Well, the task of lightning strikes has to call auxiliary ships, this time and space due to the lessons learned from many naval battles in the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War and the Sino-British Second World War, not only the Chinese Navy, but also the designers of the Western powers have given up the stupid design of installing torpedo tubes on the capital ships in advance, which also leads to the fact that once the American battleships bombard the unsinkable enemy ships, they are completely helpless, and because the distance is too far to see real, by the time William Soden Sims confirmed the former, the US Navy has lost too many capital ships. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 InfoPerhaps the only thing that can make Vice Admiral Sims feel fortunate is that the five most advanced South Carolina-class battleships have not been lost, otherwise this battle would have been a big loss......

However, what Vice Admiral William Soden Sims did not expect was that in the face of close shelling from the battlecruiser Chiyou, the South Carolina-class battleships were not much stronger than those two old battleships. Although the hit rate of the shelling was not much higher than when it was still in the battle line because of the scrapping of the fire control, even if the Chiyou was so close to the enemy, the closer result brought about another drastic change, that is, the ultra-fast rate of fire of the German 50 times diameter 305mm naval gun as high as 3 rounds per minute can finally be reflected.

In the case of long-distance shelling, because the fire control needs to constantly correct the trajectory, it takes a certain amount of time to calculate, and the flight distance of the shell is long and time-consuming, even if the design rate of fire of the main gun itself is fast, it is difficult to hit a rate of fire of more than 1 round per minute in actual combat. And when the Chiyou pulled the distance very close and returned to the gunnery mode of ten years ago, this high-rate naval gun could finally hit a terrible rate of fire close to the theoretical value, while the American 305mm naval gun was limited by a maximum rate of fire of only 2 rounds per minute, and its firepower obviously suffered.

Moreover, the improvement of the accuracy of artillery fire control is of course huge, but when the distance is shortened to the current extent, its effect is not so obvious, because the gunners on the battlecruiser Chiyou are well-trained, and the morale and confidence of the US Navy have continued to decline, so the accuracy of the Chiyou artillery hits exceeds that of the enemy. And as the distance continues to close, the gap widens further.

As a result, in the face of the combined attack of five American South Carolina-class battleships, the main gun hits of such a battle cruiser could exceed half of the opponent's, and judging from the actual killing effect of the shelling, the Chiyou battlecruiser even had the upper hand. Because even if the American battleship hits the Chiyou, it can only cause flesh wounds (hit on unprotected parts), or even scratch completely (hit on the armor), and once the hard cap-piercing shell from the main gun of the Chiyou hits the enemy ship, it will immediately hurt the muscles and bones!

The battlecruiser Chiyou completed the calibration in just 2 minutes after completing the turn (unlike the fire-controlled mode, and the process was much shorter, but it still needed to be fired before full fire.) Soon after, a precise salvo was fired, and three of the eight 305mm armor-piercing shells hit the target, one of which hit the main armor belt of the South Carolina-class battleship "Missouri" almost against the waterline, and because of the proximity, its kinetic energy was terrifyingly large, and after easily penetrating the 11-inch (280mm) thick Krupp case-hardened armor, it was invincible all the way, until it was about to penetrate the hull before finally exploding. Displays a terrifying armor-piercing ability that is jaw-dropping......

This armor-piercing shell caused great damage to the hull structure of the "Missouri", and another armor-piercing shell hit the ship's command tower, although the captain was not in command inside, but after the command tower was destroyed, the entire bridge was shocked, including the captain of the battleship "Missouri" A number of high-ranking officials, including the captain of the battleship "Missouri", were either killed or wounded, and the ship lost its unified command and fell into a leaderless situation. If it weren't for the fact that the third armor-piercing shell hit the deck at a very small angle and was ejected into the sea and failed to detonate, the battleship "Missouri" would have been sentenced to death directly......

However, under the unrelenting and continuous shelling of the battlecruiser Chiyou, even if the battleship "Missouri" escaped, it would be able to last dozens of seconds longer. The next round of main gun salvo fire on the Chiyou battle patrol was successful again, and the two armor-piercing shells completely lost the hope of the battleship "Missouri" that had raised the white flag to return to the base, and the Chinese officers and men on the Chiyou were still afraid that it would not sink, so they continued to make up for three rounds almost with a knife, which was simply inhumane......

In a series of heart-wrenching explosions, the massive hull of the battleship "Missouri" crumbled like a fortress made of sand, and everywhere there were post-apocalyptic scenes, and everywhere you could see, desperate sailors jumped into the sea to escape, but in the end only 12 out of 10 survived......

When the Chiyou battlecruiser sank the battleship "Missouri", the three sister ships led by the Chinese flagship Xuanyuan also rushed to within 10,000 meters of the enemy, and because the Chiyou attracted almost all the firepower of the American battleships on the battlefield, these three Legendary-class battlecruisers could no longer consider one-on-one fire suppression, but could concentrate their firepower to attack an enemy ship. According to Yang Yonglin's guiding ideology of "easy first, then difficult", the three battle cruisers stared at the Maine-class battleship "Kentucky" and opened fire fiercely.

Due to the fact that the distance was greatly shortened, the command instrument provided by the main turret began to come into play, and the battlecruiser Xuanyuan finally got rid of the embarrassing situation of being beaten and successfully achieved a good result of two hits. The sharp shelling of the three ships caused the battleship "Kentucky" to hang the white flag and flee in embarrassment, and the commander of the US Army, Vice Admiral William Thorden Sims, finally realized that the real difference in strength between the two sides was as far as heaven and earth, and it was impossible for his side to achieve the goal of sinking even one Chinese capital ship, so he could only painfully and unwillingly order "all evacuate." Exit the battle. ".

But how could Deng Shichang let these ducks that had already been on the table fly away? Under his command, the battlecruiser Chiyou stared at the US flagship "Georgia" and vowed to sink it. Because the distance was too close at this time, even if the US ships cast smoke screens, it would not be of much use, and the remaining US ships could only change their plans to disperse and break through in order to protect the flagship, and stay behind to desperately intercept the battlecruiser Chiyou, which looked like a mad tiger...... (To be continued.) )