"Hmph, firing at such a close distance is at least more than 50 percent farther than the effective range, it seems that these yellow-skinned monkeys really don't know how to play the navy!" The Hubei officers and men of the Pacific Fleet were very contemptuous of the Huaxia Army's artillery bombardment at a distance of 7,500 meters. ⊙，

However, in just a dozen seconds, the officers and men of Hubei found that they were all wrong, and they were fatally wrong.

The four battleships of the Huaxia Army fired 16 305 mm main guns at the same time, aiming at the battleship Shuguang, the temporary flagship of the Hubei Army.

Sixteen 305-mm shells flew over and enveloped the Dawn in it. In an instant, sixteen cannonballs formed a large forest of sea columns around the Aurora.

But the Aurora was lucky, except for two shells that fell into the sea 30 meters next to the hull and exploded to form a near miss, the rest of the shells fell into the sea within a range of 100 to 400 meters.

However, this has already scared the Hubei army enough, and the first round of artillery bombardment can form a near-miss, which is already very amazing in a naval battle!

Wittheft was so frightened that his eyes almost fell out.

In a panic, he made an almost meaningless decision: "Shell, immediately fire on the battleship of the yellow-skinned monkey!" ”

However, in contrast, the four warships of the Huaxia Army were shelled with accurate salvos under the command of Hu Zhen, while the artillery bombardment of the Hubei Army was panicked and disorderly, and the effects of the artillery bombardment on both sides were very different.

The first round of shelling was ineffective, and Hu Zhen quickly made corrections based on the data link provided by the nuclear submarine, and used the audio radio station to order the ships to carry out the second round of shelling.

The second round of shelling paid off.

Of the sixteen shells, two hit the Aurora, one of which smashed into the turret of one of the 152 mm secondary guns in the bow, which was about to overturn the turret and the crew into the sea, and the other hit the Aurora's superstructure, breaking a mast with an explosion and igniting a raging fire in the superstructure.

It was only at this time that the officers and men of the Pacific Fleet finally realized that the Chinese warship that swept through the fleets of the Netherlands, Spain, the United States, and the Japanese was by no means lucky, but had real ability.

Thinking that the enemy in front of him has such terrifying combat effectiveness, not the yellow-skinned monkey that the senior officials of the Hubei army say in their usual propaganda can't help but fight at all, but what I see now is that the Hubei army itself can't help fighting, many people are so frightened that their whole bodies tremble, and some people even pee their pants directly.

Hu Zhen didn't know what the officers and soldiers of Hubei were thinking at this time, so he seized the time to command the third round of salvo.

In this salvo, three more shells hit the hull of the Dawn.

Amid the earth-shattering explosions on the battleship, the fire was already approaching the command tower, and Witherft's brain was stunned for more than a minute before he finally came to his senses, and he ordered it to be sent out with a flag: "The fleet is approaching the enemy ships at full speed and then shelling!" ”

His decision was undoubtedly correct, as long as he got closer, relying on the absolute superiority of the Pacific Fleet in terms of the number of more than 70,000 tons of warships, it was not yet known who would die in the close shelling of each other.

But Hu Zhen would never allow him to do so.

Just forty-five seconds later, a fourth salvo followed, and this time, at a distance of seven thousand meters, sixteen shells hit an astonishing 25 percent, and four shells hit the Aurora.

No battleship could withstand the bombardment of nine 305 mm caliber shells, not to mention the Huaxia Army's "Poshen III" cap-piercing shells that could cut through solid armor with metal jets.

In another time and space, this technology was originally to appear after forty years, but now it was taken by Hu Zhen and directly used in large-caliber naval guns, showing its great power in this naval battle.

In the explosion of the 305-mm shells, the Aurora was pierced through two large holes from the deck to the bilge, and hundreds of tons of seawater poured in and penetrated the deck.

From the outside, a fountain-like jet of water emerges from the deck of the Aurora.

Anyone with a certain amount of common sense knows that the Dawn is finished, and it will disappear from the sea in an hour at most.

The Dawn entered two or three thousand tons of water, began to tilt to the port side, and could sink at any time, the main guns were no longer able to fire, and even worse, the fire surrounded the command tower, and Withoff specifically said that he had escaped, that is, he could not even give orders, so he could only wait for the fire to eat away at the command tower little by little.

Seeing the tragic situation of the flagship Dawn, all the Hubei warships finally woke up to the fact that the enemy in front of them was very dangerous, and the Pacific Fleet was in danger of being annihilated.

Although the accuracy of the Hubei army's shelling was very poor, the bombardment of dozens of large-caliber heavy guns formed a forest of water columns near the Chang'an, and even a few near-missed bullets exploded on the sea surface at a distance of several tens of meters, bringing great shock to the hull of the Chang'an.

The officers and soldiers of China near and far all worried about it, it was the ship of the emperor of the Chinese Empire, His Majesty the emperor was related to the safety of hundreds of millions of people in the empire, if there was any mistake, it would be an irreparable loss no matter how many enemies were annihilated.

"It's better to cut off one of the enemy's ten fingers than to hurt them!"

Despite the danger of being hit by artillery, Hu Zhen still refused to let go of the dying and struggling Dawn easily, and ordered not to care about the crazy shelling of other Hubei warships, but to carry out a new round of shelling of the Dawn according to the data he provided, and to sink the Dawn as soon as possible, so as to have an immediate deterrent effect, completely deter other Hubei warships, and create an opportunity for the annihilation of the Pacific Fleet.

According to the accurate data provided by the nuclear submarine, the hit rate of this round of shelling reached more than 30%, and five 305-mm shells hit the Aurora more than 6,000 meters away.

This time, the Aurora could no longer hold on, and there was a violent explosion of ammunition, and in the huge orange flames, it broke into countless fragments and sank to the bottom of the sea, and the chief of staff of the Pacific Fleet, the temporary flagship commander Witheft, also sank to the bottom of the sea.

The E-troops on the battlefield watched the Dawn being sunk in less than thirty minutes after the cannon was fired, and their own missiles did not hit the enemy ship, what kind of powerful enemy is this?

All the E-troops were stunned, and Stark on the flagship Retvitzan, who was heading towards the battlefield, was stunned to see this from a distance.

There was jubilation on the side of the Huaxia Army fleet.

Hu Zhen did not jump and cheer with the officers and soldiers, but calmly issued an order to all the officers and soldiers: "All four Changzi ships turn left fifteen compass points, keep a distance of more than 7,000 meters from the enemy battleship, and continue to shell!" ”

After the Dawn was sunk, Hu Zhen commanded the sixteen main guns on the four battleships to aim at the Shengli, which was the first in the queue of the Hubei fleet.

The first salvo of shells whizzed past, and one of the shells hit the mast of the Victory.

In fact, the luck of this Victory is already many times better than that of the Dawn, and the first round of artillery bombardment commanded by Hu Zhen only broke one of its masts, and did not cause too much harm, but it was enough to scare the officers and soldiers on the Victory.

"Get out of this damn battlefield, get out of here!" An officer could not stand the pressure of death, so he snatched the steering wheel of the battleship with all his might, turned it violently, and turned the bow of the ship sixty degrees to the right in an attempt to flee the battlefield. (To be continued.) )u