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795 The torpedo that can turn

Boom!

Not long after, the premonition of the Japanese captain of the Musashi, Tamura Chiyong, came true.

They only heard a loud explosion in front of them, and flames shot up into the sky, directly affecting their island command room.

Their super battleship was shaking like a small broken ship.

"Tamura, what's going on?"

The commander of the Japanese 107th Division, Fumura Kaito, who came from behind, also asked in horror at this time.

Several Japanese officers behind him quickly assisted Wencun Hairen and prevented the old Japanese from falling into the sea.

At this time, Tiancun Chiyong had no time to care about Wencun Kaito, the army division commander.

He knew very well what the explosion just now was.

Such a violent explosion must have been caused by the detonation of their ammunition depot.

This 50,000-ton super battleship has finally come to an end.

creak, creak!

The solid steel around was twisting every moment.

Just now, a torpedo hit the ammunition depot on their ship, causing their ammunition depot to explode.

The power of the chain explosion was too great, even their 50,000-ton super battleship could not withstand it.

This is the Musashi battleship, which has a large tonnage.

If it were any other Japanese destroyer of several thousand tons, the power of the explosion just now would be unimaginable.

It was enough to directly blow a Japanese destroyer in half and sink it on the spot.

However, the current situation of the battleship Musashi is not much better than this.

The damage caused by the secondary explosion to their hull made it impossible to stop the seawater from pouring in.

This means that the sinking of their battleship is inevitable.

No one can save them.

Although the battleship Musashi was not blown into two pieces by the explosion, it only delayed its sinking.

From this moment on, the steel of the ship was constantly twisting and the ship was constantly tilting.

You can see it.

"Quick, lower the lifeboat."

Tian Cun Chiyong shouted loudly to the confused Japanese soldiers on the deck outside.

He began to think about their escape.

After shouting, Tiancun Chiyong turned back to the commander of the 107th Division of the Japanese, Wencun Kaito, and said anxiously:

"General, the Musashi is sinking.

Please get on the lifeboat immediately."

When the old Japanese man Wencun Hairen heard what Tiancun Chiyong said, he was immediately shocked.

Unexpectedly, what he was thinking about just now was whether the Musashi would be sunk.

Now it has become a reality so quickly.

At this moment, the old Japanese had no time to think about the fact that their Navy had lost such a super battleship.

It will cause serious impact on their country.

At this time, the old Japanese man thought of saving his own life first.

A Japanese colonel nearby also quickly said, "General, we have to evacuate immediately.

Our division's landing operation still requires your command."

"let's go!"

Wencun Hairen certainly knew this.

Since the Musashi was about to sink, he had to do it to save his own life.

Or, in order to carry out the subsequent landing plan of their 107th Division, Wencun Kaito had to leave.

Immediately, the old Japanese rushed to the deck of the Musashi battleship under the protection of a group of Japanese officers.

The shaking of the ship made them stagger from side to side when they walked.

You need to hold on to the railing on the boat.

When Wencun Kaito finally reached the lifeboat location below the deck under the protection of a group of army officers.

Wencun Hairen turned around, looked at Tiancun Chiyong who was following behind him, and said, "Tiancun, come with me."

Tiancun Chiyong smiled bitterly and shook his head: "General, please retreat.

This is the only way we can send you here.

Next, we can no longer help you with whether your division can land successfully."

There were still so many Japanese soldiers and officers on the Musashi at the moment, so Tamura Chiyong chose to send Wencun Kaito away first.

He also knew that the landing operation of the 107th Division had not been a complete failure.

After all, underwater submarines use torpedo attacks to target the huge transport fleet behind them.

There will always be some transport ships that escape to the northern coast.

This time, their main task was to escort the 107th Army Division to complete the landing.

Even now, encountering such a bad situation.

They also have to try their best to complete this task.

Otherwise, wouldn’t their battleship Musashi have sunk in vain?

Soon, the Japanese division commander and a group of other Japanese army officers were put on the lifeboat.

"Hurry, go north."

On Tiancun Chiyong's side, he immediately asked the flag bearer to notify them of a cruiser in the distance.

Let them come over and take Tian Cun Chi Yong and others to their ship.

Not long after, a Japanese cruiser arrived at Wencun Hairen and their lifeboat.

They took Wencun Kaito and others to their cruiser.

At this moment, the Japanese army and navy idiots, who had always disliked each other, were in such a dire and desperate situation.

Miraculously, cooperation appeared.

Perhaps there is no other way. In this situation, they also know that continuing the internal strife will lead to their own death.

"Go north. Our division must land successfully in this battle."

Fumura Kaito didn't care about the life and death of the Soryu aircraft carrier and the Musashi battleship in their naval fleet.

He must first ensure that the landing of their 107th Division must be successful.

Otherwise, their naval fleet would have suffered such heavy losses this time.

If their landing still fails, it would be a complete loss of both the wife and the army.

After Fumura Kaito left, the Musashi sank even faster.

In fact, because of the large amount of seawater pouring into the hull, the hull of this huge battleship began to slowly break in the middle.

The area of ​​the ship that took on the most water began to sink first.

This caused the bow and stern of the battleship Musashi to be raised high.

The more than 2,000 Japanese crew members on the ship also knew at this time that their super battleship was beyond saving.

They all started to flee for their lives.

Lifeboats were put into the water one after another, and the Japanese officers retreated first.

Tian Cun Chiyong quickly boarded one of the lifeboats and escaped to the sea.

But there were not enough lifeboats, and a large number of Japanese soldiers were worried about being caught in the whirlpool.

They had already started to jump into the sea and were lying on both sides of the lifeboat to escape.

At this time, Sun Jiaming's U1 submarine, which had fired the second wave of torpedoes, had already left the seabed.

Sun Jiaming commanded the submarine to help other submarines deal with several more difficult cruisers and destroyers of the Japanese.

Compared to the bulky Japanese Musashi battleship, those Japanese cruisers and destroyers are much more flexible.

They can make emergency turns lightly on the sea.

But this doesn't really help.

The Japanese warships' traditional method of avoiding torpedoes was somewhat effective against previous torpedoes.

But now, what they encountered were wire-guided torpedoes.

Compared to the traditional torpedoes during World War II, which were launched without any control and could hit enemy ships only by luck,

Even after being launched, a wire-guided torpedo can still be controlled to correct its direction.

Let it rush towards the enemy warship as much as possible.

Even if the Japanese warships made an emergency turn midway, they still could not completely escape the tracking of the wire-guided torpedoes.

Boom!

At this time, on the distant sea, an explosion was heard at the stern of the Japanese destroyer Akizuki.

After struggling for half a day, their destroyer was finally hit by a torpedo.

"Baga, what the hell is going on?

Why, why did our warship make an emergency turn?

I could have avoided that torpedo.

Why did the torpedo hit our warship in the end?

What exactly is going on? "

The captain of the Japanese destroyer was yelling hysterically. The situation before him was hard for him to accept.

"Captain," said our sailor.

Just now he saw that torpedo turn in the water.

Our warship's emergency turn just now should have barely avoided the torpedo.

That torpedo actually turned at the mine at the last moment.

We corrected the angle of the ship so that it eventually hit our stern."

A Japanese second lieutenant officer reported to the Japanese captain with a horrified look on his face.

"What? A torpedo that can adjust its direction?"

After hearing this, the Japanese captain was confused at first.

But then his face turned grim, and he thought of something: "Baga, this must be a new type of torpedo developed by the Americans.

I knew it.

This time, the Americans dared to send submarines here to attack us.

They must have come prepared.”

The Japanese captain felt that his intelligence was high and he understood everything.

"Quick, report this important information to the Commander.

Then notify other ships and ask them to be more careful."

"Hi!"

The news spread quickly. On the struggling Soryu aircraft carrier, the Japanese commander Kanae Uesaka received the news.

Also horrified.

"What? A new type of torpedo that can turn in the water?"

"Damn you Americans.

They've come up with something new.

Quick, report this news back to the base camp."

Kanae Uesaka knew all too well the destructive power that this new type of torpedo would bring in actual combat.

When this news was passed back, at least the top leaders of their naval fleet would know that the American fleet had this new type of torpedo.

In the future, when their Imperial Navy fleet and the American fleet have a decisive battle at sea.

They can also take precautions in advance.

“No wonder the torpedoes fired by these underwater American submarines were so accurate in this battle.

It turns out that they are equipped with this new type of torpedo.

This time, we were careless.

Fortunately, our losses in this battle were not in vain.

At least, we know that the Americans already have this powerful torpedo.

The loss of one of our aircraft carrier fleets helped us to clarify this point in advance for the main force of our combined fleet.

Our sacrifice in this battle is meaningful.”

The captain of the Japanese aircraft carrier Soryu, Kanae Uesaka, could only comfort herself in this way at this time.