readx; As soon as he got on the bridge of the Hindu, Hong Ronghan said, "Colonel Li, how is the situation with the Hindu?" ”

Colonel Li was the captain of the Hindu, and although Hong Ronghan used the Hindu as his flagship, the specific command of the Hindu during the naval battle was actually the responsibility of Captain Li, and Hong Ronghan's joint operations room was responsible for the operations of the entire 73rd Squadron. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Colonel Li said: "The breach on the port side is not small, and the speed of water ingress is very fast, and now I have ordered to carry out all-out damage management, and all the pumping machines on the ship have begun to work, but this still cannot keep the ship balanced, and I have ordered to inject 500 tons of water into the starboard side of this ship." At the same time, they have already requested the support of the pumping machines from nearby friendly ships, and when their pumping machines arrive, it is expected that the water inflow will be controlled! ”

Hong Ronghan nodded: "That's good!" ”

When the Hindu was hit, another destroyer of the 73rd Squadron was also hit, but fortunately, the German guided bomb directly penetrated the bow of the destroyer, piercing a large hole in the bow of the destroyer and directly entering the sea. And in the process of penetrating impact, the fuse of the guided bomb should have failed, and it did not explode after entering the seawater, if this bomb exploded, I am afraid that the destroyer would be blown away!

At the same time, the entire 73rd Squadron was still carrying out the final air defense operation, and although the German planes were preparing to leave, there were still quite a few German planes that had not yet dropped bombs.

At the same time, the F15 fighter jets sent by the 71st Squadron of the Chinese Navy could already be seen in the sky.

The eight F15 fighters then quickly engaged in a struggle with the German escort fighters on the periphery of the fleet.

Hong Ronghan looked at the pocket watch in his hand, and then said, "It's almost over now!" ”

Now the 73rd Squadron has passed the most dangerous time and survived the German attack wave, and now the remaining sporadic German planes are unlikely to pose much threat to the detachment, and the second batch of more than 20 F15 fighters of the 71st Squadron is also on the way, and it will not take ten minutes to feel that the entire 73rd Squadron will be safe at that time.

However, just when Hong Ronghan was still safe and had just left the bridge to go to the joint operations room, a German dive bomber suddenly descended directly from the air, it did not drop bombs, and it had not even leveled up at an altitude of four or five hundred meters, so it crashed headlong under the island of the Hindu.

It learned, 'Myself, a suicide attack!'

And in an instant, a huge flame rose from the ship island of the Hindu, and the fuel in the suicide plane caused an explosion and fire!

The fire not only caused heavy damage to the island of the Hindu, but also engulfed Rear Admiral Hong Yonghan and his party, who had just left the bridge.

When the second F15 of the 71st Squadron arrived, it expelled the last remaining German aircraft and continued to hover over the 73rd Squadron to provide cover.

By this time, the Zisong of the 73rd Squadron had sunk, a destroyer had been heavily damaged, and the ship island of a light cruiser had been destroyed. The flagship Hindu was even more fatally hit, the port side had a hole several meters large, pouring into more than 2,000 tons of seawater, and the ship island was also heavily damaged, the commander of the 73rd Squadron Rear Admiral Hong Ronghan was killed, in addition to him, the entire 73rd Squadron had four colonel-level officers killed, 23 lieutenants killed, technical non-commissioned officers and ordinary sailors casualties as high as more than 600 people.

Forty-six of the more than 80 German planes that came and attacked were shot down by the 73rd Squadron on the spot, and the 30 planes that returned were also pursued by the Chinese F15 fighters that arrived later, and another 23 were shot down, so that a total of 69 enemy planes were shot down, and only a dozen or so German planes escaped smoothly.

The scale of this naval battle, the severity of the tragedy, and the losses were far from being able to engage the Chinese navy many times, and when the Second Mobile Fleet fought with the ship-based air force in the Battle of Amami, it was a heavy loss, and even one large cruiser was sunk, and even more light cruisers and destroyers, and even aircraft carriers were heavily damaged.

But it was a great battle at sea! These losses are nothing for the victory of the decisive battle at sea, even if it is a sunken battleship or an aircraft carrier, as long as the naval battle is won, then it is worth it.

This time, however, China's Seventh Mobile Fleet used its absolute superiority to attack a German port with only a small number of troops, and the Germans only used more than 80 planes and more than a dozen torpedo boats, which inflicted such a heavy blow on the 73rd Fleet.

And more importantly, the death of Rear Admiral Hong Ronghan in this battle caused great shock within the navy and at home!

Although Major General Hong Ronghan does not have any too conspicuous military exploits, he is from the prominent Hong family and became a major general at a young age, and he has many excellent conditions for people of this era, he is a star general.

The death of Major General Hong Ronghan also made him the highest-ranking general killed after China declared war on Germany, and also became one of the few dead generals in China in the past two years. During last year's war, several generals of the Chinese navy and army were killed at the rank of major general, and some of them were navy. The two unlucky ones in the army were both on the way to Kyushu Island when they were on a plane from North Korea, because they got lost and strayed into the sky above the anti-aircraft artillery position in Yuben, and as a result, the plane was shot down, and more than a dozen officers on board, including two army major generals, were killed.

That night, in Nanjing's Hong's Mansion, the white-haired Hong Zitai locked himself in his study, looking at the military bust of the five sons who died young on the wall, and looking at the photo of Hong Ronghan on the table, Hong Ronghan in the photo was taken at the end of the promotion ceremony, wearing a brand-new rear admiral dress, with a gold double gold medal on his chest, standing sideways, with white gloves in both hands holding an admiral's command knife.

Touching Hong Ronghan's resolute face in the photo, Hong Zitai's wrinkled face was already full of old tears.

"God, you treat me Hong Zitai so viciously!" Hong Zitai has completely lost the kind of respectable appearance in front of outsiders at this moment, and now he is a poor old man who lost his grandson in his old age.

More than 20 years ago, his fifth son Hong Zhilin, who had high hopes for him, became a major in the army at a young age, but in the Sino-German Qingdao Campaign, he died young, which hit him deeply at that time.

Today, more than 20 years later, Hong Zhilin's son, who is also the most outstanding third generation of the Hong family, Hong Ronghan, who was pinned on by Hong Zitai, also followed in his father's footsteps and died in the war with Germany.

This is a fatal blow for an old man who is already in his eighties!

At the same time, in the presidential palace, Chen Jingyun was also stunned when he learned the news of Hong Ronghan's death, he didn't expect that his kind arrangement would lead to Hong Ronghan's death. After the position of commander of the 73rd Squadron was vacant, Chen Jingyun remembered Hong Zitai's factors and the eldest son Chen Huatian and the Hong family were married, and Chen Huatian's ascension in the future was indispensable to the support of the Hong family, so it was also hinted at Shijie in Xiaguan that Hong Ronghan was transferred to the Seventh Mobile Fleet, so that Hong Ronghan could be promoted to rear admiral, and on the other hand, he wanted Hong Ronghan to get the last chance to win the battle.

After all, after the end of this war against Germany, it is unlikely that China will break out a large-scale war with other countries in the future, and if this war is missed, those generals will be much slower to be promoted, and if Hong Ronghan can have the experience of fighting in the Mediterranean, it will be very beneficial to his promotion, and if he is trained properly, he can become a powerful arm for Chen Huatian to control the navy in the future.

It's a pity that Chen Jingyun never thought that after this Hong Ronghan went to the Seventh Mobile Fleet, he would also die.

To be honest, this can no longer be described as unlucky, but as extremely unlucky.

"Alas, one door and two heroes, this time I'm afraid that Hong Lao will not be able to survive!" Chen Jingyun's own mood is not too good, Hong Zitai's son and grandson have sacrificed their lives for the country, which makes Chen Jingyun somewhat apologetic, and Hong Zitai has had a good personal relationship with him for so many years, and he is also one of the few founding heroes who can talk to Chen Jingyun's peers

Also tonight, Zhao Yifei, the wife of Hong Ronghan in Nanjing, also cried when she heard the news, this traditional Chinese woman seemed to feel that the sky was falling, but if she knew that there was another woman in Mersin, Turkey, who was also crying, I don't know how she would feel.

In a naval officer's apartment in Mersin Naval Base, Mrs. Pei looked at the urgent telegram sent by the guards, and when she saw that it said that not only her husband was killed, but Hong Yonghan was also killed. She couldn't tell whether she was crying for her husband or for Hong Ronghan.

Tears blurred her vision, as if she saw the time in Taiwan last year, when the navy returned victorious after the Amami naval battle, and in those days countless naval officers were promoted, and her husband was also promoted to lieutenant colonel, and she and her husband attended the celebration ball of the Second Mobile Fleet at that time.

In the huge banquet hall, countless officers wearing naval officers' uniforms shuttled among them, drinking fine wine, eating delicious food, listening to the band's performance, almost all of them were full of smiles, laughter filled the entire banquet hall, and it was at that celebration dance that she met Hong Yonghan.

When Hong Yonghan asked her with a smile on her face if she could dance together, she saw the strange look in his eyes, and the words he said in his ear at that time were as if they were yesterday.

"I've seen you at the time of the Amami Naval Battle!" Hong Ronghan was referring to a pocket watch that Lieutenant Colonel Pei was carrying, and inside the cover of the pocket watch, there was a portrait of her: "At that time, I was amazed, how could there be such a beautiful woman in this world!" ”

"Now that I see you in person, I know that you are more beautiful than I imagined!"

After the ball, Hong Ronghan was transferred back to China to take up a post, and Mrs. Pei still stayed in Taiwan with her husband, but the two exchanged letters, one after another, until she found out that she wanted to leave her husband and run to him, she was scared and stopped replying to him.

But she didn't expect that not long after her husband was transferred to the Seventh Mobile Fleet, Hong Ronghan also came.

The reunion between the two of them a few days ago almost ignited the illusion in her heart again, but she didn't expect that this fantasy could only be kept for a few days and become a real impossibility.

Wearing pajamas and holding a wine glass, she staggered up the stairs with tears streaming down her face, and the wine glass in her hand just didn't hold it and fell!

The golden liquor and broken crystal shards emitted a psychedelic glow in the light, and at that moment, it seemed as if she had seen Hong Ronghan a few days ago before he left for the sea, the two of them strolling on the long beach, wearing a white soft-topped bowler hat and holding small high-heeled sandals in her hands.

She walked ahead and suddenly turned back: "Except for the sea and war? What else do you like? ”

At that time, he seemed to answer something, but what he said, she tried to recall, but she still couldn't think of it, only the sound of the wind and the waves echoed in her ears.