But now, the most advanced torpedoes of the US military can also hit more than 3,000 meters away (still in the low-speed mode of only 26 knots), at such a close distance, the Chinese naval gunners who have already completed the artillery revolution do not need the help of fire control at all, so the US auxiliary ships came to die for the real substitute death, and it is not just an exaggeration. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Even to a certain extent, the glorious sacrifice is not so easy, because the auxiliary ships are not only the US military, the Chinese Eastern Expeditionary Fleet also brought a lot of light cruisers and destroyers, although the total number is not as large as the United States, but the Chinese side has long waited for the appearance of the main fleet of the United States, and most of the warships have been gathered in advance, so in fact, the total number of auxiliary ships brought by the main force of the Chinese Eastern Expeditionary Fleet is undoubtedly only a lot more than that of the first reconnaissance squadron of the United States, and they are more advanced than the warships of the same class of the United States Navy. More powerful.

What's more, due to the advantages of speed and earlier start, they have long been in front of their US counterparts, and the US auxiliary ships must first solve these obstacles if they want to complete the tasks assigned by them.

As a result, while the capital ships of the two sides were chasing and fleeing, the auxiliary ships of the two armies were also fighting in a big way, and the auxiliary ships of the US military desperately wanted to cut into the battle cruisers between China and the United States, while the Chinese auxiliary ships were stubbornly entangled with them, just not letting them go. Due to the faster rate of fire and faster caliber fire of medium-caliber naval guns, as well as the fact that they are less powerful and have more rounds of engagement, the battle between the auxiliary ships of the two sides is even more lively than the main battlefield judging from the scene alone......

However, the focus of this battle is still on the duel between the capital ships, and this side ends even faster than the battle between the auxiliary ships......

After the advent of the era of fire-controlled dominated artillery bombardment, even if the method of alternating calibration was adopted, only four or five warships could deal with one target at the same time, so while the four battle cruisers including the flagship Xuanyuan were staring at the US battle cruiser at the rear, the other four battle cruisers were staring at another one, the second ship of the US First Reconnaissance Squadron, the battlecruiser "Florida." It's just that because each ship only has two main turrets and 4 305mm main guns that can fire when facing the enemy head-on, and there is still a certain amount of interference between each other, plus the distance is even farther, it is not easy to hit the enemy ship, so it was not until the auxiliary ships on both sides have begun to fight before finally waiting for the decisive blow!

As the two huge guns in the main turret of the second position of the battlecruiser "Suiren" roared in unison, two 305mm armor-piercing shells whistled out of the gun chamber, as if equipped with a guidance device, and both of them accurately hit the enemy ship!

One of the shots pierced through the horizontal armor of the "Florida" battlecruiser, which was only 2 inches thick, and then penetrated deep into the hull, although it was unlucky not to get into a certain core compartment, but the 405-kilogram huge bomb passed all the way through the hull and then exploded violently, causing the destructive power to be extraordinary, directly causing the bones of more than a dozen people to be lost, and the total number of casualties reached dozens of people.

The other shot was even more terrible, it smashed into the deck next to the base of the 274mm twin turret on the left side of the battlecruiser "Florida", and then immediately and easily penetrated it like a withering and decaying, and then broke through the obstacle and penetrated the ammunition depot under the turret until it was about to break through the ammunition depot and encountered another obstacle, and with a violent explosion that resounded almost throughout the battlefield, the swollen part of the battlecruiser "Florida" landed like a burst blister. A huge gap was torn open, and the sea water rushed madly into it, and the hull of the battlecruiser "Florida" quickly tilted.

Then, before the ship lost its center of gravity and capsized and sank, the battered "Florida" completely broke in two because the structure was overwhelmed, ending the embarrassing state of breaking the thread, and then sank into the sea in an instant, with more than 600 US officers and men killed and missing, and less than 200 survived......

“fuck！” , The commander of the US First Reconnaissance Squadron saw that another battle patrol sank, and couldn't help but burst out in anger, he was about to complain about why God stood on the enemy's side, but suddenly remembered the scene that finally exploded after flying out of the hull of the ship before, and suddenly moved in his heart, and gradually became enlightened, and finally understood why the Chinese shells were so easy to hit and kill, "So it is, the Chinese's shells are delayed for a long time, and then the explosives are also very blunt, and the projectile body is strong enough to not be broken, Therefore, the armor on the surface of the hull will not explode immediately after penetrating it, and it must be triggered again after encountering a strong enough obstacle, and where is there a strong obstruction inside the hull? Of course, it's the core cabins that can't be missed! ”

"Therefore, after the Chinese's armor-piercing shells penetrate the hull, either there is no major obstacle along the way, and they can drill extremely deep in one breath before exploding; Either it hits the core chamber and then explodes during the armor piercing process, or after penetration. If it is the latter case, it can directly damage a capital ship, or even sink it on the spot, even in the former case, the damage effect is quite terrible, even if it is a capital ship of more than 10,000 tons, I am afraid that it will not be able to withstand a few ......", after thinking about this, the commander of the US No. 1 reconnaissance detachment immediately issued an order that many of his subordinates could not understand, "Stop retreating, turn right for 90 years, and face the enemy sideways!" Until the main fleet arrives! ”

The rear admiral believes that in the state of longitudinal confrontation with the enemy, the US combat patrol is equivalent to leaving a huge depth for the enemy's armor-piercing projectiles to pass through, and with the large angle of incidence at the current distance, as long as it does not hit a very high position, it will generally not penetrate the hull, so it can always be detonated, and the advantage of a longer fuse delay will be brought into play; And if the hull of the ship is turned sideways, the distance left for the enemy's armor-piercing projectiles to penetrate will be much shorter, the probability of penetrating the hull and then falling directly into the sea will be quite high, and the probability of hitting the core compartment will also be reduced a lot, and judging from the dispersion of enemy shelling, the actual bomb surface of the enemy on the side is not much higher than that on the enemy vertically.

Therefore, the rear admiral felt that this would greatly extend the survival time of his own warships, even if it was worth it to let the enemy chase closer, after all, the main fleet was coming quickly, even if the two battlecruisers did not escape, in fact, it would not be more than a few minutes, and after changing course, the two battlecruisers could get closer to those auxiliary ships more quickly for support. (To be continued.) )