Chapter 5004: The Sino-American Naval War
At 11:12, the 20,000-ton flagship battleship "Nanjing" of the East China Sea Fleet mobile attack battle group rushed into the middle of the left side of the US Third Battleship Subfleet led by Rear Admiral Gornbay. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Three 15,000-ton "Guangzhou", "Plateau" and "Tianshan" and two 7,800-ton cruisers followed.
Feng Jiangzhen, captain of the "Nanjing," ordered the East China Sea Fleet's mobile attack battle formation to open fire on the third battleship squadron of the US fleet.
In an instant, the East China Sea Fleet's mobile attack battle group launched an artillery attack with the US troops.
Because the East China Sea Fleet seized the horizontal head of the T-shaped ship formation, the US Army's Third Battleship Squadron was completely in a passive state.
After half an hour of fierce fighting, the US Third Battleship Squadron suffered heavy casualties and was in disarray.
In the first round of strikes, the mobile attack group of the East China Sea Fleet sank five battleships, the "Grand", "Xiwang", "Bull", "Lingken" and "Tenida".
At 12:13, the radio of the flagship of the US Third Battleship Squadron "Sea Lion" was destroyed, and he could only communicate with various ships by light signals.
Rear Admiral Feng Jiangzhen ordered six destroyers of the fleet to launch an attack on the "Sea Lion".
For a time, the flagship of the US Third Battleship Squadron, the "Sea Lion", was like a huge lion, besieged and eaten by a pack of hungry wolves.
After being besieged by six destroyers, the "Sea Lion" had lost the ability to command the entire detachment and was exhausted in the battle.
While the seven ships were engaged in artillery fire, the destroyer "Tiangang" suddenly fired three torpedoes at the "Sea Lion." With three loud bangs, the US "Sea Lion" suffered heavy damage.
The cabin of the "Sea Lion" has already begun to flood, the deck is ignited by incendiary bombs, and the fire is burning more and more fiercely in the midday wind!
Although the officers and men of the "Sea Lion" took urgent measures, the fire still burned to the ammunition depot.
Rear Admiral Gonbay, commander of the 3rd Battleship Detachment of the US Army, ordered the sailors to soak the shells in water to prevent explosions in case of fire.
However, just three minutes after Rear Admiral Gornbay's order, the Sea Lion's ammunition depot was detonated.
The sound of the bomb explosion pierced the entire melee area, and Rear Admiral Goenbay, commander of the US Third Battleship Squadron, was also blown away.
At 13:57 p.m., six battleships switched from shooting at the "Sea Lion" to the "Thunderstorm" and formed a straddle fire.
At 14:09 p.m., a terrible explosion occurred on board the "Thunderstorm", and the two battle cruisers behind it, had to turn to avoid the smoke and debris formed after the explosion.
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After losing the commander of the fleet, the "Americas" of the US Third Battleship Squadron reported to David Quake, the commander of the US Pacific Warrior Fleet, that the flagships of the Third Battleship Fleet, the "Sea Lion" and "Thunderstorm," had been sunk by the flagship of the East China Sea Fleet.
At 12:13 p.m., the radio of the "Sea Lion", the flagship of the US Third Battleship Squadron, was destroyed, and he could only communicate with the various ships by light signals.
The officers and men of the Sea Lion and Thunderstorm were struggling in the water, but soon they were sucked underwater by the whirlpool.
Of the 2,589 officers and men of the "Sea Lion" and "Thunderstorm," only 19 were rescued.
Colonel Rox, the captain of the Gale, gave the order to continue shooting at the ships of the East China Sea Fleet, despite the fact that the ships of their 3rd Battleship Squadron were already at a disadvantage.
At this time, the morale of the naval officers and men of the Chinese Empire was getting higher and higher. Rear Admiral Feng Jiangzhen, commander of the East China Sea Fleet's mobile attack battle group, ordered to launch a final attack on the third battleship sub-fleet of the US Pacific Warrior Fleet!
The East China Sea Fleet's mobile attack battle formation rushed at full speed towards the remnants of the US Third Battleship Squadron.
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After a burst of fierce artillery fire, the US Third Battleship Squadron was blown up to ashes, and in a thick smoke of gunpowder, only some broken walls and ruins of ship stumps remained, still whispering the last despair!
At the same time, the 1st and 2nd Battleship Squadrons, under the command of Rear Admiral Kearns, seemed to have an advantage on the battlefield in the battle with the Bohai Fleet.
Relying on the superiority of the ships and the number of ships of these two subfleets, the Bohai Fleet was besieged.
In order to attract the strength of the US military, the Bohai Fleet stubbornly resisted with US ships almost twice its size.
Under the intensive artillery fire of the US troops, the "Jinzhou" and "Fengtian" of the Bohai Fleet were wounded one after another, lost their combat capability, and withdrew from the battle. The "Hurricane", an armored ship full of meritorious service, was hit by a torpedo of the US military during the battle and sank into the water.
Of all the officers and men of the "Hurricane", only three were rescued, and all the others were killed.
General Chen Fangzheng ordered Ye Gucheng to quickly move all the battle formations of the East China Sea Fleet closer to the battle area of the Bohai Fleet, and cooperate with the Bohai Fleet to launch an attack on the US First and Second Battleship Squadrons.
Ye Gucheng ordered the fleet's logistics ships to clean up the battlefield, and led the first battle group of the East China Sea Fleet, the flagship 26,300-ton giant battleship "Superman Ship", the 23,000-ton giant battleship "Qiongzhou Ship", and the 20,000-ton "Changhai Ship," three 15,000-ton battleships, to attack from the flank of the US First Battleship Fleet.
The East China Sea Fleet's 1st Guerrilla Formation's flagship 23,148-ton giant battleship "Donghai Ship", two 15,000-ton and above "Chongming" and "Tiger Roar" battleships, and four 7,800-ton cruisers were ordered to attack from the right side of the US First Battleship Squadron.
The second battle group of the East China Sea Fleet, the flagship 20,000-ton giant battleship "Shanghai Ship", two 15,000-ton battleships "Jianghu Ship" and "Biwolf Sword", and two 10,000-ton and 7,800-ton cruisers, attacked from the tail of the first US battleship squadron.
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The East China Sea Fleet was ordered to move to attack the battle group, the 20,000-ton battleship "Nanjing", the 15,000-ton "Guangzhou", the "Plateau Ship" and the "Tianshan Ship", as well as two 7,800-ton cruisers, to serve as reserves on the periphery.
The accession of the East China Sea Fleet has greatly reduced the pressure on the Bohai Sea Fleet. In an instant, the tide of battle on the battlefield was reversed.
Directly in front of the fierce battle between the Bohai Fleet and the US military, Marshal Chen Fangzheng, the commander of the Chinese Empire's navy, took the 26,234-ton "Daewoo" giant battleship and personally commanded the entire battlefield.
In front of him was the battle between the Hainan Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Li Yong, the commander of the fleet, and the battleship Honflotilla of the US Pacific Warrior Fleet commanded by Vice Admiral David Quake.
The battleship fleet led by Vice Admiral David Quake was far superior to the Hainan fleet in terms of tonnage and artillery configuration.
A battle of uneven strength was placed in front of Li Yong.