"The newly arrived eighteen-millimeter cannon is still a little difficult to fight such a big guy, and it is no problem to deal with my smaller boats." Another artillery officer said, "Give them a taste of it this time!" ”

"They're coming up." Xu Yuanjin looked at the battlecruiser "King Kong" approaching the shore and said, "They are ready to fire." He turned his head to look at Yang Shuoming, "The first strike is strong, don't you fight now?" ”

"The battle plan has been arranged, you can see!" Yang Shuoming guessed what Xu Yuanjin was worried about, smiled slightly, and said.

Seeing Yang Shuoming's calm appearance, Xu Yuanjin was relieved, he raised the telescope again, and stared at the sea tightly.

The "King Kong" squadron did not stop and fire at a place too close to the coast, as it had done in the last artillery battle, and because it suffered a loss of rocket artillery last time, the squadron behaved relatively cautiously this time, but a trace of arrogance could still be seen.

Just as the fleet was lined up and began to turn its guns to prepare for a salvo on the opposite shore, the Chinese coastal artillery, which had long been ready to fire, opened fire. The German-made 280-mm cannon was the first to start firing, and with a loud bang, shells flew towards the ship.

Yang Shuoming saw that the sea not far from the "King Kong" was boiling in an instant, and huge water columns were rising, and the original hideous and terrifying figure of the "King Kong" suddenly became blurred, and the explosion that was close to the bullet obviously made the "King Kong" feel threatened, and this huge battle cruiser immediately adjusted its position.

Although the first salvo failed to hit the enemy ship, this extremely powerful artillery bombardment still showed that the Chinese gunners' combat skills were not much lower than that of the Yue himself, and soon, the battleship "Iwami", which was operating with the "King Kong", was hit by a shell in the bow, and when they saw the fire and smoke rising from the "Iwami", several observation officers in the shelter all shouted loudly.

After a short period of hesitation, the fleet finally began a ferocious salvo from the opposite shore.

It was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the ships on the sea spewed orange flames from the muzzles of the guns one after another, followed by thick black smoke, as if a monster was spitting poisonous mist, and soon there was a piercing whistling sound of cannonballs in the sky, followed by an earth-shattering explosion.

The huge explosion shook the dust on the dome of the shelter and fell down one after another, Xu Yuanjin raised his head with some concern, looked up, and at this time, another heavy artillery shell from the ship landed and exploded, producing a more violent shock, Xu Yuanjin couldn't help but change color on his face, and the two officers beside him looked at each other in shock.

Xu Yuanjin couldn't help but look at Yang Shuoming, Yang Shuoming at this time still had a casual expression, he actually put down the binoculars, and did not go to the periscope, but directly observed the shelling of the enemy ship with the naked eye.

Looking at the thick and long tongue of fire spewed out from the huge barrel of the "King Kong", Yang Shuoming's face became more and more solemn.

Despite the unusually fierce artillery fire of the fleet, the Chinese coastal artillery was still carrying out an unyielding return fire, and the 280 mm cannon was extremely accurate despite the extremely low rate of fire, but the impact point was unusually accurate, and soon, a cruiser was hit, and Yang Shuoming saw that the gunfire of the ship was immediately silent, and then a high column of smoke rose in the violent explosion and fire, and finally was completely shrouded in a thick smoke screen.

"The artillery fought well today!" I don't know who said it, and the words were filled with indescribable joy.

Hearing his words, Yang Shuoming nodded involuntarily, and a faint smile of relief appeared on the corner of his mouth.

In the first artillery battle with the Japanese fleet, the Bismarck Hill battery was attacked by heavy artillery fire from the Japanese ships, and the losses were heavy. After inspecting the forts, Yang Shuoming, according to the analysis and hints of the "supercomputer eye," organized the Qingdao military and civilians to carry out emergency repairs to the main forts in Qingdao, and improved and strengthened them according to local conditions, so that the viability of each artillery position was greatly improved. In the first artillery battle, the ship completely suppressed the counterattack artillery fire of the battery with two salvos, and this time the ship's artillery fire was much more fierce than the last time, but after several rounds of salvo fire, the intensity of China's coastal artillery fire did not decrease much at all, and it cannot but be said that it was due to the previous emergency repair and reinforcement work.

"My artillery fire is really fierce." Xu Yuanjin sighed and said.

"We in China should also have such a fleet." Yang Shuoming stared closely at the "King Kong" pouring artillery fire on the shore, and said to himself, "We can't go through this kind of saying that there is no defense in the sea and people come to the door." ”

Listening to Yang Shuoming's words, the people around him all fell into silence.

Yang Shuoming's sentence just now, "There is no sea but no defense", it can be said that it deeply stabbed the hearts of everyone in the shelter.

Since China and the Western powers entered the modern era, they have both suffered from aggression from the sea by Western countries, and the two navies have similar starts, but to this day, they already have a powerful navy that the Western powers dare not underestimate, while China's situation of "having a sea but no defense" has hardly changed.

Many of the Chinese artillerymen who are now guarding the forts have fought bloody battles with the Japanese army on land, and they have learned the artillery fire of the Japanese army, and have re-established their self-confidence in victory, but in the face of the artillery fire of the Japanese fleet, these self-confidence have been deeply shaken.

At this moment, the people who are fighting on the fort have a more intuitive and profound experience of the artillery fire of the fleet than the people hiding in the underground shelters.

A cannonball fired from the "King Kong" just hit the outer protective wall of a 280-mm cannon, only to see a flash of fire, with a loud bang, a huge smoke and dust instantly diffused, and the debris and mud set up by the explosion flew into the air with straw sticks and bushes, and then sprinkled down one after another, as if it was raining down on the heads and bodies of the Chinese artillerymen who were firing at the cannons.

The gunners unconsciously began to lie down and dodge, and the officer in charge of the command waved the small flag in his hand, trying to keep everyone going, but he was hit in the head by a flying stone, and blood flowed immediately.

"Sir, you ......" A gunner tried to hold the crumbling officer, but he pushed him away.

"Get up! Get up for Lao Tzu! Keep firing! Kill the dog! The officer wiped the blood from his forehead with his sleeve, grabbed his large-brimmed military hat and put it on, jumped to his feet and shouted.

Listening to the shouts of the commander, the gunners straightened up one after another and resumed their work.

Two gunners pushed a 280-mm shell over with all their might, and the other two put a sling on the shell, hoisted it, and pushed the shell into the chamber with a long pole. Just as the gunner closed the bolt, another shell from the ship flew over, swept over the 280-mm cannon, and hit a small hill not far away.

A huge explosion rang out again, and a strong shock wave blew the tip of the mountain bag and the trees on it in unison, and the burning branches and wood chips were scattered in all directions by the heat flow, and the hot air wave rushed past the reinforced parapet wall and rushed into the gun position, and several gunners were unsteady on their feet, and they were almost knocked to the ground.

"Phew! Dog! Such a ruthless cannon! I don't know who scolded and spat at the same time, probably letting the mud and sand fly into his mouth.

"I saw that cannonball just now, it's as thick as an oil drum, and if it hits, we'll all be done......," someone said.

"Focus! Hurry up! Don't think about useless things! The officer in charge of the command shouted at the top of his voice.

The gunners resumed their work, with the wave of the command flag in the officer's hand and the "Fire!" The 280-millimeter cannon body aimed at the ship shook violently, and a dark red tongue of fire and black smoke erupted from the muzzle, and the huge cannonball instantly came out of its disembowel, and flew straight towards the "King Kong" with deadly energy.

The 280-millimeter shell roared across the sea, and exploded close to the starboard middle of the "King Kong" into the water, and the huge explosion set off a high column of water, which, together with countless tiny shrapnel, landed on the bridge of the "King Kong."

Several sailors who were running on the deck were swept by the flying shrapnel, coupled with the impact of the seawater, their feet slipped, and they all fell to the ground, and the legs of the two sailors were pierced by small bullet-like shrapnel, and for a time the white sailor's pants were full of blood, and the two people hugged their legs in unison, and lay there howling in pain.

One of the uninjured sailors, probably frightened by the terrible power of the explosion of this large-caliber shell from the Chinese artillery, held his head tightly and curled up in the corner, crying loudly.

"You bastard! Hurry back to your post and fight! ”

A midshipman in a military uniform who should have been from a noble background couldn't help but be furious when he saw him like this, and the midshipman came to the sailor in a few steps and shouted loudly.

"Coward! Coward! I command you to get up at once! Seeing that the other party was deaf to his words, the midshipman trembled with anger, and he suddenly drew the sword at his waist and shouted at the other party again.

At this time, the captain of the "King Kong" Matsuoka Shuzo Osa, who was standing on the bridge, saw this scene, and his face couldn't help but become very ugly.

As the third captain of the "King Kong," he was actually opposed to sailing this invaluable new battle cruiser under his command to the Chinese battlefield for adventure.

As the main ship of the Navy, the "King Kong" has only been in service for more than a year, and the sailors are not yet completely familiar with their warships.

(To be continued)