Four Grimm guns are installed in the tail of the Tianlong ship, three of which are installed near the gun emplacement, the Grimm fast gun is a small machine gun of 20 mm caliber, the weight is not large, and the gun hull platform and the hull deck can be connected with threads when installed, which has little impact on the balance of the hull, so the installation position can be relatively arbitrary.

There is also a machine gun located on the aft mast, the Dragon class cruiser is a two-masted cruiser with a mast in the bow and stern, and this machine gun installed on the mast is more effective in combat, because it has a high firing position and can hit a long distance.

As soon as the machine guns were given the order to open fire, the four machine guns immediately opened fire, and the shells shot at the Japanese torpedo boat with a "whooshing" sound, and hit the torpedo boat with a "bang", and the Japanese sailors on the torpedo boat had nowhere to dodge, and were hit by the shells, and instantly turned into a bloody corpse.

The Japanese torpedo boats also had machine guns, which were 47 mm caliber Hatch Chase machine guns, although the caliber was larger than the Grimm fast guns on the Tianlong ships, but the freeboard of the torpedo boats was very low, and the firing position of the machine guns was naturally not high, and the shells could not hit the Tianlong ships at all.

Under the double blow of naval guns and machine guns, two Japanese torpedo boats sank, and many sailors on the four unsunk boats also lost a lot of casualties, but the living sailors did not take the death of their comrades seriously at all, because the torpedo boat sailors of this era were instilled with the idea of not dying.

Under the support of the idea of not wanting to die, Suzuki Makoto did not hang out the retreat signal flag at all, so the four torpedo boats were still rushing towards the Tenryu ship, and Togo Heihachiro on the Matsushima ship behind him couldn't hold it, he didn't want to throw all the torpedo boats here, he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to hang out the banner of "torpedo boat retreat".

At this time, there were sailors on the battleships who were responsible for communication between warships, and their most important task was to observe the flagship's command flag, so as soon as the Matsushima ship gave the signal to retreat, it was discovered by the mine boat detachment, and Suzuki Makoto soon received a report from the sailors.

Suzuki Makoto looked at the Tenryu ship in the distance, although he was so angry that he gritted his teeth, but he did not dare to disobey Togo Heihachiro's order, so he ordered a retreat, and the crew on the Tenryu ship saw that the torpedo boat had been successfully repulsed, and let out a high-pitched cheer, while the sailors of the Japanese fleet were all angry because the two torpedo boats were sunk, and their fighting spirit was even more intense.

The time soon came to 12 o'clock, the warships of both sides invariably hung out the signal flag of "lunch", the miscellaneous servants prepared the food and sent it to the various battle positions, and the two sides ate lunch in the soot from the steam engine, and the extreme mental tension made everyone not care about the taste of the food, but simply stuffed the food into their mouths, chewed and swallowed, and filled their stomachs.

At lunchtime, Lin Fei was also nervously staring at the sand table of the naval battle situation, giving navigation orders to the other three warships, he calculated for a while, and found that at about 13 o'clock, the other three battleships would meet with the Tianlong ship, and at that time, they would seize the "D" shaped horizontal head, and fight one ship with four ships, and the decisive weapon would also be shown at that time...

At 12:20, the observer of the Takachiho discovered a battleship on the east side of the Tenryu, and immediately hoisted a signal flag to inform the whole fleet, and in the next 20 minutes, the Naniwa and Akitsu Zhou each found a battleship, and they were both on the east side of the Tenryu, moving on the course of the Tenryu.

On the Matsushima ship, Heihachiro Togo looked at Ito Yuhiro with some concern and said, "General, three more battleships have appeared, isn't this matter a little ......?"

"Togo, you mean to say unusual, don't you?" Ito Yuhyung said with a smile, "The reason why I strongly advocated promoting you to rear admiral and appointing you as the commander of the Southern Fleet is because I value your courage and prudence, but in these battles, I only see your prudence, not your boldness." ”

Togo Heihachiro looked ashamed, lowered his head and did not speak, at this time the captain of the Matsushima ship, Arisugawa Weihito, spoke: "Four enemy ships appeared, but they did not form any formation, and the fleet without formation had only a dead end in naval battles..."

Arisugawa Weiren is right, in the era of naval warfare with artillery as a weapon, formation is the most important thing in the fleet, and a proper formation can enable the fleet to fully develop its firepower and win the naval battle.

Ito nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "In the vast sea, communication is extremely inconvenient, and it's too late for them to line up now, so we will win this battle..."

The time soon came to 13 o'clock, the Yunlong ship, the Tenglong ship, and the hidden dragon ship all approached the Tianlong ship, Lin Fei suppressed his excitement, picked up the blue bird machine, and said in a deep voice: "Attention all ships, according to the predetermined plan, form a zigzag column, and at the same time slow down the speed of the ship, and put the highest-forward Gao Qiansui ship into the firing range." ”

The Tenryu then turned its rudder to the west, exposing its side and facing the Takachiho, and the other three battleships approached the Tenryu, also facing the Takachiho with their sides.

On the Takachiho ship, Captain Nomura Sada, who was overjoyed to see the Tenryu ship turning, because the battleship's turning speed was slow, and the Takachiho ship maintained its original speed, which was just enough to pull the Tenryu ship into the firing range...

Nomura Sada: "All artillery positions are starting to aim, ready to fire..."

The firepower of the Takachiho ship was second to none among Japanese warships, it had two 260 mm guns, six 150 mm rapid-fire guns, and two 260 mm guns with a range of 4,000 meters, but Nomura did not give the order to open the gun, because the shells on the 4,000 meters were not accurate, and he wanted to wait for the distance to close to 3,000 meters before firing.

Nomura Sada's failure to fire the cannon undoubtedly gave Lin Fei the opportunity to strike first, at 13:10, the side of the Tenryu ship was completely aimed at the Takachiho ship, and the other three battleships rushed behind the Tenryu ship, forming a zigzag column with the Tenryu ship, and the side sides of the four battleships were aimed at the Takachiho ship at the same time...

Twenty-four guns, together aimed at the flagship of the guerrillas of the Japanese fleet...... Takachiho ship... The decisive naval battle between the Chinese Empire and the Japanese Empire broke out...

Lin Fei took a deep breath, picked up the microphone of the blue bird machine, and said word by word: "The fleet listens to my orders, targets the Takachiho ship, fires cannons, and uses decisive weapons..."

The gunners on the four battleships had been waiting for this moment for a long time, and when they heard the order, they immediately moved out of the ammunition compartment shells painted with fiery red paint, which were larger than armor-piercing shells and blasting shells, and they were the decisive weapons prepared by Lin Fei...... Cloudburst bombs.

The cloud burst bomb once played a decisive role in the attack on Manila, so to speak, without the cloud burst bomb, Lin Fei would not be able to defeat Manila, this naval battle that decided the fate of the Chinese Empire, Lin Fei naturally wanted to use the cloud burst bomb.

The gunners stuffed the shells into the barrels, loaded the cartridges, and then pressed the firing button, and a violent and dull roar sounded inside the barrels, shaking people's hearts, white smoke burst out of the bolts, and the shells flew towards the Takachiho ship with a whistle.

The cloud burst bomb fell to the Takachiho ship one after another, and in mid-air, the primary detonator exploded the bomb body, allowing the oil inside to spread, and the secondary detonator started, igniting the fuel material, turning the fuel into a huge fireball, and the twenty-four cloud burst bombs instantly formed a sea of fire on the sea surface, and the Takachiho ship was powerless to dodge, and plunged headlong into the sea of fire, becoming the first victim of the cloud burst bomb.

The scorching waves of air and ferocious flames rushed up to the Takachiho ship, all the glass on it burst with a "bang" and exploded into pieces, the Takachiho ship was a two-masted battleship, the bow mast was high, the stern mast was low, the flames instantly swallowed the two masts, the cables and signal flags around the mast burned in an instant, and the wooden mast was on fire, like two huge torches.

The people inside the mast were flag soldiers and observers, and the flames enveloped them in it as they swallowed the mast, and the severe pain made them let out a scream like killing pigs, and jumped off the mast without a single qiē, and smashed into the water with a "knock knock", which looked like meteors from a distance.

The Japanese gunners piled all the shells and propellants on the deck next to the gun emplacements in order to fire their guns as much as possible, and when the flames hit, the propellants were ignited, and the explosives in the shells were detonated, and a series of explosions rang out on the gun emplacements.

In addition to being engulfed in flames, the gunners also had to be bombarded by their own shells, and in the blink of an eye, countless casualties were inflicted, and the gunpowder of Shimose loaded in the Japanese shells began to burn, turning the deck into a sea of fire.

In addition to raging on the deck, the flames also invaded the lower cabins, and the military hospital, living room, storage compartment, and canteen were all ignited, and the fire immediately ignited inside the Takachiho ship, spreading to the ammunition compartment and boiler room.

Not only was the Takachiho ship badly damaged, but even more severely, it lost its command, and Nomura had been commanding in the open-air commander tower, and when the flames of the cloudburst bomb swept across the deck, Nomura and the people in the command were all killed, and none of them were spared.

Although the Takachiho ship lost its command, the Japanese sailors on it were not yet defeated, and they rescued the wounded while extinguishing the fire, but there was no need to treat the wounded, and almost everyone had systemic plus inhalation burns, and they would definitely die.

Lin Fei fired a wave of cloudburst bombs and was not satisfied with the results, he wanted the flames to detonate the ammunition depot on the Takachiho ship, or torpedoes, boilers, so that the Takachiho ship would completely sink into the sea.

Lin Fei picked up the microphone and said loudly: "Sink the Gao Qiansui ship for me." ”

Lin Fei issued an order to "sink the Gao Qiansui ship", but he did not specify which kind of shells to use, the captains of the Tianlong ship and the Yunlong ship followed Lin Fei to fight the world, and felt that the cloud burst bomb was not easy to come by, so he asked his subordinates to switch to armor-piercing shells, and the captain of the Tenglong ship, Shangguan Yunlong, and the captain of the Qianlong ship, Gao Longcheng, were cadets of the Naval Military Academy, and belonged to the people who "sat back and enjoyed their success", and had a kind of mentality of "spending money and not feeling distressed", so they continued to shoot cloud burst bombs.

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