The little devil's destroyers Chaofeng and Chunfeng belong to two of the nine kamikaze-class destroyers.

September 25, 1922 was the day when the construction of the first ship "Kamikaze" began, and the Chaofeng and Chunfeng were the second and third respectively. This is the earliest high-speed destroyer of the little devils, and the specific parameters are as follows:

The standard displacement is 1,270 tons, the full load displacement is 1,840 tons, the length is 102.41 meters, the width is 9.75 meters, the draft is 3.05 meters, the speed is 37.25 knots, and the crew is 148 people.

Armament: 4 G-type single-barreled 120mm naval guns; 2 single-barreled 7.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns, 3 twin 533mm torpedo tubes, equipped with minelaying and minesweepers.

Zhang Bingyang's Feilong No. 301 and No. 302 destroyers were originally converted from the little devil's coastal defense gunboats before the start of World War II, with a standard displacement of 820 tons and a full load displacement of only 1,100 tons.

After Bai Shujie's thorough transformation and dismantling of the steam turbines of two 5,000-ton freighters, the basic situation is as follows:

The base displacement is 1150 tons, and the full load displacement is 1730 tons; It is 98.2 meters long, 8.8 meters wide and has a draft of 2.5 meters.

2 single-stage reduction gear steam turbines, 3 ship-based heavy oil boilers, 63,000 horsepower, speed 37 knots; The cruising range is 5500 km / 18 knots. The crew is 129 people.

Firepower: 1 two-pack DW203mm naval gun, with a range of 40 km; 2 DW30mm five-tube phalanx; 2 twin 533mm torpedo tubes and 12 torpedoes; 20 mines No. 1; 2 deep bomb projectors, 2 slide rails, 36 deep bombs.

The cruiser Okishima of the little devil turned out to be the coastal defense ship "Admiral Apraksin" of Tsarist Russia. In the Russo-Japanese naval battle in the Tsushima Strait that year, the Tsarist army was completely annihilated, and the "Admiral Apraksin" was captured.

In 1934, the little devil modernized the "Admiral Apraksin" and named it "Okishima".

It is 124 meters long and 18 meters wide, with a standard displacement of 6,731 tons and a full load displacement of 7,480 tons; Speed 33 knots, 9200 km / 14 knots; Equipped with three twin 203mm guns with a firing range of 23 km; five 127mm secondary guns with a range of 21 km; 12 20mm anti-aircraft guns, 4 533mm torpedo tubes. Crew 578 people.

Zhang Bingyang's current cruiser Feilong 201 turned out to be the little devil's Tianlong, after Bai Shujie's refit, the current situation is:

It is 142.65 meters long and 12.3 meters wide, with a standard displacement of 6,230 tons and a full load displacement of 7,150 tons, 8 heavy oil boilers, 2 ship-based coal and heavy oil co-fired boilers, 3-shaft propulsion, 71,000 horsepower, 550 tons of coal and 920 tons of heavy oil. The maximum speed is 35 knots, and the cruising range is 9200 km / 15 knots; Staffing: 467 people twin DW380mm naval guns 2 (foredeck), firing range 45 km; 4 DW30mm five-barrel phalanxes, 12 twin 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, 2 533mm caliber triple reloading torpedo tubes (with 48 mechanically powered torpedoes).

Now the situation is that the destroyer of the Wyvern 302, the speed is slightly worse, the difference is not very big. But the density of firepower, the kamikaze-class destroyers of the little devils are much larger.

However, all the warships of the little devils do not have a radar warning system, let alone a fire control system. The current 203mm main gun is still inherent in history, and the firing range is only 23 kilometers.

The biggest advantage of the Feilong 301 and 302 destroyers is that they have ranging radars, direction finding radars, and speed measurement radars. Moreover, although there is only one two-pack 203mm naval gun, the firing range is 40 kilometers, which is almost twice as much as the little devil.

When the Wyvern 302 first spotted a warship, the distance between the two was almost 55 kilometers. Originally, there would have been no problems at all, and the ship No. 302 did not want to go up to greet the enemy, so it was ready to turn around and go back.

But then a small fireboat was found to be head-on, which was a bit strange. In order to prevent accidents, the No. 302 ship quickly made a full right rudder and drew a large arc to let go of the small fireboat.

At this time, the chief of Guantong and the signal soldier had already discovered that on the side of the small fireboat, it turned out to be the sign of the plaster flag, and it rushed up at a rapid speed of 32 knots!

Under the command of the gunner, a DW30mm five-tube phalanx behind the port side was ready for battle. As long as this small fireboat continues to entangle, it will immediately become a hornet's nest.

The main reason why there was no direct fire was because this small fireboat was really a bit abnormal. It is clear that a small fireboat of 25 tons is rushing directly towards a destroyer of more than 1,000 tons, does anyone want to die? So both the commander and the captain wanted to keep an eye on what moths were.

This time, I finally found an opportunity to go out for a walk, and after running for a day, I saw a small gunboat, and the soldiers were particularly interested. To be honest, it's really boring to sail on the endless sea.

The destroyer, which was more than a thousand tons, was traveling at a high speed of 36 knots, and suddenly a right full rudder suddenly set off a two-meter-high wave.

The small steamer was suddenly let out on the outside, directly bearing the impact of the big waves, and suddenly undulating on the water. It turned out that a man with a cyan turban wrapped his head by the door of the small fireboat was panicked by the sudden violent shaking, and he grabbed the turban himself.

A woman!

At this moment, the radar soldier shouted: "There is a flying object in the southwest, and the target is in our direction, 35 kilometers away. ”

Now I don't care if it's a man or a woman on the small fireboat, it's a big deal if a plane comes over. With a series of commands from the commander of the cannon, the soldiers were already in place.

Not long after, a plane appeared in the western sky, and it was a seaplane, flying close to the sea, just to the left of its bow, and it seemed that it was following a small fireboat.

The commander of the cannon commander in the telescope had already found the plaster flag on the wing, so he roared angrily: "It's the enemy planes coming, all the phalanx are ready to fight!" ”

The enemy plane probably suddenly discovered that there was a warship in front of the left, so they hurriedly took evasive measures, but they didn't expect that the fuselage was just on one side, and the gun commander had already shouted: "Fight!" ”

The two dense formations in the bow of the ship heard the sound of fire, and suddenly, hissed, ten golden chains of fire joined together, as if a long golden whip was drawn towards the enemy plane.

The five-barreled DW30mm phalanx used by the ship has a combat rate of fire of 300 rounds / min. The two dense formations jerked violently, and the little devil's plane was finally broken up before it pulled up the nose.

plunged into the sea, and suddenly rushed up a column of water dozens of feet high!

This is the first time that the soldiers have used new weapons to fight, but they didn't expect a good start, and they were cheering, and the woman on the small fireboat had already waved her hand and shouted: "I am the national army, and you are from that unit?" ”

The commander of the artillery did not answer the other party's question, but gave an order: "Put the rope ladder and climb it up quickly!" ”

A little girl climbed the rope ladder, but the little fireboat turned around and sped south.

As soon as the commander of the artillery was about to give the order to open fire, the woman hurriedly shouted, "Sir, slow down! That's our comrade who broke into the enemy's inner line, and he must rush back, or he will be exposed. ”

"Come on, take it down and look at it!" The commander of the cannon didn't bother to pay attention to the woman: "All battle positions are on guard and prepare to turn around and return." ”

The radar soldier suddenly exclaimed: "Report, there is an enemy ship in front of the right, with a bearing of 45, a distance of 50, and a speed of 13." It seems that the enemy ship has just started to accelerate. ”

"Captain, what do you think?" The commander of the artillery shouted with some excitement: "Go back?" Or—"

The captain and the commander of the gun are both recruits from the original Northeast Army Navy supply base, and now they are only in their twenties, and they don't know what it means to be afraid. Moreover, the first battle just now was victorious, and he was even more confident:

"It's still a fart, wait and see! If it's a soft persimmon, Lao Tzu will pinch him today. If it's a walnut, then hurry up! The engine room remained 28 knots with a course due south. ”

About five minutes later, the radar soldier shouted again: "The enemy ship accelerates, the direction has not changed, the distance is 45, the speed is 18." This guy is speeding up very quickly, he should be the same destroyer as us, and he is coming at us. According to the nautical chart, we should be Jiming Island to the west. ”

The captain knocked on the command platform, and then shouted, "Damn, no wonder I didn't find them so close, it turned out that they were parked on a small island." Destroyer to destroyer, go at full speed and meet it to see if there is a chance to knock him with a stick! ”

Zhang Bingyang received a report from the radar soldier that it was the time when the Flying Dragon 302 destroyer rushed towards the enemy.

Because a woman suddenly appeared and interrupted halfway, as a result, the ship No. 302 knocked out an enemy water reconnaissance plane, and such a big thing was not reported.

Therefore, the people on the Feilong 201 and 301 ships didn't know what kind of nerves the 302 ship had and rushed directly to the land.

Is it going to be a landing operation? That's! Everyone was incredible, so Zhang Bingyang gave an order, and the No. 201 and No. 301 ships increased their speed to the maximum and rushed towards Weihaiwei desperately.

They also didn't want to think that they were now less than sixty miles from land, and if they rushed over, they would soon be within 40 kilometers of the coast. If the little devil has a fort on the seashore, and a heavy artillery bombardment comes, everyone is done playing.

None of China's sailors have undergone rigorous training from the regular navy, so they are all careless when they do things.

Going back and talking about the No. 302 ship, it rushed towards the enemy at full speed, and the enemy also rushed towards this side, and this time it moved in the opposite direction, and the distance of 45 kilometers between them was not a distance.

"Enemy ship speed 30, bearing: directly ahead, 25 kilometers away!" The radar soldier shouted in some horror: "Open the cannon, fire the cannon!" Our range is 40 km, and we should have opened fire a long time ago, otherwise we would have hit head-on soon! ”

Fortunately, the radar soldiers kept a clear head and reminded in time!

It turned out that the new captain and gun commander, their concept was still stuck in the old guns on the original ship, and the firing range was only 15 kilometers! I didn't expect that now it is the latest two-pack 203mm naval gun with a range of 40 km!

In fact, when the radar crew gave the signal for the second time, the two ships should have opened fire at a distance of 45 kilometers! Modern destroyers fight on the sea, and now the distance of 25 kilometers is already hand-to-hand, head-to-hand combat!

Without waiting for the command tower to give the order, the artillery of the main gun knew his weapon best, so he lowered the muzzle and fired the first shot. The huge roar finally woke up the captain and the commander of the gunnery!

The captain grabbed the microphone and shouted: "Left rudder 18, right rudder 12, seize the flank line, ready to strike at the enemy's flank!" ”

The commander of the artillery command could no longer stay in the conning tower, and ran directly to the foredeck, so that it was convenient to command the main artillery team nearby.

Because he suddenly remembered what the commander-in-chief said when he was guiding the refitting of ships: "The warships of the little devils have been modernized since 1933. Both the speed and the range of the ship's guns have been doubled! There are hundreds of warships of the little devils, and our strength is limited in fighting to the death. ”

"We must take advantage of our radar superiority, coupled with the range advantage of the new artillery, to engage in guerrilla warfare with the enemy. Therefore, at a distance of more than 40 kilometers from the enemy ship, it is necessary to open fire, so that the enemy can be threatened. Once you are rushed within range by the enemy, you will be in trouble! ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.