The three 254mm, 35 times diameter heavy guns on the 701 ship can easily tear the 200mm CT31 nickel steel armor produced by Mawei at a distance of 2500m, while the thickest waterline armor of the "Fusang" is 230mm ordinary cast iron armor, and most parts of the armor are 100-125mm cast iron armor.

Compared with the calculation of the protective power of the steel armor, the protection of the 200mm nickel steel armor is better than the 280mm cast iron armor, so the seemingly heavy armor on the Fusang is quite insufficient in front of the powerful naval guns of the Nanyang Naval Division!

In this round of firefighting, the Fusang only counterattacked with a 240mm shell, but the 3 254mm heavy guns on the 701 ship all hit the Fuso, which was close at hand, and nearly 20 120mm rapid-fire shells were also presented!

The hit of three heavy guns immediately put the Fusang on fire, two of which were fired from the upper armor belt on the starboard side of the Fuso, the armor thickness of the upper armor belt was only 125mm, and it could not withstand the heavy artillery bombardment with an initial velocity of 650 meters per second, and the shells exploded in the hull after penetrating the steel armor.

The two heavy shells destroyed several of the water compartments and left a large two-meter-long crack in the right hull, from which smoke and fire gushed out, but it was not the two shells that entered the hull that really posed a serious threat, but another shell that hit the quadrangular gun room directly at the waist of the ship.

The shipside shells on the Fuso have 200mm frontal armor and 150mm top armor, but it must not be considered that the top of the ship's waist quadrangular gun room is relatively weak in defense, because the shells on the top are all smashed at a certain angle, and if the shells are smashed at an angle of 45 degrees, the 150mm armor defense is equivalent to the 220mm frontal armor defense.

However, this time, the heavy artillery that fired directly was not hit at the top, and the 254mm 220 kg steel warhead was almost a vertical angle to hit the 200mm armor belt on the front of the ship's waist gun room, which made the Japanese Navy proud of the key protective armor, which did not play the defensive power expected by the Japanese at all, and was directly pierced!

The 220-kilogram artillery shells perfectly interpreted the scene of hell on earth in the gun room, and the explosion of huge air waves and fragments turned all the four groups of artillery into a pulp of flesh during the loading operation, and then triggered a violent explosion of two fixed propellants piled on the ground!

Xu Shoushan naturally paid attention to the situation here, and when he saw the violent explosion in the gun room on the waist of the Japanese flagship on the opposite side, he also smiled, this cannon directly made the flagship of the Japanese fleet almost completely lose its combat effectiveness, and the boxy stuffy jar-like gun room, in the successive explosions, the armor on the top even cracked into several pieces like a cut fruit.

With a big wave of his hand, "Accelerate to get closer, and name the remaining gun emplacements on the Japanese flagship!" ”

At this time, the Second Fleet opened fire one after another, and the shortening of the distance greatly increased the hit rate of the 254mm heavy guns on the Chaoyong and Yangwei, plus the perverted plow-fire rapid-fire guns on the 601 and 701 ships, and in an instant, the three Japanese battleships that broke through were shrouded in artillery fire!

The 254mm heavy guns on the Chaoyong and Yangwei finally achieved results in this round of shelling, and their two battleships were 254mm and 26 times the diameter of the heavy guns, and the target of their attack was the cruiser "Tsukushi", which had lost its previous main guns, and the two sides had fired more than a dozen rounds at each other, but they had achieved nothing!

In this case, in hand-to-hand combat, it is obvious that there is an absolute advantage in two against one, the main gun in front of the Tsukushi ship was destroyed, and the 254mm heavy gun in the tail can only rely on the counterattack, but the Tsukushi ship adopts a terrace gun design, and the rotating firing angle of the gun is only 240 degrees, and it is impossible to reach the second squad that occupies the top of the T-shaped front at all.

In this round of shooting, Chao Yong and Yang Wei each hit the "Tsukushi" shot, Chao Yong's luck was relatively poor, and he still hit the former main gun position that had been destroyed, but a team of Japanese damage management team members who were rushing to repair the main gun hoisting machine were swept away! At the same time, the explosion lifted the thin steel plate of the ship's armor, ignited the wooden structure of the ship inside, and the bow of the ship was once again ablaze.

The armor of the Tsukushi cruiser's waterline armor belt is only 50mm armor, which is not enough to protect the 254mm heavy gun, and the shell was immediately torn off by the shell, and the shell exploded in the cabin, causing a fire.

Chaoyong and Yangwei naturally do not have this kind of rapid-fire guns used by the South China Sea Fleet, but there are 4 small-caliber Armstrong 120mm guns, which are also rear-loading guns, but the maximum rate of fire is only three or four rounds in 1 minute, and it is only 22 times the diameter, and the firing range is less than 2000 meters. ,

The armored cruisers Hiei and Kongo, which are equipped with 170mm heavy guns and many small-caliber guns, have an advantage over the 601 ship in terms of the number and caliber of their guns, and the tonnage is far more than that of the 601 ship, but they are powerless to fight back under the constant attacks of the 601 ship.

In terms of speed, the 601 ship far surpasses the Hiei and King Kong, and in terms of gun range, the Hiei and King Kong only have three 170mm heavy guns that can be compared with the 601 ship's twin 120mm 35 times the diameter rapid-fire gun, and the other 120mm and 90mm secondary guns and machine guns such as the Green cannon are completely a decoration in comparison.

With three slow-turning, extremely small angles of fire on the side against the all-directional-firing 8 rapid-fire guns of the 601 ship, the battle was doomed from the start! If it weren't for the fact that there were still other warships in the Japanese fleet with all-directional fire, it is estimated that Lu Zhiyuan would have rushed forward to provoke at the first moment!

At this time, the Japanese breakout fleet had basically lost the counterattack ability of heavy artillery at this time, and could only rely on armor and small-caliber artillery for close combat, but this opportunity was impossible for them to obtain by themselves, and the second squad of the combined fleet, which had an absolute speed advantage, would not give them this opportunity......

In just 10 minutes from the high-speed approach to the passing of each other, the two sides exchanged three rounds of heavy artillery, but the Japanese fleet fired only a pitiful 4 shells in these three rounds of heavy artillery, and 3 of them were 170mm shells, and at close range, two of the 170mm shells hit the frontal armor and bow deck of the bow turret of the 701 Heavy Cruiser, and only a few soldiers were injured after the explosion, plus a crater depression in the armor.

The second squad of the Combined Fleet returned 24 heavy artillery shells alone (7 heavy guns, of which the 701 ship had a faster rate of fire), and as for the rapid-fire shells of 120mm caliber, they can only be described as a rain of bullets...... The 501 ship, which was chasing after it, made matters worse, and poured 6 heavy guns at close range towards the opponent's latest "Tsukushi"!

In this round of artillery battle between the two sides, the victory and defeat have been decided, and the combined fleets of the South and North Seas have formed a tail chasing shape, while the only three remaining ironclad ships of the Japanese fleet less than two thousand meters ahead are already seriously injured at this time!

The "Hiei" cruiser was in the worst condition, at this time the entire building above the deck, including the bridge command room, was surrounded by thick smoke and flames, not that no one went to put out the fire, but the living people who appeared on the deck were swept away by the rapid-fire guns of the other side like a rainstorm......

The glory of the Japanese Navy, the new fast cruiser Tsukushi, which recently joined the service, was also in a very ugly condition at this time, with several large holes broken on the right side of the hull, which was caused by the 501 ship close to the angry fire, but the Tsukushi's luck was good, because the armor was too thin, and half of the shells flew directly through the hull, but the remaining heavy guns also made the new battleship immediately shrink into a standard broken ship.

The explosion caused Yan zhòng to permeate the water, and the most severe damage was the cannonball fired by Yang Wei, which directly entered the bottom of the ship and ignited the wooden planks inside the battleship......

In the end, the armor of the flagship Fuso was thick enough, and the rapid-fire guns could only harvest the lives of the Japanese soldiers on the deck of the ship, but they could not be fatal, but the few shells that hit were not in good position, and the entire battleship was damaged more than the hull except for the basic destruction of the artillery system, but none of them were fatally wounded!

After the two sides staggered, the second squad again cut the arc and quickly pursued, Xu Shoushan was also very excited in the face of the easy victory, after the baptism of this battle, the soldiers on the ship were really mature, and the three Japanese battleships in the distance were smoking and blazing, obviously in a dying state!

"Full speed pursuit......" Xu Shoushan pointed forward with great ambition!

"Report!!" An officer rushed in and shouted with a puzzled face, "Pipe band, the flagship gives the order to retreat......"

"Shenma!! Retreat ......" Xu Shoushan glared at the officer and asked loudly, "Liu Ping, you kid didn't wake up!" ”

"Lord Xu, it has been confirmed twice, it is indeed a retreat order, and the reason is the storm!" Liu Ping answered Xu Shoushan's question loudly.

Xu Shoushan looked at the dark sky in the north, to be honest, he was not worried about this storm at all, the combat experience on the 501 ship, that was also back and forth in the storm many times, but...... The military order was like a mountain, and he nodded, "Order, after the last round of shooting, turn to follow the main force and evacuate!" ”,

In the distance, the remnants of the Japanese fleet, Fuso, Kongo, and Tsukushi, also saw the dark sky in front of them at this time, but if they had a choice between the tyranny of nature and the army of tigers and wolves behind them, they would not hesitate to choose the former!

After more than two hours of fierce fighting, Arai Yougong was already physically and mentally exhausted, but what made him even more desperate was that the glory that had always made the Japanese Navy proud was already yesterday's yellow flower, and the empire had worked hard for more than ten years, and today's war ended like this, this battle destroyed not only a few warships, but also the proud belief of the Japanese Navy!

The result of more than 10 years of reform and courage in the Japanese Navy, this answer sheet seems too cruel and disappointing, and Arai Yougong has long been mentally prepared for the defeat of this naval war, and the navy must have someone to shoulder the responsibility for the defeat...... Looking at the dark clouds getting closer and closer in the distance, the famous sentence from The Tale of Genji couldn't help but come to his mind.

What is the human heart like?

That's hard to know...

Only the flowers of the hometown,

Still floating with the fragrance of the past-

At noon on the 16th, the combined fleet of the South Sea and the North Ocean came to the port of Naha, where there were already small pilotage ships to pick them up, and after clearing several anchor mines on the main channel, the battleships entered the port in an orderly manner, and after the combined fleet, there were still three uninvited guests, which were three British cruisers that had been wandering outside the battlefield.

With Qin Kai's thoughts, he naturally didn't want John Bull to follow him all day long, but under the current situation, it was not good for the time being and there were too many movements, but fortunately, the British were not too close to the battlefield when they watched the battle, and they did not have any intention of interfering with the battle, so they were not worried that they could see too much information, anyway, so far, in the case of not getting the Gallic chicken, the problem of John Bull could only be put on hold for the time being.

It was only an hour after entering the port, and the entire Ryukyus was shrouded in a violent storm, at this time, Qin Kai was worried about the battle on Zhangkui's side in the north, but after the storm raged for three whole days, Zhangkui's house appeared in Naha Port with vigor! Naturally, he came with good news.

After receiving the news of the navy's victory, Zhang Kui immediately played his obscene nature. Several Japanese prisoners guarded by the Ryukyu Army unexpectedly heard the news of the destruction of the Japanese Navy when they were escorted out to work, and several prisoners were very witty to take advantage of the negligence of the Ryukyu Army's defense on a rainy day to escape......

After returning to the Japanese garrison of Liantian Port, the news leaked out here was all nose and eye, and the commanders of the Japanese fleet named them by name, and they were not bad at all, which made Kuroda Osa more suspicious! After careful judgment, the accuracy of this news was very good, and he immediately ordered the troops of each stronghold to be reduced and prepared to retreat.

As a result, on the stormy night of that night, Ma Yun of the Second Association Battalion of Zhanghu personally led a hundred assault members, all equipped with grenades and Type 80 submachine guns, pretending to be a certain shrinking army to break into the Japanese camp in Liantiangang.

A small group of Japanese soldiers guarding the camp gate was completely caught off guard, and their single-shot Manlixia rifles were not at all the opponents of the 80 shots and grenades of the 30-round magazine, so this all-armed team of men and horses seized the camp gate lightly, and frantically threw grenades everywhere......

Then the raided guards set up a mortar position at the entrance of the camp and carried out indiscriminate bombardment of the entire Japanese barracks, and the command system of the Japanese army was completely broken up and disabled!

Kuroda Osa gathered two teams around him to carry out a counterattack, but as a result, he threw a corpse in front of 80 submachine guns, grenades and mortars, and finally joined the battle with a larger number of Ryukyu army rabble, these honest Ryukyuan people under the jurisdiction of the guardian, fully exposed their sharp teeth, and executed all the captured Japanese prisoners.

In this regard, Zhang Kui has already issued an order, that is the history of grievances between the Ryukyuan and the Japanese, let's not interfere!

The battle lasted all night, and the next day, except for the Japanese army of less than 300 people who fled on the steamer in the harbor and fled overnight despite the threat of the storm, the rest of the Japanese army was completely annihilated, and the casualties of the escort ** were less than 50, of which only 7 died, and the Ryukyu army killed hundreds of people in the confrontation with small Japan, but this was completely insignificant.

The important thing is that this battle marks the end of the month-long Ryukyu battle plan with the complete victory of the protection **, for Zhang Kui's command ability, Qin Kai is naturally very satisfied, I didn't expect this guy to be a talker on weekdays, but he is not ambiguous at all when he fights, and this first command of a large-scale operation actually has a stroke of genius! ,

On February 20, 1182, Qin Kai received the remnants of the Ryukyu royal family, King Shanghei, at the port of Naha, and he was quite interested in this young prince in his thirties...... That's the second piece of land that I have set in, but the land here is a little barren and lonely, so there are some problems with the safety.

But this point, he has already thought about it, and now in this situation, the little Japanese side is going to take advantage of his illness and his life, and the opportunity to beat the water dogs must not be missed, the problem of the Ryukyus, and even the island of Anmi, this will not be left to the future generations to discuss what ownership issues, that is originally China's territory, what else to talk about!!

Qin Kai made an appointment with Shang Ping alone in the house to talk, and the two talked secretly for two hours, and when Shang Ping came out, his expression was quite exaggerated, like excitement, and like confusion, but when he left, he gave Qin Kai a big salute and respectfully retreated!

This made Zhang Kui's 120,000 points puzzled, and when he saw Qin Kai drafting a document with a pencil next to him, he secretly ran up and asked, "Teacher, are you ...... That one...... What did you do with this surnamed Shang? ”

Qin Kai's face is black, Zhang Kui's guy is this temper, strange words, let's do this for the benefit of the Chinese nation, this has been talked about for two hours, it is more than 4 hours, this mouth is almost worn out, I don't want to talk about these interests and losses, I can talk so well now, he smiled slightly, and asked: "Zhang Kui, whose territory do you think this Ryukyu should be?" ”

Zhang Kui raised his head and smiled, "Teacher, naturally it is the territory of our Nanyang Sailors!" If there is no water division in our town, this kid surnamed Shang will end up with his brother and go to Tokyo, Japan to eat dry rice! ”

Qin Kai squinted his eyes and nodded, "Zhang Kui, what you said is also on my side, in fact, it doesn't matter who owns this land, the important thing is that this land has allowed our rights and interests in the sea to expand by a full 800 kilometers!" This will be another stronghold of our Nanyang Navy Division in the future, and this is a gateway, and Japan has to pass through here for any movement! ”