Chapter 54: Blowing up and sinking the Izumo

The night was dark and the wind was high, and on the silent river, two small boats of the army quickly headed towards the Izumo, the flagship of the army. As soon as he approached, he was stopped by a military patrol boat.

When the patrol boat approached, an officer of the Imperial Army asked loudly, "Why did you come back so quickly, did Baoshan City take it?" ”

"Report to the sir, the imperial army was ambushed by the people of China outside Baoshan City, suffered heavy losses, and is now trapped under Baoshan City, we were ordered to come back and ask the commander for help." A soldier in the dinghy replied loudly.

"Baga Ya Road! Cunning Shina people! Go ahead, I guess the commander is waiting for your news! The officer on the patrol boat scolded.

"Hayi!" The soldier on the dinghy answered. A gesture was then made to their companions in the dinghy, and the two dinghys continued towards the Izumo.

I saw that the two dinghys slowly drove towards the Izumo, and when the two dingries approached the Izumo, the two dinghys not only did not slow down, but increased their speed, and collided with the Izumo that was parked in front.

"Poof! Poof! On the two dinghys, several black shadows quickly jumped off the dinghy, then sank into the icy river water, and disappeared.

The two boats slammed into the Izumo one after another, and a violent explosion sounded, and two huge water columns instantly rose on the river, and the huge hull of the Izumo also shook violently in the violent explosion.

"Izumo" is an armored cruiser with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons, which belongs to the first type of Izumo-class armored cruisers, built at the Armstrong shipyard in the United Kingdom, participated in World War I and the Russo-Japanese War, and served as the emperor's seat ship.

The cruiser Izumo was 121.92 meters long, 20.93 meters wide, 7.37 meters draft, 14,500 horsepower, 20.75 knots, and 672 people. It was armed with 4 203-mm guns, 14 150-mm guns, 12 12-pounder rapid-fire guns, 8 2.5-pounder rapid-fire guns, and 4 450-mm torpedo tubes. In order to make good use of these resources, in 1896, the Navy was called the 66 Fleet (6 battleships and 6 armored cruisers), and the Izumo cruiser was an armored cruiser that was ordered from the British with this money. The Izumo began construction in 1898 and returned to serve in 1900.

Whether it was in the 128 Incident or the later Battle of Songhu in the 813 Incident, the Izumo participated in the battle as the flagship of the foreign fleet. Although the Izumo, which has been more than 30 years old, has fallen behind, it is still an irresistible behemoth for Huaxia, which had almost no navy at that time, and the small sampans of Nanjing Zheng Axe have no power to fight back in front of him at all. And the 203 main guns and 150 secondary guns on the Izumo can also provide strong fire support for the ground forces, causing huge casualties to our ground troops. At the time of the 128 Incident, the assassination king Wang Yaqiao had organized a death squad to attack the Izumo with mines with the cooperation of Weng Zhaoyuan's department, but only caused Izumo to suffer a little damage. After the outbreak of the 13 August Incident, the Huaxia army made up its mind to blow up and sink the Izumo, and they knew that if they could blow up and sink the "Izumo," it would not only be of great military significance and would win supreme glory for the weak Huaxia Navy and Air Force, but would also greatly boost the morale of the Chinese people politically. However, the Chinese army successively dispatched planes to bomb and torpedo boats to sneak attack, but in the end only seriously injured him and failed to sink him. Ironically, the Izumo became famous for being repeatedly attacked by mines, aircraft, and torpedo boats of various branches of the Chinese military.

Just tonight, when the army attacked Baoshan, when Jin Zhao saw Ding Li, he suddenly thought that this guy's master, Wang Yaqiao, had organized a death squad to sneak attack Izumo, since Wang Yaqiao can do something, then I can do it too. Thinking of this, Jin Zhao discussed with Ding Li, and asked Ding Li to lead the security team pretending to abandon the city and flee, and go out of the west gate and out of the city. Then he went back to the river, grabbed the landing craft of the little devil while the little devil was not paying attention, and then drove the small boat to attack the Izumo.

Ding Li really lived up to expectations, and with a few capable subordinates, he successfully attacked the little devil's left-behind personnel on the landing craft and seized the landing craft of the little devil. Then Ding Li asked someone to carry boxes of explosives surnamed Lie that had been prepared a long time ago onto the boat, and tied the two large mines specially exchanged by Jin Zhao to the boat and dragged them. In order to ensure the success of the sneak attack, Jin Zhao specially sent a scout who could speak Mandarin to Ding Li, and this scout was a fourth-level talent summoned by Jin Zhao after he was promoted to the fourth level after the Battle of Wusong. Other skills are commonplace, but the language is extremely pure, so it easily deceived the patrol officers of the army. In this way, the two ships of explosives and two large mines successfully collided with the Izumo and successfully detonated.

Because the collision positions of the two dinghys were only more than a meter apart, the huge explosion directly tore a large hole in the Izumo's hull, and the icy river water instantly poured into the Izumo.

At this time, Nomura Kichizaburo was anxiously waiting in the command room of the Izumo for the sneak attack on Baoshan, and the violent explosion made the Izumo shake violently, and the unprepared Nomura Kichizaburo fell directly to the ground and made a standard. The embarrassed Nomura Kichizaburo stood up with the help of the adjutant, and Nomura Kichizaburo, who was hit by a nosebleed, roared loudly as soon as he stood up, "Yaga Yalu!" What the hell is going on! ”

At this time, a naval officer of the Japanese army ran in in a panic, "Report to Your Excellency Commander, the Izumo was seriously damaged by a sneak attack by the Shina people, and a large amount of water entered the hull, and now the damage management personnel are working hard to repair it." ”

"Bagaya Road!" Nomura Kichizaburo, whose face was covered with blood, scolded with a hideous face, "These hateful Shina pigs actually attacked the warships of our Great Empire and captured them, and I will cut off their heads with my own hands." ”

After Nomura Kichizaburo scolded him, he gradually calmed down, and in order to prevent another sneak attack, Nomura ordered the Izumo to sail towards the mouth of the Yangtze River. In this way, the Izumo, which was seriously damaged, slowly sailed towards the mouth of the Yangtze River under the continuous rescue of the damage management personnel, but at this time the Izumo had entered a large number of waters, and the warship had begun to tilt slowly, but fortunately, the Izumo did not lose power and could still move, but the speed slowed down, like an eighty-year-old woman, slowly heading towards the mouth of the Yangtze River. However, the Izumo did not escape its sinking fate and sank at dawn the next day at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Due to the shallow water, the mast of the Izumo still stands on the surface of the river after the sunk.