"The people of China are pigs! We can do whatever we want with them! Yoshida Qingfeng looked at the fire wreckage floating on the sea, listened to the faint cry for help from the sea breeze, and said with a cruel smile.

"Just now, the gunboats of the China Navy have been sending radio distress signals in clear code, and the China fleet may be coming soon." The staff officer no longer mentioned the atrocity presided over by the vice admiral, but changed the topic, "I heard that the battleship of the Chinese people was built with the help of the Mi people, and it is very powerful, if it is ......"

"The battleship of the people of China has gone to the north, and now it is likely to be the target of the battlefleet of the Imperial Navy!" Yoshida Kiyofu waved his hand and interrupted the staff officer with some impatience, "They won't appear here!" ”

After listening to the words of the vice admiral, although several staff officers were slanderous, out of awe of the strict rank of the navy, they could only swallow those words into their stomachs.

And the staff officer just now originally planned to remind the fleet commander that the Chinese battleships would not come, which did not mean that there would be no warships.

What happened later showed that the staff officer's fears were quite justified.

Soon, there were no more targets on the sea for "night combat drills", and Yoshida Kiyokaze looked at the fire on the sea and ordered the battleship "Iwami" to turn around, and at the same time signaled to the other ships to prepare to leave the sea area where they had just committed their crimes.

Probably due to the length of the ship, the hull of the "Iwami" tilted when it turned, and although it quickly stabilized, it still startled Yoshida Kiyokaze.

The battleship "Iwami" was originally the battleship "Eagle" of the second Russian Pacific Fleet. With a displacement of 15,300 tons, a maximum speed of 18 knots, and two twin Armstrong 305 mm 40 times diameter guns, it is a battleship of the "Borodino" class. The Borodino-class battleships were designed in the same way as French ships, with sharply inverted hulls and narrow upper decks, with side guns positioned slightly above the waterline. The first four ships of this class joined the Second Russian Pacific Fleet after commissioning, and the Suvorov also served as the flagship of the fleet. After a long voyage, the four ships took part in the famous Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War. During the naval battle, all three ships of the same class were sunk. The only surviving "Eagle" surrendered the following day and was subsequently towed to Kure Harbor for repairs. On June 6, it was named "Iwami", and the ship was classified as a first-class battleship. On July 29, the refurbishment work began at the Kure Naval Yard, and all 152-mm guns and 203-mm guns were replaced. In 1907 the ship was returned to service. It was refitted again in 1910 at the Uraga dockyard. On August 28, 1912, the ship class was changed to a first-class coastal defense ship. During World War I, he was assigned to the 2nd Sentai to participate in the attack on Qingdao, China, and was later sent to Taiwan as the flagship of the 5th Sentai of the 3rd Fleet.

Although in the eyes of the navies of Western countries, the "Iwami" can be regarded as a warship that should be eliminated, in his own eyes, the navy of the Western powers may not be able to deal with it, but it is still enough to deal with the weak Chinese navy.

Yoshida Qingfeng looked down on the Chinese fleet in his heart, and in his impression, the Chinese navy was just some tattered gadgets floating on the water. Although he had also heard of the "help" given by the Americans to the Chinese Navy and the achievements of the Chinese Navy in the European theater, he always believed that it was the merits of the Americans and the British that the Chinese would not have fought such a battle.

Isn't the fact that the Chinese navy can't even protect their fishing boats now the most obvious example?

And Yoshida Kiyokaze did not understand that after the end of the war in Europe, the strength of the Chinese navy was already very different from before.

And as a stubborn and conservative emperor, he will soon taste the bitter fruits of his own sowing.

The sea gradually rose up and the sea fog became thicker, and the fleet was about to leave because of the scattered formation of the "night battle drill" again, when suddenly, a violent explosion came, and Yoshida Kiyokaze saw that in the darkness, the cannonballs dragging the light of the fire fell one after another, setting off a column of water around the warship.

Without waiting for the captain's order, the battleship "Iwami" sounded the emergency battle alarm, and the escort fleet began to fire back in all directions.

Before Yoshida could understand what was happening, a hoarse shout came from the lookout.

"Torpedo! A torpedo was found on the starboard side! ”

As soon as the lookout whistle fell, the "Iwami" began to turn violently to avoid the action, Yoshida Kiyofu didn't care about almost falling, he leaned forward, held the binoculars in both hands to look at the sea, and immediately recognized at least five torpedo tracks!

Seeing the speeding torpedo, Yoshida Kiyokaze's heart was suddenly clenched by fear.

Like many of the officers and men of the Navy, it was the first time they had seen so many torpedoes on the sea.

In the thick fog in the distance, there seemed to be a Chinese cruiser flashing by!

With a loud thunderclap, Yoshida Kiyokaze only felt a sharp tremor under his feet, and then it was as if the whole world began to fall.

Before he could react, he had been thrown straight into the icy water.

Under the cover of darkness and sea fog, the attacking Chinese fleet fired dozens of torpedoes at once, and the fleet was caught off guard, many ships were hit, and the flagship of the fleet, the "Iwami," was particularly unlucky, and unfortunately was hit by two torpedoes at the same time, and as a result, it caught fire and exploded, and soon capsized and sank.

At this time, Zhang Qifan, who was standing on the bridge of the "Hainan" heavy mine-loaded light cruiser, was looking at the capsized battleship with anger and waving his fists fiercely.

Together with several friendly ships, the "Hainan" launched all its artillery fire and fired at the ship, and several cruisers approached the ship, and all the main guns raised their angry muzzles in unison, and 10,000 guns fired in unison, blowing up the destroyer on the navy. Enraged Chinese naval officers and sailors are determined to make all those who committed atrocities on the high seas pay the price. While a number of Chinese light warships opened heavy fire, all the carrier-based planes of the "Pinghai" seaplane carrier also took off and launched a bomb attack on the warship on the sea, and strafed the officers and men of the navy who had already fallen into the water with machine guns.

Seeing the officers and men of the Navy screaming miserably under the rain of bullets, Zhang Qifan's heart felt a special sense of joy.

That's how the bandit will end!

Soon, the "Hainan" and several ships of the same class reloaded their torpedoes, and Zhang Qifan took advantage of the moonlight, looked at the watch on his wrist, and gave the order to attack again.

As the youngest captain of the Chinese Navy and a soldier who participated in the Second Battle of Helgoland Bay, Zhang Qifan can be said to be familiar with such a large-scale torpedo attack.

The Chinese fleet again began to fire a salvo of torpedoes, and one after another dragged a white trail through the officers and men of the Saimoto Navy who had fallen into the water.

The armored cruiser "Aso," like the "Iwami," was hit by two torpedoes one after another, and the old armored cruiser, which also came from Russia, was blown into two pieces and soon disappeared into the sea with more than 600 officers and men on board. And the destroyers "Drizzle", "Yushan" and "Matsu" were also torpedoed and sank with an explosion.

It may be that the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and after discovering that there was no way to escape, a ship that said that it was going to rush towards the "Hainan" at full speed, regardless of life and death, and wanted to carry out the impact, and just when Zhang Qifan ordered the "Hainan" to turn to avoid, there was a sudden sound of a motor in the sky, and then a seaplane swooped down and dropped a bomb, and the bomb just fell on the deck of the warship impartially, accompanied by a ball of fire. The poor warship broke in two and became a fire whirling at sea.

Seeing the unexpected attack of the seaplane, Zhang Qifan nodded in understanding.

At this time, Zhang Qifan did not realize that what he saw was the first successful attack on a warship by an aircraft in the history of Chinese and even human warfare. And it was from this day that the traditional methods of naval warfare changed, announcing the advent of the era of naval aviation.

And in this war between China and Yuben, there will be more and more similar battles.

As the few remaining destroyers fled in disarray, the sea gradually fell silent.

After confirming that the enemy had completely withdrawn, the Chinese fleet began to rescue the survivors floating on the surface of the sea - Chinese fishermen and Saimoto - and among these survivors was Vice Admiral Yoshida Kiyokaze, the supreme commander of the Saimoto fleet.

Lieutenant Yoshida Kiyokaze became the first high-ranking general to be captured by the Naka[***] team at the beginning of this war.

Three days later, Fuzhou, Changqing Airport.

The "Handley? Fifty "Peti" bombers were ordered to take off from Changqing Airport and go through the Taiwan Strait to Keelung to bomb the Fen Fleet.

"Handley? The "Peti" bomber is now one of the main combat aircraft of the Chinese Air Force. Because this kind of bomber performed as if it had entered a no-man's land in the battle with the Guangdong Revolutionary Army, its fine surname could be favored by Chinese and foreign people, and of course, its combat effectiveness still needed to be tested in actual combat in foreign wars.

At this time, Second Lieutenant Captain Dong Jintao was engrossed in piloting the bomber through the clouds.

On this day, there was a layer of mist on the sea, islands appeared and disappeared in the clouds below the wings, and the Chinese bomber group began to search in formation, and the rumbling sound of motors made a roar in the air.

According to reconnaissance information, the battleship "Sagami" should have anchored in Keelung Harbor and escorted by a cruiser or destroyer. The Chinese bombers were ordered to attack and sink the "Sagami" and other warships, completely destroy the enemy fleet, and remove the threat posed by the Japanese navy on Taiwan's coast to China.

When the bomber group flew to the Taiwan Strait, it did not stop searching in the air, although there was no shadow of the enemy fleet on the sea.

After the incident in which the Chinese fleet shelled Chinese fishing boats on the high seas, the southeastern coastal areas of China raised their vigilance, but since the main fleet of the Chinese Navy was now all assembled in the north and was preparing for a decisive battle with the main force of the Chinese Navy, it was impossible to move south. In order to prevent the naval fleet in Taiwan from committing the same evil act again, the Chinese had to change their combat strategy and make use of the aircraft as a sharp weapon to resist the enemy.

Dong Jintao rubbed his somewhat sour eyes and looked at the sea hard.

At that time, such large bombers were not equipped with advanced search equipment, and the flight and search of the group mainly relied on the visual observation and cooperation of the pilots. Ten minutes passed, and just when Dong Jintao felt a little disappointed, Deputy Captain Song Wenkai suddenly waved the wings of the plane in front. This signal is a warning that the target is found below and ready to fight.

Seeing Song Wenkai's signal, Dong Jintao couldn't help but perk up.

Although this second lieutenant officer of the Chinese Air Force was not a new recruit, he still felt as if he was fighting for the first time, and the blood in his body rushed to his brain. He even felt his teeth tremble, and his hands clenched the longitudinal rod involuntarily produced a brief spasm similar to that of a malaria attack.

Second Lieutenant Dong Jintao, a native of Heilongjiang, recently received news that his army had captured the county seat of Bei'an, and that the village where his home was located had been burned down by him, and that his parents, family, and wife who had not passed through the door were thus missing (most likely burned to death). This unfortunate news was like a lightning strike, causing the son of a farmer who grew up in a traditional Chinese family to have his heart and gall broken for several days in a row, and he was in agony.

Revenge is a terrible mental motivator.

The simple and far-reaching traditional belief of the Oriental nation, "blood for blood, tooth for tooth" and "treating others in the way of others" -- this simple and far-reaching traditional belief of the Oriental nation is like two rows of sharp sawtooth, which constantly gnaw and torture the immature minds and brain nerves of young pilots.

The deputy captain took the lead in pulling up the nose of the plane and bending left to climb high. This is the signal of action to prepare for dive bombing. The rest of the planes followed closely in formation, one by one climbing into the clouds, ready to attack the enemy ships under the cover of sunlight.

At this time, Dong Jintao desperately pressed the longitudinal rod of his plane.

Under his command, the huge bomber looked like a stray wild horse, and instead of obeying the order to climb high, it broke away from the formation and went straight into the clouds. The reason for the second lieutenant to do it on his own is very good: the enemy ships must have discovered the Chinese aircraft group, and it is better to concentrate the bombing than to disperse the sneak attack. A strong urge to be the first to blow up and sink the enemy ship gripped the second lieutenant's heart, prompting him to decide to launch a surprise attack on the enemy ship from a low altitude.

The bomber's engine roared deafeningly, the altimeter's hands rapidly receded, the gray-blue water suddenly erected clearly in front of him like a high gray wall, and the Air Force lieutenant heard his heart groan happily at the loud roar of the plane's dive:

…… Dive down! Lower! Lower! …… Blow up and kill myself! Drop hundreds of bombs on their heads and sink their warships into the sea along with the hateful Emperor!! …… The machine guns were firing, the bombers began to drop bombs one after another, the filthy sun flag burned in the whistling of the Chinese planes, and death chased after him like a black whirlwind, making the little devils tremble under the angry wings of the Chinese people! The Chinese will not give in to any military conquest in the end!

At this time, the well-trained fleet had also discovered the Chinese bomber group, and was waiting for it there, and his destroyers and other direct guard ships followed the example of the British and formed a circle formation to protect the flagship and large ships. When the Chinese plane group flew over the unobstructed sea, a spectacular Sino-Chinese naval and air battle immediately began: the planes roared, the Grim Reaper flew, and the Chinese bombers formed a tactical formation in groups of two, one behind the other, and dived and dropped bombs with their backs to the sun. The ship panicked and evasively tried to dodge the bombs, while the anti-aircraft fire on the ship formed a sparse net of fire to intercept and shoot down every Chinese bomber that tried to get close to the fleet. The sea water boiled, the columns of water from the bombs rose one after another around the warship, and countless exploding anti-aircraft shells filled the air like fireworks.

It should be said that Dong Jintao's views are very correct and lucky.

At this time, the attention of the fleet was really attracted by the rumbling group of aircraft, and at this time, the bomber piloted by Dong Jintao flew quietly like a tiptoeing thief against the sea. As soon as the bombers evaded the interception of sporadic artillery fire, they immediately increased their horsepower and went straight to the "Sagami," the flagship of the fleet.

When he hurriedly turned his gun and opened fire on the terrible sneak attacker, the co-pilot, Second Lieutenant Lu Qili, had already firmly slipped the gray and huge metal hull of the enemy ship into the sight. 400 meters, 300 meters, 200 meters,...... The pilot pressed the bomb drop button, the fuselage shuddered, and the two huge bombs both broke away from the wings. With a heart-pounding, piercing scream of falling bombs rubbing against the air, the Chinese bomber jerked its nose and swept over the bridge of the enemy ship. A few seconds later, two bombs hit the deck of the warship almost simultaneously, with a deafening explosion. The blow was so terrible that the 10,000-ton behemoth "Sagami" shook like a drunken drunk, and fires broke out everywhere on the deck, and the engine room was badly damaged and began to flood. The sailors, who were usually extremely arrogant, were blown up like shredded pieces of paper, and the scorching waves of explosion tossed their severed limbs high into the raging waves dozens of feet away.

Dong Jintao's victorious victory greatly encouraged his other comrades-in-arms, and gave those high-spirited young pilots reason to believe that one or two more fruitful bombings would be able to send this huge enemy ship to the bottom of the sea to feed Wang Ba. As a result, the Chinese bombers, who had been discharged from battle formation, began to dive and bomb repeatedly, and the bombs continued to hit the enemy ships and stir up many high columns of water in the sea.

(To be continued)