The key protective armor of the "Iowa-class battleship" is very scientific and powerful. At least it has provided considerable contributions in reducing the overall weight.

With this warship's displacement of 55,710 tons and a narrow body of only 33 meters, in order to arrange the key three triple-mounted 406mm main guns, it is also necessary to ensure that the maximum 312mm waterline armor box can wrap the key parts. In terms of design, it requires careful calculation and construction, and it also takes great painstaking efforts.

Today, the generation of powerful warships they have worked hard to build have indeed lived up to the expectations of the navy. In the battle, they are finally no longer as hit by artillery shells as the old battleships before, and they cannot be dealt with!

The third shot hit the shell was hit hard at the thickest part of the side waterline armor. Because of the injection angle, after being knocked off the hood by water, the warhead trajectory made an unexpected turn, which turned the injection angle of about 60 degrees into only 30 degrees. It almost couldn't trigger the fuse, and its penetration ability was greatly reduced!

Even so, the 1225 kilogram steel lump and huge kinetic energy still sank the side armor plate of the New Jersey. Several cracks were generated at the same time, and the moans made by the broken steel plate were clearly heard!

The severely deformed shell caused the inner armor lining to collapse. Under the transmission of kinetic energy, fragments of large and small scattered and collapsed, and the thin longitudinal compartment and upper armor plates were knocked out several holes. Some unlucky crew members were immediately broken and broken, with heavy casualties!

After a brief moment, the warhead roared and exploded. The huge shock wave bombarded the side surface. The huge amount of steam rushing out in the opposite direction was about a hundred meters high. The raised water column covered the head and covered the bridge, and the sparkling flames made the US military officers and soldiers unable to help but lift their hearts to their throats!

Many of them know how terrible the penetration power of the 406mm main gun is around 20 kilometers! The main armor cannot withstand the frontal shooting! If the shells are shot into the cabin, the consequences will be unimaginable!

The "New Jersey" rushes forward with a violent bumpy turbulence for several hundred meters. The powerful power system ensures a speed of 31 knots. It does not wait to be in place and is baptized by the remaining shells. The results reported by the damage also make them feel relieved. The minor injury is only a minor injury. Even if there is some water inlet, it is just a scabies for this giant.

But Major General Mitchell did not dare to take risks anymore. He found that the shooting accuracy of the enemy on the opposite side was rapidly improving! From basically missing 30 kilometers away, to almost every salvo shot now, no matter how much interference, he could concentrate the main guns of two battleships to attack a target. This synergy ability and the calculation accuracy of long-range shooting are all terrifying!

If this continues, one will rise and fall. It is hard to say how long can the New Jersey bear? Ten minutes or twenty minutes? How long can they withstand the bombing?

He took a deep breath and sighed secretly. The enemy, still the same enemy, has never changed. No matter whether they are inexperienced or not, or whether their supersaturation attacks have achieved results in the early stage, successfully interfering with their attack development, but in general, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese people is still as strong as ever! It is a luxury to try to eliminate them by relying solely on the attack density in front of them!

No wonder Commander Nimitz had to formulate such a complex and detailed plan, and he had to take great pains to separate himself, take various arrangements to lure the enemy, confuse the enemy, and restrain the enemy, and create an illusion of a fierce attack in all aspects. It was indeed not too careful, but based on his keen judgment, he had long known the terribleness of the enemy's strength and terribleness, which was absolutely difficult to deal with!

"It's a pity that the two Yamato ships! Otherwise, with their thick armored shells, which might be used as meat shields, they could achieve valuable opportunity for the two Iowa-class battleships and finally win!"

Mitchell regretted it a little, but it was just a flash of thought. In fact, even if the Yamato level is still there, it is not so easy for him to command. The Japanese are stubborn and still think they are smart and do some tricks. They think they can't see that they are using excuses to attack and avoid head-on combat at the right time?

But I didn't expect that the Chinese would attach so much importance to them. As soon as they came up, they would kill them completely with powerful attacks. I'm afraid that those ignorant Japanese people would come back and would regret hitting the wall, right? Well, maybe they would use a knife to pull their belly apart.

Without hesitation, Mitchell ordered all warships to release smoke immediately, cover the two battleships to escape contact. Before the air strikes and surface torpedo offenses are completely resolved, we will strive to regain the initiative in the battle and not be successfully counterattacked by the other party.

After giving the order, Mitchell looked up unwillingly. In the dark sky, the faint flashes and rumbling sounds like the thunder of spring. There was a fierce battle in which it was going on. You might get a winning battle with just one step away from reaching the peak and unattainable, biting his heart like a poisonous snake.

No! No! No!

Mitchell suddenly woke up, how could he have such arrogant thoughts?

If the Chinese were so easy to deal with, they would not have grown strong until today, but instead killed the powerful Japanese navy. They are the ones who are best at using conspiracies. How could they know that the so-called danger that they can push down with just one move is not pretending to be?!

I want to kill the Chinese in one go, so do they also want to lure the enemy into the depths, swallow their huge power in one bite, and create unparalleled merits? With the Chinese's arrogance, boldness, and endless mysterious weapons and equipment, they must dare to think about it and do it!

Mitchell broke out in a cold sweat, fortunately he realized it early! If he thought he had a good opportunity and rushed forward, he might have heard the bad news that the main ship was sunk in a few minutes! The Chinese missiles have not been launched from beginning to end!

Yes! Yes! The retreat order just now must be right! It's so dangerous, almost damn it will be doomed!

The more you think about it, the more you feel it makes sense. I wonder if you should write it down carefully and use it as a lifelong motto, reminding you not to get angry.

In front, the US cruisers who were withdrawing from the combat circle rushed out hundreds of smoke bombs in the middle. On the ships, various high-power smoke generators and the rolling smoke from the mainframe were blown close to the sea, quickly stirring the battlefield view and creating chaos.

The fighter jets in the sky made every effort to project the last bomb, and then turned unwillingly back towards the radio-guided route. The two Iowa-class battleships maneuvered at the fastest speed and increased the main gun's volley efficiency to the theoretical maximum speed, accuracy, etc., so they didn't care about so many. In short, they could fire one more shell, one round.

The rolling smoke quickly flashed the muzzle caused by the shooting, covering it up, from more than 20 kilometers away. The optical aiming instrument could no longer see anything. The sea detection radar was still easy to use. However, with the desperate impact of the two heavy cruisers creating chaos, one jamming bomb after another exploded in the sky, making the pursuit of the two Taishan-class battleships more and more troublesome.

The attacks of the US military, like a mountain torrent, suddenly came, but withdrew with a tide. The speed and decisive actions were all things that I had never encountered before.

Chen Ce was actually in a hurry and was sweating all over! He never expected that the real close-range shelling would be so dangerous! It was originally thought that it was foolproof. Under the influence of uncalculable low-probability events - such as the strange thing like the other party's water drifting and blasting through the main armor, all kinds of unexpected events may happen at any time.

Of course, it’s not that he is afraid of death or something, but that when he has a complete plan, his recklessness and carelessness may often lead to final failure, which is unforgivable!

After all, the South China Sea Fleet is not anything else. Without missile cruisers and electromagnetic shield protection, if missile launches cannot keep up, it is very dangerous for many ants to bite to death!

Look at the main console, the yellow unhealthy signs of almost all of the auxiliary ships were injured, indicating that in just one hour of fierce attack, they all faced the crisis of destruction, which was almost the same! If the Americans were not too greedy and wanted to swallow their two main ships first and use more cruisers and destroyers to clean them up, the auxiliary ships would probably not be able to withstand it!

With the rapid withdrawal of two Iowa-class battleships, the crazy torpedo was released and the two Taishan ships, whose gun barrels were hot and smoked, stopped as soon as they got better. They steadily cooperated with other ships to continue to sweep mines and fight air defenses, and were lukewarm, killing all the dangers in the bud, preventing them from easily causing terrible damage.

After the last dangerous torpedo on the sea was detonated, the US ships had already run away fifty kilometers away and gathered again, using their old tricks to discharge the three-layer defensive array inside and outside, sequentially and stirring.

The sky was quiet, Chen Ce squinted his eyes unwillingly for a moment, and suddenly ordered: "Start two rounds of anti-ship missiles! Try their defense!"

"clear!"

The captains of the two battleships did not ask why they did that, and executed the order decisively. Soon, they each released two hd-1 "harpoon" subsonic sea-skipping anti-ship missiles, dragging four dazzling light belts into the sky.

The US warships more than 50 kilometers away, the cruiser's watch-out was carefully seen and hurriedly issued a sharp warning: "Enemy ships launch missiles!"

The air-to-air radars of cruisers and battleships also issued strong warnings! The dazzling red lights flashed rapidly in the combat room of each battleship, making them feel heartbroken!

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"Boom!"

Four consecutive loud noises! Two destroyers were penetrated through hard, and the 75 kilograms of high explosives in each missile exploded the thin hull of only 2,000 tons from the deepest point, and the fragments jumped into the air for a few meters and fell to the sea!

On the other side of the distance, Chen Ce couldn't help but sigh when he saw this scene from the feedback screen. It seemed that the temporary technological leadership was not omnipotent. Even if the enemy who was half a step behind, with the intention of preparing, he could still come up with a stupid way to crack it!

"The missile hits! But it did not destroy the intended target!"

The information of tracking and feedback was confirmed. The captain of Hengshan, Chen Hongtai, bit the corner of his mouth and suggested: "We might as well try it with supersonic heavy bombs! I don't believe they can stop it!"

Chen Ce vetoed: "It's too close! And if they really do this with ammunition, it's really hard to say. Only by having a mindful calculation or not can you ensure the success rate. Now, let them have a little more joy first."

"Hmph!" Chen Hongtai bit off a piece of his mouth unwillingly and clenched his fist. He felt very unfair to get the money back. If he didn't get it back soon, he would be afraid that he wouldn't be able to sleep!

Major General Mitchell broke out in a cold sweat. After confirming that the main ship was safe and sound, he was scared: "Fortunately we are prepared! Otherwise, it would be really troublesome! It seems that if you can't make any free moves for the Chinese when fighting with the Chinese, the power of the missile is really terrible!"

The US and major arms companies have not yet figured out how that thing was made. MIT's Rocket Laboratory was originally a private interest organization, and has been jointly controlled by DuPont and Morgan and has increased its efforts to research. There are no available results yet. Before that, I'm afraid I can only be careful all day long and be vigilant and guard against it!

The incomplete Task Force 19th, emitting thick smoke, sailed to the southeast all the way. The squadron that was preparing to encircle from Yangon also immediately turned around and came to meet.

The South China Sea Fleet seemed to find something wrong, so they turned north again, and set aside for a temporary rest. It seemed that they both needed some time to adjust. This was exactly what Mitchell was happy to see.

The next day, the two sides made an appointment to play hide-and-seek, or lick their wounds, replenish their ammunition, repair warships, and the Bay of Bengal that had been boiling all night, was silent and weird!

On the morning of the third day, the figure of the Nimitz fleet finally appeared in the southeast of Sri Lanka!
Chapter completed!