Chapter 921： A brief history of the Japanese navy blew up

Regarding the cause of the sinking of the Akashi protective cruiser, this matter has remained an unsolved mystery until decades later, because everything that can be investigated was sunk to the bottom of the sea with the Akashi protective cruiser, and later generations even at that time No one can understand what caused this warship to sink like this...

The captain of an American submarine that was nearby at the time even accepted an inquiry from the U.S. government after returning home. The former frankly never attacked the Japanese fleet, because the 6 torpedoes he carried before departure were perfectly brought back. Pearl Harbor.

As for mine explosions, this was later considered to be very unlikely because neither side had laid mines in this area. As for the mine’s anchor chain was broken, causing a mine to float over and hit the warship. This probability is really lower!

The Americans later believed that the responsibility lies with Japan. The Japanese argued that Lao Tzu’s boat would explode if it was so good. As a result, two years later, after another Japanese armored cruiser Izumo exploded in Manila Bay, everyone realized that the Bismarck Sea incident might indeed be the Japanese’s own problem...

What the world did not expect was that, as the only anomaly in the world, Prince Ruprecht, after receiving relevant reports, immediately determined that the blew of Akashi may be Japan’s own trouble, and he may not be able to figure out the details. The reason is not certain whether it is a human accident or the high temperature of the ammunition warehouse, but 80% of it will be the Japanese pot, because there is no shortage of such incidents in the history of the Japanese navy!

Later on the Internet had these statements about the navies of various countries before the Second World War. The Germans carried small artillery on large ships. The British are the battlecruisers. What about the Japanese navy? The training intensity of "Moon, Moon, Fire, Water, Wood and Gold" is one. But the battleship is all right and blew up, it's definitely one! Because the frequency and "records" of Japanese battleships blew up a bit too much!

Who was the first warship to explode in the old Japanese Navy? The famous Mikasa! On September 11, 1905, just a week after the conclusion of the "Portsmouth Treaty" between Japan and Russia, in the early morning, the battleship Mikasa parked at Sasebo Naval Port No. 10 in the rear of the right side of the battleship near the ammunition depot suddenly ejected A large number of white eyes and explosions continued to be heard. After the navy personnel discovered the problem, they immediately stopped the manpower to extinguish the fire. However, in the end, the Japanese failed. With a loud noise, the ship's 858 officers and soldiers At least 500 people and the flagship of the Japanese combined fleet, the hero in the Russo-Japanese War, returned to the arms of a certain aunt...

And this is just the beginning. After the "Three Great Masters" first opened the record, on April 30, 1908, at 4:8 in the morning, near Magong Island in the Penghu Islands, Songdao, a training ship, was on a bridge of the same level. There was a big explosion next to the stand! This time it broke out very simply and completely. A big hole was made directly on the starboard side. The battleship instantly tilted 5 degrees, then 16 degrees, and finally sat directly on the bottom of the sea.

Although the number of casualties this time is not high, only 207, but "the quality is still very high"! Among them, there is a buddy named Da Shan Gao, and he has a dad named Da Shan Yan... (If you don't know, you can Baidu.) And because it was a training ship, the bombing directly resulted in the deaths of 33 seamen and 35 second lieutenants.

And the third buddy who blew himself up is also quite famous. In 1917, after the European battlefield had become a pot of porridge, after the glorious Jutland naval battle became the swan song of battleships, the unwilling Japanese navy came up Some things have attracted the attention of the whole world...

At around 3 pm on January 14, 1917, the Japanese battlecruiser Tsukuba, which had just ceased broadcasting in Yokosuka, accompanied by a trembling explosion, and a huge fireball rose into the sky from the front deck of Tsukuba! The front ammunition depot of this Japanese navy battleship exploded. It was also a very sudden event and a devastating blow. The front of the battleship was almost broken, and then it sank to the bottom of the sea. This incident does not need to be investigated, it is the pot of the main artillery ammunition depot, simple and clear.

However, shortly after the Tsukuba battlecruiser died, another Japanese battleship also successfully completed the "self-destruct" feat! This self-detonation is not trivial. This is the first 20,000-ton battleship of the Japanese Navy to self-detonate! On July 12, 1918, the battleship Hanoi, the last quasi-dreadnought of Japan, or Japan’s first-class dreadnought, exploded at the Tokuyama Bay Naval Port on July 12, 1918.

The whole process was like this. At 3:51 in the afternoon, a suspected explosion occurred in the front starboard ammunition depot of the Hanoi. A few minutes later, disaster struck. The front of the battleship exploded into a pile of debris! In just 4 minutes, this Japanese first-class dreadnought ship sank to the bottom of the sea, and then exposed the propeller and **** to the surface...

As a dreadnought ship, the "results" of this bombing were very impressive. About 60% of the officers and soldiers on the ship, 600 lives were lost in the fire and explosion. Then the ship sank like this...

The explosion of the Hanoi was very sensational, exciting, and brilliant, but compared to a blew up in the second World War II, it was absolutely insignificant! This battleship is the time of the Mutsu battleship's big explosion unprecedented in the history of the world's battleship explosion!

On June 8, 1943 , the battleship Mutsu, which was once one of the "Seven Great", was anchored in Hiroshima, suddenly exploded, the same secret explosion, the same deadly, and the same dry ship It sunk. The Mutsu, known as the "National Battleship" when it was in service that year, did not die under the guns of the opposing battleship, and did not die under the terrifying bomber attack of the U.S., but finally fell to her own. In the hands...

From this point of view, there is a glorious tradition of Japanese warships exploding! At this moment, Akashi in this plane is not a battleship exploding, it represents the glorious tradition of the old Japanese navy combined fleet! at this moment! The souls of Mikasa, Matsushima, Tsukuba, Hanoi, and Mutsu-class battleships on another plane are possessed! However, what is better than other Japanese navy peers is that the time of Akashi's self-detonation is too sensitive, which directly caused a series of problems and troubles in addition to the self-detonation...

If the explosion of the old Japanese navy ends here, then it will not be enough to prove the terrible tradition and the inevitability of history! Because someone will ask a question, why did the Japanese warships all sink when they blew up? Are there any warships that have sunk after they blew up? Of course there is!

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