6.54 Bloody

Four light and dexterous torpedo boats advanced rapidly on the river in a single column, Liu Gongdi's Wen 171 boat took the lead, and soon Wen Tianxiang's squadron came to a place 10 nautical miles away from the Japanese ships, and the officers and men on the four torpedo boats turned their eyes to the river in the distance. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, it was already 11:25 p.m. on December 9, the night was vast, the sky was still drizzling, and the waves stirred up by the bow of the high-speed torpedo boat hit Liu Gongdi's face like a stone, and the boat was jolting on the waves, and Liu Gongdi couldn't help but have a sense of unreality.

The surface of the river is much calmer than the sea, there are basically no big waves, and Liu Gongdi still longs for the bitter seawater, after all, he is a naval officer.

Although the Admiralty has always refused to recognize them as the people of these electric mine systems......

By 1937, the strategic plan of the Chinese Navy had been adjusted, and the Yangtze River valley had become the center of gravity of the Navy's defense, and according to the plan of the Admiralty, once the Japanese ships attacked from the sea, the Chinese Navy's fleet would concentrate on the Yangtze River, resist the Japanese fleet entering the Yangtze River, and then wait for an opportunity to advance to the coastal waters. This strategic thinking was the product of the first Songhu War of Resistance in 1932, and it was theoretically in line with the strength of the navy, but this strategic concept did not carry out actual combat exercises, so it can only be said that the navy had a strategic concept for fighting in the Yangtze River valley.

When the Songhu beacon fire broke out again and the Yangtze River was once again facing the threat of Japanese ships, the Chinese Navy, which knew that it did not have the strength to fight with the Japanese Navy, adopted an expensive and clumsy method to ---- sink the ship and seal the Yangtze River in order to complete the task of preventing the Japanese ships from entering the Yangtze River!

At the beginning of the war, the Admiralty had two negative ideas about how to blockade the Yangtze River, only shipwrecks and mines. Therefore, it is necessary to choose a general among the dwarfs, and in these two methods, the mine blockade has a certain offensiveness, low cost, a wider range of defense, and is easy to deploy. The closure of the river by a shipwreck can only form a narrow and non-aggressive underwater obstacle, which is costly and difficult to implement.

The officers and men of the Electric Mine School once expressed their views to the Admiralty, taking the blockade area half a nautical mile wide and three nautical miles deep as an example, if a mine blockade is used, only about 600 mines are needed to form a solid blockade line. The total cost is about 200,000 yuan. However, if it is replaced by a steamship to sink the river to blockade, it will require more than 20 merchant ships of 2,000 or 3,000 tonnage, and the total cost will be about 15 million yuan to 20 million yuan, which is 80 to 100 times the cost of using mines to block the river. Considering the actual situation of China's relatively backward steamship industry, these valuable ships should be kept for rear transportation, if a large number of merchant ships are sunk into the river, then it will inevitably weaken China's already weak transportation force, and the gains outweigh the losses!

And the steps of using the shipwreck to seal the river are also extremely cumbersome, in addition to the shipwreck, there are also a lot of follow-up measures, take Jiangyin as an example, it takes at least three months after the sinking to complete the sinking stone and other auxiliary work, it can be seen that the shipwreck and the mine to seal the river are more wasteful in time and financial resources than the mine, so the electric mine school strongly recommends the use of mines to seal the river.

However, in the end, the Admiralty insisted on sealing the river from the shipwreck, and in the face of the questions of the officers and men of the Electric Mine School, the Admiralty gave the following answer:

"Mines have the advantage of being powerful, capable of striking the enemy, working more quickly than sunken ships, and having the advantage of being able to be carried out at any time depending on the situation of the war, without greatly affecting rear transportation and international shipping. So the naval authorities noticed this very early on. For the preparation of mines, such as setting up factories, purchasing and equipping, etc., there are detailed plans and contributions to the government. However, due to financial constraints, the Government did not implement the plan drawn up by the Navy. Later, the Ministry of Military Affairs assigned this task to another military agency to be responsible for handling it. Since this agency did not work his mission and abdicated his responsibilities, it has to be said that it is a pity ......".

The military organ mentioned in the Admiralty's letter of explanation that delayed the overall river defense strategy was actually talking about the lightning school that had been working against Chen Shaokuan's Fujian navy for a long time! This ball is a beautiful kick!

The patriotic officers and soldiers of the Electric Thunder School helplessly found that after they went around in a circle, the problem actually lay with themselves! For the Admiralty's practice of ignoring the overall situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and only knowing how to fight in the nest, the officers and men of the Electric Mine School could only shake their heads and smile bitterly!

During the Republic of China, the infighting in the naval system was quite serious, and before 1932, the factions of the navy could be roughly divided into the Central Navy (the Admiralty and its subordinate units, the 1st Fleet, the 2nd Fleet, and the Practice Fleet. The gross tonnage is about 44,000 tons, also known as the Fujian system), the Guangdong Navy (4th Fleet. The total tonnage is only a few thousand tons) and the Qingdao Navy (the 3rd Fleet, that is, the former Northeast Navy, with a total tonnage of more than 10,000 tons), these factions are not only opposed to each other, but also have constant internal infighting within the factions.

In 1932, the Ministry of Military Affairs established the Electric Mine School, trying to skip the Admiralty controlled by the Fujian Department and set up a new minecraft unit, forming a famous electric mine system in the history of China's modern navy. Navy Commander Chen Shaokuan and the entire Fujian Department were extremely hostile to this mineboat unit, and the Admiralty openly expressed their hostility towards the Thunder School, and took great pleasure in wearing small shoes for the Mine School. General Ouyang Ge, the principal of the Electric Mine School, was ostracized by the Admiralty, and the cadets of the Electric Mine School were forbidden to wear naval uniforms. The Admiralty also stipulates that Lightning School students are not recognized by the Admiralty as having naval status after graduation. Even the first visit to the ship of the Mine School students could only be carried out on the cruiser "Cologne" of the German Navy, because the Admiralty refused to allocate the warship to the Mine School students for internship or visits.

The Admiralty's bad attitude towards the Lightning School clearly shows that the Admiralty regards itself as a horsetail system navy and does not regard itself as a Chinese navy. It is precisely because of this narrow vision that factional interests are higher than national interests that it is almost impossible for the Military Council to meddle in naval affairs. When the supreme authorities decided to set up a torpedo boat unit, the old man directly ordered it by bypassing the Admiralty, which was controlled by the Fujian Navy, and the supreme authorities' efforts to promote the formation of a torpedo boat unit could even be said to have the intention of balancing the Admiralty.

After the formation of the electric mine school, Nanjing hoped to establish a speedboat unit and a mine unit at the same time. Soon, the Mine School succeeded in forming a speedboat unit, but in the construction of the mine force, due to the need to purchase German mines, the cost was too high, and as a result, the mine unit construction plan of the Mine School has been stagnant.

In fact, since the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese Navy has been quite keen on self-made mines, and when the mine force was built, in fact, the country had long been able to make its own mines, and there were also mine battalions and repair stations in Mawei.

Why does the electric mine school want to buy it instead of homemade mines? In fact, the reason is very simple, the mine building units are controlled by the Admiralty, and it is impossible for the electric mine school to smoothly obtain domestic mines from the Admiralty. The result of the internal friction between the Admiralty and the Electric Mine School was that when the Navy needed to close the river, there were not enough mines that could be used at all, and in the end, the Admiralty could only choose the costly shipwreck to close the river......

Infighting! Infighting! In the end, the entire navy was wiped out! Now the person who wants to carry the last flag of the Chinese Navy is actually the Electric Mine School that has been suppressed by the Admiralty for many years!

Liu Gongdi's squadron of Wen Tianxiang torpedo boats has become the last Chinese navy! How could all this not make his heart surge!

It's time to make the name of Lightning School!

"Report Captain! 6 degrees on the port side to find the light!! The report of Gan Taixin, the gunner of the Wen 171 boat, interrupted Liu Gongdi's thoughts, and he shook his head vigorously, now is not the time to think about these things.

"Heightened lookout, raise combat alerts, maintain speed and course!" Liu Gongdi issued a series of orders, he raised the telescope and carefully observed the gunner's discovery Gan Taixin, judging from the outline, it was the gunboat "Hira" of the 11th Squadron of the 3rd Fleet of the Japanese Navy, the Japanese Navy's large-tonnage warship was blocked out by the shipwreck blockade line in Jiangyin, only a small ship like the "Hiliang" could pass through Jiangyin with the advantage of a shallow draft, and Wen Tianxiang's squadron had no hope of eating big fish this time......

Wen No. 171 was getting closer and closer to the Japanese gunboat "Hira", and Liu Gongdi saw the outlines of several Japanese ships one after another, and he carefully distinguished the identities of these Japanese ships with a telescope, and he was looking for the flagship of the 11th Sentai of the Japanese Navy, Rear Admiral Tanimoto Mataro's "Yaeyama" laying ship.

In the rear of the Wen 171 torpedo boat, Wen No. 42, Wen No. 93, and Wen No. 88 slowly caught up, and a column had already turned into an echelon, which was the attack formation that Wen Tianxiang's squadron had negotiated in advance.

Finally, Huang Tian lived up to his painstaking efforts, and the "Yaeyama" laying ship with a standard displacement of 720 tons appeared in Liu Gongdi's telescope, Liu Gongdi looked at the pattern three times, and then excitedly handed the telescope to Huang Yunbai, the deputy squadron leader, Liu Gongdi said excitedly: "That's it!" That's him! Look at that! Yaeyama! The flagship of Mataro Tanimoto! Deputy squadron leader Huang Yunbai raised the binoculars and looked at it, and said happily: "That's right! It's a catch! Let's go! Leader! ”

Liu Gongdi immediately ordered Wen Tianxiang's squadron to turn to the left, at this time they were only 4-5 nautical miles away from the Japanese ships, fortunately, until now, the devils have not found them, and the warships of the 11th Squadron of the Japanese Navy anchored in the moonlight on the Sanjiangying River are like fixed targets waiting for the fatal blow of Wen Tianxiang's squadron!

What could be a better situation? Liu Gongdi had rehearsed countless battles with Japanese ships in his mind, but he never thought that there would be such a scene today!

Don't be nervous! Hold your breath! Be sure to hit the "Yaeyama" to the bottom of the river! With the passage of time, the Wen No. 171 torpedo boat got closer and closer to the "Yaeyama", and Liu Gongdi even saw the bridge of the "Yaeyama" clearly!

Deputy Squadron Leader Huang Yunbai reminded Liu Gongdi that it was time! It's time to get started!

"Get ready to fight! Torpedo preparation ....... Put! ”

The hull of the Wen No. 171 torpedo boat shook suddenly, and in a blink of an eye, the torpedo inside the torpedo tube on the left side jumped into the Yangtze River, and the Wen No. 171 boat flexibly turned around and gave up the firing position, and the Wen 42, Wen 93, and Wen 88 behind him also fired torpedoes one after another!

In the first round, a torpedo was released from each boat, and the thin white line followed a predetermined trajectory towards the Japanese ships! Soon, smoke rose from the hulls of the two Japanese ships, and the officers and men of Wen Tianxiang's squadron jumped up happily!

Hit!

This round of attacks by the torpedo boat squadron woke up the sleeping Japanese Navy 11th Squadron, and the terrible alarm sounded in the night sky, and several Japanese gunboats began to fire indiscriminately, to Liu Gongdi's surprise, the target of these Japanese gunboats was not the river but the sky, it seems that the devils thought they were being attacked by air!

So the devil hasn't found a torpedo boat yet, and it's just time to do it again!

The four torpedo boats began to adjust their course again, and they were going to re-enter the attack position where the torpedoes were released!

The two Japanese ships that were hit by the torpedoes of Wen Tianxiang's squadron were the gunboats "Ataka" and "Toba"; among the two Japanese ships, the "Ataka" was more seriously wounded, and a torpedo fired by Wu Shirong, captain of the Wen No. 93, directly hit the starboard side of the gunboat "Azuta," and a big hole was opened below the waterline of the "Azuta," and the surging water of the Yangtze River immediately poured into the hole, and the "Atakaku," which had too much water, began to sink rapidly, and the captain of the "Ataka" had already given the order to abandon the ship.

The situation of the "Toba" is much luckier, the torpedo launched by the Wen 171 hit the stern of the "Toba", and the bow of the "Toba" with water in the rear compartment has been lifted out of the water, but there is no danger of sinking for the time being, and the "Toba" is helping the "Yaeyama" block it, otherwise the fish launched by the Wen 171 will hit the center of the "Yaeyama" and will definitely blow the "Yaeyama" in two!

Liu Gongdi's regret was only made up for later after the second round of torpedo launches!

After wasting a lot of shells into the sky, the Japanese Navy finally remembered to use a searchlight to search the river, Wu Shirong's Wen 93 boat was the first to be discovered by the Japanese army, and understood that it was the 11th team attacked by the Chinese Navy's torpedo boats panicked, and all the Japanese ships began to anchor, and they had to maneuver to evade, so that they could hope to avoid the second wave of torpedo attacks by the Chinese Navy!

But how could Liu Gongdi and his squadron of torpedo boats give the Japanese ships this chance, the four torpedo boats quickly adjusted their positions, and then they repeated the actions of a few minutes ago, and the second wave of torpedo attacks was coming in an instant!

This time, a Japanese Navy transport ship and the gunboat "Hira" at the forefront of the 11th Sentai were directly blown in two, while the gunboat "Hira" was shot on the port side and rolled badly after entering the water, and the "Yaeyama" escaped his fate again because it was in the middle of the Japanese ship group.

However, because of the chaos, Tanimoto Mataro's flagship crashed headlong into the already battered gunboat "Toba", which had only half a life left, how could the "Toba" withstand such a situation, and the gunboat that ate a torpedo for the "Yaeyama" was finally sent to the point of no return by the "Yaeyama......

After two rounds of attacks, three Japanese ships were sunk and one was heavily damaged, such a record should make Wen Tianxiang's squadron satisfied, but their squadron leader Liu Gongdi didn't think so!

This is because he still has a torpedo that he did not release!

I don't know why the torpedo tube on the right side of Wen No. 171 was going to attack Tanimoto Mataro's flagship "Yaeyama" with Wen No. 88, but the torpedo of Wen No. 88 grazed the stern of the "Yaeyama" and hit the transport ship, and the torpedo of Wen No. 171 was directly stopped!

Liu Gongdi punched the bridge in annoyance! If the torpedo of Wen No. 171 had not malfunctioned just now, Mataro Tanimoto would have been feeding the fish at the bottom of the river by now!

Liu Gongdi roared at Gan Taixin, a gunner who was busy by the torpedo tube:

"What the hell! Can it be repaired!? ”

Gan Taixin turned around and waved his hand at Liu Gongdi, he didn't see what was wrong with the torpedo tube on the right side, the torpedo with a diameter of 45 cm was lying quietly in the launch tube, it seemed that the sound of this gun's guns had nothing to do with it!

Liu Gongdi handed over the command to the deputy squadron leader Huang Yunbai, he staggered out of the wheelhouse, and now the torpedo boat is telling the maneuver to avoid the Japanese ship's artillery fire, from time to time there are shells falling near the Wen 171 boat, and the small torpedo boat seems to be hit at any time!

When Liu Gongdi ran to the right side of the torpedo tube, he almost didn't stand firm and fell into the river, and the gunner Gan Taixin grabbed Liu Gongdi, and then tied a cable to Liu Gongdi's waist, and Gan Taixin said loudly to Liu Gongdi:

"Squadron Leader! There's no way around it! In such a place and at such a time, even the gods have to be blind! I see what is stuck, it's a blessing that it didn't explode in the launch tube just now! ”

Liu Gongdi unwillingly lay on the torpedo tube and looked inside, the "Yaeyama" and the "Toba" seemed to have lost power after colliding, as long as this torpedo can be launched, the "Yaeyama" will become a floating coffin!

Although the "Yaeyama" is only a laying ship, it is the flagship of the 11th Sentai of the Japanese Navy after all, and as long as it becomes the "Yaeyama", it will be the biggest victory of the Chinese Navy after sinking the "Izumo"!

Moreover, as soon as the "Yaeyama" sinks, the Japanese ships will inevitably be frightened, so that the fleet that responds to the 103rd Division will also get more time!

"Gan Taixin! I ask you! Although this torpedo can't be launched, it should still explode, right!? ”

Gan Taixin obviously didn't quite understand what Liu Gongdi meant, but he still answered the squadron leader's question:

"I've never encountered a torpedo warhead that doesn't sound, but since it can't be launched, it's useless for the warhead to go off! We can't carry a torpedo and crash into it, can we!? ”

Liu Gongdi's answer made Gan Taixin startled: "Yes! I'm just going to sink the Yaeyama! Lao Tzu has given up more than 100 catties! Do you dare to do it? Brother!"

Gan Taixin's blood surged up all at once! Grandmother! Let's fight with the little devils today!

Liu Gongdi's subordinates soon discovered that the Wen 171 boat began to accelerate suddenly! The small torpedo boat rushed to the Yaeyama, the flagship of the 11th Sentai of the Japanese Navy, in a hail of bullets!

Boat Wen 171 is going to use the last torpedo and the "Yaeyama" to die together!

The eyes of the officers and men of Wen Tianxiang's squadron were moist! Their squadron leader proved with his actions that they were worthy of the name Wen Tianxiang!

All men are mortal! Keep Dan in mind!

This is the bloody nature of the Chinese Navy! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )