It's an almost fatal crit! At the moment when the explosion roared, Tsuboi Hangzo thought for a moment that he was going to be finished!

The sharp armor-piercing bullet, as if tearing through a layer of window paper, pierced the bottom of the seemingly thick dome armor 4.5 inches thick. The force of the inward impact easily tore apart the second compartment and killed it all the way to the power compartment of the inner layer!

This cannonball, like the power that solidifies historical time and space, has an even more terrifying destructive power! After cutting through the steel plate deeply, one boiler was completely destroyed, and the ensuing explosion killed the other two adjacent ones in one fell swoop!

Soaring steel shards, boiling water vapor, and narrow power compartment gaps, surging wildly in all directions! Everywhere they passed, the unprepared sailors didn't even have time to scream, they were chopped, broken, steamed, and died!

The hull of the ship under the waterline, thus tearing open an irregular hole. The adjacent steel plates were shattered by the terrible kinetic energy, and the gaps formed were torn apart by the high-pressure steam recoil inside, colliding with the seawater. A large cloud of billowing smoke boiled from the side of the ship's hull and churned violently like seawater!

The hull of the "Yoshino" trembled violently at the moment of the explosion! The officers in the command tower saw the horror on each other's faces.

The next few seconds felt like years! Everyone's hearts almost stopped, but they didn't wait for a deadly explosion. Kawahara opened his eyes violently and shouted unwillingly: "Long live the empire!" Amaterasu bless! ”

There was no martyrdom, and all other injuries were acceptable. No matter how strict you are, there is still a chance to turn the tables after all. Is...... What a blessing in misfortune!

However, they were not at all interested in cheering. Kawahara had to look at the bow of the "Dongming" with palpitations. It's as if I saw a ghost emerging from the abyss. A chill to the bone. Deeply immersed in his body. Subconsciously, he was like ordering a battleship, the farther away from this terrible guy the better!

But then he found out that the trouble he had to face was very big!

The power compartment, almost completely shut down. In addition to the four boilers that were destroyed on the spot, more than half of the workers who filled the coal were killed or injured, and the space was filled with billowing steam. People can't get into it at all. If you want to rescue the damage, you have to wait at least for a while.

But what they lack most now is time!

Without enough power, the Yoshino's greatest advantage could not be brought into play. If they can't even maintain a speed of 15 knots, their only fate is to be killed by the opponent's naval guns!

Fortunately, they are not alone. The "Qiujin Island" on the other side saw the explosion on this side clearly, so the consequences of the destruction of Yan zhòng can be imagined. Therefore, he did not hesitate to give up the pursuit of the "Jiyuan Ship", turned his head and attacked at full speed. At the same time, they constantly fired at the "Dongming" to block the attack.

Yang Haiwei has always controlled the distance between himself and the ships very well. Seeing that "Qiujinzhou" came to intercept, he did not hesitate to turn his head to the left rudder. Staggered from its course and guaranteed to be out of the effective range of its main guns at all times.

In the blink of an eye, the "Dongming" turned at an angle of 70 degrees with a very small radius, and the tail gun was reaimed at the "Yoshino", and the merciless "tom tom" smashed through it with seven or eight rounds in a row.

The Japanese ship, which had been reduced in speed, had no time to dodge, and was hit by an armor-piercing shell from the bow deck, which exploded near the root of the main gun in front! Although the heavy shield finally saved the ammunition, the force of the upward breakthrough made it impossible to rotate the entire structure.

The former main gun, scrapped.

The "Naniwa" on the other side was so real that Heihachiro Togo's eyes almost bulged out! He couldn't believe that an armored cruiser of more than 4,000 tons could not move a freighter and suffered a great defeat. The world is really crazy!

He didn't care about the direct pursuit, and turned the battleship to intercept the past obliquely, and together with the "Qiujin Island", formed two crossed umbrella protections.

With such a toss, the formation of the entire Japanese guerrilla fleet was completely broken. Not only did the attack that should have been launched quickly fail, but they also had to worry about the shame of having their flagship taken down.

"Gao Chiho", the only one who had no task for the time being, did not care about being entangled with the "coming far" behind, and drove forward at full speed, trying to form a battle group with the three warships. At the very least, it is good to be able to stretch into a curved column.

In this way, the three ships came out together to form a column to protect the "Yoshino" from retreating in the direction of Inchon in the northeast.

At this time, on the "Jiyuan Ship", which had already turned around and ran out of the distance, Fang Boqian suddenly found that the strength to pursue him was gone!

He boldly went up to the broken watchtower and looked back, and was shocked to find the miserable scene of the "Yoshino" smoking!

Fang Boqian was overjoyed when he boarded, and then saw that the fire of the ship had been controlled, and the control was not a big problem, so he immediately ordered: "Lower the white flag." The officer's strategy to lure the enemy has worked! Turn the bow of the ship, and I'm going to hit the pirates hard! ”

"Shameless!"

When several chief and second deputy officers heard this, they couldn't wait to spray a mouthful of spit in his face! How can you be so shameless as to be so shameless? Fang Cai was still trying to escape for his life, and now when he saw that there was a cheap price to pick up, he became awe-inspiring. Do you really think that everyone in the world is blind?

However, they still have to do what needs to be done, each doing their job, trying to maintain the performance of the battleship. After a hard circle on the sea, he turned and rushed back. It's just that after such a toss, their position has fallen to the end, and they almost caught up with the "Flying Whale" that retreated with all their might.

The Japanese army's formation was disrupted, which made Liu Buyun, who could only watch the battle, laugh. He didn't care who hit the shells, as long as the Japanese army suffered a big loss and couldn't bully people with the speed of the voyage, he was happy! Seeing that the opponent was reluctant to reunite and put on a defensive posture, he excitedly patted the flybridge fence and applauded loudly!

No matter how hard the "Dingyuan" was, after all, it only needed to move forward in a straight line, and after about ten minutes, it finally barely caught up with the "Gao Chiho" who fell at the end. Liu Buchan returned to the command tower, and with a roar, the 305mm main gun on the left side opened fire with a bang!

"Boom!"

A dull loud noise shook the surface of the sea, and it was heard for more than ten miles! On the side of the bow, which was as flat as a knife, the sea seemed to be sunken by the extremely high muzzle wind. A puff of smoke spouted and tumbled like a fire dragon climbing from the abyss, and two full-size shells weighing 329 kilograms made a rumbling roar and rushed out of the cannon chamber!

Sada, the captain of the "Takachiho" who has been vigilant against the ironclad monsters in the rear, twitched the corners of his eyes fiercely while the cannon roared!

I'm scared, I'm really scared!

The stout 305mm gun had the ability to penetrate the armor of a Japanese battleship. Its ironclad hull is so thick that it seems indestructible, but it threatens to crush a weak opponent. Let this big guy get closer, and maybe something terrible will happen. That invisible pressure is enough to make people panic.

Already at a combat distance, dodging, it's useless.

Nomura didn't dare to blink at all, staring at the surroundings with a round gaze, until two spectacular splashes flew into the air, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's okay, they're still using armor-piercing shells, and they're just as bad at shooting accuracy!"

To this day, the Japanese Navy has thoroughly studied the performance of the Dingzhen 2 ship. The biggest weakness of the eight 305mm guns of the two ships that posed the greatest threat to them was the outrageously slow rate of fire and the insufficient ammunition.

Foreign devils are tired of playing with Beiyang, they don't know it. Grenades with real lethality have not been procured until now. And those armor-piercing shells of their own production, according to the information they have learned before, are of intolerably poor quality.

In such a situation, as long as you are careful not to be hit by a small number of grenades, you still have a good chance of surviving.

Nomura waited patiently, carefully keeping an eye on the distance between them, making sure not to let the other get closer to within 5 kilometers - that would have allowed the terrible cannon to exert its lethality.

However, he seemed to have forgotten that the "Dingyuan Ship" did not have only two turrets. The 150mm Krupp gun in front of the bow of the ship aimed at him for a long time, and finally at the moment when the hull was stable, it exploded!

Cannonballs, again empty.

For a minute, at most one shell. The tragic rate of fire made the "Dingyuan Ship" look like a sturdy and incomparable elephant. It has enough power to crush enemies, but it's really too slow! Run slower, play slower!

Liu Buyun was in such a hurry! If it goes on like this, when will it be a head? He was to crush the enemy ships in the shortest possible time and protect the troop carriers from reaching Asan. It's not a good thing to delay like this!

He urged the artillerymen vigorously: "Aim some!" Watch and fight again! Don't waste your chance! ”

The officers and men on the boat were helpless. Don't they want to? I can't.

On the contrary, it is a "distant ship", as if it has been forgotten, and it has been playing soy sauce in the back. Even if the "Dingyuan Ship" fired several times, it did not show much of a threat. Dangling from the side, he chased the tail of "Takachiho". Finally, after more than a dozen rounds, a 210mm shell poured straight into the stern of the target!

The "Gao Chiho" was shaken! Captain Nomura looked back sharply and saw a column of cloudy smoke rising from the stern, and a cluster of debris squirted forward. Among them, there are a large number of steel fragments!

He instinctively sensed that something was wrong, and then the report of the damage management made his mood fall to the bottom all of a sudden - the main gun was finished! The piercing shell also broke the top plate of the armor, and the hole caused by the crumble could cause a fatal explosion if it fell into another shell, or the head of the fire!

"This ...... That's bad luck, isn't it? ”

Nomura had the urge to hit the wall. How can it be so inch? Obviously, the other party can't threaten himself at all, okay, it's really unbearable to come so suddenly for no reason!

Liu Buyun saw it really and applauded: "Qiu Baoren, well done!" Just do it, and beat the arrogance of the Japanese slaves! Aim at Lao Tzu, it! ”

"Boom!"

Another loud bang, the 305mm cannon, roaring again! (To be continued......)

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