readx; Not long after the Teragang Jinping fleet went to sea, the three Chinese submarines moved in advance to the front of them and set up an ambush, and at nine o'clock in the evening, the six submarines under the Fourth Ship Fleet launched a torpedo attack on Teragang Jinping's fleet in the darkness of night!

One of the destroyers found the traces of the Chinese submarine at the first moment of the torpedo attack by the Chinese submarine, and the sound of the torpedo siren quickly spread throughout the entire Teraogang Jinping fleet. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Knowing the traces of the discovery of Chinese submarines, Teraoka Jinhei was not the slightest surprise, these were all expected by him, he knew very well that his fleet would be discovered by the Chinese from the moment it left the port, and what was waiting for him ahead was a large number of warships of the Chinese Navy, and the submarines were just the first wave.

Although he already knew that the danger was dangerous, he had no other choice, he had to go, and he had to die!

The three Chinese submarines fired their torpedoes and then dived quickly to dodge the incoming depth charges, and they didn't even have time to see if the torpedoes had hits.

After the rapid dive, the sonar soldier nervously listened to all the sounds in the seawater, and there was an explosion without much help, and the sonar soldier in the ship resisted the excitement in his heart: "It's hit, there is an explosion!" ”

Soon after his voice fell, the submarine suddenly shook violently, and it was said that his counterattack was coming!

On the sea, the Musashi looked at the huge column of water raised by a destroyer behind it without any expression, but instead gave an order: "Keep going, change the course of the formation to 280!" ”

Although facing the attack of the submarine, Teraoka Jinhei did not have much entanglement, and the destroyer of anti-submarine warfare hurriedly dropped a series of depth charges and quickly broke away from the formation to keep up.

Anyway, after those submarines launched the first round of attacks, they would not be able to inflict a second attack on Teraoka Jinhei's fleet, and the speed of the submarines was there, not to mention underwater navigation, even if it was surface navigation, it would not be able to catch up with his fleet.

The interception of the main fleet of the Chinese Navy in front is the thing that makes him frown the most!

In the following hours of the night, despite the fact that Teraoka Jinhei changed course several times, it was still discovered by a number of Chinese submarines and destroyers, and then it was attacked by as many as three torpedoes in a row, one by a submarine, and the other two times by a Chinese destroyer who approached at high speed and fired a torpedo, in the process even the Musashi was hit by a torpedo, causing the Musashi's speed to be reduced. The other destroyer was sunk by a Chinese cruiser detachment in just five minutes while on reconnaissance.

At twelve o'clock in the evening, after several large circles, Teraoka Jinhei finally broke through the interception network of submarines and lightning strike units of the Chinese Navy, and by this time Teraoka Jinhei's fleet was already scarred, and directly in front of them were three battleships and four large cruisers of the first battleship of the Chinese Navy.

At this time, these Chinese capital ships were lined up in a standard T-shaped horizontal formation, and all the main guns had been turned to the port side! And Teraoka Jinhei's fleet is moving forward in a straight formation at this time!

At 12:20 p.m., the Musashi, which was at the forefront, was only 33,000 yards away from the Chinese naval formation, and the main guns of the Yandi, Huangdi and Zhuan fired salvos one after another, and at the same time, the six main guns in front of the Musashi and the front main guns on the Mutsu also fired back!

This almost suicidal naval battle has officially begun!

At 12:30 p.m., the four large cruisers of the Chinese Navy also opened fire, and their fire was not aimed at the Musashi, because with the thick armor of the Musashi, the twelve-inch shells on the large cruiser hit the Musashi with little effect, and it was better to simply hit the Mutsu, an old battleship built and commissioned at the end of World War I.

As the large-caliber naval guns of the capital ships of both sides opened fire one after another, the rumbling of artillery continued to sound in the northern part of the Karatsu Peninsula, and the fire of incendiary bombs and the fire that exploded after hitting the shells were almost twenty or thirty nautical miles away.

With the advantage of the T-prefix, the First Battlefleet of the Second Mobile Fleet exerted almost all of its firepower, and almost every 27 16-inch guns of the three battleships and the 36 12-inch guns of the four large cruisers were aimed at Teraoka Jinhei's fleet.

When the naval battle first broke out, Teraoka Jinhei found that his fleet was in the lower vertical position of the T-position, which was extremely unfavorable to him according to normal reasoning, but considering that the rear main guns of the Musashi were originally destroyed and not repaired, so they could not exert their combat effectiveness, so the way the bow faced the enemy was correct for the Musashi, on the one hand, it could give full play to the firepower of its only six front main guns, and at the same time, because of the frontal encounter with the enemy, the bombing area of the Musashi was reduced.

So he didn't choose to change his position, but continued to attack forward!

In addition to this choice, it is also related to his mission!

It was a suicide attack, and Teraoka never thought he would be able to go back alive!

And at the moment when the naval battle just broke out, when he found that there was the main fleet of the Chinese Navy in front of him to intercept his fleet, he knew that he had no chance of surviving this naval battle!

Just when Teraoka Jinhei launched a suicide attack, in Tokyo.

Emperor Hirohito and a large group of military and political ministers sat together, and all the princes present were all grim-faced!

Yamamoto Fifty-six said calmly: "I have received a telegram from General Teraoka Jinhei just now, and the fleet has launched a jade crushing attack!" ”

Jade shattered!

This word, which has a strong military characteristic, has appeared many times in the history of war, and almost every time this word appears, it means that the situation has reached the most critical moment!

During the first Sino-Chinese war, the defense of Lushun said, "The Kwantung Army sent the word "jade", and the war of that year said: "Ben lost Lushun and Taiwan, and although he barely kept Korea, he still carried out a ten-year-long lie down to try his courage, trying to restore his strength and defeat China."

However, in the Second Sino-Japanese War, the First Army in Seoul in 1931 and the Second Army in Wonsan both shouted the word "jade shattering" one after another, and as a result, "The hundreds of thousands of troops in Korea were killed and wounded, and the rest were captured.

In today's Third Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese armies in Singapore, the Philippines, and the Ryukyus also sent telegrams to the country, and all of the above places were lost one by one.

Now, before the attack, Teragang Jinhei played a jade shattering attack on the country, what do these four represent?

On behalf of the pillar of the town and the country, the navy of the empire has lost its essence, and it is no longer capable of defending the homeland!

Although you all knew that the Navy was going to launch a suicide attack, when you really heard that the last trace of the Navy's essence was about to be buried, the feeling of grief and indignation in your heart was still full of hearts, and everyone was unable to speak for a long time.

War Minister Anan stood up at this moment: "The blood shed by millions of colleagues in the navy for the great cause of the survival of the empire will not be shed in vain, our army has already gathered heavy troops in the Kyushu region, and it is bound to annihilate the people of China and drive them into the sea in one fell swoop!" ”

However, as soon as these words came out, Mitsumasa Yonechi, a senior member of the navy, snorted coldly: "Driving the people of China into the sea is easy to say, if the news I get is not wrong, the army has suffered no less than 100,000 casualties in the combat units of Kyushu in the past three days, right?" I would like to ask how many soldiers the army still has in Kyushu? ”

Anan glanced at Mitsumasa Minai fiercely: "You said such a thing, do you want to surrender to those despicable and shameless Shina people?" ”

He didn't wait for the internal affairs to refute his words, but turned his head to Hirohito and said: "Your Majesty, our army still has 200,000 elite troops in Kyushu, 300,000 troops in Shikoku, and we still have more than 1 million local love in Kyushu and Shikoku [***]!" As long as we drag the landing force of the Chinese people in Kyushu and prevent them from taking half a step, the Chinese people will definitely not be able to support the huge military consumption in the long run, so they will take the initiative to retreat! ”

"Ridiculous, since China has launched a landing on Kyushu, do you think that dragging them for three or five months will be enough to make them stop their troops? And even if we really plan to do so, how can we sustain these three or five months? All the major cities in the country have been bombed on a large scale, and there are no artillery and bullets, how are you going to resist the attack of the Chinese people? Also, the people of China have already stated that if we do not surrender, they will continue to bomb us with nuclear bombs? In this way, the country is reduced to ruins, and there is not a single one of the people left, so do we still need to fight? ”

Foreign Minister Shigetoku Togo said unceremoniously: "The situation has developed to this point, is it not that the soldiers of our empire are not brave, and it is not that the people of the empire do not have the determination to continue the war?" But there is no longer this need, we have already fought, although I don't want to admit it, but I also have to say: we lost, we lost completely, and there was not even the slightest chance of turning defeat into victory. Under such circumstances, what we need to do is how to end this war with dignity, instead of letting every citizen's blood be shed and every inch of the country be bombed! ”

For a time, it was said that 'the main battle faction and the main peace faction at this top level are you and me, and a fierce confrontation began, which was mixed with some remarks of surrendering to the United States.

Before China landed in Kyushu, the Chinese side also tried to reach a peace agreement with the United States, giving up the entire South Pacific and even the Central Pacific in exchange for a US armistice, and at the same time asking the United States to help them transport more than 2 million elite troops in the South Pacific theater back to China, and to enlist US support to fight China.

On the one hand, the Americans, like China, hope that they could have surrendered unconditionally, and on the other hand, the impact of China's nuclear bombs.