Chapter 189: Sinking the Yoshino

Pingyuan, Jiyuan, Guangyi, and Guangbing four ships, stabbed out of the stab!

The main and secondary guns of the two distances opened fire one after another, hitting the "Yoshino" twice with armor-piercing shells. In front of the Liangguang ship, because of the modification of a 120mm rapid-fire gun, in just one minute, 8 shells were fired!

For a while, Tsuboi Hangzo had a feeling of falling into a dustpan! Armor-piercing bullets of large and small calibers hit one after another, and the sound of collisions was endless. Each time, the hull shook violently. In particular, a 260mm and a 210mm shell, which hit near the conning tower, and the sparks of the shattered steel rubbing against him, made him think that it was about to be finished.

But Lady Luck seems to be in the skies above them tonight! More than a dozen shells in one breath were all made a string of holes, but they did not trigger even one explosion. Until they broke out of the sea of gunsmoke and fire, in addition to the seemingly amazing bruises all over their bodies, they actually had more than half of their combat effectiveness!

"Hee-hee! It seems that our luck is not so bad that it is out of control! The warships of the Qing Kingdom, after all, are too far behind, and without anti-personnel grenades, they cannot really destroy our ....... ”

His Excellency the Major General was smugly cheering up the officers in the command tower, encouraging them and calming their panic. Unexpectedly, before the words fell, a sudden explosion blocked all the words behind him!

Just behind the second wave of four warships, the X203 boat commanded by Yang Hao, the 76mm gun emitted a faint green smoke, and one hit!

The lightweight grenade accurately hit the left foredeck of the Yoshino, shattering a piece of the deck on the side of the main gun. Almost hit the gun cover directly!

After the fireworks. I saw the Japanese ship that was still fine. Yang Hao couldn't help but sigh: "Oops, the power is still too small!" How the hell does it take for that thing to be honest? ”

No matter what, it's just a 76mm cannon, and you don't want to have too high armor-piercing ability more than four thousand meters away, unless it's an AK176.

But fortunately, his rate of fire is fast! Twenty rounds a minute, with the help of radar and optical sights, he can't be tortured!

Yang Hao shouted loudly: "Shoot at full speed!" Don't be afraid to shoot up, this is a rare and excellent mobile phone practice. Don't miss it! ”

The artillery on the front gun position is all raw melon eggs, and after several months of training, it is not easy to be able to operate the artillery by hand. In order to ensure that they were accurate, Yang Hao even did not hesitate to take the risk of slowing down the speed, and steadily aimed from behind for a full minute, the wind was calm, and the attitude was correct, and then he quietly fired!

After all, the advanced artillery was extraordinary, and the recoil was evenly distributed to the hull. The vibration of the barrel of the gun is very slight, which makes it possible for the next shot to be fired. And not much of a deviation.

Knock knock knock...... The "Yoshino", which had not yet risen in speed one after another, and could not maneuver to the left because of the rudder problem, could only stand still. The dense explosions in the past few seconds, like hailstones constantly roaring around the hull of the ship, and the large flames shone after another, making the scalps of the Japanese soldiers on and off the whole ship tense, and they didn't know what to do!

Twenty shells were fired in one breath, Yang Hao didn't say a word, the gunboat accelerated, turned left and ran away. In a battle of this scale, it is safer for him to hide a little farther away. A small gunboat can be used with one shot.

When they come back to their senses, they want to find the perpetrator again, where is there still a trace!

It's really too late to say it, because of the combination of two wide and two far, the cannonballs are loaded and continue to toss in turn!

In particular, this group adopts an oblique 30-degree impact formation, and the horizontal formation is like a quick knife, striking from the side, and the front main gun gets a wider strike area, turning from the left side all the way to the right, and can be fired several times in a row.

Although it still didn't sink the "Yoshino", it made it more injured. At this time, look at the cruiser that claims to be the fastest in the world, it is full of fire from beginning to end, and the smoke is billowing out, so it is not scary!

Fortunately, this torture passed quickly, and the boatload of people, who had finally caught their breath, were just about to boost their morale, so they turned the rudder to the right and killed the rear of the two enemy ships, and used the right side and other artillery to teach the other side a hard lesson.

Suddenly, a cannonball fell from the sky like a meteor, accurately hitting the front of the bow of the ship, and smashed into the front main gun like a bamboo!

"Boom!"

A blaze of fire that soars into the night sky!

The 152mm cannon arranged in front of it was shattered by the explosion of parts all over its body, and together with the shell cannon cover, it was forcibly stretched open by the terrifying force that erupted from inside, and instantly accelerated, sweeping every inch of space on the foredeck, and under the frightened gaze of Tsuboi Hangzo and others, it rose into the air!

It's still the familiar scene, it's still the familiar sound of explosions.

No need to think or guess, they all know that this is an artillery strike from a freighter! The power of the explosion was there, the power of armor-piercing was unprecedented, and a single hit was even more fatal. The most terrible thing is that the ammunition piled up in the gun cover triggers a complete explosion of disembowelment!

The hull of the "Yoshino" shook violently, and the bow of the ship seemed to be pressed by someone, and it suddenly sank into the water, and then it was raised fiercely upward!

The thick pillar of fireworks, after devouring the hull of the ship dozens of meters long, violently flipped upward, leaving a shocking crater in place!

The glass of the command tower was all shattered, and the fragments swept into it killed and injured many people, and the huge explosion shook and shook their feet, making them unstable under their feet, and they fell down one after another, followed by the choking fireworks, and almost fainted!

Yang Haiwei, personally controlling the rear main gun, from seven kilometers away, hit sideways, and hit the "Yoshino" hard!

This blow sounded the horn of the attack of the third wave of ships. The two ships "Chaoyong" and "Yangwei" went all out to speed up and leap out of the crowd. They used two rear-loading guns to each attack the target and hit it fiercely, and when they were close to it, they successively released torpedoes from the left side!

At this time, the cooperation is extremely accurate!

After the "Yoshino" was completely miserable, there was no counterattack ability at all in a short period of time, and in the time when they were directly impacting, a continuous 152 and 76mm grenades were smashed down from the gun position of the "Dongsheng", like hail!

A large freighter with a sideways side, one side of which can fire four guns at the same time. Three small cannons with a rate of fire of 20 rounds per minute, an unprecedented blow, and the explosion that fell on and around "Yoshino" never stopped! Even if anyone could think of fighting back, they wouldn't be able to see anything clearly - their eyes were all glazed!

And that 152mm gun, with amazing accuracy, steady shooting, non-stop precision strikes. A succession of high-explosive and armor-piercing shells were fired in turn, and the explosions swept through its superstructure from front to back.

The attack of the group of ships of Chaoyong and Yangwei came too quickly, especially the torpedo boats, which were at a high speed, and pulled into a diagonal column, grazing the "Yoshino" near and bravely rowing, each of which released at least one or two torpedoes.

Approaching 500 meters to release mines, this tactic is similar to suicide, but the officers and men of the Beiyang Fleet went up without hesitation!

Finally, before the last torpedo boat "second from the right" approached, two torpedoes in a row successfully crashed under the waterline of the side of the "Yoshino", and two earth-shattering explosions "boomed", and this lucky flagship was finally drowned in boiling fireworks!

"Hit! Hit! ”

A boiling shout rang out from the third wave of ships!

Excited! Full of excitement, they never dreamed that they would have the opportunity to take out such a powerful battleship! Once the strongest flagship of the Japanese Navy, today from their men, it has been mortally destroyed!

Although the power of the torpedo charge is still average, it cannot withstand the huge quantity. In addition, under the previous series of strikes, the armor-piercing shells fired by heavy artillery have already caused considerable damage to the hull of the "Yoshino". These two explosions in a row completely disintegrated the armor on the sides, and even the collapse of the keel of the guide, and the boiler in the cabin was finished, and the fire was raging, devouring upward!

In the farthest distance, Ding Ruchang, who was standing on the flying bridge, trembled with excitement and almost howled.

Finally, he finally won the lead and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army! These two capital ships were killed, and the other two were also seriously injured. Even if they can escape the pursuit of the other two groups of warships, it will be difficult to participate in the battle in the end. The pressure of this battle is half lighter!

Liu Buyun was also quite excited in his heart, although he was confident and even proud, he also knew that in naval battles, strength was the key factor that determined victory or defeat. Just because you get lucky to win a hand today doesn't mean you can win next. Because not far from the left, the capital ship of the Japanese army, the powerful ironclad ship, has also rushed over!

He took a deep breath of choking smoke and shouted: "Raise the flag, turn the rudder to the left, and face the battle!" ”

"Boom!" A shell, which fell nearby, opened fire from the Japanese army! (To be continued......)

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