767 West Wind Flame (13)

Ye Zugui tidied up the collar and carefully brushed off the wrinkles on the sleeves, like a pilgrimage. 【 I want: super fast update 】

The four Hebei-class battleships were lined up, and the 48 L50/356 mm heavy guns were all aimed at the "black cloud" in the northeast, and the heavy low-speed armor-piercing projectiles weighing 680 kg were lying quietly in the gun chambers, and three pieces of propellant wrapped in silk were then stuffed into it.

Except for the roar of the engine under his feet, there was no murmur to be heard.

The sea seems to be holding its breath at this moment!

For Ye Zugui, who has been guarding Gapo day and night with 4 Hebei-class ships in recent years, his goal is the Indian Grand Fleet! The fact that the Battle of the Eighthth Strait of the Minnicoy Islands was unfinished more than half a year ago was a great regret for him and the officers and men on the four battleships, so when they heard that Campbell had finally come out, they all held their breath and stayed at full speed almost all the time after setting off.

However, when they heard that the two powerful Pennsylvania-class battleships and the two Northampton-class heavy cruisers in the Indian Grand Fleet had been torpedoed and injured by the 72nd Fleet, everyone felt a little regretful, because all their hard work and efforts had been to deal with the four American capital ships and Campbell's flagship Malaya, because the 15-inch/381-mm heavy guns mounted on them were eager opponents.

When everyone was disappointed, thinking that when they got there, there would be another battle of planes bombing, torpedoes, and battleships cleaning up the mess or covering the blockade, an order came!

2 British Prestige-class battlecruisers, 2 Avenger-class battleships of the HMS Malaya, a total of 28 L45/381 mm (as mentioned earlier, the British body tube during World War I was not counted as a gun chamber, so the British L42 caliber is actually L45 times the body tube) heavy guns.

As for the two Spanish-class battleships carrying 4 twin L50/305 mm, the captains automatically ignored it, intentionally or unintentionally, this is not arrogance, but this kind of mini pocket battleship with a full load of no more than 15,850 tons, whether it can fight the Jilin class that has been downgraded and used is difficult to say.

"28,000 meters!"

"Heading southeast, 5 degrees to the left, begin to calculate the shelling of Zhuyuan."

"In the order of formation, Sichuan vs. Shock, Jiangxi vs. Roar, Jiangsu vs. Sovereign, Fujian vs. Resistance!"

"The first three rounds, the Target Awe!"

After arranging the shelling plan, the gunners stood in front of the console with the telephone in hand, quietly waiting for the final order.

Ye Zugui picked up the binoculars, the first wave of carrier-based attack aircraft has already left, and the second wave will depend on the outcome of this naval battle, with an interval of at least 2 hours in between, plus the 74 fleet is 270 nautical miles away, so he has enough time!

This was a real battle that he and everyone had been looking forward to for a long time, and the only thing he didn't expect was that the two Spanish-class battleships actually entered the port of Seychelles first, and they were not here.

The guns of the four British capital ships in the distance also turned slightly, and this slight change made him raise his eyebrows. Obviously, Britain learned the artillery techniques of the Imperial Navy, and was actually ready to give themselves a dismount after the war!

This is a close battle, although on the surface the 356 mm naval guns are far inferior to the 381 mm heavy guns in terms of caliber and projectile weight, which can be seen from the huge gap between the Guam class and the Hebei class, but considering the balance of protection, tonnage and speed, it should be said that this is an almost evenly matched battle.

The important thing is that although the Hebei class is inferior to the Avenger-class battleships, it is not as good as the prestige-class battle cruiser, so it is difficult to grab the word position, so he didn't think about this tactic from the beginning. And Hill also gave the order to turn the rudder parallel 30,000 meters away, because even if he can rely on the prestige class to grab the position, the 2 Avenger class will be truncated, so he simply fights this tough battle honestly!

Parallel.

At a speed of 20 knots, the bows of the two fleets were tilted inward by 5 degrees at the same time, and they began to close at a distance of 200 meters per minute, and the course was the same, pointing to the southeast.

"25,000 meters!"

"Fire!"

In the silent turret, a piercing electric current suddenly crossed, and the sound made Meng Fei, the fire control non-commissioned officer in the No. 2 turret of the Jiangsu, feel a tingling in his spine, and then the entire turret suddenly burst into flames!

"Boom......."

At 15:21, the four Hebei-class ships fired the first salvo. Almost at the same time, the four British capital ships on the opposite side also flashed with muzzle flames, and 28 L45/381mm heavy guns roared in unison!

The silence, depression, nervousness, and uneasiness that shrouded the sky over their respective fleets were all torn apart by Gangfeng in an instant, whether it was 28 381mm heavy guns or 48 356mm naval guns, they looked at each other angrily, and there was only one thought left in their hearts.

Kill each other!

The narrow turret ** fire control room is located high above the turret **, through the ** rangefinder and periscope can clearly see the four enemy ships on the opposite side, Meng Fei's eyes bit the head of the shock.

He had been informed before departure that the British had overhauled the fire control deficiencies exposed in Jutland, installing a ladder fire control system for all capital ships, and that the Prestige class was the first British capital ship to install centralized fire control.

One is already in use, the other is just equipped, and the gap is obvious, but the opponent's naval guns have a large caliber and the projectile is powerful enough, so the Hebei class does not have a clear advantage.

The important thing is that the Indian Ocean is significantly larger than the Pacific Ocean, and the ships are turbulent, and both fire control calculations and aiming need to be accurate.

The three barrels had begun to be flattened, and the second armor-piercing shell was being loaded, and Meng Fei was silently calculating the time without distraction.

Hua uses a low-speed heavy projectile, the muzzle velocity bottom projectile is heavy, although the opposite Britain does not have the special high-speed light bullet in World War II in the later world, but it has already had some prototypes, the 780 kg armor-piercing bullet used is much worse than the 850 kg of the Guam class, but because of the large caliber, the barrel multiple is limited, and the speed is not fully exerted.

So from disemboweling to landing, it takes about 30 seconds.

Suddenly, several black dots swept through the retina, and at the same time that the port side of the Sichuan, led by the ship, suddenly rushed up dozens of water columns, and the starboard side of the Zhendeter on the opposite side was also rolling, and the churning sea water mixed with the impact of naval guns made tens of thousands of tons of steel involuntarily jolt.

While Meng Fei accurately captured the bomb point, lookouts from all over the ship also reported the observation at the same time. However, at this time, Meng Fei will not provide any information to the running group, and the ladder fire control needs to be calculated continuously on the impact point, so it must wait until three rounds to be recalibrated.

"Second round, fire!"

A minute later, the two sides again hit a second volley at the same time, again evenly matched.

Although theoretically speaking, the smaller the caliber of the cannon, the higher the rate of fire, but in actual engagement, once the caliber of the naval gun exceeds 305 mm, the speed is the same, because the naval gun needs to be placed flat after firing and then re-raised and fired, which takes at least a minute. In the past, in order to solve this problem, Li Mo also thought about developing the elastic reloading system used by France in World War II in the future, but after the rapid rise of the naval aviation force, the development progress of this technology was gradually slowed down.

Round after round.

When the salvo of three rounds against one target was completed, Meng Fei and his two comrades-in-arms immediately calculated the shelling Zhuyuan according to the impact point of the three rounds, and after a while, the target parameters also came from the fire control cabin, and the coordinates of the latter one were immediately formed!

Although the three front wheels were not dealing with the battleship Sovereign, the battle line from which no one could leave provided a fixed reference. Since neither side achieved any results, when the naval guns turned back to their opponents, the artillery battle returned to excitement, and the danger was also a bloody heads-up!

The fourth, fifth, and sixth rounds .......

Still no gains.

"20,000 meters!"

"Stop the rudder, keep the balance, speed 20 knots, level 3 sea state, wind speed ......, ballistic correction!"

At the same time that the captain quickly adjusted the attitude of the ship, Meng Fei also completed the second ballistic correction, if he changed hands, I am afraid that he would start to be anxious if he missed the six rounds, but Meng Fei was not in a hurry, because he knew very well that an artillery battle of this scale could not solve the problem with one or two shells, as the eyes and head of the artillery squad, the more this kind of moment, the more you need to stay calm. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

The seventh round of salvo was fired again, and 48 armor-piercing bullets roared towards their respective targets, and when a fiery bright spot appeared on the Monarch ship, Meng Fei clenched his fists fiercely!

"Hit!"

Inside the turret, there was a thunderous roar of joy.

This armor-piercing projectile accurately hit the port side of the battleship Sovereign, although the hit site was not the focus of the armor defense, but it still tore a large crack above the waterline on the port side, causing the death of 3 British sailors.

There was no one-shot decapitation as expected, but it was off to a good start!

But then, Meng Fei's face changed slightly, and the report of the mast came from the earphones, and 3 of the 8 381mm shells fired by the Monarch flew past the mast and landed on the starboard side of the Jiangsu, straddle the fire! It means that the opponent has also completed the proofreading and aiming, and the difference is just luck.

And this cross-shot did make Hill sigh.

After the eighth round was missed, it was the 21st Fleet that took the lead again in the ninth salvo, and according to the Fujian's rear bridge lookout, two of the three armor-piercing shells fired by the ship's No. 4 turret hit its opponent, the battleship Resistance, one disappeared after penetrating the weak stern armor, and the other hit the rear chimney.

A violent explosion rose from behind the chimney, and a large hole was pierced in the upper half of the chimney in the firelight, and if it weren't for the Avenger-class battleship's use of strong pressure and auxiliary flue ventilation, this damage could have killed the battleship.

The tenth salvo came as scheduled, this time luck seemed to have turned to the enemy, a cannonball from the Monarch landed on the Jiangsu, the shell accurately hit the front of the No. 4 turret, although it did not penetrate the armor, but it made a deep mark on the front of the turret, and the explosion also broke a main gun, the four gunners in the turret were shocked to death in the shock wave of the explosion, although the reserve squad was sent up in time, but the No. 2 turret still did not fire a shell in the next five minutes.

After Meng Fei heard the news from the earphones, his lips were bitten!

Revenge must be taken!

At the same time that he concentrated all his attention on biting the Sovereign, the lead ship Sichuan had already avenged the sister ship, a 356 mm armor-piercing projectile accurately hit the tall rear bridge of the Shock, and the explosion occurred from inside the bridge, although the shell finally failed to continue to penetrate the horizontal deck, but still swept the entire rear bridge, and the air defense command post arranged here was terminated, causing the death of more than 20 British officers and soldiers.

Still evenly matched!

Ye Zugui was the first to find the problem, although his L50/356 mm naval gun was a little worse than his opponent, but because of the numerical superiority, he still had a slight advantage, but the distance was ......, a little far! If the strength of naval artillery can be exerted at this distance in the Pacific Ocean, where the wind and waves are small, in the Indian Ocean, where the wind and waves are strong, the accuracy is seriously affected.

He has two paths, slow down or close the distance!

When Ye Zugui considered that method, Hill also scratched his head, his big problem was not that the shells were not enough, nor that the fire control was much worse than the opponent, not that the sailors were inferior to the other party, but that the naval guns of the prestige-class battlecruisers had big hidden dangers.

A hidden danger that has long been known within the Navy but has not been able to solve it!

It has been more than a dozen rounds now, and the two prestige classes have almost no gains, you must know that in order to ensure that the prestige class can have the ability to fight on the spot, the British Navy has drawn out a large number of veterans who participated in the Battle of Jutland, and this level of battle cruiser is also the first capital ship equipped with an improved ladder fire control system, when testing the fire control system, the Queen Elizabeth has accurately hit the target ship 22,000 meters away.

Now it is less than 20,000 meters, but the two battleships that claim to be strong at the moment have wasted more than 100 shells in vain, and this is no longer a problem of gunners and fire control, but a problem of the naval guns themselves!

Because Britain has built 10 main battleships equipped with 15-inch naval guns of two stages in a row, coupled with the increasing demand for Hood-class and army artillery, few people know that in fact, Britain's own manufacturing capacity has reached the limit, in order to put the prestige class into service as soon as possible, the Admiralty had to turn to the United States for help, first shared the 15-inch naval gun technology with the United States, and then funded and ordered 32 heavy guns of this type.

Originally, everything was going well, but after the Battle of the Gulf of Panama, in order to arm a fleet as much as possible, the United States appropriated the British customized naval guns to several warships such as the Pennsylvania-class and Northampton-class, and then found that there were 8 fewer naval guns when the four prestige-class ships were built and needed, and the United States was too late to build at this time, so it had to temporarily install only 3 twin main guns.

In the test, there were also some problems with this American-made naval gun, that is, the outer sleeve of the barrel and the inner side were not tightly fitted, and several rounds had to be played each time, and the sleeve could be completely tightened after the barrel was heated, and there were four fewer on the rifling than before, because the precision manufacturing capacity of the United States could not be compared with the United Kingdom!

For this reason, the British Navy once thought about refusing to accept this batch of naval guns, but due to the urgency of the war, and the Navy is making every effort to tackle the 18-inch super giant gun, so it can only be used for improvisation, and at the same time place an order to rebuild the barrel, and now, this kind of improvised is simply fatal!

"What should I do?"

Hill already wanted to leave at this time, but he knew that it would be too expensive to leave rashly, because even if the 2 prestige class ships could rely on speed to leave, the 2 Avenger class could not do it, so he had only the latter way, and then close the distance!

"General, they're coming here!"

Just as Hill ordered to get closer again, the four Hebei-class ships also began to lean inward at the same time, and Ye Zugui, who was on the opposite side, made a move and took the lead in choosing to continue approaching to increase hits.

"Boom......."

"Boom......."

The four opponents who catch and fight each other are like two strong men who slam each other's big axes in the dark, and the fight is who has the most strength, who has more blood, and who dares to play with their lives!

21 rounds!

After each of them hit a few more non-lethal shells, the first major result finally appeared!

The No. 2 ship, the Jiangxi, made a great contribution.

Three of the 12 armor-piercing shells hit the Roar, the first one passed through the bow of the ship that had been damaged by the "fish bones" before the Roar, and after adding dozens of tons of seawater to the ship, it hit the bottom of the ship, and the explosion came from under the bow, making the battleship freeze as if it had suddenly hit something.

Before the officers and men of the Roar could figure out what the damage was causing this feeling, the second armor-piercing shell whizzed down from between the two chimneys, although it was strengthened by armor, but the horizontal armor of the 152 mm carburized armor in this part could not stop the 650 kg shells that fell almost vertically, and the armor-piercing shells went all the way down, not only penetrating the horizontal armor, but also drilling through the protective wall of the No. 3 boiler room and the 2nd layer of steel plates, and then exploded in the boiler room.

From the point of view of the Jiangxi's mast lookout, an orange-red flame rose from the site of the explosion, followed by a cloud of white mist, which was characteristic of the destruction of the boiler compartment.

The lookout was not misjudged, and according to the recollection of the first Roaring Loss Pipe sailor who arrived in the boiler room, the shell must have exploded in the cabin, and the shrapnel swept through eight boilers and steam pipes, causing a large amount of high-pressure steam to leak, resulting in more than 27 sailors here being scalded to death, and even many of the soldiers who rushed in afterwards were scalded or scalded.

The loss of a boiler compartment made the Roar, which was originally wounded and flooded, unable to exceed 18 knots even at full speed, and before this news was reported to the bridge, the third armor-piercing shell was fatal, because it hit the shelling control tower on the top of the bridge and swept through it, so that the 6 main guns on the Roar suddenly lost their unified command, which was equivalent to directly scrapping the expensive ladder fire control system!

Take advantage of his illness and kill him!

This is a favorite quote of the battleship gunners, and in the 22nd round immediately after, the Jiangxi sounded the death knell for the Roar!

Britain once again paid a heavy price for weak horizontal armor.

At 15:52, the 22nd round of artillery hit, and a shell from the No. 1 turret of the Jiangxi caused the Roar to withdraw from the battle first. The shell hit the horizontal armor on the left side of the No. 3 turret in the stern, and the shell went straight down the thick 203 mm turret base, although it did not penetrate the shaft, but the explosion caused the destruction of the No. 3 turret, and also opened a large hole in the left hull with a diameter of 2 meters, and hundreds of tons of seawater poured into the hull, not only flooding the ammunition compartment and the propellant compartment, but also causing a power compartment to be flooded, and three steam turbines were scrapped.

Water entered at the same time before and after, and a power compartment and a boiler compartment were also lost, so that the continued descent of the Roar to 12 knots! If this speed continues to stay on the battlefield, it will really become a living target.

As a last resort, Hill had no choice but to order the Roar to withdraw from the battle and evacuate to the port of Seychelles, which was not far away.

But just as the Roar raised its white flag and deflected the bow, there was an unimaginably tragic scene on the battlefield.

At this time, the distance between the two sides had been shortened to 17,000 meters, and after Britain's weakness in fire control gradually narrowed due to the shortening of the distance, the Monarch finally showed the majesty of a battleship, and 2 of the 8 381-mm armor-piercing shells hit the Jiangsu, where Meng Fei was located.

If Britain had used the old Jutland shells, perhaps these two shells would not have caused the Jiangsu to suffer so heavy losses, but after Jutland, Britain realized that the fuse of its shells was too sensitive, and urgently provided a batch of shells for the battleship, and the Monarch came out this time to carry this kind of shells.

After solving the fuse problem, the British 381-mm armor-piercing projectile finally showed its performance, and the first one was not bad, hitting the rear mast of the Jiangsu, causing serious damage to the mast. The second one passed straight through the compass bridge above the navigation bridge, and the explosion not only killed more than a dozen officers in the navigation bridge below, but also directly destroyed all the buildings above the compass bridge, including the shelling of the control tower, etc., all of which disappeared, and the command tower below was also affected, and the captain and staff officer who were directing the battle also exploded violently, and the casualties were extremely heavy.

It was later confirmed that 13 officers, including the chief navigator and the gun chief, died on the spot, and the captain Yan Feng was also knocked unconscious in the brain by the broken steel plate in the explosion, and finally died that night because of the ineffective rescue, becoming the first captain of the main battleship to die in wartime!

Because the No. 2 turret was in front of the bridge, Meng Fei was the one who saw this wave of explosions with his own eyes.

"Grandma!"

The violent explosion and billowing smoke made the turret shake for a while, and the calm that had been maintained for a long time disappeared from everyone's faces in an instant, and at the same time, the water dragons quickly rushed towards the bridge, and the green tendons on the back of Meng Fei's hands suddenly protruded!

"Come again!"

Meng Fei shouted loudly and woke up the comrades next to him, the oppressive atmosphere in the turret was enough to make anyone collapse, you don't need to look carefully to know that the gun commander and other officers must have sacrificed, and after losing the centralized command, whether they can take revenge depends entirely on Meng Fei and their turret fire control non-commissioned officers.

"Heading 180, speed 20 knots, angle 17, wind speed ......, correction completed, launch!"

"Boom......."

9 armor-piercing shells, with a vengeful rage, smashed into the enemy 17,000 away, and everyone except the loader turned their heads and waited for Meng Fei's voice.

"Hit! We hit! British grandma, wash your ass, come again! In Meng Fei's shout, an armor-piercing shell hit the proud battleship Monarch almost simultaneously.

It's a perfect revenge smash!

Meng Fei seemed to be able to hear the screaming British sailors in the firelight! A pain of revenge made him want to fly over to see it for himself, and then raise his glass and drink it!

The lightning revenge of the Jiangsu caught the Monarch off guard, as an improved battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class, the armor and protection of the Avenger class have not changed much, and it is not as good as the prestige class built later, which can be modified again with reference to the situation in Jutland, although it is a pure battleship, but the level of armor protection is only a little higher than that of the prestige class.

The deadly armor-piercing shell was fired by Meng Fei's No. 2 artillery squad, and because the smoke from the explosion on the front bridge also affected the sight of the mast lookout, it was a hummingbird reconnaissance plane hovering over the fleet that completely observed and recorded this armor-piercing shell.

According to the reconnaissance plane's report afterwards, he saw a black dot drilling through the top of the No. 1 turret in the bow of the Sovereign, and after an interval of more than ten seconds, an explosion occurred under the turret, lifting the entire turret from the turret to the side.

The lookout thought that it hit the ammunition depot, but later the navy did not think so after research, because if the ammunition depot exploded, then it could not be just a turret that was tilted, and the entire capital of the ship would be directly blown up, so it was inclined that the shell hit the winch, and the winch happened to have a shell on it, which was detonated together, and the pressure generated by the explosion caused the bilge valve to be quickly opened, so that the ammunition compartment was instantly filled with water to avoid the direct sinking.

Whether it is true that no one knows anymore, because a minute later, 3 armor-piercing shells hit the starboard side of the Monarch again, this time hitting the main armor belt of the waterline.

The Avenger class is a pure battleship in the end, the horizontal armor is weak but the main armor belt is 13 inches thick, and it is an inclined arrangement, which can theoretically protect against 15,000 15-inch armor-piercing shells outside the 15,000, but the problem is that Britain has not yet realized the protection against close arrows, and the main armor does not extend downward, so the sideline armor belt is still the traditional 35 meters.

One of the armor-piercing shells in this round happened to fall into the water a few meters away from the side of the ship because the hood fell off, and because of the tension of the seawater, it turned and drilled under the main armor belt.

This is an anti-torpedo wall, the armor thickness is only 127 mm, so the armor-piercing shell effortlessly drilled in, and pierced all the way through and finally exploded in the habitation compartment, the explosion not only attracted seawater, but also caused a fire inside the warship, the wooden bed became the best ignition object, and the watertight hatch between the living cabin and the electrical cabin passage was not closed in time, so that the monarch lost half of its power in an instant, and 2 of the remaining 3 turrets could no longer rotate to fire.

The Roar was badly damaged, the Monarch was badly damaged, and the other two ships were badly damaged.

At this time, Hill didn't want to fight, and he didn't dare to fight!

Even if the Jiangsu was heavily damaged, even if he had a large caliber, he was far inferior to his opponent in terms of accuracy and projection ability, so Hill was really unwilling to fight hard!

According to the Chinese Navy after the incident, Hill blinked at a critical moment, if he continued to close the confrontation at that time, although he could not save the defeat, but maybe there would be no follow-up.

At 16:10, Hill ordered the release of smoke while ordering three cruisers to carry out a torpedo attack, and began to turn the rudder and retreat to the port of Seychelles, 30 nautical miles away, trying to enter the harbor and then mine the channel, waiting for Campbell's Grand Fleet to arrive and cooperate with him to break through.

But in fact, at this time, Campbell did not go to the Seychelles as promised, after receiving Tonys's telegram, and the opponent's aircraft carrier did not appear for more than ten hours, he knew that Hill was finished, so after halfway through, he suddenly ventured straight into the Storm Sea (southern Indian Ocean), taking advantage of strong winds and bad weather to go straight south to the island of Madagascar.

Afterwards, Campbell said that he had sent a telegram to Hill, but Hill did not actually receive it, and if he did, he probably would not have avoided it, but insisted on waiting until the two Spanish-class battleships arrived to find a way to break out.

It's a pity that there is no if-...... war!

Ye Zugui and the 21st fleet naturally did not let the prey in their hands escape, and the patrol formation that had already learned of the tragic situation of the Jiangsu was also strangled at the same time, and the two Yangtze River-class cruisers led six destroyers to solve the opponent in less than 30 minutes.

At 17:30, the sky gradually darkened, and when the port of Seychelles had appeared on the horizon, the greatest ghost in history was born!

"General! See! ”

Inside the bridge of the Alfonso XIII, the news had just been received that Vice Admiral Tonys, who had added a small half of coal, rushed out of the harbor with two battleships.

Of course, it took him 20 minutes just to make the boiler!

But no matter what, he did his best, and instead of fearing to avoid the battle, he rushed towards the warring sea under the guidance of a British seaplane in a port. From this point of view, although Tonis had been criticized for the telegram before, the spirit of the Spanish matador in his veins was still full, but he did not expect that less than half an hour after coming out of the port, he saw the beaten tattered roar coming towards him.

On the deck, the Spanish sailors who were ready to roll up their sleeves and wanted to do a big job couldn't believe their eyes, a few hours ago they were still envious and jealous of Britain for having such a good warship, but only aided the construction of 3 small Spanish warships.

What made them unbelievable was that the deck of this battle cruiser was almost close to the water, and even if they were idiots, it meant that except for a few main cabins that were not flooded, the body of this big guy with a displacement of more than 35,000 tons was already a country!

The world's most powerful battle cruisers, British masterpieces, European powers, etc., when they were launched, seemed to be a mockery at this moment, and the bullfighters who had just been gearing up to avenge the sister ship Spain, which was sunk by Chinese planes in Ceylon, only felt a basin of ice water splashed from their heads, and even the soles of their feet were cold!

Who is the opponent of a battle cruiser with 6 powerful 15-inch naval guns and a displacement of 35,000 tons? Could it be that the Chinese have more than one aircraft carrier? Or is the news that their Guam-class is changing naval guns fake? In fact, the 6 Guam-class ships are all secretly waiting for themselves here?

Lieutenant General Tonis, who had just drunk two glasses, instantly broke out in a cold sweat, and all the alcohol dissipated in an instant, jumping to his feet and shouting: "Increase the lookout, pay attention to the sea situation, I want to know every detail!" ”

The appearance of the two Chinese planes overhead made the British seaplanes that led the way quickly fly back without even saying hello, and the angry Spanish soldiers scolded the British for being cowardly.

At 17:35, a large cloud of smoke finally appeared on the horizon, and at this time, Hill also saw the two Spanish-class battleships led by Tonys, but in the face of Tonys's signal, he made a decision that almost broke up the Entente.

According to Hill's confession later, he actually didn't want to take the Spaniards on his back, but just wanted Tonis to hold off for a while and let his fleet enter the harbor first, because at this time, the three capital ships were seriously damaged, but the next four Hebei class ships could continue to stay at 22 knots.

And everyone knows that the bigger the warship entering the port, the more troublesome it is, and he has to take the lead in arranging for the port to prepare for the mine closure and other things, so he wants to go first, and he also asked the communications officer to send a signal to inform Tonys of all this, and tell him to return to the port after the queue.

But Tonys didn't see any signal!

It was later learned that, in addition to the confusion of the situation at the time, the signalman of the flagship Shock did not follow the rule of "no interruption until an answer is given" because he could not see the Spaniards during his own hard battle, but lazily waved the signal flag a few times with resentment.

Blocked by the smoke of the three British capital ships, Tonys, who could not see what was going on, had to wait painstakingly for news from Hill, wondering what was really going on? Who is it that is being pursued? When what to do, the three British capital ships that fled back together suddenly turned their rudder 90 degrees, crossed themselves from the port side of the two Spanish-class battleships and rushed to the harbor first.

Tonis and all the Spanish soldiers were dumbfounded, watching the British leave themselves without even saying hello, and when the four Hebei-class battleships appeared at a speed of 22 knots at a distance of 20,000 meters, he almost fell headlong!

"Ciel, you bastard, bastard! I'll kill you! Shameless British! Tonis cursed with his feet, using all the vicious words he knew, but to no avail.

20,000 meters, 4 Hebei-class battleships!

No matter how brave Tonis is, no matter how much he wants to play the matador, he knows that he can't beat it, let alone 4 ships, even if there is only 1 Hebei class, he can only escape, not to mention the cannon, just the tonnage of 2 Spain is not as good as 1 Hebei.

After scolding, Tonis had to think about reality.

He only has 2 ways, one is to flee to the open sea, how far to run, but his coal burning at this time can only guarantee 800 nautical miles at a high 19 knots, and it is difficult to say whether he can get to South Africa! And because the fire had just been lit, the inferior coal stored in the Seychelles had not yet burned the steam pressure to a large extent, so the speed was only 16 knots, and this speed was no different from finding death if it did not return to port.

If you can't escape, the only way left is to escape back and follow Hill back to the port of Seychelles, but because the despicable British took the lead at this time, he can only drag behind and face the baptism of 48 14-inch heavy guns alone!

Tonis really wanted to hug his pillow and cry, these are 48 14-inch guns! Just thinking about it is going to kill you, and now you have to face it!

"Boom......."

When the two Spanish-class battleships began to turn, the 24 main guns of the four Hebei-class ships opened fire at the same time, and when they saw that the other side fired first, Tonis could only order to return fire if he didn't want to fight.

Due to the natural lack of power, the speed of the two Spanish-class battleships dropped to 14 knots after the fire, and coupled with the slow turning action like an ox, the distance was shortened to 16,000 meters in just 10 minutes.

"16,000 meters, angle 110, speed 14 knots, wind southeast, speed ......, correction completed!"

"Fire!"

Meng Fei roared vigorously, at this time, he and everyone had already received the news of the tragic situation on the bridge, and knew that the captain Yan Feng did not know life and death, so there was only the word revenge left in his mind, and he was about to catch up with the Sovereign, but he was blocked by 2 Spanish-class battleships, and his anger can be imagined.

The flames of revenge all turned to Tonys in an instant.

Around the hull of Alfonso XIII, the water column suddenly soared into the sky, and the officers in the bridge were all trembling involuntarily, knowing that the Chinese naval guns were powerful, but they didn't expect it to be so powerful, 16,000 meters was just a large range of the Spanish class, and the shells fired were ridiculously off, but the other party completed the straddle after 4 rounds!

A minute later, the vengeful Jiangsu completed the lore!

Two armor-piercing shells hit the Alfonso XIII during Tonys, the first of which hit the aft running position 4, although the trajectory at this distance began to straighten and did not hit the ammunition depot downward, but swept the entire turret flat.

The second hit the waterline armor directly, and the armor belt that only defended against the 12-inch shells was so fragile that the shells drilled through the waterline and went deep into the center of the hull and exploded, the explosion pierced through the 3-inch horizontal armor, and also made a chimney useless, plus the water ingress directly caused the Alfonso XIII to be paralyzed on the sea.

4 minutes later, the Hame I was also hit, and 2 turrets were inactive at the same time.

For the overall interests of the Entente, Spain can be said to have taken out a bloody capital and handed over three battleships to the unified command of the British, but I didn't expect to lose one in Ceylon first, this time from distant South Africa came to rescue the "ally" Campbell, but after 10 rounds of 80 shells, they were all paralyzed, and in the face of the approaching, incomparably fierce 356 mm heavy guns, Tonys simply raised the white flag!

What is surprising is that he did not order the opening of the sea valve! At 6 p.m., while the Chinese sailors were boarding the two Spanish-class battleships, Tonis sent a telegram to Hill, which read, "Dear Vice Admiral Hill, you should pray from now on that I don't meet you in the prisoner of war camp!" ”

At 18:30, when Dragon's Tooth arrived at the port of Seychelles, Hill not only received a taunt from Tonys, but also received a long-overdue message.

Campbell, it's a deflection halfway through!

A mouthful of blood was directly sprinkled on the chart table of the Shock, he didn't expect that when he was fighting hard, and even because of a misunderstanding, 2 Spanish-class battleships were exposed to enemy fire, and he was hated by the whole of Spain, he was thinking about waiting for Campbell to save him and return home together!

The other party actually took a detour and left!

That night, under the deterrence of Yezo-gyu's ultimatum to shell the port of Seychelles if he did not surrender, Hill ordered the sunken ship to surrender.

Due to the lack of water depth in the Seychelles port, the four warships were not completely sunk and were finally towed back to Gapo two months later, and the Zhende was collected by the Chinese Naval Museum after the war, while the other three ships were dismantled and dismantled after the war.

: 10,000 words, cheeky begging!

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