The Bozhou was suddenly attacked, it was from the attack of the battleship Nebraska less than 6,000 meters away at the moment, because the outflanking was too aggressive, and the previous US Navy attack was too weak, and the opponent's lagging battleship Nebraska was in the midst of the bombardment of its own battleships in turn, which caused the right flank destroyer fleet to advance slightly.

But the price of mistakes is obviously not cheap, and the Nebraska's broadside projection capabilities, with its four 12-inch guns, eight Class 2 guns, and 12 75mm secondary guns, are absolutely excellent, especially when targeting a large destroyer 140 meters long...... And this time, the American did hit a round of high-quality hits at a training level.

The most serious hit came from the single shot of the 200mm secondary main gun of the battleship Nebraska, although the Bozhou destroyer is the latest Changbaishan-class destroyer, but the tonnage of 2000 tons has long been filled with power and weapons and equipment, although the tonnage that can be used for protective armor has been improved, but it is obviously unable to resist the bombardment from the battleship's secondary main gun.

This 95-kilogram high-explosive shell hit the bare stern 150mm main turret side armor belt of the Bozhou, and immediately tore less than 4 inches of armor and entered the turret.

When the turret fell heavily, the entire port deck position was suddenly blasted open a huge black hole of more than 4 meters, nearly 30 kilograms of explosives violently exploded from the high thermal shock wave, almost in an instant this huge black hole into a big fireball, close to the port side of the blast position of the compartment armor is only 2 inches, almost useless for this level of explosion, the twisted, torn steel plate will be blasted out of the Bozhou destroyer on the rear side of the starboard deck under the huge ruins with a radius of seven or eight meters.

Taken aback, the destroyer Bozhou turned around like crazy almost at the same time as it was hit, fortunately, the Bozhou was the most right-wing of the 4 Chinese destroyers, and the full rudder withdrew to no obstacle at all, and at the same time, the other 3 destroyers also saw the dilemma of the Bozhou, and they all gave up the pursuit of the fleeing Guhan destroyer, but fired a round of artillery bombardment at the Nebraska more than 7,000 meters away, and then charged at full speed!

In front of the Chinese Navy, although the US Navy is not a rookie, it does not dare to despise any tactical actions from the Chinese warships, after all, the Nebraska battleship is being shelled by two Chinese battleships in the distance, the Dayu and the Sky Wolf......

The 3 Chinese destroyers only carried out one round of shelling and no longer shelled to expose their respective positions, and chose to rush to their positions at full speed, as the commander of the battleship Nebraska, Colonel **** is not willing to make any miscalculation, the biggest possibility of the other side is to rush forward and launch the destroyer's deadly saturation torpedo attack, which is definitely a fatal trouble for the Nebraska, which is being targeted by the opponent's battleship at the moment!

Colonel ...... Mobile **** chose the only correct approach, before the long-range artillery bombardment from the Chinese battleship on his own, the second main gun on the port side of the battleship Nebraska had been knocked out, and caused serious damage to the superstructure of the hull, fortunately, with the opportunity of the destroyer's assault, the fire had just been extinguished under the desperate fighting of the damage management team.

However, there are still at least 3 small fires on the hull that need to be dealt with at this moment, and it is by no means easy for him to take the battleship out of the battlefield, and in the previous series of engagements, he has long realized that the night battle with the Chinese not only has no chance of victory, but the other party's original advantage has been enhanced.

The most important reason why the side has now only lost the battleship Luisiana and the escort destroyers is obviously that the other side has already grasped the complete initiative and does not want to increase the danger, so it has chosen the tactics of long-range shelling...... And this may be the only opportunity you can take advantage of......

"Order, out of the lookout and the secondary artillery firing group, the rest of the personnel immediately into the damage control...... The open fire on the hull must be extinguished within 5 minutes! Colonel **** stared at a fire point on the right side of the command tower, and gave an order anxiously, at this moment, the huge shadow of the battleship Delaware, which was also moving in front of him, was flashing in the night.

17,000 meters away, Tang Zhen, the commander of the second fleet, frowned, holding a cigarette butt with only a cigarette butt left, staring at the distance, the destroyer formation had a fierce confrontation, although it had already defeated the 4 destroyers escorted by the other side, but he was not sure if the Yankees had other hidden destroyers, after all, with information at hand, the other party had at least a few destroyers!

After the fierce confrontation, the Americans also made an unexpected reaction, and even did not hesitate to expose their positions in a short period of time to shell the destroyer formation that fired the flares, and even sent destroyers to sneak attack, which directly led to the reduction of the frequency and accuracy of the firing of flares by their own destroyer formations.

The huge cloud of fire that had risen from the battleship Nebraska had disappeared from the night at this moment, but fortunately, there were still two small fires that could not disappear from the darkness...... Thinking of this, Tang Zhen threw away the cigarette butt on his mouth!

"Order, turn the rudder 30 degrees to the left, accelerate closer to the target, the target distance is 15,000 meters!" Tang Zhen yelled at the microphone, he must give up his previous conservative tactics, the shortcomings of the night battle exposed by the opponent are the best opportunity for him to tear apart the opponent, and he must not let it go!

On the other hand, looking at the tense battle atmosphere on the entire battleship, the most calm at this moment was obviously not the commander Tang Zhen, who was originally the shooting commander, but the fleet shooting commander Lieutenant Colonel Han Cheng, who was sitting in the shooting command room of the Guangzhou at the moment......

"The target ship turned, the relative angle was 15 degrees...... Speed 20 knots......"

"The general just ordered us to turn the rudder 30 degrees, and we're closing the distance!"

"There are 5 single-shot sequences on the right, and the impact error of the C gun position is the smallest, no more than 150 meters!"

"The field of vision is limited, and the countdown to the school shooting is 30 seconds...... It has been observed that the distance is currently 440 meters per minute! ”

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Han Cheng obviously listened to this series of reports, but he was not only concerned about the enemy in front of him, the Americans chose to constantly change their routes, and even completely did not limit themselves to the movement of the Z-shaped route, and carried out this irregular movement under the conditions of night fighting, and there is no doubt that this was a rare opportunity to test the naval gunnery's actual combat skills.

However, the Yankees obviously did not understand the strength of the opponent opposite him, and in the countless confrontations between himself and his colleagues in the army, he had more than once used similar tactics to compete with each other...... At this moment, the mapping pencils that were constantly swinging on the side of the fire control platform plotted the relative positions of a series of warships on the two sides on the drawings, while Han Cheng was carefully looking for the opportunity to make his own move in these chaotic lines.

Although the opponent was cunning, he was the most patient hunter, so even when he saw Commander Tang Zhen's frowning brows, he didn't have the slightest intention of rushing to make a move, but shot one shot after another, very patiently...... And the opportunity came unexpectedly and quickly......

In the night on the right flank, the destroyer Heyuan fired 4 flares at once after a quick maneuver, although due to the inaccurate observation of the position of the target ship Delaware, the good gunnery still created a lighting space of at least two thousand meters, and the battleship Delaware happened to enter from the left side of the lighting area!

"10 seconds, calibrate to the A gun position to calibrate the firing parameters!" At this moment, Han Cheng almost undoubtedly issued a new order.

The auxiliary shooting officer on the side of the "wind deviation calibration +1......" is also very timely to supplement the deviation data, and now on the huge and complex fire control table, everyone plays an extremely important role, and the main shooting officer obviously has the ability to control the overall situation.

The second hand is beating dripping, and in the face of the ever-changing battlefield, time must obviously be accurate......

5 seconds......

4 seconds ...... The red light that has been prepared for the C gun position is the first to illuminate

3 seconds ...... The red lights for the A and E main turrets were lit up in no particular order

2 seconds...... The lights of the B and D turrets were also lit up

Without waiting for Han Cheng to give an order, another shooting officer had already loudly reported the battleship's roll parameters, "The roll horizontal angle is 27 degrees, the roll speed is 4 degrees/second, and the countdown is 6.75 seconds!" ”

At the same time, the large-scale second dial on the front of the fire control platform was immediately reset, the second hand slowly moved, and Han Cheng, who had always been very calm, finally opened his eyes wide! (To be continued.) )