The combat effectiveness of the fleet depends on two aspects, one is naturally the performance and personnel quality of the warships in the fleet, and the other is the complete formation and efficient command. And now, Shelly rushed to the Japanese fleet with a total of 5 protective cruisers, and there were only 4 Japanese protective cruisers! And they were in the midst of evasive maneuvers, and they were also at a disadvantage in terms of formation, taking advantage of the sacrifice of the Rurik, the Americans seized the opportunity to launch a rather powerful counterattack after the outbreak of the battle!

A group of armored cruisers armed with sharp blades and wearing only iron pants collided directly! At close range, both sides did their best to suffocate their opponents with high-explosive shells, picric shells easily tore through the unprotected hull, and the flames from the explosion of high-energy explosives quickly spread in all directions, and the flying shrapnel and poisonous gas mercilessly hunted all the lives exposed on the deck. In just a few minutes, all 8 battleships were on fire! All attempts to control the fire were futile under the dense rain of bullets!

Just when the battlefield entered the white heat in a short time, the 8-inch gun on Rurik finally made a meritorious service! An 8-inch shell successfully hit the steering room of the Kasuga protective cruiser! Blow up the entire chamber in an instant! The Kasuga protective cruiser, which was evading at high speed, instantly lost control like a wolfdog with a broken backbone, and the San Diego, which seized the opportunity, fired 3 torpedoes at a distance of 700 meters from the opponent!

"Japanese people are so lucky!" Looking at the two torpedoes that swept behind the Kasuga and a third torpedo that kept spinning on the water, he swore that if he could go back, he would take the profiteers who produced the torpedoes to court!

But before Shelly could finish complaining, the USS Philadelphia protective cruiser decisively went up to make up for it, and another 3 torpedoes shot a white track and shot at the target, this time at a closer distance! 500 meters! In this case, even the Japanese Aunt Amaterasu will not be able to save this battleship! A huge column of water burst out from the side chord of the Kasuga, and the 18-inch torpedo successfully tore a large hole more than 3 meters long in the side chord of the Kasuga! Coupled with the fact that the battleship has lost control, the end of this battleship is already doomed!

When Shelly turned his attention to the other two second-class protected cruisers, the latter dodged with great agility, and the two protective cruisers took full advantage of their speed to avoid this deadly counterattack. In a very short time, the Americans managed to sink one first-class protected cruiser and drive the other two out of the battlefield, and the situation seemed to be very good!

But the efforts of the U.S. and Russian navies soon proved to be in vain, because just as the Americans were cheering for the defeat of a first-class protection cruiser, a loud bang came from the American battle line that made the Americans' newly lowered heart rise to their throats again!

"It's the USS Brooklyn! Oh, my God! There was a series of explosions on the USS Brooklyn! A series of explosions came from a distance, and the Russian officers and men on the Bayan could clearly see a series of explosions in the side chord gallery of the Brooklyn, the most powerful armored cruiser of the United States Navy, with raging flames and thick smoke erupting from the side of the hull, and with the violent explosion, the entire battleship also tilted to a certain extent.

A 227KG shell smashed into the Brooklyn Dome Armor, although it failed to penetrate the 6-inch Dome Armor, but the violent impact still deformed the Dome Armor, and countless flames entered the lower ammunition depot through the gap, and ignited the propellant pack that was being transported upwards! And the so-called disaster is not a single line, another shell came from the dressing room at the lower part of the side-chord 8-inch gun, directly detonating more than a dozen packs of ****** and a large number of shells piled up in it! A sky-high mushroom cloud burst out of the gun emplacement, tearing off dozens of tons of turrets!

After this blow, Brooklyn's internal structure was devastated, and the violent explosion caused countless cracks and cavities in the side chords of the hull, and a large amount of seawater broke through the watertight compartments and poured into the hull, submerging the cabins one by one. The boiler compartment went out in an instant, and a steam engine was destroyed by flying shrapnel!

"The Brooklyn is over, and after Rurik returns, the rest of the time is probably measured in minutes. And then the entire American fleet! Scheer, who was watching the game from a distance, said to the two colleagues next to him. The Brooklyn began to drift slowly away from the battle line, and he was destroyed by the Japanese mine-strike ships. At the same time, the recovered Japanese began to redistribute firepower, the Yashima helped the Fuji against Iowa, and the remaining 4 Asama-class armored cruisers began to torture the American cruiser formation behind!

"Ants are ants after all!" Looking at the Rurik, which was crippled by the Izumo's concentrated firepower, Shimamura said contemptuously. The Rurik was indeed ferocious when it rushed up, and the projection fire of the 8 6-inch guns on the side chord could not be said to be weak, but the stern of the Izumo had perfect 3 to 4-inch armor against high-explosive shells! A bunch of shells were thrown over, which really caused a certain amount of trouble, and the aft deck caught fire for a while. But soon at such a close distance, the Izumo's counterattack caused even more damage to the Rurik!

AT A DISTANCE OF LESS THAN 1000 METERS, TWO 227KG 10-INCH SHELLS HIT THE CRAZY RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY! A shell pierced the tail armor belt, directly blasting a propeller shaft in two. The violently shaking propeller shaft slammed into the next door of the cabin, smashing the aft makeshift hospital and the wounded inside into a pile of pieces. Another shell pierced Rurik's engine room, reducing a steam engine directly to a pile of parts, and the explosion was so violent that the entire ship seemed to jump. Billowing smoke and flames quickly spread from the bullet.

Subsequently, countless high-explosive shells made the battleship even worse. The ferocious flames engulfed almost the entire hull, and the end of the Rurik was already sealed. The torpedo boats of the Japanese will be the final executioners of the opposing side. "Let's go up and help the Russians." Count Spee consulted the other two, and after they expressed their support, Count Spee decided to be a good man and see if he could get some valuable information from the Russians.

In a short period of time, the U.S. and Russian fleets lost two capital ships in a row, along with the sinking of the Brooklyn and Rurik, there were only 4 main armored ships of the entire U.S. and Russian fleets, and although the other side lost the spring, it was not a big deal, 6 capital ships except for the Fuji was a little miserable, the other 5 battleships were in good condition, and the main turret of the Nisshin was also repaired, just waiting for the big kill!

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