Shoot shells, observe the bullet point, correct the elements, reload ammunition, aim and fire .......

All the officers and men of the two battleships, like clockwork men, fired tons of steel ammunition in strict accordance with the operating procedures, and bombarded the docks and batteries of Nagasaki port 10 kilometers away.

Deng Shichang's eyes widened, staring at the two main guns in front of him from the bridge command room, and shouted loudly from the radio from time to time: "...... Cheer me up! Such a good free live target has not been encountered in a hundred years, take out all your strength and hit it hard! ”

In the turret, all the officers and soldiers stripped naked, sweating profusely and tossing vigorously! Hundreds of kilograms of steel lumps and round silk-wrapped propellant packets that came up from the ammunition depot below through the loafers were stuffed into the chamber of a gun that could hold a person with the help of the loader, and they were shot out with a loud bang.

The whole process is as smooth as flowing water, almost without anyone's superfluous command and coordination, and the operation is seamless without the slightest stuck.

Among the two battleships, there were thousands of good players selected from the old Beiyang Naval Division, who were reliable, excellent, and self-motivated.

These people have many years of military experience and have experienced several naval battles, and they are not generally proficient in artillery skills. After another year of synthetic training, they were able to fire at the maximum performance of the 305mm gun and the fastest speed of accurate fire. At the end of the nineteenth century, this was no ordinary feat.

Both battleships were designed and built with a technology far beyond the decades of contemporary experience. Light is a bonus to things like radar detection, 10-meter optical ranging, a central fire commander, and each turret's own optical sight. It completely subverted the original unpredictable and unpredictable way of attacking.

They almost had to make up for it from scratch. I learned this complex operating procedure that requires the linkage of multiple people on the whole ship. And then on this basis, the shelling operation is seven or eight times faster than before, and it is really not something that can be kept up if you want to.

But fortunately, the fighting spirit of this generation is not to be picked, and the elites selected from tens of thousands of people have already been reborn after returning to the furnace for training. Today, even if the entire warship is equipped with only 30% of the number of people, they can still exert their powerful offensive capabilities without the threat of foreign enemies!

That's right. The two battleships were understaffed, and they could not fight with the opponent for a long time in the fierce offensive and defensive battles, so they could only be said to maintain regular operation.

If it weren't for the one-sided shelling mission this time, Yang Haiwei would not dare to rashly take such a precious thing out and shake it around. It was a torpedo attack or something, and it was possible to avoid it in a hurry, and only when dealing with Japanese coastal targets that had no power to fight back, did it dare to be used as a pure floating battery at sea.

Fortunately, this situation was not clear to outsiders, and the entire fleet was floating ten kilometers off the coast of Nagasaki, and with superior optical instruments and artillery, they could ignore the old Japanese coastal defense artillery fire. Calmly sail at low speeds and fire fiercely!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

A salvo detonation almost every minute. Fierce reverberations on the surface of the sea! The smoke and flames spewed by nine 12-inch heavy guns flooded the body of the huge battleship and drove the sea level into a terrifying collapse!

Looking at the outer coastline of Nagasaki Bay, starting from Iwang Island, all the forts and fortifications built have turned into a cloud of rubble and fireworks, like a volcanic eruption.

Japan was still poor to death, with almost all of its revenues being spent on building a navy and equipping an army, and its long coastline made it almost impossible to determine where to focus its defenses, with the exception of Tokyo Bay, which was Kobe and Osaka.

Nagasaki has been a window for Japan's opening to the outside world, and for hundreds of years, it has served as an important port for trade and exchange between Japan and foreign countries, but it is difficult to say how high the defense power is.

In particular, the construction level of coastal forts in this era was far behind in terms of artillery caliber and firing range, although there were reinforced concrete.

Japan was not as rich as the Qing Dynasty under Li Hongzhang's control, and even the Germans got a bunch of the best 280mm Krupp cannons, and they bought one or two thousand guns of all sizes for such an exaggerated and extravagant figure. The entire Japanese Army had only more than 200 70mm cannons at its peak, and the Navy was even more eager to smash the pot and sell iron to add ships.

Shore defense artillery? It's good to have a look!

They never thought they would be forced to come to their door. Even after the "Nagasaki Incident" broke out when the Beiyang Navy Division came to repair the warships 10 years ago, the Japanese gritted their teeth and encouraged the people to boost their morale and build naval ships on a large scale, but they still could not allocate enough money to build a powerful coastal defense battery.

Poverty is not a reason to be beaten, but if a poor country brazenly provokes a rich country without doing a good job of defense, the result would have been tragic if it had not been for the waste wood of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

What's more, those who serve as the backbone of the navy today are all first-generation naval officers. It is unacceptable that many of them had personally experienced the "Nagasaki Incident" 10 years ago, when five or six people died, and the way in which the 50 major boards handled the case, regardless of whether it was fair or not, actually became the laughing stock of their almost defeat 10 years later.

The Beiyang Navy Division also leaked the codebook in that conflict, and was given the advantage by Japan everywhere in the Battle of the First Sino-Japanese War (let's not complain about the codebook and not change this nonsense for ten years), a series of stains, even if they have changed their coats now, they still feel that they still have to clean it themselves.

It is not enough to defeat the Japanese Navy, and personally smashing artillery shells on Japanese soil is a symbol of the Navy's mission!

Huge warships, floating on the sea, swallowing fireworks, angry and furious!

The 305mm naval gun, using 5G heavy armor-piercing shells, calmly penetrates the fort bunker on the mountain, and shoots straight through the sky like a knife cutting butter, nothing can stop it!

The 426kg high-explosive bomb was thrown into the well-detected trench fortifications from a distance, smashed out of a pit three meters deep into the ground, and exploded and swept across the impact air wave with a radius of more than 100 meters! The earth-shattering loud noise can be heard clearly from a distance of ten kilometers! Japanese soldiers at hand. One by one, they were shocked and bled out. Cracked internal organs. Countless people died on the spot!

The Japanese are not defenseless. Since their cabinet has made the decision to play tricks, they have the consciousness of being attacked. To this end, they mobilized a wing of the newly formed 12th Division, and also got part of the artillery wing of the Xiaguan Fortress to this place, dug fortifications and arranged artillery emplacements, intending to annihilate the enemy on the beachhead in the future.

But no matter how well you prepare, it is doomed to be in vain in the face of the blow of absolute superiority! The Japanese didn't expect that Yang Hao would launch a punitive strike so quickly! The lazy citizens of Nagasaki weren't even quite mentally ready. Mighty battleships suddenly appeared in front of them!

Thanks to the fact that the city of Nagasaki is deep in the bay, with a narrow five-kilometer waterway and surrounding mountains, they do not have to face terrible artillery fire from the first time they come up.

Those who were arranged to act as a desperate resistance force on the periphery were all killed!

"Boom! Bang! ”

There was an explosion, accompanied by the shaking and shaking of the earth, and the Japanese soldiers, whether standing or lying on their stomachs, all wanted to vomit in pain and couldn't scream! From time to time, a large ball of fire roared and swept in front of him, sweeping away the incomplete walls and deer, and all the corpses flew in the sky. There are stones rolling all over the floor! Whatever it is, it will kill them!

The seemingly strong officer gave the order hysterically. The frightened kicking and dragging paralyzed recruits in their hearts, the heart-rending roar, looking so weak and weak in the earth-shattering explosion.

The entire Yiwang Island position was completely cut down by a round of artillery fire. At this time, the Japanese army, who had not yet learned the earthwork profession, just lay in those unqualified bunkers on the surface, accompanied by waves of heavy artillery salvos, completely turned into green smoke!

After half an hour, the battleship, which had fired hundreds of heavy shells, took a break for a while, but the heavy cruiser "Tianjin", which had been coiled for a long time, opened fire one after another, and the twelve 152mm guns spewed out projectiles without stopping, smashing out a full five or six hundred shells in one go, washing all the exposed Japanese offensives!

When he finished fighting, he looked at the mountains on both sides of Iwang Island and Nagasaki Bay, all of which were submerged in raging flames, and there was hardly any place to be seen!

A destroyer from behind came out of the crowd, and with its dexterity, it burst into the bay, brushed the shallow water and circled under Mt. Okubo, to find out if there was any remaining shore defense artillery fire to hide, and then lowered the dinghy and quickly sent the Marines to the beachhead.

This is a new generation of "Dengzhou-class" destroyers built entirely in the B plane. Drawing on the segmented construction design of the classic "Fletcher" class destroyers of World War II, combined with modern technical concepts, it is a kind of general-purpose hull with full transformation potential.

Its total length is 114.02 meters, the total width is 12.35 meters, the draft is 3.73 meters, the standard row is 2,280 tons, and the full row is 2,810 tons. It has two or three twin-mounted high-level dual-purpose 5-inch guns, and can also install two quadruple and two twin-mounted 40mm Bofors, plus an indefinite number of 20mm Erlikong. In a contemporary era when all countries do not have air forces, air defense capabilities can be described as redundant.

In addition, the ship is also equipped with triple 533mm torpedo tubes, plus anti-submarine depth charges and hedgehog bomb projectiles, but there is nothing to stuff into it for the time being, so it is not installed.

Limited to the current lack of power production capacity, the power of the industrial-grade steam turbine produced by the B plane is too small and unsuitable, and the 30,000-horsepower main engine from this world is not enough for battleships and cruisers, so for the time being, two 8,000-kilowatt diesel engines have to be used together. With a power of 11,596 hp x 2 and a maximum output of 12,885 hp x2, the twin aircraft can achieve a maximum speed of 27 knots, or a cruise capability of 5,000 nautical miles at 16 knots.

Focusing on the future, when all kinds of weapons and equipment and main engine systems are complete, the ship can be upgraded to use two 30,000-horsepower steam turbines, carry three long-barreled five-inch guns, carry all the anti-aircraft and anti-submarine weapons, and can also carry an enhanced version of the seaplane.

Later, the hull could even be retrofitted with a rocket system, or converted into a guided missile destroyer...... If I can really toss it until then.

In short, within thirty or fifty years, the basic design of the ship will not be outdated, which is also very in line with Yang Hao's consistent equipment concept. Fewer models, easy to mass-produce, easy to build. Upgrade the space to play. equipment generalization, and so on.

Finally, there is another benefit to using a diesel engine. That is to solve the current problem of lack of steam turbine operators and insufficient supply of heavy fuel oil. Using a diesel engine is much easier and more convenient.

All this ensures the rapid and batch launching of this destroyer.

The number of naval officers and men on the four destroyers dispatched this time was also insufficient, barely enough to make do with about 100 people per ship, but there was no second set of replacement teams.

The speed of 27 knots is still a number beyond the reach of the navies of all countries in this era. With the short board power of the two battleships. It can be said that they complement each other.

When the slender and agile figure appeared in the field of vision of the Japanese troops on both islands through the heavy smoke, the little devil who was dizzy by the explosion had bloodshot eyes, looking at the futile howl of the artillery that had been blown into scrap metal, helpless!

It's such a bully, what can you do?

Several destroyers and cruisers were unloaded one after another, and the platoons quickly dispersed on the two sides of the beachhead. They swept through suspicious targets along the edges of the bomb craters that could be found everywhere, through a sieve, and the flamethrowers equipped with each squad were in Dafa Li, and wherever they saw the black rumbling tunnels and bunkers. An unceremonious beam of high-temperature flames erupted into it, burning the surrounding heat waves. Smoke everywhere!

This is the training opportunity they have always dreamed of, and all parts of the army must thoroughly experience the high ground. Hundreds of soldiers swept across the fronts of Iwang Island, Shiroyama, Mt. Okubo, and other places, and little by little there were no hidden forts left.

At the same time, the officers and men of the navy seized the time to clean up the artillery and ammunition of the warships on the sea, rest when they should rest, change shifts when they should change, and take advantage of the combat breaks to recharge their strength.

The bombardment of the battleships was so great that the ships of various countries anchored in the port of Nagasaki and the personnel of all countries stationed here were all frightened by the earth-shattering explosion that seemed to be close at hand! Since the mountains from Nagasaki to overseas are not very high, the pillars of fireworks that rise into the sky are clearly displayed in front of their eyes, making people mistakenly think that there is a volcanic eruption there and may spread to their heads at any time!

This scene completely scared the foreign devils and the Japanese! They sent out distress signals through various channels. Especially when it was confirmed that the Chinese soldiers had landed, almost everyone subconsciously judged that this was a posture to further capture Nagasaki!

Nagasaki is isolated in the northwest of Kyushu Island, and it is difficult to travel by land except as a hub for maritime transportation. Once occupied, it is not easy to recapture it. As long as the other side blocks the access to the sea, it can occupy and use it for a long time. When the time comes, we will occupy Sasebo in the north and Goto and Nakodori Island outside, and you will be able to get a bridgehead fortress to attack the four provinces of Japan out of thin air!

Can't be lost there!

The frightened Japanese hurriedly sent a telegram to Tokyo asking for help, and the great powers also found ways to contact Yang Hao in an attempt to stop his attempt to occupy Japan. If there is not enough price, it will not be lightly given up.

As if to confirm their judgment, not long after, the battleship drove into the bay and blasted mercilessly towards Mitsubishi Shipbuilding and other industrial facilities a few kilometers away! As soon as the powerful heavy shells exploded, the simple factory buildings could not withstand the destruction of three or two blows, and they collapsed and shattered one after another! All kinds of equipment on the dock slipway were burned in flames!

The headquarters of the 12th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Kurume immediately sent reinforcements south, fearing that Nagasaki would be occupied.

However, no one expected that in the evening of the same day, the landing force quietly retreated after completing the sweep, followed the fleet to the north overnight, and suddenly appeared off the coast of Fukuoka in the early morning of the next day!

Having gained experience, the fleet destroyed the shoddy fortifications on Shikajima and Nokojima with destroyer and cruiser artillery, and destroyed several batteries with battleship main guns, and then rushed forward with marines to clear the way. Subsequently, several huge ships rushed into Fukuoka Bay, pointed their black holes at the various factory docks lined up on the shore, and opened fire brazenly!

This time, closer to the closer, without the help of any advanced equipment, just by looking at the naked eye, you can easily lock on to all the targets, the main and secondary guns all join the carnival, in just ten minutes, the rising fireworks wall has already hidden the whole of Fukuoka to see nothing!

I don't know, from a distance, I thought the whole city was going to be finished. In essence, the Chinese navy is less tyrannical and less interested in opening fire on civilians in urban areas, destroying only their industries and dock facilities.

This also frightened the Japanese into a state of despair and rushed to ask for help. However, in less than half a day, the Chinese fleet had already left there and continued to run north to the open sea of Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki!

The remaining garrison of the 12th Division was less than one-third, especially the artillery wing of the Xiaguan Fortress, which was overstaffed, and was all numb in the face of the battleships that suddenly approached at sea!

These two places are very different, Shimonoseki is the main road to the Seto Inland Sea, so the "Sekimon Fortress" was established, and Kokura in Kitakyushu is home to an important arsenal in Japan. In World War II, the first target for the U.S. military to drop atomic bombs was here.

As soon as the news was confirmed, the Japanese "suddenly realized" that the previous series of actions were all pretenses, and the real goal of the Chinese was there!

As long as Shimonoseki and Kitakyushu are occupied, then the Chinese Navy will no longer need to bypass the outer defense of Kyushu Island at all, and can gallop freely inside the four Japanese islands by water, attack every city at will, and bloom in the center, how vicious!

Yang Hao wanted to know their judgment, so he could only sneer: "You guys really think too much." ”

However, the Navy does not care about that set, it is ready, and the artillery fires! (To be continued......) R1292