From the perspective of the Mi army, it seemed to explode on the side of the Qilong, which caused the Mi army, who was pressed by the Qilong and demoralized, to cheer. °C Eight '°C Eight ' °C Read ' °C Book, .■.o↑

At this time, Hu Zhen was already full of confidence in defeating the Mi fleet, and he calmly signaled Luo Dawei, the captain of the Qilong, to order: "Turn the rudder to the right three compass points, increase the maximum combat speed, pull the distance from the Mi warship to more than 4,500 meters, and shell the Charleston with the main gun!" ”

After the Baltimore lost its combat effectiveness, the Charleston became the lead ship of the Mi Army's cruiser column and the primary target of the Qilong's main guns.

After receiving the accurate data of the nuclear submarine, Hu Zhen categorically ordered: "Distance xxxx, height xxxx, angle xxxx, all the main guns are loaded with a salvo of the Charleston!" ”

Less than fifteen minutes after the battle began, the Qilong began the first salvo against the Charleston after crippling the Baltimore.

The entire precise data link system of the nuclear submarine was put into practice, and in the first salvo of the Charleston, a shell hit the mast of the Charleston, blowing up the mast, and the two Mi military observation posts on the mast were immediately lifted into the sea.

Faced with an opponent whose shelling distance was farther and faster than his own, and paralyzed one of his capital ships in just a few minutes after the start of the battle, Vitesse felt deeply helpless and frightened, and he could only order: "Speed up and catch up, continue the shelling!" ”

But the gap in mechanical performance between the two sides is there, no matter how crazy the manpower is, it is no longer useless, the so-called man will win the day, at this time, it is just a.

Hu Zhen didn't care about these at this time, he seized the opportunity and ordered the main gun of the Qilong to fire ten consecutive rounds of salvos at the Charleston, and used the flowering howitzer to beat the superstructure of the Charleston into flowers on all sides, igniting a raging fire, turning it into a brilliant torch on the sea.

The captain, first mate, second officer, helmsman, and artillery commander of the cruiser Charleston were all killed and wounded by the precise artillery fire of the Qilong, and there was no officer above deck who could command, and the remnants of the officers and men scurried around like headless flies in order to avoid the fire.

A cannonball fell into the steam engine room of the Charleston and exploded, cutting off several pipes that carried steam power, and suddenly the steam overflowed, and a large amount of steam overflowed through the tunnel in the cabin, scalding to death and wounding dozens of soldiers of the Mi Army.

The steam came out and mingled with the fireworks on the deck, and from the outside, the entire Charleston was white.

Due to the failure of the steam engine, the Charleston lost power, lost its inertia, and floated on the surface of the sea like a dead fish.

After being paralyzed by the two Mi cruisers of the USS Baltimore and the USS Charleston, the remaining three Mi cruisers finally collided with a **** transport again, and a 203 mm caliber shell hit the second turret on the foredeck of the Qilong.

The Qilong of the Huaxia Army is designed with a knapsack turret, and the second turret on the foredeck is protected by a fully enclosed steel armored fort of 210 mm, and the gunners operate in the armored fort, and the safety is guaranteed.

Although the turret was not blown up, the gunners' bodies could not withstand the violent shock of the explosion of the 203-mm heavy shell through the steel shell, and three of the eleven gunners in the turret were killed on the spot, and the remaining eight gunners were stunned.

Thanks to the excellent turret armor protection, the main equipment in the turret was not damaged, and the shells in the stacked turret did not explode.

Encouraged by the cannon that hit the Qilong, the low morale of the Mi army rose again.

Stimulated by this artillery, Hu Zhen was furious and ordered: "Expand the distance to five thousand meters, use armor-piercing shells, and shoot these Mi ships into the water!" ”

It turned out that Hu Zhen, the head of the Huaxia Army, in order to capture a few more warships, only used explosive bombs to bombard the two new cruisers Baltimore and Charleston, but he was not so interested in the Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta with a speed of only 16.3 knots, and was determined to use the killer weapon to sink them and send them to the bottom of the sea.

While Hu Zhen was commanding the Qilong and the five cruisers of the Mi Army, Zheng Dingbang was also commanding the Qiming, Qixing, and Qiqi to engage in fierce artillery battles with the Mi Army Enterprise, Dahlgren, Cushing, Seattle, Manassas, and Arkansas.

The Enterprise, the Dahlgren, the Cushing, and the Seattle are old guys who were launched fourteen years ago, and they are mosquito ships that were popular for a while in this era, with a speed of 16 knots, a small tonnage, very thin armor, and a displacement of only 1397 tons, but the caliber of the guns is very large, and they are equipped with: 1 280mm, 4 228mm, and 1 134mm cannon.

The Manassas and Arkansas, with a displacement of 3,700 tons, were very thick in armor, but they were all iron armor cast in 1864, and their protection was far inferior to the steel armor of the same thickness that was newly launched twenty years later, 2 280mm, 3 155mm, and 134mm guns, and the speed was only a sad 12 knots.

The caliber of the guns of the six Mi cruisers is large enough, but these products of the Mi Civil War era have a serious shortcoming, that is, the rate of fire is extremely slow, the rate of fire of the 280 mm main gun takes almost three minutes to shoot, and if the gunners are flustered in wartime, it even takes five minutes to shoot a shot. And the effective firing range of these old fellow cruisers in naval battles is only about 2,500 meters.

In addition to the advantage of 21.5 knots, the Qiming, Qixing, and Qiqi have four 155-mm main guns with a rate of fire of more than five rounds per minute, which has a crushing advantage over the six cruisers of the Mi Army.

As soon as the battle began, the Qiming, Qixing, and Qiqi quickly seized the T-shaped head with a speed advantage of more than five knots higher than the Mi warship, and bombarded the enterprise with 12 main guns at a distance of 3,500 meters.

Zheng Dingbang did not have the pity of Hu Zhen, and planned to capture one or two warships, and at the beginning he ordered to use the armor-piercing bullets made by Hu Zhen in the 3D printing system of the nuclear submarine to slam the Mi warships.

In just three salvos, four 155-millimeter shells hit the Enterprise, causing a violent explosion that blew the Enterprise, which had only been fired once from the main gun, into five sections, and in less than a minute, the Enterprise disappeared from sight.

After sinking the Enterprise, the Qiming, Qixing, and Enlightenment went around the flank and rear of the Mi Army column, grabbed the T-shaped head from behind the butt of the Mi Army column, and concentrated fire to bombard the Arkansas.

The Arkansas had a little better luck than the Enterprise, and its main guns were able to strike indiscriminately in the direction of the Huaxia cruiser three times before being hit by the heavy fire of the Huaxia Army.

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