Only one frigate of less than 2,000 tons was sunk, and Lan Huoshan felt extremely unwilling. In this battle, Chen Shaoyao made great contributions. However, seeing the thick smoke trailing from the rear wing of his fighter, many trainees felt sorry for him. Sweated a lot,
"Chen Shaoyao, if you can't do it, just parachute. Do you hear me?" Lan Huoshan was worried about his safety, flew out and then called back, shouting on the walkie-talkie,
"I'm fine. The steering rudder may have been damaged, but nothing else is affected."
Blue Volcano did not answer immediately, because at this moment, all his attention was attracted by the sudden change on the Yamashiro. A violent series of explosions suddenly occurred on the port side of the Yamashiro. Fireworks and water columns rose into the sky. Then, the Yamashiro began to tip to the left. ,
"Could it be that the fire caused the bomb to explode? No, that's not right. There should be some distance from the main gun ammunition depot, and it's also a bit far from the boiler room." Lan Huoshan thought, feeling very puzzled for a moment.
Because it also served as an early warning aircraft, Manjiang's Sky Fortress flew at the rear. He noticed on the radar screen that Blue Volcano had not yet turned around. He thought wrongly, thinking that Blue Volcano wanted to make a comeback to save face. He couldn't help but became anxious and asked loudly: "Blue Volcano, what's wrong with you? Don't do anything stupid."
Blue Volcano had come to his senses at this time. No matter what the reason was, it was a certainty that the Yamashiro was finished. In this way, this battle does not seem to be a failure. It actually sank a ship. Battleship, the more he thought about it, the more excited he became, and he couldn't help shouting: "Man Jiang, guess what I saw."
"Um."
"Yamashiro, Yamashiro is about to sink."
"What, really?" Man Jiang said and wanted to turn around.
Blue Volcano stopped his move: "Don't turn around. As soon as the Shancheng sank, the little devils don't want to retaliate wildly. Brothers, withdraw."
Manjiang glanced at the radar screen in front of him. There were dense blue dots indicating the presence of Japanese aircraft on it, and they were rushing towards him. He hesitated for a moment, and instead of turning around, he directly increased the throttle to the maximum.
The surviving fighter planes were evacuating quickly. Among them, the three remaining old-fashioned bombers were placed in the middle of the team because they could not increase their speed. Xiang Yong flew in the last group. Before accelerating, he slightly deflected the nose of the aircraft and then turned his head. Looking back and down, he thought of Xiao Zhu: "I don't know if he abandoned the plane, Xiao Zhu, no matter what choice you make, as long as you are still alive." He sighed quietly, adjusted the position of the camera, Accelerate, and soon Baiji Dolphin No. 1113 catches up with the large group and flies out of the dangerous airspace.
The Yamashiro was in chaos at this time. As the rumbling explosion sounded, the ship tilted sharply to the left. Many Japanese who were putting out the fire were caught off guard and fell to the ground. Some of the unlucky guys even fell to the ground. They fell directly into the sea of fire. As for the Japanese who were shooting wildly at 1114 on the port side, they were either killed directly or thrown into the sea.
Compared with these men, Ishikawa Hidesaburo was lucky. When he lost his balance and fell out, Arima reached out to help him in time and grabbed his left leg. Then, the other Japanese soldiers came over quickly to help. Finally, Ishikawa was brought back.
After walking through the gate of hell, Ishikawa was covered in cold sweat and his face became very ugly. He grabbed the guardrail and said to Arima in shock: "Sir, it seems we must abandon the ship."
Arima's face was not good-looking either. It was originally a one-sided battle, but the flagship was sunk by the Chinese. However, he had said so many big words before, and this time he was in a big way.
Yamashiro, as the second Fuso-class battleship designed and built by the empire itself, was originally unable to achieve combat effectiveness due to technical problems, which has become a problem for the navy. Commander Yamamoto brought it out this time because he wanted to The direction of technological transformation has been determined through actual combat testing. However, I have just been entrusted with an important task. Not to mention the brilliant achievements, it was actually sunk by the Chinese. I am afraid, I am afraid that I have just been transferred to the combined fleet. Next, he will be sent to the Yangtze River battlefield again.
After the main force of fighters was dispatched, Isoroku Yamamoto and Toshiichiro Koizumi each held a telescope and watched the battlefield closely. Suddenly they saw a fire burning on the Yamashiro. Yamamoto was familiar with the technical parameters of the Yamashiro and was indifferent. Koizumi exclaimed: "It's the Shancheng. The Shancheng was hit hard by the Chinese. I'm afraid the Shancheng is in danger."
Yamamoto shook his head, thinking that Koizumi was a latecomer after all, and he did not yet know the characteristics of various types of battleships in the modern era. He put down his telescope and explained patiently: "As a battleship, unless it is hit below the waterline by a heavy torpedo, or is hit by a large-caliber torpedo, If the naval gun hits an important part, it will not be easily sunk. Mr. Koizumi, despite the raging fire on the Yamashiro, it was not fatally injured. The commander of this batch of China aviation troops is amazing. He should have seen this. At one point, I only wanted to weaken the Yamashiro's combat power and had no intention of sinking it, so I used incendiary bombs. Don't worry, there will be no problem with the Yamashiro."
"Oh." After hearing what Yamamoto said, Koizumi thought about it for a moment and found it reasonable. He couldn't help but blush for his shallowness.
However, as if they wanted to deliberately embarrass Yamamoto, just when Yamamoto and Koizumi were feeling sorry for the China fighter planes that fled without a fight, the Yamashiro was suddenly hit by something on the port side, and a violent explosion occurred. After the explosion, the Yamashiro was hit on the port side. A big hole was opened, and the ship immediately began to tilt, and it would definitely not escape the fate of capsizing.
"Ba Ge." Yamamoto was dumbfounded: "What's going on? Masabumi Arima, what did he do? Did the Chinese launch torpedoes, but they don't have torpedo machines?"
"Sir, could it be a submarine?" Koizumi said uncertainly,
Yamamoto turned to look at him, shocked: "Submarine, do the Chinese have submarines? Why haven't I heard of it?"
Koizumi was actually not sure. The reason why he said this was just because the situation of the Yamashiro just now was too much like being hit by a torpedo. With the previous experience, he was afraid of saying any unprofessional words again, so he hesitated and said: " I'm just guessing. Sir, don't you think that the port side of the Yamashiro was hit by a torpedo just now? There are no Chinese surface ships around, and they don't have torpedo attack aircraft, so..."
The perpetrator, Xiao Zhu, did not expect, nor did Lan Huoshan, Shan Renxiong, and Ouyang Yun did not expect that sinking a battleship of the United Fleet in the Hainan naval battle would actually cause the Japanese to start paying attention to submarine construction. , of course, this is something for later,
When the incident occurred, no one thought that a white-finned dolphin actually played the role of a torpedo. Before traveling, Koizumi heard too many news and rumors about Chinese submarines. It is no wonder that he immediately made such an association.