Although the actual distance between the US battleships that fired at the ship was much farther than the distance between the two formations, the sudden increase in the density of firepower to five times that of the previous one still greatly increased the probability of the Xuanyuan battlecruiser being hit by the enemy's large-caliber shells. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

I only heard a loud noise, a 305mm armor-piercing bullet smashed on the front deck of the Xuanyuan battlecruiser, although it failed to penetrate the horizontal armor up to 105mm thick, but it blew out a big hole in the teak deck on the surface, and the splinters of wood that flew out hit the nearby buildings like shrapnel, making a crisp but noisy sound.

However, if the shell hits the superstructure without armor protection, then the loss can not be avoided, the fuse delay of the armor-piercing bullet used by the US Navy is shorter, and the charge still takes the picric acid route, and the sensitivity is higher, which will naturally affect the depth of penetration, but when hitting the unprotected part, it is not as easy to wear but not explode as the Chinese armor-piercing projectile, or the embarrassing situation of exploding after penetration. In just a quarter of an hour, four 305mm shells and one 274mm shell hit the unprotected part of the Xuanyuan, and except for one that pierced but did not explode, and the other three shells exploded inside the hull, killing 7 people on the spot and injuring 29 others (5 of them seriously).

Of course, if you ignore the emotional factor, for the battlecruiser Xuanyuan, which has more than 1,300 ships, dozens of casualties are not too great a loss. However, considering that there is still a key position on the ship that is actually unprotected, the Xuanyuan battle patrol has been hit by more than a dozen shells in such a short period of time, which is enough to make people's hearts jump......

"Commander, it's too dangerous on the bridge, please go back to the Command Tower! I'll be able to watch it here. The captain of the Xuanyuan persuaded Yang Yonglin with a worried face, if the enemy hit the bridge with a shell, Yang Yonglin, who was standing on it and commanding, would not be spared, not to mention that after losing the commander, the fleet was likely to fall into chaos, and the death of the commander alone was more serious than the loss of a capital ship!

But Yang Yonglin resolutely refused to allow it, because the field of vision in the command tower was too narrow, and it was very inconvenient to command, so he would rather take the risk of continuing to stand on the bridge to command, rather than the fleet not being able to fight well because of his own responsibility. However, the young captain was driven by him to the command tower, and it was enough for him to sit here, and he couldn't stand all on the bridge, so that if he was really unfortunate enough to die, he could still go on top, and if he stood on the bridge and was killed by the enemy, then the trouble would be really big......

Maybe it was Yang Yonglin's good luck, the scene that the captain of the Xuanyuan was worried about never appeared, but another unprotected key position on the ship was attacked, and the huge earthquake of a 305mm shell explosion caused serious damage to the main command of the Xuanyuan battlecruiser, and it could only be aimed by each turret itself, and the effect was naturally greatly reduced, although because it is now only more than 15,000 meters away from the enemy, it is not as completely unsuccessful as the American ships in the early stage of this naval battle, but compared with before, The main gun hit rate of the battle cruiser Xuanyuan was already low to insignificance, and if it could hit, it was an explosion of character, and not hitting was the norm.

If the battlecruiser Xuanyuan was not a flagship, it could even withdraw from the battle at this time, but as a flagship, even if it lost its attack ability, it could only continue to stay in the fleet to survive, fortunately, the enemy would not be aware of this problem in a short time, at least it could continue to attract firepower as a MT......

Although the U.S. military can concentrate fire and attack due to its numerical superiority, because of the gap between fire control and naval artillery, the killing efficiency of Chinese battle cruisers attacking U.S. ships one-on-one is not much lower than theirs, and there are only eight U.S. ships attacked by this intensity! Now that the flagships of the Chinese Eastern Expeditionary Fleet have been disabled, the losses on the side of the main fleet of the US army will only be greater......

At 14:31, the U.S. Maine-class battleship "Michigan" hit the bridge with a 305mm armor-piercing shell, and many officers, including the captain, were killed on the spot, and the main commander was also damaged, and the ship was forced to withdraw from the battle. In particular, the ship is located in the middle of the US military single column (a little behind), and after exiting the battle column, it was quickly blocked by friendly ships, and the Chinese pursuit either forced through the US military queue or went around in a big circle, the former was too risky, and the latter took too much time, so it was better to continue to attack other US ships, and Yang Yonglin could only let it go in the end.

The battleship "Michigan" thus escaped, but not every American battleship had such luck, less than two minutes after the battleship "Michigan" withdrew from the battle, a 305mm armor-piercing projectile entered the sea about ten meters from the side of its sister ship "Texas", and then passed through the water, and finally hit the ship's waterline main armor belt, although the speed has been greatly reduced because of the resistance of the seawater, it still successfully penetrated the ship's board without much effort, and then continued to advance forward. It also penetrated the thick armor outside the ammunition depot of the ship's No. 1 main turret, and the superior performance of the hard cap armor-piercing shell was finally fully demonstrated at a glance!

It wasn't until after drilling into the main turret ammunition depot that this armor-piercing projectile with a very exploratory spirit finally detonated, and the "Texas" battleship was very lucky, and the explosion did not directly affect the ammunition, so that it avoided the bad luck of the ammunition depot immediately detonating (in fact, similar situations are not uncommon in history, not that the explosion in the ammunition depot will definitely cause a martyrdom, and there was a similar situation in the previous battles, and it was not written because I was afraid that everyone would say the number of words.) ）。 However, the damage management design of the American battleship has exposed problems, although it has the function of emergency filling of water and rapid drainage of the ammunition depot, but the speed is not fast enough, as a result, the injected seawater failed to quickly extinguish the flames, but reacted with the unburned aluminum powder to produce hydrogen, and then mixed with air was ignited to cause a secondary explosion, and the good fortune of the "Texas" battleship finally came to an end...... (To be continued.) )