"Just sank?" Meng Xiang had been listening to the live broadcast at the General Staff of the Huaxia Navy, and he was still a little unsure of the fact that the Musashi, which was so awesome in history, was sunk like this.

But he thought about it, and the Musashi was nothing more than that. Perhaps in the original history, the Yamato-class battleship was the first ship in the world, but it was still deflated before the third-class dreadnought battleship that had already embarked on a fork in the road in history and continued to climb the battleship to a higher peak.

Long Wu still maintained the true character of a pure soldier, and did not think too much about the various games behind the war, and he only had one thought in his heart to completely destroy the enemy.

Under his order, under the high fighting spirit of a group of enthusiastic young officers and men of the Huaxia Navy who did not sink their opponents and swore not to give up, the Dingyuan resolutely pursued all the way with the fireworks on the deck.

Even if the Yangyan-class Pufeng destroyer evaded the interception of the cruisers and destroyers of the Huaxia Navy, launched a suicide attack frantically, and collided directly with a torpedo, the Dingyuan did not avoid it at all, and after being torpedoed, it directly smashed the Pufeng into pieces, and dragged the big hole in the bow to pursue at high speed.

The maximum speed of the Musashi is only 27 knots, and the Dingyuan can soar to a maximum of 30 knots.

In the case of injuries on both sides, the Musashi used its strength to eat, but it was only 25 knots, and it also needed to avoid the torpedo sneak attack of the destroyers of the Huaxia Navy, and the 28 knots speed of the Dingyuan, which did not damage the bones, became more and more advantageous. Moreover, the Dingyuan chased after its ass, and the giant cannon aimed at a certain chrysanthemum symbol of the Musashi never stopped.

Finally, after firing 21 rounds of 500-mm heavy shells, 5 more hits were fired, and in a burst of boiler explosions, the Musashi's hope of escape was completely dashed.

The fire ignited by the martyrdom detonated the ammunition depot that had been torn through the armor, and a series of explosions brought a shocking explosion to an end to the fate of the Musashi.

The Japanese No. 2 battleship sank less than 10 nautical miles southeast of the Diaoyu Islands, and part of its wreckage was salvaged to prevent the damage of ammunition from the wreck when the Huaxia submarine oil platform was erected there n years later.

"What about our casualties?" Meng Xiang first asked about his own casualties.

Actually, what the results were this time, Meng Xiang didn't pay too much attention to them.

After all, there is also a US Navy that can do it for you, and there is not much difference between sinking one more Japanese and sinking one less.

The purpose of this operation is not to earn battle results, but to practice actual combat.

During the attack on Vladivostok, the fleet sent basically only caught some small fish and shrimp at sea, and the main warships of the Soviets and Russians were basically sunk in or near the harbor. This time it can be regarded as a formal naval operation of the Chinese Navy.

Even if it takes 100 times of training, it is not as good as sharpening the morale of the army in one actual battle.

The various problems exposed in actual combat can be targeted to find the gaps and deficiencies of the Chinese Navy, so that those novices who have experienced the war can grow up quickly.

As for the damage to his own ship, Meng Xiang also didn't care about it.

The base can provide more warships at any time, and the training of talents is the purpose of this actual battle.

"Our preliminary number of casualties is 767, of which 481 were killed!" Zeng Yiding next to him reported in a low voice.

The level of the Japanese Navy is not vegetarian, and under their frantic counterattack, even if many protective measures of the Huaxia Navy are in place and the rescue is timely, there is still a lot of damage.

The sinking of a destroyer Chongqing killed 232 people, and although the attack on the Dingyuan did not hurt the bones of the iron giant, more than 50 people were affected and died. Cheng Dalong's Qingzhou charged ahead, but it also suffered heavy damage, and the number of casualties exceeded 60.

There were also many casualties among the other ships, especially during the pursuit of the Musashi, when the Taiyuan, the Keeling-class destroyer, was hit by a single shell from the Musashi's 155-mm secondary gun, and lost 29 people.

Meng Xiang knew that what had been reported by Yiding was only the personnel damage of the Navy's surface ships, and the number of naval voyagers on the aircraft carrier's side was counted separately. Although HNA won a big victory this time, shooting down 31 Japanese fighters, 37 99 destroyers and 15 97 attackers, its own damage must have exceeded single digits. For these pilots who are as precious as gold, Meng Xiang is also painful.

Meng Xiang could only be silent.

Although under the influence of the vanguard army's always not leaving Japanese prisoners, more than 2,400 people sank into the icy sea water on just one Musashi, except for less than 100 people rescued by Japanese destroyers, but these could not make up for the distress in Meng Xiang's heart.

These officers and soldiers who have undergone the baptism of naval warfare will become the seeds of strengthening the Chinese Navy, and in Meng Xiang's heart, each of them is precious.

"This time, at least 5,000 people died in the little devils, which is enough for them." Chen Ce on the side smiled and diverted the topic.

The final results of this naval battle are still being counted, but the preliminary results have already been released.

In addition to the losses of those battleships, the damage of the Japanese naval personnel was far greater than that of the Chinese navy. Except for the 930 people on the Suzuya, who were rescued by the destroyer early, and only less than half of them were damaged, the more than 1,300 people on the other Nagato-class Azumi and more than 1,300 people on the Ise couldn't run a few. Even none of the 639 people on the heavy patrol of the Tagu ran away, and they were guarded by the warships of the Huaxia Navy, and the destroyers rescued by Japan could not reach it at all.

It's already mid-November, and the water in the East China Sea is warm enough for even the best of the water.

It's not bad that the Chinese Navy doesn't shoot prisoners overboard with machine guns like the Japanese, where will it reach out to help?

Even if some people have been influenced by Western humanities and carried forward the spirit of humanitarianism, they have also salvaged corpses one by one under the rescue of other officers and soldiers.

Because of the special nature of the navy, there are many returnees among the officers, and Meng Xiang's measures to strengthen patriotic education in the navy are also extremely strict. In particular, the spirit of Japanese feud has been instilled, and all kinds of humiliations from the First Sino-Japanese War to Jiangyin's self-sinking have washed away the hearts of officers and men of compassion for the Japanese.

So, together with the 5 destroyers sunk, the number of Japanese killed this time definitely exceeded five thousand, or even six thousand.

And that's not the only thing that was sunk.

"Koga Fengichi, that old boy also went to the bottom of the sea to feed Wang Hachi this time, right?" Chen Ce continued to laugh.

Although there is no news from Japan, Koga Fengichi's flagship Musashi sank, and the number of people rescued was only 100.

"This time, if Yamamoto Isoroku dies, who will take over his position as commander of the Combined Fleet?" Meng Xiang guessed in his heart for a while.

"The Japanese fled with two aircraft carriers?" Meng Xiang saw the meaning of Chen Ce's digression, and also changed the topic.

Such casualties made Meng Xiang feel a little distressed, but Meng Xiang could also see it. After all, this is a real battle, a war, how can there be immortals? Compared to the total number of more than 10,000 people in the entire fleet, it is lucky to be able to damage only these people on the basis of such a record.

"The Japanese had heavy troops stationed in the Okinawa area, and we only sank their Great Eagle." Zeng replied with Ding.

The fighters of the three Japanese aircraft carriers were almost dispatched, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they immediately retreated and fled. But the Great Eagle with 8 zero-broken planes could not stop the ravages of the SB2C Hell Diverter who pounced, and after two rounds of air strikes, it sank to the bottom of the sea with 3 900-kilogram bombs and 1 torpedo from the later Avengers.

Relying on the anti-aircraft fire of the two Akizuki-class destroyers that had just been commissioned and the entanglement of the remaining seven Zeros, the Flying Eagle and the Eagle Falcon finally survived to meet the fighters at the Okinawa base.

"The light cruiser of the Yubari, which was escorting the two aircraft carriers, was only slightly damaged." Zeng Yiding continued. This is also another of the three main battleships that escaped from the Japanese fleet, because they were escorted in the rear and supported until the last support.

"The Japanese destroyers were very fast, our battleships couldn't catch up, and only the fighters of the Navy sank 2." Zeng Yiding said again.

In pursuit of protection, the American destroyers have more anti-aircraft weapons and thicker armor, similar to the Keeling-class destroyers, even if they are equipped with the power of the end of World War II, the fastest is only 32 knots.

Although the Japanese destroyers were not like the record-breaking paper-hulled high-speed destroyers of more than 40 knots that the French were aiming for, they also made the speed surge in pursuit of flexible speed.

The maximum speed of the Yangyan-class was 35 knots, and the maximum speed of the Bailu-class destroyers was 34 knots.

This is also one of the main reasons why those destroyers of the Japanese were able to escape.

It was only by virtue of the weakness of their air defense that the bombers on the aircraft carrier came and sank 2. But when reinforcements from the Japanese base in Okinawa arrived, they were able to escape.

"That Yangyan-class destroyer Yukikaze wasn't sunk, was it?" Meng Xiang nodded slightly, but he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly asked.

Zeng Yiding was a little puzzled, but he thought about it for a while, looked through the list again, and then said cautiously: "This destroyer also escaped." It was next to the Musashi at the time, and it also rescued many Japanese who had fallen into the water. ”

Meng Xiang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, didn't care about the eyes of the people next to him, a smile couldn't help but appear on his face, and he praised in his heart: "Sure enough! Xiangrui is auspicious! Then continue to use the auspicious light to envelop the chrysanthemums of the little devils! ”