The seawater quickly poured into Itsukushima's cabin along the hole that had been blown up, and the water trap that was originally in a closed state also lost its due effect, and there was too much water in the bottom compartment, and various circuits were instantly out of control, so they could only rely on manpower to close the trap. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But what is the pressure of seawater pouring into the ship's hold? It is impossible to get close to it simply by relying on human strength, and in daily training, there are many naval officers and men who have died unexpectedly due to blockage, and most of these people have been killed by the impact of high-pressure seawater.

In order to keep the warship as much as possible, the officers and men of the damage management began to gradually walk towards the leaky area in front, and every time they walked through a water trap, they asked the people behind to lock the hatch to prevent the sea water from continuing to pour in.

In doing so, there will indeed be a certain chance of saving the warship, but the chance of survival of those damage management personnel who go out will be greatly reduced; at the beginning, because the water pressure was not large, the proceeds were relatively smooth, but the further they went, the deeper the water became, the water pressure became greater and greater, and hundreds or thousands of tons of seawater frantically poured in, and the eyes of the damage management officers and men could not be opened.

On April 27, 1910, at 2:10 p.m., seventeen minutes after being torpedoed, the Itsukushima lost all power due to water ingress into the boiler room, which caused damage to the boiler that could not be repaired in a short time.

At 2:20, the damage management failed, and more than 60 damage managers all died in the cabin, and they did not succeed in sacrificing their lives to save the ship, and in the end they only closed less than half of the cabin, and the damage management personnel in front of them were directly killed at the moment they were hit by a torpedo, or they were seriously injured and unable to move, and then drowned.

At 2:27, the Itsukushima began to accelerate its sinking, and the Itsukushima, which lost power, also declared the failure of damage management, which is definitely an unacceptable result for Itsukushima, but there is nothing to do about it, if you want to save Itsukushima, the only requirement is to successfully rescue the damage and ensure that the warship does not continue to sink, and losing power is not the most fatal for the warship, because there are other warships that can tow them back, but they can't stop the seawater that is poured in, then it can only be finished.

At 2:34 p.m., Vice Admiral Shichiro Kataoka, commander of the Third Fleet, ordered the ship to be abandoned and announced the transfer of the flagship to the Matsushima, which was also a Sankei ship.

At 3:20 minutes, an hour and 27 minutes after being shot, the Itsukushima completely disappeared from the sea, and the bottom part of the Itsukushima could still be faintly seen, and the captain of the Itsukushima, the first mate, and some other important officers who sank to the bottom of the sea with it, arranged for their officers and men to transfer to other warships to continue the battle, and they chose to live and die with the warship.

At 2:23 a.m., the battleship Fuso, the flagship of the Seventh Sentai of the Third Fleet, was hit by the Chinese Navy battleships one after another, and in an instant, all the front main guns of the Fuso battleship were destroyed, and the attack capability was instantly reduced.

At 2:48 a.m., the battleship Fuji was hit on the flank by the battleship Deng Shichang, and the violent explosion caused a raging fire on the deck, and together destroyed the two secondary guns on the right side of the Fuji.

In a short period of one and a half hours, the Japanese Combined Fleet was attacked by nearly 9,000 shells, and only 17 capital ships were involved in firing at the Japanese Combined Fleet, with an average of 530 shells fired by each warship in the past hour and a half, or an average of six shells per minute per warship.

This speed is not terrifying, because each warship has at least five main guns, and the secondary guns are even more than ten or twenty, so many guns only fire less than six shells in a minute, and the efficiency is really not high.

Of the nearly 9,000 shells, 97 hit the warships of the Japanese Navy, with a 92.7:1 hit rate, which was far lower than the nearly 5 percent hit rate at the beginning of the war.

From the beginning of the war to the present, the Japanese Combined Fleet has fired no fewer shells than on the Chinese Imperial side, but because of the advantages of the fleet's main warships, the relatively scattered formation formation, and the relatively fast speed of the warships, the Japanese side has even less than 0.5 percent of the hit rate, that is to say, the number of hits by the Chinese Imperial Navy fleet has so far been less than 50, and on the contrary, the number of hits against the enemy has doubled.

So, despite the fact that the Japanese Combined Fleet had an absolute advantage in the number of main warships, it did not gain the upper hand in the quality of the battle.

It can even be said that if there is no such sighting system, then first of all, the combat distance between the two sides will be shortened, and the most direct consequence of shortening the combat distance is that the hit rate of the Japanese fleet will be improved, correspondingly, this will directly weaken the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Navy.

'......Boom'

A shell directly hit the No. 1 main gun of the Deng Shichang, and at this time, the No. 1 gun commander was rapidly adjusting to shoot Zhu Yuan, and his target was the flagship of the commander of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, that is, the battleship Mikasa.

However, the position of the battleship Mikasa was very atrophied, and there was no consciousness as a battleship at all. Sao's position dodged the attack of the way again and again, and the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet seemed to have discovered that the Deng Shichang seemed to be the flagship of the fleet, so it concentrated two battleships to deal with the Deng Shichang.

Among them, the Fuji was responsible for the main attack, attracting the firepower of Deng Shichang's ship, and the Mikasa was attacking from behind, taking advantage of Deng Shichang's inattention.

Deng Shichang's ship was a little difficult to deal with for a while, but with the knapsack turret structure, plus the secondary gun that was also equipped with armor-piercing shells, it was superior to the Japanese battleship in terms of firepower.

The fundamental reason for their struggle is mainly because of their lack of combat experience, they still suffered a lot of losses in terms of experience, and this directly led to Deng Shichang being hit twice, but fortunately, it was not the main gun of the opponent's battleship that hit, these two hits made Deng Shichang lose a secondary gun, and there were some loopholes on the upper deck, killing more than a dozen officers and soldiers, but it was not a big deal.

The violent explosion caught him off guard, and suddenly, he felt that his internal organs seemed to be torn apart, and his body was instantly surrounded by a pain, and there was also a hallucination in front of him, and it was also pitch black in the scope, and he couldn't see anything.

Immediately afterwards, a column of water rose, the fire was quickly suppressed, and some traces of gunsmoke appeared on the barrel, and the way continued to adjust the firing of Zhu Yuan, and found that the main gun was not damaged.

Methodic Jin turned his head to look at the situation in the turret, and the eight second-in-command and loader fell to the ground in a disorderly manner, wailing in pain, one of them vomited blood uncontrollably, and the other seven also showed injuries of varying degrees.

Immediately afterwards, the hatch of the turret was opened from the outside, and several officers and men quickly got into the turret, took a look at the situation inside the turret, and then immediately carried the eight second-in-command officers who were wounded and fell to the ground out of the turret.

"Change the scope as soon as I'm done with this shot!" He shouted loudly at the officers and soldiers who entered the turret, although his internal organs seemed to be torn apart by the explosion just now, but his body knew that the pain in his body was also rapidly weakening, which told him that his injuries were not serious, and the explosion just now only made him difficult to adapt to for a while, and he would recover soon.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Through the backup sighting system, he saw the officers and soldiers who were busy rescuing outside, shouting loudly.

Although the No. 1 turret was directly hit, the heavy armor blocked the attack, except for a certain amount of damage to several members in the turret, it did not have much impact on the main gun itself.

Moreover, what hit the No. 1 turret just now was not the opponent's battleship main gun, but a 152 mm secondary gun, not to mention the 152 mm secondary gun, even the 305 main gun equipped with the Mikasa battleship could not easily penetrate the 305 mm thick armor of Deng Shichang's turret.

Therefore, in addition to the casualties caused to the officers and soldiers in the turret in the blow just now, the other losses were the sight system, and although the sight system was important, it was not necessary, and the optical sight used in the way was damaged, but an old ordinary sighting system was not damaged.

In addition, the scope is indeed likely to be destroyed in battle, so the ship is equipped with at least five spare sighting systems for each gun, and the replacement of this system is also extremely convenient, you only need to loosen the internal screws, and then pull them out from the outside, and then hit the new one with the reverse process, the angle and everything are calibrated, and there is no need to debug at all.

'......Boom'

After adjusting the angle, he stepped on the firing pedal without hesitation, and the two 305mm armor-piercing bullets were like wild horses that had broken free from the cage, howling and rushing towards the enemy, leaving only a roar of bullying.

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