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The power of the thirty-six main guns can be described as devastating, and the moment of the explosion, it is like God sprinkling a handful of flour on the sea. The mist immediately enveloped the sea area where the Pacific was located, and the huge explosion caused the huge body of the Pacific battleship to ripple like duckweed.

The devil's artillery skills were not bad, and at least half of the more than 30 shells fell within 500 meters of the Pacific Ocean. School shooting can play at such a level, and the Japanese devil can be said to be well-trained.

The Japanese army's calibration was very distinctive, and the color of the explosion of the shells of different battleships was different, some were black, some were red, and some were yellow.

The colorful water column looks very beautiful in the sunset, but this is extremely stressful for the naval resistance army.

With Zheng Xuechang's order, the Pacific also returned a round of shells.

The Pacific was targeting the battleship Hiei, which was at the forefront of the Japanese fleet. Ten huge cannonballs, with a long whistle, pounced on the Hiei.

Ten cannonballs fell near the Hiei, and the sheer force made the devils on the Hiei almost frightened.

In the first round, it was both an artillery bombardment and a school firing, but the accuracy of the landing of the shells made the captain of the Hiei, Arima Shin Daisa, tremble. A shell landed less than thirty meters on the port side of the Hiei, and Arima Shin almost fell in the bridge with the force of the huge explosion.

Arima Shinosa is now 55 years old, although he is not a celebrity in the Japanese Navy, but his perennial naval career has made him very familiar with naval warfare, and the first round of salvo of the Naval Resistance Army can have such good results, he knows that he has encountered hard stubble.

Not to be outdone, the four main battleships fired back one after another, and although the scene was beautiful, neither side achieved any results in the first ten minutes of the battle.

The advantage of the Naval Resistance Force is that after a short warm-up, the officers and men of the whole ship are in good condition at this time. On the other hand, in the Japanese army, all the officers and men who really experienced naval battles except for a few veteran officers of World War I, the other officers and men had never experienced battles at all, and their mentality was unstable.

Zheng Xuechang's tactical core at this time is only one point - delaying time. One is waiting for reinforcements from the air force, and the other is waiting for the sun to set. In today's battle, the Pacific fired a total of 13 or 4 rounds, and spent more than 130 shells to sink only one Japanese destroyer. If the sun sets, Zheng Xuechang is confident enough to increase the hit rate of the main gun to about 10 percent, even at a distance of 24 kilometers.

Kurita Keno was in the bridge of the Hiei at this time, and his face changed slightly. Although he failed to hit his opponent within ten minutes of the battle, the small goal of the first stage of his battle plan had been achieved. The Pacific had been forced to change course and could not continue its voyage to the northwest, which was a good sign for the Japanese army.

From the moment they discovered their opponents, the Maritime Resistance Force had been desperately sailing to the northwest, and even under the interception of three warships led by the heavy cruiser Kumano, the Pacific did not change direction.

Kurita didn't want to enter the Gulf of Aden from the feeling that there was no British warship, not to mention whether there were British battleships or not, whether British battleships would launch an attack on Japan, just in the terrain, there was a pocket, Kurita Keno was absolutely unwilling to enter that kind of sea area. Soldiers, as long as they are soldiers, do not want to enter that kind of area.

Li Guang once heard a similar sentence: "I would rather walk the mountains than the valleys." These are the words of Yang Weiwu, the captain of the special squad.

Although the place of death is only a geographical concept, the soldiers have an intuitive resistance to it. Kurita Keno's mentality at this time is actually the same.

The next moment, the Pacific in the rain of bullets turned sharply again.

Without him, the two Japanese destroyers penetrated into the middle of the two armies at high speed, less than 15 kilometers away from the Pacific, and three Type 93 oxygen torpedoes fanned out towards the Pacific.

To say that the devil's Type 93 oxygen torpedo is really good, fifteen kilometers away, the power far exceeds the main gun, but the accuracy is not complimentary. For the battleship Pacific, dodging is not a problem, but it must be dodged, which makes Zheng Xuechang a little depressed.

In the process of maneuvering to dodge torpedoes, the Pacific could only exert the power of two or three turrets, and the Pacific fell into full disadvantage at this moment. Whether the Pacific could avoid being hit by the fate of the Pacific was no longer something that could be grasped by the ship's skills, but was based on the Japanese gunnery and luck.

The devil refused to close the distance between the main forces of the two armies, and it was obvious that Kurita Keno's calculation was to overwhelm people with force. The Devil's ammunition delivery was more than three times that of the Naval Resistance Army, and even if the hit rate of both sides was the same, the probability of the Pacific battleship being sunk was three times that of the Japanese army.

Insiders look at the doorway, and laymen look at the liveliness. The few rounds of salvo fire from the Naval Resistance Army just now, Kurita Keno saw it very clearly, and it was definitely not easy to get the artillery to this point. But Kurita Keno did not presumptuously belittle, and the performance of the Japanese warships was still quite good. Kurita was very composed, believing that if this situation was maintained, the victory would be his.

Zheng Xuechang also understands that when he falls into such a situation, what passively awaits him can only be defeat. The two destroyers of the devil are really annoying, although it is difficult to inflict substantial damage on the Pacific, but the continuous torpedoes greatly limit the range of action of the battleship Pacific, making it impossible for the Pacifico to concentrate its main gun fire on the enemy.

The destroyer of the devils must be killed.

In the previous battle, Zheng Xuechang had killed a Japanese destroyer, and at this moment he was more confident that he could take out a devil's destroyer within three salvos. But the problem is that three salvos require the Pacific to maintain a relatively steady course for at least five minutes, which is too dangerous for the Pacific. Under the threat of dozens of enemy guns, once the Pacific is shot, I am afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses.

Trade-offs, commanders in battle are making trade-offs at every moment. Zheng Xuechang chose to take out the Japanese destroyers first. Li Guang was also working nervously on the side, and quickly judged Zheng Xuechang's order. But he did not interfere with Zheng Xuechang's command.

After the Pacific dodged a torpedo, Zheng Xuechang immediately issued a series of orders, and then the Pacific let out a roar, and ten huge cannonballs whistled towards the nearest Japanese destroyer.

It was much more difficult to strike this destroyer than usual training, after all, the destroyer was traveling at a high speed of nearly forty knots. The destroyer of the little devil has obvious advantages, and the performance is really quite good, both in terms of speed and firepower. And today's weather is so good that the usual shortcomings of the seaworthiness of the devil destroyers do not appear at all.

More than twenty seconds later, ten shells exploded, and a column of water soared into the distance.

The bounce point is a little farther away. Although it didn't hit, it was already quite close, but it was only two or three hundred meters. This kind of score is not bad, after all, there is not even a school shooting, or this is a school shooting.

Immediately ten main guns opened fire again.

"Although there were no direct hits this time, it was clear that two shells were close missed." Li Guang muttered in his heart.

DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE NEAR MISS, THE 356MM CALIBER NAVAL GUN, A SINGLE SHELL IS MORE THAN 750 KILOGRAMS, AND THE SHOCK WAVE FORMED BY THE EXPLOSION CAN KILL PEOPLE FOR 100 METERS.

Not to mention the near-miss bomb of less than 30 meters.

The power of these two shells was really amazing, and they directly swept away the personnel outside the Japanese destroyer, and even some people inside were injured because of the shock wave.

By the time the battleship's third main gun fired, the battleship Pacific was only fourteen kilometers away from the first Japanese destroyer. This has gone into the most sure range of the battleship Pacific.

After so many days of exploration, Zheng Xuechang has a good grasp of the performance of this battleship. For this round of shooting, Zheng Xuechang seemed full of confidence.

The effect of such a range is completely different, and the effect of a salvo is amazing, and one out of ten shells is actually missed, and two shots are missed, which is simply a good result beyond expectations. A destroyer with almost no armor was hit by such a huge shell, and the result can be imagined, after the explosion, when the smoke cleared, the Japanese destroyer had sunk.

Seeing that the situation was not good, a Japanese destroyer in the back immediately stopped desperately intercepting it, but began to maneuver in a serpentine manner, distancing itself from the Pacific.

Zheng Xuechang's choice is difficult to say whether it was right or wrong in these five minutes, sinking a Japanese destroyer, but the Pacific was hit by two shots.

ONE WAS THE 356MM MAIN GUN SHELL OF THE BATTLESHIP HIREI, AND THE OTHER WAS THE 203MM GUN SHELL OF THE MOGAMI HEAVY CRUISER. The two shells hit the Pacific almost at the same time, and Li Guang, who was on the bridge, only felt as if his heel had been hit by a hammer, and the vibration followed his heel from his legs to his spine and then to his mind, and his whole body immediately became numb.

THE 203MM GUN DIRECTLY PENETRATED THE CANNON OF A SINGLE-MOUNTED SIX-INCH GUN, AND FOUR GUNNER FIGHTERS WERE KILLED ON THE SPOT. Although the 356mm gun caused no casualties, it did extremely serious damage to the Pacific, and the armor near the middle side of the battleship was ten inches thick, and a large hole was punched out.

Unfortunately, the hole is about two meters above the sea, and the water cannot be poured directly into the cabin. However, the powerful armor-piercing shell exploded in the chamber, destroying all six watertight chambers, into which seawater inevitably poured into the ensuing battle. This is a hidden danger for the Pacific, although it will not affect the combat effectiveness for the time being, but it will definitely drag down the already unfast speed of the battleship after a long time.

It was not only this that changed the situation on the battlefield in five minutes, the four main warships of the Japanese army had already formed a T-formation. This formation has appeared in the nineteenth century, and by World War II it was very mature, and the devils could use the side to fight against the naval resistance army, and the naval resistance army could only counterattack with the two twin main guns in the bow of the ship at this time. The amount of ammunition immediately decreased again, and I am afraid that it was not even one-sixth of the devil.

Compared to five minutes ago, the Pacific was already in a desperate situation, you must know that the Japanese fleet was only 223 kilometers away from the Pacific at this moment, and the accuracy of the Japanese artillery fire at this distance was also greatly increased, and the shells exploded around the Pacific like hail, which almost made people desperate.

The counterattack of the Pacific was greatly limited, not only by the setting sun, but also by the continuous explosions that caused the rising water column on the sea surface to be almost uninterrupted, forming a shield, affecting the artillery's line of sight, making it more difficult to aim the main guns.

It can be said that Zheng Xuechang's choice to sink the destroyer this time was completely different from the effect of sinking the Japanese destroyer dozens of minutes ago, once he took the initiative and suffered fewer losses. Although a Japanese destroyer was also sunk this time, the large hole in the side of the ship alone was enough to cancel out the victory. Not to mention falling into passivity.

Combat is like that, no one can grasp the full details.

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