The first 10 battleships fought quite actively, quite bloody! The Huaxia Navy never expected that the four warships behind could suppress the three last generation cruisers of the Russian and Dutch Navy, so if they wanted to open the situation, they had to rely on the capital ships in front. Under the command of Liu Guanxiong and Spee, the Scharnhorst concentrated its fire on the opposing armored cruiser Rurik. The roar of six 11-inch guns frightened the Russian naval officers and sailors aboard the Rurik.

Can you not be afraid? The Varyag has to keep its distance in the face of the 10-inch 45L main gun, let alone the new 11-inch 45L main gun? The Rurik also wanted to hide, but he faced the new pocket battlecruiser Scharnhorst instead of the old first-generation new armored Tianjin. In addition, the 11-inch main gun has a long range, and even if you dodge, you will definitely not be able to dodge, unless you completely withdraw from the battle column. Since you can't dodge, let's fight to the death! The Rurik turns its 4 twin turrets and shoots at the Scharnhaust!

I have to say that the high rate of fire of the German 1 war gun is indeed very remarkable, although the sliding wedge gun bolt will cause the gun tail to be huge and the weight of the gun will rise, but the locking speed is indeed a lot faster. Coupled with the fully mechanized shell lifting and reloading, the rate of fire of the 11-inch 45L main gun was actually no slower than that of the 10-inch gun on the opposite side! If we talk purely about the amount of projection, even if the rate of fire is comparable, 8 10-inch guns are really no worse than 6 11-inch guns, but in terms of power, 300KG shells are much stronger than 227KG shells! Not to mention the fact that the Germans' capped armor-piercing shells worked better!

Almost simultaneously, two huge fireballs rose from the side of the Rurik and Scharnhorst. A 227KG armor-piercing bullet smashed hard into the sidestring of the Scharnhorst. Although it failed to penetrate the armor plate up to 8 inches thick, the huge ton of impact still shattered the back plate behind the entire steel plate, and opened a gap of more than ten centimeters between the two steel plates. A small amount of water ingress was caused to the inner side of the ship. However, because of the existence of subdivided compartments and armored partitions, this water ingress problem is not big, and there is no need to even plug the leakage.

But the damage caused by the 300KG armor-piercing shell that hit the Rurik can definitely be described as a broken muscle, this shell hit the place between the chimney and the C turret, which is where the Rurik steam engine room is located, and with the shattering of the quilt cap, this shell broke through the hard shell of the hardened armor like a knife, and then tore the non-carburized steel plate at the back. The thickness of 6 inches was not enough to block the huge energy of this armor-piercing projectile, and then after piercing the coal bunker behind the main armor, it smashed heavily on Rurik's dome armor!

The Dome, which was considered the ship's worst defense, was unable to stop the mid-range shell. However, this shell is also the end of the crossbow at this time. When the shell pierced through the outer armor, the shell was already damaged, and in the collision with the dome armor, the entire shell and steel plate were directly smashed into pieces. A jet of steel swept across the entire steam turbine room! IT HAS TO BE SAID THAT THE RUSSIANS WERE STILL VERY SERIOUS WHEN DESIGNING THE RURIK 2 ARMORED CRUISER, AND THERE WERE SEVERAL LAYERS OF HIGHLY ELASTIC STEEL WITH A THICKNESS OF 10MM BEHIND THE DOME AS AN ANTI-CRACKING LAYER.

However, there is a saying that those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety. The Russians, though, considered the collapse. However, the highly elastic steel behind it is too fragile. It was impossible to stop the large pieces of high-speed shrapnel at all, so the steam engine room of Rurik 2 was still pierced! The roaring steam engine and the pipeline full of high-temperature and high-pressure steam were stirred up by the flying shrapnel in an instant! The tremor of the cylinder and the steam spewing out of the pipe instantly filled the entire power compartment, and under the impetus of the powerful steam, all kinds of debris hit the wall of the power compartment fiercely, making holes one by one, and then destroying the power system next door, just this shell, actually made Rurik 2 lose about two-thirds of its power! Two of the three chimneys that were spewing smoke were soon abandoned. Only one was left still struggling to work.

At this time, the Rurik was slowly moving on the surface of the sea like a wild dog that had been broken in the backbone, and the Russians struggled to control the battleship and try to save themselves from the battle. But at this time, how could the Scharnhorst, who was easy to play, let him get his wish? While the explosions were still ringing inside the hull from time to time. A shell hit the half-dead Russian battleship, which still hit the back half of the hull and exploded between the two main turrets!

Unlike the Rotterdam-class armored cruisers, the distance between the two main turrets at the rear of the Rurik 2 armored cruiser is obviously larger, and there will be no situation where two turrets will be abolished with one shot. Especially for turret power supply, the French have always had such advanced technology that in the 90s of the 19th century they developed an electric turret, and this technology is now used in Rurik 2!

The power compartment can't hold the 11-inch 45L main gun, and the motor compartment can't block the 300KG German-style cap-piercing shell! This shell penetrated through the upper armor successfully blew the motor in the motor compartment to pieces, and the huge explosion connected to the gun circle connected to the engine room was affected, along with the destruction of the motor room, the bomb lifting equipment of the two main guns behind was also shut down because of insufficient power supply, and it was really difficult to send more than 200 kg of shells to the gun position in the absence of electricity, and more importantly, after losing lighting and electricity, both the steam engine room and the motor room fire extinguishing and self-rescue work came to a standstill, only 2 shells, The last Russian cruiser was almost paralyzed.

While the Scharnhorst was easily and happily bullying the Rurik armored cruiser, the Amsterdam fast battleship was also trying its best to attack the Taipei. The difference in displacement between the two sides was doubled, and the difference in firepower was also doubled. This kind of contest that is definitely not on an order of magnitude makes the Huaxia Navy unable to match it in any case. THE BARRAGE OF EIGHT 274MM50L GUNS ENVELOPED THE TAIPEI, AND FROM TIME TO TIME DAZZLING FIREBALLS ERUPTED FROM THE SIDE OF THE TAIPEI. The Pinghai in front of the Taipei was dealing with the attack of the fast battleships of the Seven Provinces, and it was unable to give it reinforcements. In this position, the Taipei is destined to be destroyed, it is only a matter of time!

As the most vulnerable link on the battle line of the Chinese Navy. The Taipei's only task was to stall as long as possible, at least until the Scharnhorst took out Rurik. So at the beginning of the battle, the Taipei was constantly avoiding the bullet rain of the Amsterdam. However, even so, as an old ship, the Taipei was still defeated in the face of the attack of the latest fast battleships. The firepower of four 11-inch guns could not inflict a fatal blow on the Amsterdam, and relying on the superiority in the rate of fire and the number of guns, the King had been repeatedly hit in five minutes.

Accompanied by a violent crashing sound. The King seemed to have been hit with a hammer, and the entire hull seemed to tilt to the other side. A brilliant orange flame erupted from the upper turret, and the 6-inch upper armor belt at the point of the bullet seemed to be twisted into a twist by a huge force. 1 6-INCH GUN INSIDE AND ONE 105MM GUN ON TOP WERE DESTROYED. A massive breach spewed flames and smoke like a giant beast with its jaws open. Tell people how powerful that blow was to the ground.

With the support of a rate of fire of more than 2 rounds per minute, the Amsterdam soon hit one after another, and a shell hit the Taipei's gun mount, completely jamming the twin main guns in the bow of the ship. And another shell made a large hole in the bow. The shell, which almost hit the waterline, directly destroyed the anchor compartment of the Taipei, and caused a large amount of water to enter the bow, and the fourth shell hit a 6-inch gun at the rear of the hull, not only destroying the gun, but also successfully igniting the ammunition waiting at the gun position, and for a time, the entire battleship was wrapped in smoke and flames. The blow of four heavy artillery shells had already put the old battleship in danger.

But at this time, on the Taipei. From the captain of the ship to the ordinary sailors, they are already fighting at their posts. In the conning tower, no one advised the fleet to withdraw from the battle columns to save itself. They just conveyed the order of the captain Xu Ning step by step, avoiding the other party's blow while taking the opportunity to counterattack. The battleship, which had achieved great success, and the young officers and men on it decided to stand at the back of the line, "Even if we lose all our artillery, as long as we can keep up with the battle, we will definitely not quit the battle!" Even if it's to share some of the fire. Xu Ning, the naval lieutenant who had just stepped into the captain's position for less than 2 years, comforted his colleague next to him.

Neither Cheng Biguang nor Liu Guanxiong ordered the Taipei not to withdraw from the battle column, but at this time, in order to be able to drag the most powerful warship in the Russian and Dutch navies, Xu Ning still commanded the wrecked battleship to stagger along. Although the damage to the core cabin of the Taipei, which relied on the 10-inch thick main armor, was not very serious, the damage to the bow and stern and the upper deck had reached an irreparable level, and the upper deck gun gallery on the entire fighting side was almost swept away, and there were broken cabins and destroyed guns everywhere, and even a shell directly penetrated the entire hull and exploded on the other side after it penetrated the upper armor! All the lighting and transmission lines on the upper deck have been destroyed, and the damage and extinguishing of the fire have become a luxury. The bow of the ship was pierced three times in succession, and two of the shells hit close to each other, directly smashing a whole board of the ship. After more than 20 minutes, the hull had tilted 15 degrees due to water ingress, and the power of the entire battleship inevitably dropped by 4% due to the loss of steam pipes and power transmission. Although the armor box is still complete, anyone who looks at it knows that this battleship is already at the end of its power, and even if it withdraws from the battlefield now, it is very difficult to say whether it can return to the mainland safely.

However, even in extremely unfavorable circumstances, the Taipei still used its weak firepower to give the strong enemy a color, in the post-war statistics, although it lost 2 main guns in the early stage of the war, but relying on only 2 main guns, the Taipei still hit the opponent as many as 4 times, two of which brought some losses to the Armstrong, the first of which hit the front of the Armstrong's A turret, although it failed to penetrate its thick armor, However, when it bounced off, it managed to smash into one of the guns. The other shell landed on the top of Armstrong's main mast, and the 3.5-meter rangefinder at the top was blown to pieces, so that the range and fire control capabilities of the most powerful warship in the Russian-Dutch combined fleet were greatly reduced, and the secondary rangefinder and the rangefinder on the turret could only be used for ranging and direction finding.

Rumble! An earth-shattering loud bang suddenly came from the Russian battle line, and a fiery dragon went straight into the sky, and a column of smoke and fire more than 100 meters instantly erupted from the amidship of the Rurik's hull. Loud explosions and the sound of metal breaking came from time to time aboard the Rurik. The slender hull bends from the bullet. JUST NOW, AN 11-INCH SHELL SUCCESSFULLY CUT THROUGH THE UPPER ARMOR, FLEW DIRECTLY INTO THE RURIK'S SECONDARY GUN AMMUNITION DEPOT, AND SUCCESSFULLY IGNITED HUNDREDS OF 120MM SHELLS AND THE PROPELLANT UNDERNEATH. The explosion of more than 10 tons of high-explosive material is impossible for any defense system to withstand. The Rurik was like a ship sitting on a volcano, and it was instantly cut in two by a huge amount of energy.

The whole battleship was dragged up from the middle, and even the hull left the water! Then it was broken in two by the effect of the explosion and its own weight! Then two pieces of wreckage fell into the water and sank into the Java Sea in less than 1 minute! The Russian battleship next to it didn't even have a chance to rescue, so they watched this huge battleship with hundreds of officers and soldiers buried at the bottom of the sea, and a torpedo boat tried to salvage the survivors, but the huge whirlpool created by the sinking of the battleship directly brought this small ship of several hundred tons to the bottom of the sea!

Bursts of cheers came from the warships of the Huaxia Navy! They couldn't help but be excited, in the case of the overall strength disadvantage, the Huaxia Navy preemptively sank one of the opponent's capital ships! So that the situation of the war will develop in a more favorable direction for itself. The officers and men of the Huaxia Navy shouted, and they were proud of their fleet. And on the Scharnhorst, Rear Admiral Speey was also very excited, and he destroyed one of the opponent's capital ships in the first battle when he first came into battle, and this kind of record really had the capital to show off. The German Navy has always wanted to go out of Europe, and for this reason they have spared no expense and are at the expense of the most powerful maritime power in the world. But the fleet and officers and men who had piled up a lot of money did not get the opportunity to prove themselves, but now, Rear Admiral Spee has finally proved the strength and strength of the Far Eastern Fleet with his actual actions! How could this not excite him?

And when the cheers of the Chinese Navy have not fallen, a ball of flames and violent turbulent explosions from the Taipei made the eyes of the battlefield once again gather in the fleet battle columns of the Chinese Navy, and the Taipei, which had held on to the battle line for too long, finally reached the limit, and the two 274MM heavy artillery shells of the Amsterdam successfully cut into the stern of the Taipei! One shot smashed the wheelhouse, while the other cut off the two propeller shafts! And it led to a lot of water ingress! Losing power, and with a water intake of up to 1900 tons, the battleship was finally no longer able to fight, and the angle of inclination of the battleship was up to 25 degrees! Any possibility of self-help has been lost. All that awaits him is a slow silence! In less than 3 minutes, the fleets of both sides lost one capital ship each! The number of capital ships of both fleets has become 7 to 8!

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