Less than 2 minutes after the Edward VII was hit, the second YJ-100** fell from the sky again, which hit the Republic behind the Edward VII.

Although most of the warships of the expeditionary fleet had not yet reacted at this time, and even more than half of the warships did not know what was happening, but only heard a loud "boom", and then fireworks appeared, but the Republic was less than 300 meters away behind the Edward VII, so the whole process of the Edward VII being hit by the Eagle Strike 100** was very clear in the lookout, bridge, and most of the personnel in the headquarters. Moreover, many of the steel fragments that were shot out of the explosion hit or fell on the Republic.

Although I still didn't understand where the blow came from, when I saw the second Eagle Strike 100** fall from the sky again with flames, there was a panic in the lookout, bridge, and headquarters of the Republic, and some people shouted: "Enemy attack! There is an enemy attack!" Some people shouted: "Turn to evade! Quickly, turn to evade!" and some people even shouted: "Fire, fire." ”

But all this was useless, the Republic did not even make any reaction, and the performance of the warships of Bi Jing's era basically did not make any major reaction actions for more than 1 minute.

This time** hit the middle of the warship, that is, between the two chimneys and the rear main gun, in front of the kinetic energy converted into powerful potential energy, the deck without armor steel plates was broken like a papier-mâché, **Almost half of it was not in the deck, and then exploded.

"Boom!"

The huge fire ball was launched from the middle of the warship, and the huge hull was shocked by the huge explosion so that it almost jumped up from the water, and the closest to the explosion point was that the two rear secondary main gun turrets were swept away from the hull by strong air waves, and flew up more than 10 meters high before falling into the sea, and the deck, side armor, dome armor and other components in the middle of the warship were all deformed and cracked, and even splashed and scattered, and it seemed to be broken into two, and the raging fire spread almost from the middle to the whole ship.

However, this time the warship's bullet site was far away from the command room, although the command room was also greatly impacted, but it was stronger than the Edward VII, most of the personnel in the command room survived, of course, basically everyone was injured It is unavoidable, even the captain Kevin was scratched by two pieces of iron. But regardless of the pain, he immediately ordered to rescue and repair the leak, but someone soon reported that the leak could not be stopped at all. In fact, now the Republic can not be called a leak, the sea water is completely poured into the ship like a breach, more than 10 damaged soldiers jumped into the stagnant water to try to plug the leak, but immediately was swept away by the torrent, seeing that the warship could not be rescued, Kevin had to order all the officers of the ship to abandon the ship.

In just two or three minutes, the two battleships with the strongest strength of the expeditionary fleet were dealt heavy blows, and although these two warships are still floating on the sea, the bow of one was completely blown up, and the other was almost split in two, and everyone knew that these two warships were no longer saved.

Although when the second ** fell, many people on the warship saw it clearly, but what kind of weapon is this, it is obviously not like an ordinary shell, and where did it come from, because this is definitely not fired by the warship of the People's Army on the opposite side, or even whether it is a weapon of the People's Army, no one is sure, after all, this weapon is too weird, from the sky with flames straight down, attacking the weakest deck of a warship, and the power of the explosion is far greater than ordinary shells, no one has heard of what kind of weapon this is.

In fact, this is not the first time that the People's Army has used ** attacks on the battlefield, in the first time that the traverser came to this era, the Battle of Dagukou, which defeated the Eight-Nation Allied Fleet, the Battle of the Bohai Sea, which defeated the German Far East Fleet, and the Battle of Tsushima last year, have all used ** to attack the enemy. But firstly, in these battles, the number of ** used is not much, no more than 10 rounds in any battle, and secondly, these battles have some special reasons, so they have not attracted the attention of various countries;

The Battle of Dagukou took place when the crossing group had just arrived in this era, and it was carried out at night, and almost no one noticed the attack of the first class, and at that time all countries basically sent their own 2 or 3 rate warships, even if they were defeated, they did not pay too much attention to it, and did not seriously review and summarize; and in the Battle of the Bohai Sea, the German Far East Fleet lost very badly, but Germany had a good face, and did not mention much, and later the military cooperation between Germany and the East China government was relatively close, and it also deliberately concealed the details of the Bohai Sea Battle for the East China government.

The Battle of Tsushima was a naval battle that took place in the near future, and in terms of scale, it can be regarded as the largest naval battle in the era of multi-riveting steaming steel, and the result of this battle was enough to affect the direction of the entire Far East battlefield, but after that war, Japan lost its sea supremacy, the sea route was almost blocked by the East China government, and foreign exchanges were reduced, so the relevant information could not be transmitted in a timely manner.

Of course, there is another important reason for the contempt of the British. In fact, at this time, there were some rumors that the navy of the East China government had a mysterious weapon and was powerful, but the technical department of the British Navy thought these rumors were too absurd and did not take them seriously. This is because although the East China Government has won many naval battles since its establishment, it has not attracted the attention of Britain, believing that the East China Government has won only second- and third-rate opponents, and even if it was the Battle of Tsushima, it was the East China Government that waited for work at ease and took advantage of the fact that the Japanese and Russian fleets were both defeated and exhausted, and this was not enough to prove the strength of the East China Government's navy. Therefore, it was not seriously studied either.

It was not until after the Battle of the Natuna Islands that Britain officially attached importance to the KPA Navy, and this naval battle was studied quite seriously and in detail, but the KPA Navy did not use ** attacks in this naval battle, so the British Navy was almost unaware of this. Until his two strongest warships were devastated, he didn't know what was going on. Of course, even if you know, it is impossible to change the ending.

However, the KPA did not have enough time for the expeditionary fleet to react, and after the Republic was hit by the YJ-100**, only 2 or 3 minutes later, two more ** were launched from the Kunming ship.

The share of YJ-100** has been used up, and there are still 4 shares of YJ-18** to be used in an emergency, so this time the Kunming ship launched Haihongqi 9**. It turned out that the number of Kunming ships equipped with this type of ** was 32 rounds, 8 rounds were used in the previous battle, plus 2 rounds were retained, and the share that could be used this time was 22 rounds, and the power of Haihongqi 9** was of course much smaller than that of Eagle Strike 100 ** and Eagle Strike 18**, Bi Jing This is only a type of air defense, the warhead is only 165 kg, and the amount of charge is about 100-120 kg, but the shells are still much stronger than at this time.

According to the use of previous wars, to sink or make a battleship of more than 10,000 tons completely incapacitated, it takes 2-3 rounds, and in a few cases, even 4 rounds, so 22 rounds of Haihongqi 9** can probably sink or completely incapacitate 6-7 battleships, plus there are 4 rounds of Eagle Strike 18**, the People's Army can at least sink or make more than 10 battleships incapacitated.

The target of this KPA attack was the three British Dreadnought-class battleships, the Dreadnought, the Revolt, and the Discord, which were second only to the two Edward-class battleships in the expeditionary fleet. Although in the battle with the KPA battleships just now, these three warships were damaged to a certain extent, but they still should not be underestimated, Han Chao decided to fire 2 Haihong Flag 9** at each of these three warships first, to see the effect of the strike, and then decide whether to carry out a second wave of strikes.

In fact, there is no need to sink or completely incapacitate these warships, as long as they can be severely damaged, because at this time, the KPA battleships are about to enter the combat distance. Because Haihongqi 9** is an air defense **, the tracking ability of the target is extremely strong, to the need for helicopters to guide the whole process, only need to provide a target, so Haihongqi 9** in a group of 2 rounds, every 20 seconds can be launched a group, a total of 3 groups of fire, a total of 6 rounds. And when the last group ** left the warship, the first group had not yet hit the target.

And there were a total of 6 rounds in the air, which scared the crew of the expeditionary fleet, because just now they came one after another, and now there are 6 rounds at once, and anyone will feel panic in their hearts.

The speed of Haihongqi 9** is much faster than that of Eagle Strike 100**, and the time for 6 shots ** to appear in the air at the same time is not long, only more than 10 seconds later, the first group of Haihongqi 9** fell from the sky, and the two shots ** both hit the battleship Dreadnought, and then the 2nd and 3rd groups of Haihongqi 9** also fell in turn, respectively accurately hitting the Resistance and Discord.

Among the three battleships, the Discord suffered the most in combat effectiveness just now, a total of 4 rounds of 280 mm shells, 7 rounds of 200 mm shells, and 2 gaps were opened on the port side, one of which was close to the waterline, although it was protected by heavy armor, but it was still blown open a gap more than 2 meters wide, and there were many cracks, but after the hard work of the damage management personnel, the gap was blocked at this time, and most of the water was discharged.

However, 1 Haihongqi 9** penetrated into the cabin from the left deck and exploded, although the gap was blocked, but the material used was only an ordinary steel plate after all, and it was only 10 mm thick, and it was simply bound with iron wire, which was shocked by the explosion, and suddenly cracked most of it, and caused cracks in many places on the side side, and a large amount of seawater poured in from the cracks and cracks; After penetrating the deck, it was inserted into the crew compartment, which not only caused huge damage to the deck, but also killed more than 30 damage management personnel who were resting in the cabin, and blocked the passage for scrambling.

After the other crew struggled to clear the debris and reopened the rescue channel, hundreds of tons of seawater had poured into the ship's body, and the water was concentrated on the left side of the warship, so the warship as a whole was tilted to the left by more than 10 degrees, and the Discord was forced to hang out the flag of withdrawing from the battle and make every effort to drain and rescue.