(One hundred and one) shore ships to shè

"The newly arrived eighteen-millimeter cannon is still a little difficult to fight such a big guy, and it is no problem to deal with those Japanese ships that are a little bit xiǎo." Another artillery officer said, "Give them a taste of it this time."

"They're coming up." Xu Yuanjin looked at the battlecruiser "King Kong" approaching the shore and said, "They are ready to fire." He turned his head to look at Yang Shuoming, "The first strike is strong, don't you fight now?" ”

"The battle plan has been arranged, you can see" Yang Shuoming guessed what Xu Yuanjin was worried about, smiled slightly, and said.

Seeing Yang Shuoming's calm appearance, Xu Yuanjin was relieved, he raised the telescope again, and stared at the sea tightly.

The Japanese fleet headed by the "King Kong" did not stop and open fire too close to the coast, as it had shown in the last artillery battle, and because of the loss of rocket artillery last time, the Japanese fleet behaved relatively cautiously this time, but still a trace of arrogance could be seen.

Just as the Japanese fleet was lined up and began to turn its guns in preparation for the opposite shore, the Chinese coastal artillery, which had long been ready to attack, opened fire. The German-made 280-mm cannon was the first to start the shè attack, and with a loud bang, shells flew towards the Japanese ships.

Yang Shuoming saw that the sea not far from the "King Kong" was boiling in an instant, and huge water columns were rising, and the original hideous and terrifying figure of the "King Kong" suddenly became blurred, and the explosion that was close to the bullet obviously made the "King Kong" feel threatened, and this huge battle cruiser immediately adjusted its position.

Although the first round of Qi shè failed to hit the enemy ship, this extremely powerful artillery bombardment still showed that the Chinese gunners were not much lower than the Japanese, and soon the battleship "Iwami", which accompanied the "Kongo", was hit by a shell in the bow, and seeing the fire and smoke rising from the "Iwami", several observation officers in the shelter all shouted hello.

After a brief hesitation, the Japanese fleet finally began a ferocious battle against the shore.

It was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the Japanese ships on the sea spewed orange flames from the muzzles one after another, followed by thick black smoke, as if a monster was spitting poisonous mist, and soon there was a piercing whistling sound of cannonballs in the sky, followed by an earth-shattering explosion.

The huge explosion shook the dust of the dome of the shelter and fell down one after another, Xu Yuanjin raised his head with some concern, looked up, and at this time, another heavy artillery shell from the Japanese ship shè landed and exploded, producing a more violent shock, Xu Yuanjin couldn't help but change his face, and the two officers beside him looked at each other in shock.

Xu Yuanjin couldn't help but look at Yang Shuoming, Yang Shuoming at this time still had a casual expression, he actually put down the binoculars, and did not go to the periscope, but directly observed the shelling of the enemy ship with his eyes.

Looking at the thick and long tongue of fire spewed out from the huge barrel of the "King Kong", Yang Shuoming's face became more and more solemn.

Despite the unusually fierce artillery fire of the Japanese fleet, the Chinese coastal artillery was still carrying out an unyielding return fire, and the 280 mm cannon was unusually accurate despite the extremely low speed of the 280 mm cannon, and soon, a Japanese cruiser was hit, and Yang Shuoming saw that the Japanese ship's artillery fire immediately fell silent, and then a high column of smoke rose in the violent explosion fire, and finally was completely shrouded in a thick smoke screen.

"The artillery fought well today," said someone who said, his words filled with indescribable joy.

Hearing his words, Yang Shuoming nodded involuntarily, and a faint smile of relief appeared on the corner of his mouth.

In the first artillery battle with the Japanese fleet, the Bismarck Hill battery was attacked by heavy artillery fire from Japanese ships, and suffered heavy losses. After inspecting the forts, Yang Shuoming, according to the analysis and hints of the "supercomputer eye," organized the Qingdao military and civilians to carry out emergency repairs to the main forts in Qingdao, and improved and strengthened them according to local conditions, so that the viability of each artillery position was greatly improved. In the first artillery battle, the Japanese ships completely suppressed the counterattack artillery fire of the battery with two rounds of Qi shè, and this time the Japanese ships' artillery fire was much more fierce than the last time, but after several rounds of Qi shè, the Chinese coastal artillery fire did not decrease much at all, and it cannot but be said that it was due to the previous emergency repair and reinforcement work.

"The Japanese artillery fire is really fierce." Xu Yuanjin sighed and said. ,

"We in China should also have such a fleet." Yang Shuoming stared closely at the "King Kong" pouring artillery fire on the shore, and said to himself, "We can't live this kind of life when there is no defense in the sea and people to hit the mouth." ”

Listening to Yang Shuoming's words, the people around him all fell into silence.

Yang Shuoming's sentence just now, "There is no sea but no defense", it can be said that it deeply stabbed the hearts of everyone in the shelter.

Since China and Japan entered the modern era, they have both suffered from the invasion of Western countries from the sea, and the two navies have similar starts, but today, Japan has a powerful navy that the Western powers dare not look at, while China's situation of "having a sea but not defense" has hardly changed.

Many of the Chinese artillerymen who were now guarding the forts had fought bloody battles with the Japanese army on land, and they had learned the Japanese army's artillery fire and had re-established their self-confidence in victory, but in the face of the Japanese fleet's artillery fire, these self-confidence were deeply shaken.

At this moment, the people fighting on the batteries have a more intuitive and profound experience of the Japanese fleet's artillery fire than the people hiding in underground shelters.

A shell from the "King Kong" just hit the outer protective wall of a mén 280 mm cannon, only to see a flash of fire, with a loud bang, a huge smoke and dust instantly diffused, the explosion of rubble, mud and sand with straw sticks and shrubs flew into the air, and then sprinkled down one after another, as if raining down on the heads and bodies of the Chinese artillerymen who were shelled by the cào longitudinal cannon.

The gunners unconsciously began to duck, and the officer in charge of the command waved the xiǎo flag in his hand, trying to keep everyone cào to stop, but he was hit in the head by a flying stone, and blood immediately flowed.

"Sir, you ......" A gunner tried to hold the swaying officer, but he pushed him away.

"Get up, get up and continue to shoot the dogs," the officer wiped the blood from his forehead with his sleeve, grabbed his big-brimmed military hat and put it on, jumped to his feet and shouted.

Listening to the shouts of the commander, the gunners straightened up one after another and resumed their work.

Two gunners pushed the pulley with all their might, pushing a 280-mm shell over, and the other two put the sling on the shell, hoisted the shell, and pushed the shell into the chamber with a long rod. And just as the gunner closed the bolt, another shell from the Japanese ship flew over, swept over the 280-mm cannon, and hit a Xiǎo mountain bag not far away.

A huge explosion rang out again, and the sharp part of the mountain bag was blown away by the strong impact, and along with the trees above, the burning branches and wood fragments were scattered in all directions by the heat flow, and the hot air làng rushed into the gun emplacement, and several gunners were unsteady on their feet, and they were almost knocked to the ground.

"Such a ruthless cannon on the day of the dog" I don't know who scolded while spitting, probably letting the mud and sand fly into his mouth.

"I saw that cannonball just now, it's as thick as an oil drum, and if it hits, we'll all be done......," someone said.

"Concentrate on the gods, hurry up and think about something useless," the officer in charge of the command shouted at the top of his voice.

With the wave of the command flag in the officer's hand and the command to "fire", the 280-mm cannon aimed at the Japanese ship shook violently, and the muzzle spewed out a dark red tongue of fire and black smoke, and the huge cannonball instantly came out of its disembowel, with lethal energy, and flew straight towards the "King Kong".

The 280-mm shell roared across the sea, close to the starboard middle of the "King Kong" and exploded, and the huge explosion set off a high column of water, which, together with countless shrapnel, landed on the bridge of the "King Kong".

Several Japanese sailors who were running on the deck were swept by the flying shrapnel, coupled with the impact of the seawater, their feet slipped, and they all fell to the ground one by one, and the tuǐ parts of the two Japanese sailors were pierced by the bullet-like shrapnel of the thin xiǎo, and for a while the white sailor kù was covered with blood, and the two people hugged the double tuǐ in unison, and lay there howling in pain.

An uninjured Japanese sailor, probably frightened by the terrible power of the explosion of this large-caliber shell from the Chinese, held his head tightly, curled up in the corner, and cried loudly.

"You hún bastard, hurry back to your post and fight"

A midshipman officer of the Japanese navy, who was supposed to be from an aristocratic background, couldn't help but be furious when he saw him like this, and the midshipman walked up to the Japanese sailor in a few steps and shouted loudly.

"Coward, gall, ghost, I order you to get up immediately" The midshipman trembled with anger when he saw that the other party was deaf to his words, and he jerked out the Japanese sword at his waist and yelled at the other party again.

At this time, the captain of the "King Kong" Matsuoka Shuzo Osa, who was standing on the bridge, saw this scene, and his face couldn't help but become very ugly.

As the third captain of the "King Kong," he was actually opposed to sailing this invaluable new battle cruiser under his command to the Chinese battlefield for adventure.

As the capital ship of the Japanese Navy, the "Kongo" has only been fully familiar with its own warship for just over a year, and the sailors are not yet fully familiar with their own warships.