Chapter 331

Thunder Trap at Sea

After chasing all night last night, the "King Kong" squadron had unknowingly moved a full 300 kilometers south. It was already not far from Nansha, and half of the task force at that time had gone in. Now both sides

They almost fell over, and the situation between the enemy and us was reversed.

Seeing the Japanese fleet shown on the radar getting closer and closer to the Nansha Islands area, Zhu Bin had a smile of success on his face. Chen Shaokuan had a look of disbelief on his face. He shook his head in disbelief and said: "Strange! The Japanese army turned out to be as you expected.

After breaking into dangerous waters, why didn't they contact the main fleet to encircle and suppress them, or take the initiative to fight?"

"They didn't expect to encounter such a situation. In addition, the group of prey in front of them must have lost contact with their main fleet! Under such weather conditions, they are no different from blind men. It is not easy to judge their location clearly.

.If he wants to come up and fight with us, he can’t break the distance of dozens of kilometers, and he will be beaten to death by us!”

Zhu Bin still kept some things secret from Chen Shaokuan, and did not say that he had scattered several submarines around to conduct full-band electromagnetic interference for hundreds of kilometers. The Japanese army could not contact their main fleet by any means.

This kind of advanced combat method is simply not something that people of this era can understand. How would they know that their own telegraph frequencies and radio bands have been deciphered and blocked?

In this way, the two sides would be like a big muscular man beating an equally strong blind man. It would definitely be a one-sided advantage.

But Zhu Bin obviously thought more prudently. He used constant artillery fire to chase and force the Japanese ship to change lanes and hide. If he was not careful, he would be in trouble!

As for the Japanese army, they sent submarines and destroyers to look for their two capital ships responsible for the attack with fearless spirit. One of them came up to die, and the other one. In such weather conditions, it would be impossible to find them until dawn!

In the waters north of the Zhongsha Islands, on the flagship of the "Hiei", Mitsumasa Yoneuchi rubbed his sore and red eyes, suppressed his violent anger, and asked again: "Have you not contacted Colonel Kishimoto yet?"

"No!" Miki Taiichi shook his head and explained, "Maybe it was because the storm was too intense and the radio signal was interfered with! It is impossible to fight under such weather conditions. Commander, please wait patiently.

A while will pass soon."

"Well! But we can't take it lightly! Weather like this will give the Chinese a chance to break out!"

Mitsumasa Yoneuchi couldn't say that he had an ominous premonition in his heart. It was too demoralizing to say this. He always felt that since he knew the trends on his side from the beginning, he couldn't assume that they were stupid and didn't pay attention to the intelligence of the Imperial Navy. Then

He set off from Taiwan and the other party set off from Singapore. Knowing that he would encounter danger,

Still quickly entering this sea area as a position, the plan must not be simple. And this storm came a little too timely! Could it be said that the other party had expected it?

"Impossible! Weather conditions cannot be understood casually." Mitsumasa Yoneuchi himself couldn't believe this ridiculous idea. What a joke. It is a natural law and unpredictable changes. The other party needs to know this.

, that’s amazing.

These guys shouldn't be able to escape. Even if they try their best to break through, they won't be able to break through the Zhongsha Islands before dawn. It's still very easy to catch up with them.

The heavy rain is still there! The low clouds seem to be pressing directly on the sea, and the lightnings are like roiling silver snakes. Suddenly they are like a thunderbolt, and the lower part is as bright as day. In an instant, it illuminates the scattered array to the southeast.

Towards the running fleet, diagonally behind, a wave of artillery shells roared through the air every ten meters, hitting the surroundings in a mess, making every nearby warship walk on thin ice, always worried about being hit by a single blow and being blown up to 70 pieces.

Eight falls!

Kishimoto Kakoji's face turned blue with anger. If he hadn't been dragged unable to move by his subordinates, he would have gone out and fired the artillery himself against the enemy who didn't know where he was!

Those damn guys are too cunning and cunning! They don't stay in one place at all. Instead, they follow up flexibly as their fleet changes directions, turning from one side to the back, and every time they choose almost the right position of the "King Kong".

At the rear, his turret could not exert its force at all, and it was difficult to aim in the right direction. It was completely futile to fire and bombard. Not to mention that he did not know the position and distance, even if he knew it, he might not be able to hit it accurately!

"Boom!" Another violent explosion sounded on the right side. Unfortunately, a destroyer was hit in the stern. It should have been an armor-piercing projectile. It penetrated directly through the entire warship from under the rear turret, and opened at the bottom.

A hole as big as a water tank was opened, and the destructive power of more than ten kilograms of high-explosive gunfire only caused the surrounding keel to break and crack, but the surging seawater made this thousand-ton ship completely hopeless!

"Damn it! You shameless coward! You have the ability to challenge me to a showdown! Where is your moral integrity as a soldier and samurai when you do such a sneaky thing!?"

Kakoji Kishimoto screamed, but he could only go crazy in vain. He now realized that the other party was supposed to be the prey and he was the hunter, but a damn storm turned everything upside down!

Be patient! Be patient! As long as the storm passes and dawn comes, you will have time to take revenge! You have time!

The battleship "King Kong" tried its best to escape in a zigzag pattern. For an hour, it was intermittently chased by the opponent's artillery fire for a full fifty kilometers. It seemed that the attacks were weakening. I don't know if it was the opponent's speed.

Unable to keep up, the shells all landed seven or eight kilometers behind. Kishimoto was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he suddenly saw the light cruiser opening the way in front of him desperately flashing light signals. There was a large reef below! The battleship ran aground!

"No!" Kishimoto Kakoharu suddenly figured everything out! The other party was definitely not just chasing and shelling, they were purposefully driving themselves into a dangerous area! They were blindly blind and couldn't tell the direction, and they ran away in confusion.

We’re here! And the closest and most dangerous part of this sea area is, needless to say, the Nansha Islands!

However, he understood it too late! Just when he was about to give the order to turn around immediately, even if he was facing the opponent's artillery fire, he would not hesitate to kill him, the "King Kong" shook violently, and the underwater hull scraped together

The coral reef that stretched out suddenly made a strange noise that was heart-breaking. The soldiers on the deck, regardless of the danger, braved the wind and waves to check, and then reported with pale faces: "We have hit a rock!"

Kakoji Kishimoto trembled all over and froze as if struck by lightning! What does it mean to hit a rock in this situation?!

The "King Kong" battleship has a displacement of 30,000 tons. The heavy hull will not be easily damaged even if it encounters artillery shells. However, compared with the natural reefs, even if it is ten times more powerful, it will be useless! In terms of its own speed and weight,

Under double squeezing, with just a minor collision, the keel structure on the side immediately groaned, and a long series of cracks were opened, and hundreds of tons of seawater poured in!

Although the helmsman tried his best to swerve to avoid it, his fate was already sealed! Less than a kilometer after rushing out, the battleship directly rubbed against the messy coral reefs on the seabed and got stuck!

The depth of this water area is six to seven meters at the shallowest and more than ten meters at the deepest. Other warships can pass through it carefully. However, the modified draft of the "King Kong" has reached 9 meters, which is just below the passing line.

After this series of collisions, it can no longer keep moving forward, no matter how hard the engine outputs, it is useless!

Thirty kilometers away, a group of unscrupulous guys on the two battleships cheered in unison! Zhu Bin slapped the table and shouted: "You are the one who is blocking the way! Now that the fresh fish is on the shore, let me see how you can still jump around!"

Call the brothers and clean up all the trash fish around you first!"

"Work begins!" Wang Wenda screamed strangely, and the two turrets turned in response, aiming at a light cruiser that had been searched fifteen kilometers away and opened fire! The 127mm high-level dual-purpose cannon on the side was not idle either, and they all burst into support.

, two rounds later, the light cruiser didn’t even have time to report its name, it exploded into two pieces and sank to the bottom of the sea!

Under the water near the Philippine Islands, six submarines slowly rose from the sunken seabed like ghosts, and silently pointed their bows at the Japanese warships four or five kilometers away with their headlights on and searched everywhere.

After the calibration, a series of more than a dozen torpedoes rushed out of the launch tube in a "chunk, chugging" sequence.

A high-speed torpedo accelerated to a speed of fifty knots in the blink of an eye, leaping in like a fish on the undulating sea, while the Japanese ship's poor searchlight could only see four to five hundred meters.

In this place, even if he saw the six-meter-long torpedo figure, he only had time to let out a scream!

"Boom! Boom!"

Explosions louder than thunder erupted from the sea. A huge fireball shot straight into the sky two hundred meters away, illuminating the surrounding area dimly. The rainstorm with a diameter of four to five hundred meters was evaporated, and the violent shock wave even

The vibrations can be felt several kilometers away by submarines that are too close!

Not even a blind person would notice such a big movement. Kakoji Kishimoto saw the dazzling flames from the distance on the "King Kong" that was beginning to tilt. He couldn't help but scream wildly and ordered the naval guns to shoot at the gun at all costs.

While firing, he will not hesitate to hurt his own people!

But such an order cannot be executed! Even if the battleship is sunk, there are still a large number of soldiers who fell into the water and survived! How can you do this? Besides, there is no trace of the enemy at all!

They had no choice but to watch one after another light battleships being blown up and sunk by unknown enemies without any preparation! They died so unclearly that they probably wouldn't even be able to get to the altar! It's too bad

Reputation!

Without the threat of the "King Kong", even if the remaining warships' cannons with a maximum of 140mm hit the two amphibious assault ships, it would be difficult to cause serious damage. What's more, they can't even see where the target is!

Really two hours later, in addition to the five warships that had penetrated into the archipelago, the twelve Japanese ships that followed were all damaged and sunk. After the storm passed, dawn came, and the mainmast of the "King Kong" hit the bottom.

At the top, Kishimoto Kakoji saw from a distance the rising flag of an enemy ship thirty kilometers away.
Chapter completed!