6,140,000 miles of iron tongs (7)

"Pipe loss!"

"Leather pipe, take the leather pipe, damn it, turn on the faucet!"

"Run!"

"Cannonballs!"

Sean held his steel helmet in one hand and shouted to command the operation of the pipe damage, and the column of water that rose into the sky came with the salty seawater, dripping at the corner of his mouth and turning into bitterness and pain. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

The amidships of the Oklahoma hull were in disarray, the normally well-trained sailors were running like headless flies, the flames were beginning to spread down the second chimney, and when a sore tooth sounded and the tall and distinctive rear cage mast collapsed like a collapsed snowy mountain, Sean could even see a lookout with his hands hanging from it smashing down the deck with a cry of terror, and then tumbling down to the sea, swallowed up by the waves stirred up by the explosion.

No one knows how those hellish minutes were spent, and when the water dragons finally burst out of the leather tubes, the second mate of the Oklahoma, Sean, breathed a sigh of relief and ran towards the bridge in the explosion mist.

"General, the fire is under control."

Sean shouted and walked into the bridge to warn the immobile Mayo, but when he locked the door of the command tower again, he found that the neatly dressed Major General with a star on his shoulders did not seem to hear his shout.

In surprise, Sean shouted again and repeated: "General, the rear mast has collapsed, the shell has not penetrated the boiler room, and the fire has ......." Halfway through the loud voice, it suddenly seemed to be stuck, because out of the corner of his eye, he found that this man who usually regarded the Chinese as worthless, hung on his lips all day long, and thought that the US Navy was a powerful rear admiral, and his hands clenching the railing were constantly trembling.

"General......." The staff officer sighed in his heart, walked over and patted Mayo gently: "General, are you okay?" ”

"I'm fine." The slap on the shoulder made Mayo suddenly wake up, and he turned his head and nodded to Sean: "Very well done." ”

Mayo, who seems to have recovered, did not expect that when his ash-like image fell into the eyes of the officer and Sean, the shock would be so strong, the dead face, the lost eyes, and the trembling body all told everyone that this arrogant and once invincible major general had been completely stunned by the enemy's unexpected fire and bombardment in the early days of the war.

The naval guns were still roaring back, and the gunners were still stubbornly pushing the shells towards their opponents, and the whistling muzzle wind was hitting the cold steel body, but they didn't know that their commander was falling rapidly.

Yes, Mayo is scared!

He didn't expect that after the start of the war, the enemy would concentrate all the shells on the Oklahoma, and he even suspected that there were enemy spies on the ship, otherwise how could the opponent distinguish that the Oklahoma was the flagship from four identical warships 20,000 meters away without hanging a clear mark!

He was scared!

Because he did not expect that the opponent's shelling would be so accurate!

He was scared, because he met an opponent who did not play according to the textbook at all, and when the fear and trembling coalesced, he even had the urge to rush in front of the opponent, grab the opponent's collar and question fiercely, when the whole world was assigning battleship engagement manuals to the classic battles they fought back then, warning again and again about the importance of the battle line, and formulating the order of shelling, why did they themselves break the rules!

Rumble....... 【 I want: super fast update 】

In the line of sight, a black spot rushed from the sea like lightning and slammed into the front of the second turret in the bow of the USS Oklahoma, the retina froze in an instant, and Mayo only saw the front of the twin turret explode, bulging up like an inflated balloon, and then turning into a dazzling ball of fire, the entire battleship seemed to have been slapped in the face, and the violent vibration even ripped open and deformed the airtight door behind the turret, revealing the inside of the turret filled with gunsmoke.

At a distance of 22,000 meters, 680 kg of heavy armor-piercing shells failed to penetrate the 16-inch thick armor on the front of the Oklahoma turret, but the violent external explosion still caused fatal damage to the turret, especially the violent vibration, killing nearly half of the crew members, and even the rest were bleeding from the mouth and nose and unconscious.

When the smoke cleared, the corner of his eye seemed to be pierced by something, and he saw only two straight and thick barrels, one of which had been torn and torn off, leaving only a short section, and the other seemed to have been smashed by a giant's hammer, bending downward and deforming.

Mayo shook his hand and reached for his jacket pocket, and a neat silk handkerchief was pulled out, but at this time he couldn't care about keeping the handkerchief flat, and his big hand suddenly lost his bloody color, and after crumpling the handkerchief into dried vegetables and sweeping his forehead, he was stuffed back in a panic, and the corner was still exposed outside the pocket.

"Fire, fire!"

"We need to fight back!"

It seemed that after being carried away by the handkerchief, he regained a few breaths of life, Mayo pointed to the Hebei in the distance and shouted, and in the hysterical voice, everyone saw only a pair of empty pupils with only the whites of their eyes left.

It seemed to hear Mayo's shout, and suddenly, a little fire in the distance seemed to regain everyone's confidence, but before the divine light gathered, the huge hull seemed to be drawn by something, and the stern of the ship was violently pushed to the left, and the command tower suddenly staggered, and when everyone regained their footing, a bad news had come from the telephone.

"General, the stern of the ship was hit, the armor-piercing shell got into the power compartment, there was an explosion inside, and the stern is entering the water at a rapid pace!"

"God ......." Sean slammed the bulkhead, and everyone understood how important the power compartment was, and even if it only destroyed a reciprocating steam engine, the chances of the Oklahoma leaving the battlefield alive would be reduced by half.

"What about the pipe loss? What about mechanics? Let them fix it! Mayo was speechless, his freshly dried forehead was shiny again, and beads of sweat the size of beans poured out of his body like pulp.

"General! We need your command now, not to repair the power compartment! Faced with Mayo, who was panicked and had not had an order for 20 minutes after the start of the war, the navigator finally couldn't help it, rushed to the front and shouted: "Tell us, what to do!" ”

"What to do? Yes......, yes, what to do. ”

"Sean, what should I do?"

In the face of questioning, Mayo's nerves completely collapsed, and he actually grabbed Sean to ask, at this moment, all his hearts sank to the bottom of the sea, the roaring naval guns outside seemed to disappear, and the command tower was silent.

Looking at the pair of lifeless eyes in front of him, Sean smiled bitterly and spread out his hand and shook it: "General, we should ...... and evacuate immediately!" ”

"Yes, retreat!"

"Send a telegram to Lieutenant General Andrew immediately and ask him to come to our rescue."

"Communications officer, order the cruiser to attack, use torpedoes to divert these devils and cover our retreat!" Mayo, who had received the revelation, remembered that he should be a decoy in the battle plan, and finally gave an order that was long overdue.

Sean couldn't take it anymore and shook his head and pushed open the hatch. "I'll go see the stern ......." After saying that, he strode towards the stern of the ship in the billowing smoke, perhaps at the moment he would rather stay on the deck than this suffocating command tower.

But he didn't notice that in fact, his own and those officers' hearts had already been messed up, and he forgot that in this case, Major General Mayo could be temporarily dismissed and someone else would take over the command!

Inside the compass bridge of the Hebei, Tan Haodong's cheeks flushed, looked at a secondary cannon that was ignited in the back, and took a deep breath.

This is the limit that many people regard as only warriors dare to challenge, no matter what level of battleship they fight, no matter how big the gap is, you can't guarantee that you are intact, so the warriors who can board this deck and stare at the enemy's shells with wide eyes have a heart that is far larger than ordinary people!

They are fearless!

"Boom......."

The battleship under its feet swayed again, and in the flickering of cannon fire, the fourth target 21,000 meters away, the amidship of the Wisconsin hull, first rose a cloud of white smoke, and then the explosion of gunpowder smoke followed up, even the inexperienced people knew that it was a unique scene after the boiler compartment was hit.

Tan Haodong was just about to raise his binoculars to take a closer look, when the corner of his eye suddenly swept to the second in line, and the Oklahoma was taken care of, attracting more than a dozen rounds of concentrated fire salvos like a cannonball magnet, and began to slowly deflect the bow, and the remaining three Nevada-class battleships driven by it also quickly deflected synchronously, and at the same time, four cruisers and seven or eight small destroyers came out of the gap they left and rushed towards the 12th fleet.

"They want to escape?!"

As soon as this thought arose, Tan Haodong felt a violent tremor under his feet, and then the Hebei quickly followed the other party to deflect the bow, and the wind outside the porthole was much louder.

This is the characteristic feeling of the fleet's acceleration, the main guns that have been whistling for nearly thirty minutes come to a halt, while the secondary guns, which have not been started, violently erupt into a continuous roar like fried beans.

"Knock knock knock ......."

Behind the bridge, a twin 130 mm/L47 gun roared incessantly, pumping shells at eight per minute at four approaching American light cruisers, and in an instant it blew up a small destroyer flying closely.

At this moment, the comrades-in-arms around him suddenly pulled him, a rookie who had experienced the battlefield for the first time, turned his head and saw only 4 Yangtze River-class light cruisers leading 4 Weiqing-class destroyers, which had already roared into the battle circle, and when the capital ships of the 12th fleet accelerated, they quickly circled from the tail of the fleet, especially the destroyers with a speed of up to 37 knots, like the rangers on the ancient battlefield, across the center of the battlefield, and then fiercely shot out 40 spear type 3 torpedoes.

The thick torpedoes seemed to have disappeared from front of their eyes after revealing a track of only 500 meters, but Tan Haodong, who had seen the information on the Lance 3, understood how terrible these big guys were.

The fan-shaped torpedo was rushing under the blue waves like a shark foraging in the deep sea, and Tan Haodong finally caught a faint shadow and saw it plunge headlong into the stern of an Omaha-class light cruiser.

A terrible scene happened, only to see this light cruiser with a displacement of more than 7,000 tons, a huge water mass suddenly burst out under the stern of the ship, when the water mass exploded quickly in the eyes, the stern seemed to be held up, the bow was plunged into the water, and when the explosion mist dissipated, the back half of it in front of him had been completely cracked, and the two hulls quickly sank in the shouts of countless sailors to flee for their lives.

But this is not miserable, when a Brooklyn-class light cruiser with extreme luck was hit by three spears in a row, Tan Haodong didn't even have time to look at his watch to record the time, and disappeared into the sea with more than 600 sailors.

Such a terrible torpedo frightened the American sailors, and the battle to protect the main force to attack the enemy's main position lasted less than ten minutes, and then they scattered and fled like dogs in front of the strong 12th Fleet patrol formation.

After receiving the cooperation of the light cruiser, the four Hebei-class battleships with no loss of power and no longer need to worry about the harassment of small ships took only 30 minutes to seize the opportunity.

The hull turned sideways, and 48 356 mm/L50 heavy guns began to swing at the same time.

Tan Haodong understood.

This time, they will sound the death knell once and for all!

: Desperately explode three!! Ask for a pop chrysanthemum!! No? Smash the glass of your house!

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