The Beacon of Laiyang Metal

Chapter 72 Drone Attack

Since the Japanese mixed fleet shot down a "P-39" fighter jet of the Army Aviation Regiment, not only the fleet commander Tokuo Hirata's face looked much better, but the morale of the entire fleet has also been greatly improved.

In the eyes of these little devils, their fleet was finally not suppressed and beaten by the Chinese planes on the opposite side. At least it had a certain ability to kill those nasty Chinese planes.

He didn't see the reconnaissance aircraft in the sky. He only dared to monitor the movements of the imperial fleet from a distance, and did not dare to get close to the anti-aircraft fire range of the imperial warships.

"But when did these Chinese aircraft have the ability to fight at night? From day to night and now to night, they have been circling the fleet like annoying flies." This made Tokuo Hirata very confused.

Tokuo Hirata's original plan was to arrive at the Anton Port Pier before 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and spend an afternoon to clear out the garrison of the th Division in the Andong Port and the county town, so that his mixed fleet could ruthlessly attack the headquarters and the emperor. Cruelly suppress the army's "red deer".

However, the plan could not keep up with the change. A boiler of the flagship "Izumo" was destroyed, resulting in a serious drop in power. Coupled with the salvage supply ship and the drowned sailors on the "Kawauchi", when the Japanese fleet arrived 30 kilometers outside Anton Port By now, it was already past 9 p.m.

At this time, Tokuo Hirata raised the telescope in his hand and looked at the target location. The entire Anton Port was silent, and it was so dark that there was not even a single figure.

Not to mention the bombardment target, without careful observation, it is difficult to distinguish clearly where the port is and where the ordinary land is.

"It seems that the commander of the Chinese army opposite is not only arrogant but also cunning. In order to prevent the imperial army from attacking at night, he implemented a blackout."

Tokuo Hirata said to Chief of Staff Kazuhiko Kishida.

Tokuo Hirata, the commander of the Japanese fleet who was originally aggressive and did not take the Seventh Division seriously at all, began to become cautious after being slapped hard by a plane sent by Weiyuan during the day.

Chief of Staff Kazuhiko Kishida deeply agrees with Tokuo Hirata's views.

From the destruction of the Jiuda Alliance to the continuous attacks on the fleet by enemy planes during the day, he realized that the opponent he faced this time was obviously different from other Chinese armies he had known before.

Not only were the equipment advanced, but at the tactical level, they only made tentative attacks against the imperial fleet, without any intention of going head-on.

In the end, he just sent out planes to monitor the movements of the fleet from a distance, which made him realize that the enemy commander was probably brewing some conspiracy.

Kishida Kazuhiko couldn't explain clearly what the conspiracy was, but if you just send fighter planes to attack the Imperial fleet from the air, although it will indeed cause some trouble to the fleet, it is undoubtedly a fantasy to annihilate the Imperial fleet in one fell swoop. Even Kishida Kazuhiko, who is cautious by nature, has this confidence.

It is true that China's national power was too weak at that time. Even if it won one or two foreign battles, it would be difficult to change the inherent impression of these foreign devils on the Chinese people.

After thinking about this, Kishida Kazuhiko on the side bowed and said: "It is indeed as your Excellency said, the garrison of the Seventh Division on the opposite side seems to have been prepared for the arrival of the imperial army, but to use an old saying in their country, it is nothing more than a mantis' arm. It's just blocking the car, but there are too many uncertainties in night fighting. Although the imperial army is adventurous, there is no need to rush. I suggest that we should follow the established orders of the base camp and wait until dawn tomorrow to launch a unified attack on the defenders of the 7th Division and annihilate them in one fell swoop. !”

Tokuo Hirata looked at the dark port 30 kilometers away. Although he was a little reluctant, in order to avoid accidents and for the sake of his own career, he could only nod and agreed after thinking for a moment.

Subsequently, as the order for the flagship to stop and drop anchor was issued, the sailors on the Japanese mixed fleet also began to get busy. In addition to maintaining a sufficient safe distance between the ships in accordance with wartime regulations, troop transports and supply ships were also separated Inside, the cruisers and destroyers formed a circular defensive formation outside.

In addition, all rapid-fire gunners maintain combat readiness at their gun positions to respond to enemy sneak attacks at night.

It has to be said that in order to prevent sneak attacks by the aircraft of the Seventh Division at night like during the day, this wave of operations of the Little Japanese Fleet was still cautious enough.

Finally, accompanied by the "crunching" sound of the anchor chain, the huge anchor was slowly sunk to the bottom of the sea, and the boilers of each ship began to shut down, until the entire warship completely lost its power source.

At this time, the Japanese fleet was like a giant beast, crawling in the night on the sea, waiting for dawn tomorrow to launch a fatal blow to the Seventh Division.

November 8, 0:10

Ten minutes after Weiyuan personally issued the attack order, a drone formation composed of 10 large drones had completed takeoffs one after another and assembled in an airspace 10 kilometers away from where the Japanese fleet was parked.

The fuselages of these ten large drones are all painted in black and gray. Except for the flashing navigation lights on the top of the fuselage, they almost blend into the night.

The excellent noise reduction capabilities brought by the power of electric energy provide these drones with excellent cover in the night.

In this period when radar is still in the technical verification stage, even if you observe carefully with a telescope, it is almost impossible to actively detect them at night unless the drone actively drops its altitude below a thousand meters.

The Russian-made SET-72 light torpedoes, which are also painted black and gray under the belly, look like killers in the night under the cover of night, waiting for the order to attack at any time.

After the UAV formation assembled in the air, the sea search radar mounted in the nose of the aircraft was quickly turned on.

Immediately, in the display screen of the ground drone terminal, in addition to the real-time image from the drone's high-definition camera, small green glowing dots began to appear on one side of the sub-screen displaying radar information.

22 small green dots, large or small, present a ring formation on the screen. Combined with the current information of the Japanese fleet conveyed by "Skylark 3", it is no surprise that the three largest dots are definitely Japanese cruisers. .

The slightly smaller green dots on the periphery of the ring formation should be Japanese destroyers. As for the ones in the middle of the ring formation, they are either supply ships or troop carriers.

According to the pre-planned attack plan, three Japanese cruisers will be the key targets of the first wave.

In order to ensure the strike effect, the flagship "Izumo" of the Japanese mixed fleet will be attacked by 4 drones this time, and the other two cruisers "Kaga and Kawauchi" have also assigned 3 drone sorties each. machine strike.

As for other destroyers, supply ships, troop carriers, etc., it will be decided whether to be included in the second wave of attacks based on the effect of the attack on the cruiser.

In the air, after completing the target allocation based on the sea search radar, the UAV formation originally assembled in the airspace 10 kilometers away from the Japanese fleet began to fly southwest of the Japanese fleet's location, and continued to decrease in flight altitude during the flight.

When the flight altitude finally dropped to 200 meters, it changed to level flight mode and began to approach the Japanese warship at a sea-skimming altitude.

Although the instruction manual that comes with Maozi says that torpedoes can be thrown from the air at a height of up to 500 meters, and after the torpedo is powered on, it can automatically lock on to the target and launch an attack based on the attack instructions input by the computer in advance. But don't forget that the drone terminal purchased by Weiyuan is a civilian gadget, and it is not compatible with Maozi's torpedo control system at all.

There is no other way but to use this high-tech gadget as an ordinary direct-fire torpedo. In order to ensure the accuracy of the attack, it was decided to launch the torpedo at a height of 200 meters.

For a behemoth like a cruiser, which is hundreds of meters long, attacking at a close range of 200 meters, and on a fixed target, if the drone operator does not hit the target, Weiyuan can simply let them buy a piece of tofu and kill them, or Just kick him to the infantry regiment to carry "eight big grains".

At some point, a thin layer of mist began to fill the sea. Coupled with the pitch-black night, looking at the spot where the Little Devils mixed fleet was parked from a distance looked more like steel castings in the darkness. islands.

At this time, the searchlights on the ships on peripheral alert were constantly searching the sea surface to find any suspicious targets within sight.

The two Japanese sailors on the watchtower of the "Izumo" made up a sentry post while turning their searchlights back and forth to search the sea while chatting wordlessly:

"Hayakawa-kun, the sneak attack by the Chinese plane during the day was really dangerous. If I hadn't jumped into the sea in time, I would have been loyal to His Majesty the Emperor today!"

After one of the Japanese sailors finished speaking, his face showed a sense of happiness that he had survived the disaster.

The Japanese sailor named Hayakawa tightened the fleece cotton coat he wore on duty, took another puff of cigarette and said with an indifferent expression:

"Ishimoto, were you frightened by the Chinese plane? Being loyal to His Majesty the Emperor is the honor of being a warrior of the Empire. How could you have such an idea?"

Then he looked up at the "Skybark 2" which was still hovering over the fleet and was not sure it was within the range of the fleet's anti-aircraft firepower. He patted the sailor named Ishimoto on the shoulder and said:

"Relax, the Chinese plane just got lucky today when we were unprepared. We didn't see the Chinese plane and now we don't dare to approach the Imperial Fleet? Wait until dawn tomorrow in front of the Imperial Fleet's cannon, those hateful Chinese You will pay a heavy price. After the defenders on the shore are wiped out, I will personally select a Chinese flower girl for you to help you calm down. It is said that their flower girls are very watery and so tender that they can squeeze out water. , far from being comparable to those bow-legged geishas in China."

"Hahaha"

When it comes to women, the two alert Japanese sailors suddenly became energetic and let out bursts of lewd laughter. Perhaps they were worried that the nearby Japanese officers would hear it. The laughter of the two Japanese soldiers was suppressed very low, making them look extremely lewd and lewd. .

At some point, the aircraft that was hovering above the fleet and making an annoying "buzzing" noise disappeared. The searchlights that were shining in the sky to track the "Skylark 2" were also turned off one by one, leaving only the light on the sea. Warning searchlights.

Without the interference of the aircraft noise, even the Japanese sentry who was originally very energetic became a little drowsy.

No one paid much attention to the sudden disappearance of the enemy aircraft, or if they did, there was nothing they could do about it.

The sailors who were on guard duty on the fleet only felt that their ears were much quieter. Perhaps they just thought that the fuel of these aircraft had been exhausted and they needed to go back to replenish fuel.

It's just that the extremely cold weather in the Northeast makes it difficult to sleep soundly in this kind of weather. I have to pace back and forth to let my body dissipate as much heat as possible. I really can't control the sleepiness that comes over me, so I secretly lean on the bed. Squint at the fence on one side for a while.

While half asleep and half awake, the Japanese sailor named Ishimoto suddenly seemed to hear something making a "buzzing" sound, like a bee flickering its wings next to his ear.

"Could it be that the enemy's plane is coming again?"

Then he gave up this unrealistic idea. If it was an enemy aircraft, he would have heard the roar of their aircraft engines several kilometers away. The "buzzing" sound.

"Hayakawa-kun~Hayakawa-kun."

Feeling something strange, the Japanese sailor named Ishimoto began to shake Hayakawa, who was already asleep.

Half asleep and half awake, Hayakawa dreamed that he was the first to break into the county town defended by the Chinese, and used his Type 38 rifle with a bayonet in his hand to stab the Chinese soldiers who were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy, stabbing to death one by one.

Even in the houses of wealthy families in the county, I found a lot of gold and silver treasures and beautiful girls. Just when I was about to take off my belt and pounce on them, I suddenly felt someone shaking me non-stop, calling my name while shaking.

Hayakawa, whose erotic dream was disturbed, opened his eyes and found that the person shaking him was Ishimoto who was also on duty. For whatever reason, he came up with two big mouths:

"Baga, Ishimoto, you have a very bad conscience. Didn't you see your commander taking a rest?" Shiben, who had been slapped twice, did not dare to show any dissatisfaction.

Although one of them is a lower-class soldier and the other is an upper-class soldier, due to the strict hierarchy among the Japanese army, and the routine beating and scolding of superiors to subordinates, if Ishimoto dares to show the slightest disobedience, he will only get nothing in return. It is more serious beatings and punishments.

Ishimoto cursed in his heart that Hayakawa was trying to put money on his face. He only joined the army a few months earlier than him. Each and every small private soldier acted as an officer in front of him, but on the surface he did not show the slightest disobedience. On the contrary, he He bowed and kept saying "Hi~Hi~" non-stop, looking completely educated.

Hayakawa, who had finished venting, also woke up from his sleep. He asked Ishimoto, who was bending down in front of him, "What happened? The enemy's plane is coming again?"

After saying that, he glanced at the sky, but there was nothing special except that it was dark and filled with fog.

"No, the enemy plane did not come. Hayakawa-kun, did you hear the "buzzing" sound?"

Seeing that Hayakawa finally returned to normal, Ishimoto told him about the abnormality he discovered.

Hayakawa tilted his head and listened quietly for a while, and found that it was indeed as Ishimoto said, with the whistling wind on the sea making a vague "buzzing" sound.

In this regard, Hayakawa just held up the searchlight in his hand and wandered around the warship casually for a few times. When he found nothing unusual, he turned around and said to Ishimoto:

"You heard it wrong, it was the wind. Don't be suspicious anymore. If you dare to disturb my rest again, I will throw you, a low-class soldier, into the sea to feed the fish..."

After warning Ishimoto, Hayakawa leaned against the fence and planned to continue squinting his eyes to rest.

This time he hoped to fall asleep quickly and continue having his unfinished erotic dream.

At this time, in the drone combat room of the Gushan Town Military Airport, the keyboard keys of the ground terminal keys were tapped continuously.

Suddenly it started from the No. 1 operator: "The No. UAV torpedo launch is ready and can be launched at any time..."

Then the No. 2 operator, the No. 3 operator, the No. 4 operator, until the No. 10 operator reported, Wei Yuan pinched his waist and under Gao Zhihang's refusal, pretended to be reserved and gave the order to launch the torpedo. .

(End of this chapter)