In addition, due to the short training time, the level of damage management of the Japanese officers and soldiers on the Fuji was not high, and as the fire points continued to appear, the fire on the Fuji not only failed to be controlled, but became bigger and bigger

But even so, if the situation continues to deteriorate, sooner or later there will be major problems. For this reason, Inoue Yoshishin successively sent a number of officers to supervise the extinguishing of the fire, so that he himself was almost unavailable.

However, the hot air inhaled into the body told Inoue that the fire still did not improve significantly, and the scorching heat after inadvertently touching the bulkhead made Inoue Liangxin even more shocked, the vicinity of the command tower has not been hit so far, but the bulkhead is a little hot to the touch!

"Oh no, Your Excellency Commander, it's burning, it's all burning!" , a young man stumbled into the command tower and shouted, his face full of despair.

"Where is the fire again?" , Inoue Ryoshin asked in a long tone, his tone was very dissatisfied with that Shaozuo, originally he still regarded this guy as a key training object in the future, but judging from his current performance, it is not useful at all!

However, the navy junior did not have time to notice the dissatisfaction of his superior, and only exclaimed with a worried face, "It's all burning, and there are fires everywhere!" Even the inside of the cabin is on fire! ”

"What?" , Inoue Ryoxin's eyes widened in disbelief, there is only one possibility that the cabin is on fire, that is, the temperature of the bulkhead is too high, exceeding the ignition point of the combustibles in the cabin, but how is this possible? The Fuji is not a patrol, there is nothing to burn except for a wooden deck outside, how can the fire be so big?

At this moment, there was another deafening loud noise, and Inoue Yoshishin suddenly felt a thrill in his heart, and understood, "The enemy's shelling is too accurate, almost every salvo has a cannonball hit, and the rate of fire is surprisingly fast, just the arson effect produced by the explosion of the cannonball is already a great threat, and the thermal conductivity of steel is strong."

Due to the busy counterattack and firefighting, the Fuji has not been able to count the number of shell hits, otherwise Inoue Yoshino's face must have been even more ugly at this time, because even the German Rear Admiral Paul Hoffmann, who was an outsider, was already pale at this time.

"It's the seventeenth consecutive salvo hit, how did such an artillery accuracy come about?" German Rear Admiral Paul Hoffmann was shocked, but these are the facts he recorded himself, how can he not believe it!

According to Paul Hoffman's statistical results, the American Adu roughly estimated the hit rate of the Haitian main gun, and his expression suddenly became extremely exciting, "After so many rounds, this hit rate is definitely more than one-sixth, and it must be at least 40% to do it, my God!" Even if the distance between the two ships is only more than 1,000 yards (about 1,000 meters) now, and it is a sideways shelling in a parallel state, it is really unbelievable that the hit rate can be so high! Even if the Chinese concentrated all the best gunners and observers of the entire fleet on this warship, it would be impossible to hit such a terrifying hit rate! ”

And Vice Admiral Philistine, the commander of the British Far East Fleet, although he relied on his superior city and at least did not lose his temper on the outside, his heart was churning with turbulent waves, you know, the gunners under his command could not hit such a hit rate even in training. No, to be precise, you can't even hit a quarter of the time (in training)!

"The Royal Navy can no longer continue to pursue superficial glitz, it must train hard for actual combat, otherwise the Japanese Navy today is the Royal Navy tomorrow!" , Philimante secretly made up his mind in his heart, even if he offended people for this, he would try to pull the British Royal Navy back from the evil path of pursuing aristocratic style and neglecting actual combat training!

And for that mysterious venture capital firm, Vice Admiral Philmante's jealousy has been magnified like never before

Through the foreigners in the Beiyang Naval Division, Philimant had long known that the gunners on the Haitian were not officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division, but instructors sent by venture capital companies, and that a company could have so many naval gunners, which was enough to shock him.

"Either they've figured out the trick of rapid-fire gun training, or they've got enough financial backing, either of which deserves our full attention." , Philistine, who went back to the cabin to rest under the pretext of being a little tired, took out his diary and wrote down his thoughts seriously so as not to forget, "If it is the former, the Royal Navy must get it as soon as possible, and if it is the latter, then this company is too terrible, even our British Empire is not willing to burn money like this!" ”

And as the inside of the Fuji also began to catch fire, the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Inoue Yoshio, had to face a dilemma

In any case, once the fire gets out of control, sooner or later it will spread to the ammunition depot, and if you want to extinguish it, you must first cool the heat source, under the current situation of continuous shelling of the Haitian, there is no other way but to open the valve and release water, and once the seawater is poured in, the draft of the Fuji will inevitably deepen, and the speed will slow down, and the Zhijing 2nd ship, which is left behind, may catch up, and may even cause the main armor belt to sink below the water, which will be even more fatal

Just when Inoue Yoshishin hesitated, a 210mm blasting bullet hit the bridge above the command tower impartially, although it did not directly hit the command tower, and there was armor protection up to 10.5 inches thick, but due to the power of the explosion, all these officers were stunned without exception, and the Fuji armored cruiser fell into a leaderless situation

At first glance, Inoue Yoshishin and others seem to be very unlucky, but until this battle, the Fuji has been hit by fifty or sixty 210mm shells alone, and it is already rare luck that only one of them has landed on the bridge.

However, the bridge of the Fuji was hit after all, and the hit was so close to the command tower, so Inoue Yoshixin and others were killed, and the Fuji, which had been stubbornly resisting until now, finally waited for its end