Observing the Chinese aircraft skimming the sky, this somewhat made Commodore Stehl feel a little worried, the battleship Nebraska, which had just fled back to the port for renovation, transferred the news from the Tai Ship Commander, confirming that the Chinese had used air strikes to attack surface warships on a large scale, and the **** colonel's description of the way of air strikes was not detailed, after all, the second squadron was routed by the Chinese battleship group. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Therefore, although it has attracted the attention of the US commanders of the Grand Fleet, considering the speed of the aircraft after hanging bombs in this era, and the fact that the British Navy of the alliance also has aircraft carriers in service, but the combat effect is so bad, the US military also knows the roots, as for why the Chinese adopt such immature tactics, it can only be said that the Chinese have been fighting with the Royal Navy for sea power.

But Brigadier General Stehr suddenly remembered at this moment, since Chinese has put combat aircraft into aircraft carrier operations, it is natural that on the Guam Naval Base, which is not small, there are also very likely aircraft with the same performance, the aerial bomb attack from the Chinese aircraft described by Colonel ****, but it does not mention dive bombing in detail, because this thing is completely a new term, and maybe Colonel **** doesn't feel very easy to describe......

The colonel focused on the damage caused by the attack on the Chinese and American ships, and mentioned the loss of morale the most, after all, the Second Squadron was attacked by air raids, and Brigadier Lucius finally gave up the decisive battle with the Chinese Squadron...... Commodore Stehl immediately ordered that the two high-level dual-purpose speed guns in the front and rear of the battleship should only be on alert, and at the same time ordered to prepare for additional anti-aircraft light fire on the deck.

This little episode has just been dealt with, the Mississippi followed by two and a half rounds of salvo but once again made Commodore Stehl frown, the opposite cruiser Ryukyu continued to maneuver and change the distance, in addition to always occupying the left front position, the opponent's distance and course angle are constantly changing, Major Fezes has completely used his housekeeping skills, but after two rounds of calibration, not only did not correct the deviation, the latest round of half volleys, the smallest error of a cannonball deviated by more than 800 meters......

Fortunately, it seems that such constant maneuvering also had a similar effect on the artillery skills of the Chinese, and the opponent fired 5 consecutive volleys, and although the shells set off waves near the Mississippi, the Mississippi was obviously unharmed! It's just that such a result is obviously not what Brigadier General Stell wants, and giving the Chinese Yankees a fatal blow to this thin-skinned dumpling is the most crisp and neat way!

"Report!" The officer in the telegraph room on the Ryukyu suddenly ran into the command tower and handed Wu Hongyuan the telegram he had just received from the Guam base.

Wu Hongyuan was paying full attention to the increasingly fierce fighting between the two sides, and the Yankees' battleships showed a degree of weakness in gunnery, which was obviously beyond his expectations, and the Ryukyu continued to close and close the distance, one was a tactical move made in response to the lack of fire control between Britain and the United States, and the other was that Lin Yongsheng had already made new considerations.

The whole tactical arrangement was to give the Nanping destroyer time to seek emergency repairs, but after the frontal fight, although the Yankees had an advantage in artillery fire and armor, but the development of the whole battle situation, the 210mm gun barrel of the Ryukyu was unexpectedly able to effectively suppress the opponent, and Wu Hongyuan also found at this moment that at a distance of 13000-15000 meters, it seemed to be the weakness of the Yankees!

The telegram from the Guam naval base was sent by garrison commander Lin Yongsheng, and the fierce battle on the northwest coast of the island was naturally observed by the island for the first time, and at this moment, the artillery battle at the naval base was in full swing, but Lin Yongsheng obviously did not have much pressure, and the bombardment of the battleships of the Yankees just exposed the poor means of attack on the port targets by the other side.

Although some of the facilities in the port and the buildings near the port were hit, the port fortress that the defense forces really relied on only lost part of the surface terrace gun position, and the Yankees did not dare to confront the fortress guns head-on, but Lin Yongsheng began to worry that once the Yankees finished the base of 50 rounds per main gun, they would have to evacuate in a hurry......

Wu Hongyuan looked at the telegram, didn't think too much, directly recognized Lin Yongsheng's suggestion, and immediately called back to the base to agree to the plan, and almost at the same time, after 7 consecutive rounds of salvo to no avail, the Ryukyu, which kept changing the position and distance, finally hit a very wonderful round of high hits!

At a distance of 14,000 meters, the whizzing 9 210mm armor-piercing shells fired a very impressive round of straddle fire, although because this was almost the limit of the 210 gun barrel, this caused the depression angle of the shell to reach a large elevation angle of nearly 65 degrees, which also means that the projectile coverage area formed by the final fall trajectory of the shell became smaller.

But at the same time, the original 210mm armor-piercing projectile weighed only about 140 kilograms, which was not enough to penetrate any of the vertical main armor belts of the battleship Mississippi...... In this round of volleys, the simple exposure hit 4 direct hits and 2 close misses.

Among them, 3 of the armor-piercing shells that directly hit, 2 of which hit the horizontal armor belt of the bow of the ship, and 1 hit the secondary main turret behind the command tower, directly causing damage to a secondary 203mm main turret rotator and two huge blasting pits and fires on the foredeck.

The fourth armor-piercing projectile that hit the USS Mississippi unexpectedly smashed directly into the cage lookout above the command tower, killing three lookout officers, and directly collapsing the watchtower's encirclement and igniting a fire......

Immediately afterward, before Major Fezes could launch the sixth half-salvo, another round of the Ryukyu salvo hit the Mississippi again, and two shells hit the foredeck of the Mississippi again, and this time, the two groups of American soldiers who had hurried to rescue the wounded and replenish the damage were blown away almost instantly by the air wave generated by the explosion.

That is, in less than 20 seconds, the battleship Mississippi, which was originally going to look for opportunities step by step, has become a live target for Chinese battleships, and more than 30 casualties immediately made the originally relaxed atmosphere on the battleship completely condensed, and Major Fez, as the shooting officer of the battleship, although he went all out to carry out the gunnery operation, now it seems that there is almost no result - except for the observation of a close miss, most of the other time, the school projectile is God knows how to make such a big error!

Next, the Mississippi fired another round of school firing, but the result was another disappointment, of course, the error of this round was still improved compared with the earlier waves, but at this moment, the towering cannon barrels on the opposite Ryukyu had begun to fire a salvo without hurry...... Brigadier General Stehr was also quick to realize the problem.

In the continuous engagement between the two sides, although the battleship Mississippi had almost all the advantages except speed, from the beginning of the school firing, the rhythm of the war was completely controlled by the small broken ship of the Chinese on the opposite side, the other side unhurriedly seized the position, and then unhurriedly launched the school firing, and at the same time constantly carried out the damn Z-shaped navigation to interfere with their own fire control.

Damn it, he fell into the opponent's trap without being caught off guard, so that the opponent actually played a result that surprised him at a complete disadvantage......

Brigadier General Stehl clenched his fists, and now he had to make changes, but the decisions and choices that could be made in front of him were pitiful...... From the bottom of his heart, his anger against the Ryukyu is unparalleled!

He slammed down the ledge, gave a loud order, deflected course and charged at his opponent, no doubt hoping that the battleship Mississippi would close the distance a little more, and then deliver a fatal blow to the damned Yankees from a controlled distance...... As a result, Commodore Stere's ominous premonition was immediately fulfilled, and within two minutes of the battleship turning, at least 10 shells hit the Mississippi in three successive salvos from the opposite side.

A series of bomb explosions raised black smoke rose from different positions of the battleship Mississippi, and a 30mm two-purpose machine gun on the terrace gun emplacement on the right side of the battleship was also destroyed in the violent explosion.

This is not a dozen kilograms of small bombs, but 130 kilograms of big guys, although the armor on the Mississippi is enough to resist the bombardment of these large bombs, but the huge impact of each explosion is enough to kill anyone who makes the surface of the nearby battleship active, the previous two bombs hit the lifeboat near the rear of the command tower, and as a result, the two sailors were pushed down more than ten meters into the air by a direct wave of air, fell down and hit the cold steel armor, and their heads were directly blooming, and they couldn't see it alive.

Seeing that the Mississippi turned desperately and rushed straight over, Wu Hongyuan naturally would not give the other party any chance, and after the Ryukyu then fired three rounds of rapid fire, he immediately turned around and left, and then the advantage of 6 knots of speed, he didn't plan to let the Yankees get close to fight, the opponent's cannon tube, he didn't want to eat a single shot...... In fact, it can't bear to take a shot!

More than ten minutes passed, the battleship Mississippi not only did not close any visible distance, but was hit one after another, the small-caliber gun silhouettes on the upper deck of the battleship suffered heavy losses, and even more tragic were the soldiers who were damaged in charge, because the fire ignited by the explosion could not be extinguished in time, and the smoke brought by the ignition of some flammable materials on the surface of the battleship made the damage management already very difficult, but it was not a sudden explosion, but it almost turned the damage management into a death action.

"General, the soldiers have suffered a lot of losses, I don't think I can continue to follow China in circles!" The staff officer on the side saw the smoke filling the battleship everywhere, and finally couldn't help but make a suggestion to Commodore Stehl.

This suggestion was finally adopted by Commodore Stehr after several other shells hit the front chimney of the Mississippi, and the battle with this Chinese cruiser made him completely powerless, and the battleship Mississippi was estimated to have been hit by at least thirty shells, but he didn't even hit a decent close miss, which is definitely a humiliation for a soldier!

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The battleship USS Mississippi prepares to withdraw...... Wu Hongyuan didn't mean to let go at all, the Ryukyu had 120 shells for each main gun, and the shelling just now was only about 30 rounds......

What made him depressed was that the Mississippi was completely a leather and durable cargo, and it began to turn around and run away as if it was completely fine, and the two American destroyers watched from a distance on the other side, obviously seeing the miserable situation of the Mississippi, they didn't dare to come up at all, seeing that the other party was leaving!

"ND, turn the rudder immediately, let the lookout be optimistic, as long as we don't touch the Yankees' big fleet, we will chase until dark, and if we can't sink this American battleship, then we have to blow it up!" Wu Hongyu shouted loudly and in high spirits, this can drive the battleship away, this record alone is enough to blow a few times in the naval world!

Both sides stared at each other nervously, even when the battleship turned and caused a violent roll, the artillery fire of the two sides did not stop at all, and the Mississippi obviously realized that Wu Hongyuan could not let go easily, and actually began to slow down slightly, the purpose was actually very clear, Commodore Stehl wanted to try to improve the accuracy of shooting at the cost of reducing speed...... It was completely doable!

The effect was obviously not satisfactory, and in the next 20 minutes of pursuit, the Ryukyu firmly controlled the rhythm of the battle, although because of the state of pursuit, the changing course of the battleship and the unsatisfactory relative position of the two sides, the frequency of the salvo was reduced by at least 30%, and the hit rate also decreased a lot, but the salvo of ten rounds still hit a series of black clouds on the Mississippi again.

Seeing that the opponent who was hard to do was beaten by the fat without discipline but was unmoved, Wu Hongyuan couldn't help but secretly raise his middle finger...... The Yankees' iron turtle is really strong enough, it seems that it is not easy to turn over the iron turtle today!

"General, it's getting dark, should we leave early...... Don't you have a plan for tomorrow morning! At this moment, staff officer Xu Sheng came over.

"Oh......" Wu Hongyuan touched the beard on his chin that had not been shaved for a few days, looked at the Mississippi with billowing black smoke in the distance, and then turned around and came to the chart, Xu Sheng had already drawn the evacuation route on the chart, just waiting for his approval.

At this moment, the tail of the battleship Mississippi, which was also sailing in a Z-shape to reduce the chance of being shot, suddenly rose into a surprising wave...... (To be continued.) )