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In just half an hour, five Japanese armored cruisers, Izuki, Izumo, Iwami, Hizen, and Tango, were sunk one after another, and four battle cruisers, Haruna, Kirishima, Kurama, and Ibuki, were heavily damaged, with flames blazing and black smoke billowing out.

Whether it is an armored cruiser of the Japanese army or a battlecruiser, in front of the battleships of the Chinese Empire, one cannon at a time, is the part of the abused, and the abused should not be wanted.

Ito's heart was dripping blood, and the Japanese Navy soldiers were urinating all over the place.

Anyone who sees this kind of 406-millimeter shell falling will blow up an armored cruiser of five or six thousand tons in one fell swoop, and when he sees the power of this terrifying explosion, he will be frightened to the point that his legs and hands tremble, and his brain will be dazed.

"Your Excellency, General, please give the order to charge! Otherwise, we will be dragged to death by the Imperial Chinese Navy! ”

Omoto knew that he proposed to Ito Yuheng that the two sides were now more than 20 kilometers apart, and the four Bingyang-class battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, with the ultra-long range of the 16-inch main gun, could easily hit the heads of the Japanese ships with a large-caliber shell weighing 1.2 tons.

At this distance, in turn, the Japanese Navy had only two 15-inch guns of the Kawachi-class battleships that could return fire. The main guns of other battleships were of small caliber, and the range was simply not enough, so they could only be beaten.

The Chinese Empire had 48 16-inch cannons, while the Japanese Empire had only 16 15-inch cannons, which was obviously a big loss.

But what was Ito waiting for, he was nervous, he was resentful, but he never dared to press the whole group, because he was worried about being ambushed.

He looked sideways at the sea clouds to the southwest, as if sensing the danger inside.

If the entire Combined Fleet is rashly pressed, and there is really a Chinese Imperial Navy fleet in this cloud and mist, and suddenly flanks out, then the entire Combined Fleet will be completely annihilated.

"Retreat!"

"Nani?"

"I said retreat! Right away! ”

Ito almost yelled, and Omoto was startled when he knew it, and hurriedly ordered the flags to be raised to inform the ships to retreat.

The Japanese troops on all ships were ordered to retreat, such as amnesty, this kind of naval battle that could only be beaten, they were already going crazy, so they turned around one after another and left the battlefield.

Seeing the Japanese ship turn around and escape, Deng Shichang suddenly snorted coldly.

"Want to run? You little Japan are going to die here today! ”

"Order the First Squadron to intensify its firepower salvo and block the retreat of the enemy ships, and the Second Squadron to close the distance and bite them!"

The four Bingyang-class battleships instantly increased their firepower output, tilting their shells towards the Japanese fleet at a maximum rate of fire of two shells per minute, blocking the retreat of the Japanese ships.

The six Dreadnought-class battleships fired at maximum horsepower and pressed on the Japanese fleet at full speed, biting each other and preventing them from leaving the battle.

Seeing the ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy counterattacking and biting themselves, Ito Yuheng instantly understood.

There must be an ambush for the enemy!

But where is the ambush?

As far as the eye can see, telescopes see no sign of a fleet at all within hundreds of kilometers.

Except for the cloudy areas on the southwest side.

As long as you don't retreat to that cloudy area, you should be fine.

However, Ito soon discovered that submarines were spotted one after another in other directions.

"There are submarines! It's a submarine of the Imperial Chinese Navy! ”

In the past year, the Japanese Navy, as the watchdog of the United States against the Chinese Empire, naturally also received the American sonar technology, although the equipment is far less advanced than that of the Chinese Empire, but it is still very easy to use it to detect submarine activities.

"Baga! So that's it! ”

Ito finally understood the purpose of the operation of the Imperial Chinese Navy opposite, apparently to attract the attention of the Japanese Navy and buy time for the deployment of submarines.

After all, the speed of submarines is too slow, and it is very difficult to contain surface ships, and it takes enough time to do so.

The Japanese Navy has just acquired sonar technology, and it is very rare to be able to detect the submarine activities of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and if you want to do anti-submarine warfare, the current strength cannot do it.

The only two frigates with anti-submarine capabilities quickly joined the battle, but they bombed for a long time and did not destroy any of the submarines.

Ito's heart suddenly sank to the bottom, he didn't know how many submarines the Imperial Chinese Navy had deployed around, the only thing he knew was that as long as a submarine launched a fish ray to hit the battleship Hanoi, even if it couldn't sink the battleship Hanoi at once, the Hanoi after the heavy damage would soon be sunk by the Chinese Imperial warship chasing behind.

There was only one option left, and that was to turn to that cloud zone.

Knowing that there was a high possibility that the fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy was lurking in it, the Japanese Combined Fleet would face great danger once it entered.

But Ito has no choice, he is perhaps the most hard-working naval commander in the world.

"What about the Cloud Zone? We can't see you, but you can't see us! What can you do with the warships of the Chinese Empire lying in ambush inside? Everyone is a blind cat and killed a mouse, so let's see whose luck is great! ”

In Ito's view, fighting in the cloud area, both sides fire their guns based on their feelings, and whoever hits the cliff depends on luck.

In this way, Ito ordered the Japanese Combined Fleet to flee to the southwest and rush directly into the cloud area.

Seeing the Japanese Combined Fleet rushing over, Li Weiguo, who was on the main mast tower of the battleship Fury, finally showed a happy smile.

Little Japan, you're finally here to die!

There are no clouds in this area, and these so-called clouds are actually a man-made wall of smoke.

This is Li Weiguo's operational concept from the beginning of the 21 st century, which brought to the end of the 19 th century, and ordered several destroyers to keep hundreds of specially made smoke barrels still on the sea, and a large amount of smoke from the barrels kept releasing smoke, forming a very thick and high smoke wall.

At this moment, 2 Fury-class battleships, 4 Rainstorm-class battleships, 4 Fengyun-class battlecruisers, 12 destroyers, 23 frigates, 102 Fish and Radium boats and other combat ships were waiting on the other side of the smoke wall, their main guns raised high, their shells loaded, ready to fire at any time.

As for the fleet's communication ships, hospital ships, and supply ships, they were hidden in another artificial smoke more than 100 kilometers away.

"This is the target of the smoke wall, and the ships are ready to gather fire to attack, so let's have a good time in one go!"

Li Weijun shouted excitedly, it was the first time he had seen this kind of naval battle tactics, and he immediately threw himself on the ground with Li Weiguo's admiration.

No wonder His Majesty dared to come to watch the battle in person, and using such advanced tactics to clean up little Japan was a complete one-sided massacre! Even if it is used to clean up the American Navy, if the American Navy is caught off guard, it will suffer a big loss!

Ito was careful and ordered two frigates to enter the cloud zone to explore the way, and if there was danger, the combined fleet immediately retreated.

However, Deng Shichang would not give Ito Yuheng time to test it, and the detachment he commanded soon appeared in the rear of the Japanese Navy, less than 20 kilometers, and was still approaching.

As the distance got closer, not only did the firepower of the Ice Ocean-class battleships become more ferocious and accurate, but the main guns of the six Dreadnought-class battleships could also fire.

Although it was still a 305 mm main gun, it had been improved with ammunition, and its penetration and destructive power were more powerful than ten years ago.

"Quick, enter the Cloud Zone!"

Ito had no choice but to lead his fleet into the cloud area, expecting to use the cloud for cover.

However, when the Japanese Combined Fleet entered the so-called "cloud and fog" zone, a pungent and choking smoke drifted to the mouth and nose of every Japanese soldier, causing them to cough and tear water.

"It's—it doesn't seem like it's fog on the sea!"

"This—it's smoke!"

Ito was instantly dumbfounded, if this was not a naturally rising mist from the sea, then it was man-made smoke.

"Look! What's that on the sea? ”

Some Japanese soldiers exclaimed, and everyone looked down to see huge gasoline barrels floating on the sea, bulging white smoke.

It turned out that the so-called sea fog turned out to be white smoke coming out of the gasoline barrel.

Nima, it's clear that you've been tricked!

"Get out of here!"

Ito realizes the danger, but unfortunately he is still too slow.

Knock knock......

The cannon roared, and dense shells rained down.

In the blink of an eye, there was a violent explosion all around, and huge columns of water rose into the sky in the mist.

From time to time, Japanese ships were hit by bullets and large explosions occurred.

The smoke obscured most of the realization, and it was impossible to see clearly from a hundred meters away, but the fierce fire could penetrate the smoke and flash in front of Ito's eyes.

The explosions came and went, as if they had broken into the clouds of thunder and lightning, and were ravaged by the raging thunder and lightning.

Ito was so anxious that he was about to cry, and he ordered to retreat, but without radio, the flag was obscured by smoke and could not transmit orders, and the intensity of the flashing searchlights was drowned out by the flash of the explosion, and it was impossible to tell whether the searchlights were flashing or the flames of the explosion were flickering.

The command of the flagship was out of order in an instant, and the Japanese Combined Fleet could only fight on its own, lost in the smoke, and cried for his mother by the large-caliber shells that kept falling on his head.

At 12:35, the battleship Asahi was hit by at least seven large-caliber shells of more than 356 mm in succession, and the entire superstructure was blown to pieces, and when the eighth 356 mm shell fell, it directly penetrated the horizontal armor protection of the main gun on the foredeck, and exploded under the main gun, instantly detonating the ammunition depot, causing a great explosion.

There was a loud bang, like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, even if the smoke blocked the view, there was a strong fire shining, and the white smoke instantly turned red and black.

At the same time, Shikishima, Hatsuse, Mikasa, Katori, Kashima, Satsuma and other Japanese ships were also shot one after another, they were all battleships with very thick armor or huge battle cruisers, even if they were hit, as long as they were not fatal through the hit, they would not be easily sunk, but the superstructure such as the ship island would undoubtedly be hit hard, and in the blink of an eye, flames erupted and black smoke billowed out.

As for the armored cruisers such as Tsukuba, Asama, and Tokiwa, these are all battleships that have long been eliminated, and in the face of the large-caliber naval artillery bombardment of the Imperial Chinese Navy, as long as they take one shot, they will be seriously damaged if they are not sinkable.

"Get out with all your might!"

Ito's eyes were blood-red, and the battleship Hanoi also suffered many shells, but fortunately, this was the most powerful battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and it would not be sunk for a while, but most of the ship's personnel were still disgraced and dizzy by the shells that fell from the sky.

At the moment of life and death, Ito Yuheng ordered the Hanoi to move forward at full speed, and he guessed that since it was a man-made smoke area, the area would not be too large, and as long as he rushed out, he could see the enemy.

At the thought of being beaten until the beginning of the war, Ito Yuheng was so angry that his nose was crooked.

Not only did Ito understand this, but the other Japanese ship commanders who were attacked were not fools, and although they couldn't get Ito's orders, they all rushed forward at full speed, trying to break out of this damn smoke zone.

This smog area is not large, and it took less than 20 minutes for the ships of the Japanese Combined Fleet to rush out of the smog area and see the sunshine that they had not seen for a long time.

It's just that before entering the smoke zone, the Japanese Combined Fleet still had more than 40 warships of various types.

By the time they broke out of the smoke zone again, there were less than twenty warships left in the Japanese Combined Fleet.

In just 20 minutes, thousands of shells were poured from the ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and thanks to the accurate reference (just concentrating artillery on the smoke area), more than a dozen Japanese ships were easily sunk.

However, the Japanese ships that were sunk by concentrated fire were basically armored cruisers, frigates, and fish and radium boats, which were poorly or unarmoured, and it was difficult for them to survive the concentrated artillery bombardment of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

But the rest were the main warships of the Japanese Combined Fleet, all large warships.

It's just that these Japanese ships that rushed out were covered in black smoke, and apparently they were all shelled one by one.

As the most powerful battleships, the Hanoi and Settsu were relatively resistant to beating, and the black smoke emitted from their bodies did not affect the battle. The three Shikishima-class battleships (the Asahi sank in smoke), the two Katori-type battleships, and the two Satsuma-class battleships were relatively sad, and the superstructure was on fire, with black smoke billowing out, revealing only the mainmast tower and the plaster flag on it, and everything else was shrouded in black smoke.

As for the four Kongo-class battlecruisers and the two Kurama-class battlecruisers, the entire superstructure was also covered in fire and black smoke, just because of their huge size, although they received a lot of shells, they were lucky not to be hit by fatal penetrating hits.

The saddest thing is the last three Tsukuba-class armored cruisers, the three ships of Tsukuba, Zhoufang, and Sagami, although they broke out of the smoke area, the entire superstructure was almost razed to the ground and lost their combat effectiveness.

There were also a few frigates, which did not seem to have been shot, but were too small to escape.

Ito looked at these warships, and his heart was dripping blood.

This is the family of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was wiped out by the Chinese Imperial Navy twice in a row, and now tightens its belts and sacrifices several generations of Japanese women, and finally saves money to buy this little bit of family foundation, but the result is either sunk or severely damaged.

"Baga!"

Ito was completely furious, but when he turned his head and looked into the distance, he was dumbfounded again.

I saw a powerful fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, waiting for it more than ten kilometers away.

More than a hundred warships, lined up in turn, are spectacular.

But in the eyes of Ito Yuhyung, it is like a dead god who cheats his father.

"Bakana (impossible), shouldn't they have sunk at Pearl Harbor?"

"Damn the Yankees! A bunch of dead liars! ”

Ito instantly recognized the battleship Fury, the flagship of the Imperial Chinese Navy, as well as many old rival warships next to him.

Fury BB-33, Fury BB-34, Tempest BB-23, Shower BB-24, Thunderstorm BB-25, Misty Rain BB-26, Storm Cloud BC-1, Snow Cloud BC-2, Sunrise Cloud BC-3, Sunset Cloud BC-4.

These 10 huge ships with a displacement of 40,000 to 50,000 tons stood in front of them like hills on the sea, especially the black-painted portoside numbers on each ship, and Ito and the Japanese officers and men will never forget these numbers until they die.

Because these are the numbers that flaunt the banner of freedom of navigation all day long, showing off their military might in the coastal areas of Japan.

The Japanese government declared 12 nautical miles offshore as the baseline of its territorial waters, but the Imperial Chinese Navy refused to recognize it and cruising within 12 nautical miles, forcing the Japanese Navy to change the baseline of the 12-nautical-mile territorial sea to 3 nautical miles.

Every day, the Japanese Navy would see the warships of the Chinese Empire cruising back and forth with these numbers, but they dared not speak out of anger, and the kind of grievance and anger was indescribable.

At this moment, seeing the huge bodies of these warships, all the living Japanese naval officers and sailors instantly recognized them.

"Fire! Fire! Fire! ”

Ito was so angry that he trembled, and he shouted frantically to open fire, for fear that in a few more seconds, he would not have the courage to give such an order again, and for fear that in a few more seconds, all the officers and men of the Japanese Combined Fleet would tremble so much that they did not dare to pull the trigger.

This is the invisible coercion of the Imperial Chinese Navy on the Imperial Japanese Navy, which has not only not been eliminated over the years, but has been engraved into the depths of the heart, and even the word fear is printed on the soul.

The front main guns of the Japanese ships opened fire one after another, but their firepower was too weak, and it was soon completely overshadowed by the sound of a new round of fire salvos from the ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

The cannon roared, and the sea water boiled instantly.

The fighting continued, but the slaughter was one-sided.

Seeing that one Japanese ship after another was sunk one after another, Ito Yuhyung's legs went limp, and he immediately fell to his knees on the deck.

Tears ran away in an instant! (To be continued.) )