Seven warplanes flew over the battlefield again.

The anti-aircraft firepower of the destroyers was not very strong, with only four small-caliber antiaircraft guns, and their anti-aircraft firepower was seriously insufficient. The small destroyer was powerless in the face of the indiscriminate bombardment of the aircraft. In this bombing, the transport planes that had just made a contribution played the leading role, and the five fighters only did the disturbing shooting around.

Under the repeated bombardment, the destroyers were in a hurry, and the destroyers had already increased their speed to 35 knots, and they drew a large circle on the sea surface to avoid high-altitude bombs. The destroyer captain was a little puzzled, he had already observed that the bomb would change direction in the air. The bomb, which would change direction, made the destroyer's usual tactic of dodging the bomb ineffective, and the destroyer kept switching servos. Several times the turns were too sharp, and the destroyer leaned so badly that it almost capsized. At this time, the fault of the Fengfeng-class destroyer was revealed, too much emphasis on force, and the superstructure was too heavy. This severe tilt made it impossible for the destroyer to fire its guns normally at all, and even torpedoes could not fire.

Where can the scrambling destroyer take care of dealing with the overlord and Jairus at this time, and can only seek self-protection first.

The destroyer began to protect itself, but Zheng Xuechang would not let it go, and the Baxia kept shelling the destroyer in the distance. And the Jairus finally breathed a sigh of relief. Liezhong had been chased and almost vomited blood, and now he had found the cruiser Chakabuko again.

This cruiser is a bully, its huge hull is adrift on the sea, like a dead fish. The sloping hull of the ship hindered the firing of the ship's guns. The only thing that can threaten Jairus is one or two secondary guns. The speed of Jairus was not fast, but it was necessary to sink the cruiser with a few shots.

Liezhong personally steered the rudder, and the Jairus made a curve to approach the cruiser Chakabuko. At the beginning of the approach, the Chileans were still desperately firing their guns, but when the Liege approached the Chacabco five or six kilometers, a miracle occurred - the Chacabuco raised the white flag.

The Chileans actually surrendered. The cruiser's captain, Major Steele, really couldn't fight anymore, and the ship's guns on the cruiser couldn't hit the Jairus at all now due to the angle of the hull, and if it was only a small-caliber anti-aircraft gun to deal with the Jair, it would be like tickling.

Major Swalli could see clearly from the warship that one of his opponent's triple torpedo launchers was swarthyly aimed at the Chakabko. At this distance, the opponent hit a fixed target, and Swalli thought that it was impossible for him to survive.

Major Swall-Il was a bit of a gentleman of the British Navy. General Juan sent a telegram and ordered the white flag to be raised without waiting for a reply. He didn't dare to wait for a reply now, maybe the Jairway would fire a torpedo in the next second.

Liezhong also went to a military school, but he really didn't know what the rules were for accepting the surrender of his opponent. However, Liege was clever and immediately ordered all the Chilean officers and men on the Chacabco to stand on the deck in line by means of a flag.

In the command headquarters of the Stone Statue Island, Li Guang was overjoyed when he heard the news, and immediately ordered Lie Chong to immediately control the battleship, but definitely not to be careless.

Fortunately, the Chilean Navy did not play any tricks, and the column cautiously approached the Chacabuco, and in the process the torpedo tubes were aimed at the opponent. When the Naval Resistance Army boarded the Chacabco, they found that the Chilean Navy was really well-behaved, and all the officers and men were on deck.

After half an hour of busy work, the Liege was able to fully control the Chakabuko.

The battle continued, and the Jairus itself was not lightly wounded. But this cruiser Chakabuko is a treasure, and neither Liezhong nor Li Guang is willing to blow it up. There was no way, so the injured Jairus found a steel cable to tow the Chakabuko and headed north. Prepare to bypass the battlefield and approach the Isle of Statues.

The destroyers of the Chilean Navy are now like lost dogs, and they are rushing to the home team. In the battle to pursue the destroyer of the Chilean Navy just now, the Baxia was also hit by a shell, and seven soldiers were killed, but the damage to the hull was not serious.

At present, on the sea, seven fighters of the Naval Resistance Force and a gunboat Baxia are bombing in turn. The scene is quite hot, this is a group fight, a real group fight.

The Chilean destroyer now has warships on one side and warplanes in the sky, and the more it fights, the more panicked it becomes.

When he found out that his powerful 127mm naval gun could not penetrate the armor of the Baxia for five kilometers, he was in despair.

Zheng Xuechang got close to the shot, for no other reason, the 152mm main gun lacked armor-piercing shells. There were only thirty armor-piercing shells on the Baxia. More than a dozen have been consumed to deal with the Chakabuko cruiser just now, and he is ready to save the armor-piercing shells until the most critical time.

The destroyer's main guns actually caused some damage to the Baxia, but Zheng Xuechang was lucky, and the part where the shell hit was the part with the strongest protection.

Although the main guns of the Baxia did not use armor-piercing shells, the powerful grenades were extremely threatening to the almost unarmored destroyers. At a long distance, the Baxia is not accurate enough to shoot, but at a distance of five kilometers, the accuracy of shooting is quite high even in high-speed movement. During the half-hour artillery battle, the Baxia had already hit the Chilean destroyer with five shells. At this time, wolf smoke was billowing on the destroyer, and the hull was already a little tilted.

The C47 transport plane hit the hapless destroyer with another bomb, causing the battleship to tremble immediately. It is not easy for a cruiser to resist a 100-kilogram bomb, while a destroyer with only one hit is fatal.

With this violent explosion, the Fengfeng-class destroyer immediately slowed down.

Zheng Xuechang saw that the opportunity had come, and immediately started hand-to-hand combat, and the Baxia rushed to the destroyer. Three or four kilometers, this distance, even if it is not armor-piercing, a warhead of more than fifty kilograms is enough to penetrate the poor armor of the destroyer. At this distance, for a 152mm gun, it was almost a direct shot, and the accuracy was extremely high. Three shells in a row hit the destroyer in a few minutes.

Originally, the speed of the destroyer had slowed down, and it was very safe to use torpedoes, but the cost of torpedoes was too high. Zheng Xuechang and Li Guang had a long time, and they didn't learn much about good habits, but they learned to be careful and calculating, and they still continued to use shelling. (Does the owner have good habits?) ）

The powerful cannonball power blew up the entire bridge to a mess. Like a hurricane sweeping through a field of crops, the bare steel supports are staggered and miserable.

Seeing that the destroyer was about to be sunk by the Naval Resistance Army, the scream of distant shells could already be heard on the sea.

The Chilean fleet that came to the rescue from afar, Torah. Admiral Juan could clearly see from the battleship that the destroyer was wounded and half sunk. Regardless of the distance, the main gun was ordered to fire.

Zheng Xuechang strictly abides by Li Guang's orders, and it is absolutely not allowed to fight hard, and the Jairus has been injured, if the Baxia misses, then the Naval Resistance Army will lose even the ability to contain the opponent, so he rushed east with the Baxia.

Now, Zheng Xuechang has enough certainty to escape from the pursuit of the Chilean Navy. The Chilean Navy seems to be strong, but the capital ships are not very fast. However, this is all for later, and the key for the moment is to escape from the main gun range of the Chilean battleship in time.

The standard displacement is 28,000 tons. With a full load displacement of more than 32,000 tons, the power of this steel monster is simply beyond imagination. The number of main guns on the battleship Admiral La Torre was quite terrifying, 10 356 mm/45 x caliber guns (5 twin turrets), 16 152 mm guns, 2 76 mm guns, 4 533 mm torpedo tubes. Take the 356mm shell, for example, just one weighs 675 kilograms. A cannonball of this level, even if it's just an iron gada, can be sunk by smashing on the Baxia.

The sound of large-caliber shells flying in the air is very different from that of 152mm guns, and the scream is accompanied by a rumbling thunder, like the Grim Reaper wielding a scythe in hell. It doesn't have to explode to make people frightened.

This was the first time Zheng Xuechang saw the power of a battleship's salvo, and a salvo exploded a water curtain in the sea, and the Baxia immediately fell into the mist and couldn't distinguish things. The closest cannonball to the Baxia was only forty or fifty meters, and the huge explosion shook the Baxia like a leaf in the sea, drifting with the tide without resistance. At a distance of tens of meters, even the soldiers were hiding in the cabin or in the turret, and they were dizzy. The observation post at the top of the stern of the Baxia was knocked unconscious by the blast wave. Even so, it was because there was a ring of steel plate protection, and if there was no protection, even forty or fifty meters could kill these fighters on the spot.

The power of the battleship's main gun is really terrifying, as long as this thing hits the upper one, the Baxia will have to be crippled if it doesn't die.

Don't think about anything, in the face of a big killer like a battleship, the Baxia has no frontal confrontation ability at all, only desperately fleeing. After half an hour of desperate running on the Baxia, Zheng Xuechang breathed a sigh of relief, and fortunately the Chilean battleship did not pursue, otherwise Zheng Xuechang really didn't know if he could escape the terrifying main gun deterrent range.

Zheng Xuechang studied the navy, but this was the first time he really saw a battleship salvo. Just now, the Baxia was fortunately on the edge of its range, otherwise I am afraid that the Baxia would have become a pile of scrap metal. The power of the battleship is terrifying enough, but the cost is huge. A salvo of naval artillery is about 10 tons of ammunition, plus the consumption of propellants, at least 40,000 US dollars. If you include the loss of the ship's guns themselves, it is more than 100,000 dollars. (The life of naval guns during World War I was only one or two hundred rounds.) ）

Due to the huge consumption, battleships in various countries in the world rarely conduct live-fire exercises, and rich countries such as Britain and the United States rarely have the opportunity to fire a salvo of naval guns in a year, and the crooked trick that Xiao Yue came up with during the naval gun exercise was to put a 75mm gun on the barrel of the main gun, and the live-fire exercise was actually just a 75mm gun firing.

For this terrifying weapon, if you want to survive in the battle, apart from luck, Zheng Xuechang really can't think of anything to rely on. Just now, the Baxia was hit by a 127mm shell, which blew up two anti-aircraft guns, killing seven people and wounding more than 10 people. More than thirty kilograms of shells are already so powerful, and the power of 356mm naval guns is simply unimaginable.

In the battle just past, Zheng Xuechang did not lose confidence even in the face of cruisers or destroyers, but when a Baxia faced a giant battleship at sea, he had a sense of powerlessness.

Li Guang has said more than once that aircraft carriers are king. However, Zheng Xuechang was not very convinced of this judgment, when he really saw the power of the battleship's main gun salvo, he knew that the only thing in the world that could deal with the battleship was the battleship. And the so-called confrontation is actually a matter of luck, a fair combat environment, and the confrontation between battleships and battleships is probably luck accounts for a large proportion. After all, a shell that hits the opponent's vital point first can cause great damage.

It can be said that two battleships of the same class confronted each other, or even a battleship of the weaker class against a battleship of the higher rank, and neither side was absolutely sure of defeating the opponent.

Perhaps it is really only aircraft carriers that are the killers of battleships. After this battle, Zheng Xuechang had a deeper understanding of naval warfare.

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