Chapter 504: The First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle - The National Death of the United States and Japan

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In a certain sea area east of Ezo Weiyi, the sound of artillery has not stopped in the past few days, day and night.

At this time, the battleship South Carolina, the flagship of the US Navy, was originally painted with a snow-white hull, but now it has become pitch black, and it is covered with various craters, including two huge black holes with a diameter of nearly one meter, and Harvey armor with a thickness of more than 300 millimeters, which are turned out and twisted at this moment.

Looking inside through the black hole, the cabin inside was a mess, and the heavy steel isolation hatch had melted into puddles of molten steel, which were then cooled by the gushing seawater, and finally turned into lumps, as if the Transformers had just squatted here for convenience.

Dewey walked out of the command tower, his white uniform was charred black, his military hat didn't know where it was blown away by the blast wave, and his whole beard was unshaven, like a beggar who had just turned over a garbage can.

Behind him, Rice and other officers were no better, and the big beggars led a group of small beggars.

Looking around, Dewey was so angry that his beard was shaking.

The battleship South Carolina, a giant ship of more than 40,000 tons, is like a rooster that has been burned out at this moment, and the entire superstructure has been completely destroyed, as if it is the site of a 20-story building that has just been demolished, and it is a mess.

There were stumps and broken arms everywhere, and it was impossible to tell which soldier it belonged to, and a wave hit it, and bright red blood quickly flowed out of the cracks, full of all kinds of feces and urine fishy smell, which made people sick.

Dewey looked up into the distance, and the wreckage of the battleship was floating everywhere on the sea, and the fire was raging on it, and puffs of black smoke came out, obscuring the sky and the sun.

The originally huge fleet of the American Navy, with more than 300 warships of various types, now has less than 100 warships left, and the other warships were all sunk by the Imperial Chinese Navy in these three days.

In just three days, it seemed as long as 30 years had passed for Dewey and the officers and men of the American Navy.

Many times, Dewey wanted to jump into the sea and die, because fighting against the Imperial Chinese Navy was so aggrieved that it made people go crazy and wanted to commit suicide.

"Report the battle damage, hurry up and repair the battleship, hurry up and rest, the damned Imperial Chinese Navy will soon come back to attack us!"

Rice gave an order for Dewey, he knew that Dewey had been so angry that his throat was hoarse in the past few days, and Dewey, whose mouth was full of bubbles, actually had difficulty speaking.

In three days, the Chinese and American navies engaged more than 20 times.

Each time it was about an hour, and the Imperial Chinese Navy only dispatched two Fury-class battleships and four Thor-class battleships at first.

Dewey's biggest mistake was to forget that many of the battleships in his hands were actually impersonated by battlecruisers, which could deter the Chinese Empire in peacetime, but in wartime, they would be exposed once engaged.

The American Navy used battlecruisers to pretend to be battleships, and the Imperial Chinese Navy did the same, and the Ice Ocean-class battleships were advertised as battleships, which caused the Japanese Navy's combined fleet to suffer a big dumb loss, and finally the entire army was annihilated.

Battleships pretending to be battlecruisers, during the war, can make the opponent suffer a big dumb loss.

But on the other hand, the battlecruiser pretended to be a battleship, and during the war, it could only make itself suffer a big dumb loss.

This was the case with the U.S. Navy at this time, because the Imperial Chinese Navy discovered this secret, so the two Fury-class battleships and four Thor-class battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, with one enemy and three, faced a fleet of eighteen U.S. battleships and battlecruisers, but they were not afraid, and a high-intensity naval battle was brought down, which severely damaged the U.S. fleet.

Dewey thought that the six battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy were easy to bully, so he ordered the Rhode Island-class battleships, Louisiana-class battlecruisers, Delaware-class battleships, and Florida-class battlecruisers to besiege, intending to directly sink the four weakest Thor-class battleships with more and less, and then turn the guns around and encircle and destroy the two Fury-class battleships together.

As a result, a large group of US battlecruisers violently attacked the four Thor-class battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, firing hundreds of large-caliber 14-inch and 15-inch shells, although they hit the armor of the Thor-class battleships every time, but the destructive power of the armor-piercing shells after penetrating the armor is small, and the replacement of blasting shells cannot penetrate the armor, and can only destroy the superstructure, at most some auxiliary facilities will be blown up, but it will not be able to blow up the command tower, turret and other heavily armored protection places of the Thor-class battleships.

The four Thor-class battleships became more and more courageous, but the battlecruisers of the U.S. army, which pretended to be battleships, would be severely damaged as long as they were hit by a 15-inch shell (armor-piercing blasting shell) fired by a Thor-class battleship.

However, the Imperial Chinese Navy had reconnaissance planes in the air to help compare the impact points of the projectiles, so that the accuracy of the main guns of the Imperial Chinese Navy was much higher than that of the US main guns, which made the US ships suffer a lot.

The ending is obvious, the Chinese Imperial Navy's two Blood Bull Fury-class battleships and four Thor-class battleships, a total of 24 16-inch guns and 48 15-inch guns, each fire salvo, to the American Navy those brittle battlecruisers pretending to be battleships to deal heavy damage, a shell hit to smoke and fire, a few shells hit caused serious damage, forced to withdraw from the battle sequence, if a 16-inch shell hit a fatal through hit, the US battlecruiser will be directly sunk.

At the beginning, the luck of the US military was not bad, although more than a dozen battlecruisers were violently beaten by 6 battleships of the Chinese Empire, they did not receive a fatal penetrating hit, and even if the whole ship was hit by fire and smoke, they were not sunk.

However, herein lies the problem, this is the deliberate work of the Imperial Chinese Navy, they deliberately only use armor-piercing shells, not armor-piercing blasting shells or blasting shells, in order to only severely damage the American battlecruisers, not sink them.

The aim was to delay the return of Dewey's fleet to the San Diego Naval Base.

You must know that on the battlefield, if your own soldiers are killed, other soldiers will only grab the corpses when they have time, and leave the battlefield directly if they don't have time. However, if your own soldiers are wounded, the other soldiers can only take the risk of retrieving their comrades and then carrying the wounded off the battlefield. If a soldier is wounded, two soldiers need to be carried, and one or more soldiers cover the retreat.

The same is true in naval engagements.

If the Imperial Chinese Navy directly sank the U.S. battlecruisers, then Dewey would immediately order a retreat when he saw that the situation was not good, and the other U.S. battlecruisers would quickly leave the battlefield and return to the San Diego Naval Base with their high speed.

In this way, it would be impossible for the Imperial Chinese Navy to completely annihilate the American Navy.

But if several US battlecruisers were heavily damaged, then what would Dewey choose, obviously he could not abandon these heavily damaged US battlecruisers. On the one hand, because there are all living American officers and soldiers, America's bullshit democracy and values have always taught Americans not to die for their companions, and not to abandon these companions and leave alone.

On the other hand, can a battlecruiser of several tens of thousands of tons be easily abandoned? That's a $150 million battleship!

The appearance of the first super-dreadnought battlecruiser in history in the United States, the cost of a single ship is as high as 80 million US dollars.

You must know that it was in 1918 after the First World War, the production cost was low, the technology was mature, and now it is 1894, with an interval of 24 years. In 1894, an American-made battle cruiser of 30,000 to 40,000 tons was much more expensive to manufacture than 24 years later, and the cost of $150 million was not exaggerated.

As far as Dewey is concerned, if he gives up a battle cruiser, it is equivalent to giving up more than 1,500 US military lives, and he will not be able to gain a foothold in the Navy in the future, and the loss of a battle cruiser is equivalent to a loss of $150 million.

As a result, Dewey could not abandon a few heavily damaged battlecruisers and escape alone, so he could only send more battleships to protect him and tow a few battlecruisers back to San Diego with him.

The damaged battlecruisers were slow, delaying the speed of the entire fleet.

This officially said the desired result of the Chinese Imperial Navy Commander Lin Jiyun.

As a result, Lin Jiyun and Lin Taizeng divided the labor, Lin Jiyun was on the day shift, leading the surface ships of the Chinese Imperial Navy to constantly raid the American fleet, attacking from a long distance, avoiding the heavy and light, and focusing on the crispy warships of the American army.

Lin Tai was on night duty and led the submarine force to sneak attack at night.

A single Fish Radium can no longer blow up and sink a 40,000-ton battleship like the South Carolina-class, but it can damage it hard, force it to reduce its speed, or even stop the ship and anchor to repair the battleship.

In this way, the American Navy was forced to engage the surface fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy during the day, and was attacked by the submarine forces of the Imperial Chinese Navy at night.

At this time, the Imperial Chinese Navy would come to harass every hour or two, and the two sides would fight fiercely with artillery, and the Imperial Chinese Navy would withdraw after a few rounds of artillery and return after a while.

The Chinese Empire's Fury-class battleships and Bingyang-class battleships can all fire a salvo at a distance of 30 kilometers, at this distance, the most powerful South Carolina-class battleship of the United States is already the limit, is the maximum range, the impact point error of the fired shells is too large, it is difficult to hit, even if it hits a lucky blow by chance, such a long distance has minimized the kinetic lethality of its shells, and it cannot cause fatal damage.

Dewey tried several times to fight the Imperial Chinese Navy, and whenever he transferred the capital ships, he found that the battlecruisers and old dreadnought-class battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy suddenly appeared in the rear and attacked the American battlecruisers, armored cruisers, and supply ships that were under repair.

If the supply ship was gone, Dewey would have to cry.

Therefore, Dewey had no choice but to abandon the frontal capital ship of the Chinese Empire and turn around and come back to protect.

The Imperial Chinese Navy dragged on like this, constantly harassing the American fleet, waiting for another Imperial Chinese Navy fleet to arrive.

Dewey was so entangled that he was terribly sore when he walked.

He had already seen that the purpose of the Imperial Chinese Navy was to keep consuming it.

If Li Weiguo was here, he would say that this is a classic kite flying tactic!

Dewey and his fleet had been bullied by this kite-flying tactic, and the problems he faced were serious, and as a commander, he had become indecisive at this moment.

If you can't break your wrist by a strong man, there is only one way to die.

"Report to the Commander, we are running out of ammunition and our supply ships have been sunk in several previous battles!"

"What?"

Dewey exclaimed in a hoarse voice, forgetting the pain in his throat.

"Commander, we have to make a decision!"

Rice sighed and said, "If we don't give up these battered warships, we will be consumed here alive!" Even, I suspect that the Imperial Chinese Navy is waiting for their reinforcements! ”

"Fart! How could they still have reinforcements? We have successfully destroyed the Pearl Harbor naval base, the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy has been destroyed, and they can't have reinforcements! ”

Dewey, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, suddenly exploded into rage.

Rice smiled bitterly: "Commander, no matter if there is rice or reinforcements, our ammunition is gone, if we don't evacuate, we will all die here." ”

Dewey shook his head and said in a hoarse voice, "I can't leave them and run away alone!" ”

The voice was like crying, and it was a little choked.

The naval battle was fought to this extent, and the morale and depression of the American Navy were extremely low, and the pride of destroying the Pearl Harbor Naval Base before was now completely destroyed.

"What are you worried about? Worried about being punished by President Roosevelt? Rest assured, I will testify to you that you were forced to choose. ”

Rice continued to persuade that he hoped that the American Navy would not be completely annihilated, and that it was time for the strong man to break his wrist.

Dewey seemed to be moved, but just as he was about to make up his mind to retreat, he suddenly heard the frightened shouts of the sentinels on the mainmast tower.

"Spot the enemy fleet!"

"It's a massive enemy fleet!"

"The main fleet of the Chinese Empire is here!"

……

At this time, the hearts of the officers and men of the American Navy have become very fragile, and a single hair will crush their hearts, causing internal bleeding.

Everyone looked at the sea level in the distance, and they seemed to be able to see a black dot in a daze.

Dewey and other U.S. military officers picked up binoculars one after another, and they were dumbfounded.

"Are they the two big monsters that fought us just now?"

"Nope! It's not the two just now! The appearance is the same, but depending on their port numbers, the ones who fought with us before were the Rage [BB-31], the Rage [BB-32], and now the BB-33 and BB-34! ”

An American officer hurriedly took out a photo album, opened it, and suddenly turned green with fright, and shouted: "BB-33 and BB-34, respectively, are the sister ships of the Fury and Fury, and they are both super dreadnought battleships with 16-inch guns!" ”

Hearing this, all the US officers and soldiers were petrified in an instant, and some officers and soldiers even had weak legs and wanted to kneel.

In the previous three days, they had already learned the terrifying power of the two ultra-dreadnought battleships with 16-inch main guns of the Chinese Imperial Navy. Now with two more sister ships, the next battle will be even more terrifying.

But that's far from the end of the story, with more big guys appearing at sea level.

"Look, those four ships seem to be bigger than the Fury class!"

"Let's see what their numbers are?"

"BB-35 - it's the Pacific! It belongs to the Ice Ocean-class battle cruiser, with four triple 16-inch 50-diameter main guns and a speed of 27 knots! Unknown armor! ”

"BB-36 - it's the Atlantic! Ice Ocean Class No. 2 ship! ”

"BB-37 - Indian Ocean! Ice Ocean Class No. 3 ship! ”

"BB-38 - Arctic Ocean! Ice Ocean Class No. 4 ship! ”

"Oh God, is this a joke? Two Fury-class battleships have already beaten us like this, two more Fury-class battleships, four more Bingyang-class battlecruisers, and eight battleships with 16-inch guns, what should we do! ”

The American officers and men of the ships forgot to repair the battleship, forgot to clean the corpses on the deck, forgot to bandage their wounded comrades, and all looked at the horizon in confusion.

"There's more!"

Woohoo! Woohoo!

Some US officers and soldiers were already frightened and had green faces and weak legs, and they knelt directly at this moment.

β€œbb-23! It's the battleship Tempest! ”

"BB-24, this is the battleship Shower!"

"BB-25, this is ......"

……

"BC-4, this is the Yuyun, the 4th ship of the Fengyun-class battlecruiser!"

……

"BB-20, this is the battleship No Regrets, the Dreadnought-class No. 10 ship!"

……

"Oh my God, what do I see? This is clearly the main fleet of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy! ”

"Hell, I remember these ships being blown to pieces during the attack on Pearl Harbor that night! How did it pop up again! ”

"Impossible! This must be a mirage! They must all be fake! ”

……

Woohoo! Woohoo!

I was scared and knelt down for a large time, and even worse, I was directly scared to pee.

None of the US officers and men wanted to see the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, this was their nightmare, and they had been bullied by the Imperial Chinese Navy for more than ten years, blocking their doorstep and being bullied, which had made the American Navy fear the Imperial Chinese Navy from the depths of their souls.

"Noβ€”it can't be! Didn't they already sink in Pearl Harbor? ”

Dewey's face couldn't have been whiter, the same color as a dead man. He didn't believe that this was the truth, didn't he destroy a capital ship of the Imperial Chinese Navy in his sneak attack on Pearl Harbor?

Rice was also shocked, what he had been worrying about for these days finally happened, which confirmed his guess that the Chinese Imperial warships that night were too crispy, and a single fish radium could be blown to pieces, which was a little unreal.

At this moment, seeing the huge ships like mountains appearing on the sea level, Rice closed his eyes in pain.

It was not a mirage, even if it was a mirage, it showed that the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy was not destroyed at Pearl Harbor and was on its way.

After a while, Rice opened his eyes and said anxiously: "Your Excellency Commander, you can't hesitate any longer, please order a retreat immediately!" ”

Dewey was completely stunned, and the whole world seemed to be quiet, only watching Rice's mouth move, but not hearing a sound.

His ears are bleeding!

It was shocked by the violent explosion shock wave of the 16-inch shell, even if he stayed in the command tower, the instantaneous sound wave impact also caused his eardrum to crack, and at this time, the anger and fire attacked the heart, and the eardrum was instantly broken, and he lost his hearing.

Rice was so anxious that she couldn't care about it so much.

"The whole fleet is out of now! Target San Diego! ”

The transmission of the flag was very inefficient, but at this moment, all the surviving officers and men of the American Navy seemed to realize the flagship's order in an instant, and they pressurized their boilers, turned on their full power, and fled at full speed.

Those heavily damaged US warships, which are not repaired at the moment, forcibly start, even if it is a snail speed, will flee in the direction of San Diego.

It's just that what made them collapse was that another fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy reappeared.

BB-31 and BB-32!

Horns of rage and rage!

These two super dreadnought battleships have made all the officers and men of the American Navy hate them to the bone in the past few days, so when they saw the side numbers of these two battleships, their eyes were instantly blood-red.

Soon, though, tears flowed from their blood-red eyes.

It's poor tears!

Because this fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy happened to stop in the direction of San Diego.

This is the rhythm of being beaten to death!

All the officers and sailors of the American Navy realized that this would be the final battle!

Dewey couldn't hear what was being said, but his eyes could see.

"Rush over! For America! ”

"Rush over! For our wives and children! ”

…… (To be continued.) )