Chapter 209: The Battle of the Arabian Sea 20

From the time Jairus was discovered by the devil's warship to the Jairus's difficult advance to the Kirishima less than four kilometers away, it only took fifteen minutes in total. In the process, Jairus was shot at least twenty times. The Jairus's armor was damaged, water was flooded in many places, and its speed had dropped to less than thirty knots.

Zheng Shuang wanted to follow closer, so that it would be more certain to launch a torpedo. However, Jairus was badly injured and flooded in many places, and it was difficult to keep up with the Kirishima again. It can't be delayed, and if you delay it any longer, not only will you not be able to get closer to the Kirishima, but it will lengthen the distance between the two sides. With Zheng Shuang's order, three torpedoes shot out.

Zheng Shuang ordered the Jairus to turn around again in the rain of bullets, and the three torpedoes on the other side of the battleship fired another salvo. Within three or four minutes, Jairus had fired all the torpedoes, and there was no trace of self-defense.

The battleship Kirishima was more than 200 meters long, which seemed huge, but it was not so easy for the torpedo to hit.

The Kirishima is now serpentine at a speed of thirty knots. The thermodynamic torpedo technology of the Maritime Resistance Army is not mature, the maximum speed is less than 40 knots, and the firing range is within 7 kilometers. In ordinary training, at a distance of four kilometers, the torpedo hit rate in such conditions is pitiful. What's more, in wartime, many technical parameters are too late to carefully figure out the settings.

Zheng Shuang has done everything he can. After firing all the torpedoes, he had to wait.

If we say that in today's naval battle, the naval resistance army has a trace of luck, it is also reflected in the fact that the Japanese Navy actually dispatched two of the three auspicious ships. You must know that Japan's auspicious rui is dedicated to self-interest, and will never benefit his accomplices. In the afternoon battle, the destroyer "Xiangrui" of the second auspicious Shiyu dropped the aircraft carrier Fengxiang. As the first auspicious destroyer, the Yukikaze has not yet been fully utilized, but its potential is very sufficient, and the Yukikaze has not even touched a bullet since the start of the war. After the Jairus fired the torpedo, the Snowwind's auspicious power finally appeared.

Zheng Shuang did not hear the explosion of the torpedo, and the Jairus ushered in a wave of bullets again.

THIS RAIN OF SHELLS WAS FIRED BY SEVERAL 152MM SECONDARY GUNS OF THE BATTLESHIP KIRISHIMA. Zheng Shuang was shocked by the violent explosion of the cannonball, and he passed out at that time.

When the mist and smoke cleared, the Jairus had broken in two and quickly sank into the sea in the darkness. It has to be said that the shipbuilding capacity of Uruguayan shipyards is still lacking, and the design of the warships is of civilian standard, even if it is equipped with armor and weapons, the strength of the battleship is still difficult to compare with the real warships of the great powers. The Jairus was not torpedoed in two, but by small-caliber naval guns.

The sacrifices of the officers and men of the Naval Resistance on the Jairus were not in vain. Although the Kirishima also had sonar crews and spotted the incoming torpedoes, it was not able to dodge all of them. Maybe this is the skill of the destroyer Yukikaze?

A torpedo hit a pair of Kirishima tail rudders, piggybacking on the Kirishima side's waterline armor. Although the thermodynamic torpedo with a charge of nearly 200 kilograms was inferior to the Japanese army's 93 oxygen torpedo, its power was also quite terrifying, this torpedo not only blew up a pair of tail rudders of the Kirishima, but even a pair of propellers were blown off, and after the side side of the Kirishima was opened, a large amount of seawater poured into the cabin. The Kirishima rapidly slowed down, and after a few minutes it could only sail at a skewed hull at less than twenty knots.

The Kirishima was hit by a torpedo, but Li Guang and Zheng Xuechang's faces did not relax in the slightest. The Kirishima was shot in a big news for the Pacific, but the sinking of the Jairus was like a heart-wrenching thing. You must know that the Jairus was broken into two, and it is difficult to judge whether a few soldiers can be rescued after the battle, but in short, the casualties are absolutely heavy.

In today's battle, the losses of the Naval Resistance Army were heavy enough, and the sinking of the Jianwei in front of him made Li Guang's heart even heavier.

Not only that, but now the Pacific is at the end of its crossbow, and it can only drag its sick body to crawl slowly in the sea, and the endless cannonballs explode on the Pacific Ocean. Even beaching has become a luxury of sorts.

Could it be that the Naval Resistance Army is really going to be wiped out today? A sense of powerlessness swelled in Li Guang's heart at this time.

Just when Li Guang was a little desperate, the roar of fighter planes was heard in the sky.

Liu Gensheng led nine intact fighters to the battlefield.

In the darkness of the night, nine P40s were like all-pervasive assassins, taking turns to attack the Kirishima. The devil was unlucky, the battleship Kirishima turned on after being hit by a torpedo, probably because of the need to check for losses.

The dive bombing technology of Liu Gensheng's squad is undoubtedly first-class among the naval resistance forces. Under the guidance of the Kirishima's lights, it launched frequent attacks.

After being shot, the little devil panicked, and the Kirishima realized the air attack after being hit twice in a row.

Kono Manjo Osa was not yet aware of the damage to the battleship, but as a fleet commander for the first time, he was worried that the emperor's battleship would be blown up, so he hurriedly ordered the entire ship to turn off its lights, and then turned around and sailed away from the battlefield.

Liu Gensheng's air raids bought time for the Pacific. The effect of elite shots is extraordinary. The hit rate of nine fighters was surprisingly high even at night, and three bombs hit the target.

Unfortunately, these three bombs were all 250 kilogram bombs, and although they could damage the Kirishima, it was still difficult to sink the giant ship. Even so, the Kirishima is now full of wolf smoke and looks like a lost dog.

Taking advantage of the time gained by the fighter team, the Pacific had already rushed to the beach, and after a series of shaking and shaking, the huge hull ran aground in the shallow water, and it was no longer possible to move.

After the fighters of Liu Gensheng's squad dived and bombed, they did not withdraw from the battlefield, but used airborne machine guns to strafe the Japanese heavy cruisers in turn.

It was obvious that the machine-gun strafing could not pose a lethal threat to the Japanese warships, and the Japanese heavy cruiser Sandami, in the face of the fighters' strafing, poured dozens of shells on the stranded Pacific Ocean in succession.

Kono's Hiroshi Osa saw very clearly that the battleship of the Pacific Ocean of the Naval Resistance Army was already on the beach. He judged that the Pacific had been scrapped after receiving so many shells, and the purpose of the battle had been achieved for the Japanese army. The Kirishima did no more useless work and accelerated its withdrawal from the battlefield.

When Liu Gensheng's team withdrew, nine transport planes flew to the battlefield again.

The little devils don't know whether they are alive or dead, and the heavy cruiser Mitsudam is still unscrupulously tilting shells towards the Pacific after the Kirishima evacuation. At this time, the Pacific had already run out of shells, and there was no longer any counterattack force.

Liu Guobang looked anxious, he didn't know what the casualties of the Pacific were, as early as twenty minutes ago, the communication of the Pacific had been completely cut off.

All the anger was poured out on the head of the heavy cruiser by Liu Guobang.

When a bombshell fell, the devil found that the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army began to bomb again. The Three Fears were wise, and immediately turned around and ran.

However, the bomber led by Liu Guobang is not the same as the fighter led by Liu Gensheng, he has a strong endurance and several times more bomb load.

In any case, Liu Guobang will not let go of the devil's warship.

On this day, God did not help the Naval Resistance Army. But by this time, God had shown his fairness. The sky was still cloudless, and the moonlight was like water. The Japanese battleships were nowhere to be seen in the night.

Liu Guobang led nine bombers to pursue the heavy cruiser Sanwei for four hours, and did not stop until the fuel was at a minimum.

At one o'clock in the morning, Liu Guobang reluctantly withdrew from the battlefield. Although the heavy cruiser Sandam was not sunk, the superstructure was almost flattened. Liu Guobang was very dissatisfied with this result, and nine bombers bombed four bombs on the heavy cruiser Sanwei. If it was a heavy armor-piercing shell, the heavy cruiser would have been sunk long ago, but unfortunately, he had a serious shortage of armor-piercing shells at hand, and most of the high-explosive shells he used.

However, even if it is a high-explosive bomb, the power of the bomb of more than 700 kilograms and nearly 500 kilograms is definitely not small, and even if it is not a bomb, it is such a Tiegada that will not cause light damage. Although the armor-piercing ability of the high-explosive shell was insufficient, the charge was actually above the armor-piercing shell, and the huge power of the explosion really disabled the heavy cruiser. After the war, the Naval Resistance Army evaluated the results of Liu Guobang's squad and unanimously agreed that even half of the heavy cruiser Sanwei would not be able to survive.

The fact that the heavy cruiser Sanwei was able to remain unsinkable really made Liu Guobang a little speechless. Liu Guobang lost a great opportunity to hit the heavy cruiser, only because of the serious shortage of armor-piercing shells among the dexterous bombs hoarded by the naval resistance army.

In this battle, Li Guang didn't know whether it was a victory or a defeat. To say that the results of the naval resistance army are not small: one Japanese aircraft carrier and four destroyers were sunk. Seriously damaged two battleships, two heavy cruisers, lightly damaged one heavy cruiser. The sum of these results is brilliant enough.

However, the losses of the Maritime Resistance Army were also extremely heavy, one overlord, one Jianxi, one pickup, and three warships were sunk. The Pickup II air defense destroyer was slightly damaged, and the battleship Pacific was also seriously injured and ran aground.

In terms of losses, the losses of the Naval Resistance Army are probably higher than those of the Japanese army, after all, one battleship of the Pacific has a displacement of more than 32,000 tons, and the total displacement of the battle sinking exceeds 35,000 tons. In one battle, fifty percent of the surface fleet of the Naval Resistance Army was consumed. And the total number of warships sunk by the devils is less than 20,000 tons.

So far, Li Guang doesn't know if the Pacific has not been sunk. Because the current situation of the Pacific Ocean is beached, even if it is hit by a few torpedoes, it will not be able to sink, after all, the battleship is not a destroyer, and even if it is a powerful torpedo, it is difficult to scrap the battleship if it does not hit the vital point.

Whether a battleship has any use value or not, the key lies in whether it can float again, and Li Guang has no score at all in his heart.

The Pacific's injuries were so severe that the superstructure and external weapons had been almost wiped out from the outside. The internal damage was also very severe, with at least sixty watertight compartments flooded. However, Zheng Xuechang still had great expectations for the battleship--- his reason was that the battleship's keel was not damaged.

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