My own war game

Chapter 227 Unlucky Torpedo

"Hurry! Hurry up! Reload the torpedoes!" On the deck of the Akagi, technical soldiers were running back and forth.

These junior soldiers had little opportunity to complain and were extremely obedient. Even though they had gone through the annoying work of "installing and dismantling, and dismantling and installing again" today, they had no complaints.

However, although people could work continuously, the space on the aircraft carrier could not be changed. The high-explosive bombs unloaded from the planes were spread out on the deck, and some were even randomly piled together with the torpedoes. The entire Akagi looked in chaos.

The trouble is not over yet.

"Captain! Commander Tamon Yamaguchi refused to follow orders, and the Hiryuu stopped replacing torpedoes!" An assistant brought the news.

"Asshole! What does this guy whose brain is full of munitions want to do!?" Nan Yun Zhongyi finally lost his temper and cursed.

"Commander Yamaguchi said that the Yamato has a complete fleet of at least thirty ships with sufficient anti-aircraft firepower. Even if it is attacked by air, there will be no problem. We should make a concerted effort to capture Midway Island first."

"Damn it! Why at this moment?" Nanyun Zhongyi was no longer in the mood to bargain with his unlucky subordinate, so he ordered, "Hiryu carrier-based aircraft stand by, Zuikaku, Akagi, and Soryu carrier-based aircraft take off, search for the US aircraft carrier to the north!"

Half an hour later, 75 carrier-based aircraft of various types took off and headed towards the north in a mighty force, but these guys were destined to face a fruitless flight.

On board the Yukikaze.

"He, well done! Those guys were really fooled away!" Colonel Carlson waved his hands excitedly and patted He Chi's shoulders, making a loud bang.

But at the same time, discordant sounds came from the cabin below.

"Woo~~ Captain~~ This is a trap~~~ It's a black card~~ woo~ woo~"

"What's going on?!" He Chi shouted to the people below.

"Sorry, sir, the pilot discovered something unusual and suddenly came out. We will deal with it immediately..."

"Idiot!" He Chi picked up a crowbar and walked down from the command room. After a while, a muffled "bang" was heard from below, and the deck returned to calm.

However, the chaos on the deck had attracted the attention of other warships. The destroyer Lan, which was not far from He Chi and his men, sent a signal to ask what was going on.

"Send a reply with flag signals and say that the pilot who fell into the water and was rescued by our ship insisted on returning to his post to fight, causing minor chaos, but has now been calmed down." He Chi ordered Iikuni Kojiro who was standing aside.

Fortunately, the Arashi destroyer on the opposite side did not ask any further questions after receiving the reply, and everyone else breathed a sigh of relief.

"That was a close call. What do you think? Let Rockman and the others start working?" The colonel pointed down where the Nautilus submarine was hiding. Captain Rockman was still waiting for the signal for them to launch the attack.

"Wait a moment, the Japanese are not in a chaotic situation now, and we will be discovered too easily." He Chi raised his hand to stop the colonel.

"When?"

"It should be soon." He Chi pointed to the sky, and along with the sound of the engine, a group of small black dots appeared in the distance.

That was a squadron of torpedo bombers taking off from the USS Hornet.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Anti-aircraft combat! Hi Ya Ku!!" The shrill alarm resounded throughout the fleet, and each ship began to adjust its hull and anti-aircraft artillery to form an anti-aircraft fire network.

But history has a little deviation here. It turns out that in history, the Japanese aircraft carrier formation had at least 30 Zero fighters escorting it. The 15 American torpedo planes in the first wave of attacks were destroyed by the combined attack of Zero and anti-aircraft firepower with only one torpedo successfully launched.

However, under the command of Nagumo Chuichi, the fleet that was deceived to rescue the Yamato took away two-thirds of the Zeros, greatly weakening the fleet's anti-aircraft firepower. As a result, after losing about half of the torpedo planes, under the leadership of squadron leader John Waldron, 8 torpedo planes broke into the Japanese ships, and 6 of them successfully dropped bombs.

Six torpedoes rushed towards the enemy position with splashes of water.

boom! ! ! ! ! !

The first ship to be hit was the battleship Kirishima in the front row. Its stern was hit by the torpedo and caught fire instantly.

Boom! ! !
There was another dull sound, and the Chikuma heavy cruiser was also hit, but it was lucky, the torpedo was a dud.

What was even more terrifying was that two American torpedo planes, despite the overwhelming firepower, rushed straight towards the flagship Akagi, and were not shot down until they completed the torpedo launch.

Two white water lines headed straight for Akagi!
"Avoid! Emergency avoidance!" The helmsman of the Akagi controlled the huge ship to try to avoid the sudden threat.

Something unexpected happened. The destroyer "Yukikaze", which had just been incorporated into the fleet, actually rushed towards the front of the Akagi at full speed, and it seemed that it was going to use its hull to block the torpedoes heading towards the Akagi.

All members of the First Air Fleet were moved. Even Captain Tamon Yamaguchi, who was known for his cold-bloodedness, had tears in his eyes.

Sacrificing one’s own life without regard for personal safety, this is the spirit of a true Yamato man!

But what was unexpected was that the Yukikaze, which was blocked in the center of the torpedo, did not explode, and the underwater torpedo actually passed through it directly.

Uh~ Is it because the destroyer's hull is too shallow and it didn't trigger?
Something seems to be a little wrong. Why has the direction of the torpedo changed slightly?
And two shots turned into four?
Has the US military developed a warhead-splitting torpedo?

Before anyone could figure out what was happening, two of the torpedoes slammed into the side of the Akagi.

Nan Yunzhongyi felt something rising under his feet.

boom! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

A loud explosion was heard as a torpedo exploded on the side of the Akagi, creating a large hole and allowing sea water to pour in.

"Fuck!!! I'm going to throw the guy from the Washington Arms Procurement Committee into the torpedo tube and shoot him out!!!" Captain Rockman, deep in the sea, banged on the command platform and cursed.

With such a great opportunity, two torpedoes hit the same aircraft carrier at the same time, but only one exploded! It is really unforgivable! !
In fact, Rockman's luck was already good. With the 14% misfire rate of the Mark 70 torpedoes used by the United States at that time, even if two torpedoes hit the target at once, the probability of successful detonation was just over half.

The direct consequence was that although the Akagi was damaged, the waterproof bulkhead design quickly controlled the water ingress, and the flagship of the First Air Fleet was not in danger of sinking.

While Captain Rockman was still considering whether to risk being discovered and forcibly attack the Akagi, something unexpected happened on the battlefield again.

Two formations of Dauntless dive bombers took off from the Enterprise and Yorktown and flew over the Japanese fleet again.

At the same time, the planes of the Japanese First Air Force that attacked Midway Island returned.

(End of this chapter)