
First, the secondary battery magazine exploded, and then the strong explosion destroyed the weak partition, detonating the adjacent rapid-fire gun magazine together.
As soon as the Tsukuba ship shook, a series of explosions crackled, countless fireballs continued to rise, and explosive ammunition exploded one after another, like fireworks.
These explosions not only destroyed underwater structures, causing the hull to crack and flood, but also blew up nearby cabins and passages into a mess.
While causing a large number of casualties, they also seriously affected damage control work.
What's even more terrible is that the power cabin was also damaged by the blast, and the main steam pipe was blown off for more than ten meters.
Countless high-temperature steam leaked along all the blasted places, turning the entire lower cabin into a high-temperature hell.
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The Tsukuba, which lost all power, suddenly collapsed on the sea and slowly sank.
"Damn, what a big firework!"
The officers and soldiers on the Qingcheng were dumbfounded.
They didn't expect it to explode.
At 0:25, the Chinese fleet fired its ninth salvo.
This time the targets were adjusted to the Ikoma and Hanoi.
The Ikoma, like its sisters, once again staged a "big bang" plot.
This time it was the Taihang that did it.
One of its 280mm shells fell vertically from a high altitude and hit the ammunition magazine of a 120mm rapid-fire gun on the starboard side.
The ammunition magazines of the rapid-fire cannon are connected together, probably to lower the center of gravity.
These Japanese-style ammunition magazines only have 25 mm thick partitions, which cannot stop the explosive ammunition at all.
So the Ikoma was paralyzed and set off "fireworks".
The Hanoi also received three shots this time.
A shell from the Fuxi hit its No. 3 turret, penetrated under the seat ring and exploded, killing all the personnel in the turret and destroying the entire turret.
The captain quickly ordered water to be poured into the ammunition depot, but at least no explosion occurred.
The two best shells of Taihang and Nuwa formed underwater bombs, penetrating its underwater hull and several layers of watertight compartments behind it like torpedoes, sweeping away all the cabins along the way, and destroying them.
The structure simultaneously caused a large amount of water to enter, and hundreds of tons of seawater poured in in less than 2 minutes.
After paying so much price, the Japanese fleet finally dispersed its formation and did not line up in a column to die one by one.
At this time, the Japanese fleet still had the following battleships: intact were the seven battleships Settsu, Katori, Kashima, Shikishima, Asahi, Mikasa, and Fuji, as well as Kasuga, Nisshin, Izumo, Iwate, Azuma and Yakumo six armored cruisers.
In addition, although the Hanoi was injured, it still retained considerable combat effectiveness.
Currently, Japan still holds a 14:6 advantage in terms of quantity.
Of course, this is just quantity.
After this round, China's six battleships all turned 90 degrees and retreated to the west at a speed of 25 knots.
At the same time, the light ships originally guarding the rear and flanks also rushed forward, preparing to use torpedoes to cover the turn of the battleship.
Ten light cruisers, thirteen destroyers, and four frigates rushed up at an altitude of 30 knots.
At a distance of fifteen kilometers from the enemy ship, they fired a super-large torpedo salvo "bang bang bang bang" and then ignored the result. , turned around and ran away.
These twenty-seven light ships fired a total of 88 torpedoes.
The first round that the forward fleet launched when leaving was because the distance was too far and the wind and waves were too strong, so it all yawed.
But now the weather has improved, the clouds have cleared, the wind and waves have basically subsided, and the distance is still only 15 kilometers, enough for the Japanese to have a drink.
"Asshole, how could the Chinese battleship run so fast?
How is it possible?"
At first, when the Chinese fleet formed a battle line for bombardment, I didn’t feel it, and I didn’t feel it when it turned.
Now I see those 30,000-ton giant ships running faster and faster, and finally they were flying at a speed of 25 knots.
It really shocked the entire Japanese combined fleet.
"What does this mean?
Our Kongo and Hiei can run 27.5 knots," a staff officer said unconvinced.
"But we don't have Kongo and Hiei now.
They won't be able to return home until May."
Shigetaro Yoshimatsu said with a livid face: "The stupid military headquarters got the information wrong again.
The maximum speed of the Fuxi class is 25 knots, not 22 knots."
The maximum speed of the Hanoi class is also 22 knots.
If the information about the Fuxi class at that time is correct, then at the same speed, the Fuxi class will not be able to grab the leading position.
If the speed is only 1 to 2 knots faster, there will be no impact. big.
But if the speed is faster than 3 knots, it will be fatal.
The Hanoi-class in the original time and space only had 20 knots.
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The new Hanoi-class adopts a British design and was modified from the Orion Magic.
All performances have been greatly improved.
However, he immediately had no time to care about the speed of the Chinese battleships.
He was already concerned about the ability of the Second Department of the Military Command Department.
The torpedoes launched by Chinese light ships have arrived Among Japan's various capital ships, the latest Hanoi class is the fastest, faster than those armored cruisers.
The Kawachi was hit by several shots and was seriously flooded, so its speed dropped to 14 knots.
It was quickly overtaken by the Settsu behind it, and their positions were at the front, so the Settsu rushed to the front. , so it is also the first to be unlucky.
I saw the Settsu running at the front.
The hull of the ship suddenly shook, and suddenly five huge water columns suddenly rushed up all around.
The water columns were more than 40 meters high, already exceeding the mast of the warship.
Then, everyone heard five loud thunder-like noises: "Boom, boom, boom, boom."
"Damn the torpedoes, it's China's torpedoes," Tetsutarou Sato couldn't help but scream.
"Were those light ships released just now?
They are more than ten kilometers away.
Why is the torpedo range so far?"
Shigetaro Yoshimatsu was very shocked.
He also saw the actions of the Chinese light ships just now, but because the distance was still far away, he didn't pay attention.
In addition, it was night, and there was no huge fire and sound like firing a cannon when firing torpedoes, so the lookouts did not notice it.
As a result, I was unlucky now.
Settsu was hit by five torpedoes on both sides and the bow at the same time.
The bow was blown off completely, and five large holes were blown out of the entire hull.
The largest one was under the port bridge, with a diameter of 4 meters. .
After suffering these blows, the Settsu was completely beyond saving and sank like a duck made of lead.
It wasn't over yet, just a series of muffled sounds of "boom, boom, boom, boom, boom" were heard.
The three battleships Katori, Kashima, and Shikishima running in front, and the two cruisers Kasuga and Nichishin were also struck by mines.
Katori and Kashima each took two torpedoes, and Shikishima and Kasuga each took three torpedoes.
The Rijin was the most unlucky.
This Garibaldi-class armored cruiser bought from Italy weighed less than 8,000 tons, but it swallowed six heavy-duty anti-ship torpedoes and was directly blown to pieces, even saving rescue.
These are old warships with extremely low underwater defenses.
Not to mention that they cannot withstand China's "Yu Type 1", a crazy torpedo that is so powerful that even the mainstream torpedoes in the world cannot withstand two rounds.
All warships hit by torpedoes are sinking at this time.
The only difference is the speed.
"Asshole" Looking at the seven battleships that were sinking and had sunk, Motaro Yoshimatsu felt his eyes go dark, and he could no longer hold back his blood.
"Pfft" Motaro Yoshimatsu spat out a mouthful of black blood, raised his head and fell backwards.
Fortunately, a staff officer next to him was quick and quickly supported him, so that the back of his head did not come into close contact with the floor.
"Your Excellency, Commander" "Go call the doctor quickly" The bridge suddenly became panicked, and everyone scrambled to save him.
"boom" At this time, everyone suddenly felt a sudden earthquake under their feet, and the entire ship shook violently.
Everyone in the bridge suddenly became unstable and fell into a ball.
At the same time, a loud thunderous sound came from the stern of the ship.
"Oops, we were hit by a torpedo," a young staff officer shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Contact the rear bridge quickly," Tetsutarou Sato ordered quickly.
After a while, he got good or bad news.
A torpedo accidentally ignored the warship in front of it, but chose the Hanoi.
Probably because the propeller was relatively noisy, it also turned a corner and gave the Hanoi a blow.
Fortunately, only one torpedo hit Hanoi, and the torpedo did not cause much damage to the hull, and damage control said it could be saved.
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Unfortunately, the steering gear and propeller were all damaged.
The Hanoi completely lost its motor power and lay across the sea like a dead fish.
This is not over yet, because the front line of the torpedo salvo this time was wider, so some torpedoes were not aimed at the battleship in the middle, but were attracted by the light ships on both wings.
Three protected cruisers, Kasagi, Chitose, and Soya, and two destroyers were also hit by torpedoes and were sinking.
Not only the Japanese could not bear the shocking results of this lightning strike, but even the Chinese could not believe it.
"This, this, this was caused by our lightning strike just now."
Commander Gao Yujie's mouth opened wide.
He was also shocked by the results of the battle in front of him.
Not to mention the others, the bridge of the Fuxi was completely silent for a moment, and they were all stunned.
"It should be so.
Our heavy anti-ship torpedoes are very powerful."
Chief of Staff Wang Zhi's voice was dry.
"Commander, since the effect of our torpedoes is amazing, there is no need to retreat as planned."
Navigator Li Ang seemed to be the quickest to react.
He quickly reminded: "Commander, there are not many Japanese light cruisers left, and they have all fled.
Come to the front.
We can order the submarines following them to attack."
"You're right, Xiao Li."
Gao Yujie patted her forehead and stood up: "Order each ship to change the previous order.
The whole team will turn around to face the enemy and at the same time, order the submarine force to attack."
"Kill these little devils" everyone cheered
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