Chapter 160: Grenades
The 87 men of the whole boat waited in two rows in the dark at the exit room, and even the chief engineer picked up his pistol and prepared to fight the enemy to the death.
Time seemed to freeze, perhaps because of the lack of oxygen in the cabin, and the rapid breathing of Japanese sailors was everywhere in the darkness, and they knew it clearly...... The submarine is exposed to the enemy's guns and guns in this way, and it can almost be said that it is a dead end, and there is no desperate chance at all, because this is not like being on land, and on land you can shout and charge at the enemy's position, and there is also the possibility of rushing in front of the enemy, at this time they are at sea, so it is more like suicide than fighting with the enemy.
I don't know how long it took, the submarine shook violently, and with his previous experience, Omori Shaozo knew that this was the submarine that surfaced, so Omori no longer hesitated at the moment, and shouted: "Rush!" β
The Japanese sailors at the front of the line unscrewed the hatch and rushed out with their pistols raised.
Omori was in third in line, and when he rushed out, he found that his luck was not ordinary, because the American ghost destroyer was in front of him, and it was heading towards his submarine face to face......
Zhang Chi and the others didn't expect that the Japanese submarine would suddenly come out of front at this time, and they even threw depth charges all the way behind.
Seeing this, Chen Yu hurriedly gave an order: "The right full rudder!" β
Of course, Chen Yu's order is right, this is not to say that the destroyer can't hit the Japanese submarine, in fact, the deck of the submarine is not very thick, and the destroyer can easily damage the submarine or even break it in two.
But here's the problem...... It was a submarine with a torpedo, and if it collided and caused an explosion, it would be destroyed along with the "Ziqiang".
At this time, the "Ziqiang" had already gained the upper hand, and there was no need to take this risk.
The destroyer narrowly avoided the submarine, but due to inertia and steering, the side of the destroyer was almost close to the edge of the submarine.
Seeing this, Omori Shaosa couldn't help but be overjoyed, and ordered the Japanese soldiers who were constantly crawling out of the hatch to shoot with deck guns and anti-aircraft guns on the deck of the submarine...... In fact, there was no need for Omori Shaosa's order, and several Japanese soldiers had already rushed to the deck guns and anti-aircraft guns.
The main reason why there are deck guns and anti-aircraft guns on the deck of submarines is that torpedoes are very valuable to submarines, such as the medium-sized submarine Lu commanded by Omori Shaosa, which is equipped with only eight torpedoes, and once these eight torpedoes are fired, it means that it will have to return to the ship and port to re-equip the torpedoes.
Deck guns are designed to make up for the lack of torpedoes, and if a submarine is lucky enough to encounter a merchant ship without a warship escort at sea, then it does not need to use precious torpedoes, it only needs to surface and bombard them with deck guns.
As for anti-aircraft guns, that is, to equip the submarine with a certain amount of air defense, so that when attacked by enemy aircraft, there is not even a little resistance at all.
IT SHOULD BE SAID THAT THE CALIBER OF THE DECK GUNS OF THE JAPANESE SUBMARINE LU IS NOT VERY LARGE, ONLY 75MM, AND IF IT IS A LARGE SUBMARINE, THE CALIBER OF THE DECK GUNS REACHES 140MM, WHICH IS LARGER THAN THE 132MM CALIBER MAIN GUN EQUIPPED ON THE "CLEMSON".
Of course, this is not to say that the firepower of the Japanese submarine Yi will be stronger than that of the "Clemson" destroyer...... The destroyer is equipped with four main guns, some of which have been converted into six main guns, and there is a lot of protective armor on the destroyer.
But even so, this move of the Japanese Lu-35 still poses a great threat to the destroyer "Ziqiang".
THE 75MM CALIBER DECK GUN BOMBARDED THE DESTROYER'S SIDE AT CLOSE RANGE, AND THEN THERE WAS A TWIN 96 TYPE 25MM CALIBER ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN, WHICH WOULD UNDOUBTEDLY CAUSE GREAT DAMAGE TO THE CHINESE SAILORS ON THE "ZIQIANG" IF IT WAS TO BE DETONATED, AND IF THE DEPTH CHARGES ON THE DESTROYER'S DECK WERE DETONATED, THE "ZIQIANG" WOULD BE UNIMAGINABLE.
At this time, if the Chinese soldiers had guns in their hands, it was easy to condescendingly knock down the unprotected Japanese troops on the deck.
However, the Chinese soldiers were not prepared for this at all, and the naval guns on the "Ziqiang" had limited depression angles, so they could not shoot at such a close target, so they could only stare at the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the deck guns.
At this time, White and Chen Yu were stunned, and they didn't expect things to develop like this...... The enemy's submarine floated right next to the destroyer, so that there was a situation where the destroyer could not hit the Japanese submarine and the Japanese submarine could hit the destroyer.
In desperation, Zhang Chi grabbed a few potatoes from the basket beside him, shouted "grenades", and threw them at the Japanese submarine one after another.
Suddenly there was a sound of "flutter tom" on the sea, which was really a bit like the melon-type grenades of the US military being thrown into the sea, and even a few "grenades" happened to fall on the deck of the submarine, and Japan threw them back without thinking about grabbing those "grenades."
As for the Japanese who rushed to the deck guns and anti-aircraft guns...... I habitually lay down on the deck and waited for the explosion of the grenade, but nothing happened.
Omori Shaosa grabbed a "grenade" on the deck and scolded fiercely: "Bastard, it's a potato, give us a ......" (note: the Japanese call potatoes potatoes)
Only then did the Japanese sailors know that they had been deceived, and hurriedly ran to the positions of the deck guns and anti-aircraft guns, busily reloading and turning the guns to aim at the destroyer.
But it was too late, and the "Ziqiang" had already taken advantage of this time to distance itself from the submarine, and just as the Japanese sailors were adjusting the angle of the deck guns, the "Ziqiang" naval guns had already let out several thunderous roars...... Before the Japanese sailors could react, the submarine exploded into a ball of fire in the whistling sound of shells, and the Lu-35 was blown into two pieces in the screams of the Japanese army, followed by a loud bang, the torpedo inside the submarine exploded, and the entire submarine flew into the air, and the submarine fragments and the corpses of the Japanese sailors produced by the explosion flew everywhere in the skyrocketing water column, and some even fell near the "Ziqiang".
βYESοΌβ White exclaimed, "Great! β
The Chinese sailors aboard the "Ziqiang" also let out a cheer to celebrate their first record since the rebirth of the Chinese Navy.
Then White looked at Zhang Chi, holding a potato in his hand, and said with a smile: "Zhang...... Hand grenade? Good job! β
(To be continued.) )