Chapter 575: The Fusang sinks

Looking at the huge column of water that was higher than the chimney of the battleship Kirishima next to him, Yu Huantang's face turned pale, this is a heavy bomb of at least eight hundred kilograms, if it falls on the Chicheng, it is estimated that it will be enough for the Chicheng to drink a pot, thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Order all ships to strengthen their firepower, and we must not let the planes of the China people bomb us unscrupulously!" ”

"Hay!" Ryunosuke Kusaka on the side agreed, and just wanted to carry out the order, but suddenly heard a staff officer next to him crying out: "Your Excellency be careful!" ”

"Boom ......"

Two shells exploded on the deck of the Chicheng, and a huge blast of air lifted a reconnaissance plane on the deck into the air, and then smashed heavily on the deck, breaking the entire plane in two. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"Yaga, what's going on, how can there be a shell exploding here!"

Yu Huan, who was thrown to the ground by a staff officer, shook off the staff officer and struggled to stand up and look at the sky, he didn't care about this look, but he gasped, only to see dozens of huge bombers in the sky in the distance were constantly flying around the fleet, they used the fuselage side to the fleet, the fuselage of each bomber has more than a dozen dense tongues of fire are constantly shooting down at the fleet, and the most outrageous thing is that there is a cannon near the nose of these bombers is constantly firing, Judging by the condition in which they fired, this gun should have been at least a seventy-five mm rapid-fire cannon.

Seeing this, even Kusaka Ryunosuke couldn't help but scold: "Yaga Yaka, these damn Shina people even have artillery on the plane, it's really too lacking in the spirit of bushido." ”

For the Third Army's air force to carry cannons on the plane, these Japanese officers had no choice but to accept it in addition to anger, isn't there a saying in later generations that life is like that, if you can't resist then try to enjoy it. Thirty B-25 bombers kept circling the Japanese fleet in the air of two thousand meters, while constantly pouring bullets and shells at the fleet with more than a dozen machine guns and a 75 mm cannon, which also made the Japanese casualties skyrocket, after all, although the Japanese warships were thick and thick, but those gunners wore life jackets at most, and this thing couldn't even stop pistol bullets, let alone 12.7 mm large-caliber bullets and 75 mm shells.

In the face of the attack of hundreds of large-caliber machine guns and 75mm cannons, the casualties of the gunners on the deck of the Japanese army rose sharply, and the firepower began to weaken, so that the Stuka dive bombers, who had been forced by the Japanese anti-aircraft fire to only wander outside, immediately found an opportunity, only to see a Stuka suddenly dive, with the sharp and poignant siren sounding, the aerial bomb under the belly of the dive bomber broke free from the hook and fell under the force of gravity towards the fleet, A few seconds later, only a loud bang was heard, and a puff of black smoke rang out from a warship, which began to emit thick black smoke and skyrocketing flames.

"Who got shot?" Yu Huan asked loudly.

"Your Excellency General, it was the Fuso that was shot!"

"Nani!"

Yu Huan was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly raised his telescope to look, and sure enough, he saw that more than 600 meters away from him, the battleship Fusang was burning with a raging fire, and a thick black smoke rose into the sky.

"Ask about the damage to the Fuso right away!" Seeing the thick black smoke over the Fusang, Yuhuan's heart immediately tightened, although the Fusang battleship had a full load displacement of 30,600 tons, it had been in service for more than 20 years since it was launched in 1917, and had entered middle and old age.

And because it is the first super dreadnought designed by Japan alone, it is not very reasonable in design, on the surface the battleship Fuso is equipped with twelve 356 mm caliber cannons, so it looks quite majestic, but in fact this design is not very good, such as ammunition depot and other parts that may cause the loss of combat effectiveness after being shot accounts for half of the total length of the hull, resulting in difficult defense, easy to be hit, and the third and fourth turret main gun configuration is inappropriate, and its explosion will cause the hull to roll over during a salvo and other problems, plus many years of service, the speed of the turn was relatively slow, so it was immediately targeted by the Stuka bombers in the sky, and sure enough, an 800-kilogram heavy bomb fell, and this huge battleship was immediately tragic. Although it did not hit the ammunition depot, the bomb passed through several decks before exploding, damaging the boiler pipes, and for a while the hot steam splashed everywhere, scalding many Japanese sailors to death and scalding a lot, and the speed of the ship dropped from the normal eighteen knots to thirteen knots.

What does it mean to lose speed in such a tense battle? Your speed has dropped, but the entire fleet can't reduce the speed of the entire fleet for your warship, which means that you are abandoned by the entire fleet, watching the Fuso slowly fall behind the Japanese formation, several Stuka bombers in the sky pounced down like vultures smelling blood, and the sailors on the Fuso also knew their fate, all the anti-aircraft weapons were desperately shooting at the sky, especially the four-seater twin eight-nine type 127 mm/ The 40-fold anti-aircraft guns kept firing into the sky, and under its drive, more than 60 anti-aircraft guns, including 13 mm cannons and 25 mm cannons, also fired desperately, trying to stop the vultures falling from the sky in this way.

But it turned out that a lone battleship could not block all the waterways, and soon a Stuka broke through its defense line, and an 800-kilogram aerial bomb accurately landed on its bow, and exploded in the ammunition depot of the Fuso through three decks, dozens of 356 mm large-caliber shells were detonated instantly, and the huge shock wave immediately tore the battleship of more than 30,000 tons into two, and the battleship sank into the water in less than two minutes, All 1,193 sailors, including the captain of the ship, Sato Tsuto, sank to the bottom of the sea with the battleship.

"Your Excellency General, the Fuso has been sunk!" Kusaka Ryunosuke's sad report.

"Yaga...... Yaga! ”

Yu Huantang, who was so angry, could only scold this sentence at this time, and now he has some regrets in his heart, if you don't finish speaking, you can't complete the task, anyway, it's not his responsibility for Su Jin not to go to France, who can take him What can he do, but he listened to the words of Ryunosuke Kusaka, and led the fleet to attack the French fleet, now it's okay, I don't know the results of the sneak attack, so I put one of my own battleships into it first. (To be continued.) )