"What? Two Nagato-class ships together? ”

Nimitz opened his mouth, then said to his chief of staff, Frederick, "Hell, the Japanese thought of going with us." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Admiral, the one who is following our ass now is ......," Frederick asked, "do you want to release the seaplane?" ”

"No need, turn to 360 degrees and prepare for an artillery battle!" Nimitz seemed to have made up his mind to fight. "The South Dakota will be commissioned in three months, and there will be four South Dakota-class ships in service this year, and at least two Iowa-class ships in service next year...... So we are not afraid of losses, even if it is worth it to exchange 1 North Carolina-class sinking for a heavy blow to the Japanese super battleship. ”

Nimitz's abacus is of course fine, if he is not fine, he is now Colonel Nimitz. Through the naval battles in the European theater and the last "Battle of the Big Island of Hawaii", he already clearly knew the truth that "old ships are useless".

Therefore, the real value of the battleships of the United States in the next 2 years is 2 North Carolina-class, 4 South Dakota-class, 2 and possibly 4 Iowa-class - the construction of the Iowa class has been accelerated due to the different situation, and it is likely that 4 will be commissioned in 1943!

As for the Japanese, according to the current situation, it is one and two 80,000-ton super battleships at most, and it is estimated that they will not be able to save a third 80,000-ton battleship with Japan's national strength. Even if the Japanese devils smashed the pot and sold iron, and desperately built the third and fourth 80,000-ton battleships, they would definitely not be able to enter service soon.

So at the battleship level, in 1942 and 1943, the confrontation between the United States and Japan actually took place between Japan's two 80,000-ton and 10-12 American cutting-edge battleships.

The Japanese side had a qualitative advantage, and before the Montana class was put into service, the United States had no battleship that could compete with Japan's 80,000-ton class. But the United States has a numerical advantage, and even if it plays a 5-to-1 exchange ratio, the United States can afford it.

Of course, there was no Germany in Admiral Nimitz's calculations. He had also recently heard that President Roosevelt was likely to become von Roosevelt. President Luzevelt, so he is also ready to become William in due course. Feng. Admiral Nimitz - that sounds more imposing, and he's a German by himself. His ancestor was Ernst of Germany. Feng. Baron Nimitz, and his parents are both German, with very authentic blood, belonging to the blonde Aryan Superman......

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"Flares!"

Yamamoto was sitting upright in the command tower of the battleship Yamato, thinking with his eyes closed and thinking about how to use the Hawaiian Islands, a key chess piece, to contain as many U.S. Navy capital ships as possible, when someone shouted in his ear.

Yamamoto opened his eyes, and at this time, a staff officer had already opened the curtain on the porthole of the command tower, and outside the porthole it was already as bright as day, and three dazzling and bright clusters of light appeared directly in front of the Yamato.

"The Americans want to go to war?" Yamamoto Fifty-six was stunned, and immediately thought of something, "Let the Emperor Frederick III fire the flares, and let the observation post watch carefully, and really find out the enemy's strength." ”

Emperor Frederick III, which was driving to the left of the Yamato, received the order and immediately fired six flares at the approximate position of the enemy fleet detected by radar.

Yamamoto Fifty-six didn't wait for the cat-eye warrior at the observation post to report, and he raised his binoculars to look over. I saw that under the pale light, two particularly tall watchtowers suddenly appeared.

"Sure enough!" Yamamoto Fifty-six gritted his teeth, "It's two North Carolina-class!" ”

"Commander......" Ugaki was also watching with a telescope, and he was also taken aback by the two North Carolina-class battleships.

"Okay, 2 is 2." Yamamoto put down the binoculars and said nonchalantly, "It's all sunk!" ”

"Hay!"

Seeing that Yamamoto was determined to fight, Ugaki immediately began to give advice, saying, "Commander, in the last engagement with American battleships, the accuracy of the main guns of the Yamato was not satisfactory in long-range shooting. Therefore, the Yamato's sturdy armor should be used, braving enemy fire, to get as close as possible, and then use 9 460mm guns to concentrate on destroying a North Carolina-class battleship. ”

The power of the Yamato's 9 460mm main guns is undoubtedly powerful, but whether in test guns or actual combat, the accuracy of these 9 460mm cannons at long distances is still not ideal - this is actually normal, compared to the 460mm naval gun is also the first time in the world to build, unlike the 406mm first-class naval gun has long been a mature product. The main gun of the 460mm naval gun is definitely inferior to the main gun of the 406mm first class in terms of reliability.

However, this is not a problem for the Yamato, just shorten the distance, and the power of the 460mm caliber main gun is currently unbearable for any battleship in the world.

"Admiral, the Japanese battleship is speeding towards us!"

Inside the command tower of the battleship North Carolina, the atmosphere was tense from the very beginning. Because everyone knew that the Japanese battleships they were fighting had 18-inch (460mm) class guns that could easily penetrate the North Carolina conning tower!

As long as one shot hits the conning tower, everyone will die.

"Turn right 30 degrees. Gun officer, set fire, target Japanese super battleship! Let's calculate the shelling parameters. ”

Without the slightest hesitation, Nimitz immediately gave the order to turn to the starboard side to engage the enemy—since the Japanese were going to take advantage of the heavy armor of the battleship, then let's try the power of the 18 45x-diameter 16-inch (406mm) guns of the two North Carolina-class guns. Although the Japanese battleship was no match for 14-inch (356mm) armor-piercing shells in the last Battle of Oshima, it was now facing 18 16-inch cannons and could not have escaped unscathed.

At 3:10 a.m. on January 3, 1942, just 15 minutes after the battleship Colorado and the Japanese battleships Nagato and Mutsu had entered into a fierce battle, two North Carolina-class battleships fired the first salvo at the Japanese battleship Yamato.

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"Boom! Boom ......"

In the Alenuihaha Strait, the United States and Japan have fired eight volleys each. Among them, the eight 16-inch (406mm) cannons of the Colorado-class battleships were aimed at the Japanese battleship Mutsu, while the Nagato and Mutsu ships were facing the enemy at the bow, so they were also able to fire eight 410mm cannons, and the target was naturally the Colorado-class battleship.

The Japanese Navy's well-trained and cat-eyed skills once again showed their might, and the eighth salvo of Nagato and Mutsu fired a stride around the battleship Colorado. The captain of the Colorado, Colonel Larkin, looked ugly to death. Hitting a straddle shot meant that the hit was not far away, and the charge of the 2 Japanese battleships should be over soon, and then they would turn around and fire intensively with 16 410mm guns......

"Captain, the Japanese ship is turning!"

This was to be expected, and now the distance between the two sides had been shortened to 15,000 meters, which was relatively close in a night battle. At this distance, the Colorado's armor had a hard time withstanding the Nagato-class 410mm armor-piercing shells, and the armor of the Nagato-class battleships was similarly difficult to withstand the Colorado's 16-inch (406mm) cannons......

"Straddle shot!"

Cheers suddenly rang out in the Colorado's command tower, and it turned out that in the 10th round of the salvo, the Colorado also fired a straddle shot. But then the Colorado was shot, a 410mm armor-piercing shell pierced the thin armor of the battleship's bow, and the shell burrowed into the battleship's non-commissioned officer's cabin, sweeping through several compartments before exploding when it almost pierced the bow of the Colorado. Messed up the inside of the battleship's bow and caused a fire.

One minute later, a second 410mm shell hit the lifeboat placed on the deck of the USS Colorado lifeboat, and after breaking several lifeboats stacked on top of each other, the shell exploded between the bridge and the No. 1 chimney. The explosion shook so loudly that everyone in the Colorado Command Tower couldn't stand and fell to the ground. However, the bruised noses and swollen faces of the officers in the command tower were not the biggest harm caused by this shell.

"Captain, steam pipe No. 2 is broken!"

A call from the chief engineer quickly sent Colonel Larkin into despair—he knew he was going to lose the Colorado, and probably his life.

Because the burst of the steam pipe meant a partial loss of power, the Colorado, which was already running very slowly, was now about to turn into a giant turtle floating on the water.

Perhaps knowing that it would be impossible to escape, the battleship Colorado also broke out with the strongest combat effectiveness. Just one minute after the second 410mm shell hit the Colorado, the 16-inch (406mm) armor-piercing shell fired by the Colorado immediately hit the waterline armor of the battleship Mutsu 15,000 meters away, and effortlessly pierced the 305mm-thick main armor belt, and then pierced through the dome armor that protected the vital part of the ship's hull, causing a big explosion outside the No. 2 boiler.

Although it failed to penetrate the boiler room, it also blew up the steam pipes from the No. 2 boiler room to the engine room, causing a quarter of the power of the Mutsu to be lost, and the explosion also cut off many electrical wiring paths and ignited many miscellaneous artifacts, causing a fire inside the Mutsu. (To be continued.) )