Chapter 0167 There are wolves in front and tigers in the back!
Captain Wang was unconvinced by Duan Wu's commanding ability. Not to mention the battle at the Sixing Warehouse, even the battle in the prisoner of war camp was definitely a classic.
It only took less than five minutes for the Dragon Boat Festival to occupy the entire prisoner of war camp.
The Japs gathered in five minutes, and then they were shot on the spot. It was that simple.
Therefore, if someone else said that they would sink the enemy ship when the Izumo lost all its weapons and suffered heavy damage, Captain Wang would not believe it.
But during the Dragon Boat Festival, Captain Wang believed it.
Without further ado, Captain Wang immediately ordered a retreat. Only Duanwu was left in the entire cab.
At this time, Xie Jinyuan came and Knife came, and they all wanted to live and die with Duanwu and the Izumo. But they were all driven away by Duanwu.
It doesn't matter how many people are left behind now. The weapon systems on the Izumo were either destroyed or misfired due to lack of ammunition.
In this case, no matter how many people are left, they are all buried with the Izumo.
In other words, Captain Wang was deceived by Dragon Boat Festival.
This was another white lie. If Dragon Boat Festival had not deceived Captain Wang, then it would have been Captain Wang who rushed to the enemy ship at this time.
Of course, Danwu was definitely not trying to be a hero. He just didn't want the Izumo to sink so early. He had to persist until the fallen soldiers swam to the shore safely.
"Quick, quick! Let's get into the water immediately. No one will be left on the boat. Jump, jump quickly. You can't fall to a height of more than ten meters. No one will be killed."
Xie Jinyuan took command and loudly ordered the soldiers to jump off the ship.
At this time, the height was more than ten meters, and the Izumo was still traveling very fast.
Looking at the rough river surface below the boat and the dizzying height, the soldiers really didn't dare to jump down. What's more, most of them can't swim.
But at this time, military orders were coming. Holding lifebuoys and various floating objects that could float themselves on the sea, they jumped off the ship one after another.
After entering the water, those who know how to swim will instruct their comrades who could not swim before how to move their bodies forward so that they can swim ashore.
A large group of people, more than three hundred in number, swam towards the shore.
This was the only remaining strength of the independent regiment, and all the rest were sacrificed in this naval battle.
So Dragon Boat Festival once said something to all warriors.
Dragon Boat Festival said: Where there is war, there will be sacrifices. It is just a matter of how much.
We must try our best to avoid sacrifice, but when there is no way to retreat, we must dare to fight to the death with the little devil.
And this naval battle was exactly like that.
The independent regiments in the Dragon Boat Festival are all armies, and fighting naval battles is just a joke.
If the army can fight naval battles, what else does the navy do?
But it was such an army that won this war!
What they rely on is not luck, nor simply courage. But they have no retreat. If they cannot win this war, then the only thing that will greet them is death.
Therefore, during the Dragon Boat Festival strategizing, the Little Devil's six ships of different types were all sunk and they fought their way out of the siege.
And if the Japanese flying brigade had not suddenly appeared, the Dragon Boat Festival would have been ashore long ago.
Of course, if the little Japanese fleet hadn't come to Cheng Heng to intervene, the Dragon Boat Festival wouldn't have been so passive.
When Xie Jinyuan reported to Duanwu, Duanwu had not yet received information about the Little Japanese fleet.
Although the Japs' fighter jets and bombers were still attacking with great force at that time, Duanwu had no intention of ordering the soldiers to jump ship immediately. He even wondered whether he could annihilate the Japs' flying brigade.
After all, the Japs' plane bombings have been going on for some time. Although their offensive is still fierce, Duanwu judged that the Japs' air force was at the end of its strength, and there was a possibility of running out of bullets and escaping at any time.
What Dragon Boat Festival has to do is to delay time and maintain the Izumo's combat effectiveness.
It's just a pity that another fleet of the Little Devils has arrived, a total of three Little Devils warships of various types (cruisers, destroyers, frigates).
Attacked from both front and back, Duanwu was in a dilemma. Then he ordered all officers and soldiers to dive to escape and swim ashore.
I just didn't expect that the little devil would be so sad and crazy. But seeing the Chinese troops on the Izumo fall into the water, they actually added insult to injury. Some of them continued to pursue the Izumo, while the other three fighter planes launched retaliation against the officers and soldiers of the independent regiment who fell into the water.
Sexual shooting.
The soldiers of the Independent Regiment were all on the sea and could not fight back at all. They could only watch helplessly as one, two, three, etc. comrades were shot by the machine gun bullets of the little Japanese.
Hit, then slowly sank.
Xie Jinyuan was heartbroken because some of the soldiers who died were veterans of the original Sixing Warehouse.
Veterans are valuable, especially when there are many recruits and the consumption of soldiers is huge.
"Brothers, spread out and swim to the shore, quickly!"
Xie Jinyuan gave a loud order, and the soldiers quickly separated and wandered away.
When the Little Japanese plane turned around and flew back again, the soldiers of the Independent Regiment on the sea had dispersed and spread all over the river.
Seeing this, the Little Japanese pilot reluctantly retreated, and then continued to pursue the Izumo.
On the Izumo, there were fires everywhere at this time, and there were at least sixteen fires.
The Japanese planes kept dropping bombs, and every time the Izumo was hit by a bomb, the entire hull would shake violently.
Duanwu sat in the cockpit, his body constantly shaking with the hull of the ship.
Danwu kept looking ahead, and then suddenly slowed down in coordination with the Japanese bomber bombardment, causing the illusion that the Izumo was seriously damaged in the explosion.
At the same time, the Japanese cruiser, which was less than two nautical miles away from the Izumo, was gradually approaching.
The captain, Lieutenant Colonel Minamikawa, used his telescope to see the Izumo's burning and deceleration, and mistakenly believed that the Izumo could no longer hold on.
He ordered loudly: "Aim at the Izumo and launch a bombardment. This credit cannot be attributed to their flying group alone. I will use cannonballs to make a big hole in the Izumo's hull."
"Hi!"
The Japanese adjutant responded, and the three ships, the cruiser Nanchuan, the frigate, and the destroyer, turned their guns at the same time and rushed towards the Dragon Boat Festival.
Danwu drove the Izumo with an expressionless expression. Perhaps he had already expected that the Japs would launch a full-scale bombardment of the Izumo.
There is no way to hide, you can only face the hard steel.
The Izumo has four sets of engines, two of which are broken, and two of them are still in normal use.
The engine was at full power, and it was about thirty meters away from its previous position at the moment when the Japs bombarded it.
But even so, the Izumo dodged at least six more shells.
Boom! Boom!…
The sound of explosions followed one after another. The middle part and the tail part of the Izumo were bombarded by more than a dozen shells. About one-fifth of the tail part was blown off. The middle part was also seriously damaged.
The flames were burning fiercely, from the deck to the cabin and then to the power room.
At this time, flames were burning in the corridor outside the power room, less than five meters away from the power room, and could ignite the heavy oil in the power room at any time!...