readx; While some Chinese naval officers were worried about a missed attack, the fact was that there were U.S. Navy ships in the waters further east, but instead of surface vessels, they were submarines. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although neither China nor the U.S. Navy were openly engaged in daylight hours, the presence of a large number of ships and radio signals in this area alerted the U.S. Navy and ordered the submarine of the transport ship to rush to this area to inquire about the details, and in order to avoid misunderstanding, it also took the initiative to inform the Chinese Navy of the relevant situation.

At this time, we have to talk about the current relationship between China and the United States and Ben, although China has declared war on Ben, China has not formed an alliance with Britain and the United States, and it cannot even talk about joint operations. The only relationship can only be said to be that both sides have a common enemy.

The United States had earlier wanted to reach a joint operation with the Chinese side, but China refused, and even more refused to provide naval and air bases for the use of the US Navy and Air Force.

After China declared war on China, the only actual partnership between the two sides was when a U.S. submarine was injured and unable to return to the Chinese Navy for help, and the Chinese Navy sent ships to rescue their crew and repatriate them as soon as possible.

And at this time, in the waters directly east of the fleet directly under the Second Mobile Fleet of China, an American submarine surfaced, and at this time it did not know that a large-scale naval battle was about to break out in front of it!

The battleships, cruisers, and destroyers of both sides will gather together, and a super-large-scale surface artillery battle will be set off at any time! Without the participation of aviation forces, at night, the wind and waves were extremely strong, and these were destined to be extraordinary in this naval battle tonight!

At 10:20 p.m., the sea conditions in the eastern waters of the Amami Islands are more complicated than last night and during the day, according to the forecast of the Chinese Navy's meteorological department, there will be strong winds in this area tonight, and there will also be rain, simply put, there will be a storm tonight!

Although it had not yet rained at this time, the wind speed was getting stronger and stronger, and the waves on the sea surface were getting bigger and bigger, and the fierce waves also seriously shortened the response distance of the sea search radar and the main gun fire control radar on the Zizhan.

The clutter from the waves on the surface of the sea will greatly reduce the effective surname of the radar, otherwise the Zhan would have been able to detect the enemy ship from 20 nautical miles away, and there would be no need to wait until more than 10 nautical miles to find out.

At the same time as the search range was shortened, the effective distance of the main gun fire control radar was also shortened, so that the Zizhan opened fire for the first time when it was close to about eight nautical miles of the destroyer, and at the same time, the Ziwu of the 17th Destroyer Group in the vicinity was also hurrying forward.

Due to the distance, it is impossible to observe the accurate situation of the enemy ship at all, but the absence of explosion and fire in the distance can only mean that the enemy ship was not hit!

Obviously, the destroyers on the opposite side also spotted the incoming Chinese destroyers and immediately turned to approach at high speed, but they did not immediately return fire.

This is mainly due to the lack of accurate fire control radar, and the fact that the hit rate of medium-caliber naval guns at this distance is so low that there is no need to waste shells.

After a while, the distance between the two sides was less than six nautical miles, and the destroyer also began to fire back fire, and both sides also began to fire a large number of flares, both sides were light ships, and the main guns were five-inch main guns, the one for the Zhan was 127 mm, and the one for the destroyer was 120 mm. The caliber of this gun is small, but the rapid-fire is super fast, and it is like a machine gun.

In a short period of time, the hit rate of both sides increased rapidly, and the Zhan was soon hit by several 120-mm shells, causing a large number of casualties, and blood flowed on the deck!

The artillery battle between the cruisers or destroyers is that the two sides sweep each other's decks, and the medium-caliber shells are sprayed out like money, and usually high-explosive shells are used, and the weak armor of both sides is difficult to resist the fire of the other party's guns, so as long as it is hit, it is basically shrapnel flying sideways, and then there are heavy casualties.

In surface artillery battles, the casualties of battleships and the like are actually relatively small, don't look at the shells are very large and scary, but as long as they are not penetrated through the armor, then they will not cause many casualties. However, the protection capacity of light ships is very limited, and the naval guns basically have no turret protection, many of them are naked naval guns, and a large number of shrapnel formed by the explosion after being hit will form a large number of casualties, so when the light ships carry out artillery combat missions, the casualties will be relatively large.

But then again, if it is only an engagement between light ships, it will be difficult to sink each other, because it is difficult to sink the underwater part of the enemy ship and cause a lot of water, and it is also difficult to penetrate the main armor and cause serious damage to the power compartment and ammunition depot inside.

Most of the results are people sweeping each other's decks and dragging the scarred hull away at high speed!

At this time, the wind on the sea surface became stronger and stronger, and the rain began to fall from the night sky, washing the deck of the Zizhan, and the rain mixed with the sea water that washed on the deck washed the blood on the deck.

The members of the artillery crew were already sticking to the gun position in the wind and rain, constantly loading and firing, and at their feet there was the blood of their comrades who had been killed and wounded before.

As the distance between the two sides got closer and closer, a major on the Zizhan said: "Turn left twenty degrees and prepare for a lightning strike!" ”

If you want to sink an enemy ship, you can't do it better with torpedoes!

As the Zizhan turned around, several torpedoes were soon dropped, and then they quickly headed towards the destroyer in the distance, and as soon as the torpedo was released, a shout was immediately heard from the radar room of the Zhan: "Look, what is this?" ”

The second lieutenant in the radar type hurriedly stepped forward and looked at a monitor in the radar system, which showed that there were at least a dozen bright spots in the northeast direction!

"This is the enemy's main fleet! Report to the fleet immediately! ”

At the same time, on the other side, the radar crew of a destroyer called "Ben Ben" was also pleasantly surprised to find that they had actually come to the direction of due north of the fleet directly under the Second Mobile Fleet of China, and the distance was only more than 10 nautical miles. He said, "Although my surname is not good, it can be used at all, and what is lacking is that the surname is not stable and accurate."

There are always a lot of coincidences in wars, and this time it is also a coincidence, and the reconnaissance destroyers of the two sides actually discovered the main fleet of the other side at the same time, and the difference between the two sides was less than a minute.

Vice Admiral Lu Jian on the Yandi immediately said: "Order the 17th Destroyer Group to get close to the enemy's main fleet and wait for the opportunity to launch a lightning strike operation. Ordered the 6th Expulsion Brigade to change course to due east! ”

After saying this, Vice Admiral Lu Jian did not stop passing the order, but continued: "Order the first battle fleet to turn to the right at sixty degrees, reduce the speed to the second battle speed, and prepare for battle!" ”

Lu Jian wanted to put up a T-shaped position in advance, so as to give full play to the full side firepower of the Yandi and the Yellow Emperor, and waited for the "this fleet to collide with itself, and once they approached in a vertical formation, then this fleet could only exert the bow firepower, but its own side could exert all the side firepower."

However, what Vice Admiral Lu Jian didn't know was that Yoshimura Ohno also got the information about the discovery of the Chinese Navy ship at the same time, but he did not choose the same choice as Vice Admiral Lu Jian.

Yoshimura Ono knew very well that his strategic goal was not to sink as many escort ships as the Chinese Navy wanted, and even the sinking of battleships was to support secondary targets, but they had only one goal, that is, to sink the aircraft carriers in the Chinese Navy.

However, when he learned that the enemy fleet in the south was coming in the northeast direction at a cruising speed, he immediately judged that this should be the interception fleet of the Chinese Navy, which was coming to stop him.

Under such circumstances, if Vice Admiral Yoshimura Ohno also ordered the fleet to continue to rush forward or put up a T-shaped formation to engage in a battleship-style duel with the fleet directly under the Second Mobile Fleet of the Chinese Navy, then it would mean that his mission this time would be a complete failure.

Therefore, Yoshimura Ohno's order was to turn to the left 40 degrees and increase it to the first battle speed, on the one hand, to try to use the high speed to bypass this Chinese interception fleet, if it could not be successfully bypassed, then after turning left to 40 degrees, it would also be able to form a huge tactical advantage over its own side.

Because if the Chinese fleet were to intercept it, then the Chinese navy would have to go due east, and in this case, the Chinese fleet would have to meet the enemy with the bow of the ship, and Vice Admiral Yoshimura Ohno's 1st Guerrilla Formation would be able to occupy the bow and tail and meet the enemy with all its own side firepower.

However, at this time, the choices of both sides are somewhat the same, although the purpose of both sides is different, Yoshimura Ohno's purpose is to bypass the Chinese interception formation and form the first position of the Chinese interception formation in the secondary purpose. However, Lieutenant General Lu Jian's purpose was to meet the enemy with the T first, but Lieutenant General Lu Jian's choice of the T first was to turn eastward, that is, the two sides formed a cross angle of about 90 degrees after turning. And whoever is fast will be able to occupy the first place in T, and the one who is slow will face a great tactical disadvantage.

However, this is only the state of affairs at 10:40 p.m., in fact, according to the situation at any time, the tactical adjustment of the two sides is also carried out at any time.

And since the reconnaissance destroyers of both sides have already spotted each other's enemy ships, it can be said that the movements of both sides have been transparent to each other in a short period of time.

As soon as the two sides turned, each other's reconnaissance ships immediately discovered and reported the latest situation.

At 10:43 a.m., the Zhan braved the dense firepower of the destroyer to once again exert important information: "The enemy fleet turned to the southeast, and the speed was increased to more than twenty-eight knots!" ”

Lieutenant General Lu Jian looked at this telegram, and his brows furrowed even tighter: "They have already discovered us!" ”

There is no doubt that if they hadn't discovered their main fleet, they would never have made such a drastic turn!

Lieutenant General Lu Jian immediately said: "Turn right twenty degrees and increase the speed to the first battle speed!" ”

At this time, he said: "Order the Fifth Cruiser Group to immediately turn to the right and pursue this team at maximum speed!" ”

Originally, Vice Admiral Lu Jian still wanted to be in a low-speed cruising state, waiting for him to say, "I take the initiative to collide and exert maximum firepower and shooting accuracy, after all, the hit rate of the battleship will be greatly reduced under high-speed sailing, but now I can't control so much, because if I don't change the plan, not only will I not be able to intercept the enemy fleet, but I may even be hit by the enemy fleet in the first place and then be hit by fierce enemy fleet side fire!"

In the dozens of minutes that the two sides discovered each other, both sides did their best to maneuver at high speed, and the course was changed back and forth, with one side wanting to intercept and the other wanting to break through.