Chapter 119
Although the situation of the Mutsu was not worse than that of the Nagato, the stern was blown into two pieces and the keel was broken.
But the situation was not very good, and it could be said to be very serious.
A huge gap with a length of more than ten meters and a diameter of three meters was blown out by the swordfish line-guided torpedo.
Tons of seawater poured in.
The most important thing was that its boiler room was blown up.
The heavy oil boiler and the oil-fuel mixed boiler inside were blown up.
This huge warship also lost power because of this.
The watertight compartment of the Mutsu played a certain role at this time.
Finally, the crazy influx of seawater was curbed.
But at this moment, the battleship had already tilted in the eye, and the angle had exceeded 20 degrees.
In the end, the captain of the Mutsu had to order water to be poured into the other side to ensure the balance of the ship.
At the same time, he directly ordered the surrounding warships to let them quickly reunite with the main fleet.
At this moment, they did not realize that the torpedo came from a submarine.
Instead, they thought it was a torpedo dropped by bombers.
In addition to the Mutsu, the Kaga aircraft carrier was not spared.
Under the concentrated fire of the remaining more than a dozen torpedoes, it became another battleship that was sunk.
This aircraft carrier is of great significance to the Japanese Combined Fleet.
The Kaga was originally part of the 88 Fleet plan.
However, due to the Washington Naval Treaty, the Kaga was forced to stop construction and the plan was ready to disintegrate.
The Akagi and Amagi aircraft carriers that were stopped were ready to be converted into aircraft carriers.
However, due to the Great Kanto Earthquake, the Amagi aircraft carrier was directly scrapped.
So it was decided to convert the Kaga battleship that was about to be dismantled into an aircraft carrier.
This is the past and present of the Kaga.
Compared with light aircraft carriers such as the Fengxiang.
Although the Kaga was converted from a battleship.
But the tonnage is there.
The full load displacement even reached 43,000 tons, which can carry 60 fighters.
It is also the largest aircraft carrier in the current Japanese Navy.
This aircraft carrier is also ready to be modernized together with the Nagato and Mutsu.
And now there is no need for modification.
This round of 120 torpedo attacks.
The main battleships of the Japanese Combined Fleet were seriously injured. The only remaining Kongo-class battleships were the Hiei and Kirishima.
The Ise-class battleship. The Nagato
-class battleship.
The aircraft carriers Fengxiang and Kaga were all sunk.
The battleship Mutsu also lost power and floated on the sea.
At this moment, the deck is only five or six meters away from the sea surface.
As long as it is attacked, its sinking becomes inevitable.
There are a total of 8 battleships and 2 aircraft carriers.
Now only two Fuso-class battleships and one Hyuga battleship are still intact.
The Hyuga was simply lucky.
The Fuso-class battleship escaped because of its slow speed and stayed behind the main fleet.
The current Combined Fleet can be described as seriously injured.
The outer cruisers and destroyers are now trying their best to approach this side.
The purpose is to attract firepower and protect these battleships.
Now they have no intention of going to Incheon.
The Hyuga, Fuso and Yamashiro have already started to turn around.
As for the battleship Mutsu.....We can only leave it to fate.
This is also what the captain of the battleship Mutsu meant.
After the battleship Nagato sank.
Admiral Kobayashi Ichizo, commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, one of the three major forces of the Navy, also sank to the bottom of the sea.
Now the captain of the Mutsu has become the supreme commander of this fleet.
The Mutsu can no longer go back, and is now struggling to survive.
Who knows if the Chinese will have another wave of attacks.
If these warships are left here, they will be completely passive.
Instead of this, it is better to save some strength for the navy.
Now he has even drafted a farewell telegram.
The Akula submarine will definitely not miss such a good opportunity.
After seeing that the opponent was not sunk.
The captain decided to add another round of torpedoes.
So another torpedo was fired from the torpedo tube.
Under the control of the long wire, it went straight towards the severely damaged torpedo.
Until a few minutes later, there was an explosion from the Mutsu.
The captain decisively ordered to dive to a depth of 200 meters and escape from here.
If they continue to stay here, they may be blown to pieces by the angry Japanese warships.
In a violent explosion, the battleship Mutsu could not hold on again and was slowly swallowed by the sea.
A huge whirlpool was left on the sea.
The reconnaissance plane saw the situation on the Japanese side clearly.
The second wave of aircraft changed the strategy of attack this time.
They decided not to drop them all at once.
Instead, they only dropped one at a time and dropped another round ten minutes later.
There were four rounds of drops in total to ensure that the remaining three battleships were sunk.
If they were dropped all at once, there would be too many meaningless repeated attacks, which would be a waste.
At the same time, the Navy also changed its offensive plan.
The next three rounds of bomber groups, a total of 90 peacekeeping bombers, will be dispatched together.
Attack these Japanese destroyers and cruisers.
This time, the Navy is prepared not to let the devils put any of them back.
At the same time, more than 20 large maritime patrol aircraft modified from peacekeeping bombers were sent.
The purpose is to prevent the Japanese fleet from escaping.
This way, patrol planes can keep an eye on them, and troops can be divided to hunt them down.
The submarine command also issued the latest instructions to the Akula submarines lurking in this sea area.
Depending on the situation, they will launch an active attack on the Japanese fleet.
The current Japanese formation is completely messed up.
It is the best time for the submarine force to fish in troubled waters.
The peacekeeping bomber group chose to continue approaching this time.
Until���The attack was launched about 10 kilometers away from the three Japanese battleships.
However, this place was also very close to the Japanese outer destroyers and cruisers.
"Shoot them down, don't let them launch torpedoes anymore."
Suddenly, more than a dozen ships rushed towards the direction of the bomber group. (To read the novel, go to Faloo Novel Network!)
But the bomber group ignored them.
Now they are at an altitude of 6,000 meters in the air, and the enemy's anti-aircraft guns can't threaten them.
Besides, these ships are probably not able to reach them.
One by one, the Firefish aviation-guided torpedoes fell.
After the rocket booster ignited and worked for a few seconds, it automatically fell off, and the torpedo glided in a parabolic posture.[]
It was the same attack method again.
These little devils finally figured out the attack method of this weapon.
But they could only watch helplessly.
The captains of the three battleships were filled with fear.
Even the Nagato and Mutsu were not spared.
Can they escape?
The answer is of course not.
The speed of a battleship is only 35 knots at most, which is about 65 kilometers per hour.
How can it be faster on the sea than in the sky?
What's more, it was targeted by weapons far beyond the current era.
This is completely a dimensionality reduction attack.
Under the effect of the deceleration parachute, 30 torpedoes successfully entered the water.
Then the engine started, the acoustic homing device started, and began to look for the source of noise in the ocean.
The three battleships sailing at full speed were simply shining searchlights in the dark.
It was difficult not to find them.
The torpedoes were sprinkled on the sea less than 3 kilometers away from them like flowers scattered by fairies.
These three battleships are all old battleships that were put into service around the 1920s.
They still use oil-coal mixed boilers, and their maximum speed is only about 23 knots.
After so many years of service, the maximum speed is less than 22 knots, hovering around 21 knots.
How could these three slow battleships outrun torpedoes with a maximum speed of 40 knots?
Then the three battleships were gathered one after another.
Among them, the Hyuga, which had the longest service life, broke down on the way.
The speed was getting slower and slower, and it was taken care of by more than ten torpedoes.
The size of more than 30,000 tons seemed so small under such a violent explosion.
Fuso and Yamashiro soon followed suit.
In less than ten minutes.
The three battleships were hit and sunk one after another.
All the battleships of the Combined Fleet were wiped out.
The Combined Fleet can be said to be dead in name only at this moment.
And the destroyers and cruisers that were rushing towards the bomber group were also attacked by 6 submarines.
One after another, Yu-2 heavy submarine-launched torpedoes were released one after another.
The Yu-2 torpedo is an acoustic homing heavy submarine-launched torpedo that uses an acoustic homing system. It has a total weight of 2.5 tons, a maximum speed of 50 knots, and a maximum range of 12 kilometers.
Six submarines fired all the torpedoes at once.
A total of 36 acoustic homing torpedoes were running around in the sea.
After locking onto the target, they pounced on it like a shark that smelled blood.
How could these destroyers and cruisers withstand the attack of such heavy torpedoes?
One attack could sink them directly.
Some destroyers of less than a thousand tons were even blown in half.
The 30 peacekeeping bomber groups were not polite either.
Since the three battleships were sunk, the target was set on these destroyers, light cruisers, and heavy cruisers.
In short, none of these thirty or forty ships can escape.
"Spread out the action, don't leave any soup for the friendly forces of the submarine force, we will eat all the meat and soup."
Thirty bombers carrying Firefish aviation-guided torpedoes began to disperse.
In the sky, a group of black spots were flying towards the battle area.
They were the 90 bombers carrying Fritz X-ship missiles.
The rest of the battle was basically a stranglehold on these small and medium-sized ships.
It was mainly based on naval aviation.
After all, the speed of aircraft is much faster than that of ships, not to mention that they carry guided weapons.
The submarines were also frantically fishing for heads.
This time they ate a big piece of meat, and they had to drink some soup.
"God, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed my eyes."
About 20 kilometers away from the battle area, two destroyers flying the English and French flags watched the entire process of the naval battle.
It completely overturned their understanding of traditional naval battles.
The torpedoes dropped by the peacekeeping bombers left an indelible impression on them.
This is definitely not an ordinary torpedo. It is so important for them to bring this news back.
Now they are also glad that the Far East Fleet is still on the way.
Otherwise, the end would not be much better than that of the Japanese Combined Fleet.
You know, this is a huge fleet with 8 battleships and dozens of aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers. Although their home fleet is large, if they are pulled over, they may not get much benefit from facing the Combined Fleet.
If they want It takes a big price to defeat the opponent.
And such a fleet was defeated so easily.
If this news is released, it will probably cause a shock to the whole world.
The naval warfare mode will also undergo a huge change after this battle.
There is no doubt about this.
Jiang Fan doesn't care about this.
Because after this battle, the upgrade of the Red Alert base is not far away.
It is just right to use this battle to deter other powers.
Let them dare not participate too much in the civil war in China.
In this way, it will be easier to deal with Chiang Kai-shek.
This war between the air and the sea ended with a great victory of the Red Alert Corps Navy, and dozens of warships of the Combined Fleet were annihilated.
This news also spread all over the world at a very fast speed.
It caused an extremely huge sensation.