Chapter 396: The Battle of Tsushima of the Huaxia Army VIII
Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were originally two twin four 3O5 mm caliber 25 times diameter body barrel main guns, and after transformation, the current main guns are three five 21o mm main guns. ≯
This is a peculiar number of main gun structures, which is the best solution to transform the original hull structure, the original two main gun mounts have been replaced with 21o mm caliber 42 times diameter barrel cannons, in the stern because of the original structure, only one single 21o gun can be installed, so there are three five main guns.
The main guns of the two ships in Dingzhen seem to have become smaller, but due to the increase in firing and the length of the barrel, the firepower and range of the throwing output have not decreased, but have increased greatly, and they do not appear to be soft at all in the face of the enemy's warships.
In a head-on collision with the Parada and Diana, it stands to reason that the artillery bombardment of the two sides should be evenly matched, but the two ships in Dingzhen were equipped with gunsight rangefinders commonly installed on the warships of the Chinese army, and after several months of frantic training, the officers and men on the ships were already able to skillfully use them, and they bombarded them with accurate artillery fire as soon as they came up.
When the Hubei troops on the Parada and Diana first saw that this was an old warship of the Beiyang Fleet and a defeated general of the Japanese Combined Fleet, they were very contemptuous at first, and they all thought that they might be able to take advantage of a little bit before leaving, but who knows, the shelling of the two ships in Dingzhen is very accurate at a distance of about six or seven thousand meters.
In the cold, the two Hubei warships were hit by several 21o mm shells, and they had to plan to escape by relying on Gao Hang.
Compared with the era of the Beiyang Fleet, this precise artillery bombardment was very different, and the confidence of the personnel of the former Beiyang Naval Division was greatly increased, and their morale was quickly raised.
Yang Yonglin seized the fleeting fighter plane and ordered: "Concentrate artillery fire and destroy the Parada first!" ”
Since the start of the war, the Parada has been hit by more than a dozen bullets, the voyage has dropped from 2o knots to 17.5 knots, and there are still flames dragging on the hull, and the damage management team is desperately fighting it.
With Yang Yonglin's order, the 1o main guns on the second ship of Dingzhen were all pointed at the butt of the Parada that was about to escape and bombarded, hitting its hull continuously, almost destroying its superstructure.
In the dense artillery fire, the Parada was frequently shot, wounded in many places, and the voyage dropped from 17.5 knots to 12 knots, and it was about to sink.
"Torpedo!" Yang Yonglin suddenly remembered that in order to save space and displacement on the ship, the torpedo tubes on the two ships in Dingzhen had been completely removed, and he felt a little inconvenient, but quickly made a new decision: "Rush up, fire the big and small cannons together, and extinguish it!" ”
After the transformation, the Dingzhen No. 2 ship at this time was equipped with 12 12o mm secondary guns and 18 75mm secondary guns, firing an astonishing 5-7 shells per minute.
This completely improved the shortcomings of the warships of the former Beiyang Fleet for the lack of small-caliber guns, and the two ships had a total of 7o large and small guns, which is a staggering number.
The two ships approached a distance of about 3,000 meters, and at the same time poured dense fire on the Parada, firing thousands of shells in just three minutes.
Amid the roar of large and small artillery, the Parada was smashed into a large fire, crackling explosions and scorching flames covering the entire ship.
"It's fun!" Many personnel of the former Beiyang Naval Division were shouting while frantically loading ammunition and firing shells.
The Parada originally had 8 152mm main guns and 32 secondary guns, but most of them had been damaged in the battle with other warships of the Huaxia Army.
When the two ships approached, the Parada still had the strength to fight back, but the thick armor of the two ships in Dingzhen could resist the bombardment of large-caliber heavy artillery, and the artillery bombardment below 152 mm was like tickling for it.
But after only a minute, the Parada had no more strength to fight back, but I don't know what happened, no one hoisted the white flag and surrendered.
At a distance of 2,500 meters, Yang Yonglin, who was watching the Diana moving away, got impatient and ordered the main gun to use the Broken God No. 3 armor-piercing projectile to fire a salvo at the Parada.
At this distance, the ten main guns of the Dingzhen 2nd ship hit an astonishing 6o%, and the six shells penetrated the interior of the Parada and exploded violently, detonating the internal ammunition depot.
The Parada sank to the bottom of the ocean in an earth-shattering explosion.
The officers and men on the Diana were terrified, but at this time there was a serious mechanical failure, and it had been seriously lost, and the voyage was only 6o% of the original 16 knots.
This is a voyage that can be reached by the two ships of Dingzhen, which almost does not need Yang Yonglin's order, and the second ship of Dingzhen swooped up and launched a blow on the Diana.
When the Dingzhen No. 2 ship beat the water dogs, the four Changzi battleships commanded by Hu Zhen and Zheng Dingbang's New York and Brooklyn joined forces and fought a column battle with the main battleships of the Pacific Fleet, and also won a decisive victory:
The battleships Petropavlovsk and Poltava were sunk by overwhelming artillery fire, and then twelve 3o5 mm shells in a row hit the hull of the flagship of the Hubei army, the Retvizhan, and there were at least hundreds of small-caliber shells, and the flames of the explosion swept across the entire superstructure of the ship, and two-thirds of the guns were destroyed and smashed, and began to sink in the butt, and the bow of the ship was cocked, and it was completely out of degree.
At this time, the remnants of the battleship Sevastopol and the cruiser Rulik of the Hubei army, under the precise attack of the Chinese warships, were already covered with mountains and flames, and they would sink at any time, but they still rushed up desperately and protected the flagship Retvizhan in the middle.
"Give Stark one last chance and make them surrender!" Hu Zhen felt that the more captives of Oros the better, so that he could have more bargaining chips when negotiating in the future.
However, after the flag of the Chinese army ordering the Retvizhan to surrender immediately, it was the answer of the Retvijan, although Stark was very mediocre in military command, but as a close friend of the Tsar's uncle Alekseev, he finally showed his stubborn style at this time.
In front of the commander-in-chief of the fleet, no one on the other two Hubei warships dared to hoist the white flag and surrender without authorization.
The performance of Stark and the Hubei warship made Hu Zhen shake his head and said, "Since this is the case, then fulfill him!" Let's not have any mercy! ”
The Chinese army's large and small naval guns surrounded by more than 600 warships of the Hubei army, which had already been loaded with ammunition and were just waiting for orders. With Hu Zhen's command on the radio, he immediately sprayed earth-shattering artillery fire at the remnants of the Hubei army.
In the midst of this earth-shattering explosion, it seemed that the entire Tsushima Strait trembled, and the surrounding Wa Kingdom and Goryeo Islands, which were dozens or hundreds of kilometers away, felt this powerful power.
In the Battle of Tsushima, the Tsar Oros Pacific Fleet was wiped out, completely changing the power structure of the entire East Asian Pacific, and from then on the sea here belonged to the Chinese Empire! (To be continued.) )8