They were also equipped with twin-mounted 150-millimeter naval guns with 30 times the barrel produced by the Nara Artillery Factory, and these Taisho four-year naval guns had originally reached the end of their service life, but the stingy man said that he was always saving where he shouldn't.

Although there are considerable problems with the accuracy of the naval guns, there is no danger of exploding, and Rear Admiral Yoshida Yoshimitsu can be said to be a famous family of the naval faction, his grandfather followed the admiral Togo Heihachiro, and his father Yoshida Tano once served as the deputy chief of the Admiralty, and Yoshida Yoshimitsu can also be regarded as a son inheriting his father's business.

Yoshida Yongmitsu received the order to lead the second and ninth destroyer teams of the Chinese dispatch fleet to go up the river, directly cut off the connection between the north of the Zhong[***] River and the south of the Yangtze River with firepower, shelled the direction of Xiaguan, and threatened the northern line of the Central [***] guarding Nanjing, but the destroyer formation commanded by Yoshida Yongguang could only take the most primitive method to clear the mines because the central [***] side was laying mines in the main channel, and it was supposed to arrive at Xiaguan two days ago, and so far it was said that the party had arrived at Yanziji, and Yoshida Yongguang was also very anxious. Hatohiko of Asaka Palace is not a pleasant-looking guy, and he has never been merciless in reprimanding people as a prince.

In Yoshida Yongmitsu's opinion, the destroyer fleet that marches in formation with lateral artillery fire only needs one shelling to make those local chickens and dogs on Yanziji suddenly collapse, after all, Zhong[***] even gave up the Jiangyin fortress, and Yanziji cannot be compared with the Jiangyin fortress at all whether it is a fort or a permanent fortification, and according to the intelligence of the imperial intelligence department, Yanziji only has a few German-made 150mm howitzers, under the fire of the destroyer fleet, A howitzer fixed on an open turret could only become a target.

Yoshida Yongguang didn't know at all that he had become someone else's target, Peng Mengzhi, the colonel of the 10th Regiment of the National Axe Artillery Regiment, and the current commander of the Yanziji garrison, Peng Mengzhi looked at the 55 times the Zeiss artillery team produced in Germany Looking at the Japanese destroyer fleet that was reducing its speed, the front and rear turrets on the Japanese destroyer were slowly turning, slowly raising the muzzle.

Peng Mengji took a deep breath, and beside him, several naval officers in white military uniforms were also holding binoculars, gritting their teeth and watching the invincible captain of the Yue Army Destroyer Fleet drive straight in.

Due to the old age of the ships, the naval units lost several old-fashioned warships in the course of resisting the air raids of the Xiaguan channel under the cover of several times, and all the naval gunners on the battleships were placed in the Yanziji turret to serve as battery surveyors, and the naval gunners had certain experience in shooting at moving targets.

Boom! The muzzle flames of the twin main guns of the two main guns in front of the Nanchuan destroyer, the first destroyer of the Yue Army, flickered, and two high pillars of smoke rose near the old Fort of Yanziji.

With the crisp sound of cannons, a thin column of water rose near the destroyer, and occasionally a cannonball hit the ship and burst into an orange-red fire.

After Peng Mengzhi waited for the ship to carry out the second round of shelling correction, Peng Mengzhi looked at a lieutenant colonel beside him with a microphone and said, "Old Xu! Don't say I'm not interesting enough, two bottles of aged Jian Nanchun, this order is yours, how about it? There were 26 destroyers, all of which exceeded 1,500 tons. ”

The naval officer known as Lao Xu didn't even hesitate and said, "There are only six bottles left, you can take them all!" I thank you for the brothers who died in Shimonoseki! So he took the microphone and said in a deep voice: "The speed of the No. 1 gun of each artillery group is six knots, the binding height is three degrees, the height coordinate is reduced by one, the dense position is twenty-five, and the elevation angle is thirty!" Charge No. 3 put! ”

In addition to the two Krupp 280-mm coastal defense guns on the top of Yanziji Mountain, the first guns of the 150-mm German 30-caliber and 32-caliber guns of the four artillery groups to which they belonged were test-fired.

The roaring sound of artillery fire and the sharp whistling of shells breaking through the air made Yoshida's nerves tense? Yoshida Yongguang quickly picked up the telescope on his chest and looked at the direction where the cannon sounded, only to see a burst of smoke from the firing of large-caliber artillery in several places in the Swallow Rock Fortress.

Rumble! The water wave stirred up by the close bomb shook Yoshida Yongguang into the conning tower, and Yoshida Yongguang, who was supported up by his subordinates, suddenly had a bloodless face, because he found that this was probably a positioning correction bullet in the middle [***], just like the two rounds of shells fired by the Nanchuan just now, so it also means that there are not only a few so-called German-made 150mm howitzers on the Yanziji Battery, because they have already driven into the range of the other party, and the other party only used a few mountain artillery positions to return fire? Could it be that Swallow Rock will be a trap?

Yoshida Yongguang gasped and considered whether the fleet needed to speed up and quickly disembark, the forty-five heavy guns belonging to the four 150-mm German-made artillery groups deployed in the Swallow Rock Fortress plus the two Krupp 280-mm coastal defense guns roared almost at the same time!

Hearing the sound of cannon that almost shook the ground, Yoshida Yoshimitsu howled with a pale face: "Speed up! The first speed, immediately disengage! Get out now! ”

Boom! Boom Boom! Amid the sound of explosions that shook the mountains, huge fires rose on some of the ships, and the river surface was like a boiling pot, and the entire destroyer fleet of the Japanese army took a bath happily.

Undoubtedly, the 150-millimeter German-made high-explosive grenade caused extremely great damage to the ship, and the shrapnel that flew wantonly caused tremendous damage to the personnel on the open gun emplacements on the flanks of the Japanese army.

However, what made Yoshida Yongmitsu even more stunned was that a 280-millimeter armor-piercing projectile fired by the No. 1 Krupp cannon hit the bottom of the second chimney of the fourth battleship of the Japanese destroyer fleet, the Torimei, and the armor-piercing projectile weighing 270 kilograms went straight through the boiler room of the Torimei, and then penetrated the underwater armor, forming a hole directly two meters large, and a large amount of river water instantly poured in, lost power and began to sink.

The boiler was hit and leaked a large amount of high-heat steam the entire engine room in the military maintenance personnel in the instant steamed, so there was no damage management personnel to pump and deal with the water in time, and soon the influx of river water flooded the motor of the Tori Ming, the Tori Ming completely stopped and sank, and the follow-up warships could only bypass the Tori Ming that was sinking in the main channel.

Because it is very unwise and unrealistic to make a so-called turn under enemy fire, you must know that it takes at least four minutes for a destroyer with a standard displacement of 1,700 tons to complete the process of deceleration and turning in the acceleration process on the main channel of the Yangtze River, with such a dangerous terrain and terrain as Yanziji, four minutes is enough for the destroyer fleet to suffer heavy losses, if the ships in the rear of the fleet are sunk twice in a row in the main channel, causing the main channel to be blocked, then it will be the real nightmare of the entire fleet.

Since not all of the warships are new-edge, it can be said that most of the ships belonging to the Chinese fleet are old ships, and only a few are newly built ships, because their opponent, the Chinese Navy, has a total tonnage of less than 50,000 tons, and it is not an opponent of the fleet at all, or the Chinese Navy is not taken seriously by the Chinese Navy at all, because the two are not a strategic force at all.

Boom! Another destroyer was hit by two 150-millimeter high-explosive grenades in succession, and after the orange-red explosion fire, the new destroyer with a standard displacement of 1,900 tons, the Qiuqian, emitted billowing smoke, and a large amount of smoke caused the view of the bridge to be zero, and the Qiuqian suddenly fired a series of light signals and sailed towards the river to try to run aground, so as not to block the retreat route of other ships.

Yoshida Yongguang has reached the point of madness, the fleet just broke away from the Swallow Rock Fortress and paid a huge price of two heavy damage and one stranded, Yoshida Yongguang has never suffered such a big loss, and even the combined fleet of this empire has never suffered such a big loss? About the Swallow Rock Fortress Imperial Intelligence has repeatedly conducted reconnaissance in various ways, for only two months? How did the people of China hide so much heavy artillery near the Swallow Rock Fortress? The most important thing is where did the people of China get so much heavy artillery? Didn't you say that these heavy guns were all deployed on the north bank of Shimonoseki?

After Yoshida Yongguang commanded the steaming destroyer fleet to rush through the Swallow Rock Fortress, he quickly began to turn around and complete the fleet turn, because everyone knew very well that now the destroyer fleet had rushed through the Swallow Rock Fortress, but the artillery fire of the Swallow Rock Fortress had exceeded the prediction of the previous intelligence, and its ferocity made the second and ninth destroyer teams under the command of Yoshida Yongguang suffer huge losses, so the implementation of fire interception on the way to Shimonoseki has lost its tactical significance.

If Naka[***] lays mines again in Swallow Rock and cooperates with the fortress artillery to defend the fortress, then the rapid expulsion team commanded by Yoshida Yongmitsu will be in danger of being wiped out.

Yoshida Yongguang hesitated again and again, and decided not to ask Prince Hatohiko Asakanomiya, the acting commander of the Central Branch's dispatch army, after all, Prince Hatohiko Asakanomiya is also a member of the army, when will it be the army's turn to call the shots in the affairs of the navy? These 26 destroyers are almost all the main forces of China's dispatch of the Second and Ninth Destroyers, and if the losses are too large, it will be difficult for them to explain to the Admiralty, and there will also be quite a lot of complaints about the dispatch of the fleet, saying that the principle of the Imperial Navy has always been that ships come first, and that the Chinese dispatch fleet is of a higher rank than the Central China Dispatch Army, and it is subordinate to the China Dispatch Army.

So, Yoshida Yongguang immediately commanded the fleet to retreat the same way, for the army fleet to quickly complete the turn and kill back, Peng Mengji was almost caught off guard, Peng Mengji thought that the army expelled the fleet would definitely wait for dark to break through, but he didn't expect the army to be in a hurry to break through?

Since it was the fat meat sent to the door, it was really sorry for himself not to take a bite hard, so Peng Mengji immediately ordered the naval guns installed on the Yanziji fortress and the naval guns that had been dismantled by the navy to fire at the destroyer fleet of the Yue army that was trying to break through Yanziji.

(To be continued)