828, the Battle of Snow Shame
Because of the powerful melee fire suppression of the two phalanxes, the process of boarding the ship 302 was not difficult.
plus the sailor self-defense weapons of the Flying Dragon Fleet, all of them are DW7.62 assault rifles made by Bai Shujie, and they are also folding butts, which are sharp weapons in close combat.
It wasn't until the fighters rushed into the vicinity of the magazine below that the little devils in the cabin knew that their battleship had been lost. Now it's too late to sabotage the engine and blow up the ammunition compartment, and the DW7.62 assault rifle fires in a row, not giving them the slightest chance at all.
Half an hour later, the battle was over. The co-engineer of the No. 302 ship crew led all the co-pilots to board the ship and take control of the engine room of the enemy ship.
Seeing that the cruiser two kilometers away was still crooked on the water, the captain shouted: "Fire the torpedo, let the little devil sink quickly, and we will return!" ”
When the fleet encountered the enemy, Bai Shujie had actually been worried, so after talking to Zhang Bingyang, he had already rushed to the Jiaodao base.
Bai Shujie didn't care about the three warships that he snatched back from the little devils, but he was worried that his brothers would suffer heavy casualties. Sailors and pilots take a long time to train, and the Wyvern Expeditionary Force simply cannot afford heavy casualties.
It's a pity that he has never been in the navy or the air force, so he can't understand what kind of feelings the sailors have for their own warships and pilots for their fighters.
In Bai Shujie's view, as long as people are left, warships and planes can be abandoned. However, the sailors have an unforgettable emotion for the warships and the pilots for the fighters. They would rather rush forward and die with the enemy than abandon the ship and escape.
Air and sea battles, one in the sky and the other in the sea, without any support. That was the most brutal and tragic battle!
In fact, the worry in Bai Shujie's heart has a deeper meaning, which no one knows.
Because of the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle of that year, the Beiyang Naval Division was completely annihilated, becoming the first great shame in the modern history of the entire Chinese nation!
The Battle of the Yellow Sea took place on September 17, 1894, in the area where today's naval battle took place!
The Navy of the Wyvern Expeditionary Force is still a child who has just begun to learn to walk, and is in the process of growing up. If the whole army is wiped out in the first battle, that kind of huge blow, even if Bai Shujie is a human being, he can't afford to lose twice in the same place psychologically.
The Chinese nation and the Oriental dwarf are eternal enmity and can never be erased.
In the sea battle, the Beiyang Naval Division was annihilated! Wuhan air battle, the air force was annihilated! One shame after another was imposed on the Chinese nation by Oriental dwarfs.
Bai Shujie dug out his mind, and did not hesitate to give up the good base area and go deep behind the enemy line. It can be said that he has adopted a despicable and shameless means to strengthen himself, hoping to take revenge where his predecessors fell. It can make the real giants of the East stand up again.
However, now his strength is too small, and he does not have the conditions to confront the little devil head-on, and he is not qualified to do so.
Now, there is already a fight ahead, more than 200 kilometers from the base. This is not like a ground battle, you can go up at any time to see the progress of the battle and the results of the battle, and there is no other force to reinforce.
The rest of the detachment consisted of shallow-water ships of less than 500 tons and small gunboats of less than 50 tons, all of which were under 18 knots. Even if there is no wind, once these shallow-water ships are involved in a naval battle, they will not have the slightest ability to protect themselves, but will add to the chaos.
Bai Shujie was anxious, but he couldn't vent. So he just stood quietly on a reef, motionless and looking into the depths of the sea to the west. It is like a sculpture, standing between heaven and earth.
Zhao Jinxi, Gan Tong and others at the headquarters were even more anxious when they heard that the navy was fighting with the little devils, and at the same time ordered the four field divisions to immediately enter the combat state; The air base at Myohyangsan and the alert units in Pyongyang have also been transferred to a wartime state and have taken on air defense missions to prevent the enemy's three-dimensional counterattack by sea, land, and air.
All the officers and men of the navy already knew that their commander Zhang Bingyang was fighting with the warships of the little devils with three capital ships, so everyone raised their hearts to their throats.
Commander-in-Chief Bai Shujie was silent, and the rest of the people stood quietly behind him, eagerly looking forward to the return of his sailors, and the night passed in a blink of an eye.
On February 20, 1938, when the East began to turn red, with a long whistle, his fleet finally returned!
4 warships!
The Wyvern Expeditionary Force only has 3 warships in total, and they are the ones who went out for drills. Now that 4 warships have returned, it means that their sailors not only won, but also captured 1 enemy warship on the sea!
As the formation slowly approached the dock, the soldiers who had been waiting all night cheered enthusiastically, and the voices rang higher than the other. The four warships also whistled their thanks and announced their victorious return.
Bai Shujie saw that the hull of the No. 302 ship was black, and it could be said that it was full of bullet marks, and he suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.
Sure enough, the first person to be carried off the battleship was the body of the gun commander of the Flying Dragon No. 302 destroyer, and the military flag of the No. 302 ship had been taken off and covered on him. They were followed by the bodies of seven other fighters.
"Report to the Commander-in-Chief: The 201st, 301st, and 302nd ships of the detachment suddenly encountered the enemy while they were out for training. After three hours of fighting, the enemy cruiser Okishima and the destroyer Asakaze were sunk, and one destroyer Chun Chun was captured. ”
Zhang Bingyang's face did not have the slightest joy, but looked very gloomy: "The No. 302 ship was besieged by 1 cruiser and 2 destroyers of the enemy, and was hit by three bullets and suffered heavy damage. The commander of the cannon and 7 other soldiers died heroically! Now the formation returns safely to the military port, please instruct! ”
Bai Shujie gave a military salute to all the officers and soldiers participating in the battle, and then said loudly: "45 years ago today, it was in the sea area where you completely annihilated one of the enemy's formations, the Beiyang Naval Division and the little devils went to war, and finally the whole army was annihilated. That is a great shame for the Navy of our Chinese nation! ”
"For 45 years, this shame has been weighing on the hearts of all Navymen. However, from today, we can tell the whole world: the Chinese Navy has not succumbed and continues to fight! And they will continue to fight, and if they do not completely defeat the enemy, they will never withdraw their troops! ”
"Brothers, this battle of yours is a battle of shame. The battleship formation that can go deep alone, bravely move forward in the face of a strong enemy, not afraid of sacrifice, and finally annihilate the enemy's battleship formation, is the hero of the entire nation! On behalf of the entire Wyvern Expeditionary Force, I salute you with the highest salute! ”
"Although our comrades-in-arms have fallen, they will always live in our hearts! Their heroic spirit and tenacious spirit of fighting to the end will surely become a great treasure for our fleet and inspire us to strive for greater victories! ”
"I swear that in the coming days, I must step on the blood of the martyrs, complete the tasks they have not completed, and drive out the invaders who dare to peep at the Chinese nation! Expelle the Japanese and rejuvenate China! ”
In the next three days, the Flying Dragon Expeditionary Force carried out a huge commemorative activity to solemnly celebrate the victory of the detachment.
An unnamed plateau in the southeast of Cangyunli, the naval base, with an altitude of 128 meters, was officially named "Dinghai Mountain" by Bai Shujie, and all the naval martyrs are buried here.
Fleet Commander Zhang Bingyang and the soldiers didn't know, but Bai Shujie understood it very well. The Chunfeng destroyer, which was captured this time, was the first batch of modern destroyers that officially started construction after the little devils got rid of the international naval restriction treaty.
Compared with the performance of kamikaze-class destroyers in all aspects, the 301 and 302 destroyers can only be regarded as the most rudimentary toys. Although it has undergone Bai Shujie's transformation, because his physique is too poor, there is no substantial change.
But the Chunfeng destroyer is different, its power system and hull structure belong to the modern model, which laid an important foundation for the little devil to develop the navy later.
It's a pity that the layout of the superstructure of the little devil is still stuck in the First World War period, and there are too many main gun settings. And half of these main guns are decorations for destroyers.
Because the destroyer emphasizes speed to win, there is little substantial armor. It's all about being flexible and responsive.
However, if a shell of more than 380mm is fired, a destroyer is basically crippled. If you are strict, you will sink directly into the sea!
Of course, after a few tragic lessons, the little devil also has a long memory. Most of the Kamikaze-class had one main gun and one torpedo tube removed, the anti-aircraft armament had been replaced by 10 25-mm anti-aircraft guns, and the stern minelaying and minesweepers had been removed and replaced with four depth charge droppers.
The little devil who was stunned by the Americans rebuilt the destroyer in 1944, but it went to the other extreme.
The number of 25-mm anti-aircraft guns was increased to 13-20, and the number of 12.7-mm anti-aircraft guns was increased by 4. Due to this, the standard displacement was increased to 1300 tons, and the maximum speed was reduced to 35 knots.
This is the most failed transformation, and the most deadly!
If the destroyer loses its speed advantage, then it can only wait for death, there is no second way to go! Therefore, after the "kamikaze-class" destroyers were renovated in 1944, they were all sunk by the US military, and they did not cause the slightest damage to the US military at all.
Now, both the No. 302 ship and the Chunfeng ship have been seriously injured, and Bai Shujie ordered the Cangyunli shipyard to stop other projects and carry out emergency repairs to the two destroyers.
This time, Bai Shujie had the latest version of the reference, so he ordered all the equipment in the two destroyers in the shipyard to be dismantled. Then, according to the drawings he drawn, a complete transformation was carried out.
In particular, the 302 ship that was injured this time was directly dismantled and rebuilt, and the reference standard was the Chunfeng ship.
For the first time, the little devil's "kamikaze-class" destroyer has a steel bridge, so its stability has been greatly improved.
Moreover, Bai Shujie wants to remove the cumbersome equipment of the little devil, replace the weapons he developed, further reduce the weight, and restore the original design speed of this spring breeze ship, which is the fastest destroyer today: 39.2 knots!
Another thing to do is that because there is no specific reference, when the No. 302 ship was renovated for the first time, the original old bridge was retained, and this time it was going to be changed.
At the same time, Bai Shujie personally supervised a project, that is, a new railway built from the Cangyunli wharf, which is also a military special line, directly to the Miaoxiangshan Air Base!
The construction of this railway started before the Spring Festival, and now the work of laying the rails is underway, and the progress of the project meets Bai Shujie's requirements.
As soon as everything was arranged, Bai Shujie finally met a person he didn't want to see, that is, Zhang Bingyang personally sent over, a beautiful young lady: Captain of the Military Command, Kong Jiali!
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.