In the seventh round of the main gun salvo of the warships of the Northeast Navy, the US Navy suffered heavy losses, and the Italians were not easy, opposite the First Fleet of the Northeast Navy, many all-steel battleships on the first Italian battle line were hit by main gun shells. +.

The all-steel battleship Khima of the Italian Navy was hit by two 240-mm main gun shells from the German all-steel battleship Yude of the First Fleet, one of which hit the turret of a twin battery of 40 times caliber 305 mm guns, the 203 mm armor of the main gun turret did not block the 240 mm shell, the shell penetrated the turret and exploded inside the turret, leaving the bones of 26 Italian naval gunners in the turret. Moreover, the shells not only destroyed the main gun position, but also detonated two 305-mm shells that had just been loaded into the chamber of this gun position, and damaged one double-company 40-caliber 203-mm secondary gun and two single-company 40-caliber 152-mm third-class guns.

The force of the explosion caused a fire on the Kahima, and the fire rose to the sky, and the damage management personnel of the Kahima struggled to extinguish the fire, but the fire was too big to be extinguished for a moment.

Fortunately, the part of the Khima that caught fire was still some distance from important places such as ammunition bins, and the Italian naval officers and sailors on top of Khima set up fire barriers to prevent the fire from burning into the ammunition bin and detonating the shells inside.

The all-steel battleship Cirio of the Italian Navy was continuously hit by four 240-mm main gun shells of the German all-steel battleships Yide and Xuande, two twin 40-caliber 203-mm secondary guns and five single-cell 40-caliber 152-mm three-stage guns were destroyed, and one 240-mm shell also penetrated a 152-mm waterline armor of the Sirio. The explosion inside the ship Sirio caused heavy casualties to a nearby team of damage management personnel, and a damage management team of 30 people. Only 2 of the seriously injured ones were left gasping for breath. Fortunately, there were no important places nearby, and the Sirio did not affect its combat effectiveness in the slightest.

The all-steel battleship Silvio of the Italian Navy was hit by a 305-mm shell from the Harbin that pierced the waterline armor and detonated 2 boilers, causing the Silvio to ignite a fire, and the smoke was dozens of meters high. One 305-mm shell from the Changchun landed in the sea a few meters away from the Silvio, causing a near-miss. The underwater part of the Silvio was torn open with a large hole of about 3 meters.

The Italian sailors aboard the Silvio were busy fighting fires while sealing the flooded cabins.

All-steel battleship Valero of the Italian Navy. Hit by Pyongyang and Shenyang at the same time 1 305-mm shell. One turret with twin batteries of 40 times caliber 305 mm guns was destroyed, and a 305 mm shell piercing the waterline armor detonated the Valero's three boilers, causing the Valero to burst into flames. The smoke was also tens of meters high.

2 large fast armored cruisers Diegory and Raphael on the second battle line of the Italian Navy were also hit. But the problem is not very big, and the combat effectiveness is still maintained.

The Northeast Navy's seventh round of main gun salvo firing achieved astonishing results, but the seventh round of main gun salvo of the US-Italian combined fleet did not achieve any results at all, and only the shells fell into the sea and splashed some seawater on the warships of the Northeast Navy.

The commander of the Italian Navy's Second Expeditionary Fleet, Roberte, saw that the three all-steel battleships Khima, Silvio and Valero were all on fire, and immediately ordered the three warships on fire to retreat and extinguish the fire first.

Luo Baiert was very surprised at this time, he didn't expect that the hit rate of the fleet guns under Lin Daxin's command was so high. At a distance of 7,000 meters, they successively hit their own Italian warships with their main artillery shells, and the US Navy fleet next to them suffered heavy losses.

At this time, Ram, the captain of the Queen Margaret, said helplessly to Roberte: "Commander. The Americans can't stand it anymore, send us flags and let us support them! These Americans said that without support, they would not be able to fight, and that they were simply too unmotivated. ”

What if Ram's words make George? Dewey must have spit on his face when he heard it, after the Italian Navy passed through the mercenary fleet and the First Expeditionary Fleet was destroyed by Lin Daxin, the Italian Navy's fighting will is recognized as weak in the world!

Roberte frowned and said: "The combat effectiveness of the Americans is too weak, and they can't support it in the face of some ironclad battleships!" But we can't ignore them, we also need them to pin down the enemy's ironclad battleship fleet. Order the Alfonso of the 2nd Battleline to join the U.S. Navy's battleline and support them! ”

Then the Italian Navy's all-steel battleship Alfonso, reversed sharply backwards and joined the battle line of the US Navy, which made Jiang Hui, the commander of the Third Fleet of the Northeast Navy, breathe a sigh of relief, his own Third Fleet in Manila only 9 warships, and now it has lost 1, the remaining 8 large fast armored cruisers, in the face of the Italian Navy's 6 large fast armored cruisers and 2 all-steel battleships that are still strong in combat although injured, are somewhat difficult to deal with, and now go 1 all-steel battleship, Makes it a lot easier for the 8 large fast armored cruisers of the Second Fleet.

Jiang Hui said loudly to the officer in charge of the radio station on the bridge: "Inform the whole fleet that our Third Fleet has always been the main fleet of the Northeast Navy, and now that the First Fleet and the Second Fleet have achieved brilliant results, our Third Fleet cannot be resigned to being left behind, and we will aim at the enemy ships and hit them hard!" ”

After Lin Daxin saw that the seventh round of main gun salvo had achieved very great results, he shouted happily in the bridge of the Shenyang: "Good! Just hit it like that! Sue Jiang Chen of the Second Fleet, let them do their best to solve the US Navy, and then support the Second Fleet! ”

After the eighth round of main gun salvo of the Northeast Navy, it achieved good results again, and the unlucky US Navy sank another all-steel battleship.

The all-steel battleship Oregon was hit by a 1 305 mm main gun shell from the Sky Bear in the weak point of the waterline armor 200 mm, the shell penetrated the 200 mm old armor and exploded inside the Oregon, fortunately there was nothing important nearby, only to blow up some of the crew cabins. caused a fire, and if the damage management crew of the Oregon was given some time, the ignited fire could be extinguished. But the God that the Americans believed in did not give the officers and men of the US Navy on the Oregon a chance.

Two 305-mm shells from the Aquila then hit the Oregon, and one shell destroyed one of the Oregon's twin 35-caliber 330-mm main gun turrets. Fatal was another 305-mm shell, which directly penetrated the 456 mm of the Oregon waterline, the thickest part of the old armor, and exploded near the ammunition compartment of the Oregon. The steel walls of the ammunition compartment of less than 100 mm could not withstand the explosion of 305 mm shells at all, and dozens of shells from the main guns of the 330 mm Oregon in the ammunition compartment were detonated, and after a "boom-boom-boom" explosion, the entire hull of the Oregon was blown open. The sea water continued to pour into the ship's hull, and it seemed that there was no salvation.

The captain of the USS Oregon immediately announced that he had abandoned the ship, and then more than 300 officers and men of the USS Oregon fled from the sinking warship. Sitting in a lifeboat, floating on the sea, waiting for the final winner of the naval battle.

It would be best if the United States and Italy combined fleets won in the end, and it would be best if it was Lin Daxin's Northeast Navy that won in the end. The U.S. Navy officers and sailors in these lifeboats would have been taken prisoner.

It may be that the commander of the Third Fleet, Jiang Hui, played a role in the words of encouragement of the officers and men of the fleet. After the eighth salvo of the Third Fleet of the Northeast Navy, one 210-mm main gun shell from the Lichun hit the large fast armored cruiser Pinciga of the Italian Navy.

These 6 Dotenaro-class Italian Navy large fast armored cruisers are the original models of the Japanese Combined Fleet's Asama-class large fast armored cruisers, and Japan has 2 Asama-class warships that Italy helped them build.

The 210 mm shell landed in the sea a few meters away from the Pinciga, forming a near-miss, and the force of the shell's explosion caused the sea water to expand rapidly, tearing a 5 or 6 meter hole in the waterline armor under the Pinciga's water, and in less than 3 minutes, the Pinciga was tilted to 15 degrees. Although the captain of the Pinciga ordered the injection of seawater to the other side of the warship, he did not save the Pincica.

After the Pinciga was shelled with more than a dozen 155-mm shells. One rolled on its side and slowly sank into the sea. It became the first warship of the Italian Navy to sink in the Battle of Manila Bay.

The officers and men of the entire Third Fleet saw that their fleet had finally sunk a large Italian cruiser, and immediately cheered, and the commander Jiang Hui saw that he had sunk an enemy ship, and a smile appeared on his face, although the Third Fleet only had large cruisers, and in this kind of battle line bombardment, especially the Italian all-steel battleships on the opposite side, their fleet suffered a lot, but the Third Fleet was not given in vain, and it was still able to sink the enemy's same large cruisers.

It's just that Jiang Hui looked at the Italian battleline opposite, there was still 1 Italian all-steel battleship and sighed a little, for the first time he felt that Lin Daxin's allocation of warships to each fleet was a little unreasonable, if his Third Fleet had a few battleships, how could he let 1 all-steel battleship make the entire Third Fleet helpless to take it, Jiang Hui decided to fight the naval battle, and Lin Daxin had a good discussion, and the warships of the various fleets of the Northeast Navy should be allocated more reasonably.

However, now is not the time to think about these things, and continue to entangle the warships on the Italian battle line opposite, hoping that the Second Fleet will quickly defeat the American fleet and rush over to support itself.

The eighth salvo caused the all-steel battleship of the Italian Navy to suffer heavy damage, and one of the 305 mm main gun shells of the Changchun destroyed a double 40 times caliber 305 mm main gun turret, reducing the firepower of the main gun of the Jiang Carlo by half.

Several other Italian all-steel battleships were also hit, but all were harmless.

Subsequently, the eighth salvo of the main guns of the warships of the US Navy and the warships of the Italian Navy also achieved good results.

The all-steel battleship Alfonso of the Italian Navy, which had just joined the US Navy battle line, had one 305 mm main gun shell that penetrated the waterline armor of the Flying Lion ironclad battleship, and the shell exploded in the Flying Lion, detonating several boilers of the Flying Lion instantly.

The captain of the Flying Lion organized personnel to put out the fire on the one hand, and sent people to close the cabin that entered the water, but unfortunately the bottom of the Flying Lion was blown up too tightly, and there was no effect on sealing many cabins, and the captain of the Flying Lion saw that the sinking had become inevitable, and decisively ordered all the officers and men of the ship to abandon the ship, and finally before the sinking of the Flying Lion, 300 officers and men of the Northeast Navy of the Flying Lion escaped, and waited for the end of the naval battle in a lifeboat.

The Flying Lion became the second warship of the Northeast Navy to sink in this Battle of Manila Bay.

The all-steel battleship Xiande of the Northeast Navy was pierced by the 300 mm waterline armor of the Queen Margaret's main gun, and the explosion detonated the two boilers of the Xiande, igniting a fire with thick smoke dozens of meters high. As soon as Sun Xitao, commander of the First Fleet, saw the fire on the Xiande, he immediately ordered the Xiande to retreat to the rear, leave the battle line, first extinguish the fire in the ship, and then return to the team to continue the battle.

The all-steel battleship Zaide of the First Fleet of the Northeast Navy was also hit by a 305-mm main gun shell from the Queen Elena and hit a twin 40-caliber 240-mm main gun turret. The 250 mm German new armor of the turret did not block the 305 mm shell, not only the main gun emplacement was destroyed, but all 24 gunners of the Northeast Navy in the turret were killed. The firepower of the Zaide's main guns was also reduced by half.

1 305-mm main gun shell fired from the Dante on the second battle line of the Italian Navy, hit the opposite Third Fleet Xinghe and large fast armored cruisers.

The Xinghe was one of two large fast armored cruisers that Lin Daxin captured from the Kure Port shipyard in Japan. The 305-millimeter shell directly penetrated the Xinghe's weak 80-millimeter deck armor, and at the same time as the Xinghe exploded, the three boilers of the Xinghe were detonated, and the fire burned in the ship's hold.

The Xinghe, also under the order of the commander of the Third Fleet, Jiang Hui, withdrew from the battle line of the Third Fleet and retreated to the rear, preparing to extinguish the fire on the ship first. (To be continued......)