"The one in front should be one of the 'Izumo-class' armored cruisers, but I don't know if it's the 'Izumo' or the 'Iwate'." Colonel Yang Youjing said secretly. The armored cruiser can also be considered the lead ship of the Japanese Navy. However, this is not the primary target of the submarine force's attack. After all, the Izumo-class armored cruisers had a displacement of just over 9,000 tons, less than 10,000 tons, and were equipped with two twin 203-mm guns. The threat to the Imperial Navy was also far less powerful than those battleships of the Japanese Navy.

The battleships of the Japanese Navy were equipped with 45 times the caliber 305 mm guns or 40 times the caliber 305 mm guns, which were much more powerful than the 203 mm guns. Only by giving priority to the destruction of these battleships can we further shorten the gap between the two sides and create a favorable opportunity for the next large-scale decisive battle at sea.

Colonel Yang Youjing ordered the submarine to continue its submersion, and it took more than ten minutes before it surfaced. This time, from the periscope, he saw a big guy. This is one of the Japanese Navy's newest 'Katori-class' battleships. It's just that I don't know if it's the flagship battleship 'Katori' or the battleship 'Kashima'. However, if one Katori-class battleship could be sunk, it would undoubtedly be able to inflict heavy damage on the Japanese Navy.

"Aim at that battleship, fill the torpedo tubes with water, and wait for the order to launch." Colonel Yang Youjing immediately gave the order to prepare for battle. Just wait for the agreed time to reach before the attack.

Minutes and seconds passed, and soon it was four o'clock in the morning. This is the agreed time of attack by the submarine group.

"Launch!" Colonel Yang Youjing left and ordered the submarine to fire a torpedo.

"Bang, bang!" Two slight voices rang out, and two 533mm heavy torpedoes were fired quickly at the battleship in front. Colonel Yang Youjing did not care to observe the results of the battle, and immediately ordered the submarine to dive and reload the torpedo at the same time.

Each 'Squid-class' submarine carried a total of six torpedoes, two of which were launched, and four were spare. It was not easy to blend into the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy. It would be a shame to fire only two torpedoes and then escape. If all six torpedoes are not fired, Colonel Yang Youjing will not give up.

However, with the current technical conditions, reloading the torpedo is time-consuming, and it often takes about ten minutes. During this time. It is best to dive the submarine to avoid being attacked by Japanese warships. Once a torpedo is hit, the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy will certainly search for traces of the enemy. The submarine floats on the water, and that will undoubtedly be exposed.

The 533-mm heavy torpedoes of the Imperial Navy had a rate of fire of up to thirty knots and a range of up to two thousand meters, and the warhead contained eighty kilograms of high explosives. Such power is enough to tear through the underwater armor of any active battleship.

The battleship targeted by the No. 001 submarine of the Imperial Navy's submarine group was the Japanese Navy's battleship Kashima. This battleship was the second of the Katori-class battleships, with a displacement of up to 16,000 tons, making it the largest battleship in service in the Japanese Navy. It is armed with two twin 45x caliber 305 mm guns, four 45x caliber 254 mm single guns, 12 45x caliber 152 mm single guns, 16 40x caliber 76 mm single guns, three 47 mm machine guns and five 450 mm torpedo tubes. Such firepower, before the dreadnought came out, was already a very powerful battleship. Merely. Now such a warship is just the prey of the underwater wolf of the Imperial Navy. Two 533-mm heavy torpedoes. Rushing towards the hapless battleship at high speed. A distance of less than a kilometer takes just over a minute for a torpedo with a speed of up to thirty knots.

The battleship Kashima was defenseless at the moment, still sailing slowly on the sea, not realizing that the crisis was still approaching.

"Boom! Rumble! Two violent explosions in quick succession came to mind. I saw the bow and amidships of the battleship Kashima in the pitch-black sea. Suddenly there was a dazzling fire. The whole battleship was as if it had been grabbed by a giant, and then it was slammed into the sea.

The officers and men of the Japanese Navy aboard the battleship Kashima had a particularly profound experience. The vast majority of these 864 officers and men have already rested. But. At this moment, I don't know how many people were thrown directly under the bed, and many people were directly injured. The officers on duty in the bridge also fell on the deck in embarrassment.

The captain of the battleship 'Kashima', Tsuchiya Hikari Daisa, was on duty in the bridge at the moment, and he was stunned, and after getting up from the deck in embarrassment, he immediately shouted loudly: "Go and see what is going on?" Is there something wrong? ”

Even at this moment, Tsuchiya Mitsukijin Daisa still thought that the battleship was out of order, and did not think that the battleship had been attacked by the enemy. After all, the location of the battleship "Kashima" was located in the core of the fleet. Even if the Chinese Navy launches an attack, it will not be able to attack here quietly.

The torpedo fired by the Imperial Navy's submarine No. 001 easily tore through the waterline armor of the bow of the battleship Kashima by more than 100 millimeters. The power of the explosion of 80 kilograms of high explosives easily tore through the armor and tore a large hole in the underwater part of the bow of the battleship Kashima. The same is true of the torpedo that hit the amidship. Although the underwater armor of the battleship Kashima was more than 200 millimeters thick, it still could not withstand the attack of heavy torpedoes.

After the two large openings were torn open, the icy sea water poured ferociously into the battleship. The water potential of the leak is so large that the damage management personnel who try to plug the leak are simply unable to do anything.

"Captain, please abandon the ship at once. We were attacked by the enemy, and there were two big holes blown out of the bow and amidships, and it was impossible to plug the holes. If they don't abandon the ship, everyone will sink into the sea with the warship. The officer in charge of damage management reported to Mitsuki Tsuchiya.

"Yaga! How could we be attacked by the enemy? This is the latest battleship of the Great Japanese Empire, how can it be given up like this? Give me all the strength to save this battleship, and I must not give up. Tsuchiya Mitsukijin Daisa stubbornly ordered. It was precisely because of this order that the 864 naval officers and men on the battleship Kashima lost their best chance of escaping.

As more and more water entered, the Kashima battleship tilted, and finally capsized and sank into the icy Yellow Sea, leaving a huge whirlpool on the surface. All the Japanese naval officers and sailors who fell into the water were sucked into the bottom of the sea by the whirlpool. None of the more than 800 Japanese naval officers and men on the battleship, including Mitsuki Daisa Tsuchiya, survived.

When the battleship Kashima was hit, Admiral Goro Ijiin, who had died in the Japanese Combined Fleet, was immediately awakened, and he suddenly got up from the bed, approved a piece of clothing and rushed to the bridge, without even having time to zip his pants.

"What's going on?" General Goro Ijiin asked.

"Your Excellency Commander, there were two explosions on the battleship 'Kashima', the battleship is tilting, I don't know if it was a malfunction or if it was attacked by the enemy." The captain of the battleship Katori, Mano Sajiro Osa, reported.

Suddenly, General Ijiin Goro's face was gloomy as if he could drip water. The Kashima battleship was one of the two most powerful battleships of the Japanese Navy, and if it were to be lost like this, it would definitely be a heavy blow to the Japanese Navy.

"Find out why, what's going on!" General Ijiin Goro said with a dark face.

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander." Mano Sakujiro Osa nodded.

In fact, there was no need for them to find out, but after the battleship Kashima was hit, it suffered heavy damage, and the battleship quickly fell silent, and none of the naval officers and sailors on it survived. However, the attack of submarine No. 001 of the Imperial Navy seemed to be a start. Other submarines of the Imperial Navy's submarine group also launched attacks.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Violent explosions rang out one after another, and one after another the Japanese Navy warships were hit, and a dazzling fire erupted.

"Damn, it's an enemy attack! Sound the battle alarm! "General Ijiin Goro jumped up like a cat that had been stepped on by the tail. The continuous explosions have already said everything, this is clearly that the combined fleet has been attacked, and it is definitely not a technical malfunction. If it was a technical failure, how could it be possible for so many warships to have an accident at the same time?

What made Admiral Goro Ijiin puzzled was that on the periphery of the fleet, those destroyers did not find the enemy! How exactly did the enemy attack those ships at the heart of the fleet?

One by one, the light cruisers and destroyers of the Japanese Navy turned on their searchlights and searched the sea. However, the submarines of the Imperial Navy, which had already fired torpedoes, had already taken refuge under water, and the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy found nothing.

The battleships of the Japanese Navy were the primary targets of the submarine forces of the Imperial Navy. However, there were some submarines who had bad luck and did not enter a good position and did not find the capital ship of the Japanese Navy. They launched attacks only on the nearest targets, among which were armored cruisers and light cruisers.

"Boom! Rumble! "A violent explosion sounded on the side of the battleship Mikasa of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy, and the entire battleship was lifted directly out of the water, and then fell down fiercely." Mikasa's belligerent battleship was the flagship of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima. But even then, now the battleship could not escape the fate of being sunk. (To be continued.) )

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