readx; The Yandi was hit, although the night was hazy at that time, but under the light of the fire that exploded on the destroyer, the huge water droplets that rose when the Yandi was hit could be seen by almost all the surrounding warships, Hasei Kiyokawa looked at the water droplets on the Yandi, and at a glance he could see that the Yandi was hit by a torpedo, and he couldn't help but shout in ecstasy: "Okay! ”

At the same time, in the command tower on the Yandi, Huang Pinghan stood up straight, looked at the people in the command tower shaking Huang Huang, and shouted: "Hurry up and check the loss, and the whole ship will do a good job of managing the damage!" ”

In fact, as soon as he gave the order, the crew on the Yandi began to manage the damage as soon as it was hit by a torpedo, and the damage management department responsible for the work of the whole ship had already quickly carried out the damage management work under the leadership of officers at all levels, including closing the watertight compartment and draining the water with a pump. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 In addition to the officers and men of the original Damage Management Department, there are also a large number of auxiliary personnel of the warship, including miscellaneous personnel, including kitchen personnel, and so on.

While the Yandi was carrying out intense management work, the main guns on the Yandi were forced to stop firing because the ship began to tilt.

It didn't take long for the navigator to receive a call report from the pipe loss department below, and then said to Huang Pinghan: "Commander, now the pumping machines of this ship have all started pumping work, and in addition, they have also begun to fill water to the port side, and it is not a problem to maintain balance for the time being, but the combat speed has been reduced to twenty-six knots!" ”

After hearing this, Huang Pinghan frowned, although this time it was hit by a torpedo and did not cause a chain reaction, the core compartments of the ship such as the engine, ammunition depot and other vital parts were not harmed, but after being hit by a torpedo, some compartments on the starboard side were flooded with a large amount of water, and now there are nearly 1,000 tons of water, although this water intake is impossible to sink the Yandi, a giant ship of up to 40,000 tons, but after a large amount of water intake, in order to maintain the balance of the warship, it has to inject water into the port side, which also causes the draft of the ship to become larger. After the draft increases, the forward resistance of the warship increases, and the reduction of speed is inevitable.

In this tense moment of battle, the reduction of the speed of the warship is very fatal, and it will cause a chain reaction, first of all, it is difficult for the Yandi to keep up with the pace of the other three ships, and the reduction of the speed will be attacked by the enemy's concentrated fire, after all, the thing of beating the water dog can be done by itself, and the enemy can also do it.

According to Huang Pinghan's own thoughts, then the best choice now is to withdraw from the battlefield first to avoid the enemy's superior firepower, but if the Yandi retreats, this is no longer a matter that the First Battlefleet itself can decide, but a strategic choice related to the entire fleet, so he quickly reported the news to the commander of the First Fleet, who is also the actual commander of the battleship formation, Wen Ting and Vice Admiral.

Wen Tinghe's ship is on the Shundi, Wen Tinghe, as the commander of the entire First Fleet, should have been located on China's largest battleship, the Yandi, but the Yandi is also the flagship of the First Battlefleet, and it is the ship of Rear Admiral Huang Pinghan, the commander of the First Battlefleet.

Wen Tinghe on the Shundi pondered after learning Huang Pinghan's report, as the commander of the First Fleet, in fact, not only the First Battlefleet was commanded by him, but in fact, the First Air Fleet was also commanded by him, but the navy considered that Wen Tinghe was a traditional battleship commander, and it was not appropriate to directly command the air fleet, so this divided the First Fleet into two, the battleship formation was commanded by Wen Tinghe, and the aircraft carrier formation was commanded by Guan Shijie. Therefore, on the surface, Wen Tinghe is the supreme commander of the navy, but because Wen Tinghe and Guan Shijie are both lieutenant generals, the actual command can avoid Wen Tinghe blindly commanding aircraft carriers.

But no matter what, he Wen Tinghe is the supreme commander of this huge fleet, and the strategic direction is still in his grasp.

After learning that the Yandi was damaged, Wen Tinghe didn't think about it for too long, but quickly ordered: "Order, let the Second Cruiser Fleet lead the First Lightning Strike Fleet to immediately carry out lightning strike operations, the battle fleet will turn due south and retreat, the Yandi will be out of the battle sequence first, and the Yellow Emperor and Shundi and Zhuan Xuan will cover it!" ”

Wen Tinghe knew that it was never a way to fight hard with Yu himself now, and the strength of his own battleships was not as good as that of Yu himself, and now that the Yandi had been hit hard, if it was entangled in the Yandi that had greatly reduced its speed, I am afraid that it would not be able to go back.

According to Wen Tinghe's estimate, the First Air Fleet should also go far now, and if he retreats at night, he will not let the First Air Fleet be threatened, and if he drags on for another four or five hours until dawn, it should not be a problem, and after dawn, the First Air Fleet will be able to send planes to support him.

As soon as the First Air Fleet can send planes again and carry out another large-scale air raid like yesterday's, it will be said, 'I will definitely lose more than I won.'

Just when Wen Tinghe had such a plan, Eisuke Yamamoto on the other side learned that the Chinese main fleet was moving away, and he was also hesitant in his heart, whether to chase or not? If you continue to chase, you can continue to achieve certain results, but judging from the previous engagements, it is really difficult to achieve too big a record, and the risk of continuing to chase is very large, after catching up this night, it is possible to chase hundreds of nautical miles, and by the next day, your own side will be out of the air defense cover of the native land-based fighters, when the Chinese air force launches an air attack on itself again, Eisuke Yamamoto does not feel that his fleet can be defended, Even if most of the ships were able to retreat smoothly by then, it would be difficult to accept the loss of another battleship.

But if you don't chase it, will you just watch the Yandi that has been badly damaged escape?

When Yamamoto Eisuke was entangled in his heart, he said, "This fleet has also begun to attack the Yandi with concentrated firepower, although the hit rate of the main guns in this field battle is extremely low, but next to the Yandi, there is a wreck of the destroyer that is braving the boiling fire, and the fire that comes out of the wreckage of this destroyer is the best guidance for the main guns of the main fleet in the distance."

So in a few minutes, a large number of large-caliber shells began to fall around the Yandi, and five minutes later, there was a loud bang on the Yandi, and a sixteen-inch cannonball fired from the Bengaga hit the front half of the Yandi's main gun.

The violent explosion when the main gun hit made Huang Pinghan on the command tower almost unsteady again, and finally grabbed the back of the handrail and showed a worried face: "Report the loss immediately!" ”

It didn't take long for the captain and orderly officer next to him to step forward and say: "The No. 2 turret was hit, and there was an explosion inside the turret, and even the No. 1 turret was also damaged!" ”

When Huang Pinghan heard this, he almost scolded his mother, and he endured the drop in speed when he was hit by a torpedo, but now even the No. 1 and No. 2 turrets have lost their combat effectiveness, you must know that there are only three main turrets in the Yandi class, and now there are only three main guns left in the rear turret that can be used.

At this time, Huang Pinghan said: "Report the battle damage to Commander Wen immediately!" ”

Then he gave another urgent order: "Immediately turn to the left fifty degrees, and meet the enemy in the rear turret!" ”

Now that the two turrets in front have been destroyed, it is no longer necessary to continue to maintain the southwest course to play the tactics of nine main guns, and now Huang Pinghan's order is almost intended to let the Yandi turn around and run to the south directly, not only to retreat from a distance, but also to allow the rear main turret to exert its maximum combat power, in addition to facing the enemy in a vertical course to reduce the area of the bullet.

When Wen Tinghe heard that both turrets of the Yandi had been destroyed at the same time, Wen Tinghe took a deep breath: "Let the remaining three ships of the battlefleet cover the Yandi out of battle." And the lightning strike troops have all gone there, why haven't they launched a lightning strike operation against the enemy's main fleet! ”

Although Wen Tinghe commanded the battle of the entire battlefield, he did not know every detail, and when the Yandi was besieged by the main fleet of the main force of the army, the first cruiser and the first lightning fleet also launched an attack on the main fleet of the main fleet.

In order to gain time for the battleship formations in the rear to retreat, several destroyers did not hesitate to charge at the risk of the dense fire of the navy, and these destroyers rushed at a speed of more than thirty-five knots in the night from taking advantage of the waves to the main fleet of Ben.

When the Hirashio was the closest, and when it was only four thousand meters away from the Kaga, the Hirashio began to fire torpedoes, and the Hirashio was followed by the No. 1 Lightning Strike Fleet, and began to drop torpedoes at a distance of 4,500 meters.

The torpedoes dropped by these two mine-striking ships are in a fan shape of about 30 degrees to the Kaga galloping away, and the torpedoes that form the torpedo attack group are China's latest 1927 ship-based torpedoes, and they are also the third generation of torpedoes in the Chinese Navy, in order to allow existing ships to use new torpedoes, so the 1927-type shipborne torpedoes still use a caliber of 533 mm, in order to be able to keep up with the most advanced technology of the great powers, it has spent a huge amount of money to introduce new torpedoes from abroad, and imitate them, The new torpedo uses double-acting and double-cylinders, which are more powerful, and can make the torpedo reach a speed of 46 knots, and the range can reach 10,000 meters at 46 knots. The level of this torpedo is not super-first-class in the world, but it is also first-class. As for the newer torpedoes, for example, the oxygen torpedoes that Chen Jingyun personally asked the Navy Department to develop have not been developed for a while due to the limitations of today's technology.

In fact, the level of torpedoes and naval guns or shipbuilding in China and China is now eight taels in a radius, and no one is much better than the other, for example, this torpedo is also imitated by foreign technology, and the torpedo is also imitated by foreign technology, and the manufacturer is the same: Whitehead.

When a number of 1927-style torpedoes rushed towards the Kaga at a speed of up to 46 knots, although it was difficult to find the traces of the torpedoes in the dark night, the two Chinese mine-strike ships that were only 4,000 meters away from the Kaga could be found, and the Chinese mine-strike ships could figure out what they were going to do when they were so close, so the Kaga made an emergency evasive maneuver.

However, even with the maneuver evasion, the reason why the multiple torpedoes formed a fan attack was to ensure that at least one of the torpedoes could get a hit, so it didn't take long for the front of the port side of the Kaga to be hit by one of the torpedoes, and then a loud explosion was heard.