Chapter 336: Tsushima Sea Battle (2)(1/3)
The Japanese escort fleet escorted the Yuntu fleet. He asked for help from the Internet to discuss the battle, and then the fleet of the Imperial Qin Royal Navy emerged.
The fleets of both sides were ten nautical miles apart on average, and they moved according to the degree and relative degree of their respective warships. Within ten minutes, the Japanese escort fleet entered the range of the Imperial Qin Royal Navy naval guns.
"What a huge fleet!" Major General Kikuda Ichiro, commander of the Japanese escort fleet on the bridge, exclaimed.
The staff officer of the bridge hurried over and asked nervously: "God General, what should we do?"
Major General Kikuda Ichiro thought for a moment and ordered: "Immediately order to give up the transport fleet, make an emergency turn north, and prepare to break through."
The Staff of the Bridge asked in confusion: "God General, if we break out to the north, we will be farther and farther away from Da Benzhuo!"
Major General Kikuda Ichiro said angrily: "Bastard! Is this what you should ask? Execute the order immediately!"
The staff of the bridge carried out the order helplessly. The flagship made a flag-word and ordered the four protective cruisers, Hirado, Chizuru, Qiandao and Zongxiang to follow the flagship, to break through to the north.
It is correct for the Japanese escort fleet to choose to break through in the north, because to the west and south is Tsubasa Island, and to the northwest is in the two battleship formations of the Emperor Qin Royal Navy in the front. If you don’t turn and continue to drive forward, you will just hit the muzzle of the enemy fleet. If you want to die quickly, that is the best way. The northeast is the two heavy cruiser formations of the Emperor Qin Royal Navy, and the southeast is the two destroyer fleets of the Emperor Qin Royal Navy. Turning to these two sides requires a high angle. Obviously, time does not allow the Japanese fleet to do this!
According to the course and position of the Japanese escort fleet, you can only choose to break through from the north, but all of this is expected by the Imperial Qin Royal Navy.
On the battleship Pangu, the flagship of the Royal Navy's First Battleship Formation, General Lin Jianzhang, commander of the Royal Navy's Pacific Fleet, stared coldly at the small Japanese escort fleet. In his eyes, this Japanese fleet seemed to have been sentenced to death.
"Command! The second team stays parallel to the Japanese fleet, and the first team is steering the right 15 degrees. Go up and drive. Be prepared to seize the first position of the word ""!" General Lin Jianzhang ordered.
"Yes! Right steer fifteen degrees!"
"The revolver four vehicles enter the four!"
As the engineer pushed the four main engines on the left to the maximum gear, the huge ship of the Pangu battleship quickly turned right. After moving to the fifteenth degree position of the right rudder, the engineer quickly pushed the four main engine thrusters on the right to the highest gear.
"The right-wheel engine four car enters four! The maximum indicating horsepower is all forward!"
Woo! Woooo!
As the flagship Pangu battleship turned, four huge smoke and white smoke suddenly burst out. Within half a minute, the Pangu battleship was added to the extreme sensation. Then, under the command of the flagship, the Tianjin and Jinan also quickly completed the steering maneuver. The three battleships of the first team quickly separated from the four battleships of the second team and rushed towards the Japanese fleet in a formation of sickles.
At the same time, four heavy cruisers located in the third team northeast of the Japanese fleet also approached the Japanese fleet, while four heavy cruisers of the Fourth Team continued to maneuver southward and made small-angle detours to cut off the Japanese fleet's retreat.
The twenty destroyers of the two destroyers were divided into five columns, reaching their transport fleet with a speed of thirty knots. The Imperial Qin Royal Navy completed the encirclement within five minutes with its advantage in degree.
The fourth heavy cruiser of the third team was the first to approach the Japanese escort fleet. Because the third team was eager to encircle, it did not make any steering maneuvers. The Japanese fleet turned to the north, so the two sides reached a 30-degree "" corner. The head ship of the third team, the heavy cruiser of the Lushun, took over the rear-square-square cruiser of the Japanese fleet, the rear-square-square cruiser of the Japanese fleet. The warships on both sides were 6,000 meters away and had already entered the effective strike range of the Lushun. However, for the Zongxiang cruiser, its double-equipped milk millimeter main gun was still outside the effective range.
Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!
At 8:35, the Lushun heavy cruiser concentrated all the guns on the starboard side, and first opened a single gun on the Zongxiang, and each gun fired in turn.
Boom! Boom boom!
The sound of cannons roared, and in an instant, water columns were raised around the Zongxiang, and the closest one to the Zongxiang was less than ten meters away!
"I deserve to be an elite soldier in a hundred battles! The first round of artillery attacks is so close to our warships!"
Putting down the telescope, Major General Kikuda Ichiro frowned fiercely, and the movements and tactical maneuver intentions of the Imperial Qin Royal Navy surrounding his fleet fell into his eyes one by one.
"God General! Do we want to fight back?" asked the staff officer of the Bridge carefully.
Major General Kikuda Ichiro waved his hand and said, "Even at this distance, we can't hit the opponent even if we fire a gun. The situation is very clear. We have fallen into the encirclement of the enemy fleet. We can no longer break forward. The enemy's battleship formation in front has been added, and we are obviously preparing to seize our ". Zhuo's head position!"
Then Major General Kikuda Ichiro shouted: "Order! The fleet continues to be full of the right cabin, and must not be snatched by the enemy fleet from the first word ""!"
"Hi!" The bridge staff immediately dispatched five cruisers to continue turning to the right, hoping to get rid of the sickle tactics of the Imperial Qin Royal Navy before taking over the First Team of the Imperial Qin Royal Navy.
However, as the various teams of the Royal Navy continued to shrink their forces, the encirclement range became smaller and smaller. The maneuverable space of the Japanese fleet was compressed. Now, in order to avoid the first and second teams of the Royal Navy, they turned and maneuvered in the northeast again, but they were getting closer and closer to the third and fourth cruisers formations of the Royal Navy.
Little do they know that for protective cruisers, the real threat is not the enemy's battleship, but the heavy cruiser with more powerful aviation and firepower.
In the naval battle, the main guns of the battleships were slow to fire. One in a few minutes, and the direct hit rate was extremely low. In comparison, the heavy cruisers of the Imperial Qin Royal Navy were of height and a large number of guns were fired. These were fatal to the surrounding protective cruisers.
"Correction of all elements! Target orientation force, elevation angle occupation, distance meter, two rapid shots!"
After the fire control command and staff corrected the shooting of the Yuan Dynasty, the Lushun heavy cruiser fired another fire volley after one minute.
Dongdongdongdongdongdong!
The fire flashed, and the starboard cannons of the Lushun were fired at the same time, giving people the impression that they were simultaneously, but in fact, each cannon has a time interval of fierce seconds or even ten thousand seconds. This is at the 15-degree elevation angle where the naked eye is at. The shells fired by the guns of the warship are equivalent to direct firepower. Within a dozen seconds, each cannon fired two shells one after another. When the second round of shells rushed to the barrel, the first round of shells happened to fly to the Zongxiang.
boom!!!
The first round of direct shells hit the Zongxiang cruiser in a row and exploded with a bang.
The two-four-mm rear main gun hit the Zhongzongxiang Rudder Tower, the six-mm second-level main gun hit the ship island and the commander tower, the four-force millimeter fire cannon hit the left back string, and two hits the waterline with protective armor. The front main gun hits the key points such as the hull boiler smoke and white.
In an instant, the entire superstructure on the Zongxiang ship was penetrated, and the explosion of flames penetrated more than ten meters from both sides of the ship.
The island of ship and the surrounding superstructures could not bear the huge explosion force immediately, and the whole body expanded outward and exploded instantly. The observation tower above the island of ship was blown into the air.
In an instant, the hull of Zong Xiang was cut off by half of the explosion flames, swallowing the Japanese sailors who escaped from the front and rear decks, screaming in succession.
The Zongxiang, which originally had a Hojima, seemed to have been stuck after the shells hit, and immediately descended, like a little turtle slowly crawling.
More than ten seconds later, when the second round of shells hit, the Zongxiang turtle was knocked off the last layer of turtle shell. The protective cruiser built by Japan itself could not be completely made of all steel. Their technology was not enough, so half of the hull was made of wooden structure.
The number of high armor-piercing blasting bombs penetrated into its engine compartment and caused a huge series of explosions.
Boom! Boom boom!
Huge mushroom clouds rose from the central island of Zongxiang, and violent waves swept the burning coal, rushing around. In a moment, black and red fire clouds rushed straight into the sky, covering the sky and the sun.
At 8:43, the Zongxiang protective cruiser quickly sank with uninterrupted explosions and rolling smoke.
At the same time, the other three heavy cruisers of the third team also opened fire on the two protective cruisers of the Japanese fleet, the Qiandao and the Chuzi, the Japanese fleet. However, because the two fleets were already staggered and the distance was too far, they failed to cause effective damage to them.
"Bastard!" Putting down the telescope, Major General Kikuda Ichiro stomped his feet hard. In just a few minutes, one of his warships was sunk, and it was sunk in a state of utter disgrace! This made Major General Kikuda Ichiro very angry. In addition to cursing the Qin army, he lamented the injustice of the world.
He wanted to take the initiative to fight the Emperor Qin Royal Navy, but the remaining rationality told him that it was impossible! The Emperor Qin Royal Navy was not only a battleship or a heavy cruiser, and the armor protection of any warship was impossible to penetrate by the main gun of the protective cruiser in his hand.
Escape is a life of death, but staying to fight back means ten deaths without life.
Major General Kikuda Ichiro was not afraid of death, but he boasted that Haikou promised General Yuki Ito to bring the fleet back intact. Now that he lost a cruiser for the first time, he really couldn't guarantee how long his fleet could last?
Looking at Kikuda Ichiro's despair as if he was dead, Staff Shinbashi said inspiration: "God General. Please cheer up! We still have to wait for the general to take us back?"
Kikuda Ichiro nodded and said, "You are right at all! I want to take you back to the motherland! We are not afraid of death. Are there anything else terrible?"
The Staff of the Bridge said decisively: "God General. Please give orders!"
Major General Kikuda Ichiro looked at the Royal Navy battleship formation that was approaching ahead, sighing in his heart. He saw that the enemy fleet was about to grab his front. He occupied the horizontal position of the word "" but he had no way to deal with it.
I originally thought that the cruiser level of my fleet would be faster than the battleship level of the enemy fleet, and by virtue of the degree advantage, I got rid of the blockade of the enemy fleet and jumped out of the encirclement.
But now Major General Kikuda Ichiro has given up this idea because he has now reached the level of the opponent's first battleship formation. This is simply the battleship in today's world.
After losing the degree advantage, the Japanese fleet also avoided the more fierce enemy heavy cruiser formation. Therefore, they could only watch their first position of "" and were snatched away by the enemy fleet.
At 8:50, the First and Second Team of the Royal Navy approached the Japanese fleet. The four battleships of the Second Team completed tactical maneuvering movements that were traveling parallel to the Japanese fleet, and the distance between the two sides gradually narrowed.
At the same time, the three Pangu-class battleships of the first team, with the high speed of the leaps and turning right, gradually passed the former Yuan number of the Japanese fleet flagship.
At 8:55, the first team completed the sickle (format, the best mobile formation to seize the head position) to encircle the Japanese fleet. At this time, the Japanese fleet naturally continued to turn right and avoid it, but the first team was close to seven thousand meters away and had already entered the effective range of Pangu-class battleships. How could the Japanese fleet avoid and escape again?
Dongdongdongdongdongdong!
While the flagship Pangu of the first team continued to turn right and maneuver, it first opened fire on the cruiser of the former Yuan, the flagship of the Japanese fleet.
The Pangu starboard firepower is two dual-mounted strong millimeter main guns in the front and rear, two dual-mounted millimeter firing guns in the middle, and five single-mounted Min-mm firing guns, firing in succession.
The Pangu strong millimeter main gun spit out a ball of white smoke. There was a loud bang, and the huge bullet with a diameter of millimeters and weighing kilograms rushed away the smoke, flew over the head of the Japanese ship, and landed at the other side of the ship. The sea water suddenly rose up two huge water columns four or five meters apart and five or six meters high.
Although it did not hit the front Yuan number, the huge impact waves caused the front Yuan number to shake slightly while turning right. The scattered waves scattered on the ship island, making the exposed Japanese sailors wet, and the sea breeze blew, trembling.
Smelling the falling sea water, the fishy smell made Major General Kikuda Ichiro, who was commanding the fleet, feel scared. No need to worry, if you persuade Millimeter shells to hit the previous Yuan, what awaits them is the end of the ship being destroyed.
Boom boom!
The milk millimeter shells followed by the subsequent stirred several water columns near the port side of the former Yuan. From the huge water columns that stirred up, it can be seen that the shells of the Emperor Qin Navy were fully loaded and their power was naturally very terrifying. Major General Kikuda Ichiro asked himself that the power of the milk millimeter main gun of the warship was definitely not as powerful as the artillery of the same caliber of the Emperor Qin Royal Navy.
"Chapter 336 of the Five Qing Demolition Workers Chapter 336 of the Battle of Ma Hai (Part 2), General, please go to the commander tower to command! The bridge staff member was anxious and the sound of a trembling sound.
Yes! Not only were these staff officers scared, but even the veterans who participated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 were gritting their teeth, afraid that when they let go, they would fight with the lower teeth, Ding Ding Dangdang.
Although the Japanese Navy won the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, they could never forget the huge lethality of the strong main guns of the Dingzhen Second Ship. It can be said that the Japanese Navy won the naval battle, but it caused a huge psychological shadow because it failed to sink the Dingzhen Second Ship.
Now that we are facing the attack of this caliber artillery again, the Japanese fleet is facing the Royal Navy with an absolutely overwhelming advantage, and the fear in our hearts is even more intense.
Major General Kikuda Ichiro smiled bitterly and said, "It's the same everywhere, and our commander's tower still cannot withstand the bombardment of their battleships!"
Seeing the enemy fleet snatching the first position of ‘’, Major General Kikuda Ichiro seemed to have accepted the arrangement of fate, but calmed down instead. He said, "Give it to the base camp beast!"
"God of General! Hi!" Staff Gunbashi opened Funshi's folder and picked up a pen to wait for Major General Kikuda Ichiro's orders.
"Keep, General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Domestic Cabinet, Naval Joint Fleet Command, ~ General Ito Sinho Knows! I, Kikuda Ichiro, was ordered to escort the Korean waters of Tsushima Island and ambushed by the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Qin Royal Navy. It has been confirmed that it is the main force of the Imperial Qin Royal Navy, but it can no longer escape and has a great hope from the Imperial Qin Royal Navy! I hope the Imperial Navy can remember the shame today and avenge the Imperial Navy's 1,472 soldiers!"
Then Major General Kikuda Ichiro turned around and said with a decisive expression: "Long live the Great Japanese Empire! Long live the Emperor!"
"Your Excellency General, you are," said the staff officer of the Bridge in surprise. Is this obviously a suicide note?
Major General Tyita Ichiro stopped his question and then ordered: "Go out immediately and hand over the command of the flagship to Colonel Matsumoto Naigato of the Hirado, and let him lead the ships to break through the scattered orders! Execute the order immediately!"
"Hi!" Seeing that Major General Kikuda Ichiro had made up his mind, the staff officer of the Hunhashi turned around and made arrangements.
Major General Kikuda Ichiro took off his military cap, took out a strip of white cloth with the red sun from his arms, tied it tightly to his forehead. He pulled out his command knife and gently stroked it.
Everything about us is foreshadowing that Major General Kikuda Ichiro is ready to fight to the death!
The reason for doing this is because Major General Kikuda Ichiro had seen the enemy fleet that seized the title of ‘’. The battleship formation of the Imperial Qin Royal Navy wrapped the Japanese fleet under the edge of the scythe with a scythe formation.
To be continued...