The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 670: Sinking
When the captain of the passenger ship Chen Zhengwei was on saw the flag signal, he was shocked and quickly asked Li Xiwen to notify Chen Zhengwei.

"Brother, the captain said that there is a artillery battery ahead, which may cover us." Li Xiwen said beside Chen Zhengwei.

"Slow down the Warrior and release the small boat. We will go to the Warrior." Chen Zhengwei ordered.

The width of the Uraga Channel is 10 kilometers, and the artillery batteries on both sides are sufficient to cover the middle.

Even if the hit rate is not high, this is just a passenger ship and it has no defense capabilities at all.

Chen Zhengwei got up and returned to the cabin, where he saw Lin Changning walking around in the restaurant and the waiters constantly bringing morning tea to the table.

"Don't prepare, let's go to the Warrior."

"What happened?" Lin Changning picked up a handkerchief and wiped his fingers, his cheeks as limp as a squirrel.

"You're cheating?" Chen Zhengwei's attention was immediately diverted.

"Let me try it and see if it tastes okay!" Lin Changning was also angry.

It's because you pick on everything every day!
He is so picky even when it comes to eating!
"Just eat it if you want to. Who would stuff so much food into their cheeks just to taste it?" Chen Zhengwei sneered, and then put the matter aside.

"We're going to fight! This passenger ship will stay here for now! We'll transfer to the Warrior."

When he goes on the Warrior, he will definitely bring Wanyun with him.

Lin Changning and others were not safe on the cruise ship, so it would be better for them to go to the Warrior together.

"Why is there another war?" Lin Changning stared at Chen Zhengwei. It had been quiet for a few days.

"Stop talking so much nonsense! Those little dwarfs are slandering me!" Chen Zhengwei turned around and walked out cursing. Lin Changning hurriedly called Wanyun and the nanny, followed them out and got on the small boat, and then changed to the Warrior.

Sitting on the bridge of the Warrior, Chen Zhengwei felt that the view here was much wider.

Taking the telescope from Li Xiwen, Chen Zhengwei looked into the distance and saw an ironclad ship lying across the sea.

"Ironclad ship?" Chen Zhengwei raised his eyebrows. He remembered that what Japan bought from the British was a cruiser, and it seemed that it had been modified.

Judging from the size, the displacement is about 3000 tons. There is a rotating main gun at the bow and stern, which looks to be 10 inches.

There are eight six-inch secondary guns on the fore and aft sides.

"It's still a muzzle-loading cannon... The British didn't sell them good things either!" Chen Zhengwei sneered.

In fact, Britain had already been using breech-loading cannons. Muzzle-loading cannons were slow to load, and due to their sealing properties, even though they were both black powder cannons, their range and accuracy were much worse.

The other ship, with a displacement of less than 1000 tons, is just a wooden warship. It is much larger than the torpedo launcher and appears to be a converted merchant ship. The guns are located in the gun compartments on both sides of the hull.

"Hey, torpedo launchers?" Chen Zhengwei saw several small warships around him, with a displacement of only one or two hundred tons, about the same as fishing boats.

Chen Zhengwei saw the torpedo launcher on it, but now the torpedoes of countries around the world are all propelled by compressed air, with very slow speed and short range of only a few hundred meters.

On the high ground on both sides of the waterway, two artillery batteries were aimed at the center of the waterway, firmly guarding the exit of the Uraga Channel into Tokyo Bay.

When exchanging fire with enemy warships, you will also enter the range of the artillery.

Chen Zhengwei closed his eyes, and the entire sea surface and the artillery areas on both sides seemed to be covered with countless grids.

This sea area seemed to have become a chessboard.

This is not an inherent ability of the "Ocean Chess Player", but something he figured out on his own.

On this "chessboard", each ship is a chess piece, and all movements are under Chen Zhengwei's control.

In the corner of his eyes, the chess pieces of both sides were constantly changing.

"Order, the fleet forms an inverted wedge formation, with the San Francisco and Los Angeles in the front row on both sides. Approach at a speed of 20 knots. After five kilometers, slow down and exchange positions."

"Their target is the enemy's larger ironclad ship! Use explosive bombs to kill the personnel on the enemy's deck first and destroy the gun turrets."

"The torpedo launchers, under the cover of the San Francisco and Los Angeles, move forward on the inside and use the bow guns and miniature machine guns to sink those torpedo boats. Do not use torpedoes."

"Warrior, speed up after four kilometers. Have Los Angeles and San Francisco pay attention to the Warrior's position and cover it."

"Tell them again that the southeast wind is level 4 today."

Chen Zhengwei can control everything except the shells that are fired.

In terms of strength, the USS San Francisco and USS Los Angeles are far superior to the enemy's battleships, but he doesn't know whether he can sink the enemy in a short time.

If not possible, let the San Francisco and Los Angeles attract the enemy's firepower, and then the Warrior will join in to force the enemy to come up and intercept.

The other party will definitely not allow us to break through and enter Tokyo Bay.

Then, with the Warrior's firepower and performance, it can easily tear the enemy apart.

As Chen Zhengwei spoke, the flag bearer continued to wave flags.

The two cruisers, the San Francisco and Los Angeles, began to speed up and aimed their guns at the Hiei.

The sailors on the ship were constantly busy.

"Maximum range!"

"Southeast wind force 4, adjust five degrees to the left!"

"The distance is six thousand five hundred meters...six thousand two hundred meters...six thousand meters..."

"Fire!" the artillery commander below gave the order fiercely.

Boom boom boom!

On the Hiei opposite, the Japanese Navy was still observing the fleet and busy making preparations and loading artillery.

They had already seen that the other side was preparing to attack.

"They are going very fast, at least over 18 knots..." The battleship commander looked into the distance with a telescope, and the others also watched nervously.

However, they thought that the enemy would not open fire until they were three kilometers away from them, which was the range of their artillery.

I didn't expect the other party to open fire directly from a distance of six kilometers.

The Japanese sailors on the Hiei looked at the small dot on the sea in the distance with some confusion, and then they heard the whistle of a cannonball.

"careful!"

Four huge water columns rushed up on the sea surface hundreds of meters around the Hiei.

It was only then that the Japanese navy were shocked to find that the enemy's range was so far, nearly twice as far as theirs.

You have to know that at this time the enemy had just entered the firing range of the turret.

"Move to the left front at half speed and prepare to attack!" The sailors on the Hiei shouted loudly.

Then the artillery batteries on the heights on both sides opened fire, and shells fell on the San Francisco and Los Angeles in the Uraga Channel.

Two more rounds of artillery fire followed, with shells continuously falling around the Hiei. The closest one was only a dozen meters away from the Hiei, causing the Japanese navy on the Hiei to break out in cold sweats.

Fortunately, the distance between the two sides was constantly shortening, and the Hiei was ready to open fire. Everyone was staring closely at the oncoming warship on the sea.

Sweat dripped from their foreheads into their eyes, and they all forgot they could still blink.

"They're slowing down..."

"Is it within our range?"

"No, there's still 500 meters to go!"

"Bastard!" The commander of the Hiei punched the rudder, then swerved to avoid the attack, while hesitating whether to speed up to meet it.

It feels so frustrating that I can only take the beating and not be able to fight back.

They could only watch the other side open fire and the shells from the artillery batteries on both sides fall around the other side.

Although we haven't been hit yet, what if... No one knows if a shell will fall on the ship in the next second. Making decisions on the battlefield is the most difficult thing.

While he was still hesitating, the enemy launched another round of artillery fire, accompanied by the whistle of shells falling from the sky. The entire ship suddenly shook violently, as if it had jumped up from the sea.

All the people on the boat were thrown to the ground, and some were thrown directly into the sea by the shock wave.

The captain climbed up from the boat with difficulty. He felt that he could not hear anything and his head was buzzing.

"Explosive bomb, it's an explosive bomb!" the second captain next to him shouted loudly.

"what?"

It took the captain a long time to feel the sound coming from far away and gradually becoming clearer. Only then could he check the situation on the ship. He saw that the middle deck was directly lifted up, and there was a hole and a large area of charred black on the deck, with flames burning on the edge of the hole.

The smoke continued to rise.

There were fewer sailors on the ship, and some were lying far away without any reaction.

All the gunners around the main gun were knocked over.

"Put out the fire! Get someone to put out the fire!"

"No, we can't keep getting beaten like this!" The captain gritted his teeth and said, "And if they continue like this, they will rush directly into Tokyo Bay."

If they rushed into Tokyo Bay, they would be out of the firing range of the artillery batteries on both sides.

"We must move forward to stop them! Cover the torpedo boats! Now we can only rely on the torpedo boats!"

Soon, orders were issued from the Hiei, and the Hiei and Seikaze began to move forward, while the small torpedo boats accelerated towards the Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The captain of the Hiei realized the disparity in firepower between the two sides and now only hoped that the torpedo boats could cause some damage to the other side.

As long as they can blow up one of the enemy's warships, their pressure will be much less.

However, soon, those small torpedo boats encountered several larger, faster and more flexible torpedo launchers. The ships directly mounted machine guns and fired at the torpedo boats. Countless bullets chased from the sea surface to the torpedo boats, tearing the sailors on the torpedo boats to pieces.

Even the wooden hulls of the ships, which were converted from merchant ships, were constantly splattered with wood fragments by the machine gun bullets.

"Ergou, come here and pee!" On a torpedo launching ship, a Chinese man waved to a young man not far away.

"Damn it, it's gone! Not a drop left! I just peed!" the young man cursed angrily.

"Fuck, it looks like I have to do it myself!" The Chinese man laughed and unzipped his pants to cool down the machine gun, cursing as he cooled it down:
"There's no need to fire cannons, we can tear them to pieces with machine guns!"

Having said that, the single 6-inch gun on the bow never stopped firing, and soon the enemy's two torpedo boats exploded and slowly sank into the water.

Then several other ships, under the machine gun fire, still tried to get closer.

Bullets continued to wreak havoc on the ship. When the captain died, the second captain took over the ship. When the second captain died, the first mate took over.

The torpedomen were replaced several times, and occasionally a torpedo was fired, but it was avoided from a distance.

The whole scene was seen by the Hiei in the distance. The captain of the Hiei almost had bleeding eyes. He could feel that there was a huge gap between the two sides in terms of ship performance and weapons.

There is also a huge gap in tactics between the two sides.

The other side even guessed their plan to use torpedo boats and made preparations from the beginning.

Those small warships, with their extremely fast speed and flexibility, were designed to deal with torpedo boats.

"That ship, another one is coming!" the crew member shouted, pointing at the sea in the distance.

After the two enemy cruisers crossed each other, another battleship came up from behind them, and then the three battleships pressed forward in a horizontal formation.

He knew that it would only take ten minutes for the enemy to escape from the artillery's bombardment range.

I must stop them!

"Intercept them! Go to the ship in the middle of them, that's their flagship!"

“Even if we have to collide with them, we must stop them!” The captain of the Hiei turned his head to look at Tokyo Bay, then looked forward, his eyes wide open and roared: “Long live the Emperor!”

Then the Hiei rushed towards the Warrior in the middle at high speed to intercept it.

At the same time, they fired at the Warrior.

A large splash of water exploded on the side of the Warrior.

……

On the Warrior, Chen Zhengwei stood on the bridge and looked ahead, without even glancing at the water column rising up on the sea surface next to the ship.

The Hiei in the distance was speeding up and heading towards the Warrior to intercept it.

"Notify the people below, 35 degrees left! 10 degrees right in one minute, the right gun bay is ready to fire! Use solid bullets." Chen Zhengwei said as he took the whiskey from Li Xiwen.

Soon, the Warrior began to turn rapidly to the left and exposed the artillery on the right side. One by one, the gun compartments were opened, revealing the cannons inside.

"Fire!"

Boom boom boom!
A row of artillery fired, and the ship shook violently.

Something seemed to be broken on the Hiei in the distance, but the structure of the ship was not seriously affected.

"Turn left 15 degrees, and then right 30 degrees after 10 seconds." Chen Zhengwei ordered again.

After the third round of shelling, two huge holes appeared on the hull of the Hiei, smoke was coming out from inside the Hiei, and the ship was slowing down rapidly.

Apparently, their steam cabin had been hit.

"They're finished..." Chen Zhengwei tilted his head back and drank the whiskey with a look of relief on his face.

said loudly.

"Sink it for me!"

At the same time, the Los Angeles and two torpedo boats had been firing continuously around the Qingfeng, a wooden warship converted from a merchant ship with a displacement of less than 1000 tons. It quickly caught fire under siege and then began to sink gradually.

It sank even faster than the Hiei.

The Hiei was also on fire; its rudder and captain were missing, having been taken away by the Warrior's first round of bombardment.

The Japanese sailors above were running around with blood all over their bodies, crying and wailing in despair. Some of them simply jumped into the water to escape.

Moments after the Warrior rushed into Tokyo Bay, the Hiei began to sink continuously, and the surrounding sea was filled with Japanese navy ships flapping their wings in an attempt to escape.

This place is about six kilometers away from the shore, and if you are lucky you can still survive.

"They are struggling so hard, it's tiring to watch them. People should have a little compassion!" Chen Zhengwei said to Li Xiwen with a grin.

"Notify those torpedo boats to help them...use machine guns to fire!"

"Also, ask about the damage to other ships."

He just saw that the Los Angeles was hit and didn't know how serious the damage was.

Under his command, the fleet could fight against the Royal Navy's Pacific Fleet.

Attacking the Japanese Navy is like beating a child.

The only things that could cause any trouble were the artillery batteries on both sides.

If it weren't for those artillery batteries, we could have easily attacked the Japanese Navy.

　Just one chapter today.

　　I had made an appointment for a follow-up examination at the provincial hospital. The doctor called me at noon today and said he had a business trip. As a result, I couldn't fall asleep after being woken up.

　　In very bad condition.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)