You were tasked with guarding the Sihang Warehouse, and you brought out a Tiger tank?

Through his binoculars, Lin Feng witnessed the horrific conditions of the Japanese sailors.

A Japanese sailor was trying to operate a heavy machine gun to return fire when suddenly a 40mm shell exploded around him.

"boom!"

The Japanese soldier was blown to pieces, and a severed leg flew into the air before falling into the river with a thud.

Several Japanese soldiers grabbed water hoses and ran onto the deck to try to put out the fire, but were hit by the twin machine guns on the LCS.

"Pfft pfft pfft!"

Several bursts of blood erupted, and they stumbled and fell into the Yangtze River like tattered sacks, quickly swallowed by the turbid waters.

There was also a Japanese officer who was waving his command sword and shouting on the bridge when he was hit directly in the chest by a 37mm shell and disappeared instantly, leaving only his command sword clattering to the deck.

"BOOM—!!!"

Suddenly, it appears that a Japanese warship was hit in its bow ammunition magazine, causing a massive secondary explosion.

A huge, orange-red fireball shot into the air, blasting the front of the ship off and sending river water rushing in.

In just a few dozen seconds, the gunboat, weighing over a hundred tons, sank headfirst into the river, leaving behind only a huge whirlpool and a river full of floating debris.

Soon, all five of the Japanese gunboats were destroyed.

Some of the ships had their waterlines riddled with machine gun fire and were slowly sinking;

Some were engulfed in thick smoke from the fighting, and almost all the Japanese soldiers on the boats were burned alive. They jumped into the Yangtze River like dumplings being dropped into boiling water, and the boats lost control and spun around on the river, on the verge of running aground.

Of course, Lin Feng's warships were also attacked.

After all, it was close-quarters combat, and even if the Japanese had weak firepower, they still had a few cannons.

A PT boat was grazed by a 76mm shell, which blasted a large hole in its side, killing several sailors instantly.

Several more shell craters appeared on the LCS's armored command turret, marks left by Japanese heavy machine guns.

Fortunately, most of the ships sustained only minor damage. Only one gunboat was hit in the hull and lost a 37mm main gun, but the flames were quickly extinguished, and its main combat capability remained intact.

"Sizzle..."

The captains' voices, tinged with excitement, came through the radio:

"Commander, the Japanese still have a destroyer on the other side of the blockade line. Should we give them a good beating?"

"Are you confident?" Lin Feng asked.

Naval warfare and sea battles are about courage, skill, ship quality, and of course, a little bit of luck.

That's a destroyer, albeit a second-class one, but still a regular warship of a thousand tons, equipped with a 120mm main gun and torpedoes. It's no joke.

"I'm confident!"

Several captains said in unison.

Lin Feng took a deep breath; he wasn't one to back down from trouble.

"Alright, let's fucking get to him!"

The real battle has begun.

The Japanese destroyer named "Wakatake" had already turned its guns around, the dark 120mm main guns pointing at the group of seemingly reckless small boats.

"Buzzing—"

In the sky, several Japanese Type 95 carrier-based fighter jets swarmed over like flies attracted by a fishy smell, strafing Lin Feng's fleet at low altitude.

"Da da da da!"

Bullets struck the water's surface, sending up jets of water; they hit the deck, sending sparks flying.

"Air raid! Air raid!"

All ships opened fire with full anti-aircraft capabilities.

A dense barrage of bullets instantly filled the sky.

The two Japanese planes were unable to dodge in time and were turned into fireballs, crashing into the river.

The remaining Japanese pilots also learned their lesson. They knew this fleet was a tough opponent, so they stopped foolishly diving and instead flew at a distance, luring the ship's machine guns to fire.

They would even make feints, pretending to dive deep to trick the ship's anti-aircraft fire into opening fire, only to pull up at the last moment and fly away into the distance.

Once Japanese planes from other directions discovered blind spots or gaps in the anti-aircraft fire, they would immediately swoop down, straf a round, and then flee.

After several rounds of firefights, the Japanese lost another plane and had one damaged.

However, there were also casualties on several of Lin Feng's ships.

Sailors operating various machine guns, in particular, had their battle positions almost entirely exposed, with only a shield in front of them, making them easy targets for strafing fire from above.

Some people were killed, and some were injured.

One Oerlikon gunner was hit in the shoulder, and blood stained the gun mount, but he gritted his teeth and continued to operate the gun with one hand.

Lin Feng also felt a little uncomfortable looking at it.

But there's no other way; the best way to defend against air attacks is to send our own fighter jets up there.

Ground-based air defenses are ultimately passive when targeting aircraft in the sky; the initiative always lies with the aircraft in the air.

"Boom! Boom!"

Just then, the Huangshan Fort in the distance roared once again.

Colonel Wei Zhen clearly saw the opportunity and, disregarding the risk of overheating the cannons, ordered all the 88mm guns that could still fire to open fire at full speed, suppressing the Japanese destroyer and covering Lin Feng's fleet's charge.

The shells exploded around the "Wakatake," creating huge columns of water that interfered with its aiming.

"Charge!"

Lin Feng's small fleet skillfully slipped through the narrow gaps in the blockade line formed by the sunken ships blocking the river.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Japanese destroyer kept firing to block the fire and put its engine in reverse, desperately trying to create distance.

But compared to a torpedo boat with a speed of over 40 knots, its speed is like that of a snail.

"Torpedo boats, go!"

Under the cover of fire from LCS and PT gunboats, the four PT-103 torpedo boats, which had been holding back, finally revealed their fangs.

They were like four sharp swords, cleaving through the waves and rushing forward.

The destroyer was attacked from both the left and right sides.

"put!"

"Splash! Splash!"

Several Mark 8 torpedoes fell into the water, leaving white trails like the tentacles of death, and rushed toward the "Wakatake" at high speed.

The destroyer desperately tried to evade, but at such close range, it had no way to hide from the fan-shaped torpedoes coming from both sides.

"Boom! Boom!"

Two muffled, loud thuds, as if they came from the depths of hell.

Four out of eight.

Although two torpedoes failed to detonate due to fuse problems, the remaining two were deadly enough.

For an old-fashioned second-class destroyer with a displacement of only 900 tons, being hit directly by an underwater torpedo explosion would undoubtedly be a devastating blow.

The "Wakatake" was instantly thrown up as if by an invisible giant hand, its hull twisting and breaking apart in the massive explosion.

The crisp sound of the dragon bone breaking echoed across the river.

The warship, which had been so arrogant just moments before, broke into three pieces within seconds and sank rapidly into the rolling Yangtze River, accompanied by the screams of countless Japanese sailors.

On the river, only a huge whirlpool and countless floating fragments remained.

Lin Feng put down his binoculars and let out a long breath.

"We won."