Chapter 125
readx; As the largest tonnage of the Japanese ships bombarding Zhabei with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons, the Izumo-class armored cruiser of the Tokiwa naturally became the key target of the Shenwei catamaran battleship in the distance. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Someone will definitely ask why he chose this outdated old antique as a target, and Zhao Heng will definitely tell him: Who is the battleship that poses the greatest threat to the shelling of Zhabei? There is no doubt that the Joban is the largest, and only by destroying this cruiser that poses the greatest threat to Zhabei can the other small-tonnage battleships be dealt with by the Thornflower-class destroyers.
The captain of the cruiser Tokiwa, who is now using a telescope on the bridge, Yamada Dingo Osa, does not know that there is a very large sea giant behind his ass that has taken aim at him and his car. He didn't feel the threat of death, but he held the telescope with great interest to watch the effect of the shelling, and saw that the shells hit the residential area and blew up a bunch of buildings and things that looked like human bodies, not only did he not blame his subordinates, but kept making all kinds of sounds, and he almost wrote a diary on the spot to record what he saw and heard today as his future memories.
His sailors and crews, who had nothing to do, ran to the side of the hull to watch the pomp and circumstance in the distance, except for the gunners in the turrets. They watched with great interest the masterpiece created by the bombardment of the Zhabei settlement by the 203-mm naval guns on their warships, and every time the shelling blew up a lot of buildings and human bodies and other things, these guys raised their hands and cheered loudly, without the slightest sense of guilt in their hearts, and they did not think that what they did today should be ashamed and guilty, and they regretted it.
In the pleasure of the whole of the Tokiwa sinking into the shelling of the innocent people in Zhabei, there was no time to perceive the approaching crisis. According to the thoughts of all the personnel on the ship, including the captain: they all agreed that if the Beiyang government on the Nanjing side dared to argue with the navy of the Great Japanese Empire, it was purely looking for death, and just after receiving the information that the Beiyang Navy had cowered in a safe harbor in order to save that pitiful belongings, the crew of the overjoyed Joban cruiser was happy not to have to beware of the surprise attack launched by the opponent, but was there really no opponent to raid? Hehe, just behind the Tokiwa Devil Battleship, the Kamui who was not too far away from them slowly turned over to the right and placed the hull on the right side. With 5 twin 53.5 times the diameter of the body tube 530 mm aimed at the defenseless Joban, under the computer's ballistic calculations and adjustments, these 10 thick and long barrels selected the elevation angle, the thick muzzle of the black hole first saw a puff of smoke and then only heard a uniform super-large loud bang, 10 530 mm armor-piercing light explosive shells under the burning afterburner of the charge, like sharp arrows through the long 28355 mm barrel flew out of the muzzle, directly smashed into the Japanese ship Joban heavy armored cruiser with relaxed guard!
"Nani? What was that? This huge sound could not be concealed from the Tsukiwa who was shelling, and the devil crew who was standing on the right side of the hull to watch the shelling turned around or turned their heads to start looking for the source of the sound, and Yamada Dingo, who was the captain, felt that something was wrong and hurriedly ran out of the bridge console, raised the telescope, and looked for the sound of suspected cannons.
"Woo......!! Thundered!! "This group of devils has not yet reacted to the gap, like a series of trains passing through the sound, these 10 530 mm shells falling from the sky all hit the Tokiwa that is not very lucky today, there is no so-called near miss of the bullet and the like, resulting in the boiler room was penetrated, the ship's steam turbine was broken, some sailors working in it died on the spot, the tall chimney was directly blown up in the sky, and it was turned several times before falling into the Huangpu River. The bridge was a mess, the sailors driving the rudder were directly turned into minced meat by the incoming cannonballs and then scorched into ashes by the high temperature generated by the explosion brought by the shells, and the others were killed by the countless flying shrapnel formed after the explosion of the shells, and the crew members watching the battle on the right side of the hull were hit by the air waves of the explosion, and most of them were swept away by the air waves and fell into the Huangpu River before they could react. A 203 mm twin-mounted heavy gun in the rear hull of the Joban was blown up directly along with the turret, I don't know where it fell, as the captain of the ship, Yamada Dingo Osa, was a little lucky, but he was pushed by the air waves, and his head hit the railing and fainted, and then there was a big hole in the left hull, only to see the water of the Huangpu River surging into the hull, so the entire hull began to tilt and have a tendency to sink, fortunately, the cruiser did not explode.
In fact, this is just the first and last wave of the Shenwei with light explosive bombs (in order to better satisfy Zhao Heng's strange bad taste, the use of power is not strong enough to beat the paralyzed light explosive bombs of the Chang Pan to a half-dead appearance, and then slowly drive over with a huge hull' In the eyes of Ma Shuli, the female captain of the Kamui, in addition to this Tokiwa armored cruiser is worthy of hitting with 530 mm naval guns, other small shrimp are not even worth 10,000 tons of firepower and less than 200 mm guns The battleship does not even have the value of attacking with 530 mm naval guns, anyway, only a few 152 mm secondary guns on the battleship are needed to solve these poor little shrimps。
The heavily damaged Tokiwa crew suffered heavy casualties, the captain of the ship is still unconscious, the entire battleship boiler and power mechanism are scrapped and the hull is blown open a big hole and is constantly being poured into it by the Huangpu River, the 203 mm naval gun in the tail and the turret were lost in the attack just now, and the only 203 mm twin naval gun turret in the bow was unfortunately stuck by the 530 shell shrapnel and the base could not move, The gunners inside had already been shocked unconscious, and it was conceivable that this battleship was so sad that it was paralyzed without even seeing who the opponent was, and now it was just half-dead on the water.
The other warships not far from the ship's side came back from the terrifying artillery bombardment just now to rescue the seriously damaged Tokiwa, the Atakaku-class river gunboat with less than 800 displacement was the first to arrive, only to see it hurriedly drive its horsepower to the maximum and ran over to start rescuing the overboard and injured crew, and the Yangyan-class improved Pufeng-class destroyer with a displacement of 2,500 tons took the lead in crossing the hull and facing the right hull against the Kamui catamaran battleship that was slowly moving at a speed of 18 knots. In order for the Ataka to rescue the personnel of the Joban as much as possible, and to gain enough time for the Ataka to leave smoothly after rescuing the people, the captain of the Urakaze-class destroyer had to order the whole ship to fire at the giant ship that was getting closer and closer with three and six twin three-year 127mm L/50 guns on the ship.
"Boom, boom, boom......" The gunners on the destroyer used all their strength to smash the 127-mm shells at the Kamui, and the power of the 127-mm shells was honestly not very good. For a catamaran battleship monster like the Shenwei, which has a rough skin and a thick displacement of 190,000 tons, it can only be an itch, you don't see that the cannonball hit the target but was blown into the river by the target's thick armor projectile, if it is a European destroyer, then bully the warlord troops without any heavy artillery or even no artillery or a small ship of several hundred tons, once you encounter the three big monsters of the behemoth cruiser, battlecruiser, and battleship that you are not capable of, it is generally early to get lucky, And the Japanese probably have a different brain structure than normal people, they are generally dead brains and admit that they will be obedient only if they are beaten hard, and now the Pufeng-class destroyers are so good that they are in front of the Kamui and dare to attack the Kamui with the cannon like a toothpick for the Kamui, and the deliberately slow Kamui ignores the tickling of this little guy and drives towards the Pufeng destroyer in a straight line. (Zhao Heng instructed his captain earlier that if he encounters a devil warship like a small shrimp destroyer, just go up and sink it directly, don't waste shells, but this was said to the captain of the Shenwei in person, and there was the scene just now)
For such a boot to relieve itching, Ma Shuli, the captain of the Shenwei ship, felt that it was redundant to even glance at it, and the Pufeng destroyer was sentenced to death by others at this time. Under Ma Shuli's order, the battleship turned sideways on the right hull and used 8 triple 152mm naval guns to shoot at this little guy, and for a time the first round of 8 shells went straight to the target Pufeng.
"Quickly start the engine and turn the bow of the boat!!" Seeing that the other party was menacing, the captain of the Pufeng class responded by bombarding the cannon without saying a word, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to drive the battleship out of the range of the opponent's artillery fire, but fortunately, the speed of the destroyer under his seat was not slow, and the speed of 35 knots came up at once.
The first round of 8 152mm shells missed, but the battleship Shenwei didn't care about hitting the opponent but forced the opponent to the direction he wanted, and the Pufeng ship saw that the Jumbo didn't fire again, and slowly slowed down and maintained a speed of about 18 knots, but it just lowered the power, and the Jumbo opposite it stopped the shelling, suddenly increased its speed, and suddenly crashed into it, and the destroyer who didn't have time to turn was too late to lift the speed and was directly hit in two by the opponent, Before the crew of the ship had time to cry for help, it sank into the Huangpu River along with the entire destroyer, becoming a delicacy of fish and shrimp.
All the crew members of the Ataka who had saved people, including the survivors of the Tokiwa who had survived the death, witnessed all this, and they were so startled that they immediately increased the speed of the Ataka to the extreme, and slipped away when the Big Mac was ramming the destroyer that sank the Urakaze without noticing them......