The Japanese warships, escorting the landing ships, spread out for several kilometers on the surface of the sea and swooped down towards the mouth of the river. The guns of the battleships were raised high, ready to meet the artillery on land at any time, attack the positions on the riverbank, support the landing ships to land, and start the landing counterattack.

But they never expected that there would be such a dense bombardment of the fleet by shore artillery. Previously, the three books and fifty-six took into account that the other side would set up shore defense artillery, so the landing ships were escorted by light destroyers and battleships, in order to maneuver quickly, so that they could evade the shelling on the shore and return fire. Once the opponent's shore fire is exposed, the follow-up warships will follow, and then, the four aircraft carriers far away from Yushan Island will also take off their planes to bomb the opponent's coastal defense positions in the chaos.

Shells flew, and the first to bear the brunt was the battleship Kongo. The captain of the ship, Eijiro Matsuura, calmly ordered the moment he saw the flying cannonballs, and moved to the left to avoid it.

However, the speed of the battleship's movement was very slow, at least relative to the speed at which the shells were flying, and at the moment when the bombardment began on the mobile battleship Kong, the projectile fell three or four hundred meters away in front of the battleship, and in the loud noise, a column of water dozens of meters high was lifted on the sea surface within 100 meters, just like a high mountain suddenly rising on the surface of the sea.

It only took a few seconds for the water to rise and fall, and then the tide collapsed, and the huge waves rolled and surged outward, and the waves were more than ten meters high.

The battleship shook violently in a loud bang, and the hull shook violently, and then the huge waves rushed in, without even hesitating, directly engulfing the King Kong and continuing to run wildly.

At the moment when the huge waves came, Matsuura roared: "Right full rudder! The bow of the ship is aimed at the head of the tide!! ”

Three or four hundred meters can only make the battleship adjust its direction slightly, and this slight adjustment allows the King Kong to avoid the doom of being overturned by the tide.

The wave set off a few meters of waves on the bow of the King Kong, and followed. Engulf the bumping King Kong.

The darkness made the crew of the King Kong frightened one by one, and the tide took away everything on the deck that could be taken away, making the deck of the King Kong unprecedentedly clean.

In just a few seconds, the King Kong was in a violent ups and downs. Revealing his body, he plunged into the sea again in the mist.

"Reverse!! Reversing at full speed!! ”

Matsuura was thrown to the ground, his head bleeding, and he endured bouts of vertigo and roared.

Few of the Japanese soldiers in the engine room were unwound, and they were all rolling on the ground in the violent turbulence.

In just a few seconds, when the King Kong rushed out of the waves, the captain's roar was heard in the engine room in the flickering lights. With that, the engine roared, and with the waves, it jolted and retreated sharply.

The King Kong escaped the first round of shelling, and the troop carriers were not so lucky.

In the loud noise, a monstrous wave with snow-white spray rushed towards a troop carrier only more than 200 meters away from King Kong, and at the moment when King Kong was engulfed. It was also lifted by the waves, and with it. Dive headlong into the wave without hesitation. But when the tide passed, the troop carrier did not surface, but continued its diving maneuver and plunged to the bottom of the sea.

In the sinking, the steel plate made a piercing kaka sound, in the frightened and desperate shouts of the Japanese army. It only sounded for a few seconds, and then, with a loud bang, the troop carrier fell violently and was broken by the tension of the water. The waist was broken in two, and with countless Japanese troops gushing out, they sank to the bottom of the sea without hesitation.

Another landing ship five or six hundred meters away from the King Kong was directly overturned from the side by the waves at the moment of the huge wave after a loud noise less than 100 meters away, and without even a chance, the bottom of the ship was facing up, and after the huge waves, the buttocks stretched out the rotating propeller to the sky, and sent a signal for help to the battleship next to it.

Battleships and destroyers are capable of resisting waves that are only a few tens of meters long, and in the face of surging waves, they cannot withstand the impact of several meters of waves brought by the shock wave of explosions around them, not to mention toys.

When the shells hit, the Kirishima also violently tossed, shaking more than 25 degrees in the mist, so that some debris on the deck, which was not firmly fixed, swept all down to the sea the moment the huge waves hit the deck. The wave destroyed several anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, causing a mess on the Kirishima deck.

The captain of the Kirishima Kakuzaburo Makita held the command platform and calmly ordered: "Shell Chongming Island!" ”

With his order, four 356 company main guns, sixteen 152 five-mounted naval guns, and eight 127 high-angle guns roared one after another, and the shells penetrated the mist and flew to the looming Chongming Island.

"No fight, come again!!"

The soldiers on the island roared and re-aimed at the moving Kirishima, this time, the observers on the high part of the island gave up the shelling of multiple targets, and barely saw the coordinates obtained by vague shadows with telescopes, and hundreds of cannons fired in unison, and the projectiles grazed the naval artillery shells fired by Kirishima in a screaming sound, and fell more than ten kilometers away.

At the same time, the guns of Baoshan and Fortress Hama were aimed at the Kirishima and launched an attack on the giant ship that dared to return fire.

There was not just one ship around the Kirishima, but three troop transports and one destroyer, all of which were no more than five hundred meters apart.

At the moment when his cannonball had not landed on Chongming Island, a black shadow flew densely in the sky, and it fell with a bang amid the roar of Makita Kakuzaburo.

In the loud noise, the sea surface suddenly trembled, and then, the sea surface within a kilometer was like a bubble rising in the water, bulging several meters out of thin air, and then in the loud bang, the sea water boiled in the entire shelled area.

The sea rose several meters high, far exceeding the height of the battleship, and then the huge wave collapsed, and the wave rushed out in all directions.

The Kirishima ship shook one after another, and almost at the same moment, no less than ten shells fell on the battleship.

The light of the fire flashed in the tide of mist, and instantly enveloped the Kirishima.

At the same time, the three troop carriers did not escape the shelling, capsized without the huge waves, and were directly hit by bullets and caught fire. It was only a matter of time before each troop carrier was subjected to two or three shells and sank.

Although the 150 caliber is not large, these shells are all armor-piercing designs, and the front is a beam of energy, which is enough to penetrate the armor of ordinary warships, except for behemoths such as cruisers, of course. The Kongo-class Kirishima is also in this column, and the shells are not easy to enter the cabin and explode.

At the same time as the fire flashed, the troop carrier was lifted several meters high by the huge waves, and then fell with a bang, not waiting to sink. In the midst of the rolling waves, there was no trace.

The destroyer Yayoi also found a target for the artillery shells on land due to Kirishima's return fire, and the four 120-mounted naval guns had not had time to find Chongming Island, and fire broke out on the deck and on the side side one after another. A loud bang erupted from the deck, and a splash of iron-plated sheets flew away, and before the fire could be fully erupted, an earth-shattering loud bang resounded through the sea where the tide was rising.

A huge ball of fire rose from the Yayoi, and the entire battleship was instantly engulfed in flames. At the moment when the tide came, the battleship, broke from the middle.

The explosion of the ammunition bay allowed the Yayoi to end its sea career ahead of schedule, and at the moment of the huge waves, the bow and stern of the ship, with more than 100 Japanese troops, sank to the bottom of the sea.

The Kirishima hit seven shells. The violent explosion caused fire on the battleship, and a shell pierced the side of the ship. The explosion in the cabin on the second floor tore a huge hole in the side with a diameter of more than ten meters, and the seawater poured into the cabin in a wild surge.

On the deck, six large holes were blazing, one of which blew up one of the main ship's guns. Although it was not destroyed, the steel plates that were lifted off had rendered the ship's guns useless.

During the earthquake, before the Japanese troops on the Kirishima could react, the ensuing waves engulfed the Kirishima and the sea water poured into the large holes. The moment the Kirishima saw the light of day again, at least dozens of tons of seawater poured in.

Fortunately, the battleships were designed to be sealed in a box, and although the influx of seawater increased the burden on the battleship and affected the balance of the battleship, it only affected the speed, but it did not sink.

The sudden blow startled the three Ben Fifty-six in the distance, and they urgently ordered the battleship to retreat and bombard the shore defense artillery positions from a long distance. At the same time, fighters, bombers on the aircraft carrier took off urgently and went to support the battleship.

He knew very well that the message from the King Kong showed that the enemy's shore defense artillery was enough to destroy all his warships, and the density of shells was too great for any armor to withstand the constant bombardment.

In the order, the battleships and troop carriers urgently retreated, leaving behind the Japanese troops floating on the sea and retreating to the sea near Yushan Island.

But at this moment, two reconnaissance planes with the symbol of the sun flag appeared in the sky, and then the shells whistled and flew towards the retreating Japanese warships and troop carriers.

The Kirishima slowly turned around in the midst of the huge waves, and tried to leave the sea amid the miserable cries for help on the sea.

But Makita Kakuzaburo obviously underestimated the power and accuracy of the artillery on the shore, and when the battleship had just turned around and the speed had not yet reached ten knots, a projectile penetrated the mist and rushed in.

Makita Kakuzaburo's face was covered with blood, and the scars he had just bumped on were now bleeding for a long time, he never thought that the shore defense artillery would threaten this giant ship more than 200 meters long, let alone that it was only a 150-caliber gun.

At the moment when the battleship was about to accelerate and leave this sea area, he heard the screams of cannonballs flying, and heard the panicked shouts of the soldiers on the battleship.

Of the 100 cannons on Chongming Island, at least 20 shells fell on the Kirishima and exploded violently, adding five huge holes to the side of the ship, and the sea water poured into the ship without hindrance, making the sailing Kirishima slowly begin to slow down, and the two engine units were annihilated due to water seepage from the hatch and stopped working.

Makita Kakuzaburo's eyes were blackened for a while, a cannonball that fell on the tower shook him, his ears were buzzing, he could no longer hear the shouts of the adjutant, he could not hear the miserable howl of the soldiers, the scene in front of him was constantly changing, and the person was close to a coma.

The Kirishima caught fire and billowing smoke rose from the rolling waves. The boat also slowed down slowly, and in the deceleration, slowly tilted.

At this moment, the Japanese fighters roared and gathered and flew towards Chongming Island.

All of them believed that only Chongming Island could bombard the positions of the battleships from a distance of more than ten kilometers, so as long as the artillery and battleships on the island were blown up, they would no longer be threatened.

Just when the Japanese planes gathered and flew to the sea area of battle, the guns of Baoshan and Fort Bang were all aimed at the retreating fleet, and the shells whistled, with a terrifying whistling sound, and fell into the group of battleships retreating from the Empress Cang.

In the retreat of the King Kong, the naval guns fired in unison, and the shells fell on Chongming Island, and in the loud bang, the soil of the explosion flew and the earth shook violently.

The 360-caliber cannon is no joke, and few lives can survive within a few tens of meters of a single shot. However, they only shelled the island, but did not have the exact coordinates of the artillery positions, and the falling shells only blew several large craters on the island, lifted up tons of dirt and sand, and did not cause damage to several artillery positions. Instead, he let 100 guns leave the Kirishima on the surface of the sea and sink the Yayoi.

It had only fired two rounds of shelling, and the shells fell with a whistling sound.

A loud bang rang out on the Kongo, and between the violent shocks of the battleship, clusters of fire flashed. Seven shells fell on the deck, and the violent explosion blew away several of the few anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and blew up two main guns, sending smoke billowing from the King Kong.

"Extinguish the flames! The speed remains the same, keep shelling! ”

Matsuura Eijiro's face was covered with blood, and he calmly ordered.

The King Kong was like a smoky steel-making furnace on the sea, and in the light of the fire, it opened fire and evacuated to the sea near Yushan Island.

But everyone didn't expect that fifty cannons on Yushan Island were staring at the retreating battleship, and they had already entered the range of shelling.

The fighter planes that took off from the Japanese ships, the flamingos took the lead, swooped straight in the air, roared in the air, and formed groups of three or three, no more than 500 meters from the sea surface, and went straight to the target.

"Five hundred in height, six o'clock in direction, 300 in speed."

As the fighters on the island's listening machine reported their altitude, the island's fifty anti-aircraft guns roared.

Suddenly, smoke clouds appeared in the sky, and in the violent shaking, they plunged headlong into the smoke-dense area, and then, the pilot on the plane heard the dense sound of rain hitting the plantain, and then the plane was violently shocked, and the plane burst into flames, exploded in the air, or the wings were broken, and in the pilot's terrifying shouts, it rolled and plunged into the sea. (To be continued......)