I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Halsey followed suit: "Your analysis is right, we must kill a few of their battleships!"

The U.S. military immediately dispatched carrier-based aircraft again to launch a second wave of attacks.

In order to preserve its strength for the fleet's own defense, the U.S. military only dispatched 64 carrier-based aircraft for this knife attack, half of which were f4u pirate fighter jets, and half were sbd dreadnought dive bombers and tbd devastator torpedo attack aircraft.

In fact, as Spruance judged, the U.S. aircraft fleet spotted the Japanese battleship Mutsu and the aircraft carrier Kaga limping back to Hawaii halfway on that straight line.

"Fuck! U.S. aircraft!" When the Japanese yelled, the Chinese naval officers and soldiers on the Jiang Weiguo and Zijinshan were also startled and shocked.

The deafening sound of shelling and strafing sounded, and the Japanese ships towing and protecting the Mutsu and Kaga fired into the air one after another, bombarding the US carrier-based aircraft attacking from the air.

"Should we also open fire?" Yu Shihang contacted Dong Yanjie.

"Nonsense! The Japanese are right there! Can we not fire?" Dong Yanjie replied, "Besides, can the U.S. military distinguish us from the Japanese? Just for self-defense, we have to fire!"

The Jiang Weiguo and Zijinshan hurriedly also fired into the air.

The U.S. pilots who attacked the Mutsu and the Kaga could be said to be advancing one after another, seeing death as home, and constantly pouring bombs and torpedoes full of anger on the Mutsu and Kaga. The two ships shook amidst lightning and thunder. Another group of fireballs rose from the ground on the two ships, and the two ships were shattered, damaged, and broken at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into two piles of broken steel that sank into the sea.

In the chaotic battle, the Jiang Weiguo and the Zijinshan were miraculously unscathed. Perhaps it was because the two ships were destroyers, which made the American pilots look down on them. Maybe it was because the two ships were flying the Chinese flag, so the American pilots did not focus on Attack, but the two ships are still in danger in the battle.

The Purple Mountain was hit by a 500kg bomb dropped by a U.S. aircraft. The bomb was originally aimed at the Mutsu, but it landed on the Purple Mountain. The impact of the high-altitude fall made the bomb penetrate the Purple Mountain immediately. The upper deck of the Mountain was plunged into the bilge of the Purple Mountain.

At that time, all the officers and soldiers of the ship were stunned and motionless as if they had been hit by acupoints. In the words of Captain Dong Yanjie, "At that time, our blood was coagulated and frozen. After the bomb exploded, there is no doubt that the Zijin Mountain will be directly destroyed. We were blown in two, we were all desperate, watching the big hole that the bomb pierced through the deck with a resigned attitude, waiting for the big explosion that would send us all to hell in a few seconds... Unexpectedly, After a full minute, nothing happened, we all felt like a dream, and we took our lives completely."

The U.S. bomb that hit the Zijin Mountain accidentally failed to explode.

The U.S. sbd dreadnought dive bomber that dropped this bomb dropped a total of two bombs. One hit the Purple Mountain without exploding, and the other hit the Kaga, which was being towed by the Purple Mountain. As a result, the miracle did not happen again. The second bomb in the hangar on the second floor of the Kaga cabin exploded violently, blowing the aircraft carrier's hull apart.

The Jiang Weiguo, like the Zijinshan, suffered no casualties in this battle, but it also brushed shoulders with death. During this period, four US TBD Ravager torpedo attack aircraft fired torpedoes at the Mutsu. The Jiang Weiguo happened to be in two Between the U.S. torpedo and the Mutsu, Captain Yu Shihang personally steered the rudder and tried his best to avoid the first torpedo, but he could no longer avoid the second torpedo, so Yu Shihang shouted "Hurry up! It's about to explode" At that time, because the fixed depth was too large, the second torpedo passed under the bottom keel of Jiang Weiguo with a whoosh, and then hit the front of Mutsu firmly, blowing the bow of Mutsu to pieces immediately.

More than 20 minutes later, the U.S. carrier-based air group that successfully sent a Japanese battleship and a heavy aircraft carrier to the bottom of the sea returned triumphantly. The Jiang Weiguo and the Zijinshan, like other Japanese ships, were full of garbage, flames, oil, debris, The crew of the Mutsu and Kaga who fell into the water were rescued from the sea of ​​corpses.

The captain of the Mutsu, Kobayashi Kengo, was picked up by the Jiang Weiguo. The first thing the drowned Kobayashi Kengo did after boarding the ship was to find Yu Shihang, but instead of thanking him, he lost his temper.

Kobayashi Kengo grabbed Yu Shihang and roared hysterically: "Bagaga Road! Why did your destroyer avoid the American torpedo? You should let the destroyer stay still and block the American torpedo for the Mutsu! In this way, There is a good chance that the Mutsu will not be seriously injured and sink!"

Yu Shihang was furious: "Damn it! This destroyer of my father is a warship of the Chinese navy. How can I have the responsibility to block torpedoes for your Japanese navy warship? I picked you up from the sea, so it's fine if you don't fucking thank me, You actually blame me for not blocking torpedoes for your warship! It’s unreasonable! Come on, let me throw this bastard into the sea again!"

After receiving the defeat report of the sinking of the Mutsu and the Kaga, Nagumo Chuichi and Ozawa Jisaburo were shocked. They were terrified, regretful and annoyed. At this moment, the Japanese reconnaissance plane tracking the US carrier-based aircraft sent a message. An urgent report: US aircraft carrier found.

Chapter 633 Rich Harvest (3)

When the Japanese battleship Mutsu and the aircraft carrier Kaga were sent into the seabed by the U.S. carrier-based fleet, the Japanese carrier-based fleet was attacking the U.S. battleship, whose position had been controlled by the Japanese since last night.

All of a sudden, bombs in mid-air smashed their heads, and torpedoes cut through the waves on the sea. Although the U.S. carrier-based planes tried their best to fight with the Japanese planes to protect their own battleships, the U.S. battleships continued to burst into clusters of thunder and shine. Thunderbolt, however, because the U.S. military pays attention to defense and firepower (sacrificing speed for this), the U.S. battleship still struggles tenaciously on the sea after being injured and insists on not sinking.

"Captain, look, those American ships have raised the blue and white abandon ship signal flag!" An officer on the auxiliary cruiser Jingtao of the Chinese Navy who was watching the battle at the edge of the battlefield reminded Captain Yu Chaobai.

Yu Chaobai hastily raised his binoculars to look.

Yu Chaobai saw that five warships in the U.S. fleet raised the abandon ship signal flag, namely two battleships, two light cruisers, and one destroyer.

Yu Chaobai was most concerned about the battleships. He saw that the two US battleships that had raised the abandon ship signal flag were the USS California and the USS West Virginia. , the hull is riddled with bullets, the bridge and turret are crumbling, the deck is fragmented, smoke billows, and flames are rising. It can be seen that the USS California is more seriously injured than the USS West Virginia, but both ships are floating steadily on the sea surface There was no sign of imminent sinking or capsizing.

To be sure, although the injuries of the two ships were very serious, they were not fatal.

Yu Chaobai was puzzled. Looking at the surrounding waters, he suddenly found that the other battleships of the US military were far away from the sea level, and they were getting farther and farther away. The cruisers and destroyers of the US military were also moving away. The U.S. military did not want to fight anymore and was about to retreat. The U.S. military knew that it could no longer love to fight after dawn, otherwise it would be attacked by the Japanese carrier-based aircraft fleet, so it did not want to continue to entangle with the Japanese army and planned to retreat at full speed. However, several warships in the U.S. fleet were injured It is very heavy, and it cannot be started by itself or the speed is slow when it is started. If other warships are used to drag it forward, the speed of the entire fleet will inevitably be dragged down, and then the entire fleet will be in danger. The spoils of the Japanese army. Therefore, the U.S. military adopted the method of a strong man cutting his wrists, that is, sinking the seriously injured warships of his own side that could not be driven away, and then evacuated at full speed under the cover of his own carrier-based aircraft group.

At this time, most of the U.S. warships had already withdrawn from the battle area, leaving only the five warships that could not start or moved slowly after starting, and five or six destroyers and medical ships. The destroyers were responsible for the five warships. "Send them on the road. The hospital ship is used to rescue the American soldiers who fell into the water, the dead American corpses in the water, and the wounded American soldiers.

Yu Chaobai looked to the other side of the battle area and found that the Japanese fleet had disappeared and ran away.

The U.S. fleet ran away because the U.S. military knew it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, and the Japanese fleet ran away because the Japanese army did not want to fight the U.S. military and wanted their own carrier-based air fleet to undertake the task of continuing to attack the U.S. fleet.

Yu Chaobai looked up at the sky. There were not many Japanese and American carrier-based aircraft in the sky. The first wave of air battles between the two sides had ended, and they returned to the aircraft carrier one after another. However, there were still dozens of carrier-based aircraft from both sides circling in the sky. After dropping bombs or torpedoes, the Japanese carrier-based planes, which were still full of enthusiasm and fierceness, swept across the sea at low altitude, and strafed the American sailors who were struggling and swimming on the sea surface. There were splashes and splashes, and many American soldiers who fell into the water were shot and killed by Japanese planes. There were even a few Zero-type carrier-based aircraft that threw themselves at the American hospital ship with open flames. Throwing it down (a Zero type can carry two small bombs weighing 2 kg or 30 kg), two US hospital ships were hit by bombs dropped by Japanese planes, and their hulls were blown apart, with blood and flesh flying all over the ship.

The Japanese pilots did this because the Japanese never cared about the international laws of war and the Geneva Conventions.

Yu Chaobai was not interested in watching the tragic situation of the American soldiers who fell into the water. He stared closely at the few American ships that were being dealt with by the US military themselves.

The first ship that was dealt with by the U.S. military itself was a destroyer. The crew on that destroyer had been transferred away, and then another intact U.S. destroyer responsible for sending it on the road fired four torpedoes, causing a violent explosion. In the middle, the destroyer was completely disintegrated by the bombing and quickly sank into the sea.

Then, two other US light cruisers that could not move were also sunk by torpedoes launched by their own destroyers, followed by the battleship USS California. The U.S. destroyer on the road had no choice but to launch the third wave of four torpedoes. Finally, amidst a series of earth-shattering explosions, volcanic flames, and tsunami-like waves, the giant warship with a displacement of more than 8000 tons Helplessly, its riddled steel body was slowly swallowed by the sea, leaving a huge vortex and countless garbage, debris, and oil floating on the sea.

"Damn Yankees!" Yu Chaobai was heartbroken. He was so angry that he even wanted to curse because he couldn't accept the "extravagant and wasteful" behavior of the US military. "I know you have money, but you can't waste it like this! You guys No, give it to us! Our Chinese navy is almost dying of poverty, and we dream of owning such a big guy as a battleship, but we can only dream of it. You are good, but you don’t know how to cherish it. You really don’t know how hungry you are!” His state of mind at this time is like a hungry beggar seeing a rich man dumping the endless Man Han banquet into the slop bucket.

Cursing and shifting his gaze, Yu Chaobai stared at the last remaining battleship West Virginia waiting to be resolved. Like ants, they drilled out of the passages in every corner of the warship, left in a lifeboat, and transferred to the destroyer that came to meet them.

This is a very time-consuming job, because there are more than 2100 crew members on the West Virginia.

The battleship is very large, it is a sea fortress.

Yu Chaobai couldn't bear it and was reluctant to sink the USS West Virginia. He looked at the USS West Virginia repeatedly and found that although the huge ship was shattered, none of the injuries were particularly serious. The Japanese plane was blown up with a torpedo, causing its power system to be completely paralyzed, and the U.S. military had no choice but to sink it by itself.

"It would be great if we could catch it alive!" Yu Chaobai looked at the West Virginia with a broken heart. A few minutes later, a plan that was so bold that it was almost unimaginable appeared in his mind.

"Brothers, let's go to the US medical ship!" Yu Chaobai ordered.

"Captain, what are we going to do?"

Yu Chaobai showed a pirate-like expression: "Do our job! Cover up all your weapons! Quick! Take off your military uniform and put on the uniform of ordinary sailors! Send it to the fleet, requesting that the fleet immediately send warships over for reinforcements !"

Jingtao is an auxiliary cruiser, which was presented to the Chinese Navy by the German Navy. This so-called auxiliary cruiser is not a regular warship, but a large merchant ship. It is only equipped with naval guns, torpedoes and other combat weapons, but its appearance is nothing Change, as long as the turret and torpedo tube are covered with something, this auxiliary cruiser still looks like a merchant ship, which is very camouflaged and deceptive.

Auxiliary cruisers are weak in combat effectiveness, not as good as regular warships, and their defense is also poor. Its only means of combat is to disguise itself as a merchant ship and approach enemy ships, and then slam it on the map to sink or capture the opponent. It is the same as a submarine. Incapable of engaging enemy warships, so target enemy civilian ships.

During the Sino-Japanese War, the three auxiliary cruisers of the Chinese Navy repeatedly sank Japanese civilian ships in the South China Sea and the Western Pacific Ocean, causing huge casualties and property losses to Japan.

Hearing Yu Chaobai say the three words "old business", the officers and soldiers on board all understood what the captain was going to do.

"Captain, which flag do we fly? America's?" an officer asked.

"Shit! Do you look like a Yankee? Fuck Chinese!"

"However, we don't know if the Americans regard us as enemies. If they attack us, we will definitely be unable to resist!"

"First, if we don't hang the flag, it will be more suspicious. We might as well admit that we are a Chinese ship; second, if we go to help the Yankees rescue the Yankees who fell into the water, we will be able to gain their trust. "Thirdly, if the Yankees regard us as enemies, if you are really not sure, let's take a gamble! Is there still a sure thing in the world?"

Following Yu Chaobai's order, the Jingtao swaggered towards the place where the US medical ship sank. The signal soldiers waved the signal flag and sent an international message to the US destroyer, "We are here to help you rescue your people who fell into the water." Universal signal.

As the distance between the two sides got closer, all the crew members of the Jingtao broke into a cold sweat. On the surface, Yu Chaobai was calm and confident, but in fact he was also drumming in his heart. Fire the cannon or launch the torpedo, and the Jingtao, which is basically a civilian merchant ship in essence, is sure to die, not only can't fight, but also can't run.

A few minutes later, the big stone in Yu Chaobai's heart suddenly fell to the ground, because he saw through the binoculars that the US signal soldiers on the nearest US destroyer sent a "thank you" signal with a signal flag.

"Hurry up! Save the Yankees in the water! They're going to die!" Yu Chaobai yelled loudly.

The officers and soldiers are all busy.

Not long ago, this sea area was the battle zone of the Japanese-American Fleet War. The sea was full of garbage, debris, sundries, or intact or torn corpses, as well as a large number of American sailors struggling desperately in the water, especially The two medical ships were blown up by Japanese aircraft, and the two large sea areas with the two medical ships as dots were filled with American soldiers and American corpses.

The Jingtao was very busy. The officers and soldiers kept putting down the lifeboats and inflatable kayaks, and threw lifebuoys, life jackets, and cables to the struggling American soldiers in the water to rescue the American soldiers who fell into the water and the bodies of the American soldiers floating on the water. Soon, the deck of the Jingtao was overcrowded, and the wet American soldiers were continuously rescued on board.

According to Yu Chaobai's order, the officers and soldiers of Jingtao sent towels, blankets, fresh water, food, medicine and other things to these American soldiers.

"Thank you!"

"Are you Chinese?" The U.S. soldiers who were rescued on the ship immediately saw that their saviors had the same yellow skin, black eyes, and black hair as those damned Japanese devils, but the Chinese flag was flying on the ship.

"Well, we are Chinese, not Japanese!" replied the interpreter officer.

"How come you are here?"

"Our ship is an ocean-going freighter, which happened to pass by here and saw you fighting.

Although it is none of our business for you Americans to fight with their Japanese, since we see you falling into the water, we will definitely help you!"

"It turned out to be like this, thank you so much!" The US military suddenly realized.

The Jingtao picked up more than 300 American soldiers who fell into the water and the corpses of more than 100 dead American soldiers. Originally, Yu Chaobai wanted to catch more, but he ran out of time because he saw a US destroyer preparing to attack the West. Virginia fires torpedoes.

Under Yu Chaobai's order, Jingtao sailed to the nearest US destroyer, and at the same time sent out a signal: "Our ship is going to hand over your personnel and the remains of your victims who were rescued by our ship to you!"

The USS Hillary P. Jones destroyer (Benson class, with a full load displacement of more than 2000 tons and a crew of 276) saw the signal from the Jingtao.

After receiving the report, Major William Walter, the captain of the USS Jones, raised his binoculars and saw clearly that the deck of the other party was crowded with his own soldiers who fell into the water. They were all wearing blankets and holding water glasses. He was waving to himself, with a normal look and no panic expression.

Major Walter had no doubts, believing that the other party "is a neutral ship full of goodwill and sense of justice", so he ordered the warship to come up to receive his own personnel rescued by the other party, and he had already thought of various words of gratitude in his heart.

"Although the Chinese and the Japanese look very similar, there is a big difference! The Japanese are despicable, treacherous and treacherous, but the Chinese are so kind!" Major Walter said with emotion.

The Stormy Wave sailed towards the Jones, and the Jones also sailed towards the Walter. The two sides moved face to face, and then slowly approached, mooring in parallel on the sea.

"Friends from China, it's really..." Major Walter blocked the word "thank you" in his throat, and at the same time the expression on his face froze. He stared straight at the Jingtao that was so close Number.

The Jingtao suddenly took off its camouflage mask, and all the naval guns on the ship were stripped of their gun covers. They aimed murderously at the Jones, which was close at hand. Several torpedo tubes were also aimed at the Jones. The thick torpedoes It has been loaded inside, and more than that, a large number of officers and soldiers on the Jingtao are holding submachine guns, half of the submachine guns are aimed at the American sailors on the Jingtao, and half of the submachine guns are aimed at the American sailors on the Jones.

"what the fuck..." Major Walter was stunned, and the US troops on the Jones and the Surging Wave were also stunned, completely unaware of the sudden change.

"Mr. Captain!" Yu Chaobai raised a loudspeaker and shouted in English to Major Walter who was more than 30 meters away, "Now, our ship's twelve naval guns and four torpedo tubes are aimed at your destroyer. , the distance is so close, I believe my ship’s shells and torpedoes will not miss, don’t act rashly, otherwise my ship will blow your ship and everyone on your ship to pieces, your ship and everyone on your ship Everyone is already my prisoner!"

Major Walter was completely dumbfounded.