The destruction of the battleship Louisiana was largely doomed after the second round of school projectiles, which were raided by the Chinese fleet and stuck in the crucial T-top position, and because of the bullet, it became the most definite target of the night!

Colonel Weir's order had just been issued, and the first salvo of oncoming fire had already whizzed, because it was a salvo of the main guns from the four battleships opposite, and the bullet impact time was slightly sequential, but in Colonel Will's eyes, the situation was already very critical, and there were at least 4 near-miss bombs less than 100 meters away, and they were messily distributed in front of and behind the battleship that was about to deflect the hull.

This means that in this round of strikes, the opponent has at least one pincer shot that is almost equal to a hit, and the reason why the battleship Louisiana was lucky to dodge it is naturally because of the range of nearly 18,000 meters between the two sides at this moment, and the angle of the curve of the shell falling after such a long distance projection is close to 60 degrees, which is after all a completely different from the naval war ten years ago.

"Push forward the steering at full speed and take a Z-shaped maneuver to get out of the bomb coverage area!" Colonel Will rushed to the microphone and shouted, luck doesn't last, as a commander, this is naturally clear, "Immediately send more people to extinguish the fire, you must extinguish the ignition of the hull within 5 minutes!" ”

The battleship Louisiana had just completed the horizontal rotation of the hull, and the sky in the distance was blood-red, and the rumbling loud sound was accompanied by the roar of 26 main gun shells, and the huge shells of more than 300 kilograms rubbed the air, making a huge movement that was suffocating, like a train running, and suddenly suffocated the heartbeat of everyone on the Louisiana!

A series of explosions, tons of seawater **** tens of meters high, poured into the cold steel hull, and Colonel Will, who was standing in front of the lookout window at this moment, was also poured with seawater, which made his rapid heartbeat be relieved for a moment, but the situation obviously did not change substantially, and the close misses in this round of salvo were obviously denser than the previous round...... And the efficiency of the salvo launched by the other party made Will even more worried.

With less than a minute between the first salvo, there was no doubt that the opposing firing commander had completed the calibration and entered into a few short rounds of rapid salvos, and the fate of the battleship Louisiana would probably have been decided in just a few minutes......

Bang bang bang...... The Chinese destroyer hiding in the darkness on the left flank suddenly appeared from a corner in the darkness and fired several flares at the American fleet group in the distance again, and under the dazzling white light, dozens of American sailors in the bow of the battleship Louisiana who were desperately trying to extinguish the fire showed frightened and crazy expressions.

In the distance, the night was once again filled with cannon fire, and at this time, the flagship battleship Delaware finally launched its first salvo...... Brigadier General Lucius ordered a full salvo without a school shot at all, and the tide of battle changed so quickly that there was no time to counterattack step by step, and he was clearly hoping for a miracle...... Or, at least, to interfere with the Chinese in launching a strike without scruples!

Poor observation and ranging, even the course of the enemy ship that cannot be determined, the course of the ship that is changing drastically, not to mention the distance clock calculator, the determination of the distance change rate, and the mess of data input, on the MKII Dreyer fire control platform used by the battleship Trahaha, the output is undoubtedly a mess of gun aiming parameters...... But after all, the battleship Delaware has already begun to fight back!

Such a counterattack obviously did not achieve the result that Commodore Lucius expected, and the Chinese fleet on the opposite side fired two more rapid salvos in the next two minutes......

Finally, the fourth salvo achieved the long-awaited striking effect, the flame of the bow B gun position gradually extinguished, and the luck of the battleship Louisiana was obviously exhausted, and the first 3 rounds of 74 main gun shells in the first 3 salvos never missed, although they made a series of close misses, but in the next round of 26 shells, 3 directly hit.

A 13-inch armor-piercing shell fired from the B gun position of the battleship Guangzhou directly hit the horizontal armor belt 2 meters in front of the A turret in the bow of the battleship Louisiana, and the 370-kilogram cap-piercing shell almost effortlessly penetrated the 4-inch horizontal armor in the bow, and then smashed through the 9-inch compartment armor of the second-floor auxiliary gun compartment again, and then the shell turned in a direction in the cabin and smashed on the left main armor belt, causing a violent explosion.

The huge explosive impact generated by the cap-piercing shell directly shattered the main armor plate under the waterline on the left side of the battleship Louisiana, tore a huge gap of at least 2 meters, and caused a fire in the three isolation compartments on the left, but fortunately, a large amount of seawater poured in later, and the fire was extinguished in the next few minutes, but it made a large amount of water permeable to the left side of the battleship Louisiana out of thin air.

The other one, the 12-inch armor-piercing shell fired by the battleship Dayu hit the lower part of the command tower near the B gun position in the middle of the battleship, and the main armor belt of the commander tower of the battleship Louisiana was up to 11 inches thick, and this time it successfully saved the cockpit of the lower part of the command tower.

As a result, the 280-kilogram armor-piercing shell smashed into the horizontal 4-inch armor plate and was detonated, although the armor-piercing shell was only one-third of the explosive shell loaded with high-explosive shells, but the explosion of dozens of kilograms of explosives was still enough to cause the earth-destroying amazing effect, and the horizontal armor belt at the explosion point was directly torn into hundreds of steel fragments, mixed with large fragments of the armor-piercing projectile, and directly swept away the dozens of American sailors who were carrying out damage management next to them at this moment.

When the smoke cleared, the fire on the bow of the ship, which was about to be extinguished, rose a few more points, and the corpses and severed limbs all over the ground were even more terrible, and only a few of the dozens of American sailors survived......

But the real fatal blow came from the third armor-piercing shell that hit the rear of the side of the battleship Louisiana, this 14.5-inch armor-piercing shell fired by the battleship that had never been promoted to Shanxi, the battleship that was turning sharply exposed the armor belt behind the C gun position, and this 430 kg projectile directly hit the horizontal armor belt at the bottom of the C gun position.

The armor belt at the bottom of the turret is the key part of the armor connecting the lifting channel, and it has the strongest protective armor belt on the battleship, and the same is true on the battleship Louisiana, the carburized armor up to 11.5 inches thick protects the entire turret, but in the face of this 430 kg cap-piercing shell, the Louisiana has obviously weakened after eight years in the water.

Under the huge kinetic energy, the armor-piercing projectile directly penetrated the horizontal 11-inch armor, and then penetrated into the lower bomb channel with great momentum, and directly hit the ammunition bay located next to the bilge bomb channel to feed the C gun position......

The Louisiana's C gun position had already been reloaded after the engagement, but it had not been fired from beginning to end, and the bomb lifter naturally had shells or ****** hanging on it, but the bilge bomb carrier had already dragged the shells to be used for the next round of fire out of the ammunition compartment, waiting to hang the gun launcher, as a result, several American soldiers who were nervously guessing the battle in the bottom bilge suddenly heard a chaotic sound in the bomb channel, and then fell down a big iron lump with sneering smoke, and they were all dumbfounded!

Barely waiting for them to react, the 430-kilogram armor-piercing shell set off a terrifying storm of steel in the small bomb engine room, and the high temperature generated by the explosion completely evaporated several sailors almost instantly, and the fierce fire and high temperature detonated two other 12-inch shells waiting to be hoisted in the next few seconds.

The explosion equivalent to hundreds of kilograms of explosives tore through the steel isolation compartment structure in the bilge of the C turret in just a few seconds, and the fire instantly spread to the adjacent compartments...... This is a super bomb with 50 shells and 50 sets of ****** for a single turret without a main gun!

Tang Zhen stood in the commander tower of the battleship Guangzhou, and even in the dark night, he could see the amazing scene in the distance......

Just as the Guangzhou was about to fine-tune the firing parameters for the next round of rapid strikes, a visually visible white gas suddenly gushed out from the rear of the Louisiana battleship, and then a shocking red fire suddenly rushed into the air at a height of tens of meters.

You must know that even the flame of the 14.5-inch main gun of the advanced battleship when it is fired is only a few meters, and this fire, which can be called a super cannon flame, actually rose to a height of dozens of meters, which immediately stunned everyone on the entire battlefield...... Tang Zhen also slapped the window edge excitedly, the Louisiana is finished!

Immediately following the flames that rushed to the sky, a large cloud of black smoke rose up, and the battleship Louisiana, which was still turning violently just now, suddenly seemed to lose its speed completely, and began to move sideways in place, and exploded one after another, and the tower lookout at the rear of the battleship was directly broken into several pieces and cut into the sea, and in the sky-high fire at the rear of the battleship, various steel components were sprayed into the sky, and the command tower in the middle of the battleship also tilted forward at a visible speed, and after just ten seconds, it shattered.

Tang Zhen frowned, although he was far away, he could not hear the sound of the battleship being torn apart by the explosion, but he could obviously imagine how terrifying the last scream of the battleship Louisiana was......

"Prepare to intercept the battleship Delaware!" Tang Zhen calmly turned his head to look at the battleship Delaware that was hurriedly turning in the firelight, and fired a total of 6 salvos, including school projectiles, and sank an American former dreadnought battleship at a distance of 18,000 meters...... It was an artillery battle under the darkness of night.

At this moment, on the far sea to the left of the fleet, a sky-high fire flashed! (To be continued.) )