These high-explosive bombs are filled with strong Shimose gunpowder, which cannot help but have extremely high sensitivity, and with picric acid as the main component, it has a strong corrosive effect on the iron bullet wall. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The genius solution of the Imperial scientists was to apply a layer of paint to the inside of the bomb wall to isolate the chemical reaction between picric acid and the metal warhead.

Now this 1,000-degree high fire, if it flows on these high-explosive bombs, it will easily melt the paint inside.

Then there is a chemical reaction between picric acid and ferrous metal bullet wall, and then there is a catastrophe!

"Throw these shells into the sea, throw everything into the sea!"

Yokoo Michiyu roared loudly: "Immediately, immediately! ”

In the midst of the raging fire, the surrounding Japanese soldiers all rushed over with a heroic face, endured the smoke and high temperature and the licking of the flames, picked up the hot shells, and roared loudly after being scalded, and threw these high-explosive shells, which had become extremely unstable, into the sea.

"Baga, there's another one; Shentou picked him up and threw him into the sea! ”

Yokoo Michiyu saw that there was a 120mm caliber high-explosive bomb lying in the flames in the flames, and angrily ordered the second lieutenant candidate Kami Fuji Masanosuke to solve this terrible big trouble.

The name of the god Fuji Masanosuke looked desperate, such a big flame, if he rushed in, picked up the hot cannonball, and then threw it into the seawater on the side four meters away, he would have to shed a layer of skin if he didn't die.

However, he was named by the captain and had no choice.

"Long live the Emperor!"

Masanosuke Kamito roared and rushed into the flames on the deck, and in an instant, all the clothes on his body were on fire, and the hat on his head was more than a foot high.

"Ahh

Inside the flames, Masanosuke Kamito let out a terrible howl, bent down to pick up the cannonball, turned around and rushed towards the flames.

"Yo Xi! - Huh? ”

The Japanese officers and soldiers who watched the excitement on the side were all overjoyed, and then they changed color to see Masanosuke Kamito stumble over a burning corpse under his feet, holding the bullet and smashing straight into the deck.

"Lie down!"

"Boom!"

Another thunderbolt accompanied by the smoke of the fire blasted Shinto Masanosuke to ashes in an instant, and the scattered shrapnel sliced the two unresponsive Japanese soldiers into pieces.

"W-"

A piece of shrapnel smashed a section of the hydraulic pipe of the 320mm Ghanaian main gun in the stern of Itsukushima, and then broke it into smaller shrapnel, turning the five artillery members next to the Ghanaian main gun into a honeycomb.

Immediately, an even more violent fire broke out on the ship, and thick smoke covered the air.

"Yaga, damn it, damn it!"

Yokoo Daoyu lay on the deck, angry and wanted to vomit blood, but the ferocious fire had already rushed to the middle of the warship, and the stern of the ship was burned and blown up.

Yokoo Daoyu hurriedly got up, and hurriedly ordered with a distorted face: "The warship immediately turns, retreats out of the range of the Qing army, and the rest of the soldiers do their best to put out the fire!" ”

Then, while signaling the flagship to 'temporarily withdraw from the battle', Itsukushima quickly circled a large arc of 180 degrees and headed for the mouth of Dalian Bay.

This cannon of the Huangshan Fort immediately shocked all the soldiers on the five forts.

Seeing a raging fire on the deck of the Japanese warship, and then a huge fire, soon half of the warship was burning, and the billowing smoke almost completely obscured the warship.

Then the battleship turned a large bay eight thousand meters ahead, and fled to the open sea with billowing flames and smoke.

"The Japanese ship fled, the Japanese ship fled!"

Suddenly, all the batteries of the Qing army were jubilant, and even Jiang Muchen and Pan Jinshan, who had been frowning sadly, were also excited.

In any case, if there is one less warship, the average number of shells that fall on each person's head will be a few less.

"Baga, these clear pigs!"

Seeing that the Itsukushima was crippled before the battle began, and fled in the wilderness, Ito scolded angrily.

There is no doubt that without Itsukushima, with only 9 guns on the Yaeyama ship, it is obvious that there is no advantage in firing at the west battery of Monk Island.

The Shark Island officer next to him suggested: "Commander, do you want the 'Amagi' ship and the 'Pancheng' to participate in the attack on the West Island?" ”

The Amagi is a miniature cruiser with a capacity of only 926 tons and a maximum horsepower of only 720 horsepower.

Compared to Yaeyama, which has a displacement of only 1,690 tons and a terrifying horsepower of 5,400 horses, it is a world of contrast.

And the gunboat 'Pancheng', the tonnage and power are not worth mentioning.

At this time, these two ships belonging to the attached ship group of the team were also working as minesweepers.

"To get the best shooting results, these two ships have to go deep into the minefield, and they are completely going to die;"

Ito Yuhiro directly rejected Sameshima's proposal and re-ordered: "Order Chiyoda to turn around and attack the West Fort with Yaeyama." ”

"Ready—"

"Put!"

At the same time, seeing the good results achieved by the Huangshan Fort, the other four forts began to bombard.

"Boom!"

A cannonball smashed into the sea against the port side of the Naniwa, splashing a column of water more than ten meters high, shaking the battleship violently from side to side.

The splash of water even rushed into the bridge and drenched the captain of the ship, Heihachiro Togo.

Togo Heihachiro's dark, thin and angular face did not show a trace of strange expression, and he ordered the deputy captain Ishii Ibitaro Shaozo beside him: "The ship sails to the edge of the minefield within 7 kilometers, and the starboard side faces the Huangshan Battery; Carry out the elliptical repeated rounding, keep driving at a low speed, and when facing the Huangshan Fort on the port side, the effective distance must be controlled within 7 kilometers. ”

Then, Heihachiro Togo gave an order to Captain Katsuhiko Hirose, the gunner's chief gunner, who was waiting to be ordered: "The starboard gun is loaded with high-explosive shells, and the port gun is loaded with solid armor-piercing shells, and the attacks are alternated. ”

“？”

Katsubiko Hirose didn't understand why he wanted to load solid armor-piercing shells, and in his opinion, for the single-layer structure of the Qing army's artillery platform, using violent high-explosive shells to 'wash the floor' was the best choice.

"It is enough to have eight guns on Gao Chiho to 'wash the ground'; if you want to completely defeat this battery, it is basically impossible to completely destroy this fort by relying only on 'washing the ground' without using armor-piercing shells to completely destroy the concrete ground structure of this fort."

Heihachiro Togo said in a deep voice: "Even if the Imperial Navy blows up all the heavy artillery of the Qing Army's batteries, no one dares to guarantee whether they still have sealed artillery in the arsenal, and even they can pull over the land artillery to resist; In that case, then destroy their gun-based platforms. ”

At 8:03, the Hashidate entered a range of 7 kilometers, and then the bow of the ship turned 90 degrees, and the port side faced the middle battery of Monk Island.

"Gun Position 1 is ready."

"Gun Position 2 is ready."

"Gun Position 3 is ready."

——

"Ready-to-go!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

——

The cannon on the Hashidate roared loudly, and the cannon spat out a long flame and fired the projectile at the Monk's Island Battery.

"Boom-"

Two of the 7 projectiles of the 320mm Ghanaian main gun and the six 120mm Armstrong rapid-fire guns smashed into the sea and burst into flames, one smashed on the slope below the middle battery, and four smashed into the jungle behind, raising five blazing fireballs.

"I'm obedient, it's fortunate that it's snowing heavily, otherwise we monk islands would have let them burn it out; This cannonball is so evil that it can burn in water! ”

Yin Desheng, the deputy commander of the coalition forces, looked at the flames burning on the sea in front of the fort and stammered.