The third round of shelling of Yanping Fortress did not waste a single shell, all of them hit the enemy ships and successfully exploded, but this is also a matter of course, due to the use of comprehensive protection design, the really unprotected parts in terms of the coverage of the shelling, in fact, only accounted for less than a third, like the previous two rounds of shelling, most of them were worn without blowing up or only exploded after penetrating the hull is a rare situation. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and the comprehensive protection design, which has been highly respected in the world since the First Sino-Japanese War, has finally exposed a big flaw after encountering a powerful armor-piercing bullet that is completely unguardable......

However, the vital parts are still not so easy to hit, and only one of the five armor-piercing shells that successfully detonated after successfully penetrating the armor was missed. But then again, since it was a critical point, one shot was enough, and the 405-kilogram bomb pierced through the heavily protected armor plate and drilled into the main ammunition depot of the battleship South Carolina before it finally exploded, causing an earth-shattering explosion.

A 16,000-ton battleship has no less than 1,000 tons of ammunition stored in its main ammunition depot. Almost instantly, the battleship South Carolina was shattered by a loud sound that resounded for hundreds of miles, and from the fleet commander to Rear Admiral George Dewey, all the nearly 900 American officers and sailors on board were killed, and none of them survived!

After a brief period of shock, the officers and men of the other US ships immediately began to counterattack, and it is obvious that the intensified training in the past few years has indeed paid off.

However, the counterattack of the US army did not go well, because the previous secrecy work was very good, and the design of the fortress battery was very ingenious, the Americans could only determine the direction of the target at the moment when the fortress artillery fired, but the time was too short, and only the general direction could be determined, and it was difficult to carry out accurate shelling......

But then again, even without that damn "protective color", it won't be easy for the U.S. fleet to hit those batteries.

The reason is very simple, the fortress shells the warship, the target is the entire hull, and the capital ship is generally more than 100 meters long, which is quite large; And when the naval gun hits the battery, the target is much smaller, how big is a twin armored turret?

Even if you count many miles, even if you ignore those unprotected parts that are easy to penetrate and not explode, the bomb surface is less than one-twentieth of the sideways bomb surface of a capital ship, not to mention that the accuracy of the fortress gun itself is much higher than that of the naval gun, how can it be possible to take advantage of it?

Generally speaking, fleets want to compete with the firepower of coastal forts, either the naval guns are far better than the fort guns (such as rapid-fire guns fighting and retreating, or using battleships to fight low-level fortresses that are designed to only deal with cruisers). Either the number of fortress guns is insufficient or cannot be used in a concentrated manner due to the limitation of the firing range, etc., and the firepower of the fleet is easy to concentrate and can obtain dozens or even hundreds of times the firepower advantage to eat the fortress. But now the situation is just the opposite, the artillery of Yanping Fortress is numerous and ruthless, and it can still concentrate on attacking the same target, not to mention that the current US fleet, even if all the warships in the United States are driven here, they will still hit their heads and bleed.

In particular, the turret of Yanping Fortress also uses China's latest case-hardened armor as the protective material of the armored turret, and the thickness of the armor has reached 305mm......

If the Americans knew this information, they would not dare to come here to die, but the problem is that the Americans don't know! If Rear Admiral George Dewey was still around, with his outstanding generals, he would have immediately realized that he could not beat the 12-inch cannons and ordered a retreat, but now that he is gone, even if someone finds out that the situation is wrong, it is difficult for him to make up his mind to retreat without permission, because he will be afraid that he will be court-martialed after the war for taking the lead in escaping......

However, Feng Yuxiang and his subordinates became more and more morale after the peace, and soon they changed their target to another South Carolina-class battleship "Michigan", the 16,000-ton standard row of large size made this new battleship as conspicuous as fireflies in the dark even if it was mixed with hundreds of ships, which greatly facilitated Feng Yuxiang's command, and he only needed one sentence to let his subordinates understand which one to gather artillery to bombard.

Of course, there is another important reason, that is, these fortress guns did not fire immediately after the US fleet entered the effective firing range, but waited until they opened fire on the Colombian fleet before they began to prepare, until the Colombians called for help, they began to aim and load, and by the time Feng Yuxiang gave the order to open the artillery, the distance was already less than 10,000 meters, plus the weather was not bad, and the optical sight could be seen quite clearly, and there would never be the possibility of choosing the wrong target.

Under the heavy artillery bombardment of the Yanping Fortress, the battleship Michigan quickly followed in the footsteps of its big brother, the South Carolina, and the only thing to be thankful for was that the death was slightly better. What caused the sinking of the battleship Michigan was the detonation of the ammunition depot under the No. 2 main turret, and the huge shock wave completely tore the hull of the ship, broke it into two sections and sank into the sea, killing almost all 860 officers and men on the ship, and the number of survivors was only a dozen or so......

After losing two new battleships in less than three minutes, the Americans' luck seemed to have improved, and the third South Carolina-class battleship that was shelled never reached the ammunition depot, but it only lasted three minutes longer than the two sister ships, and because the waterline was continuously broken, it entered too much water and sank to the bottom of the sea unwillingly, and 679 people from the captain down were killed with it......

Perhaps it was this strong battleship that lost its character, and the fourth South Carolina-class battleship that was attacked was once again martyred by the destruction of the ammunition depot, and together with the two previous brothers and sisters, it proved a point that has long been put forward with its own sacrifices: as long as the armor-piercing bullet can completely penetrate the main armor (of course, it must be able to explode), the probability of hitting the vital part of the warship and killing it with one hit is actually very high, but it can survive until it sinks too much water, then it must be a bit of good luck...... (To be continued.) )