Chapter 266 They saw it
The Houtaoyuan battleship was a Emperor-class speed battleship customized by the Japanese back then. Compared with the armor-reducing battleships like Turtle Celliu, which have an advantage in speed compared to traditional battleships, but the maximum speed with the Zhongshan-class battleship is just the same.
At present, the battleships of Houtaoyuan and Taishan are both shooting at high speed while finding loopholes. This naval battle lasted for about twenty minutes since the Yanshan firing, but the two sides have not yet recorded the first record. This is more in line with the current situation of the battleship duel in naval battleships - that is, this kind of naval battle is always fought for several hours, and then one side will only hurt the other side.
Although the power of the main gun that is 16-inch or even larger is really great now, the protection of the battleship is also first-class. Even if you can make one side of the opponent's ship leak, the opponent just needs to close the watertight compartment and pour water on the other side.
Besides, there are water pumps on the ship. So as long as there is no ammunition depot, oil depot and boiler explosions occur, it is difficult to sink a battleship during battleship duels. If this battleship is sunk at any time, major countries will not spend such a lot of money, manpower, material resources and other costs to build this battleship.
Once this battleship is built, it will be a symbol of a country's combat effectiveness and spirit, so countries have to name these battleships with celebrities who have left a lot of marks in the history of the country and nation. For example, Germany created many Prime Minister Marshals, and the Japanese made the names of the Japanese after the place name. However, the emperor-classes ordered from Britain used the names of several generations of emperors, while Britain has created many Queens, Kings and Princes, and France prefers names like Bishops.
In addition to the first two ships, the Nanjing government only named the battleships after famous domestic mountains. After all, this is still a new regime and there are not so many celebrities available. The principal has not thought about getting the battleships of the Zhongzheng, but thought that even if this battleship of the Zhongzheng was sunk, it would be bad for the living. Besides, most of the habits abroad are based on the names of the dead. The naming of the battleships of the National Mother of the National Mother of the hasty are also asked for instructions.
After Jin Batian's Yanshan joined the siege of Houtaoyuan battleship, the high-speed avoidance tactics of Houtaoyuan battleship finally could not hold on. Yanshan's artillery was fired too accurately and too fast. After several rounds of shells came down, the two main turrets in front of the Taoyuan battleship were all injured. Fortunately, there has not been a bomb in the main turret yet, but it is only a matter of how long the injured turret armor can last if it continues like this.
Not long after the battleship groups on both sides opened fire, the cruisers on both sides also found opponents on the sea to fight. As for the aircraft carriers on both sides, they sent the carrier-based aircraft to the sky or took the sky's secrets back to the deck for supply.
Neither side noticed that the first Japanese flagship Yamato battleship, which was retreating from the battlefield, moved into the inner circle, the two destroyers Fengxue and Shiyu stopped at the left and right of the Yamato battleship to help the Yamato battleship extinguish the fire and save people - this fire was left to no matter how hard it was, it was possible to cause a major accident.
After most of the fireworks on the ship were extinguished, Yamamoto Izuru also remembered the instructions of the Navy Department and the New Cabinet before the expedition. The Yamamoto Izuru symbolized the fate of the country and could not happen. Originally, Yamamoto Izuru didn't think too much about it. This time he went there to take the Yamamoto to win a battle, but he didn't know that the Yamamoto was severely injured after ten minutes of the war. This happened in the one-on-one battleship duel. You must know that this is a dream-class battleship loaded with nearly 70,000 tons equipped with nine 460mm main guns.
Thinking of this, Yamamoto Izuru could no longer withstand fear. If this Yamato ship really sinks, I was afraid that the captain and the commander of the Joint Fleet would also be buried with the Yamato. Although Yamamoto Izuru, who knew that it would be useless to retain a Yamato battleship, still ordered the deputy commander of the Joint Fleet, Koga Fengichi, who was also the captain of the Musashi battleship, to command the naval battleship on his behalf and Yamato.
As for Yamamoto Iroku, he took the seriously injured Yamato and two destroyers to return to the northeast. The injured Yamato battleship had no anti-submarine capabilities, but the destroyers had one.
The Yamato secretly left the battlefield, and the Houtaoyuan battleship, which was slightly light armored, finally ushered in the most glorious moment of its life - a shell of Yanshan exploded in the No. 2 turret, which finally caused the shell to explode. After the No. 2 turret flew into the sky, the Houtaoyuan battleship was broken into two pieces and flooded a large amount of water. In just a few minutes, it sank in front of everyone.
If a battleship was sunk by one-on-one attack, Jin Batian's idea would naturally rely on the machine gun to shoot the surviving Japanese soldiers on the sea. But now there are too many big fish that can be killed, and the small fish scattered on the sea will naturally have sharks or fatigue waiting to send them to hell.
So after watching the battleship sink, the Yanshan gun turned and pointed it at a Japanese battleship - but even Jin Batian didn't know that this was the Washington battleship rented by the Japanese in a wet rental manner.
Jin Batian just saw that the armor of this battleship was strong enough and not fast, and thought it was another Japanese warship on the turtle flow route.
Now the USS Washington battleship is still not inferior to the naval battle with its strong armor. Navy officers and soldiers from the Pacific Fleet fully utilize the firepower of the USS Washington battleship with their excellent qualities. The two Zhongshan-class battleships they fired against had to repeatedly avoid shells and fire the camera.
However, after the Yanshan added the shelling, the situation immediately turned around. A string of shells fell and two concentrated decks of the battleship Washington battleship. After the shells exploded on the deck, the deck was suddenly in disarray. The fierce flames of the battleship Washington battleship suddenly became three points weak.
After waiting for a series of shells to fall one after another, the main structure on the deck of the USS Washington battleship was gradually destroyed. Finally, a shell hit the broken deck and exploded near the boiler room. The explosion caused a larger burning of oil and a mortal explosion. The USS Washington battleship, which ignited a raging fire, was completely powered, and the surviving officers and soldiers on the ship dived into the water to save themselves.
The naval battle has only been going on for more than 30 minutes. The Yanshan battleship drove away the Musashi battleship, sank the Houtaoyuan battleship, and severely damaged the Meiji Washington battleship.
Importantly, more battleships can be returned to the battle of their own side. Gradually, the one-on-one scenes of battleships on the sea were changed to two-on-one or three-on-two. As for the first-winning battleships of the Musashi battleship, which was still besieged by three Zhongshan-class battleships.
At this time, the Yanshan battleship also showed its style, accelerating its cut inward towards the Japanese fleet, and the shells landed on the Japanese battleships without hesitation.
Faced with the Yanshan battleship so active on the sea, officers of the Japanese Combined Fleet and officers of the Pacific Fleet who rented them had to admit that the most active Yanshan battleship could top three to five Zhongshan-class battleships.
If it was an ordinary naval battle, it would be decided by the winner at this time - a battleship was sunk, two seriously injured and lost their power, and these two could not escape. Such a huge loss should be the time to retreat, but unfortunately, the Japanese Combined Fleet and the US Pacific Fleet were bought here by Britain, France and Italy to die - at least they had no right to leave the battlefield before they severely damaged the Nanjing Central Fleet.
However, the Nanjing Central Fleet has also been hit by several shells, but none of the battleships were severely damaged and fired at the joint fleet. Therefore, although this situation is already in a dead end, it is impossible to retreat before the joint fleet and the Pacific Fleet are exhausted.
The deputy commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Koga Fengichi, also fired blood and shouted: "Tell me the order to raise the menstrual flag."
Given that the British fleet would raise the St. George's flag when fighting to the death, the devils also prepared the Holy Menstruation Flag to replace the sign of "death struggle" - a rectangular white flag with a round red heart in the middle - thinking about the used Gu Shubao without wings, you will know what it looks like.
At this time, Jin Batian's Yanshan had just sent the remaining Maryland battleship from the Seven Major Ships to the bottom of the sea. He found that the Japanese had been excited as if they had collectively sucked chicken blood after raising the menstrual flag. He immediately accelerated his sail and turned his gun, aiming at the Musashi.
At this time, the angle between the Yanshan and the Musashi battleships was almost sixty degrees, but the Musashi, which was besieged by three Zhongshan-class ships, could not draw even a main gun to deal with the Yanshan. On the contrary, the Yanshan can exert its flanking firepower advantage to the limit at this angle.
After the computer locked the Musashi, the shells fired from the Yanshan were lined up in the air and joined the ranks of smashing the Musashi in a series.
Faced with such unreasonable and extremely accurate shell attacks, the Musashi had no choice but to dodge left and right on the sea surface, and minimize the shell attacks it suffered.
But if you walk too much at night, you will eventually encounter ghosts. After a near-lost bomb fired from Yanshan exploded under the water of the Musashi, another big explosion occurred under the water. This second explosion not only triggered a large water in the front of the Musashi, but the impact of the explosion almost lifted the head of the Musashi ship.
Jin Batian also waited for the second explosion of the Musashi to enter the water before he remembered what was going on. It might be that the explosion that was nearly missing from the bomb triggered the explosion of the Musashi torpedo.
This Yamato-class battleship appeared much earlier than in history. In addition to the Zhongshan-class battleships designed by Jin Batian, the battleships of this era have all equipped with torpedo tubes, and of course there are naturally torpedoes inside. For example, the Musashi battleship has a triple 610mm torpedo tube on each side.
When the navy waited for battleships to decide the outcome with torpedoes in actual combat, there was no one in a thousand. After the 1940s, such things were left to destroyers, torpedo boats or even carrier-based torpedo aircraft. On the contrary, experienced captains had to order the torpedoes of the battleships to be thrown away before the war started - this thing was powerful and it was not a joke to be hit in artillery battles.
Although Koga Fengichi was not young, his practical experience was still a little bit tender. He did not order these torpedoes to be thrown away after the artillery battle began. In the 1930s, torpedoes would have to be launched several hundred meters away to ensure a certain hit rate. When the launching several kilometers away, the opponent could easily avoid the waterline. As for the target torpedoes dozens of kilometers away, they were powerless.
This time, there were three 610mm torpedoes that exploded on the Musashi. Not to mention that these torpedoes are more powerful than ordinary naval guns, but more importantly, the place where the torpedo explodes is also considered to be inside the hull, which has caused huge losses to the Musashi battleship.
The Musashi was busy draining the pipes, but no one would miss such a good opportunity. The four Nakayama-class battleships half-surrounding the Musashi were pouring firepower on the Musashi while accelerating and approaching.
Hundreds of shells poured on the seriously injured Musashi, and the Musashi battleship could only fall head-on into the seabed of the Dadonggou.
Seeing that the dream-class battleship in my mind was surrounded and sunk by four Zhongshan-class battleships, the faith of the Japanese Navy collapsed, and a large number of Japanese Navy officers and soldiers did not want to be hunted and sunk by such ships, they all went crazy and leaned towards the nearest warships to prepare for close-up artillery battles.
Among them, the Yanshan, which sinks the largest number of warships, is naturally the top priority among the Japanese targets. Many Japanese even regard the Yanshan battleship as the flagship of the Nanjing Central Navy. There are three battleships, nine light and heavy cruisers, and more than twenty destroyers with tens of thousands of killing Japanese naval officers and soldiers shouting "Sink the Zhongshan" and leaning towards the direction of Jin Batian's Yanshan battleship.
When Jin Batian saw it, he happened to search one by one. He immediately locked in the nearest battleship and fired with all his might. Soon the explosion of shells cleared all the targets on the deck of the battleship that he didn't know how to avoid, and knocked the battleship that was rushing over after being excited and turned thick smoke everywhere.
The Nanjing Central Navy still has an advantage in quantity and tonnage. The Japanese even want to fight hard and have to keep up with this speed. Soon some Central Navy ships that did not find the target helped the Yanshan solve some targets.
After the Japanese's desperate actions ended, the Battle of Dadonggou in the Yellow Sea gradually came to an end. Faced with those warships that had lost their power but had not yet sunk, destroyers leaned over and fired torpedoes to send them to the bottom of the sea.
After the Yanshan cleared nearby targets with accurate high-fire speed, it directly penetrated into the Dantes Combined Fleet aircraft carrier cluster. Without the threat of battleships, what Jin Batian liked to do the most was to fight the aircraft carrier. Taking advantage of this era when the carrier-based aircraft had not yet developed, every time the world had an extra aircraft carrier, the world would have less enthusiasm for the construction of aircraft carriers. Speaking of which, aircraft carriers were just a large movable take-off and landing platform on the sea.
After seeing the Yanshan movement, the battleships formed formations and followed them into the Japanese aircraft carrier cluster. The aircraft carrier itself was not good at speed and firepower, and the carrier-based aircraft lost most of the time in naval and air combat. There was no way to face the cluster advance of the battleships. Although there were some escort destroyers and light cruisers around, the firepower was not the opponent of the battleship. Before they even entered the range of their artillery or torpedoes, they were destroyed by the artillery fire fired by the battleships.
It may take some effort to fight the battleships to sink the battleships. If you hit these small sampans with thousands of tons in one shot, it will be enough to smash them to pieces - and there are very few battleships that enter the direct aiming distance that fail to hit.
The six aircraft carriers of the Antiquities Fleet and the Pacific Fleet resisted in a formal manner and were killed by the Central Navy's artillery shells. After the ships of the Central Navy did not find any targets of enemy ships on the sea, they set up machine guns on the ships to massacre officers and soldiers who fell into the water from the Antiquities Fleet and the US Pacific Fleet.
This is also a kind of vent after the fierce battle. Since the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, everyone has not left prisoners of war. This habit has even affected the current Spanish Civil War. Both sides of the Spanish Civil War now do not leave prisoners of war. The first thing they do after each war is to shoot the prisoners collectively.
If someone dares to speak on the issue of prisoners of war, they will be immediately labeled as cowardly or even traitor. For this matter, Principal Jiang also said in public: "We have food, but we don't have a single piece for the invaders."
This sentence sets the character of the Japanese, that is, no matter whether they have weapons or combat power, they will be killed as long as they are invaders. Because there is no grain in China left for the invaders to eat.
After killing the remaining Japanese on the sea with machine guns, the Central Navy's fleet did not return to Qingdao or Lianyungang base, but went to the relatively closer Liugongdao Naval Sub-base in Weihaiwei, Shandong.
Only after he arrived here did Jin Batian understand what was going on. Originally, the Navy of the Republic of China was born from the Beiyang Navy and had a lot of connections.
On Liugong Island, all the naval officers and soldiers led by Chen Shaokuan and Jin Batian held incense and candles and burned incense and prayed to the Martyrs' Temple of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.
Chen Shaokuan walked first, holding an incense candle in hand, bowed three times to the Beiyang Navy's Sino-Masters' War in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and said, "Our navy was able to defeat the Japanese invaders today, and all the heroes of the seniors can rest in peace."
Jin Batian also followed suit, bowed three times with the incense and candle, and said, "Sir, heroes, rest in peace."
As soon as Jin Batian finished speaking, he saw a whirlwind gushing from the flat ground on Liugong Island, blowing the inside and outside of the Heroes' Temple so that everyone could not open their eyes.
After the whirlwind, everyone opened their eyes and looked again. The incense candles used for lit sacrificial sacrifices in their hands were gone. However, they were swept away by the sudden whirlwind.
Someone saw this scene and shouted loudly: "They saw it. They saw it."
"They saw it." More people followed and pounded the ground or bowed their heads and cried.
After the sacrifice, Chen Shaokuan and others sent news of the Central Navy victory to Nanjing. This time, the whole country celebrated, and hundreds of thousands of Beiyang heroes came to Liugong Island alone to worship.
The Japanese are island countries, and the importance of the fleet is far greater than that of the mainland countries. It can be said that this time the Japanese combined fleet almost wiped out the elite troops, and the Japanese will threaten the mainland much smaller in the future.
Chapter completed!