Chapter 637: Submarine Debut (Part II)
"Shoot me!" The captain of the Taiwanese destroyer shouted.
"Boom!"
A shell hit the Japanese destroyer, and the distance from which they fired their guns was very close, but more than 100 meters, and such a close distance was completely possible to directly aim and hit the enemy, without calculating the direction of the wind. And this method is a last resort for Taiwan's destroyers, because they simply cannot quickly calculate the enemy's speed and wind direction, and so on, so they can only get close to fight and fight, which is conducive to their attack on the enemy. This bayonet tactic on a warship is a competition to see who is braver, and who can be more daring and careful.
"Wow-"
Several Japanese sailors were killed and wounded, but the captain of the Japanese destroyer wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth and asked, "How many shots have we been fired by these people?" ”
"Report to the captain, we have lost more than twenty men, and one of the shots hit our ammunition magazine, but because this small-caliber gun is not very powerful, it did not damage the armor of our ammunition magazine. We only hit 12 shots, and we fired more than 20 shots! We have an absolute advantage, and the sailors of those people do not have much actual combat experience, so they are obviously not good. The Japanese staff officer said.
And the captain of the Japanese destroyer immediately said with itchy teeth: "The navy of these people has a huge fleet, but the strength of the sailors is so weak, it is much worse than our Japanese sailors." If the Japanese Empire could have the same warships as them, then we would be able to dominate East Asia. It's a pity, why does the heavens favor these people so much, they can actually have so many warships? It would be nice if these warships were all our Great Japanese Empire! ”
The Taiwan destroyers and the Japanese destroyers are still constantly fighting, and then the two sides no longer pay attention to any tactics in this situation, and it is definitely a hard-hitting attack. It's exactly the Western knight duel model. However, both sides were hit by a number of shells. At this time, it seemed that no one had reinforcements, did not form a formation to fight, and could only rely on themselves.
"Captain, our warship is running out of steam! Let's retreat, or we'll all sink. Lord Wang said. He would rather lose his warships than lose us sailors, so let's retreat! Said the bridge staff officer in Taiwan. 、
Wang Guorui didn't just say to those sailors once that he would rather lose those warships than these sailors. As a navy, it is not the warships that are really valuable, but the experienced sailors. If there is no warship, it can be built and bought again, but if there are no sailors, then it will take decades to train them. Most of them cannot be recovered for hundreds of years. And the cost of time consumed in it is even more unbearable than the cost of warships. Just like many air forces in later generations also encountered danger, that is, parachuting, and would rather lose planes than lose pilots, in addition to respect for life, but also because it is more difficult and costly to train a talent than to build a machine.
The captain of the Taiwanese ship looked at his warship, which was already very seriously injured, and then he was still very hesitant, because if he retreated like this. I'm afraid that's really going to be troublesome. If they retreat like this, then they are probably all going to be disadvantaged.
"Captain. Just now a telegram sent a message, the common frequency and codebook of our navy, saying that they have come to support us, let us retreat quickly! Said the signal corpsman on the destroyer.
"What? Which friendly army is coming? The destroyer captain asked.
"I don't know, there are no friendly ships nearby!" The lookout said.
"Captain, they are urging us to leave again. The next task is left to them! ”
When the captain of the Taiwan destroyer saw this, he immediately said decisively: "Retreat immediately!" ”
"Whew-"
The Taiwanese destroyer sounded its whistle and immediately turned around and left, which was not in line with the Japanese destroyer and continued to fight. However, the captain of the Japanese destroyer clearly did not want this.
"Baga, these people. They want to run after they finish fighting? There are no such simple things in this world, chase me! Said the captain of the Japanese destroyer.
The Japanese destroyer immediately increased the horsepower of the steam engine and began to chase after the butt of the Taiwanese destroyer, and it was obvious that the Japanese did not want to let go of this result. At present, this is the first formal confrontation between the Chinese and Japanese navies, the first formal confrontation in the face of equal strength, so the captain of this Japanese destroyer attaches great importance to it, and if he can win, it will definitely have a very good result for his future.
At the bottom of the sea, the submarines were opening their periscopes for aiming, and then the torpedoes were also installed in the torpedo canisters, and then they began to wait for the order of the commander of the torpedo detachment to launch the torpedoes.
"Detachment leader, our destroyers have gradually withdrawn from the battlefield, and the Japanese destroyers are also chasing behind, and they are ready to enter our ambush circle!"
Captain Hao of the submarine detachment was observing the Japanese destroyer with a periscope, then thought for a moment and said: "This time we must launch this torpedo from many sides, otherwise our torpedo is not fast enough to hit this destroyer." This destroyer was fast enough for twenty knots, and our torpedoes were easy for them to dodge, so we had to fire multiple of them together so that they could not dodge.
"Boat One, lock!" "Boat two, locked!" ……
"Launch!"
"Puff ......"
One by one, torpedoes came out of the submarine and began to rush towards the Japanese destroyers from all directions. However, the wake waves brought by the submarine torpedo also immediately attracted the attention of the front.
"Captain, there's a torpedo!" The Japanese lookout immediately shouted.
"Nani? How could the people of China put torpedoes? The Japanese captain said angrily.
But the Japanese captain immediately saw more than a dozen torpedoes rushing towards him from all directions, and he immediately lost his soul.
"Where did the torpedo come from, get out of the way for me!" The captain of the Japanese ship hurriedly shouted with the order.
The soldiers on the Japanese destroyer immediately began to operate the destroyer, dodging the torpedoes as quickly as possible. This destroyer still abolished the flexibility, after all, the speed of twenty knots is not blown. In addition, the torpedoes of this era are not fast, and the accuracy is obviously not enough, and they are not wired like torpedoes in later generations, so they are easily dodged by the Japanese army!
"Hmph, do you really think that's the end of it? Go on! Captain Hao of the submarine said coldly.
"Puff ......"
The torpedo was fired again and rushed towards the Japanese destroyer.
"Damn, where did these torpedoes come from? There are no enemy destroyers nearby! The Japanese captain said angrily.
The Japanese looked around, but they did not find any destroyers of the Taiwanese army nearby, which made them feel very surprised, and they did not know what was going on.
"Get out of the way!"
This time, the Japanese army was not so lucky, and was directly surrounded by more than a dozen torpedoes. As a result, they didn't know how to dodge at all, because this time the torpedoes started the siege directly from these, and they didn't seem to be able to dodge at all!
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, the Japanese destroyer was suddenly blown in two, and the Japanese soldiers on it were also blown away a lot. This torpedo is very powerful, the charge is enough to reach hundreds of kilograms, even a battleship is enough to blow up a big hole, so how can a small destroyer not be able to blow up? The destroyer was simply blown in half, and it could not be saved.
When Captain Hao saw this scene, he immediately shouted excitedly: "Okay, with this result, who can say that our submarine is useless?" Every time, Lord Wang spent a lot of money on the research of our submarines, but many people also made great efforts here, saying that our submarines were useless. This time, we also want to prove that our submarines are also capable of defeating the enemy's navy. Our submarines are of great use, and we will definitely be able to get more results and achievements in the future, and then our submarines will definitely be able to become a very important branch of the armed forces. ”
"Whew, we're safe!" Said the sailor on the Taiwanese destroyer.
"Who saved us? Are there any friendly forces around here? How did they launch torpedoes? One of the bridge staff officers asked.
And the captain of the Taiwanese destroyer also raised his binoculars, obviously wanting to check where the friendly forces in the vicinity were.
"Captain, do you look underwater?" The lookout said.
The sailors on the Taiwanese destroyer immediately looked at the surface of the sea, and then found that one submarine after another was gradually getting angry from under the water, and then a drop-shaped submarine came towards them. And then the sailors on the destroyer didn't know what this thing was, and then looked at these things with great curiosity. This era is not like the later generations where many people can recognize submarines, and not many people in this era can recognize submarines. Even for the Navy, they don't know much about this new branch of the Navy.
When one of the submarines opened the top cover, then a man with the rank of colonel on his shoulder came out.
When the destroyer captain faced this man, he immediately took the initiative to salute and said, "Thank you for saving your life, which unit is the commander?" ”
"We are from a submarine detachment!" Captain Hao said.
"Submarine forces?" This surface ship unit is obviously not quite understood by some people what kind of unit this submarine force is, apparently they are too low in rank. (To be continued.) )