Chapter 221: The Battle of Swallow Rock Artillery Battle (Part 1)

They are also equipped with 150 mm naval guns with a thirty-fold tube produced by the Nara Artillery Factory. This batch of Taisho four-year naval guns had already reached their service life, but the stingy people always save money in places where they should not be saved.

Although there are considerable problems with the shooting accuracy of the naval gun, there is no danger of explosion. Major General Yoshida Yoshida can be regarded as a descendant of the naval faction. His grandfather followed Japanese naval general Hirahachiro Togo. His father, Yoshida Tano, once served as the deputy chief of the Navy Department. Yoshida Yoshida Yoshida was also considered to be a son who inherited his father's business.

Yoshida Yongkyu received the order to lead the second and ninth destroyers to the Chinese fleet to go up the river and directly cut off the connection between Zhongzhang Jiangbei and Jiangnan with firepower, bombard the direction of Xiaguan, and threaten the Zhongzhang North Line to guard Nanjing. However, because the destroyer formation commanded by Yoshida Yongkyu had to adopt the most primitive method to clear mines forward. Originally, he should have arrived at Xiaguan two days ago. Today, he arrived at Yanziji. Yoshida Yongkyu was also very anxious. Asakagumiya Hirohiko was not a kind guy. He relied on his identity as a prince to scold people without showing mercy.

In Yoshida Yoshida's view, the destroyer fleet that uses lateral artillery fire to march into formations can only cause the Chinese *** like a native chicken and a tile on Yanziji to collapse immediately. After all, even the Jiangyin Fortress has given up. Yanziji is not comparable to Jiangyin Fortress in either the fortress or the permanent fortifications. Moreover, according to the intelligence of the Imperial Intelligence Department, Yanziji only has a few German-made 150 mm howitzers. Under the artillery fire of the destroyer, howitzers fixed on the open fortress can only become targets.

Yoshida Yongkyu had no idea that he had become someone else's target. Peng Mengji, the colonel of the 10th Artillery Regiment of the National Government, is currently the commander of the Yanziji garrison. Peng Mengji looked at the Japanese destroyer fleet that was decelerating in the mirror of the fifty-five times Zeiss artillery team produced by Germany. The front and rear turrets on the Japanese destroyers were slowly turning, slowly raising the muzzle.

Peng Mengji took a deep breath, and a few naval officers in white uniforms next to him were holding telescopes, gritting their teeth and looking at the arrogant Japanese destroyer fleet heading straight in.

Due to the old ships, the naval forces lost several old warships during several covers to resist Japanese air strikes. The naval naval gun personnel on the warships were all placed in the Yanziji turret and acted as turret surveyors. The naval naval gun operators had certain experience in firing moving targets.

Boom! The two Japanese first Japanese destroyer's double main gun guns flashed with flames, and two high smoke pillars rose up near the old Yanziji Fortress. William paralyzed the Japanese army. Peng Mengji ordered several 75mm field guns near the Yanziji Fortress to fight back.

With the crisp sound of cannons, thin water columns rose near the Japanese destroyer, and occasionally shells hit the Japanese ship and burst out an orange-red flame.

After Peng Mengji was waiting for the Japanese ship to perform the second round of artillery correction, Peng Mengji held the microphone and looked at a naval lieutenant colonel beside him and said, "Old Xu! Don't say I'm not interested enough, two bottles of old Jian Nanchun, this order will be issued by you. How about it? The 26 destroyers in the small *** all exceeded 1,500 tons."

The naval officer called Lao Xu didn't even hesitate, "There are only six bottles left, take them all! I thank you for the brothers who died in Xiaguan!" So he took the microphone and said in a deep voice: "The speed of the gun number one in each gun group is six knots, the binding is three degrees high, the height coordinate is reduced by one, the secret position is twenty-five, and the elevation angle is thirty! The third one is loaded with medicine!"

In addition to the two Krupp 280mm shore defense cannons on the top of Yanziji Mountain, the No. 1 gun of the 150mm 30-x caliber and 32-caliber artillery of the four gun groups was tested.

The roaring cannon shooting and the sharp whistling of shells breaking through the air made Yoshida Yoshida's nerves tighten. Yoshida Yoshida quickly picked up the telescope in front of his chest to watch the direction of the cannon sound. He saw a burst of smoke from the large-caliber artillery fired from several places in the Yanziji Fortress.

Boom! The waves caused by the near-range bomb shocked Yoshida Yoshida Yoshida Yoshida was knocked into the command tower. Yoshida Yoshida, who was helped by his subordinates, suddenly had blood-colored face because he found that this was probably the positioning correction bomb of Zhong***. Just like the two rounds of shells just launched by the Nanchuan, it means that there are not only a few so-called German-made 150-mm howitzers on the Yanziji Fortress, because they had already reached the other party's range, and the other party only used a few mountain artillery positions to fight back? Could it be that Yanziji is a trap?

Yoshida Yoshida was taking a breath and considering whether the fleet needed to accelerate and quickly leave, the forty-five heavy artillery pieces of the four 150 mm D artillery groups deployed by the Yanziji Fortress roared almost at the same time!

Hearing the sound of cannons that were almost shaking, Yoshida Yukimiya howled palely: "Accelerate! First battle speed, get out immediately! Get out immediately!"

Boom! Boom! Boom! Amid the sound of explosions of the shaking mountains, huge fire balls rose from some Japanese ships, and the river surface was like a pot was burning. The entire Japanese destroyer fleet took a shower happily.

Undoubtedly, the 150-mm German high-explosive grenade caused extremely huge damage to the Japanese ships. The wanton shrapnel caused huge damage to the people on the open artillery positions on the Japanese flank.

However, what made Yoshida Yuki even more stunned was that a 280-mm armor-piercing bomb fired by the No. 1 Krupp cannon hit the bottom of the second chimney of the fourth battleship Torika, the Japanese destroyer fleet. The armor-piercing bomb weighing 270 kilograms penetrated the Boiler Cabin of Torika and then penetrated the underwater armor, forming a hole that was two meters in size. A large amount of river water instantly poured in and lost its power and began to sink.

The large amount of high-heat steam leaked from the boiler instantly steamed the Japanese aircraft crew in the entire machine room, so the damage personnel did not pump and deal with it in time. Soon the influx of the river flooded the Nishiming motor, and the Nishiming completely stopped and sank. The subsequent Japanese warships could only bypass the Nishiming that was sinking in the main channel.

Because it is very unwise and unrealistic to make the so-called steering under enemy artillery fire. It is necessary to know that a destroyer with a standard displacement of 1,700 tons will complete the acceleration process of deceleration and steering on the main channel of the Yangtze River. It will take at least four minutes. With such a dangerous terrain of Yanziji, four minutes is enough for the Japanese destroyer fleet to suffer heavy damage. If the ships in the rear of the fleet are sunk in succession in the main channel, it will be the real nightmare of the entire fleet.

Since Japanese warships are not all new, it can be said that most of the ships belonging to the Chinese dispatched fleet are old ships, and only a few are newly built ships, because their opponent, the Chinese Navy, has a total tonnage of less than 50,000 tons, and is not the opponent of the dispatched fleet at all. Or the Chinese Navy is not taken seriously by the Navy at all, because the two are not at the same strategic level.

Boom! Another Japanese destroyer was hit by two 150 mm high-explosion grenades in succession. After the orange-red explosion fire, the new destroyer Qiuqian, which had a standard displacement of 1,900 tons, emitted a rolling smoke. The large amount of smoke caused the bridge's sight to zero. Qiuqian suddenly emitted a series of light signals and drove towards the riverside to try to strand to avoid blocking the retreat route of other ships.

Yoshida Yongkwang has reached the point of being crazy. The fleet paid a huge price for two heavy damage to one of them just after leaving the Yanziji Fortress. Yoshida Yongkwang had never suffered such a big loss, and even the Joint Fleet of the Great Empire had never suffered such a big loss? The intelligence department of the Imperial Empire of Yanziji Fortress has conducted various reconnaissances many times. In just two months? How did the *** people hide so many heavy artillery near the Yanziji Fortress? The most important thing is where did the *** people come from so many heavy artillery? Didn’t these heavy artillery have been deployed on the north bank of Xiaguan?

After Yoshida Yoshida commanded the destroyer fleet with rolling smoke and rushed through the Yanziji Fortress, he quickly began to turn around and complete the fleet's turn, because everyone knew very well that the destroyer fleet had rushed through the Yanziji Fortress, but the artillery fire at the Yanziji Fortress had exceeded the previous intelligence predictions. The intensity of its fierceness caused the second and ninth destroyers commanded by Yoshida Yoshida to suffer huge losses, so it had lost its tactical significance when heading to Xiaguan to implement firepower blocking.

If Zhong*** once again sets lightning in Yanziji, cooperates with the fortress to defend the fortress, then the rapid expulsion team commanded by Yoshida Yoshida will be in danger of being wiped out.

After repeated hesitation, Yoshida Yoshida decided not to ask the acting commander of the Nakakura Sect's dispatched army, Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya. After all, Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya is also a member of the army. When is the turn of the navy to decide on the navy? These twenty-six destroyers are almost all the main forces of China's second and ninth destroyers. If the losses are too large, it will be difficult for him to explain to the Navy Department. Moreover, there will be quite complaints about the dispatched army fleet. The Navy of the Great *** Empire has always been the first ship. The Chinese dispatched fleet is higher than that of the Nakakura Sect's dispatched army and is affiliated with the *** dispatched army.

So Yoshida Yoshida immediately commanded the fleet to retreat on the same road, and quickly turned around and came back. Peng Mengji was almost caught off guard. Peng Mengji thought that the Japanese destroyer fleet would definitely break through after dark, but he didn't expect that the Japanese army was in a hurry to break through forcibly?
Chapter completed!