"Fire!" As the gunners in charge of artillery fire coordination held up the telephone and shouted, the two twin 35 caliber 305 mm main guns of the Antarctic Star roared at the same time, and the huge sound and impact made the entire warship tremble.

Although it is not as large as the latest British 40-caliber new main gun, compared with the 25-caliber old 305-mm main gun on the Dingyuan ship, the main gun of the Antarctic Star is more than twice as large.

What's more, this time the fleet carried all the Honolulu Arsenal's own shells, although due to the materials and craftsmanship of the cannons, it was impossible to maximize the power of the new explosives, but even so, the power was still much greater than the shells of this era!

In an instant, four huge water columns appeared around the Yoshino, and the most recent one even rolled up a wave several meters high, directly rolling the two Yoshino soldiers who did not stand firmly.

Although he killed two soldiers, Ji Weishan, who watched all this through the telescope, was not satisfied, his four shells, plus the sixteen main guns of the Polarstar and the four determination-class heavy cruisers, did not even rub off a piece of iron from the Yoshino, and he suddenly shouted in anger, snatched the gun officer's telephone microphone, and scolded indiscriminately.

Fortunately, at this time, the ten 152mm secondary guns on the left side of the side finally opened fire, although this kind of side gun was all reloaded by manpower, but the rate of fire could still reach three rounds per minute, after they fired together, the left side of the hull suddenly exploded a huge spark, and as the brother ships also fired at the same time, the Yoshino was suddenly drowned in an endless rain of bullets.

On the heavy cruiser Determination, Liu Haitao's face turned red and he was anxious to aim at the main gun, and he couldn't wait to go into battle to shoot the cannon in person!

He was already depressed to death before he got the opportunity to lead the battleship, so he held his breath early, and wanted to make a show with the Determination, this guy's speed is second only to Ji Weishan, although the caliber of the main gun is one circle worse, but the rate of fire is fast, and before the two battleship main guns start the second round of shooting, the two twin 203 mm main guns of forty times the caliber have already let out a second roar, with the hope of all the officers and men of the ship, and flew towards the Yoshino, which was surrounded by a rain of bullets at the front.

I don't know if God heard the prayers of all the officers and men of the Determination, or if the main gunner burned high incense today, and a 203-mm shell accurately hit the stern of the Yoshino two kilometers away, and the power of the new explosives was completely revealed, and a huge wave of explosive gas opened the entire rear deck, and the fire spread from below the deck in an instant.

"Well played!" Seeing the deck peeled off like an orange peel through the binoculars, Long Guozhang slapped his thigh fiercely and shouted excitedly: "Write it down, and give the determination a second-class merit when you go back!" ”

Simmons and Li Mo also saw this scene in the command tower, and the picture of the close-range explosion of the cannonball hit Li Mo's eyeballs, although he had seen a lot of naval war movies in his previous life, and even saw the live picture of the missile hitting the target ship in a ship support, but at this moment he must admit that that kind of TV picture cannot be compared with the real battle in front of him.

Especially at this moment, the battle distance between the two sides is only three thousand meters, and if the sky is clear, you can even hear the call from the other side! But at this moment, there is no other sound on the sea except the sound of cannons.

Boom, boom.

With the Yoshino being seriously injured, the fleet artillery began to pounce on the Akitsuzu and Takachiho, and the Yoshino, the two ships that fell into the trap faced the superior strength of the Pacific Fleet, and there was no power to fight back at all, and they could show off their speed and rapid-fire guns in front of the Beiyang Naval Division, which was not worth mentioning at all in front of the Pacific Fleet, taking the Polaris battleship as an example, it had two twin 305 mm main guns and ten 152 mm secondary guns on each side, and after seizing the T-position, it could attack with fourteen guns at the same time, More than the firepower of the entire 1st guerrilla detachment.

Even the worst of the Dragons could concentrate three 150 mm guns and four 120 mm guns on one side at the same time, which, combined with the rapid-fire 76mm rapid-fire guns that were faster equipped on the heavy cruiser, suddenly made the two ships as precarious as swifts struggling in a raging storm.

The most important thing is that after all TNT charges are used, even if the 76-mm shells hit the opponent, they will set off a large fire ball, which is much more powerful than the 150-mm main guns of the French system used in the original version.

Therefore, when the Pacific Fleet began to divide into formations, and the two battleships led the Longxiao, the two heavy cruisers of the Tenacious and the Tenacious (I mistakenly thought that the Determination class was the same as the Longxiao, both were ironclad ships) and inserted them into the middle of the three warships of the First Guerrilla Force, the battle could actually be declared over.

At 19:30, only two hours after the Battle of Daitogou, the Yoshino and Akitsuzu were respectively turned, and the Sky Survey and the Sea Cruise, which were suddenly killed behind the battleship, were torpedoed, and both sank five minutes later.

The Takachiho, which was the last, narrowly escaped the torpedo attack and quickly turned to the fleet headquarters in the rear, hoping to turn a large force. But he didn't know that at this time, the main formation of the Yuben Fleet, which should have appeared a long time ago, had already become a mess at this moment.

The rumbling of artillery in the distance actually made Ito feel bad, but he didn't expect that before he could give the order to speed up the support of the guerrillas, the two small thunderbolts that were originally flying the Chilean flag would brazenly attack the huge Combined Fleet.

It was when it was already dark, and after changing into a dragon claw flag that they had never seen before, they suddenly appeared at a speed of up to 20 knots, and the Naniwa, which had been dragged to the last and had been seriously injured before, and was in charge of protecting it, and was aboard the Admiral Shikiki Kayama Saikyo Maru.

A series of six close-range torpedoes directly sent the Naniwa, which had no resistance, to the bottom of the sea. Although the Saikyo Maru dodged two, the rudder was hit by another, and the shock wave formed by the torpedo underwater tore the rudder of the Saikyo Maru, causing the entire stern to ignite, and Ito Hensuke could only watch as the Saikyo Maru swirled on the surface of the water and lost the ability to maneuver.

With the rumbling of artillery in front and the daring of the two small destroyers in the rear, Ito knew what was going on even as a fool, and he was now faced with a difficult choice, whether to immediately expel the two small boats and flee with his main formation, or to support the first guerrillas in front.

Ito Hyungsuke held the command knife tightly, looked at the Saikyo Maru, which had already ignited a raging fire, thought of Admiral Shiki Kayama, whose life and death were still unknown on the ship at the moment, and then thought of the best and strongest mobile surname in the empire at this moment, if the latest three cruisers were wiped out because of their own abandonment, then he would become a sinner in the empire.

As a last resort, Ito Shosuke gritted his teeth and sent the Akagi to rescue the Saikyo Maru and prevent the two torpedo ships from attacking again, while leading the remaining six warships to help the first guerrillas.

But when he saw the Takachiho running wildly with fire all over his body, and saw the huge main formation composed of two battleships larger than the Dingyuan ship that followed, as well as the two ironclad ships that appeared from both wings at the same time and the two cruisers that were still flying the Great Qing Dragon Flag just now, he locked himself in the command cabin.

At 19:30, Henyoke Ito, the first man of the Combined Fleet who was supposed to be high-spirited and received by Emperor Akihito, saw the huge headquarters of the Pacific Fleet less than ten minutes after rushing to the aid of the 1st Guerrilla Force, and returned to the command cabin without firing a single shot and chose to commit suicide by seppuku.

With the suicide of Hyungyu Ito, the combined fleet of Ito, which had just gone through a major battle and was exhausted by a sudden sneak attack, finally collapsed completely, and fell into its own battle like the chaotic Beiyang Naval Division a few hours ago.

Since it was already dark, in order to end the battle as soon as possible and prevent Yue himself from escaping at nightfall, Long Guozhang ordered all ships to turn on their searchlights, and at the same time accepted Tan Xiaozeng's suggestion to order the four ships of Sky Patrol, Sea Patrol, Swordfish and Flying Fish to swim around the periphery to prevent Yue himself from escaping.

At the same time, the general attack on the combined fleet was ordered, and the heavy cruisers Resolve and Courage on both sides were the first to break away from the formation, forming an encirclement from both wings, and the first to be sunk was the Takachiho, which was built by the British Armstrong Company, and faced close pursuit after losing speed, and the same heavy cruiser built by the plant was hit by the latter's 203 mm main gun river secondary gun, and finally the hull broke off from the middle and sank.

The sinking of the Takachiho directly caused the combined fleet to lose its most important maneuverability, and among the remaining warships, except for the small Akagi, none of the warships could exceed 16 knots.

Even the Hashidate, which was in the best shape of the Combined Fleet, lasted less than ten minutes before it was engulfed in flames by the coordinated attack of the Antarctic Star and the Resolve.

Xiao Zhitian, who had been wandering around the periphery, saw that the overall situation had been decided, so he was naturally unwilling to drink some leftover soup and aimed at the Akagi, but before he could lead the Sky Survey over, his eyes widened.

Originally, it was the Swordfish that watched the Akagi, but because the two ships were about the same size, they were both small warships that mainly used torpedo attacks, so they became the hardest pair on the entire battlefield, and the rapid-fire firepower of both sides each pulled out several long tongues of fire, and they were evenly matched.

However, this equilibrium was soon upset by the arrival of the Dragon's Howl.

Although the Dragon Xiao is called an ironclad battleship, and it is also equipped with four French-made single-mounted 240mm main guns, it can be regarded as a capital ship if it is placed in other countries, but in the Pacific Fleet, it is not embarrassed or embarrassed, in terms of firepower, it is not as fast as the Polar Star battleship, and in terms of speed, it is not as fast as the four Determination class, and with the return of the Polarstar, it has also been deprived of the title of flagship, so everyone has been holding their breath early, hoping to take advantage of this battle to correct their name! It's a pity that it backfired, and in addition to the two cannons of the Mid-Autumn Jinzhou, the war wasted hundreds of shells and didn't catch any oil and water!

This can make Zhou Cheng, who has just taken over as the captain, to death, originally he was still going to cooperate with the Courage to attack the ship Chiyoda, which was about to escape, but the Sky Survey that was killed in the oblique stab robbed him of his business, the Chiyoda was originally a small ship, the displacement was only equivalent to the Sky Survey, and the ship was old, so before he arrived, he was beaten into a sieve by the two ships that were in a hurry to make meritorious contributions, and had to raise the white flag.

Zhou Chengqi trembled, and was about to send a signal to despise the two ships, when he suddenly found a series of tongues of fire emerging from the darkness in the west, and hurriedly rushed over with the Dragon Xiao, only to find that a gunboat was protecting a sunken cruiser, and it was fighting with the Swordfish in full swing, and it also had a little advantage.

This scene made Zhou Cheng, a sincere person, completely explode, a small gunboat dared to go wild, and it was really no one in the Pacific Fleet! Immediately ordered an all-out attack on the Akagi, and for a while, the dragon roar with full fire was like a hellfire dragon drilled out of the night, and in an instant, it drowned the small Akagi.

The poor Akagi is just a gunboat with a few torpedoes, and its displacement is only equivalent to the destroyer in the Pacific Force, and it has also shot all the torpedoes in the previous naval battle, and it was dangerous enough to face the Swordfish, but I didn't expect another extremely shameless guy to appear, and he actually drove a six-thousand-ton ironclad ship to bully himself who was only six hundred tons, so he still had a chance to fight back, and he was beaten into a sieve in the blink of an eye!

Finally got the record! The Long Xiao patted its buttocks, leaving behind the Akagi, which was full of bullet holes and fire, and rushed back to the main camp to spoil the other warships.

The captain of the Swordfish saw that the credit of his hand was robbed! After the dragon roar, whose skin was thicker than armor, did not reply, he angrily ordered the torpedo to be fired, and sent the Saikyo Maru, which had not sunk for a long time, back to his hometown.

This scene saw the corner of the eyes of the young master Li in the command tower twitched, oh, how much does a torpedo cost! Everybody is like that, you can't be like that? Why does it have to be like that? Isn't that intentionally like that!

Woo, I'm distressed!

Simmons, who was watching the battle next to him, was even more stunned, he really didn't expect that Li Mo's bastard subordinates were as graceless as him, could it be said that chivalry had fallen in the East? Actually drove a 6,000-ton ironclad ship to fight a 600-ton torpedo gunboat!

What is the difference between this and tying up and killing?

The most important thing is that the destroyer, which was robbed of food, actually used expensive torpedoes to attack at close range in the face of a cruiser that was sure to sink in order to vent! Don't they know that once the ammunition bay is detonated, the huge vortex is enough to swallow themselves too?!

These bastards! Lunatic!

Simmons stomped his foot excitedly, the country had declared neutrality, and a large-scale naval battle was almost impossible for the foreseeable future! Let this fanatical supporter of the Grand Fleet have to choose silence! But no matter what, the naval fever in his heart will never be extinguished! He loves these crazy people who bully the little sampan in a giant ship! It's so enjoyable!

"Lee, you know! I want to join the Pacific Fleet! ”

A few black lines fell on Master Li's forehead, and he raised his middle finger to look at this guy! "I think the young master is easy to bully, play with me!"

The night of September 17, 1894.

At 21:15, as the last ship Itsukushima raised the white flag, this carefully premeditated, two-hour sea ambush battle finally ended, the Yoshino, Akitsuzu, Takachiho, Naniwa, Saikyo Maru and Akagi six ships were sunk, Hashidate, Itsukushima, and Matsushima were captured, and the remaining Hiei and Fuso saw that they could not break through, and the fire was really uncontrollable, so they chose to sink themselves, and Chiyoda was also sunk by a torpedo launched by the Patrol Sea after the rescue was fruitless.

At this point, the twelve main warships of the combined fleet that had just defeated the Beiyang Naval Division were all wiped out before they had time to celebrate!

(To be continued)