"From the day I joined the army, I was ready to sacrifice. For the country and my family, I once thought I could face the hail of bullets without fear, but at that moment, I had to admit with shame Yes, I am scared, yes, 'Brave Jack' is scared. Fighting for the country and even dying for the country is of course something to be proud of, but if you are facing a group of people who are so vicious that they can't even fight for your own country. What about an enemy who doesn’t take his life seriously? In front of such an enemy, or to exchange one’s own life for the life of such an enemy, is it really worth it? Sitting in the cabin, I can’t see the enemy’s face clearly and I can’t hear. I can't hear their voices, but through sonar, I can clearly feel the enemy's face and mood at this time. They must be grinning wildly. Yes, they do have the ability to laugh wildly. In order to fight against the Japanese, General Turner We spent a lot of effort on our special attack tactics. We trained from dawn to dusk and were ready for battle every moment. But now it seems that no matter how well we prepare, our enemy cannot be called human at all. ,So, we still cannot escape defeat after all." This is the memory and mental journey of this battle written by an American sonar soldier named Jack after the war. Through this "Memoir", we can see that Turner's submarine How did the troops lose? Faced with the special attack tactics of killing a thousand enemies and damaging eight hundred, the American sailors were not prepared to kill themselves. And the more timid they were, the sharper the Japanese special attack tactics became, and the result was natural It also presents a one-sided trend.
Although Turner's submarine force failed to block the Maeda detachment's attack, it did buy Kim half an hour of adjustment time and consumed more than half of the Maeda detachment's special attack submarines and special attack torpedoes. Based on these results, the key thing is that Gaining half an hour of buffer time, Jin was able to organize and launch more than 200 bombers and drop more than 6,000 depth charges into the seawater around the fleet.
If more than 6,000 depth bombs are used properly, not to mention that Date Kiyomasa's headquarters only has 90 sensitive-class submarines, even if the number of submarines is doubled, it is impossible to achieve a breakthrough. However, because of what Murakami performed The single-aircraft raid caused the U.S. military to misdirect its defense from the beginning, allowing the Japanese submarine to sneak to a fairly close distance. Therefore, at this time, Kim had actually lost the best opportunity to defend.
And because at this time the Japanese submarines had broken through the first line of defense of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and were intermingled with the ships forming the second line, this made it impossible for American pilots to release dense depth bombs in the area, so there were still many The Japanese submarine successfully escaped the intensive bombing by depth charges and was able to get closer to the US fleet aircraft carrier.
The first fleet aircraft carrier of the US military to suffer was the USS Enterprise. The USS Enterprise was first hit on the port side by a special attack submarine, and then was hit by four special attack torpedoes and two special attack submarines on the port and starboard sides as well as the bow part. After four big holes appeared in his body and he lost the ability to continue floating, Captain Johnny had no choice but to abandon the ship.
"The Enterprise was hit. The Enterprise lost its ability to maneuver. Captain Johnny asked to abandon the ship." In just a quarter of an hour, three battle reports about the Enterprise were reported to Jin.
From a distance of about three thousand meters, Jinyan watched fires ignite one after another on the side of the Enterprise. His face was pale and his eyes were full of helplessness.
"General, what should I do?" The intensive bombing of depth charges failed to completely curb the Japanese offensive. Cole saw the tragic situation of the Enterprise and was worried that the Hornet would follow in her footsteps, so he nervously asked Jin.
"Order all frigates to move closer to their respective fleet aircraft carriers, and order them to drop depth charges at all costs." Jin pondered for about three minutes before making the above decision.
Surface ships, especially large surface ships, do not have many means to deal with submarines. Among them, depth charges are definitely the simplest and most effective.
More depth charges were thrown into the ocean by the U.S. military, and Japanese casualties increased dramatically.
"Your Excellency, the Maeda detachment sent a farewell message. Your Excellency Maeda has personally launched the attack." A staff officer suddenly shouted loudly to Date Kiyomasa.
From the time when U.S. warplanes poured depth bombs into the sea, the Japanese losses began to rise. Date Kiyomasa's response was to ask all motherships to immediately release all special attack submarines and special attack torpedoes, and to release all special attack aircraft. .
The takeoff of the special attack aircraft once caused the US military to restrain its depth bombing operations. However, due to the huge disparity in the number of fighter planes on both sides and the poor weather conditions, American pilots were often unable to see the dangers close at hand. However, they remained brave. Therefore, the special attack aircraft only contained the US military's depth bomb offensive in a very short period of time but failed to change the situation of the war.
U.S. frigates have carried out depth charge defense from the beginning. However, because they were scattered on three sides of the sea far away from Port Vila at that time, they did not cause much trouble to the Japanese special attack tactics. Now, as they begin Moving closer to the fleet aircraft carrier, the density of depth bombs has also increased correspondingly, and the characteristics of depth bombs known as the nemesis of submarines have been immediately revealed.
As the vanguard of this assault, the Maeda detachment had been attacking the most fiercely and naturally suffered the most counterattacks. It was reasonable for them to crush the first one.
"We just destroyed a fleet aircraft carrier." Date Kiyomasa said softly.
"Yes, Your Excellency." Adjutant Aida Yoshiharu answered, sweat dripping from his forehead.
"The time for the decisive battle has arrived. Order everyone to change the way of attack. Now is the time to compete in courage." Date Kiyomasa suddenly said loudly.
So-called changing the attack method, there are several attack methods for submarines and torpedoes, they are nothing more than underwater and above water.
A sound wave with special meaning spread out along the seawater in all directions, centered on Date Kiyomasa's command submarine. Several sonar soldiers of the U.S. Pacific Fleet were surprised by this strange sound wave. For the first time, Japanese troops appeared in Jin's field of vision. Figures of special attack submarines and torpedoes.
"The Japanese submarines and torpedoes have surfaced. What do they want to do?" Cole exclaimed.
Jin's eyes narrowed and he suddenly shouted: "Where are our artillery? Order all ships to use all their artillery immediately."
"yes."
"Fighters, it's time for the fighters to take off. Quick, take off as many fighters as possible immediately."
"Yes, I will convey it right away."
If it were daytime now, if you take a bird's-eye view of the sea area around Port Vila, you would find such a spectacular scene. With the US Pacific Fleet as the center, hundreds of submarines and torpedoes with round black heads have surfaced, and in Behind these small submarines and torpedoes, some huge submarines that could be called underwater behemoths were slowly rising to the surface. Later, the artillery fire on more than a hundred US warships of various types suddenly became unprecedentedly intensive.
At the last moment, the Japanese had to go up to the surface to avoid depth charges and launch an attack openly. The Americans responded with intensive artillery fire and more and more fighter planes.