Each torpedo is an egg. What we have to do is to put the egg back into the chicken coop safely.↑Dingdian Novel, Major Huang Guangrui, the captain of the first squadron of the formation, could not help but think of the nagging of commander Pan Shizhong when he was trained. At that time, the training was made of fake torpedoes made of ceramics. After the release, if someone's "torpedo" broke and sinked into the water, it would be judged as a training failure. After more than a hundred training sessions, how to safely put the "egg" under the belly of the aircraft back into the chicken coop safely on the sea is already a mandatory conditional radiation behavior for the pilot.

The torpedo bomber formation was flying closer and closer. At this time, he could clear several sailors on the Japanese ships, pointing at him in surprise, or rushing on the deck. Finally, when he first entered two thousand meters away from the enemy ship, the 47mm Hatchkas rapid-fire guns and 8mm machine guns on the three cruisers of Akitsushi, Chiyoda and Chisose, who were guarding the outside, suddenly opened fire.

The flames spit out by the Japanese ships were not beyond Huang Guangrui's expectations. Although many large warships of the Japanese Navy were large-caliber artillery, many old ships, especially cruisers below 5,000 tons, were basically equipped with rapid-fire guns and machine guns from the last century. This is also the reason why torpedo bombers repeatedly confronted air defense fire during training. They lined up neatly on the flanks of the enemy ships, flying at a speed of 150 kilometers per hour, and were only fifteen meters away from the sea. For the prepared enemy, there is no better target than this. But for torpedo bombers pilots, even the targets must be kept in formation so that the "eggs" can be safely put back into the chicken coop.

Looking at the fire of the Japanese ship shooting, Major Huang Guangrui frowned, while Maxim pulled the bolt of the machine gun. The trigger was pulled, and the nose of the aircraft also spewed out flames. As soon as he opened fire, the remaining fifteen planes that advanced side by side also opened fire immediately. For a moment, guns and cannons on the sea surface interlaced, and the bullets were like rain.

The gunmen on the Japanese ship were unaware of the firepower erupted on the plane. The dense bullets fired by the plane immediately killed dozens of naked gunners and sailors. But similarly, fourteen 47mm rapid-fire guns and three 8mm machine guns on one side of the three cruisers also achieved results. In just a moment, two aircraft were hit by three-pound shells fired from the rapid-fire gun and disintegrated. In addition, several aircraft were injured. These aircraft were either left behind. Or the engine was damaged and began to stall and black smoke came out. As for the remaining aircraft, many of them were hit by poured 8mm machine gun bullets, but this had no effect on torpedo bombers that were extremely strong and protective.

A distance of one thousand meters was only more than twenty seconds for the aircraft with a speed of 150 kilometers per hour. After these twenty seconds, it was the distance of the torpedo bomber. In the smoke, Major Huang Guangrui, who knew that he had already arrived, nervously glanced at his comrades in the same team with his light. His plane's engine had been broken, and black smoke came back from the nose. With his efforts to maintain, the plane finally barely flew to a place within one thousand meters of the enemy ship. The gaps in the formation were filled with the remaining planes. He was happy and endured for another ten seconds, and then the plane fell slightly under his control, about ten meters away from the sea. The hand gate that was deploying the torpedo was pulled. Suddenly, the plane shocked violently and then lightened. The nose began to jump up high.

All the airdropped torpedoes are compressed gas torpedoes with a diameter of 457mm and weighing 450 kilograms. When they are released from the aircraft, the air valve at the tail is opened and before it falls into the sea surface. A visual airflow is sprayed out at high speed from the tail end of the torpedo. After falling into the water, the torpedo that has sinking due to gravity floats out of the sea surface for a few seconds under the push of compressed gas. Finally, it drags a clear white track and drives straight towards the target at high speed.

The squadron leader in the middle of the formation dropped a torpedo, while the pilots on both sides dropped a torpedo based on his angle and followed the principle of fan. In an instant, dozens of white trajectories on the sea surface went straight towards the Japanese ship.

According to the torpedo bomber bombing requirements, the pilot could just drop torpedoes at a distance of one thousand meters, but Major Huang Guangrui endured for ten seconds after entering one thousand meters, which made the distance between the drop point and the Japanese ship only less than 600 meters. At such a short distance and such a dense torpedo attack, the lookout hand standing on the mast of the Akitsuzumaku shouted "water thunder" and was silent. He had no idea where to notify the helmsman to avoid it, because no matter how he avoided it, he would be hit by the torpedo.

"I can only pray to God Amaterasu to complain." Captain Arima Junyi Nakasa on the Akizushi cruiser only issued an order to protect the flagship. After that, the only thing he did was stand in the commander's tower and fold his hands together and pray silently.

The distance of 600 meters was too close. The torpedo, which was approaching at high speed at 35 knots, only took forty seconds to hit the head of the Chiyoda cruiser, and then the Chitose-soo-shou-shou. The Akitsushi-shou, who sailed at the end of the fleet, miraculously avoided this wave of torpedo attacks because of the torpedo decompression failure. However, the good luck of the outer cruiser was the doom of the Kwangang and Hiei. Among the eleven torpedoes issued in this round, except for the three of the outer cruisers, the remaining eight torpedoes were missing, and two of the remaining three hit the Hiei and one hit the Kwangang.

Unlike the Chitose who sank in an instant after two consecutive strikes, although Hiei also hit two torpedoes, it was a battleship with thick skin and large body. Although the torpedo exploded a large hole that was directly two meters, and water was injected into the No. 7 boiler room, this only caused the Hiei hull to tilt five degrees right, and its speed was slightly reduced. Both explosions could not cause severe damage to the ammunition depot and other key parts in the ship. As for the Kwango, the torpedo hit did not cause any substantial damage to it, and even its speed did not decrease.

The first wave of offensive injured six of his planes, and two pilots were killed. Colonel Liu Zuocheng, who was leading the team, couldn't help but order. What he thought about now was to sink all the Japanese ships that were fleeing in a panic. So, under his dispatch, the third squadron, who had been waiting, launched another attack from the east of the Japanese fleet, where the Japanese fleet lost the cruiser barrier. Seeing this, the escort cruiser on the other side quickly changed its course, hoping to block the Chinese water mine plane attacking from the east, but the speed of the plane was always faster than that of the warship. Before they arrived, the third torpedo bomber squadron completed the bomb drop.

This time, due to the interference of firepower of only one cruiser, the third squadron's bomb drop was extremely smooth. Moreover, their bomb drop distance was closer than the first squadron, less than 500 meters. Thirty seconds after sixteen torpedoes entered the water. The King Kong and Hiei were hit again, and the huge splashes of water soared into the sky. The bodies of the two battleships paused instantly during the explosion, jumped up, and the keel and the ribs made a loud "creaking...creaking...creaking...'. During this round of attack, Hiei was hit by three torpedoes. The huge explosion destroyed the defense partition of its hull. All auxiliary wall materials in the third mechanical chamber and the water pressure pipeline passage collapsed. The sea water poured into the ship in tons and tons. The hull was inclined to ten degrees, and the bow of the ship was almost parallel to the sea surface. The speed suddenly dropped from the twenty-four knots that had avoided the torpedo before, causing it to quickly leave the team;

The King Kong was very lucky. Most of the torpedoes fired at it were avoiding at its high speed of 27 knots. Two of the three torpedoes that could not be avoided were too deep and passed through the ridge of its ship. Although the remaining torpedo hit the bottom of the starboard secondary turret, this attack only caused water to enter the ammunition depot below the turret and did not cause the ammunition depot to explode.

Seeing the two giant ships being hit by their own side in succession, the pilots couldn't help but cheer, but when Liu Zuocheng saw Hiei tilting, he was sweating coldly. Now he was finished and he disobeyed the order! He quickly ordered Yang Yixian, the captain of the second squadron who had not dropped bombs, to avoid the battleship and wipe out the cruiser.

The extremely injured Hiei was getting slower and slower, and the Kwango, which had previously avoided torpedoes at high speed, could only stagger. Yang Yixian, the captain of the Second Squadron, thought about the orders and looked at the prey. In the midst of cursing and resentment, he finally led the team to cross the Hiei who had only one breath and the Kwango who fled quickly, and vented his anger at several other Japanese cruisers. This time the attack was no longer a squadron. Instead, a team attacked, four torpedo bombers formed a group to find the fire dead corners of the enemy ship's defensive artillery. They were only dropped torpedoes when approaching the enemy ship's close to the enemy ship. Akitsugu, who had escaped by luck, was sunk after struggling after struggling.

Two new battleships and six protective cruisers were all injured in the battle in just half an hour, and four were sunk. In the hot afternoon sunlight, when the second wave of torpedo bombers arrived, the sea was full of Japanese sailors who were ups and downs and ignorant of their lives.

The Japanese fleet, who had been looking at the battlefield, saw another flight plane flying over, finally came back to rescue, fearing that these vultures who had just come with water thunder would attack themselves again. However, what the fleet commander Lieutenant General Kato could not have expected was that the backward Hiei was getting more and more serious, and the tilt of the hull was no longer ten degrees before, but to the irreversible fourteen degrees. In order to balance the hull, all the things that could be moved on the ship were moved to the port side, and all the crews were concentrated on the port side, and even the bodies of the sailors captured by the torpedo were piled to the left, and the right main anchor was abandoned.

With such rescue, the Birui continued to lean right. At this time, its only way to survive was to find the nearest island to rush to the beach, but it was just off the coast of China. Once the beach was rushed to the beach, the entire warship would eventually be captured by the Chinese Navy, which is absolutely unacceptable to the Navy.

At 3:43 pm, the Hiei lost power completely, the bow of the ship sank into the water, and the machinery on the ship also stopped operating. Captain Takagi Shitaro summoned the officers and entrusted the deputy captain to send a farewell telegram to the headquarters and ordered the ship to abandon.

After the torpedo bomber formation dropped bombs, the pilot who had four hours of air stagnation did not return to the airport immediately, but surrounded the Hiei battleship like a group of vultures. At this time, the navy, who received the telegram from Colonel Liu Zuocheng, finally sent the Tongji training ship and several gunboats to the scene. Although the sea was covered with Japanese sailors, the first thing they did was to fish the pilots who fell into the water under the guidance of the plane.

Looking at the black shadow surrounded by dozens of planes more than ten kilometers away, Lieutenant Colonel Mao Zhongnan, the captain of the Tongji ship, was surprised. He asked the staff officer next to him, "What is that? Is it also a Japanese ship?"

"Yes, sir. It's the Hiei battleship." Staff Officer Xu Bingxian just received a telegram from the headquarters and knew what it was.

"That's a big... big ship!" Mao Zhongnan's mind suddenly saw a giant ship of more than 26,000 tons. It was a battleship of the same level as the King Kong. "Go and see if the Japanese will surrender." He said quickly.

At the beginning, the Tongji quickly approached the Hiei. When it reached within 10,000 meters, the speed dropped. After waiting for the lookout hand to finally find that the Hiei tilt was severely so that it accelerated towards Hiei.

The ship, which was more than 20,000 tons, had already tilted right twenty degrees at this time. And it had completely lost its power. Major Mao Zhongnan felt a chill when he saw this scene. This was a god. He was not saved. However, he still did not give up and began to sing flags on the Hiei. He asked to accept the Hiei crew.

Looking at the broken ship of the Chinese Navy in the last century, the officers on the Hiei didn't want to pay attention. After all, it was not the Chinese Navy that sunk Hiei, but the Chinese flying aircraft troops. It was okay to ask them to surrender to the aircraft, but they would do nothing if they surrender to the Chinese Navy.

The officer thought so, but the sailors were looking at the Tongji not far away. After all, his fleet was far away, and the only one who could save him was the Chinese Navy.

The officers and soldiers had different thoughts. In order to give their troops a way out, Captain Takagi Sakayaro ordered the signalman to contact the Chinese Navy, and the Hiei was seriously tilted. Although he wanted to sink the warship, there was too much water in the ship now, which was difficult to do.

With the help of the small boat, a ship of Japanese sailors were transported to the Tongji. The Tongji could not be loaded, so they were loaded onto the naval gunboat that accompanied them. When the gunboats were also filled with people, the cruise ship from the China Merchants Bank, which was shipped from Shanghai, also arrived, and more than a thousand Japanese sailors were driven onto the cruise ship again.

After some trouble, the deck of the Tongji was cleared, but Captain Mao Zhongnan surrounded the battleship of the Hiei, which was slowly sinking, but refused to leave. Everyone knew the captain's thoughts. Major Xu Bingxian, who had been watching the side, finally thought of a solution. He immediately said: "Captain, if you really want to rescue the ship, there is still a way."

"What's the solution!" Mao Zhongnan shouted, pulling the myopic staff officer over.

The captain was so excited. Xu Bingxian was very understanding. He held his glasses and said, "This ship was hit by torpedoes in a row. It was so tilted so strong that the most difficult thing was that it lost its power and could not get stuck. To rescue it, I think it was necessary to first let it return to balance, and then to remove some of the accumulated water in the ship. In addition, I had to go to the Jiangnan factory to find a high-power tugboat..."

"Aren't you talking nonsense? If you really want to restore balance, will the Japanese surrender and abandon the ship?" Mao Zhongnan felt that this was unpredictable when he heard this. A large ship with more than 20,000 tons of sea water was inside, how could it be drained?

"Captain, it is now leaning right because the torpedoes are hit on the starboard side. What if two more torpedoes are hit on the port side?" Xu Bingxian was snatched by the captain, and his face turned red.

"What! I'll give you two more?" Mao Zhongnan glared at Xu Bingxian, as if he was about to eat him.

"Yes, there are two on the port side, but there are not enough three more, but the tugboat must wait in advance, and start to tow as soon as the balance begins. Can it be delayed in a moment?" Xu Bingxian said.

"It's just that the hull is balanced. Can you drag it back to Shanghai?" Mao Zhongnan looked at Xu Bingxian, his eyes turned a few times, and began to consider whether his method was feasible.

"Don't drag it back to Shanghai, just drag it there immediately." Xu Bingxian pointed to a direction south: "Captain, remember the Haitian. It sank not far from the south. It only 20 nautical miles here. If it is dragged to the beach, the ship will be saved."

"Ah, yes! yes!" Mao Zhongnan finally remembered that the Haitian was sinking in this area. To drag the boat there, maybe it could really be saved. "Hurry up! Generate power immediately! Generate power to Commander Lin immediately!"

The five Japanese ships were sunk, including a battleship worth more than 20,000 tons. This news was on Lin Wenqian's desk and he was amused. Although the General Staff ordered not to sink the Japanese ships, he could still guess the deep meaning of the meaning. But now, good guys, sunk five ships at once, and there was a 20,000 tons battleship worth just a few days ago. These Americans would be very happy.

"The Air Force said that he was red-eyed at that time, and the Japanese ships had weak protection capabilities, so..." Chief of Staff Zhou Sixu explained on the side that he could understand the Air Force's explanation, "Shizhong called from Beijing to plead..."

"What kind of love does he ask for?" Lin Wenqian said with a little self-deprecating self-deprecating. "Didn't you hear firecrackers outside and pull the whistle? This matter can only be criticized internally. You still have to report the merits that should be reported."

More than two hours have passed since the naval battle. Everyone in Shanghai knew that the Japanese wanted to attack Shanghai just now, but the Fuxing Army descended from the sky and sank five Japanese warships, and another one was a large ship worth tens of thousands of tons, so firecrackers are now set off everywhere.

"Report!" Lin Wenqian laughed at himself, the commander of the headquarters came in with a telegram, "Lieutenant Colonel Mao Zhongnan, the captain of the training ship of the Tongji training ship, said that he had thought of a way to save the Hiei battleship."

"Oh!" Lin Wenqian and Zhou Si suddenly became interested. They raised their eyebrows, and Lin Wenqian asked, "How do he save him?"

"The situation is quite complicated to report to the commander, and there are a lot of things to be mobilized." The staff officer took the telegram sent by the Tongji number, but didn't know what to say, so he had to hand over the telegram to Lin Wenqian for reading by himself.

After Lin Wenqian looked at it, he handed it over to Zhou Sixu. After both of them finished reading it, Zhou Sixu said, "If this is the case, you can try it. However, this high-power tugboat requires Jiangnan Factory to find a way."

The Air Force sank five large Japanese Navy ships in the waters of Shengsi. When the news reached the Jiangnan Shipyard, General Officer Zheng Qinglian was looking at the standard ships in the dock. Two years ago, the Prime Minister insisted on building a 300,000-ton dock. He and Wei Han strongly opposed it, believing that China does not need to build so many ships at present, but now in the war in Europe, all foreign ships in the rivers and seas have returned to the country. Merchants from all over the country were anxious and searching for ships, but no matter how they found the ship, there was no pile of cargo at various ports and docks. Gradually, the vendors who couldn't wait did not care when the foreign ships would come back, and many people came to the shipyard to prepare for ship orders.

However, most of these vendors operated small businesses. Even if they were rich and wealthy, they would not dare to spend hundreds of thousands of taels to set a large ship worth hundreds of thousands of tons. The Jiangnan Factory did not build such a small ship. According to the Ministry of Industry's plan, the Jiangnan Factory only built standard ships worth 6,000 tons and 4,000 tons, and 1,000 tons of ships to other shipyards. So the factory office sent the group of vendors to the Qiuxin Shipyard. They did not want to ask for new things and did not build a commercial ship worth hundreds of tons. Zhu Zhiyao, a sensible man, is now working hard to build a shipbuilding, so he also sent them to find small factories that make small steamer. When Jiangnan and Qiuxin did this, the bosses of foreign shipyards began to accept orders from the Ministry of Industry and began to build large ships. For a time, the shipbuilding industry in Shanghai was booming.

In the huge dock, half-complete hull was covered with workers. These technicians who had just graduated from technical schools learned how to build ships. Now they put what they learned into practice. In addition, they were young and worked hard to praise them a little, so their efficiency was much higher than that of old workers.

On the side of the dock, Zheng Qinglian looked at the increasingly skilled workers and nodded in satisfaction. When he was pointing at a certain point in the hull, an office clerk ran over like crazy and came to the front without waiting to breathe, saying, "Sir, the headquarters' Zhongzhong will call, saying... it was on the sea outside Shengsi... and it was sunk a large Japanese ship. Now the ship is about to sink. I ask if we have a large horsepower tugboat?"

The person who came was so angry that Zheng Qinglian finally understood what he meant after a while. He was from Fujian, from a ponytail, and was all fellow naval generals, so he was not unfamiliar with naval battles. He immediately said anxiously: "What a big ship? Have we won?"

The question Zheng Qinglian’s later question was simply nonsense. He went to tow the boat, so he won. Fortunately, the clerk only answered the previous question and said: “It’s very big, it’s said it’s 26,000 tons. Now it’s said that the hull has a serious water inlet and has tilted to more than twenty degrees. If you don’t save it, it will sink.”

"Ah!" Zheng Qinglian heard that it was such a big ship, and his twisted beard suddenly broke a few pieces. However, it was not vague to be the general manager of Jiangnan Factory. He turned around twice, then slapped his thighs and shouted: "Woman, there is it! That turbine test ship can be used to tow!"

The Prime Minister was extremely determined to build the Navy. For this reason, the Ministry of Industry purchased the patent for the manufacturing license of impulse steam turbines from Curtis, the United States, and then invested huge sums of money to start trial construction of steam turbines. At the beginning, he tried to build an 8,000 horsepower steam turbine. After skillful technology, he began to build a larger steam turbine with a horsepower of 24,000 last year. In order not to introduce attention, these steam turbines were only installed on inconspicuous boats, and sailing out of the sea mainly to test the stability and various data of the steam turbine operation. Now the No. 2 steam turbine ship is under maintenance at the Jiangnan Factory. Twenty-four thousand horsepower, even a 30,000 tons of ship can be towed.

In the emergency, Zheng Qinglian no longer cared about his image. He ran back to the office of the General Office with a few phone calls. After an hour, the No. 2 turbine test ship immediately sailed and headed to the sea outside Shengsi. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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