565 Damage to Hiei
The enemy's position, Zhou Youfu has carefully measured, and his shells can be smashed into the surface position very accurately, so what he has to do now is to pour ecstasy soup on you according to the meaning of the division.
He quickly made a plan, first using the British 25-pounder guns to rush the enemy's position, so that the enemy would have the illusion that the artillery fire was covering the infantry, and when the artillery fire extended to the position of the South China Sea detachment, the enemy should climb out to block the attack according to the old rules. At this time, use the more powerful 105 and 150 heavy guns to give them color. Halfway through the plan, he suddenly stopped and sighed, he really didn't expect that Shi Zuo could even think of such a shady trick.
The Isono troops hid under their positions, stepping on dozens of centimeters of stagnant water and waiting for them. Cannonballs began to fall again on their heads, and they waited calmly. Experienced veterans already had a premonition that the shelling was coming to an end, because the shells had fallen to the south, and they carried the water-cooled machine guns on their shoulders and waited for the cannon to go up and deliver a hard blow to the enemy. Most of the members of the unit are Mongolians, and their style is even more fierce than that of the Japanese army, although the soldiers do not understand why they came to fight in this place where birds don't and mosquitoes are bigger than dragonflies, but when they saw that the Janissaries commanded by the prince had lost the battle, they still felt ashamed and wanted to save some face.
The artillery fire on their heads was sparse, and the soldiers immediately climbed out of the fortifications and occupied the trenches in order. The trenches were blown up in scattered places, and because the floating soil was buried, it was much shallower. But the soldier still bent on his waist and deployed the machine-gun fire as quickly as he could.
They have studied the tactics of anti-artillery quite a bit, not only do people hide underground, but they also do not leave heavy weapons on their positions to avoid being destroyed, and now they are racing against time to restore their positions.
There is no enemy to be seen at night at all, but the heavy machine gun must be assembled first. The smoke gradually dissipated, and still no enemy appeared, they were much slower than the two attacks just now, maybe they were afraid?
A sharp * whistling sound came, and I really didn't expect that the enemy would have a second round of shelling. The officers were not sure if the enemy infantry was at hand, and hesitated for a moment. 150 shells just covered down.
This time, Zhou Youfu made a bloody investment, and he was reluctant to use these heavy artillery in the previous attack.
The power of these shells is so great that it is not even necessary to kill the enemy with fragments. The shaking of the earth alone stunned the enemy in the trench, and then tons of dirt covered it, burying some people alive underneath.
At the same time, 105-mm American * guns were put into service. No less destructive. The enemy's dense trenches were instantly blown into several pieces by dense artillery shells, and many of them were buried by floating earth.
Only then did the puppet army realize that they had been tricked, and hurriedly went down to the underground bunker.
Zhou Youfu ordered the shelling to stop, then fired flares, and observed it from a distance with a telescope, and when the smoke subsided a little, he could see that the enemy's heavy weapons were gone, and it could be seen that the enemy had moved away with the base of the machine gun. He ordered his side to fire with small arms, putting pressure on the enemy to come out.
Sure enough, as soon as the machine guns were fired, the enemy could not wait to come out. Then there was another artillery bombardment, and the enemy was at a loss. By this time, he had fully comprehended Pavilion Chief Chu's tactics of using firepower superiority to mobilize the enemy. Soon, the machine gun crews that were carrying machine gun parts were blown to pieces, and the machine guns could not be quickly assembled.
After moving the enemy back and forth several times in this way, Zhou Youfu could see that the original well-trained troops were also tired, and they had completely lost confidence in their previous tactics. The two charges just now were blocked by the enemy within 30 meters, losing 150 people and suffering twice as many injuries.
He ordered the main battalion to prepare for the charge as the first echelon, and the second echelon to bring *, and this time it was necessary to occupy the position first, block the entrance so as not to give the enemy a chance to surrender, and then burn them with *. Chief Chu had instructions not to kill prisoners, especially to the puppet army. Zhou Youfu was not prepared to directly disobey the order, so he had to find a way to bypass the order of the division.
The shelling stopped again, and this time he observed that the enemy did not come out for a full five minutes, apparently unable to adapt and did not dare to adapt. Of course, this kind of play is too much to shell, and it is really distressing.
He watched as the infantry slowly touched up, and finally a few of the enemy emerged from the fortifications, but the infantry quickly suppressed them with only small arms, and the enemy did not fire a single machine gun.
The main battalion quickly took up surface positions, pinning the garrison into bunkers underfoot. Zhou Youfu's tanks quickly interspersed through the positions, monitoring the Japanese positions in friendly neighbors and deep areas, preventing them from reinforcing and isolating the enemy here. As for the enemy's naval guns, he didn't care about them, and since he didn't find any naval gun fire all night, he probably didn't come.
One battalion could not completely end the battle, and the second echelon went up and used * to carry out a one-sided slaughter of the enemy hiding in the underground fortifications. The flames screamed and spewed into the bunker, and the sound of ghosts crying wolves immediately rang out below.
Bai Qi got the news that the north gate had been opened in the command headquarters, and he was like an ant on a hot pot, constantly calling the troops, asking for rescue troops, and at the same time constantly asking for air support from Sittwe and heavy artillery fire support from the navy. For him, the battleship was a more effective presence than the land aviation, as long as the eight 356-mm cannons were backed by the three 356-mm cannons, Calcutta was generally at ease. In fact, now that the enemy's attacking forces have entered the firing range, if the Hiei arrives in time and fires a few salvos, it may be able to annihilate the enemy and let them know that it is powerful.
At the same time, the Hiei was still hesitant to get close to the coast, because it was about to dawn, and reaching the northern position meant that it had to be very close to the coast, and after the Mizuho was sunk by the enemy air force, the captain of the ship, Arima Dasa, realized that the British air force was not as wasteful as the legend suggests, and they could actually sink targets at night, which was difficult for the elite Japanese naval aviation to do.
However, the army was in a hurry to urge artillery support, saying that it could not withstand it. Arima Dasa had no other choice but to order to speed up to the shore, and it was expected to enter the firing position within an hour. There is no Mizuho take-off observation plane, and it does not matter, the enemy is attacking, and the defending troops can directly broadcast information on the target location by radio. This style of play they have cooperated with and it is very effective.
419 detected the Army Radio and began to provide the position of the 200th Division's offensive troops, but Hiei did not send an announcement, and remained silent. It seems that an attack on it is imperative. If it is too late, even if the enemy's power is destroyed, it may allow its firepower to reach north of Calcutta.
Shu Ping simulated a night's * attack, hit Hiei 60 times on the computer, and now he is confident, because Chu Tingchang, who is in charge of shooting control, has gone to the army, and this shooting is completed by him.
* on the 419 is non-wake self-guided and will not automatically strike the thrusters, according to the optimization, * will attack the keel, however, the battleship is quite complete with protection below the waterline, so it cannot be fought like this.
He was in the fire control control seat, waiting for the angle of Hiei to change, and he would wait until the ship was roughly north, because he expected the worst-case scenario, and if the rudder was broken, the ship would still maintain momentum, and he would not be able to turn and escape, and at most he would have to think about the coast.
*The tube opened, and a heavy* dragged the white foam and galloped away. The entire attack is carried out in online guidance mode, and Shu Ping can grasp the target situation at any time, of course, because of the length of the wire, 419 cannot be too far away.
Shu Ping watched from the console* slowly approaching the target, what he had to do was not to control the course, but to control the timing of the detonation. It sounds difficult to explode near enemy propellers and rudders, but due to the low speed and active sonar ranging at the end, there is still a chance to do so.
On the Hiei, Arima Dasa looked anxiously at his watch, the sea level in the east was already glowing slightly, and today was destined to be a difficult day. If it weren't for the Bay of Bengal Dream war, the Hiei would have returned home, as it had already been selected as the test ship for the No. 21 Reconnaissance Mission. With that thing installed, you will be able to know the location of the enemy's aircraft in advance, far more active than now.
Osa, he thought, no matter what, he had to keep his momentum moving at all times, so that he could at least avoid the submarine. He reminded the ship's lookout and anti-aircraft fire posts to keep their eyes open and not to let enemy planes or * stay in front of them.
The aft lookout saw a light-colored track in the distance chasing after it at 11 o'clock. He quickly sounded the alarm and gave advice directly to the wheelhouse to turn the rudder.
At a high speed of 25 knots, the rudder efficiency of the giant ship was extremely high, and it quickly turned to one side, and the hull side passed 30 degrees. The sailors who were lining up in the cafeteria fell and staggered. Arima inside the bridge looks backwards in a very twisted posture*.
Although thrilling, but this kind of shooting from the rear * is not difficult to dodge, usually only rookie captains will fight like this, experienced submarine commanders, of course, will choose to shoot in a fan, cross-section. *Expect to miss it from the stern. Arima turned in other directions and searched for other*, and it was not reasonable that he would not launch only one, unless he was an amateur or the launch tube was faulty, which* no longer posed a threat in his judgment.
The stern sailors watched as * missed the stern and disappeared into the wake bubbles stirred up by the huge propellers, and as expected* would emerge from the other side and move further and further away.
A loud bang caught you off guard, and several sailors in the stern of the ship were blown into the sky.
Arima heard the explosion and quickly ordered the right rudder to be full, dodging the attack, while waiting for the damage report, before the report arrived, he felt that the power was decreasing, he felt that both the angular velocity of the bow and the roll angle were decreasing, and the speed was rapidly decreasing.
Report: "The servo was broken, and the right thruster was damaged. ”
"What?" Arima was shocked, he could still move forward on a single shaft if he broke a thruster, and it was the most fatal thing to break the rudder. Just a year ago, the Bismarck was unlucky enough to be hit by a small * that broke the rudder and could not escape, why did this happen to him?
He hesitated to send a message for help, none of the destroyers escorting the escort could tow his own, and he had to be the Kirishima, a ship of the same class, but after thinking about it, he was still not in a hurry, he had to wait for the specific injury report to make a decision, and it was most important to maintain radio silence at present.
Dazuo's worries are purely superfluous, and 419 has already begun to control the drone to call for help for Hiei, of course, with a pointing antenna, so that the Japanese don't know about it.
Qin Xiaosu had already drawn up a distress call, imitating Captain Hiei's tone to report the damage, and he didn't even need an allied reconnaissance machine to detect the location, because the telegram would also report the location of the damage. This "distress call" will be sent to the Royal Navy submarines who are sleepwalking around in the vicinity of the first class of the Royal Air Force, so that they can pick up a big bargain.