Chapter 1,298 Escape From the Tiger’s Mouth 2

Chapter 1298 Escape from the tiger’s mouth 2

"Also, let the torpedoes be prepared. We should have replenished one torpedo now, as well as the one we reserved before. We now have two!" Dönitz said through gritted teeth!

Poof, with the blast of compressed air, the bodies and debris were pushed out of the boat. Under the buoyancy of the sea water, they would float to the surface, and then tell the Japanese that the submarine was finished. After all, even if a submarine is an iron lump, even if it is sunk, only a small amount of debris can float up. If you add in the accidental corpses, it will look no different from a real battle sink!

"We seem to have succeeded?" Through the illumination of the searchlight, Nagumo Chuichi also discovered debris floating on the sea and things similar to corpses. This made the originally highly nervous Nagumo Chuichi relax. After all, he also knew. At this point, if there are corpses floating up, then basically the submarine should be finished.

"Put down the boat and go have a look." But even so, Nagumo Chuichi decided to send someone to verify. Of course, he was cautious and would not put his warship in danger! In fact, Nagumo Chuichi is also under a lot of pressure now. On the one hand, in this kind of anti-submarine warfare, God knows whether the other party will suddenly send him a torpedo. Chushuanghao also took a lot of risks, okay? On the other hand, sporadic explosions came from the side. It was foreseeable that not only was there a submarine attack on one's own side, but also a wolf pack attack by German submarines in other directions. There are only 4 destroyers available now... He had already delayed his arrival here for too long, and had thrown away more than half of the depth charges. If we can't achieve results, then tomorrow's results will be very bad. Maybe a "Navy Spirit Injection Rod" is light! (This meme can be seen in the men’s 96 guns. No, it’s the men’s Yamato.) If the point is important, just commit seppuku!

(To be honest, the author feels that the men’s shots of the Yamato are very poor. Even if you take a picture of the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Awada fleet attacking the American escort aircraft carrier, the Japanese can also fool them by saying that the Yamato killed several aircraft carriers. It’s also a record. Why are you doing just masturbating at the end? When it comes to masturbating, Hinata said she doesn’t know how much better she is than Yamato!)

Several unpopular Japanese sailors rowed over in a lifeboat, then picked up the body of a German sailor, and then sent a signal to the destroyer Hatsushuang to confirm. A moment later, there was a burst of cheers from the destroyer Chushuang. And Nagumo Chuichi finally breathed a sigh of relief. With this body, all his actions tonight can be justified. Because he sank the first German submarine in this battle! Maybe the only one.

If this matter were left to the UK, maybe Nagumo Tadashi would be punished as soon as he returned, because the British escort destroyer's first task is to protect the transport ship. When its own escort force is not enough, what the destroyer should do is to drive away the opponent. Instead of staring at the opponent's submarine and fighting to no end. After all, not to mention this era, even in the second battle, it is still very difficult for a destroyer to kill a submarine. Many battle examples show that, Under the joint encirclement and suppression by several destroyers,

The probability of submarines escaping is very high, especially Japanese destroyers, which have inferior anti-submarine capabilities.

From the perspective of the British naval escort fleet, which often faces wolves, it is a very wrong decision to lose limited anti-submarine power for one submarine and allow more transport ships to be attacked. But this is not necessarily the case in Japan, because the Japanese navy focuses more on destroying enemy ships rather than auxiliary warships. This can be seen from the fact that the Japanese submarine force is bent on attacking U.S. capital ships instead of breaking diplomatic relations.

For another example, in the Battle of Savo Island, Mikawa Junichi led a Japanese cruiser detachment into the hinterland of the US military, and then cleanly and directly killed four US cruisers, but gave up attacking the transport ships in the port and the ships piled on the shore. This can be seen from the supplies on the side. However, after returning, Sanchuan received an award.

To use a more vivid metaphor, Mikawa Junichi can be seen as bandits. They are going to rob a bank. The U.S. fleet is the security guard. The transport ship and supplies are the bank vault. Mikawa's approach is equivalent to using extremely sophisticated tactics to kill the security guard. , but did not attack the treasury... Would you say this operation was a success? Putting the cart before the horse, okay? The point is wrong, okay? The task was not completed at all!

After harvesting the key evidence - the corpse of the German army, Nan Yunzhong left with satisfaction. Twenty minutes later, the U190 submarine finally came to the surface. Dönitz, who had narrowly escaped death, did not leave. While turning on the diesel engine to charge the battery, the frustrated future boss of the German submarine force decided to take another look. Can other prey be found? Originally, these two torpedoes were reserved for Nagumo Chuichi, but in fact this idea was a bit wishful thinking. After all, submarines cannot sense the situation on the water surface underwater, and they don’t know when the Japanese destroyers will leave. It is a bit difficult to counterattack when the opponent is shouting... Do you really think the speed of the destroyer is a joke?

However, these two torpedoes were not wasted in the end. The submarine U190, which was operating in the dark, later discovered a transport ship trying to escape from the battlefield. After approaching 800 meters at a speed of 14 knots, it quietly killed the 5,500-meter-displacement transport ship. tons, Japanese transport ships loaded with various ores and metal ingots. Dönitz, who let out a bad breath, was really in no mood to stay here anymore, and commanded the submarine U190 to sail into the depths of the ocean, completely ending his battle this time.

Overall, the U190 fought pretty well this time, killing three times in one night and holding a Japanese destroyer at bay for nearly an hour. The submarine was not irreparably damaged and, of course, home was a certainty. "Two months later, I am a good man again!" After entering the safe area, Dönitz climbed out of the control tower, took a few deep breaths of the salty sea breeze, and said loudly.

The so-called wolves attack in groups. Naturally, it was impossible for only two submarines, U154 and U190, to launch an attack throughout the night. And just tonight, while Nagumo Chuichi believed that he had "sinked the first German submarine", the other two Japanese destroyers were called the shame of Japan's DD by later generations of Japanese... Of course, this was just the idea of ​​the Japanese who were relatively "naive" in the early days. Later, after experiencing various things and becoming "mature", they discovered that this was not a shameful thing.

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