In the pitch-black Pacific Ocean, the heavy cruiser Mogami, the flagship of the Seventh Sentai of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, rose and fell in the water, but no light came through. Jizaburo Ozawa stood with his arms crossed by the chart table in the officer's room, his eyebrows furrowed. Suddenly, the door of the officer's room opened, and in came Keno Awata, chief of staff of the 7th Sentai and captain of the Mogami.

"Awata-kun, what's new?"

"According to the war briefing I just received, the air raids of the riot army in Oita, Miyazaki, Yamaguchi, Shimane and other prefectures turned out to be a feint, throwing down a number of wooden men and scaring the army enough."

"It's a wooden man! Why did you do that? Jizaburo Ozawa shook his head, looked at the island of Kyushu on the chart, and asked with some concern, "What countermeasures does the combined fleet have?" Is it to let the 2nd Fleet attack? ”

"I should let the 2nd Fleet attack, although Commander Yamamoto is not from Kyushu, he will not watch the violent destruction of the navy's hometown." Seeing Ozawa's sad face, he was obviously worried about his hometown of Miyazaki Prefecture, which before the 1924 Revolution was known in Japan as "the army of Choshu and the navy of Satsuma", which meant that officers from the Choshu domain system controlled the Japanese army, while officers from the Satsuma domain system controlled the Japanese navy. Although Ozawa is not from authentic Satsuma, it is not too far behind, and he is from the Takabe Domain, a close neighbor of the Satsuma Domain, which is now Takabe Town, Takasaki Prefecture. In addition, the island of Kyushu, where the Satsuma Domain (Kagoshima Prefecture) is located, is also the hometown of nearly half of the naval officers and sailors, so the landing of the squadron in Kyushu made the whole of the Combined Fleet very nervous.

Realizing that his mind was seen through by the other party, Jizaburo Ozawa smiled awkwardly. I was just about to say two words of demonstration, when a piercing alarm suddenly sounded in my ears! Before Ozawa and Awata could understand what was happening, a deafening roar followed.

"I was discovered first!" Awata and Ozawa glanced at each other, and then ran one after the other towards the outside of the officer's room. Got to the top of deck. The two of them realized that it was already as bright as daylight outside, and several dazzling and bright clusters of light appeared in front of the fleet, and there was another roar of cannons, and a few flares were raised on the starboard side of the top number, followed by a rainstorm of dense cannonballs!

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The Sanjia heavy cruiser, which was at the forefront of the Japanese Navy's 7th Sentai formation, suddenly seemed to be boiling a pot, and a huge column of water was constantly rising, obviously being bombarded by the Chinese warship guns!

"Baga! The T-shaped array was seized by the Tyranny Fleet! "See this scene. Awata's face suddenly became solemn. Just the first salvo hit the shells on the sea surface of dozens of meters around the Sanya, and a few more rounds of the Sanya heavy cruiser would definitely be over, when did the Chinese Navy's night combat level become so powerful?

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parameter. I need the parameters for the first round of salvos! ”

"Angle 21, southeast wind, 4.8 meters per second, wave height 1.5 meters. The distance is 15331 meters. The muzzle of the gun is deflected 2 degrees to the right, and the roll is ......"

A series of telephone reports were sent to the gunnery staff of the battlecruiser "Zhejiang", who, with the assistance of several calculating officers and non-commissioned officers, quickly adjusted the firing elements for the next salvo according to these parameters, and then reported them to the other two battlecruisers of the Nanyang Fleet's battle patrol detachment via electronic signals.

Immediately afterwards, the three triple 280mm naval guns of the Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Hunan spun automatically, and the 27 thick and long barrels were all aimed at the Japanese top-class heavy cruiser at a distance of 15,000 meters.

If the killer weapon of the Japanese tonight is the powerful Type 93 spear torpedo and experienced naval officers. Then their Chinese counterpart, tonight's killer feature is the radar installed on the battle cruiser and the air defense cruiser. The night vision of the Japanese devil and the farsightedness are better. It's not as good as the radar of the Chinese! Therefore, the battle cruiser detachment commanded by Vice Admiral Chen Shukang set up an artillery formation on the sea early in the morning and seized the T-shaped position. It's a pity. The fire control radar that can guide the fire of the ship's guns has not yet been developed, otherwise they would not even have to shoot flares, and they would just open their guns in the dark.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

When Jizaburo Ozawa and Keno Awata hurriedly walked into the Mogami Command Tower, the Chinese army had already fired a second salvo, and huge water columns continued to rise from around the Sanya, although they also knew from the intelligence summary sent from above that there was such a thing as radar in the world, but they had not encountered it in actual combat (in fact, they had already fought with the American fleet equipped with radar, but they didn't know it), so they didn't know how powerful this radar was. However, tonight, looking at the constant flashing red light in the night sky in the distance, they already had a very deep understanding of the power of radar -- if it were not for this secret weapon that could detect the opponent with radio waves, no matter how good their eyesight was, it would be impossible to find a fleet with strict light control through the 15,000-meter thick night, especially since it was a moonless night tonight.

However, the two of them did not plan to turn around and flee at this time, because they still had an unknown trump card in their hands - the "Red Army Soldier Operated Torpedo" modified with a Type 93 spear torpedo. As the name suggests, this kind of torpedo is a suicide torpedo piloted by a GC warrior, and unlike the historical torpedo that theoretically has a glimmer of life, this kind of Red Army torpedo is a real suicide weapon, and the operator has no chance of survival, even if the torpedo does not hit the target, they cannot escape from the torpedo. This design is said to be the request of the few dozen madmen who manipulated the Red Army torpedoes, because the Red soldiers who could not escape from the torpedoes would ensure that they would become glorious revolutionary martyrs and not a prisoner of betrayal of the Motherland.

Just as Ozawa was about to order the disbandment of the formation and launch a "chaotic charge", a huge ball of fire suddenly flashed in front of him.

The heavy cruiser Sanga was shot! This heavy cruiser, which had just been completed and delivered to the Navy in August 1935, and had a standard displacement of up to 12,400 tons, became the first victim of the evening, and of course it was the 280mm cannon of the Chinese battle cruiser. Since the Chinese anti-aircraft cruisers were only armed with 155mm guns, Chen Shukang did not order them to open fire. Only 27 280mm naval guns of three Cantonese-class battlecruisers are being fired now.

Speaking of which, this three-row heavy cruiser is really unlucky, and it probably met Chang Ruiqing's nemesis. The good fortune of the Japanese has really come to an end. When the three Cantonese-class ships of the Chinese army fired a third salvo, a 280mm shell landed on the top of the No. 3 turret in the bow of the three ships. Of course, the top of the heavy cruiser's main gun turret did not have much thick armor, so it naturally could not withstand the blow of the 280mm shell, but the 280mm shell did not continue to drill into the ammunition depot under the turret and explode, but directly blew the turret open, but such damage was not fatal to the heavy cruiser. After all, this heavy cruiser had a full 5 twin 203mm turrets, and destroyed one and four more. So it's a big hit at best. However, the bad luck of the Sanya had just begun, and the explosion of the 280mm shell soon caused a fire, which was nothing like this. With the help of the Japanese Navy's damage management team member Gao Su zhì can be quickly extinguished.

But on the port and port decks of the three ships not far from the No. 3 turret, there is a triple 610mm torpedo tube, and three Type 93 spear torpedoes have been installed in it! This torpedo, powered by pure oxygen, is a "big killer" in history, and it is not only a big killer for the enemy, but also dangerous for its own people! A flammable and explosive substance filled with pure oxygen and explosives is no joke if it explodes on a warship. Therefore, the Japanese navy in history made special regulations after suffering enough. As soon as the fleet artillery battle began, quickly throw away the Type 93 spear-torpedoes on the heavy cruisers and cruisers, so as not to be killed by enemy fire. However, the Japanese navy in this time and space had not yet suffered from the martyrdom of the "big killer", and the shelling of the Chinese fleet came suddenly, so there was no chance for the heavy cruisers of Sanwu to react. Just over a minute after the Sanwu was hit and caught fire, an even larger and dazzling fireball rose up above the battlefield! Two Type 93 spear torpedoes were detonated almost simultaneously, and the fire spread quickly and completely out of control, turning this cutting-edge heavy cruiser, which had just been in service for less than a year, into a floating ball of fire in the blink of an eye!

The destruction of the Sanya (which has not yet sunk) was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the Japanese soldiers who participated in the battle tonight. Especially now that the Japanese mainland is still being invaded by the Chinese army, a bad omen is surging in everyone's hearts.

"Spread out the formation. Prepare to release the torpedo! ”

Ozawa Jizaburo looked at the blazing Sanya, and suddenly felt cold hands and feet, and even panic in his eyes, the dazzling flares of the Chinese army still kept falling, so that the Japanese gunners had no way to aim and shoot, and even if they could aim, the 203mm shells above this distance could not hurt the Chinese army's Cantonese-class battle cruisers at all. However, he was unwilling to run away with his tail between his legs anyway, and after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and gave the order to counterattack.

"Commander, do you want to launch a torpedo now?" Keno Awata, who was next to him, reminded loudly: "The visibility is too poor, I can't see the enemy ship clearly, and it's ......"

"Nothing, besides, it will be enough to fire the torpedo in the direction of the muzzle flame of the enemy ship's gun." Jizaburo Ozawa paused for a moment and added, "Let the Red Army warriors attack!" All the Red Army warriors attack! ”

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"Report, the enemy has scattered in formation."

In the sound of the staff officer's reminder, Chen Shukang raised his binoculars and saw that the Japanese fleet had begun to disperse, with two tops to the left, two Tone-class and one top-class to the right, and more than a dozen light cruisers and destroyers were also scattering and fleeing, and the farthest had sailed out of about 5,000 meters and was about to disappear into the vast night.

Are the Japanese going to flee?

This Vice Admiral Chen Shukang is also one of the few generals in the Chinese Navy who has commanded several actual battles, but no matter how experienced he is, he probably would not have thought that someone would fire torpedoes at an enemy ship 15,000 meters away in such a dark night when he can't see his fingers, right?

Chen Shukang immediately reacted in accordance with the most standard naval discipline, ordering the 10 Nanhui-class destroyers in the formation to attack, using their speed to break into the enemy's heavy cruiser within 5,000 meters and launch torpedoes, and at the same time ordered the three Guangdong-class battlecruisers to transfer their firepower to another top-class heavy cruiser (that is, Mogami, the flagship of the Japanese Seventh Sentai Fleet).

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Columns of water and flames rose from a distance, and cannonballs rained down around Mogami. The Japanese heavy cruiser had crossed the hull and seemed to be trying to escape, while also firing shells and flares desperately at the places where the muzzle flames flashed in the darkness with its 10 203mm guns.

A bright and piercing light fell 200 meters outside the starboard side of the battlecruiser Zhejiang. The Japanese warships in the confusion finally saw their opponents clearly for the first time. Three battle cruisers resembling mountains and six anti-aircraft cruisers, more than half the size of the group, formed a one-line artillery formation, all aimed in the direction of the most important number.

"Aim at the enemy ship, the Red Army warriors attack!" The same order sounded at the same time on all Japanese warships carrying manned torpedoes.

"Long live the Japanese GCD! Long live Chairman Takeda! ”

The same slogan sounded on every Japanese ship carrying torpedoes, and most of the people who were ready to fly these torpedoes to their deaths were some seventeen or eighteen-year-old members of the Japanese Communist Youth League, also known as "members of the Takeda Youth League." Of course, they were not the kind of real revolutionary successors, but they were just children of the Japanese working class, but they were the most admired and loyal to Takeda. Among them, there are many children of Koreans who emigrated to Japan from south Korea. I saw that these good soldiers of President Takeda each had a copy of "Quotations of Chairman Takeda" with a red cover, and stood in front of the temporarily hung statue of Takeda Heng Standard and solemnly swore an oath, and the surrounding Japanese naval officers and men also waved their fists and shouted slogans. In the midst of a crowd of slogans. These "Red Army Warriors" climbed into the giant man-operated torpedoes, and then they were launched by high-pressure steam!

"Hit!"

Almost at the same time as the "Red Army Soldier Flying Torpedo" was launched, a ball of fire rose from under the command tower of the Mogami heavy cruiser, and cheers erupted from all the Chinese warships on the sea at the same time. The number hit was a 280mm armor-piercing shell fired by the Zhejiang battlecruiser. The shell broke through the armor from the position below the command tower of the amidships on the right side of the Mogami and drilled directly into it. The cabins and dining rooms between the bow ammunition depot and the ship's midship boiler room exploded. The shrenchnel swept under the inflated air mass of the explosives, completely smashing the spot in the blink of an eye, and more than a dozen cooks who were preparing breakfast for the officers and men of the ship were also torn to pieces at the same time.

The destruction of the dining room and kitchen was certainly not fatal damage, but the massive shock from the explosion knocked everyone inside the Tower to the ground. Before Jizaburo Ozawa and Keno Awata could regain their footing, a huge roar sounded in their ears again. This time, it was an armor-piercing projectile that hit the thickest amidship on the broadside of the Mogami and broke through the steel armor wrapped outside the boiler compartment, and it came to the middle of the boiler room of the Mogami and destroyed all eight heavy oil boilers in the blink of an eye. Let the 12400-ton heavy cruiser lose power.

"Switch targets and aim for another Japanese heavy patrol at 11 o'clock!" See the big explosion in the amidships of the Mogami. Chen Shukang knew that this heavy patrol was almost over. So he immediately ordered the gun to be turned and bombarded another Japanese heavy cruiser. Not to mention, this historical General Chen G has a military genius in the end, and the tactic he used in this naval battle is called "I would rather hurt his ten fingers than cut off one of his fingers". Because he knew that for the current Japanese Navy, there was no difference between a heavily damaged and incapacitated heavy cruiser and a sunken heavy cruiser. The Japanese simply did not have the time and the right shipyard to repair the damaged warships of Yan Zòng.

"Comrade Commander! The Kumano has been shot! ”

In the command tower of the top, Jizaburo Ozawa and Keno Awata, who had picked up a life, had not yet come to their senses when they heard someone yelling in their ears. The two of them turned their heads to look, and they saw that two huge balls of fire had risen from the heavy cruiser Kumano, which was less than 3,000 meters away from Mogami. It appears that the two turrets in the bow were shot, and two 280mm armor-piercing shells blew up the No. 1 and No. 3 turrets of the Kumano Heavy Cruiser in a flash, and damaged the No. 2 turret in the middle of the two turrets. Although the heavy cruiser had not completely lost its combat effectiveness, it would have to return to the mainland for repairs for at least three months after the battle......

Thinking of this, Jizaburo Ozawa suddenly smiled bitterly, can there still be three months in Japan?

"Have all the Red Army warriors attacked?" Jizaburo Ozawa retracted his gaze and looked at the chief of staff, Keno Awata, and asked.

"The attack has already been made, a total of 8 cruisers with 24 Red Army warriors on board, all of them have attacked!"

Although the theoretical range of the Japanese Type 93 spear torpedo can reach 40,000 meters, the enemy is not visible at such a distance, so there is no point, and even firing a torpedo at a distance of 15,000 meters is not very accurate. Because enemy ships are not stupid to stay there, they will move at a high speed of more than 20 knots or even 30 knots. Therefore, ordinary torpedoes must consider the amount of advance, but also consider the factor of water flow, often a small calculation error will eventually make the torpedo empty, especially at night like this, long-range torpedo attack is purely a matter of personal character. So Jizaburo Ozawa didn't have much hope for the Type 93 spear torpedoes that no one piloted, but pinned all his hopes on 24 man-operated torpedoes.

However, there are always exceptions to everything, and the dozens of spear torpedoes shot by the Japanese actually paid off at this time. The Nanhui-class destroyer "Nanyang", which was charging forward at full speed and preparing to attack the Japanese heavy patrol with a torpedo release, actually collided with a Type 93 spear torpedo that was sailing at high speed! It immediately turned into a ball of fireball, and all the hundreds of officers and men on the ship died heroically except for a very few!

"Sir! It seems that the destroyer Nanyang has been sunk! Most likely, it was a torpedo! ”

The air in the command tower of the battlecruiser Zhejiang suddenly became tense, and all eyes converged on the destroyer in the distance, which had broken into two sections and was burning and sinking. The Nanyang destroyer is one of the Nanhui-class destroyers, with an empty displacement of 2,400 tons and a full load displacement of 3,420 tons, which is also a large ship among the destroyers of this era. It's not like a 203mm shell can just blow into two knots! Moreover, this destroyer sailed with its lights out in the dark and did not expose its target, how could little Japan sink it with a casual shot? This luck is too rebellious, isn't it?

"Torpedo! The Type 93 spear torpedo of the Japanese! "It was Chen Shukang's brain that reacted quickly, and he immediately thought of this terrible Japanese torpedo! Immediately ordered loudly: "All turn to the right 90 degrees!" ”

Now in the middle of the night, the torpedoes in the water will definitely not be visible, so the best way to deal with it is to turn the bow of the ship against the enemy. On the one hand, it can reduce the area facing the enemy and reduce the probability of being hit; On the one hand, even if a few Guangdong-class ships have mines in the bow, they are unlikely to sink, because the anti-sinking measures of the Guangdong-class are still quite reliable, and the bow of the ship is an oil depot. If you change to the amidship or stern, it will be difficult to say, if you don't get it right, you will hit the power compartment or rudder, if you can't turn or lose power, it will be troublesome.

In fact, Chen Shukang's disposition should be regarded as very correct, because the Japanese ship had already laid the advance amount when it released the torpedoes, and the 90-degree turn of the entire medium ** ship made all the Type 93 spear torpedoes empty.

However, at this time, in the icy water, there were still 24 Red soldiers piloted by Chairman Takeda's good soldiers to operate torpedoes. At this time, all of them were actually dead, and the hatches that entered and exited the Red Army torpedo were locked from the outside, and it was impossible for them to escape no matter what, and the oxygen available for the whistling inside the torpedo was very limited, and once the Red Army warriors inside were exhausted, there was only one way out! Therefore, these Japanese youths who drove torpedoes had no way out, and the only thing they could pursue was to die a well-deserved death. But it is not easy to die a worthwhile death, because it is difficult to fly a torpedo by such a person, and the Red Army warriors sitting in the cramped torpedo cockpit need to use the periscope to find a worthy target in the dark night, and at the same time have to control the steering wheel to make the torpedo sail in the right direction......

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