Rise from the sword

Chapter 622
In an age when battleships ruled the seas,
That is, during and before the last world war, the most glorious period of the British Empire,
The larger the tonnage of the warship, the stronger the strength, because the larger the tonnage of the warship, the thicker the armor, the thicker the main gun, and the more accurate the sighting equipment. Naturally, it is cheaper to fight with the naval guns.

But the British Empire fell,

Times have changed too.

At the beginning of this world war, from the sinking of the counterattack by the Japanese shore-based aircraft torpedo, the aircraft showed an attack power that was completely inconsistent with his size. Since then, the protagonist of the naval battle has become an aircraft, and the era of giant ship artillery has begun to fall behind up.

of course,

At night, the law of the giant ship's cannon is still implemented, whoever is bigger is right. At this time, the aircraft seriously lacks the ability to attack at night, and it is difficult to take off and land on the aircraft carrier at night.

But today, no, to be precise, tonight, Wang Gensheng used a battle example to prove that,
Times have changed again.

In the face of ever-changing new technologies, it's time for giant ships and cannons to be put into the garbage dump, just like the empire on which the sun never sets, just like the Great Japanese Empire, it's time to go into the garbage dump.

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"Turn off all the lights."

In the cab of 'Dolphin', Wang Gensheng took a deep breath, calmed down his inner excitement, and continued to give orders:

"Torpedo warm up."

Like the 'Dolphin' torpedo boat, the torpedoes in the torpedo tubes are now also upgraded.

It is still autonomous sound guidance, but the guidance is more sensitive, but no matter how sensitive the sound guidance torpedo is, it also has the weakness of poor accuracy, so in order to further enhance the accuracy, a new guidance method is used.

wire guide.

To put it simply, it is to provide navigation for the torpedo through a wire, and artificially correct the course of the torpedo at the end.

After testing, with the acoustic seeker, the accuracy of the wire-guided torpedo is more than three times higher than that of the non-wire-guided torpedo, and the concealment is extremely high, but there are still many problems.

During the guidance period, the launched torpedo boat cannot maneuver on a large scale, and must always maintain a certain distance in parallel contact with the target. The torpedo boat must also carry more than 100 kilograms of wires, and the wire guide distance is only five kilometers.

If it was daytime, he would not dare approach the Kaohsiung within five kilometers, let alone five kilometers. When the sea conditions are good, he will be found more than ten kilometers away, and he will be attacked by devils before he reaches the maximum range of the torpedo. Artillery attack.

But now, it's nighttime.

There is no moon, the starlight is weak, and the sea is pitch black. Even the Devil Navy watchman, who claims to be the best in the world and drinks fish oil every day to maintain his eyesight, cannot see the sea two kilometers away unless he is illuminated by searchlights.

The deep engine noise is completely hidden in the background noise of the environment.

Another point is that the Little Devils Navy has never thought that there are warships from other countries that can enter the Sea of ​​Japan. You must know that even the Americans were not able to enter this sea area.

Even a submarine.

After paying a few lessons for submarines not to be found and sunk, the Americans did not dare to send submarines over.

So at this time, the Kaohsiung is like being in its own swimming pool. Not only are all the searchlights turned on, searching for possible Republican pilots who have fallen into the sea, but the speed is still sailing at cruising speed, which is a speed of more than ten knots.

So the devil warship didn't know that the danger was approaching, and it was still sailing sideways in the Sea of ​​Japan.

"Distance, [-] kilometers, target speed [-] knots."

Radar operators reported enemy data.

"Full left rudder, adjust the speed, we keep parallel with the enemy ship."

Following Wang Gensheng's new order, the dolphin turned around and slowed down, maintaining the same speed and direction as the Devil's warship, keeping them relatively parallel, and the distance between the two sides was about three kilometers.

"Torpedo targeting."

Afterwards, Wang Gensheng took a deep breath, suppressed the tension in his heart, and continued to give orders.

The combination of wire guide and sound guide makes it take a while for the torpedo to prepare.

After all, wire-guided torpedoes are not visually controlled torpedoes that crash into enemy warships like a remote control.

It's not that simple.

The lookout height of the torpedo boat is doomed, even at a distance of five kilometers, it is impossible for the lookout to observe the torpedo track all the way, and let alone at night, the underwater track of the battery-driven torpedo is almost inaudible.

Since it is impossible to see the specific position of the torpedo, before launching, it is necessary to calculate the ballistic trajectory, and then adjust the course and speed of the torpedo according to the position of the enemy warship measured by the radar through the wire, and then according to the information fed back by the sound seeker through the wire, the two The operator cooperates to comprehensively guide the torpedo to crash into the target.

Compared with the automated torpedoes of later generations, it is far behind.

But such a troublesome and complicated guidance technology is ten years or even more advanced than the current top torpedo self-guidance technology.

"emission."

Following Wang Gensheng's order, the four torpedoes rushed towards the largest warship of the devil.

According to the radar, there are two warships in the distance, one large and one small. The small one is a destroyer and the large one is a heavy cruiser.Wang Gensheng, who has won the true biography of Li Yunlong, naturally picked the big ones to fight, and the small destroyers were not in his eyes at all.

After the torpedo was launched, the operator was tensely guiding the torpedo based on the radar information and the change of the enemy ship's course speed.

"Pay attention to speed, heading, and avoid enemy searchlights."

Wang Gensheng's heart was in his throat at this moment.

Although it was nighttime, and although the devil's lookouts would not want to see them, the devil now has a dozen or so searchlights on the warship shining around. These large searchlights are at a distance of five or six kilometers, and it is entirely possible to spot them, so Wang Gensheng must be careful.

Once the devil finds out, it will be a big trouble.

Seeing that the torpedo was gradually approaching the Devil's warship, just ten seconds away, suddenly, one of Devil's searchlights suddenly turned and shone directly on the 'Dolphin'. The pilot was caught off guard and had no time to dodge.

"That is···"

Known as the 'elite' devil's watchman, he discovered this unexpected guest at the first time:
"Spot the enemy ship."

In just a second, the devil's lookout judged that the boat in front of him was an enemy ship.

There is absolutely no warship of a similar type in the combined empire fleet. As a lookout, he has absolute confidence in this.

This scene also changed Wang Gensheng's expression.

But at this moment, the person in charge of searching for the distress signal also shouted:
"Five signals were found, just seventeen kilometers behind the devil's warship."

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Bo Bay.

coast.

"It's over there!"

Several devil patrol boats approached a beach full of devils. With the help of searchlights, even the naked eye could see a huge plane parked on the beach.

Even if it is more than one kilometer away, you can feel the size of this plane.

Tens of meters long, tens of meters wide, and more than ten meters high, it looks like a building standing there from a distance.

Although one wing was broken from the middle, and part of the belly was buried in the sand, one could still feel the majesty of the plane through the huge fuselage and the five engines on the other side.

The flames burning in the engine, wings and other places allowed the devils to see this huge plane clearly.

"What a big plane."

In the leading motorboat, a devil muttered to himself.

In his life, this was the first time he had seen such a huge aircraft, comparable to the size of a warship, so that this devil was in shock for a long time.

Of course, a trace of fear also floated in his heart. Such a huge plane belongs to the enemy. Then, how many bombs should this plane hold?Ten tons, twenty tons, or more?

At this time, although the devil guards in these coastal areas were ordered to search for the downed plane, they were not informed of the news that Tokyo was bombed, and the little devil is still covering it tightly.

Of course, this is also understandable. After all, the "capital" of my family was bombed, and the locusts couldn't be contacted temporarily.

"Search."

The leading devil waved his hand, murderous:
"Search for the pilot and try to capture him alive."

He knew that it was these planes that bombed the empire tonight. However, he didn't know where the empire was bombed. He only knew that the orders from his superiors were very murderous, but he still asked to capture them as much as possible.

After receiving the order, the devils got off the motorboat one after another, and then surrounded the plane.

At this moment, on a hill more than one kilometer away from the plane's forced landing, more than 100 plainclothes guerrilla members surrounded more than a dozen bomber crew members in pilot uniforms, asking non-stop:

"Tokyo is really lit?"

"Is the little devil, the locust, dead?"

"How does it feel to fly a plane, and what does it take to be a pilot?"

"..."

"Of course, do you know that Tokyo is the capital of devils, but the houses over there are all made of wood. We brought incendiary bombs this time. Once fired, thousands of houses were set on fire... "

Looking at these guerrillas eager for knowledge, the captain of unit 55 smiled slightly, adjusted his splint-fixed arm, and began to answer them one by one.

Beside them, several doctors were bandaging and treating the wounds of the team members on the stretchers.

Although the emergency landing was successful and every one of them died, there were quite a few injured crew members, almost every one of them died, and many of them needed several weeks to recover.

"The devil is here."

At this moment, several guerrillas in charge of security pointed to the plane in the distance and shouted.

"Mortar."

The guerrilla captain gave the order immediately.

Later, at the rear of the team, several team members lifted the haystacks, revealing two 2 heavy mortars, and some team members carried out four 120 mortars and one shell after another.

Six mortars were fired at the distant pursuit point.

"Prepare."

The guerrilla captain waved his hand, and the loaders put the shells into the barrel in unison.

boom boom boom

A round of shells flew to the plane in the distance, and to the devils in the distance.

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"How long will it take to hit?"

The first time Wang Gensheng was spotted by the searchlights of the Devil's warship, Wang Gensheng immediately looked at the operator operating the torpedo.

Before the words fell, he shouted to the engine room staff:
"Maximum horsepower."

Although the 'Dolphin' has a high level of electrification, in order to maintain concealment, Wang Gensheng asked the people in the engine room to reduce the power of the engine, but he is not a fool. Even if he lacks actual combat experience, he can still think that in combat, he must ensure that he can run at full speed anytime, anywhere ability.

Therefore, all four [-]-horsepower diesel engines of the 'Dolphin' were started.

"Ten seconds."

At this time, several torpedo operators answered loudly.

"Can't wait that long, speed up."

Wang Gensheng shouted:
"We deal with the devil warship and notify other 'dolphins' to rescue the pilot who fell into the water."

As soon as his words fell, a series of explosions appeared around the torpedo boat, and the surrounding sea seemed to have exploded and began to boil.

The little devil's navy is also worthy of being an elite. In this short period of five seconds, the rapid-fire gun fired and aimed accurately.

There is no need to aim at a distance of three kilometers.

Fortunately, in such a short time, it is absolutely impossible for the devil's main gun to respond, and the secondary gun is also not good. Although the small-caliber artillery is fine, it is not very accurate.

As the second wave of bullets hit, one of the small-caliber rapid-fire guns hit the front of the torpedo boat and directly pierced a splint. Fortunately, the shell fell into the water again after passing through the splint without causing any damage.

"Cut off the boot."

"Full speed ahead."

Seeing that it was too late, Wang Gensheng had to order the torpedo director to cut off the wire, and then let the torpedo boat advance at full speed.

Fortunately, the torpedo was only a few hundred meters away from the Devil's warship at this time, and at this point just now, the pilot had completed the final guidance and turned on the automatic seeker. Next, it depends on the performance of the torpedo itself.

Simultaneously.

Four 1-horsepower diesel engines were running at full speed, bursting out with a power of 44 horsepower. The pusher 'Dolphin' advanced at a speed of [-] knots, leaving the devil's shells behind.

It also avoided the attack of the Devil's heavy cruiser's main gun.

"idiot."

At this scene, the captain of the heavy cruiser who watched the ghost was furious:
"Go at full speed, catch up, and destroy them."

Although horrified by the speed of the enemy's boat, the captain of the Devil's heavy cruiser still knew very well that although they were fast, they had a chance.

The top speed of the Kaohsiung class under his command is 34 knots, which is only ten knots lower than that of the opponent. Now the searchlights have locked on the opponent. The distance between the two sides is only a few kilometers. The range of the main and auxiliary guns is considered the acceleration time. He also has 15 minutes to destroy the opponent. .

For the elite United Fleet of the Great Japanese Empire, it is enough.

The Kaohsiung-class sailors under his command are all elite, experienced elites.

Just at this time,
suddenly,

boom····

A violent explosion rose from the port side of the Kaohsiung class,
The 350mm torpedo was loaded with more than [-] kilograms of explosives, and all of them were Octojin explosives, comparable to [-] kilograms of yellow explosives. The violent shock wave was like a big hand, pushing the Kaohsiung to the right. .

Before the devil could react, another explosion pushed the Kaohsiung class to the right.

Then, the third explosion rose again.

In this way, three consecutive explosions occurred on the port side of the Kaohsiung-class heavy cruiser. The continuous violent shock waves almost overturned the ship, and the left deck almost entered the water.

　write more tomorrow...
　　
　
(End of this chapter)