297 Decisive Battle of the Three Scenic Ships

Lin Fei looked at the Qiujinzhou ship that was rushing over, looked at the Naniwa ship that was desperately withdrawing from the battlefield, and the Matsushima ship, Hashidate and Itsukushima ship that were speeding over in the distance, calmly assessed the battlefield situation, and then made a judgment that the Naniwa ship was about to flee and there was no threat, the Sanjing ship was relatively far away and did not pose a threat to his own fleet, and the Qiujinzhou ship was the greatest threat to his own warships.

If it is allowed to pass between the Tenryu and the Yunryu, its entire formation will be disrupted by the Japanese fleet, and the Japanese ships will also form a two-sided attack on their own fleet, and they must not watch such a thing happen.

Lin Fei picked up the microphone of the Jade Bird machine and ordered: "Attention all ships, shift the focus of the target, stop hitting the wave speed ship, and concentrate the firepower to hit the Qiujinzhou ship." ”

The four battleships immediately stopped firing at the Naniwa ship, turned their guns and opened fire on the Qiujinzhou ship, and the shells rained down on the Qiujinzhou ship in an instant, and the water column from the shells splashed continued to fall on the Qiujinzhou ship.

The captain of the Akitsu Continent, Hikono Uemura, obviously noticed that the battleship opposite was concentrating its fire on his battleship, and he suddenly felt a burst of surprise, because the one in front of him was too unusual, there were four battleships on the opposite side, how could they turn their guns together at the same time to bombard their own battleship? Especially when the Naniwa ship was heavily damaged and was about to sink, it stands to reason that they should concentrate their firepower on bombarding the Naniwa.

Uemura Hikonojo was thinking about it, when suddenly a scorching flame rushed towards him, and the flames were mixed with shards of porthole glass, and Uemura Hikonomari instinctively lowered his head, and the shards fell all over his body, not hurting him, but the navigator and helmsman on the side were not so lucky, the glass shards slashed their cheeks, and blood "brushed" all over their faces.

Uemura Hikoyuki scolded "Yaga" fiercely, and then grabbed the microphone and shouted: "Open the cannon, open the cannon, and shoot all the warships of the Chinese Empire into the sea for me." ”

The gunners had long been ready to open fire, and the Akitsu had four 150-mm rapid-fire guns, six 120-mm rapid-fire guns, two of which were deployed in the bow and stern, and the other two 150-mm rapid-fire guns were deployed on the bow of the ship.

The so-called "ear platform" is a kind of structure of the warship in this era, it is a platform protruding on the side of the gunwale, this platform is used to deploy artillery, this kind of platform is usually arranged symmetrically along the central axis of the hull in order to maintain the balance of the hull, it looks like the ears of the battleship, so it is called "ear platform".

At this time, the Qiujinzhou ship was facing the Chinese Imperial fleet in the bow, so it concentrated three 150-mm guns to strike, and the three guns immediately opened fire on the Tianlong ship with the flagship flag at a rate of fire of eight shells per minute.

Under the bombardment of 24 guns, the Qiujinzhou ship was hit by a blasting bomb in the blink of an eye, and the explosion wave lifted the observer on the backmast directly into the sea, and then a cloudburst bomb exploded near the hull, and the two 120-mm rapid-fire guns were scrapped in an instant.

At the same time that the Akitsu Zhou ship was beaten, its shells also hit the Tenryu ship, and the naval battles of this era were like this, both sides could be hit by the other, and no one dared to guarantee that they would not receive a single shell.

The shells of the Akitsu Zhou exploded in the stern of the Tenryu, and several gunners were killed on the spot, and the Shimose gunpowder in the shells flowed everywhere and burned, and the stern of the ship suddenly caught fire, and for a time thick smoke billowed out, and the well-trained damage control company immediately rushed up with water guns, and the white water column shot on the flames, raising a large cloud of mist.

The shooting of the Tianlong ship frightened everyone, because Lin Fei was on the Tianlong ship... The Chinese Empire is completely supported by Lin Fei, if Lin Fei makes a mistake, not only will the empire collapse, but the Chinese will also be reduced to inferior people who can be bullied again...

Liu Daming, who is usually not afraid of heaven and earth, was so frightened that his face changed, and he hurriedly said to Lin Fei: "Old Lin, hurry up and let the Tianlong Ship withdraw from the battle, it's too dangerous." ”

Lin Fei laughed loudly and said, "What are you afraid of? If our four warships fight one of them, will there be a reason to lose? It's okay, tell the brother of the Tianlong ship, keep bombing me..."

Liu Daming knew that he couldn't persuade Lin Fei, so he had to say: "It's okay if we don't withdraw, but we can't let it fight upright, I think the reason why Qiujinzhou bombed us is because we have a flagship flag, so we simply let the other three warships hang the flagship flag, so that they can be dizzy." ”

Lin Fei nodded with a smile, picked up the microphone and gave an order, the other three battleships all hung out the flagship flag, although this time they did not frighten the Qiujinzhou ship, but they frightened the Sanjing ship that was about to fire the cannon behind, they were originally aiming at the flagship, but the four battleships all hung the flagship flag, and they were suddenly stunned, not knowing who to fight.

In the hesitation of the Sanjing Ship, Sun Yong, the gunner of the Tianlong Ship, stretched out his hand to rip off his jacket, pushed away the aiming hand on the No. 1 gun position, and said angrily: "The devil's cannonballs are going to hit His Majesty, Lao Tzu will fight it himself, load the cannonballs for Lao Tzu, and ask for a 'big fireball'." ”

"Big Fireball" is the name of the ordinary crew on the ship for "Cloud Burst Bomb", for them, the name "Cloud Burst Bomb" is too plain, and it is very uncomfortable to talk about it, it is better to call it "Big Fireball".

Sun Yong is an old gunner, and his aiming skills are naturally stronger than those of the newly trained gunners, he turned the muzzle, pressed the star mark on the sight on the enemy ship, and pressed the firing button suddenly, and after more than ten seconds, he saw a fireball explode at the position of the foremast of the Qiujinzhou ship, and then a series of explosions sounded on the hull of the ship.

It turned out that this cloud burst bomb fell directly in the middle of the hull, and the sea of fire instantly swallowed the battleship, detonating the reserve shells of each gun position, and the Qiujinzhou ship was also hit by several shells before, but those shells were like wounds cut on the wolf's body, not only did not make the wolf lose its combat effectiveness, but provoked the blood of the wolf and made it more ferocious, but this cloud burst bomb was like a heavy punch, smashing the wolf's backbone.

The Akitsuzu was equipped with four torpedo tubes, each of which was equipped with two 566 mm heavy torpedoes, and although the torpedoes of this era were almost the furnishings of large capital warships, they were still equipped with them, and it turned out that carrying these torpedoes was to put a knife on their necks.

The explosion of the shells in the gun position of the Akitsuzu Island detonated the torpedo in the torpedo compartment, and the violent explosion ran through the hull of the ship, although it did not detonate the ammunition in the ammunition compartment, but the explosion opened a large hole in the underwater hull of the battleship, and the large hole penetrated several cabins, and the whole battleship began to sink slowly.

The captain of the ship, Hikonoki Uemura, hurriedly ordered to hang out the banner of "withdraw from the battle" and began to turn the rudder and withdraw from the battlefield, but the tilt of the battleship became greater and greater, and after a minute, the balance of the battleship could no longer be maintained, let alone withdraw from the battle.

At 15:12, the captain of the ship, Hikonoki Uemura, ordered to hang out the flag of "abandon the ship", announced the abandonment of the ship, and then locked himself in the captain's room, committed suicide by seppuku, and sank with the ship.

None of the fearless Japanese sailors were willing to abandon their ships and escape, shouting "Long live the Emperor" while jumping into the icy waters, allowing the waves to swallow them.

At this time, the battle had been going on for more than two hours, and under the command of Lin Fei, the guerrillas of the Japanese fleet suffered heavy losses, and the Takachiho ship sank into the sea; Naniwa was seriously wounded and withdrew from the battlefield; The captain of the Qiujinzhou announced the abandonment of the ship, the battleship slowly sank, and the Japanese fleet disappeared with the advantage of six to four.

At 15:20, the Matsushima, Itsukushima, and Hashidate ships pulled the Huaxia Imperial Fleet into their firing range, and then used the 320 mm heavy guns on the hull to fire cannonballs at the Huaxia Imperial Fleet, and the confrontation between the Dragon-class cruisers and the Sankei ships officially began.

The sound of the roar of the 320mm heavy guns was quite shocking, even though they were far away from the Huaxia Imperial fleet, but the sound still shook everyone's hearts, and everyone's faces showed more or less frightened looks.

However, Lin Fei was not afraid of the heavy artillery of the Sanjing ship at all, because he knew that the heavy artillery of the Sanjing ship had strict defects in design, the rate of fire was extremely slow, and the reliability was extremely poor, and in the battle in the Yellow Sea, which lasted more than five hours, the heavy artillery of the Sanjing ship only fired a total of twelve shells, and only two of them hit the Zhenyuan ship, and they did not penetrate the armor, and the reason why the rate of fire reached an outrageous hour, was because the parts of the gun body would be damaged as soon as the gun was fired, and the gunners had to suspend the gun and repair the gun body.

Although the 320 mm heavy guns were not satisfactory in naval battles, the Sanjing ships were still extremely powerful combat forces, the displacement of the three battleships reached more than 4,000 tons, far exceeding the 3,000 tons of the Dragon-class cruisers, and the three battleships were equipped with a total of 34 120 mm rapid-fire guns, and in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the Sanjing ships fired a total of 1,657 shells, each of which was a high-explosive grenade, causing fatal damage to the people on the bare deck of the Beiyang Fleet.

Lin Fei thought about this, calmly picked up the microphone, and said loudly: "Attention all ships, it is the enemy's Matsushima, Itsukushima and Hashidate ships that are firing at us now, although they have 320 mm caliber heavy guns, but that type of heavy artillery is often damaged, easy to deal with, everyone don't need to panic." ”

Lin Fei was talking, only to hear a loud "boom" explosion in front of the battleship, the splash of water column is more than ten meters high, although the 320 mm caliber shell charge is large, but the Japanese loaded explosives and Lin Fei's explosives are incomparable, so the explosion power is far inferior.

Lin Fei continued: "The most powerful thing about the Sanjing Ship is the rapid-fire cannon, in order not to be injured by their rapid-fire cannons, we have only one way, kill them with the fastest rate of fire and shoot at me..."

Lin Fei's order was given, and the decisive battle with the Sanjing Ship began.

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