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"Steel head, iron tail, tofu waist"

In fact, this problem is precisely due to the prototype of the two ships, the "Yoshino", more than ten years ago, when the British naval designer Watts designed the "Yoshino", in order to obtain a strong fire reserve, he did not hesitate to lengthen the hull to install more side secondary guns, but its thin ribs and armor are its fatal weakness, whether it is the sinking of the Haitian on the reef or the "Yoshino" in the Russo-Japanese War last year The ship was sunk by the adjacent Japanese warship "Kasuga" due to heavy fog during the mission, and the common denominator of the two was precisely the waist of the ship, so in the Chinese Navy, Haitian and Haiqi, which were of the same level as Yoshino, fell to the steel head, iron tail, and tofu waist.

And the Takasago, which is the sister of the Yoshino, also has the same problem.

"Aim at the waist of the ship and hit it hard"

Deng Haohong, who was well aware of the weakness of the Takasago, could not have known about the weakness of the Takasago, and his first order was to target its weakness, and for a while, the four 105 naval guns on the port side of the Haitian and the three 150-mm rapid-fire guns in the bow and stern of the ship immediately fired shells at the maximum rate of fire.

Amid the roar of the cannons, Deng Haohong stared at Takasago, his expression as resolute as his father had given the order to "target Yoshino, hit at full speed" eleven years ago.

Whether it is the Takasago or the Kasaki and the Chitose, the speed is far faster than the Kairong, and the Takasago is even more urgent at least one or two kilometers away, for any modern navy, this distance is undoubtedly the distance of the warship bayonet, at this distance can be completely unfine-tuned, can directly and continuously fire at the target.

The Hairong, which was pursued by three cruisers and attacked by the secondary guns of two major ships, was at this time as if it was in a raging storm, the shells continued to hit the warship, the fragments of the explosion were scattered everywhere, and the Hairong was in flames, and the "Hairong" with a positive and limited protective surface on the side armor was under concentrated attack from the world's latest four protective cruisers at this time.

The 150/105 mm shells fired by the Hairong's gunners continued to hit his deck or the side of the ship, and the smoke rose from the Hairong, and the Takasago was also black smoke.

The stern turret of the Hairong has been completely shrouded in flames, and there are corpses everywhere around the semi-enclosed turret, which is the gunner who has been killed and wounded, and the semi-enclosed turret without armor protection is simply a hell of iron and fire in naval battles.

"Fast armor-piercing bullets"

The bloodied cannon commander shouted, and the sailors carrying the shells had just rushed to the deck when the flying shrapnel killed him, and his brains and blood fell down the steel ladder.

Bang

The moment the shell landed heavily on the aisle, another sailor jumped up and carried the shell, and carried the shell to the gun position in three steps and two steps, and there were only one sailor with a broken arm attached to the turret.

"I aim, you reload......"

"Yes"

"Boom"

The shell entered the chamber, and the sailor, who had been bleeding too much from the broken arm, stood up violently as if returning to the light at the moment when the shell was loaded, and he put the shoulder that had lost his arm against the tail of the gun, and his eyebrow, which was covered with blood, was attached to the rubber leather pad at the tail of the scope, and his left hand slowly shook the level.

The Takasago continued to fire in the billowing smoke, which would get closer and closer, and even the sailors felt that they could clearly see the bow coat of arms of the Takasago, staring at the enemy ship, and the gunners constantly moving the level.

"Steel head, iron tail, tofu waist"

For the gunner, he didn't know about Takasago's problem, he only knew that he must have hit it, this may be his last shot, and after finally aiming at the opponent, the bloody gunner's face showed a smile or something else. …,

"Boom ......"

After a cannon sounded, following the impact of the back seat of the artillery, the gunner, who was covered in blood, lay down softly, and the look in his eyes gradually dissipated.

"Sergeant Wu, Sergeant Wu ......"

The loaded sailors dragged him up and made a gesture to drag him towards the operating room.

"Cannon...... Artillery fire, ship ,...... Cannon, cannon......"

The gunner with the broken arm squeaked, and at this time there was no sparkle in his eyes, his eyes were staring at the sailor holding him, and there was no trace of brilliance, and his eyes seemed to have regained their sparkle.

Suddenly, a violent explosion came from afar, and the original billowing black smoke suddenly exploded at a distance from the amidships, and the chimney was blown away dozens of meters with the explosion, during which you could even see the guns that were blown away.

"Sergeant Wu, Sergeant Wu, we have sunk the high sand. Sinking the high sand......"

Looking back at the sunken Takasago, the sailor shouted at the sergeant, but at this time, the sparkle in the eyes of the sergeant with the broken arm was gone, and he didn't see the moment when Takasago was sunk until he died.

"Captain, we sank Takasago"

Compared to the excitement in the bridge, Deng Haohong just nodded, his expression did not look excited, nor did he have any other emotions, and the officers in the bridge looked at him, but knew that maybe to some extent he had fulfilled his deceased father's last wish.

"Sir, water in the lower cabin"

"Got it"

"Whoosh......"

A sharp fragment of the calendar broke through the ears of Deng Haohong, who was motionless, and he only felt a numbness in his left ear, and when he touched his hand, the red blood stained his left hand.

"Target Fuji hit at full speed"

Without any emotion, the order spit out from Deng Haohong's mouth, as if the huge battleship that was only one nautical mile away in his eyes, as if at this moment, he saw his father.

"Yes"

The Captain's eyes were equally resolute, and he gave the captain a military salute, and then repeated the order.

"Target Fuji hit at full speed"

The sea breeze and gunpowder smoke swept into the armored command tower, the wind and smoke caressed his face, staring at the Fuji in the distance, Deng Haohong seemed to see the scene when his father commanded the Zhiyuan to ram the enemy ship at full speed eleven years ago.

Finally, when Hairong was getting closer and closer, Hidaka Sturgy, who was standing in the Fuji Command Tower, could no longer ignore the small ship that he had turned a blind eye to, and he stared at the warship that was slowly billowing in smoke and seriously flooded, but still pressing at his own at all costs.

"Concentrate all your firepower on Hairong"

After the order was spit out from the mouth of Hidaka Zhuangcheng, the four remaining Japanese warships on the battlefield all concentrated all their firepower to attack this small ship, and the "Hairong" was just a dome armor protection cruiser with almost no broadside armor defense, but the performance at this moment was enough to win everyone's respect, this warship as strong as her captain, at the most critical moment of the Jingyuan, resolutely chose to use his weak body to attract enemy ship fire through a decisive active attack, attracting shells, in order to protect the flagship, Buy time for the flagship to save itself.

"Meteorological mammoth, the only champion of the whole army"

When the Jingyuan was catching its breath and the sailors were desperately trying to save themselves and save the warship, in the command tower of the Jingyuan, Tang Tingguang, who had been staring at the Hairong with binoculars, came up with these words that had been used to describe Deng Haohong's father.

"The Son was born like his father, and what is the regret of death?"

After sighing, looking at the warship that was constantly hit, Tang Tingguang only felt that his eyes were clouded, this was the first time after the naval battle, he had the urge to cry.

"Concentrate the gunwales, attack the cruiser"

Tang Tingguang understood that maybe this was the only thing he could do for this junior. …,

At this time, when the "Hairong" ship collided with the Fuji, it was constantly being hit and caught fire, and many parts of the warship had penetrated into the water, although the compartment of the watertight partition was kept balanced by continuous water injection, but at this time, because of too much water ingress, the speed of the "Hairong" in the boiler room had dropped significantly, and the hull had even reached the last moment.

When the huge column of water came to his face, knowing that it was the water column caused by the attack of the Fuji's main gun, Deng Haohong laughed for the first time, he looked at most of the injured subordinates in the bridge, and laughed with relief.

"Okay, our mission is complete, we are exchanging our lives for the flagship's turnaround"

"Sir, it is an honor for me to be able to defend China's maritime frontier with you."

At this time, in the eyes of everyone's astonishment, they only saw that the battered "Hairong" was like a holy and arrogant unicorn, and the seriously injured and burning "Hairong" began to accelerate towards the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet's southern fleet, the "Fuji".

1200 meters

Speed: 17...... The order was interrupted by the explosion of the shell, apparently the officer who was reporting the speed was hit by shrapnel.

800 m,

Speed 15 knots.

At the same time, a large-caliber explosion accurately hit the bow of the Hairong, and the violent explosion blew up the bow main gun on the spot, and the bridge was a mess, and the screams of the wounded were everywhere.

Trying to support his body, Deng Haohong found that he was covered in blood, and he stood up with his body, and an elderly sailor who rushed into the bridge hurriedly supported him.

"Captain"

"Keep course target Fuji"

Struggling to push away the sailors beside him, Deng Haohong resolutely grabbed the steering wheel, and stared at the Fuji that was getting closer and closer in front of him with blood-blurred eyes.

When the smoke of the bomb cleared, the Japanese troops on the Fuji were surprised to find that the "Hairong" had not sunk, it had tilted, but it was still floating on the sea, and even able to start, although its speed dropped quickly, he still rushed towards Fuji.

"Torpedo Attack"

Finally, another order came out of Deng Haohong's mouth, under the bow waterline of the Hairong, there was a torpedo tube, at this time, the torpedo compartment had already entered the water, when the signal to launch the torpedo was issued, a sailor immediately plunged into the sea water, he groped in the sea water for a while, and pulled down the launch rod with all his might.

"Sir, the torpedo fired ......"

When these words came out of Deng Haohong's ears, he no longer had the strength to hold the rudder, but his head hung down slightly, if it wasn't for the faint sound of breathing, it might give people the illusion that he was dead.

"Cheng ...... It worked."

At 6:35 a.m., after receiving numerous shells, the stubborn old ship, after firing its last torpedo, tilted to the right and finally sank headfirst into the depths of the South China Sea.

The torpedo dragging the bubbles was running in the sea, and the Fuji immediately began to evade urgently in the dense bullet column shrouded at this time.

"Left full rudder, left full rudder"

As the torpedo got closer and closer, the commander tower heard only the captain's urgent shout.

And when the Fuji urgently avoided the torpedo, Hidaka Strong's eyes were staring at the "Hairong" tilting to the left, and he couldn't speak for a long time, but finally spit out a sentence in Chinese. "On this day, the world is full of tears, there is a strong navy Deng Shichang, Deng Hao ......"

Thinking of the two fathers and sons of the Deng family, the tall and strong man seemed to sigh helplessly, but was interrupted by the shock caused by an explosion. The deadly torpedo hit its stern and exploded close to the rudder blades, whipping up a jet of water. The entire warship suddenly felt a terrible violent vibration, as if the huge warship was about to be torn apart. As the rudder blades got stuck, the warship kept spinning in circles like crazy. …,

"Sir, the rudder was torpedoed and the stern was flooded"

"Order the Aso to lead the Kasaki and Chitose to evacuate the war zone at full speed......"

As if helpless, as if sighing, the tone of the sigh showed the helplessness of the strong man at this time, he even hung his head, in the surprised eyes of everyone, slowly left the command tower, he understood, the Fuji is no longer able to escape

At this time, Tang Tingguang and Yang Shuzhuang were standing on the bridge of the "Jingyuan" with solemn expressions, observing the artillery fire and the situation of the Fuji with binoculars. On the water antenna, the "Fuji" was still spinning there, and smoke remained in the stern of the ship. Not far away, the silhouette of the armored cruiser "Aso" was almost covered by a column of smoke and water.

"The Aso is running away,"

Yang Shuzhuang continued to shout.

"There's a lot of smoke, he's casting a smoke screen to escape."

"There's no way to intercept them"

Helplessly put down the binoculars, Tang Tingguang sighed heavily, suffered heavy losses, a turret lost its combat effectiveness, and the Jingyuan, which had more than 3,000 tons of water, can now sail back to the port safely, it is a problem, let alone pursue the three cruisers that left the battlefield at high speed, and then, he turned to look at Yangshuzhuang and the officers in the bridge.

"Raise the flag to let the Fuji surrender, prepare to release the boat to rescue the sailors who have fallen into the water, don't let Hairong die in vain"

As he spoke, tears fell from Tang Tingguang's eyes, this was his first tears, for his Jingyuan, and for those sailors.

"Sir, Zhiyuan telegram"

The telegraph operator rushed over in a hurry, took the telegram, and Tang Tingguang glanced at the telegram.

"Now our ship is rushing to the battlefield at full speed at 27 knots, please hold on."

Looking at the message, the corners of Tang Tingguang's mouth showed a wry smile. At this moment, a gust of sea breeze wrapped in thick smoke penetrated into the bridge through the crack, and it was dazzling and choking, and the pungent breath produced by the explosion of the gargle explosives made the choking people want to shed tears. Throwing away the telegram casually, Tang Tingguang's eyes were dead on the slowly sinking "Hairong", if they could arrive ten minutes earlier, if, but there was never an if on the battlefield.

"Sir, the Fuji has sent a banner"

"The Royal Navy of the Great, Japanese, Ben, Imperial, and National Kingdoms, None, Surrender, Enemy, Of, Ships"

At the same time as the Fuji issued this slogan, the telescope could clearly see that on both sides of the Fuji deck, there were sailors jumping into the sea.

"Sir, they abandoned the ship"

"Sink It"

Coldly spit out this order, Tang Tingguang's eyes narrowed, and he wanted to sink himself and think beautifully

The two main guns in front and behind the originally silent Jingyuan sounded again, and the bell-like sound of cannons was tearing through the sea and air, and six water columns exploded around the hull of the Fuji, and at this moment, there were eight more water columns around the Fuji.

"Sir, the Zhiyuan ship has arrived, and they have started shelling from 17 kilometers away"

Laughing, Tang Tingguang didn't say anything, if he still had a torpedo boat or a cruiser, he could carry out a close-range attack on Fuji, although Jingyuan had torpedo tubes, but he didn't want to add any unnecessary risks to Jingyuan at this time.

The bow and stern of the Fuji exploded violently, and the explosion even overturned the Japanese sailors who were about to abandon the ship and flee, dragging them into the deep sea.

"Sir, we've won"

Looking at the Fuji, which had retreated most of the way in just a few tens of seconds, Yang Shuzhuang tried his best to restrain his emotions and said to the chief, and then he repeated again.

"This can be regarded as a war of annihilation, a decisive victory, and a classic example of victory with less in a world naval war. For this reason, your name will remain in people's memories forever. It is a great honour for me to be the first to congratulate you. ”…,

As he spoke, Yang Shuzhuang gave a standard military salute to Tang Tingguang, while the rest of the staff officers stood beside him, and at the same time saluted the captain, everyone was full of elation and smiles, today, the Chinese Navy has finally tasted the fruits of victory, and can finally taste the wine of victory.

"Thank you, Colonel."

Tang Tingguang just nodded quietly, looking at the sampan put into the sea, at this time the sailors on the sampan were salvaging the overboard crew members of both the enemy and us, and then he gestured to his chief of staff with his left hand.

"Immediately report the news of this victory to Nanjing."

Then he deliberately added.

"To be sent out immediately"

Twenty minutes later, the Zhiyuan, which also received the telegram, rushed to the war zone, and the sailors on the Zhiyuan could hardly believe their eyes when they looked at Jingyuan, whose upper perch was almost completely destroyed, and whose armor plates had fallen off, and the sea that had been dyed yellow after being exploded by the lower gargle.

What kind of battleship is this?

At this time, the black smoke had not completely dispersed from the Jingyuan, and the hull blackened by the artillery fire was seriously flooded, and there were traces of oil all around it, the smell of gunpowder smoke in the air, and the thousands of enemy troops who had fallen into the water on the sea constantly reminded the officers and soldiers on the Zhiyuan that the Jingyuan had experienced a naval battle with great disparity in strength, and more importantly, they had won

"No, the unsinkable Jingyuan" ......,