Twenty-five warships of Japan's First Outer Blue Fleet approached from afar. The searchlights on the leading Dan minesweeper constantly swept around, illuminating the surrounding sea as bright as day.

Captain Song Da, the captain of the 018 boat, couldn't help but be overjoyed after carefully observing the formation of the Japanese fleet, this fleet actually had seven large warships! In the hazy moonlight, it walked slowly like seven floating islands, and there was only a thin layer of warning around them, and it seemed as if it was easy to slip in!

Song Da held back his excitement and whispered to Zhang Yiming: "There seem to be seven big guys, with the lights off, I can't tell if it's a battleship or a heavy cruiser." "Shichijo?" Zhang Yiming wrinkled his eyebrows and muttered: "The result of the aircraft reconnaissance is that there are four warships and four heavy cruisers: intelligence officers have also found two armored cruisers at the mouth of Lushun, and one heavy cruiser has been sunk on the report... There should be nine big boats. ”

Song Da smiled lightly: "I shouldn't have hit a mine, right?" In that case, these Japanese people would really be unlucky to get home. ”

Zhang Yiming sneered and shook his head: "No, if three capital ships were damaged by mines in half a night, the Japanese would have returned home long ago, and they would not come here to die again." He paused and asked, "Can you slip through the destroyer's sentry circle and go inside and kill the big guy?" ”

Song Da said softly: "Try it, there should be no problem, we often do this kind of thing in the Nanyang Fleet......" "Okay, order No. 019 and No. 020 to go in with us, and the other three submarines will cover the perimeter, and when they explode inside, they will attack the destroyers on the periphery." Zhang Yiming gave the final battle order in just a few words.

"Understood!" The chief of communication replied without replying, and then used the transmitter to start sending the message tick-tock, and the antenna floating on the sea immediately transmitted the latest command.

At this time, on the battleship "Fuso," Koichi Shiozawa, commander of Japan's First Foreign Fleet, stood in the command tower, watching the huge fleet under his command slowly sailing under the moonlight.

Lieutenant General Shiozawa, who was anxious, couldn't help but pac in the command tower. Yoshida Zengo, the chief of staff on the side, saw that his old classmates (both of whom were from the 32nd Naval Soldier and were also classmates with Yamamoto 56) were restless, and comforted him in a low voice: "Shiozawa-kun, our fleet is safe now, and we haven't found mines for a while, so we should have passed the mine area." It's so dark that the planes of the Chinese can't take off, and the warships are afraid that they won't come, and our forty fourteen-inch cannons are enough to destroy the entire Chinese navy! What else is there to worry about? ”

"Yes!" Shiozawa Yuichi sighed and said with a wry smile: "I have already lost eight warships, and one of them is seriously damaged, and I should be in the reserve after I go back, right?" The admiral or anything has nothing to do with me. Yoshida-kun, now I'm really envious! ”

Yoshida Zengo also smiled bitterly: "Shiozawa-kun, this commander will be unlucky when he goes back, and I, the chief of staff, can I still get out of it?" I wonder we're going to go to the reserves together. His tone suddenly increased: "But if you can do your best for the empire's great cause of seizing Manchuria, don't be a reserve, even if you go to Jiudansaka, you won't regret it." "Yoshida-kun, why does this sound like those animals from the Army? We're the elite of the Navy! Shiozawa shook his stiff head and walked towards the chart platform.

At this time, under the black water, there were six Chinese Navy newest Type 2D submarines, quietly advancing at the slowest speed of the Japanese fleet. All the people on the boat didn't even dare to come out, for fear of being discovered by the non-existent Japanese sonar soldiers, and then attract a lot of damn depth ...............charges.

Watching the Japanese warships pass through the periscope, Song Da muttered in his heart: "He***, so many big guys are really good things!" Tsk, that big black guy should be a battleship, right? It looks very good, let's deal with it first, don't sue me in front of the dragon lord when you get down, even if you sue, I'm not afraid! The Dragon King is our Chinese immortal. ”

Song Da also knew that it was not easy to destroy a Japanese battleship with the fifteen torpedoes on his 018, 019 and 020 boats. The best tactic was to inflict heavy damage on the two Japanese battleships, so that the Japanese fleet would slow down and the other three submarine detachments would be able to catch up with them.

Song Da lowered his voice: "The target has been discovered, now dive to fifteen meters, dive to fifteen meters!" "Understood, fifteen meters down!" The horizontal helmsman turned the steering wheel, and the head of the submarine No. 018 immediately pressed down, and the index on the depth gauge did not fall.

At this moment, there was a clatter of propellers turning outside, apparently from the Japanese fleet.

Soon, the depth gauge pointed to a depth of fifteen meters and came to a steady stop.

"It's already fifteen meters, sir! "Good! Now I'm going to put down the Periscope One and raise the Attack Periscope all the time. ”

Song Da's voice was low, but it was full of murderous energy.

"Understood!" The sound of the helmsman came over the speaker.

Song Da nodded: "Very good, now I want to raise one meter for a while, and then raise one meter and then level for a while, just like we often do in exercises, in short, everything must be steady, don't panic, the Japanese sonar soldier may be deaf." ”

"No problem, sir!" The sound coming from the speaker was still steady, and it didn't seem to be affected by Song Da's jokes at all.

"Sir, rise to fourteen meters!"

"Okay, steady!" Song Da continued to give orders.

"Sir, rise to thirteen meters!"

"Well done! Buddy. ”

Historically, the navy of the Republic of China actually attached great importance to aircraft and submarines, uh, although they did not have submarines or aircraft carriers. However, they opened the "Flying Diving School" early, that is, the Sailor School in Mawei, Fujian Province. In this time and space, the "Flying Diving School" was immediately moved to Changzhou Island in Guangzhou and merged into the Naval Officer Academy. Under the strict training of those damn Germans, the technical level of these Kuomintang submarine officers is still very high! At least much stronger than surface ships, it can definitely reach the world's first-class. However, submarines are always inferior to aircraft carriers and aircraft, including the Japanese Navy, no one seems to take Chinese submarines too seriously, and they don't want to think about who taught the current Chinese Navy The three submarines of No. 018, No. 019, and No. 020 are in the hands of these German students, rising smoothly meter by meter like three spiritual creatures.

"Good! Just keep it at this height! Song Da's voice sounded slightly excited.

"Oh my God! What a big guy! Listen, the leading edge goes into the corner, thirty-five degrees to starboard. ”

There was silence in the boat, and the only sound coming from outside the boat was the crisp sound of the propellers hitting the water.

After a while, the voice of Captain Song Da came from the speaker: "Good! The target has already come, and when it sees it, oh, it should be "Ise, class battleship, such a big guy, there is only one destroyer on its side, and here they are." He took a deep breath: "Torpedo Chief, remember!" From a distance of two thousand three hundred meters, the leading edge entered the starboard side of the corner fifty-three degrees, and lowered the periscope! ”

"Okay, torpedo chief, open the torpedo tube cover!"

"Song Da, why don't you wait" Ise, the number (actually "Fuso, number") is closer to the point and then fight? Zhang Yiming twisted his eyebrows and reminded gently: "We only have five torpedoes." ”

"No, if we get closer, we won't be able to run for a while, there are too many enemies, as long as the destroyer targets us, it will basically be a dead end. Moreover, these Japanese fleets cannot get out of the Bohai Bay when they enter it, so there is no need for us to work so hard. Song Da shook his head and put forward his opinion, he still didn't know that those scary-looking Japanese destroyers were actually shelf goods without sonar, which could not compare to the Z1 and Z2 destroyers encountered during the exercise.

After listening to Song Da's opinion, Zhang Yiming also nodded, although these Kuomintang navies have been trained by the Germans for several years, they are still greedy for life and afraid of death...... It is simply unrealistic to expect them to show the courage to die with the enemy. Otherwise, there is no need for submarines, mines, so troublesome. Wouldn't it be better to just let the plane load the bomb and hit the Japanese warship? Seeing such an enemy full of bushido spirit, 1 Devil Keeper will immediately go home.

"Sir, the launch tube cover has been opened!" At this time, the sound of the torpedo chief reporting was heard from the loudspeaker.

"Good! Remember, the distance is one thousand nine hundred meters. Slow shot! ”

Song Da's heart jumped, this was the first time he had participated in actual combat, and the target was a Japanese battleship! If it sinks, it will be the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal!

Although he was looking forward to the medal in his heart, Song Da still chose to shoot slowly to improve the time for the submarine to break away and reduce the chance of being discovered. But compared to the medal, 1 life is definitely more important.

"Shoot one!" Shoot two! "Shoot three!"

With a slight jolt and three limited, muffled air explosions, three torpedoes were fired out of the torpedo tubes of Submarine 018 in turn. Then there was another rush in the submarine's torpedo compartment, and the last two torpedoes were sent out in the shortest possible time. Then I heard Song Da's nervous shout: "Lower the periscope!" Quickly dive down to 20 meters and evacuate! ”

The submarine slowly turned around and headed in the opposite direction, and Zhang Yiming and Song Da, who were holding stopwatches, both sweated on their foreheads at the same time. Zhang Yiming's right hand grabbed the handrail on the side, anxiously waiting for the explosion to determine the outcome of the battle. At this moment, he felt that his heart was almost in his throat.

"Boom! Rumble! "Two explosions sounded in quick succession, proving that at least two of the five torpedoes fired from submarine 018 hit enemy ships.

"It's in the well!" The cheers of the sailors were heard from the submarine.

"Raise the periscope!" In the periscope, Song Da clearly saw the battleship "Ise" (actually "Fuso") rising in flames, illuminating the entire sea as bright as day.

When the torpedo hit the Fuso, Koichi Shiozawa was working with Commander Tari and Chief of Staff Yoshida Zengo studying a plan to shell Huludao in a few hours. Suddenly, they felt the floor under their feet bounce, knocking them both to the ground.

"Not good! The battleship has hit a mine! Shiozawa didn't think that his fleet was being attacked by submarines for the first time, but thought that it had hit another damn mine. He quickly got up from the ground and ran to the bridge with Yoshida. At this moment, the battleship was already in chaos, and a raging fire broke out at the tail of the battleship "Fuso", and the fire went straight into the sky!

"Eight squares! Shot in the stern, it's a torpedo! It must be a submarine of the Chinese people! Shiozawa took a deep breath, he knew he was in big trouble this time! I'm afraid it's not a reserve that can be settled, and it's hard to have a seppuku......

"Hurry up and shine the searchlight on the surface of the sea, there is a submarine of the Zhina people!" The mournful shouts of Lieutenant General Koichi Shiozawa rang out from the bridge.

The hundreds of powerful searchlights on the 25 warships of the entire Japanese fleet were turned on almost instantly, and one after another dazzling beams of light shone on the surface of the sea, and for a time, the entire ocean surface was as bright as day.

"Not good, I found a torpedo trail on the starboard side of our ship!" A real reproachful sailor on the battlecruiser Kongo pointed to the right and shouted in horror.

By this time, the captain of the Kongo, Keinosuke Ikeda, had already arrived in the wheelhouse, and when the warning of the lookout was transmitted to the wheelhouse through the loudspeaker, Ikeda immediately raised his binoculars and looked to starboard.

Three faint trails appeared in Ikeda's telescope, but they were so inconspicuous that they were caught by searchlights at a distance of more than 300 meters, and unluckily discovered by the lookouts.

"Right full rudder! Hurry up! Keinosuke Ikeda roared and gave the command to the helmsman in the cab to dodge.

"Hay! Full rudder right! The helmsman replied loudly.

The quality of these Japanese naval forces is also among the best in the whole world (except for naval aviation and poor anti-submarine capabilities). The Kongo-class battlecruisers, with a standard displacement of more than 27,000 tons, drew a beautiful arc on the sea surface under the control of the helmsman, dodging the three hapless torpedoes in a short distance, but one of the two torpedoes fired by the 019 boat later hit the battleship in the head.

"Boom!" A dull thud came, and everyone in the cab was shaken. The bow of the Kongo-class battleship caught fire and sank significantly!

Seeing the encounter of the "King Kong", Vice Admiral Shiozawa Koichi on the flagship "Fuso" became more and more pale, and in just ten minutes, two battleships had already been hit several times! Moreover, the "Fuso" seems to have been badly damaged, the stern of the ship is flooding a lot, and the damage management personnel are urgently trying to find a way to plug the loophole.

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, a three-meter-long hole has been opened in the aft part of our ship, and seawater is pouring in, and the damage management personnel cannot repair it, so they can only close and seal the passage at the stern." The captain of the Fuso, Sugizaka Tsujiro Osa, put down the phone in his hand and reported the loss to Shiozawa in a trembling voice.

After the "Fuso" and "Kongo" were attacked one after another, the entire sea surface jumped as if it had exploded, and more than a dozen light cruisers and destroyers indiscriminately threw depth charges in all directions, and columns of water continued to rise with the dull sound of explosions. Several large ships also took up a figure-2 anti-submarine line, twisting to the left and to the right on the sea for a while.

Just as the entire First Dispatch Fleet was in disarray, an even greater catastrophe struck.

"Woo ......"

The mournful siren sounded, and the lookout of the battleship "Fuso" sounded the alarm again: "Torpedo found on the port side!" A hundred meters away! At this time, the submarine 020, hidden on the left side, finally launched a torpedo.

This time, Sugisaka Jiro Osa didn't have time to order the helmsman, so he grabbed the rudder and desperately hit the left. Unfortunately, it was already too late. A distance of 100 meters is only a dozen seconds for a torpedo with a speed of 36 knots, and no matter how high the Japanese Navy's level of ship manoeuvring is, it is impossible to turn a battleship around in just a dozen seconds. The sailors on the battleship could only watch as the three torpedoes fanned towards them......

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble......

Without hesitation, the three torpedoes rushed into the scarred "Fusang", and the violent explosion and strong vibration shook Mu You's people to the ground.

"Your Excellency, a torpedo hit the bow of the ship, and now the sea is pouring in!"

"Your Excellency, Captain, a torpedo hit the boiler Kurabe Sen..."

"Your Excellency Captain, our ship has a large amount of water, and the hull has been tilted fifteen degrees, please instruct."

Bad news continued to come one after another, and the pride of the Great Japanese Imperial Navy now seemed to have come to its end.

"Order the damage management personnel to make every effort to rescue, and never let the battleship sink!" Sugisaka Tsujiro Osa howled as if he was crazy......

And Shiozawa Yuki, who was standing next to his nose, didn't say anything, and his whole body was trembling slightly. The battleship "Jisang" had already been hit by five heavy torpedoes, and now the ship was flooded in large quantities, and the ship had already begun to tilt to the left. Although the captain of the ship, Sugizaka Tsujiro Daisa, was still organizing the officers and men to make every effort to rescue him, Shiozawa Koichi already knew that the "Fuso" was finished.

"Your Excellency Commander, please change the flagship" After arranging a hopeless rescue, Sugisaka Jiro Daisa stood in front of Shiozawa Koichi with tears in his eyes, and persuaded the commander, who had already killed himself, to move quickly.

Shiozawa Koichi seemed to have aged by more than ten years all of a sudden, and slowly spit out a sentence from his mouth: "Order everyone to abandon the ship, it's useless." Sugisaka-kun, let's leave the ship too...... The responsibility for this time is entirely on me. ”

"Commander!" Sugisaka Tsujiro shouted sadly and indignantly: "Commander, you can't abandon the ship" Fuso, the first battleship built by the Imperial Navy! ”

Shiozawa Koichi smiled bitterly and waved his hand: "But do you think" Fuso, is there still salvation?" And... And what is our combat mission this time, remember? ”！