As soon as the pickup received the order, it began to make a detour to the right flank of the army.

The Baxia also began to flank the light cruiser Tenryu from the left flank.

Twenty-five kilometers, the Baxia did not fire, and the Tianlong did not fire.

Twenty kilometers away, the main gun of the Baxia opened fire.

The first shell landed near the battleship more than twenty seconds later. Stir up a column of water tens of meters high. The first cannon was only used by the school gun.

After a slight adjustment, the heavy artillery began to fire continuously.

On the light cruiser Tenryu, Goto Kotaro Nakasa immediately ordered to speed up the approach after seeing the flags raised by the two warships. Although the Chinese Navy undoubtedly won the battle with the Chinese Navy, the thing that displeased the Chinese Navy was that not a single warship of the Chinese Navy had sunk a warship. (The boat does not count as a victory.) Most of China's warships sank by themselves or were blown up by their own fighters, but there were really no warships that were sunk. ）

Kotaro Goto could hardly believe his eyes, this kind of unattainable and unattainable ship battle was actually encountered by him.

The Tenryu light cruiser has been on patrol duty since it was built, and because of the aging of its ships, it is not very valued in the Navy, and it is not even as valued as a cutting-edge destroyer.

In 38 and 39, the displacement of warships built in this book exceeded 500,000 tons. Many officers are scrambling to be the captain of the new warship. Many naval officers with similar qualifications to Kotaro Goto would rather be the captain of a cutting-edge destroyer than the captain of a light cruiser.

It can be seen what is the status of this old cruiser in the Navy. If according to the international classification of the Navy, the light cruiser is in any case a little higher than the destroyer.

Goto Kotaro was in ecstasy at this time, and the two Chinese battleships in front of him were obviously incomparable to his light cruisers. The larger ones are only about 2,000 tons, and the smaller ones are up to 7,800 tons.

Kotaro Goto's attention was all drawn to the pickup, and he was even more ecstatic when he saw the cannon on the pickup in the large-caliber telescope. More than 20 kilometers, it is impossible for him to see very clearly, but he still has experience to judge a rough idea.

The opponent is certainly not a large-caliber gun, and it is an open gun emplacement, which does not even have a turret.

At this time, Goto Kotaro's excitement was directly raised to the top, and he kept urging the battleship to speed up. If he knew that not only was the cannon not powerful on the pickup, but it was also not even armored, he didn't know how excited he would be.

Goto's excitement did not last long, and the main guns on the Bashita opened fire at a distance of twenty kilometers, and forty-three kilograms of shells flew towards the Tenryu with a long whistle. The huge cannon fire startled Kotaro Goto.

Kotaro Goto has rich combat experience, and immediately judged that the caliber of this shell was definitely more than 120mm, which was very likely to be about the same caliber as the naval gun on the Tenryu.

Kotaro Goto is very familiar with his own armament, and when he saw his opponent taking the lead in firing the cannon, he not only did not panic, but was secretly happy. His judging opponent is the rookie navy.

Whether it is a 140mm caliber or a 150mm caliber, the cannon range is generally about 20 kilometers. At this distance, the gunners of the Great Empire are not accurate, and the opponent is definitely wasting shells now.

How did he know that Li Guang opened the golden finger, not to mention that this Soviet-made artillery was in the early stage of World War II, even in the late stage of World War II, and the range was second to none. It's just that because it's bulky, its performance on the battlefield in the early stage is not dazzling enough. It was only in the later stages of the war, when the Soviet army switched to a full-scale offensive, that it began to exert a little power.

Kotaro Goto didn't really realize his mistake at the moment, and he put the pickup in the main position, and the Hashita was only seen by him as a small warship. At this moment, the Baxia and the Pickup had not really formed a situation of pincering the Tianlong, and he didn't even see that it was the battleship that fired the cannon at such a distance.

The light cruiser Tenryu is now heading for the Pickup. Due to the Draco's pursuit, the pickup's roundabout actions were more like an escape at this point.

In this situation, the Baxia continued to fire almost without pressure. The gunners of the Naval Resistance Army on the Baxia did not shoot many live ammunition during the training, and less than 50 shells were fired in total. The shells of this large-caliber artillery are indeed expensive enough, and the price of a shell is hundreds of dollars, and no one is willing to spend live ammunition in training.

The training of the gunners is very strict, but there is still a big gap between live firing and training. After the first dozen or so shots, the gunners gradually found their senses. The firing command of the artillery group also began to be truly combined with theory and practice. The amount of advance and the wind speed have been added to the shooting command.

Since Kotaro Goto was unwilling to waste shells at a long distance, the Bashita did not have to be polite, and fired a series of cannons, and when the two ships were seventeen or eighteen kilometers apart, the Bashita finally shot a shell.

More than thirty shells hit one shot, and at this distance, this level is not worth mentioning in the countries of the world. According to Zheng Xuechang, the British Navy's cruiser cannons fired at 70 percent of the cannon's range and could achieve a 20 percent hit rate. However, I am afraid that this kind of achievement will not be achieved in actual combat.

This cannon hit the rear bridge of the ship, and with the earth-shattering explosion, the entire rear bridge on the Tianlong was blown up and staggered, and it was a mess.

The Baxia was the first to achieve results, and Goto Kotaro couldn't care about saving ammunition at this time. The four main guns were ordered to fire at the Baxia and Pickup.

Seeing the enemy ship firing, the temporary captain of the pickup immediately accelerated to open the distance, and now the distance between the pickup and the Japanese warship was only 13 or 4 kilometers, and it was in a dangerous situation. The pickup was just to distract the enemy, and it didn't want the tragedy of the decoy being swallowed at the beginning of the war.

At this time, the Baxia also began to keep a distance from the ship, and when the ship advanced, the Baxia moved away. Although the maximum speed of the Tenryu is slightly higher than that of the Baxia, the Draco is old, and the Baxia is a new ship, and the speed of the Draco is actually not higher than that of the Baxia at this moment, even if it is at full power, it is difficult to compare with the Baxia.

Zheng Xuechang was quite satisfied with the result of a hit in the first ten minutes of the battle on the Baxia. After he discovered his advantages, if he continued to get closer to the devil, it would be called being kicked in the head by a donkey. Didn't you see it, now the devil's cannon is roaring, but the warship is desperately approaching itself?

The Draco was hit by a shell, but it did not hurt the cruiser's vital points, only a few little devils died. Kotaro Goto felt a little remorseful and began to turn his attention to the Bashita. The pickup number has not been fired, and although Goto Kotaro still has a memory of sinking the pickup, he is faintly aware of his mistake in his heart, as if the pickup number is really not the main force.

In the ensuing half-hour battle, the two sides engaged in a high-speed parade on the sea. As the Draco pursued the Baxia, the pickup turned around and began to harass. The Dragon began to pursue the Pickup, and the Baxia launched a counterattack again.

In the course of such battles, the accuracy of artillery firing was low, due to the fact that both sides were traveling at high speeds. After dozens of cannons back and forth, they all realized that it was difficult to hurt the other party at this distance and speed, unless they were lucky and their character exploded.

Zheng Xuechang no longer thinks about how to get out of the battle at this moment, and the Baxia has now taken the advantage. Kotaro Goto was trembling with anger at this time, and it was difficult to win even though he had strong firepower. The opponent doesn't really fight with him at all, and is always fighting. And the pickup truck actually did not fire a single shell during this half an hour.

Kotaro Goto could not say that he had no achievements at all in this half an hour, and the light cruiser Tenryu occupied the south during the fight. This is exactly the direction in which the Baxia and Pickup will break through. When Kotaro Goto first started fighting, he didn't call for backup. The Tianlong was hit by a cannon shot, and only then did it begin to call for support from the naval fleet on Hainan Island.

The combat area is 300 kilometers away from the Yueben Naval Base in Sanya, and it will take more than five hours for the warships to arrive.

Zheng Xuechang actually didn't know that he was blocked by a warship. He's also buying time for the PJP to get out of danger.

The maximum speed of the PJP was only 123 knots, and according to the current sea conditions, it would certainly be difficult for the warship to search for it at a distance of 15 nautical miles. In other words, the Baxia and Pickup only need to support another forty or fifty minutes before they can start to break through.

Cannons of this caliber like 140mm and 152mm have a shrapnel killing radius of about thirty meters. And the shock wave of the explosion of the shell is still lethal at a distance of fifty or sixty meters.

The close-range explosion of each shell stirred up a high column of water, and the ship shook with the sound of the explosion. No one knew which shell would hit them, and with each screech of the shell pulled through the air, the hearts of the warriors shrank.

The closest shell to the Baxia was only three or four meters away, and at the moment of the explosion of the shell falling into the water, Zheng Xuechang even thought that the Baxia was shot. The six-hundred-ton battleship trembled from the violent explosion. Even in the cabin, I was dizzy from the shock wave of the explosion.

After the soldiers inspected it, they found that the hull of the ship was not damaged, and Zheng Xuechang was relieved.

Sonar soldier reports: "There are torpedoes. This report once again made Zheng Xuechang nervous. But at this time there were no torpedoes visible on the sea at all. Sonar can give timely warnings, but it cannot determine the exact origin of the torpedo. At this time, seven or eight observation posts were staring at the surface of the sea with binoculars.

The dark clouds in the sky now showed a gap, and a ray of sunset shone on the sea.

"Torpedo" came with an exclamation. Zheng Xuechang looked in the direction pointed out by the observation post, and the two torpedoes were only two or three hundred meters away from the Baxia.

This kind of torpedo is very similar to an electric mine, and there is no trajectory. Zheng Xuechang yelled, "The right full rudder."

According to the trajectory of the torpedo, Zheng Xuechang had actually judged that the torpedo should be difficult to hit the Baxia. But to be far away from death, no one wants to come close.

The devil's torpedo is extremely fast, significantly faster than an electric mine. Although there was no danger, Zheng Xuechang immediately reminded the pickup number to pay attention to the torpedo of the Yue Army.

Although the range of the devil's naval guns is not as good as that of the naval resistance army, the sharp weapon of torpedoes far exceeds that of the naval resistance army. At a distance of ten nautical miles, with such a high speed range, a torpedo is different from an artillery shell. A cannonball may be able to resist, but a torpedo is not at all sure that it can resist.

Seeing that the sky was darkening, Zheng Xuechang immediately made a decision and immediately ordered the pickup number to break through in a roundabout way.

Just found the torpedo, just took advantage of luck. A glimmer of sunset appeared in the gloomy sky, and if it weren't for this sunshine, it would have been impossible for the Bashita to spot the torpedo in time.

The pickup truck is inferior to the Baxia in terms of firepower and defensive power, and if the sky darkens, there will be no countermeasures at all against this kind of high-speed torpedo of the Yue Army. At this time, it was not a smart choice for the pickup number to continue to fight, but an act of sending people to death.

Goto Kotaro saw that the Bashita had dodged the torpedo, and his face was stiff and he didn't say anything. This is the weapon that the navy is proud of, the spear torpedo. This torpedo is quite large in terms of speed, range and power. But the cost is also quite high. And because this torpedo is powered by pure oxygen, it is very easy to explode, and it is also cautious to use little devils on battleships, for fear of blowing yourself up into the sky.

The biggest advantage of this torpedo is that there is no trajectory. A thermodynamic torpedo can achieve the effect of an electric mine, but the range is more advanced than the average thermodynamic torpedo in all aspects, and the little devil has worked hard enough on this torpedo.

Kotaro Goto regretted it in his heart, he didn't endure until it was completely dark, and if it was then, the opponent would not have wanted to find the torpedo and dodge.

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