Chapter 57 Destruction
The night vision combat capability of the East China Sea Fleet is actually not as terrifying as the Japanese imagined. It is just that the Three Kingdoms Time and Space are manufacturing a simple ship-based military night vision device created by modern space-time technology. It is huge in size and has an effective visual range of no more than two thousand meters. If it is placed in modern space-time, it is no different from home things, but here it is a super bug!
In this era, even real military flares were not invented. Night battles were extremely dangerous for all services, especially for the navy. Because the enemy the army faced was only soldiers and cannons on the other side, and the navy faced them, there was also the harsh natural environment everywhere on the sea. A reef and a shallow could cause fatal damage to the warships.
At this moment, when the enemy was blind, although the officers and soldiers of the East China Sea Fleet had only a 2,000-meter vision, it was already a huge advantage for the East China Sea Fleet, which was enough to kill the enemy to death with this.
This is the situation now!
The Tsukuba burned on the sea, exposing the two surrounding warships to the fire. The ships of the East China Sea Fleet kept moving like sharks hunting in the deep sea, constantly pouring shells at the enemy in the dark. Thor four 155MM automatic naval gun became the protagonist of the entire battlefield at this moment. At this moment, the enemy cruiser futilely flew towards the ballistics in the dark. But on the sea, what is the hit rate of such artillery bombardment?
The last desperate artillery bombardment of the two ships only earned themselves the more accurate hit rate of the East China Sea Fleet. Ten minutes later, under the light patrol of the East China Sea Fleet, they humiliatedly followed the fate of their companions and turned into steel wrecks under the sea!
Seeing that the situation was wrong, Asu left his companions and headed straight to the north. With the help of the dark background and the complex sea conditions of the coastline, he escaped the siege of the light patrol. He became the only one of the twelve steel warships with a total tonnage of more than 100,000 tons.
The battle situation on the cruiser ended.
In the northeast, another battlefield dozens of kilometers away is still in full swing.
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Unlike the battle situation on the cruiser side, the battle situation on the battleship team seemed extremely hot. When the three main battleships were bullied at high speed and had not yet reached a good shooting distance, the small battleship escorted by the Japanese fleet turned around and surrounded from all directions, making several giant beasts very annoyed by the siege of the hyenas.
Fortunately, with the three battleships heading north, there were also the Baiyunshan and Tiantaishan light patrols. The Thor 155MM naval guns and the same type of 88MM Gaoping dual-purpose machine guns are powerful tools for dealing with these small ships.
Two light patrolmen were in front of the battleship, majestic and domineeringly raising firepower in all directions, while the battleship was behind them, with the secondary guns firing at high speed to deal with the enemy's hungry dog-like offensive.
"Run! For the Empire!"
Groups of lightning strike ships, like mosquitoes surrounding elephants, trying their best to rush in, but fell halfway under the overwhelming fire nets woven by hundreds of high-speed machine guns on five battleships. A defense circle about 1,500 meters centered on three battleships was like a circle of death. Outside the circle was the wreckage of countless ships trying to rush in.
The trajectory of raindrops on the water and the torpedoes passing by underwater turned the narrow space into a hell of death. The entire fleet passed by formed a fire passage of several miles wide, with flames everywhere and wreckage everywhere. Dozens of light patrols and lightning strike ships were lit on the sea by artillery fire, lighting up this sea area like daytime!
Under this light, this super assault fleet consisting of three battleships and two light patrols was still rushing forward at an overall high speed of nearly thirty knots. Dozens of light patrols and lightning strike ships were almost unable to keep up at this high speed. They could only keep trying to catch up, but at the relatively low speed, they watched helplessly being smashed by the opponent's firepower one by one and turned into wreckage all over the sea.
Bombardment! Fire! Howling before dying, the shouts of the fleet's charge, all the worlds formed a picture full of tragic and tragic, just like the Avici Hell!
In this chaos, finally, with a loud shock, the hull of the flagship Qin Shihuang was hit by a torpedo. A torpedo boat rushing towards the front side broke through the blockade of artillery fire and placed a torpedo at a distance of hundreds of meters. At this time, under the conditions of not very good light, it passed through the interception of the fire nets laid by the small-caliber machine gun on the side, and hit the waterline on the right side of the Qin Shihuang!
But what made the enemy desperate was that under such an attack, the huge ship of Qin Shihuang just shook, changed its course slightly, and then quickly changed it back. The entire fleet continued to advance. The hit of the torpedo did not cause any damage to Qin Shihuang, and it did not even have a slight impact on the speed. The waterline armor of the emperor-class battleship was far from being able to destroy the backward compressed air torpedo at this time.
Looking around, during the fierce battle, the other companions next to the Qin Shihuang had already been shot with many small and medium caliber naval guns, and the deck and hull were mottled, but the armor of the warship showed power at this moment, without any loss of combat power. The heavy and huge hull still bravely advanced forward.
The uncontrollable despair filled the Japanese army's minds...
At 18:36, in the dim night, the battleships and cruisers scattered the heavy blocking of the enemy's small fleet, rushed to the back of the enemy's battleship team, and obtained a good shelling position at the tail of the enemy's battleships, and began to shell the enemy!
First, dozens of flares flew into the sky, turning the surrounding sea surface of more than ten kilometers like daylight, and then facing the enemy's battleship team with a clear visual range.
"Fire the cannon!" A roar from the gunman came from the bridge!
Responding to this roar was the roar of the main gun of the warship, a series of 305MM main guns. The flames formed by the artillery fire broke out more than ten meters away. In the darkness, hundreds of kilograms of shells passed through the space and burst into a large light of death on the sea several thousand meters away.
The first wave, missed!
However, according to observations, the enemy's stern ship has formed a spanning fire! The distance of more than 4,000 meters is equivalent to direct fire for the main gun of the battleship! The enemy's stern ship is loaded and floated in the sky-storming waves formed by the spanning fire, and the ship's body is violently tilted, almost invisible. The next time is the enemy's doomsday!
The gunners, fire control operators, radar operators, and observers on the battleship, were connected at this moment, and the second round of deadly shelling was launched!
In the second round, dozens of armor-piercing shells hit! Two of them passed through the side armor of the enemy ship's stern, and exploded in the main turret and engine compartment of the rear of the Kasuga! Then a fire broke out from the hull. After a while, the main turret was blown away, revealing a large cabin loophole at the rear. The Kasugaga's hull suddenly paused and stopped on the sea!
The Kasuga became a living target! The Chinese battleship continued to work hard, and in the next third round of artillery fire, it was blown to pieces and turned into wreckage that sank to the bottom of the sea!
Hirahachiro Togo, watching all this, his heart was like a knife cut!
"Send a signal, the entire fleet turns around and fight the decisive battle with the other side!" He suddenly realized that with the terrifying high speed of the enemy battleship, all the main battleships of his fleet could never escape... Instead of doing this, it is better to fight to the death and seek a destination that truly belongs to the warriors!
At the last moment, Satsuma, An Yun, Fuji, Asahi, Mikasa, Shikishima, Kashima, and the only seven remaining battleships in the Japanese combined fleet turned their ships and rushed towards the deadly killer who was chasing behind them.
But, it's too late!
The main guns of the Chinese naval battleships continued to roar, and endless loud noises echoed on the sea. In the few minutes when the Japanese warship turned around, Samo and An Yun were shot one after another. An Yun was killed instantly when the bomb was shot. The huge middle of the ship exploded. The bow of the ship was lifted up in the explosion and stabbed towards the sky, as if it was a silent accusation, and then quickly landed into the sea. The sinking of the huge ship only left a huge vortex on the sea surface!
The Satsuma was ignited by the armor-piercing projectile fired by the main gun of the light patrol. The main turret on the fore deck caught fire and exploded, and the entire deck burned into a sea of fire!
At this time, the central fire control computer on the East China Sea Fleet battleship had completed the fleet's ballistic mode calculation in the previous salvo, forming an optimized ballistic mode. Under the automatic control of the completed ballistic mode program, the probability of the fleet's main gun's set-up shooting rate will be several times higher than before! At this moment, the range of more than ten kilometers around the battleship artillery formation is already within the full control range of its own artillery cluster. When the battleship and battleship are fired, this means that the enemy has no chance to escape!
At this time, the advantage of the East China Sea Fleet in combat effectiveness over the Japanese joint fleet was no longer a matter of how many warships and how many artillery ships the fleet were, but a irreparable gap for hundreds of years!
Fuji, Asahi, Mikasa... The Japanese battleships that were charging bravely were hit one by one in the artillery fire of the East China Sea Fleet, and turned into scrap iron that sank to the bottom of the sea...
At this time, the Satsuma was burning with raging fires. The Japanese naval warrior Hirahachiro Togo was on his commander's tower, looking at the endless sea of fire around him, the scorching tongues and charming light seemed to reflect the beautiful scenery on Mount Fuji, the romance of cherry blossoms everywhere, Togo had tidyed his neckline and sang a saber at his waist, and walked into the sea of fire step by step!
"The Great Japanese Empire is on board!"
Chapter completed!