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Text Chapter 990 Let¡¯s have a decisive battle!  Navy (4)

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    "It's Haruna, it must be! Look, it's a backpack, with four turrets."

    " Then in the afterglow of the gunfire, the navigator and officers started shouting, but their voices sounded sullen.  He only wanted to achieve great achievements, but he was "struck by lightning" without even thinking about going out. Not to mention that all his electronic equipment was destroyed, and he ran the wrong way What the hell is this?  This is all the fault of the designer, who did not reserve a location for the radar at the beginning of the design. As a result, to install the radar, the radar and communication antenna could only be assembled on the front mast.  Coupled with the unreasonable design of the automatic short-circuit device and circuit protection, it was really bad luck for eight lifetimes.

    Yang Tiancheng is so angry!  To make matters worse, the Wumengshan's position was now on the right side of the enemy ship, nearly parallel.  That is to say, if we encounter an unscrupulous captain like the Tianmushan again, if a wave of torpedoes is avoided by the other party, it is likely to come towards him.

    "Left rudder"

    "Captain, look!"

    Yang Tiancheng was rushing back to the battlefield at full speed, but the navigator shouted again.  On their port side, a spectacular scene appeared in front of everyone.  All he saw was that in the peripheral vision area between the battle zone and himself, dozens of small black dots were desperately turning towards him.  "Play with me! Get ready to fight!" With such a large black spot, not to mention Yang Tiancheng, even the sailors on the deck who were preparing for war were numb.  If this were a warship, I don¡¯t know how the Wumengshan died.

    While everyone was dumbfounded, the electronics officer rushed into the bridge with his body wet: "Captain, the radar has been repaired and communications have been restored."

    "Great, turn on the phone! Prepare to contact" Yang Tiancheng breathed a sigh of relief at the critical good news at the critical moment.  After the radar is restored, it can at least identify the target and find ways to avoid it.  But as soon as the radar was turned on, a frightening electric current rushed from everyone's back to the back of their heads.  All I saw on the radar screen was densely packed with flashing bright spots!  "Captain, evade immediately." The navigator, one of the few experienced officers on the ship, immediately reacted and shouted: "Zuo Man"

    "Wait!" But he hadn't finished speaking yet.  A bold idea suddenly entered Yang Tiancheng's mind, and he asked loudly: "Can you distinguish the target type?"

    "The radar can't distinguish the type. If you look at it visually No, it's too far away. You can't see it at all!" No one understood what Yang Tiancheng wanted to do, but he strode to the communication station, grabbed the phone and asked the following  Radar cabin: "Can you measure their speed?"

    "Calculating, it will take two minutes." Unlike battleships, destroyers have less space, so they lack large computers.  All radar elements are calculated manually and require a certain amount of time to process.

    Evasion at sea needs to be measured in advance. Seeing the black spots that appear and disappear turning towards us, everyone is a little anxious.  The captain turned his head anxiously: "Captain!" "Wait a minute." Yang Tiancheng looked at his watch and tore off his raincoat. He didn't know whether it was sweat or the rain just now, but his temples were covered with water droplets.

    "It's the Huijishan, the Huijishan was hit!" "The Songshan asked everyone to continue the attack to delay the attack. General Xu and the others can arrive within 40 minutes!" Time passed by.  Various orders and signals also sounded on the radio.  As the fierce battle in the distance began to escalate, explosions lit up behind the Haruna. This showed that our warship had been hit multiple times!

    The comrades fought desperately to kill the enemy, but the Wumengshan kept a strange sailing attitude and watched the battle from a distance.  This made the sailors in the battle positions confused. Seeing that everyone's patience was about to be exhausted, the electronic cabin finally sent data: "The Haruna formation speed is 23 knots, heading northwest. The unknown formation speed is 12 knots. Heading due south.  .¡±

    12 sections!  No warship can be so slow. Even if the wind and waves are very strong now, it is still at least 16 knots.  So the black spot on the opposite side is "It's a merchant ship!" The navigator and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

    "Full left rudder, heading 227! Slow down to 25 knots! Guns and torpedoes ready!" As soon as he heard the data, Yang Tiancheng immediately issued the order, but this string of orders was even more confusing to everyone.  Because if the left rudder is full and the heading is 227, it is equivalent to passing the opponent's merchant ship head-on!  God, although it's windy and rainy now, and the opponent is a merchant ship, there is no guarantee that there will be destroyers or modified armed ships in the fleet.

    So the navigator and gunnery commander looked at each other and immediately walked to the chart: "Captain, you"

    Yang Tiancheng chuckled, raised his hand to interrupt them, and asked: "Let me ask you, what is the visibility now?"

    "It's raining too much. Without firelight, the visibility is up to 3,500 meters."

    "That's almost it! You see, our current position is in the backlight. This means that when you look at us from the opposite side, we are only 4,500 meters above the sky. If we use a detour to pursue, it will take at least 30 minutes to catch up. So  It takes a long time for the Haruna to drive away the Songshan and the others. Even if we arrive by then, we will still be fighting one battleship and three heavy cruisers! So I'm thinking, since we can't see them clearly?, naturally they can¡¯t see us clearly.  So, you might as well take advantage of this opportunity and do it directly.  "His hand shook and he drew a straight line on the chart. The direction of the straight line was actually passing directly by the Japanese merchant ship! The officers gasped, this is too bold! There must be some among the merchant ships.  If Japanese destroyers and armed ships are discovered, they must not be attacked from a flank. While they are nervous, everyone also sees an opportunity. Because if they can sneak past the merchant ship, they can enter the torpedo range in 15 minutes at most and face the battleship Haruna.  formation, while their attention should still be on the other side.

    There are 10 550mm Yu-5 thermal-powered heavy-duty torpedoes on my own ship.  At a full speed of 50 knots, the range can reach 7,000 meters. As long as one hits, the Haruna will stall.  You know, two Anhai-class battleships and two Xi'an-class heavy cruisers led by Xu Zengtang are coming behind them.  "Either be flanked by four battleships, orlet them try our lightning strike tactics." Yang Tiancheng raised his head, his eyes flashing.  "It's done!" These young men were fearless, and the gunnery commander shouted out almost as soon as he caught his eye.  Only the older navigator is more worried, because the Japanese Navy has a group of perverted "cat eyes". Will they discover the Wumengshan?  And the flash of distant shelling was always a nuisance.

    Although Yang Tiancheng is the captain, he cannot act arbitrarily because a destroyer involves the lives of hundreds of soldiers.  The navigator stared at the chart for a long time, then opened the cabin door himself and used a telescope to confirm the visibility.  After going back and forth a few times, he turned around and nodded.

    "Get ready for battle! Turn off the lights in the cabin and everyone is prohibited from making noise! ??Increase deck lookouts. Engine room, ensure boiler pressure. Electronics! Report radar readings every 30 seconds, the navigation team calculates the main target angle, and enters torpedo coordinates six minutes later  !" With the support of the navigation chief, Yang Tiancheng immediately turned off all internal lights that might be exposed.

    The captain's order was quickly transmitted to the deck combat post. Seeing their warship rushing towards the afterglow of gunfire, the sailors swallowed wildly.  In the three-meter-high waves, Wumengshan is like a cradle, rising and falling in the waves.  The bow of the ship was constantly hit by waves, causing layers of white foam.  "You won't be discovered, right?" An officer firmly grasped the armrest and looked around with wide eyes.  But in fact, let alone them at this time, even the lookouts on the deck began to become blind, and even the frequency of distant fires began to slow down, and it seemed that both sides were in pursuit and gradually faded away.

    "The fleet is 13,000 yards in length and is staggering. It is expected to pass in six minutes."

    "Starboard. 5700 yards!"

    "There is another ship on the port side, 7,300 yards away!"

    The voice of the radar electronics officer echoed in the bridge. The "blind navigation" that relied entirely on radar navigation made everyone's heart pick up in their throats.  Although the navigator himself steered the ship.  The ship was carefully controlled at a visual distance of 5,000 meters, but such a close distance still made people tremble with nervousness.  God knows if there are any Japanese Navy's famous "Cat's Eyes" in merchant ships!  Even lighting up a lighter at this moment would cause disaster.  As the Japanese merchant ships passed by the darkness on both sides one by one, everyone was sweating coldly.  Breathing softly for fear of alarming the other side, Yang Tiancheng swallowed hard and grabbed the railing with both hands.  Finger bones turn white.

    It should be said that he and the Wumengshan were lucky. The Japanese fleet did have two special cruisers, but before the voyage, Kimura Susumu gave up the destroyers due to distance and other issues, so there was no "cat's eye" in the fleet.  Moreover, the attention of the four Japanese battleships was all to the north. As the 239 formation pulled away, the remaining light of the gunfire could no longer be seen, and the dark clouds made it impossible to see the fingers on the sea.  "We've passed them, we've passed them." The heavy rain and wind and waves were dangerous, but they perfectly made the Wumengshan "invisible". When the radar operator shouted excitedly after crossing the Japanese fleet, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

    "Torpedo unlocked! Full speed! Contact the Songshan, tell us the position, and let them hold on for another five minutes!" Yang Tiancheng shouted, the pressure valve instantly grew to the maximum, and the surging high-pressure steam drove two steam turbines, pushing the propellers at high speeds.  change.  The speed of the Wumengshan suddenly surged from 25 knots to 35 knots, quickly approaching the battleship Haruna that was being tracked by radar.

    "Colonel, the China destroyer is here again!"

    At this time, the Haruna's attention was still to the north, and it did not notice the Wumengshan that was approaching rapidly.  Was Susumu Kimura in the command tower also on the port side? When he discovered that the destroyer he had just forced away had come back, he became increasingly anxious and looked up at the navigation clock.

    "How far has the fleet left?"

    ¡°According to calculations, we should have left 12 nautical miles.¡± 12 nautical miles is enough for the fleet to evacuate to a safe distance on a rainy night with visibility less than 4,000 meters.  But the problem is that the Chinese Navy has radar.  So we must persist to more than 25 nautical miles.  This means that it will take at least 30 minutes of interception.  But Kimura Susumu doesn't want to stay here anymore, because since the war started,In order to cover the fleet, he has been held back for 15 minutes. He believes that the opponent's battleship must be coming at full speed, so he must leave as soon as possible.

    "Turn to the west, and ask the Furutaka and Kako to continue intercepting. The Kumano and us will leave first." Susumu Kimura is right. If you have a pair of clairvoyant eyes, you can spot the two Ankai-class battleships led by Xu Zengtang and the two Xi'an  The heavy cruiser has appeared 22 nautical miles to the north.  Turning the course to the west at the direction he mentioned would turn into a pursuit battle, and the speed of the Anhai class would not be dominant.  But the problem is that he and all the Japanese officers did not expect that the Wumengshan would appear from the south where the fleet left.

    So this time the turn was from facing the enemy on the stern to facing the enemy on the starboard side.  The two-hundred-meter-long huge side "do you want to say hello to him?" After the navigator learned from the electronics officer that the Haruna had turned, he was stunned, and the gunnery commander clenched his fists and excitedly  A joke was made.

    "Okay, but we have to wait until the torpedoes are fired." Yang Tiancheng ignored the joke, held the stopwatch, and actively reduced the launch angle: "Reduce the reflection angle and set it to intensive launch. Start the countdown."

    "9200 yards, 8500 yards, 8000 yards, 7700 yards"

    "Starboard, enemy ship!"

    When the distance was close to 6,500 yards, the "cat's eye" on the Haruna finally spotted the Umonsan undulating in the waves.  Hearing the scream, a wave of ice instantly rose from the soles of Kimura Susumu's feet: "Full left rudder! Avoid torpedoes!"

    "Full right rudder, launch!"

    "Full rudder to right, torpedo launch!"

    The moment the destroyer turned sharply, the two five-unit 550mm heavy-duty torpedo launchers between the chimneys quickly fired all 10 torpedoes at a rate of one per second.  someone will ask.  Why do you need to turn sharply when the torpedo is launched?  In fact, this is not to increase the speed of the torpedo entering the water, but because the current torpedo does not have self-guiding capability, so it must turn as sharply as possible when launching, and use the ship's own steering to ensure that the torpedo forms a fan after entering the water and increases the strike area.

    Ten 550mm Yu-5 thermally powered heavy-duty torpedoes, like arrows from the string, exploded from the launch tube and plunged into the warm waves.  If it's daytime.  You can clearly see the "white line", but it is night now, the rain is heavy and the waves are strong, so the track is not obvious.  "Be careful of shelling!" The torpedo had just been fired.  The Haruna on the opposite side also opened fire.  The eight 356mm main guns on the bow of the ship sprayed out a stream of fireballs, and the shells fell around the Wumengshan, setting off a terrifying water column.  Fortunately, it's taking a sharp turn.  Therefore, its 14 152mm secondary guns were not put into battle, giving Wumengshan a chance of survival.

    "Leave! Leave! At full speedboom, boom, boom!" Shells followed the Wumengshan and exploded one after another.  Stimulating adrenaline.  Yang Tiancheng grabbed the stopwatch and almost pressed himself against the porthole, looking forward to it with everyone  "10, 9, 8, 7, 6 Boom!" Before the gunner could count to zero, two dull explosions came from behind.

    A violent explosion first came from the starboard side of the bow of the battleship Haruna. After 350 kilograms of explosives exploded underwater, a huge cavity effect was formed, tearing and crushing the steel plates here, and finally forming a large gap seven meters long.  The 30,000-ton warship was also shuddered by the water mass, and all the officers, including Susumu Kimura, staggered around.  Before the damage could be confirmed, the second torpedo exploded amidships. The 100-meter-high water column not only made the battleship tremble again, but also dragged several Japanese sailors into the sea.

    "Report No. 3, water column observed, location is being confirmed!"

    "Mizzenmast No. 4 reports, hit! We hit, hit!"

    "There was a fire on the port side of the target ship's bow."

    "Slowing down, the target is slowing down!"

    Soon, observers all over the ship reported what they saw, and the radar also calculated that the battleship Haruna had slowed down significantly two minutes later.  "Hit! Haha, we hit!" There was also joy in the bridge, but everyone did not dare to be careless because there were more and more water columns around them.  "It's a 203mm naval gun! Damn it, we're being targeted by heavy patrols!" Upon hearing the whistling of the shells, the gunner's expression immediately changed.  Sure enough, at the same time as the Haruna exploded, the escorting Japanese heavy cruiser Kumano had locked onto the destroyer Umonsan.

    "Boom, boom, boom" In the eyes of the destroyer, the 10 203mm naval guns are more terrifying than the Haruna's 8 356mm main guns, because the heavy cruiser's main guns are faster and can often fire three times a minute.  By the fourth shot, it was very dense.  On the sea, the Wumengshan was hiding and maneuvering here and there, like an assassin who was being chased all over the street after succeeding, but was extremely happy and sad.

    "Full right rudder, heading northeast! Contact"

    "Captain, be careful! Boom"

    Yang Tiancheng hugged the armrest and just ordered to maneuver in the direction of his main force, when he felt a weight on his back, and then heard a banging sound.  But he waited and waited, but found that there was no explosion as he imagined.  Look at yourself again? The navigator and others, who were also pressed on the deck by the guards, also looked at each other with confused expressions.

    "It was hit there? Report the situation."

    "It's the foremast! No one, no one was injured! It's the radar! You bastard, my radar and communication antenna are ruined again!"

    ¡°¡­¡­.¡±

    As the second officer shouted, everyone realized that a 203 mm armor-piercing projectile had just hit the front mast by accident.  Because there was no armor here, the armor-piercing shells flattened the mast and fell into the sea on the other side.  "Haha I know we won't die." No one was injured after the shells, and the officers all laughed.  But before he was happy for a long time, a series of fierce, but different from the sound breaking through the air suddenly came.

    "It's over, it's over! Captain, we are caught in the middle!" The gunnery commander, who had a pair of sensitive ears, changed his face when he heard the sound.  Because he discovered that this was the sound made by the 210mm artillery shells on the Xi'an-class heavy cruiser.  That is to say After continuous maneuvering and turning, the Wumengshan was just in front of the Japanese heavy cruiser Kumano and was under the firepower of its own heavy cruiser.

    My communication antenna seemed to have been destroyed just now.

    "Send a light signal! Hurry up! I have thought about it. The first thing I will do when I escape is to dismantle this broken radar and blow it up!" When I think of the two Xi'an-class heavy cruisers, they are so perverted.  With the ability to throw 144 artillery shells per minute, Yang Tiancheng's face turned green and he cursed this radar for bringing him "bad luck"

    (To be continued)
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