Cloudburst bombs, armor-piercing shells, and high-explosive bombs flew out together and pounced on the dying Takachiho ship, and a cloudburst bomb exploded on the deck in the middle of the hull, and a terrifying fireball instantly rose on the hull.

The ammunition depot and boiler room of the Takachiho ship were protected by armor made of steel plates, which surrounded the ammunition room and boiler room, forming a fortress-like structure, which was also relatively popular in this era, and the flames and high temperatures actually deformed the steel plates.

The deformed steel plate squeezed the hatch, and the hatch suddenly seemed to be bitten by an iron tong, and it could no longer be opened with manpower, and the sailors who were spraying water to cool down the ammunition in the ammunition compartment saw that the hatch was locked, and they were so frightened that they threw down the water gun in the water and desperately pushed the hatch.

How can the bite force generated by the deformed steel plate be shaken by human power? No matter how much the Japanese sailors pushed, it was only in vain. At this moment, a cap-piercing shell hit the armored fortress of the ammunition bay, and the steel plate, which had been destroyed by the flames, could no longer stop the cap-piercing shell, and after the cap-piercing shell was shattered, the body of the shell directly penetrated into the ammunition compartment and hit the mountain of shells.

An earth-shattering explosion sounded inside the Takachiho ship, a dazzling fire burst into the sky, and a black smoke rose from the firelight, forming a black cloud, and the hull of the Takachiho ship shook violently, and it jumped up more than a meter high, and then fell back into the water with a "bang", splashing a large cloud of water.

The explosion and impact caused the hull of the ship to break in two, and the steel skeleton twisted like twisted flowers was exposed at the fracture, the blackened wooden deck, and all kinds of miscellaneous things kept falling out, and the sea water swirled into the hull, and the hull sank quickly in everyone's sight.

Gao Qiansui's ship only held out on the sea surface for less than five minutes before sinking, disappearing into the blue sea, such a fast sinking speed is rare in the history of world naval warfare, all because the Huaxia Imperial Fleet, under the command of Lin Fei, concentrated the absolute superior firepower of twenty-four guns, and also used cloud burst shells.

At this time, it was 13:35 in the afternoon, only twenty-five minutes after the start of the naval battle, a Japanese battleship sank into the sea, Togo Heihachiro and Ito Yuhiro on the Matsushima ship couldn't believe their eyes, Ito Yuhiro slapped the porthole in front of him, and said in surprise: "They actually lined up in a horizontal line, how did their captain know the intention of the fleet commander?" ”

None of the people behind Ito Yuhyung could answer, everyone's expressions were as if they had seen a ghost, and Heihachiro Togo was also shaking his head silently, it was impossible for them to guess that Lin Fei had used a radio communicator.

Ito noticed the fireballs rising from time to time on the surface of the sea, he also didn't understand what it was, he had been immersed in naval warfare for thirty years, and he thought he knew a lot about naval weapons and tactics, and now he suddenly saw something he didn't understand, and he took it and caused heavy damage to his warship, and for a moment a nameless anger rose.

Ito Yohei looked back at an officer and said angrily, "Are you all guys in the intelligence section who can only eat?" What was going on with those fireballs just now? What kind of weapons did the Chinese Empire use? ”

The officer shook his head gloomily, his face was full of shame, and Ito Yuheng said coldly: "Forget it, no matter these things, the enemy ships are in a horizontal formation at this time, although they occupy the advantage of firepower, our fleet has not lost the situation, the four warships of the Chinese Imperial Fleet are far apart, and the Naniwa and Qiujinzhou ships are ordered to immediately move forward at high speed to disrupt the formation of the Chinese Imperial fleet." ”

The herald shouted yes and ran out to hang up the signal flag, of course, the signal flag could only give the order of "high-speed sortie", as for whether the captain of the Naniwa ship Shichiro Kataoka and the captain of the Akitsuzu ship Hikonojo Uemura could understand Ito Yuhiro's intentions, it depended on luck.

In a fleet without radio communication equipment, the order is ambiguous, and in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the Japanese Combined Fleet had such a problem, but at that time their enemy was the Beiyang Fleet of the Qing State, and even if there was a problem, it didn't matter, anyway, the Beiyang Fleet could not catch the fighters.

But today, they were facing Lin Fei's fleet of the Chinese Empire, and with Lin Fei's command quality, the Japanese fleet would not be allowed to make the slightest mistake, as long as they made the slightest mistake, they would be caught and beaten by Lin Fei.

After Ito Yuheng gave the order to the Naniwa and Akitsu Zhou ships, he immediately gave orders to the Matsushima, Itsukushima and Hashidate ships, and they were inserted forward at high speed and bombarded with heavy artillery, and the Matsushima, Itsukushima and Hashidate ships were all equipped with a 320 mm caliber cannon, which had a considerable range, and Ito Yuhyuk hoped to use this type of heavy artillery to interfere with the fleet of the Chinese Empire.

However, in the chase just now, the Naniwa, Takachiho and Akitsusu ships left the Sankei ship far behind, and the Sankei ship had to sail for a while before it could join the battle group, so the enemies that Lin Fei faced were still the Naniwa ship and the Qiujinzhou ship, and Ito Yuheng still had a torpedo boat fleet available in his hands, but the fact that the torpedo boats were sunk just now made Ito Yuhyi not have the idea of using them.

Ito Youheng issued an order to the remaining five warships to be inserted forward at high speed, this order is indeed on Lin Fei's death hole, Lin Fei is very afraid of fighting with the Japanese ships, not that he is not confident in his battleships and subordinates, but he can't withstand the consumption now, it takes a lot of resources to build a battleship, and it takes more resources to train naval officers, and now the officers and sailors on the four battleships are almost all the belongings of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and I don't know how much effort it will take to rebuild it, Therefore, Lin Fei used the tactics of fighting more and fighting less with four ships, hoping to minimize losses.

Coincidentally, the captain of the Naniwa ship, Shichiro Kataoka, did not understand Ito's intentions after seeing the flag of Ito's high-speed attack, and he did not order the Naniwa to move forward at high speed, but ordered the Naniwa to follow the course of the Takachiho ship, turn the rudder in the direction of the Huaxia Imperial fleet, and attack the Huaxia Imperial fleet with broadside firepower.

The reason why Shichiro Kataoka issued such an order was closely related to the Japanese Navy's training in peacetime, the Japanese Navy relied on the fact that the side was equipped with a large number of rapid-fire guns, so it demanded in the combat manual that in naval battles, try to use the side of the battleship to meet the enemy, and the Naniwa ship is the same class ship as the Takachiho ship, and the firepower is the same as that of the Takachiho ship, equipped with two 260 mm caliber main guns, six 150 mm caliber secondary guns, and a number of 47 mm Hatch Chase machine guns, and the side firepower is second to none in the Japanese fleet.

The Naniwa ship did not insert at high speed, which made Lin Fei very happy, he thought clearly, don't look at the Japanese ship with multiple rapid-fire guns, but you are a battleship, how can you be the opponent of my four battleships?

Lin Fei picked up the microphone and said loudly: "Attention ships, now in front of our fleet is the Japanese ship Naniwa, immediately concentrate firepower and sink it." ”

The four battleships fired together, and the shells fell on the Naniwa ship again, but this time it was not as easy as hitting the Takachiho ship, because the gun positions of each ship were fired, the firing time could not be unified, the cloud burst shell could not be used centrally, and Lin Fei could not let all the battleships stop firing, and then fire the cannon in unison, so at this time, the Naniwa ship was already quite close to them, and they would give the advanced hand over to others when they stopped firing.

Despite this, the Lin Fei fleet still hit the Naniwa after several rounds of test firing...... A cloudburst bomb fired by the Tenglong ship landed exactly more than 20 meters in front of the Naniwa ship, and the fireball that exploded swallowed the bow of the ship at once, and the Japanese naval flag hanging on the bow of the ship suddenly turned into a cloud of ashes and drifted away with the wind, and the gunners on the bow gun position were burned by the air waves, blinded, and fell to the ground screaming, rolling and wailing with bloody eyes.

The Naniwa ship was not a vegetarian either, and in the artillery battle, a 150-mm shell hit the Tamron right on the Tamron ship, and this shell was an armor-piercing shell that would not explode, which penetrated the water and hit the Tamron ship under the waterline.

Since the Dragon-class cruiser was designed by Lin Fei, it is impossible to use monocoque armor, in the history of world armor development, people have always used a single material of armor to protect the hull, and later realized the importance of composite armor.

The armor of the Dragon-class cruiser is composite armor, the outermost layer is a layer of hard steel plate, which is used to destroy the armor-piercing projectile body by hard collision, and there is no armor-piercing bullet in the world in this era, and the projectile body is very easy to be damaged in this hard impact, the hard steel plate is followed by a soft iron deck, which is used to absorb the kinetic energy of the armor-piercing projectile, and the last layer is a hard steel plate, which completely blocks the shells at the end of the crossbow.

The armor-piercing projectile fired by the Naniwa ship was helpless in the face of the composite armor, and the body of the bullet was first damaged by the hard steel plate, and then absorbed by the soft iron plate, and could not penetrate the hull at all.

Although the armor-piercing bullet could not penetrate the hull, the violent impact still made the battleship shake violently, Shangguan Yunlong knew that he had been shot, and hurriedly shouted: "Damage control company, go to the deck below the waterline and see what happened?" ”

The damage control company acted immediately, and after a short time, the news that the hull of the ship was not damaged was sent back, Shangguan Yunlong was relieved, and ordered his subordinates to step up the artillery bombardment of the Naniwa.

Under the blow of four battleships, the Naniwa ship was quickly hit by seven bullets, six gun emplacements were blown up, 150 mm heavy guns were blown up, the hull was flooded in three places, and the right tilt reached five degrees, and the captain Kataoka Shichiro could only order: "Hang out the withdrawal battle flag, withdraw from the battle." ”

The Naniwa ship began to turn around and retreat into the distance, how could Lin Fei let it escape, Lin Fei saw that the Naniwa ship was closest to the Tenglong ship, so he ordered Shangguan Yunlong to pursue the Naniwa ship, but at this moment, Lin Fei suddenly found that the enemy ship Qiujinzhou was inserting into the gap between the Tianlong ship and the Yunlong ship at high speed.

Lin Fei couldn't help but be surprised, he was afraid that the Japanese ship would hit and rush like this, but he didn't expect it to really hit like this...

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