2656 Night Murder 3
If the aircraft is the grandfather of the submarine, then the destroyer is the father of the submarine. Although there are many cases of submarines falling into destroyers or fighting against the anti-submarine warfare in history, most of the time, they are chased by destroyers and fleeing in a hurry. What's more, now is the time when the submarine is floating on the water and chasing prey.
Because there was no early warning, because the American destroyers came so fast that when the Japanese submarine troops were still addicted to the killing, the American flat destroyers rushed to them like galloping cavalry, and then used dense artillery to kill the assassins who were still floating on the water one by one!
The injured submarine No. 21 became the first warship lost by the Japanese Navy tonight. The two destroyers of the US Navy, DD135 and 147, targeted this guy, and more than 8 artillery pieces of various caliber, completely destroyed the submarine within 5 minutes.
Although the No. 19 submarine was first prepared to dive, unfortunately, it was not too late to enter enough depth and was targeted by the underwater listener of the DD135 destroyer. The Japanese were eager to get rid of their opponents, and the engine was driven to the maximum. The underwater noise was as loud as beating drums and drums on a quiet night! So without any surprise, the No. 135 destroyer threw dozens of deep-water bombs along the guide rails and the thunderbolt into the sea water, like plowing the ground, cruising in the nearby waters over and over again. The entire sea surface was like boiling boiling water!
At this time, in addition to the five destroyers who arrived on the battlefield, there were also a certain number of torpedo boats. These things were really beyond the expectations of the Japanese. They did not expect that any cruising American destroyer team would have such a large scale here. However, if the Japanese knew that the Americans who participated in World War I could produce more than 300 various destroyers before the end of the war, they might be able to understand the Americans' powerful industry and their use!
Faced with the impact of these fearless sea light cavalry, the two former Japanese fearless battleships also had some difficulty in dealing with it. So much so that Lieutenant General Stedi felt that the current situation was a bit useless.
"Send a telegram to Shanwu and let it cover the evacuation of the submarine force with us. This battle can be over now, and it doesn't make much sense to continue." Lieutenant General Stedi finally decided to evacuate.
"Why? These destroyers are just a trouble for us. As long as we don't make trouble ourselves, it's not a big problem to solve them." Yamamoto said with some dissatisfaction as he looked at the American transport ship fleeing in the distance.
"First of all, the prey has dispersed. At this time, chasing prey under the threat of American destroyers is actually an inefficient and dangerous move. Secondly, our ammunition is very limited, and these ammunition is reserved for transport ships and former dreadnoughts or armored cruisers of the Americans when they have to fight. It is very unprofitable to waste it on the destroyers at this time. Don't forget the experience of the Germans and fight against opponents of your equivalent, you must ensure that your ammunition depot has half a base of ammunition. Our guerrilla warfare has just begun, unless you want to go back in a month." Lieutenant General Stedy said.
At the insistence of Lieutenant General Stedy, the Japanese fleet began to gather, and the Yamagi returned, and together with the Asagi, drove away the American destroyers surrounding the submarine. Finally, after losing another submarine, the American destroyers gave up the attack and began to evacuate, and the Japanese fleet, which had already sunk 10 transport ships and at least 4 destroyers and torpedo boats, also began to evacuate. How to say, if we look at the results of the battle, the Japanese killed at least 60,000 tons of American transport ships at the cost of three submarines. As well as a large amount of supplies, the results of this battle were very good. However, the Lieutenant General was not very satisfied with this, and the submarine could have suffered less losses.
"The Americans' industry is still strong. They produce destroyers as convenient as we produce sausages. Perhaps only future Germany can compete with Americans on the scale of industrial scale, right?" Lieutenant General Stedy sighed.
After the end of this attack, which later known as the Panama Massacre, the Yamamoto Fleet's journey had just begun. In other words, the Japanese Navy's break-up battle had just begun. Just as the Yamamoto Fleet started a massacre in the Panama Canal area, another break-up fleet consisting of two armored cruisers also penetrated the Eastern Pacific. At this time, the US Navy did not have a suitable warship to deal with this break-up battle in the entire Eastern Pacific. As a result, a half-year break-up and anti-break-up battle began. The US Navy's offensive was dragged down again and again!
"Where will we go next?" Yamamoto asked.
"We continue to go south to the coastal areas of Chile. Chile's copper mines are very important to the United States, which is in war, and we also need to block trade between other countries and Americans. Of course, it would be even better if some American warships could be attracted to South America." Stedi said.
"So how to solve our supply problem?" Yamamoto asked.
"It's very simple. The supply ships departing from New Zealand will solve all problems." Stedee said. Then, under the cover of night, the Japanese fleet began to move south. When daylight came, U.S. naval officials in Panama were also writing reports. Moreover, because the area near Panama did not have enough power to match the two Japanese warships, the Americans interrupted the sea transportation in the Panama region. It was not until the fleet led by the two dreadnoughts arrived that the transportation of the Panama Canal would be considered restored!
What Yamamoto could not have imagined was that the transport ship he had sunk was only about 60,000 tons, but the delay in material transportation caused by this was as high as million tons. The tonnage of merchant ships sunk during maritime transactions is certainly a very important indicator, but sometimes, the panic and additional impact caused by this will be better than direct sunk!
On the afternoon of the third day, Roosevelt had just finished his lunch break and was about to continue working. Roosevelt, the deputy chief of the Navy, came to the president's office and handed over a document.
"His Excellency the President, there is a very bad news. The Germans' expectations became a reality. The Japanese used their second-line fast warships to launch a battle of war. They ambushed our fleet outside the Panama Canal and suffered heavy losses." Roosevelt Jr. said in some frustration.
"Damn it!" Old Roosevelt felt dizzy when he heard the Panama Canal. He cursed out in anger, wondering if he was cursing the Japanese or others?
Chapter completed!