Chapter 358: Burying the Pride and Glory of the Japanese Navy
The Red Guard Navy is also very chivalrous at times.
In order to get a glimpse of the firepower and combat effectiveness of the strongest battleships of World War II, he gave up the means of easily sinking two Yamato-class battleships, and used the Hades-class battleships to fight the Yamato-class battleships alone.
In fact, this is not because the Red Alert Navy likes to find things and make war difficult, but to test the performance of Hades-class warships in actual combat.
In particular, the active defense system on the ship is the performance in actual combat.
At the same time, in order to test the detailed damage ability of the ship's guns, and see how long the Yamato-class can hold out under the attack of Hades' main guns.
Although the Yamato was sunk in history, its ability to resist strikes was very good, and it turned out that in history, the US military also dispatched a large number of carrier-based aircraft to completely sink the Yamato.
And this kind of fair duel, in fact, is also completely bullying.
The Hades-class battleship with more than a hundred defensive missiles is enough to withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of the Yamato-class main guns, otherwise the Hades would not have given Yamato such a chance.
The first round of fire salvo, combined with guided shells and fire control radar, was aimed directly at the Musashi.
The ultra-high muzzle velocity of the unprecedented shell determines the lethality of the shell and the probability of hitting the shell.
After more than ten seconds of flight, when the shells fell, the Musashi simply did not have time to maneuver to evade.
Dense shells fell like beads, and in the blink of an eye, the Musashi was hit by the dense shells, and continuous explosions resounded on the huge hull of the Musashi.
A full twenty-four 510-mm shells, each weighing 2.2 tons and having a charge of more than 900 kilograms, had extremely strong armor-piercing capabilities.
Except for one shell that landed on the sea three meters away from the Musashi, the remaining 23 shells all fell on the Musashi.
Dense fires and explosions, the Musashi's massive body was completely covered.
Under the violent explosion, the flying parts and debris kept splashing towards the surrounding sea, and even some wreckage fell on the Yamato.
The flames and smoke that rushed into the sky could not clearly see the current situation of the Musashi, but the seriousness of the explosion and fire that covered the entire ship had already been explained.
Yukasaku Ariga clenched his fists and looked at the Musashi a few hundred meters away, the living coffin at sea.
Under such an explosion, no one will be able to survive at all, and even the Musashi will probably sink soon.
The smoke and flames were billowing like huge pillars of smoke sweeping across the sky, and the heat from the Musashi could be felt on the Yamato a few hundred meters away.
This time, both the Musashi and the Yamato were fully manned, and there were 2,500 crew members on both battleships.
Yusaku Ariga looked at the Musashi, some sailors covered in fire, screaming and turning over and falling into the sea.
The burning Musashi suddenly erupted with a terrifying explosion, and the ammunition depot under the knapsack turret in the bow seemed to have exploded.
The huge explosion surpassed all previous movements, and the burning Musashi leaped high above the sea before falling back into the sea.
In the middle of the bow and the bridge, the bend is broken, and the huge bow tip plunges directly into the sea.
Among the two forward turrets, the superstructure of more than 1,000 tons on the turret was lifted under the explosion, and two of the three long barrels had been bent, and together with the turret that was about to be blown up, it turned into the sea.
The Musashi, which was almost disconnected from its waist, had no value in continuing to attack, and it didn't even have a chance to save the people above.
Hit by twenty-three super-caliber guns, the Musashi was terminated in an instant.
However, if it hadn't been for the explosion of the ammunition depot in the back, the Musashi would have had no problem holding out on the surface of the sea for a few days, and it would not have sunk so quickly.
And all this was seen by the people on the Yamato.
Everyone can't help but ask, is the enemy really a battleship?
However, the answer is very clear, it is the battleship, and as the warships of both sides sail, the distance gradually closes a little.
The Ariga Yuki telescope also saw the so-called enemy, a super battleship that was one or two levels larger than the Yamato class, and there was no chimney in sight, and the layout of the battleship was very beautiful and elegant, but the number of main guns was amazing, and there was a terrible caliber.
"What kind of enemy is the Empire at war with?"
At this moment, Yuga Kosaku couldn't help but ask in his heart.
Just the two super battleships in the distance made the pride of the Japanese Navy become a toy, and this kind of gap made Yusaku Ariga couldn't help but be a little crazy.
The Reich had absolutely no intelligence on such a battleship of the enemy, coupled with the terrible aircraft carriers and jet carriers, why should the Reich engage such an enemy?
The appearance of the Hades battleship brought an unprecedented sense of oppression to the Japanese sailors on the Yamato
In the front, the Musashi was destroyed in an instant, and after seeing the enemy's huge deterrent power with their own eyes, many Japanese sailors had a look of despair in their eyes.
The war has been carried out to such a point that for any nation, it is a torment, a torment waiting for death.
At this moment, there are still more than forty seconds before the reloading time of the main gun shells of the Yamato.
The main guns of the Yamato-class need at least 100 seconds between each shelling.
However, after completing the attack on the Musashi, the Hades on the other side had completed the reloading of the cannonballs in just forty-five seconds, and the cannonballs had been loaded and were in a state of waiting to be fired.
As soon as there was a zero sound, the shells would fly towards the Yamato.
The attack did not stop, the strength of the Yamato-class battleships, it was really disappointing, giving the Japanese Navy a chance, as a result of which the Japanese Navy itself was not used.
A new round of naval artillery salvos, Yuga Kosaku looked at the fire from the twenty-four gun barrels opposite, put down the binoculars in his hand, slowly closed his eyes, and waited for the moment to come.
From beginning to end, the Yamato did not even have a chance to attack in the second round, the dense shells fell accurately, not a single shell missed, and twenty-four shells fell accurately.
The Yamato stepped into the footsteps of the Musashi, and the first shell that fell directly hit the bridge of the Yamato, and the huge explosion directly broke the bridge, and the superstructure of the bridge flew directly into the sea.
The cannonballs that hit one after another gave the Yamato a death movement.
Two hours later, the Yamato, which was still burning on the sea, was hit again by several shells, broke in two on the sea, and then slowly sank into the icy Pacific Ocean.
In this battle, the time before and after was very short, and the last pride and glory of the Japanese Navy were all buried in the Pacific Ocean.
When the big capital revenue received the farewell message sent by Hasegawa Kiyoshi, after seeing the word surrender in the farewell message, Nagano Shushen directly cursed Hasegawa Kiyoshi for being the most incompetent admiral.
But no one can change that.