The original design of the Kaga aircraft carrier was actually not an aircraft carrier, but a battleship.
It was built by the Kobe Kawasaki Shipyard in July 1920 and launched together in November 1921. However, the following year, the United States, Britain, Japan, France and Italy signed the "Washington Naval Treaty". According to the agreement, the total tonnage ratio of the navy of the United States, Britain, Japan, France and Italy was agreed. It is 10:10:6:3.5:3.5. According to this treaty, the total tonnage of the Japanese navy has exceeded the limit.
Therefore, the unfinished aircraft carrier Kaga stopped construction and prepared to be disassembled.
However, the Great Kanto Earthquake occurred in Japan in 1923. The aircraft carrier Amagi, which was being refitted at the shipyard, was scrapped because its keel was twisted. The Japanese Navy then transformed the battleship Kaga, which was originally intended to be dismantled, into an aircraft carrier and replaced the Amagi after it was scrapped. There was a vacancy, and then the Kaga aircraft carrier was created.
The Kaga aircraft carrier has a full load displacement of 43,000 tons and carries 60 aircraft, organized into four squadrons!
Since it is wartime, the Kaga aircraft carrier is supporting the Ninth Division in operations, so all sixty fighter jets are displayed on the deck, and they have been filled with fuel and loaded with ammunition. However, except for some The pilots of the two reconnaissance planes stayed in the cockpits to sleep, while the other pilots rested in the sleeping cabins.
After the piercing alarm sounded, the two reconnaissance planes took off immediately.
These two Japanese reconnaissance planes were also the only two planes to escape from the Kaga aircraft carrier.
Because, just after the two Japanese reconnaissance planes took off, a shell fired by the 203mm caliber main gun of the Izumo cruiser happened to fall on the deck of the Kaga aircraft carrier. The shell exploded violently in an instant, not only on the flat deck A huge crater exploded on the ground, and the air wave generated by the explosion also lifted a nearby bomber away.
The bomber collided violently with the deck, causing one side of the fuel tank to crack. Then, the aviation fuel leaking from the tank was ignited by the sparks generated by the friction between the wing and the deck. Almost instantly, the bomber The bomber turned into a huge fireball. The fire eventually caused the fuel tank to explode. The fuel tank explosion caused the bomb mounted under the belly of the aircraft to explode, and then spread to more fighters and bombers parked on the deck.
Then, the deck of the Kaga turned into a sea of flames!
When Mitsui Tezo rushed to the deck panting, what appeared in front of him was a monstrous sea of fire.
Seeing the fire that almost engulfed the entire deck, Mitsui Tezo fell to his knees with a pop.
"Baga, Baga Yalu!" Mitsui Teizo looked at the burning plane in the fire with some numbness. He was stunned for a moment, and even a bomber exploded at a very close distance, and a piece of fragments rotated at high speed. It almost slid against his cheek, and Mitsui Tezo showed no reaction at all.
Because after losing so many combat aircraft, Mitsui Teizo, as the commander of the aviation team on the Kaga aircraft carrier, will definitely be severely punished. If he does not want to be sent to a military court, there is only one way to go. , that is to restore one's honor in a samurai way, that is, to commit suicide by committing seppuku!
Therefore, Mitsui Teizo no longer cares about life or death.
"Boom!" Another bomber exploded less than 20 meters away from Mitsui Teizo.
"Your Majesty Commander, danger!" A guard rushed over and threw Mitsui Tezo to the ground.
"Baga, get out of here!" Mitsui Teizo overturned the guard, then got up and rushed towards a nearby Nine-Six Ship Attack that was burning in the fire. However, before Mitsui Tezo rushed forward, the Nine-Six Ship Attack The Type 6 carrier-based attack aircraft exploded with a bang, and the air wave generated by the explosion tore Mitsui Teizo into two pieces.
Compared to Mitsui Teizo who was so distraught that he chose suicide, Fujimori Seiichiro was relatively calm.
Because Seiichiro Fujimori is the commander of the Kaga aircraft carrier, he does not need to be responsible for the loss of the aircraft carrier's aircraft, he only needs to be responsible for the aircraft carrier itself.
For Seiichiro Fujimori, as long as he can break through with the Kaga aircraft carrier, it doesn't matter even if the flight deck is completely destroyed, because as long as the main body of the Kaga aircraft carrier is still there, it is not difficult to repair the deck, which costs up to 500 yuan. The main body of the 10,000-yen aircraft carrier and the mere deck are really nothing.
So until now, Fujimori Seiichiro is still calm.
However, Fujimori Seiichiro's calmness was not able to save the Kaga's fate.
"Your Excellency, Commander, there are torpedoes!" an observer suddenly shouted in horror, "Ten o'clock position! A thousand yards away, a thousand yards away! According to the current speed and heading, it will definitely hit!"
"Ten o'clock position? A thousand yards away?!" Fujimori Seiichiro heard this and his heart suddenly trembled. Compared with naval guns, torpedoes are a more deadly threat to warships. If it is a naval gun, even a large caliber exceeding 300mm, As long as the ammunition depot is not hit directly, at most it will blast a few large holes in the hull.
But if it were a file, one shot would be enough to blow the Kaga into two pieces!
Taking a deep breath, Fujimori Seiichiro suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs: "Full right rudder, power off, turn off all boilers, turn off the boilers quickly!"
Fujimori Seiichiro's order was issued quickly. In the next moment, the huge and heavy hull of the Kaga aircraft carrier tilted sharply to the left. The tilt was so severe that it really made people worry that it would capsize! Fortunately, the aircraft carrier's power was shut down at this time, and just when the Kaga was about to tilt to the critical point, it began to return to normal.
With only a slight difference, the torpedo whizzed past the bow of the Kaga aircraft carrier.
However, before Seiichiro Fujimori and the Japanese soldiers in the command room could breathe a sigh of relief, the observer who had just issued the warning shouted again in horror: "Another torpedo was found, two salvos, ten o'clock position, two salvos Shoot! The distance is eight hundred yards, the distance is eight hundred yards, oh no, no, it’s three salvos, and there is one torpedo at eleven o’clock... "
"Bagagaru!" Seiichiro Fujimori wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and asked sternly, "What's the distance?"
"Distance?" The observer hesitated for a moment, because he was too close to observe with observation equipment, and could only estimate based on experience. Then he shouted loudly, "The distance is less than a hundred yards..."
"Nani?" Fujimori Seiichiro's eyes suddenly widened. Less than a hundred yards
Your mother, you are so close to me and you still have to dodge the ball. This time the ball is dead.
A moment later, the Kaga aircraft carrier, which had just returned to normal, trembled violently, and then a faint explosion sound was transmitted from the bottom of the aircraft carrier. Just feeling the intensity of the explosion, Fujimori Seiichiro's face instantly turned pale. , because according to his experience, the power cabin should be hit. Once the power cabin is hit, the explosion alone is enough to tear the Kaga aircraft carrier in two. It's over, it's really over this time!
Fujimori Seiichiro's worries soon turned into cruel facts. After the continuous explosions, there were bursts of harsh metal breaking sounds from inside the cabin of the Kaga. A moment later, the huge hull of the Kaga It was cut off in the middle, and the small stern half of the ship quickly sank to the bottom of the water, while the greater part of the ship's bow floated high.
As most of the bow of the ship floated, the entire bridge tilted almost at a ninety-degree angle. Fujimori Seiichiro and a dozen naval staff officers in the command room immediately rolled to the ground and slid along the floor to the command room. After getting off the partition wall, Seiichiro Fujimori reacted quickly and reached out to grab the instrument panel. When he looked down, he found that his feet were completely suspended in the air. If he fell down, he would not die or be seriously injured.
With a sigh, Fujimori Seiichiro let go of his hand dejectedly.
However, the next moment, the hull of the ship, which had been standing up almost vertically, suddenly returned to the upright position. Fujimori Seiichiro's suicide attempt failed and fell steadily to the floor. However, the remaining large pieces of the Kaga were The return of half of the ship's bow was just the last struggle before sinking. Soon, the Kaga began to sink slowly again.
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Less than a thousand meters away, Xu Rui stood on the bridge of the Izumo, watching the Plus He sink under the waves.
Du Wanlin stood on Xu Rui's left and also witnessed the sinking of the Kaga aircraft carrier.
It was not until the Kaga aircraft carrier was completely sunk that Du Wanlin sighed and said: "Being able to see the sinking of a Japanese 10,000-ton warship in my lifetime is a life well spent, let alone being a navy!"
During the Jiangyin naval battle, naval veterans like Du Wanlin dreamed of sinking a Japanese 10,000-ton warship to prove the reputation of the Chinese navy. However, the Japanese navy did not give them such an opportunity. After the Jiangyin naval battle, China The navy was almost completely destroyed, but the Japanese navy only lost two gunboats.
Therefore, one can imagine Du Wanlin's excitement when he saw the 40,000-ton Kaga aircraft carrier sink.
Xu Rui patted Du Wanlin on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Old Du, where are you now? We just killed one of the little devil's aircraft carriers. The little devil has ten aircraft carriers. Wait someday. If all ten of the little devil’s aircraft carriers are destroyed, that would be really damn satisfying.”
Du Wanlin just smiled when he heard this. Kill ten Japanese aircraft carriers? You really dare to think.
However, Du Wanlin quickly remembered what he wanted to say and said to Xu Bu: "Commander, can these three cruisers stay? Then form a squadron for our military division?"
"What, the fleet?" Xu Rui shook his head and said, "Don't even think about it. After dismantling the artillery on the ship, immediately blow up the three cruisers and sink them at Wusongkou. No one is allowed to stay!"
It's not that Xu Rui doesn't want a navy, he just doesn't have the ability.
Because as soon as daybreak comes, the Japanese bombers will arrive. Unless these three cruisers find a fortress to hide in, they will be bombed and sunk. But the question is, where are the coastal defense fortresses
Therefore, we can only take advantage of the daybreak to drive the three cruisers to Wusongkou and sink them.
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