What happened at that moment?

When Hipper returned to Germany to report the scene to Tirpitz, he shook his head vigorously and described it in just five words, "chaos plus luck." (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

In fact, no one could say what happened at the beginning, until the observer who followed the No. 1 gun position of the Guangxi sent a message that "after one of the three main guns of the ship's No. 1 gun hit the Huangtai", everyone knows who made the meritorious service" The main gunner who took off his clothes to wipe the stains of the shells was admired by the rookies after the war, because he helped the entire gun crew to win the Navy Gold Medal in only fifty seconds, and also made a collective first-class meritorious service, and even during that time there was a craze for wiping shells with old clothes.

From the first shell fired, to the first wave of shells exploding next to the Emperor Tai more than twenty seconds later, to the third salvo hit in thirty seconds, and then to the target.

The whole process is fifty seconds!

If time could have been frozen, at that time the eight capital ships grabbed the T-position, the guns. All pointed to the explosion of the Imperial Navy" and the second battleship detachment of the Chinese Navy was still parallel to the Russian battleship line and continued to shell, Roger Stevensky was looking at the chart, and the captain of the Imperial Tai had been stunned.

What's going on?

Could it be the guidance of two hummingbirds hovering over the formation? Li Mo rejected this "answer" very much: "Because when one round of shells falls, there are only 10 seconds left for the second round of shells to be fired, and with the current technology, it is impossible for the mechanical computer in the fire control room to recalculate the reported coordinates within 10 seconds and then distribute them to the ships.

It wasn't until the explanation of a Russian sailor who claimed to be the watchman of the Imperial Lady that everyone figured out everything, according to the sailor, he was on the foremast at the time, and the main gun in front of the guide opened fire on the Chinese fleet, and then he was frightened by a dense column of water and crouched down, and when he stood up, he found that the second round of shells had arrived, and this time before he could squat down, he saw a shell almost straight down from the top of the No. 1 turret.

These words finally made it clear to everyone that the armor-piercing projectile that penetrated through the top must have penetrated the ammunition magazine under the turret, otherwise it would not have been possible to cause such huge damage with only 305 kg of TNT high-explosive ** in the 8-mm armor-piercing projectile.

There is no doubt that it was luck.

But it is the only one in the world with multiple ironclad ship experience, the first to equip the Chinese type battleship, the first to develop centralized fire control, the first to install an optical rangefinder, the first to use radio command, and in ten years to pay more than 4,000 sacrifices to have the world's multi-ironclad ship actual combat experience, and has been groping for the luck of the hard-trained navy!

No matter what happened at that time, in fact, there is no need to pursue it further, this battleship, which was called proud by both France and Russia at the same time, lasted only two minutes in a violent explosion and disappeared into the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, and only 2 officers and men of the 803 officers and men of the ship survived.

On the French observation ship, several French officers who were talking with other friendly countries and boasting about the Imperial Tai felt as if they had been slapped loudly, because they had just said that this battleship was only a little worse than the battleship, and it was completely blown up by two salvos. 【 I want: super fast update 】

Fisher on the British Donegal stared at him, clenched his fists, and breathed heavily, with only one thought in his heart, the Empire needed a large number of such battleships!

On the US observation ship, George Dewey, commander of the Far East Fleet, had a dead face, and at a time when the United States still did not have breakthrough battleship technology, it seemed that the sea power in the Pacific was getting farther and farther away from the world's largest economic power.

As for the Alexander III, Rozhestvinsky was cold with his hands and feet, staring blankly at the porthole as if he was still looking for that familiar figure, as for the Russian naval officers and men who saw this scene were sweating, if it weren't for the sea, it is estimated that half of them would have escaped.

According to the later rescued Russian Navy staff officer Glo Pinch recalled: "There was a burst of gunpowder smoke floating on the sea, and when I opened my eyes again, the Empress had disappeared, and at that moment, Russia seemed to have been hit on the head with a hammer." ", this sentence explains a series of stupid mistakes of the Russian fleet later.

At 1:40, Rogerstinsky, who was stunned by the second kill, gave the order to fill the rudder on the left and turn right with all his might, but he forgot an important thing, not to mention that the battleships under his command did not have the speed of the opponent at all, because the five behind were Borodino-class battleships.

The big problem of the Borodino class, which inherited the legal lineage of the Imperial Prince, is that it is top-heavy, especially after the birth of the Duke class, Russia urgently revised the drawings, and on the basis of the two twin cricket mm naval guns, two twin 2 old mm naval guns were added in the middle, and the displacement was also increased to full load, qI tons.

Just from the point of view of displacement, this kind of weapon is not too much, but the problem is that the French style is named after the upside tilt upwards and inwards, and the armor protection is complex, and the appearance looks like a middle-aged uncle with a round belly, coupled with the extreme pursuit of protection on the water, the steel plate is almost pasted layer after layer, which leads to the overweight of the water troops, and the surface deck is narrow, and the front and rear naval guns are okay, but in order to deal with the threat of torpedoes, 12 152 mm secondary guns are installed, and 20 75 mm secondary guns, The installation position is almost completely attached to the waterline, and the secondary gun on one side will be directly immersed in the water when making a sharp turn.

In addition to the sharp increase in weight brought by the complex protection setup, the protection was not improved, and the Russians had to reduce the thickness of the side armor, using only 200 mm of Harvey dart steel, and the front of the turret and the conning tower were supposed to be tight, and only 254 mm of steel armor.

On the other hand, the main armor belt on the side of the Dalian-class heavy cruiser uses 220 mm advanced Krupp armor with surface carburizing technology, and although the front of the conning tower and turret are comparable, the protection is twice as high!

The point is that these five capital ships have not even entered the well and undergone sea trials!

Therefore, when Roger Stevensky gave the order to turn right, the captains of the five Borodino-class ships did not dare to learn from Ganglong Guozhang to beat the steering gear to the end and play warship drift, which shows that even their own people do not believe in mobility and ocean-going nature.

In fact, in the final analysis, the only navy in this era that pays attention to long-term ocean-going seaworthiness is the United Kingdom, although the French claim to be the second in the world, "in fact, it still belongs to the Mediterranean fleet, and the unique geographical environment of the Mediterranean is destined to not be able to rise from wind and waves, and only the British Navy, which needs to be deployed all over the world, needs good seaworthiness."

As a traverser, coupled with the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, "Li Mo had to learn from the British" from the resolute adoption of the Atlantic bow in the Jinghai class, to the raising of the freeboard to enhance the keel, and then to the beginning of the development of stabilizer fins, all in order to enhance seaworthiness, and the Dalian class with a full load of 16,800 tons? Only eight 130-mm secondary guns and eight single-mounted 76-mm deck guns were installed, "which shows how much sacrifice was made."

So when Fisher saw the five Borodino-class ships starting to slowly turn right, he even burst into rude sentences regardless of the image. "Because these stupid and slow stupid bears are completely on target in the few minutes of turning!

Yes" The sharp turn caused the hulls of the five Borodino-class ships to begin to tilt to the right, and the secondary gun position on the right was suddenly submerged in the seawater, and because the left side was too high, both the main gun and the secondary gun could not fire for the time being!

The inexperienced Rogerstinsky once again made the mistake of making a sharp turn in front of the Japanese army, and when the eight capital ships of the Chinese Navy began the third round of shelling, the experienced ones immediately caught this mistake.

When the flagship Alexander III, which began to turn at 1:45 "behind the Imperial Princess", flicked its tail, the eight capital ships that had already quietly narrowed the distance to 13,000 meters broke out again, and when the flagship was about to complete the rudder, a 254-mm armor-piercing shell took off its hat and passed through the conning tower accurately, although the cannonball did not directly enter the conning tower, but the explosion that occurred below still threw everyone in the conning tower into the air and smashed it down "causing several deaths" More than a dozen people were seriously wounded, and the Russian commander, who gave the order to turn, "failed to give even a second order."

Since the Russian fleet did not know at this time that Rozhest Stevensky was seriously injured and unconscious, the Eagle, which was lined up behind it, continued to transfer cabins according to the previous order, but it was not so lucky.

According to the words of the captain Fang Jin, unless the battleship known as one of the strongest Russian ships could be sunk, "it would not be considered to have participated in this naval battle."

10 305-mm guns, at a rate of two per minute, with the hand of the aircraft and the rangefinder, constantly fired armor-piercing shells, "although it was later learned that the bronze hood of this armor-piercing bullet still has the problem of easy to fall off", but at a distance of 13,000 kilometers, the hit rate still reached 30 percent.

When the third round of two armor-piercing shells pierced through the thin main armor belt at the same time, biting all the way to the boiler room and exploding, the proud eagle of the Russian Navy stepped into the footsteps of the Emperor, "The explosion in the boiler room permeated the ammunition depot of the 210 mm secondary main gun in the middle of the right, and after a violent explosion, the sloping deck was never flattened again, and finally after three hours of floating, it was torpedoed by a defense class and sent it to the bottom of the sea.

At two o'clock, when the Eagle belly turned to the sky, the ships behind suddenly did not dare to turn "The neatly arranged battle line finally loosened, at this time, Lin Tai accurately seized the opportunity of the chaos of the Russian fleet, and took four Duke-class ships to plunge into the middle of the second and third battleship detachments of Russia.

Seeing this scene, Long Guozhang also ordered the disbandment of the battleships, and the first to be released were the four Dalian-class, which were originally here to pretend to be battleships, and immediately resumed the nature of heavy patrolling after canceling the grouping" Ji Weishan immediately ordered to speed up to 25 knots and pursue the Russian cruiser detachment that had been pressed on the inside of the battleship.

At this time, "the Borodino, which was lined up behind the Eagle, suddenly turned to the left, and this accident caught the Glory behind it by surprise, and when the bow of the Borodino kept shifting away, the gunner of the Dalian suddenly discovered this delicious target.

"Three o'clock" Wurong! 11,000 kilometers. ”

"Gather fire!"

With the shouts of the gun commander, the four Jilin-class ships turned their main guns at the same time, aiming at the Glorious, which was exposed to the muzzle of the guns but could not maneuver due to the turn of the rudder of the partner and the overturning of the Eagle.

When the Glory suddenly found that there was no obstacle in front of it, "it was completely exposed to the terrible muzzles of the four Jilin-class guns, all the sailors held their breath, although several of the main guns could not shoot because of the angle problem, but when the 28 main guns roared at the same time, blooming one after another Grim Reaper" The Glory suddenly fell into endless despair.

I don't know if it was a minute, or centuries, until the captain of the Glorious suddenly woke up after a straddle shot and should find a way to escape, but by this time it was too late.

One after another, the cannonballs fell on the side of the Glory with a whistling "When the armor-piercing shells tore through the main Xijia and entered the officer's rest cabin, disaster happened!"

The lavish interior burned quickly in the explosion, the woods and carpets that could be found everywhere in the warship became fatal wounds, and the fire in the cabin began to spread, and in just a few minutes the fire spread to the deck, which would have been fatal to any warship, let alone the Glory, which had been beaten to immobility.

At 2:15 a.m., after completing the steering and disbanding the formation, the Guangdong immediately pounced on the Glory, which was fighting the fire with all its might, and after taking the initiative to close to a distance of 6,000 meters, it used two consecutive rounds of high-explosive shells to kill the Glory, and the violent explosion not only brought a catastrophe to the sailors who were fighting the fire, "making the fire out of control" When it was torpedoed into the bottom of the sea, the internal fire had not yet been extinguished.

Later, it was found that the fire caused only 57 people of the 903-person Glorious to escape, and all the rest were burned to death.

As for the good fortune of burying their partners, the Borodino, which was the first to escape, and the Duke Suvorov, who retreated together, did not last long, and after being caught by the Glorious and caught by the Guangxi and Heilongjiang, which quickly arrived, the four battleships immediately launched a fierce artillery battle.

Just as Long Guozhang was preparing to enter the second stage with the record of killing the enemy's first battleship detachment. At 2:30, the navy of the main fleet of China, which had always had the upper hand, was finally traumatized, and the Duke of the four Duke-class that cross-cut into the middle of the second and third battleship detachments of Russia was in big trouble, and it was caught by the two speed-class ships that the Russians had obtained from Britain before the war, although there were four 305-mm main guns and eight 203-mm secondary guns, which could be shelled in two directions at the same time, but the speed-class was worthy of being a masterpiece of British ship-building technology, and the 254-mm naval guns could not compare with their opponents. However, the 190mm rapid-fire secondary gun it has played a great role, and the high rate of fire of three rounds per minute makes the Duke a little unable to parry, and the captain Liu Buyun has to pull away. However, at the moment when the Duke turned the rudder, "a cannonball accurately hit the rudder, causing the rudder on the left to jam, but fortunately the Akashi successfully forced back two speed ships" and finally helped the Duke withdraw from the battle.

No one expected that the scene of the Duke being forced back by the two speed class joined forces was seen by Sa Zhenbing in the scuffle "He immediately gave up the Rurik that was on fire, and led the Fengtian at a speed of 25 knots to forcibly insert between the two speed ships that were holding hands and preparing to escape."

Beiyang's revenge has not been avenged!! ~！