I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

According to common sense, when a fleet attacks a local fleet in the dark, it should conduct strict lighting control. If no electric light is turned on, the warship and fleet will be hidden in the dark. If the electric light is turned on, it will naturally completely expose its own fleet, causing " If the enemy is in the dark, we can see", our own fleet will naturally become the target of the enemy's fleet.

Lieutenant Admiral Takasu deliberately did the opposite because he knew that even if the Chinese fleet spotted the Japanese fleet first, it would not be able to do anything to the Japanese fleet, because the range of the Chinese naval guns was shorter than that of the Japanese. Zhong quietly touched the side of the Japanese ship.

This naval battle is a typical fleet battle in terms of mode.

Regarding this decisive battle between the Chinese and Japanese naval fleets, there are comments in Japan like this:

"Militarily the Imperial Navy won, but economically the Chinese Navy won, because the Chinese Navy succeeded in making the Imperial Navy spend more shells and torpedoes than their fleet was worth in order to destroy them!" "Spent 200 $100 shells and torpedoes to wipe out an antique fleet worth only $[-] million is not a victory by any means!"

At [-]:[-] in the morning, the fleets of the two sides met on a narrow road, and then officially launched a battle that changed the color of the mountains and rivers but was completely one-sided.

The first to be hit by shells was the Chinese cruiser Hairong. The Japanese light cruiser Tenryu used searchlights to spot and firmly locked on the Hairong that was trying to approach quietly. The heavy cruiser Eagle opened fire immediately. The cooperation between the two ships was extremely high. The Tenryu did not fight head-on with the Hairong, because the firepower of the Hairong was not much different from that of the Tenryu. Create fighters.

Amidst the earth-shattering sound of naval gunfire, a dazzling white light of thunderbolt bloomed over the Furutaka, and the Hairong immediately turned into a blazing fireball in the thunder flames. The four 200mm main ship shells fired by the Furutaka Two rounds hit the Hai Rong, and the other two landed on the sea surface near the Hai Rong. The hit rate was very high, and two fire dragons rose from the ground and two water jets flooded the river.

The Hai Rong was completely unable to withstand the enemy's first attack. The 40-year-old warship almost fell apart in the big explosion, the bridge was smashed, and two of the three main turrets were destroyed. The explosion flew, and the ship was full of flames and blood, and a large number of officers and soldiers were flying, including the captain, Colonel Ouyang Ji.

Ouyang Ji, whose left arm was blown off and was covered with multiple shrapnel and blood gushing like a fountain, was helped up from the pool of blood by the deputy captain, Major Yang Daozhao, and said in a miserable way: "There is no power to parry...but we can't really shoot Go down if you don't let it go, fire...then notify Haichao and Haichen, take advantage of...the enemy's firepower is attracted by our ship, seize the opportunity...to counterattack..." After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes and died in battle.

After firing a cannonball with the only remaining main gun, Hairong was hit by the main ship Furutaka again. The whole ship was torn apart and sank into the sea quickly. Only a dozen of the 324 officers and soldiers on the ship survived.

Full of grief and pain, Haizuo and Haichen tried to turn around the Japanese ship Tenryu, but they were hit hard by Kako, the same class ship of Furutaka, and Haizuo struggled to fire two waves of shells at Tianlong and three torpedoes were hit by the Kako main ship's shells in the ammunition compartment in the middle of the ship. In an instant, the whole ship was smashed to pieces in the huge explosion of the sea and air, and more than 300 officers and soldiers on the ship, including Captain Lin Jinghuan No one survived, and the only thing that can give Lin Jinghuan and other dead officers and soldiers some comfort is that the Tianlong was successfully hit by a shell and a torpedo by the Haichou, and suffered a certain degree of damage. More than 30 sailors on board were killed. .

Immersed in unprecedented grief, the Haichen continued to launch attacks one after another, preparing to sacrifice itself to deal a further blow to the Tianlong. In fact, the Haichen had been completely exposed to the searchlight beams of many Japanese ships.

Before Haichen could fire, four muffled thunderous noises came from the air and landed on Haichen's hull. It was the main gun of the Japanese battleship Mutsu firing. The 410mm shells from the main ship almost toppled the sea when they were fired. The strong sound waves caused by the shock wave resounded through the sea and air. One of the four shells hit the bow of the Haichen ship. The front half of the horn was completely blown to pieces.

The seawater poured into the broken part of Haichen's bow. The front of Haichen sank and the rear rose, slowly sinking with hatred.

The Japanese army not only far surpassed the Chinese side in terms of the quality of warships, but also had an absolute advantage in the number of warships.

After Haichen suffered the only but fatal blow, Mutsu's bow main guns had been reloaded, but Captain Eiji Goto ordered the attack to stop.

"Your Excellency, Captain, why don't you strike the enemy again?" The surrounding officers were very surprised.

"That rag is doomed to sink, it's not worth our continued waste of shells!" Goto Osamu said contemptuously, he felt that this was a boring battle that was completely unmotivating.

The three Hairong-class cruisers sank in less than 15 minutes. At the same time, other warships in the Chinese navy fleet were also turning into large fireballs floating in the sea, fragmented steel wreckage, and flying debris. , The sea is full of the mutilated corpses of warships of the Chinese navy and the corpses of equally mutilated soldiers.

The cruiser Zhaohe was blown up by a main ship gun from the Japanese battleship King Kong, and the hull broke into two pieces. It sank into the sea with hundreds of unfulfilled crew and sailors. The cruiser Yingrui was destroyed by the Japanese The heavy cruiser Aoba was smashed into a mass of scrap iron paralyzed on the sea, and the gunboat Yongsho with a displacement of only 780 tons was almost blown to nothing after being hit by a main ship shell from the Nagato. Without a trace, the Yongsui gunboat with a displacement of only 620 tons was bombarded by a main ship gun shell from the Nagato on the sea more than ten meters away from the ship. Overturned, then helplessly sank.

…The warships of the Chinese Navy were like a group of steel pulverizers, and they were continuously destroyed in the passive beating without any power to parry. The blood of the Chinese navy officers and soldiers stained the sea under the Japanese searchlight beams.

It is worth mentioning that at this time the Chinese naval fleet was turning around, the purpose was to lure the Japanese fleet to pursue, thereby creating a surprise attack opportunity for its own torpedo boat forces, but in fact, the speed of the Japanese ships was generally faster than that of the Chinese warships. Therefore, the Chinese fleet's plan to lure the enemy was very unsuccessful.

The Tongji is a 1900-ton training ship of the Chinese Navy. It has almost no shipboard firepower. This old ship appeared in the warring waters not to participate in the war, but to rescue Chinese naval officers and soldiers who fell into the water as a medical ship. The remains of wounded soldiers and dead officers and soldiers, and several huge red cross signs were painted on the ship.

When the Tongji was locked by the searchlights of the Japanese battleship Mutsu, the captain Yan Juhua stood in the searchlight column of the Japanese ship, waving a red cross flag desperately and shouting loudly: "We are a hospital ship! Not a warship! Not a warship! "

The Mutsu turned a blind eye to this, and simply destroyed the Tongji with one shot. More than 300 sailors, doctors and nurses on board the ship, as well as more than 200 officers and soldiers who fell into the water and were rescued on board were all killed.

In addition to the Tongji, there are three Chinese medical ships in the battle area, namely the Ding'an, the Ke'an, and the Jing'an. These three medical ships were all refitted from old transport ships weighing more than 200 tons. All have been dismantled, but without exception, all were attacked by the Japanese army and sank one after another.

"They all have fucking brains!" Lieutenant Colonel Zheng Shizhang, the captain of the gunboat Minsheng in the Chinese naval fleet that had completely collapsed under the Japanese gunship, cursed with a pale face and trembling body, "Death for nothing! Queue to die! You yourself Die! I don’t want to die!” He ordered the Minsheng to change its course and escape from the combat area at maximum speed.

The Minsheng was the only Chinese naval ship that got cold feet in this naval battle.

The Haiqi, which survived because of its position at the rear, became the last large Chinese warship on the battlefield. More than a dozen searchlight beams shone on the Haiqi from different directions. Behind the beams, more than a dozen Japanese ships rolled away. Dozens of naval guns aimed at the Haiqi.

In the captain's room, Chen Jiliang put down the binoculars and said with a calm smile, "That's right! So many enemy ships came to see me off, and it's such a grand occasion, I'm very honored!"

The captain, Colonel Tang Jinghai, said with tears in his eyes: "Jun Zuo! Let's benevolent for the country, and we are worthy of the country!"

This is an extremely tragic scene: an old-fashioned warship of more than 4000 tons is facing almost the entire enemy fleet alone, and the tonnage of several capital ships in the enemy fleet is several times or even higher than that of this old-fashioned warship. ten times.

"Junzuo!" Lieutenant Colonel Liu Naiyi, the deputy captain, suddenly called out behind Chen Jiliang and Tang Jinghai. They turned around, and were shocked to see Liu Naiyi holding a pistol in his hand, pointing the muzzle at them.

"Liu Naiyi! What are you doing?" Tang Jinghai snapped.

"I'm not afraid of death!" Liu Naiyi's face was as pale as paper, and his voice trembled violently, "But such a way of dying is meaningless at all! Don't you see it? This is a trick by Ouyangge's gang! I thought... I thought you were just pretending to agree to him, but I didn't expect that you really planned to fight to wipe out the entire army! Junzao! Captain! Let's retreat while there is still time! Otherwise, we will really die here! You guys If you don't go... don't blame me for being rude!"

"Bastard!" Tang Jinghai hurriedly drew his gun, and Liu Naiyi shouted in horror, "Don't force me!" After speaking, he pulled the trigger at Tang Jinghai, and at the very moment, Chen Jiliang pushed Tang Jinghai away, and the gunshot rang out. Chen Jiliang was shot in the chest and fell into a pool of blood.

"Jun Zuo!" Tang Jinghai shot Liu Naiyi to death, then helped Chen Jiliang up with tears in his eyes, and then shouted, "Quick! Put Jun Zuo on the lifeboat and take him away!"

Five minutes later, the Haiqi sank heroically under the powerful firepower of the Japanese army enough to destroy a fleet.

At the same time, Ouyang Sihai was holding Chen Jiliang's hand on his torpedo boat, listening to Chen Jiliang's last words. Due to excessive blood loss and lack of timely medical treatment, Chen Jiliang was dying.

"Don't feel sorry for me!" Chen Jiliang said to Ouyang Sihai with a smile, "As a naval soldier, I can die at sea, in a naval battle defending the country...Although something went wrong, it's the same...I'm very satisfied! "After saying that, he was seriously injured and died.

Ouyang Sihai held back his tears and let go of Chen Jiliang's hand: "Mr. Chen, we will not let you, the fleet, and the brothers in the fleet die in vain!"

Passing through the sea full of debris from Chinese naval warships and Chinese naval personnel, more than 100 torpedo boats of the Chinese navy furiously launched a desperate attack on the Japanese fleet.

Torpedo boats are very fragile, and they are best at or only good at sneak attacks, but the Japanese army has long been prepared for this, and the sea is full of flames and beams of light, and the battle sea area is brightly illuminated, so the torpedo boat troops are completely attacking.

Another tragic and tragic battle.

The torpedo boats of the Chinese army that rushed to the Japanese fleet one after another were either hit by naval artillery shells and smashed to pieces, or they were smashed into bloody briquettes by machine guns.

Saito Jiro, the captain of the Nagato, exclaimed afterwards: "...the Chinese torpedo boat sailors showed awe-inspiring courage and fearless tenacity. The companion died in an extremely tragic manner, and the follow-up torpedo boats continued to rush up without hesitation.

…The main naval gun is completely useless. The torpedo boat is small and fast. If the powerful and clumsy main naval gun is used to fight a torpedo boat, it is no less than an anti-aircraft gun to fight mosquitoes. It is not only a matter of cost, but also of difficulty. The problem is that the auxiliary naval guns are useless, and can only be fired with machine guns, machine guns, and small and medium-caliber naval guns of destroyers and light cruisers.

…They were well-trained and highly coordinated, concentrating their forces on one target, and launching attacks from all directions, several large warships were injured!"

The damage rate of the torpedo boats involved in this attack was as high as [-]%. Although they successfully damaged many large Japanese warships, they failed to sink a single one.

Ouyang Sihai was so anxious that he was furious. At this moment, he saw a torpedo boat approaching his torpedo boat, and the signal light on the stern of the boat was flashing the signal "urgent dialogue required" (there is no radio station on the national army torpedo boat).

After the torpedo boat came over, it was Li Ganxi, the deputy captain of the sixth brigade.

"Stop attacking! I have a plan!" Li Gansu's eyes lit up. "The loss is too heavy. I must keep some strength, because I have a wonderful way to turn defeat into victory!"

Chapter 175 Sea and Air Battle (5)

Objectively speaking, the tactics and strategies used by the Chinese navy in this Hangzhou Bay naval battle are not very clever, but they are an inevitable result. There are many reasons for this situation. First, the disparity in strength between the two sides is too huge. The ingenious tactical strategies cannot make up for the huge disparity in strength; the second is the helpless situation of the Chinese navy with no way out. Due to the unique nature of the service, the Chinese navy has no choice. The Battle of Songhu is a three-dimensional battle, and because Shanghai As an international metropolis, the significance of the Battle of Songhu in terms of military, strategy, politics, and diplomacy is unmatched by other battles that took place in coastal areas and required the participation of the navy. The eye-catching Songhu battle is the best choice; in addition, another important reason is the "persecution" of the naval central forces headed by Ouyang Ge. At the same time, Ouyang Ge was also stimulated by the victory of the Huangpu River Battle , underestimated the Japanese army, overestimated himself, coupled with the desire to make great contributions to please Chiang Kai-shek so that he could continue to rise and eventually replace Chen Shaokuan's mentality of quick success and instant benefits, so that the profit made the mind faint.

At 3:30 in the morning, the naval battle broke out;

At 3:50 in the morning, more than half of the Chinese naval fleet was lost and fell into chaos. At the same time, the torpedo boat troops participated in the battle;

At 3:55 in the morning, the cruiser Haiqi, the flagship of the Chinese navy fleet, sank, and the entire fleet was basically wiped out;

At 4:10 in the morning, the torpedo boat force with heavy losses began to retreat.

As of this time, the naval battle was basically over, the Chinese navy suffered a disastrous defeat, and the Japanese army won a complete victory.

The 38 ships of the Chinese Navy participated in the battle and sank a total of 32 ships, only 6 survived (5 of which were ordered to retreat, and 1 escaped). The 116 torpedo boats participating in the battle lost a total of 74 ships; Eight ships were sunk, and only eight ships sustained varying degrees of damage.

Except for the Yangtze River Fleet that has retreated into the inner lake of the Yangtze River, the main force of the Chinese Navy's surface fleet disappeared overnight. There are only a dozen or so small-tonnage gunboats and more than 20 auxiliary ships still at sea.

On the command torpedo boat leading the team back to the voyage, Ouyang stared at Li Gansu with a burning look: "What's the best way?"

Li Gansu's eyes were like a torch: "Deputy chief, if we continue to fight hard, we will lose more than we gain, so we have to find another way.

Several Japanese warships have been injured, and one or two of them are not seriously injured. So, what will these wounded warships do next? "

Ouyang Sihai said without hesitation, "Of course I returned to the mainland for maintenance!"

"Yes!" Li Gansu's eyes radiated excitement, "The speed of these wounded warships must be slow, and the Japanese army plans to launch a full-scale landing in Shanghai at dawn, so they will definitely not dispatch too powerful warships to escort these wounded warships , Then, why didn't we intercept and kill these wounded warships halfway? In this naval battle, we suffered extremely heavy losses, and now we are completely retreating. , They would never have thought that we would actually kill a carbine!"

Ouyang Sihai caught the various flaws in Li Gansu's plan after thinking for a while: "Your strategy is too taken for granted! It is full of loopholes! First of all, in the vast sea, how do you determine the return route of the injured Japanese ship? This is simply looking for a needle in a haystack!"

"Don't we have submarines monitoring the Japanese fleet near the Ma'an Islands? When the injured Japanese ship returns, can't the submarine inform us of the course and route of the Japanese ship?"

"Submarines cannot monitor the Japanese army during the day. They are too easy to expose. Once exposed, they will be doomed!"

"There is no need for submarines to monitor the Japanese army during the day, because the damaged Japanese ships will definitely return overnight!"

"Although the Japanese ship was injured, the speed of the submarine is still not as good as that of the surface warship.

Submarines can only monitor around the Ma'an Islands. Once the Japanese ship returns to the voyage, the submarine cannot continue to track. Our torpedo boat sailed into the vast sea after attacking. There is no reference around us. How to revise the route?How to ensure that the Japanese ship has been accurately pursued on the correct route? "The speed of the Japanese destroyer can exceed 35 knots, the speed of the cruiser can exceed 30 knots, and the speed of the battleship can exceed 25 knots. Therefore, after the injured Japanese ship returned to the voyage, the national army submarine could not track continuously. If the submarine was tracked at underwater speed, although the submarine was safe hiding in the water, the speed was simply a race between the tortoise and the hare. If it was tracked at the surface speed , may be able to follow up the Japanese ship in a short time (after all, the Japanese ship is injured, and the speed will drop), but the submarine floating on the sea is very easy to be discovered by the Japanese ship.

"Between two points is the shortest line segment.

They don't take the shortest straight line at sea, do they take a curve?As long as the Saddle Islands and Nagasaki (the departure port of the Japanese fleet, located at the eastern end of Kyushu Island) are connected in a straight line on the chart, it is their return route!In addition, our submarine can tell us the initial heading, route, and speed of the injured Japanese ship when it departs, and we can use calculations to grasp the position of the injured Japanese ship! "

"You still have one of the deadliest loopholes in your plan! The voyage is not enough!"

"how you said that?"

"Brother, we are driving a torpedo boat! The stage of this thing is offshore and inland rivers! You have to drive to the vast sea! Our Wasp torpedo boat can travel 30 nautical miles at a speed of 600 knots, and can only fly at a high speed of 45 knots." The range is 300 nautical miles. In other words, in the worst case, we can only go as far as 150 nautical miles from the land. This is the attack range of our torpedo boats. The Japanese ships are likely to exceed this range! We It's too long to catch up! It's almost 70 nautical miles from the Sanmenwan base to the Ma'an Islands! We must not go in a straight line, and we have to bypass the main force of the Japanese fleet in the Ma'an Islands, which will further cause us to be unable to catch up Japanese ship!"

"Since it can last for 300 nautical miles, we can go as far as 300 nautical miles!"

"Then how come back?" Ouyang Sihai stared.

"I won't come back!" Li Gansu smiled again.

Ouyang Sihai's heart was shocked, he understood what Li Gansu meant.

"Brother, stop joking..." Ouyang Sihai moved his lips with difficulty, "This is doomed to never return!" Li Gansu didn't consider the issue of returning to the voyage at all, and doing so would lead to a consequence. If the attacking torpedo boat was not sunk, They will be paralyzed in the vast East China Sea due to exhaustion of fuel, and the torpedo boat sailors can only wait to die, and they will die of thirst and starvation after drinking fresh water and eating food. The Chinese navy has lost its command of the sea, and there are no surface warships. Impossible to go out to search and rescue them.

"I'm not joking!" Li Gansu looked resolute and determined, "You and I both know that the torpedo boat is the death squad at sea, and since it is the death squad, we should have this awareness.

We didn't even sink a single Japanese ship, but we still consumed our fleet in vain. The results of this big duck are too ugly!Those Japanese ships were all injured, so what are you waiting for if you don't take advantage of their illness and kill them?Waiting for them to return to Japan to repair and then attack us?Even if fifty torpedo boats are sacrificed, as long as one cruiser can be killed, it is a victory!Vice-captain, this is what you said!Also, don't dawdle, there is no time to wait, no delay!We don't have time for nonsense! He looked at Tao Tao Donghai again, "Ancestor bless you!"You see, the East China Sea is calm today!If a typhoon blows, we really have nothing to do! "