Forty seconds later, a second salvo of shells came at us, and this time the Itsukushima could no longer float on the surface.

I don't know how many shells hit Itsukushima in this round of shelling, but anyway, there was a violent explosion on Itsukushima, and it capsized on the surface of the sea in an instant, revealing the bottom of the ship overgrown with seaweed.

The Huaxia battleships destroyed Itsukushima with only two rounds of artillery bombardment, and their strong combat effectiveness stunned the other four Liujing ships, as well as the other Japanese warships.

The remnants of the Beiyang Naval Division and the officers and men on Liugong Island, who had just rushed out of the harbor, were also stunned by the facts in front of them, and they all thought to themselves: If the Huaxia Army did not come to relieve the siege of the Beiyang Naval Division, but to attack the Beiyang Naval Division, what would the situation be?

At this time, the Japanese people had lost any luck in their minds to win in front of the Huaxia fleet.

As a result, all the ships of the Japanese Kingdom that could run away hurried away, and those who could not escape also went crazy.

The Hashidate, Ishigaki, Oshino, and Izu knew that the Huaxia Army would never let them go, so they charged frantically regardless of formation and sequence, and fired torpedoes desperately.

"Humph! Crazy, the people of the Japanese country are crazy! Hu Zhen, who was watching the battle from the air, was originally sitting on a chair, but when he saw this situation, he stood up and shook his head, grabbed the radio and coldly ordered the fleet: "This is a great opportunity to annihilate the Japanese fleet, destroy them!" ”

The original six-on-four of the Liujing Ship was not an opponent, and the current four-on-four charge is not an opponent.

The only thing that could threaten the battleship was to fire torpedoes, so they all had to rush to within a kilometer distance and launch torpedoes.

However, the battleships of the Huaxia Army would not easily give the Liujing ship a success, and while carrying out accurate bombardment with fierce artillery fire, they avoided it with a speed advantage of 17 knots and maintained a certain artillery range.

The frantic charge of the four Liujing ships lasted only ten minutes, and all of them were hit and exploded, and the closest to the Chang'an was the Hashidate, which was also 1,300 meters away. Seeing that the ship had exploded and caught fire several times, the captain of the ship, regardless of the distance of 1,300 meters, ordered to immediately fire a torpedo at the Chang'an.

Even if you launch a torpedo at a distance of 300 meters, you may not be able to hit a battleship that is faster than you, let alone launch a torpedo from 1,300 meters away!

The result of firing a torpedo was cupped. The two torpedoes swept by at a distance of two hundred meters in front of the Chang'an, and had no effect at all.

Hidaka Zhuangzhi ordered to continue the charge against the dense artillery net of the Chang'an, while reloading the torpedo.

However, at a distance of a thousand meters, the Chang'an's two 305-mm shells were like divine help. At the same time, it hit the bow of the Hashidate, blowing it open a large hole of nearly twenty meters.

Thousands of tons of seawater rushed in, and the stern of the Hashidate immediately cocked, and in two or three minutes, it quickly sank to the bottom of the sea at an angle of nearly 90 degrees.

The rest of the Ishigaki, Oshino, and Izu charges were also unable to pose any threat to the battleships of the Huaxia Army.

Ironically, the Oshino, after firing the bow torpedo, did not have time to reload the torpedo, immediately turned the bow around and attempted to bombard the battleship Brooklyn with the stern torpedo and 320 mm main guns.

The battleship USS Brooklyn was captured by the Mi Army. With a speed of 19 knots and 8 210 mm guns, how could the 16.5 knots Oshino be wild in front of him?

By the time the Oshino turned around, the Brooklyn's guns of all calibers had already fired two salvos, and forty or fifty large and small shells hit the Oshino, one of which happened to hit the torpedo tube in the stern of the Oshino, detonating the torpedo in it.

The violent explosion lifted the Oshino first into the bow, then the bow sank, then the stern cocked, and finally the Oshino sank to the bottom of the sea in a strange state of overturning and capsizing.

The sinking of the Ishigaki and Izu is even less significant. It's plain, and it sank to the bottom of the sea without any surprise, not at all like the death of bushido that is often said by the Japanese ** people!

After annihilating the Liujing ship, which had the largest tonnage in the Wa Kingdom, Zheng Dingbang finally had time to look at the rest of the battlefield.

"Five Fires" Geng Huoyan rode on the cruiser Qilei. Commanding the destroyer fleet, he launched a quick hedge with the 24 Japanese torpedo boats.

However, the 23 torpedo boats of the Japanese state were all commanded by some young lieutenant-level commanders, and their minds were simpler than those treacherous old Japanese soldiers, and when they arrived on the battlefield, they thought about how to destroy the enemy, and did not think about anything else.

As a result, the battle between the two sides resembled the hedging of ancient cavalry units in the steppe.

The tonnage of destroyers of the Huaxia Army was generally more than three times that of the torpedo boats of the Japanese state. The caliber of the artillery is 100 mm, which is larger than the 47 mm fast gun of the Japanese torpedo boats, and the speed is as fast as 25 knots, far exceeding the speed of about 20 knots of the Japanese torpedo boat fleet.

With such a huge advantage, in the first round of hedging, the Huaxia Army destroys the fleet and sweeps away 7 torpedo boats in one go, while the Huaxia Army has no losses.

In the second round, the Japanese torpedo boats were still so frantic that they were again destroyed by 9 torpedoes, leaving only 7 torpedoes.

At this time, those crazy young officers of the Wa Kingdom realized that the human body of any bushido was just a pile of foam garbage in front of the powerful steel.

As a result, the remaining 7 Japanese torpedo boats scattered in a hurry.

"Chase, no matter how far you reach the ends of the earth, you will completely annihilate these Japanese torpedo boats!"

Geng Huoyan designated 7 destroyers to pursue the Japanese torpedo boats, and then led the other 11 destroyers to hurriedly join the encirclement of the other Japanese cruisers.

But at this time, joining the war group, in fact, there is not much to do, because at this time, it has become more wolves and less meat, and it will take several warships to besiege a Japanese warship.

However, the destroyer fleet received an unexpected good thing, Zheng Dingbang requested: immediately go to help besiege the Yoshino, the fastest of the Japanese army!

At this time, after the 1st Guerrilla Force of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Army sank the Naniwa, the Yoshino led the faster Takachiho, Akitsuzu, Chiyoda, and Yaeyama to rush out of the sea in an attempt to escape back to the Wakoku.

However, the airships of the Huaxia Army, which were watching the battle from the air, stared at this fast-moving Japanese warship and informed the Huaxia Army warships to pursue it, and where could the First Guerrilla Force still have a trace of life.

In the process of escaping, the unprotected cruiser Yaeyama, with a displacement of 1584 tons, was subjected to continuous bombardment by 155-mm guns and could not support it and sank to the bottom of the sea. (To be continued.) )