The battleship Maine withstood the intensive bombardment of more than twenty 155 mm caliber shells, two 152 mm and three 75 mm secondary guns were overturned, several shells of 152 mm secondary guns were hit and detonated, and a large fire broke out on the deck, but because of the strong armor of its various lethal parts, it did not suffer any damage and was still able to continue the battle. WANT TO READ THE BOOK W?W?W?・1?K?

The Maine was bombarded with such precision, and in the midst of the chaos, it also hurriedly used 254 mm main guns and 152 mm secondary guns to desperately counterattack, but it was violently bombarded by the 155 mm main guns of the Huaxia Army, and the sea around the battleship set off a column of rushing water, and the explosion and fire on the deck caused poor sight, and the effect of the Maine counterattack without measuring tools was greatly reduced, and a group of shells were fired at the Huaxia battleship, but the nearest close miss was also 300 meters away.

In just five minutes, the four cruisers of the Huaxia Army had already swept over a distance of more than 3,000 meters with a maximum battle of 21.5 knots, and were 6,000 meters away in the northerly direction of the Chinese Army.

"Turn on the right side, and the whole cruiser will concentrate their artillery on the USS Pittsburgh!" Hu Zhen ordered to adjust the course and the direction of the shelling.

Hu Zhen's strategy was to take advantage of the Maine's interference with the fire on the deck, first cut off the Maine's cruiser wing, the Pittsburgh, and then concentrate on dealing with the Maine.

Seeing the course of the four cruisers of the Huaxia Army, Plande immediately understood the other party's intentions, and ordered: "Immediately notify the Dolphin communication ship to leave the battlefield quickly!" ”

With only four 75mm self-defense guns on board the Dolphin and almost zero armor protection, staying on the battlefield could only be a tragedy and would not play a role at all, so Plande ordered it to leave the battlefield using the 23-knot high flight advantage. ????? One? Read the book W?W?

Plande thought that the Dolphin was far from the ships of the Huaxia Army, but the maximum speed of the three destroyers of the Huaxia Army was 24 knots, which had the advantage of crushing.

Hu Zhen saw the movements of the Mi army and understood that it was difficult for the small destroyer at this time to brave the enemy's fierce artillery fire and rush into a distance of a thousand meters to attack the battleship with torpedoes, and its role on the battlefield was not great, so he simply ordered: "The destroyer also leaves the battlefield and rushes forward." Don't let the enemy's Dolphin communication ship run away! ”

The three destroyers immediately broke away from the column with maximum combat and rushed to the Dolphin, where they began shelling with 12 75-mm guns at a distance of three thousand meters, all the way to a distance of one thousand meters.

In the face of superior artillery fire. The Dolphin was beaten to pieces, and three of the four guns were overturned.

In the end, under the cover of Fengyan and Fengfeng, the Fenghuo rushed to a distance of 400 meters, using two torpedoes on the foredeck to fire at the same time.

The Dolphin tried desperately to dodge, but couldn't escape. A torpedo hit the stern of the ship, lost power instantly, the tail was flooded, the bow was raised high, and disappeared into the sea half an hour later???. One Reading Book W?W?W?・1?K?

The Dolphin was relatively lucky, because it sank into the water for a long time, and the officers and men on board still had enough time to escape, 287 officers and men, of which 61 were killed and 226 escaped. Captured by the Huaxia Army.

The Maine and Pittsburgh were too busy to take care of themselves, and there was no time to care about the life and death of the Dolphin.

After turning, the four cruisers of the Huaxia Army aimed all their guns at the Pittsburgh behind the Maine.

Using the accurate data measured by Hu Zhen's nuclear submarine, Hu Zhen carried out an artillery bombardment and indiscriminate bombardment of the Pittsburgh more than 5,500 meters away.

In less than 10 minutes, more than 300 shells from the Huaxia warships rained down on the USS Pittsburgh and the surrounding sea.

The Pittsburgh seemed to have had good luck, and after being shot for more than 20 years, it ignited a raging fire, and apart from the difficulty of shelling the Chinese warships, it did not cause a strong explosion of ammunition and no damage to key parts.

"Turn the rudder right. Turn due north! Seeing that the dense and accurate shells of the Chinese army could not help his side, Plande ordered to turn to the north, trying to seize the favorable conditions of the sun behind him and shell the Chinese army.

Plande didn't know. Hu Zhen used the accurate data link of the nuclear submarine, and although the dazzling sunlight affected the gunner's line of sight, although it had a certain impact on the shelling, it was far from being fatal.

"We also turned the rudder to the right, at least to maintain a distance of more than 5,500 meters from the Mi Army, and bit the Pittsburgh to the death. Beat it up! Hu Zhen decided that no matter how the Mi army moved, he still insisted on cutting off the wings of the Maine first.

When the Huaxia Army turned, it was also the time when the Maine and Pittsburgh were turning, and both sides almost turned clockwise around the same axis.

When the Mi army turned, it was difficult to carry out effective artillery bombardment, but when the Huaxia army turned, the accuracy of the artillery bombardment was not affected too much.

Several rounds of bullets poured down on Pittsburgh, and at last a crack was opened in its hard tortoise shell: the Pittsburgh's underwater bilge loosened and broke several openings, and the sea water rushed into the deck.

The damage management team of the Pittsburgh rushed out to make repairs and closed several water lockdowns, but six or seven hundred tons of seawater had poured into the bilge, and the voyage of the Pittsburgh was greatly affected, and it quickly fell from 17.5 knots to only 11 knots following the Maine, which could no longer keep up with the pace of the Maine.

At this time, after annihilating the Dolphin, the three destroyers of the Huaxia Army rushed back to the main battlefield, and saw that the Pittsburgh was less than 12 knots sailing, and the distance between it and the Maine had been opened up nearly 4,000 meters.

In charge of commanding the destroyer fleet was Geng Huoyan, the "Five Fires", who had received rigorous training since the Battle of Batavia, and finally became a qualified torpedo captain, and was promoted to commander of the destroyer fleet by Hu Zhen, who seized the opportunity to command three destroyers to charge the Pittsburgh.

However, the luck of the Pittsburgh is really not covered.

As the six torpedo lines approached, the Pittsburgh desperately turned the bow of the ship in the direction of the torpedo rush to dodge, and the waves splashed and swung the torpedo away.

The three destroyers fired the first salvo of six torpedoes at about a kilometer, but all of them were avoided by the slow-moving Pittsburgh.

"Nima's, this guy's luck is really good!"

Seeing that the Pittsburgh was under siege, the Maine hurriedly transferred its guns to support, but the heavy artillery fire of the four cruisers of the Huaxia Army made it difficult for it to see the firing line, and the shooting effect was extremely poor.

In the face of this small setback, Geng Huoyan, the "five fires," would definitely not give in, and he understood that it was difficult to rush into the range of the torpedo, and it was difficult to have such an opportunity, so he decisively ordered: "It's too late to reload the ship's torpedo tubes, just turn in front of the ship Pittsburgh and use the stern to fire torpedoes!" ”

Braving the remnants of the Pittsburgh and the support of the Maine, the three destroyers rushed to a distance of 600 meters in front of the Pittsburgh, turned quickly, and fired three torpedoes.

The three torpedoes formed three rapidly spreading waterlines in the sea, and rushed towards the Pittsburgh. (To be continued.) )