Amidst the explosion, the guns of the Chinese Navy's Fujian Fleet roared simultaneously.
The Japanese Second Fleet has begun to collapse. With the sinking of the "Kongo" and the "Natori", the entire fleet has become a mess.
The submarine attack continued, and the Chinese navy ships on the sea continued to burst into bursts of cheers, and the entire morale had reached its peak.
The sailors on those ships wanted to throw all the cannonballs and torpedoes out at once, completely burying the Japanese fleet on this sea...
The sinking of the Second Fleet flagship "King Kong" had a huge psychological impact on the Japanese Navy.
This unsinkable warship in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Second Fleet is now lying on the cold and terrifying seabed forever with countless corpses...
9:35. The cruiser "Nagara" began to sink after suffering multiple fatal injuries...
Most of the Japanese naval officers and soldiers on board were killed, and the rest jumped into the cold water one after another, and then watched helplessly as their beloved battleship disappeared bit by bit in front of their eyes...
Subsequently, the Chinese Navy focused on another Japanese battlecruiser, the Hiei.
This is an extremely tenacious battleship. Although it was severely damaged in the sudden attack, it did not panic at all and kept fighting.
Captain Susumu Nakajima did not panic at this critical moment, but quickly aimed all available artillery fire on the battleship at the "Haichou".
He knew that his other opponents, the battlecruiser USS President and the heavy cruiser USS Flynn, were too difficult for him to sink, and the relatively old ones that had just joined the battle were
The "Haichou" soon became the prey of the "Hiei"...
A large number of artillery shells poured towards the "Haichou".
The artillery fire fired from the "Hiei" was fierce and accurate. Under the rain-like blows, the "Kaichi" was injured in many places.
The "Hiei" is doing everything possible to avoid the attack from the Chinese warships' gunfire... All the Japanese navy on the ship have already firmly believed that they must die, but before they die, they must also
To sink a Chinese warship!
At this time, the "President" and the "Fairen" also quickly discovered the plight of the "Haichou". They desperately fired artillery shells and torpedoes at the "Hiei" in an attempt to divert the "Hiei's" attention away.
The "Haichou" was attracted to his side.
But the "Hiei" was completely unmoved.
Nakajima Shin and his naval officers and soldiers identified a target:
"Haichou"!
The situation of the "Haichou" is very difficult...
"Prepare torpedoes!" Shin Nakajima gave the order coldly.
"Reporting to your Excellency, Captain, most of the torpedo tubes are damaged, and only the No. 3 torpedo tube is usable!"
Nakajima Shin was stunned for a moment by his subordinate's report.
Really? Only one torpedo tube available?
"Prepare to launch!" After only a brief hesitation, Nakajima Shin firmly issued his order: "Concentrate the No. 1 and 3 main guns and secondary guns, concentrate on firing the 'Haichou', and prepare torpedoes to launch. We only have one shot."
Chance!"
"Hai!"
The artillery fire fired intensively towards the "Haichou"!
Under such intensive artillery fire, the "Haichou" completely lost its power. This warship, which served at the same time as the "Haiqi", despite its best efforts, like its sister ship, will soon be destroyed.
Suffered a devastating disaster.
"Your Excellency Captain, preparations for torpedo launch are complete!"
"Your Excellency, Captain, the enemy ship fired two torpedoes at me!"
"Ignore the enemy torpedoes and prepare to launch!"
"Hai! Ignore the enemy torpedoes and prepare to launch!"
"Preparations for torpedo launch are complete!"
Nakajima Shin made the most difficult decision in his life, and also the most correct one. He clearly saw that the fate of the "Hiei" was irreversible. After a while, it would soon be gone.
He will suffer the same fate as the "Haichou". In this case, let the "Haichou" become his burial object.
The torpedo was launched.
Nakajima Shin raised his telescope, and the captain of the "Haichou" Deng Xilin also raised his telescope...
Both captains already know their fate, and their faces are full of fearlessness and fearlessness... As a man of the navy, death is the soul of the navy.
They all thought they deserved their death!
There is nothing to regret...
In the explosion of "Boom-Boom--", the "Haichou" and the "Hiei" were hit by torpedoes at the same time... The "Haichou" was almost split into two by the torpedo...
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Except for 9 of the 326 officers and men on board the "Haichou" who were rescued, the rest all died with the ship...
"Haiqi" and "Haichou", two ships that represent the pace of reconstruction of the Chinese Navy, both fought until the last moment in the "Diaoyu Islands Battle", and then quietly ended their historical missions...
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Many years later, Chinese naval history spoke highly of the status of these two warships in the development history of the Chinese navy, and praised that if there were no "Haiqi" and "Haichou", then the rise of the Chinese navy might not have happened.
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If the Chinese officers and soldiers on these two battleships who died heroically for their country could hear such comments, they would probably smile...
"Fire artillery, sink the 'Hiei', and avenge the 'Haichou'!"
"Fire the guns! Fire the guns! Sink the 'Hiei'!"
All the officers and soldiers on board the "President" and "Fei Lian" roared like this!
The end of the "Hiei" has also come.
When they sank the "Haichou", they were also hit by torpedoes again...
Nakajima Shin adjusted his military uniform. He knew that his last moment with the "Hiei" had arrived.
"Your Excellency, Captain, the flagship 'Ghost Fury' is calling. Our ship has fulfilled its duties and is allowed to abandon ship!"
"Abandon ship?" Shin Nakajima smiled and said: "Please tell Commander Kato that all the officers and men of Hiei are determined to die with the ship. Long live His Majesty the Emperor, and long live the Empire of Japan!"
When he finished saying this, he saw countless shells and torpedoes rushing towards his "Hiei"...
At 10:02, the battlecruiser "Hiei" of the Japanese Navy's Second Fleet completely lost its combat effectiveness... At 10:10, the "Hiei" began to sink.
At 10:35, the "President" and the "Fairen" fired two torpedoes again, ending the "Hiei"'s battle on the sea and the mission it once had...
All officers on the "Hiei" ship, including Nakajima Shinji, perished with the ship...
Among the Japanese Second Fleet, the "Shimakaze" with the highest speed was also suddenly attacked from the bottom of the sea, and then suffered numerous injuries under the joint attack of the "Shanghai" and "Zhenjiang".
Captain Mitsuru Ohno knew that the final time had come...
"Sink the Shanghai!" At this last moment, Ohno Mitsuru issued the last order in his life.
The "Shimakaze" ran at full power and rushed toward the "Shanghai" crazily. Since the fate of failure can no longer be reversed, let yourself and the enemy's warships perish together!
Shells continued to fall on the "Shimakaze". As the damage intensified, the "Shimakaze"'s speed became slower and slower... Then, the torpedoes fired from the "Zhenjiang" ended
Its mission...
"Your Excellency, Commander, we have failed." Guan Qiancheng said sadly and angrily: "We have no ability to continue fighting, so retreat. If you don't retreat, the entire Second Fleet will be ruined here. I beg you to retreat!"
Kato Kanji stared at everything in front of him, his heart bleeding...
It failed, it really failed. The Second Fleet, which I was once proud of, almost suffered a devastating blow!
I will become a sinner of the Japanese Navy for the rest of my life...
The remaining Japanese navy ships finally chose to retreat.
The "Diaoyu Islands Naval Battle" is over!
In this naval battle, the Japanese Navy's Second Fleet lost the battlecruisers "Kongo", "Hiei", and "Kirishima"... lost the cruiser, destroyer "Nagara", and "Natori"
"No., "Beishang", "Fengfeng"...
Almost half of the fleet was defeated by the Chinese Navy!
This was the most disastrous defeat the Japanese Navy had suffered since its establishment!
In particular, the sinking of the "Kongo" and "Hiei", known as the giants at sea, was an unbearable loss for the Japanese Navy.
As for the Chinese Navy's Fujian Fleet, the battlecruiser "Yue Fei" was severely damaged, and the "President" and "Bei Expedition" were also injured one after another. Six warships of various types including "Haiqi" and "Haichou" were sunk.
"Xuanming" was seriously injured, and "Feilian" was hit with a big hole...
A miserable victory, this is an out-and-out miserable victory!
But the Chinese Navy still won anyway! This was the first naval victory achieved by the Chinese Navy since the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War!
The end of the "Diaoyu Islands Naval Battle" was not just a victory, but broke the Japanese Navy's undefeated myth and rebuilt the Chinese Navy's firm belief in victory!
The impact of this naval battle was enough to affect the Chinese and Japanese navies for a long, long time, and it was also enough to change the pattern of the two navies.
No one is cheering, all the Chinese navy officers and soldiers are silently watching the sea. There are their sunken battleships, their dead brothers, and the beginning of the Chinese navy's re-creation of glory!
Zhang Xiaoyue and Lu Yixuan suppressed their excitement. They looked at each other silently and found that each other's eyes were full of tears.
Zhang Xiaoyue tried hard to calm down his emotions, and then said in a trembling voice one by one:
"Send power to the President and the Navy Department. The naval battle over the Diaoyu Islands is over. We...won!"