"The Chinese turned out to be such a plan! Blocking ahead of us with only one battleship? What kind of guy is that?! ”

Yamamoto Gonbei stared at the round eyes and desperately looked at the "Tianjin" in the distance, but the weather in the afternoon was getting worse and worse, and the shadows in the field of vision were always unreal. Even through a large magnification telescope, you can only vaguely see a slender battleship looming more than 20 kilometers away.

"But that ship is really long! I can't imagine what kind of technology it takes to build such a huge guy! ”

The same unclear melon Sheng Waiji exclaimed. After staring at the construction of ships in Britain for so long, he almost became a real ship expert, except that he could not design and build an advanced giant ship by himself, he could judge the approximate parameters of the ships he saw at a glance.

The 186-meter-long figure of the "Tianjin" is simply as miraculous in this era. Britain, which has the most powerful shipbuilding technology in the navy, is now only making some big guys of more than 120 meters, compared to the unknown monster in the distance, but it is a third of the length!

Moreover, the towering bridge of the battleship was too obvious, but the chimney was wrapped tightly, and they couldn't even see how thick the smoke was, which meant that there was a lot of technology that they couldn't understand for the time being, and it also proved that the danger factor of that guy was even higher than expected!

Yamamoto Gonbei's face was cold and hard. Judging from his experience, this battleship must have strong combat effectiveness, otherwise it would not have been possible for such a confident one to go to the coastal waters of Japan to make trouble, and even take on the heavy task of intercepting the retreat of the huge coalition navy. This is no less than the responsibility of frontal offensive operations, and it is not absolutely certain. It's impossible!

But. All the intelligence. I have never heard of such a warship in the Chinese Navy! Does that guy have a displacement of 20,000 tons! What is the caliber of the main gun? It's true...... It's scary!

When Minoru Saito and the others saw it, they were so frightened that they almost fell down on the spot. What should they do if they are really afraid of something, and all the troubles that may be encountered in the plan are far less than the scene in front of them?

Yamamoto Gonbei was old and strong after all, and calmly ordered to contact the armored cruiser formation guarding the side and ask for their opinions, and the advice given by the foreign devil was: "Regardless of the strength or weakness of the enemy in front. We must move forward in solidarity towards the goals we have set. Only by fighting a bloody battle to find a way out can we win the war. ”

Yamamoto Gonbei turned his head to look behind him, the huge body of the "Dingyuan", which was no smaller than his own, was constantly accelerating, and the battle was inevitable, and he was only choosing who the opponent was.

He slapped the railing heavily and shouted in a deep voice: "The whole army continues to maintain the formation formation and continue to march towards Kagoshima!" If an enemy ship is approaching to attack, immediately launch a resolute counterattack without hesitation! ”

The two battleships sounded the alarm, and the guns in front of them aimed at the "Tianjin" from afar, and they rushed straight at it with great momentum.

The armored cruisers of the great powers lined up in a long snake formation. On the left side of the battleship, separated by three kilometers in front and rear, formed a wall and maintained column and speed. The muzzles of the guns were all pointed at the left rear high-speed original assault fleet.

Liu Buyun saw the truth from the "Dingyuan", snorted coldly as if bursting with confidence, ordered the battleship to speed forward, threw the rest of the frigates off a position, and then drifted the left rudder from 15 kilometers away, and gradually formed a posture of marching almost in parallel, approaching little by little.

The plans of the coalition fleet have been disrupted, and the expected enemy has actually become two groups, and they have formed a posture of flanking the front and rear, which makes them very uncomfortable. However, the predetermined strategy could not be changed lightly, and after liaising with the Japanese ships to determine the tactics, the sparse formation quickly staggered back and forth, freeing up the gap for the two battleships to slowly inlay each other, turning from the inner perimeter of the right side to the outer side of the middle and rear parts, becoming the sharp edge of the attack.

The two sides advanced in a seventeen-knot high-speed figure-eight shape, and after ten minutes they had already entered the firing range of each other's main guns. The main gun and shells of the "Dingyuan" are made with modern technology, and the 305 gun with 40 times the body of the "Fuji-class" is aimed at the 305 gun, and little by little the opponent is put into the shooting and aiming system.

There is no doubt that the "fixed range ship" with radar and optical ranging and command and firing systems is superior. When the distance reached 10 km, the two turrets that swung horizontally aimed at the nearest "Fuji" fired first!

The heavy shells broke through the air and let out a thunderous roar, and the rushing smoke in an instant made people mistakenly think that the abyss monster came out, and the Japanese soldiers below Yamamoto Gonbei were sweating all over, and they couldn't help but grab the things on the side, preparing for the bombardment of the explosion!

Under the clouds, the storm surged, the guide zhì battleship swayed, and a test firing formed a straddle and deviated more than a kilometer, followed by the three artillery guns in unison, blowing up a series of water columns to illuminate the target!

Yamamoto Gonbei shouted loudly: "Yaga! The enemy ships are the first to fire, let's not get cold, use all the artillery fire, and return fire fiercely! ”

The eight guns of the two ships that had been waiting for a long time fired one after another! For the first time, the Armstrong gun, which had an initial velocity of more than 700 meters per second, showed amazing power, and the whistling projectiles flew one after another, falling far around the "Dingyuan", and the explosion raised a thick column of water, which was spectacular!

"This can't be done! It's easy to lose! ”

Liu Buyun frowned, and decisively ordered the battleship to maneuver to the right, trying to cut off the second half of the tail of the coalition column and break it one by one.

The allied fleet, which is preparing for the old days, immediately changes formation! They don't know how many times they simulated the mode of war, and finally the veil was revealed! Without hesitation, the two "Fuji-class battleships" turned their rudders to the left and cut to the top of their heads, pulling out a semi-encircling arc. Several armored cruisers in the rear also followed the flag to the right to seize the rudder, taking advantage of the distance advantage to hold the outside first. Subsequently, most of the battleships in the first half of the section left two unchanged, and the rest turned the rudder sharply to the left, flickering with each other with the two battleships, pulling out a large encirclement arc with a diameter of several kilometers, and cutting off the way of the rest of the battleships head-on!

This posture is like a broken chrysanthemum, transforming from a snake-like pen to a hideous and weird killing array!

Liu Buyun screamed in his heart! With his experience, he immediately judged the purpose of the enemy's army, as long as he was entangled by a powerful enemy battleship, the escort ships behind him would fall into the trap of being surrounded on three sides! At that time, no matter how hard you want to fight, you can't do it!

It was only a brief hesitation, he gritted his teeth and scolded: "Ignore them, attack at full speed to divide the back road!" The rest of the work will be handed over to Tianjin! ”

The "Dingyuan" accelerated violently with high-pressure ventilation, the surging engine rumbled and roared with overload output, and the huge propeller made a pure white splash, driving the heavy steel hull like a monster, rushing straight to the opposite side!

After the forward-facing main gun and single-barreled secondary cannon were filled again, Liu Buyun decisively waved his arm and ordered: "Fight!" No matter what's in front of you, hit it all! ”

Roaring shells slammed into the air, falling one after another on the side of the battleship "Yashima", which was one step behind and also followed closely behind the turn.

The captain of the ship, Shichiro Kataoka, had a grim face, and he couldn't see a trace of affection from beginning to end, pressed his saber in his hand, straightened his fat waist, and fearlessly ordered the battleship to rush up in the face of artillery fire, and cheered again and again: "Warriors of the Empire, take out all your strength and use our fiercest artillery to kill the enemy!" ”

The "Yashima" turned and fired, and the front main gun and the side secondary gun opened fire one after another, blowing up columns of water one after another on the side of the "Dingyuan" -- their accuracy was still too poor!

The escort ships in the rear of the "Dingyuan" did not dare to advance in the face of such an evenly powerful enemy, so they resolutely lined up and hid behind it, and did not go out at high speed to fight hard.

In the far ahead, the "Tianjin" took the entire battle situation under control, Yang Haiwei coldly watched as the remaining two armored cruisers continued to approach, and the rest turned their heads and clamped, immediately turned their heads from the oblique cutting interception, and accelerated to rush towards them!

In just ten minutes, the two sides exchanged fire several times, but the three battleships that were directly hedged were the fastest to approach. Just when the distance was about twelve kilometers, Yang Haiwei brazenly ordered, and the two triple main guns in the bow of the ship opened fire violently!

The effect of such a powerful bombardment is amazing! At that distance, an oncoming British armored cruiser had nowhere to hide, and was blasted from behind by straddle shells, and the splashes and fragments crashed into the stern, causing a loud scream.

They also did not care to cherish the ammunition, so they hurriedly returned fire, and the armor-piercing shells fired by the bow guns could not bear to be staggered, and they fell in a messy manner and scattered in the sea area of nearly a kilometer to the left and right, and there were no grains.

The "Tianjin" counterattack is surprisingly sharp! The 127mm secondary gun first played a barrage of shielding, and the grenade first hung a dot on the opponent, followed by the 203mm main gun to continuously correct the power, and under the ultimate rate of fire of six rounds per minute, the two turrets actually played the terrible effect of a group of warships!

It didn't take long for the British ship in front of the charge to be hit head-on, and an armor-piercing shell poured into the horizontal deck at a small angle, exploding and causing a large fire that immediately scrapped most of its standing!

Immediately, the "Tianjin" continued to move forward at high speed, aiming at the second British ship that was pressing behind the enemy ship with billowing smoke, and the successive bombardments kept creating close losses in its vicinity, and the explosive storm brought about the splinters and rising pillars of fireworks destroyed the battleship in many places one after another in a short time! The fire then quickly extended from the bow deck to the rear, burning the battleship into thick smoke, and the officers and men fled in panic crying for their fathers and mothers!

The foreign devils who thought they knew the strength of the Chinese Navy were all stunned, and shouted in disbelief: "What the hell is that!" How could it be possible to shoot such a dense and terrible shell! ”

Hell yes! But no, they can't see it too clearly from a distance, they just think that this guy has a weird shape and fierce firepower, not a good stubble!

Yang Haiwei didn't have time to entangle with them, his target was first on the two Japanese ships. The rough run-in of the main guns damaged the two ships, and they couldn't wait to move forward and intercept the past! (To be continued......)