Chapter 120 Overturned

"Fire!" As the gunner in charge of artillery coordination shouted with a telephone, the two double-loaded 35-caliber 305mm main guns of the Antarctic Star roared at the same time. The huge sound and impact made the whole warship tremble.

Although it is not as good as Britain's latest 40-caliber new main gun, it is more than twice as large as the 25-caliber old-fashioned 305mm main gun on Dingyuan.

What's more, this time the fleet is carrying shells produced by the Honolulu Arsenal. Although the materials and craftsmanship of the cannons cannot maximize the power of the new explosives, even so, the power is still much greater than that of the shells of this era!

In an instant, four huge columns of water appeared around the Yoshino. Recently, one even rolled up a few meters high and directly swept in two soldiers of the Yoshino who were not stable.

Although he killed two Japanese soldiers, Ji Rushan, who watched all this through the telescope, was not satisfied. His four shells, plus the sixteen main guns of the Polaris and four determination-class heavy cruisers, did not even rub off a piece of iron sheet of the Yoshino. He suddenly shouted angrily and grabbed the telephone of the gunman. It's a random scolding.

Fortunately, at this time, the ten 152mm secondary guns on the starboard side of the left wing finally opened fire. Although this sideboard cannon was filled with manpower, the rate of fire could still reach three rounds per minute. After they fired together, a huge spark suddenly exploded on the left side of the ship. With the brother ship firing at the same time, Yoshino suddenly It was submerged in the endless rain of bullets.

On the heavy cruiser of the determination, Liu Haitao's face turned red and eagerly aimed at the main gun, eager to fight in person!

He was depressed to death because he didn't get a chance to lead the battleship, so he took a breath and wanted to fight with determination. This guy's speed was second only to Ji Rushan. Although the caliber of the main gun was one lap worse, the rate of fire was fast. He didn't wait for the two battleships' main guns to start the second round of shooting. The two double guns were 40 times. The caliber 203mm main gun has made a second roar, flying towards Yoshino, which is surrounded by bullet rain at the front with the hope of all the officers and soldiers on the ship.

I don't know if God heard the prayers of all the officers and soldiers of the Determination, or the main gunner burned Gao Xiang today. A 203mm shell accurately hit the stern of the Yoshino 2,000 meters away. The power of the new explosives was completely revealed. The huge explosive wave lifted the whole back deck, and the fire instantly came from the armor. It spreads under the board.

"Good play!" Seeing the stripped deck like orange peel through the telescope, Long Guozhang patted his thigh fiercely and shouted excitedly, "Remember it down. When you go back, give your determination second-class merit!"

Simmons and Li Mo also saw this scene in the conzzle. The close-range explosion of the shell hit Li Mo's eyeball. Although he had seen many naval battle movies in his previous life, and even saw the live scene of the missile hitting the target ship in a ship's support, he must admit at this moment that that kind of TV picture can't be done at all. Compared with the real battle in front of you.

Especially at this moment, the battle distance between the two sides is only 3,000 meters. If the sky is clear, you can even hear the call of the opposite side! But at this moment, there are no other sounds on the sea except the sound of gunfire.

Rumble, rumble.

With the Yoshino being seriously injured, the fleet's artillery began to rush to Akitsusu and Takachiho. Like Yoshino, the two ships that fell into the trap had no fighting back against the superior forces of the Pacific Fleet. They could show off their speed and rapid-fire guns in front of the Beiyang Marine Division, and on the Pacific Fleet. It is not worth mentioning at all. Taking the Battleship Polaris as an example, it has two double 305mm main guns and ten 152mm secondary guns on each side. After seizing the T position, it can attack with 14 guns at the same time, which is more fierce than the firepower of the whole first guerrilla.

Even the worst Longxiao can concentrate three 150mm caliber main guns and four 120mm guns at the same time on one side. In addition, the rapid-fire 76mm rapid-fire gun equipped on the heavy patrol makes the two ships as precarious as swifts struggling in the storm.

The most important thing is that after all the TNT charge is used, even if the 76mm shell hits the other party, it will set off a fire, which is much more powerful than the 150mm main gun used in Japan.

So when the Pacific Fleet began to divide its formation, and two battleships led the main array of the Longxiao, the tenacious and the tenacious (I mistakenly thought that the determination class and the Longxiao were the same as the ironclad ships) to be inserted into the middle of the three warships of the first guerrilla, the battle could actually be declared over.

At 19:30, only two hours after the Battle of Dadonggou, Yoshino and Akitsusu were steered respectively. The tortowers of the Sky and the Seabacks suddenly killed behind the battleships were hit, and all of them sank five minutes later.

The last Taka Chiho narrowly escaped the torpedo attack and quickly turned to the fleet headquarters in the rear, hoping to turn to a large force. But he didn't know that at this time, the Japanese fleet, which should have appeared long ago, had already become a mess at this moment.

The rumbling gunfire in the distance actually made Ito Hengyou feel bad, but he didn't expect that before he gave the order to accelerate the support of the guerrillas, the two small lightning ships that originally flew the Chilean flag would brazenly attack the huge joint fleet.

It was when the sky was getting dark. After they changed to a dragon claw flag that they had never seen before, they suddenly appeared at a speed of up to 20 knots. The Langsu, which had been dragged to the end, had been seriously injured before, and was responsible for protecting it, and boarded the Huashan Ziji General Xijingwan.

A series of six close-range torpedoes directly sent Naniwa without any resistance to the bottom of the sea. Although the Nishikyomaru dodged two, the rudder was hit by another. The shock wave formed by the torpedo underwater tore tore the rudder of the Nishikyomaru, causing the whole stern to ignite everyone. Ito Hengyou could only watch the Nishikyomaru spinning on the water and lost his mobility.

The gunfire rumbled in front, and the two small destroyers in the rear dared to attack. Even if Ito Hengyou was a fool, he knew what had happened. He was now facing a difficult choice, whether to immediately expel the two small boats and escape with his array, or to support the first guerrillas in front of him.

Idong Hengyou held the command knife to death, looked at the Nishikyo Maru, which had already raging fire, thought of Admiral Huashan Ziji, who was still alive and dead on the ship at this moment, and thought of the best in the empire at this moment, the strongest mobile surname, and the latest three cruisers if the whole army was destroyed because of their own abandonment, then he would become The sinner of the empire.

As a last resort, Ito Hengyou gritted his teeth and sent the Akagi to rescue the Nishikyo Maru and prevented the two torpedo ships from attacking again. At the same time, he led the remaining six warships to help the first guerrillas.

But when he saw the Gao Qiansui running wildly, a huge array composed of two battleships larger than Dingyuan, and two ironclads that appeared from both wings at the same time and two cruisers that had just hung the Daqing Dragon Flag, he locked himself in the command module.

At 19:30, Ito Hengyou, the first person of the joint fleet, who should have been in high spirits and received by Emperor Akihito, saw the huge front of the Pacific Fleet less than ten minutes after taking the headquarters to help the first guerrillas, he returned to the command module without a bullet and chose to commit suicide.

With Yidong Hengyou's suicide, just after a big war, the Japanese joint fleet, which was exhausted by a sudden sneak attack, finally collapsed completely, just like the chaotic Beiyang Marine Division a few hours ago, falling into a separate battle.

Because it was already dark, in order to end the battle as soon as possible and prevent me from escaping at night, Long Guozhang ordered all ships to turn on the searchlights, and at the same time accepted Tan Xiaozeng's suggestion to order the four ships of Sky Cruiser, Sea, Swordfish and Flying Fish to swim around the periphery to prevent me from escaping.

At the same time, the general attack on the joint fleet was ordered. The heavy cruisers Resolution and Spirit on both sides took the lead in leaving the formation and formed a siege from the two wings. The first one to be sunk was the Takachiho, which ran all the way. This cruiser built by the British Armstrong Company, chased after losing its speed. Similarly, During the heavy patrol of the tenacious ship built by the factory, it was continuously hit by the latter's 203mm main gun river secondary gun, and finally the hull broke from the middle and sank.

The sinking of the Takachiho directly caused the loss of the most important maneuverability of the Japanese joint fleet. Except for the small Akagi, there was no more warship that could exceed 16 knots. In the face of opponents who had an absolute advantage in both speed and firepower, the Japanese sailors began to panic.

Even the bridge in the best condition in the combined fleet was only supported for less than ten minutes, and it was swallowed up by the fire under the coordinated attack of the Antarctic Star and Resolution.

Xiao Zhitian, who had been wandering around the periphery, was naturally unwilling to drink some leftover soup and aimed at the Chicheng, but before he led the Sky Survey to rush over, he rounded his eyes.

Originally, it was the Swordfish that watched the Akagi. Because the two ships were about the same size, they were small warships mainly torpedo attacks, so they became the most difficult pair on the whole battlefield. The quick-fire firepower of both sides pulled out several long tongues, and they were evenly matched.

However, this balance was soon broken by the arrival of the Longxiao.

Although Long Xiao is called an iron armored battleship, it is also equipped with four single 240mm main guns made in France. If it is placed in other countries, it can also be regarded as a capital ship, but in the Pacific Fleet, it is not embarrassing. In terms of firepower, it is not as fast as the Arctic star battleship, and in terms of speed, it is not as fast as the four determination class, and With the return of the North Star, it was also deprived of its flagship title, so everyone held their breath and hoped to take advantage of this battle to correct their name! Unfortunately, it backfired. In addition to the two cannons of the Zhongqiu Jinzhou, after wasting hundreds of shells, they didn't get any oil and water!

This killed Zhou Cheng, who had just taken over as the captain. Originally, he was going to cooperate with the Courage to attack the Chiyoda, who was ready to escape. Unexpectedly, the Sky Surveyor, which was killed in the obliquely, robbed his business. The Chiyoda was originally a small ship, and the displacement was only equivalent of the Sky Surveyor. The ship was old, so before he arrived, he was beaten into a sieve by the two ships that were eager to make contributions and had to raise the white flag.

Zhou Chengqi trembled all over. He was about to send a signal to despise the two ships. Suddenly, he found a series of fire tongues in the darkness in the west. He rushed over with the Long Xiao and found that a gunboat was protecting a Japanese cruiser that was about to sink, which was fighting with the Swordfish and had a little advantage.

This scene made Zhou Cheng, a sincere man, completely explode. A small gunboat dared to be wild. It was really empty in the Pacific Fleet! He immediately ordered an all-out attack on the Akagi. For a moment, the Longxiao, which was full of fire, was like a hellfire dragon drilled out of the night, and the little Akagi was submerged in an instant.

The poor Akagi is just a gunboat with a few torpedoes. In terms of displacement, it is only equivalent to the destroyer in the formation of the Pacific Army, and it also hit all the torpedoes in the previous naval battle. It was dangerous enough to face the Swordfish, but I didn't expect another extremely shameless guy to appear, who actually drove six The thousand-ton ironclad ship came to bully itself with only 600 tons, and there was still a chance to fight back, and it was beaten into a sieve in the blink of an eye!

I finally got the record! Long Xiao patted his buttocks, leaving the Akagi full of bullet holes and fire, and rushed back to this battle to ruin other Japanese warships.

The captain of the Swordfish saw that the credit of his hand was robbed! He angrily ordered a light signal and scolded Long Xiao for being shameless. After Long Xiao, who was thicker than armor, did not reply, he angrily ordered to launch a torpedo and sent the Xijingwan, which had not sunk for a long time, back to his hometown.

This scene made the corners of Master Li's eyes twitch in the command tower. Damn, how much does a torpedo cost? They are all like that. Can't you do that? Why do you have to do that? Didn't you do that on purpose!

Wow, my heart hurts so much!

Simmons, who was watching the battle next to him, was even more shivering. He really didn't expect that Li Mo, the bastard's men, were as demeanorless as him. Could it be said that chivalry fell in the east? Unexpectedly, he drove a 6,000-ton ironclad ship to fight a 600-ton torpedo gunboat!

What's the difference between this and tying up and killing?

The most important thing is that the destroyer that was robbed of food actually used expensive torpedoes at close range in the face of a cruiser that was sure to sink in order to vent! Don't they know that once the ammunition compartment is detonated, the huge whirlpool is enough to devour themselves?!

These bastards! Crazy man!

Simmons stamped his feet excitedly. The country has declared neutrality. In the foreseeable future, it is almost impossible to break out a large-scale naval battle! Let the fanatical supporter of the Grand Fleet have to choose to be silent! But in any case, the naval heat in his heart will never disappear! He likes these crazy people who drive giant ships to bully little slams! It's so enjoyable!

"Li, you know! I want to join the Pacific Fleet!"

Master Li dropped a few black lines on his forehead and raised his middle finger to look at this guy!" I think the young master is easy to bully. Let's play with me!"

The night of September 17, 1894.

At 21:15, with the last white flag raised by the Japanese ship Ikishima, this careful premeditation, the two-hour sea ambush finally ended. The six ships of the Japanese joint fleet Yoshino, Akitsuzusu, Takachiho, Naniwa, Nishikyomaru and Akagi were sunk, and the bridge, Ikishima and Matsushima were sunk. Captured, the remaining Birui and Fusang saw that they could not break through, and the fire was really uncontrollable. They chose to sink. After the rescue was fruitless, the Chiyoda was also sunk by the Sea Patrol.

So far, the twelve main warships of the Japanese Combined Fleet, which had just defeated the Beiyang Marine Division, were destroyed before they could celebrate!

(to be continued)