The Illinois, which was also a South Carolina-class battleship, desperately rushed to the front of the battlecruiser Chiyu and blocked the view, so that the latter could not continue to aim at the US flagship "Georgia", and could only change the target and shell the battleship Illinois, which was sent to the door on its own initiative. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Due to the closer distance of the battleship Illinois, the main gun hit rate of the battlecruiser Chiyou was terrifyingly high, if it was not too close, the battlecruiser had to change course frequently to avoid rushing over the head and being rid of the enemy ship (because it was a full central axis layout, it was necessary to maintain the course and connect with the two ships at least 30 ゚ angle when pursuing, in order to carry out a salvo and exert the strongest firepower, but when the distance was close, it would accidentally rush over the head and cause the distance to gradually widen.) The battleship Illinois must have sunk faster than any of her sister ships.

But even so, the battleship Illinois still did not escape the fate of destruction, and under the intermittent burst of attacks from the eight 305mm main guns of the battlecruiser Chiyou, the battleship finally sank into the sea due to excessive flooding, and a total of 573 people from the captain down. Among the capital ships sunk in this naval battle, such personnel losses are already quite small, and most of the world's naval experts believe that this is because the battleship Illinois has long been ready to abandon the ship, but many people attribute it to the fact that the U.S. military can wait more quickly for the help of the victor when the naval battle is nearing the end.

Deng Shichang's tactic of "fighting bayonets at close range" has achieved obvious results, but there are always two sides to everything, and the closer distance cannot only improve the hit rate of the Chinese artillery bombardment, but it will not help the US gunners at all. In fact, while the battlecruiser Chiyou constantly hit the American battleships, she herself was constantly hit by shells from the Americans......

For the battleship itself, the shelling of the American battleship was insignificant, but not all of its personnel were under tight protection......

Li Hui has repeatedly told the senior generals of the Chinese Navy that when the number of samples reaches a certain level, the probability will become more and more inevitable, and the influence of luck will be greatly reduced. Perhaps in order to verify this sentence, as the number of shells hitting the Chiyou battle patrol continues to increase, the bridge of the Chiyou battle cruiser, which seemed to be protected by divine power and has never been hit by the US shells, has finally been shot!

Since the U.S. Navy has now realized that the armor-piercing shells are completely useless with the Legend-class battlecruisers, all the remaining U.S. battleship main guns, including the battleship Illinois, have switched to blasting shells to attack, if it weren't for the Legend-class battlecruisers' design to ensure the safety of personnel as much as possible, greatly expanding the protective area of the armor belt, and removing all unnecessary decoration (later Chinese warships also followed this concept, plus the paint was not taken seriously, so it was generally ugly, So much so that military fans complained one after another, saying, "The navy is not dirty, and the combat effectiveness is five." ”...... Using non-combustible or flame-resistant materials as much as possible, and developing a number of world-leading firefighting technologies, the battlecruiser Chiyou is now only a fireship.

However, a 305mm blasting bomb was fired on the bridge in the almost open air, and the consequences were still very serious, and the violent explosion took the lives of everyone on the bridge on the spot, and more than a dozen officers, including the captain Deng Shichang, were blown to the ground, and they didn't even have time to leave their last words.

This is not very accurate, because Deng Shichang actually left his last words a long time ago, in accordance with his previous order, the deputy political commissar of the Chiyou immediately led people to board the bridge where the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, and did not hesitate to take over the martyrdom of Deng Shichang and others to continue the command, but only 3 minutes later, the deputy political commissar surnamed Lin also sacrificed his young life for the country like Deng Shichang, although the power of the 152mm caliber explosive bomb could not be compared with the previous giant bullet, but it was also enough to take the lives of these Chinese officers on the bridge.

However, such a tragic loss did not frighten the officers and men of the Chinese Navy on the Chiyou, the deputy political commissar fell, and the first mate followed, and the first mate fell, and the second officer of the guns and guns went up......

Inspired by these outstanding officers, who completely put life and death out of the way, the officers and men of the battlecruiser Chiyou became more and more courageous the more they fought, and their fierce artillery bombardment was fast, accurate, and ruthless, causing the American troops to cry and cry out for their mothers, and almost single-handedly sank two more American battleships one after another, completely laying the perfect conclusion of the great victory in the Gulf of Mexico naval battle.

The heroic performance of the battlecruiser Chiyou like a bloody lion completely disrupted the position of the American army, and the timely follow-up of the three sister ships such as the Xuanyuan and the other four ships returning at full speed inadvertently formed a net of heaven and earth, surrounding the remaining American battleships, Vice Admiral William Soden Sims could not help but burst into tears, he never thought that he had finally been reused, but he lost everything in the first naval battle he personally commanded......

Vice Admiral William Soden Sims did not fail to ask for help from the auxiliary ships on the periphery, but when the capital ships of both sides were fighting bloodily, the Chinese auxiliary ships were also not idle, they took the initiative to attack, and frantically hunted and killed American warships of the same class that were inferior to them in all aspects. Although the total number of US auxiliary ships operating in this sea area is much larger than that of the Chinese side, because the Chinese auxiliary ships were assembled earlier, a local superiority in force has been formed, and considering that the firepower and protection of the Chinese auxiliary ships are also far superior to the enemy ships, it is difficult to think of a one-sided result.

And because of the obvious advantage in speed, most of the Chinese auxiliary ships can be safely evacuated even if they are heavily damaged, while the American ships can only wait for death or surrender, so although the exchange ratio cannot be compared with the side of the main fleet (in such a fierce naval battle of this scale, at least a destroyer with no decent armor protection will definitely lose a few.) It's just as good as brightening the eyes of others.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the US battlecruiser USS Idaho, which had withdrawn from the battlefield for a time, had returned to the battlefield risking death and saved many light cruisers and destroyers, the US auxiliary ships that participated in the battle would have lost at least half of them, if not all of them would have been wiped out.

Therefore, when the capital ships of the US army were encircled, their little brother was also already "mud bodhisattvas crossing the river, and it was difficult to protect themselves." "Now, where did you get the spare strength to rush to the rescue? (To be continued.) )