Chapter 1125: Heavy damage to the enemy ship

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"In an instant, it was like a hundred lightning and thousands of thunders cracked, making a miserable and desperate loud sound, Orr violently shook, the hull tilted, the flames were hundreds, the flames and candles were in the sky, the white smoke was vast, covering the sea, the dead and wounded amounted to more than 100 people, the captain Gao Wujun and the captain of the detachment, the second lieutenant Xu under the moon died, the dead bodies were scattered, the deck was scattered, the bones were broken and the blood was overflowing, the smell was terrible, and its misery was indescribable. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Orr fire spread to the hull, the fire was great, and the smoke covered the sky,...... It's like a sea of fire. (Saburo Kawasaki, "History of the Japanese War")

"In the gun room, the heads, hands, feet, intestines, etc. were scattered everywhere, the faces and backs were smashed so that it was difficult to distinguish, and the corpses of the dead were lying on their stomachs or on their backs or on their sides, and blood oozed from their bodies, and they flowed stickily in the direction of the hull tilt, and the slices of flesh dripping with blood trembled slightly, fixed on the cannon body and the door, not yet cooled, and exuding the heat of body temperature, this scene was already miserable, but even more miserable were the broken bones,...... This was not an ordinary small shell, but the explosion of a thirty-and-a-half-centimeter shell. Therefore, the person who was struck should naturally be crushed to pieces, and his muscles should be burned, and there will be no traces left, only broken bones, which have no skin and flesh, like white bones found after cremation in a crematorium......" (Katsuma Hirata, "The Battle of the Yellow Sea")

The cannon that hit the "Fuso" by the "Zhenyuan" completely destroyed the "Fuso" shipside gun room, and not only was the two gun crews inside completely destroyed, but the flames also detonated the ammunition that the Japanese sailors had piled up next to the gun emplacement, and the violent explosion not only destroyed all the four main guns in the gun room, but also destroyed the flying bridge above the gun room, and all the "Fuso" officers on the flying bridge were killed, and the fire also rushed into the armored command tower under the flying bridge, and the captain of the "Fuso" in the command tower, Arai Atsuki, and his subordinate officers were all burned alive.

As a result of this bomb, 133 officers and men, or 30 percent of the quota, were killed or wounded, and the officers and gunners on board were almost completely killed.

Witnessing the tragic situation of the "Fuso", Ito's will to fight on the "Yamashiro" was instantly shaken.

At this moment, he already had an idea in his mind of what the gun room under his feet would look like after being hit by a 305-mm projectile.

"Signal, retreat, the ships follow the movement of the flagship." Ito Yuhiro looked at the "Yamashiro", which was full of fire, and then at the "Dingyuan", which was almost the same fire on the opposite side, gritted his teeth, and ordered.

Seeing that Ito Yuhiro accepted his suggestion, the captain of the "Yamashiro" Isobe Baoyi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

At this moment, he saw that the fire on the "Dingyuan" ship was gradually extinguished.

On the top deck of the first floor where shrenching shrapnel and poisonous smoke filled, these heroic officers and men were fearless, pumping water from the bottom of the ship with a water pump, and then injecting it into the cabin below, when the military hospital was almost turned into a storage reservoir, the fire was finally extinguished, and the "Dingyuan" ship finally escaped a catastrophe, and after a while, her main guns roared again.

Just when the "Shancheng" was turning, as if to avenge the attack just now, the first shot of the "Dingyuan" ship's main gun after resuming shelling hit the "Shancheng", and the position where the 305 shell hit was the "Shancheng" ship's bow main gun position, and the huge projectile directly hit the gun shield of the "Shancheng" ship's bow main gun, and the fuse that had been hit hard immediately began to work, and the picric acid and Lin-style gunpowder filled in the warhead were quickly ignited, and the shells exploded violently on the main gun position. The huge shock air and fragments generated by the explosion made the cannon shield appear vulnerable, and in an instant it became a scattered shard of steel. The 305-mm gun, which had been hidden behind the shield, was also attacked, and the entire cannon body was shocked into the air, and then smashed down again, and the huge steel barrel was twisted into an incredible crescent shape.

Something even more terrifying soon happened. In order to ensure the supply of ammunition for rapid-fire guns during the war, a large number of shells were piled up on the deck next to the main gun position of the "Yamashiro", and these ammunition were originally a huge safety hazard, and when the "Yamashiro" main gun that was hit by the 305 mm shells fired by the "Dingyuan" fell down, it just happened to be smashed into the ammunition pile, and the sensitive Shimose gunpowder reacted immediately after being hit hard. "At 3:30, the 30-centimeter-and-a-half-caliber cannon of the 'Dingyuan' ship fired a shell, hit the 'Shancheng' ship, hit the main gun, the steel shield of the main gun broke, the shield and the platform fragments flew, the gun body bent and fell, and the nearby medicine shell was detonated by the momentum." A large number of Shimose gunpowder shells and sulfide cotton propellants piled up near the main gun position have been detonated! There were a series of loud explosions on the "Mountain City" ship, and the choking yellow poisonous mist immediately spread inside the ship. The impact of the explosion of Shimose's gunpowder tore a huge hole in the hull plate on the starboard side of the "Yamashiro", and on the other hand, it roared and rushed up to the main deck, leaving two huge holes on the left and right sides of the main deck. "The side board of the first floor of the ('Shancheng' ship) was blasted, one-third long, and more than 2 to 3 feet from the huge hole in the deck penetrated, and the iron piles and iron beams on the upper deck were broken, and three or four pings appeared on the left and right sides of the upper deck, causing the hull to lose its balance, the hull tilted, and seawater poured in, which soon caused several damage in the ship."

The flagship of the Japanese fleet, "Yamashiro", was hit one after another by explosions, and the hull began to tilt, and it seemed that it was about to sink. The joy brought by the officers and men of the Qianguo Navy in the face of this major victory is indescribable. If the "mountain city" sinks, the tremendous spiritual encouragement it brings will enable the Qianguo fleet to win this naval battle, and all rumors about the navy since the outbreak of the war will be self-defeating.

The officers and men of the Japanese Combined Fleet did not dare to face the scene in front of them. Whether it is the commander of the fleet or the head of the main ironclad ships, the "Yamashiro" ship has pinned too many expectations on the Yamato nation. It can be predicted that this warship, which was built with huge sums of national funds and named after the famous ancient Japanese country, will bring a terrible mental disaster to the Japanese Combined Fleet once it sinks.

A peculiar situation appeared on the naval battlefield, the sound of guns and cannons fell sporadically, the combat rhythm of the warships on both sides slowed down, and both sides were paying attention to the "mountain city".

At this moment, the "mountain city" ship has become Dante's hell," ...... Sighs, whining, and sorrowful cries echo in the dim starless air...... Strange voices, cries of pain, terrible scolding, shouting and crying, clapping hands and stuttering, the air is noisy, and there is no silence......"

"The hull of the 'Mountain City' ship is tilted, white smoke rises, it is dark on all sides, the waves are surging, and the suspected whale salamander will flee in shock. The explosion of the huge bomb caused the gunpowder to explode like a hundred thunderbolts, and the poisonous smoke filled the entire ...... of the warship. ”

The fire ignited by Shimose gunpowder swam and raged on the deck like a fire dragon. Yellow poisonous gas filled the entire gun deck, and "the electric lights, electrical circuits, intercom pipes, water pipes, steam pipes, and elevators were all broken and deformed, and the two ladders were shattered, and everything hung down like grass." In the explosion and poisonous fog, Captain Kiyoshi Shima, the commander of the detachment, and the second lieutenant of the detachment, Admiral Ito Mitsuki, and other officers and men, who were in charge of directing and supervising the battle on the gun deck, a total of 28 people were killed instantly. "The other seriously wounded were 68 people, including the chief of the fleet's military doctor, Kawamura Toyosu, and the chief of the naval doctor, and these who escaped immediate death suffered more terrible pain than death, unlike the first deaths who were torn apart by shrapnel and shock waves, most of the wounded were burned by Shimose gunpowder, "Some of their hair was burned to ashes, and their bodies were burned as black as ink; Some were burned by blackened pieces of iron; Some have ruptured abdomen; Some of their hands and feet were lost, and they were so painful that they were smoked by the poisonous gas, and they screamed in grief. "The soldiers were sobbing and couldn't help themselves." Of those, 22 died. The 452-man "Yamashiro" lost nearly one-third of its crew in an instant, and "the gunners and ammunition depot staff on the lower deck were either killed or wounded." ”

What was even more terrifying was that the fire on the gun deck was about to be introduced into the ammunition depot below, but in the face of the raging flames and poisonous gas in the gun deck, despite the officers' shouts, the firefighting personnel of the "Yamashiro" did not have the courage to rush into the rescue. Fortunately, a strong wind was blowing on the battlefield at this time, and the wind direction was also favorable to the "mountain city", "fortunately, the wind blew in some fresh air from the broken side, so that the poisonous gas was thinned." The fire brigade was able to extinguish the fire as best they could. ”

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