I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

The 116 torpedo boats that participated in the battle lost a total of 74 ships, and only 42 returned to the Sanmenwan base. Eight of them were unable to continue to participate in the battle in a short period of time due to damage by the Japanese army or mechanical failure. Therefore, only 8 torpedo boats could be restored immediately. go to battle.

This is a tragic counterattack.

34 torpedo boats require 170 sailors to drive and operate.

"We lost too badly! Those brothers who died will not die with peace! Who wants to avenge them with us?" When Ouyang Sihai and Li Ganxi took the lead in calling for them, almost all the sailors on the scene signed up.

"Fight with the dog day's little Japan!" The sailors let out an earth-shattering roar.

At about 5 o'clock in the morning, the u-1023 submarine cruising near the Ma'an Islands sent a telegram to the Sanmen Bay base: the Japanese warships injured were starting to return.

The telegram indicated the detailed direction, speed and route of the Japanese warship injured.

At the end of the telegram, the captain Wang Lang added a sentence with a solemn and solemn mood: "Brothers, you are all doing well!"

After sending out the order, Wang Lang told the sailors around him: "Float forward, and try our best to track down the injured Japanese ship returning home!"

"Captain! It will be dawn in an hour. If we are still floating after dawn, we are very likely to be discovered by the Japanese ship!"

"If we are submerged, we will be thrown away by the Japanese ship immediately. If we don't float, we will not be able to reach the maximum speed. If we are exposed, we will be exposed. Please help the brothers of the torpedo boat. The longer we track the Japanese ship, the better they will be." Accurately grasp the latest coordinates of the Japanese ship.

Brothers, the brothers of the torpedo boat launched the next counterattack with the mentality of certain death, shouldn't we learn from them?They are not afraid of death, do we have the face to be afraid of death? "Wang Lang's tone was very heavy.

The crew members nodded one after another: "Yes! Let's fight!"

"Report the speed of the Japanese returning fleet!" Wang Lang sternly said.

"16.5 knots!" The observation post reported.

"Thank God!" Wang Lang breathed a long sigh of relief, because this speed was lower than the maximum speed of the submarine, "Keep a good distance from the Japanese fleet to ensure that we can see them at any time, and at the same time try not to be seen by them! "

In fact, this is an untenable paradox. If u-1023 can see the Japanese ship, the Japanese ship can also see the u-1023, but the Japanese ship is mighty and very obvious, and u-1023 is a little more hidden. , but there is no doubt that in order to cooperate with the formation of torpedo boats, u-1023 is taking an extremely huge risk.

Later facts also proved that without the self-sacrificing sacrifice of u-1023, the torpedo boat formation would indeed be very likely to miss the Japanese ship due to route errors.

On the vast sea, there is a slight difference, and a thousand miles away. At that time, the sailors of the torpedo boats who rushed to nothing can only die of starvation and thirst in the sea (the national army torpedo boats do not install radio stations, but Ouyang Sihai and Li Ganxi The two torpedo boats brought two radio stations before departure, so they can keep in radio contact with u-1023 at any time.

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At 5:20 in the morning, the main force of the Japanese fleet assembled in the Ma'an Islands cut through the waves and headed for Shanghai, launching a full-scale landing, and the Battle of Songhu officially started.

At the same time, in the Sanmenwan base, 34 torpedo boats of the Chinese Navy launched a counterattack.

In order to avoid the main Japanese fleet, the attacking torpedo boat formation specially passed through the central part of the Zhoushan Islands and circled a large semicircle. The driving distance of the formation was lengthened, and the cumulative distance exceeded the combat radius of the formation. However, the officers and soldiers of the formation did not care, because they were all mentally prepared to go back and forth. Before the attack, all members took photos And wrote a suicide note to his family.

On the beach in Shanghai, lightning flashed and thundered, and the sky collapsed; in the sky of Shanghai, flying eagles strangled and stars fell and clouds scattered.

Maybe God really felt sorry for the Chinese navy. At about 170:[-] in the morning, after four hours of continuous sailing, the torpedo boat formation caught up with the injured Japanese army limping towards the Japanese mainland about [-] kilometers due east of the Ma'an Islands. Warship formation.

"Brother, we caught up!" Ouyang Sihai sent a telegram to submarine u-1023, "Thank you, see you in the next life!"

In the u-1023 submarine, Wang Lang and other officers and soldiers on the submarine who received the telegram couldn't help but burst into tears, because they knew very well that the brothers of the torpedo boat force were about to launch a fatal attack.

"One heavy cruiser, three light cruisers, and two destroyers!" Ouyang Sihai watched with binoculars, and fell into unprecedented ecstasy, "Brothers! We have won the jackpot!"

The damaged Japanese warships that are returning are: the heavy cruiser Aoba, the light cruiser Tenryu, the light cruiser Tatsuta, and the light cruiser Yubari. The other two destroyers are intact. Marsh wind number.

The four ships of the Aoba were all severely damaged in the naval battle. They all suffered three to four torpedoes and had to rush back to the mainland overnight for repairs.

"Brothers!" Li Gansu picked up the tweeter and roared, "We are doomed! So we have to drag the Japanese to die together! This is enough! Kill!"

The almost crazy shouts of the officers and soldiers of the Chinese Navy torpedo boats resounded through the sky and the roar of the torpedo boat engines that were also almost crazy.

Maybe it's because I know I'm going to die and there's no way out, maybe it's because I saw too many tragic scenes of my brothers dying in the sea battle, maybe it's because I'm jealous when I see the Japanese, maybe it's because of the Chinese navy. For the sake of honor, all the 170 torpedo boat officers and soldiers launched a desperate charge with red eyes.

34 torpedo boats, 34 off-string arrows, and 34 steel knives rushed towards the Japanese fleet with an earth-shattering momentum.

"Concentrate firepower! Hit the biggest one!" Ouyang Sihai shouted hoarsely.

The 34 torpedo boats rushed towards the heavy cruiser Aoba together, like a group of shells flying towards the target.

All the officers and soldiers of the Aoba stared at this unimaginable scene dumbfounded. All the Japanese soldiers in the entire fleet were stunned and motionless as if they had been acupunctured collectively. Dazed in a daze in Shenyou Taixu, and then overturned by the shock wave of the torpedo explosion.

The four torpedo boats that arrived at the attack position first launched eight torpedoes on the same side of the Aoba, and seven of them hit. The armor belt of the main side of the Aoba exploded in an instant like a volcanic eruption. Countless fragments of the battered main armor belt swept through the air waves sweeping across the sea like a tornado. Fragmented corpses of sailors, bloody limbs and arms, and surviving living people flew all over the sky, and then fell to the Pushed away by the shock wave of the explosion, the sea surface of the raging waves.

Amidst the metal deformation sound of the giant beast's wailing, the Aoba immediately tilted and capsized slowly towards the blasted side.

The Japanese army who came back to their senses began to frantically rescue the Aoba. The naval guns, machine guns, and machine guns on each ship bombarded and fired wildly with a volley of arrows, and the hot and dense firepower net was soaring To the torpedo boats of the Chinese Navy, amidst the deafening and inaudible bursts of guns and guns, the sea was turbulent like a downpour. Seven or eight torpedo boats were reduced to countless fragments in the explosion fireball, and the rest of the torpedo boats were fearless, attacking frantically one after another.

Just one or two minutes later, three more torpedoes were fired at the Aoba and all of them hit. Three groups of earth-shattering flames flew up like a fire dragon on the almost disintegrated hull of the Aoba, and three huge torpedoes bloomed again. The black hole cracked, and sea water poured into the bilge of the Aoba's hull like a galloping horse.

"It's dead!" Ouyang Sihai, whose face was full of gunpowder smoke and blood, looked at the dying Aoba that was slowly being swallowed by the sea, and couldn't help crying, "Brothers did not die in vain! We did not die in vain! We killed the Japanese army A heavy cruiser!" In the attack just now, Ouyang Sihai's torpedo boat was hit by a machine gun from the wave wind that came to rescue Aoba, and several holes were punched in the hull of the boat, and two crew members were killed on the spot. One was cut in half by a machine gun shell, with blood gushing out and internal organs flowing horizontally, the other was hit by a machine gun shell on the head, his head burst and shattered like a watermelon, brain pulp and blood splashed all over Ouyang Sihai's face.

Two more deadly torpedo boats made their final attack on the Aoba, and three of the four torpedoes hit. Although the two torpedo boats lost their bodies in the stormy firepower net of the Japanese ship, their final attack completely wiped out the The Aoba was sent to hell. This warship with a tonnage of up to 9000 tons, which had suffered a total of [-] torpedoes in the early morning naval battle and the battle at this time, was like a waste machine in a garbage recycling bin. It completely collapsed and disintegrated, visible to the naked eye The speed is sinking into the East China Sea, and it is impossible for the Japanese to salvage the Aoba, the East China Sea is much deeper than the Huangpu River.

Fifteen of the 34 torpedo boats remained intact, but eight of them had already discharged their torpedoes.

The seven torpedo boats that were still intact and still had torpedoes immediately launched an attack on the light cruiser Yubari under the order of Ouyang Sihai. The half-space bombardment splashed the wind and rain, and the torpedoes flew across the waves. Both the Tianlong and the Tatsuta were destroyed. Two torpedoes that missed were hit by accident. Yubari was hit by four torpedoes successively. The armor of the ship was cracked and broken.

"Are there no more torpedoes?" Ouyang Sihai shouted anxiously. He looked and saw that there were only six torpedo boats left.

The Japanese ships were not dead creatures that could only be beaten. The ferocious firepower net nearly killed the attacking torpedo boats, and many torpedo boats were destroyed before they could launch their torpedoes.

"No more!" "I don't have any more boats!" The captains of the boats replied with tweeters.

"Damn it!" Ouyang Sihai regretted it unceasingly. He looked at the Yubari. That warship was on the edge of hell. It was only a little bit close to doom, but his torpedo boat force was powerless. Naturally very little.

"There is one more!" Li Gansu's torpedo boat flew to Ouyang Sihai's side, "I have another one on board!"

"Then what are you waiting for?" Ouyang Sihai was pleasantly surprised.

"There is a mechanical failure!" Li Gansu replied, "This torpedo is stuck in the launch tube and cannot be fired!"

"Fuck!" Ouyang Sihai was annoyed.

"But it's not impossible!" Li Ganxi smiled and said, "There is still hope to give this torpedo to the Japanese! Brother!" He looked at Ouyang Sihai in the sea breeze, his eyes bright, "I'll take a step first Already!"

When Ouyang Sihai came back to his senses, he realized what Li Gansu meant, because he saw Li Gansu's torpedo boat rushing towards the Yubari like a bloody flying cavalry in dragon armor, and finally enveloped the Yubari together. In a ball of earth-shattering fire, the Yubari, which had suffered a fatal blow, was finally powerless and stepped into the footsteps of the Aoba.

"Brother, let's go!" Tears rolled, Ouyang Sihai ordered the remaining five torpedo boats to retreat away from the direction of the Japanese fleet. In fact, this was meaningless, and the fuel oil of the torpedo boats was destined not to return to land.

However, the Japanese had no time to pursue them. After losing a heavy cruiser and a light cruiser, the Japanese fleet ran away in a panic at full speed.

The total tonnage of Aoba and Yubari is 12000 tons, and the total tonnage of the 34 torpedo boats is 1200 tons.

The contrast between the two sides is very sharp. This is another brilliant victory won by the Chinese navy in an extremely tragic way.

On the vast sea, the five surviving torpedo boats that ran out of fuel gathered together, drifting with the current and resigned to their fate.

But soon, a group of boiling waves rolled on the nearby sea, and a submarine slowly surfaced, it was u-1023.

"Brothers, come up! We will take you home!" Wang Lang greeted Ouyang Sihai and other officers and soldiers with great respect.

After holding back the grief and sinking the torpedo boat, Ouyang Sihai and other officers and soldiers climbed onto the submarine and became survivors of the battle.

"Drive east!" Ouyang Sihai instructed Wang Lang.

"Huh?" Wang Lang looked at Ouyang Sihai not understanding.

"There are still two light cruisers in the Japanese fleet. They were already injured, but they were torpedoed again in the battle just now. The injuries were worse, and the speed was further reduced!" Ouyang Sihai looked at Wang Lang.

Wang Lang immediately understood, he nodded, and then looked at his watch: "It's ten o'clock in the morning, attacking during the day is sure to die, the most important thing is, the odds of winning are very low, you have to wait until night to do it, but, during the day We cannot submerge, otherwise the Japanese fleet will use this day to throw us off, so we will continue to risk exposure during the remaining eight hours of the day, floating to track the Japanese fleet!"

"Yes!" Ouyang Sihai nodded, "It depends on whether you have the courage!"

Wang Lang smiled, and then ordered the sailors around him: "Go east and track the Japanese fleet!" Afterwards, Wang Lang said: "Actually, my order is very irresponsible. We can't fight recklessly. Because submarines are more precious than torpedo boats, they are the precious property of the country.

If you die with a Japanese soldier with a grenade, others will say that you are a good guy, but if you drive a plane and crash into a Japanese soldier on the ground, others will say that you are crazy. This is the difference.

There are very few submarines in our country, and they need to be used with care. It is a hero to drive a [-]-ton or [-]-ton torpedo boat to carry out a suicide attack, but it is a fool to drive a [-]-[-]-ton submarine to carry out a suicide attack. It is not worthwhile!However, we are probably infected by Ouyang Sihai and the others, so we have to go all out!"

U-1023 floated behind the Japanese fleet stealthily. For the sake of safety, the distance was widened. Wang Lang was always careful to keep the last warship in the Japanese fleet just far away in his field of vision through the telescope. In this way, the opponent sees u-1023 as just a small black spot, and the influence of waves and light shadows minimizes the probability of the submarine being exposed.

"These eight hours are really the longest, most torturous, and most anxious eight hours in my nearly 30 years of living!" Wang Lang described afterwards, "Time is like sticky glue, and every minute that passes makes people feel abnormal. slow.

But when those eight hours pass, it's all worth it!"

Of course Wang Lang thought it was worth it, because when night fell, the Japanese fleet never found a ghost trailing them on the horizon.

An hour after dark, a vengeful naval battle broke out.

The battle process can be described as straightforward. Tianlong and Longtian were sent to the bottom of the sea in just half an hour, and u-1023 returned safely and triumphantly, drawing a successful conclusion to the naval battle of the Chinese navy. period.

After receiving the report from the U-1023 submarine, Chen Shaokuan called Chiang Kai-shek, first reported the battle situation, results, and damage, and finally said very desolately: "Chairman, the navy has done its best!"

"You have worked hard, the navy has worked hard!" Chiang Kai-shek praised and comforted him repeatedly.

The heroic performance and brilliant battles of the Chinese navy have won the respect and praise of the whole world. Of course, few people realize that the number one hero is actually Jiang Weiguo.

On the first day of the Battle of Songhu, the Chinese navy did its best to complete its mission, and the next war mission was basically handed over to the army and air force, and the focus of the war returned to land and air.

Chapter 176 Great Victory (1)

After the Hangzhou Bay naval battle and the East China Sea naval battle ended, Lieutenant General Takasu Shiro fell into extreme pain, because the Japanese battleship formation suffered extremely heavy losses. The cumulative loss of one heavy cruiser and three light cruisers was extremely shocking in Japan. He commented: "In the Nissin naval battle, the imperial navy was weak and the enemy was strong, and only lost one torpedo boat to wipe out the Beiyang Fleet. The Pacific Fleet of the Russian Empire, why is the imperial navy participating in the Sino-Japanese naval battle at this time so embarrassed?" Some Japanese domestic media even lamented: "Marshal Ito is not here! Marshal Togo is not here! "The implication of these comments could not be clearer. It is because Lieutenant General Takasu's "low ability" caused the powerful Japanese navy to suffer such a big loss in front of the weak Chinese navy. Takasu was extremely ashamed and angry. Will almost committed suicide by caesarean section, and Tokyo subsequently appointed Lieutenant General Kawakoshiro to replace Lieutenant General Takasu.