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Chapter 794: Sinking the Musashi

794 Sinking the Musashi

Soon, as the Japanese flag bearer on the deck of the Japanese battleship Musashi sent out a series of flag signals to their transport fleet behind them.

Let all their transport ships speed up towards the north coast.

Soon, the commanders on the remaining twenty or so Japanese transport ships understood the intention of their division commander's order.

"Yoshi, the division commander's order is correct.

Quick, disperse.

Don't let our transport ships get together, all ships speed up and head north.

Try to avoid torpedo attacks from underwater enemy submarines.

As long as we reach the coast and complete our landing, these underwater submarines will be unable to do anything to us."

After receiving the order, a Japanese colonel regiment commander immediately spoke to the helmsman of the transport ship.

Just at this time, the four ghost submarines attacking the Japanese transport fleet completed the first wave of torpedo attacks.

After diving, begin reloading torpedoes.

This process takes a relatively long time.

Even with the help of machinery, it is still very difficult to complete the loading of six heavy torpedoes with a caliber of more than 500 mm.

"Brothers, hurry up."

"Be careful, don't get hurt."

In the narrow submarine, a second lieutenant officer reminded the soldiers who were loading torpedoes at the moment.

At this time, you have to be fast and avoid making mistakes.

"Captain, all the Japanese transport ships are dispersing.

And, they all sped up and headed north."

A sonar operator on the U6 ghost submarine shouted loudly.

Through sonar, he has now discovered the latest countermeasures of the Japanese transport ships.

However, these were all expected by the officers of the Ghost Submarine Fleet.

Sun Jiaming is in the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet and has not been here for the past few days.

They have nothing to do anyway.

They thought about all the possible countermeasures that the Japanese might take during the battle.

In addition, corresponding response strategies were formulated.

"We are heading north too, follow them."

The captain of U6 immediately gave an order, asking their submarine to follow the Japanese transport ships underwater and sail north together.

At this time, the four ghost submarines were like four ferocious wolves hunting their prey.

Gathering around these Japanese transport fleets, they waited for their new torpedoes to be loaded.

They will launch a new wave of attacks.

"Hurry up!"

The captain of U6 kept looking at his watch, calculating the time.

I hope their torpedoes can be loaded quickly.

After all, the Japanese commanders all reacted by this time.

The longer the time goes, the more scattered these Japanese transport ships will be, and the torpedo hit rate will decrease.

At the same time, once the Japanese transport ships ran far to the north.

The water depth becomes shallower near the coast to the north, which is not good for the concealment of their submarines.

These four ghost submarines are besieging the Japanese transport fleet.

Chasing the Japanese transport ships northward.

The Japanese aircraft carrier fleet, Soryu, did not flee northward like the Japanese transport fleet.

The army soldiers on the Japanese transport fleet can escape to the coastal land in the north.

After all, they came here to land.

Fleeing to the north would just speed up their landing process.

However, the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet, the Soryu, could only fight a life-and-death battle with Sun Jiaming and his five ghost submarines in this sea area at this time.

They had no chance of escape.

At this time, Sun Jiaming was responsible for attacking the two targets: the Japanese aircraft carrier Soryu and the battleship Musashi.

The first wave of torpedoes fired by the three Ghost submarines also all went out.

“Commander, my boat has fired the first wave of six torpedoes.

Four of them hit their targets.”

Sun Jiaming listened to the report from the officer next to him and nodded.

Four torpedoes hit the Japanese battleship Musashi, which was a very good result.

At the same time, they launched an attack on the Japanese battleship Musashi.

In addition to Sun Jiaming's U1 ghost submarine, there is another ghost submarine.

Although, Sun Jiaming didn't know at this time that another ghost submarine had hit the Japanese battleship Musashi with several torpedoes.

But compared to the results, it won’t be too bad.

After all, their sneak attack was deliberate and unintentional, and they had a huge advantage.

And what Sun Jiaming thought was indeed correct.

At this moment, there was another ghost submarine a few kilometers away from them.

In the first wave of attack, three torpedoes also hit the battleship Musashi from another angle.

"This 50,000-ton Japanese battleship can withstand two waves of our torpedo attacks.

This must be his limit.

After the second wave of torpedoes, we will withdraw."

Sun Jiaming still carried out the plan according to the plan.

If their two submarines fired two waves of twenty-four torpedoes at such a close distance.

Even if half of the torpedoes hit the Japanese 50,000-ton battleship, it would be enough to destroy it.

Even if we were unlucky, we didn't sink it.

At least enough to ensure that it loses its navigation and combat capabilities.

that's enough.

At that time, Sun Jiaming and his team will go to support the other two submarines that are blocking the other six Japanese warships.

In comparison, their three submarines attacked the Japanese aircraft carrier Soryu and the battleship Musashi.

The other two ghost submarines, which are responsible for dealing with the Japanese cruisers and destroyers, are the most dangerous.

After all, the Japanese cruisers and destroyers have anti-submarine capabilities.

But it is much stronger than the Japanese Soryu aircraft carrier and Musashi battleship.

At this time, facing the attack of their submarines.

The Japanese aircraft carrier Soryu made almost no counterattack.

After all, the Japanese aircraft carrier Soryu's biggest means of attack are the dozens of fighter planes on their flight deck.

But at this time, we are facing the ghost submarines hiding underwater.

In addition to being blown up by the fire, the dozens of Japanese carrier-based aircraft also attacked Sun Jiaming and his ghost submarine.

It does not pose any threat.

On the contrary, the Japanese battleship Musashi threw a batch of depth charges into the water a few minutes ago.

It’s a pity that too little was thrown away.

Moreover, the Japanese soldiers had no idea about the exact location of Sun Jiaming and his submarine.

Just in panic, I threw it into the water randomly.

The exploding depth charges were quite far away from Sun Jiaming's U1 boat.

It didn't have any impact on them.

But the Japanese cruisers and destroyers have more advanced sonar.

When these submarines launch torpedoes, they will expose their positions.

The Japanese destroyers, relying on their high maneuverability, were able to catch up to the two submarines that were blocking them.

At that time, the Japanese destroyers and cruisers dropped depth charges and launched torpedo attacks.

Sun Jiaming was worried that their other two submarines could not withstand the siege of the Japanese six warships.

And just when the first wave of attacks by Sun Jiaming's ghost submarines stopped.

The situation on the Japanese battleship Musashi was extremely miserable at the moment.

A total of seven torpedoes hit their battleship.

Even though their super battleship weighed 50,000 tons, it couldn't withstand such torment.

Of the seven holes in the hull, only four were plugged.

There were three more people frantically pouring water into it, causing the Japanese super battleship to begin to tilt.

But, for the devils.

The only good news is that their battleship is big enough.

Therefore, of the seven torpedoes that hit them in the first wave, not a single one detonated their ammunition depot.

There was no chance of an explosion in the ammunition depot on their ship.

This way, their battleship was able to hold on temporarily.

But at this moment, the Japanese battleship Musashi could only tilt and sway as it sailed forward.

The speed is almost half slower than at the beginning.

If they continue like this, it is only a matter of time before their battleship is sunk by a torpedo.

"Baga, why didn't Chunfeng and the others come here in time?"

The captain of the Japanese battleship Musashi obviously knew this and was roaring angrily at this moment.

He also expected that the other six escorting warships would have to gather around their battleship.

Perhaps they can drive away or sink the enemy submarines that attack them underwater.

That was their battleship's only chance to survive.

Unfortunately, the captain of the battleship Musashi, Chiyong Tamura, discovered that none of their other six escort ships had arrived.

It's still circling on the sea in the distance.

"Captain, the Chunfeng was also attacked by an enemy submarine.

They were making high-speed maneuvers to avoid torpedoes.

It takes time to get to us.”

A Japanese officer ran over and shouted loudly.

"Baga, let them hurry up."

Tiancun Chiyong yelled.

"Ah!"

At this moment, the screams of the Japanese soldiers could be heard outside.

A huge fire had broken out on the battleship Musashi.

Moreover, the fires in many places were extremely fierce, despite the fact that the Japanese had mobilized a large number of manpower to put out the fires.

But there are still many devils who bring trouble upon themselves.

creak!

The huge ship was still tilting slowly.

"Tamura, the Musashi won't be sunk, right?"

The commander of the Japanese 107th Division, Fumura Kaito, standing nearby, felt the increasing tilt angle of the Musashi.

He also frowned.

It was hard for him to imagine that once here today, the Navy's battleship Musashi.

If it really was sunk.

What a terrible impact it will have on their navy and even their empire.

The construction of a battleship like the Musashi cost a huge amount of resources of their empire.

It has only been in service for a short time and it is about to be sunk?

This result is the same as the annihilation of their 107th Division.

They cannot accept this.

"No, the Musashi's ability to withstand attacks is several times stronger than that of ordinary warships.

It won't be sunk.

Moreover, the American submarines stopped attacking, perhaps the torpedoes brought by their submarines had been used up.

As long as we hold on, we will be able to save the Musashi."

The Japanese captain Tamura Chiyong also kept shaking his head, not believing that the Musashi would be sunk.

And, he was right.

The torpedoes carried by submarines of this era are basically all in torpedo tubes.

The torpedoes are installed in advance before the submarine sets off.

It seems that only Ye Qingshan and the Germans have the technology to carry out secondary torpedo loading inside the submarine during combat.

Boom!

As a result, just a moment after the Japanese captain said this.

As they tilted the Musashi, another explosion was heard on one side of the ship.

They were hit by another torpedo.

At this point, the Japanese captain, Tamura Chiyong, completely lost his composure and yelled, "No, it's impossible.

Why do they still have torpedo attacks?"

"Amaterasu, are you really no longer looking after your people?"

Tian Cun Chiyong lost his composure and shouted to the sky.

It was because he knew that his super battleship Musashi would be destroyed today.