Tang Hai ascended to the command tower, came to the chart table, carefully looked at the positions of the enemy and us on the chart, and suddenly seemed to understand something, he looked at the watch on his wrist, and then turned his head to look out the window.

It's 4:22 p.m.

"Notify the attack aircraft swarm! Full speed back! ”

"Destroyers on increased alert! Watch out for enemy battleship and submarine raids! ”

"After recovering the group, immediately move closer to the main fleet!"

"Inform the total flagship! The enemy may launch a night attack! ”

After receiving the wireless telegram from Tang Haisheng, Chu Yangwei shook his head a little disappreciatively.

"It is said that my main fleet is now stronger than ours, and if you want to fight a decisive battle with us, there is no need to be so sneaky." Chu Yangwei said, "However, it is possible that they want to separate us and eat us in one bite. ”

"That's not necessarily, when I attacked Hawaii, I also used surprise tactics, although their strength far exceeded that of the U.S. Pacific Fleet." Zhang Enming said, "I am used to playing conspiracy and tricks, and we must guard against it. When they dispatched planes from aircraft carriers to bomb Yanjing, didn't they do it right under our noses? ”

"That's right......" Chu Yangwei nodded thoughtfully.

Zhang Enming heard the annoyance in Chu Yangwei's words, and couldn't help but smile slightly.

Although the actual damage caused by the last "cross-ocean critique" carried out by the Ben Navy against Yanjing was not large, it set off an unprecedented storm throughout China, and the people blamed the political axe and the army for being undefending, and the Chinese Navy and the Chinese Air Force in particular became the targets of public opinion. This time, Chu Yangwei led his fleet to attack the mainland of the country, risking the double attack of the navy and the army aviation, and insisted on razing Nagasaki to the ground, on the one hand, in retaliation for his bombing of Yanjing, and on the other hand, in order to restore the reputation of the Chinese navy.

"I said that my oil depot and shipyard in Nagasaki have all been destroyed, so it's time for us to withdraw our troops, right?" Zhang Enming handed Chu Yangwei a stack of photos of the results taken by the observation plane and suggested again.

"There are still some bases of the army aviation that have not been destroyed." Chu Yangwei looked at the wreckage of the bomber of the Army Aviation Corps floating on the sea, shook his head, and sneered, "If you don't cut the grass and don't eradicate the roots, the spring breeze blows and grows again, I have to uproot this place this time!" ”

"If you fight for another night, you will run the risk of fighting the enemy at night!" Zhang Enming said with a worried face, "I am used to fighting at night, if there is any mistake in the giant ship, even if we win, we will go back with no shame." ”

"It's not likely that the surname of the night fighter is big." Chu Yang raised the photos in his hand and handed over the photos of the sunken light ships to Zhang Enming, "Most of the warships in Nagasaki Port were sunk by our planes, and they couldn't make big waves. The main fleet is still far away from us, and besides, they are more expensive than their own big ships, so they won't use them to fight night battles. We just need to be careful about our own planes and submarines. ”

"Alright then!" Zhang Enming thought for a moment and said, "However, I suggest that the cruiser and destroyer battle groups block the waterway, and be sure to sink all the enemy ships in Nagasaki Port with naval guns." ”

"Not bad! That's it! ”

That night, the sea was stormy and the sea was stormy, and the mighty Chinese fleet lined up outside the port of Nagasaki to watch the enemy, and most of the ships that were hiding in the port of Nagasaki had been sunk. But he had no intention of stopping his resistance.

In the twilight, two torpedo boats disguised as tugboats quietly sailed out of the harbor, and the white waves at the tail of the torpedo boats quickly disappeared into the blurred sight.

These two torpedo boats were the "101" and "102" of the Navy, and at this time the two boats were ordered to make a covert attack and attack the [***] ships anchored in the sea.

From Weihaiwei to Lushun, torpedo boats played an important role in the growth of the Navy, and were once used as decisive weapons and achieved great results, but now there is almost no place for these elves in the navy of the Empire, which is known as "800 ships and 3,000 sea doves".

Torpedo boats in the modern sense of the Navy's term can be traced back to 1917, when the Yokosuka Shipyard was commissioned to build eight "large high-speed internal fireboats suitable for torpedo surveillance on warships", which were scheduled to be carried on the "Fuso" class battleships under construction, with a speed of 33 knots. However, the "Fuso" was destroyed in the Battle of Busan, and these boats were still not on board, but remained in the factory as torpedo test auxiliary boats, some of which were designed by the official shipyards and gasoline-powered, and some were designed and manufactured by private companies, with a speed of 30 knots, slightly faster than the official ones. At that time, there was no name for torpedo boats, but rather "high-speed internal fireboats" (internal combustion engine boats) or "coastal fireboats". Later, the Navy introduced torpedo boats from British and German companies, began to test domestic production, and conducted comparative experiments at the Yokosuka Factory. The test results showed that the surname of the two imported speedboats surpassed that of the domestic boats, but they also did not meet the needs, so these boats were used for testing, and the development of torpedo boats by the Navy came to a standstill, and it was stopped until 1934. During this period, the army imported a torpedo boat from a British company and produced it in small quantities for use as a command for landing operations.

In 1934, the 13-meter boat No. 906 was commissioned by the Yokohama Shipyard for the Navy, and all three were completed between 1935 and 1936, with two 300 hp diesel engines and a design speed of 29 knots. In 1937, the Army (?!) was commissioned again. A 16-meter boat, No. 1000, equipped with an aviation gasoline engine, set a speed record of 43.05 knots in the public test, but the seaworthiness surname was still insufficient (a common problem for small ships), so although several boats of the same type were later built by the Yokohama shipyard, they were all used as torpedo test auxiliary boats, and contributed a lot to the training of the lightning strike fleet. Up to this time, the navy still did not attach enough importance to small attack ships, and the navy believed that small ships had a small endurance, poor residential surname, and were slower than combat aircraft, and the only advantage was that the action time was longer than that of aircraft, but this advantage was really not worth mentioning in the navy, which pursued offensive thinking at that time.

In 1939, the Chinese and American navies began to build new torpedo boats, and the Chinese and American navies, which regarded the Chinese and American navies as imaginary enemies, naturally made corresponding moves, so he built a torpedo boat with a length of 19 meters and a displacement of 18 tons, which was a great failure. In 1940, he imported an Italian MAS451 torpedo boat, which could run up to 49 knots. In 1941, 6 ships were built, designated the "T-1" type. In December of the same year, these six boats were completed, becoming the only mass-produced torpedo boats in the Navy's pre-war period, and at the same time, the "torpedo boats" finally had an official name and were assigned to the special service ships.

The "T-1" torpedo boat is a wooden hull, with a displacement of 20.1 tons, a total length of 18.3 meters, a width of 4.3 meters, a draft of 0.65 meters, a maximum speed of 38 knots, two 900-horsepower "94" water-cooled engines, two 450-mm torpedoes, a 7.7-mm machine gun, and a crew of 7.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Allied navy fled and sank in the big ships of the Allied navy, but the torpedo boats of the Dutch navy frequently sorted, and although they did not cause actual losses to him, they also brought a lot of trouble, and MacArthur even escaped in torpedo boats. In the Philippine Campaign, the US Navy's torpedo boats were extremely active, and they took advantage of the large number of islands in Southeast Asia, the complicated waterway conditions, and their small size, and through the characteristics of their surnames, they continued to attack, successively sinking the destroyers "Terutsuki" and "Utsuki" and the "I-16" submarine of the Navy, and then sank a number of transport ships and severely damaged the cruiser "Awuwei." On the other hand, the Navy had only built a small number of torpedo boats before, and more than 10 Dutch torpedo boats were captured during the Southeast Asian Campaign. But they were scattered all over the place, and the first thing that came to mind when there was a task was the big ship, and the speedboat was reduced to a cargo boat and a transport boat. Although the 1942 Showa 18th Provisional Military Expansion Budget of the wartime ship replenishment plan planned to build 18 80-ton "A" torpedo boats, the navy still failed to understand the tremendous role of small ships in small waters, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which was responsible for the production of the "71" Type 6 engine, was unable to complete the project due to the lack of special steel materials, poor processing accuracy, and the lack of experience in building large torpedo boats.

Beginning in 1943, the Chinese army mobilized units of its own country and the occupying countries to produce a large number of small torpedo boats based on the "T-1" boats, in order to cope with the active Chinese Navy, and attempted to use torpedo boats to perform some tasks carried out by destroyers in peacetime. The engines used in these boats are very complex, mainly aero engines, and most of them are old types of engines in stock, these boats are generally equipped with a 20 mm cannon or 13 mm machine gun, two 450 mm torpedoes, according to the construction order issued on May 4, 1943, the "B" type boats will be built as many as 300 in total!

From the outbreak of the war to the present, the torpedo boats of the Navy's torpedo boats have hardly any commendable achievements, and the reason for this is that the aluminum alloy material is given priority to the use of aircraft, and most of the torpedo boats of the Navy's torpedo boats are made of wooden shells and steel bones, and in order to enhance the seaworthiness surname, most of them use round boats, which result in excessive weight and low speed, and the lack of excellent small high-speed marine internal combustion engines, which are replaced by old aero engines in stock, so many problems have occurred, and the torpedo boat units are too late to be formed. There is a lack of adequate tactical research and education and training, so it is not surprising that there is such a situation of "zero record".

But tonight, the torpedo boat unit was determined to break this humiliating record with practical actions.

Although these two torpedo boats were too weak compared to the Chinese fleet outside Nagasaki Harbor, the weakness of the warships did not mean that they were mentally weak, and it should be said that the sailors took the initiative to attack the powerful Chinese fleet with the determination to fight to the death.

The night breeze was blowing, and there were gusts of light rain in the sky, and such bad weather was just a cover for the whereabouts of the torpedo boats. As the torpedo boat sailed into the canal, the channel narrowed, and the lights of the villages and towns on both sides of the river were all extinguished, and only the faint barking of dogs could be heard. According to the pre-drawn battle plan, the two torpedo boats were to enter the battle positions through the canal before dawn and then launch an attack on the target.

It is said that all the weapons used by this torpedo boat to defeat the enemy are two to four high-efficiency trigger torpedoes with a diameter of 450 mm. Torpedoes are by far the most powerful underwater weapon in naval warfare, and even large ships can easily send a cruiser or destroyer to the bottom of the sea if they are hit. The key to the success or failure of the raid was how to conceal the close enemy without revealing themselves too early, and the officers of the Navy Staff racked their brains for this secret route before finally drawing up this secret route.

What is unexpected is the battle this time, as well as the participation of the people.

As night fell, Captain Ichiro Noda drove his dirty little steamer with thick soot abruptly across the familiar river. When the boat reached the river beach, the collapsed ruins and burning houses could be seen everywhere on both sides, the result of the frenzied fire of the Naka[***] ship anchored at the sea, firing frantically at the densely populated residential area of Nagasaki. Noda Ichiro's lean face twitched for a while, and then he took out the cigar cigarette that the Osaku had given him just now and took a big puff.

Ichiro Noda was the illegitimate son of an Izu dancing girl who was abandoned in the wilderness after birth, and when a well-wisher found him, the family named him "Ichiro Noda" because he was found in the field and was a boy.

When the boat sailed out of the sea, the sea breeze became stronger. The sky was covered with thick clouds, the sea was dark, and an ominous, salty smell from the depths of the ocean crept into the air, a harbinger of an approaching gale. Ichiro Noda snuffed out the remaining half of his cigar butt, carefully put it in his pocket, and then shouted angrily to the two strangers squatting on the bow of the boat: "Go down to the cabin, the plane of the Shina will see you!" ”

One morning two days earlier, the day after the gunfire of the Naka[***] ship had become denser, an officer surnamed Makino had come to his ship and told him that he would rent his ship to complete a mission. The officer squatted on the bow of the boat and smoked with him, and told many truths about "loyalty to the monarch and patriotism." Later, a few more soldiers came and saluted the officer respectfully, and he learned that the officer turned out to be a young officer. In fact, there was no need for Makino Shaosa to tell him those impassioned truths, because in the eyes of ordinary people, the emperor was a god-like existence, and the emperor's loyal and brave officers looked up to him as the creation of his Noda Ichiro, so when he figured out what Makino Shaosa was going to send him for, he was flattered and hurriedly agreed.

What's more, Shao Zuo also personally promised that he would compensate him for a new ship after the mission was completed. He had already figured out that he didn't want the kind of slow-moving old steamers that his country had built in the army, he wanted a new machine ship. That kind of boat runs fast and steady.

The sea breeze was stronger, and the tide was rattling. Captain Noda held the rudder steadily, his eyes watchful of the front.

Noda Ichiro and two strange soldiers were tasked with quietly approaching the Chinese's large warship under the cover of the rising tide of the night, and then blowing it up. Early tomorrow morning, the news of this astonishing victory and the name of the hero Ichiro Noda will spread throughout Nagasaki and even throughout the country.

According to Makino's plan, they ignited explosives after approaching the enemy ship, and then abandoned the ship and jumped into the water to swim back to shore. The two men were sailors on navy patrol boats, and Noda Ichiro was well versed in the waters, and his boats used to run around to transport smuggled goods, so they agreed that it would be difficult to light the explosives and swim back to shore.

So, just when the little-known captain Noda Ichiro, with a small heroic impulse, sailed to the sea full of powerful explosives without hesitation, trying to create a storm news that caused a sensation in the whole country and even the world, there was a pillar of snow light on the river in the distance. The Chinese fleet has a full control of lights to protect against air raids, so the attackers can only use searchlights to determine the location of the enemy's flagship. Noda Ichiro quickly slammed the tiller, and the small steamer made a large arc in the darkness, then turned off the machine and slid silently towards the observation corner of the enemy ship.

2000 meters, 1000 meters, 800 meters...... The swarthy hull of the Naka[***] ship was getting closer and closer like a huge high wall, and Noda Ichiro could even faintly hear the music playing on the enemy ship and the sound of Chinese talking. If there are another ten or so minutes, the small steamer will be able to smoothly drill under the enemy's nose, and at that time, even if the [***] ship has the skill of returning to the sky, it will not be able to escape the catastrophe.

But an unexpected circumstance suddenly happened in the dark.

The port side of the boat that was gliding quietly seemed to have a reef on the side, and the boat almost overturned in a shock. Ichiro Noda turned the steering wheel desperately, and then he saw clearly that there was a reef there, and it was clearly a Chinese submarine that had just surfaced! The bow of the small steamer actually hit the watchtower of the Chinese submarine, and then grazed against the starboard deck of the submarine.

The Chinese were alarmed, and in an instant, searchlights lit up everywhere on the sea, and alarms sounded on some warships. Captain Noda's face turned white, and he yelled viciously at the cabin: "Engine engine...... Fight with the Chinese pig! ”

The little steamer finally stopped sneaking around, but held its head high, and the motor slammed straight into the behemoth nearby [***] ship. It is not difficult to imagine the shock that all those who witnessed this magnificent scene would feel when this giant bomb was fired at the enemy ship and determined to die with it... (To be continued)