The Wisconsin battleship's draught deepened, causing most of the main armor belt to be flooded by seawater, which further weakened the ship's already modest defenses. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 It didn't take long for the battleship Wisconsin, which was already scarred, to bear it, its waterline had risen to a very dangerous level, and the fire on the ship was completely out of control, and even the teak deck, which was actually difficult to ignite, was burned most of it, and the steel plates exposed below were burned hot, even if they were wearing boots, no sailor dared to stand on it for a long time, The air was filled with choking smoke and the disgusting smell of barbecue......

In desperation, the captain of the battleship Wisconsin could only order to withdraw from the battle, and if he continued to die, within a few minutes at most, the once proud of the US Navy would be completely injured and difficult to save.

But Yang Yonglin didn't want to let him go, the previous Utah battleship ran away was enough to make him depressed, if he let the American battleship run away again, then where would he have the face to see the Führer and his old superiors after returning home? As a result, the shelling of the "Xuanyuan", "Shennong", "Chiyou" and "Fuxi" became more and more intense, completely ignoring the white flag raised on the mast of the battleship Wisconsin, and Vice Admiral William Soden Sims was so angry that the Chinese Navy lacked chivalry......

Although Vice Admiral William Soden Sims was ready to lose one or two, or even more, battleships, it was better not to sink! Due to the particularity of naval warfare, no matter how seriously the warship is injured, as long as it does not sink, the number of casualties is very limited (relative to the total number of personnel on the ship), but once it is sunk by the enemy, it is a great luck to be able to survive one-third. Even if the Chilshach-class battleships were of little use, the officers and men on board were still priceless to the U.S. Navy, and how could Vice Admiral William Soden Sims bear to watch them die in the thousands like the Army?

However, even if Vice Admiral William Soden Sims was furious, he could not save the battleship Wisconsin, which was already at the end of its rope, although he struggled extremely tenaciously to fire the effective range of the main guns of the four Chinese battle cruisers (the four Chinese battle cruisers who did not want to recalibrate so quickly did not immediately turn to pursuit), but at this time the sea level was almost below the deck of the ship, as long as anyone with a little naval knowledge could see that it was completely irretrievable, The captain of the ship could only give the order to abandon the ship with tears, while he himself faithfully fulfilled his duties as the captain and sank into the sea with the ship, and 561 officers and men died with him......

The battleship Wisconsin fled into the distance, which for a time pleased Vice Admiral William Soden Sims, but it was not long before the battleship disappeared through the telescope, which was no small blow.

And just when Sims began to think about whether to change formations, the main fleet of the United States suffered another heavy blow, and a 305mm armor-piercing bullet fired by the battlecruiser "Nuwa" effortlessly penetrated the main armor belt of the waterline of the battleship Chilsage of the United States, and then drilled into an ammunition depot of twin 6-inch secondary guns, more than a dozen kilograms of new aluminum-containing explosives (ladder black aluminum explosives are too sensitive and not suitable for armor-piercing shells, Li Hui specially optimized the armor-piercing bullets for the armor-piercing projectile, although the power is slightly inferior, but the new explosives are extremely obtuse. The powerful shock wave and red-hot heat generated by the explosion easily broke through the protection of the new armored shell box of the US Navy with a fireproof and bulletproof (piece) design, causing a violent martyrdom.

Due to design defects, the detonation of this auxiliary gun ammunition depot immediately led to the explosion of the adjacent ammunition depot of the twin 274mm secondary main guns on the side of the ship, which dealt a fatal blow to the battleship Chilsage that had just been heavily damaged, and the huge hull was broken into several pieces like a tofu slag project, and disappeared into the sea in a blink of an eye, and only 2 of the more than 800 officers and men of the whole ship survived......

Although the sudden sinking of the battleship Chilsage was not certain by chance, Vice Admiral William Thorden Sims did not want to wait any longer, and immediately gave the order to convert the three columns into a single column. This is tantamount to announcing that he has given up the task of preventing the landing of Chinese ground troops personally issued by President Roosevelt, but this is undoubtedly a wise decision; if this is not done, the task still has no hope of being completed, but it is very likely that the US Navy will lose all its money, and once the capital ships lose too much, I am afraid that they will not even be able to afford the strategy of "existing in the fleet", then the east coast of the United States will have to be fortified everywhere, and the pressure is too great!

However, to the surprise of Vice Admiral William Soden Sims, when his own side changed formation, the Chinese fleet did not go around to the front of the US single column to grab the T-shaped crossbow as before, but only continued to focus on their current target. It turned out that Yang Yonglin had tasted the sweetness of the attack during this period of time, and decided to continue to attack from the flank of the US ships even if he had to withstand the shelling of all the US battleships.

Seizing the opportunity of the U.S. military to change formation, China's eight legendary battlecruisers reassigned their respective targets and began to fire at school, when the remaining 14 battleships of the U.S. military finally lined up in a magnificent sidewalk, the U.S. battleship "Iowa," which had been attacked by five ships, "Xuanyuan," "Shennong," "Chiyou," "Fuxi," and "Nuwa," had already been beaten to the deathbed. Eventually, the five Chinese Trenchers capsized and sank to the bottom of the sea with a grudge and more than 600 U.S. Navy officers and sailors went to see their God......

But with the completion of the formation conversion of the main fleet of the United States, the pressure on the eight Chinese battle cruisers has increased sharply, before they were more to fight less, on the one hand, they can ensure that each enemy ship engaged with it has their own warship firepower suppression, on the other hand, there are many warships can output firepower without interference, but now the situation is completely reversed, the US army still has 12 battleships, one-on-one suppression of all Chinese battle cruisers at the same time, can also vacate four, that is to say, The U.S. military can concentrate the firepower of five battleships to attack one of the Chinese battle cruisers, and this pressure is simply a world of difference compared to before! (To be continued.) )