Overall, the Yoshino is indeed much stronger than Akitsu, both in terms of firepower and health bar (if it has this attribute), but it is useless when it comes to actual combat! The Yoshino's vaunted rapid-fire firepower was powerless against the extensive defensive armor of the USS Mainz, and had no effect other than the amount of fire caused by shells hitting the superstructure and deck.

On the contrary, in the battle just now, it was the two main guns of Naniwa that really had a certain impact on the Mainz! ONE OF THE 260MM SHELLS HIT THE BOW ARMOR BELT OF THE MAINZ, AND THE VIOLENT IMPACT OF THE ARMOR-PIERCING SHELL TORE THROUGH THE DEFENSE OF THE 3-INCH ARMOR, MAYBE IT WAS PIERCED, MAYBE IT WAS BLOWN THROUGH, ANYWAY, A HOLE WAS PUNCHED, DOZENS OF TONS OF WATER WENT IN, AND THAT'S IT!

3 150MM GUNS AND SEVERAL 88MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS WERE DIVIDED TO SUPPRESS THE NANIWA, AND THE OTHER 4 150MM GUNS AND 2 280MM MAIN GUNS WERE CONCENTRATED ON THE YOSHINO. The Yoshino's so-called protected secondary gun is just a gun shield made of several steel plates, and it is okay to block shrapnel, but if the 6-inch gun hits directly, there is only a dead end.

And Mainz's secondary cannon is almost in a steel cannon nest! If the German officers and soldiers who went to the battlefield for the first time were still a little nervous at the beginning of the battle, then after more than half an hour of fighting, there was no difference from the drill except that there was no screeching sound of artillery shells exploding in their ears and the smell of gunpowder smoke in the gun nest was a little pungent! The gunners aimed and attacked almost methodically according to the drills.

The Yoshino's rapid-fire cannon fire was ineffective under the Mainz's heavy armor, and the most they could do was break the hull plates or set a fire on the deck, except to blast up clouds of flames on the sidestring armor. Mainz does not have much advantage in the amount of projection, but it bites the flesh!

THE 6-INCH, 4.7-INCH, AND 75MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS THAT HAD BEEN SIDE-LINED BY THE YOSHINO WERE DESTROYED ONE BY ONE BY A BARRAGE OF ROLLING BARRAGES, AND THE UNPROTECTED GUN EMPLACEMENTS WERE REDUCED TO PIECES OF WRECKAGE WITH VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS AND FLYING SHRAPNEL, AND IF THEY WERE LUCKY, THE JAPANESE COULD FIND A FEW PIECES OF MINCED MEAT NEXT TO THE BOMBED, TWISTED GUNS. And a pool of black-brown blood! In essence, there is no essential difference between the performance of Yoshino and Akitsu, it is just a matter of how long it lasts!

"Naniwa is approaching the shallow sea! The Yoshino is covering its escape into the shallow seas! "Hipper was the first to discover his opponent's intentions, and the Yoshino tried his best to cross the Naniwa and Mainz armored ships, while the Naniwa sailed like crazy towards the shallow waters!

"The dog jumped over the wall in a hurry!" Prince Ruprecht still feels that he has underestimated the determination of the Japanese! The front is shallow water, and experienced seafarers can even distinguish by the color of the sea, and the draft of the Mainz-class armored cruisers is more than 7 meters! And the wave speed is about 5 meters. To be honest, the traverser thinks that his life is more expensive, so he doesn't want to play with the other party.

"Concentrate your firepower on another wave, and don't enter the shallow sea area!" The traverser still chose to save his life at the critical moment, but because of the potential of the Yoshino and the cover of the gunsmoke, the accuracy of the final wave of long-range shelling was not very good, and several medium-caliber shells smashed into the stern of the Naniwa, burning off the entire aft deck.

"It seems to have run away!" Hipper said with some regret. And just as he could finish speaking, a loud bang suddenly came from the stern of the Naniwa! A HUGE FIREBALL ROSE FROM THE STERN OF THE SHIP, AND THE VIOLENT EXPLOSION EVEN BLEW THE 260MM CANNON IN THE STERN OF THE NANIWA SHIP IN TWO! Then accompanied by a sky-high fire and thick gunsmoke, a mushroom cloud rose! And the Naniwa lost control like a dog with a broken spine, and then floated towards the shallow talk under the residual power and the action of the waves!

"It's not bad, our main gun seems to have done a good job!" The traverser wiped the sweat from his head and said. The shot just now should have hit the tail ammunition depot of the Naniwa, although it is a dome cruiser, but the Naniwa's ammunition depot also has a certain degree of protection, and ordinary 6-inch high-explosive shells will definitely not be able to penetrate. The only explanation is the main gun hit. Although the ship was not completely blown in two, it is estimated that Naniwa will never reappear at sea again!

"Retreat!" Kawahara wanted to take one last look at this steel behemoth that had almost wiped out the entire detachment! Gritted teeth commanded. Today is really a day of ups and downs, when the Japanese fleet intercepted the Qing fleet and sank the escort Jiyuan and Guangyi, Kawahara wanted to believe that he had made meritorious contributions to the empire! In just two hours, he wiped out 3 brigades of Qing troops and 2 warships, and he was intoxicated by glory and imagination of the future. But now.

"The lethality of the 6-inch gun is still a little lower, and the deck sweeping is enough, but the damage to the core cabin is still limited." Watching the Yoshino flee the battlefield with flames and smoke all over it, Hipper said with a little regret. He couldn't have imagined that the German Navy would fight like this for the first time in decades! And it was played so cleanly and beautifully.

After relaxing, Hippert suddenly collapsed. He was just about to sit on the stool and prepare to rest for a while, but before his ass could be touched, he was picked up by the traverser!

"Hurry up and get up!" The traverser's bloodshot eyes and slightly hideous face made Hippert a little weak. "Think it's over when the war is over? Dream on! Things are just getting started! ”

"Immediately find someone to see Ingnoll and them, there are a few sober, count the casualties, and send a small boat to the nearby waters to immediately search for Japanese prisoners of war! Keep it alive! This TM is all evidence! ”

"Call me that Herbert guy! Even if he is lying on a stretcher, he will be lifted! "The traverser is angry at the thought of Herbert, this guy's appeasement policy almost destroyed an entire ship!

Presumably the casualties have come out, a battleship has more than 560 people, and more than 40 casualties, half of which were inflicted within 5 minutes of the start of the battle! In an instant, the high-ranking officers on the ship sitting on the bridge were almost beaten to death or wounded! If someone takes the blame afterwards, it must be this kid!

Although the battle was won, the traverser did not dare to relax in the slightest, if nothing else, the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet was nearby, and he could not stay for too long. A ship to challenge a nation? Let's wash and sleep, people let you fight, and you won't have enough shells!

After the war, there will be a lawsuit! He must now let Herbert go to Tientsin with the German merchant ships captured and victimized by the Japanese, and then immediately contact the German ambassador to the Qing State and tell the matter to China! First, put the blame on the Japanese. Occupy the moral high ground! Then he had to lead the Mainz back to Shanghai to join Tirpitz, and the German fleet after the convergence was really not afraid of anything!

Thanks to the book friends zhouyu1976, Windsor, yr81113 for their tips~~~. It's Friday again, and I don't know if there's anything else to recommend. Again, I beg for support!